Chapter 737

Chapter 737

Carter was very upset and angry about being blocked, and he was even more upset when he saw that Raheem, who was counterattacking, also dunked.

Carter started the singles, just to get back the field with a deduction.

As for Liu and Si, they planned for a long time with the increasingly insidious Mike Woodson before the game, and found that it was very difficult to deal with a guy like Kidd who is very smart and can avoid his own defects. , start with others.

Carter, who has always been criticized for his determination to win and lose, and complained about his too much showmanship, has become the target of three sinister men.

Looking at Carter's style of play, the Nets are going crazy!

The chances of Carter dunking in singles are extremely low, because he is too obvious a target, and the opponent will definitely target him, and then when he is thinking about how to block the dunk, the pass button seems to be broken.

The Nets were overshadowed by the Eagles at the beginning!

In this season's playoffs, Carter averaged 29.6 points per game, second only to Liu Mang's 31.62 points and Kobe's 30.3 points. His shooting percentage at the basket was as high as 65.9%. Among the players, the player with the highest field goal percentage is even higher by a few percentage points. Carter's performance in the playoffs this year is off the charts!

However, Carter can play such a performance, not because of him alone, but because of a large part of Kidd.

Carter's empty-handed counter-attack speed, air-cut sharpness, and open three-point ability have all been well utilized by Kidd. Carter scored 62% of the points, and only 38% of the points were off the ball. Scoring is singles and free throws.

Carter doesn't like playing off the ball, but Kidd can make Carter's off-ball play very entertaining, which makes Carter very happy, so Carter and Kidd cooperate very well. In the series against the Pacers, the basket The Nets look like they have two Carters, or two Richard Jeffersons, except in isolation, they play next to Kidd, and they play the same way, except that Carter is more accurate and can score more.

In the regular season, the Nets had no confidence in the playoffs against the Hawks. Even when they entered the playoffs as the third in the Eastern Conference, they did not have the confidence to pass the second round until they defeated the Pacers in a difficult tie-break in the second round. After that, they regained their confidence... Except for Carter, Carter has always been very confident in his own strength, and feels that he still has an unlimited future, and he can play for a few years first.

And because of this, Carter, who was already very confident in himself, became a little too confident!

When the Devils of the Eagles suppressed the confidence of many Nets players at home, Carter didn't think too much about Liu Mang's challenge, just now!

At the beginning, Carter made five consecutive breakthroughs, but did not make a dunk.

In the seven playoff games against the Pacers, Carter averaged 2.7 dunks per game, but only 0.4 times per game were dunks with the ball, and the rest were all direct dunks...

As for the Eagles, the counterattack was wave after wave. Rahim, who was dunked by Liu Mang, was very active. With 5 points, the Eagles started with an 11-3 start!

Carter made no other contribution except for causing a foul by Liu Mang, and he made two free throws and scored only one point in five shots. If it weren't for Richard Jefferson's tip-up and a goal, the Nets started with more than 3 points The clock was about ten minutes behind.

The puppet head coach of the Nets finally called a timeout when they were 8 points behind.

Kidd's head was getting bigger, and he didn't care whether he gave Carter face or not, so he pulled Carter aside to chat...

On the Eagles side, Liu Mang knew about Carter's fleece when he saw the Nets called a timeout.

But this is not afraid, the 8-point lead has been established.

Coach Kruger also judged this, and used Kwame Brown to replace Ratliff who was a bit tired from blocking Carter's several breakthroughs just now. The Eagles began to study the Nets' style of play a long time ago, and they got After Carter lost Kenyon Martin, the offense of the inside players was basically over. The sharpest offensive end became the outside cut-in and three-pointers.

...

After the timeout, the Eagles sent Liu Mang, Prince, Raheem, Rasheed Wallace, and Kwame Brown with a highly mobile lineup.

The Nets did not make substitutions. Kidd, Carter, Richard Jefferson, Aaron Williams, and Jason Collins played.

Carter sent the ball to Kidd, and Kidd advanced to the frontcourt. After the two arrived in the frontcourt, they found that the Eagles' defense had changed!

Kwame Brown and Rasheed Wallace, two super mobile insiders and Raheem, guarded an inside defense!

Liu Mang didn't continue to follow Carter, and came to Kidd, and Prince went to defend Carter.

