Chapter 379: An Unparalleled Sense of Understanding
Since Zhang Feng joined the Kings, the Kings have played a total of three games against the Warriors, namely a preseason game and a regular season game, and although the Kings have won both games, they have not won the full version of the Warriors.
In the preseason game, Durant and Green did not play, Zhang Feng and Curry scored three points against Biao, and completed the final kill; In the regular season, Curry and Durant did not play, and the Warriors, who were missing two main offensive points, were not the opponents of the Kings at all.
Now, the Kings and Warriors meet again, this time the Warriors are finally a full team, and the Kings have completed the promotion, although the Warriors look invincible, but it is difficult to say who will win.
After the pre-game ceremony, the players of the two teams entered the court and their respective positions, the referee began to check the game ball, and the Kings explained on the sidelines that Doug and Napier seized the time to introduce the lineups of the two teams.
"Doug, I feel the excitement in my heart like a mad lion, I can't hold it back at all, it's about to rush out!"
"Don't get excited, this game is just a new player from Rose, and Love is still recovering from an injury."
Doug's words were slightly disdainful, and Napier stared at him in curiosity: "Oh? Listening to your tone, it doesn't seem to be very optimistic about Rose? โใ
Blatantly 'belittle' his own players is obviously not something Doug will do, he bowed his head and coughed to hide his embarrassment: "I didn't mean that, it's just that Rose's statistics in recent seasons have not been ideal, and Coach David seems to be in a bit of a hurry to put him in the starting lineup, and it will be worth the loss if he destroys the team's chemistry."
Napier disagreed with Doug, and he shook his finger: "No, I don't agree with you. You know, Zhang Feng is a point guard who is good at creating space for his teammates and is good at passing, and he can provide a good scoring environment for Rose."
Seeing Napier so insistent, Doug no longer continued to argue: "It's hard to say, you look at the Warriors' starting lineup, center Zaza Pachuria, big forward Draymond Green, small forward Kevin Durant, scoring guard Klay Thompson, point guard Stephen Curry, and Zhang Feng can open 55 with Curry, in this case, Zhang Feng must be taken care of by the Warriors, and Rose, Justin, Willy, and Randolph are not masters of receiving and shooting, they have a high probability of holding the ball to attack, once they hold the ball to attack, will fall into the encirclement of Durant, Green, and Pachuria."
After Doug finished speaking, Napier nodded and applauded, but then shook his head: "It makes sense, but any team in the NBA faces the Warriors, which is the situation you said." But you have to believe that Zhang Feng is different from other players, he can let the Kings take the initiative and control the rhythm of the game, instead of being led by the Warriors."
"Then let's wait and see," Doug was speechless.
On the field, Green stood in the center circle and laughed, and the other nine players didn't know what he was laughing at, but Green's eyes were on Rose, obviously what he thought of Rose.
"What are you laughing at? Laugh at your uncle" Zhang Feng scolded directly in Chinese, he was obviously going towards Green, although Green did not understand, but Zhang Feng's playful expression was enough to explain everything.
At the beginning of the game, the Warriors won the jump ball, Curry smiled at Zhang Feng with braces, brought the ball to the front court with a relaxed face, and then immediately handed the ball to Green.
High post should be the most common tactic used by Kerr since becoming the head coach of the Warriors, Green stands at the top of the arc with his right hand and holds it high above his head, while he keeps waving his left hand, looking like he is directing other Warriors players to run.
At this time, under the basket stood Randolph and Pachuria, both of whom were holding their arms in position; On the left wing of the court stood Zhang Feng and Curry, both staring at Green who was waving; In the bottom left corner of the court stood Justin and Durant, Justin was close to his side, and Durant stood on his back; On the right flank of the pitch stood Rose and Thoms, both of whom looked dazed, as if the attack had nothing to do with them.
Suddenly, Curry moved, he dodged from the left side of Zhang Feng's body into the inside, while at the same time Durant also ran from the bottom corner to the outside, Pachulia under the basket also stepped back to the right bottom corner, and Thompson ran from the right wing to the basket.
Judging from the position and running direction of the four Warriors players, Zhang Feng instantly understood that the Warriors were playing a double-cross cover strategy, and the reason why Curry went around the interior from the left side of his body was to block Justin who was defending Durant, and the same was true for Thompson and Pachuria.
