From today on is the king

Chapter 808 807. What are the alternatives?

George Karl, a very powerful head coach, just came to the Nuggets, and he grasped the biggest strength of the Nuggets-cutting!
Although Kenyon Martin is short among power forwards, he has a solid body and moves quickly. Camby is a good pick-and-roll player and can create a lot of air cutting opportunities for his teammates. At the same time, the two are also very physical players with strong air cutting ability.

Moreover, the most important point is Andre Miller's back hit!
This guy has great physical strength. He deserves to be a physical monster who can score 34 points with unlimited backs at the age of 52. He kept hitting his butt like that, and he dropped 20 times in the half game!
With 18 points and 6 assists in the half, Anthony had 11 points in the half, Kenyon Martin had 9 points in the half, plus Nene who came off the bench scored 6 points and DeMar Johnson scored 5 points, plus Camby's 4 points, the Nuggets scored 53 points in the half!
For the Hawks, Liu Mang scored 10 points and 6 assists in the first half, Tracy McGrady scored 12 points and 4 assists, Jason Terry scored 6 points, Calderon and Rasheed Wallace each made a three-pointer, and they did a good job scoring outside shots. But the key to keeping the score tight is the three physical fitness men!
Iguodala came up and scored 4 points, Kwame Brown scored 10 points, and Josh Smith scored 5 points. The three scored consecutive air cuts when Liu Mang was double-teamed while holding the ball and McGrady's long-range shots were being defended more and more deadly.

Just as Liu Reck expected, the rotation defense brought by the Nuggets' super physical fitness can easily lock the outside line, but the role players can easily score more points, especially Kwame Brown and Josh Smith.

After halftime, the two teams tied at 53!
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"I will never listen to "Cloudy Sky" again!" Liu Mang held a glass of Gatorade in one hand, and let Iguodala take two glasses of Gatorade, swearing as he walked to the player tunnel.

Andre Miller's back hit is too incomprehensible!
There are only a handful of point guards with Andre Miller's post-up skills, and it's hard to find another one with his thick, pure-floor body.

After Liu Mang returned to the locker room, he was thinking about how to solve the problem of Andre Miller's back hitting.

Neither Iguodala nor Korver could defend against Andre Miller's post-up. Tracy McGrady played a pick-and-roll to defend him. Prince had to defend Anthony. Anthony has no dead ends and is also a tricky defensive target. The key is that this is the beginning of the season.

And their weakest shooting guard, there are so many pitchers. Not to mention Bagna, the famous role player pitcher, even DeMar Johnson, has now practiced a 30.00% five-point shooting percentage. The odds are high.

No, after the rookie contract, there is no team to ask for it. He practiced three-pointers and got a one-year basic salary. The basic salary of NBA players is also far more than ten or twenty times the salary of the American middle class.

With a strong lineup and a desperate desire to win, it is difficult enough to defend against the Nuggets.

The most important thing is that there is one less defensive connection point between inside and outside!
With Raheem in the past, there is no need to worry about this aspect. McGrady's outside single defense is not as good as Raheem's, but McGrady can't match the connection between inside and outside defense.

What a headache!

And the inside attack can't be opened!

It seems that the Eagles scored as high as 23 points in the half of the game, but almost all of them were air cuts, that is, there were almost no inside singles points, and there were very few breakthrough layups.

Kenyon Martin and Camby's interior defense is too strong!
Kwame Brown has no inside singles, and Rasheed Wallace has almost no inside singles now.

Unlike Raheem who occasionally played singles last season, Rasheed Wallace almost completely gave up singles, and the coach also focused on open shots, layups or dunks.

Normally, it should be the opening of the basket, and then drive the outside attack, but Liu Mang had to open the outside to drive the inside attack, which is no longer a conventional style of play.

The most important point is the rhythm!
The Eagles have always been one of the teams that are best at controlling the rhythm, but this time, they were brought into their weird rhythm by the Nuggets!
It seems that the Nuggets run so fast, it seems that they want to play with speed, so the Eagles are not afraid at all.

But in fact, George Karl was using the speed up as a cover. They did speed up when defending, but the offensive end was constantly suppressing the rhythm, because every time Andre Miller played back to organize the offense, he almost spent nearly 20 seconds on the offensive time.

