It was the first time Boris Dior had played in the middle of the third quarter with the scores so close, but he didn't look nervous at all. www.biquge.info Unlike those rookies who have been playing in the NCAA and have just come into contact with professional basketball, Dior has been playing in the professional league in France for three years before entering the NBA, and he is 21 years old this year, not one of those who has not yet reached the age of 20. Although the professional league in Europe cannot be compared to the NBA, it is a professional league after all, and it is a real job, unlike college students who are participating in clubs.

So he's got a better mentality, and that's better than Daniels, another rookie, who couldn't even tell where his basket was when he first came on the court in garbage time.

And Leon also found that this kid was born with good psychological quality, and always looked indifferent, whether it was training or competing, he never showed nervous and uneasy emotions, and let him do whatever he wanted. Of course, he didn't train very hard, and he also had a rich spare time in Boston, where life was relatively boring, and he had recently become obsessed with sailing, but only because of the team's rules that he didn't run to the sea on his day off. But he has decided that he wants to use his salary for the new season to buy himself a favorite boat.

And Wang Zhizhi looks more calm, after last season's training, Wang Zhizhi has adapted to his role well, and has perfectly completed the integration of the national team role and the club role, in the national team he is the absolute main force, in the club he is the absolute substitute, the national team is the pillar, the club he is a wonder soldier. It is not easy to be able to integrate like this, Leon has spent a lot of effort to take care of Wang Zhizhi's life in daily life, and his comfortable mood is conducive to the normal performance of the team.

These two foreign players have some technical things in common, some of which are advantages, such as playing as a team, having a keen sense of the overall situation, passing the ball is not bad, and the style of play is also out-of-the-box. There are also some shortcomings, such as poor defense, lack of confrontation experience, and average physical fitness.

After the restart, the two will face Jermaine O'Neal and Al Harrington respectively, and they will be torn to shreds by O'Neal and Harrington no matter how you look at them. The first attack after the timeout seemed to confirm this, as the experienced Anthony Johnson pulled the team away and handed the ball to O'Neal Jr. in the low post to beat Wang Zhizhi.

Little O'Neal stuck his position steadily, using his strength and bouncing advantage to directly carry Wang Zhizhi and directly turn over and jump shot, he didn't even lean back, because he didn't feel the need. Because the shot was too close, Wang Zhizhi couldn't prevent it at all, O'Neal Jr. hit a two-point shot, and the Pacers equalized the score.

"Can the king do it? I think he's having a hard time fighting O'Neal Jr......." Carlisle asked with some concern, although this guy is an assistant coach, he has the heart of a head coach and always has a lot of questions for Leon.

Leon didn't bother to pay attention to him, and replied, "You go and ask Cowens." ”

"It shouldn't be able to bear it, but it's not so simple for O'Neill Jr. to want what he wants from him." Cowens said. Cowens never relaxed on Wang's defensive and strength training, and although he knew that Wang couldn't be an interior defensive giant or a rebounding machine, he didn't want him to be just a big man who could shoot threes.

After Wang Zhizhi returned to China in the summer, Cowens still called Wang Zhizhi every week to urge him to do strength training, especially the strength of the lower game. No matter how poor the physical talent of the players, after a long period of perseverance and practice, Cowens's supervision is effective, and the current Wang Zhizhi is at least one-on-one against those black players is not too much of a problem.

In retrospect, Wang Zhizhi began to play an important role in the offense, which Durham Porter and Chris Anderson could not do, that is, to become an important point in the fold attack.

Since the last game, Leon decided to officially conduct actual combat exercises for the folding area attack in the game, due to the impact of the unexpected events in the summer, the team's offensive training has been delayed to a certain extent, and the defensive training has been pulled down a lot, and they have to explore these tactics in actual combat. In the last game against the Kings, the sudden use of the fold zone attack at the last moment had a good effect, on the one hand, the attack was unprepared, and on the other hand, the Kings could not defend.

And now that the Pacers' lineup is clearly to strangle the Celtics on the defensive end and establish an advantage in the third quarter, Leon still took the risk and decided to give it a try, so he sent Dio and Wang Zhizhi to the court.

On the one hand, Leon's preference for the fold attack is influenced by Carlisle, who has recently studied this tactical concept that originated in Europe; On the other hand, this positional offensive tactics are quite compatible with their own secondary rapid offensive tactics, and in the past, once the Celtics' second rapid offensive was blocked, the positional warfare would be lackluster. If the team can use the fold attack well, the team that is blocked in the fast break can quickly move into positional mode.

The first is to use the low cover and high response ability of the No. 4 and No. 5 positions to ensure that a backcourt player can find offensive opportunities in the run, and let the ball handler pass the ball to him, there are basically four passing options; The second is to use the interspersed running of the horizontal baseline and the vertical upper line cover run to pull the opponent's space, and make full use of the space gap and defensive transposition to find offensive opportunities, especially misplaced opportunities; The third is to use the most concise baseline to cover the run and take away the defense, and open up space with three people outside the three-point line to create one-on-one offensive opportunities for an attacker.

The general direction of these three tactics is the most difficult in the first direction, the second is the most varied, and the third is the simplest, roughest and most effective at the critical moment. One of the characteristics of the fold attack is that one of the players in the fourth and fifth positions must be outside the three-point line, or both of them must be outside the three-point line, and both must be on different offensive sides, which requires the players in the fourth and fifth positions to have enough projection ability and good passing ability in the offense.

Wang Zhizhi and Dio undoubtedly meet such conditions, and Wang Zhizhi also has a three-point shot that the opponent can't ignore, which is also a possible change in tactical coordination, after all, no offensive tactics are immutable.

Sure enough, the Celtics started to play a different offense than before, and it quickly paid off.

Wang Zhizhi and Arenas stood outside the three-point line together, Dio was in the low post on the right side, Pierce and Reed stood on the two bottom sides, Pierce on the left and Reed on the right; Arenas threw the ball directly to Wang Zhizhi, O'Neal Jr. had to step forward to defend, and O'Brien warned him to be careful of Wang Zhizhi's three points; Arenas did not slip into the box as usual, but went down to the low post to make a one-block cover for Dior, who lifted it up and came to the right corner; In the face of Harrington's follow-up, Dio carefully maintained his position and received a pass from Wang Zhizhi steadily.

At this time, Wang Zhizhi began to go down to the bottom and covered Arenas who came back from the bottom line, so that Arenas went back to the three-point line and came to the position where Wang Zhizhi was standing just now, and Dio passed the ball back to Arenas. At this point, Arenas had a chance to fire directly, and in fact his chance did come out, the Pacers were unprepared for such a tactic, and Anthony Johnson didn't follow closely.

But the Celtics still continued to play tactics, at this time the bottom line Pierce, Wang Zhizhi and Reed stood in a line, Pierce used Wang Zhizhi's cover to escape to the restricted area, and Reed stepped on the bottom line with the help of Pierce and Wang Zhizhi around the left bottom corner, for a time the Pacers' bottom line was a mess, and the three Celtics players had offensive opportunities. Arenas chose Reed because Jackson was about to be squeezed out of the bottom line by Wang Zhizhi.

Reed received a pass from Arenas, and Jackson pounced, but Reed's shot was too fast, and in an instant the ball was thrown out of his fingertips, and in a not-so-beautiful arc, the ball still smashed into the basket!

"Perfect fit!" After the goal, Leon couldn't help but stand up and applaud, it was really perfect to be able to play this match completely and throw the ball in such a confrontational situation. (To be continued.) )