Suddenly, the personal feud between Yu Fei and Hamilton and Brown was nothing to mention in this match.

The Bucks have more important things to do.

If you can't find a way to crack the Pistons in the regular season, you'll have even more trouble in the playoffs.

Both Carl and Yu Fei believe that 5 OUT is the key to breaking the iron bucket formation.

Now that Ray Allen and Sprewell are out with injuries, the Bucks can't put together the highest-quality 5 OUT lineup.

Halfway through the second quarter, the Bucks changed formations.

Yu Fei, Reed, George, Horry, Leitner.

As far as the 5 OUT lineup is concerned, replacing George with Ray Allen is the best solution for the Bucks, but it can only be done for now.

After all, looking at the league, the only one who can put on a 5 OUT lineup in the absence of multiple outside scorers may be the Bucks.

The Bucks' lineup has changed, but the Pistons' defense hasn't.

Yu Fei came up and called the fifth position to block and dismantle.

Big Ben hesitated between switching to Yu Fei and wrapping Yu Fei, but Yu Fei didn't hesitate, stepped into the right side of the free throw line, and made a jump shot.

"Huh!"

Yu Fei began to understand.

It's fair to say that the Pistons have mastered the version of the rules of the moment.

Since Jordan dominated the world, one-on-one stars have been popular, and the four quarterbacks at the beginning of the century are all masters of this business.

The liberation of off-ball defenders not only changed the way the team attacked, but also brought about changes on the defensive end.

What we see in the Pistons today is that letting go of offensive players who lack shooting threat, filling in space, setting traps in small areas, and relying on Big Ben's perverted mobility to sweep and protect the basket at the same time are common sights in the small-ball era.

However, due to the shooting skills of role players, the same defense, in the modern era, can defend against most teams in the league, but in the small-ball era, it is extremely easy to shoot.

The Pistons ended up playing iron in the ensuing offensive round.

Richard Hamilton clearly carries a lot of emotions that are not pure.

He really wants to play well, but the more he thinks about it, the easier it is to carry the baggage.

Yu Fei once again challenged the piston's bucket array.

Under the iron barrel of the piston, there is a loophole.

Previous starter Memet Oku played a pseudo-starter role for the Pistons.

But at the same time, there is no one on the Pistons' bench who can completely replace Oku's role.

Larry Brown naturally knows that to limit the Bucks' pick-and-roll offense, Big Ben needs to be pulled high a lot. But once Big Ben left the restricted area, the Pistons' paint area was out of security.

Oku's ability to protect the basket cannot be counted on.

Oku's replacement, Eldon Campbell, was a little better than Oku on the defensive end, but he was too old to say how good he was.

Milicic was supposed to be an important reinforcement for the Pistons, but he was put on death row by Brown because of personality and style issues.

In this round, Yu Fei first called the fifth position to block and dismantle, and then called the fourth position to block and dismantle.

Campbell chose to shrink down, and Yu Fei immediately passed the ball to Horry.

A three-pointer from the outside, a hollow shot.

The Bucks scored two consecutive positional battles, and both of them were in a very smooth way of scoring.

The tight barrel array has been loosened.

Brown's eyes were blank, not knowing what he was thinking.

However, the Bucks' coach Karl clenched his fists, and he can foresee that joint defense will be popular in the future, and the Pistons' defensive ideas will also become popular.

He had to admire his senior brother, who really understood the defense.

But so what? The NBA doesn't unlock the joint defense to make the defense better, and the existence of the defense for three seconds makes the NBA's joint defense look like a castrated version.

However, one thing is for sure, within a decade, the popular one-on-one outside stars of our time will become obsolete. They're not going away, they're just not as relevant as they are now.

Unless they possess terrifying efficiency, the positions they currently occupy will be replaced by a tall and versatile ball-carrying creator like Fry.

Once again, the Pistons created chances in Hamilton's position.

Hamilton hit a three-pointer from the outside.

"It was also traded by Michael himself, why are you so bad?" Leitner didn't forget to hit the mentality of his old teammates.

The face under the mask was even more ugly.

In the frontcourt, Yu Fei showed his Tianke attribute for the Iron Bucket Array.

Brown's Pistons have a defensive term called "mass," which is different from what other teams often do with perimeter superstars, and the Pistons use tough opposition defense and clever positioning to create a maze of space around the offense. They make great one-on-one scorers have to go through an endless defensive maze to make a shot or pass. This makes it difficult for scorers to react optimally.

But Yu Fei has never been known for his "one-on-one", he can shoot three-pointers from the outside, can make a pull-up jump shot when dribbling, call to block and have enough vision to pass the ball to the hands of any teammate, and the breakthrough threat is considered to be the top in the league.

