Forward to the basket

In order to deal with a rookie, it takes such a big battle. It is estimated that before the start of the second game between the Pistons and the Celtics, no one would have thought that Sanders would use this method to lock up Chen Feng who was raging at the basket.

It is estimated that Chen Feng's impression on the Pistons in the first game was too deep. Sanders had already regarded this kid as the biggest hidden danger, so as soon as the whistle blew in the second game, he immediately made adjustments in defense.

As long as the Pistons want to, they can weave a huge net with any opponent at will, covering his range of activities, limiting his ability to play, and even a strangled state if necessary.

Although the defensive strength of the Pistons has dropped slightly after Ben Wallace left, the structure built by Larry Brown is still there and has not collapsed. This is enough for the Pistons to gain a foothold in the NBA.

An old and cunning guy like Brown may not be able to count on him to attack, but if this guy's team is to play a defensive side, he will definitely make most opponents feel headaches for that tough defense.

This was the case with the 76ers, but it still hasn't changed in the Pistons. That habit has lasted for decades, and Larry Brown can definitely tailor his clothes to reflect the overall effect in defense.

Even if the old guy is gone, what he left for the city of Detroit is also wealth. Don't look at Sanders who has been doing harm since he came, but that kind of heritage can still be preserved for a few years.

I dare not say too much, at least among these competitors in the Eastern Conference, no one is an opponent of the Pistons in purely defensive competition. Even if these tough guys lose, most of them are disadvantaged in offense.

There is no way, it can only be said that it is because of limited offensive ability and cannot blame others. There are really few teams that can achieve a balanced offense and defense. Maybe the Spurs are one. The difference between the Pistons and their opponents is only in scoring efficiency.

Therefore, when they want to calm down and fight with you a little bit of defensive skills, and they all have a desperate thought, you must understand what kind of group of ferocious beasts you are facing.

But no one thought that Sanders' target would be Chen Feng, not Pierce, who was also crazy in the last match. After all, Chen Feng was still a rookie, and Pierce was already the core of fame.

And Pierce's performance in the last game was also crazy, especially in the third quarter, a few key shots disrupted the Pistons' defensive rhythm, the pursuit of the Detroit people was stifled, and Pierce's contribution accounted for more than half.

No matter who faces the Celtics, Pierce is probably the key target to mark, but the target that Sanders chose this time is obviously only to put the boss of the Celtics as the second key defense.

These guys from the Pistons just played a jaw-dropping siege tactic. All the defensive focus was following Chen Feng. The only purpose was to cut off this guy's connection with the outside line and completely lock him up.

McDyess and Rasheed Wallace are one of these methods of flanking and defending. The most troublesome thing is that the pass from the outside cannot be passed to Chen Feng smoothly. Rondo is too entangled by Billups to dare cut in.

And Pierce also had to brace himself to guard against Prince's harassment. That gibbon-like guy was obviously different from the downturn in the previous game. He was pressing close to him from the beginning of the game, very fierce.

This kind of intensity of defense may have been encountered by the Lakers at the beginning. O'Neal had this kind of experience of being double-teamed at the basket at the time, but the two Wallaces fought together, and the hand-to-hand combat was extremely tragic.

However, everyone knows what kind of existence O'Neal is. After all, he is destined to enter the Hall of Fame in the future, and two Wallaces blocked him, and he played very hard.

Just like two gray sharks fighting a great white shark, they are not of the same magnitude, but their sharp teeth can still cause trouble for each other, and for such a siege, many people will think it is quite worthwhile.

After all, when they collided with the Lakers in the Finals, no one thought that the Pistons had the ability to trap O'Neal. All they could do was to interfere with O'Neal's performance as much as possible, and they didn't expect to be able to lock him up.

But a few years later, Detroit fans saw this scene again, but the person being marked was replaced by a first-year rookie, and the person marking him changed from the two Wallaces to McDavid. Rashid, his partner, but the brutality of the hand-to-hand combat has not weakened much, and it is still the entanglement of limbs.

Uh, there is absolutely no beauty to speak of when several big arms are entangled together, let alone ornamental. This bull has different offensive firepower from the Cavaliers, and the Pistons and Celtics fight with their own ferocity.

The Pistons are desperate!Seeing the opening state, Rivers can clearly feel this. It is really a very fierce volley and interception. The Pistons can even fight for every ball without giving up an inch of ground!

This is completely different from the first game. In the first game, those guys have been trying to control the rhythm, control the direction of the game and strengthen their offensive style of play, and they didn't really go all out.

Even when they were behind, they were still proceeding according to their own rhythm. The formation was not chaotic and was still very stable. However, the Celtics' madness made the opponent very uncomfortable, so they lost in a mess in the end.

But in this game, the Pistons obviously gave up the idea of ​​controlling the game. Instead, they used strong defense to force you to make mistakes constantly. Even if you wanted to stabilize in the chaotic army, you had no chance at all.

The Pistons don't give you the opportunity to stop and adjust the ball, and they are not one-on-one, but a pack of wolves. As long as the Celtics move the ball a little slower, they are surrounded life.

