From today on is the king

Chapter 1508 1507. A system that is against the whole world

Hinrich, Reed, Luol Deng, Garnett, Ben Wallace, and James Posey, Big Z, Joe Smith, Adrian Griffin on the bench, the Bulls' nine-man rotation is very powerful in defense, and the rhythm is moving towards the direction of grinding the position from the beginning of the game.

The environment has a great influence on a player's style of play!Reid was also a good defensive player at the beginning of his career, but he was not bad. In the past few years, the Bucks were so bad, his defense was almost useless, but after coming to the Bulls, he played better defense than when he played the sixth man at the beginning of his career.

On the offensive end, Reed is mainly responsible for low-post singles and mid-to-long-distance running, catching and shooting, and on the defensive end, he will play iron-blooded defense according to Thibodeau's requirements.

The Bulls are indeed much stronger this season than last season. They switched to Reed in a zero-for-one exchange, which greatly strengthened their offensive ability that they are very bad at.

However, compared to last season, the Eagles could only steadfastly raise the tempo for rhythm confrontation and win or lose depends on the state. This year, the Eagles can have many ways.

In the starting stage, the Eagles played poorly for more than two minutes because of the Bulls' strong defense inside and outside. They replaced the lineup of Liu Mang, Finley, Tracy McGrady, Scola, and Brad Miller. They played an offensive style with Miller and McGrady as the core, Scola's low post, Liu Mang's running shots, and Finley's spot-up shots.

Scola can shoot from the low post and mid-range. Don't look like he is a rookie, but he is 27 years old and has 11 years of professional basketball experience. He is not stage fright at all.

Brad Miller can shoot as far as the three-point line, and his passing skills are superb, which is specially used to deal with the super inside defense of Ben Wallace and Garnett.

McGrady's breakthrough coupled with Brad Miller, who is at the distance from the free throw line to the top arc, played a feeling similar to the cooperation between Mike Bibby and Divac back then!

Although McGrady doesn't have many abilities to be top-notch, he wins all!He can do anything, and his breakthrough is sharper than Mike Bibby. Coupled with Brad Miller, the entire Eagles team is running, moving the ball.

The key lies in Liu Mang's mid-range and long-range shots and Finley's fixed-point three-pointers.

I usually keep playing and adjust the feel, so that I can perform well when encountering such opponents!

今天刘莽全心投入到跑位投篮中，首节打满, 8投5中拿到14分！2中2的三分投篮，是老鹰队能领先的关键！
The Bulls really didn't expect the Eagles' style of play. The Eagles' style of play has changed too much. Rao Thibodeau studied the Eagles' offense without sleep for the past two days, and he didn't expect the Eagles to play like this.

Garnett has a great way to solve the problems on the defensive end. Brad Miller has gone beyond the three-point line, and Ben Wallace will definitely not be able to defend. It was fine when he was young. Although Ben Wallace's defense ability was not as good as Garnett when he was young, he was still at the top of the league.

Garnett can't prevent the top arc, and Brad Miller can make a three-pointer.

But Garnett's defense to the top arc, which is the farthest from the three-point line to the basket, has huge damage to the Bulls' defense.

Although the Bulls defended well on the three perimeters, they were much worse against Liu Mang's mid-range catch and shot. The Bulls defended Liu Mang's three-pointer very closely, and Liu Mang was a big step away from the three-point line. People were close, but Liu Mang's mid-range was originally supposed to be defended by Garnett. Garnett went to the top arc, which was troublesome for the Bulls.

Liu Mang made 6 of 3 mid-range shots in the first quarter, and made two free throws that caused a foul. He scored 14 points in the first quarter!
In the past two years, very few players have been able to score in double figures in a single quarter on the Bulls. The boos on the scene are already exploding. They seem to have seen the new basketball god in the playoffs last year who broke the record for scoring in a single game in the playoffs!

