Chapter 270: Beat Nima and Sell Batches!
Not long after the game started, Wu Huang regretted provoking James, and the bastard hit a long-range three-point shot as soon as he came up, and then broke through to make a foul on Iguodala, and the Knicks got off to a bad start.
James likes to shoot a three-point shot after the start of the game to try his touch, in fact, many stars like to do this, this is to test how his shooting feels, once he is blinded, he will increase the offense outside the three-point line, so that the opponent does not dare to go too far, so that his breakthrough becomes easy. And everyone knows that the only weakness of the Gorilla is the instability of the outside basket, and if his shooting touch is good, coupled with that beast-level breakthrough, even a team like the Spurs can easily be killed by him alone.
Today's James showed signs of transformation, and as soon as the game began, the Knicks had to wrap up the gorillas, and as a result, Wade and Bosh were both activated. Only halfway through the first quarter, the score was 11:18, the Knicks trailed the Heat by 7 points, the Big Three swept 15 of the Heat's 18 points, James sent 5 points and 3 assists, and was the most dazzling player on the court today.
Wu Huang was not very smooth today, at first he wanted to return James a three-pointer, but I don't know if the shooting distance was too close, the basketball smashed on the back edge of the basket and popped up, Charles Barkley, who commented the game, teased: "Hugo should kick himself a few times, so big a gap didn't score, I think he needs to go to his three-point shot." ”
Xiaosi's performance is also not good, the younger Bosh has more experience in defending Stoudemire, he is not like Xiaosi has been seriously injured, Bosh's athleticism is at its peak, although he can't play against Millsap and Okafor, and he is even more against Randolph and Howard, but these are all big tonnage and have some athleticism inside, and in the face of Garnett and Xiaosi, who are old or not good at strength, Bosh's performance is often outstanding.
Many people ridicule Bosh for bullying the soft and afraid of the hard, but it is also necessary to consider that he is an offensive projection power forward, and he has to be asked to play center and be responsible for defense, and it is very good to be able to deliver such results. James and Wade's statistics have not declined much this season, but Bosh's scoring data has dropped by as much as 30%, and even the scoring efficiency has not increased but declined, because he has to carry the Heat's interior line alone to fight with opponents, and Bosh is the one who sacrifices the most among the Big Three.
D'Antoni is a little anxious at the moment, none of the six strategies have been completed at present, so how can he win?
The Heat's defense is very targeted, and they know that no matter what tactics the Knicks play, they must start from Wu Huang, so as long as they prevent Wu Huang from playing the ball at the first time through oppressive defense, they can make the Knicks' tactics unable to execute smoothly.
From the very beginning of the game, Wu Huang found that the Heat's defense was very pressing, oppressive and aggressive, and as soon as he dribbled past the midfield, Wade and James would pounce on him and trap him, and then quickly return to his defensive position after he passed.
That's when the mobility of the two is manifested, and the average team playing like this would have leaked a lot of outside shooting opportunities for the Knicks, but the Big Three were able to complete this oppressive defense with their amazing athleticism. Under such a defense, it would be good for Wu Huang to guarantee that he would not concede the ball, but it was difficult for him to play quickly, and the sandwich of Wade and James could delay his ball speed and indirectly affect the Knicks' tactical operation.
"What should I do?" Wu Huang couldn't think of a way for a while, he had to make sure he didn't make a mistake before passing the ball, but that would make his teammates' open shots fleeting.
Today is the first time that the Heat have come up with this kind of oppressive defense, not only Wu Huang can't think of a way to crack it, but D'Antoni also has no way to deal with it off the court for a while.
In the second half of the first quarter, Wu Huang kept playing blocking and dismantling with Xiao Si, but Bosh's movement speed is almost one of the fastest inside lines in the active service, he can fully keep up with Wu Huang's breakthrough or Xiao Si's follow-up, and Wade and James on both wings can also help defend in time, Wu Huang has to face the defense of several monsters even if he bursts into the penalty area, Xiao Si is the same, and the offensive efficiency of the two has been greatly reduced.
