Chapter 808 807. Is There Any Substitute?

George Karl, a very powerful head coach, just came to the Nuggets, and he grasped the biggest strength of the Nuggets-cutting!

Although Kenyon Martin is short among power forwards, he has a solid body and moves quickly. Camby is also a good pick-and-roll player, who can create a lot of air cutting opportunities for his teammates. At the same time, the two are also players with strong physical fitness. Very strong, when Andre Miller is posting up, both can pull out or pick and roll off the ball or run back to the inside, and Rasheed Wallace and Kwame Brown have to keep up , The two of them rushed together.

Moreover, the most important point is Andre Miller's back hit!

This guy has great physical strength. He deserves to be a physical monster who can score 52 points with unlimited backs at the age of 34. He kept hitting his butt like that, and he dropped 20 times in the half game!

18 points and 6 assists in the half, Anthony 11 points in the half, Kenyon Martin 9 points in the half, plus Nene who came off the bench scored 6 points and DeMar Johnson scored 5 points, plus Camby's 4 points Points, the Nuggets scored 53 points at halftime!

For the Eagles, Liu Mang scored 10 points and 6 assists in the half, McGrady scored 12 points and 4 assists, Jason Terry scored 6 points, Calderon and Rasheed Wallace each scored 1 The three-pointer and outside shooting are not bad, but the key to keeping the score is the three physical fitness men!

Iguodala came up and scored 4 points, Kwame Brown scored 10 points, Josh Smith scored 5 points, the three were double-teamed when Liu Mang held the ball, McGrady's long-range shots were defended more and more dead In the case of , consecutive air cuts are scored.

As Liu Mang expected, the rotation defense brought by the super physical fitness of the Nuggets can easily lock the outside line, but role players can score more easily, especially Kwame Brown and Josh Smith. Quality men, when Liu Mang and McGrady intentionally attack consecutively above the high position to bring out the oppressive defense of the opponent, the three of them made consecutive air cuts to help the outside to open the situation and scored at the basket.

After halftime, the two teams tied at 53!

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"I will never listen to "Cloudy Sky" again!" Liu Mang held a glass of Gatorade in one hand, and let Iguodala take two glasses of Gatorade, swearing as he walked to the player tunnel.

Andre Miller's back hit is too incomprehensible!

There are only a handful of point guards with Andre Miller's post-up skills, and it's hard to find another one with his thick, pure-floor body.

After Liu Mang returned to the locker room, he was thinking about how to solve the problem of Andre Miller's back hitting.

Neither Iguodala nor Korver can defend against Andre Miller's post-up. McGrady and McGrady play a pick-and-roll to defend him. Prince has to defend Anthony. Anthony's shooting has no dead ends, which is also a tricky point. The key is that this is the beginning of the season, and the Nuggets are still looking for confidence in their young lineup, and they don't spare their physical fitness at all, just to win the defending champion and build up confidence.

And their weakest shooting guard, there are so many pitchers, not to mention Bagna, the famous role player pitcher, even DeMar Johnson, is now practicing 35% of the three-pointers Hit rate, the Eagles themselves selected the No. 6 pick in 2000. Being able to be the No. 6 pick is not because the Eagles are purely blind. He does have talent, but the rookie contract of the No. With so much money, if the will is not firm, the chance of water loss is very high.

No, after the rookie contract, there is no team to ask for it. He practiced three-pointers and got a one-year basic salary. The basic salary of NBA players is also far more than ten or twenty times the salary of the American middle class.

With a strong lineup and a desperate desire to win, it is difficult enough to defend against the Nuggets.

The most important thing is that there is one less defensive connection point between inside and outside!

With Raheem in the past, there is no need to worry about this aspect. McGrady's outside single defense is not as good as Raheem's, but McGrady can't match the connection between inside and outside defense.

What a headache!

And the inside attack can't be opened!

It seems that the Eagles scored as high as 23 points in the half of the game, but almost all of them were air cuts, that is, there were almost no inside singles points, and there were very few breakthrough layups.

Kenyon Martin and Camby's interior defense is too strong!

Kwame Brown has no inside singles, and Rasheed Wallace has almost no inside singles now.

Unlike Raheem who occasionally played singles last season, Rasheed Wallace almost completely gave up singles, and the head coach also focused on open shots, layups or dunks, and the rapid degeneration of the inside back to the face frame. , It's not that I don't want to use it, but that I can't use it.

Normally, it should be the opening of the basket, and then drive the outside attack, but Liu Mang had to open the outside to drive the inside attack, which is no longer a conventional style of play.

The most important point is the rhythm!

The Eagles have always been one of the teams that are best at controlling the rhythm, but this time, they were brought into their weird rhythm by the Nuggets!

