Build a Dream Dynasty

Under the leadership of the Nets, the league's small ball trend has intensified. For a center like Howard, this change in the environment is actually quite tragic. In particular, the development of the league runs counter to the style change caused by Howard's physical decline. The method provides, in the next round of defense, facing Wood's down attack after the pick-and-roll, Howard failed to provide an effective defense, and was turned by Wood with his back, and easily wiped the board and scored.

Howard will become a free agent at the end of the season and enter the free agent market. Howard must hope to obtain a sufficiently large pension contract, and the premise of striving for a large contract is to help the team move forward in the right way, including his own Hating the pick-and-roll, Howard set up a high-quality pick-and-roll for DeRozan, helping the latter hit mid-range shots without defense and maintain an eight-point lead.

Looking back, George finally found his shooting touch, broke through the emergency stop and made a mid-range shot, and returned the favor.

Seeing that George and Leonard gradually found the sense of offense, Casey made adjustments in time to increase the intensity of double-teaming on the defensive end. During the assist defense rotation, he consciously let go of Robertson, the point with the lowest offensive threat of the Nets. This adjustment really worked. The Nets failed to achieve good results for three consecutive offenses. Stevens had to make personnel adjustments and replaced Robertson with Yi Jianlian.

"When you have a chance, make a decisive shot. It doesn't matter if you don't make a shot, but if you don't even dare to shoot, your teammates will be under more pressure on the offensive end!" Stevens expressed dissatisfaction with Robertson's performance on the sidelines.

There is a type of player in the league that Stevens dislikes the most. The representative is George Hill. Although he has a high shooting rate and high efficiency, in fact, he will not even make a shot if it is not a particularly good shot opportunity. The good offensive opportunities torn up by teammates are given up, or the responsibility is given to teammates who have better opportunities without him. If a teammate scores, he can get an assist. Robertson's behavior makes sense. His offensive ability is weak, so he is dedicated to his own defense. On the surface, he seems to be conscientious, but this principle of doing less and making fewer mistakes will allow his teammates to enter a 4v5 on the offensive end. Situation, this affects the morale of other teammates very much!

Yi Jianlian played in place of Robertson, and the Nets made a small improvement on the offensive end, but on the defensive end, the restrictive effect against Lowry and DeRozan further declined. Yi Jianlian performed well in the Olympics, but on the stage of the NBA, his shortcomings are really too obvious. The shooting rhythm is slow, the singles defense is single, and the effect of opening up space can only be said to be better than that of a pure defensive player like Robertson. On the defensive end, in a team like the Nets where Lee is relatively weak as an inside substitute, he is also more suitable as a substitute at the center position rather than a bench player at the power forward position. That is, Porzingis was injured, West also felt some discomfort in his ankle during the pre-match training for this game, and Yi Jianlian made a guest appearance at the power forward position.

The Raptors made a fuss around this point, which also made the Nets very uncomfortable. The first game ended, and the Raptors took the lead with 34:26.

Regardless of the guest power forward position, Robertson, who performed fairly well, the Nets' most reliable power forward is the 37-year-old veteran West, which is outrageous! If according to Jiang Mingliang's theory, "the playoffs are not only about whose strengths are longer, but also whose weaknesses are not short", then the problem of the position of power forward must be made up if not made up.

The game came to the second quarter. Facing the Raptors' assistant and substitute rotation lineup, the Nets launched a counterattack under the leadership of Gerald Green. It is strange to say that the team has high hopes for the bench firepower. Signing Joe Johnson for most of the game time this season, his performance can only be described as qualified. A full score of 100 points can be scored 60 points. Green has a bit of a knives-like demeanor. He looks like Curry. He has a considerable hit rate for all kinds of unreasonable and strong shots. In addition, he can perform dunks with flat baskets in fast breaks from time to time. It was quite a tricky time, but the Nets, who are in trouble now, really need such a bastard to digest some shots. In this game, after catching up with Gerald Green, he felt overwhelmed. Facing the defense of the Raptors Powell, Gerald Green made 4 of 6 shots and scored 10 points, leading the team to a score of 15:7. Even out the difference. There is a player with a basic salary who shines in the Nets, which also made Yang Hua, the commentator of this game, sigh: "From Robertson to Gerald Green, the Nets will always find these players who can change the game at the bottom of the league. Players, this is the key to the long-term competitiveness of this team. Gerald Green has such offensive players, why didn't our CBA team notice?"

In fact, Gerald Green has played in the CBA, and his performance is relatively poor among small foreign players. How to put it, he is suitable to surprise you from time to time in a lineup with a relatively high fault tolerance rate, but he is not suitable as a cornerstone to support the team. This is exactly the opposite of Marshan Brooks of the CBA Surin team. CBA is really a replica of Kobe.

In the first half of the second quarter, Gerald Green's touch was quite good, and once helped the Nets narrow the point difference to 1 point. However, after the return of the main players, the Raptors once again took the initiative in the game through Howard's efforts in the interior. If Gerald Green's touch is a nerve knife, then Howard's mid-range shots are even more impressive. However, in this game, Howard's mid-range shots on the edge of the three-second zone were 3 of 4. I ate a meal of dumplings, which was really beyond Stevens' expectations. Howard played a super giant performance against Wood, which immediately made the Nets fall into a greater passivity. Lowry and DeRozan frequently played for Howard, which also allowed Howard to easily cut in the first half. The quasi double-double data of 16 points and 9 rebounds helped the team regain the lead with 61:54.

At halftime, Stevens made adjustments in the locker room and asked Teodosic to speed up the pace of the game in the second half. After all, for the Raptors, Howard is no longer the offensive and defensive one at his peak. He is an omnipotent magical beast. His current athletic ability is limited by waist and back injuries, and he has declined sharply. He can use it to make a fuss.

