NBA: Start with 2 billion, buy the Knicks

Chapter 124: Whether Larry Hughes will stay or not, the Lakers will win but Kobe will not win

aka tactical coordinator, assistant coach Jiang, and analyst Jiang no longer care about the score, and have completely studied the Knicks' court position.

squeeze!

Too crowded!

The space has been occupied by people!!

The Knicks' offense has a big problem.

After halftime, the Knicks trailed the Lakers by 11 points, 37:48.

In fact, the Lakers are also an "iron" team, but the Knicks' offensive efficiency is too poor.

The Lakers defended 48 points in the half, which was okay. Harden and Beverley did not allow Kobe to score 30 points in the half, but the problem now is that the Knicks themselves cannot score.

Jiang Chao saw three problems that had always existed.

1: The shooting guard's substitute ability is not good.

2: The forwards are not talented enough and are aging.

3: The old problem inside is that there is no role that can set the no-fly zone with a final say.

So after halftime, Jiang Chao first asked Liu Yan to kneel down to vent her anger, and then asked her to call Sean Marks:

"Take a sip of Coke before leaving, the internal taste is too obvious."

"Who made yours so strong..." Liu Yan's mouth was bulging, obviously she drank a lot.

"Who told you to be so good~"

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Five minutes later, Sean Marks came to the box and chatted with Jiang Chao. Jiang Chao got straight to the point and asked these three questions.

The second and third problems can be put together. Because the forwards are not talented enough, it makes interior defense more difficult.

The shooting guard is Larry Hughes, but his contribution of 6 points per game obviously cannot meet the team's requirements. Curry is the sixth man on the bench, so Larry Hughes must also contribute.

At this time, I miss Little Potato a little. Nate Robinson is still very strong as the sixth man. Unfortunately, you can’t have your cake and eat it too. In Jiang Chao’s view, it is necessary to completely correct Curry and let Beverley and Matthew

Si quickly practiced it.

Guards are too expensive on the market now, and Harden can actually play point guard on the offensive end.

Sean Marks said that both Beverley and Matthews are OK on the defensive end now, but the offensive end has been intermittent because there is no time to train them, and they are not as useful as a 3D shooting guard like Danny Green.

"Well, I understand what you mean. You should gradually convey your meaning to the coaching staff. Larry Hughes should not appear on the team next season."

"I've said this before. Since we are young, the veterans will definitely be eliminated gradually."

The two nodded tacitly. The young people didn't have time to train, so they had to squeeze in from the veterans. Larry Hughes was a good character, but the team really didn't need it.

In the second half of this season, every team will indeed undergo a certain shuffle. As a team that may enter the playoffs, the Knicks will naturally find out and fill in the gaps to shine in the playoffs!

As for the second and third problems, they are an old problem with the Knicks.

As the season progresses, the Knicks rely more and more on the outside on the offensive end. Coha, Turk Drew, Okur and others do not play inside too much, and several rookies on the bench also focus on the outside.

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Therefore, the Knicks are a typical tailwind team. If it is accurate, everyone will be accurate. If it is not accurate, it will be difficult to open up the situation. Other teams basically know it, and they can block your outside line and that's it!

As long as your outside shots are inaccurate, your players have no confidence, and you break through and have strong insiders to guard the inside, after a vicious cycle, a team that relies on shooting can easily be defeated by itself.

That is to say, after a while, the iron was gone.

Just like Jiang Chao saw in the first half, the Knicks basically don't grab offensive rebounds inside because they are also positioned outside. In this case, the position is purely based on shooting, and the shooting rate drops or the game is too tense, which will be uncomfortable.

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But in fact, only 1-2 shooters on the outside are enough. Under Jiang Chao and the young coach's five-out and four-out and one-in tactics, everyone stands outside the three-point line on the outside. Even if the opponent is actually fast, he will be close.

If you choose to break through too tightly, you will still be killed by the help defense.

The magic ball is a good thing, but if you use it too much, you will become obsessed with it.

Sean Marks also saw the shortcomings of the Knicks' shooting offense against top teams:

"The center still needs to have post-up skills. Our centers are actually more power forwards. Our team obviously needs a player who can post up to open the gap and sit inside. This is much more important than other issues."

In fact, he was born as a center, and he knows best what abilities the current team's center lacks.

But he also expressed his helplessness. When he took over the team, Jiang Chao had basically determined the lineup, and there were too many newcomers. Even David Lee was only a good at disrupting the game. He was really beaten by a team with strict tactics like the Lakers.

Once he stabilizes his position, he won't have any chance to miss anything.

It doesn't take a day to freeze three feet. It takes time to train a rookie. In fact, he thinks it's okay to play like this with the Lakers... really expect that the rookie can have a back-and-forth game with the defending champion in his first year?

But listening to what Jiang Chao means, do you really need to strengthen it?

"Have Ibaka and Arab Lian not practiced well yet?"

"It's not that fast. It has to be cultivated from an early age. Moreover, training accuracy and match accuracy are not the same thing. Training to play inside is also different from the game. Our training matches are with our own insiders. Recently, Eddy Ku

The effect has improved a bit after playing competitive matches, but that's it. There are also few training matches during the season, so it is difficult to make a qualitative change."

