Chapter 283 Against Garnett

Author: Tiamo the Withered

Chapter 283 Against Garnett

"Okay, the game restarts. We see that the Green Army has the ball first at the beginning of the third quarter. The Magic have already positioned themselves to defend, and their defensive formation has also changed somewhat, becoming a second and third zone defense. This is obviously

It is also aimed at the Celtics' inaccurate outside shooting. It depends on whether Ray Allen can seize the opportunity at this time..."

Among the Green Army's starting five, Ray Allen is the only one who can be considered a threat to score from the outside. Although Pierce can shoot, he is not stable, not to mention that it is indeed not accurate today, and he has missed two attempts so far.

After some testing in the first half, the Magic now plans to let them shoot and focus more on defensive breakthroughs and low posts. This will further restrict Rondo and Pierce.

At this time, Howard's defensive ability was also well demonstrated. In addition to being forced to the basket by Garnett and causing a foul in various supplementary positions, Howard's defense was more successful.

The Greens almost had to rely on mid-range to score, and they couldn't get in from the inside. Perkins ignored it, and Garnett couldn't score against Howard.

Pierce was blocked by Turkoglu in the low post, and if he advanced a little further, he would be interfered by Howard. If he moved further outside, he would not be able to attract defenses. He forced himself to sit and was flanked and forced into the bottom corner, and then he tried to pass the ball and made a mistake.

This is really a problem with the Green Army's offensive tactics. Unlike the Magic team's full movement, if it is singles, the Green Army will often fall into the embarrassing situation of one versus four. If the singles cannot achieve results,

, then this attack attempt will most likely be considered a failure.

Of course, moving may not be effective. For example, even if Rondo starts running, Nelson does not need to chase him so closely, and if he gets an open opportunity, Pierce may not be able to pass it - and he may not be able to pass it.

Ray Allen relied on his own running position and got two good opportunities with the help of Perkins' cover, but Evans chased him very closely. He didn't dare to delay at all, and took the ball without adjusting.

, barely hit once.

But more often than not, it's hard for him to even get a chance.

Although the Magic team is a second and third zone defense, they are not very relaxed at this point. Before the game, Van Gundy specially trained this starting lineup. No matter which defender faced him, he would be closer to the defense.

The attacker must step forward to interfere as much as possible and not allow him to take action comfortably.

Defense is a test of the players' tacit understanding and cooperation. Of course, it also requires everyone to have certain positional abilities in their respective positions. It is best to be able to span two or three positions.

Li Chengming is unable to do this, but the starter has this condition.

After playing like this for half a quarter, although the Green Army relied on defense to prevent the score from being further widened, they were not able to get close to the score. This was obviously not the result they wanted to see.

Rivers called a timeout and seemed to want to change the lineup again, but he really didn't have many cards in his hand, or in other words, he didn't have the ability to improvise and turn decay into magic.

Judging from the composition of the Green Army's assistant coaching team, their entire coaching team seems to be more defensive-oriented. Apart from the occasional singles for Garnett and Pierce, there are basically no special outside shooting tactics specifically designed for Ray Allen.

.

It's like leaving one of the top three three-point shooters in history empty, but failing to play his full role.

And they have been playing this way throughout the entire season. Even if they realize the problem at this time, it is not that easy to change rashly.

Van Gundy, on his side, praised his disciples during the timeout, and then began to prepare for adjustments. First of all, of course, he would bring Li Chengming on the court. Once he came on the court, the offense was okay, but there were some changes on the defensive end.

Since they know that the opponent's intention is to inflict damage on him, the Magic team should naturally protect him.

The most important thing is that his teammates inside and on the wings can come back in time to help him share the defensive pressure.

Li Chengming's single defense in the low post is unlikely to cause major problems. Instead, he switches defense after the pick-and-roll. According to Van Gundy's instructions, he only needs to make a slight delay and then switch positions with his teammates in time.