However, in the first minute of the second half, Teodosic strained his thigh muscle during a run and left the court for treatment with the support of the team doctor. It is certain that he will not be able to return to the game. At this time, Stevens made another wrong decision. Instead of letting Joe Johnson, who has good organizational skills, play as a guest point guard, he let Gerald Green, who had a good touch in the first half, play instead of him. This arrangement affected the smooth operation of the Nets' offensive end. Without the team's brains on the field, it was replaced by Gerald Green, who had poor offensive choices. The Nets' offense immediately fell into chaos. Each fights. Both Leonard and George can be regarded as good personal offensive players, but neither of them is the kind of ball-handling core that can be grasped by the offensive organization. The offense will be more obscure, which is also what a good point guard should have.

The situation of the Nets' personnel disorganization became more and more serious, while the Raptors became more and more courageous under the support of the home fans, and finally successfully withstood the counterattack of the Nets and defeated the Nets at home 118:106. A moderate upset broke out. (14-7)

Compared with the decline in the team's record, injuries are more severe than tigers, and the pressure on the Nets is greater. In less than a quarter of the start of the game, Curry, Porzingis, and Teodosic have all suffered injuries. , West and Leonard are now also in the stage where they need to adjust their status through appropriate rotations. The vacuum in the power forward position is not so easy to fill. In this case, for Stevens, It is necessary to strengthen the team's combat effectiveness through more appropriate personnel scheduling, and Jiang Mingliang also needs to speed up his operation speed to fill in the weakness of the power forward position as soon as possible.

After the game with the Raptors, the team's uniform team held a small meeting, and after the meeting, the team's uniform team formally reached a decision to lay off the team's summer signing power forward Carl Landry.

To directly buy out Landry's contract, not only the opponent's salary needs to be paid, but Landry's salary of 1.3 million this year will also be counted in the Nets' total salary for the whole year. However, since the Nets have not yet touched the salary cap, the pressure on this fee is not great. The reason why the team cut Landry ahead of schedule at this stage is firstly to free up places for other players to try out, and secondly to not delay Landry's search for other jobs. After all, if you wait until the trade deadline When the buyout is approaching, it will be more difficult for Landry to find a job.

In this regard, Landry also expressed his understanding. Of course, Thomas also made a promise that as long as the team wins the championship, the team will still award Landry a championship ring to show his gratitude.

Landry's departure is a good thing for Huaxia fans. Although Landry seems to be ranked behind Yi Jianlian in the competition for the pick, at least he will still share Bo Yi Jianlian's playing time. Now that he leaves, Yi Jianlian should be able to get more chances to play. Fans, most of them still have a plot, they want their own country’s players to have a better development in the NBA, even if Yi Jianlian is already a veteran and there is not much room for improvement, they still hope that he can have a better development in the NBA opportunities for development.

Before the team had time to add new aid, the team ushered in the underdog Pistons. This team has now fallen with the city of Detroit. There is no bright spot in the draft, and it is difficult to obtain high-quality bargaining chips in the trade , The free agent market is also unattractive. The losses in the past few years have been too miserable, and it can be called the most hopeless team in the league. The only two points in the team are Bogdanovic, who can score 22 points per game. The Eastern Europeans are playing more and more like Durant. After all kinds of post-ups, there is no way to force them out. of. In this game, facing Leonard and George, Bogdanovic's statistics are acceptable, but his shooting percentage is not high. 8 of 19 shots are really inefficient. Facing the Nets full of injuries, the team still lost by 19 points. (15-7)

The team's record is not good, and the Pistons also moved the idea of ​​​​trading the team's core Drummond. Unfortunately, in the past two years, Drummond, who has been obsessed with statistics and performing worse and worse, is not as good as the Pistons imagined. There is a market, and the huge contract of 140 million for 5 years also makes other teams have to pay a considerable price to trade. Who is willing to do such a thing these days?

There is not much rest time. After the end of the game with the Pistons, the Nets immediately ushered in the game with the city rival Knicks. It is a tragedy for the Nets. After the home game, staying in New York to play back-to-back is an arrangement that is beneficial to them. It's not a very comfortable thing.

Fortunately, the Knicks have been beaten by Phil Jackson in the past two years, and their strength has been greatly reduced. And the team boss Anthony also racked up enough data in the team's current wasted time, wasting his career. This season, the strength of the Knicks has improved. The addition of Jr. Jordan has improved the team's inside defense and stabilized the team's penalty area. The team was once ranked in the top eight in the Eastern Conference. A good star. If the running-in is in place, the strength of the Knicks should be worth looking forward to. However, Anthony's injury greatly affected the team's combat effectiveness. The team habitually suffered a wave of losing streaks, and the results quickly fell to tenth in the Eastern Conference.

The picks traded by the Knicks to the Nets are the top ten protections in 17 years and the top three protections in 18 years, so the Nets aiming at Doncic must hope to drive the Knicks out of the playoffs and make the ranking Press as low as you want. Because of this, the plan to rest Leonard in this game was cancelled, and it was impossible for the team to release the Knicks.

The Nets sent veteran Joe Johnson as the starting point guard, allowing him to control the team's offense. Although Joe Johnson is not an orthodox point guard, in the early days of the Eagles, before Mike Bibby joined the team, he has always been an offensive organization, and he has practiced first-hand organization. The current Nets can play a little bit effect.

Among so many big fish in the summer, the team placed Joe Johnson as the second pick after Durant to contact and introduce, which is also the reason. This veteran can come in handy at critical times.