Chapter 265: They're Just Afraid
After Martin made a free throw, he completed the small feat of scoring five consecutive points, and the score of the two sides reached 25-30, and the Bucks still had the ball.
Yu Fei received the ball from his teammate's sideline, stood one meter away from the three-point line, and suddenly asked Leitner to block it.
Seeing Yu Fei's position, and thinking of the opponent's many attempts to shoot three points one meter outside the three-point line before the game, Lightner already knew what to do.
It's an offense that the Pistons can't react to.
Because, with Larry Brown's philosophy and the team's overall defensive framework, they didn't have a backhand for the maniacs who would call for pick-and-rolls a meter outside the three-point line and then maybe shoot from a farther away.
Yu Fei had beaten them with such a shot, but in their eyes, it was a kind of luck, a kind of night like God's Mandate, how could you stop Destiny?
But since it's lucky, it won't last long.
A year has passed, will the Mandate of Heaven still favor Yu Fei?
"Huh!"
Leitner's blocking and dismantling allowed Yu Fei to a position more than a meter outside the three-point line at the top of the arc, and no one in front of him shot directly and hit it hollow.
25 to 33
"Don't panic, don't rush!" Brown snapped, "Carnival basketball is not sustainable!" ”
Brown's words and attitude are profoundly indicative of what they think of the Bucks.
This is a stereotyped view that has been around for half a century.
Just as the outside world is also pessimistic about the Suns' playoff prospects, they believe that the Suns' style of running combined with three-point play is acceptable in the regular season, but it will not work in the playoffs. Because it's a kind of recreational basketball, and in the playoffs, everyone plays "serious basketball".
This is political correctness in the game of basketball.
The Bucks played "carnival basketball" again, and for the Pistons, this is not a declaration of death, this is the opponent's self-destruction.
Big Ben is on the line to block and dismantle, down to the bottom, Billups passes.
It's a common way for the Pistons to play, but this time, Big Ben's dunk option didn't materialize because Devin George came from the side and slapped the ball with his hands.
One of the merits of contemporary basketball is that under normal circumstances, the ball that can be blown or not blown is generally not blown, and Big Ben 4 cannot attack, and it is slapped off the center of gravity and sits on the ground.
Yu Fei quickly controlled the floor ball, instantly found Martin, who was fast, and threw a long pass from the backcourt.
Martin, who had already scored five points in a row, was just an inconsequential passerby in the eyes of the Pistons.
But now, the Pistons can no longer underestimate him.
Martin's counter-attack was chased by Prince, which reassured the fans at the scene.
To say that Prince can't prevent flying, this is normal, who can prevent flying? But a rookie with a refugee figure, isn't it a handle?
Maybe even Prince himself thinks so, so he doesn't think that Martin will jump over the wall like a mad dog cornered - Martin recklessly crashes into Prince, but throws himself off balance, and the referee blows the whistle, while he throws the ball to the basket with his remaining touch in an unbalanced state.
The ball goes around in a circle on the basket.
"Huh!"
"Kevin Martin scored seven points in a row!" Mike Brin excitedly said, "That's the beauty of the playoffs!" This is the stage where heroes and stars are born! After today, every Detroit will remember the name of Bucks No. 22! ”
In addition to Martin himself, Martin may be the happiest for Yu Fei.
Yu Fei vowed to ask the team to draft Martin, and as a result, this guy had his worst rookie season, and now, he is finally starting to get on the right track.
Otherwise, with Martin and Ariza's rookie season performance, Yu Fei is really not good at making suggestions on draft matters after that.
After that, Martinga also scored.
Of the Bucks' most recent 11 points, Martin alone scored eight.
It also brought the difference to a point where the Pistons needed to call a timeout to interrupt the Bucks' rhythm — 25-36.
With only four minutes to play in the second quarter, the Pistons were already trailing by 11 points.
It's a tie-breaker, they actually let the bucks do whatever they want.
"Kevin, from now on, you're going to use yourself as bait." During the timeout, Karl said to Martin, "Detroit will definitely step up your defense, and it won't be as easy as it was just now, but your predicament will be Frye's chance, you know?" ”
Martin nodded: "I'll draw the defense to me." ”
"That's right," Carl laughed, "that's it." ”
At the time, Karl was probably the person on the Bucks who had the most doubts about "carnival basketball."
Now, he may be the number one supporter of "carnival basketball."
Before Yu Fei came on the field, Carl said: "For everyone, blow them up." ”
The Bucks lineup has been fine-tuned.
Horry replaces Leitner, Yu Fei replaces Devin George, offensive with the ball, defensive play four, and Ariza replaces George.
The Bucks have focused their defense on Billups, Rashid and Hamilton.
This will give Prince and Big Ben some chance to steal chickens.
Coming back from the timeout, Prince was given a three-pointer at the top of the arc because Ariza went to pack Billups.
Prince's three-point shooting percentage in the playoffs was nearly 37 percent, and he wasn't a good target.
This one, he threw it steadily.
But that's exactly what the Bucks choose.
Let Prince shoot casually, as long as the offense of Hamilton and Billups is blocked, the Pistons' offensive end will not explode.
Then, Yu Fei came.
