Chapter 106: I Can Be Elegant, Too
When the Lakers players returned to the locker room, the crowd still had wide eyes and mouths in an "O" shape, and Malik was simply scared into the shoulders of those around him. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Zhang Yu was the last to walk in, and shook his still numb arm first, still with a flat face, as if to say, "You guys are too fussy." ”
In the first half, the Lakers only led by 10 points, although it didn't seem like much, but both teams scored low, and the Pistons only scored 32 points in the first half, and 10 points was already a big advantage.
In addition to Hill's breakthrough threat, the Pistons can only see the crosshairs outside the three-point line, and after they have been selectively ignored on the inside, the proportion of offense under the basket, the percentage of shooting percentage under the basket and the rebounding rate in the front court are all outside the 20th. Their passing stats are only based on Hill's leading role, and the reason why the offense can keep around 20 and not collapse is still all due to Hill's connection with a few outside shooters, so I think everyone should know why we can limit their margin to less than 35 points. ”
Harris has done a lot of homework, the Pistons are really only Hill alone, Alan Houston is far from mature, and even Hill is not an offensive player, he is only in his early 20s per game, and his improvement is limited from last season, so it is not as difficult to deal with the Pistons as imagined, which can be seen from the opponent's negative record.
Zhang Qi is mainly defensive and breakthrough today, and the Lakers hope that he can have a strategic exchange with Hill, so the Pistons can't make any waves, and the victory will be in hand.
In the first half, Zhang Mao did a good job defensively, and the offense was not wasted, which was beyond Harris's requirements for him.
In the second half, he originally planned to focus more on offense, but that dunk made his forearm a little uncomfortable, although it didn't go off the court, but the feeling would definitely be affected, which made him continue to focus on breaking points and defending in the second half.
Fortunately, he has already got good data in the first half, 10 points, 5 rebounds, 7 assists, 2 steals and 1 block made him overwhelm Hill in his personal performance, especially the negative angle shot at the beginning and the cantilevered dunk at the end of the first half, I believe it is enough to make him selected for the top ten goals of the month, and that cantilever dunk can at least enter the top ten goals of the season.
Hill's data is a bit miserable, with 8 points, 4 rebounds and 5 assists in the first half, which is undoubtedly much worse than Zhang Mao. Although there are objective reasons why the overall strength of the Pistons is not as good as that of the Lakers, he is 5 years older than Zhang Zhu, and he is a second-year player, so he did not take advantage of the matchup, which still makes many neutral fans inclined to Zhang Fu, after all, Zhang Fu is also higher in terms of appearance.
In the first half, the most impressive thing was that Hill was cut off the ball and caused Zhang Yu to stage a shocking dunk, and even the negative angle drift big back at the beginning was scored in front of Hill, and Hill acted as the background of Zhang Qi at least twice today.
The Pistons' locker room was a bit of a gloom, and Hill's mentality has been strong, but there were signs of collapse today.
They only scored 32 points at home, which is a big "miserable" word, and I really don't know how to describe their performance.
Coach Collins had no solution to the problem, and he could only use twenty minutes of halftime to make chicken soup for the soul, but the Lakers broke his soup bowl in just three minutes in the second half.
The Lakers broke out this time by Bison Dele, the ultra-low-profile version of Griffin, who played with Van Exel and Zhang Mao in the second half, and the effect was very good.
Harris found that the Pistons' ability to deal with pick-and-roll offense was not good, and Campbell had several easy scoring opportunities in the first half, which was much more efficient than Zhang's playful scoring efficiency.
Otis Thorpe was the best assistant to Big Dream back then, and he was able to trade Drexler in his thirties.
This person is not only excellent offensively, but also has a set of defense, but this means that at his peak, Thorpe still has a certain threat on the offensive end, but has seriously degraded on the defensive end, his pace really can't keep up, and he will be very passive when defending and blocking.
Today's game should have a share of the credit of Bison, although the Pistons are weak inside, if Thorpe plays in shape, it will not be easy to solve.
But the Lakers' passionate interior managed to entangle Thorpe and help the team clear the last obstacle on the inside.
In the second half, Bisson's good impact made the Pistons even more embarrassed, and the score became 46:32 in a blink of an eye, but the Pistons were still difficult to score, which was their biggest trouble.
Zhang Yu didn't continue to use trash talk to disturb Hill because he thought this guy had a good character.
He's played a lot of games since he came to the U.S. in June, but he's never seen Hill defend so cleanly.
This guy didn't have the shameless behavior of stretching his elbows and legs at all, but he used a lot of despicable tricks on Hill, which made him feel a little embarrassed.
Zhang Qi is not a good thing, but he will have the same reward for those who are truly good to him; And for those true gentlemen, he will respect them just as much. So naturally trash talk will not be used anymore, and in the second half, it will no longer use small actions to defend the opponent.
Hill was a little more comfortable, but the Pistons faced too much of a dilemma, and he wanted to activate his teammates, but in the next three minutes, not only failed to get an assist, but also delivered a turnover, and the Lakers seized the opportunity to extend the score again.
The Lakers completely figured out Hill's style of play, and the lack of long-range shooting ability made the Lakers even more compact in the second half.
Of course, this is not a direct reduction to the three-second zone as later, but as soon as Hill breaks through, the Lakers' three-second zone will be instantly crowded, and players on both sides will also cut off his passing route and not give him a chance to pass open space.
Hill was forced to use a pull-up jump shot to attack, but the effect was still very bad, hitting only 1 shot in three consecutive shots, but the Lakers seized the opportunity to fight back.
