Chapter 31: Paranoid Fisher
Men who have come out of their playing days to take the reins and become managers often have the traces of their playing days, and it's clear that Jason Kidd is such a person. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
No one would dispute calling Kidd a senior commander on the basketball court, and with his precision-guided passing, his ability to turn decay into magic, and his all-around ability to chop vegetables and cut melons, Kidd played the role of "Old Demon" brilliantly.
However, Kidd has a fatal flaw, that is, the barrenness of offensive means, especially poor outside crosshair, if his defense and assists are at the master level in the NBA, then his offensive level can be called a layman.
PS: Book friends don't know if they have found an interesting phenomenon, in the early years, Kidd often couldn't make up a triple-double because of not scoring enough, of course, the later return to the Mavericks to practice a fairly accurate three-point shot is not in the scope of discussion.
Wang Zhuo knows Kidd too well, and the style of the team he coaches is just like himself, with very good defense and integrity, but the offense has to be described as a "scum", for example, in the first season of the Nets' coaching, the team has Paul Pearce, Kevin Garnett, Deron Williams, Joe Johnson and other big stars with both offense and defense, and the Nets' offense is in the bottom few positions in the league.
On the other hand, Kidd, he didn't know anything about Wang Zhuo, and at the beginning of the season, the team was still in the run-in period, Wang Zhuo grasped the Achilles weakness of the Bucks, and used the tide of pervasive offense to instantly shatter the Bucks' defensive line.
The defensive end was completely destroyed, and the offensive end was even more stretched, so even the all-round "old demon" Kidd could only sit on the bench and sigh and swallow the loss in the opening game.
"Our poor defense simply couldn't contain the Knicks' offense, they were more aggressive on offense, and obviously they did a better job overall."
After the game, when Kidd was interviewed, a few short sentences also summarized the overall trend of the game, and said the key to the Knicks' victory.
For the first time, Rambis stood behind Fisher and became a hero in New York in an instant, making the media and fans completely forget about Fisher's existence, but the Knicks players and even Rambis himself understood that the victory in the opening game was entirely due to assistant coach Wang Zhuo.
Before the New York fans had time to cheer for the opening victory, the Knicks had rushed back to New York overnight to face the visiting Atlanta Hawks at the Madison Square Garden Arena, and a sudden defeat extinguished everyone's joy.
Fisher, who got out of family disputes and returned to the court, played an almost paranoid triangle offense led by Anthony on the outside and Lopez on the inside, Wang Zhuo sat on the sidelines, watching the mechanical running of the players on the court and the useless defense, and could only helplessly watch the Knicks being beaten by the Hawks, who were better overall in strength.
Anthony, who carried the banner of offense, scored a game-high 25 points, but the dismal shooting percentage of 10-of-27 shooting and 0-of-7 three-pointers was completely unbearable, and Lopez's dominant offense on the inside made him completely lose his contribution on the defensive end.
Calderon and Porzingis are completely outside the tactical system, Calderon in 5 shots and 0 has not only become a colander on the defensive end, but also a jumper on the offensive end, if it were not for the excellent performance of the bench group, Wang Zhuo dared to guarantee that this was definitely a bloody massacre.
The only consolation is that the Knicks grabbed a full 15 more rebounds than the Hawks, but who really cares about those meaningless stat comparisons.
Wang admits that the Hawks are much stronger than the Knicks, and their head coach Budenholzer just won the Coach of the Year award this past season, but in Wang's view, this powerful Hawks team is not invincible.
The Hawks team trained by Budenholzer has the same solid style of play, complete system, and strong team as the Spurs, but if a sharp knife opens a breakthrough from the outside and tears the entire system on which it depends, it is not impossible to defeat him.
The LeBron James-led Cavaliers have confirmed Wang's assumptions in the playoffs, which is almost the same as Kobe's powerful blade tearing through the Spurs' impregnable defense, and Wang Zhuo believes that Anthony is definitely up to the role of a sharp blade.
However, there was no chance of starting anew, and it was impossible for Wang Zhuo to turn back the clock to confirm whether his idea was really correct.
Back-to-back games, but the results were very different, and the psychological gap between the players was also worlds apart, and they felt that from the moment they walked on the court, the Eagles' defense was like a huge cage falling from the sky, allowing them to find the slightest gap to break free, which was a far cry from the tidal wave of offense when playing against the Bucks.
"The triangle offense is a successful tactical system, and I don't need to explain too much, and I will continue to implement the triangle offense with the Knicks until it leads the Knicks to success!"
Even so, in the face of the New York media, Fisher stubbornly insisted on his opinion.
Soon, Fisher was mercilessly attacked by the fans, saying that he was like a stubborn stone, who did not know how to be flexible at all, of course, this stone certainly could not be compared to Duncan, who had been petrified into a Buddha, he was just a stinky and hard rock in the pit.
After the game, Anthony glanced at Wang Zhuo's seat, did not give an interview for the first time, and walked straight back to the locker room, he wanted a championship, but this Knicks made him not see the slightest hope of a championship, and even the door to the playoffs was not open for him.
Wang Zhuo could see the meaning in Anthony's eyes, if he couldn't even get past the Atlanta Hawks, how to talk about the star-studded Cleveland Cavaliers and the defending champion Golden State Warriors, the team's morale was not stable, and the only way to stabilize morale was to win, and only non-stop wins could prove that the team's future was infinitely bright.
Whether it is facing the media or the team, the Zen master has not expressed the slightest, neither praising Wang Zhuo, nor criticizing and belittling Fisher, just like a fair judge, treating everyone equally, but everyone understands that the current Knicks team is definitely not the ideal team in the Zen master's mind.
The Zen master also knew in his heart that if Nix wanted to succeed, someone must come, and someone would leave, but so far, only he knows which side the balance in his heart is tilting.