It took more than 9 minutes to get 12 points, Liu Mang felt that the Pistons were simply crazy, if this crazy team and a certain crazy head coach got together, it would be called a heart, fortunately, the owner of the Pistons and a certain oil head on the South Coast have been at odds for a long time, and they were already incompatible in the late eighties, otherwise if they really got together, then Stern would have hired a murderer.

The Pistons were chased by Raheem to play one, Coach Carlisle was considering the stability of the offense, the offensive rhythm was too disgusting, the stronger the opponent, the slower the rhythm, he emphasized that the defense was right, but if the Pistons did not have offensive stability, they could not beat the Hawks, because their offense was too miserable, the whole team was just two average double-doubles per game, and the Hawks had 3 of them.

And although the Pistons are second in the league in rebounding protection, second only to the Lakers, the Hawks are the first in the backcourt rebounding league, and there are more backcourt rebounds, which means that they can play a lot of fast breaks.

Michael Curry controlled the ball near the three-point line and passed the ball to Chris Williams in the top corner of the left three-second zone, Michael Curry quickly moved towards the bottom corner and covered Stackhouse in the bottom corner, Stackhouse used Michael Curry's cover to throw off Liu Mang and rushed out, Chris Williams split the ball to a 45-degree angle, and Stackhouse received the ball and shot a three-point shot......

The Pistons' tactic was a success, Stackhouse received the ball and shot in the open position, but the shot did not go in, and although Ben Wallace failed to grab the offensive rebound from the Hawks' frontcourt trio, he clicked the ball in the air by bouncing and delayed the Hawks' defensive counterattack.

Drag the rhythm to death! The closer you get to the top, the more powerful the drag in the Big Ben realm becomes.

The Hawks had no choice but to play half-court positions, Liu Mang advanced over, and had to smash the Pistons' half-court defense, the Pistons limited Raheem's catch, Jason Terry picked up a few blind hands, Chaggie Atkins' speed and strength were not afraid of Jason Terry, although the opponent on the inside line did not have a height advantage, but Ben Wallace was too strong a deterrent on the inside, and he couldn't get in, and it was not easy to try to block and dismantle before.

Then hit it hard!

Liu Mang faced Stackhouse and began to dribble singles, and the effect of the third level of the ball control master was obvious, Liu Mang continued to dribble under the crotch, wearing down Stackhouse's patience.

"Come on, steal me, I'm really bad with the ball, do you want to break one? I'll give you this ball, you seemed to average 30 points per game last season, how many points this year? It's really pitiful, minus a third of the score, oh yes, your math is not very good, I'll teach you, math, you have to start with addition and subtraction......"

Liu Mang's mouth is like a cannonball, Barabala, Stackhouse has long learned from the top scorer circle that this rookie trash talk is getting more and more powerful, and he has been putting up with it, saying that he sent him to steal and taunt him for often stealing and losing his defensive position and was scolded by Coach Carlisle, he endured it, mocked him for scoring down nearly ten points, and he also endured it, until he ridiculed him for math, he really couldn't bear it!

You Chinese are amazing at mathematics! You damned profiteer! As for why Stackhouse scolded Liu Mang for being a profiteer, it had to start from the last time he met a Chinese businessman......

Starhouse couldn't help it, Iverson-style swoop!

But Stackhouse's stealing ability and the oppressiveness of the steal really can't be compared with Iverson, Iverson has won a lot of votes in the best defensive player voting in the past few years, Liu Mang changed direction and threw off the opponent to accelerate the breakthrough!

Starhouse is not slow either, 84 ability points, 89 speed, and immediately rushed back after losing position...... Rushed over the head again!

Liu Mang stopped and retreated! Completely threw Stackhouse more than a meter away! Starhouse wanted to turn around and defend again, but his center of gravity was completely uncontrollable, and he fell to the ground!

After Liu Mang withdrew, he threw out a sniper!

The perfect time to make a move! The marksman triggers, and the three-point shot is hollow hit!