It seems that the Nuggets run so fast, it seems that they want to play with speed, so the Eagles are not afraid at all.

But in fact, that guy George Karl is using speed up as a cover. They did speed up when defending, but they are constantly suppressing the rhythm on the offensive end, because every time Andre Miller plays back to organize the offense, almost They all used up the offensive time to close to 20 seconds. When the half-court advance was pressing the time and running to the low position, 14 or 15 seconds had passed the 24-second offensive time, and then in the five-second post-up time or shot Or wait for a teammate to have a chance to pass the ball.

That is, Andre Miller held the ball for more than 6 minutes in the half game! The possession rate is as high as 50%!

A player with a high ball possession rate is usually not a good thing for a team, but nothing is absolute, when Andre Miller

This style of play, Liu Mang has calmed down now, and he has an impression! In the 2008-09 season, the Nuggets can reach the Western Conference finals!

At that time, the 33-year-old Billups and Anthony, who had passed their peak, took turns to support the offense in the low post. On the defensive end, relying on the team's physical fitness, they finished second in the Western Conference in the regular season and reached the Western Conference Finals in the playoffs.

Liu Wei thought about it carefully, how did the Lakers eliminate the Nuggets in the Western Conference Finals?

Kobe's CIC? This must be the main reason. Liu Mang remembers that Kobe averaged almost 35 points per game in the Western Conference Finals, and his shooting percentage was 48-9. The offensive end must have relied on Kobe's scoring and the support of Gasol and Odom...

Odom?

Liu Mang remembered that Odom and Ariza together formed a super powerful combination of inside and outside infinite pincers that year! Cooperating with Gasol's defense at the basket, it is the Nuggets that rely on team defense to win! It seems that the two teams scored high that year, but the key to the victory lies in the help defense of Ariza and Odom and the single defense of Kobe and Gasol inside and outside!

Ariza too!

Liu Mang stood up abruptly, looked around... I remembered, Ariza was playing in the big leagues...

Moreover, there is no such a super physical fitness man like Odom who can defend a point guard when he is serious...

Wait, Liu Mang looked at Iguodala, who was helplessly holding Gatorade, and Josh Smith, who came back after washing his hands just after going to the toilet...

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Coach Kruger and Mike Woodson are having a headache, and the Nuggets are a conspiracy!

It is clear that the offensive end takes time, and the defensive end presses the defense to affect the rhythm of the Eagles. The Eagles still have to play with the rhythm. The offensive end is time-consuming, and it is still difficult for the steady Andre Miller to control the ball. Find a way to solve this problem.

The most important thing is that Andre Miller's low post singles are too stable!

The low post singles of outside players are not easy to defend. This is not a matter of the past few years, it will be almost always like this, because there are too few players who are good at low post singles from the outside, and almost no team will spend effort to develop a player who can defend low post singles For a particularly good outside defense, the investment and return are not directly proportional, and most of the time, there is no return at all.

Mike Woodson can only try his best to prevent other people's air cuts and off-ball pick-and-rolls, but if he can prevent it so easily, he will not be able to fight Billups in the future when Anthony is at his peak. The Nuggets will be able to reach the Western Conference finals.

What coach Kruger can do is to use the outside singles cooperation when Liu Mang, McGrady, and Jason Terry are there, and he has done a better job in creating opportunities for the inside.

Just when the two of them were having headaches, they saw a figure approaching.

Coach Kruger gripped the tactical board tightly, and an ominous premonition came...

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The halftime break was coming to an end, and the players of the two teams returned to the sidelines. Iguodala excitedly handed over the four Gatorade cups strung together in his hands to the staff, not caring about wondering why Liu Mang could drink so much This electrolyte drink and the two buttered buns I just ate.

Agent Jeff Schwartz told Iguodala that he must work hard to show his shining points every time he plays, so that the coaching staff and the company's boss Liu Mang can see that although Iguodala himself does not Knowing when Liu Mang found his shining point, but now, he has more chances to play! Just do what the boss says!

At this moment, Iguodala felt that Liu Mang who was holding the tactical board just now was too handsome!

Also very excited is Josh Smith, who is moving his body and will probably run non-stop in a while!

Watching the lineup of Liu Mang, McGrady, Iguodala, Josh Smith, and Rasheed Wallace on the field, Coach Kruger was uncertain about Mike Woodson, who had just perfected a certain hooligan's defensive strategy Asked, "Mike, will this work?"

"Probably... I think it would be more interesting to replace Rasheed and use Josh and Tayshawn as partners inside."

Looking at Mike Woodson, who is becoming more and more obsessed with strange tactics, coach Kruger feels that he is out of tune with this team...

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