NBA: Back to 97, to be the Jagged Bishop

At the end of March, the Nets welcomed their old rivals, the Philadelphia 76ers.

In about half a month, the playoffs are coming. As one of the two most powerful teams in the Eastern Conference, and it is also a derby match between the Chinese Super Twin Towers and Kongbu, this game has attracted considerable attention. high.

The current core players of the Philadelphia 76ers are Yao Ming, Dazhi, Mobley and the bearded Davis. Their backcourt lineup is not actually that luxurious, but the frontcourt lineup is a bit amazing.

Since Da Zhi was traded to the Philadelphia 76ers this season, the Philadelphia 76ers have not lost a game as long as Da Zhi and Yao Ming appear at the same time.

This is naturally not the first time the Nets have faced the Philadelphia 76ers this season, but I don’t know if it is to preserve their strength, or it is just a coincidence. In the first two games, Da Zhi took a rest in one game, and Yao Ming took a rest in the other.

Even if one of these two rests, the entire Philadelphia 76ers' combat effectiveness will be greatly affected, so both games were won by the Nets.

The Philadelphia 76ers did not take another rest tonight. As the playoffs are about to begin, they definitely want to see who is better between themselves and the Nets.

"That Billy King is really cowardly. I don't know what he's afraid of. I could have had a good match with the Nets in the first two games, but he had to rest one of us."

Dazhi and Yao Ming chatted with Kongbu for a while before the game.

Yao Ming smiled and said, "You'll get used to it. Fortunately, you can have a good game tonight. The last time you took a break, you didn't see Garnett's face."

"After we beat us, we felt like we had won the championship. We ran around the court and roared. It was so weird."

Combo happily watched the Twin Towers mocking Garnett.

After a while, the game officially started, and the starting players from both sides began to appear.

Tonight, Kombut specifically put Artest on the bench, giving Millsap a chance to start.

The Philadelphia 76ers' third position is a shortcoming. Kongbu needs his own third position to have strong offensive capabilities to gain a matchup advantage.

Artest's defense is definitely strong, but his offense is almost useless. Anyway, it is definitely a level worse than Millsap.

During the jump ball session, Garnett failed to beat Dazhi. He grinned angrily and began to talk trash.

It's a pity that Da Zhi is not a good person. After playing in the NBA for so many years, he has never seen any kind of trash talk. Now Da Zhi is also a master of trash talk. He started talking to Garnett at the beginning and did not fall behind at all.

In the first offensive round, the bearded Davis advanced with the ball. After reaching the frontcourt, Yao Ming put Ade behind him, received the pass comfortably, turned around and made a standing chop, which made Ade look helpless. .

This is not the first time that Adelaide has played against Yao Ming. In the previous matches, Adelaide has been extremely frustrated every time. His strength is not as good as Yao Ming's, and his tonnage is far behind Yao Ming. There is a huge gap between him and Yao Ming under the basket. Can't get stuck in position.

Being unable to stay in position means that it will be easier for Yao Ming to catch the ball.

As long as he catches the ball, Adelaide can't defend Yao Ming's offense alone.

Just after one round tonight, Ade was hacked and dunked. He could already predict his fate tonight, and he would definitely be completely beaten by Yao Ming.

Fortunately, Yao Ming is not a fat man and will not taunt his opponent after defeating him. Otherwise, Ade would definitely feel even more uncomfortable.

In the Nets' offensive round, Rondo began to look for Roy and Millsap's positions.

In the end, Millsap took the shot, but unfortunately he failed to hit.

In the following time, Kong Bu looked helpless. Even if he played so much time in the opening game, he felt that the Nets might be out of luck tonight.

It's just that Roy and Millsap's touch was so bad that they couldn't take advantage of the outside line at all.

As for the inside, Garnett can at best play evenly with Da Zhi, and Ade will definitely be beaten by Yao Ming.

After 10 minutes of the first quarter, the Nets were already seven points behind.

After careful consideration, Combs decided to replace Rondo and replace Lowry on the court to improve his offensive capabilities on the outside.

This arrangement has an effect, but the effect is not good enough to bring the Nets back to life.

In the end, the Nets lost the game, and they lost quite miserably, leaving the Philadelphia 76ers with an 11-point deficit.