There were loud boos at the scene immediately, and I don't know if it was Stackhouse, who was booing for almost half of the season or unable to integrate into the defense like other teammates, or Liu Mang, probably both.

But the non-piston fans in front of the TV are different, American fans are more occasional, and they can shout loudly in front of the TV!

Eliminate harm for the people!

Just like many playoff teams that have no obvious advantage over the Pacers meet the Pacers, all teams in the league, especially strong teams, are tortured by the opponent's damn defense when they meet the Pistons, and the fans are grinding their teeth.

15 to 8, the difference is 7 points! Coach Carlisle couldn't help but call a timeout!

……

Not to mention, Coach Kruger didn't find that when he met the Pistons on his side, he really had a certain innate advantage.

When Raheem is on the court, the opponent's interior line is bound to build an iron bucket like a defense to defend Rahim, so if there is a guard with strong single ability and high shooting accuracy on the outside, it will suddenly become much easier to play.

Jason Terry averages 21 points per game, but he is not so suitable for this role, he is good at strong shooting, but Liu Mang can't complete this kind of single, he holds the ball either directly and throws directly, or organizes an offense, and dribbling singles are not as good as Liu Mang.

But Jason Terry, Rahim, and Liu Mang, the three of them are almost perfectly complementary! A singles eagle with the ball on the outside, a catch-and-shoot eagle, and a singles eagle at a close range of the ball.

Of course, that's why the Pistons' system has but doesn't have two top-tier defensive perimeterists.

However, at this stage, the three Hawks are on the court together, and they are really not afraid of the Pistons!

The Hawks continue to emphasize scoring, defense has been integrated into the bones, and the opposing player's interior offense is really poor, just Chris Williams, a frontcourt player who averages double-doubles in points per game, and a Starkerhouse on the outside, although there are also Chacky Atkins and Clifford Robinson who have double-double ability per game, but if they can't play, they don't have it.

Coach Carlisle is tired.

Such a talented lineup, but it just can't play the balanced offensive and defensive games that you want.

After playing more than 10 minutes, the opponent only scored 15 points, which is a very good defense, which shows that the Pistons' defensive tactics against the Hawks really worked, the Hawks averaged 104 points per game this season, and ranked third in the league in scoring per game by relying on the cavalry tactics that have recently become popular, second only to the Dallas Mavericks' 106 points and the Sacramento Kings' 105.2 points, which is higher than the Lakers' average of 103 points per game.

The Hawks only scored 15 points in the first quarter, and the Pistons defense was really good.

But they can't open their own attack!

Most of this has nothing to do with the Eagles' defense, but the pace is too slow, and some of the balls in the connecting section can be played, but the rhythm has dragged down, and you can't play if you want to.

And after the rookie who is good at attacking and defending and switching to play the connecting section came up, the other party began to gain momentum, and his side suddenly fell into passivity!

Ben Wallace, Ben Wallace, Coach Carlisle can lead the team to this position in the rookie season, largely relying on the league's third-largest defense built around Ben Wallace, but the league's 21st offense is also a little miserable, and the Spurs' offensive efficiency is still ranked 11th in the league, and the defensive efficiency is about the same.

Coach Carlisle gritted his teeth and replaced Ben Wallace with Serbian fast forward Kyles Robblaka.

The 80s were indeed a golden age for European and South American players, taking out the American team quite a few times, and from 1992 onwards, the Magic, Larry Bird, and Michael Jordan of the 80s made a move to regain the country.

But at that time, it was not only Sabonis who was invincible, he was alone, even if he met the American team composed of NCAA players, it was not easy to win, and there were many high-quality players in Europe at that time, but unfortunately because of political factors and war, most of them did not have the opportunity to come to the NBA.

Kyles Robbraka, who was drafted by the SuperSonics at the age of 19 in '97, only entered the NBA this year, and was sent to the Pistons by the SuperSonics before he played.

