Chapter 586: Captured
Tyberdu looked at it from the side, and it was no longer possible to call a timeout, so he immediately called a timeout.
After calling a timeout, Tyberdu immediately rearranged his tactics, and Tyberdeau's side was not so much rearranging tactics as changing the method of using Li Feng.
In the first half, Li Feng's breakthrough was extremely sharp, and in the second half, the Pacers found a way to deal with it, and Li Feng's long-range shot was still unstable.
At this time, if it is an ordinary functional player, it will be costly, and today I can only accept my fate. But the terrible thing about a superstar is that he has a certain amount of lethality no matter where he is.
Tyberdu just saw that Li Feng's breakthrough and long-range shooting were not good, and now he immediately came over to design air cutting and low-post attack tactics for Li Feng.
Let Li Feng hold the ball in these two states, Tyberdeau also saw it in this design, and today the Knicks can no longer be separated from Li Feng. Even if you want to play team tactics, Li Feng is bound to be a crucial link.
After the pause, the Knicks directly sent Li Feng to the low post, but unfortunately Li Feng almost only held the ball.
The Pacers immediately came over to wrap the bag, and several people sandwiched Li Feng in the low post, so that Li Feng could only pass the ball to Monroe outside.
It's a pity that Monroe's mid-range is as bad as Li Feng's, and Monroe's shot is also missed.
After the Knicks called a timeout, the effect was not obvious, mainly because Tyberdeau's action here was too small, and the substitution did not change to the position, if he wanted to play Li Feng's low post, he immediately replaced all the players who could shoot three-pointers, and the space would definitely be able to open up. The offensive efficiency will also be much higher.
It's a pity that the Knicks are not in place at this time, the space can't be opened, and Monroe is also harassing when he gets the ball, and the shooting efficiency is naturally low.
The Knicks have been in a slump in a row, but the Pacers are striking while the iron is hot, just when the Knicks missed a shot.
The Pacers immediately played a fast break, Hill drove the ball towards the Knicks' half, this time no one dared to underestimate Hill, several people pounced on Hill's side, but Hill suddenly passed to Lance Stephenson, who was following up on the sideline. Lance Stephenson raises his hand for a three-pointer. Also hit!
"Whoa!"
Maddison was overrun by Pacers fans at this time!!
In the third quarter, the Pacers went on an 11-0 run. tide, all at once opened the score of the two teams.
The Pacers completed a counterattack at this time, upsetting the balance between the two teams. It's totally good for the pacer of the walker. But all the Knicks at this time. I felt intensely depressed. Li Feng is the most depressed person.
Li Feng knows very well that the reason why the Knicks are lagging behind now is because he is too weak. But the previous few times he handled the ball, Li Feng also grasped the rhythm. The reason why the effect is not good is just that I have a poor shooting feeling.
In this kind of situation where he has a poor shooting touch and his teammates are also in general, Li Feng has the last way left, which is to desperately create fouls.
The Pacers had forced the Knicks to a dead end at this time, Li Feng ran over again, and once he got to the low post, once he took Lance Stephen Sunka and received the basketball, the Pacers were a few people who came over, Li Feng still took the ball and forced him to turn around and attack under the basket.
Li Feng hit the basket so forcefully, and the basketball was fouled, and Li Feng finally won the opportunity to go to the free throw line.
Lance Stephenson was also sent off the court for four fouls, Lance Stephenson was replaced, the Pacers were replaced with Sam Young, and Li Feng went to the free throw line, this time carefully seizing the opportunity and hitting both free throws.
Li Feng finally helped the Knicks rely on the free throw line and scored two points first.
It was so difficult for the Knicks to score points in the third quarter, which was not only related to Li Feng, but also related to the Knicks' players who were used to Li Feng's crazy performance in the first half.
Now that he is in a predicament, Monroe is also difficult to open in the face of Roy Hibbert, and the team lacks an independent scoring point on the outside except for Li Feng, so once the Knicks can't operate, it is also difficult to score.
The Knicks' side has struggled to score continuously, the team is in trouble, and the morale of the players is also decreasing. The Knicks are a young team, and once the morale of a young team is lowered, it is easy to have problems on the defensive end.
At this time, the Knicks were in a situation of low morale, and there were holes in the defense, and Livingston gave Hill a chance when he followed a footstep on the outside line, and Hill simply relied on covering the dribble and shot a mid-range.
When the Knicks were struggling to resist, it was Hill who came out and gave the Knicks a fatal blow.
Li Feng only made two free throws on his side, and when he turned around, the Pacers scored two points with a simple attack.
If the Knicks continue to play like this, there is no way to catch up with the score.
At this time, Gary Payton also said in the commentary seat:
"The Knicks are now struggling to score on the offensive end and are starting to crumble on the defensive end. Before, the Knicks' defense was quite tight, but now it looks like the Knicks' defense has entered a lax state. ”
Reggie Miller also said at this time:
"Yes! The Knicks need to stabilize their position at this point, or the whole team will collapse. Letting the Pacers destroy in one wave is not what a strong team should be. ”
Tyberdu was in a situation where his team was in this kind of offensive and defensive situation.
