Chapter 626
Hamilton went to argue with the referee, but the referee couldn't help it. The rules are like this, they are so tight, and they violated the shooting cylinder when the opponent shot.
They are all using the rules. Hamilton wanted to use the rules to oppress Liu Mang, but Liu Mang used the rules to make a foul.
In fact, it’s not that no one else has discovered that Liu Mang used the rules. It’s just that Liu Mang is used to playing like this. When other players are attacking, the first thing they think about is to get space to shoot. They don’t want to think about fouling. How many fouls can one draw? On the contrary, they may disrupt their shooting rhythm because they think about fouling, because that is not their habit.
Moreover, drawing fouls also requires skill. Because of the appearance of Liu Mang, drawing fouls has actually increased the difficulty. Many people have begun to guard against outside fouls. Liu Mang unknowingly "admired" the future king of JDZ, Mr. Xiaodengdeng dug a hole...
Liu Mang walked to the free throw line, had a good start, and made all three free throws steadily.
When Liu Mang made a free throw, Coach Kruger replaced Ratliff with Kwame Brown. The Pistons did not expect the substitution so early.
A team like the Pistons with a bad inside offense doesn't really need an inside Optimus Prime like Ratliff. It's a waste to use him and Ben Wallace, a muscular man, to squeeze inside. Ratliff is What is used to deal with Kenyon Martin, O'Neal, Duncan and others is not needed at all when dealing with Ben Wallace.
In transition, the Pistons attack.
Seeing Kwame Brown coming up, Liu Mang knew that the prepared defense against Hamilton was about to start! The plan of the Eagles before the game was that if Liu Mang could defend against Hamilton, he would use a regular single defense, and if he couldn't, he would follow the plan!
After seeing Hamilton coming, Liu Mang continued to follow Hamilton.
Billups pushed forward and continued to choose to break through, and the Pistons began to play Hamilton without the ball. Liu Mang followed Hamilton to a 45-degree angle on the left side of the basket. Sure enough, he was once again caught by Stephen. Jackson blocked it, and Liu Mang didn't continue to pursue Hamilton, but switched defenses with Raheem immediately!
Raheem stuck to Hamilton immediately without giving Hamilton any space. Hamilton didn't expect the Eagles to switch defenses directly! But he continued to run, went inside and Ben Wallace blocked Raheem for Hamilton.
At this time, the Eagles switched defenses again! Kwame Brown immediately switched defenses with Raheem and chased after Hamilton!
Raheem and Ben Wallace were shoving inside. Although Raheem couldn't push Ben Wallace, Billups, who rushed to the right, dared not pass to Ben Wallace because Raheem Tom looks even taller than Ben Wallace!
Ben Wallace's offense is too bad. With his physical fitness, if he has a little bit of offensive skills, the inside card is the main player. Even if he is a little short, he can break free from the space and dunk, but the key is his little offensive skills. None, if you catch the ball, you may be cut off, and if you turn around and squeeze the opponent away, you may make an offensive foul. Otherwise, you will not have such good physical fitness.
The Eagles changed defense for the second time and did not give Hamilton any space. Kwame Brown's physical fitness is really good! And the defensive awareness is too good. When switching to the outside line, I didn't think about sticking so tight, but just kept it at a distance that could interfere with Hamilton, maintaining a defensive threat.
Hamilton had a hard time running, feeling that someone was covering his head all the time, so he could only seek a pick-and-roll again, and a pick-and-roll with Bosh.
But after learning a lesson just now, Rasheed Wallace, who discussed with Kwame Brown how to defend the small defense, switched to him and used the same defensive strategy as Kwame Brown!
And it’s not just a pick-and-roll switch. When Rasheed Wallace and Kwame Brown couldn’t keep up, Liu Mang immediately let go of his defender to double-team Hamilton, and Billups was on the right. Because Hamilton has been unable to get out of the gap for a long time, Billups has been forced to the bottom corner by Prince! Stephen Jackson, who is floating outside the left three-point line, is in a position where Billups dare not pass the ball!
