Chapter 56: Don’t do stupid things and you won’t die (1)
"Najera wants to beat Yang in rebounding? Dream on!" Pat Riley smiled confidently. Others didn't know how Yang Mo practiced rebounding, but he knew it best. In the summer in Miami, he hired two strong men to practice rebounding with Yang Mo for a week. Every time, two strong men who could pull a big truck would hold Yang Mo tightly, and then let him grab the rebound in the gap between the muscles. This difficulty is much more demanding than knocking Najera away.
Pat Riley knows Yang Mo's rebounding skills inside and out, but the commentators don't.
After the host Mike Breen gave a technical analysis of the two offensive rebounds, Jeff Van Gundy suddenly remembered what Yang Mo said when he interviewed him on the day of the draft, and quickly added: "At the beginning, this kid told me that his positioning, awareness, judgment and strength were all very good, but I was skeptical. But after watching these two outstanding offensive rebounds, he was not lying, he was telling the truth. I think at his height, he is the best rebounder in NBA history."
"Isn't this nonsense? He is the only one who dares to play power forward or even center with a height of less than 6 feet 5. Others with this height are point guards, and even shooting guards are very difficult to play. For example, OJ Mayo who is playing in Memphis now, I watched his debut, he is obviously not used to the physical confrontation at the NBA level, he performed very struggling." Bill Simmons has not changed his sharp tongue at all, although his words are far less powerful than his articles, but the content is still expressed clearly and accurately, and he blackened two people at once.
"It's not a shame for Young to play center with his height, but a shame for his opponents. He actually had one offensive rebound after another snatched over his head by a guy who was a head shorter than him. Is there anything more embarrassing than this?" said Mark Jackson.
While the commentators who had originally been pessimistic about Yang Mo were now silently speaking well of her, the referee blew the whistle... Ding!
As the whistle sounded, Yang Mo directly passed the out-of-bounds ball to Dorell Wright who was running in the right corner with a high horizontal pass. Wright caught the ball and shot...swish!
The three-pointer accurately entered the Nets, once again bringing unspeakable sadness to the Nets fans.
"Dorrel, does it feel good to make consecutive three-pointers?" Yang Mo deliberately asked Wright loudly.
Unfortunately, Wright didn't understand what Yang Mo meant, and replied shyly, "Cool!"
He spoke like a sissy, and Yang Mo rolled her eyes. This guy didn't know what it meant to crush the enemy's morale. If he went to the battlefield, he would probably kill himself before he even got to the front line.
Back in the half court , the Heat's running and gunning team was at a huge disadvantage. This lineup was very mobile on offense, but very passive on defense, as they were half a head shorter than the opponent.
Fortunately, the Nets' inside line is extremely poor. Najera is a pure power-type blue-collar worker, and Yi Jianlian...he has never used his back-to-the-basket singles in the NBA. Even when facing the thin Dorell Wright, he doesn't seem to have the courage. He always shoots near the free throw line. I believe it won't be long before he will be sent back to the CBA.
This is not to discourage inside players from developing their shooting, but... you have to have the heart to attack the basket directly. As an inside player, if you don't work in the restricted area and run to do the work of an outside player, isn't that throwing away the watermelon to pick up sesame seeds?
Without an advantage in the interior, more than half of the height advantage was wasted. Therefore, even though the Nets had such a big advantage in height, their ball was still firmly in the hands of the outside players, and Vince Carter did not even break through. I don't know if he was traumatized by Yang Mo 's block.
Vince Carter didn't break through, but Devin Harris bravely rushed into the restricted area. He had his way with Joel Anthony, thinking that Yang Mo, a rookie, wasn't that strong.
So he shook off Qian Moss's defense in disguise and cut straight into the penalty area.
It is undeniable that Harris is very fast. But...his speed is not a sudden burst of speed, it is just pure speed, which has nothing to do with explosive power. And he is a bit like Chen Jianghua, a Chinese player who once played with Yang Mo. He always has only one acceleration gear, and never tries to slow down when rushing, let alone change speed.
The best way to deal with this kind of player is to watch him rush, wait until he reaches the end and naturally makes a layup, and then block the shot for him.
And that’s exactly what Yang Mo did.
Devin Harris rushed into the penalty area with the ball and found that Yang Mo actually stepped aside. He was happy and muttered to himself: This rookie's court position is really bad. Does he think I can pass the ball? Humph, childish!
At this moment, Devin Harris was filled with pride . He thought Yang Mo was fooled by his fake move.
In fact, Yang Mo didn't see any fake move at all. After passing Qian Moss, this guy kept accelerating inside. How could it be a fake move?
After Devin Harris rushed into the restricted area, in order to be conservative, he prepared to do a reverse layup and use the distance from the basket to block Yang Mo's block.
However, when he jumped up, before he could pull the rod and turn around in the air, Yang Mo rushed out from the side and rushed towards Devin Harris violently. At this time, Devin Harris was still a little unreacted. He thought Yang Mo would not come over, but who knew that Yang Mo had been waiting for him to jump!
Bang!
Yang Mo slapped him on the basketball he had just raised. Before he could understand what was happening, he found his body in mid-air being hit hard. Then his center of gravity was unstable, and his body fell upside down completely out of control like a kite with a broken string, just like a speeding Japanese car crashing into a fully armed armored tank... bang!
Devin Harris fell straight to the ground. The sound of the impact was transmitted to the stadium through the microphone, causing the fans to exclaim, fearing that Devin Harris had an accident.
After Devin Harris' body landed on the ground, the basketball was still flying in the air. The force that Yang Mo had just hit the ball with was quite strong.
Bang! When the basketball was hit by Yang Mo to the half court, Devin Harris, who had been silent for two or three seconds, finally covered his waist and screamed like a pig being slaughtered...Ah!
Seeing this, the referee quickly stopped the game and asked the Nets' team doctor to come up and check on Devin Harris.
His screams immediately triggered a massive barrage of abuse from the fans: "Thugs, go back to China!" "This is not the place for you to run wild, barbaric Chinese!" "Go away, yellow-skinned pig!" "......"
All kinds of insults and racial discrimination are heard everywhere.
Yang Mo was not moved at all, nor did he feel guilty. He had no intention of hurting anyone when he blocked the shot, he just used more force, which was also the iron-blooded defense truth taught by Pat Riley. Besides, who told Devin Harris to break in and seek death instead of taking the road to heaven?
There is a saying in Japanese comics that goes 'If you don't seek death, you won't die'. This saying is the most appropriate to describe Devin Harris. With his small physique, he dares to cause trouble in the penalty area.
Have you ever seen a fist as big as a casserole?