It is said that it is Serb, but Serbs, not necessarily all Serbs, are a bit awkward.

Robbraca, a Bosnian and Herzegovina, or former Yugoslavs, came to the NBA this year after the civil strife ended in 2000.

Although he is two meters tall, Robraca is fast and has good skills, but unfortunately he was regarded as a European genius at the time, and now he is 24 years old, missing the best years to tap his potential, and now he can only play as a substitute in the NBA.

As a bench interior lineman, he averaged 6 points and 4 rebounds per game, could shoot three-pointers, and could hold the ball, which is the type of interior that Coach Carlisle likes.

……

Coming back from the timeout, there were no changes to the other four on the Hawks' side, except for Chris Crawford who replaced Raheem.

The Pistons didn't make many changes, so Joan Barry replaced Michael Curry and Robbraca replaced Ben Wallace.

But the style of the Pistons completely changed after they came up!

With Ben Wallace, and without Ben Wallace, the Pistons are two teams entirely!

The Pistons came up and hit the Hawks off guard with a quick attack, Stackhouse broke through directly after holding the ball and advancing quickly, the Hawks were not on a stable footing, the package was too hasty, and Roblaka came out without the ball and ran back to get the gap, Stackhouse passed, and Roblaka held Chris Crawford who switched over and scored two points.

Hit fast?

The Eagles immediately counterattacked!

In the case of the Pistons, who still have players who are not in a good position in the middle of the road, although they have scored the ball, they will definitely not be able to form a system to defend back!

Liu Mang and Jason Terry, the vanguard is dispatched, and the cavalry company charges!

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After the Pistons changed to a lineup that could score, they followed the rhythm up, and the scoring efficiency was high all of a sudden, and the Hawks didn't expect the Pistons to change their style all of a sudden, and the defensive end was a little misguided, and they were scored by the opponent all of a sudden.

At the end of the first quarter, the Hawks led the Pistons by five points, 20-15.

Both teams didn't play so happily, and the Pistons played a wave of offensive shockwaves coldly at the end of the first quarter, which scared the Hawks, but fortunately, the Hawks also scored 5 points in a row and continued to maintain the score advantage.

Coach Krueger is starting to wonder if he will continue to pick up the pace and increase his scoring efficiency, or will he do the opposite? Take the initiative to pull the rhythm back to a slower pace and then increase the speed?

This is considered in two aspects, continue to speed up, use the experience advantage of playing fast to beat the opponent, this method has a high success rate, but if the opponent's offensive end shooting is also accurate, it is possible to be chased by the opponent to counterattack, effective, but unstable.

The second strategy is to control the initiative, and the rhythm change is in your own hands, but there are also disadvantages, the kind of rhythm that is too slow, and the wave of your own point guard may not be able to adapt to it, after all, it is still a rookie......

In this case, Coach Kruger simply called Liu Mang over.

"Coach, I'm here, what's the matter!" Liu Mang asked.

"Ace, give you two choices, the first is to continue to maintain your style of play, and the second is to lower the tempo and let the opponent change to a slow-paced lineup, and you can speed up and choose one." Coach Kruger is still so straightforward, he can't decide by himself, so he will find someone to decide.

College coaches are generally more flexible, have a lot of great ideas, but have average decisiveness.

This is the same as a legendary superstar in ancient China, Mr. Li, there is an excellent coach Fang Coach, Coach Fang has a lot of ideas and a lot of ideas, but he doesn't know which one to use when he has many choices, so there is an assistant coach with excellent judgment Coach Du to help him decide, and then Mr. Li will execute.

For another example, just like the future Celtics coach Coach Stevens, as a college coach, in college, all teams except for the occasional talented, most of the players are about the same strength, to reflect the strength of the team, you have to be tactically flexible, Coach Stevens can always have multiple choices in his mind, but he can't make a decision for a while, he has to rely on his assistant team of up to eight people to decide, Among them, Jerome Allen and Scott Morrison, two decisive assistant coaches who are very decisive in attack and defense, have helped Stevens a lot.