The tactics are understood, but it is rare to accurately judge who Green will pass the ball to, the horror of the Warriors lies in the fact that the four of them run without the ball together, and these four people all have the ability to shoot and finish, prevent Curry from making a layup, the ball to the outside Durant, prevent Durant, the ball to Thompson who goes down, prevent Thompson, and don't make Green shoot 3 points by himself.
The warriors will be able to do everything, everything is strong, and the rhythm of the game is still controlled by the warriors, Zhang Feng made a decision after dozens of plans flashed in his mind: to prevent this attack, he can only make a surprise move.
He stopped chasing Curry and tilted his head at Justin, who was chasing Durant, and signaled: "Change the guard!" Curry hands it over to you, and I'll cut it off."
Zhang Feng and Justin joined the Kings together and began to cooperate in the summer league, the two had an unusually tacit understanding, Justin instantly understood what Zhang Feng meant, and directly stopped and turned his pace and went to Curry.
With the cooperation of the two, Green, who was about to pass the ball, was stunned for a second, and Curry under the basket couldn't pass, because Justin was taller than Curry, and Curry didn't have a layup advantage when he got the ball. Durant on the outside line does not pass, because Zhang Feng blocked Durant's receiving route, although Durant has a height advantage over Zhang Feng, but Zhang Feng's perverted bounce and bounce speed Green has seen it with his own eyes, and it is impossible to pass the ball high.
There was no chance on the left side of the whole court, Green could only turn his eyes to the right side of the court, Pachulia was standing in the bottom corner of the right side, although Pachulia had a three-pointer, but it was not safe after all, and the ball still had to be handed to Thompson in the short corner area on the right.
In Green's view, handing the ball to Thompson was the right decision, at least on the surface, Thompson is taller than Rose, weighs more than Rose, and has more explosiveness than Rose.
In Zhang Feng's view, Green's passing of the ball to Thompson is an opportunity to give the King a steal, because Thompson's ability to break through with the ball is too weak. As far as this offense is concerned, as long as Thompson is put on the left hand, Rose can be co-op with Justin.
But after all, this is Zhang Feng's thoughts, and he can't tell Ross out loud that Ross has to make his own decisions on how to prevent Thompson.
At this time, Rose's brow was furrowed, and Thompson stood sideways after receiving the ball, apparently trying to set up a three-threat position. He is not good at shooting because Thompson is taller than him; He had no choice but to let Thompson pass; Only by defending the breakthrough can he have the ability to stop Thompson.
Rose doesn't know what Thompson will choose, but as a point guard who has played in the NBA for many years, he knows one thing โ you can't give the rhythm to the opposing player, and it's better to give Thompson a choice than to guess what Thompson will choose.
I saw Rose sideways out of the way, and the route to the basket was instantly unguarded. Thompson didn't resist the temptation, and he slammed his left-handed dribble to the basket.
"It's over...... I'm going to be caught again" Seeing Thompson break through with the ball, Kerr looked up at the ceiling of the court with a painful face, but Green nodded and applauded, as if he saw Thompson make a layup and successfully win two for the Warriors.
"It's coming, it's coming, the opportunity is coming" Zhang Feng bent over and stared at Thompson with his eyes.
Supposedly, the best time to wrap the bag is now, but Zhang Feng is still waiting, he is waiting for Thompson to rush to the basket, which is in a straight line with Green at the top of the arc, and then Thompson will not have any more passing opportunities.
In the blink of an eye, Thompson rushed to the basket, Zhang Feng popped out with his feet suddenly, and he went straight to the basket like a hungry tiger pounced.
At the same time, Thompson had already collected the ball for a layup, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and the score came too easily, but before he could fully unfold the smile on the corner of his mouth, he caught a glimpse of shadows on the left and right, covering the sky and the sun, as if the night was falling.
โBang๏ผโ โBang๏ผโ The sound of blocks sounded one after another on the field.
"Oh my God, Zhang Feng and Rose blocked Thompson one after another, he won't have a psychological shadow from now on, and he won't dare to go to the basket again" Napier's tone was playful, and his expression was playful.
"You see him sitting on the floor in a daze, apparently he hasn't figured out what the hell is going on, hahaha" Doug couldn't help but laugh.