"Distribute the ball to the perimeter? Or a pull-up jump shot straight at the high post? Do you want to just hand over the ball? "Emperor Wu has a lot of ideas in his head, but without a drill in advance, these countermeasures can only achieve half the result. Especially when he tried to hand over the ball and run without the ball himself, the result was even worse!
The Heat's defense is not right on the ball, no matter who holds the ball, they are pressing the basketball rather than someone, so Iguodala is much worse than Wu Huang with the ball, and the Knicks made two mistakes in a short period of time, which immediately made Wu Huang have to quickly take back the ball.
Iguodala is not a point guard after all, and he is not only slower to carry the ball, but he can't even guarantee that he won't make mistakes. Wu Huang to control the ball, at least there will not be so many mistakes, the Heat's pressing defense can only delay his ball speed, but it is not easy to break his ball, or to cause him to make mistakes through pinching, if it is strong, it will reveal flaws for Wu Huang to find a chance to score.
"I'll try!" After a timeout late in the first quarter, Stoudemire volunteered to ask him to execute the attack in the low post.
"Okay, I'll get the ball in." Although Emperor Wu agreed, he felt that this might not be effective. Xiao Si singled Bosh a few times at the beginning of the first quarter, but the success rate was not high, the latter's footwork and strength were not worse than Xiao Si, and his height and arm span still had some advantages, and it was not easy for Xiao Si to score in the low post.
As Wu expected, Joel Anthony is short and doesn't have a good rebound, but why did he get the most playing time of any of the Heat's interior players other than Bosh? The reason for this is that he has a lot of defensive coverage, a positive defensive attitude, and is good at making up for Bosh and other teammates.
It is not easy for Xiao Si to single Bosh, but after turning to form a face frame, he can still use his face frame breakthrough ability to hit the basket. That's where Joel Anthony's value comes in, as he wipes his ass for Bosh every time, and it works very well, with Smalls' strong offense missing several times under the basket to avoid Joel Anthony's block.
"You're passing the ball!" Wu Huang secretly shouted in his heart, he saw very clearly from the outside, although Joel Anthony's defense was timely, but it would leak out of the gap, but at this time, Xiao Si couldn't see where the gap was, and his weakness of poor passing was infinitely magnified. In the eyes of fans, this is Stoudemire forcing his shots against the defense of the two every time he hits the penalty area, completely ignoring his teammates in the empty position as nothing, and playing extremely brainless. But in fact, Xiao Si can't be blamed for this, it's not that he doesn't want to pass, but he really can't see these gaps.
There are people in this world who are so preoccupied when they are concentrating on one thing, and Smalls will pass the ball when he sees a teammate who is in an open position, but he rarely sees these opportunities, because his focus is all on how to break through Bosh and avoid Joel Anthony's block, if he is distracted, he may not even be able to break through the first hurdle of Bosh, let alone what gaps will appear in his teammates, not everyone can be Duncan.
"That's not right!" Wu Huang knows that they are going the wrong way again, although the Heat's interior line is weak, but it is obviously not a good way to use a strong attack to crack, unless they have a Yao Ming or O'Neal, because the vision when attacking with a back will be much better, and once the Heat player is trapped, the player can pass the ball out. However, Xiao Si's face frame offensive vision will be much smaller, and it will be difficult for him to care about whether there is an open space outside after a series of foot movements, so it will be difficult to pass the ball. He can't be blamed for this, but the current Knicks are indeed in the most unreasonable state of fighting alone.
This style of play, unless it encounters Xiao Si's excellent condition, may work, but now that Xiao Si obviously has no explosion, then he must not continue to play like this.
At the end of the first quarter, the score was 22:33, the Knicks couldn't defend their opponents, and their offense couldn't play, and they trailed the Heat by as many as 11 points in the first quarter.
Wu Huang had 5 points, 1 rebound and 1 assist, Xiao Si 6 points and 2 rebounds, Gallinari 3 points, Iguodala 2 points, Toni Allen 2 points, Monroe 2 points.
