Chapter 413: Over-the-horizon strike
The Pacers players don't know if the fans are locals, but the morale of the home team players will inevitably be affected by this backlash at home, and some Pacers players are frustrated, believing that their poor performance has driven the fans to protest in disguise. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
The Knicks players were encouraged, although Wu Huang had a cold expression, but he was secretly refreshed, and immediately broke through Collison to score a goal after the second quarter, and the action was still very commotionous, obviously energetic.
As soon as Emperor Wu came strong, usually one or two people would not be able to satisfy him, but the walkers could not send more people to anal him. The Knicks led by 7 points at 32:25 in the first quarter under the organization of Gasol, and continued to play like this in the second quarter, and it is estimated that they were still taken away by the rhythm of the third quarter.
This goal brought the difference between the two teams to 9 points, and the Pacers came to the first watershed of the game, if they were opened up by the Knicks so quickly, it means that they are not much better than the first two games, and their self-confidence will definitely be hit hard again, then a wave is not far from them.
Vogel quickly glanced at the bench, where there were two or three cats, big and small, and there was really no one available, let alone the odd soldiers.
AJ Price? Stevenson? Dundee Jones?
The Pacers' benches are either too old or some young players who are not capable of making the playoffs, and sending them on the court will make mistakes and give the Knicks more opportunities to push.
Stevenson in the crowd is eager to try, Vogel is also optimistic about the prospects of the sophomore rookie, this guy's potential on the defensive end is very much in line with his requirements, but his problem is that he is not very skilled, and his style of play is too sticky, especially when handling the ball, he often makes speechless choices...... Stephenson's shortcomings are a disaster once they are put into the playoffs where you can't make mistakes! Except for garbage time in this series, Vogel didn't dare to send him on the court at all, otherwise the sticky ball would be caught and he would have made a mistake, or the pass would have been cut off quickly.
The Pacers' guard line at the moment is Collison + Barbossa, the Brazilian lightning has been in a state of bumpy displacement in the past two years, seducing the second sister-in-law is a big taboo in which country, no one will like to be teammates with him, and naturally no team will be willing to keep him for a long time, coupled with the media and fans have been criticizing him, the state of this Brazilian has also been affected, and now he can't run, and he only scored a total of 10 points in these games against the Knicks, which is not much better than Stephenson.
Granger fought hard today, and in the second quarter he continued to use the suicide attack of the first quarter to score points, and the home-court advantage allowed him to win some free throws on his breakaway, and the others quickly followed the example of the team boss, and for a while the Pacers players were like holding explosives bags and constantly launching death charges into the Knicks defense.
The Pacers' style of play is quite pathetic, and there is no way to do it, it is not easy to get free throws when playing like this on the road, and this trick can only work at home.
This kind of offense that relies on home-court advantage to make free throws and uses a lot of physical contact that can be judged or not judged to force back defenders can be said to be the most scoundrel in the NBA, and it is also the most helpless way to play, as long as the referee blows more tightly in a certain period, these offenses can easily become fouls, and the scoring process is not stable, and there is a very high risk of injury.
As he spoke, Barbossa hit the streets!
Tony Allen was completely unsparing in his limited playing time, and the Brazilian lightning that could not turn struck the lightning rod and was carried down less than two minutes into the game.
Vogel wanted to curse, so he glanced at the bench again, and this time finally replaced Stephenson, who had been eager to try for a long time, which was a bit of a broken jar.
Stephenson is a typical huddle man, he doesn't care so much, after getting the order to play, he immediately showed an excited look, quickly ran to the sideline and jumped a few times to warm up, and couldn't wait to watch his long-awaited playoff stage, today he finally did not play in garbage time.
But soon, Stephenson couldn't laugh anymore......
Collison was used by Wu Huang to block and break through on the defensive end, at this time Stephenson did not help Collison to assist in defense, because he felt that this was the task of the interior line, but after Wu Huang easily made an empty basket, Collison and Frye on the inside line came up together and asked him, "Why don't you help defense?" ”
"What? Does this TMD have anything to do with me? Stephenson didn't give face to the two seniors at all, and asked back on the spot, he thought that no matter how much the defense was lost, it couldn't be thrown on him, and he went to help defend in case Tony Allen scored, so whose pot was it?