What the Pistons didn't expect was that Yu Fei didn't call for blocking, but singled Prince on the outside.
That's probably what the Pistons want to see the most.
Their defensive system is for those outside stars who like to play alone, and if Yu Fei is going to do that, it is right in the game.
The Detroit man was happy for only a few seconds before he saw Prince be shaken aside by Yu Fei's bizarre crotch dribble rhythm, then used a sideways step in the opposite direction to stretch the distance between each other wider, and then hit an open three-point shot from the left side.
Prince didn't have time to defend, and his interference didn't arrive until the basketball was out of his hand.
This is tantamount to an ineffective defense.
"Huh!"
28 to 39
The margin was back to 11 points.
Huo Li high-fived Yu Fei excitedly, "Just fight like this, kill them!" ”
"Do you remember what the final score was that day?" Yu Fei asked.
Within the Bucks, "that day" is a specific noun. It represents the night of the Auburn Hills palace brawl.
"100 to 77." "And, with five minutes left in the end, I'll never forget that night." ”
Yu Fei retreated to the top of the arc and said, "Let's finish that game." ”
The Pistons' offense is like the opposite of the Bucks.
The Bucks' "carnival basketball" has a sarcastic comment in the reports of various scouts: their games are largely unrestricted.
Meaning, anything can be done.
The pistons, on the other hand, are not so free, they operate like sophisticated machines.
Hamilton covered the run, received the ball, and then was caught by the Bucks' weak side.
To keep the ball safe, he quickly passed it out.
The ball came to Rasheed Wallace, who hit it first and then turned for a straight-arm jumper in the face of flying.
missed, Yu Fei grabbed the defensive rebound, shook Rashid who wanted to foul his tactics, quickly rushed to the frontcourt, and took advantage of the Pistons' untimely retreat, and directly made a three-point chase that made Larry Brown rough.
"!!Shh
"It's insulting to basketball!" Brown yelled, "You have a chance to score two points directly under the basket!" ”
"Don't say that," Yu Fei smiled harmlessly, "I don't have the courage to insult basketball, but the courage to insult you is not only there, but it is great." ”
Brown was furious and roared, "You're going to pay for it!" ”
Take its toll? Another fight?
You can feel that the piston has become a lot more irritable.
This isn't a problem for the Bucks, and it could even be an advantage.
Because the league has repeatedly ordered that there should be no more fights in this series, the Bucks and the Bucks are also talking, the Pistons really want to fight, and the referee is the first to do it.
In order to control the emotions of the Pistons players, the referee's whistle sounded frequently.
Want to play a heavy hand against it? No way.
Want to go to the dead end and make small movements on your hands and feet? Delusion.
Suddenly, the three referees seemed to have their eagle eyes on their faces, and there was nothing to hide from their small movements.
The Pistons managed to get themselves fouled in the half quarter, and from now on, the Bucks had to go to the free throw line every time they drew a foul.
And the score has no tendency to shrink at all.
With half a quarter remaining, 45-30, the Bucks' lead reached 15 points.
Whether it's trailing the score or getting the Bucks to score 45 points in a quarter and a half, both things are bad for the Pistons, and it means the game is moving in the direction they least want to see.
The lack of tempering on offense allowed the Pistons to only know how to use defense to drive their offense.
Once their defense can't limit the opponent's attack, there will be a situation where the defense is weak and the attack is counterattacked.
Hamilton, who was surrounded by the Bucks, managed to run out of the crowd and catch the ball, but made a three-way no.
Any Pistons fan would have to shudder when they see this.
Then, Martin picked up the rebound under the basket and threw it to Yu Fei next to him.
"Let's do a pick-and-roll."
Martin is ready for this.
Up front, Martin's pick-and-roll looks like a comedy, he's so skinny, how can you expect his body to effectively delay the defense?
Just when Prince was about to violently squeeze through the pick-and-roll, Yu Fei actually exerted force in the opposite direction of the block, and in an instant, he passed Prince in one step, rushing to the inside line like a truck with failed brakes.
Ben Wallace and Rashid Wallace came to the basket at the same time and jumped into the air together.
Yu Fei's body was in the shape of a bow in the air, and the whole person dragged the scythe like a grim reaper, ignoring the best penalty area defense in the league, and slammed the ball forward with a roar.
“BOOM!!!!!!!”
Rashid Wallace was knocked down by Yu Fei, Ben Wallace couldn't stop the ball, and Yu Fei destroyed the Wallace brothers' defense like Godzilla, leaving a terrifying scene at the Palace of Auburn Hills.
When Ben landed, the momentum caused him to take a few steps back and accidentally stepped on Rashid's body, causing him to slip as well.
Only Yu Fei hung on the basket and finally fell steadily.
I don't know how many seconds passed, and more than 20,000 people in the palace of Auburn Hills were all frightened by this scene, this is the most notorious devil's home court in the NBA, they represent a once great city, they have seen everything, they are not afraid of anything, they treat guests with the worst attitude.
But now, the demon hated by hundreds of thousands of Detroiters has destroyed their most trusted team in Auburn Hills, and they don't know what else they can believe or what will happen next, they just fear.
(End of chapter)