Chapter 930: Al Jefferson counterattacks
Adopting a two-man defense against Li Feng at such an early stage is indeed a bit uncomfortable for the head coach of the Nets, Kidd, so that the Nets are too passive, but Kidd believes that as long as he survives this period of time, Li Feng's offense will inevitably soften, and at that time it will be his chance.
After Li Feng came over, the Nets' two-man defense rationally formed a wall to push Li Feng backwards, and if Li Feng insisted on attacking, he would be pushed outward by the Nets more and more.
This tactic is a hundred trials against a team without an interior core, but now the Pelicans are obviously not afraid of such a defense, Li Feng pulled to the side, and quickly stuffed the basketball into the hands of Al Jefferson on the inside.
A team has a core inside, which can be rooted in the opponent's interior and prevent the opponent from pushing their team too outward.
Li Feng threw the basketball into Al Jefferson's hands, and Al Jefferson who arrived at the basketball desperately hit the basket of the Nets, he squeezed under the basket strongly, and Lopez staggered under his feet, Al Jefferson took two steps towards it and suddenly raised his hand and made a shooting feint.
Lopez jumped up a little instinctively after a series of high-intensity confrontations with Aljefferson, and as soon as he jumped, he realized that he had been fooled, but he had no chance to repent.
Al Jefferson staggered a step beside him, leaned forward and threw the basketball forward, this attack was ugly, not aesthetic at all, except for the forced squeeze of the body, it was an irregular shot.
But the basketball still fell into the basket of the Nets, and Kidd twitched his nose at this time, he was a little dissatisfied with Lopez's defense, but this was much better than being directly forced by Li Feng.
The Nets' offense immediately became very difficult to carry out in the Pelicans' half, and the Pelicans' half seemed to have a kind of magic, and the Nets players were all stuck by the Pelicans' defenders here.
Glued to these people's bodies, preventing them from making all kinds of movements. None of the Nets' players were good at forcing offense, and finally Joe Johnson stood up and forced a layup, but the consequences were more miserable, and he rushed to the Pelicans' position alone.
Then I heard a collision of arms and legs inside, and finally the basketball in Joe Johnson's hand was gone, and the basketball was in the hands of Brewer, the Pelicans' steal specialist, and with the basketball, the Pelicans immediately launched a fast break.
Without giving the opponent a little respite and opportunity, Li Feng hit the Nets' defense with the basketball as if it was an angry wave, and now the Nets have adjusted Li Feng's defense to the highest level. Li Feng faced the defense of two people.
Without looking, he sent the basketball to the basket of the Nets, and at this time Al Jefferson happened to appear there, if this was a slam dunk before he was injured, but now he can't fly, so he can only click the basketball with one hand in the air, point the basketball into the basket, and complete his offense.
The Pelicans came over as an air relay, although it wasn't Li Feng's offense. But the Nets' defense is still vulnerable to the Pelicans.
This made Kidd very angry and helpless, and now the team is in such a state that it is completely nonsense to let his team instantly improve the defensive quality of the game.
But now Al Jefferson is clearly active. Restraining Al Jefferson was already necessary, and Kidd yelled at Lopez from the sidelines, causing Lopez to follow Al Jefferson.
The Nets' offense was still so difficult to reach the Pelicans' half, and today the Pelicans played the highest intensity game. They lost the first game, which simply made the Pelicans feel that they were too faceless and lost face, and now they have to get it back.
In the end, the basketball still fell into the hands of Joe Johnson. Joe Johnson is a tough one of the Nets' players.
got the basketball and forced a hook shot on Arenas, and the ball was actually hit by Joe Johnson with good luck.
Now Kidd sees a little hope of attacking and can hand over the ball to Joe Johnson and then pass it into the hands of others.
Kidd is gradually building a clear offensive system, and now he is going to change the pre-game preset offensive tactics, and this today's game Van Gundy did not sit quietly in his position like the last game, but walked around on the sidelines, today Van Gundy is not ready to give the opponent any chance, as long as there is a little opportunity, Van Gundy will immediately change his tactics to suppress the opponent, and no longer hand over the adjustment of the court to Li Feng.
