Chapter 103: The Angry D'Antoni

When it comes to Ray Allen, the first thing that comes to mind is the amazing long-range shooting skills, in fact, Ray Allen's passing skills are also very good, but they are covered by the edge of the three-point shot, which is easy to be overlooked. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

There is nothing wrong with defining Ray Allen in the early days with the concept of a two-way guard, when he was the star of the SuperSonics, Ray Allen was the starting point of the team's attack, but in the later stages of his career, he was no longer the only core of the team, and the positioning in the tactical system was relatively simple, so that few people would deliberately pay attention to Ray Allen's passing ability.

Wang Zhuo is very familiar with the technical characteristics of Ray Allen and will not bury any of his specialties, so in the case that De Antony will focus on Ray Allen, he boldly changed the position of Ray Allen and Rose on the court.

Ariza has a good defensive ability on the wings, and although he is not as strong as Anthony physically, the advantage of his height and arm length makes him not too difficult to defend Anthony, which is one of the reasons why Anthony did not stand out in the first half.

D'Antoni's tactical change of defense can completely contain Ray Allen's offensive strength, but Wang Zhuo immediately changed his tactics and gave up the main attack on Ray Allen, which made D'Antoni's tactics completely fail, Ariza's defense became useless, and at the same time liberated Anthony.

After Harden made two free throws, the difference narrowed to 8 points, the Knicks attacked, Ray Allen stabilized the rhythm, and advanced to the front court when the 8 seconds were about to run out.

Ray Allen stopped at the top of the circle and was opposite Anthony Eric Gordon, the difference in height was particularly noticeable, Ray Allen bent over, carried Ariza with his right arm, and hit the ground with his left hand to Anthony.

Anthony dribbled with his back, carried Gordon to the inside line two steps, shook his shoulders, turned over and leaned back, Gordon struggled to jump, but the height gap did not have any impact on Anthony's shooting vision, "clang", the ball fell into the basket, making a crisp sound.

"Damn it!"

D'Antoni looked at the situation on the field and cursed.

Wang Zhuo's tactical adjustment is too targeted, but he has just called a timeout, and it is not only inappropriate to call a timeout immediately, but if he calls a timeout and falls into Wang Zhuo's trap, he can't continue to call a timeout, D'Antoni wants to see the follow-up development on the court before making a decision.

The point difference stretched to double digits again, Harden was eager to prove himself in front of Rose, singled Rose on the outside, stepped back and shot three-pointers, Rose's defense was very good, "boom", the ball smashed in front of the basket and rebounded.

Anthony stuck Gordon near the free throw line, picked up a defensive rebound, handed it to Ray Allen, Rose sneaked up frontcourt, but Harden chased hard, Ray Allen did not risk a long pass, and steadily advanced to the frontcourt.

In the face of Ariza, Allen did not choose to attack strongly, and passed the ball to Anthony again, in the same position, in the same way, Anthony succeeded in singles again, and also made Gordon's foul, Anthony went to the free throw line and hit it steadily.

After 2+1, the difference has been stretched to 13 points, and the warning water level has passed, D'Antoni looked at the time, there were only two minutes left before the end of the half, and he did not call a timeout.

Harden, as the star of the house, stood up again, Euro stepped into the interior, hit the board, bit the score on the court, and turned around, Anthony missed a single shot, Capela grabbed a defensive rebound, and D'Anthony breathed a sigh of relief.

But before he had time to steal the fun, Noah blocked Harden's layup inside, Porzingis grabbed the rebound, the Knicks launched a fast attack, Rose opened the bow at 45 degrees on the left side, and shot from a three-point distance, Harden was covered and dizzy, and before he came over, the ball had flown into the basket, and the point difference continued to expand.

Ryan Anderson received the ball in the bottom corner on the right side, missed a three-point shot, Noah collected the ball, Porzingis hit a mid-range jumper in frontcourt, Capela grabbed the rebound, and with 40 seconds left before halftime, both sides had a chance to attack.

D'Antoni called a 20-second timeout to lay out the final attack, and Van Gundy sat on the bench, holding the tactical board back and forth, and shouting loudly about how to follow up and help defense.

"Ray, it's almost time to take a break."

Wang Zhuo patted Aaron on the shoulder and said, of course, he was also signaling Van Gundy to replace, Aaron nodded, without any objections.

"Damn it!"

After the 20-second timeout, the players from both sides re-entered the court, and D'Antoni saw the lineup sent by the Knicks, and finally couldn't help but burst into a foul language, which was not loud, and was quickly drowned out by the noise on the court, but it was accurately captured by the cameras on the scene.

D'Antoni's tactical arrangement was to let Ariza carry out the final attack, relying on Ariza's young and strong age, bullying the aging Ray Allen, and venting the evil anger in his heart, who knew that the Knicks actually replaced Ray Allen at the short timeout and replaced the fierce Kyle O'Quinne.

D'Antoni's angry expression completely betrayed the tactical arrangement of the Rockets' last attack, and Wang Zhuo's substitution just cracked D'Antoni's tactical arrangement, and the defense of the three highs on the inside forced the Rockets players to choose to shoot outside, and Ariza's outside crosshairs difference is well known.

Sure enough, after a series of conduction, the ball stopped in Ariza's hand, O'Quinn was a meter away from Ariza, obviously not a defensive shot, Ariza hesitated, and finally jumped out of his hand.

There was no suspense in the result, the ball smashed on the neck of the hoop and bounced high, Noah and Porzingis cooperated very well, Noah squeezed Capela to the death, forcing Capela to not get inside, Porzingis pointed to the ground on tiptoe, easy to get the ball into his arms.

"Beep!"

The referee's whistle blew just in time, and the Knicks took a 20-second timeout to lay out their final attack before halftime.

The defense relies on Van Gundy, and the offense depends on Wang Zhuo, and the Knicks players form an encirclement around Wang Zhuo, and Wang Zhuo draws an arc on the left and right sides of the tactical board, and then puts away the tactical board.

At the end of the timeout, the Knicks did not choose to make substitutions, still the three interior lines, plus Rose and Anthony, Rose dribbled at the top of the circle and took time, Anthony and O'Quinn stood on the left and right sides of the free throw line, Noah guarded the inside, and Porzingis stopped in the bottom left corner.

When the stopwatch came to the remaining 5 seconds, Anthony and O'Quinn started at the same time, and cut to the inside together, Porzingis quickly lifted to the bottom corner of the right side, pulling the inside line, in the process of air cutting, Anthony took the lead in jumping, Rose immediately sent the ball, Anthony volleyed the ball, volleyed out, Oquinn followed him and took off, stretched his arms, caught the flying ball and pressed it into the basket fiercely.