basketball pope

Chapter 461 [Hearing hallucinations, jumping over the wall]

After two more rounds, Mohammed emptied Diop and double-teamed Yao Ming. The effect was good. Yao Ming scored the ball. It was not too late for him to turn around to defend Diop. .

Marbury made a three-pointer, Sprewell made a mid-range shot, and the difference between the two sides narrowed, 24 to 22.

Yang Rui made a substitution immediately, and Iguodala replaced Diop.The Lakers turned into a mixed defense, with four-man man-to-man defense breakthroughs and outside shots. Yao Ming himself was responsible for guarding the penalty area on the bottom line.

The Lakers suddenly strengthened their defense on the perimeter. The Knicks players shot again and again. Thomas has the advantage of height and weight at No. 4. He can't attack in the low position, and he can't beat Iguodala.Yao Ming even grabbed 4 backcourt rebounds.

On the offensive end, Iguodala pulled out to catch the ball and made a mid-range shot, and in the counterattack, he held the ball and passed Thomas to break through dunks and scored 4 points in a row.

In the last 3 minutes, the Knicks guarded against Yao Ming, and Kobe took over the game. He first scored a mid-range shot, then made two breakthroughs and fouled, and made 4 of 3 free throws.

In 1 minute, Bryant made a breakthrough to attract Mohammed to fill the defense and score in the middle, assist Yao to dunk with a single player, and the point difference opened again.

In the last attack, Kobe pressed the time on the outside, and faced the "madman" in the middle of zero seconds and made a three-pointer.

38 to 28, the Lakers took the lead on the road.

Zhang Lei revealed the statistics, and some couldn't believe his eyes: "Yao Ming scored 20 points, 9 rebounds, 2 assists and 1 block in the first quarter. He scored more points than many people in a whole game, and several important statistics are possible. Break personal records."

Yu Jia smiled and said: "Yao Ming took a sigh of relief, he most wanted to prove himself in front of Larry Brown. I think the old Knicks can start thinking about firing Brown now, but he still has three years left on his contract. The Knicks are going to lose a lot of money doing that."

Yang Rui sent an attacking lineup in the second quarter, Mo Williams, Ariza, Iguodala, Odom, and Rasheed.

"When you have a chance, go on a fast break, try to complete an attack in 5 seconds, and increase the number of rounds. Pick-and-roll in the middle of positional battles, pay attention to empty cuts at the bottom line, and actively fight for offensive rebounds. Defense... You can figure it out, deal with the Knicks. It doesn't matter if the bad team doesn't defend, I don't blame you, I'm afraid they lose too fast."

Most of the players laughed.The two new assistants, Brooks and Hollins, seem to be opening their mouths like Anilu, who was found to be ineffective after splitting Luffy with lightning...

Hollins asked Hornacek next to him, "Am I hallucinating? Did he just say it's okay not to defend?"

"Well, you'll get used to it. He often says such outrageous things. Don't you think the team's morale is stronger?" Hornacek laughed.

Brooks sighed: "Obviously it doesn't matter, but I do have a lot more confidence in the team to win the championship now."

The assistant coach still feels this way, and the confidence of the players is even more bursting.Yang Rui's words won't make them really give up defense, just decompress.

In basketball games, the more relaxed a player is, the easier it is to perform well. This is the true meaning of happy basketball.When Yang Rui was in the Raptors, he was good at decompressing players and letting them play boldly.

On the Knicks side, Brown is just the opposite. The way he coaches players is rigorous, like being a soldier in a military camp. He has arranged everything that everyone should do.For example, he asked Tim Thomas to shoot in the left corner. If he ran to the right without authorization, even if he made a shot, Brown would not be happy because it was not "the right way to play."

Brown takes what he thinks is right as the truth, and he will try his best to convince others that anything that is different from what he thinks is incorrect in his opinion, and it is a heresy.

Well, in fact, he is a patient with severe secondary disease. It is normal for such a coach to have conflicts with the stars and the management and finally leave.

