Ray Allen can't help but be glad that Iverson is no longer playing at point guard.

Iverson first entered the league as playmaker, then switched to shooting guard under Brown until the 03-04 season, which is this year, when he returned to playing.

One of the main reasons for the change is due to the change in the rules of the alliance.

In June 2001, the first game of the NBA Finals.

When the Philadelphia 76ers picked off the Lakers on the road, Allen Iverson, who scored 48 points, heard a phrase as he walked down the hallway of the Staples Center.

One person said that there was only one way to restrain Iverson.

Before he could finish speaking, Iverson turned around, the fire in his eyes as bright as a diamond in his ear, "Man, why do you have to mention this?" ”

"You want to spoil my good mood?"

"ZONE – Joint Defense." That's what the man was talking about.

That day, Iverson said to that fan in Staples: "I don't want to hear that word until next year." ”

However, I don't know whether Iverson has a poisonous milk attribute or not, it's really just next year, and Iverson's reluctant nightmare to talk about it is here.

Iverson has always been jealous of joint defense.

Before entering the NBA, Iverson's reaction at the time was, what? No joint defense in the NBA? No one can stop me.

But on the eve of the start of the 01-02 season, the NBA announced such a major rule change for basketball - the abolition of illegal defense - which means that "zone defense" has been legalized.

However, unlike FIBA, in the NBA, defenders are not allowed to stay in the box for 3 seconds or more without a defender, which is called defending three seconds.

The NBA league didn't directly say that the rule was changed because of Iverson, but in most basketball circles, he is known as the "Allen Iverson Rule," and the other person who pushed for it was his Finals opponent, Shaquille O'Neal.

Due to the style of play at the time, which was too one-on-one and inefficient, it was easier for defenders to lock on to each other, resulting in a loss of fluidity in the game.

Therefore, the league wants to increase the team's sharing of the ball through the resumption of the joint defense policy.

It's just that for most of the league at the time, they didn't pay for such defense.

The entire NBA environment scoffs at joint defense, and they feel that only students and soft eggs will choose joint defense.

For example, Lu Fei knows that Popovich once said: "We didn't spend a second in the offseason practicing joint defense. ”

Coach Don Nelson said, "We're not going to be a team in a zoned defense," and "teaming makes the team lazy, and we like to be aggressive, man-to-man." ”

Don Nelson is the kind of unconventional strategist who is thought to take advantage of any new option, and people call him a "crazy experimenter", but even he doesn't bother to use joint defense.

So when other teams don't use joint defense, Iverson has always played as a shooting guard.

The reason for playing a point guard is that the league at the time had such a rule, you can wrap up but you can't defend together!

Therefore, only after Iverson receives the ball, the opponent can come over to wrap the trap, and if the opponent comes over to wrap the trap without the ball, it is a typical illegal defense that discards his defender.

Under this rule, Iverson is unstoppable.

For the team that could only count on Iverson to attack and score alone, they naturally didn't want Iverson to be caught by the opponent after half time with the ball. So they need a point guard who can take the ball steadily across the half court, and then put the ball in Iverson's hands, and the moment he receives the ball, Iverson will be in a 1v1 state, which is why Iverson plays a point guard.

As a result, Iverson will use a lot of off-ball runs to create a catch, and then make a mid-range shot or break before the bag is formed – typical of a quarterback.

Because Iverson is agile and swift in his movements, his tear in the opposition defensive formation is huge, and few can catch up with him in the process.

Tyronn Lou lifted his chin proudly......

And when more and more teams start to use joint defense, whether they have the ball or not, Iverson will be in a situation where he is trapped, so it doesn't matter if he is a point guard or a point guard.

That is, since the beginning of this season, 76ers head coach Randy Ells has begun to frequently use Iverson to stand in the No. 1 position.

This is also the reason why Lu Fei will play against Iverson in this game.

Iverson, one of the four quarterbacks, has played playmaking guard this season, which is really a bit of a trick to think about......

At this time, the players of the Philadelphia 76ers were still on the bus to the key arena, and the team's head coach Randy Ells took advantage of this time to take out the supersonic game video and play the video through the TV on the bus.

They had just finished their game against the Pacers, which ended in a heavy defeat, and the atmosphere in the car was already a bit gloomy, but after watching the supersonic game footage, the atmosphere of the whole team was even more depressing.

After a long time, the team's center Samuel Delham Potter let out a slow breath to breathe a little fresh air into his chest that had been held for a long time: "This is the SuperSonics? The supersonic we encountered last year is probably fake, right? ”

"That's right." Coach Els nodded solemnly: "This year's supersonic team is a brand new supersonic team, currently ranked third in the West, with ...... strength Very strong. ”

"What's the big deal, Ray Allen used to be my little brother, I'm too familiar with his style of play!" Glenn Robin said with a pout.

Glenn Robinson, nicknamed 'Big Dog', and Ray Allen were originally teammates of the Bucks, and he was the boss of the Bucks, but after Ray Allen grew up, there was a rift between the two, so he was traded.

So he has always been very unhappy with Ray Allen.

Ells ignored Robinson, although Robinson is very strong, but in recent years, his physical management has become worse and worse, and he often drinks heavily and does not participate in training, if it were not for him to be able to share the offensive pressure of Iverson, he would have wanted to throw him to Java a long time ago.

Everyone was talking about their defensive players, and Samuel Delham Potter felt that defending Oku shouldn't be a problem, but of course it was just a feeling.

Power forward Kenny Thomas would have been a good defensive player, but he thinks his height could be a bit of a disadvantage when defending against Rasheed Wallace.

He is only 201 cm tall.

"Don't worry, I'll help you!" Robinson patted him on the shoulder, because he was defending the least amount of pressure on his defense, and he was defending Sean Battier, who was the least offensive in the SuperSonics.

"Actually...... I don't think we should pay attention to their No. 10 rookie. Eric Snow, who was originally a playmaker and is now a shooting guard, said weakly.

Because he was originally an organizational defender, he couldn't help but look at Lu Fei twice.

All of a sudden, the whole car fell silent, although everyone knows that this is a recent hot rising star, but in the eyes of these old fritters who have been in the NBA for many years, especially in the eyes of the big dog Robinson: "No matter how strong you are, you are just a rookie!" ”

At this time, Iverson, who had not spoken and remained silent, suddenly said: "That's right, the most difficult thing to deal with with supersonic is this No. 10!" ”