"Toot" with the referee's whistle, the second half of the game began.

"Smack" Tall and Strong received a pass from Brooks near the left baseline, and in the face of the Wizards' Jordan Crawford defense, Tall and Strong quickly showed his strength, and got rid of Crawford with a change of direction and acceleration.

Breaking through to the basket, the tall and strong faced the defense of the Wizards big forward Nene and chose to force a layup, but the tall and strong under the basket had reached the other side of the basket after jumping, but the tall and strong used a pull hook to complete a very beautiful "aerial operation".

With a "brush", the Nets entered the net, and the wonderful score of the tall and strong not only won the first point of the second half of the Nets, but also excited the fans of the entire Barclays Center.

Throughout the first half, the team launched an offensive around Lopez, although it also achieved good results, but the tall and strong man familiar to the fans disappeared, which made many fans at the scene depressed.

However, at the beginning of the second half, Gao Dazhuang comforted the hearts of the fans with his strong singles, which was in fact the instructions of Nets coach Johnson at halftime.

Obviously, sacrificing the tall and strong offense for the sake of Lopez is definitely something that Coach Johnson does not want to see, and in Johnson's heart, the tall and strong are definitely above Lopez in terms of lethality and potential.

Therefore, in the second half, Coach Johnson's instruction was to maintain the tall and strong unlimited right to fire, while taking into account Lopez's offense to form two firepower points.

Coach Johnson's ideas are very idealistic, but in practice. The Nets have a new problem.

Because Brook Lopez is not a center who is good at blocking and pick-and-roll, and the pick-and-roll offense is a regular offensive method for tall and strong, which leads to Lopez always being outside the Nets' offensive system when Tall and Strong launches an offense.

The combination of blocking and dismantling has effectively improved the shooting rate of tall and strong, and in the Nets, the team has the most cooperation and tacit understanding with tall and strong blocking and pick-and-roll, and the team small forward Gerard Wallace has the most tacit understanding.

Wallace is the kind of person who has a strong sense of attack, is very aggressive, and every time he blocks someone, he will always see Wallace cut into the opposition box.

At this time, Gao Dazhuang will pass the ball as an option, and the state of being able to pass and attack makes Gao Dazhuang more lethal.

But now Lopez even runs to a high position and is tall and strong to block and dismantle. But he didn't dismantle it after blocking it. Often standing on the high post and watching, and in this case, the tall and strong can only choose to force the opponent's inside, or pass the ball back to Lopez, who will make a long-range mid-range attack in the high post. But the hit rate of these two attacks is not too high.

And one of the biggest problems with Lopez's pick-and-roll is "slowness". The first is that the cover is slow. With his body, once the cover is real, it is terrifying, but more of the scene is that he has not covered in place, and the opposing defender is running away like a sports car.

Then there is the slow down, often tall and strong enough to burst into a position where you can share the ball. But at the moment, Lopez is not fully in position, and at this point he still needs to dribble a step to get into the attacking range.

Although Lopez, with his good offensive skills, can lean on the opponent and adjust the shooting opportunities well, after all, it is not as safe as a direct layup or dunk.

Of course, more often than not, Lopez even saves the down, and Lopez, who receives the ball in the high post, has no good way other than a long-range shot with a low shooting percentage.

One of Lopez's huge "flaws" to mention here is his lack of responsiveness.

Lopez is often the end of the ball because he lacks good basketball vision and passing ability, especially when facing opponents, and has a high rate of passing errors.

Lopez had a decent 2.3 assists in his rookie season, but this season Lopez's assists per game average has dropped astonishingly to 0.7.

This means that the Nets' blocking and pick-and-roll coordination lacks variety, and it is easy to be targeted by the opponent.

Lopez's mid-to-long-range jumper was good, but when he missed, the Nets basically didn't have any rebounds in the frontcourt because the center pulled to the perimeter to shoot.

And at this time, the Wizards often seize the opportunity to counterattack, and Lopez's movement speed is not enough for him to form a defensive iron gate, and the Wizards scored no less than ten points through counterattacks throughout the third quarter of the game.

With a "brush", in the last 1 second of the third quarter, Wizards point guard Bradley Beal once again took advantage of Lopez's long-range shot to miss and hit a fast break on the counterattack.

65：66

At the end of the third quarter, the Nets were only 2 points ahead of the Wizards at home.

"Rebounds, rebounds, ......." Looking at the stats table in his hand, Nets coach Johnson shouted angrily, so far in the game, the Nets have trailed the Wizards by 11 points in rebounds by 33:44.

Not only did the Nets themselves have no offensive rebounds, but even the defensive rebounds were snatched by the Wizards 10, and Coach Johnson was particularly angry when he thought of this, and his eyes were more focused on Lopez.

During the time Lopez was sidelined due to injury, the Nets' interior was mostly replaced by Smith, Humphries, Wallace, and even Evans.

While their offensive prowess can't match Lopez's, they are both better than Lopez defensively, with Humphries grabbing 10 rebounds so far as the team's starting power forward, while small forward Wallace has nine rebounds and even the shooting guard has seven rebounds.

At this time, their center, 2.13 meters tall, Brook Lopez, only had 4 rebounds, especially the loss of defensive rebounds caused the Wizards to get a lot of secondary offensive opportunities.

In this game, Lopez showed the diversity of offensive means, but the rebounding that has been criticized has not improved, as a seven-foot-long man, he has only 4 rebounds so far, which is obviously unqualified.