Moreover, the Pistons have no other offensive team except Hamilton's running position and Bosh's running position. They are the same as the 76ers in 2001 and 2002. Larry Brown only has one offensive tactic. Their goal It is to defend against dead opponents, it doesn't matter if you can't make a shot, just defend to death.
Billups is not a particularly good offensive player, but he has a good rhythm control. Under Larry Brown, he can play the biggest role, which is to drag the rhythm to death together, but this time Hamilton After running for so long, I still haven't been able to get a shot, and Billups' rhythm has also been disrupted!
Seeing that there were 5 seconds left, Hamilton had no chance at all, and Billups could only do it by himself. If he turned around and wanted to make a lateral three-pointer, his offense was no worse than Liu Mang's. This super wave shooting king, whose career shooting percentage has not reached 40%, dares to shoot when he has no other choice!
but!
As soon as Billups turned around, the ball was cut off by Prince as soon as he got the ball towards the basket!
Prince steals Billups!
After securing the ball, Prince immediately looked for Liu Mang to pass the ball, but the Pistons' defensive attitude was really good. Billups was intercepted. The first reaction was to interfere with Prince's pass, and the rest of the Pistons were also When Billups was intercepted, he immediately used rough actions to prevent the Eagles from fast break.
Liu Mang clapped his hands to signal don't worry, just play steadily.
The Pistons retreated quickly, Liu Mang received the ball from Prince, pushed it steadily, and continued to play singles.
Liu Mang came outside the three-point line and saw that it was Hamilton who defended him. With the lesson from last time, Hamilton did not dare to go up rashly, but stayed inside the three-point line, honestly preparing to rely on If he can kill the opponent's physical strength and energy, he can follow Liu Mang to death. He no longer expects to put too much pressure on Liu Mang and force Liu Mang to make mistakes. He is still very self-aware.
Liu Reck came outside the three-point line and saw that Hamilton was not too close and not too far away. As soon as Liu Reck was outside the three-point line, he rushed to the left!
Liu Mang knows that his attack on the left side is still the same as the same and has no major effect, but others are different! Others' impression of him is that of a super scorer with 65 points. Just as Liu Mang took two strong steps to the left, Hamilton immediately pressed up to the left, and he didn't crush him to death. The action of going off the line is similar to that of Prince defending Billups. The difference is that the Pistons' inside defense, Stephen Jackson on the left side of the basket, who is marking Raheem, and others are all ready to pinch and make up. At the same time, Hamilton is also ready to prevent Liu Mang from passing to the right side of the basket, and Ben Wallace is also making preparations to block Liu Mang's pass to Kwame Brown inside!
Pistons isolation defense strategy!
Changing to a familiar defensive name is Jordan's law! The Pistons put the strategy of blocking the opponent's offensive player with the ball in Jordan's rules into this era when they can start defending and double-team in advance!
but!
When Liu Mang took two strong steps, he suddenly withdrew from the three-point line, facing Hamilton who rushed back and made a three-pointer!
Hamilton didn't have the opportunity to get an open shot. Hamilton's physical strength is good, and he threw back and interfered with Liu Reck's shot. Liu Reck didn't make a three-pointer!
but!
Because the Pistons wanted to isolate Liu Mang at a high speed, Ben Wallace walked to the edge of the three-second zone and went around Kwame Brown to block Liu Mang's pass. Stephen Jackson also let go of the defense against Raheem. Instead, Brown turned around and blocked Ben Wallace, and Raheem rushed inside to grab the ball from Liu Mang's iron, and easily scored two points on the second offensive layup!
The most critical point for the success of Jordan’s Law is that Jordan did not have three points. The Pistons’ original five tigers can use the essence of this tactic to designate a defensive team with super scorers in this era, and they can kill the Lakers in the finals , Relying on the conflict between Kobe and his teammates and Kobe's desire to play good numbers and keep voting for FMVP, he was so successful.
But the Eagles are different. The Eagles side Liu Mang's three-pointer is the first offensive method. The Pistons failed half of the way from the beginning with this strategy. The Eagles have a good team atmosphere and the same goal. Liu Mang shot others. It's enough to grab rebounds, the purpose is very clear, and Stephen Jackson's defensive awareness and defensive ability are far behind the original Pistons' Prince!
