Barclays Center, the Brooklyn Nets host the Detroit Pistons.

DeLong's absence due to injury did not make Nets fans less enthusiastic about this game, and the rise of tall and strong was like last year's "Lin Crazy", which instantly captured the hearts of all Nets fans.

On the contrary, Delon missed the game only made Nets fans pay more attention to this game, as they all want to see what the Nets, who are missing two All-Star players, can do under the leadership of tall and strong.

The sold-out attendance also speaks for itself, with a large number of banners and flags with tall and strong names and images painted on them, as well as a large number of "Nets No. 1" jerseys appearing at the Barclays Center, all of which are a good indication of whose team the Nets are on now.

Although the Nets are missing two All-Stars, Delon and Lopez, as long as they are tall and strong, Nets fans will not lose faith in their team, not to mention that today's opponent, the Pistons, is not a strong team.

Today's Nets' on-court starting lineup surprised Nets fans, and the point guard standing on the court at this time was not the steady 39-year-old veteran Starkerhouse, but the 23-year-old Marshawn Brooks.

Previously, Brooks had been on the bench before Joe Johnson was traded, and in fact Brooks played nimbly and flowily, but he was not a point guard in the traditional sense, or he was more of a point guard when he was with the Nets.

However, today Brooks was entrusted with a heavy responsibility by Coach Johnson, of course, there are reasons for him, one is to see him young and impactful. Second, it is natural to solve the problem of the Nets' lack of offensive power.

In the first few games, the Nets' offensive power was jokingly called "two and a half" by the local media in New York, and the backcourt combination of tall and strong and Delon were naturally the Nets' two main offensive points, while small forward Wallace was counted as "half".

But today's absence of Delon has made the Nets' offense even more stretched, you must know that the Nets' interior Evans and Humphries are just two blue-collar giants, so Brooks' appearance is reasonable.

"Toot" As the referee blew the whistle, the game began.

With a "brush", just five seconds into the game, the Pistons took the lead in hitting a long-range two-pointer.

The goal was scored by their No.25 Kyle Singler. At this time, Gao Dazhuang found that the current lineup of the Pistons was a little different from the Pistons lineup he encountered with the Rockets.

The Pistons are still in the hands of Monroe and Drummond on the inside. The small forward is still "Little Prince" Prince, the point guard is still Knight, but the player on the scoring guard has become No. 25 Kyle Singer, not Starkey, who used to play against the tall and strong.

"Huh? Isn't Starkey the Pistons boss? Sidelined by injury? "Tall and strong are a little puzzled. Turned to look at the Pistons bench. I saw Starkey, who was wearing the No. 3 jersey, sitting honestly on the sidelines.

Tall and strong may not understand it. Starkey is indeed the "boss" of the team, but his boss is the worst "boss" in the league.

With an average of 16 points per game last season, Rodney Starkey, who was picked 15th in the first round by the Detroit Pistons in 2007, finally secured the top spot on the team.

But when the new season starts with less than 25 games. ESPN has already named him "the league's worst team boss."

Because from the beginning of the season, Starkey, as the team's "boss", was out of shape, and in the first three games of the season, he made a total of 23 shots, hitting only 1 shot, a shooting rate of only 4.3%, and his three-point shot was also 0 of 7.

In the subsequent game, Starkey also failed to get back to last season's touch, so far, Starkey has averaged only 12.8 points per game, and the shooting rate is only 37.2%, which is much lower than the average level of the league's team "boss", which undoubtedly makes him the main player with the least performance on the offensive end since the beginning of the season, plus he is the "boss" of the Pistons, Starkey was criticized by the media for a while.

Why the "boss" of the team fell so quickly may have a lot to do with the psychology of a player.

You're probably a good role player or a number two, but when you're the boss, you're under a lot of pressure in addition to doing your part.

Because you're saddled with the rise and fall of the team, everybody's watching you, and you have to be responsible for everything in the team, not just on the pitch, but in the dressing room and off the pitch, but unfortunately Starkey doesn't fit into that role.

Now this test has also come to the tall and strong, and he must prove himself.

Just after halftime, the "young" point guard Brooks passed the ball to the team's "boss" Tall and Strong.

When the ball reached Gao Da Zhuang's hands, all the Nets fans had some nervousness in their hearts, but more of an anticipation, because they firmly believed that Gao Da Zhuang would grow into a real superstar in the league in Brooklyn.

