Chapter 234 The growth of the large core is in progress
".That goal just now might have been scored if it had been you."
James likes Richie.
Richie is the only one of the other "Three Horsemen" who can live comfortably without being by his side.
Hearing what he said, James smiled implicitly: "Rich, don't talk nonsense, you don't understand anything."
Paul said: "But I understand you, LeBron."
Does Richie really understand himself? Maybe yes, he really understands himself. If he didn't understand himself, he wouldn't have fallen in love with him at first sight in the mall.
Before James' friends got to know Rich Paul, they didn't like him. Rich was only 21 years old at the time, but he was running a highly profitable company. He imported retro jerseys from Atlanta for $160 each and then sold them for $300 each. At most, he could earn hundreds of thousands of dollars a month.
This is a self-reliant man for whom it doesn't matter that he doesn't have a business degree. By the age of 16, he owned two cars. At the age of 19, he bought his first house. Opening your own store at 21 is no big deal. He believes in his ability and vision, and will do it as long as he thinks about it. When he was convinced that James' future was far greater than his own, he decisively put down his business and followed the other party.
Before that, James didn't have a savvy friend around him, which was why he accepted Rich Paul. Facts also proved that this was the right decision, and Richie was willing to support himself in any way.
It's not a problem for Rich to say against his will that he's better than Frye.
James humbly rejected the compliments from his close friends, but in his heart, he knew that Richie was right and that one day he would be as good as he said he was.
No, it should be better than that.
While James was chatting with friends, the Pistons grabbed consecutive offensive rebounds.
This makes up for their low offensive shooting rate in positional warfare.
Ben Wallace and Rasheed Wallace's rush for offensive rebounds showed the Bucks that the Pistons were different from the past tonight - the Pistons would rather increase the risk of being caught by the Bucks on defensive counterattacks. We must also expand our insider advantages.
It is recognized that the Pistons are far stronger inside than the Bucks.
However, the Pistons' inside line has returned to strength, but there is an obvious problem.
Too team-oriented, too defensive.
Rasheed Wallace is not the kind of core insider who will continue to ask for the ball. He is neither capable of taking the number of shots taken by the core inside player. The team-first game concept makes him rarely take the initiative to ask for the ball in offense.
There is no need to say more about Ben Wallace. The Pistons will only launch an offense with him as the core when there is something wrong with their thinking.
Since one is unwilling and the other cannot, and Larry Brown is not forcing it, they can make a fuss about offensive rebounds.
The Pistons are indeed worried about being beaten by the Bucks' defensive counterattack.
But the Wallace brothers' dominance of offensive rebounds really gave the Bucks a heads-up.
For three consecutive minutes, the Bucks did not grab a defensive rebound.
The Pistons, who continued to carry out secondary attacks through offensive rebounds, took the lead even though their shooting percentage was lower than that of the Bucks.
After five minutes, 6 to 8, the Pistons lead by 2 points.
George Karl could no longer tolerate the team's rebounding situation. After a timeout, the Bucks replaced Laettner and Gazulic, replacing Mason and Mutombo.
The game is evenly matched.
The Bucks changed from 4OUT to 3OUT, and tonight, Ray Allen felt bad and failed to hit three attempts from the outside.
Instead, it was Sprewell's ball-handling attack that caused the damage.
Mutombo plays an obvious role on the defensive end.
Rasheed Wallace wanted to attack, but was blocked by him first. When he picked up the ball on the floor and launched his second attack, he was blocked by a nail board.
Mutombo, who blocked two goals in one round, proved that he is still the best rim protector in the league when he is full of energy. The Pistons couldn't make any outside shots or inside shots. They were like a headless fly for a while, attacking. Grind it while watching your luck.
However, grinding failed to produce any results, and luck was not on their side.
Moreover, Mutombo and Mason's rebound protection capabilities are much stronger than Laettner and Gazulic, and the Pistons' strategy of rushing for offensive rebounds also failed.
After the Bucks' change of formation worked, the Pistons' game strategy completely failed.
Having solved the problem in the backcourt, the Bucks need to find a way to score stably in the frontcourt.
Sprewell's breakthrough is effective, but his shooting percentage at the basket is not high. The Wallace brothers' basket protection is no joke.
Ray Allen has no touch on the outside, so Yu Fei's pick-and-roll offense was not easy to play for a while.
Yu Fei's approach was to let everyone pull away while he sat down low and beat Prince.
This is the stupidest method, and it is also the simplest and most effective method.
Yu Fei leaned over, hit the ball hard, took a deep breath, pushed it in, and hit the ball again.
Yu Fei's low post shot is formulaic. Although he usually practices it, he has not systematically tried it in actual combat.
On the one hand, he doesn't need it yet, and on the other hand, he currently spends a lot of time controlling the ball in the Bucks. There are not many opportunities to get down low and use his body to overpower opponents smaller than him like now.
Although Prince worked hard to defend, the difference in weight between him and Yu Fei was too big, and he was pushed away in a few blows.