"He doesn't have the ability to score from the outside, did you fall asleep in tactics class?" The two seniors once again accused in unison.
Stephenson wanted to continue to refute, but in the end, he was too young, and in the face of the aggressiveness of the two veteran players, Stephenson finally endured it, but he didn't feel that he had a problem at all.
Wu Huang saw that the Pacers players seemed to have signs of infighting, and he hoped that these people would fight directly, so that he would not have to do it. He has always felt that playing games can be easier and easier, and there is no such thing as "winning without martial arts" in his heart.
Stephenson was angry with his teammates on the defensive end as soon as he came up, and he couldn't get the trust of his teammates after turning to the offensive end, running a lap and not getting the ball at all, and finally watched Granger force a layup under Tony Allen's contemptuous expression.
This time, the referee didn't give him another chance to make free throws, and every time a Pacers player held the ball, it was a foul on the Knicks, so he didn't have to play, because the Knicks players were all sent off after the first half.
Wu Huang quickly held the ball to start a fast attack, and at this moment Stephenson's inexperience was highlighted, he was robbed by Tony Allen, and he couldn't keep up with it when he was slow to defend, and finally Tony Allen received a pass from Wu Huang and scored a goal.
"Bastard! Are you looking at the scenery? This time it was Granger who got angry and stepped forward to ask Stephenson a question.
Stephenson's face turned red, he felt that these teammates were very unfriendly to him, but this time he was indeed out of position, even if he wanted to refute it. Besides, Granger is the nominal boss of the team no matter what he says, and he can't really refute it, but this feeling is really unpleasant!
That's why NBA head coaches are reluctant to use young players in the playoffs, and it's definitely these young players who are responsible for the problem, unless you're the new core of the team that the team is focused on, but generally this kind of team doesn't make the playoffs.
This is only one of the reasons, these young players who are blamed by their teammates, or young players who are in self-blame, are easy to get lost on the court when their mentality is not mature enough, such as Stephenson, who is now half angry, half anxious, but after two rounds, he doesn't know how to play, and his whole head starts to heat up.
The defensive intensity of the NBA playoffs has left young players like Stephenson without the opportunity to use his excellent body to break through the defense, but he can't keep up with the moves and ideas of the old players, and at this time, he is suddenly separated from the other four, and if the opponent is not stupid, he will quickly use him as a breakthrough to attack, which will form a chain reaction, making the performance of these young players worse and worse.
Wu Huang signaled his teammates to get that rookie on the defensive end, as long as he looked at his red face, he knew that the mentality of this product must be unstable, and of course he had to target it in this case.
Tony Allen said the task was easy, and the Pacers' rookie was so tender in front of him that he felt like he could poke the other man to death with one finger.
The Knicks' defense put a lot of pressure on the other four players of the Pacers at the beginning, and they didn't want to put the ball in Stephenson's hands, but it seemed that only this rookie had the least defensive pressure, and the basketball was finally passed to Stephenson.
"Surround him!" Emperor Wu thought in his heart that this was their plan.
Gallinari and Toni Allen moved quickly and tacitly, and the two rushed forward to pack Stephenson the moment he received the ball, and Wu Huang also leaned over to intercept Stephenson's pass.
This was clearly a premeditated defense by the Knicks, who were originally expected to let go of Stephenson to defend the other four, but now it seems that the opposite is true, and their real target is this rookie.
If Stephenson had been a little more sophisticated, or had a clearer mind, he would still be able to pass the ball. But Stephenson's head was a little dazed, he didn't expect the Knicks to calculate him, although he immediately looked for a passing route to both sides, but the defense in the playoffs would not give him time to slowly find someone to pass the ball, and before he could find a way to get the ball, Tony Allen and Gallinari's defense was already surrounded.
