Li Wei saw that Floyd was playing local joint defense, and his eyes lit up.

The Knicks' coaching staff is also working on this right now, NBA coaches have to keep up with the times, and if you can't keep up with the times, you're bound to be eliminated by the times!

Now that the league has revised the rules to allow strong side joint defense, then everyone should take advantage of this!

Although Floyd's results in the NBA are terrible, if you want to underestimate him, you are deceiving yourself.

Every coach has strengths, and Floyd, as an NCAA coach, must have a clearer understanding of joint defense than some NBA-born coaches, because if you don't understand joint defense, you can't mix in the NCAA at all!

His thinking is very worth learning from!

In fact, the Knicks also used the rules of the strong side to allow joint defense to a certain extent on the court today, which made Elton Brand twisted.

In his previous life, Brand was able to cut 20+10 super instant combat power in his rookie year, and if he was prevented, the Bulls' offense could be said to be half useless.

Since it was a back-to-back game, Li Wei arranged for Da Yao to take turns to rest, and the team's starting point was Daben. Brand, who is also short and strong, is really a good match, and Garnett, Maddie and others are at a good time, and the champion who made his debut is at a loss!

The Bulls' strong-side defensive routine is different from that of the Knicks, because the Knicks don't have a strong interior line, and they pinch breakouts and air cuts. Garnett, Maddie and others are very sharp in their breakthroughs and air cuts, but as soon as they break in, they will face a tough defense.

Both teams are playing local joint defense, you attack, I defend, the scene is very beautiful. Three minutes later, Li Wei roughly understood the Bulls' routine, and only with a wave of his hand did he replace Maddie with Nowitzki, and his tactics also changed!

"Enough of it, I won't play with you anymore, watch me super shooter break the joint defense!"

Floyd saw that the Knicks didn't break through very much, focusing on shooting, and Nowitzki, Houston and others were very accurate, so they had to change the defensive plan and change to man-marking!

In fact, in terms of on-the-spot command, Floyd is not much worse than the NBA coach, after all, he is also an NCAA coach, but in terms of lineup configuration, the two teams are too different.

Elton Brand and Artest on the bench are good comrades, but they are only in the NBA, and they didn't play the opening game yesterday, and today is their first game in the NBA. It will take time for the two young future stars to adapt.

Tony Kukoc is a good comrade, but he's only a sixth man with the Bulls in the past. As for the Bulls' starting point guard, Randy Brown, and Dick Simpkins at the center position, they used to be just water coolers.

It can be said that the goal of this Bulls now is to empty the salary space next summer and grab another No. 1 pick, and the Knicks can defeat them as long as they play normally!

In this game, the Knicks did play normally, scoring 28 points in the first quarter, and at the same time, the performance on the defensive end was also perfect, and the opponent only scored 13 points!

The Bulls fans in the United Center Arena didn't have a sad look when they saw their team being abused, because they all scolded Jordan when he retired last year, and this year everyone has only one goal, which is to rebuild!

The freshly baked champion has arrived, continue to make a good signing next year, select the second talent, and use the vacated salary space to sign Grant Hill and Tim Duncan, who are about to become free agents, and the Chicago Bulls will be transformed into a champion again!

The Bulls' rebuilding plan is perfect, and every fan has a lot of faith in them. It's a pity that other teams have thought of the same thing with them, and they are all waiting to sign Duncan with salary space!

A war that can't see the smoke of gunpowder is about to start next year!

Li Wei recently likes to let the main team play the first quarter and then change the bench in the second quarter. With a 15-point lead today, he was back off the bench in the second quarter.

Center Nesterovich, power forward Lewis, small forward Maddy, and scoring guard Dale Curry!

Because it was back-to-back, Hornacek, who played for a long time yesterday, was also rested by Li Wei.

Lewis is 2.08 meters tall, taller than the Bulls' two interior lines, but too thin to play power forward. Garnett is also thin, but Garnett has strength, playing power forward can withstand most players in the same position, and at the same time the bounce is very good and can protect rebounds, but Lewis, whether it is top defense or rebounding, is not very good!

Then again, it's no wonder that if his physical fitness could be as demonic as Garnett, he wouldn't have ended up at the end of the first round, and in his previous life, he was only selected in the second round.

However, Li Wei still let Lewis play the big front. Because for most of the first quarter, Li Wei let Garnett play small forward to defend Kukoc, and at the same time sent Nowitzki to use his accurate shooting to force the Bulls to change their defensive routine, and the two played almost a quarter and were a little tired.

The game was back-to-back, with Da Yao resting and Big Ben not idle, and Lewis had to take the power forward position for a while to give the others time to rest.

With only 15 players on the NBA roster and 12 players on the active roster, there will always be times when players have to play in positions they are not good at.

The Bulls' starting point guard, Randy Brown, also came off the break after the first quarter. In fact, this summer, the Bulls also signed back their first three-game championship point guard BJ Armstrong.

Armstrong is now a veteran and is a good player to bring in a newcomer who can stabilize the locker room. Unfortunately, he was injured in the preseason and was unable to play, and the Bulls had to send Fred Hojberg to serve as a point guard temporarily.

Fred Hojberg is the kind of white shooter who doesn't run fast and doesn't jump high, and is usually a shooting guard. In his previous life, he retired and returned to his alma mater, Iowa State University, as a head coach, leading the team with very good results, and then was hired by the Bulls and became the head coach of the Bulls.

Now, the Bulls are short of personnel, Floyd is driving ducks to the shelves, and Hojberg is playing point guard, and he can only bite the bullet. In fact, Hojberg's ball control ability is still very good, otherwise he can't be lacking at this time. But he's used to playing a shooting guard, and he's better at catching and shooting, rather than holding the ball to organize the offense!

In addition, Hojberg, who is 1.93 meters tall, also has a slightly higher ball control height, so of course there is no problem when encountering ordinary opponents, but unfortunately Li Wei is relatively short!

As soon as the game started, the Knicks head coach used a gambling steal to take the lead and take the ball from Hojberg!

When Dale Curry saw that Li Wei successfully broke the ball, he immediately ran with two old legs, and the speed was slightly faster than Jose Hawkins, the Bulls scoring guard who was also old and a little tired after playing a quarter!

Li Wei saw that Curry was in a good position and passed the ball in time!

Dale Curry scored on a three-step layup after receiving the ball!

"What happened?" Bulls commentator Tom Dole feigned surprise.

"Our Hojberg gave the Knicks head coach a steal!"

Dole's partner, a player-turned-trainer, coached Johnny Coldao for the Bulls in the '60s.