Fortunately, the defense of the Hawks lineup is really mediocre. The Bulls are strong on the offensive end. Brad Miller and Scola's inside defense, except for flopping, really has no advantages. Not to mention Liu Mang's inside defense, McGrady's inside blocking and inside shooting interference are better than them.

Reed's low singles scored a lot of points for Garnett and Luol Dengkong.

After the first quarter, the two teams scored 28 to 26, and the Eagles temporarily led by two points.

The Bulls averaged 97.1 points per game this season, which is two points lower than the league average. They are better than the league's lowest average of 87.9 points per game.

Scoring 26 points in a single quarter is not a particularly common thing for the Bulls in the past two years. Seeing the Eagles' poor defense, Bulls fans are a little relieved. As long as they find a way to defend the Eagles, they have a chance to win!Bulls fans are blind to their team's defense. After all, they just played the strongest defensive efficiency in history last season.

But...Compared to the blind confidence of Bulls fans, Bulls coach Thibodeau feels that there is a big problem!

The nine-man rotation allowed the Bulls to execute extremely well on both ends of the offense and defense, but correspondingly, they had no other players to use right away!

Now the Bulls continue to defend Brad Miller with a center who can have excellent movement like Garnett, so that Garnett can return to the inside defense, but the role player lineup looks very good for them, Thibodeau can't find such a player to use!
The Bulls did select Metrics Nichols in the summer draft, a short insider with excellent movement, but under Thibodeau, he played more than a dozen games and did not get a chance to play.

In other words, the Bulls can't think of a way to solve Brad Miller, a space-supporting center!

Seeing that the offensive end is playing well, Thibodeau is going to make substitutions to strengthen the offense.

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Back from the intermission, the Bulls replaced the inside combination of Joe Smith and Garnett instead of Big Z. Compared with Big Z, Joe Smith has much more offensive skills.

This is exactly what the Eagles want here!

In fact, the Eagles have tactics in this area, but since the beginning of the season, the Eagles have encountered two strong opponents, the Suns and the Spurs. These two teams are not suitable to play Princeton against them. They have running and playing offense this season.

As for playing against weak teams, Thibodeau has studied it for a long time, but he has not noticed this tactic. When playing against weak teams such as the Eagles, there is a high probability of winning no matter how you play.

But playing the Bulls is easy to use. The Bulls focus on defense. Not to mention the high playing time of the five starters, they can still maintain high efficiency!

Liu Mang was surprised by Thibodeau's coaching ability in this aspect. I really don't know how this guy did it, but this is Thibodeau's biggest characteristic. He will definitely not pass on his eating skills to others.

If the Bulls keep on defending, the Eagles will have a headache if they keep playing Princeton, and it will be tiring for McGrady to keep hitting breakouts.

Therefore, the Eagles have been planning an inside rotation for the Bulls since the summer. The goal is not to kill the Bulls by attacking, but to use the situation on the field to influence the way the Bulls make substitutions, and subtly let the Bulls slowly abandon their strongest aspects.

Seeing that the Bulls did not replace James Posey, a defensive champion, but continued to let the starting three-man team play outside, and even sent two power forwards inside...

Liu Mang and the coaching staff feel that the game is gradually developing in a favorable direction!

In the second quarter, the Eagles continued to attack the Bulls. The game was still long, and there were still three quarters left. Before the end, the Bulls had to completely deviate from the rhythm they were originally good at.

After the first half, the Eagles and Bulls tied at 57!
刘莽半场25分5板2助攻，麦迪7分5助攻2篮板1抢断，布拉德-米勒5分3板3助攻。

In the second quarter, the Eagles suffered from rebounds. Marion and Brad Miller's rebound protection was really mediocre. The Bulls relied on Garnett and Joe Smith's offensive rebounds to get a lot of second-attack opportunities.

