Chapter 520: Battle of the Raptor
After Dragic scored, the Raptors' return was also unexpected, and they played very neatly.
The Raptors' offense was quite unrestrained before, but today, they also played a no-ball tactic from the baseline through the inside.
The Raptors used this no-ball tactic at this time to stretch the space to one side, and on this side, the Raptors also formed a fist attack, and Calderon, the team's strongest team, made a simple block with Terrence Ross on this side to attract all the Knicks' defense to this side.
In this case, Calderon took the ball without any fancy, and steadily passed the basketball to DeRozan on the side.
DeRozan faced Li Feng who pounced, shook his mental quality very well, shook Li Feng away, and then threw a three-pointer with his hand.
The Raptors also immediately returned a three-pointer, and the Raptors played a little differently today than before.
Today's Raptors obviously had a better half-court and played a little more complicated.
Calderon also mastered the rhythm of the half-court more fluidly, and he is also the guard who is most adapted to the Raptors.
At the beginning of today, both teams are seeking change, neither of them are sticking to the rules, they both want to create a big adjustment, let the other party miscalculate first, make the other party uncomfortable, but in the dark, the adjustment direction of the two teams has some overlap, and the scene of the game is different from what they expected.
The Knicks came over again, but they still went around in a circle and gave a Monroe low-post tactic.
I saw Monroe take the ball and dribble backwards very steadily, turn left and right, and suddenly dodge Ed Davis with a step-back, and then shot a throw and hit.
The Knicks scored points easily, and the Raptors lost two low posts in the opening game. If Popovich had come and yelled, but Michelle continued to drink water as if he hadn't seen it.
The Raptors players didn't say anything after dropping points, just quickly ran towards the Knicks' half.
At this time, the Raptors came up, and the fight was still very simple, and the slightly more complicated thing was that Terrence Ross helped Calderon pull people.
The Raptors played another offensive side of the game, with three players pulling away to the weak side and Calderon and Amir Johnson on the strong side doing a pick-and-roll.
The last time Calderon passed the ball to a shooter on the weak side, this time Calderon simply beat Dragic hard, broke through and threw a long-range throw over Dragic's head.
Calderón is indeed not as fast as Dragic. But it was much stronger than Dragic, who couldn't carry Calderon and was easily scored 2 points by Calderon on the head.
At the beginning of today, the taste of the two teams was obviously not very right, and the Knicks' goal was to clearly suppress the rhythm to play.
The Raptors, on the other hand, played Calderon two rounds in a row. This is clearly catching Dragic to fight.
Both teams are playing their own games, but they are playing relatively smoothly. The Knicks have been playing high in the last few games. It's like two wild horses having fun. It's a lot more comfortable to play, and the fans are also comfortable to watch.
In this case, Yu Jia, who commented on the game on the domestic side, said:
"Today's game is still tentative! Seeing no, neither team took out their housekeeping skills. The Knicks are still playing low post and disgusting opponents here, and the Raptors also caught Dragic to play! ”
"Why are the Raptors trying to catch Dragic? Because Dragic can live for the Knicks' system once he plays it, the Raptors must first play an important corner player for the Knicks. Now the two teams are trying to do this. Whoever can't help it first, this game can be regarded as the real beginning. ”
What Yu Jia said is still very appropriate, the game has only started at this time, so it is so. The two teams played to the fourth minute of the first quarter, and the two teams played smoothly to 12-10, and the Raptors still led by two points, and at this time Dragic was also fouled three times by Calderon.
In this situation, Tyberdu could only call a timeout first, and the Knicks suffered a small loss at the beginning. Tyberdu called this timeout, and Yu Jia was happy at this time, and he said on the side:
"Now that the Raptors have suspended the Knicks, the Knicks are definitely going to make a move next! This game has just really begun, let's see what the Knicks do! ”
Tyberdeau's side is not difficult to deal with, which is to go to Livingston and then start to assign defensive details to Livingston, while at the same time assigning new defenses to Monroe and Cousins.
After the timeout, the Knicks kicked off on the sideline, and the basketball passed directly to Li Feng, who was in the main position of the baseline card.
Li Feng faced DeRozan at this time, and he resisted Li Feng strongly behind Li Feng.
Li Feng withstood DeRozan's defense here, and Cousins ran over to block Li Feng on the baseline.
The Knicks played multiple low-post offenses today, and the Raptors will play whatever they hate!
Li Feng took advantage of Cousins' cover to dribble towards the line, then pulled up and threw a wipe shot.
The basketball wipe board simply fell into the Raptors' basket!
The Raptors are coming back to fight, they still want to hit one side, if they think a move is useful, they will keep using it, either you defend me, or I will kill you.
But when Calderon came around again, he immediately felt particularly awkward, not to say how good Livingston's defense was, but the rhythm he mastered made Calderon very awkward, and Livingston grasped many small details very accurately.
