Chapter 115: False Height Declaration
Mike. On the defensive end, Brown likes to use numbers and high-intensity pressing defense to drive opponents away from the box, trying to keep defenders in mid-to-long-range shots, while keeping opponents away from the rim to help them protect their rebounds.
This kind of defense gives full play to James's perverted physical advantages, and few players can easily control the basketball in the face of multiple presses led by James, and then there will be all kinds of mistakes and hasty shots after hitting the iron, Mike. In this way, Brown has completed the Cavaliers' top-three defensive efficiency in the league.
Wu Huang watched off the court for a long time in the second quarter and found that the Cavaliers were really fast in encircling those with the ball, and the people who controlled the ball would be surrounded once they stuck to the ball. However, he found that the Cavaliers' high-pressure defense today is to use the number of people rather than the defensive intensity to apply pressure, and there is always a bit of a "virtual" feeling, which is nothing more than telling others "We have a lot of people here, you must not come".
"Haha, they just finished back-to-backs and didn't have enough intensity on the defensive end today." Wu Huang quickly figured out what was going on, even James didn't use too much energy on the defensive end today, but used most of his physical strength on offense, so the Cavaliers' defense today is simply a showcase, and it's just useless.
"We pass the ball a lot, they only have three boards to press, as long as they pass the basketball a few more times, they can't keep up." After Wu Huang came on the court, he said to his teammates that he was going to try if his idea was correct?
As the coach of the team, D'Antoni naturally also discovered the Cavaliers' external strength, and he did not select Du Hong in this substitution, but sent: Du Hong, Wu Huang. Gallinari. Harrington. David. Lee's two-point guard lineup.
The Cavaliers' defense today was really not durable, and the first three axes were still like that, and the speed of the bag and the encirclement was as fast as ever. But just as Wu Huang thought, as long as the Knicks' basketball can be transmitted a few more times, the rotation speed of the Cavaliers will begin to become sluggish, and the players will seem to be too lazy to move, and the overall movement will become slow, and they will soon be unable to keep up with the Knicks' offensive rhythm.
"Almost hit. If you continue to play fast, it will allow the knights to reduce the impact of back-to-back. "Wu Huang found that he couldn't blindly play fast today, but had to combine fast and slow, which would consume the physical strength of the knight players more.
"It looks like the Bulls have consumed them enough, and I should have called Gibson yesterday to thank you." Wu Huang also secretly thought in his heart that his speed advantage came in handy at this time, and in the second quarter he played completely as a scoring guard, and it was Anthony who was in the opposite position at the beginning. Parker, it's a pity that this brother with a great sister is tall enough but his feet are too bad. And, like many players, he came to the Cavaliers and became unable to play. On the defensive end, Wu Huang broke through twice in a row and shot successfully.
Mike. Brown adjusted quickly defensively, and immediately replaced Anthony with the Emperor. Parker.
Wu Huang's official height is reported as 188cm, not only did he not follow the crowd to falsely report his height, but instead shrunk his real height by 3 cm, in order to use the cruel reality to humiliate those point guards with an official height of 191cm-196cm.
For example, now, when he stands with West, who is officially 191cm tall, he is obviously much taller than the other party, and the latter is only 188cm tall when he dies, and this contrast will definitely make the opponent nauseous enough.
Before Wu Huang entered the NBA, he thought that these guys would falsely report at most 3cm. But when he really got on the court, he realized his naivety, if anyone only falsely reported 3cm, it was really not too much, most players in the NBA started directly from 5cm to falsely report their height.
That's a lot worse, 5cm is completely a difference between two positions.
For example, his former teammate Nate. Robinson, the height of this product will be 175cm, 178cm, in fact, it is between 170cm and 172cm, which is about the same height as the average person, which can explain why no team is willing to give him a long-term contract and a high salary, and everyone's eyes are not blind.
Wu Huang and West are both players who are good at scoring and defending with speed and agility, but this year West's depression has returned, and the team's reluctance to use him as a time bomb has been caused by consecutive on-court and off-court problems. Now this good sixth man has begun to go downhill, Wu Huang is younger than him, his speed and explosiveness are stronger, and his height is also a little taller, so this guy with the domineering nickname of "Taishang Huang" has been completely exploded!