The Nets' offense ended, the Pelicans immediately dribbled and killed, at this time Al Jefferson was also in trouble, Lopez quickly cut off Al Jefferson's receiving route, and the defense formed by Deron and Joe Johnson was still pushing Li Feng outside, trying to use this kind of defense to stop the Pelicans' offense.
The Nets have a misconception that the Pelicans can't function without Al Jefferson, but things are not like that at all, even though Li Feng is blocked by Deron and Joe Johnson and can barely see anything.
But Li Feng still threw the basketball towards Henson, the biggest target, and couldn't find a way to pass the ball, it didn't matter if he could pass the ball to Henson, Henson would reprocess the basketball to where he should go.
Sure enough, Henson fully exerted his passing ability at this time, and the moment he received the ball, he pointed the basketball into the hands of Brewer in the bottom corner of the side, and Henson was like a transit station, which could run the basketball at the fastest speed.
The basketball is in Brewer's hands, there is no one around him to defend, Brewer's offensive ability is average, that is, he can get this empty three-pointer, but it is not very stable, and the shot is relatively slow.
These are all shortcomings, but they are not shortcomings today, he has a lot of preparation time, and it took a full second for Brewer to make a shot, a crisp and beautiful baseline three-pointer.
The basketball simply got into the basket of the Nets, but at this time, Kidd, who saw the form clearly, just felt that his heart was aching, and this pain was bone-chilling, and seeing Henson's skillful transfer, he felt that he had miscalculated the comparison of the combat power of the two teams.
The Pelicans' interior strategy is definitely not Al Jefferson alone, so he has used two people to defend Li Feng, and the interior has become an unstoppable hole. And this hole is still dedicated by itself.
Kidd chased after him from the sidelines at this time, and called:
"Joe Johnson goes on offense, Joe Johnson goes on offense." Kidd shouted loudly from the sidelines.
Remind his team that he didn't want to call that timeout, that things were changing so quickly on the pitch that Kidd was afraid that his adjustments would not keep up with the rhythm and gave him all his timeouts.
The Nets got Kidd's order here, and immediately delivered the basketball to Joe Johnson's hands at halftime, in fact, if Kidd didn't shout like this, most of the Nets would play like this.
Sending the basketball to Joe Johnson's hands, the burden on the Eagle King is very heavy, and the responsibility for this organization should have gone to Delon. But Delong was defended by Li Feng today and had a hard time walking.
Every step Li Feng takes is a very difficult thing, and it is even more difficult to organize the team.
Joe Johnson pulled against Arenas' defense toward the Pelicans' side while observing the positions of Anthony and Delon.
Anthony finally had a chance at this time, he gave the basketball to Anthony, Anthony was also having a bad day today, Brewer has almost his entire body attached to his body from the opening to the present.
The word sticker is perfectly appropriate for Brewer's body, which is not to keep a certain distance from the opponent. Rather completely without distance, Brewer will put his face, his own chest, his own belly. His own work, his two legs, were completely attached to Anthony's body.
At the same time, the two hands are scratching around as if they are a magic grasp. Harassment hindered Anthony, who now holds the basketball and swings his elbows. But Brewer still stuck it up without fear of death.
Anthony was very unhappy with the shot, and the result naturally produced a rebound, and the rebound jumped out quickly.
The Pelicans got the ball again, and the whole Pelicans' offense pounced on the Nets like a raging beast, at this time Kidd was still thinking about Anthony's offense just now, and now he realized that his adjustment was too small, and it was not enough to form an effect, and he needed to make an overall change to form an effect.
Li Feng played the ball and came up to meet the double defense, but at this time Li Feng was not in a hurry to attack, but sent the basketball to Henson, who was already standing under the basket.
Almost like the last time, Henson took the ball and hit the basketball, the last time Henson made a three-pointer, but this time Henson spotted the basketball into the hands of Arenas, who cut in.
Arenas cut in and raised his hands, and raised the basketball high to the top of the air to shoot an arrow with running hands, Arenas was tall, and the basketball flew easily over Joe Johnson's head and landed in the basket of the Nets.
