Chapter 314: Maverick vs. Avery
The Suns' five ball-holding attacking lineups are resolutely playing fast at the beginning, playing the right position, playing misalignment, and playing fast back defense, Nash no longer emphasizes self-organization after holding the ball, but sees the opportunity to pass the ball to the weak side, and the Suns' five people have the ability to attack quickly with the ball, and they also begin to play small-scale simple cooperation.
Marion's ability to defend Nowitzki is very strong, and he is long and long, and he also interferes with the Suns as much as possible, although Nowitzki still scored 34 points in this game, but the Suns still broke the tight defense of the Mavericks coach's "carefully arranged" when Avery emphasized defense.
The fourth game is the most direct competition between the two sides, all players, tactics, tacit understanding, caution, experience of the collision, all the means used by the two sides in the process of the game, from the moment the whistle sounded began to bite each other, the Suns' defense in the ability of Kurt and Marion, Joe changed well.
In fact, the final result is who wins the game and who loses the game is very likely, such a game is also a stage for superstars, and it is a world where stars can rise to a higher level, every difficult goal will cause cheers from the fans, and every mistake will be the exclamation and breath holding of all fans.
But if everyone on both teams is let go, it stands to reason that the Mavericks have some advantages, and the Mavericks are the best in terms of offensive and defensive balance, but the Mavericks have a slight advantage over the Suns, but it is the coach.
On the one hand, the coach fully trusts the players on his side, sticks to his own tactics throughout the game, and implements his beliefs for two seasons from beginning to end, while on the other hand, he constantly emphasizes his own views, and sometimes even does not care about the occasion or the process of the game, but simply uses abuse to achieve what he wants to achieve.
Junior General Johnson? Avery is a young coach from the Spurs, from beginning to end Popovich's Spurs, he has never emphasized that his individual ability can be higher than the whole team, he always emphasizes that defensive ability will win the final victory, and Popovich in the process of the game, is to use his merciless 'abuse', 'regardless of the occasion' abuse, to get the final effect he wants to achieve.
It's just that Avery only learned Popovich's superficial kung fu when he was a player, but he didn't learn what kind of players he had, and what kind of dish he had in the second layer of ability, and Cuban was also a typical case of overkill at this time, from the extreme of the offensive end to the constant emphasis on defensive construction, since the old Nelson broke up with the Mavericks, he has not found the real direction of the team.
If Avery is a team with a young man like Nowitzki at the core, then he can still stay with the Mavericks for a while to prove his ability, but when the Mavericks have stars like Kidd and Carter, some of Avery's potential strengths will become his most fatal weaknesses in coaching.
The loss of Game 6, the Mavericks' loss on their home court, was Avery who took a last-minute obstinate, using all his luck and resolution to make the final substitution, replacing Kidd, who was not very good at the time, with Terry to execute the last shot, which led to the two sides being exposed by the media after the game and a fierce argument in the locker room after the game.
In the seventh game, the Suns had the advantage from start to finish, and the Mavericks' half-court offense was to defend aggressively 'exactly according to' Avery's guidance, pressing forward defense, and starting to complete their own singles in the offense.
The Mavericks, who didn't have Kidd to control the rhythm of the ball, didn't lead the Suns in the opening half...... Such a team with incompatible coaches led Cuban, who came to Phoenix with the team, to bark at Avery directly in the locker room in the midfield, and immediately let Kidd play exactly his own style of play.
As for Avery's coaching duties, he was replaced by an assistant coach at halftime, and was used to call a timeout during the game and assign the task of the court, which reflects Cuban's determination and ruthlessness as a businessman.
Sure enough, the Mavericks, who adjusted so quickly, played a wave of offensive high-tide at the beginning of the second half, and did not emphasize defense at all times, but the Suns players who were crazy in the first half, in the cheers of the Phoenix fans, did not care about their defense in the second half, and there were only six people in rotation in the whole court, and six people scored double-doubles, and four people scored 20 points, and finally won this life-and-death battle.
After that, the Mavericks went through a series of internal disputes, and Avery was announced on the spot by Cuban to terminate the coaching contract, and soon after, he began to use various media to criticize the Mavericks as a whole.
But no matter what, after the Mavericks went through this incident, there was no sign of separation, and the whole team was unanimously crusading against Avery in public and private, describing some of Avery's unbearable phenomena in the team's affairs.
Of course, these are just lively for the Knicks, but they have not affected the Knicks' determination to prepare for the game and their efforts in the process.
With the end of the series between the Mavericks and the Suns, the final showdown between the East and the West is also presented at this time, the West is the sharpest spear and the thickest shield, then the showdown between the Knicks and the Wizards is a grudge and hatred, which can be said to be the thickness of a novel.
When Gong Feng was once again in Madison Square Garden, looking at the Wizards' players with solemn expressions, he felt both familiar and very strange for the first time.
Compared with the Wizards lineup in the Bow Peak era, the only ones who are still familiar with Gong Feng now are Kwame and Haywood, and the rest of the players are Hughes who can talk, and the others are already rising stars in the Wizards' rookies, and some of them are players who can't play and join the squad when they have Gong Feng.
While the Wizards' salary has been increasing over the years, in fact, the thickness of the lineup has been widely questioned, from the championship era to have a strong second team to play, to now it is the rotation strength of eight or nine people, the Wizards are more like a team led by superstars, rather than a 'civilian' type team in the past.
The Wizards' current team building ideas are very stable and ruthless, and they will not pursue any squad thickness and superstars when Kwamei's new contract arrives, nor will they withdraw from the championship team, which makes Kwamei feel completely disappointed.
If there is no comparison, Kwame has really signed an agreement with the Wizards at this time, but when Kwame's comparison object becomes in each other's rookie period, there is nothing to talk about, feelings, passion, and friendship are good, and in the end, because of the team's positioning, personal ability and the core of the team.
The pressure in Kwame's heart and the true thoughts in his heart will not easily make a promise to stay in Washington the moment he sees Bow Peak again.
The four-year career journey of the two is much more exciting than the lifetime career of some excellent players, the third team of the best team in the rookie season of the two, the best rookie, the All-Star MVP, and the final championship, Gong Feng became the All-Star MVP and FMVP, this record is the top two most difficult to break the record in the league, just because Gong Feng was at the age of these achievements.
Later, the Wizards entered the playoffs three times, one championship, one Eastern Conference championship, and one playoff round, while Gong Feng won two championships, lost the Eastern Conference Finals once, and the fourth time was the closest strength between the two sides, and I am afraid it is also the first collision that determines what results each other will get in the next three years.
In the conversation with Pauline within the Wizards, Kwame directly stated that if he can beat the Knicks to enter the Finals this season, Kwame will choose to stay with the Wizards and play for the Wizards for another four years, but if he loses the game, Kwame did not say that he wanted to leave, but the meaning of the words is to see the Wizards' salary options in the future.
Yes, Kwame now has such strength and influence to go to an official showdown with the owner of the Wizards, which are completely different positions from back then.
The Wizards' lineup today is the starter of Arenas, Hughes, Jamison, Jeffries and Kwame, which is also a direct comparison between Kwame and Yao Ming's internal competition, and it is also a very good lineup of the Wizards' rotation speed and height.
The Knicks didn't change their start, but the jump ball was changed from Bosh back to Hill, and it wasn't that Hill could skip Kwame, but that the first Wizards' offense was unhappy, and the Wizards had enough time to retreat.
The three-man jump ball is already the Wizards' signature beginning. (To be continued.) )