From the very beginning, the tactical strategy of the Pistons was a failure!
5 to 2! The Eagles quickly took the lead.
At the beginning, the Eagles grabbed the Pistons' goal, and then the Pistons attacked. At first, they were full of confidence thinking that they were the league's number one mid-range shooter, but Hamilton, who wanted to challenge Liu Wei, fell into an unprecedented situation. In such a desperate situation, there is no chance of making a move! Not at all!
The Eagles would rather empty Bosh and Stephen Jackson than give Hamilton a chance. Billups of the Pistons is in control of the rhythm, but Hamilton is the core of the offense. The poor attack directly paralyzed it!
Although Billups began to look for opportunities to shoot Bosh and Stephen Jackson, and the two shot well, the stability of the mid-range shots of these two was much worse than that of Hamilton, and it was difficult to attack the basket. , the Eagles only have two goals here, Prince defends Billups for a three-pointer, the team defends Hamilton, and there are Kwame Brown or Rasheed Wallace in the basket at any time, the most important thing What's worse is that Ben Wallace can't attract the inside defense, and other people cutting in is tantamount to a sheep entering the tiger's mouth!
Conversely, when the Eagles were attacking, Liu Mang made a false sudden retreat and began to shoot wildly. After Lace made a foul, they could only watch as Liu Mang continued to attract defensive step-back shots. The rest of the Eagles rushed to the rebounds frantically, trying to compete for offensive rebounds as much as possible, so that Liu Mang could shoot with confidence.
The Eagles have the upper hand!
By the end of the first quarter, the Eagles were 28 to 14, scoring twice as many as the Pistons!
Both teams did not make any substitutions, and both played the entire quarter with the lineup after Liu Mang's first foul!
Only after the first quarter, the Pistons felt the despair of the playoffs of the previous two years.
It's not that they're desperate for defense, or that they can't make shots, but that Liu Mang's wild three-point shot is just like Hamilton's mid-range shot, so they don't get tired!
In the first quarter, Liu Mang made 3 of 8 shots from outside the three-point line. He took 12 shots in the whole quarter. Starting to get tired! This is completely unimaginable for Hamilton. He never thought that he would be tired from running!
In the second quarter, the two teams began to rotate.
The high-intensity offense and defense of the Pistons requires a lot of physical energy. The overall playing time of the Pistons starters this season is less than that of Coach Carlisle. The main reason is that the system brought by Larry Brown consumes too much. , They don't have a physical madman like Iverson. Hamilton's endless running positions are more and longer than last season, and of course he is more tired. His playing time has dropped from 38 minutes last season to 34 minutes. Billups, Ben Wallace also dropped to 35 minutes of playing time. Although he couldn't prevent it in the first quarter, physical exertion was unavoidable.
In the second quarter, Stockton came on the field with a rotation lineup for the Eagles. Jason Terry, Barnes, Boozer, and Ratliff played, grinding their positions, and playing offense!
The combination of Atkins, Bob Sura, Chris Williams, Campbell and Okur sent by the Pistons is not at all the opponent of the Hawks bench bandits led by Stockton.
The main reason is Bob Sura, who completely regards himself as a wrist feeling. As the fourth scorer of the Pistons besides Hamilton, Bosh, and Stephen Jackson, he averaged 12 points per game than Billups. The score is still high. He has averaged 12.7 points per game so far this season. When he came up, he took the ball and was pressed to death by Barnes in the Phillips Center. The team raised up the confrontation and loosened the scale of the referee's whistleblowing. On the contrary, Barnes became infinitely powerful on the defensive end and locked Bob Sura.
Boozer and Okur were slowly drifting outside the three-point line, and Okur had no chance to make a three-pointer. Campbell on the inside was guarded by Ratliff, who was physically strong, and he dared not catch the ball. Block King of the Year!
After the Hawks' bench gangsters came up, they relied on the pick-and-roll cooperation of Stockton and Boozer to organize the offense. Jason Terry's mid-range shots and Barnes's air-cut opportunities were numerous, and the Pistons were rubbed against each other!
