费根搜狐专栏：将球交给姚核心怀念麦迪一能力-搜狐体育

搜狐体育讯虽然火箭在首战中早早锁定胜局，主力们甚至坐在板凳席上很惬意的看完第4节比赛，但我坚信，他们不可能每场胜利都以这样的大胜结尾。

　　阿泰斯特首战赛后告诉记者，这样的大胜纯属侥幸，事实上，他说的很正确。

　　相对老练的火箭三下五除二，在极短的时间内就将年轻的开拓者掀翻在地。不过需要注意的是，开拓者虽然年轻，但他们有着极强的自信心，和良好的反弹性。这支开拓者的球员没经历过季后赛的大场面，但他们同样没有什么心理上的阴影。一场失败显然不会让他们失去自信，所以拥有诸多天才的他们反弹是很有可能的。

　　果然，开拓者在第二战中就找回了真正的自我，给予了火箭有力的回击。此役过后，双方又站在了同一起跑线上，最终鹿死谁手，一切都不得而知。

　　在第三场比赛到来之前，火箭有很多的事情要做。他们应该在训练中多做针对性的改变，应该反复观看比赛录像。显然，火箭需要在接下来的比赛中遏制罗伊的节奏和火力，需要让阿泰斯特的跳投更有准星，需要让姚明的接球更为及时和舒服。

　　火箭在第二战中暴露的问题有很多，所以他们必须在尽短的时间内完善和解决这些问题。既然已经输了，就不必沉醉在失利的阴影中。遗憾的是，穆托姆博受伤报废，他的离去对于姚明和火箭来说，都是一个很大的损失。

　　从某种意义上讲，第二战才是真正的NBA季后赛——直到比赛最后时刻仍然悬念重重，直至战斗到最后一秒，才知道谁胜谁负。对于开拓者来说，这是一场输不起的比赛。在比赛的最后时刻，火箭有些自乱阵脚，匆忙的出手，漫无目的的投篮，直接导致了最后的惜败。

　　布鲁克斯在最关键的时刻出现了致命的传球失误，他那一次传给斯科拉的球被对方抢断，送给了奥特罗一个抄截暴扣，让对手的优势扩大到8分，这个失误为火箭奠定了输球的基调，尽管布鲁克斯在后来连续射中了3个3分球——一切都为时已晚。

　　布鲁克斯的第4个3分球终于投失。事实上，篮球比赛是5个人的比赛，如果按照这样打下去，那火箭很难突破首轮。可以想见，接下来的比赛会更胶着，不会出现像首场那样早早分出胜负的情况。开拓者会把罗伊确立为持球的核心，并在他的组织下合理的选择投篮机会。从某种程度上讲，季后赛的胜负只取决于最后的4分钟。

　　火箭主帅阿德尔曼在谈起失利时如是说：“这场失败让我们得到了一个教训。比赛到了关键的时刻时，球员们必须保证投篮机会的合理性。”无疑，开拓者很好的做到了这一点，但火箭却没有做到。

　　对于火箭这支在内线拥有巨无霸姚明的球队来说，最合理的进攻方式应该是想方设法把球交给内线，让姚明尽可能多的来完成攻击，或者是根据场上情况将球传到外线。当年的奥拉朱旺在这方面就做的很好，他在对付对手的包夹方面很有心得，在当年火箭夺冠的赛季里，奥拉朱旺就是用这样的方式帮助球队走上了巅峰。当他遭受对手的包夹时，火箭总是有一两名球员在外线觅得空位，从而轻松的得到投篮机会。

　　波特兰人很聪明的想到了这一点。在第二场比赛中，开拓者开始包夹姚明，且一直都在绕前防守。虽然姚明也还有触球的机会，但相比第一场，他的触球变得艰难很多，也少了很多。

　　在以前，火箭还可以考虑在最关键的时候将球交给麦迪，但现在却无法考虑这一点。尽管麦迪并没有投中太多的绝杀球，但他却可以凭借自己的灵巧和球技来吸引对手的包夹，从而为队友们创造空位投篮的机会。他还可以和姚明做挡拆，和姚明以及大前锋做配合，还可以最及时的将球送到角落里无人盯防的巴蒂尔手中。如此，火箭的投篮合理性大大增加，从而让比赛一直处于胶着状态。

　　虽然麦迪一直是以擅于得分而出名，但实际上火箭更怀念麦迪为队友创造投篮机会以及以他为核心和队友一起参与进攻的能力。布鲁克斯虽然能为球队贡献得分，也能让火箭的进攻有一定的威力，阿泰斯特和巴蒂尔也经常能射中空位3分球，但火箭依然没有找到一个在最后几分钟可以信赖的进攻方式，特别是姚明处于被包夹的情况下。

