Healing Basketball Chapter 507

Chapter 507 507. Unexpected direction (5600 words)

Liu Xiu made two free throws, making the score 6-0.

Nets coach Lawrence Frank is confused at this time. Why did it start like this? He didn't call a timeout when he didn't respond.

The players on the Nets were also at a loss. The Blazers continued to attack. Randolph caught the ball, turned and wiped Jason Collins into the inside line. Under the defense of Mourning, he rubbed a layup and scored easily.

The Trail Blazers started 8-0, Kidd called a timeout!

Kidd was also stunned just now, otherwise he would have called a timeout after McGrady committed a foul.

However, with Liu Xiu's free throw and the Blazers' offense buffering this round, Kidd calmed down.

As an 11th-year veteran of his career, Kidd guessed McGrady's mind when Liu Xiu made a free throw.

This guy wants to grab the credit!

Kidd wanted to have a fight, but he held back.

Kenyon Martin left in a fuss, and Kidd felt that he had a great responsibility. He had two finals losses, and he blamed Kenyon Martin. After Kenyon Martin left, he realized that he had hurt the co-player. The meritorious teammates who entered the finals, otherwise, they have the conditions to trade for McGrady while retaining Kenyon Martin.

Kenyon Martin has his milk, so he won't be so afraid of the Blazers inside.

Thinking back to the first time in his career, he met an insider who was as suitable for him as Kenyon Martin, how joyful and joyful it was at that time, just like playing with McGrady now, Kidd only knew that he was with a teammate who had such a single-playing ability. The partner is so comfortable.

After calming down, Kidd returned to the bench, took over the tactical board from Lawrence Frank, and began to adjust personnel and tactical arrangements.

Maddie was ready to quarrel, but seeing this tactical arrangement, his eyes went straight.

Kidd gave up his style of play and switched to a style based on McGrady's singles!

came back from a timeout, the Blazers did not make any substitutions, and the game only played for more than a minute, but after Liu Xiu and others came back on the court, they saw that the opponent had made a substitution!

Juwan Howard replaces Jason Collins.

Nets offense.

Kidd advanced to the front court and gave the ball to McGrady, McGrady continued to single and scored.

This time, Payton didn't have the chance to give Kidd another three-pointer. He knew that Kidd must be ready, but Kwame Brown's timing of the defense was also better, and he did an excellent job on McGrady's defense. , Mourning Randolph, who wanted to eat the cake, held it firmly, and Richard Jefferson, who was closely followed by Liu Xiu, didn't have any chance.

But Juwan Howard's positional movement is more than one grade better than Jason Collins. He ran out of position. Maddie tacitly played the ball at the right time. Juwan Howard received the ball and hit two points from the bottom line!

2 to 8, the Nets finally opened the pot!

Replacing Jason Collins with Juwan Howard was an immediate boost to the Nets' positional offense.

In the next few rounds, the Nets played a very efficient offense!

Kidd didn't want to be angry with McGrady. He has been working with McGrady for a season. He already knows McGrady very well.

A high school student, you can't understand human language.

Since Maddie wants to grab the credit, let him try.

When arranging the lineup and tactics, Kidd did not make any stumbling blocks for McGrady. Instead, he tried his best to understand his teammates, poured his tactical reserves, and arranged tactics around McGrady.

To let Maddie try, Kidd had to let Maddie really give up.

Playing the finals for the third time, Kidd's thinking is clearer than the previous two. His goal is to grab one of the first two away games, and he is not in a hurry.

Moreover, he also wanted to see if he could do it. If it really worked, it was not impossible to fight like this.

Effective adjustment, Kidd's absolute control over the teammates except McGrady is one of the reasons for the sudden outbreak of the Nets' offense, but the more important reason is that their style of play caught the Blazers by surprise!

Don't mention the Blazers, the Nets didn't know they would play this way before the game.

McGrady has strong singles ability and great threat. Kidd helps to mobilize his teammates. Juwan Howard has excellent mid-range shooting ability, and Kidd has developed three-pointers. The three of them are the core of the offense, helping Mourning and Richard - Jefferson created a good opportunity to eat cakes, and the entire offense turned around. In the 5 minutes after the start, he scored 15 points!

Under the impact of the Nets, the Blazers were a little flustered for a while, the defense was not good, and the offense was affected.

Fortunately, Liu Xiu remained calm in the face of the impact, instructing Randolph to increase singles, relying on Randolph's singles to score, forming a competition with the Nets, forcing the Nets' defense down the line, adding a layup. The Nets have to take into account the high shots of Liu Xiu and Payton. The bottom line on both sides has a mid-range opportunity, and the extrajudicial fanatics made two mid-range shots!

