Chapter 264: The Biggest Vulnerability

There are a lot of active passers in the league! Like Rondo, Delon, and Paul, they are all players who sometimes average more than double assists per game, and their passing skills are not bad, but when it comes to the real masters, there are only two.

One is the Suns boss, Steve Nash, and the other is the veteran who is now staying with the Mavericks to play for Nowitzki, Jason Kidd! Nash is only one year away from entering the NBA, Kidd entered the NBA in '95, and Nash is a member of the '96 Golden Generation, but unlike Kidd, Nash didn't get much attention at the beginning.

Although he was selected by the Suns at that time, he only averaged 3.3 points and 2.1 assists per game as a rookie, which naturally could not win him anything, and the next year he was in the Suns, averaging 9.1 points and 3.4 assists per game, which was also a little disappointing, so the Suns uniform team at that time traded him to the Mavericks, and in the Mavericks for six seasons, although the score has not been up or down, but the assists are getting higher and higher, and the average assists per game reached 8.8 in the 03-04 season!

However, at this time, he still did not enter the audience's sight, until the 04-05 season after he went to the Suns, the league owner blew a storm of small balls, compared to Nash's late bloomer, Kidd was more lucky.

Since he first entered the league, Kidd has become the absolute brightest star among everyone, although his reputation has not been obvious in recent years, but his status in the league must be much higher than Nash, and among the three major passing skills that Jiang Yang knows, Elvin Johnson and John Stockton are a long time ago, and the only S+ level skill player in the same service is old Kidd! And what is the strongest point of Kidd Sr.'s S+ passing skills? That's the long pass!

Kidd is different from other point guards, he can often grab rebounds, and after the point guard grabs the rebound, he can naturally launch a fast break as soon as possible and catch the opponent off guard! And now Jiang Yang has a trace of such a taste.

Although when it comes to passing, Elvin Johnson's passing may be more delicate than Kidd's, and the accuracy and height of the long pass are insufficient, but Jiang Yang's power is large, so these small problems do not exist in Jiang Yang's hands at all.

Although he doesn't have the overall situation like Kidd, Jiang Yang can still pass the ball out at the first time, Jiang Yang's kung fu in the inside card position is becoming more and more proficient, and Odom has no way to do it, and the Lakers, who originally wanted to play the inside line, are losing and retreating.

Although in terms of height advantage, Odom's hook hand and shooting Jiang Yang can't prevent it, but his dunk and layup Jiang Yang is very good defense, plus the guarantee of rebounding, as well as Jiang Yang's long pass, in the first quarter of the game, the Celtics slowly pulled the score away! According to the Lakers' idea, their strategy is to focus on interior offense after the opening, Gasol and Bynum give full play to their height advantages, relying on the rush of rebounds in the front court, forming a secondary offense, to attack the Celtics' defense.

But this quickly collapsed in the case of Jiangyang's turmoil! With Jiang Yang's strategy, the Celtics decisively increased the intensity of their defense, their reasonable card rotation and strong physical contact made the Lakers quite uncomfortable, not only brilliant inside, but also brilliant outside, a calm Kobe, even after falling into the bag of Rondo and Ray Allen, forcibly chose to pull out! In the first quarter, the Celtics' tactics completely restrained the Lakers, the Celtics replaced the offense with defense, and Glenn Davis, who appeared in rotation, scored six points in a row with the help of Jiang Yang...... It's still mainly on the outside line, you let a 201 cm person hook up on the inside line or something, even if he Bynum is a waste, he will be covered! Therefore, Jiang Yang's offense is basically on the outside, and the defense is on the inside, and the offense and defense are very balanced.

The Celtics completed a 16-3 attack wave in the final 4 minutes and 40 seconds to lead the Lakers by 12 points at 26-14 into the second quarter! In the first quarter of the game, Jiang Yang played 10 minutes and 27 seconds and only scored two points, which was a long-range shot that stepped on the line, but he sent 6 assists, plus 6 rebounds and 2 blocks! Such data is enough for Jiang Yang!

However, at the beginning of the second quarter, Jiang Yang rested, and the Lakers' interior line slowly found a rhythm, and the protagonist of the counterattack was Artest, who not only grabbed the rebounds in the front court to complete the second offense, but also made many successful steals on the defensive end, under his activity, the Lakers scored 11 points in more than 4 minutes, catching up with the 11-point gap in one fell swoop, and the Celtics who chased 25-26 were only one point away! Seeing this situation, Doug Rivers immediately replaced Jiang Yang and Rondo, Rondo came on the court to complete the fast-break offensive layup, and then after Jiang Yang blocked Odom, Glen Davis, who passed the inside line, hit a shot, and then hit a three-point shot on the outside, regaining his lead, but Artest, who has found his form, continues to play his strength, and his three-point shot is 3 of 4 today, which is just playing so far! continued his good form, but when Pierce came up, Pierce was not to be outdone, and scored seven points in a row in three minutes, trying to ensure that the Celtics led the opponent by 9 points at 43-34 into the second half of the game, Jiang Yang had 7 points, 9 assists and 10 rebounds in the half, and the rebounds are now double-doubled!