The Hawks have three assistant coaches, one in charge of defense, one in charge of shooting coaches, and one in charge of scouting report research and tactical analysis, and there is no Celtics with deep pockets, which has nothing to do with whether the owner has money, but not so much money to spend on the coaching staff.

In this case, Coach Kruger asked Liu Mang directly, simply and simply!

"Just slow down, that Jim Carrey is also very fast, don't let them take advantage of the opportunity to overtake." Liu Mang is not casually talking, the most special thing about Coach Carlisle is not that he can build an extremely balanced team, but that he can play a bunch of players who are regarded as scum by others to play all kinds of fame, after 2011, everyone in the Mavericks thinks that they will die after winning the championship, who knows that he picked up a bunch of players that other teams don't look down on, and after being the first in the West at the beginning of the season, he was finally able to enter the playoffs with a bunch of water coolers, and he could just reach the seventh game with the Spurs, Of course, it was also one of the key reasons that there were old drivers and old Carter as the Poseidon Needle in those years, but those two old guys were almost 40 years old, and the decisive factor was still the coach.

In the past minute or so, the Pistons came up with a few names except Stark House, and few other people shouted their names except for Pistons fans, and they played three rounds of beautiful offense, which is enough to prove that this coach who studied sports at Virginia Tech for two years is accomplished in using role players.

Okay, Coach Kruger didn't think much about it, so he used the second strategy...... Wait, Jim Carrey? Coach Krueger looked at Coach Carlisle, don't say it, he really looks like that weird guy in disguise!

This stinky boy! Coach Krueger looked around, fortunately, there was no one else, and he gave a new star-level coach a nickname, and the nickname was still a Hollywood superstar who won the Golden Globe Award twice and more than a dozen times MTV Best Actor, and he had to be criticized again!

At the end of the intermission, the two sides began to rotate.

Even if a rookie coach has a very good resume in college or as an assistant coach, even if he is very eye-catching when he enters the NBA and is regarded as the first or second favorite for the best coach, he will still have the urge to be a rookie.

On the Hawks' side, Coach Kruger always has a lot of ideas and loves to do things.

Coach Carlisle's performance in this aspect is that when he sees an opportunity, he wants to do it!

Coach Carlisle, who tasted the sweetness in the last minute of the first quarter, did not replace Ben Wallace at the beginning of the second quarter, but continued to change the offensive lineup, replacing the backcourt combination of Dana Barros and Joan Barry, Joan Barry is very famous, although he has not won any awards, but has played more than 700 games so far, basically all of them are substitutes, and he has hardly played a start, which is also a record.

Dana Barros, the winner of the Green Shirts' Most Improved Award in the 90s, was also selected to the All-Star bench in the same year, that year was at his peak, averaging 20 points and 7.5 assists per game, helping the Green Shirts reach the playoffs in the 94-95 season, and then inexplicably withered, although there was no All-Star level, but the strength was still there, a few years ago when he was still with the Celtics, he could still have eleven or twelve points per game, and his three-point cannon that was given the title "Meteor Hammer" by the fans was his strongest trick, these two can shoot three points, Coach Carlisle actually prefers this kind of guard line, as for defense, just rely on active rotation, a coach can't do it, basically from the "small" to the old, Coach Carlisle has always had this ability.

The small forward continued to play with Stackhouse, although Coach Carlisle didn't like the inefficient scoring of Stackhouse, but the Pistons really lacked an attacker, just like the Hawks might have completely changed a team without Liu Mang, and the Pistons had to use this inefficient scorer who shot just 40 percent before there was no better candidate.

The interior Pistons fielded a combination of Chris Williams and Robbraca.

The Pistons still want to play fast!

But when Coach Carlisle saw the Eagles' roster, he didn't know what to say!

Liu Mang, Jason Terry, Rahim, Mohammed, Ratliff!

The Eagles are going to fight a positional battle!