God's hand behind the scenes

Chapter 429 The Triumph of Talent

After winning the second game, the Pistons had no time to celebrate, and everyone hurried to Toronto, Canada after a short rest. The third game will be played at the Canadian Airline Center Stadium, and the Raptors' home record this season ranks No. In the second place, any team has to be careful coming here, let alone the Eastern Conference semifinals now.

The Pistons in the away game were also treated unfriendly by the Raptors fans. Fortunately, they were all mentally strong and were not affected too much, which made Brown very satisfied.Even if the overall strength of such a team that has collapsed before and remains unchanged, it will definitely be able to achieve considerable achievements, not to mention that Brown has placed high hopes on them now.

But Brown also has to admit that the Pistons are still much worse than the Raptors in terms of talent alone. The talents of McGrady and Carter are almost as good as most of the Pistons.Brown never denies the importance of talent, but he values ​​the unity and tactical execution of players more. He believes that as long as the players under his command have such qualities, it doesn't matter if the talent is not high.

But McGrady and Carter soon let him see that people with powerful talents can indeed do whatever they want.At the beginning of the third game, the Raptors resolutely only played them on these two points, whether they encountered targeted defense or not.In fact, the Pistons will only double-team the one of them who has the ball, and the other one without the ball will be alone.

This time their double-teaming seems to have lost its effect. Although Tracy McGrady and Carter adopted completely different ways of dealing with double-teaming, the result was the same—they could both send the ball into the basket smoothly, Occasionally fouls.Their sudden outburst has hit the Pistons players hard. Anyone who sees their efforts to achieve the best defense is like paper will definitely have self-doubt, and may even directly lead to the collapse of the team's defensive system.

Seeing McGrady killing all directions on the field, Chang Wei was a little helpless, but also a little relieved. After all, McGrady is a genius trained by him. Can't find North, but his success also means Chang Wei's success, even if it is at the price of the Pistons' backwardness or even failure.

McGrady and Carter teamed up to show the Pistons the importance of talent, and their offense drove the firepower of their teammates.For a team like the Raptors, defense only needs to be passable, and offense is their foundation.So even though the Pistons are scoring continuously, Wilkens still sits firmly on the Diaoyutai, and has no intention of letting the players strengthen their defense.

The Pistons players are actually very helpless. Their defense can no longer be better, but McGrady and Carter are still scoring continuously. This makes the team not only unable to narrow the point difference, but also has a growing trend.If there is only Carter, the Pistons are not very afraid. After all, Carter's three-pointers are relatively average, and he personally prefers to score inside.But McGrady is different. His long-range shots are very lethal, and his sudden pull-up jumper makes every player facing him frown.

The two teamed up to score 24 points in the first quarter, and this was when the substitute player played the last 2 minutes.Driven by them, the Raptors scored 37 points in the first quarter, and although the Pistons also scored 32 points, they spent too much energy defending the Raptors' twin stars. The 32 points were completely exchanged for more offensive rebounds. The number of shots piled up.

During the intermission, Brown originally wanted to criticize the players' defense in the first quarter, but he muttered a few times but did not speak.The opponent scored 37 points in a single quarter. They can't be blamed at all. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the defensive strength of the Pistons has hardly dropped compared with the previous game, but the opponent can score under such strict defense. What does this mean?
Although Brown has always valued the talent of the players, he did not put it at the forefront, but this time he began to have a little doubt about his philosophy.In many cases, the Pistons players have already defended in place, but McGrady and the others can always make all kinds of unimaginable moves and score the ball in unimaginable ways. This is completely a manifestation of their personal ability.

Brown vaguely knew the relationship between Chang Wei and McGrady. He turned his head and asked a little lonely: "Chang, do you think talent can really determine the upper limit of a team? If this is the case, is the Pistons Doomed to fail?"

Chang Wei was taken aback, the game is still going on right now?What kind of trouble is your old man suddenly asking such a profound question?But looking at the performance of the players on the field, Chang Wei also guessed something more or less, and he sighed secretly in his heart.

After deliberating for a while, Chang Wei said to Brown: "Coach, Tracy is indeed a very talented guy. I even believe that his talent can be ranked first in NBA history, but the reason why he is today is because of his talent." Part of the reason is that he is willing to devote himself to training and has a strong desire to win."

"As a professional trainer, I never deny the importance of talent, but not everyone can do it if you want to exchange talent into strength. Coach, the Pistons are a team with the potential to build a dynasty, Chauncey Their talents are not as good as Tracy's, but they are not mediocre, as long as they train well, they can completely follow the current direction to forge a new path."

Brown looked steadily at Chang Wei, sighed and said, "I hope so..."

Having said that, McGrady still proved the importance of talent in this game. Facing the strict defense of the Pistons, he scored 42 points, 37 rebounds and 13 assists in 11 minutes. There were 3 steals and 2 blocked shots, and another Raptors star, Carter, also scored 27 points, 11 rebounds and 3 assists.Many stars suffered a big loss against the Pistons this season, and the Raptors' double stars can do this enough to make them proud.

Even so, the final score of this game was only 101 to 97, and the Raptors narrowly won by 4 points, which also means that the Pistons also have the same strength as them.What Chang Wei said to Brown before was not all to comfort him. It is true that talent is very important to professional players, but it is also very reasonable to make up for one's weakness with hard work. Players who can make it to the NBA will more or less have some talent, as long as they can give full play to it. Their own characteristics can be combined to compete with top stars.Although this game was lost, the Pistons once again proved that the strength of the grassroots team cannot be underestimated.

(End of this chapter)