By the time the second quarter was officially suspended, the Pistons had collapsed!
The Eagles had a lot of experience playing against the Pistons. When Liu Mang tried out the Pistons' "new application method of Jordan's rule", he found a way to break the Pistons' defense in the starting stage, and the Eagles locked up Hamilton. After that, the Pistons have collapsed!
After Liu Mang came up with Prince, Raheem, Rasheed Wallace, and Kwame Brown in the second half of the second quarter, the game completely lost suspense. The Eagles once again launched a meat grinder defense and played alone. The tactics of four people cutting or grabbing rebounds against the Pistons, even if the Pistons replaced the main force, there is no good way.
Larry Brown was so angry that he was vomiting blood on the sidelines. He could see that the Eagles were "plagiarizing" his tactics from the 76ers!
And the Eagles have an even better lineup! Do better than his 2000-2001 season!
Looking at his disciple Mike Woodson on the Eagles bench, Larry Brown had the feeling that he had taught the apprentice to starve the master to death!
After halftime, the Eagles were 54 to 31, leading by 23 points!
How to play this game?
Watching Liu Mang make 10 of 26 shots in the half, 6 of 14 three-pointers, 4 of 5 free throws and get 30 points, which is only 1 point away from his own total score. A kind of despair resurfaced in my heart again.
Not the opponent of this team at all! No match for that nasty bastard at all!
The desperation in the hearts of the Pistons players was overwhelming.
For Liu Mang, he scored 30 points in the half and took 26 shots. He was very happy to shoot, except that his shooting percentage was really bad, which was better than that of the little blacksmith, but he really shot well!
But it is a pity that the Pistons surrendered after halftime, and the players had no fighting spirit. In order to avoid being slaughtered, avoiding such an ugly point difference or even a fight, Larry Brown angrily sent the main players Put it on the bench, declare surrender, replace it with a pure substitute, and save a little face.
The Eagles didn't go too far here, using Stockton and Boozer to bring Willie Green, Barnes, and Kwame Brown up to collect statistics.
Stockton watched his total assists get bigger and bigger with Mark Jackson and Magic Johnson, and he was not to mention how happy he was, and he took the substitutes and the Pistons' substitutes to play against each other happily.
Larry Brown looked at Mike Woodson, who was happily chatting with the Eagles stars on the Hawks bench, and finally understood why the Pistons didn’t come when his teacher asked him to come with him last summer. The lineup gap is too big!
Larry Brown hated the Eagles for taking the Rasheed Wallace they wanted in advance. He originally wanted to wait for Rasheed Wallace to start at a low price when the Blazers couldn't sell it. Picking up a bargain, I didn't expect to be picked up by the Eagles! And he is the only head coach who felt that the Hawks had found a treasure when Rasheed Wallace joined the Eagles, because he knew that Rasheed Wallace was a good enough team as long as there was enough motivation. Atmosphere, players who can play well.
It's just... If Larry Brown knew that the Prince who made him jealous was originally his player, but was snatched away by Liu Wei, it might not be as simple as jealousy...
On Liu Mang's side, he clocked in at 30 minutes to get off work, everything was so beautiful.
What puzzled him was, how come Bosh, who became the second pick, has no sense of presence? Watching Bosh follow the substitutes up to brush the data and brush the data happily, this is too unpursuing! Why didn't you think of provoking the young master?
Liu Mang didn't have a goal other than to win this game. He just wanted to try and conquer Bosh, one of the "future Big Three" of the 03 generation, how difficult it would be, but he didn't expect that Bosh didn't show up at all. In the position against himself, even when he broke through to the basket, he stood in the three-second zone and watched, without trying to defend.
Just when Liu Mang was confused, the system prompt came.
"Ding... The host has conquered the 2003 rookie Chris Bosh. Chris Bosh admires the host's ability to lead the team."
"..."
Liu Mang was speechless! This Bosh is too unpursuing! No wonder in the future James and Wade say hello, he will be the third child!