If you're facing Rondo, at worst, let him have a little distance, and bet he won't dare to shoot.

The Green Army didn't dare to bring Tony Allen up at this time. If they did, both outside points would be left open, and the Magic would shrink even more, making it even harder for them to score.

The Green Army spent a lot of effort on this attack, but finally relied on Brown to receive a pass from Garnett and hit a layup. The chance did not exceed 24 seconds.

Looking back at the Magic's offense, Howard was guarded by Brown on the other side, while Li Chengming faced Garnett.

After reaching the ball, he turned around, lowered his center of gravity and stared at Garnett. He suddenly laughed and said: "Guess how I will hit you next?"

It is said that Big Bird told his opponent more than once that he would fight as hard as he wanted, and then the fight was successful.

In terms of the magnitude of trash talk, the most powerful thing about Bird's trash talk is not actually the words themselves, but that many of what he said came true on the court.

This is to force the king, to kill someone but also to kill one's heart.

In comparison, although Teacher Kevin has turned on his trash-talking switch, Li Chengming feels that Garnett is relatively poor in trash-talking.

Earlier, he didn't know much about the local slang in the United States, especially the many slang words in the so-called community culture of black people. He couldn't understand the other party's point, but he just found it unpleasant. Now that he knows more, he feels very disgusting.

Whether it's personal attacks, harming his family, dirty, pornographic, violent, it can be said that Garnett has really carried forward the gangster's talk.

The difference is probably that people not only use words, but also use knives, and Garnett...

Staring at Li Chengming, the former Wolf King said fiercely: "How do you think I will pull you down later? If you dare to be three feet above the ground, believe it or not, you can't leave this game on foot?"

The aura on this Heiwa's expression is indeed very intimidating, but Li Chengming is not frightened, so how could he be afraid.

I even think it's a bit funny. When you say that, you really do it yourself, you're not just talking about it, right?

No way, right?

Garnett looked at Li Chengming's smiling expression and felt secretly annoyed.

Of course, what he said was just to intimidate, and he said it casually. Regardless of whether he had the courage or not, he had to consider his own reputation.

After all, he is not a nobody, nor is he someone like Uncle Bao who does dirty work full-time.

Normally, it would be fine if he made small moves, and even if something went wrong, he would have a reason to say it. But if he really made a big move and crippled someone, the impact would be huge.

Although there are winners and losers in competitive sports, if you win the championship in the end, no matter how dirty the process is, you will slowly be cleared in a few years.

Just like now, apart from Suns fans, how many people would still talk about the Spurs?

But Garnett still has to consider his commercial value, he still has to make money, and his preferred reputation is still more important.

Besides, it's just the Eastern Conference finals now, so in his opinion it's not worth it.

And if the "effect" is not achieved and you are suspended for one game, it will be even more unworthy.

This season, Garnett left the Timberwolves and came to Boston, and he was also under pressure.

Even if the outside world says how rare it is for them through media exaggeration, "three old men came together to pursue their dreams" and so on, just listen to it for yourself, otherwise you will be really stupid if you believe it.

If we fail to win the championship, all the praise now may backfire in the end.

Li Chengming didn't know what the other person was thinking, but seeing that he seemed a little distracted, he immediately started to move.

However, Garnett's reaction was faster than expected. As if he was just pretending, he took a step sideways to block Li Chengming's progress.

However, Li Chengming immediately turned around and took another step forward. At this time, Brown let go of Howard and came forward. Garnett immediately turned around and caught up behind him, equally fast.

On Howard's side, Li Chengming's vision saw Rondo already moving this way. He had an idea and without turning his head, the ball was sent directly from the middle where Brown and Garnett had not yet closed up.

"Li Chengming attracted double teams and passed the ball to Nelson in the middle of the crowd. The ball was a little low, but Rondo couldn't recover it in time. Nelson can adjust before taking the shot. Three-pointer - there!"
Chapter completed!