George Karl, quite a great head coach, just came to the Nuggets and grabbed the Nuggets' biggest strength - cutting in!

Although Kenyon Martin is short among the power forwards, he has a solid body and moves quickly, and Camby is a good blocker who can create a lot of air cutting opportunities for his teammates, and the two are also physical players themselves, with extremely strong air cutting ability, and when Andre Miller plays back, both of them can pull out or block off the ball or run back into the interior line, and Rasheed Wallace and Kwame Brown have to follow, and these two are very good at rushing.

And, the main thing is Andre Miller's backshot!

This guy has too good physical strength, and he is worthy of being a physical monster who can score 52 points with unlimited back beating at the age of 34, and he keeps pouting and beating like that, and the number of times he fell low in the half of the game reached 20 times!

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, the Nuggets scored 53 points in the half!

On the Hawks' side, Liu Mang scored 10 points and 6 assists in the half, Maddie scored 12 points and 4 assists, Jason Terry scored 6 points, Calderon and Rasheed Wallace each scored a three-pointer, and the score on the outside shooting was not bad, but the key to biting the score was three physical fitness men!

Iguodala came up to score 4 points, Kwame Brown scored 10 points, Josh Smith scored 5 points, and the three scored consecutive air cuts when Liu Mang was caught with the ball and Maddy's mid-range shot was more and more guarded.

As Liu Mang expected, the rotation defense brought by the Nuggets' super physical fitness is easy to lock the outside line, but role players are easy to score more, especially physical men like Kwame Brown and Josh Smith, when Liu Mang and Maddy deliberately attacked continuously in the high post to bring out the opponent's pressing defense, the three of them continued to cut into the air to help the outside line score under the basket when they couldn't open the situation.

At halftime, the two teams were tied at 53!

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"I'll never listen to "Cloudy Day" again!" Liu Mang took a glass of Gatorade in one hand, and asked Iguodala to take two glasses of Gatorade, swearing as he walked towards the players' tunnel.

Andre Miller's back punch is too inexplicable!

There are only a handful of point guards who can have Andre Miller's back-to-back skills, and there is a thick pure floor flow figure like him, it is estimated that it is difficult to find another one.

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

Iguodala and Korver can't prevent Andre Miller's back, Maddy and go to defend him to block and dismantle, Prince must defend Anthony, Anthony has no dead end in this shooting, and it is also a tricky defensive target, the key is that this is the beginning of the season, the Nuggets are still looking for confidence in the young lineup, and they don't spare their physical strength at all, just to win the defending champion and accumulate confidence.

And their weakest point guard, there are so many pitchers, not to mention Bagner, the famous role player pitcher, even DeMar Johnson, has now practiced 35 percent three-point shooting, this Hawks selected the No. 6 pick in 2000, being able to be the No. 6 pick is not pure blindness of the Hawks, he does have talent, but the No. 6 rookie contract is 10 million US dollars for four years, and he has a great chance of falling out of the water.

No, after the rookie contract is finished, there is no team to ask for it, I practiced a three-point game, and I got a year's final salary, and the basic salary of NBA players is far more than ten or twenty times the salary of the American middle class.

The lineup is strong, and if you want to win, it will be difficult enough to prevent the Nuggets.

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

There was Rahim in the past, and there was no need to worry about this at all, Maddie's outside single defense Raheem couldn't compare, but the inside and outside defense was connected, and Maddie couldn't compare.

It's a real headache!

And the inside attack can't be opened!

It looks like the Hawks scored as many as 23 points inside the halftime in this game, but almost all of them were open cuts, that is, there were almost no inside single scores, and there were very few breakaway layups.

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

Kwame Brown doesn't have inside singles, and Rasheed Wallace has little to no inside singles ability right now.

Unlike Raheem's occasional singles last season, Rashid Wallace almost completely gave up singles, and his main practice is also open shooting and receiving layups or dunks.

Normally, it should be opened under the basket and then driven by the outside attack, but Liu Mang has to open the outside line to drive the inside attack, which is no longer a conventional way of playing.

The main thing is the rhythm!

The Hawks have always been one of the teams that are best at controlling the rhythm, but this time, they were brought into a very strange rhythm by the Nuggets!

It looks like the Nuggets are running so fast, it seems like they are going to play with speed, so the Hawks are not afraid at all.

