The strongest basket king

Chapter 272 Weaknesses
Knight and Middleton also faced their former clubs, but their condition was not very good after back-to-back.

The Pistons are now backing Ty Lawson, and they played to death at the beginning. Among them, Josh Smith played very well, and he is also a type that is difficult to defend, although he plays the third position in the Pistons.

The Pistons currently have a few scoring points. Ty Lawson, Josh Smith, and Monroe are all types with relatively high ups and downs.

They both had a good touch this time, and they competed with the Nuggets on the field. Teams with a strong offense and a weak defense are prone to play this kind of game, but the Nuggets have a bit of a problem with their outside touch.

The Pistons also had a high standard against Xiang Chu, and Drummond and Monroe dealt with them in a targeted manner.

Xiang Chu beat one of them casually, but both were still troublesome.

And the second-year Drummond has grown a lot, at least he is a qualified meat shield.

In the first quarter, the Nuggets relied on Xiang Chu's efforts to fight the opponent inextricably. In the second quarter, Ty Lawson came and hit 3 three-pointers, and the Pistons immediately took the lead.

Xiang Chu's back-to-back and two black and hard hand-to-hand fights are trivial matters. The Pistons are too accurate. Outside Ty Lawson, Josh Smith, Monroe at the fourth position, and Rodney Smith on the bench Taki got angry.

The key is that they don't rest at all in the six-player rotation. Xiang Chu suspects that the opponent is treating this as a playoff tiebreaker.

The Nuggets really couldn't afford it. When all six opponents scored in double figures, and both of them scored 30+, the Nuggets once again had a losing streak.

Pistons coach Maurice Cheeks was also very excited after the game. They even killed the No. [-] in the Western Conference.

He praised Ty Lawson and Josh Smith as the key points of the team's offensive success, "Lawson took the kind of shots that he would normally be able to hit, and he worked hard in practice. All we need to do is Let him play a consistent game and be the point guard we need him to be."

"Smith can attack the rim and hit the [-]-pointer. I like the way he looks."

"We're winning games at home, we struggled at the beginning of the season, but it's a good feeling to win against a strong Nuggets."

Compared to the Pistons, the Nuggets have only a slight regret about losing the game, but that's it.

The reporter asked about Ty Lawson. Xiang Chu didn't answer whether the deal was correct. He said smartly: "He played well this time, and I bless him. Players in the league are mobile, but no matter where we play, They have to move towards their own goals, and I hope he can find his own goals."

Xiang Chu didn't do it entirely to avoid interview traps. He didn't have any malice towards Ty Lawson. It's just that everyone's styles don't match. If Ty Lawson can be stricter with himself, there should still be progress.

Only one day after the back-to-back away games, the Nuggets came to challenge the Pacers again.

The Pacers are still No. [-] in the East, and their performance this season has been very stable.

The Pacers started the same as last time, and the Nuggets also took Faried back to the fourth position.

The Nuggets now have two starting lineups. Anyway, whoever plays at the fourth position will passively participate in the offense, and there will be no fluctuations.

Unexpectedly, there was a problem in the first quarter of the game. David West blasted Faried to scum, and 17 points in a single quarter was an exaggeration.

Xiang Chu tried hard to fight against the two insiders for a whole quarter, but the team still fell behind.

And this time, Xiang Chu already felt physically tired.

Three away games in four days is really tiring.

In the second quarter, Xiang Chu came from behind, with 22 points in the half, the highest of the two teams, but the Nuggets were already behind by double digits. They restricted David West in the second quarter, but the Pacers played an extremely team Cooperate.

In the third quarter, Xiang Chu's efficiency also dropped somewhat, but the Pacers were still fully blossoming.

The Nuggets' players were completely distorted in their shooting movements in the fierce confrontation. More than half of their shooters are not good at hand-to-hand combat. Without Xiang Chu to help them open up space, their efficiency will be much lower.

In this game, the Nuggets lost again, and the loss was worse than the previous two games.

There is really a difference between home and away games, especially against an offensive meat grinder like the Pacers.

"The pseudo-strong team, the Nuggets finally showed their true colors."

"Modern basketball, with the center as the core, can't go further."

"Only at the basket is behind the times, and Xiang Chu's weakness has been exposed to everyone's sight."

"The tactics are simple, the ability to handle the ball is poor, a good start does not mean a good end."

"The Nuggets don't have a real second, which will limit them from being a top-tier team."

"George Karl is just a mediocre coach with a reputation as a coach with thousands of wins. He can't lead the team to further progress."

"The evil results of the Nuggets' summer operation finally appeared. Lou Williams could not save the Nuggets, and the poor management ruined a once strong team."

After the three-game losing streak, all kinds of remarks that had been held back for a long time jumped out one after another.

There are old tunes repeated and new accusations, but basically they are the same.

Xiang Chu didn't say anything to the reporter, but just posted a screenshot of the western rankings on social media.

The record is there, although there may be a bit of luck, but the Spurs, Thunder and Trail Blazers have also lost in the past few days, and the Nuggets are still number one in the Western Conference.

Of course, everyone's victory is approaching, and they must make adjustments.

On the surface, Xiang Chu dismissed the doubts from the outside, but in terms of team training, he has higher demands on himself and his teammates.

Although they were tired from playing away games, they did lose a bit miserably.

In fact, some of the remarks made against them cannot be completely wrong.

For example, those who discovered Xiang Chu's weakness, some people came up with the previous tactics again.

It is the set of weak links of human shield confrontation and external attack. In fact, this set cannot be wrong, but the comparison of double standards only focuses on one aspect.

For the Nuggets, there is actually a wake-up call in this regard.

Those opponents who have lost three games in a row, indeed, all have the front-line meat shields in the team, Chandler, Drummond, Hibbert, and the outside line also seized the Nuggets' defensive weakness, although the Nuggets themselves There was a problem, but it did suffer.

Seeing the shortcomings, we must find a way to make up for them. After Xiang Chu's training, George Karl talked about this issue.

Offense, pace, defense, nothing else.

In fact, apart from the meat shields, those teams also have a strong fourth position. Compared with the meat shield and the outside line, the fourth position is the key issue. Trading is impossible, and there are few good fourth positions.

What the team has to do is to grasp the rhythm. If the offense is good, it will attack the opponent. If the offensive feel is not good, it must pay attention to the defensive rhythm.

As long as the mentality is correct, those problems will not affect the team's pace.

(End of this chapter)