He also started to get anxious, but instead of yelling, he immediately went to this side of the bench and began to communicate with several substitute players.
Tyberdu was ready to come on the bench at this time, and the substitute players would definitely be more excited when they first came on the bench, and the substitute players would definitely have some experience after sitting off the field for a while.
At this time, it is definitely much better to be on the bench than to continue to use such a lineup. Tyberdu's move is a clever move.
The Knicks' main force is now starting to get a little anxious, and this is not just Li Feng's problem.
The whole team is like this, the Knicks call again, and Monroe can't help but come up and beat Roy Hibbert. As a result, Monroe's fate was extremely miserable this time, and he was presented with a big hat by Roy Hibbert.
Monroe was frustrated and blocked, and the Pacers immediately formed a fast break, and Lance Stephenson made a quick layup, which also caused a foul on the Knicks.
The Knicks slipped into the abyss step by step, and seeing that the Pacers were about to hit at will, the Knicks still didn't respond.
Tyberdu hurriedly took advantage of the penalty kick and launched a large-scale substitution, putting Thornton, Kirilenko. Belineri. J.R. Smith replaced it all in one go.
Tyber Dutong Guò changed his hand to change his hand, and Vogel on the Pacers' side was still sitting there motionless.
After Lance Stephenson's free throw, the Knicks made a substitution, and their luck finally improved. After the Knicks, a group of players who can shoot three-pointers, came up. Li Feng's pressure on the inside line has also been reduced a lot.
But by this time the Pacers were already leading by more than a dozen points. And the morale of the Pacers is already up, and this is still in the center of Madison Square Garden, at the home of the Knicks. They've taken down MSG, the Pacers are getting better and better, and almost everyone on the team is scoring.
In this case, the Knicks are desperately chasing after the back, and it is also the score that will be lost before the chase will come.
By the end of the third quarter, the Pacers still led the Knicks by 10 points, 87-77.
At the end of the third quarter, Gary Payton solemnly emphasized:
"The Knicks lost because they relied too much on Li Feng's hand, and another reason was because the Pacers adopted a more severe strategy to contain Li Feng."
Reggie Miller also shook his head at this time and said
"The Knicks really played badly in this quarter! There is no rhythm at all, no rhythm at all. It's not their style! ”
Tyberdeau naturally knew that this was not the Knicks' style, and during the break, he consciously instilled in his players over and over again that he should play more team, and he should play the team basketball that the Knicks were used to.
Tyberdu's concept is still recognized by most players on the sidelines, and Li Feng also feels that he should play more team, so that the whole team can rely on his own feel, which is indeed not a long-term solution.
At the beginning of the fourth quarter, the opening was the Knicks' ball, and the Knicks also took the initiative to find their previous rhythm at this time. In the opening game, Li Feng drew attention on one side and suddenly hit the ground and passed to Kirilenko, who took the ball and cut it to the Pacers' basket.
This set of tactics was originally a very skillful tactic for the Knicks, but now that Kirilenko has won the basketball, it has not worked.
It turned out that Hansbru's footsteps were too fast, far beyond the footsteps of the average No. 4 position, and Kirilenko didn't get rid of Hansbrough's defense even when he cut into the air, and Kirilenko's aircut layup missed!
The Knicks are in trouble again in the opening stanza! Even when the Knicks were in trouble, the Pacers' footsteps didn't stop.
The Pacers came over and started continuous cross-covers from the high post, and Odom Johnson, who was in the crowd, suddenly started to break through and score two points.
Odom Johnson didn't have much playing time before, and he scored two points when he came up at this time, and almost anyone on the Pacers' side could score points, which made the Knicks feel extremely uncomfortable.
The Knicks came back to play the outside blocking and interior cutting tactics that the Knicks were familiar with before, but this set of tactics was not very useful in front of the Pacers.
Because the Knicks have relied on their own interior reserves to be thicker than others in the past to play this tactic, they can use the inside line to punch out first and retract others. But met the Pacers, who had deeper interior reserves than the Knicks. These tricks of the Knicks can't be used.
The Knicks' team tactics, if you can't hit the inside punch in the first move, the team can't talk about it. As a result, the Knicks' offense is still at a disadvantage, but fortunately, the Pacers' offense has been average for a while.
The two teams played from the opening to the fourth minute of the fourth quarter, and the difference between the two teams still did not widen too much. During this period, Tyberdu tried to adjust the main lineup back, allowing Cousins and Monroe to take turns bombing each other's baskets. With this combination, the average team must have been torn apart.
But the Knicks were unfortunate enough to run into the Pacers, and the Pacers' interior twin towers were just the right to restrain the Knicks' two interior lines. With the Pacers twin towers in charge, the Knicks still can't play against the interior line where the average team is in an advantage.
In the past, the Knicks' tactics were to shoot the first shot inside. Attracting the defense in the middle, Li Feng and other players complemented on one side. But today the Knicks can't open the inside, and the tactics can't be opened at all.
