Chapter 560: Merry Christmas to all
"Alas, this team is really strong, it looks like we don't want to do anything else, we don't have much chance of beating them." As the game progressed, looking at the situation on the court, Nets head coach Lawrence Frank lowered his head slightly and sighed in a low voice.
Before the start of this series, Lawrence Frank and several assistant coaches watched the video for two nights in a row, and made a lot of arrangements for the Pacers, including how to pack Meng Xu, how to break the Pacers' defensive system, etc., but after the game started, Lawrence Frank found that the process of the game was completely different from what he expected, and the first quarter had been played for almost four minutes, but Meng Xu, who was the core of the Pacers' offense and defense, did not even make a shot. It was completely unexpected. And the more this is the case, the stronger Lawrence Frank's sense of crisis becomes, and before Meng Xu has played, the Pacers have already overwhelmed the Nets.
"Nice pick-and-roll fit!" When Jermaine O'Neal and Meng Xu once again formed a misplaced opportunity through the pick-and-roll cooperation, Magic Johnson on the commentary bench couldn't help but applaud the Pacers' cooperation. The blocking and covering between Meng Xu and Jermaine O'Neal is really too tacit, and judging from the blocking and dismantling cooperation of the two in this game, they are no different from the Utah Shuangsha at their peak.
"A team that is close to insoluble." After hearing the words of Magic Johnson, Michaels on the side suddenly had such a sentence in his mind, but Michaels did not say it, but sighed silently in his heart. The Pacers themselves have a superstar who has no solvability to play alone, and with excellent tactical coordination and execution, this kind of team is really difficult to beat as long as they don't have problems.
Although Meng Xu found the opportunity to play Kenyon Martin alone through blocking and dismantling with Jermaine O'Neal, Kenyon Martin, who relies on his explosive physical fitness, is obviously not those insiders, and Kenyon Martin's prediction and positioning ability on the defensive end are also very good, so it is still a little difficult for Meng Xu to play back-to-back offense in front of Kenyon Martin. However, Meng Xu has no idea of making a move in front of Kenyon Martin now, since Kenyon Martin wants to challenge Jermaine O'Neal, then in today's game, the protagonists of both sides are Kenyon Martin and Jermaine O'Neal, as for Meng Xu's current idea, that is, to feed Jermaine O'Neal a few more cakes.
Although he didn't plan to play Kenyon Martin in a misplaced single, Meng Xu still made a look like he was going to play a single with his back, and slapped the basketball sideways against Kenyon Martin, but the corner of Meng Xu's eyes was always on Jermaine O'Neal. When Meng Xu saw Jermaine O'Neal turn away from Richard Jefferson with a no-ball back and rush towards the basket again, Meng Xu directly threw the basketball in his hand.
"Oh God, the basket is innocent!" When Jermaine O'Neal hung on the basket again, Michaels looked at the rickety basket and said with a playful face, due to Kenyon Martin's continuous provocation of Jermaine O'Neal before the game, coupled with the aerial relay after the opening, the direct consequence was that Jermaine O'Neal continued to wreak havoc on the Nets' basket after the game began, and after only four minutes of the game in the first quarter, Jermaine O'Neal had already made 5 shots, and all of these 5 shots were dunks, as for Kenyon Martin, Except for the aerial relay after the opening, two consecutive singles Jermaine O'Neal were taken to the bottom, and for now, Kenyon Martin is completely at a disadvantage.
"The Nets called a timeout, and it looks like Lawrence Frank is ready to make a adjustment." As soon as Jermaine O'Neal got off the basket, Nets head coach Lawrence Frank called a timeout, and if Jermaine O'Neal was allowed to dunk like this, the Nets' morale and fighting spirit would be exhausted.
"Kenyan, don't go and entangle him endlessly, your advantage is athletic warfare, you have to play to your advantage to defeat that guy, understand!"
"Richard, Corey, run, you have to run, even if you don't have a basketball in your hand, don't stay in one place for a long time, only by moving can you find their flaws, OK!"
"Lorenzen, you are the last line of defense of the team, pay attention to your defense, if you can't do it, you will foul, and you must not let that kid dunk on our basket again!"
As soon as the Nets players got off the court, Lawrence Frank pulled all the players except Jason Kidd to his side and taught them a lesson, and also arranged a new strategy and the next arrangement for them.