It is true that Jiang Chao is a layman at this point. Before he traveled through time, he didn't know what NBA players would do during the season.

Now Sean Marks told him that there are basically games every other day during the season. Some Western Conference teams are too far away, so there is almost no rest time in the middle day.

It can be said that Yi Jianlian, Ibaka and others are not working hard. They are practicing their inside skills when they have the opportunity. Even Sean Marks has personal training.

But there is still too little time, and the number of actual training games that the entire team has gathered to play has less than one pair of hands so far.

The state of inside skills on the court requires constant simulation and practice, but now the team only has few training games.

How dare they try their most unreliable inside attack in a game when they are basically training through games?

It's impossible for you to ask David Lee and Okur to try to kill Baby Shark and Sister-in-law. They all watched last year's finals. No one wants to try this in a key game.

The less you want to try, the more likely you will be caught. The Lakers' inside attack is very easy. If you rush in, I will block it. Anyway, I don't have any trouble with fouls. It's okay to just go to the body.

This is the case in the NBA. If you commit three fouls on Gasol in the half, his defense will be a few percent weaker. Everyone wants to save the carry in the fourth quarter.

If you don't have a center, let alone rely on forwards. The Knicks forwards happen to be shooting types. Although Gallinelli and Turk Drew both like to post up and attack in their national teams, let's forget it in the NBA.

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"Let's look at the second half. I didn't expect that our interior offense was completely gone."

However, Jiang Chao felt that there was no need to watch after seeing Phil Jackson's calm final appearance. A coach of this level would definitely see it more clearly than him, and the defensive end would be more targeted.

Now the Knicks' lineup is already very weak defensively. In the second half, the young coach directly changed the lineup and let Big Q start, which made the opponent Artest so uncomfortable that he almost started a fight.

Who wasn’t a tough striker in the last century?

Both of them are representatives of macho strikers, and they are a hot matchup.

But this cannot change the fact that the Knicks' point difference is getting wider and wider.

Sure enough, as Jiang Chao said, the Zen Master's defensive strategy became a 3-2 zone defense.

As soon as the three-two zone defense is deployed, it completely tells the opponent that I want to guard your shooting. I won't let anyone in the middle of the inside, and I will stick to your outside shooting.

Because the Knicks have many corner three-point tactics under Jiang Chao's training, the second player in the back is always responsible for watching the two corner three-pointers.

This directly locked the Knicks' offensive performance!

Because the person standing in the middle of the 3-2 zone defense is Kobe Bryant!!

Are you coming inside for a pick-and-roll?

OK! I'll switch defenses and that's it. If your center has the ability to beat me, Kobe, if you hit me with his back, you'll be the one to beat me. If your guard chooses to shoot, then as long as the shot is made, it will be unstable. If you can't make the shot, it will be our rebound.

You fight one against one?

Who on the outside can tear down Kobe's defense with one strike after another??? Later European gods may not be able to do it every time.

Netizen:

"In the battle between Nike vs. Super God, it seems that Nike is still stable. A traditional strong force is a traditional strong force!"

"The Lakers didn't even have the intensity, and the Knicks were killed by themselves."

"Yeah, I hit the inside a few times. Don't shoot even if it's open. Why do you like shooting so much!"

"Young people are all about rushing! But without rebounds, you can't fight back."

The smoothest offensive method for the Knicks now is always to counterattack and score points on the fast break. In positional battles, they basically wait for seven or eight seconds before taking urgent shots from the outside. On the defensive end, defensive rebounds are not as easy as against weak teams. Okur

Facing the Sharks and Sisters with David Lee was a lot of pressure. They were slow to grab rebounds, and the Knicks were naturally slow to counterattack in transition.

Now the Knicks can open up a gap with Curry alone, because in terms of point guards, Farmar, Fisher, and Shannon Brown are basically being played around by Curry, but it also consumes a lot of money.

So when he was interviewed after the game, he said for the first time that he was a little tired today and didn't want to say more. That was because he really didn't want to say more. His dribbling was stained by a bunch of fingernails. This kind of veteran is always fouling when playing.

The edge is wandering, and the scale control is really awesome.

And Shannon Brown bullied Curry with his body like a brute force. He basically committed all the Lakers' common fouls on Curry, just to make you look weak.

On the other hand, the Lakers, although they don't attack much inside, they can rely on the outside for this game. Their outside firepower is too strong.

When Kobe holds the ball, there are always two shooters waiting for opportunities at two 45-degree angles, and two rebounding experts inside.

Everyone in the starting lineup except Kobe shot over 40% from the field!

Little Shark grabbed 13 rebounds in the three quarters.

Odom has already scored 7 points, 5 assists and 5 rebounds in economical terms.

In Jiang Chao's eyes, this guy's game is much better than that of Dream Green. He can move up and down in the paint more smoothly than Kobe. This left hand is too fantasy.

On the other hand, the Knicks' players in the paint are extremely tough and their free throws hit the front frame, let alone using their bodies to attack the paint.

