Chapter 72: The Shadow Behind Houston
After the Magic team took a timeout, they came on the court again, and Houston began to run without the ball, and according to the double block arranged by Rivers off the court, he smoothly received and shot, and the goal finally scored.
But Rivers didn't show any relieved smile, because he was observing Gong Feng's reaction, and he soon noticed that Gong Feng didn't frown, just pinched his waist with both hands, and after standing for a while, he smiled.
It was a smile that didn't care at all...... For the first time, Rivers felt like something he was experimenting with in the first game had made a major mistake, and that the first block was no accident.
Sure enough, after the second double block, Houston's pass didn't go in again, and I didn't feel anything wrong.
Rivers didn't make any further adjustments, since there was a problem with Houston, the other players naturally had to make their own adjustments, and now is not the time to get on Maddie, I believe that other players will start to take the initiative to attack. The most important thing now is to figure out how exactly Bow Peak is defending Houston.
This kind of thing is simple and simple, Gong Feng just uses the muscle memory of Houston's shooting itself and some psychological cues.
Houston, known as the king of mid-range shooting, shot posture was a standard action in many shooting textbooks at the time, so as such a shooter known as an extremely standard shooter, Houston is undoubtedly an excellent shooter who became famous in the NBA.
If a player is called an NBA-level shooter, then he must have a good feel when shooting, and the second is to develop his muscle memory when shooting.
Gong Feng is also an NBA-level shooter, and he is an NBA-level player who begins to completely analyze the effect of his training after finishing training every day from the moment he comes into contact with basketball.
Such a bow peak not only knows where his strengths are, but also knows where his weaknesses are.
And what a successful NBA player has to do every day and every moment is to turn his weaknesses into strengths, even if they can't become weaknesses, they can't become weaknesses that can be exploited.
When Gong Feng followed Houston, the defensive moves he made changed the rhythm that Houston itself held, and it was best to completely disrupt it.
When to be anxious to keep Houston from receiving the ball, when to change Houston's shooting route and block shots, and when to relax and let Houston find an opportunity to dodge other players' blocked shots.
These are all places where you can learn!
Houston is a shooter from the three-point line, which is very important, because there are points within the three-point line, and every player has his own shooting 'strengths', as well as shooting 'weaknesses'.
It's like a rule changed in the current NBA's three-point shootout, where the five balls are placed is the point chosen by the players themselves.
The shooting options are figured out, but the points at the three-point line that can be shot are not all 90 degrees, 0 degrees, 45 degrees, and there are many more other options.
The most accurate point for the average shooter is definitely not a 0 degree angle! Even if the 0 degree angle is explained by some people's data, it is the closest distance to the basket.
Generally, the most accurate point of the shooter should be 45 degrees on both sides, and the most representative of this angle is not the shooter, but Duncan, who has the most solid and strongest interior foundation, and this iconic offensive action is a 45-degree shooting on both sides. NBA-level shooters are also most accurate at 45-degree angles.
Yes! It's much easier to shoot on the board than it is to shoot blue, and it's easy to see if most of the breakaway players are willing to break through at a 45-degree to 90-degree angle...... Therefore, the breakthrough at the 0-degree angle is very sudden, and the breakthrough at the top of the arc at 90 degrees is more about the ability and fast attack it holds.
(When you first started playing basketball, few people liked to shoot at a 0-degree angle, because the only thing you could refer to when shooting with your feet was half of the barbed wire, which was a disgusting and lonely angle.) )
All of this is just to illustrate that shooting is a sport that requires a reference.
Basically, all players are framed with the basket and rebounds, not in their position.
There are two things that Bow Peak needs to do to successfully defend Houston, and failing one of them will make it impossible to reduce Houston's shooting percentage.
The first is to let Houston not shoot at the point he is most familiar with, which is the first condition for tactical success, and it is also a condition that requires specific players to cooperate, that is, where Houston can receive the ball, it will definitely not work.
In this game, it was Leitner who teamed up with Bow Peak.
That's because Leitner's defensive range is the widest of any of these players right now, and it's also the highest level of ball intelligence on the team.
The second point is also the most critical point of Gong Feng's data defense, which is to change the 'reference' chosen by Houston when shooting, which is to change Houston's shooting psychological hints, that is, to make Houston make his shooting very disobedient, and the point of shooting is not in his own rhythm.
This is what Gong Feng thinks he can do in Houston, and if he just focuses on the first point, it will be cracked quickly, such as the two-man blocking tactic is the best way to crack it.
When Gong Feng defends Houston's shots, he will jump up quickly to block Houston at the first time, and in doing so, he will give Houston a moment to adjust...... It was this moment that was the focus of the bow peak defense.
A pitcher is a person who needs a very good mental quality to be competent, and the so-called psychological quality is good to say that it is not disturbed by the outside world.
When a shooter shoots, the first time to find the point is actually the most accurate, if you hesitate for a moment, after a little adjustment, your accuracy will drop a lot...... Of course, it's just a drop in hit percentage, not a no-go score.
Resolute is the quality that a pitcher must have, don't be afraid of blocking, don't think about anything else, otherwise the shooting percentage will drop for a certain amount.
No matter what Bow Peak defends Houston, he has to jump up and block Houston because Bow Peak knows this, and this jump is not really to block Houston's ball, but to want Houston to hesitate.
Most of the current scouting reports are not as advanced as they are now, let alone the kind of reports that can summarize which points are the most accurate for defensive players, and such a summary should be more of the work of assistant coaches, but at that time, managers and coaches like Morey who rely on data have not really grasped the initiative......
The NBA has never been able to do it all over again.
Gong Feng defended Houston in this game, which is a result of studying himself for many years, and it is with the support of many assistant coaches to form a set of his own set of theories, Drake and Gong Feng's understanding, largely because the two have a lot of the same understanding of probability and statistics.
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Rivers alone can't think of it for the time being, and although the Magic team has some insight in the draft, in terms of tactics and other aspects, it depends more on discipline and the coach's own ability.
Rivers is not a coach known for his tactics. Not to mention the defensive style of Gong Feng involves the problem of probability, which few people can think of now, which is an area that many academic coaches have not touched.
By the end of the second quarter, the Wizards had extended their lead to 14 points due to Houston's 'malaise'.
Gong Feng was surprised that his data defense would have such a great effect. This also made Collins, who was born as a player, not know what to praise!
In the third quarter of the game, Houston did not play, Gong Feng also sat on the sidelines to rest, Hubert served as the organizer, Hamilton, Gerrard, Jordan, and Kwame played.
Collins used this lineup with no other awareness, the only idea was to protect his rebounds, strengthen the rotation between players, actively combine defense, and the second was to defend Maddy, placing players who could defend Maddie at all three positions of scoring and forward.
And inspired by the bow peak defense, Collins also thought of using different players to defend Maddie in different periods of time.