A huge number of fans paid attention to this game. After seeing that Kongbu also suffered at the hands of the Chinese Twin Towers, he became more and more aware of how unsolvable it is for a team to have two super insiders under the current NBA rules.

The key is that the Philadelphia 76ers not only have two super insiders, they also have a first-line point guard like the bearded Davis.

Bearded Davis is certainly not a historical point guard, and he is inferior to Paul, Kidd, and Nash.

But his combat power is definitely better than that of the small steel cannon in his peak period. He is stronger in all aspects and can be stronger in all aspects. The super twin towers plus a top-five point guard in active service will be too lethal. .

Billy King originally chose to trade Iverson for Tracy McGrady, leaving behind the bearded Davis. This operation benefited the Philadelphia 76ers immensely.

After the game, Kongbu led the players back to the locker room.

After losing to the Philadelphia 76ers, the Nets generals were in a bad mood and the atmosphere in the locker room was very depressing.

Roy looked guilty and said, "Coach, I'm sorry, my touch was so bad tonight that the team lost the game."

Kongbu smiled and waved his hand, "It doesn't matter, kid, this is just an ordinary regular season."

"When it comes to the playoffs, I believe the final winner will be us."

Roy's performance tonight was indeed not very good. He hit 17 of 6 shots and only scored 14 points including free throws.

It's not just Roy. Except for Lowry, everyone else's performance tonight was nothing special.

Even Garnett only had 15 points and 9 rebounds against Da Zhi tonight.

Of course, Dazhi's score is not high, only 16 points.

The real killer of the Philadelphia 76ers is Yao Ming. He scored 37 points with extremely high efficiency on Ade, while Ade only scored 11 points and 6 rebounds, which was a huge gap.

Ade is even more depressed. He knows that he is the one who should take the blame for losing this game. If the gap between himself and Yao Ming is not so big, the Nets may not have no hope of winning.

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After beating the Philadelphia 76ers, the Nets' next game is an away game against the Detroit Pistons.

The Pistons' position as the Dark Five Kings in the Eastern Conference has been replaced by the Cleveland Cavaliers, and their overall strength is now not very impressive.After the game started on the field, after playing for a few minutes, Kongbu looked pleasantly surprised.

He discovered that there were changes in Roy, that he had transformed and evolved.

Roy, who had played for most of the season, was very reckless on the offensive end. In addition to breaking through the basket, his main offensive method was to stop and turn around for jump shots. He shot quickly and did not give the opponent time to react.

This kind of sudden stop and turn is because the shooting speed is very fast. When the feel is good, it is really a killer. But if the feel is not good, it is easy to hit the iron.

I don't know if it was stimulated by the previous game, but two days later, Roy's playing style changed.

Now Roy can still make sudden stops and turns, but the speed of turning is different.

After turning around, Roy seemed to suddenly have Parkinson's disease and stagnated for a moment. It was this moment of stasis that interrupted the opponent's defensive rhythm, and then attacked him unprepared, and his shooting percentage was much higher than before.

The scientific name of this move in Kongbu's memory is the Turn and Freeze Step. The reason why it is called the Freeze Step is because the moment of pause is very similar to Parkinson's Freeze Step.

Parkinson's disease is also Alzheimer's disease. When walking, you suddenly stop moving and freeze. This is where the name "freeze step" comes from.

Of course, there is also the term hesitant step.

Theoretically, it is a variant of the probing step, but the difficulty is much higher than the probing step. The freezing time can be adjusted by yourself. After freezing, you can also choose to break through from the left or right side of the defensive player, or simply turn around and take action. .

Roy was self-taught, and Kongbu never mentioned this offensive method to him.

Roy on the court seemed to have opened up the two channels of Ren and Du, and his offensive rhythm was unpredictable, making Hamilton's scalp numb.

Hamilton's defense is top-notch, but he has no good way to deal with Roy's weird style of play.

Kongbu on the sidelines couldn't help but cheer for Roy. As the saying goes, one move can be used everywhere. With this move, Roy can definitely win against any shooting guard.

After the game, even the Pistons fans cheered for Roy. Roy's performance tonight was a visual feast.