James had 8 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists, Wade had 8 points, 2 rebounds and 2 assists, Bosh had 6 points and 4 rebounds, Arroyo had 5 points, and Ilgstas had 4 points.
"Damn, the dead fat man was injured at this time." Wu Huang secretly complained off the court, especially looking at O'Neal who was sitting next to him in a suit, the Knicks really needed the big shark to involve the opponent on the court at this time, as long as he stood on the edge of the restricted area, the Heat did not dare to leak people too hard many times, and did not dare to pounce outside to defend unscrupulously, even if the fat man with only three successes left, it was also a great deterrent.
O'Neal looked at James on the court and was also very unhappy, he has been waiting for this game for a long time, but people are prone to back pain when they are old, and it is also a pity for him to be injured at this time, because O'Neal himself also feels that with him on the court, Wu Huang's ball and Xiao Si's breakthrough will have more room for maneuver, and sometimes a little change may change the entire trend. Monroe is too young now, his position is useless a lot of the time, and he doesn't know how to cooperate with Wu Huang and Xiao Si to crack the Heat's defense, but his position is the key to cracking the Heat's defense.
Popovich secretly screamed in front of the TV that he was scolding D'Antoni, of course. The Spurs coach is also very concerned about this game, seeing that the Knicks are like headless flies on the court, he secretly despises D'Antoni's slow brain, holding a good hand of cards but not playing, damn retarded!
Spurs coach bystanders clear, it is easy to see that even if the Heat's oppressive defense can delay Wu Huang's ball speed, as long as the defense is pressed out, it will definitely leak out of the gap, at this time, don't expect a deadly pass, as long as the continuous transfer of the ball, the rotation of the Heat players will become more and more unable to keep up with the rhythm, and finally a big vacancy will definitely leak.
The Knicks happen to have Iguodala, the No. 2 position who is good at passing, and Green at the No. 3 position also has strong tactical execution, D'Antoni's mistake is that he has not reused Green, if the Knicks send a lineup of Wu Huang + Green + Iguodala, and then train Monroe, who is also good at tackling, these four people can pass back and forth a few times like a monkey to make the Heat's oppressive defense take care of one or the other. At this time, Xiao Si interspersed a few more times, and he could immediately make the formation of the heat into a pot of porridge.
Popovich saw very clearly that the Heat's oppressive defense is most afraid of teams with outstanding tactical execution and good at moving the ball, and it is indeed easy to be slipped by people with three guides and two guides, so in the face of the Green Army, they do not dare to use this unskilled defense at all, but in the face of the Knicks, who rely heavily on the point guard to pass the organization, the Heat's defense against "basketball" is exactly its nemesis.
In the second quarter, the Knicks still didn't find a good way to deal with it, and Wu Huang began to fight alone after Xiao Si's strong attack failed, constantly using double cover to shoot from a long distance, which is Kobe's 17/47 style of play.
The Heat actually has a headache for Wu Huang's solo action, because Wu Huang is not Xiao Si's kind of player with a narrow vision, don't look at him constantly playing alone, but as long as their defense leaks out of the gap, Wu Huang can definitely pass the ball out, so the Heat must set aside some spare strength to deal with Wu Huang's ball, and dare not go all out to attack to cover the clip, which allows Wu Huang to always get a chance to shoot at the lower average.
In 2K games, there is a rating for shot selection, and generally an A or A+ shot evaluation will greatly increase the shooting percentage, and once you get a B or even lower shot evaluation, except for All-Star level players, it is difficult for ordinary players to hit such shots, even if the star will reduce the shooting rate.
If Wu Huang's current shooting choices are calculated according to the calculation method in the game, almost all of them are B- to B+ shots, replaced by Wei Shao and Rose, such shots will not have much shooting percentage, but Wu Huang was stunned to rely on these not so good shot choices, and scored a full 16 points in the second quarter, forcibly helping the Knicks maintain a point difference of about 10 points, which is equivalent to giving D'Antoni time and opportunity to find a way to crack the Heat defense in the midfield, otherwise he would be 20 points behind in the first half, and he would not be able to play in the second half.