Tall and strong received the ball near the 45-degree angle of the three-point line, and at the moment of receiving the ball, the tall and strong made a fake move of passing to the bottom corner, which was very realistic, and even gave people a feeling of being tall and strong off the ground, completely deceiving the Pistons responsible for the frontal defense of the tall and strong Singler and the assistant defense of Knight.

But at the moment when their center of gravity was all shifted, the tall and strong took the opportunity to go directly to the basket and win the basket in the face of Drummond's block.

The "brush" basketball made a crisp sound through the net, and the fans who approached the court rang out a huge cheer.

To everyone's surprise, the tall and strong didn't seem to be under much pressure, and easily scored 2 points for the Nets.

Wallace, one of the "pretty" tall and strong squads, immediately ran to his side and gave him a "chest-bumping salute" commonly used by blacks.

In fact, due to the wonderful performance of the previous games, Gao Da Zhuang has already become the focus of each team when playing the Nets, although the Pistons did not immediately adopt the package strategy, but Singler followed Gao Da Zhuang from the beginning of the game without sparing physical strength.

No, the Nets attack. Singler stuck to the tall and strong, and even pulled the tall and strong clothes with one hand covertly, for which the tall and strong reminded the referee several times.

"Snap" faced Singele's Reipi defense, and Gao Dazhuang had to retreat to receive the ball.

However, at the moment of receiving the pass from his teammates, the tall and strong turn was a false sway, and regardless of whether Singel was fooled or not, he directly dribbled and broke through his flank.

Zingler has a slight advantage in height, but his explosive speed is obviously not as fast as that of tall and strong, so he can only be close to tall and strong.

While cutting two steps inside and forcing Singler to retreat quickly, Gao Dazhuang suddenly made a pull-up jumper. The ball is shot.

Singel, who was not in a hurry, didn't even have time to jump, and could only watch the basketball fly to the basket.

The tall and strong one was extremely fast, and he didn't seem to care about the defender's reaction, and was playing at his own pace. "Brush" sound. The ball hollows into the net.

The next game. Under the tall and strong organization, the Nets' offense is advancing layer by layer, and the defense is also doing well. So the Nets have also maintained a slight lead.

At 17:21, the Nets led their opponents by 4 points in the first quarter.

Gao Dazhuang made 3 of 5 shots, 4 of 4 free throws, and scored 10 points, 1 rebound and 1 assist, and the statistics are quite good.

But at the beginning of the second quarter of the game, the Pistons suddenly changed their defensive strategy, and they began to use frequent wrap-and-clamp strategies against tall and strong, no matter where tall and strong he was, there were at least two Pistons players to defend.

Facing the Pistons' bag, Gao Dazhuang did not panic, but used the pass to resolve the opponent's tricks.

"Brushed" the tall and strong Pistons inside, and after attracting the attention of several Pistons defenders, he passed the ball to Brooks, who was open on the outside, and Brooks pulled up on the spot and hit a jumper.

A minute later, Tall made another struck pass to help Brooks, who cut inside into the air, to score another ball.

But the next situation was a little unexpected for the tall and strong, and Brooks, the Nets point guard who had succeeded in attacking one after another, suddenly burst with offensive desire.

In the next two attacks, he unwisely chose to force a single shot, and then he was a little reluctant to shoot a few passes from the tall and strong.

Brooks' individual blind offense also made his shooting percentage miserable, and the Pistons began to slowly overtake the score.

Brooks's several unwise attacks made Tall and Strong angry, although Brooks is also a young rookie, but no matter what, he is older than Tall and Strong, so Tall and Strong is not too embarrassed to pull down his face to hack the other party.

At this moment, Nets head coach Johnson made a move, only to see that he did not hesitate to replace Brooks with veteran Starkerhouse, and off the court, Coach Johnson rebuked Brooks mercilessly.

A role player takes up a lot of shots, and if he can shoot, forget it, and if he can't, the coach won't leave him too much time and opportunity.

Gao Dazhuang suddenly remembered his days with the Rockets at this time, when he was also fighting with Harden and Jeremy Lin for the right to shoot in the cracks, although he played much better than Brooks at that time, but wasn't he also swept away.

This is the NBA, a brutal business league.