In the second quarter, the Knicks played Medvedenko and Karim Rush in exchange for Yao's name, and they played in a mess.

Last season, Medvedenko and Odom were still teammates. He moved slowly and could not guard Odom one-on-one. During the Lakers training, he was often taught to be a man.

Rush's physical fitness is good, and his shooting has been inaccurate. After arriving at the Knicks, Brown was also evaluated as "too lazy" in the training camp, and he had a bad reputation and a dark future.He can't get rid of Ariza, which is disappointing.

Hardaway is also old, and Iguodala can't score, so he can only shoot in front of others, which is seriously disturbed.

The Lakers played a quick counterattack, and the Knicks were at a disadvantage in terms of speed off the bench.

Backup point guard Mucci Norris is a defensive colander, which is why Larry Brown and Marbury have conflicts, and he must be reused. No. 1 does not even have a qualified backup.

After only 3 minutes of play, the difference widened to 22 points, and Larry Brown could only switch back to the bench in advance.

At this time, Hollins and Brooks felt that Yang Rui was even more amazing. Maybe he was really afraid that the Lakers would be too strong off the bench and win too easily, so they said those words, the big victory would affect Yao Ming's stats.

6 minutes later, Yang Rui replaced Yao Ming and Kobe played the pick-and-roll. The Knicks couldn't prevent this move, and Ben Wallace couldn't do anything. If he didn't switch to Kobe, Kobe made a breakthrough or made a pull-up jumper.Switching to Kobe and scoring the ball in the middle, Yao Ming has no solution when he enters the basket, and he can also shoot in the middle.

这节姚名5投2中，罚球4中4，得到8分3篮板1助攻，半场就砍下了30分12篮板4助攻2盖帽超级数据，这是顶级中锋才有的表现。

科比11投6中，三分1中1，罚球6中5，得到18分2篮板8助攻1抢断，数据也不差。湖人71比45领先。

For the Lakers who were asked not to defend, the Knicks scored only 17 points in this quarter.

A team like the Knicks, which relies on perimeter players to score, has a hard time scoring as long as there are four swingers on the court at any time to interfere with shots.This is caused by the inability of the inside players to open up the space, and Brown is directly responsible.

At halftime, Brown went to the locker room to teach the players a lesson and taught them to "play the ball correctly." The main scorers, Marbury and Sprewell, were too lazy to talk to each other, and the team's morale was low.

Brown looked at everyone's laziness and yelled at the players. He didn't want to lose a big score at home.

His status in the team is in jeopardy, and the owner has distrusted him last season.

He doesn't care how long he can be a coach in the Knicks, nor does he care about his annual salary. What he cares most about now is his own face.

In the second half, the Knicks sent the opening starter, the best lineup.

Yang Rui sent Jones, Hoiberg, Diaw, Cook, Yao Ming, and all the players from the 12-man roster appeared.

Yu Jia smiled and said: "Yao Ming brings four substitutes himself. I really hope the Knicks can recover some points. If the whole second half is garbage time, the game will be boring. Yao Ming will not play for too long. He Today, I can get 40+10 or even higher, and Kobe's playing time is too short, only 18 minutes."

Zhang Lili said: "I think Yang Rui is afraid of injury to the starter, so he has reservations. He and Brown don't like each other, and the whole world knows that if Brown gets angry, jumps over the wall and arranges rude fouls to hurt people, the Lakers will lose more than the gains. already."

Zhang's reasonable commentary made the Chinese fans in front of the TV very happy, but some Kobe fans expressed dissatisfaction and hoped that the idol would continue to play.The U.S. team in the Olympics was so rotten and never saw Brown jumping off the wall. Yang Rui's worry seemed unnecessary.

Of course, the fans' worries are superfluous. How could Yang Rui be polite to Brown?
There are three defensive colanders in this lineup, and the Knicks are not going to defend...

(End of this chapter)