But in fact, George Carr's guy is using speed up as a guise, and they do speed up when defending, but the offensive end is constantly suppressing the rhythm, because every time Andre Miller plays a back to organize an attack, he almost consumes nearly 20 seconds of offensive time, and when he advances to the low post in the half, the 24-second offensive time has passed fourteen or fifteen seconds, and then in the five seconds of back time, he either shoots or waits for his teammates to have a chance to pass.

That is, Andre Miller held the ball in the first half of the game, more than 6 minutes! Up to 50% possession rate!

It's usually not a good thing for a team to have a player with a high percentage of the ball, but nothing is absolute, when Andre Miller is such a thing

This kind of play, Liu Mang is quiet now, and he has an impression! In the 08-09 season, the Nuggets can make a big move to the Western Conference finals!

At that time, Billups and Anthony, who were already 33 years old and in their prime, took turns to play in the low post to attack, and the defensive end relied on the physical fitness of the whole team to press, and played the second place in the West in the regular season and the Western Conference in the playoffs.

Liu Mang thought about it carefully, what did the Lakers rely on to eliminate the Nuggets in the Western Conference finals?

Kobe Bryant's mid-range shot? This must be the main reason, Liu Mang remembers that Kobe Bryant averaged almost 35 points per game in the Western Conference that year, and the shooting rate was 489 points, and the offensive end must have relied on Kobe's scoring and Gasol and Odom's strategy......

Odom?

Liu Mang remembered that Odom and Ariza formed a super powerful combination of infinite pinching on the inside and outside lines that year! With Gasol's basket defense, it is the Nuggets who win by team defense! It seems that the scores of the two teams were high that year, but the key to the decisive victory lies in the help defense of Ariza and Odom and the inside and outside defense of Kobe and Gasol!

Iriza is there!

Liu Mang stood up abruptly and looked around...... Come to think of it, Ariza played in the T League......

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

Wait, Liu Mang looked at Iguodala who was helplessly holding Gatorade, and Josh Smith, who had just come back after going to the toilet and didn't know if he had washed his hands......

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Coach Kruger and Mike Woodson have a headache, and the Nuggets are a macons!

It is clear that the way the offensive end grinds time, and the defensive end presses the defense to affect the rhythm of the Hawks, and the Hawks still have to play with the rhythm, and the offensive end grinds time, or the steady Andre Miller controls the ball, and it is difficult to find a way to solve this problem.

The most important thing is that Andre Miller is too stable in the low post singles!

The low-post singles of the outside players are not easy to defend, this is not a matter of the past few years, it is almost always like this, because there are too few low-post singles players who will be powerful on the outside, and almost no team will spend effort to cultivate an outside line that can prevent low-post singles and defend it very well, and the investment and return are not proportional, and even most of the time, there is no return at all.

Mike Woodson can only try to prevent other people's air cuts and off-ball blocks, but if he can defend it so easily, he will not be able to play the Western Conference finals in the future when Anthony is still in his prime and Billups.

What Coach Kruger can do is also to use the outside singles cooperation between Liu Mang and Maddie and Jason Terry when two of the three are there, and create opportunities for the inside line to do a better job.

Just when the two of them had a headache, they saw a figure come over.

Coach Kruger tightened his grip on the tactical board, and an ominous premonition came......

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As the halftime break was about to end, the players of the two teams returned to the sidelines, and Iguodala excitedly handed over the four Gatorade cups in his hand to the staff, not bothering to wonder how Liu Mang could drink this electrolyte drink so much and eat two butter breads just now.

Agent Jeff Schwartz told Iguodala that every time he plays, he must work hard to show his shining points, so that the coaching staff and the company's boss Liu Mang can see that although Iguodala himself doesn't know when his shining point was found by Liu Mang, but now, he has more opportunities 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 excited is Josh Smith, who is moving his body and will probably be running non-stop for a while!

Watching the lineup of Liu Mang, Maddy, Iguodala, Josh Smith, and Rasheed Wallace on the court, Coach Kruger asked Mike Woodson, who had just perfected the defensive strategy of a certain little hooligan, "Mike, will this work?" ”

"Probably...... I think it would be a little more interesting to replace Rashid and use Josh and Tyshawn on the inside. ”

Looking at Mike Woodson, who is increasingly obsessed with bizarre tactics, Coach Kruger feels that he is out of place with this team......

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I don't know what time the next chapter will be written, friends can sleep first, and it is okay to get up in the morning and watch it~ Take a shower first, simulate the game screen in your mind, and then start writing immediately~