Larry Brown, like any other old-school coach, likes to keep a timeout in his hand and never call a timeout until he is forced to do so.

In the opening stanza, the Bobcats played an 11-2 wave, which forced a timeout for Larry Brown.

After the timeout, the Pistons made adjustments on both ends of the offensive end, and the adjustment on the offensive end was that Rasheed Wallace appeared more in the low post and attacked from the low post, and Richard Hamilton's off-ball running was also used more by the Pistons.

On the defensive end, the Pistons have also expanded their defensive range and no longer shrink their defense.

But also because of the expansion of the defensive range, the Pistons' supplementary defense and defense are not so fast, and the Bobcats' frontal offense suddenly becomes more opportunities, and Michael Reed and Paul on the strong side don't need more runs to score.

Of course, it seems that scoring has become easier, but in fact, the Bobcats are also reducing some of the balls, and the offense after that is a bit of a test of feel.

This is completely different from the previous opportunity to constantly tear the Pistons' defense and finally get an empty basket, because after the defensive range expanded, the Pistons began to focus on protecting the basket.

With more than four minutes played, the Bobcats led the Pistons 22-15, and their lead had reached seven points in the first quarter.

Then, the game went into an official timeout.

Joe made a substitution, Josh Smith stepped into the center position, and Gerard Wallace came on as a power forward, and the court suddenly became a five-small lineup.

Larry Brown also reacted quickly, he directly replaced Ben Wallace with Morris Evans, and the court also became a small lineup, but one big four small, the only big one is Rasheed Wallace, who can shoot from three-point range.

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The Pistons' defense is absolutely historic, and they are able to put on a double Wallace combination to defend the opponent's positional offense.

And in this life, after Qiao Hai, the little butterfly, advanced the course of history, the defense of the Pistons also made corresponding changes to adapt to the front end of this small-ball era.

Ben Wallace's height, speed and strength are actually perfectly adapted to the small ball, but the technique is a little too rough, but only as an inside gate, Big Ben is still very qualified, not only qualified, he can also greatly improve the defense of the small ball lineup, after all, he is a three-time Dpoy (the fourth is in this season).

But in the second half of the first quarter, it was Rasheed Wallace who chose to stay on the court for Larry Brown, because Roar Tianzun is a more suitable interior for small balls, his speed is not slow, and he is also very good at supplementing and assisting defense, and he can also shoot three-pointers, and he also has the ability to respond from the outside.

It can be said that Tianzun is the best small ball inside line.

And now, Larry Brown is using this small-ball lineup to play against the Bobcats' ultimate five.

For the rest of the first quarter, the Pistons' big four lineup came into play, and the margin was narrowed, and by the end of the first quarter, the score had become 35:30, with the Bobcats leading by five points.

Then, in the second quarter, Qiao Hai immediately made adjustments, and he found that the small lineup did not seem to have an advantage over the Pistons.

So from the second quarter onwards, the Bobcats have maintained a regular lineup.

Through the big man's cover and the small player's air cut, the big pass cut attack, through the attack to extend the lead.

At halftime, 65:52, a 13-point difference, the margin was opened by the Bobcats.

From the result of the process, obviously, against the Pistons, it is still necessary to play positional offense, blindly fast attack, but will be restrained by the Pistons' two interior lines that can keep up with the rhythm of the small ball, but it will not have the corresponding effect.

Therefore, at halftime, Qiao Hai has been emphasizing: "Be patient on the offensive end, transfer the ball more, cut more air, and tear out the best scoring opportunities through continuous cooperation!" ”

Patience is the most important thing to play the pistons.

No matter how good the Pistons' defense is, they can't guarantee that they can kill all of the Bobcats' passing and cutting in a 24-second offensive round.

Therefore, in the second half, the Bobcats went further and continued to extend their lead.

In the end, at the end of the game, the Bobcats defeated the Pistons 123-108 at home, and they scored 123 points against the Pistons, who ranked first in the league in all defensive statistics this season, which is obviously a very high score.

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The next day, the Bobcats traveled to Detroit to play the Pistons again.

In this game, Qiao Hai, who has completely understood how to play the Pistons, naturally played a regular lineup throughout the game, but looking at the inside configuration of the Bobcats, Qiao Hai was also a little scratching.

"We've only got Kendrick as a pure centre-forward, and next year, we're definitely going to have to find a way to sign a couple of more centre-forwards."

The era of small ball has not yet fully arrived, and a team with so little center reserves like the Bobcats is like a strange thing in this league, and the two games against the Pistons have completely shown this strange place.

However, although there is only one Perkins in the pure center, on the bench, Chuck Hayes's problem is only that he is too short, and it is still no problem to go to the top of a big book for a short time.

So, at least, there is nothing wrong with the Bobcats' rotation in this game.

The game was played to the end, and the Bobcats won 109-98, one more victory, and this victory was also the 11th consecutive win of the Bobcats during this period.

After two consecutive victories over the Pistons, the Bobcats opened up the gap over the Pistons.

After these two games, the Bobcats' record has become 55-15, while the Pistons' record has become 51-18, and the margin has been stretched to 3.5.

With about ten games left in the regular season, the Bobcats have basically locked up the first place in the East, and the Pistons only have the theoretical possibility of surpassing the Bobcats.

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After playing the Pistons, the Bobcats faced the Cavaliers again, and in the face of LeBron James, who had just blown each other after the All-Star Game, Qiao Hai still did not relent, and directly gave the other party a loss.

This season continues the winning streak against the Cavaliers, and Joe Hay is also considered to be a coach who knows LeBron James very well, and he knows very well how to beat James' team.

But after the game, some reporters asked: "Every time the Cavaliers play against the Bobcats, LeBron James is always able to score a gorgeous statistic, may I ask Joe, are you doing nothing with LeBron?" ”

In this regard, Qiao Hai was directly stunned for a moment, is there nothing that can be done?

Actually, it's not, it's just that letting LeBron James go it alone is the best and easiest way to win against James' team.

But Qiao Hai didn't explain that Qiao Hai didn't have the method of preventing James himself, and he didn't mind showing it to the reporter who raised the question the next time he encountered the Cavaliers.

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The Bobcats continued to win the remaining two games in March, eventually finishing March with a 58-15 record.