Compared to Liu Mang's attacking, attacking defensive style, which seems to be biting, Prince's defense made Carter even more uncomfortable. Carter felt that Prince was like a robot, with no emotion or emotion, and he didn't respond to elbows. , It's an honest defense, and Prince's physical condition and enthusiasm completely covered Carter's movement.

On Liu Mang's side, when he saw Kidd advancing, he followed him, blocking Kidd at the three-point line, and constantly putting pressure on Kidd's body.

Seeing Liu Mang's expression about to bite, Kidd immediately asked Aaron Williams to pick and roll, but it was Raheem who followed Aaron Williams, not the insider!

Liu Mang and Raheem directly caught Kidd within the free throw line, and it was really good to make up for Kidd. They found Richard Jefferson, who retreated to the left three-point line, in the middle of the two. Passed the ball.

And Richard Jefferson has no one in front of him, Rasheed Wallace and Kwame Brown are blocking the cut, and Richard Jefferson retreats to the three-point line to receive the ball.

However, letting Richard Jefferson or Aaron Williams catch the ball was originally an extreme defensive strategy after research by Mike Woodson and a certain pair of mentors and apprentices!

Richard Jefferson averaged 3.7 three-pointers per game in the first two rounds of the series, and only hit 0.9 times per game. Richard Jefferson, who made only 24% of his three-pointers in the playoffs, is What Liu Mang proposed to take advantage of!

Richard Jefferson's three-pointer was okay in the regular season, with a 36% shooting rate, but he averaged only 0.6 goals per game, and the playoffs suddenly showed his original shape.

Looking at the other group of inside double-door shooting ghosts, Carter was stuck tightly by Prince. Prince was like a ghost. Carter didn't like playing off the ball so much, so he just stood outside the three-point line. Oh, Aaron Williams...Richard Jefferson thinks he cuts in, he might as well shoot a three-pointer himself.

Richard Jefferson pulls up for a 3-pointer...

No!

The defensive strategy was successful, but it didn't notice that Kidd sneaked into the predicted rebound spot when Richard Jefferson shot, grabbed the ball first, and blocked it before Kwame Brown rushed forward When it was time, it was thrown by Richard Jefferson again.

If Richard Jefferson made his first off-ball shot, he would have been confident, but he didn't make it! After receiving the ball passed by Kidd, Liu Mang hesitated the first time he received the ball, and Liu Mang, who was planning to rush out and rushed out but did not expect Kidd to grab the rebound and could only rush back, rushed over from the side. Chad Jefferson just jumped up, startled, and threw it toward the hoop to whoever it was.

An aggressive Kwame Brown grabs the ball in front of Kidd and throws it upfield.

Raheem went down quickly, received the ball in the middle line, and scored two points with another counterattack!

Liu Mang was already very active, he didn't expect this group of teammates to be even more active!

Everyone in the Eagles is very excited, active in defense and quick in offense.

Finally, Kidd did not rely on others, and hit a mid-range shot immediately after the quick pick-and-roll.

Kidd's mid-range after the pick-and-roll is still very good. If the defense doesn't keep up, he throws it up, and because his teammates have performed poorly, he is not afraid of hitting iron by himself. The whole team is hitting iron, so he is not so conspicuous. On the contrary, it made Kidd's shot more determined.

The Eagles are attacking and have already led 13 to 5 by 8 points. Liu Mang wants to widen the point difference to more than 10 points.

However, the Nets' defense is really good. Carter's physical fitness has been utilized. The Nets actively shrink and block the defense. Liu Mang suddenly hit the middle distance and was caught by three people. He had no chance to change direction, but his teammates had a chance. , Liu Mang threw it to Prince, but unfortunately Prince did not make a three-pointer for the first time in this game.

The defense is too hard, even without the ball, Prince is giving Carter physical contact, the defensive IQ is too high, starting to make Carter feel uncomfortable from the off-ball end, and looks expressionless but very positive, even if Carter is not Willing to run, he's still giving Carter physical contact.

But because of this, Prince's own shooting was also affected. He made a three-point shot and wiped the rebound and flew out of the baseline.

"It's okay, Taishaun, just throw it if you have the chance!" Liu Mang comforted Prince, but he didn't expect Prince to be so cold, he nodded without expression, and directly returned to defense.

