Yu Fei thought that the Spurs would always play Duncan's singles advantage, but as a result, he was wrong.

The Spurs' response to the fly-back three-pointer break was to let Stephen Jackson hold the ball and play Yu Fei alone.

If professional basketball in the '90s was influenced by Pat Riley's hand-to-hand basketball game, at the beginning of the new century, teams further increased their physical demands on defense in order to limit a giant like O'Neal.

So even a team like the Spurs will give the attackers on the flanks a certain amount of individual play.

The rise of the Martial Saint has eliminated the need for the Spurs to have an aging Steve Smith with a single load far greater than he can currently handle.

Yu Fei is rarely surprised by the ball-handling skills of players of his size, because he is a master of this skill himself.

Jr. Jan in ABCD camp was the first big man to surprise him, followed by Maddie and then Stephen Jackson.

As a tall ball handler, as long as he meets two of the three requirements of size, athleticism, and offensive skills, he is a starter in the NBA.

Among them, athleticism and offensive skills account for the most weight.

Jackson is strong in size and offensive skills. As a ball-handler, Jackson seems to have all his skills ready for offense, but due to his lack of explosiveness, he doesn't have the ability to get away from defenders in an instant.

In this round, the opponent Fei changed direction first, and then made a body movement to shoot, and suddenly broke through to the middle.

Yu Fei's defense was only a short beat slower, relying on speed to keep up and seriously interfering with Jackson's throw.

Jackson missed, but Duncan picked up the rebound like a monster, forced it back and put the ball in.

"See?"

"See what?"

"Even if you stop me, Tim will grab the rebound!"

"Not all." Duncan modestly corrected his teammates, "Up to 50%, Stephen, please respect our opponents." ”

If Duncan had only said those words, it wouldn't sound anything special.

The real key thing was that when he was overflying, he suddenly shouted: "Ang! ”

Then he ran, as if a humanoid creature was learning how to speak suddenly and strangely screamed.

Some trash talk doesn't need to be to the core.

Yu Fei shouted at Mason with a dark face and gloating: "You can still laugh!" Old thing, are you really shameless? Didn't you hear what people said? Ability to grab 50% of the rebounds! ”

Mason had already sent the ball out and didn't react to Fly's motivating accountability.

Yu Fei came to the frontcourt, and the Spurs still used Jackson to defend him.

When George Carr saw Yu Fei put on an "ISO" stance, he knew that the young man was once again provoked by his opponent and forgot the meaning of the team.

This kind of thing often happens to Fei, who is not mature.

It's just that no team has taken advantage of Yu Fei's immature performance to make the Bucks suffer.

Carl had heard that Duncan was a bachelor in psychology, would he take advantage of that?

As soon as Karl thought of this, Yu Fei accelerated past Jackson and gave Mason a blow before Duncan came to the upper line to help defend.

Mason was "flattered", he thought that it would be difficult for him to receive Young Master Yu's cake tonight, but he didn't expect that Young Master was actually a knife-mouthed tofu-hearted person, who hated him on the surface, but was actually very willing to give him sweetness.

Mason jumped hard and scored a dunk.

"I really want to play against Bruce, playing against someone who can't defend all day will make my level drop!" Yu Fei didn't even look at Duncan, and the artillery fire was all on Jackson, "Ang! ”

Stephen Jackson was ashamed and angry, and was about to squirt back, when Popovich had already turned on the hair dryer mode for the fact that he had been taken by Yu Fei.

What displeased Popovich was not that Yu Fei tore apart the defense, but that his offense was too easy.

Obviously there is no complicated tactical coordination, but a person holding the ball in a high position is invincible, what does this mean? Something went wrong with their defense.

Does it take a player to play the No. 1 spot in the East and still need to switch to playoff mode (let Bowen defend)?

Seeing Wu Sheng running over with a "happy" face, Yu Fei asked with concern: "I hope your coach will be kind to you, it's not that you can't do it, it's just that I'm too powerful." ”

"Shut up, rookie!"

"I'm in the second grade, not a rookie."

"Shut up!"

"I don't!"

Jackson got the ball and aggressively chose to force a break.

This is theoretically the worst option.

Because Jackson didn't have the first step to ignore the defense like Maddie, the strong players were either physically strong or explosive, and Jackson didn't take advantage of both, but wasted his excellent offensive skills, giving Yu Fei the opportunity to completely block him on the defensive end.

Jackson's breakthrough rushed in front of Yu Fei, and the two collided, and the stronger Yu Fei shook Jackson back, and shot the ball when the opponent lost his balance and could not protect the basketball.

Yu Fei rushed to the front. Parker, the only one who could catch up with him, was unable to stop Yu Fei from starting at full speed, so he could only give up his defense in the end and watch Yu Fei explode and score.

Popovich didn't want to see Yu Fei continue to beat Stephen Jackson, whose IQ was cleared, and took the initiative to ask for a timeout.

During the timeout, Popovich certainly gave Jackson a Larry Brown greeting, then replaced Jackson with veteran Steve Smith, and then adjusted the defensive alignment and offensive strategy.