After entering the NBA, Wu Huang quickly adapted to the defense of these faster guards, because he was still faster than most of the players here, even if he encountered a few players who were faster than him, such as Chris before the major injury. Paul, he can also use his height to get back this little bit of speed disadvantage.
Therefore, even if Wu Huang has not played enough NBA games, he can basically use "the players who are faster than him are not as tall as him, and the players who are taller than him are not as fast as him" to describe his athletic talent, which makes him almost unrestrained by opponents in terms of athleticism, and this happens to be an important prerequisite for becoming a superstar - all superstar players have similar talents as Wu Huang, if they can be restrained by people in congenital conditions, it is difficult to become a superstar.
James's side is still dragging the Cavaliers forward on their own, but in the past, these teammates were reliable on the defensive end, and the Cavaliers, who were scolded as CBA players, may often watch the show on the offensive end, but they play a big role on the defensive end, but today is obviously not the case.
The secret of the knight's strength has always been: the team's airtight defense + the little emperor's inexplicable personal offense.
It's just that today's winning rule is missing, and the Cavaliers immediately become not much stronger than the Knicks.
In the first half, in addition to taking advantage of his good condition to compete with James for individual scoring, Wu Huang also sneakily raised the pace of the game.
The Cavaliers, an experienced positional battle team, will not be so easily driven by the opponent, but their defense today is too poor, how can they not prevent Wu Huang's personal breakthrough and ball, every time it takes a lot of effort to defend, but in the end it ends with losing points. After a long time, the player's mentality will inevitably be impatient and cannot be stable at all.
1 minute and 30 seconds before halftime. Emperor Wu rose to the occasion. On the offensive end, use cover. One step has passed Xiao Mo......
James quickly made up for the position and changed the defense, Wu Huang rarely faced the gorilla today, and the few changes did not do anything, and they all ended with passes. But now that the score has become 60:50, Wu Huang does not plan to avoid the other party this time, and wants to try to play James.
He's only 180 pounds, and the first step will definitely have an advantage over the 260-pound James.
That's what Emperor Wu thought, and he made an abrupt stop in front of James. Then quickly break to the left.
James immediately moved sideways to block the breakout.
Wu Huang used his explosive power to force his way through, his first step was huge, and after the second step, he suddenly changed direction and took a step to the right side, which threw off most of James's body, and then held the basketball with both hands in the air, and after landing, he used one of his forward feet as the central foot to jump again towards the basket...... He threw James behind him with a jump, and then used his long arm to smash the ball into the basket with an easy one-handed slam.
"Hell, he's four steps!" James didn't expect that he would be played by Emperor Wu like this when he was dying. Although he opened his arms and shouted at the referee to "walk", he actually saw it very clearly. Wu Huang explained very clearly this step breakthrough, although it looked like he took four steps, but it was actually a perfect breakthrough layup score.
"I'm showing you what a step is and what a step is." Wu Huang first glanced at the referee, and found that there was no movement, and when he was happy, he couldn't help but say two trash words.
"Bastard, you're going to pay for that." James was a little unhappy, his status was so much higher than that of Emperor Wu, this kid was really rebellious.
"Idiot, it doesn't matter what I do, anyway, it's not me who defends you." Wu Huang's words made Harrington next to him turn purple, and now he is the one who is defending James, doesn't this make it more difficult for him?
New York fans now feel that their team is hanging big, and they actually pressed the powerful Cavaliers to the ground to fight?
That's it, but Emperor Wu's breakthrough just now played tricks on the little emperor LeBron. James, this is incredible!
Moreover, now even fans in New York can see that the Cavaliers' defense and offense quickly lost their discipline and control after Wu Huang's attack......
Wu Huang is very cunning, he knows that with his current technology, if he cooperates with his extraordinary physical fitness, it should be no problem to sneak up on a superstar like James, but if he comes a few more times, I am afraid that he will be full of bags. So he couldn't help but not play if he didn't have a good chance before, this is called not moving, and when he had the opportunity, he immediately gave James a ruthless, by the way, the last "Top Ten Balls of the Month" highlights were in the limelight.