After a series of small actions, Calderon was not happy to play here, so he could only throw the basketball out of the box for Amir Johnson to play.
Amir Johnson is strong and fast, like a beast on the court, but today Amir Johnson was a little unhappy, and Cousins, who was opposite him, was too tall and too strong. Cousins' pure weight is heavier than Amir Johnson's, so the inside play he is usually good at is completely unusable, and his mid-range shooting is not as high as Cousins.
Wanting to cut the Knicks and block the inside line tightly, Amir Johnson took the ball over at this time and hit Cousins twice painfully, although it knocked Cousins away a lot, but as soon as he raised his hand, Cousins still shrouded him in the air, and he still couldn't shoot comfortably.
Amir Johnson reluctantly threw a hook hand. It's also a miss! The Knicks, for their part, finally launched a counterattack.
And the way of counterattacking is difficult for people outside the field to experience, others can't understand it, but Yao Ming, who is sitting in the front row now, feels it.
As soon as Livingston made a move, he saw that Livingston's defense of Calderon used a set of tactics that the Knicks coaching staff summed up the defensive strategy.
The defensive details of this set were bought by the Knicks with a bloody lesson, and the effect of the defense was immediate.
In this case, Yu Jia and Payton on the sidelines couldn't see why, so Yu Jia said:
"The Knicks start on defense! After changing to Livingston, the defense was much better and contained Calderon. ”
Peyton also said:
"Livingston is very defensive! It's not easy to defend Calderón! ”
, the Knicks defended the Raptors once. The Raptors were running slowly, waiting for the opponent to come over and attack in a solid halfcourt.
Monroe passed the basketball to Li Feng, and Li Feng suddenly ran towards the front like a convulsive.
The rhythm of the Knicks was slow before, but at this time, Li Feng was pumped. Just look at the rhythm of the whole game, all of a sudden, it's faster. It's as if a tape is suddenly fast-forwarding.
The Raptors were not paying attention, and Li Feng reached the top of the Raptors' arc in two or three steps. At this point, the Raptors' defense leaned towards Li Feng. Li Feng immediately turned around and passed the basketball to Livingston, who ran over.
Livingston is now focused on attacking the basket, taking the ball and adjusting quickly, and throwing a three-pointer directly out of the box.
The basketball flew over the half-court "Brush!" A thud landed in the Raptors' basket.
When the Raptors saw that the Knicks suddenly played fast and attacked them with a three-pointer, they suddenly came to their senses and wanted to turn back immediately to add up the speed. But they threw it out on the first pass. It was up to Li Feng to immediately come forward to defend in front of the court and delay Calderón in the half.
While Calderon was busy dealing with Li Feng here, the Knicks quickly retreated and had already set up their position in the half.
Michelle watched from the sidelines. also laughed angrily, the Knicks played this very amazing! Allow yourself to be fast, but definitely not let the Raptors get fast.
Payton is a point guard who is very sensitive to the scene, and he laughs when he sees this scene!
Before the game, he thought that the two teams would compete with their offensive ability bare-chested, you punch me, I punch you, and the last thing to see who has the heavier fist!
But now at the beginning of the game, Payton saw that the Knicks protected their head and face very well, and at the same time suppressed the rhythm of the Raptors, only allowing themselves to hit the opponent's heavy punches, and never let the opponent's heavy punches hit him.
This strategy is overbearing! It's speechless.
Calderón didn't figure out what was going on in the last round, and when he came back to attack this round, he just moved and realized that something was serious, very serious.
Calderon's side was annoyed, and with a rare mistake, he passed the ball in front of Belineri, who used to steal the basketball all at once.
After stealing the basketball, Belineri passed the ball to Livingston, Livingston broke through with the ball, and at this time DeMardeRozan went over and hugged Livingston.
A foul on DeMardeRozan sent Livingston to the free throw line, and Calderón Union took the opportunity to go to the sidelines and say to Michelle:
"Sam! Something is not right! The Knicks are familiar with us and have systematically analyzed our playing style and habits! ”
Michelle's brow furrowed at this time, he believed Calderon.
Calderon has been writing the word reliable in his head since he was born, since Calderon said so, and then immediately frowned and said:
"Even so, we can't help it, and now we need to make a change! For Kreza!"
Michel's decision to switch to Krezza immediately when he encountered a problem was a bit strange, but Calderón understood Michel's thinking better.
In a well-equipped team, there will always be one or two players who have a completely different rhythm than the rest of the players.
The task of this player is not to play according to tactics at all, the value of the existence of this type of player is to stir up, that is, to muddy the waters, to make things complicated and messy. In this way, many problems that were originally difficult for the team to solve were solved in the chaotic battle.
At this point, the Raptors ran into problems. Michelle also did not hesitate to stir up the.
To say that Kreza's offensive ability is really strong, if he has a convulsion, he can't stop it at all, but Kreza has such a strong offensive ability, the team will not use him as a core player.