With multiple threats and the Pistons' maze too shallow for him, Yu flew through Billups' defense and used his body to force the basket, Campbell jumped to block it, but he was viciously knocked away.

"Beep!"

It's the star whistle.

Campbell's physical confrontation was sufficient, but Yu Fei adjusted it twice in the air, grabbed the ball with his left hand and threw it casually, hitting the board.

ESPN's big flyer Bill Wharton said the biggest change in Yu Fei this season is that his ability to control his body has been greatly improved.

"Just imagine if a magician played with Darius Miles' body the way Dr. J did, how beautiful would it be?"

As soon as Leitner and Horry hit three-pointers, the Pistons' bucket formation collapsed.

Moreover, the greater the threat they are from the outside, the more difficult it will be for Big Ben to take care of the basket, so Eldon Campbell's defense has become a thank you sacrifice for multiple people, and at a glance, you can instantly see who has the least money.

In the first quarter, the Bucks were limited to only 18 points, and in the second quarter, the Bucks scored 30 points, especially in the second half of the game, which was simply smooth, scoring 22 points in 6 minutes.

At halftime, the Bucks led the Pistons by 11 points, 48-37.

This is one of the major drawbacks of the Pistons, and if they can't hold down their opponents on the defensive end, they will struggle to salvage the situation with offense.

Because high-pressure defense itself is a double-edged sword.

You suppressed others and consumed yourself, and if you succeeded in limiting your opponent, it would be fine, but if the bucks found a way to crack it like tonight, the energy wasted on the defensive end will be doubled back when attacking.

Nowhere is this more evident than in Richard Hamilton.

He's the Bucks' focus on the defensive end.

Coupled with some problems with his mentality, the performance of the entire first half was a disaster, with 6 points on 3-of-11 shooting.

He can't shoot three-pointers, he doesn't make free throws, and the defensive end is also a burden to the Pistons to a certain extent, although his off-ball defense is not bad, but the single defense can only be said to be qualified, and if he is named by Yu Fei, it will also become a Campbell-style loophole.

"Coach Brown, Frye said he and Ling have some personal issues to solve, what do you think?"

Brown always had a straight face, as if the whole world owed him money.

"We don't have any problems to solve, the only question I have for him is why he doesn't want to give the nation a chance to be proud of him as a nationally watched superstar."

"The Pistons' defense has been surprising since the start of the new season, but tonight, the Bucks managed to break the '40-point curse,' does that mean your defense is failing?"

The so-called "40-point curse" is a concept that draft expert Chuck Ford came up with for the Pistons.

If the Pistons limit their opponent's total to 40 points in the first half, they are sure to win, and if they are breached by 40 points, it means that the defensive system is crumbling and there is a risk of collapse.

Brown didn't believe in numbers or probabilities, his gaze was cold and seemed to lack the warmth inherent in human nature, and he just whispered, "I don't think that's a problem." ”

The question is, how could it not be a problem?

Brown thinks back to the first half of the game, when his team didn't make mistakes, filling in space, protecting the box, controlling rebounds and lowering the tempo.

And they did it.

But the Pistons, who do all of these things at the same time, can't do anything else: seal the three-point line.

However, Brown doesn't believe any team can consolidate the defense of the penalty area while keeping the opponent on three.

The Bucks seem to be betting their lives on the outside, which in Brown's view is the way to die, but he didn't expect that the other side will die and live.

The five-outside tactic worked, and the ball was kicked to Brown.

Brown still doesn't believe that the five-outside lineup can be strong to the end, because the feel is floating, and the key to the Pistons' problem is still that Big Ben leaves the restricted area and there is no one to protect the basket.

That's all there is to Memet Oku and Elden Campbell.

Back in the locker room, the first person in Brown's eye was the golden retriever Darko Milicic.

Get your feet wet? Brown thought to himself, give him a minute, swear in the name of God, just give him a minute.

In the second half, Milicic, who has never played in non-garbage time so far this season, actually became the starting point of the Pistons.

This came as a surprise to some Pistons fans.

They thought Brown had figured it out, but it turned out to be too much of a burden for him to get Milicic on the pitch at such a time.

Milicic can't even understand garbage time now, and he wants to fight the championship-level Bucks?

Milicic slashed two fouls and one turnover in a minute and a half, and pushed the Pistons' trail from 11 to 16.

Milicic played the opposite card, the score was pulled apart, and for the Pistons, the game was already half over.

Brown replaced him and transformed into Satan, as if he was going to eat Milicic, in a brutal scene.

Yu Fei stood aside with an elegant and easy-going smile.

This scene is somewhat familiar.

How to put it, there is a kind of beauty of Kwame Brown being bullied by Collins and Jordan.

(End of chapter)