Versatile Point Forward

Chapter 325
The Blazers, as the third seed in the Western Conference, faced the sixth-seeded Nuggets in the first round.In fact, the Trail Blazers have a psychological advantage over the Nuggets. In the second game after the All-Star Weekend, Ye Feng led the team to a victory with more than 20 points, and the morale of the team began to improve after that game. got up and secured the third place.

At that time, after the Nuggets sent away the team's top star Anthony, experts believed that their strength would drop sharply, and they might even miss the playoffs. However, the Nuggets still used their team offense to take the No. six position.The main body of this deal is Anthony. In order to trade him, the Nuggets also packaged Billups, Sheldon Williams, Anthony Carter and Reinaldo Balkman.

The Knicks sent almost half of their team and also pulled the Timberwolves. In the end, the Nuggets got rewards: Wilson Chandler, Raymond Felton, Danilo Gallinari, Timofey Mozgov, Costa Koufus and the Knicks' first-round pick in 2014, the Warriors' second-round picks in 2012 and 2013, and 300 million cash. It can be said that the Nuggets have completely changed their appearance. The tactics are also completely different from the original.

Under the guidance of George Karl, the newly joined Gallinari and Chandler became the scoring arrows of the Nuggets, but they seldom played singles with the ball like Anthony. Open shot.Although these two men can only be regarded as second-rate stars in the league, they are extremely powerful after pairing with Carl's running and bombing tactics, making the Nuggets a famous track and field team in the league.

However, the Trail Blazers are not afraid of such a team. They are also an offensive team, but because of the players' own abilities, the defense on the inside and outside is not bad, and even the defense on the outside can be said to be league first class.But relatively speaking, they prefer to play against their opponents, and they are confident that they can get more points than their opponents to win. The score of the last match between the two sides shows a lot of problems.

The first game was held on April 4, local time, at the Rose Garden Arena.After the end of the regular season, the tickets for the first game of the playoffs have been snapped up, and even the VIP tickets for the front row have started to be speculated on the black market.The reason is simple, this is almost the best game in the first round.The Celtics VS Knicks in the East may be a bit interesting. After all, the Knicks formed the twin stars of Anthony and Stoudemire, and their battle against the Celtics' Big Four was quite fierce.

On the night of the game, Trail Blazers fans entered the arena early to find their seats and sat down. Banners and slogans covered the stands of the Rose Garden Arena.Many crazy fans painted their faces with red and white paint, which is obviously the main color of the Trail Blazers logo and jerseys. They use this way to prove their status as diehard fans and hope to support The team won the start of this year's playoffs.

McMillan didn't do anything wrong. The overall strength of the Blazers was higher than that of the Nuggets. There was no need for him to take the lead in changing his lineup and play tricks he hadn't played before.So the Blazers still use the previous starting lineup, point guard Miller, shooting guard Matthews, small forward Ye Feng, power forward Aldridge, and center Camby.Carl of the Nuggets sent the strongest lineup he could send, point guard Lawson, shooting guard Chandler, small forward Gallinari, power forward Kenyon Martin, and center Nene.

In fact, the Nuggets are a very typical lineup of big men. Except for Lawson and Nene, the other three are all wings. Chandler is 2 meters, Martin is 03 meters, and Gallinari is 2 meters.But in Karl's view, they are fully capable of playing Nuggets-style games, and height is not a problem.In fact, this lineup is not the first time the Nuggets have used it. Their performance in the regular season is still very good, which is the root cause of Carl's reassuring start.Moreover, Carl used Gallinari as the third position to match Ye Feng. He believed that the Italian's height could suppress Ye Feng's defense.

But Carl frowned at the beginning of the game. Gallinari did get the ball, but he was also pushed up by Ye Feng while catching the ball, and he was squeezed and couldn't move.For a player like Gallinari, Ye Feng followed the advice given to him by McMillan before the game, and adopted a strategy of letting go and not shooting, completely locking up the space for Gallinari to shoot.Gallinari was very uncomfortable. He knew that if he took off and shot, he would definitely be blocked, but let's break through. He didn't believe in his half-bucket breakthrough skills. In desperation, he had no choice but to hand the ball to Lawson. He reorganized the offense.

Lawson controlled the ball at the top of the arc, scanned left and right, but found that the teammates on the perimeter were all watched by the Blazers, and Martin and Nene were also players who were not very good at shooting. Looking at Miller who was waiting in front of him, He shook his head secretly, now he can only choose to break through by himself.Miller intends to defend Lawson, but he has no other advantages except his height. Lawson is also a small man of 1 meters. After changing directions, he easily shakes Miller and goes straight to the inside.

The Blazers had no one to defend, and they believed in Camby's role at the basket. Sure enough, just as Lawson was about to send the ball into the basket, the experienced Camby waited and slapped Lawson's up. The basket was shot on the backboard, and Aldridge on the side had quick eyes and quick hands, grabbed the position before Martin, and took off the rebound very easily.However, he did not hand it over to Miller, but threw it towards the Nuggets' half court, and a figure quickly advanced like an arrow from the string.

Aldridge's cross-court long pass was just right. Ye Feng received the ball directly outside the three-point line at a 45-degree angle on the left. Chandler, raised his hand and shot a three-pointer.It's not that he doesn't know that the layup has a higher shooting percentage, but this place has entered his shooting range, and the ball is given very comfortably. He subconsciously wants to shoot directly from this position.

Ye Feng knew that someone was chasing him from behind, but he didn't care. Fast-break three-pointers are very difficult to defend. Even if the opponent's defense is in place, due to psychological reasons, their movements are likely to be out of order. At that time, it was easy to make a foul .So Ye Feng resolutely chose a three-point shot. The basketball drew an arc in midair and fell directly into the Nuggets' basket.The moment the ball was scored, the audience roared like a tsunami.

(End of this chapter)