There is still time in the second half, it is estimated that Jiang Yang has no problem with the triple-double, the Lakers reported 29 rebounds in the first half, and the frontcourt rebounds should have been able to grab 15 according to their calculations, but now they have only grabbed 5, and Jiang Yang has collected the rest! However, Jiang Yang is okay to grab defensive rebounds, but it is a little unrealistic to grab offensive rebounds! After all, he's just a cameo as a centre-forward.

The defense under the basket is not bad, but the offense under the basket, he is a little worse! So when he was offensive, he was more on the outside, so he really didn't grab offensive rebounds, but instead added a lot of assists.

"I didn't expect that...... Jiang Yang's defense turned out to be so good! He grabbed more than ten rebounds on the inside in the half! And because of his long passes and assists, he has already got nine assists, coupled with Jiang Yang's own scoring ability, there is no doubt that Jiang Yang should have no problem getting a triple-double today! Kenny Smith on the sidelines couldn't help but sigh when he looked at Jiang Yang's movements on the field! Jiang Yang is really strong now, and the strength is a little surprising, which reminds him of the past.

Legend has it that Elvin Johnson entered the first season of the NBA, and in the 1980 Finals against the Philadelphia 76ers, he played a cameo role as a center, when Abdul-Jabbar scored 40 points in the fourth game, suffered a serious ankle injury, and had to miss the sixth game, so Elvin Johnson made a cameo appearance as a center, with his small hook and rebounds, he scored 42 points plus 15 rebounds, 7 assists and 3 steals, and finally helped the Lakers win the game.

He also became the first rookie in history to be the MVP of the finals, it is precisely because of this event that Elvin Johnson has achieved his own legend, whether Jiang Yang will be a legend in the future, it is not clear to everyone, but now Jiang Yang can be regarded as a miracle.

A point guard with only 201 centimeters can insist on playing the No. 5 position on the court for half a game, and almost got a triple-double, such a result has made people speechless, although Jiang Yang's score is not the highest, but the best honor in the half court was moved to him, it is foreseeable that Jiang Yang is now creating a new miracle!

At halftime, Jiang Yang and the others all returned to the lounge, in the lounge, all the players were very excited, as long as they kept playing at this pace, the Celtics would have already held the victory in their hands, but Doug Rivers's face was not very good, because he glanced at Phil Jackson at halftime, this old guy is still a breezy look, speaking of finals experience, it is estimated that only those old demons in this league can be comparable to this old guy, the others are undoubtedly a level behind, and Doug Rivers also understands that this guy must have something he doesn't know! Now the Celtics lead the Lakers by 9 points at halftime, which can be regarded as forcing the Lakers to a dead end, in the second half, the Lakers will definitely not be as honest as in the first half, but how to play, he doesn't know!

"It was a great fight! You guys are amazing! Did you know? In the first half, they shot a total of 49 shots, but hit 13 of them, a shooting rate of less than 26.8% in the whole game, if it wasn't for Artest scoring 12 points in the second quarter, maybe you would have won the match point by now! Heberdu next to him laughed loudly and said to the players, listening to Heberdu's words, Doug Rivers next to him seemed to have been hit in the head as if someone had suddenly hit him, he finally understood what the problem was!

"Show me the data!" Thinking of this, Doug Rivers let out a loud shout and took today's data directly from Heberdu's hand next to him, and after reading it, Doug Rivers was even more sure that the Lakers were going to be a demon moth in the second half.

"Don't laugh yet, the other party should change formation!" Looking at the smiling players in the room, Doug Rivers said coldly.

"Change formation?" Listening to Doug Rivers' words, Jiang Yang and they were all stunned for a moment, it's not that they didn't think about changing the formation, but with the current configuration of the Lakers, they won't be bad no matter how they change the formation! Now they are completely confident.

And even Jiang Yang, who is known for being cautious, nodded with a smile, and he was already confident in the first half.

"It's possible that the opponent will put the focus of the attack on the outside!" Doug Rivers looked at the players on the court and snorted coldly.

"Look at Gasol and Bynum's stats!" Listening to Doug Rivers' words, everyone picked up the data sheet in front of them and looked at it, and sure enough, after looking at it, they also found that something was not quite right.

Bynum was prevented by Jiang Yang, that is, he was prevented from death, and only scored 2 points on 1 of 5 shots in the game, but Gasol's shooting rate was not high, which was a bit surprising, in fact, there was nothing surprising about this, when Garnett was defending Gasol, Jiang Yang appeared more than once to assist in defense, which also made Garnett a lot easier, but now Gasol and Bynum can't blossom on the inside, he Phil Jackson has to think about something else, the inside line can't play the outside line, and use the outside line to revitalize the inside line, This is also the most basic way to attack, but Phil Jackson will not play such a basic game, he will definitely make strange moves!