Therefore, the young coach had to use Ibaka and Yi Jianlian separately. Both of them like to shoot. If they are used together, there will be no hope of offensive rebounds in the interior.

So when used separately, the height is not enough. David Lee is defeated by a genius like Little Shark, and the backup shooting guard does not have strong scoring ability. We cannot let Beverley and Larry Hughes play one ball at a time.

Take your pick.

Although Jiang Chao himself knows that Matthews and Mills have this ability, the young coach has not yet successfully tested it, and these rookie guards have not fully developed this skill.

In fact, Matthews and Beverley still have the ability to score points, but because the inside line is outside and there are too few cuts or human shields in the way, not many breakthroughs are directly converted into scores or assists.

To put it simply, the Knicks' forward line and interior line also have a shortcoming: they are too thin to block people.

Fans may want to ask why Curry's winning tactic is no longer available. This is related to Jiang Chao's request at the time.

Because he knew that the league later used the "elevator door" and "double-block pistol" methods so much that they were copied by other teams or used by his own team more than ten times a game. The league will definitely change the referee manual next year.

In the previous life, the "elevator door" tactic used by Universe Brave to intimidate all parties only lasted 2 seasons before disappearing without a trace.

Like the "shark tactic", the popularity of the "elevator door" tactic has undoubtedly made shooters like Curry and Clay very comfortable. Three-point shooting is as easy as training, which feels a bit "cheating".

The old "shark-killing tactic" greatly tested the fouled person's ability to shoot free throws, and also interrupted the rhythm and enjoyment of the game, so it was banned by the league.

The reason why the league has been changing the rules is because when a tactic destroys the enjoyment of the game and damages the value of the NBA brand, it should be banned.

From this perspective, the "elevator door" tactic will inevitably make it easier for shooters such as Curry to score, making the Warriors' offense as easy as training, which seriously affects the fairness of the game.

After all, the spirit of competitive sports emphasizes "fairness and impartiality." When this tactic is covering the shooter, the two teammates' movements are obviously moving in the pick-and-roll, leaving the defender with almost no chance to pursue the defense.

In addition, the league's whistleblowing standards are relatively strict, so this tactic can easily be caught by referees, so it has gradually been abandoned.

Not only that, when a team uses such tactics crazily, it will also cause dissatisfaction in the opponent. The Warriors have shooters like the Splash Brothers, how can other teams without shooters play?

At the same time, it is easy to lead other teams to use this tactic, and it also further increases the difficulty of the referee's call. Is it a mobile pick-and-roll? This tactic undoubtedly makes many parties dissatisfied. In order to balance the interests of many parties, the league president only

Can be forced to introduce new rules: the covering player cannot stop suddenly when the defense changes route. This is a covering foul.

The general defensive habit is to take a good position in advance, but the two screeners in the elevator door tactic obviously suddenly stopped temporarily to block the defender's defensive line. According to the current rules, this is a moving screen foul, which will make themselves

Lost possession of the offensive ball.

The referee's report after that game did say that Turk-Drew was moving the pick-and-roll, but since it was the first time the league had seen it, it would not have been called at the time, and the fans didn't complain much.

From the perspective of the team's game efficiency, this becomes more than worth the gain. Instead of taking the risk of being whistled and losing the ball, it is better to abandon it completely.

So the Warriors abandoned this tactic, and the Splash Brothers lost a very intimidating shooting method.

It’s not that Jiang Chao was abandoned, he ordered the coaching staff not to use it until the critical moment of the fourth quarter. This tactic hurts the enemy a thousand times and damages himself eight hundred times. You must know that he was once one of the fans who complained about the moving Great Wall pick-and-roll...

After Jiang Chao finished his analysis, the game was over. Liu Yan was eating melon seeds and waiting for the expected ending. 105:91, the Lakers defeated the Knicks without any blood, ending their pre-All-Star break with victory.

’s last game.

The Knicks also dropped to seventh place in the Eastern Conference due to this loss, and sixth place became the Chicago Bulls.

Originally, by winning this game, the Knicks could better rush into fifth place in the Eastern Conference. Then, in the first round of the playoffs, they would face the Hawks, who were weak in the first four games. This kind of team would be easier to beat, because this team has no

Superstar, as the fourth in the Eastern Conference, it's okay not to have an All-Star this year.

The top three in the East are all hungry tigers that no one dares to touch.

But the fun thing is that the Lakers won but Kobe didn't win.

Jiang Chao regretted that Kobe Bryant only made 9 of 28 shots from the field and scored 23 points, 8 assists and 5 rebounds, allowing Jiang Chao to see the real iron oxide with his own eyes.

The Knicks lost to Jiang Chao but not to Jiang Chao. The fans responded first to the Komies on behalf of Jiang Chao:

"It's not that good! These shoes are still not good."

"Those who don't have good shoes should stop talking before the game and hug my 2412 rebound sister-in-law's thigh!"

"Sister-in-law is so beautiful!"

"My sister-in-law is so white! I like it so much!",

"Haha, the classic Lakers won but Kobe didn't win. Kobe Bryant really has you!"

"As expected of you, Comey! Isn't this shooting percentage even lower than that of the other four starters?"