After the timeout, the Nets really underwent some changes, the most intuitive change was that Kenyon Martin did not blindly ask for the ball alone, and at the same time, the other players of the Nets on the court also had more off-ball running.
The Pacers' individual defense, overall defense, and co-defense are the top level in the league, especially the ability to help defense, which is the strongest in the entire league. Therefore, if you want to beat the Pacers, you must first find a way to break the Pacers' defensive system, and the easiest way to break the Pacers' defense is to let them move, use constant running and passing the ball to make them tired, so as to expose the flaws, and after the timeout, Lawrence Frank obviously played this idea, and even the Nets' center Lorencen White also changed the way he played with Mutombo in the basket in the previous game, but began to run back and forth near the paint area to find opportunities.
And after Jason Kidd and Richard Jefferson passed several times in a row on the outside, the Pacers' holes on the defensive end were revealed, although on the offensive end relied on their coquettish running, Reggie Miller still repeatedly let Corey Kidders eat dust behind his ass, but on the defensive end, Reggie Miller was obviously a little struggling, especially after Corey Kidders and Richard Jefferson switched, Reggie Miller obviously couldn't keep up with Richard Jefferson's footsteps.
"Richard, catch the ball." When Richard Jefferson took advantage of Reggie Miller's flaw and successfully cut in and got the opportunity to open the spot, Jason Kidd immediately passed the basketball in his hand.
However, James Posey, who is not far from Reggie Miller, also discovered the flaws exposed by Reggie Miller, so at the moment when Richard Jefferson got rid of Reggie Miller, James Posey quickly went to make up for Richard Jefferson, but after James Posey went to make up for Richard Jefferson, Reggie Miller, who was supposed to replace James Posey to replace Corey Kidders, was blocked by Jason Kidd, and it was this momentary lag that Corey Kidders ran to the top of the arc, And got an open spot, but the moment Corey Kidders received the basketball, Jermaine O'Neal pounced.
"I have to say that your ability to assist in defense has greatly exceeded my imagination, but it is still useless." While shocked by the Pacers' ability to assist in defense, Lawrence Frank still showed a smile, Reggie Miller has become an obvious shortcoming on the defensive end, so even if the Pacers' assistance defense is excellent, as long as Reggie Miller is still on the court, then the Pacers will always have holes in the defense, this defense is like this, because Reggie Miller's leakage and change of defense are not timely, James Posey and Jermaine O'Neal have to make up for him successively, and this series of supplemental defenses directly put Kenyon - Martin leaked out.
"Corey, here!" Kenyon Martin, who inexplicably got an open opportunity, was obviously very excited, and Corey Kidders, who was covered by Jermaine O'Neal and couldn't shoot, passed the basketball directly behind Jermaine O'Neal after hearing Kenyon Martin's voice.
Kenyon Martin, who received the basketball, quickly completed the turn and rushed directly to the Pacers' basket, and after Jermaine O'Neal went to defend Corey Kidders, there was no one between Kenyon Martin and the basket.
So this offense, Kenyon Martin got a great chance, a chance to wreak havoc on the basket, and it was a great dunk opportunity that was even better than the aerial relay at the beginning.
Two consecutive step-outs, when Kenyon Martin is still about three meters away from the basket, Kenyon Martin grabbed the basketball with one hand, jumped up with a hideous face, this time Kenyon Martin gathered all his strength to the left hand holding the basketball, this time, Kenyon Martin wanted to use a perfect one-handed split, to vent his grievances.
"What?" It's just that when Kenyon Martin used all his strength to smash the basketball in his hand into the basket, he found that he was holding the basketball's left hand and the basketball in his hand, as if frozen in the air, and could no longer move.
Frightened, Kenyon Martin fixed his eyes, and on his side was a guy wearing a No. 55 jersey, who didn't know when he had appeared there, and at the same time stretched out his arm and pressed a hand on the basketball in his hand.
With a thud, Kenyon Martin and the guy in front of him, almost simultaneously, lost their balance and fell out of the air and fell heavily to the floor.
"Boy, this is not the place for you to be presumptuous!" The 55, who had risen from the ground first, slapped his butt and held out a finger to Kenyon Martin, who was still sitting on the ground, and shook it a few times.
Kenyon Martin, who was sitting on the ground, was still full of the scene of being capped just now, and looked at the tall figure who was shaking his fingers at him with a dull face, and looked at the figure who was a little thin, but like a mountain.