James was made angry by Wu Huang's ball, and in the last minute of the first half, he continued to hold the ball and attack, but it was Harrington who was injured, and this unlucky guy was hit by James's iron elbow in the last defense of the first half, and immediately bled all over the ground.
The little emperor didn't eat good fruit either, and a technical foul made Wu Huang grin and scored his 28th point of the half, and also gave the Knicks a 14-point lead over the Cavaliers at 68:54.
'Everybody did a good job and we had to attack more aggressively in the second half. Remember! It's our home field, and the Clevelands have no way back tonight! "D'Antoni didn't know how they were leading at half-time. But whatever the reason, the Knicks do have a big lead now, so the credit naturally belongs to him as the head coach.
Wu Huang got 28 points, 6 rebounds, 4 assists, 2 blocks and 1 steal in the first half, which seems to be comparable to James's 28 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists, but considering that Wu Huang is just a bird with only 5 NBA regular season experience, James obviously does not dare to say that his performance is better.
Barkley discussed the growing problem of false height reports among players in the league at halftime, and he said with a smile: "If I say that I didn't misrepresent my height back then, you must not believe it, in fact, my real height is only about 195cm." ”
After retiring, Big Ass obviously didn't care about these old things, and commented very shamelessly: "If you want to ask how this trend came about, it's too simple, because the NBA often looks the other way at big guys, regardless of whether he plays or not." ”
Barkley is not afraid that he will offend people by saying this, and many fans now know about falsely reporting height, so he continued, "Falsely reporting height allows me to earn millions more dollars a year, and if I report my real height, I will definitely not get that rookie contract that year." ”
Kenny. Smith also said: "I think what people want to know more is how the players can falsely report their height, which is also very simple, choose a pair of high shoes when you are on the side, put on a mat, wear more socks, I know that every year rookies have people wear four or five pairs of socks to measure their height, and put on a thick pad, so that they can be at least 5cm taller." ”
Barkley soon offended people again, obviously just talking about things, but he had to name an example: "The height data on the manual used by the NBA is provided by each team, most of the false heights come from the player's own will, Collins is a good player who falsely reports his height, in 2003, the Nets and the Spurs met in the Finals, and the Nets coach sent the '2.13 meters tall' Collins to the Spurs inside, Duncan, who is also 2.13 meters tall, turned out to be a head shorter than Collins, and he admitted afterwards that he was actually only about 2.03 meters. ”
When Wu Huang was on the Knicks, the team suggested that he report a height of 196cm, which can bring an invisible pressure to the opponent, after all, an inch long and an inch strong can play a more powerful effect in this kind of top league than literally.
But Wu Huang did the opposite, he reported an official height of 188cm, but his actual height is 191cm, so many players who think they are tall will inevitably suffer a big loss in front of Wu Huang under carelessness.
"I swear to God, he's definitely not 188cm." Xiao Mo almost swore by the light, his official height was 185cm, in fact, he was just over 180cm, and he was half a head shorter in the face of Emperor Wu, so he was sure that Emperor Wu could never be 188cm tall, for which he paid the price of being capped by Emperor Wu's blood once.
"This bastard elbowed me!" Emperor Taishang also spoke at halftime, Emperor Wu gave him a "New York elbow" in a breakthrough in the first half, and now the Emperor Taishang's chest is still faintly painful, and even depression is about to be committed, and the anxious black bread is comforting for a while.
The Cavaliers players generally have a lot of opinions on the Knicks players at this time, and today's New Yorkers have a lot of action and small moves, but the referee's home whistle is fair and strict, and they don't give a few fouls, and now they are physically and mentally exhausted, and they are really a little overwhelmed.
Don't look at the current Cavaliers players get a 20-minute break, but those who have played know that these 20 minutes are not a good medicine to restore physical strength, but will make the player's body more tired, all the cells in the body seem to be protesting to the owner at this time, the human body instinctively wants to rest after strenuous exercise, and now the Cavaliers players have no desire to continue playing, they all want to lie in bed and sleep well, or play CS-GO or something...... (To be continued.) )