Arenas also began to score, and the Pelicans began to gradually enter their track, but when the Pelicans stepped into this track, the Nets were torn apart by the Pelicans' defense, and they couldn't organize a strong offense at all in the Pelicans' half-court injury, and without the offensive Nets, there was no threat at all.
After all, the Nets are an offensive team, after continuous offense, the Pelicans showed more and more urgent skills, this time Lopez's defense was not fully in place, he let Al Jefferson lightly get in the main position, and also leaked in the passing space, at this time the basketball in Li Feng's hand naturally went to the hands of Al Jefferson, Al Jefferson's current turnaround jumper has stepped into the past as stable and unstoppable.
But that didn't make Al Jefferson laugh at the low post and lose his power, on the contrary, he was more cunning in the low post.
When the basketball passed from the outside to the inside, Al Jefferson received the basketball and did a move that he usually doesn't use a lot, and after getting the basketball, he quickly swung his shoulders sideways.
Doing a pulling action on both sides, Joe Johnson, who was on the line at this time, turned around and struck at Al Jefferson, but Al Jefferson moved at this time and bypassed in front of Joe Johnson.
He raised his hand high and made a beautiful hook, in fact, from the time the ball landed in Aljefferson's hands, he had become very beautiful.
Al Jefferson successfully hit the ball, and Steve Pippen sighed in the commentary box:
"Al-Jefferson has almost completely changed his technical style, which is a difficult thing to do, but he's sat down and looks like he's doing a great job so far."
Kidd finally couldn't take it anymore now. He can't watch his team crash into the opponent's wall like a fly, it's all pointless offense, and the Nets need something more to arm themselves.
At the very least, their tactics should be more complex, and they must be more complex, otherwise there is no way for the Nets to win, and Kidd has deeply built the Nets' offensive system, while deeply understanding the weaknesses of this team.
The Nets' biggest offensive weakness is the lack of a real offensive strength, and they don't have a person who can lead the whole team to attack no matter who they face when they are on offense.
This man is neither on the Pelicans' interior nor on the Pelicans' perimeter, and the Pelicans are missing such a player, and it looks like Joe Johnson is completely incapable of this responsibility. What I need is a system that can provide more opportunities.
The Nets called a timeout, and he put a lot of cover on his team from the bench, from the top of the arc to the wings, from the wings to the two bottom corners, all of which he set up to cover the offense.
Now that the Nets don't have a strong offensive point, they need to look for opportunities everywhere, and on the other side of the court, Van Gundy has only one sentence of tactics for his players:
"I don't care what the Nets come up with, I just ask you to do one thing. It's to smash them, smash the Nets, whether it's offense or defense. ”
Van Gundy said this in a calm tone, as if he was going to eat the Nets alive, and the truth is that if there were no federal police. Van Gundy didn't care about that.
The Nets were back on the court, and their style of play and intent quickly became apparent, as Delon sent the basketball to the Pelicans' basket from outside the three-point line after two consecutive screens.
"Oh. It turned out that the Nets laid out this during the timeout, but added more cover, and their outside play still hasn't changed. So I don't think the pelicans have to worry about it!"
Charles Barkley said with a big grin on the sidelines.
Scottie Pippen was a little depressed today because the team he supported was weak, and even now that Kidd has changed his tactics, he is definitely in the absolute weakness of the Nets.
Li Feng dribbled and pressed up, and at this time he was pleasantly surprised to find that there were not two people defending him, but only one Delong, and the people behind him became assistant defenders, so that Li Feng actually had a lot of space.
There is a premise for this defensive strategy of one person in front of you to defend and help defend in the back, that is, the defender in front can let his defender go to the position he wants the opponent to go, and then the person behind the defender can block it.
But it is obviously extremely difficult for Delong to control Li Feng, because the difference in the physical conditions of the two people is too great.
Li Feng encountered such a situation, and one reaction was to rush up with the ball, seemingly wanting to advance from the trap defense line arranged by Delong, but after just one step of dribbling, Li Feng suddenly turned over, pressed DeLong behind him, and then rushed directly towards the inside line of the Nets.
Li Feng rushed up, the Nets' interior line and the sidelines were all nervous, Joe Johnson also defended at this time, and when he rushed out, he planned to make a foul and couldn't let Li Feng score.
