Chapter 244 Regular Season First Battle (5)
George Carr, the coach who has struggled with cancer for many years, frowned and slapped his palm, drawing everyone's attention: "I think the atmosphere directly tells us how bad we played in the first half, is it because we are far inferior to the Clippers guys?" ”
Karl swept past every player, Anthony's face was still cold, and Billups was much better than Lops, after all, he had even experienced the key moments of the Finals. "Our strength is definitely stronger than the Clippers, now what we have to do is to forget about the first half, and in the second half readjust our mentality to deal with the Clippers' winning pursuit, so the second half is ......" Carl paused and looked at Carmelo Anthony, the team leader, and seemed to have made a big decision to open his mouth: "Cameron, what you need to do in the second half is very simple is to attract, open the defense of the Clippers for your teammates, and leave the offense to Billu as much as possible."
Hearing George Carr's words, Anthony's face showed some disbelief, there is no doubt that George Karl is equivalent to taking the right to take his shot away in disguise, but his performance in the first half was really bad, so Anthony did not express his dissatisfaction too much, but everyone else felt that the temperature around him was lowered a little again.
"Don't worry, Carl, I'll try" Billups nodded at George Karl.
Soon the 20 minutes of the break passed, and the second half of the game resumed, at this moment both sides sent the starting line-up at the beginning, and generally there are no special circumstances to change the starting personnel at the beginning of the second half.
For the Clippers, they want to continue to work hard to take advantage of the score and beat the Nuggets to death a few more times, while the Nuggets, who are as many as 17 points behind, want to try to close the score as close as possible in the third quarter and do their best to win the fourth quarter.
According to the arrangement at halftime, the Nuggets began to revolve around Billups, who controlled the ball steadily, and did not take Andre Miller Billups in front of him a little light, because he knew that Miller was a similar type of player to him, and they were all players whose stats did not reflect their specific strength.
Andre Miller is also a good defensive player at the back. He is a player who is good at using his body to defend, but Billups can definitely be at the top of the guard line in terms of strength, and after strength and continuous feints, Miller can do nothing about Billups' breakthrough, and can only watch Billups bypass his defense, Billups, who rushes inside, faces Tyson Chandler directly after his teammates pull the line away, and the basketball draws an unusually beautiful arc in the air and then falls into the basket.
Billups looked pampered, as if the ball was not thrown by him, and immediately turned to the defense.
Andre Miller gave the ball to Artest, who ate it with strong force in the face of Melon's defense. Like a heavy bulldozer, bulldozing a mountain of melons, followed by a basket, although the posture is indeed not pretty, but it is practical enough to re-stretch the difference to seventeen points, Artest shows his strong muscles in response to the cheers given to him by the audience.
In the following time, both sides worked hard, both offensive and defensive were extremely fierce. The collision of bodies has become the focus of every offense and defense, and under the leadership of Billups, although the Nuggets have not been able to chase the difference to within 10 points, they have been biting the difference at 11 or 2 points, which has brought a lot of pressure to the Clippers who are bent on opening up the difference.
Mike Dunleavy frowned and called a timeout. Andre Miller's physical strength has obviously changed under the continuous impact of Billups, although Miller is an iron man, but the team is now in the position of organizing guards, in addition to him, Kassel can also top the top, but this season Kassel's physical strength has further declined, and the two newcomers to the team, Mario Chalmers and Goran Dragic, are now unable to adapt to the rhythm of the NBA, and Mike Dunleavy does not dare to send two newcomers easily in the face of such an anxious game. But looking at Cassel's body and swallowing the words into his mouth, he still put his hope on Miller, "Andre. Is your stamina okay? ”
"Coach, I think I need to take a break, otherwise I'm afraid I won't be able to guarantee my fitness in the fourth quarter." Andre Miller knows that this is not the time to be reckless, and for the team to win the final victory he must ensure that his defensive pressure is sufficient, and to have such defensive pressure you must have enough physical strength.
