The first half was over, and the New York Knicks scored exactly 50 points.

In basketball in the early forties, scoring 50 points in the half was an astronomical number.

The New York Knicks' use of new tactics, combined with the Pistons' poor response, contributed to this result.

At half-time, the players returned to the dressing room and the crowd began to discuss the first half.

"Before you know it, the first half is over! The New York team actually scored 50 points! It's so strong! ”

"Do you think that this basketball game is completely different from the basketball games I have watched before."

"Today's basketball game was not dragged at all, and the pace was much faster than previous games!"

"That's right, the players attack very quickly after getting the ball, and they don't keep passing, so it's really much better to watch a game like this."

"Seeing this kind of game, the kind of procrastination basketball game in the past, I'm really not interested in it, how good it is now, the offense is overwhelming, but it's much more exciting than before!"

Under the new rules, the offensive rhythm of basketball is indeed much faster than that of the previous basketball, especially with the blessing of the 24-second offense, forcing the team to launch an attack as quickly as possible, which is more difficult for the team, but for the fans, it is a blessing.

In almost all sports, offense is better than defense, and this is especially true in a sport like basketball, which requires dozens of ball transfers in a game. Basketball, there is no offense, there is no spectacle, count those teams that win championships with strong defense, even if they can get honors, but in terms of attracting fans, they are not as good as those teams that play offense.

The management of the NBA has obviously been aware of this for a long time, and the rule changes in recent years are also encouraging offense, such as resetting the offensive time to 14 seconds after grabbing a frontcourt rebound; For example, the referee makes various "body hair fouls" on the penalty scale, resulting in many minor physical contacts that will not be recognized as fouls, so that the defender can give up that kind of iron-blooded defense.

NBA management knows that the audience likes to see more offense and see a faster pace of the game, so they want to improve in that direction, even if some of the modifications are not actually good for the development of basketball.

After all, the NBA is a commercial league, everything is about "money", and it is understandable that they modify the rules of basketball based on commercial elements.

However, it is precisely because the NBA's revision of basketball rules is based on commercial considerations that many veteran fans will have a feeling that the current NBA is becoming more and more unsightly and boring.

In the NBA in the 90s, the defensive intensity was indeed very extreme and perverted, and for many old fans who began to watch the game in the 90s, the current NBA may be more like a show.

In the NBA, defense was the cheapest way to win games, such as the Pistons team in 2004, a group of defensive players got together, and they could win a championship with a low salary, because the salary of defensive players is always lower than that of offensive players. Therefore, in that era, small teams relied on strong defenses and did not have to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in luxury taxes to survive.

However, in the current NBA, the restrictions on defense have greatly increased, in this case, defense can not bring victory, then everyone can only compare offense, and the best offensive guarantee is to let more masters gather in a team, so the situation of star grouping is becoming more and more common. For example, in the era of the Golden State Warriors in the past two years, if a team wants to win the championship, then they must win the Golden State Warriors, and if they want to win the Golden State Warriors, the first thing to ensure is the team's firepower output, and they cannot lose to Curry and Durant.

As a result, recruiting more stars has become the idea of building a championship-level team, and those small teams have not so much money to strengthen, so they can only be beaten by strong teams. As a result, the gap between the teams is getting wider and wider, and it has become the norm for strong teams to face weak teams, paddling in the first and second quarters, clocking out and leaving work in the third quarter, and taking away the opponent in waves. The one-sided game, with a score difference of twenty or thirty points at every turn, made fans lose interest in watching the game.

Too many games have also made fans have aesthetic fatigue with the NBA, a team has to play 82 games in a season, so losing a few of them is not so important, and some non-critical games often have no work. If the 48-minute game takes two hours, including the break and timeout in between, how many fans will watch the 48-minute game with great interest? Maybe there are many fans who are just looking for a game with a relatively close score in the last five minutes to watch the final moments that will determine the outcome of the game, as for the first 40 minutes of the game, it doesn't matter if you watch it or not.

NBA season, the regular season from late October to late April, perhaps only after the end of the All-Star Game, the teams into the playoffs sprint, the game will be more exciting and intense, the team will be for the playoff seats or the playoffs in the home court advantage and desperate, one by one star players began to burst out of the strength of true knowledge, and before the All-Star Game, I don't know how many powerful players, in fact, are paddling.

In this regard, the NFL of football is much better than the NBA, the NFL playoffs are 15 into 6, and the top two can play one less round of the playoffs. The NFL is required to enter the playoffs if you are not the first in the division, which means that if you are not the first in the division, you can only compete for the extra two spots, which makes the competition even more stressful. Between the same divisions, in order to compete for playoff spots, they have created a lot of sworn enemies in the same region, and they are really desperate to meet, and the unlucky division is second in order to enter the playoffs to see who bites whom. It is also a common occurrence that two or three teams have the same results, but do not make the playoffs because they have a poor record in the same region. In this fierce competition, you can't afford to lose every game.

In comparison, there are far fewer "grudges" in the NBA, and many teams even deliberately lose some games in order to pick their playoff opponents. In the 2006 playoffs, the five teams in the Central Division, the Bulls, Cavaliers, Pistons, Pacers and Bucks, entered the playoffs at the same time.

Therefore, it has been a long time for the NBA league to propose to revise the playoff promotion rules, but it has not yet given a specific plan. The NBA league doesn't want to see teams paddling through the regular season, resulting in less spectacle than the game.

In the thirties and forties, the most lacking thing in basketball was the spectacle, and whether it was coaches, players or fans, they were all used to that kind of boring and boring basketball.

And since everyone knows that basketball is so boring and boring, but they have not reformed it, it is precisely because there is no business league like the NBA.

