Chapter 235: If you don't change, you die

A good defense can make the attacker not know how to choose, and the top defensive team makes the attacker force to choose.

The Pistons are the kind of masters at forcing opponents to do things they don't like.

This triggered Yu Fei's thinking.

He wondered how many options he, as a ball-handling core, had against the Pistons, who were defending with all their strength.

As it turned out, his options were not less, depending on his technical reserves. Although he is not good at attacking in the low post, he still holds the handle by relying on his body to play Prince, and when he comes to the front of the high post, his basket offense gives the Pistons a headache.

Once the Pistons' trap-based encirclement is detected by Yu Fei in advance, it will be a devastating blow to their existing defensive system.

This is becoming more and more evident as the game progresses.

Yu Fei came to the high position and called the fifth position to block and dismantle, and Big Ben followed. Mutombo went down and flew the ball.

Mutombo didn't score but drew a defensive foul on Rashid Wallace and made 1 of 2 free throws.

The Pistons, in turn, responded with a pull-up jumper from Richard Hamilton.

Yu Fei called the No. 5 position to block again, and this time, he did not pass the ball to Mutombo, and quickly broke inside, causing a blocking foul by Big Ben.

With less than four minutes left before the end of the first quarter, the Pistons' foul count is there, and from now on, every foul they will send the Bucks to the free throw line.

Yu Fei hit two free throws.

It looked like the game wasn't going as well as the Pistons wanted.

The Bucks' offense was riddled with constipation and infarction, but their coaching staff wasn't relieved.

Because it's not their defense, it's the Bucks' own choice.

Yu Fei has a better choice, he can play more fluently, but he insists on breaking the Pistons' defensive system for the purpose of making his offense extremely unfluent.

A sluggish offensive doesn't mean it's bad.

The Pistons themselves are a symbol of poor offense, and now the Bucks seem to have learned their style of play.

Two consecutive rounds were scored with free throws.

Then, on the defensive end, the Pistons faced the most familiar strangers, and they always used this kind of defense to disgust the opponent, but they never thought that one day a boomerang would be stuck on them.

One of the things Larry Brown is most proud of is that even if the Pistons were to play in person, they couldn't find a solution to the bucket.

Until Yu Fei smashed them in the regular season, they thought that the iron bucket formation had no dead ends.

After being beaten by Yu Fei, Brown chose to bring in Rashid Wallace to fill the gap on the inside, but even so, they were still restrained by Yu Fei.

Brown knows it's a basketball problem.

Yu Fei represents the future warrior of basketball, that is, Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson's style combination, on the one hand, he has an inexplicable individual offense, and on the other hand, he can also lead the team as the core of the ball.

Brown knew how special Yu Fei was, so he didn't expect the bucket array to work, but instead made a detailed design on some small details.

Unexpectedly, after only three games, Yu Fei had already figured it out.

Yu Fei dribbled to the frontcourt, and the Pistons made a communication mistake and let Billups go to the opposite position.

That's not the worst news.

Because theoretically, the worst counterpoint is to have Hamilton on fly.

Billups is just because of his size, and he is naturally misplaced against Yu Fei, and his own defense is not bad.

When Yu Fei met Billups, he didn't even call for a block, the front of the body changed to the back, and he squeezed the position into the three-point line step by step, and suddenly, the ball was pulled up.

"Huh!"

That's why the Pistons no longer let Billups go to the right fly.

This guy, if there is a misalignment, he really dares to fight, and he can fight.

17 to 13

The Bucks lead by four points at home.

Larry Brown yelled at Prince.

It was Prince's mistake, and he shouldn't have let Billups go to Fly.

But the mistake didn't matter to the game, and while Brown blamed his players, he wondered what else they could do.

The Pistons went on a hard-fought offense through Rasheed Wallace.

Rashid tried to roll over and make a jumper after playing, but the Bucks wrapped it up early, forcing him to pass.

Fortunately, Billups had a hot hand tonight, and his teammate passed the ball and threw the pot, and he directly pressed the whistle to shoot.

17 to 16

Billups glanced at Yu Fei defiantly.

Yu Fei sighed in his heart, these people are really stones in a mud pit, smelly and hard, and very difficult to beat.

Then, Yu Fei took a round, and the Bucks' ball came to Ray Allen's hand.

Allen didn't shoot well tonight, but he still had a broken hand and dribbled to the basket after a drum.

This shows how different Ray Allen and Yu Fei are as ball carriers.

Also appeared at the trap, Yu Fei seemed to have the ability to predict and react instantly, but Ray Allen was a headless fly, not a shot, not a pass, only hesitated for a second, and was completely trapped.

Ray Allen violated the rules for three seconds.

"Rey-ray, I'm right behind you."

What Yu Fei means is, why don't you pass the ball around?

Ray Allen has a hard time, does Da Fei think that everyone can find teammates quickly like him?