It doesn't matter who holds the ball, as long as you dare to control it, double-teaming and siege will follow you like a shadow. It's not a force, or a close hand-to-hand fight. There is only one purpose, and that is to disrupt your rhythm.

Especially on the offensive end of the Celtics, Rondo has to face Billups' personal care almost all the time. As long as the ball is in his hands, he has to bear the interference and interruption of Billups. ball threat.

This is simply a two-level confrontation with the last game. Stability has always been Rondo's label, but he is only a first-year rookie after all. In a one-on-one situation, there is still a certain gap with Billups. .

When the old guy started to fight for his life, the threat that came out was probably far greater than any confrontation. Billups had made his fortune by relying on his defense and stability, but now he is using it to deal with Rondo, and it seems to be going all out.

Otherwise, you can't explain why this guy can go all out to compete with Rondo for the ball on the floor, and he will also show a very aggressive state, and since the start of the game, he has always been such a tough style of play, Rondo I can catch the ball at most, but I want to control and rush. I'm sorry, this doesn't work in front of Billups.

I am afraid that this kind of pressure is something that others cannot understand. Only by experiencing it yourself can you know how strong this feeling of oppression is. It cannot be said that it is difficult to move an inch, but at least that kind of interference will make you breathless.

Hedged face-to-face with Nash, and also had the experience of playing against Iverson and others. Although Rondo has only entered the league for one season, he has secured the Celtics' starting lineup anyway. He is not a pure rookie.

What's more, there is also the background of college experience. Rondo's performance as a point guard, not to mention how impressive, but at least he can conquer many critics. In the Celtics system, he can also be firmly established. Occupy the starting lineup.

But this is the gap between the regular season and the playoffs. You can average [-] assists per game in the regular season. In the playoffs, it is a severe challenge for you to maintain a state of no turnovers and continue to maintain data.

You may encounter opponents who are not as good as you in the regular season, but the old goblins within the threshold of the playoffs are not so easy to deal with. Old goblins like Billups have never been good. .

If Rondo wants to control the ball, he will be pasted, and if he wants to pass the ball, his sight will be disturbed. Anyway, as long as he holds the ball in his hand, Billups will do everything possible to make Rondo not at all. Can't pass a threatening ball.

Especially for the inside interception, Billups may let Rondo create opportunities for Pierce and Sprewell, but as long as this kid wants to deliver shells to Chen Feng, he will resolutely block all angles.

If you want to lob the pass, you can. If you want to send Chen Feng a beautiful pass, you must guard against Billups reaching out to steal the ball. Rondo also tried to disrupt the opponent's defense with a breakthrough, but the effect was not good. not good.

Especially in the first three or four minutes after the opening, Rondo saw that the passing route was often locked by the opponent, so he tried to use pick-and-roll or cover in the entanglement with Billups to cut in from the bottom line on both sides.

But compared with the Pistons, the Celtics are still not experts in screens, and Hamilton and Billups have been partners for a long time, and the replacements between each other are quite timely.

Rondo cut in with the ball, but as soon as Jefferson helped him block Billups, Hamilton followed up and stuck. As soon as the speed dropped, Billups chased him immediately. kill.

There were two times when the opponent surrounded the area between the three-second zone and the three-point line after the breakthrough, both because of this reason, and these two rounds eventually caused Rondo's mistakes, and the Pistons took the opportunity to play twice. fight back.

Once was Billups' own straight layup, and once Hamilton received a pass from Billups, both when the Celtics pressed up and tried to tear the Pistons' defense , was counterattacked quickly by the opponent's mistake. This kind of attack has the highest success rate and consumes the least physical energy.

In the first game, the Celtics were far ahead in this statistic, and now it's the other way around. The Pistons have used their strong defense to pinch the Celtics' connections and attack its weaknesses time and time again.

In less than 6 minutes, the Celtics made a total of four turnovers. This terrible situation is almost unimaginable in normal times, but it is now in front of Rivers and must be resolved urgently.

At 18:12, although the gap in the score was not that big, the aggressiveness shown by the Pistons gave Rivers a headache, and the fans on the sidelines began to shout and roar crazily.

The guys in the first game were already suffocated, so after the game started, seeing the team's hot and wild oppressive defense, more than 1 old men were blood churning and screaming crazily.

Even the cheerleaders on the sidelines kept waving the bouquets in their hands, and together with the fans who waved their arms and shouted at the Celtics, they began to encourage the Pistons players with cheers.

"Fuck, those guys' defense is like putting their lives to the test, and now even these factory girls are joining in the fun, is it really him!" Looking at those cheerleaders who are still at the factory girl level, Chen Feng can only express it in such words Letting go of his annoyance, he didn't score a single point in more than six minutes, and he only had two rebounds.

The timeout called by Rivers was just to let these boys breathe a sigh of relief. The Pistons were too aggressive. If the timeout was called, the gap in the score would be widened. That would probably be the worst result. .

After only playing for 6 minutes, Chen Feng didn't feel tired, but the anger in his heart could not go away.

Even when the Pistons cheerleaders put on a show, it made him feel a little irritated, so that's why he said that.