"See? Zhang Feng and Rose have a tacit understanding as if they have been playing together for 10 years, and both of them want to let Thompson break through from the left at the same time, so don't take your worries before the opening to heart" Napier's tone was full of victory.
"Hey, I'm curious, you can't see God, but you tell me, how do you know that Zhang Feng and Ross both thought of letting Thompson break through from the left at the same time?" Doug was unconvinced.
"It's very simple, because Zhang Feng had already turned around and gathered momentum before Thompson broke through......"
"OK, OK, you won...... Let's take a look at the king's offense" As soon as Napier spoke, Doug understood, and quickly changed the subject to hide his embarrassment.
After Zhang Feng's block, the two teams of players competed for the basketball in the paint area, but the basketball went out of bounds, and the referee saw the footage and awarded the stadium to the king.
After bringing the ball to the frontcourt, Zhang Feng slowed down and stopped on the right wing, and the Warriors player who defended him was Curry, which made him shake his head, showing that Kerr looked down on him, and it was not Durant who defended.
God is fair, Curry's offense is almost incomprehensible, but Curry's defense is not so great. Statistically, among Curry's players who defended more than 50 times, these guys took an average of 19.4 shots against other defenders, but when they faced Curry's defense, the average number of shots increased to 20.4.
The difference between 1 shot is not too much, but it is very scary to add the word 'average'. In the past three Finals, the Cavaliers have chased Curry to play, Irving to play after Curry, and even JR to play after Curry.
What's even more exaggerated is that the Cavaliers have several offenses, Curry grabbed JR's clothes to defend, and JR did the same.
So Zhang Feng was a little disappointed, playing Curry was too simple, and it was boring not to be able to play against Durant.
"In that case, give Rose the chance to attack"
Zhang Feng made up his mind and began to dribble towards the left side of the court, and he moved close to the three-point line, without the slightest intention of entering the inside. Such an action is obviously to play an outside hand-to-hand pass.
Although he hadn't practiced this tactic with Rose, Rose still ran towards him very tacitly. The two switched positions at the top of the arc, the Warriors switched defenses, and Rose faced Curry.
Rose entered the draft in '08 and was named the best rookie in '09, while Curry entered the draft in '09, and the two entered the league only one year apart.
Although the two were in the Eastern team and the other in the Western team, they played each other twice a year, and in the past 8 years, they have played each other at least ten times, plus both are synonymous with point guards, and they have a certain understanding of each other's playing styles.
So Curry laughed, thinking he could defend against Rose, and at the same time Rose laughed and felt that he could break through Curry.
After laughing, Curry made a lightning steal; Rose pulls the ball and changes direction, accelerates sideways, and strides.
was passed by Rose, Curry's face flushed, and in a hurry, he turned around and reached out and grabbed Rose's jersey.
When defending, grabbing an offensive player's jersey is a foul, and Curry has a look of annoyance on his face as soon as he starts, but this expression is fleeting, and he thinks that paying for a foul is nothing.
But I never expected that the referee did not blow the foul, because he didn't pull it, Rose still rushed to the inside unstoppably, and it seemed that he was going to dunk violently, and at this time Pachulia was taken away by Randolph, and the basket was empty.
However, Curry saw in a blink of an eye that Green was smiling and moving from the right short corner to the basket, which should be able to make up for Rose, not to mention being able to block Rose 100%, at least forcing Rose to change his dunk to a layup.
After 0.5 seconds, Rose was already on the ball and Green was jumping with a disdainful smile on his face.
Either Rose dunked Green, or Green bloodied Rose, and there seemed to be no other option, and the players on both teams and the crowd at the scene stared wide-eyed, waiting for the final result.
Who knows, Rose twisted his body in the air and threw the ball out, and everyone's eyes followed the trajectory of the basketball flight to see another person flying in the air - Zhang Feng!
"Oh my God, no, my God is no longer enough to describe my shock...... What the hell, this is terrifying," Napier was so excited that he couldn't even speak.
"No, I don't agree with your opinion, the real horror is not Zhang Feng's violent collision with Green......" Doug tried to calm down.
"What do you mean?"
"What is really terrifying is the unparalleled tacit understanding between Zhang Feng and Ross"