The Pistons then attacked with the ball high by Hamilton, which resulted in a foul by Mutombo.

In this way, the Bucks' foul count has also arrived.

With just 2:50 left in the first quarter, Hamilton hit both free throws to make it 17-18 and the Pistons took the lead.

The Pistons packed the ball early and flew to Ray Allen in the open spot.

Rashid Wallace quickly rotated.

Ray Allen then passes to Sprewell in the bottom corner.

Sprewell misses a layup after a strong spurt.

The piston counterattacked, but was chased by Yu Fei and hit the nail board cap.

The two sides continue to attack and defend, showing their own characteristics.

The Pistons are rigorous and orderly, and the Bucks are full of energy.

But the scoreless stalemate is about to form, and for the Bucks, they need to score even more, and if the Pistons take the lead at home, it will make the opponent play more confident in the next three quarters.

Yu Fei broke the situation in the shortest possible time.

After receiving the ball from the backcourt, he quickly dribbled to the scene, and without delaying time, he directly called Mutombo to come up and block the dismantling.

In the previous few blocking and dismantling attacks, Yu Fei had both breakthroughs, passes, and shots, and under multiple threats, the Pistons no longer knew how to prevent his blocking and dismantling attacks.

Mutombo went down step by step, Yu Fei stopped urgently, threw the ball into the air, and assisted the African Mountain for an aerial dunk.

19 to 18

The team's confusion on the defensive end stung Larry Brown, who allowed the defense to be broken but not for players who didn't know how to defend it.

But how can you prevent it?

If you don't think about it, no matter how much Brown curses his teammates, they won't be able to find the right way to defend.

As the first quarter drew to a close, the Pistons' passing through the pitch was still ineffective.

Billups tried a three-pointer from the outside and missed.

Yu Fei was not in a hurry, slowly dribbled to the frontcourt, and waited for his teammates to pull away, just when the Pistons thought he was going to call for a block, suddenly, he accelerated to the right, like a lion in the grassland that suddenly burst out to kill its prey, threw off Prince in one breath, and rushed into the basket through the block of Big Ben.

“BOOM!!!!!”

"Listen to me, there's no solution to Frye's problem!" Doug Rivers shouted after this buckle, "There's no solution to the Frye problem!" This young man is outstanding! ”

After that, the Pistons' positional warfare continued to strike iron.

Sprewell countered and scored.

23 to 18

The Bucks suddenly led to 5 points, but the Pistons had a bit of dog luck, obviously the positional battle was already a mess, but a few seconds before the end of the first quarter, Rasheed Wallace casually threw a long-range three-pointer, but he hit the board by mistake.

The first quarter ended, 23-21.

This goal won't change anything.

The Pistons' most fundamental problem has not been solved - they have always been known for blocking opposing stars, and there is nothing they can do about the "Frye problem" tonight.

The iron bucket array can't lock Yu Fei, the trap can't die from flying, and the bag clamp can't catch Yu Fei.

Larry Brown knew they had reached a point where they had to change, otherwise the momentum would be in the hands of one man if they continued at this pace.

For the pistons, this is a slow death.

Even if the advantage of the bucks seems small, Yu Fei's energy alone is too great.

They don't need to win the Pistons by 10 points or 20 points, they just need to stay ahead until the end of the game.

Even if it's 1 point, that's a win.

Larry Brown can be sure that the Bucks are their biggest rival in the league and that the so-called Lakers F4 is just a typical Western bubble.

Over the mountain of Milwaukee, the championship is within reach.

That's the only important thing that Brown's 32-year coaching career lacks.

It's just that, for a long time, he was known as a "passerby" rather than a "winner", and he didn't stay in the city for more than five years before he took office in Philadelphia, which significantly affected his reputation. Even if he made the playoffs in 15 of his 21 NBA seasons, even if he won nearly 60 percent of his coaching in the NBA and nearly 80 percent in college — two pretty good reasons why he was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2002.

Now, with the championship resume in sight, it is a team led by a young man under the age of 22 who stands in his way?

As far as the youngster's defense is concerned, Brown has done everything he can.

But the other party easily solved the problem.

This brought the Piston to a crossroads.

If you go down by inertia, you will only be dead.

Brown's older brother, Hult Brown, said to his always opinionated brother: "Larry, I know it's going to be hard for you, but maybe we should seriously think about joint defense. ”

Before the delegitimization of the team, the list of coaches who opposed it could list hundreds of people, and the most resolute and tough among them was none other than Larry Brown.

Although his bucket formation appeared because of the rule changes brought about by the legalization of joint defense, he still did not accept joint defense.

Now his brother had given him this advice, and it was the only thing they hadn't tried yet.

The price is for him to go back on his word and turn from an opponent of joint defense to a supporter.

"Beep!"

The referee blew the whistle to signal that the second quarter was about to begin.

(End of chapter)