Team tactics can't be developed, and Li Feng's individual singles have also entered a period of weak hand before, and the Knicks seem to have really reached a dead end during this period of time.
During this period, Tyberdu was shouting from the sidelines, but the team's progress was still sparse.
Seeing that the set of methods in Nixping Rì was not working, Tyberdu also fell into a dull state.
At this time, Tyberdu was also a little helpless, and the team's established tactics were not working. Special tactics have a poor feel. The team's core players were almost in good shape in the second quarter, so what do you want Tyberdu to do at this time?
These changes in Tyberdu can be seen in Gary Payton's eyes, and Gary Payton also sympathized with Tyberdu at this time, and said on the sidelines:
"Before the game, everybody said that the Knicks and Pacers had the most lineup similarities. It's also the most likely to contain the Pacers when they meet in the playoffs. ”
But no one thought of it. There is actually a fine line between containment and being contained! Now it looks like it's not the Pacers at all that's being contained, it's the Knicks. The Knicks played a good inside cut-and-roll strategy before. After meeting the Pacers, the effect was so bad! Today's game, if the Knicks don't have special means is lost! ”
When Gary Payton said this, Reggie Miller also said:
"The Knicks' outside reserves are still a little bit worse than the Pacers. The Pacers have better player talent and a lot of experience. The Knicks, on the other hand, are slightly inferior! Looks like the Knicks still have to wait? ”
At this point in the game, neither commentator was optimistic about the Knicks.
Not only the two commentators, but also the thousands of fans outside the court have seen that the Knicks are now at an absolute disadvantage.
Fans who often watch the Knicks obviously feel that the Knicks' interior combination, which was invincible in the past, is not easy to use today. Li Feng, who killed people invisibly in the past, began to feel extremely bad in the second half today.
The inner combination failed, and Li Feng felt bad! The Knicks' offense is not playing well, and the defense is gradually collapsing.
But at this time, the Pacers' previous bad hand was gradually recovering, and the fourth minute and 36 seconds of the fourth quarter.
George took the ball and pushed it forward quickly, and when he came up, he passed to David West, who was in the main position on the baseline. David West looked out to the court and saw that his teammates had helped completely open the space, and Roy Hibbert was waiting near the three-point line, just waiting for his own basket.
David West will not waste the opportunity, take the ball and press sideways to the basket, it was said before that the Pacers restrained the Knicks, in fact, the Knicks also restrained the Pacers, and it was also difficult for the Pacers to come up and hit the Knicks Twin Towers.
David West couldn't press it in twice, and was elbowed by an annoyed Monroe, who had to throw the basketball to Pendegraf in the bottom corner on the other side.
Pendegraf held the ball on the baseline and raised his hand to throw a three-pointer, which the Knicks couldn't chase at all, and then watched the Pacers' three-pointer "Phew!" A thud landed in the Knicks' basket.
With Pendegraf's three-pointer, the score of the two teams was rewritten to 95-81, and the difference between the two teams suddenly widened to 14 points.
With a difference of nearly 15 points, and just over 8 minutes left, it is not easy to chase the Pacers for 15 points in another quarter. So as soon as this three-point shot was hit, the Knicks suddenly felt their hearts sinking!
Tyberdu hurriedly called a timeout again, and Tyberdu had no choice at this time, and began to arrange the team to play relatively free offensive tactics. Then on the defensive end, the team is asked to strengthen the defense of the three-point line and inside the restricted area.
Tyberdu also has no choice but to use a more free offensive system and hope to play freely with the players.
Today's game has reached this point, and Tyberdu has indeed conceded defeat for most of the time, and the remaining half of Tyberdu can only depend on luck.
After the timeout, the Knicks played a free offensive tactic, and when they were running, they used Li Feng as a light bulb in the middle to attract attention.
Livingston came over and pretended to use his teammates' cover to run inside, and when the defense chased after him, he suddenly took a step back just to receive a pass from Li Feng, and after getting the pass, Livingston dribbled forward half a step and threw a run before the defense arrived. The Knicks finally got two points back.
The Knicks' free offense had some effect, and Hill, who was the best at interrupting the Knicks' state at critical moments, jumped out again.
Hill came over this time with Roy Hibbert's cover, and went around and shot a three-pointer directly.
"Huh!"
Hill's three-point shot hit again, and all of a sudden, the Knicks' previous efforts were in vain, with the Knicks shooting 2 points and the Pacers shooting 3 points.
The Knicks played a little effect, and the Pacers began to rain three-pointers.
To say that the depth of the Pacers' lineup is indeed stronger than that of the Knicks, there is no one in the Knicks lineup who is so good at playing key shots, good at giving opponents a knife at critical moments, or helping the team as a guard.
When Li Feng encountered this situation, he had to stand up again, take the ball and dribble with his back to hit Hansbro.
Hansbrough is a non-trivial forward, and his strength can be compared with that of a big forward, so Li Feng is also very laborious to come up and hit his back this time, and finally turned around and shot was also interfered with by Pendegraf who followed behind, and Li Feng's shot was missed. (To be continued......)