It seems that there are a lot of players like Kreiza in the league, Jamal Crawford, Louis Williams, Nick Young, and even John Terry are also such players.
This kind of player has such a strong ability to score. Why don't you use them as a core?
In fact, this kind of player with super attacking power often has very obvious shortcomings in other aspects. If the opponent adopts the corresponding defensive strategy, this kind of player will not be able to score points smoothly. And this kind of player often lacks other attributes besides scoring attributes. The function is relatively simple.
A team's core players can either make other teammates better. Either it can influence the whole audience. Either they are almost inexplicable on the offensive end, they are all endowed with multiple attributes! Of course, this is not an absolute thing, and some players have become well-deserved bosses of the team with their skills.
The Raptors got on Kreza, and Yu Jia immediately said in China:
"The Raptors have replaced Kreza! They want to change the game with their attack, and that's a good idea. ”
Tyberdu was also a little helpless when he saw that the other party was on Kreza, this guy was a pure convulsioner. Sometimes your defense seems useful, but sometimes it seems useless in front of him. In other words, Kreza's offense was completely imaginative, just related to his own form. It doesn't have much to do with defense.
This guy is completely elusive and irrational, although he doesn't have a too perverted body, but his style is perverted enough.
The Raptors made a substitution, Livingston went to the free throw line and hit one of two free throws, and the scores of the two teams became 16-12, and the Knicks led by 4 points.
If these 4 points are played with the Spurs, they can grind a quarter, but playing with the Raptors is equivalent to no point difference, and the Raptors, these convulsors, can throw hundreds of bombs at any time and blow the score back to ten or twenty points.
The Raptors kicked off on the sideline, and the basketball went to Kreza's hands first, and Kreza faced Li Feng at this time.
Li Feng is completely dominant in height and body, Kreza should be more difficult to play, but at this time, Kreiza completely ignores Li Feng's height when he takes the ball, he doesn't care how tall you are, he takes the ball up two crotch, dribbles behind his back and steps back, opens up space and throws a three-point shot Kreza throws a three-pointer.
As far as Kreza's shooting rhythm and reasonableness are concerned, it is purely a hard shot, Li Feng has not been so ignored!
He harassed in the past, although he didn't block the basketball, but it also changed the arc of Kreza's shooting, and the basketball smashed into the rebound, which was a natural miss.
Kreza's ball was thrown indiscriminately, but his teammates didn't blame him after the attack, Calderon was such a reliable person and didn't say anything, the head coach didn't see it, and Kreiza himself had to make an expression of not caring.
The Raptors just want him to stir up like this, so naturally they won't restrain Kreza.
The Knicks played at this time, and the basketball was passed to Li Feng's side first, and Li Feng took the ball and hit it directly with his back.
At this time, Li Feng played Kreza, and his physical advantage was huge, and Ed Davis on the Raptors' side of the interior hurriedly rushed over to help defend.
Li Feng saw that Ed Davis was coming, he hurriedly turned around and passed the basketball to Monroe, but as soon as Monroe got the ball, he saw Amir Johnson come out, and at the same time Terrence Ross went to defend Cousins, so he had to throw the basketball to Belineri.
Belineri took the ball in the bottom corner and made a three-point shot, and the basketball fell into the Raptors' basket again!
At Madison Square Garden, the home court of the Knicks, the Knicks really played better.
The score was rewritten to 19-12 at the beginning, so Michelle hurriedly beckoned Terrence Ross on the sidelines to defend Li Feng, otherwise the Raptors' defensive hole was a little big.
The Raptors didn't play well in the opening game, and the Raptors still didn't add up the speed when they came over again, Calderon was still uncomfortable when he came over, and the basketball still fell into the hands of Terrence Ross after the last game.
Terrance Ross was the Raptors' last offense at this time, and chose Terrence Ross to play more calmly in the face of Belineri, probing one step at his feet and then retracting and dribbling backwards for half a step, jumping directly with a jumper.
There's nothing Terence Ross can do about it, so he can only watch as Terence Ross hits this mid-range.
Now the Raptors are still good to use Terrance Ross's offense, but Terrence Ross's offense alone can't save the overall decline of the Raptors today.
The Knicks contained the Raptors at the beginning, and the Knicks used the information provided by Yao Ming to curb the opponent's fast attack, and waited for the opportunity to play fast attack.
The game was completely under the control of the Knicks, and in the next few minutes, the Raptors couldn't overpower the Knicks even after several efforts.
By the last two minutes of the first quarter, the two teams were tied at 24-16, and the Knicks still led the Raptors by 8 points.
Michelle saw that there was no way to do this, so let's change the substitute! The Raptors also have a talented bench lineup at this time, with Valanciunas, Baniani, John Lucas, and Aranguere coming in.
As far as the Raptors lineup, coupled with Kreza, the ability to score and the stability of the outside are almost the same as the average team. (To be continued......)