Put on Juwan Howard, the Nets' positional warfare has been strengthened, but the mid-range defense on the two wings is gone, and the defensive counterattack is gone, otherwise the point difference can be further narrowed.

After scoring 8 points in a row at the start, the Trail Blazers' offense was affected for a while, but it adjusted and scored 11 points after that.

At 6 minutes and 55 seconds in the first quarter, McGrady's pass to the basket was shot out of bounds by Liu Xiu, who was defending.

Maddie is excited! He was too impatient to lose the score, and now he leads the team to get it back!

He made 2 of 4 shots, and there was a dry pull shot at the beginning, that is, after using him as the core of the attack, he made 2 of 3 shots, plus 2 of 2 free throws, and got 6 points and 2 assists!

Before , he couldn't really compete with Iverson and Kobe because he didn't have a chance.

But now he has!

If he leads the team to win the championship and wins the FMVP, he will complete the reversal home run, from being left far behind by the two and rushing to the top of the active perimeter player in one fell swoop!

Kidd finished half of the quarter and put aside the dissatisfaction he always had.

This teammate is really strong!

The strongest teammate he has ever played with!

Not only the club, Kidd feels that even the teammates who have partnered in the All-Star Game, no one is better than McGrady!

Adjustment during the suspension, Kidd continued to strengthen McGrady's dominance, and he completely entered the role of auxiliary control.

Kidd admires Liu Xiu very much. There is a reason. Liu Xiu is good at assisting and controlling play. Kidd is actually very good at it. He actually played like that in his rookie year, and he also won the best rookie.

At that time, his assistants were Jim Jackson and Mashburn, but after his rookie season, the then Mavericks coach Dick Motta felt that Jim Jackson and Mashburn were indeed unworthy of Rangkee. Germany plays and assists in control, and these two are also more suitable as scorers rather than all-round players, and they have drastically adjusted the three-player style of play.

This wave of operations by Dick Motta has allowed Jim Jackson and Mashburn's scoring ability to be more fully developed, with All-Star prospects, and at the same time, Kidd's playmaking talent has been perfectly developed.

Playing auxiliary control again, Kidd is extremely easy to get started, and he found the feeling after two rounds.

The official suspension came back, and the Nets coach Kidd continued to make personnel adjustments on behalf of the head coach. Lawrence Frank didn't dare to say much. The last coach who opposed Kidd was already taken by Foel.

And Kidd's on-the-spot adjustment is indeed a very good executive coaching level.

Nets lineup: Kidd, McGrady, Richard Jefferson, Clifford Robinson, Jason Collins.

The Blazers sent a combination of Momonga, Liu Xiu, Outlaw Fanatic, Rahim, and McDyess.

The Nets' offensive change caught the Blazers by surprise. Maurice Cheeks, Huo Tu, Bu Shuai and others didn't think of a way to contain the Nets for a while. In this case, the coach made a bold choice. Right Boom!

So, Kidd started the teaching mode again, showing Liu Xiu what a historical-level auxiliary control is!

But Liu Xiu didn't get beaten up either!

With the flying squirrel, Liu Xiu can not only enter the auxiliary control role to get better off-the-ball movement opportunities, but the Blazers also have the ability to counterattack and switch between offense and defense!

At 5 minutes and 05 seconds in the second half of the first quarter, the Nets scored 13 points, led by McGrady with 4 points and 1 assist, and Kidd with 3 points and 2 assists, and the single-quarter score increased to 28 points.

For the Blazers, Liu Xiu scored 4 points and 1 assist during this period, helping the team to score 11 points in 5 minutes and helping the team hold the lead.

After the first quarter, the Trail Blazers led the Nets 30-28 by two points and entered the break!

4-of-7 from the field scored 10 points, 1 rebound, 3 assists and 1 block. McGrady's performance made his teammates very excited!

Originally, they were led by Kidd to play with Tracy McGrady. In fact, they were dissatisfied. Kidd and McGrady, their teammates were obviously more convinced by Kidd. Although he has won the scoring title, everyone knows that he is strong, but in his heart, McGrady is regarded as a thigh.

But with the help of Kidd, McGrady was recognized by his teammates with his strength!

The mood of the Nets team was particularly high. In the second quarter, the Nets team played even harder under the leadership of McGrady!

The Blazers, in the second quarter, became more calm in terms of their temperament. There was no impetuousness after the opening 8-0, and no impatience after being beaten 15-11.