　　当然，我相信这个问题肯定会被火箭所注意，也会得到一定的改进，这个问题解决的好坏将在很大程度上影响火箭季后赛的走势。如果火箭能淘汰开拓者，那他们肯定是在这方面解决的很好。当然火箭不能对晋级前景想当然，特别是在取得像第一场的大胜的情况下。

　　就我个人而言，我倒是更希望火箭多遇到像第二场比赛的那种挑战。因为只有这样，火箭才能更快的找到赢下关键球的途径和方法。

　　（搜狐体育清河村）

　　以下是费根专供搜狐的原文。

　　By Jonathan Feigen

　　Though it might have seemed that way when the Rockets spent the fourth quarter of Game 1 laughing on the bench, the Rockets were not going to win four games by 27 points.

　　Ron Artest called the Game 1 rout “a fluke” and he was not far off.

　　The Rockets hit the Trail Blazers hard and quickly and the young Blazers crumbled. That sort of thing happens to young players, but they are also unusually resilient, with confidence unrestrained by doubt that creeps in over the years. These Blazers have never won in the playoffs, but they have never lost, either. One loss, even one as thorough as the Game 1 rout, is not going to erase the confidence that comes with the combination of talent and youth.

　　Portland came back in Game 2 to send the series back to Houston tied and perhaps to define where it will be won or lost.

　　There are many things the Rockets will address in practices and video sessions before Game 3. They must find a way to keep defenders in Brandon Roy’s face. They need to make Artest more than a streaky jump shooter. They might even want to get Yao Ming the ball on occasion.

　　They will do those things, or at least do them enough to be back where they were in Game 2 in Portland.

　　For all that had gone wrong, from the gut-wrenching, career-ending injury to Dikembe Mutombo to the Blazers’ extraction of Yao from the Rockets’ offense, it was a one-point game with four minutes left.

　　This is where it was won and lost.

　　It is also where the series will be decided – in the final minutes of close games.

　　With the game very much up for grabs, the Rockets cracked. They took three tough and rushed 3-pointers and missed the ball. Aaron Brooks lost the ball on a drive. He misfired a pass to Luis Scola that sent Portland’s Travis Outlaw on his way to a breakaway slam for an eight-point Portland lead.

　　The Rockets found a way to keep it close – mostly with Brooks nailing 3-pointers – and lost by four. But those five possessions with the game on the line pointed directly to what the Rockets will have to do to finally escape the first round.

　　Games will be close. Down the stretch, the Trail Blazers will put the ball in Roy’s hands and they will get good shots. Winning the series will require winning the last four minutes.

　　“That’s something we have to learn, Rockets coach Rick Adelman said. “The game’s on the line, you have to be certain you get good shots.”

　　The Blazers did and the Rockets did not.

　　There was a time that a team with a low-post scoring threat like Yao could dump the ball down to him and let him go to work or pass out of the double teams. As sensational as Hakeem Olajuwon was, even against double teams, many of the game-winning moments in the Rockets’ championship runs came when he drew double teams and the Rockets were one or two passes away from open shots.

　　With the defensive rules since then allowing teams to wrap low-post players in double teams even before they have the ball, the Trail Blazers took that option away. Yao was surrounded. Though there are still ways to get him the ball, they are tough and few.

　　In the past, the Rockets could instead give the ball to Tracy McGrady and let him come around a screen. He did not hit many last-second shots, a drive against the Lakers here, a jumper against Clippers there. But before he lost his quickness this season and then went out for microfracture surgery in an effort to get it back, he would demand a third defender to deal with him on a pick-and-roll, leaving a teammate open.

　　He could pass to Yao or the rolling power forwards at the rim, or find Shane Battier open in the corner. The Rockets could get good shots with the game on the line.

　　Though he is better known as a scorer, the Rockets miss McGrady’s ability to trigger offense around him.

　　Brooks can get the Rockets into their offense and can get his own shot. Artest and Battier can hit catch-and-shoot 3s when left open. They Rockets, however, still have not found a reliable way to execute in the final minutes, when teams have locked in defensively and Yao is overwhelmed by defenders.

　　For all that will have to be addressed and improved, that is where the series will be decided.

　　If the Rockets could collect four routs, they would be fine with that. They could not expect it, even after blowing out the Blazers in Game 1.

　　They can, however, expect more games like Game 2. They will have to find a way to win them.