Yu Fei didn't expect it to be so easy, so he immediately turned around, collected the ball and released the basket.
8 to 8
"What's the difference between this and giving me points?" Yu Fei asked sarcastically.
Prince remained silent. It seemed that he had made up his mind not to say a word to Yu Fei. Yu Fei is also a unilaterally abused existence, but Yu Fei still prefers to play against Hamilton. At least the two have a grudge, and he can constantly talk trash. Hamilton will also retaliate whenever he is provoked.
Like Prince, as long as he is silent for a while and Yu Fei is asking for trouble, he will no longer target him.
The Pistons' offense was extremely jerky, and this round actually took 22 seconds before Hamilton reluctantly took the shot.
He missed, but the rebound bounced far away and was fortunately picked up by Billups.
Billups knows that even if he passes the ball, the hit rate is very low. Rather than letting his teammates waste opportunities, it is better to do it himself.
Billups shouldered the responsibility when the Pistons were in chaos, showed his personal ability, and actually hit a three-pointer from the outside.
8 to 11
After scoring the goal, Billups encouraged his teammates when returning to defense.
It can be seen that the Pistons are returning to normal from confusion and panic.
A qualified leader will always find the right time to wake up the team. Billups is no longer the second-rate point guard who fought against the head coach last year and was beaten by Kidd without any power to fight back.
A player's growth may only take a moment.
The Bucks' offensive was launched by Sprewell.
As a veteran, Sprewell also knew that the old man should set an example.
However, his breakthrough was blocked by Rasheed Wallace's defense and he was forced to pass the ball outside.
Yu Fei caught the ball, leaving him with less than 8 seconds to attack.
At this time, the tactics are a bit tight, but for singles, it is more than enough.
Yu Fei didn't want to do useless work. He remembered the team's pre-match review and could tell at a glance where the Pistons planned to intercept him.
There are ambushes on both the weak and strong sides, leaving only one way for Yu Fei.
The middle lane looks the most dangerous.
Does he have a choice?
Yu Fei dribbled the ball to the left without any distractions, broke through the encirclement formed by Prince and Hamilton in the middle, and went straight into the paint area to challenge the opponent.
Ben also didn't expect that Yu Fei would come to him and jumped up in a hurry. Unexpectedly, Yu Fei changed hands in the air for a layup, avoided the block, and scored by wiping the board.
"What great body control!"
"Frye is like a 6-foot-9 Michael Jordan!"
If Yu Fei had known in advance that the commentator would be called Jordan because of one of his mid-air layups, he would have definitely changed his approach to the layup.
Now that people think he looks like Jordan, he can only obey. Who asked him to hire Jordan's trainer.
Besides, he has more important things to do right now than correct the narrator.
The Pistons' defensive traps, the seemingly irregular encirclement with clear tactical intentions, these routines have troubled him a lot in the past few games, and he is beginning to know how to deal with them.
Just now, he figured it out.
What the Pistons are testing is not his on-the-spot reaction to chaos, but his ability to predict chaos before it happens.
Great organizers can always predict what's going to happen three or four steps in advance.
Hamilton's weak-side single jump shot helped the Pistons score.
Come to the Bucks' offensive round again.
Yu Fei walked to the left, raised his hand, and called Ray Allen's pick-and-roll.
Even if Ray Allen can't shoot accurately, do the Pistons dare to leave him open?
Of course not. Ray Allen, who has not scored a single point so far, has a guaranteed three-point shooting rate of 40% in the series so far. Even if he misses a goal tonight, the Pistons will not dare to let him go.
Therefore, when the pick-and-roll occurs, the Pistons choose to switch defenses instead of double-teaming.
Yu Fei was not surprised at all.
Just as Yu Fei expected, he dribbled the ball and sprinted towards the paint area, counting silently in his mind, as if preparing for something that was about to happen - suddenly, Rasheed Wallace rushed out of the paint area, Together with Hamilton, Yu flew to the sideline and forced him.
Yu Fei collected the ball, jumped up, and threw the ball directly to Mason.
Mason, who was unmarked, scored a goal.
From Mason's perspective, this round was unremarkable. He was empty, Yu Fei passed the ball, and then he scored. It's that simple.
But from the Pistons' perspective, this is hell.
Yu Fei's reaction was too quick, his hands and feet were too agile, and the two sides seemed to be playing a tacit understanding of the ball, as if they had rehearsed it long ago. Why did Yu Fei pass the ball in an instant as if he had foreseen what would happen in advance just after the encirclement was completed?
There was a sense of uneasiness in the hearts of the Pistons' coaching staff off the court and the players on the court.
Yu Fei, who has already frightened his opponents, is thinking:
Whether the pick-and-roll is initiated from the weak side or the strong side, it seems to give the Wallace brothers a chance to react. What if I initiate the pick-and-roll from the top of the key every round?
This will lengthen their support distance, increase the difficulty of encirclement, and empty their penalty area.
When he returned to the backcourt, Yu Fei had already decided that this was what he would do next.
(End of chapter)