These teammates!

One for scoring, one for being cold, Liu Mang felt more and more that these teammates were too "hateful"!

Prince has become very calm now, even more calm than in his rookie year. In his rookie year, he would not dare to shoot because he couldn’t make a shot, but now, he understands that as long as he dares to throw, he can make a three-pointer because there is an open space With strength, the opponent dare not ignore it.

Not all teams dare to gamble on defense like the Eagles with Liu Mang.

The defense of the two teams began to become more oppressive. After the two teams fell into a positional battle, they played very slowly in the second half of the first quarter. The Nets could not counterattack. The off-ball pick-and-roll is also unreliable, and the impact of Aaron Williams, the Eagles will not come out at all, sticking to the basket, and the offensive efficiency continues to decline.

As for the Hawks, the Nets' strict defense made it uncomfortable. Except for counterattacks, Raheem didn't have a good way to score. Richard Jefferson's defense was too strict for him, and Prince The open shots are not very good, 0 for 3 in the first quarter, not to mention the two insiders, the defense has already killed them half of their lives.

But they have Liu Mang!

The Nets used various defensive strategies, but found that with less than three players, Liu Mang could not be stopped at all!

The left and right sides break through as you like, and after approaching the basket, the left and right hands shoot at will and open the bow at will. One accidentally blocked the defense with two people, and Liu Wei dunked directly through the center. When Liu Wei entered the inside line, he had to attack with three people. Just pass the ball, and the pass is so elusive, sometimes even the Eagles players don't expect to pass it to them...

In the first quarter, there were a total of 11 players on the field. Even Raheem scored 8 points in a row in the first four minutes of the game, and only scored 1 point later. He made two free throws and made one. Very low, the Nets played all the first quarters and only scored 17 points!

As for the Hawks, in the next eight minutes, Prince, Raheem, Rasheed Wallace, and Kwame Brown combined to score 6 points, but Liu Mang scored 10 points alone in the next eight minutes. !

After the first quarter, the Eagles led 29 to 17 by 12 points in a single quarter!

Liu Mang's various fancy spiral moves will always rush into the basket from unexpected directions. The Nets can only flank, and Liu Mang will pass the ball when flanking. As long as the other Eagles score one, the Nets will not dare to flank. So fast, Liu Mang seized the opportunity when the defense was not fast enough, and kept hitting the basket. When he was slow to make up the defense, Liu Mang made consecutive fouls!

7 free throws in 8 minutes, not many shots, 6 free throws, plus two successful layups, Liu Mang scored 15 points in a single quarter alone!

The Nets' confidence accumulated in the second round gradually began to collapse under Liu Mang's crazy attack!

Kidd tried many methods to change the offensive rhythm, but the Eagles just want to play defense and constantly lower the rhythm of the game, because they have Liu Mang on the offensive end, who looks more like a superstar Liu Mang than Carter today!

A gap in strength lay ahead, and Kidd began to feel powerless. No matter how good he was, he was still just a support. When facing a team like the Eagles with ridiculously strong perimeter defense, Carter's role was not as good as a quasi-first-rate one. The internal line is easy to use.

Carter is very good and useful against other teams, but when he meets the Eagles, he is overwhelmed!

As for Carter's singles ability, the Nets dare not use it. Carter can also organize offenses, but he is definitely not as good as Kidd. When Carter holds the ball, Kidd becomes a decoration, and Richard Jefferson basically When he died in battle, he watched Carter fight.

...

In the second quarter, the Eagles made a large-scale substitution, and the painting style changed suddenly, Stockton, Jason Terry, Korver, Boozer, Rasheed Wallace.

Five pitchers on the field, that's all.

Kidd also tried to get the head coach to change to an offensive lineup in the second quarter, but he still wanted to struggle a little bit. He just had a wave with the Hawks and wanted to catch the Hawks by surprise. Unexpectedly, the Hawks changed at the same time. Got five pitchers!

Kidd looked at Rusios Harris, Rodney Rogers, Brian Scalabrine, Micky Moore beside him...

Let's vote together...

When playing the Pacers, Kidd was very satisfied with this lineup. He once voted for the Pacers, but today he encountered the second team of the Eagles to fight... Kidd organized the offensive end very well, but The opponent has a guy who is better than Kidd's offensive organization!