That is, Andre Miller held the ball for more than 6 minutes in the half game!The ball possession rate is as high as 50.00%!
A player with a high ball possession rate is usually not a good thing for a team, but nothing is absolute when Andre Miller

This style of play, Liu Mang has calmed down now, and he has an impression!In the 08-09 season, the Nuggets can reach the Western Conference finals!
At that time, the 33-year-old Billups and Anthony, who had passed their peak, took turns to support the offense in the low post. On the defensive end, relying on the team's physical fitness, they finished second in the Western Conference in the regular season and reached the Western Conference Finals in the playoffs.

Liu Wei thought about it carefully, how did the Lakers eliminate the Nuggets in the Western Conference Finals?
Kobe's CIC?This must be the main reason. Liu Mang remembers that in the Western Conference Finals, Kobe averaged almost 35 points per game and shot 48 points. The offensive end must have relied on Kobe's scoring and the support of Gasol and Odom...

Odom?
Liu Mang remembered that Odom and Ariza together formed a super powerful combination of inside and outside infinite pincers that year!Cooperating with Gasol's defense at the basket, it is the Nuggets that rely on team defense to win!It seems that the two teams scored high that year, but the key to the victory lies in the help defense of Ariza and Odom and the single defense of Kobe and Gasol inside and outside!

Ariza too!

Liu Mang stood up abruptly, looked around... I remembered, Ariza was playing in the big leagues...

Moreover, there is no such a super physical fitness man like Odom who can defend a point guard when he is serious...

Wait, Liu Mang looked at Iguodala, who was helplessly holding Gatorade, and Josh Smith, who came back after washing his hands just after going to the toilet...

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Coach Kruger and Mike Woodson are having a headache, and the Nuggets are a conspiracy!

It is clear that the offensive end is time-consuming, and the way the defensive end oppresses the defense affects the rhythm of the Eagles. The Eagles still have to play with the rhythm. The offensive end is time-consuming, and the steady Andre Miller still controls the ball. It is difficult to find a way to solve this problem.

The most important thing is that Andre Miller's low post singles are too stable!

Perimeter players are not easy to defend against low-post singles. This is not a matter of the past few years, but almost always. Because there are too few players who are good at low-post singles from the outside, and almost no team will spend effort to cultivate a perimeter that can defend particularly well against low-post singles. The investment is not directly proportional to the return, and most of the time, there is no return at all.

Mike Woodson can only design as much as possible to prevent other people's air cuts and off-ball pick-and-rolls, but if it can be prevented so easily, the Nuggets will not be able to reach the Western Conference Finals when Anthony's back-up peak and Billups are still fighting.

What coach Kruger can do is to use the outside singles cooperation when Liu Mang, McGrady, and Jason Terry are there, and he has done a better job in creating opportunities for the inside.

Just when the two of them were having headaches, they saw a figure approaching.

Coach Kruger gripped the tactical board tightly, and an ominous premonition came...

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The intermission was about to end, and the players of the two teams returned to the sidelines. Iguodala excitedly handed over the four Gatorade cups strung together in his hands to the staff. He didn't bother to wonder how Liu Mang could drink this electrolyte drink so much and ate two buttered bread just now.

Agent Jeff Schwartz told Iguodala that every time he played a game, he had to try his best to show his brilliance, so that the coaching staff and the boss of the company, Liu Mang, could see that Iguodala didn't know when Liu reckoned his brilliance, but now, he has more chances to play!Just do what the boss says!

At this moment, Iguodala felt that Liu Mang who was holding the tactical board just now was too handsome!
Also very excited is Josh Smith, who is moving his body and will probably run non-stop in a while!

Seeing the lineup of Liu Mang, Tracy McGrady, Iguodala, Josh Smith, and Rasheed Wallace on the field, coach Kruger asked Mike Woodson, who had just perfected the defensive strategy of a certain hooligan, uncertainly: "Mike, can this work?"

"Probably... I think it would be more interesting to replace Rasheed and use Josh and Tayshawn as partners inside."

Looking at Mike Woodson, who is becoming more and more obsessed with strange tactics, coach Kruger feels that he is out of tune with this team...

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I don’t know when the next chapter will be finished. Friends can go to bed first, or read it in the morning~ Take a shower first, simulate the game scene in your mind, and then start writing right away~
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