"This idiot!" Some of the other four players of the Pacers scolded in their hearts, and some scolded directly, because Stephenson's hurried pass happened to fall into the hands of Wu Huang, who had been staring at him for a long time, and the Knicks were another quick counterattack.
"It's over!" What Vogel is most afraid of is the situation in front of him, originally the Pacers players are only hanging on their last breath, and once they are attacked by the Knicks, it is likely to be directly choked.
What's worse now is that the trigger for everything is Stephenson, which makes many Pacers players dump the pot directly at the poor rookie who has been on the court for less than a minute, so that they can give up the game with peace of mind. Well, while it's no different than covering your ears and stealing the bell, a lot of players are just looking for an excuse to give up.
Stephenson was naturally blamed by his teammates after Wu Huang scored two more points through a broken ball, which also made his mentality even more unbalanced, and he had no way to refute these blames, because the ball was indeed his mistake. Now the situation is obvious, as soon as he got on the court, he was hit by the Knicks with a small attack wave of 6:0, which Stephenson has no excuse to refute the blame of his teammates, although he is still not very convinced, but this can only make his mentality more out of control, and his brain is more crazy.
Seeing this, Vogel could only replace Stephenson, who had played less than a minute, at this time he would become a catharsis for the whole team's losses, as well as a breakthrough for the opponent, and if he continued to play, he would be scrapped, and once the mentality of young players was overhit, it was likely that he would not recover, which was another reason why coaches of various teams were reluctant to use young players in the playoffs.
With a score of 42:29, the Knicks took advantage of the lack of strength in the Pacers' rotation time in the early second quarter to quickly expand the lead, from a 7-point lead to a 13-point lead in less than three minutes.
After Vogel replaced all the starters in advance, he still couldn't withstand the Knicks' ferocious offense.
Wu Huang and David West's partnership is very aggressive, and when the two are on the court together, the Knicks will play somewhat similar to the old Jazz, mainly using pick-and-roll offense to initiate tactics, while other outside players look for opportunities to run and find open shots.
But the disadvantage is that the Knicks' running routine is a little less, many times the outside players are standing and waiting for Wu Huang to share the ball, this style of play mainly relies on Wu Huang's personal ability to create opportunities, his first choice is to find opportunities to shoot, or to make the ball for David West, who is accurate in the middle of the shot, and then to share the ball with other outside teammates.
It sounds like it's very defensive, as long as you concentrate your defensive forces to get Emperor Wu, isn't it? Of course, it's not that simple, otherwise the Jazz wouldn't have become one of the biggest enemies of the Bulls dynasty by relying on pick-and-roll tactics. In basketball tactics, the tactic that everyone plays the most is the blocking and dismantling tactic, and the biggest ceiling is also the blocking and dismantling tactic, which can be said to be a tactic that the stronger the player's ability, the more powerful the tactic, and his ceiling completely depends on the strength of the player itself.
Of course, the Pacers know that they want to encircle Wu Huang, but the biggest reason why everyone likes to use blocking and pick-and-roll is that as long as your cover is executed successfully, even the strongest team on the defensive side will definitely leak short-term loopholes and flaws, so that the ball-carrier can get a short offensive opportunity. The reason why it is said that the more powerful the player is to use the pick-and-roll, the more powerful it is, the success rate of the players to take advantage of this short opportunity varies, and a star like Wu Huang, who is good at projection, is obviously the best at making the most of this momentary opportunity to do things.
The moment David West was covering, Wu Huang immediately seized the defensive hole that appeared due to the moment of blocking and dismantling to kill the inside, unless the Pacers really surrounded it with three or four defensive players, but in that case, Wu Huang casually divided the teammates into empty positions, which is already the best offensive result, a fool will be so defensive, and there must be a limit to the number of people.
The reality is that as soon as Wu Huang breaks through, the Pacers will have to fill in the position, and this fill will definitely have holes, and the more rotations there are, the more holes will appear, and in the existing rules, it is too difficult for the defender to survive 24 seconds.