At 5:02 in the third quarter, the score came to 57:38.
Every point the Pistons score has to give the impression that it is difficult to go through 9981, but the Lakers only need one counterattack to score easily.
Zhang Yu thought that his arm was numb and he would not have a chance to score today, but he was stunned and scored another 4 points with a fast counterattack.
This will he has scored 14 points, 9 rebounds, 9 assists, 3 steals and 1 block, and the Pistons kept hitting iron and turnovers, allowing him to even grab a lot of rebounds, and today he is running for a triple-double.
"He doesn't seem to be that good?" Zhang Yu had an idea in his heart, Hill's long-range shooting is too poor, you must know that the current three-point line has been shortened, even Jordan, a three-point pit god, has shot 4 percent, but Hill still doesn't have any three-point ability, which is really unreasonable.
In the past two seasons, many players who originally did not have three-point shots were able to shoot close to 40% of the shots. Those guys who were already close to 40% shooting have broken 40% shooting in both seasons.
There are not many players who play outside now, and there are really not many who don't have three-point ability.
Hill's three-point shooting ability is still equal to "0", he is still unreliable even for two points from a distance, basically relying on breakthroughs and mid-to-distance shooting, even if he has super passing vision and technology, but for many teams, this kind of player with obvious defects is just a bit troublesome, but which game is not troublesome?
Zhang Zhu's current breakthrough threat is actually not as good as Hill's, but he has the ability to shoot from a distance, and opponents don't dare to get too far away from him, which makes his breakthrough threat not inferior to Hill.
After the first three quarters, Hill's statistics were only 12 points, 6 rebounds and 6 assists, although he was still very versatile, but he also had 6 turnovers, and the Pistons were already trailing by 20 points.
Zhang Qi played the third quarter, and when he came off the court, he felt that his forearm had improved a lot, and he was more confident this time.
In the first three quarters, he scored 16 points, 10 rebounds, 10 assists, 3 steals and 2 blocks, and the third "triple-double" data of his career has arrived, which is also his third "triple-double" in a single season.
The frequency of "triple-doubles" in the NBA has declined sharply in recent years, and from 1984 to 1991, players who won "triple-doubles" every season would not have less than 10 triple-doubles in a single season.
From the 87-88 season to the 90-91 season, the Magic won the "triple-double king" for four consecutive seasons, and also got 11 "triple-doubles" in the lowest season.
But in the three seasons since, the "triple-double king" has not had more than 6 triple-doubles in a single season, almost more than doubled.
Grant Hill brought the ranking back to the spotlight last season with 10 triple-doubles in a single season, and this season's regular season has been played in less than 20 games, with Zhang, Hill and Kidd all playing three triple-doubles, and this year's "triple-double king" looks set to return to the form of the Magic, Jordan, Bird and Leaf.
In the fourth quarter, the Pistons wanted to break the boat, and even Hill tried a three-point shot, but almost stole a three-point shot.
Zhang almost burst out laughing, and in the next round, he hit a three-pointer under the cover of his teammates.
His touch is back, and the team has firmly controlled the margin at 20 points, and explosive scoring is the weakness of the Pistons and Hill, and there is no room for reversal in this game.
Zhang Yi was kept on the court this time until 5:08 of the fourth quarter, and the score remained at 81:59.
The Pistons finally gave up their resistance, and Collins replaced all the starters, declaring that the game went into garbage time.
When Hill left the game, everyone could see that his mood was very depressed, the previous elegance was gone, and now Hill only had a thoughtful expression, as if he was looking for the reason for the failure.
Zhang Qi regarded him as the number one enemy, and Hill didn't regard Zhang Qi as a competitor, and he lost to his biggest opponent face to face today, and neither of the two would be happy if they were in a losing position.
"I can't even practice shooting at the age of 23, what are you going to fight with me?"
Zhang Qi showed a smug smile, and he was more excited than taking a blood!
For him, winning one game is better than ten, and the importance is self-evident.
Nike is certainly no less smiling than him, if Zhang Wei loses to Hill, even if they don't say that their endorsement contract is lost, it will definitely pour a bucket of cold water on the cooperation between the two sides.
Zhang Yu was also replaced subsequently, and today he scored 19 points, 12 rebounds, 11 assists, 4 steals and 2 blocks, comprehensively suppressing Hill in personal data, and now the title of "Rookie King" can finally be justifiably pressed on his head.
This game happened to be his 20th regular season game, and the local live broadcast in Los Angeles also showed Zhang's average data for the first 20 games - playing an average of 35.9 minutes per game, scoring 24.5 points, 8.3 rebounds, 6.9 assists, 2.5 steals and 0.8 blocks. He shot 48.6 percent from the field, 41.3 percent from three-point range and 80.6 percent from the free throw line.
Throughout his NBA career, except for Big O, Abdul-Jabbar, Jordan and Hill last season, there is no such all-round rookie as Zhang Zhu.
Zhang was much less aggressive at the post-match press conference because he had already gotten what he wanted.
So, he gave Hill a very high rating.
Although he thinks in his heart that Hill is overrated, a player with major flaws that cannot be repaired is not a successor to Jordan at all.
But he's not going to go against all Americans, and since they think Hill is Jordan's successor, he's okay, and he's not interested in that title anyway, because his goal from the beginning was to beat that No. 23.
So before leaving, Zhang Yi made no secret of his ambitions, and learned from Hill to say with a gentle expression and tone: "On this rock, I will build a palace!" ”