During the break, Liu Xiu was called by the coach to discuss how to play. Liu Xiu and the coach agreed that the Nets were about to take off. Because they didn't know the Nets' current style of play, it was difficult to defend. , the warden gave an immature suggestion - don't worry, slowly consume with the Nets!

Sharpness, the Nets are not a young team, it is impossible to maintain such vigor all the time.

A steady response is the best choice, and a steady attack and defense is exactly what Liu Xiu is good at.

In the first half of the second quarter, the Trail Blazers and the Nets played back and forth. Relying on Randolph, who was playing in rotation, he scored 5 points in a row. The Trail Blazers beat the Nets 16 points in the first half. With a score of 15, the Nets did not overtake the score, but also opened up the difference by another point, stopping the Nets, 46 to 43, the Trail Blazers led the Nets by 3 points and entered the official timeout!

However, after the official timeout, Tracy McGrady picked up, scoring 8 points on 3 of 5 shots in the half quarter, plus two assists, leading the Nets to 18 points in the second half of the second quarter!

The Trail Blazers' offensive performance in the second half of the second quarter did not actually decline. They scored 14 points in 5 minutes and 44 seconds, which was much better than their frantic performance in the second half of the first quarter, but they were still overtaken.

61 to 60, the Nets relied on the score of 33 to 30 in the second quarter, overtaking the Trail Blazers by 1 point and entered halftime!

"When we started 8-0, I thought we were going to blow up the Nets and swept them as easily as the Lakers did. I didn't expect it to sound the counterattack for them. McGrady's performance was too strong. now..."

After returning to the locker room, Randolph, who had been holding back halftime, began to complain about the pattern.

For him, being overtaken is too uncomfortable.

He had 13 points, 6 rebounds and 2 assists in the half. He and Liu Xiu scored 30 points, 9 rebounds and 7 assists in the half, but they were overtaken!

McGrady's 22 points, 3 rebounds and 6 assists in the half made Randolph extremely crazy.

Under the leadership of McGrady, the Nets made 24 of 43 shots in the first half, and the shooting rate was as high as 55.8%. Aside from the two strikes made by McGrady and Kidd at the beginning, the Nets made 24 of 41 shots from the start of the timeout. , the hit rate is as high as 58%!

Liu Xiu's attitude towards being overtaken is very different from Randolph's.

"Butcher, don't worry, it's not a big deal."

Randolph said excitedly: "The score was overtaken, isn't it a big deal?"

Liu Xiuying said: "In the second half of the second quarter, we have actually created a lot of restrictions on the connection between McGrady and his teammates, but he scored two three-pointers in a row to break our defense, otherwise our defense has already been. It worked, you have to believe in Bo Shuai, you have to believe in the Argentine handsome guy and the madman. If McGrady can face the two of them in the second half and face our team defense and still have 22 points and 6 assists in the half, then I can only praise him for his greatness. , no one can do anything in such a situation, and the same goes for the OK group."

What Liu Xiu said, Randolph actually understood.

But the words came out of Liu Xiu's mouth, Randolph listened, and his mood really calmed down.

Having such an emotional player as Randolph has many benefits. He can use his passion on the court to drive his teammates and influence the opponent's mentality, just like Kwame Brown, who has learned a lot of emotions from Randolph. A total of 29 technical offenders were taken, of which 15 were not revoked, making him the king of the new generation of technical offenders.

But teammates just love playing with Kwame Brown.

However, compared to Kwame Brown, who entered the NBA and turned on the trough mode, Randolph has a more diverse personality.

Randolph can positively drive his teammates, and there are times when he transmits negative energy to his teammates.

The communication between Liu Xiu and Randolph this time killed such signs.

Randolph thought of one thing, and asked strangely: "Warden, why is the Nets' play today completely different from usual? Our preparations are all in vain!"

Liu Xiu shook his head: "The preparations are not in vain, but their play style has been temporarily adjusted. At the beginning of the game, their movements were the same as we judged when preparing for the battle, but after the suspension came back, the play style became like this, the core of tactics. From Kidd to McGrady, it's a complete change of play, and we just can't get used to it all of a sudden."

"why?"

"Probably McGrady trying to get the Finals MVP? I guess maybe so."

"What? He wants to grab it too?"

Randolph spoke too hastily, and Liu Xiu couldn't hear it clearly, and asked suspiciously, "Huh? What did you say?"

Randolph quickly shook his head: "It's nothing, nothing, by the way, Warden, you said that there is already a way to restrict the Nets' new style of play?"

"Yes, McGrady's ability to lead the team... Kidd's ability to assist is very strong, but McGrady may not have such a good teammate in this style of play tonight, Kidd's ability to assist, his other teammates He didn't take full advantage of our strength, otherwise their sudden attack in the first half would have knocked us down..."