"Mike, let me defend Chauncey" Gu Fei's voice drilled into Mike Dunleavy's ears.
"Gu, the team needs your offense more." Mike Dunleavy's words are tantamount to a direct rejection of Gu Fei's idea.
But Gu Fei did not give up his thoughts because of Dunleavy's words, but looked directly at Dunleavy's gaze, and said in a firm tone: "Mike, the team's offense still has Ron and JR, and I can use the running position, I want to try it, after all, I have a height advantage, I believe that my strength will not be worse than Chaunse, and my speed also ensures that I can keep up with his pace, so I think I can try"
Mike Dunleavy thought about it, and indeed as Gu Fei said, he did have an innate advantage in the face of Billups, then looked at the other players and nodded, "Sam, you are responsible for organizing the offense, Gu, Chauncey's defensive problems will be handed over to you, Ron I think Cameron should not rest if he doesn't exert much force in this quarter, so you still continue to play, Noah, you come down and rest, Steve, you replace Joaquin on the offensive end and pull it out, I believe that your three-point shot can become an important weapon on the offensive end of the team, Roy, you replace Tyson, pay attention to your fouls, don't jump easily......" Mike Dunleavy explained a few more words, and the referee blew the whistle in his mouth to urge the players of both sides to come on.
"The current time should be the second team of the two sides of the competition" Zhang Reasonable said very reasonably, usually this time period is handed over to the second team of the two sides.
"The Clippers replaced Andre Miller, so who will defend Chauncey, Sam Cassel was not a power defensive player when he was young, and the height of the Clippers is still guaranteed with rookie Roy Hibbert, the interior line is Chris Anderson, who just returned this year, which is not much of a threat to the Clippers' offensive end, and the Nuggets still retain Billu Puss, Dundee Jones and Anthony...... It turned out to be Gu Fei to defend Billups? Yu Jia was still commenting on the lineup, and when he saw the situation on the field, he couldn't help but raise his voice and said.
Billu-Puss was also a little surprised, but he quickly put away his expression and still looked calm, so that Gu Fei couldn't see the change in his expression at all, and the basketball seemed to be one with him, so that Gu Fei didn't dare to take the risk of breaking the ball.
Looking at Gu Fei who was in a standard defensive posture with his arms outstretched, Billups decided to try Gu Fei's defense first, knowing that the scouting report did not have a high evaluation of Gu Fei's defense.
Continued to cross steps in advance, but Gu Fei was unmoved, a pair of eyes were still staring at him fiercely, like a wolf, and his eyes were full of aggression.
Smack
The constant impact between the basketball and the ground challenged Gu Fei's defensive nerves.
Gu Fei could clearly perceive the steadiness emanating from Billups, and suddenly his eyes converged, and the whole person took a backward step and a half and then immediately connected to a sliding step to the left.
A hint of strangeness flashed on Billups's calm face, but he quickly found a new way to attack after seeing all kinds of defenses, only to see Gu Fei leaning on the spot and turning around two times in a row, first false and then true, but each time it hit Gu Fei's body with a heavy impact, Gu Fei's strength surprised him, but these two impacts still made Gu Fei, who was in a hurry and had an unstable center of gravity, lose his defensive position, and he would not let go of the slightest opportunity for Billups.
The whole person pulled back and retreated, and he could have passed Gu Fei, he withdrew from the three-point line again, and shot under Gu Fei's hurried pounce.
"Chauncey Billups is still experienced in the end, this ball is actually Gu Fei has defended very well, we can see that Gu Fei has improved a lot compared to the defense of his rookie season, Jiang is still old and spicy, with Billups' three-point shot, the Nuggets narrowed the difference to within ten points for the first time"
Gu Fei was not annoyed by the failure of the defense this time, his face looked unfazed, and immediately ran quickly to the front, and if he couldn't prevent it, he would use the offense to make up for it, this was Gu Fei's idea. (To be continued.) )
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