Chapter Ninety-Nine: California Schedule (4)
The "Princeton Play" was invented by Pete Carell, who used it to lead Princeton University, a school that no student has an athletic scholarship to 500 wins in the NCAA and a record 14 points conceded. This style of play emphasizes that "the strong can take advantage of the weak, and the smart can take advantage of the strong." The essence of this is "human movement, ball movement, coordination." "The counterrun is the hallmark of Princeton's style of play.
The current Princeton offensive playsystem was created by Kings assistant coach Petecarril, named after the "backdoor" tactics that marked his last name when he coached at Princeton University. This tactical offensive system is mainly positioned on continuous passing, blocking and conscious running without the ball, through a series of cooperation, creating open space under the basket, so that the offensive side can easily score. It attaches great importance to the four links of "space, timing, observation and execution". Space refers to the position and distance between players on the field, timing refers to the timing of passing, running, and reversing, observation refers to observing the opponent's defensive position, and execution refers to the execution of basic techniques. And this style of play is very focused on inside passing, inside command. The center who practices this style of play is called the playmaker. On the court, all five people can pass the ball, they can shoot, they all love to organize, and they stick to overall basketball and team spirit.
Vlad Divac of the Sacramento Kings is a Serbian who has inherited the European tradition, shooting and passing well, rebounding and blocking, but he is not the interior pillar of the Kings, Chris Webber is.
Chris Webb, the 1993 NBA No. 1 pick, was traded to the Washington Bullets after winning the Rookie of the Year, and formed the interior twin towers with his high school teammate Juwan Howard (with Rasheed Wallace on the bench and a water cooler Ben Wallace), and later to the Kings, he is even more like a fish in water. If McBibby is the "prince" of the Sacramento Kings, then Chris Webber is the "king" here.
He's the team's top scorer, the team's second-best playmaker, has unrivalled ability on the inside, and is unstoppable at the power forward position, even the current Karl Malone can't take advantage of him without giving it his all. Not to mention Tim and Garnett, who can only be pressed and beaten now. He's a super power forward who combines violence and flamboyance. In the 1998-1999 season, he was the only one who dared to end the rebounding era of "Big Bug" Rodman's long-term monopoly and became the NBA rebounding king (13 boards per game).
All along, Luke's memories of Chris Webber were blurry videos, but now he has a new understanding of Chris Webber.
Remember what we said about Aaron and Garnett?
Allen is a point guard in the body of a point guard, Garnett is a small forward in the body of a power forward, so Chris Webber is a two-way guard in the body of a power forward, and a two-way guard who is proficient in forward technology. Needless to say, passing the ball on the back or something, passing the ball without looking at people or anything is trivial, and people will do it in high school; Three-pointers, breakthroughs, pull-up push-ups, 360-degree rotating dunks are all side dishes, low-post strong shots are also very good, and three-point shots are also certain hits. It's just that he doesn't pay much attention defensively, and Tyrone Hill can easily shoot in front of him. It's not that he doesn't have a good sense of defense, it's that he's too lazy, and maybe genius players have this kind of common problem, that is, they don't pay attention to defense, or they don't like to use an ugly defense to ruin a wonderful attack. But the rebounds were very strong, Big Ben couldn't beat him, and the two almost fought.
If there is only Chris Webber, the 76ers are not afraid of anything, but the other positions are really good, center Vlad Divac completely shot on the outside, because there is a Chris Webber on the inside, Theo Ratlif and Big Ben do not dare to go too out, the defensive pressure goes to the outside, and on the outside, Allen's defense is a decoration, many people can break through, Larry had no choice but to replace Snow with Tony Kukoc to strengthen the defense, Allen and Jason Williams directly face to face.
It is said that Jason Williams is not good at defense, in fact, he is very serious when defending 1-on-1, and he can often suppress the opponent to a certain extent, but when it comes to Stockton, there is nothing to be done about superstars like Gary Payton. Defensively overall, most of the Kings' players don't play very well defensively, and we can't blame one person alone. OK, I'm a bit subjective. Jason Williams' defensive footsteps are too drifting, and once he loses his center of gravity, he is sure to lose his position completely, and his successor, McBibby, does a better job than him in this regard. Aaron is even more so.
But the two of them are still very different. The two equally value the flashiness of the dribble, but Allen prefers to shoot, while Jason Williams prefers to pass, and the elbow pass is very classic. Although Luke knew that Jason Williams was very famous for this move, Luke was deceived when he actually got on the court.
The king was fast attacking, Jason Williams controlled the ball by himself, saw his teammate Webb plug in, so he shook the ball left and right in front of Luke, and then suddenly changed the ball to the left hand, and turned the ball to the back, according to common sense, the ball will appear on the right side at this time (this time is far away from the basket, it can't be a pull-up layup), but the ball weirdly went to Webb's hand on the left hand side of Jason Williams, and then Webb picked up a heavy dunk, and the ball was smashed into the basket.
Luke picked up the ball and shook his head, there was no way at all, it was so weird, even if the eyes followed, the body couldn't keep up, "Damn the body habitual surname!" Luke said as he slammed the ball.
And the third superplayer on the outside of the Kings is starting to pull out. Peja Stojakovic showed off his incredible shooting skills. Although his shooting action is not too standard, his shooting speed is extremely fast, and his shooting percentage is amazingly high, covering almost the entire half. In addition, Peja's ability to run in the air is also very strong, and there are often scenes where he suddenly cuts into the outside line and lays up after running back and forth from the baseline, and his relatively high stature at the No. 3 position gives him a certain advantage in vision and shooting height, which has created Peja's position as the most qualified tactical executor and attack finisher in the King's offensive system. He struck every point on the 76ers' position with precision like an F15.
The 76ers are starting to show signs of collapse across the board.
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