Normally, Chen Feng made others hold their breath, but today was his retribution. This half of the game was probably the most annoying and depressing 6 minutes since he entered the NBA. How did he really play and how did he not go well.

In the face of double-teaming, the first thing that comes to mind is to split the ball, but Chen Feng rarely thinks about such issues when he is playing on the street, and when he is still playing alone on the street, it is obvious that it is just a cloud.

Even if by the end of the regular season this season, Chen Feng averaged less than 3 assists per game, it was mostly because of this guy's fast break after grabbing rebounds in the backcourt, giving Rondo and the others a chance to counterattack.

He does most of the real high-post screens in the interior, but obviously there are not many pass support after the position is settled.

Sanders also saw that Chen Feng played very frequently in the interior, and occasionally cooperated with him, mostly responding to passes from Weber and Jefferson, and then attacking the basket. This guy rarely initiates at the basket after receiving the ball. Low-post support, even if it is a pass, is mostly for Pierce who is wandering around the perimeter, looking for a chance to shoot, or Novak who is waiting for an open three-pointer. Compared with Jefferson, it is indeed pitiful.

There were two occasions, both because Rasheed was back on defense, and Jefferson didn't take the opportunity to score.

In the 6 minutes of the first quarter, Chen Feng did not score a single point, and Jefferson only contributed two points and two rebounds, plus one turnover, that is, Rashid retreated, and Jefferson originally wanted to The ball was given to Chen Feng who was under the basket, but before the ball could be released, it was slapped by Hamilton behind him.

It wasn't that Chen Feng and Jefferson didn't call each other, it was mainly because this kid was too capable of doing it alone, often the ball was already in his hands as the end of the attack, and there was rarely a transfer.

It turned out that there was such a not-so-obvious loophole that Sanders seized the opportunity to create obstacles for Chen Feng in the interior. When Chen Feng wanted to pass the ball a few times, he realized that his route had been blocked.

Chen Feng himself was not the kind of big insider like Weber who was used to using the pass to tear apart the opponent's defense. As a result, such a big net enveloping him forced him to be detained.

Not only have to pay attention to McDyess's circling forward, but also have to guard against Rashid's blocking, and once he is surrounded, McDyess's hands are very fast, and Chen Feng was almost intercepted by the opponent twice when he held the ball. succeed.

This level of double-team defense, combined with the harassment of Billups and others, even if Chen Feng used an unusually sharp machete, he could not withstand so many layers of blocking and interception. This kind of highly targeted defensive method, It's really annoying, and the Pistons' tough defensive system, once activated, will see the power of it.

Whether it was the regular season or the last round of bloodbath against the Raptors, Chen Feng had never played such a depressing game. It wasn't that he couldn't beat McDyess to death, it was just that the Pistons didn't give him this chance to show his strength.

One goes around the front and the other defends. Unless Chen Feng can push past the defense of the two without exerting force, it will be a huge net that will tightly entangle him and make him unable to move.

Jefferson, who was emptied over there, had a chance, but the Pistons dug the trap well here. They will force the Celtics to move the ball away from the most dangerous areas in defense, and they have been giving Chen Feng Create trouble, so that he can't use the internal pass to send assists to Jefferson who was emptied.

Occasionally, there will be one or two misplaced markings, and Rasheed can also interfere. It is not expected to be successful every time, but as long as it can put a little pressure on Jefferson, this is considered to have completed the defensive task.

Rivers is also frowning at the internal dilemma, but now he can only hope that the opponent's oppressive defense can slow down, so that these stupid boys can breathe a sigh of relief, otherwise, even Rivers doesn't know what will happen The situation, after all, Chen Feng's attack was so ruthlessly contained, it was a bit beyond the prediction before the game, let alone Rivers, the audience on the sidelines, the media, and even those big-mouthed commentators probably didn't expect this. a little.

Rivers is not God. Even if he has been in the NBA for several years, he will not be able to solve the problems around him at any time like Einstein. This damn game has been out of his control from the very beginning.

Sanders wants to lock up the Celtics' inside offense in this way, not to let them turn off, but to minimize that threat, continuous filling, and a combination of inside and outside lines. This is more like a game. In the brutal strangling battle, every offensive point of the Celtics is in the vortex of being entangled and strangled.

The Pistons are now like a perfect machine, using their perfect cooperation to tighten the rope around the Celtics' neck a little bit, which is a suffocating feeling.

Detroit's mechanized troops are showing their iron-blooded side, mercilessly obliterating the passion of the Celtics. The feeling of coldness to the bone is eroding the confidence of Boston fans...

(Uh, what do I say about the Pacers vs. Lakers game? Iron March... ok... Throw Kobe's free throws and the Lakers only make 30 of 12 free throws? Do you dare to be less accurate? Free throws If you can’t get fined, what else can you do? Is Los Angeles going to be turned into a steel factory? Your sister, all of you have turned into blacksmiths, can it work! Big brother, please be more professional, at least follow Kobe learned, triple-double! 40 points, 10 rebounds and 10 turnovers...)