With 52 points, 37 of 22 shots, 6 of 3 three-pointers, and 8 of 7 free throws, Roy played a classic game at the end of the season that can be called a career masterpiece.

"Good boy, you always give me great surprises."

"How did you learn this freeze step? Why did you learn it all of a sudden?"

Kongbu asked with a smile as he hugged Roy who was leaving.

"Freeze Step? Is this move called the Freeze Step? The coach's name is really good."

"When I was playing a training match with Ron yesterday, I saw Ron's back suddenly stopped moving, and I got an idea."

Roy grinned, getting Kongbu's approval, which made him extremely excited.

Kongbu was shocked. Artest suddenly stopped moving during training?It's probably because he was distracted and thinking about other things. This is a common thing for Artest. His brain is so big that he can't do two things at once.

Unexpectedly, Artest's desertion could also bring inspiration to Roy.

"What a little monster. If your defense could be better, I think you would be better than Kobe."

"Kobe's defense is all-powerful. You have to learn from Kobe in this aspect."

"I am so looking forward to the start of the playoffs now. If we meet the Philadelphia 76ers again, you will average at least [-] points per game against Mobley!"

Garnett was in a bad mood after losing the last game and didn't speak much for two days. After seeing Roy's performance tonight, he is full of hope for defeating the Philadelphia 76ers.

He could score 50+ points against Hamilton, so how could he easily score [-] points against a little guy like Mobley?
Roy nodded repeatedly. The newcomers still respected Garnett.

When he first entered the league, he heard that Garnett liked to bully new teammates in the team. Roy was still very nervous, fearing that he would be bullied.

But after coming to the Nets, he found that that was not the case. As long as he trained diligently and did not take the initiative to provoke Garnett, this old guy was still good.

In the next few games, Roy relied on the freezing step style to get better and better, and his offensive efficiency became more and more exaggerated.

Before using the freeze step, Roy's average field goal percentage was about 45%.

Such a shooting rate is already relatively good among the shooting guards. Most of the top shooting guards who focus on shooting are at this level except Jordan who is ridiculously high.

After using the freeze step, Roy's shooting percentage in recent games has reached an astonishing 51%. Let alone the shooting guard, even if he is placed at the small forward position, this shooting percentage is top-notch.

As Roy's condition gets better and better, the outside world is becoming more optimistic about the Nets' probability of winning the championship.

After losing to the Philadelphia 76ers, the Nets' probability of winning the championship was underestimated. Now they have once again surpassed the Philadelphia 76ers and become the top seed to win this season.

Soon the time came to mid-April, and the regular season was over.

The eight playoff teams in the Eastern Conference have been announced.

New Jersey Nets, Charlotte Bobcats, Philadelphia 76ers, Cleveland Cavaliers, New York Knicks, Detroit Pistons, Indiana Pacers, Boston Celtics.

The eight teams are all extremely strong. Even the Green Kai, ranked eighth in the Eastern Conference, currently has a trio of Pierce, Al Jefferson and Monta Ellis in the lineup.

The Cavaliers were able to reach the top half of the Eastern Conference in the final stage. This was something that Kongbu never expected. After several transactions this season, the Cavaliers made several reinforcements in succession.

The Knicks are certainly strong, but their team's rest frequency is quite high. O'Brien and Tracy McGrady have rested a lot of games, resulting in their regular season record being unremarkable.

The Philadelphia 76ers are in a similar situation, but even if they only have Yao Ming or Da Zhi on the court, they still maintain a very high winning rate against weak teams or teams that don't slip through.

There is no need for the Bobcats to rest. Most of the team is made up of young people, veterans Ben and Hill. Even if they rest, there are suitable substitutes to replace them, so the record is quite gorgeous.

In fact, Kongbu also wanted to rest players, but unfortunately he had too few players who could play. After counting, only seven players could be used. In order to allow the players to rest better, Kongbu also tried many lineups.

For example, when Lowry is asked to start at point guard, Artest is asked to play shooting guard, and Millsap is asked to play small forward to give Roy some opportunities to recuperate.

For example, let Ade play center, Millsap play the fourth position, and let Garnett rest.

Fortunately, Combs got Millsap, a combo forward, so he can adjust his position. Otherwise, it would be difficult for the Nets to have the best record in the Eastern Conference this year.