God's hand behind the scenes

Chapter 384 Pay Tuition Fees

After deciding to make a fuss on the back line, Brown was ready to resume the team's regular starting lineup in the third game, and he also "darkly" released the news in public in advance.Popovich, who has been paying attention to any troubles in the 76ers, is facing a big enemy. In his opinion, the strange lineup used by the 76ers in the first two games has merits, and he forced himself to make adjustments, but now you actually change first Are you ready?Can you still play well?
In fact, Brown knows his disciples very well. Popovich is full of wit and scheming if it sounds good, but he thinks too much if he sounds bad. He is suspicious.Although Brown is indeed preparing to restore the previous starting lineup, it is also very good to add to Popovich.

Regarding Brown's approach, Chang Wei said that he has learned another trick. Although he is not sure what Popovich will think, it is also good to be able to disrupt the Spurs' deployment.Sometimes you don't need a particularly sophisticated and complicated way to deal with others, especially if your opponent is still very smart, using this to reverse interference may get good results.

Popovich, who habitually thinks too much, had to prepare both hands for the third game, lest the news be his teacher deliberately released a smoke bomb.Therefore, the Spurs players did not have any rest time after returning to San Antonio, and had to participate in tactical training at least twice a day, in order to make the 76ers' surprise attack completely useless.

Of course, in the era when media reporters are all-pervasive, the Spurs' preparations have already been leaked by many media. Anyway, Popovich didn't ask for secrecy. Well, even if he asked, except for the local media in San Antonio, others would May not listen.After learning about the Spurs' preparations, Chang Wei trained the team's attacking guards more and more strictly. In his opinion, the more prepared he is, the more he can catch the opponent by surprise.

In fact, as a traverser, Chang Wei favors defenders far more than centers. Although he has been working hard to train Dalembert and Okur, and even used rejuvenation potions for Mutombo last season, But in his heart, these players are not qualified.Dalembert and Mutombo are both blue-collar players who focus on defense and light offense. Okur has a shooting range as far as the three-point line, but his dominance at the basket is not enough. Wei's request.

Therefore, when the team intends to use the guard as the main attack point this time, the most exciting thing is not Iverson and Arenas who have been entrusted with important tasks, but Chang Wei.Although he is not the head coach and cannot formulate specific tactics for the team, he can definitely make all the guards in the team play the game they want to see most, and start to dominate the league in advance.

However, Chang Wei also has to be thankful that the Spurs have not yet formed a GDP trio that has left a strong mark in the history of the league. Parker is still a rookie and Ginobili is still playing in Italy. If the two of them grow up , It is still a question whether the 76ers can take advantage of the game with the current backcourt configuration.

But this time, Chang Wei is very confident. For young people, paying tuition fees is inevitable.Of course, the 76ers are also a young team, and the average age is much younger than the Spurs, but in terms of backcourt players alone, they are more like rookies, even with Smith and Daniels in charge. In terms of talent, the 76ers are properly crushed.

Perhaps due to the influence of the team's overall style, Spurs fans are relatively not that crazy. This is why the Spurs basically have an amazing home win rate every season, but AT&T Center has never been called the devil's home.When the 76ers came to this small town, the Spurs fans did not do anything radical. Everyone subconsciously ignored their arrival, um... Maybe it can also be said that the Spurs fans are full of absolute love for the team they support. confidence?

But sometimes the gap in hard power cannot be made up by the strong confidence of the fans.After seeing that Brown did use the most commonly used starting lineup of the 76ers, Popovich also used the twin towers without hesitation. Although the single tower used before was effective, it was only a last resort. Now the opponent gave up his own advantage, why don't you quickly kill them with the twin towers?
Dalembert had no interest in competing with Duncan at the opening jump ball. In the previous two games, he had found that his bounce was no match for this big man with a blank face. He made a symbolic jump and was ready to return to the basket. Down defense.Duncan passed the ball to Parker very easily, but when the latter was about to catch the ball, a black shadow suddenly flashed in front of him——

Fuck!The ball is gone!Parker hurriedly turned his head to look, even almost cramp because of turning too fast, in his field of vision, a small man wearing the 76ers No. The light pick basket helped the 3ers take the lead, and at this time the other Spurs players hadn't reacted yet.

Popovich's face turned black. He didn't expect that his team had grabbed the ball, but was abruptly counterattacked by Iverson for a layup after completing the steal.Although it was only 2 points and it was the first round of the whole game, Popovich, who has always been strict with the army, felt very uncomfortable, but he had no choice. Who made Parker a rookie?
In the entire league, a head coach who is as daring as Popovich to use a rookie as the starting point guard can be said to be a rare animal, which is also due to his trust in Parker.But this time, Parker has become a weakness exploited by the 76ers. No, not only him, but the entire Spurs' back line is their weakness.For a long time, the Spurs' powerful inside twin towers were too dazzling, so dazzling that they concealed their weakness in other aspects, and this happened to be the breakthrough for the 76ers.

Iverson's 2 points and 1 steal are really nothing compared to the whole game, but they showed his true strength, and this is what Brown specifically ordered before the game.Maybe the fans will feel that Parker is very pitiful, and even feel disgusted with Iverson because of this, but this is the case in competitive sports. As long as you stand on the court, age is no longer your bargaining chip for sympathy. As long as you are strong enough, you can naturally Regardless of age and experience restrictions, directly beat established stars, but if your own strength is not enough, then pay tuition fees, which is an important part of the growth process of any rookie player.

(End of this chapter)