"Now they have several options, the first is to let Odom pull out to give the outside a chance to impact the inside, but it is estimated that it is impossible to do so, Jiang Yang's defensive skills they all know in their hearts, defending the outside line is his old job, Phil Jayson will not do this. The second is that Bynum uses his height and reach on the inside to assist Gasol, if he were Chris Webber, he might have done it, but he is Andrew Bynum, and his assists can basically be ignored! "Doug Rivers' mind spun very fast and began to rule out the opponent's style of play one by one.

Not to mention, according to what he said, it is really impossible for Phil Jackson to sit still, and he will definitely change the lineup! And after changing the lineup, he will definitely take the No. 1 position to make an article! Jiang Yang's point is a huge loophole.

Although Bynum, a little shark, ran over and wanted to bite Jiang Yang, he didn't have any good fruit to eat, and he was choked out of a tooth, but it doesn't mean that others can't eat Jiang Yang! According to Doug Rivers' introduction, after ruling out two more possibilities, Doug Rivers paused for a moment, and then looked at Jiang Yang...... There was a hint of worry in his eyes.

"There is one last possibility, they may directly replace Andrew Bynum, and then replace Ramar Odom, use Odom to entangle Garnett, and then let Gasol fight Jiang Yang!" Listening to Doug Rivers' words, Jiang Yang couldn't help frowning, if the Lakers really adopt such a style of play, then the Celtics will be really dangerous.

In the face of Bynum, Jiang Yang may be able to withstand it with his own defense, but in the face of Gasol, who can shoot, his defense is basically useless, don't look at Gasol's shooting rate in the first half is not high, but that is because Jiang Yang and Garnett make up for the defense, if Gasol singles Jiang Yang, Jiang Yang conservatively estimates that his shooting rate will be more than fifty percent!

Because of his turnaround jumper, Jiang Yang has no way at all, even if the bounce is good, the position is still far from the same!

It's not that you can become Johnson if you want to be a magician, Jiang Yang finally understands the meaning of Kobe's words now.

Now that I think about it, it is very likely that the other party will use such a tactic, and under such a tactic, Jiang Yang is really more dangerous.

"Coach, it's really possible for the other party to do this, so what should we do?" Looking at Doug Rivers, Jiang Yang asked in a low voice.

Listening to Jiang Yang's words, Doug Rivers also has a headache, if Rasheed Wallace is replaced, there is no way to withstand the impact of the other party, but if Jiang Yang is replaced, then there is no way to withstand the opponent's shooting, if Jiang Yang is also more than 210 cm taller, it would be fine, but this is impossible, and now after analyzing the problem, Doug Rivers has a headache even more.

"It's time to start the game!" At halftime, there are only seven minutes, these seven minutes are the time for the impurities outside to perform, when the cheerleaders and the impurities perform, the audience outside is still a sea of joy, but the Celtics players have enough headaches at this time, and after hearing the sound of the stadium personnel, all the people returned to the stadium.

Doug Rivers did not make substitutions, but continued to let Jiang Yang stay on the court, and when looking at the opponent's lineup, Jiang Yang's brows couldn't help frowning, sure enough, the other party put Andrew Bynum on the bench, and sent Ramal Odom to the court to start the half! Looking at the players on the field, everyone was a little puzzled.

"It doesn't look like the situation is good...... "Looking at the situation on the court, the Lakers have been forced to be anxious, and now they have to fight hard!

In the first half of the third quarter, the Celtics continued to control the situation on the court, Garnett and Rondo played very well inside and outside, they also had Jiang Yang to cover the first eleven points of the quarter, 8 minutes and 23 seconds before the end of the quarter, Rondo made a layup with Jiang Yang's assist, the Celtics had a 52-36 lead by as many as 16 points, and Jiang Yang also got the legendary triple-double.

Now Jiang Yang has a total of 11 points, 10 assists and 11 rebounds, which is very average!

But after that, the Lakers' fangs were exposed, and they began to fight back, and sure enough, the point of attack was Jiang Yang's! First, Gasol scored two goals in a row at this point in Jiang Yang, and Jiang Yang felt that things were a little unavoidable...... immediately switched to Kevin Garnett to defend him, and he went to defend Odom, but the height of defending Odom Jiangyang also had a disadvantage.

Odom exerted his strong offensive talent, led the Lakers to play a wave of 9-2 offense**, chased the score to 45-54, and forced the score back to 10 points, before the end of the third quarter, after he grabbed the rebound in front of Jiang Yang, the second offense was successful, and the three-point score was locked at 53-60! The Lakers were able to enter the final quarter with a seven-point gap! Seeing that there are only seven points left in the score, this time the Celtics are really panicked, their playing style is really accurate to hit Jiang Yang, in the face of Jiang Yang, you use brute force to play, even Howard can't please it, but you use ingenuity and play shooting, then Jiang Yang basically has no ability, although Jiang Yang's score came to a triple-double in this section, but he has become the biggest loophole on the court.

(To be continued)