Chapter 30: Inaccuracy?
With only 2 minutes left in the game, the Hornets are still trailing by 7 points, which is not a point margin that makes the Hornets desperate, nor is it a score that makes the Nuggets feel safe. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Therefore, the head coaches of both sides have no intention of rotating their main players off the field, and the players on the field are still their main players, making the final pursuit of victory.
The Nuggets' Karl coach hopes that Billups can continue to keep the tempo down, not reckless offense, and try to kill time to maintain the lead; The Hornets are the opposite, and Williams wants Paul to get rid of Billups' rhythm and find his own offensive rhythm, while at the same time, handing the offense to West, who is getting hot, as much as possible.
It's not that Williams doesn't trust Chu Yi or Paul or anything, but during this time, West is indeed the key person for the team to be able to bite the score, and during this time, just like Chu Yi before, he can melt the ice and snow in Alaska with a hot hand.
The 87.5% shooting rate on 7-of-8 shooting in the fourth quarter was the key to the Hornets' ability to bite the score, and when the Hornets had no one to contain Anthony, the Hornets' second-in-command finally stepped up.
Led the team to support under Anthony's storm, and now, the duel between the two pairs is nearing the end, and at this time, every goal counts.
It's all about who the final winner of this game is, based on the previous David West's divine performance, Williams decided to continue to play West after thinking about it.
Although you may be pressed by the opponent step by step and defend at the level of muscle collision, there is no way to do it.
Paul has the quality to finish games, but that's not what he's good at, and assists are always his first choice when it comes to scoring.
Moreover, it is indeed difficult to finish the match with Paul's size. However, this does not mean that Paul did not have the power to finish.
14 kills (the data checked now, it was too difficult to do back then) ranked first among point guards, and his breakthrough ability was superb, coupled with a solid three-point hand, plus some hot half-volleys, which gave Paul a variety of options in terms of finishing the game, and also made it difficult for his opponents to guard against.
However, in many cases, the ability of the key ball still depends more on the player's play, in layman's terms, it is the feel.
The feel is coming, how to vote, how to have, the hand feels cold, then I'm embarrassed, the sound of the iron makes you feel like you have no place to be ashamed, of course, Kobe Bryant's paranoid exception.
Paul wasn't in great shape today, which made his desire to score even less intense, and he wholeheartedly connected the team's playmaking offense to tear apart the Nuggets' defense.
Fortunately, Paul's current teammates are also relatively powerful, there is no special failure, under Paul's inside assist, West and Hassan are often missed, all they have to do is put the ball in the basket.
This kind of simple work, not to mention that they are professional athletes, has a solid basketball foundation, as long as they have a little bit of basketball skills, they can easily do it.
In the 2 offensive rounds, the Hornets scored 4 points after tearing apart the Nuggets' defense, but Anthony's hand was not very good, and he didn't score on both shots, allowing the Hornets to narrow the score to 3 points, which is just a point difference that can be caught up in one round for a team with very strong 3-point ability like the Hornets.
This is not a point difference that can reassure Carl, so Coach Carl called a timeout that he was reluctant to use throughout the fourth quarter, and he had to discuss tactics with his teammates.
The opposing players tore apart the defensive line they arranged so that Carl's face was very unbearable, he is one of the few thousand-win coaches in the league, and he also has a superstar under his command, and he also washed the opposite side in blood last season, how can he not limit a superstar on the opposite side now?
What's more, strictly speaking, Chauncey Billups, who has won the MVP of the Finals, can be regarded as having the strength of a superstar, although he is not young, he is also half a superstar, and in terms of numbers, his side still has an advantage.
"With less than two minutes left and we're three points ahead, it's not a reassuring score, but as long as we don't make mistakes and don't lose our position, it's not going to be easy for the Hornets to catch up."
Playing a stick to give a sweet date is a common technique used by coaches, which can not only give players a sense of crisis, but also give them a psychological advantage without being too nervous.
'The key player of the opposition is Paul and all we have to do now is strangled Paul, his attacking route, his passing route, especially the passing route. We can't let him play an offensive wave, and we have to put our heart and soul into every transition between attack and defense. ”
"Take 10,000 steps back, even if you can't defend the opposing offense, we let them score 2 points, and we can't let them score 3 points easily, even if it's a foul, understand?"