Stockton!

In the face of Rodney Rogers' poor defense, Stockton and Boozer's pick-and-rolls flew up, and Kidd didn't dare to defend Stockton, so he could only run with Jason Terry. In the first two rounds of the series, Sen Terry was the only player in the Eagles who averaged more than 20 points per game except Liu Mang.

The atmosphere is getting up, let's wave together...

On the Nets side, these five players were very happy when they first came up, because of the successful experience of the last round of the series, but they played. Although they did not encounter much defensive pressure on the offensive end, they The psychological pressure is getting bigger and bigger. Originally, they wanted to chase the Eagles to play, but they didn't expect it to become an exhausting chase with the Eagles' offensive firepower!

The Eagles' offense is more fierce than the Nets! Dare to throw it!

Although until the official timeout, the Eagles failed to widen the point difference, but when the official timeout came, the Eagles went up and down five times, using Liu Mang, Prince, Barnes, Raheem, Kwame Brown When the lineup came on the field and started to defend to death, the Nets collapsed.

They voted hi!

The Nets wanted to imitate the Hawks and put on a strange lineup to disrupt the rhythm of the Hawks, but when they met the Hawks, this kind of imitation became a mere imitation, and the Nets' own rhythm was broken instead, and the main force came up. Afterwards, following the rhythm of the second team just now, the exciting waves started!

The Eagles, on the other hand, are too used to this rhythm change. They play this way in every one of more than 100 games a year.

The Nets, which started to shoot wildly, met the Eagles with one big, four small and five fast and highly motivated unlimited defenses.

In the first seven minutes of this game, the Nets led by one point 19 to 18, and were beaten 11 to 4 in the next five minutes...

With 23 points in a single quarter, the Nets' performance in a single quarter looked pretty good, but the Hawks scored 29 points again in the second quarter.

58 to 40, after halftime, the Eagles have already led by 18 points!

After the intermission, the Eagles came up in the third quarter, and the combination of Liu Mang, Jason Terry and the double waves came up, another change in play style.

Nowhere to be found!

Kidd had no idea what the sudden rhythm change of the Eagles was for. Other teams wanted to change their tactics and style of play because the previous rhythm and style of play were not going well, so they followed the example of the Eagles from Kidd. It's like he only learned the form but not the spirit. He changed his rhythm because he couldn't deal with his opponent with the previous rhythm.

The Eagles, on the other hand, wanted to change their style of play simply because of the adjustment of the lineup, instead of waiting until the opponent defended the previous style of play before starting to change their style of play.

The Eagles changed their style of play to serve the players.

The Nets serve Kidd whether they change their style of play or replace them. Kidd is everything to this team.

During the intermission, the Nets had just thought of a way to defend against the Hawks' offensive and defensive lineups, but as soon as the third quarter came up, the Hawks' wave ratio lineup came. Liu Mang, Jason T. Lee, Barnes, Muhammad, Kwame Brown, two shooters and three rebounders, they can still defend on the defensive end, it's waves!

The Nets completely collapsed in the third quarter. The confidence accumulated by defeating the Pacers, and the confidence and pride brought by Kidd's reputation as the king of the Eastern Conference Finals began to become fragmented.

Kidd looked too smart in the last round of the series, but when he met the Hawks, Kidd's smarts seemed useless.

Small cleverness, compared with real strength, strength is king after all!

The 70-win Eagles are the strong ones!

The players of the Nets will inevitably think of the fact that after they finally defeated the 60-win team in the second round, they ignored the fact that they were beaten to pieces by the Eagles in four games during the regular season!

Winning the Pacers, the biggest hint given to them is that "regular season records are useless, and the playoffs are the true display of strength." The main role of Nets coach Frank is to pour chicken soup, constantly hinting to them , They are a strong team in the playoffs, and no matter how strong the regular season record is, they are not their opponents.

Indeed, that rhetoric seems to work against mediocre title contenders like the Pistons and Pacers, and neither team looks like a match for the Nets right now.

But when they met the Eagles, after the confidence brought by the chicken soup was defeated, it actually hit the morale of the Nets players even more than the original loss!

Kidd looked at Liu Mang, who was displaying his offensive talents recklessly. What he worried about two years ago has really become a reality now!

I guess there are two more chapters tonight.