At this time, it is usually the defender's ability to rotate and fill the position, as well as the attacker's ability to quickly transfer the ball, but there is no doubt that the attacker has the advantage from the beginning, as long as he does not make mistakes, the final result will always be beneficial to the offense, and the defense will always be the passive side.
The strength of the Knicks' blocking and dismantling is not in the "block", but in the "dismantling", basically from the beginning of Wu Huang + David Lee, to last season's Wu Huang + Xiaosi, and then to this season's Wu Huang + Gasol and Wu Huang + David West, the Knicks' blocking and dismantling can make the defender feel uncomfortable vomiting blood after dismantling, which is also the unique skill of the mustache, and the blocking and dismantling tactics designed by him are definitely grandmaster-level existences in the current league, only Maloncton, Delon Boozer, Duncan Parker, Nash Xiaosi's combination can compete with Wu Huang's combination, and two of these five groups are the product of D'Antoni's coaching.
Wu Huang's blocking and dismantling has become unreasonable since last season, the old-fashioned blocking and dismantling pay attention to close-range combat after dismantling, and there are many kinds of fists, elbows and knees close to hand-to-hand combat, Stockton, Parker, and Deron are more inward, and they are responsible for shooting after the inside line is disassembled, and their own long-range firepower is not strong.
The combination of Nash and Xiao Si began to change the way of blocking and dismantling, and the mustache extended the attack distance of the blocking and dismantling, which was reformed more thoroughly when Wu Huang was born, he was like a modern aircraft for over-the-horizon combat, quickly destroying all old traditions, and fans can often see him raise his hand to shoot without looking at it, and he will directly give you a shot from 800 miles away.
The Pacers were once again stunned by Wu Huang's unreasonable shooting, only to see that the Holy Sect Master's first two attacks only took a step inside, and immediately raised his hand after shaking off the defense, and the basketball fell straight to the basket nearly twenty feet away.
Wu Huang naturally won't let go after getting cheap, the Pacers were finally forced to rush in the third defense, when the Knicks' blocking and demolition offense was "dismantled", they would rather let go of David West, but also use two lines to surround Wu Huang, a suspected bastard.
But Wu Huang didn't even bother to take a step inward this time, he took a step outward, flashed to the three-point line one step away in an instant, and shot unreasonably again......
"You can't play like that!" The Pacers players cried when they saw this, and this method of blocking and attacking was almost impossible to defend.
Of course, this kind of shooting is also very difficult, no one dared to play like this before Wu Huang, including Curry now, but Wu Huang dared to play this kind of shooting that would be sprayed directly on the face by Popovich and then pressed on the bench, because his shooting rate can be kept above 50% no matter how he plays.
"Huh!" When the ball went into the basket again, the Pacers finally returned to the rhythm they are most familiar with, and the margin is almost 20 points, and it is very likely that they will not be able to hold on to three quarters today, and they may be killed in the first half.
After Wu Huang hit this unreasonable three-pointer, he made a very arrogant move to put the gun into the set when he returned to the defense, like a cowboy who won a duel, and the Pacers players did hear Wu Huang come out: "It's like shooting at a bucket of dead fish." ”
When the Pacers players heard this taunt, they naturally felt that they had been greatly insulted!
However, in the face of the Holy Sect Master, who was already condensing the Godhead, in the end, no one dared to stand up and exchange anal blows with him, and the morale of the entire team of the walkers completely turned negative this time.
The morale of the Knicks players broke through the clouds, and no one could stop them, especially after the main team reunited, and they launched a 16-0 attack wave in the middle of the second quarter for four and a half minutes, and took the poor Indiana in waves.
At halftime, the score was 77:39, and the Knicks entered the second half with a huge lead of 28 points, which also ended the suspense of the game early.
Wu Huang didn't play at all in the second half, and his 26 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists in the first half were maintained until the end of the game, and finally the Knicks beat the Pacers by 29 points on the road.
"I can see their pain, but I want them to understand that pain is a teacher of patience and that every failure is accompanied by honor and redemption." Emperor Wu pretended to be 13 again after the game, and the Holy Sect Master in this state was generally happy to play. (To be continued.) )