The two chatted for a while, the coach and teammates all returned to the locker room, and the coach began to make tactical adjustments.

If he hadn't communicated with Liu Xiu, Randolph would be anxious and couldn't hear much.

But now, he can clearly feel from the defensive adjustment arranged by the coach that the coaches just feel that they have been able to limit the Nets, as Liu Xiu said!

Anxiety was eased, confidence improved, and when he walked to the court at the end of halftime, Randolph became the pistachio that enlivened the atmosphere of the team.

Because the anxiety is gone and the confidence is back, Randolph's thinking is also clearer, and he knows that some desires must be suppressed.

At least, you have to win this game first!

2-3-2 finals system, neither of the two home games can be lost!

Back at halftime, the Blazers sent a combination of Payton, Liu Xiu, Delfino, Randolph, and McDyess.

The Nets sent a lineup of Kidd, McGrady, Rodney Rodgers, Clifford Robinson, and Mourning.

Kidd averaged 44 minutes per game in the playoffs this year, McGrady averaged 41 minutes per game, and Richard Jefferson averaged 45 minutes per game. In the finals, the three of them will take turns and each of them can rest for two or three minutes in each game. , will be very satisfied.

The fans returned to the scene early and waited, and the fans in front of the TV were equally enthusiastic. The game tonight was completely different from what they expected!

The TV commentator has also been surprised by the changes in the Nets' offense.

The third quarter of the game started, the Nets attacked, and the momentum was very strong. They are now more confident than before the game started!

Clifford-Robinson responded from a high position and scored the ball to McGrady, who was on the flank with Mourning's cover. McGrady shot straight to the basket, attracting McDyess, Liu Xiu, and Delfino to encircle. McGrady was very proud. Passing...Two favorite passing lanes were blocked by Payton and Randolph.

Planning to return the top arc... Delfino moves to the middle!

Mourning is cutting in and following up from the flank, this is a pass line, but Mourning is too slow! McGrady has grabbed the ball.

In desperation, McGrady could only make a strong throw when Liu Xiu was in front of him and McDyess was chasing him at the back, and he raised the arc of his throwing iron!

Liu Xiu turned around and grabbed the defensive rebound before Mourning rushed into place, threw it to Payton, and fought back!

The ball is not made, it is not important to the Nets, there is always a time to strike.

The point is to retreat!

Liu Xiu scored 17 points and 5 assists in the first half, and 10 points and 3 assists were obtained by counterattack.

How to defend Liu Xiuqi's counterattack is the most important thing for the Nets at halftime, and they have carried out a very targeted defense.

but…

Liu Xiu passed the ball to Payton and started at full speed. The counterattack speed of 99 was full!

Passing over McGrady, who was pounced, he pushed Kidd sideways and rushed out when he rushed out of the three-point line. McGrady and Kidd created opportunities for Rodney Rodgers and Clifford Robinson to retreat. Clifford -Robinson's choice was to interfere with Payton's pass. When Payton sent the ball to Liu Xiu, Liu Xiu had already entered the opposite three-second zone. Rodney Rodgers pressed Liu Xiu the first time he received the ball. Go up... Liu Xiu, who was rushed up, was pushed back to the basket!

Rodney Rodgers watched Liu Xiuqi jump for a layup, but was powerless to stop it!

This defense, the Nets' counter-attack strategy was well executed, but! Their defense this time seems to be a multi-person defense. It seems that many people are involved in the defense of Liu Xiu, but in fact the front line is too far. Overall, it is actually a continuous 1-on-1 defense. Liu Xiu may be able to do it, but Liu Xiu, who is defending tonight, was overwhelmed by Liu Xiu's violent charge!

62 to 61, the Trail Blazers overtook the score as soon as the third quarter came up.

It's the Nets' offense again.

McGrady took the initiative to ask for the ball in the frontcourt, of course Kidd gave it, McGrady switched to attacking with the ball and singled Delfino.

Completely different from the extrajudicial fanatic defense, Delfino is a standard European basketball defense, heavy on confrontation and good at teamwork.

McGrady accelerated the breakthrough, the first three steps were faster than one step, and after the acceleration, it was already close, and Liu Xiu blocked it in place again!

McGrady had already made a decision when he made an emergency stop. He pulled up a close-range jumper and avoided McDyess's block. The arc of the shot seemed to be parallel to the floor and fell straight into the frame!

63 to 62, the Nets once again took a 1-point lead!

failed to defend, but the Blazers players were not discouraged, because their defense was successful, but McGrady threw the ball in by relying on his personal ability.

(end of this chapter)

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