At that time, the ABL league and the NBL league were both relatively loose basketball organizations, and people organized a league because they really wanted to bring everyone together to play games, rather than a for-profit business league. For example, those directors who make literary films now, they are not here to make money, so they don't need to care about box office income, they just need to shoot the literary and artistic fan in their hearts, so there will always be a lot of literary films that the audience can't understand.

Without the entanglement of interests, there is no motivation for progress, and without a business league, basketball naturally does not need to be reformed.

In this regard, the development of basketball is really thanks to the NBA, a commercial league, if it were not for the NBA to make money, perhaps there would be no revision of basketball rules, and there would be no source of progress for basketball.

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The 20,000 fans at Madison Square Garden clearly enjoyed the new rules of basketball. Faster attacking tempo, more goals, which caters to the taste of the fans.

And in the locker room, Pistons head coach Carter Bennett pondered what to do in the second half.

The Pistons had fallen behind a lot in the first half, and Carter Bennett didn't want to continue to be beaten in the second half.

In fact, during the game, Carter Bennett had already begun to think about countermeasures, but due to his knowledge and understanding of basketball, he did not come up with a way to deal with it. Now that it's halftime and into the locker room, Carter Bennett can finally calm down and think about how to deal with the Knicks' quick break.

Although Carter Bennett is constrained by the times, he is also the top basketball coach of this era, so after quiet thinking, Carter Bennett finally thought of a way to deal with it.

'We have to change our defensive strategy.' Carter Bennett paused and continued: "In the second half, we have to cut down on the ball and be in a good position like the Knicks and wait for the opponent to attack. ”

'At the same time, we have to shrink the defence to deal with the opposition's quick ball-carrying rush. Under this new rule, the offensive side can't stay in the three-second zone for too long, so we were whistled for several offensive three-second violations in the first half, but the defending side has no time limit, so we have to shrink the defense to the three-second zone, once they dribble into the three-second zone, they will face our dense defense, and even multiple people's packing, we only need to defend them in the three-second zone, then the offensive three-second rule will make them lose the ball. ”

Obviously, the Knicks' style of playing in a fixed position for defense reminded Carter Bennett and made him realize that now that there is a 24-second offensive rule, it is not necessary to keep stealing, anyway, when the 24-second time is up, the opponent has to attack if he doesn't attack.

And being whistled for three seconds in a row for offensive violations also reminded Carter Bennett that defenders can stand within the three-second zone infinitely, as long as the three-second zone is defended like an iron bucket, the Knicks' breakthrough is considered useless.

After Carter-Bennett finished speaking, he arranged a special tactic, and at this time, the time for halftime had come, and the players got up one after another and returned to the field.

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At the beginning of the second half of the game, in the first round, Chen Qiang had already seen that the Pistons had changed their defensive strategy, and their players did not continue to try to break the ball, but stood in a fixed position to defend like the Knicks. And the position of the Pistons' defense is also shrunk within the three-second zone.

After the Knicks break through into the three-second zone, they often face the opponent's two-person defense, and the player in charge of the air cut also encounters the Pistons' strict defense, even if they receive the ball, they can't score easily.

The physical fitness of the Pistons players is already better than that of the Knicks, and in a one-on-one situation, it is obviously the Knicks players who suffer.

"Looks like I'm going to have to play again." Chen Qiang stood up and began to warm up on the sidelines.

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The Knicks made a substitution, and Chen Qiang stepped onto the court.

"Everyone be careful, that Chinese is on the field, he is the fastest person in the world, you need to protect him more!" Carter Bennett shouted at his players.

In the first half, Carter Bennett had already seen Chen Qiang's sharp breakthrough, whether it was the speed of the breakthrough, the skill of the breakthrough, and the timing of the breakthrough, Chen Qiang was better than the other players of the Knicks. At this time, Chen Qiang appeared again, and the Pistons naturally did not dare to take it lightly.

The Pistons are afraid of Chen Qiang's speed, so this time the Pistons' defense shrank very backwards, almost piling up two layers of human walls, even if Chen Qiang successfully broke through the first line of defense, there are defenders waiting for Chen Qiang behind!

Chen Qiang estimated that it would not be impossible for him to forcibly break through and eat the other party with his body, but Chen Qiang did not intend to do that.

What Chen Qiang hopes is to reform the entire game of basketball and change the game. If it's just one player who is physically trying to crush the opponent, it won't be reforming. Chamberlain, who scored 100 points in a single game, has only one in history, and the appearance of a Chamberlain may attract more viewers to watch basketball, but it cannot change the entire basketball system.

If you want to reform the game of basketball, you also need to start from the technical and tactical aspects, adopt new tactics, demonstrate new techniques, and use these to promote the development of basketball.

So Chen Qiang planned to take out his other weapon, a mid-range jumper.

In the face of the Pistons' shrinking defense, Chen Qiang directly stood in the position where he was good at mid-range shooting, and then aimed at the basket not far away with his eyes.

At this time, the Pistons were still wondering why Chen Qiang suddenly stopped, only to see Chen Qiang suddenly jump up and directly use a mid-range shot to complete the attack. The Pistons players didn't react at all, and no one of them came forward to interfere or try to block.

For Chen Qiang, this is an empty shot, and although Chen Qiang cannot guarantee 100% of the goals for this kind of empty shot, the shooting rate is still very high.

With a "whoosh", the basketball entered the basket impartially.

The scene was silent for a full two seconds before the audience reacted, and then countless exclamations rang out.

"Oh my God, what did I just see? From such a distance, he actually shot directly! ”

"Far Throw, he chose Far Throw, but it's really bold!"

"It's a gamble to use long-range shooting as an offensive tool!"

"How could anyone use this way of attacking, it's crazy!"

For people in this era, Chen Qiang's mid-range shooting outside the three-second zone is indeed a "long-range shot".

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