In the third quarter of the game, the confrontation between the two teams continued, but after the official suspension of the third quarter, the Eagles suddenly went up and down. Except for Liu Mang, the other four positions were replaced!
The lineup of Rondo, Liu Mang, Grant Hill, Marion, and Kwame Brown was replaced, and they suddenly started playing defense!
The Bulls gradually gave up their strongest advantage, wanting to compete with the Eagles on the offensive end, and tasted the sweetness in the second quarter, and completely ran away from their strongest advantage, which is defense, in the third quarter.

But they didn't notice that they didn't change to the offensive lineup in the first quarter, and they still played well against the Eagles. The Eagles played against Princeton, which was dominated by Tracy McGrady and Brad Miller.

In fact, even if the Bulls put on an offensive lineup, their offensive ability is not particularly good. It's just that the Eagles' previous lineup defense is not good, they just want to guide the rhythm of the Bulls.

Use tactical changes to offset the iron-blooded field built by Garnett and Ben Wallace!

11 is better than 3!

In the last 5 minutes of the third quarter, the Eagles played a wave of 11 to 3, only allowing the Bulls to score three points!

82 to 73, when the Eagles finished three quarters, they led the Bulls by 9 points!

Compared with extreme tactical adjustments, except for the Suns, no other team in the league can match the Eagles. The Eagles' sudden strengthening of defense in the second half of the third quarter caught the Bulls by surprise!
Suddenly, Biao's offense turned into an iron-blooded battle. The Bulls, the most iron-blooded team in the league, began to collapse from the second half of the third quarter!
Liu Mang scored 25 points in the first half, and 31 points before the official timeout in the third quarter. However, he played the whole game for 44 minutes. After playing the full game in the second half, he only scored 12 points in the second half. He scored 37 points, 9 rebounds, 4 assists, 2 steals and 3 blocks.

The change in Liu Mang's score can be seen from the change in the Eagles' style of play in this game!
In the fourth quarter, the Eagles scored 19 to 12 in a single quarter. Relying on a sharply strengthened defense, they beat the Bulls by 101 to 85, 16 points!
"Grudges: Host's team VS Chicago Bulls 1:0..."

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The Eagles and the Bulls played against each other for the first time in the new season, and the Eagles won by 16 points!
The Bulls, who scored 57 points in the first half, only scored 28 points in the second half!
Compared with defense, judging from the performance of this season, the Bulls will not lose to any team, and no team can compare with the Bulls in defense.

But the Bulls lost to their own strongest place today!

Some fans don't understand why the Bulls collapsed suddenly. In fact, many Bulls players themselves don't understand why they suddenly collapsed. The Bulls played very well until the official timeout of the third quarter. They scored 7 points in the first 14 minutes of the third quarter, which was evenly matched with the Eagles. Suddenly, they only scored 17 points in the 15 minutes from the second half of the third quarter to the fourth quarter.

But the Bulls failed to defend the Eagles. The Eagles scored 17 points in the last 31 minutes!
Everything came too suddenly, with just an official timeout, the game went from a close match to a one-sided crushing game!

After the victory, the Eagles players were very excited to celebrate in the locker room. They were a little worried at first. After all, it was just a practice before, but now they are used to deal with top teams. They are still a little worried.

But they won!It worked!

The system that Liu Mang wanted gradually began to have some taste.

When the Suns met the Hawks, O'Neal felt that the Hawks' system was aimed at him.

When the Spurs met the Eagles, Duncan also felt that the Eagles' system was aimed at him.

When he arrived at the Bulls, Garnett also felt that the Eagles' system was aimed at him!
Liu Mang's ultimate goal is to be able to build an offensive system based on the seven insiders based on any opponent, change his style of play, and make all opponents feel that they are being targeted.

This is a psychological advantage!
In other words, it is called "dominance"!
Liu Mang made a plan from the very beginning, to be an enemy of the entire alliance!He wants to build a team that makes all teams feel scared!
"It's about to succeed! When Wade comes back, we'll have a thorough run-in. We may surpass our performance in the 05-06 season and become the strongest in history!"

(End of this chapter)