At the end of the first half, the score was 48:60, and the Knicks were still 12 points behind, but such a score was not without the possibility of a comeback.
The current league advocates offense, and a lead of less than 20 points is not safe, and it is possible to be defeated by a counterattack at any time. But the premise of this counterattack is that the head coach can have a way to break the enemy and win, so is there a way for D'Antoni's side?
The answer is: of course!
At halftime, the mustache drew several sets of offensive plans on the tactical board, and the dense running arrows and colored horizontal lines on the tactical board made most of the team's black and hard look dizzy and dazzling.
To be honest, these offensive tactics are actually very good and targeted, and Mustache's research on offense is no joke, but in order to break through the Heat's defense, these tactics require players to have more running plans, and players need to have more adaptability, if the Knicks are now a European team, then players who have been influenced by various tactics since childhood may be able to understand and implement these tactics, but to draw such a complex offensive line and position map for a group of black and hard people who fail math, the consequences can be imagined.
At the beginning of the third quarter, the ball passed by Wu Huang flew directly out of the bottom line, Xiao Si didn't understand the intention of the tactics at all, and stood stupidly in place halfway through the run, because he was still running according to the default tactics, but the Heat players are not dead wood, each tactic must have changes to be powerful, this is the time to test the team's tactical execution and the tacit understanding of the players, but few of the Knicks' players can keep up with Wu Huang's thoughts, and no one can beat him up.
This time he made a mistake, and Emperor Wu endured it. However, two minutes later, the same mistake occurred again, Wu Huang made two passing errors in less than three minutes, but these two times it was obvious that his teammates did not run to the position, but the fans who watched this game would not think so, how do they know what tactics the Knicks played, they would think that Wu Huang made a passing error.
"Hit Nima and sell batches!" Emperor Wu is angry, how many mistakes does he have to pay for this kind of play to finish? It's better for him to do it alone!
Wu Huang really doesn't have the patience to play tactics anymore, this gang of black and hard to play simple blocking and dismantling and interspersed running tactics are okay, but the tactics are more complicated, they can't figure it out, but not everyone can go to the Spurs to play with the Celtics, that requires IQ.
Popovich was smiling happily in front of the TV, but D'Antoni was darkened on the sidelines, of course he knew that too complex tactics were difficult for players to play, but their default tactics were ineffective against the Heat, and if they wanted to break the opponent's defense, they had to play advanced tactics.
But the problem is that his advanced tactics are a bit too complicated, and even Iguodala's movement is very problematic, which is really embarrassing.
With a score of 48:65, the Knicks didn't score a point in the first three minutes of the third quarter, and even if they didn't make a turnover, they couldn't create a shooting opportunity. There was even an embarrassment on the court where Gallinari and Smalls collided with each other, and the New York fans in Madison Garden witnessed such an embarrassing scene, and there was no sound for the Knicks to play in the second half.
"Do you know why your name isn't in my notebook?" James switched to Wu Huang on the defensive end and took the opportunity to taunt Wu Huang. However, before the words fell, Wu Huang shot directly two steps away from the three-point line, which made James too late to step forward to block, and hurriedly looked back, and the basketball fell into the basket with a "bang".
"Stupid!" Emperor Wu cherished the words like gold, and only gave James two words, and then walked back with his right hand raised.
Madison Garden came back to life in an instant, and 20,000 fans collectively shouted for Wu Huang's three-point shot!
D'Antoni secretly breathed a sigh of relief, superstars are used to do this kind of thing, which is also the biggest difference between the NBA and European basketball, sometimes the individual ability is strong to a certain extent, and the role of tactics can be ignored. Wu Huang's goal is a perfect embodiment of his personal ability, and it came too timely, and they will be taken away by the Heat directly in waves.
"I'm going to see how many of those shots you can throw." James's face turned blue, and he muttered secretly in his heart, he didn't believe that Wu Huang could always score such a long-distance goal. (To be continued.) )