Rebounding is the key to evaluating the center, the key to rebounding is the card position, usually, when the opponent misses the outside shot for the defender, the center of the side should turn around and carry the person, and the player opposite him will be far away from the basket.

And when attacking, it's different. The defender will push the offensive player out, which is the offensive player's post player generally uses his leg to "step on the point", that is, one leg goes around the position between the defender and the basket and squeezes it out.

In general, to grab rebounds, you must first occupy a favorable position, and the skill is to carry people, of course, if there is Garnett, Howard's body and bounce are not a problem.

But Lopez has nothing, and the lack of strength and bounce puts Lopez on the underdog in both back and stepping.

In fact, in the past three seasons, Lopez has averaged less than seven rebounds per game. It's not even as good as some of the rebounding forwards.

With the referee's whistle. The fourth quarter of the game began, but the situation on the court still did not improve.

"When" Wizards point guard Bradley Beal made a high-throw shot after a strong inside, the ball hit the front of the basket and bounced out.

But at this time, with the sound of "Peng", Lopez, who had not had time to jump, was knocked away by the Wizards' inside warrior Nene who rushed forward from behind. After grabbing a strong position under the basket. Nene leaps high. Grab the ball with one hand and smash it to the basket.

There was a loud bang, and the internal deduction was successful.

67：66

In the fourth quarter, the game has just begun. The Wizards put the score in the lead.

Although the Nets soon chased the score back with a mid-range step-back jumper from the tall and strong, the Wizards seemed to have spotted the Nets' weakness and began to storm the Nets' interior.

The Wizards coach even replaced the team's starting center, Okafor, midway through the fourth quarter, putting Brutalist interior Nene Hilario in the center position.

The Wizards' substitution immediately had a very good effect, and in the face of Lopez, Nene Hilario completed the suppression of Lopez on both offensive and defensive aspects.

Defensively, Nene Hilario is a combination of strength and agility, excellent bounce, and his size doesn't suffer from the center position, and he's a rare steal among interior players.

With his strong body and stalking interference, Nene can often defend most traditional interior players one-on-one in games, including Lopez.

In the offense, as a brutal interior player who started as a blue-collar player, Nene grabbed Lopez's rebounding shortcomings, and frantically carried out strong offenses and secondary offenses under the basket with his strong physique, constantly wreaking havoc on the Nets' basket.

The defensive rout also affected Lopez's offense, with his back-to-back mid-range shots missed, while the Wizards took advantage of the situation to launch waves of attacks.

With a "brush", Nene Hilario once again made a basket under the basket, turning the score on the court into 84:74, and the Wizards not only completed the score in the fourth quarter, but also gradually widened the difference.

"SHIT" Nets Coach Johnson angrily threw the tactical book to the ground, pulled his throat and shouted: "Da Zhuang, you are the main attacker"

The Nets attacked, Tall and Strong ran back, received the ball near the free throw line, and after receiving the ball, Tall and Brooks made a blocking and pick-and-roll cooperation, and Tall and Strong misplaced to attack Wizards point guard Bradley Beal.

Whether facing Crawford or Bill, Tall and Strong had the advantage of alignment, and Tall and Strong immediately broke through with a limit change of direction, and cut inside from Bill's left hand without hesitation.

However, the tall man who broke into the inside line was immediately intercepted by the supplementary defense Nene, and then the tall and strong made a ground-hitting pass and passed the ball to Lopez, who was in an empty position and unmarked behind Nene.

Lopez immediately received the ball and made an open layup, and the Wizards' Nene immediately pounced.

However, it was obvious that Nene's defense could not reach Lopez's right hand for a layup, but at this time, Nene hit Lopez's head directly and covered his face.

With a "snap", Lopez hit the ground with his back and fell heavily to the ground, and the referee's whistle sounded in time.

"Lean" and the fans at home were furious, Gao Dazhuang rushed to Nene for the first time to reprimand him, and kept complaining to the referee, asking the referee to blow his malicious foul.

Just when the referee hesitated, the violated Lopez stood up silently and silently walked to the free throw line.

"Huh?" Seeing Lopez's movements, the tall man frowned, this ball is like a microcosm of this game, and the way Lopez plays is too silent to make people feel his passion.

Maybe in life, Lopez will be a good person, but in the NBA, Tall and Strong would rather have a guy by his side who can ignite the fighting spirit of his teammates anytime and anywhere, rather than being fouled with such a dangerous move as he is today, and not showing anything at all.

This happened more than once in the game, and in the final moments of the game, the Nets began to chase points frantically under the leadership of Gao Zhuang.

"Bang", in a scramble under the basket, Lopez and Nene touched the ball out of the bottom line at the same time, Nene Hilario jumped up and down, gearing up to find the referee's theory, and his attitude was very arrogant, but his attitude actually affected the referee, and the referee gave this key penalty to the Wizards.

On Lopez's side, the camera swept across his face, no excitement, no nervousness, just a little helplessness.

Lopez's emotions also affected the Nets' players, and in the end, the Nets, who had lost their passion, failed to complete the comeback of the score.

89：85

The Brooklyn Nets, who are playing at home and ranked third in the East, unexpectedly lost to the Washington Wizards, who are at the bottom of the league, and suffered a waterloo. (To be continued......)

PS: Thanks for "getting by"!

The Nets are going through a period of slump, but it's all for the sake of rebirth in the future! Hey