Popovich was a little more serious than he was in the opening.

The first is to let Bowen defend Yu Fei, and then ask Parker to play more with the inside.

Interior singles are still not a focus for the Spurs.

It's not because they're in bad form on the inside.

For Popovich, the Spurs' interior advantage is something that needs no reminder, and even against the Lakers, having Duncan alone is the last line of insurance when they have nothing to do on the offensive end.

Against a notoriously weak interior team like the Bucks, Popovich wondered if they had any other ways to win than play to their interior strengths.

The essence of this experimental approach is that the strong teams in the West don't respect the teams in the East, and even if the Bucks are ranked first in the league, they are the big shrimp raised in this small pond in the East.

No matter how big the shrimp is, their ultimate fate is to be eaten by giant whales in the west.

This is something that Yu Fei and his teammates are trying to correct.

They are different from the eastern shrimp that has been suppressed again and again by the western tycoons since 1999.

"George, the Spurs are underestimating us a little."

During the pause, Yu Fei said to Carl.

Carr can also see that the Spurs are now largely not letting Duncan or Robinson play inside — which should be their optimal solution.

The Spurs twin towers are the core of the team, and their core is the weakness of the Bucks, and as a result, they don't make full use of the core, but make a fuss on the outside?

"Underestimate us" is already a very euphemistic statement.

It's looking down on them.

Since the Spurs have opted for such an unrestrained "try it all" strategy, it is only natural that Karl should seize this opportunity to hit them hard.

After the timeout, the Bucks replaced Mason and Gazuric with Devin George and Christian Leitner.

Switching to a 5 OUT lineup is a sign that the Bucks are ready to launch the "X offense."

Once the game started, Parker's strong burst inside turned and hit a layup. Leitner's interior protection is still too poor in the end.

"Don't care." Yu Fei said, "Chris, prepare to block and dismantle." ”

Bowen stayed in the backcourt to put pressure on Yu Fei.

This made it take Yu Fei two more seconds to come to the front court, and then, call for blocking.

When Leitner came to the perimeter, Popovich felt that the Bucks were in a weird position. Before he could think deeply, Yu Fei had already tore through the defense and scattered the Spurs' defense.

The four-man outside opened up the space that was provided for him to easily enter the box and score.

Subsequently, the Spurs' pick-and-roll attack missed, but the defense was fast enough.

However, the Bucks' five-outfield lineup is about to come into play.

Since Yu Fei has been showing himself as a threat after the pick-and-roll as a ball-handler since the opening, the Spurs have to put two or three defensive resources into the pick-and-roll almost every time they see him blocking.

The consequence of this is that the rest of the Bucks players can play more and less together with the Spurs through tactics.

Yu Fei dribbled horizontally, suddenly found Ray Allen's vacant space, and threw the ball out.

That's a player who shoots 40%+ from three-point range, but now the Spurs have no one to defend him?

Then you can't blame Ray Allen for having hot hands.

"Huh!"

"It feels good." Ray Allen looked like a boss, "One more goal." ”

Back and forth, the Spurs dropped five points, and seeing that the point difference was trending wider, they finally remembered what their advantage was.

Duncan asks for the ball in the low post.

This made Yu Fei want to laugh.

You didn't fight you before, but now you want to fight? It's late, give your buddy a free throw.

The moment Duncan launched the attack, Lightner fouled hard.

Duncan walked to the free throw line and made one of two free throws.

To make matters worse, he missed the second goal.

Yu Fei grabbed the defensive rebound and saw that the Spurs wanted to use a tactical foul to prevent him from pushing the fast break.

While Parker's movements are fast, Ray Allen's speeds are even faster.

Looking at Ray Arlenna's flying scuds, there is quite a kind of beauty that some players in the future will go fast without grabbing rebounds in order to brush up the data - or even not returning to defend and wait for the opponent's offense to play and directly let teammates make long passes and steal chickens.

Yu Fei shook the ball hard.

The Spurs' tactical foul failed.

Ray Allen received the ball in the front court, dribbled a few steps and went straight to the fast break to chase down the three-pointer.

Again!

Less than two minutes into the timeout, the Bucks went on an 8-2 run against the Spurs.

The Spurs have lost their domineering posture because if they don't take this game seriously, the noble Western giants are likely to be defeated by the thriving Eastern Fishers in the shrimp heap.

At the critical moment, Duncan stood up and played 2+1 to stabilize the situation of the Spurs.

However, when it came to positional battles again, the Bucks' open five-outside formation allowed the Spurs to shoot a mouseball when defending.

Yu Fei called for a pick-and-roll, forcing the Spurs' defensive changes, and then, passing to Leitner, Leitner passed to Devin George, and George hit a three-pointer from the outside.

Popovich's face could not hide his surprise.

The Bucks don't seem to be the same as they were in the East.

With a strange lineup, a new style of play, and a well-rounded new star, they are a real championship contender.

Popovich and his Spurs realized earlier than any other powerhouse that the Bucks were a formidable team full of threats.

(End of chapter)