Chapter 136: The Match in November '02
The Memphis Grizzlies began a sea change at the beginning of the year, and the Lakers Meritorious Player and Meritorious Manager Jerry Brown? West began to serve as the president of the Grizzlies from this year, and when the team started the season with eight consecutive losses, he directly fired the previous head coach and invited the meritorious coach Hubi Brown to come out and start as the team's head coach.
This old man is also a well-known meritorious coach in the league, and he began to coach the NBA in 76, you must know that Kobe Bryant was born in 78...... He has won the title of best coach, and the winning rate of the team is also very high, and all the teams he has led have entered the playoffs, but when he began to coach, it was the era of black and white, and in that era, the famous coaches who came out were Chuck Daley, Pakleli, and Cardinals......
However, before this game, the coach still has a problem to solve, that is, the team must win, because the Grizzlies have lost thirteen consecutive games before this game......
The Grizzlies' main players include Knight, Swift, Gordon? Kirisek, Gasol, Gooden.
At the beginning of the Grizzlies, the old man still adhered to the old generation, the outside players mainly scored, and the inside players did a good job of defense and rebounding, in this case, Gong Feng's old teammates, the old buddy Battier did not play the main game, but only as the main rotation player.
Before the start of this game, Collins began to set up a rare arrangement, "Everyone listen to me, the Grizzlies are going to give their best today and get their first win of the season, and we can't be careless when we play the Grizzlies, we have to be fully prepared." Jerry. this game. It's going to be you, defending you Gordon is a defensive colander, and I want you to play to your level! ”
"Yes!" Although Jerry's temper looks a little weird, he is still satisfied with the importance he attaches to the team.
"Gong Feng, you give me the speed, they are all a bunch of young people, players who have not yet formed discipline, and they are very easy to be provoked. I want you to start using your rhythm and passing to grab the advantage! ”
"Yes!" Gong Feng glanced at Collins in surprise when he heard this, but he didn't say anything, Collins also wanted to let Gong Feng and Jerry merge together, let Jerry score and serve as the role of a point guard, and Gong Feng served as an orthodox point guard.
"Is my score so underestimated? That sounds so unpleasant now! This is what Gong Feng thinks now, and this arrangement can't help but remind Gong Feng of Drake and his analysis on the second day......
"In this league, every superstar who has become famous has his own style, has a large number of fans, although you are still a lot away from the superstar. But you also have to start forming your own style now, when you can't remind the fans of you. The first reaction is that you are a team player, and once you get that impression, it becomes very difficult for you to become a superstar again! ”
"The first impression of the players is very important, last season, you were the All-Star MVP, the best rookie in the league, the best third team member in the league, the new FMVP, the first in the assist list, but these are not enough to make the fans form an impression of you about you, but a large number of fans will start to look at you from this season, this kind of attention can be good and bad, but if you want to be a superstar, you have to start forming your own style from this moment!"
"Professional basketball players, especially players in their rookie years, don't pay attention to sacrifices, especially when you've already won a championship! You've got all the accolades that most of the Alliance members can only dream of, so now is the time to pursue yourself, and you don't forget what a summer of hard training is for......"
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After Gong Feng came on the court, he began to implement this idea, no longer playing a sure ball every time he attacked, but he would not forcibly choose a shot in the wrong place, but began to constantly adapt to the opponent's defense and constantly adapt to this new atmosphere.
The Grizzlies' current defense looks a little messy, but it can also be seen that the Grizzlies have changed in defense, but the old man seems to have forgotten a little, there is a three-point line in the league now, and the Grizzlies always give a step to the defense outside the three-point line, Gong Feng shot 10 three-pointers in this game, scored 6 times, basically a block with Gerrard, and the moment he got the vacancy, he would shoot.
Collins watched Gong Feng's score easily rise to 25 points again, and shook his head helplessly, but now the team has the highest shooting rate of Gong Feng, Jerry has shot 3 of 10, and the shooting rate has dropped sharply, also because of the Grizzlies' defensive strategy, which is to prevent any player who is good at breaking through......
Kwame has also become a little restricted, all the players except Gong Feng have no way to open up the space they want for Kwame, and Gasol's defense is not as weak as the media portrays, but very pestering, making it very difficult for Kwame to catch the ball every time and it is very difficult to open up the situation on the inside......
In this game, Gong Feng behaved like a superstar, whenever the team was in trouble and caught in the quagmire of the Grizzlies' defense, it was Gong Feng who opened the situation outside the three-point line for the first time, and his simple and effective shooting always repelled the Grizzlies' enthusiasm for catching up again and again.
Gong Feng didn't want to fight for something in this game, but he usually focused most of the ball on himself, and then watched his teammates constantly look for loopholes in the Grizzlies' defense, and saw that the defense on the inside was very dense, so he would shoot cold arrows outside the three-point line, which always caught Knight off guard!
At the end of the game, the Wizards gave the Grizzlies their 14th straight loss since the start of the game, and Jordan still played the court, giving all fans a 20-point performance in this game...... It's also worth mentioning that Gong Feng's combination with Jordan is the most efficient of all the Wizards' guard combinations......
After the game, Collins and Hubbie Brown hugged each other, both of whom were coaches from that era, and Collins knew Brown well when he played.
After playing the Grizzlies, the Wizards can return to their home court for a day of rest, and then they will welcome the Wizards' bitter master last season, the Indiana Pacers, who believes that last season, if the Wizards were the first in the East, they would inevitably be a team that was black-eight by the Pacers.
At the beginning of this season, the Pacers are no longer the team that wins by scoring from the outside, but have begun to rely on strong personalities and extremely flexible defenses to limit opponents' scoring and finally win their own victory.
Reggie? Miller officially retreated to the second line, purely becoming a three-point shooter on the periphery of the Pacers, defending the opponent's weakest point in defense, Keown in this game, and Artest's defense object became Jerry, and Tinsley still began to defend the bow peak as soon as possible.
Maybe it was stimulated by the last game, maybe he was not convinced that he scored less than Gong Feng, maybe he wanted to prove that he was the core of the outside line, Jerry became very active at the beginning of this game, but the result of the initiative was not very good, he shot 2 of 16 in the whole game, 0 of 3 three-pointers, and scored 6 points from the free throw in the whole game......
If Jordan hadn't played the second spring, scored 28 points in the whole game, and Gong Feng's three-point shot was 5 of 6, the game would have been lost in the end, but Collins's face became very ugly, because before the game started, Collins specially told Jerry to know how to share the ball and be proactive, but in the face of Artest's defense, Jerry once again fell into the rhythm of blind singles......
Soon, the Wizards, who had made Jerry's ball control the main point of attack, began to reap the consequences, and the Pacers won 100-90 in the face of the Wizards' visit on their home court, once again telling the Wizards what playoff-level defense is.
In this game, Gong Feng's three-point shot of 7 shots was 1 of the main reasons for the loss, but it was also the Pacers' deliberate targeting of Gong Feng, other people's three-pointers, the Pacers were basically laissez-faire, it was in this way against Gong Feng and let other people's defense go that everyone added up to shoot 2 of 8 three-pointers, and even Jordan had already tried it at the three-point line.
But as Collins said after the game, there will always be a day when the players don't play well, and we have to learn to understand and give the players a chance...... (To be continued.) )