Although Stackhouse's appearance slowed down the Nets' offensive tempo, his rich experience on the court was a good stabilizer, and then the two teams fell into a stalemate.

At 44:44, the half-time battle ended and the two sides reached a draw.

At the start of the second half, the Nets had a new problem.

The referee's whistle sounded continuously, first Pistons center Monroe made two defensive fouls on Evans in a row, and then Pistons power forward Drummond played a 2+1 in front of Evans, and the score was pulled away in an instant.

To make matters worse, Evans' defense, which had been fouled several times, began to cower, and the Pistons seized on the Nets' exposed weakness and began to storm the Nets' interior.

"Bang dang" was another dunk from Drummond, and Evans' "weakness" made the Pistons inside the limelight.

At this time, Gao Dazhuang couldn't help frowning, and subconsciously glanced at Coach Johnson on the sidelines.

"Toot", Coach Johnson did not hesitate and directly replaced Evans with substitute Tonick Shengilia, but this substitution is just an attitude of Coach Johnson, and it does not avoid the fact that the Nets' interior defense lacks hardness.

In fact, compared to the Nets' interior line, the Pistons' interior line has a clear advantage in weight and height.

Greg? Monroe was one of the few bright spots in last season's chaotic Pistons, averaging 15.4 points and 9.7 rebounds per game at 2.11 meters tall.

In this year's draft, the Pistons picked another interior player, Drummond, and soon Drummond showed his talent, and these two interior players are also considered the cornerstone of "Motor City" Detroit.

The current Pistons' interior configuration has the style of its heyday, and despite its poor record this season, the Pistons have not collapsed on the inside.

The Pistons only rank 20th in the league in rebounds per game due to fewer offensive and defensive rounds, but they concede fewer rebounds per game and rank 6th in the league.

The reason why the Pistons' poor record is because the team is dragging their feet on the outside, and they have accumulated Brandon? Knight, Starkey and Will? Bynum and other two-way guards, but their performance on the field was not satisfactory, especially Starkey was disappointing.

Compared with the "half-dead" outside players, the current Pistons' interior has become a huge source of "positive energy" for the team, Monroe continues to improve in the new season, and aims for the All-Star, 19-year-old Drummond has grown rapidly and gradually become a reliable instant force.

The Pistons' inside-focused style of play doomed their offense to the top of the league, and the Nets' offense without Delon and Lopez was even more diminished.

The two teams are fighting hard to defend on the court, but compared to the Nets, the Pistons' interior is eating away at the opponent little by little.

With a "brush", Pistons center Monroe forced Nets backup center Tonik Shengilia under the basket and hit a hook shot.

48：58

Less than halfway through the third quarter, the Nets at home were 10 points behind the Pistons, which made the Nets fans at the Barclays Center anxious, they were not afraid of the Nets losing, they were afraid that the tall and strong would not be able to bear the heavy responsibility of leading the team.

The live broadcast at the Barclays Center also frequently focused on the tall and strong face with a solemn face, and almost everyone could feel the huge pressure on this young man, but in order to become a superstar, to be the "boss" of the team, he had to overcome these pressures.

"Toot", the Pistons' step-by-step approach forced the Nets to call a timeout.

Coach Johnson immediately turned to Evans after arranging the tactics, and it seems that Coach Johnson is ready to use Evans again, after all, Tonick Shengilia simply can't withstand the two interior beasts of the Pistons.

"Since you can't prevent it, then don't guard against it," Gao Dazhuang suddenly said.

"Huh?" Coach Johnson turned his head in surprise and looked at the tall and strong man with some confusion.

At this time, Gao Dazhuang glanced at his teammates around him and said slowly: "We can't follow their path, they are controlling the offensive rhythm and fighting defense, because they have obvious internal advantages, so why don't we use our outside advantages to play against them?" Anyway, I can't hold it, otherwise I will pull it out and fight"

"Okay, increase the offensive tempo and disrupt their rhythm" As soon as the tall and strong words fell, Coach Johnson made a decisive decision.

Since Coach Johnson wants to cultivate Tall and Strong to be the "boss" of the team, Coach Johnson must attach great importance to Tall Zhuang's opinions, and even support them unconditionally.

Wallace, the "good" Nets small forward, also immediately stood up in support, and then the other Nets players nodded in approval.

In fact, when the "boss" and coach of a team have made up their minds, what opinions can others have? (To be continued......)

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