Carl paused, and then arranged defensive tactics, if this kind of conservative tactics were judged by Chu Yi, he would definitely be scolded by him.
With Anthony's super offensive ability and Billups's super organizational ability, he doesn't take the initiative to attack when he has an advantage, but he wants to use Anthony's least favorite defense to win a game.
This is completely tantamount to tying your hands and letting the opponent hit you, or the kind of opponent who has fallen into madness, and you don't have to think about the end, that's one word - GG.
is also because of Coach Carl's tactics of pinching Paul, Chu Yi's defensive pressure has become less and less.
Before, because of Chu Yi's hot hand, Coach Carl pinched Chu Yi very strictly, and after that, Chu Yi's hand gradually became cold, and the firepower was not so sufficient, which made Coach Carl relax his defensive intensity against Chu Yi.
With West's outburst, Chu Yi's defensive pressure returned to the state of single defense, and the defender was not Anthony, but JR's nerve knife.
Now, Carl has set up a key defense against Paul, even at the expense of using a bag, and the strength of defending Chu Yi is even weaker.
In Carl's view, no matter how well a rookie plays, as long as he is not the boss of the team or the core of the team, he will not get a chance to make a shot at such a critical moment.
It's not about strength, it's about the status of a team, and of course, if the boss of the team looks up to you, it's another matter if you give you a chance.
Paul now admires Chu Yi, the little brother, but after thinking about it for a while, thinking of his downward touch in the fourth quarter, he still didn't let Chu Yi come, and still chose to use the help of blocking and dismantling to kill inside.
With Paul's delicate technique, it would have been a proper thing to play an inside stunned game, but because Carl would rather foul than easily let the opponent score instructions.
Nene directly reported Paul to the layup rudely, wanting to take the opportunity to affect Paul's free throw crosshairs.
Don't say it, it really let Nene succeed, Paul, whose wrists were a little numb to Nene's wrist, made 1 of 2 free throws, and the Hornets trailed by 2 points at 104:102.
With 27 seconds left at the end of the game, the Nuggets had the ball, and it can be said that as long as the Nuggets scored this goal, the game was basically won.
In this case, after 15 seconds of pressing, the Hornets decisively fouled Billups who was holding the ball, perhaps in retaliation, and Hassan's actions were just as brutal.
Billups, who was also scared of his basic skills, only scored 1 free throw, and the Hornets still had 12 seconds of offensive chance, and the Hornets still had a chance!
Not stingy, Williams also called a timeout, set up a tactic, who will shoot this killer shot?
Chu Yi wanted to fight for it, but when he thought that Boss Paul took such good care of him, he didn't want to snatch the rights of the boss of Paul's team and the right to execute the lore ball.
Paul knew that his current hand was very average and wanted to excuse himself, but thinking of the team's two three-point firepower points, Chu Yi and Peja both turned off the fire, so he nodded and took over Williams' arrangement.
When the timeout ended, the players on the Hornets court also began to prepare for the final attack, using their own movement to pull the offensive space for the boss.
However, the opponent seemed to have guessed that Paul executed the killer ball, and there were always Anthony and Billups to wrap Paul around, so that Paul didn't even have the space to pass the ball, so he had to choose to come by himself.
Perhaps deliberately, Paul actually broke through the double package of Anthony and Billups, and went straight into the Nuggets' interior line, and a European step shook off Nene and was ready to go to the basket.
Only Anthony, who was following behind, showed a grim smile, like a praying mantis catching cicadas, with a sense of hunter's superiority.
When Paul raised his right hand and was about to make a shot, Anthony also jumped up, wanting to make a shot when Anthony thought Paul was going to make a shot, but he suddenly realized that Paul didn't seem to be making a layup.
It's a pass! It's not good, Paul didn't think about tying the score, he wanted to shoot! Anthony understood immediately, but it was too late for him to stop it.
I could only watch the basketball fly to Peja who was in the opposite position, and Peja, who had played a whole game of soy sauce, even had time to adjust his shooting posture in front of him after receiving Paul's pass, facing the empty basket in front of him.
Then, I saw the basketball in the air across a perfect arc, boom, hit the basket neck, the basketball jumped high, and Anthony, who was defending Paul and going deep inside, grabbed the rebound.
Peja's three-point shot was inaccurate!