So when he rushed up, he reached out and hit Li Feng's arm, he hit people instead of balls, and Li Feng was almost knocked down by Garnett in the air, in the fierce physical contact.
While protecting the basketball, Li Feng swept it forward with his hand, Li Feng swept there this time Li Feng didn't know, but Li Feng still made a layup.
After landing, I saw Garnett bend down and cover his lips all of a sudden, and at this time Li Feng realized that he had swept Garnett's lips, and the referee gave Garnett a foul at this time.
Garnett covered his lips and looked at Li Feng with unkind eyes, Li Feng didn't think it was a thing, he went to the free throw line and went to the free throw, but he misestimated Garnett.
Garnett thought that Li Feng was deliberately messing with him, just because he deliberately fouled him, so Li Feng came to deliberately mess with himself, Garnett covered his swollen lips, thinking that this matter must not be counted like this on the psychological side.
This matter must not be counted like this, it is enough to be ashamed to be dunked on the head when you are old, if you are now, you don't dare to speak out, who cares about yourself in the future. With such a plan, Garnett's eyes became unkind.
The Nets' offense, the Nets used complicated outside cover in one round, how could the Pelicans not have any preparation in this round, the Pelicans strengthened the rotation of the players' defense when defending the Nets so many covers, and several players kept changing positions, so that even if the Nets got the shooting position, they were all very bad positions.
Anthony was forced to shoot again from a relatively long position, which was a bit far away, but the Nets couldn't be as lucky as they were in the last game every time they attacked. Anthony's basketball was well protected by Al Jefferson under the basket.
Only Garnett, who has reduced ability, and Lopez, who is already a little soft, are not strong in the interior of the Nets, and the ability to rebound in the frontcourt is not strong.
After Al Jefferson got the basketball, he turned his head and handed the basketball to Li Feng, accelerating his running under his feet, it seemed that Li Feng was about to attack, but at this time Garnett quickly caught up.
Al Jefferson felt that something was wrong at the time, but both Garnett and Al Jefferson miscalculated the shape of the shape, and this time Li Feng dribbled over and rarely did not launch a fast attack, but passed the basketball to Arenas's hands.
By this time, Arenas was already on the 45-degree position to get the main Joe Johnson, which was a great opportunity. Li Feng believed in the partner, and he sent the basketball to Arenas.
This time Garnett has no chance, but Arenas's chance has come, and Arenas has his back to Joe Johnson.
Joe Johnson didn't have the slightest disdain for Arenas just because he was a rookie. He wasn't until this guy's power on the offensive end, Arenas held the ball and pushed Joe Johnson with his back to fight for space and pushed Joe Johnson away for a while.
Arenas turned back suddenly. Not fast, not even with any special tricks, just raised the elbows a little. He just stood there and shot lightly, and the basketball flew out, and the arc was soft, as if Arenas had just shot.
"Huh!"
Arenas hit with a simple shot.
At this time, the fans at the Barclays Center thought it was just a shot, but it was different in the eyes of Kidd, and it was different in the eyes of Charles Barkley:
"Arenas has grown up amazingly, although this offensive action is simple and scary, but the confidence that Arenas embodies in this offense, the stability of the shooting is terrible, the Pelicans have Li Feng, and now they have Arenas in the future, it will be a terrible team."
Scottie Pippen also does not deny the lethality of Arenas's move:
"Now Arenas has taken scoring as normal, and when he shoots, he doesn't have the slightest nervousness and panic, so he resists the opponent's shot, and he is a little scary now."
Al Jefferson ran to Li Feng's side at this time, and said to Li Feng on the side:
"Be careful, Garnett, that guy might be upset with you."
Li Feng glanced back at Al Jefferson, he could understand what Al Jefferson meant, Li Feng glanced at Garnett's puffed lips at this time, Li Feng frowned, he thought he did it on purpose, but what could he not explain by himself.
This time, the Nets ran over and quickly dismantled the basketball into Lopez's hands, Lopez got the basketball and made a quick cut to open the Pelicans' offense, and then he made a quick layup.
The Nets' offense succeeded, Li Feng got the basketball to the bottom line, and dribbled towards the half court of the Nets. (To be continued......)