Chapter 131: The only thing that remains unchanged is the present
When it comes to Utah, there are countless topics that will come up, and when you talk about them, you know their low profile, they know their love for basketball, their dedication to winning, and of course, you can also say that they are unscrupulous to win, and they are surprised by the approach of some people, but you will never say that the two of them are losers......
How could someone who didn't come out of that era know that the physical fitness can only be regarded as an average white point guard, and after the end of his career, he got the league assist record that is basically unmatched?
Don't look at the past with modern eyes... The comparison between the present and the past is meaningless...... Some old people want to stir up some topics, just because the fans and the league forget about them so quickly, and of course it is for their own self-preservation and financial reasons.
Nothing is set in stone, and the rules of the alliance are constantly evolving, but the alliance is an alliance that allows tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of people, to eat and make enough money, and this is the biggest victory of the alliance, isn't it?
It's just that Bow Peak still feels the aging of Utah in this game, and Stockton can no longer limit Bow Peak like he did last season......
Although Malone can still score 26 points in this game, and Stockton can also get 17+11 data, Malone can no longer grab more than 10 rebounds under the sandwich of Kwame and Haywood, and Stockton has no way to rely on his body and skills to stop Gong Feng's assists and scoring.
Although Kirilenko's co-defense is very annoying, and although this guy is the future star of the Jazz, the Wizards' players are no longer players that the Jazz can easily clean up, and the Jazz have no way to stop the Wizards' rapid counterattack.
Moreover, the resentment of an outcast is great...... Russell scored a season-high 20 points against his former club, including 6-of-8 three-pointers. is a member of the Wizards' new shooter group.
In the end, the Wizards handed the Jazz their fifth loss of the season......
Then the Wizards met the challenge from the Heat on their home court, and faced a Heat team that no longer had a soul of its own, only young players, that is to say, only the future can be expected...... With Mourning's injury confirmed and neither Butler nor Eddie Jones up on the job, the Heat can only hope for their own hope and future in the draft once again......
Of course there's Riley's team. There may be a few seasons of silence, but you can't underestimate them, otherwise there will be a day when they will shock the world......
After this game, the Heat only scored 65 points in the whole game, and Gong Feng and Kwame only played two quarters and never played again in the halftime...... There is no way, the current situation in the East is like this, and it is completely incomparable to the form of the Western Conference playoffs.
In the east. As long as you can win more than half of the game, you have a good chance of making the playoffs, and if you don't increase your win rate to more than 44 games in the West, you will never dare to admit that you are already a playoff team......
Of course, now in the East, one of the bigger advantages over the West is that an Eastern team is more likely to run into a garbage team in a season than in the West, and think about it in the West, you have to hit the Spurs four times. Hit the Lakers four times and the Kings four times. It's just that the Grizzlies, Clippers, Warriors, and Rockets who can't get into the playoffs now, it's not so easy to deal with.
But what if it's in the east? Last season, the best was the No. 1 Nets, with a win rate of 52 games. This is still in the East, and without more than 58 games in the West, you can't compete for the first place in the West, and if the Nets were in the West last season, they wouldn't even be able to get into the top four in the West.
And it was only four times when it collided with the Nets, which were the first in the East. But you're going to bump into the Knicks, the Cavaliers, the Bulls, the Hawks, the Raptors, the Heat, ...... Last season, because of the rapid rise of the Wizards, this season because the Knicks played well at the beginning, the Eastern Conference playoff teams finally have some sense of worry, otherwise the Eastern Conference playoff teams are too stable...... I don't feel the slightest pressure from the non-playoff teams behind.
Of course, after losing to the Nets, the Wizards, who had won seven consecutive games of the season, finally encountered a strong opponent and were ready to take revenge on the 76ers......
Larry? Brown's 76ers team, in fact, is actually unrecognizable in essence and fundamentally, although the current 76ers still defend according to the defensive method arranged by Larry Brown, although the 76ers' defense is still the league's first-class level to some extent, but the 76ers are no longer the team that Larry Brown wants to be famous for defense, because the 76ers have many more offensive options than last season, than last season.
It's just that when facing the Wizards, most of the players of the 76ers have the idea of exploding, and the Wizards can be said to have stepped on the 76ers to win the final victory, so at the beginning of this game, the two teams fell into anxiety.
Old man Brown took the Lakers' defense against the Wizards to a new extreme, sending the best defensive Snow to defend Gong Feng on the outside, the same as what Jackson told Kobe, Old Man Brown also gave Snow an explanation, staring at Gong Feng and not using him to participate in anyone else's defense......
After the outside line 'blocked' the bow peak alone, all the 76ers players all shrank on the inside, blocking Kwame's offense and organizational space, and the 76ers sent a small lineup, Iverson, Snow, McGee, Van Horn (SF/PF) who was traded in the summer, Todd? McLodge (C).
Not to mention the defensive mobility, this lineup is also a little better offensively than the 76ers that the Wizards met last season.
It's not that this lineup is strong, but when the Wizards' bow peak is limited and all other players with three-point ability are dumb, the Wizards don't have a very good way to deal with this kind of lineup......
If there is a fulcrum on the outside or inside, Gong Feng can choose others, and even let Kwame organize in the high position is also a good way, but after Collins arranged it, there was still a situation that surprised everyone......
Jerry has completely begun to 'go crazy' about Iverson's defense, if you say that in this league, Jerry has a grudge with anyone, then there are two on the list, the first is Hill, but Hill was given up by the Pistons, or it can be said that Hill gave up the Pistons, Jerry is just a grudge described by the media about Hill, and the two are not valued.
The second place is Iverson...... The 76ers chose Iverson as their core player, rather than Jerry, who played basically the same style as Iverson......
In this contest with the 76ers, because Gong Feng was watched by Snow all over the court, in order to save physical strength and reduce turnovers, Collins handed the ball to Jerry, let Jerry dribble the ball to the frontcourt, and faced Iverson alone...... So Jerry began to face Iverson alone in this game, and began to go crazy alone......
The current Wizards team is absolutely inseparable from Jerry holding the ball as long as Jerry is on the court, once Gong Feng is trapped, or when looking for the best passing route, he will pass to him, and Kwame's ball-handling offense on the inside, and he is also needed for high post blocking.
Jerry is an all-round guard player arranged by Collins, and he is a player who has to play on the court, but if you want Jerry to play, you must let him hold the ball, otherwise Jerry's offensive power will be reduced by more than half, Hughes's task is only to finish and defend strong points, and for Jerry, Collins does not have many requirements, just let him pass the ball out and revitalize the whole team.
So shortly after the opening, the two teams turned into a heads-up duel between Jerry and Iverson...... The scene is also beginning to be difficult to separate.
Seeing the scene evolve into such a picture, in fact, the coaches of both sides are not very satisfied, but the 76ers' offense basically relies on Iverson alone, and the contradiction between Brown and Iverson has long been known, so although the current 76ers have some holes in defense, they have played the greatest role in offense.
But the Wizards' side is completely different...... (To be continued.) )