God's hand behind the scenes

Chapter 232 Natural nemesis
Seeing that his team was still unable to narrow the point difference, Karl scratched his head in annoyance on the sidelines.As a head coach who advocates offense, Karl has always felt that he can win the game with more crazy offensive firepower than his opponents, so he doesn't pay much attention to defense, but in this game he suddenly found that such a simple and effective routine no longer works .

In fact, in the regular season, although the Bucks were at a disadvantage against the 76ers, Carl never thought that his team would be helpless. After all, the players played their usual style in the game.However, in this game, the 76ers unexpectedly resorted to defense, and it was still the most annoying physical confrontation defense for the offensive side.

At this time, Karl has some doubts about his offseason signings and even his team building ideas. Is it true that such a purely offensive team can't reach the highest stage?If Chang Wei knew what he was thinking, he would definitely tell him that the answer to this question does not need to be discussed at all.Although the Warriors who made the whole league change their minds in the future are also equipped with a shooting outside line and a defensive inside line, their defense is also top-notch in the league, and the current Bucks obviously cannot do it.

Compared with that Warriors team, what the Bucks lack the most is a central axis that takes into account both defense and organization. Chang Wei believes that players like Draymond Green do not exist in this era, perhaps in high school basketball and college basketball. There will be on the court, but the general manager of any team should not select a small inside player with average shooting in the draft, especially when he has not shown that he can become Ben Wallace potential time.

But soon Karl made up his mind to continue to play his own style of tactical system, even if he was restricted by his opponent, it didn't matter.Many head coaches have only one style for a lifetime. Maybe they will absorb some new things and add them, but in fact they never give up the original intention. Karl is such a stubborn person.

However, his stubbornness did not help the victory of the game. As the game gradually deepened, the player's physical strength was close to exhaustion, and he almost smashed the basket.Although the Bucks' inside line has a slight advantage when grabbing rebounds, whether it is Johnson or Thomas, they will fall into the 76ers' double-team as soon as they grab the rebound, and have to pass the ball out to reorganize. It's back to the old routine of constantly striking iron.

Of course, the Bucks want to hit the ball inside. Obviously, the closer to the basket is more beneficial when they are not physically strong.However, only Thomas has the ability to attack with the ball inside. Johnson still relies on the second offense to score most of the time, and his personal firepower is negligible.If there is only one receiving point, then they are not far from death. The players of the 76ers easily judged the passing route of Cassel. After two steals, the Bucks had no choice but to start again aggrieved. Play outside.

Although Ray Allen, who had the highest shooting percentage, made a few three-pointers, it didn't help. The 76ers didn't care whether they could score or not. The opportunity to shoot, but also to ensure the hit rate.To some extent, a pure offensive team like the Bucks was completely restrained by the 76ers, or it was restrained by the 76ers in this game. After all, the two teams played very well in the regular season. Who would have thought that they have changed to a completely different style now?And it just hit the Bucks' weakness.

After Ray Allen scored two three-pointers to help the team stop the bleeding, he was once again targeted by Bell. The latter's close-up marking like jellyfish caused him a lot of trouble.Bell's data in this game is not very good. He has only scored 7 points, 2 rebounds and 4 assists in the fourth quarter. In addition, he also scored 2 steals and 2 blocks, but his The role on the court is not reflected by the data at all, just look at Ray Allen's embarrassed appearance.

Seeing Bell's outstanding performance on the field, Brown couldn't help but look in Chang Wei's direction. He was becoming more and more incomprehensible to this young man. Why did he poach Bell from the free market in the first place? Where are the players?And he also trained him to be the team's defensive leader. Now Bell has squeezed out Aaron McGee's playing time and is the most important rotation player on the 76ers' back line. But if there is no Chang Wei, God knows what he is doing at this time Still playing silently there.

The Bucks players, who had been suffering throughout the game, finally heard the final whistle. Although they lost by 17 points, the 76ers' super strong defense made them unwilling to stay on this court for a moment.Bucks players have always been proud of their sharp offense, but now they realize that offense doesn't work all the time.

The Bucks quickly left the tunnel, leaving the court to their celebratory opponents.The 76ers players kept waving to the fans who came to watch the game. It is indeed worth celebrating that the Eastern Conference Finals ushered in a good start.Although the game was not that good on the scene, the 76ers fans didn't care. Anyway, the team won the ball. In competitive sports, victory is the answer to all problems, let alone whether it looks good or not is not a problem. problem.

In recognition of Bell's successful defense of Ray Allen in this game, Brown decided to take him to the post-match press conference.Facing the countless cameras and microphones in the audience, Bell seemed a little nervous. He said cautiously: "I just did what I should do in this game. Since the coach asked to defend with all my strength during the game, I must complete my task. ..."

"Why did you suddenly think of using a high-intensity defense in this game? You have never had such a situation in any game before. Is it because the Bucks' offense has put a lot of pressure on you?" asked The person who asked this question was a middle-aged bald man who knew without looking at his ID that he was a reporter from Milwaukee.

Brown moved the microphone on the table to his face, smiled and said: "The Bucks' offense is indeed worthy of respect, but we suddenly changed our style just because we wanted to win more easily. We didn't sacrifice defense before, just because we didn't go to the East It’s just an important stage like the final, for us, the only question is whether we are willing to do it, not whether we can do it.”

"So in the next game, will you repeat the high-intensity defense of this game?"

"Perhaps, who knows?"

(End of this chapter)