basketball hero

Chapter 411 Core Strength Gap

The two sides entered the rotation stage. The Raptors' Barbosa and Bayless joined forces to fight against the Nuggets' Rudy Fernandez and Corey Brewer.

Ying Xiong played with 2 minutes and 8 seconds left in the second quarter.

The Nuggets let Gallinari defend Yingxiong in the first quarter, and was beaten by Yingxiong many times, but they did not plan to switch defenses.In George Karl's view, the current situation has not yet reached the time to change the defensive strategy.What's more, Gallinari, as the team's new core, is also arrogant. Facing the competitor Ying Xiong, he naturally does not want to replace Ying Xiong with others.

In the NBA, being a head coach is not only a technical job, but also an interpersonal job. If there is a conflict with the core of the team, the high probability of leaving is the coach, not the player.If the team's record is not good, get out of class, if they get along with star players, get out of class, if they get along with the management team, they will get out of class...

——This makes the coach of the NBA a high-risk position, but the generous salary and sense of accomplishment make this position still attract many excellent coaches.

For various reasons, the playing time of the centers of the two teams has been greatly shortened, so at this time they are playing in a more mobile lineup.For the Raptors, Ed Davis is playing center and James Johnson is power forward; for the Nuggets, Nene is playing center and Al Harrington is power forward.

At this time, the score on the court was 32:28, and the Raptors led by 4 points.

Calderon dribbled the ball across half court and found Yingxiong at the top of the arc.

Faced with Gallinari's defense, Ying Xiong did not choose to turn his back to catch the ball, but chose to keep moving without the ball, looking for opportunities to catch and attack.He is very smart, so he naturally doesn't want to consume a lot of physical energy in hand-to-hand combat with a huge heavy striker.Using one's strengths to attack the opponent's weakness is not to be afraid of the opponent, but to use it rationally.

Ying Xiong received the ball and ran a pick-and-roll with Ed Davis. Taking advantage of the delay of the pick-and-roll, he changed direction with one hand and accelerated, heading all the way to the inside.At the moment when the opponent's attention was attracted by him, a slam was given to Ed Davis who was down, and the latter directly attacked the frame and dunked with both hands!

George Karl on the sidelines frowned angrily, dissatisfied with the players' defense this time.During training, he repeatedly emphasized the need to pay attention to the communication and cooperation between teammates when defending this partial 2-on-2 pick-and-roll cooperation, and to guard against people and not run with the ball.But once on the court, the players will still be fooled. Sometimes the coach is very helpless, and the execution of the players is not in place, which is the most depressing.

On the Nuggets side, Ed Davis was forced inside and inside, and Gallinari, who was double-teamed and then distributed the ball to the outside, received the ball and carried a dynamite bag to kill the inside, causing Ying Xiong's foul.

Gallinari did not take advantage of the opponents on both ends of the offense and defense in this game. In front of the home fans, he did not want to be completely outmatched by Yingxiong, so he used 120% of his strength whenever he had a chance.

Gallinari made two free throws!

Calderon dribbled the ball halfway and gave it to DeRozan.After DeRozan failed in singles, James Johnson scored high.

Ying Xiong slid to the bottom line to receive a direct pass from James Johnson. Nene blocked the sneak attack at the basket.

Ying Xiong missed the first free throw and made the second free throw!
The point difference between the two sides has not widened. This side has an advantage inside and inside, and Yingxiong can't defend against Gallinari or misplaced the Nuggets over there.

As a result, at the end of halftime, the Raptors led the Nuggets by 49 points at 44:5.

At the beginning of the third quarter, the two sides sent out a starting lineup.

Calderon came over with a dribble, and Ying Xiong came out to catch the ball.

Alongre came out for the pick-and-roll, and his pick-and-roll quality was much better than that of Bargnani, so Ying Xiong accelerated straight forward.Mozgov had no choice but to switch defenses, but couldn't keep up.

Ying Xiong rushed to the inside with the ball, facing Nene's defense, drifted his left hand and made a layup and hit the rebound!
At 51:44, the point difference widened to 7 points.

Here, Nei Nei also scored 2 points in the inside attack.

Calderon dribbles over and hands DeRozan, who continues to hand James Johnson.

Ying Xiong made an empty cut without the ball, and James Johnson's pass was in place.

After Ying Xiong received the ball, he pointed to Calderon on the outside. The latter caught the ball and made a 3-point shot-missed!
Ying Xiong grabbed a long rebound in the frontcourt, withdrew from the 3-point line, and made a 3-point shot-hit!
Here Nene continued to attack and missed, James Johnson took the rebound and made a long pass to Ying Xiong who was going down the frontcourt.

Ying Xiong jumped up to catch the ball while running. After coming down, he pulled the ball with his left hand and turned around to pass Afflalo who came to steal the ball. He quickly took the ball to the basket and dunked successfully with one-handed tomahawk!
The point difference was widened to 10 points!This is the first time the game has reached a double-digit point difference!
George Karl was very dissatisfied with the team's performance and immediately requested a timeout!
Facing Ying Xiong, who was almost difficult to defend, the fans felt a little helpless. At this time, some of them began to miss Anthony.Gallinari is very good, but his ability to force offense and score points is far behind Anthony.If Anthony was there, he would definitely not allow Yingxiong to attack so recklessly, and would definitely respond in time.

——But the Sri Lankan is gone, and it doesn't make any sense to miss him any more.

After the timeout, the Nuggets continued the iron barrel formation in the first quarter, defending Yingxiong alone, locking the inside line, and releasing DeRozan's 3 points.But this time, they still didn't get any good results.Ying Xiong hit Gallinari consecutively in singles and succeeded in mid-range and long-distance consecutively.Although on the offensive end, Nene can bully and bully James Johnson to score points.But when the Raptors also began to empty Andre Miller and Mozgov and limit Nene, the Nuggets' offense began to be constipated.

The Nuggets were constipated in their own offense, and the defense really couldn't stop the bleeding, so one went up and down, and the point difference began to widen.

In the next game, although the Nuggets' substitute played strongly and recovered some points, the team's general situation was gone and it was irreversible.At this time, this team lacks superstars, and the shortcomings of lack of scoring explosiveness are infinitely magnified.

The game is not over yet, many fans have left early.The fans are not disappointed with this team, because the strength of the lineup on paper is just that, they are just a little envious, and even jealous that the Raptors have such a young and powerful core.

In the end, the Raptors easily defeated the Nuggets away by 12 points and won what was considered a close game before the game.Ying Xiong overwhelmed Gallinari with his outstanding performance and became the biggest contributor to the team's victory.

In this game, Ying Xiong played 33 minutes and made 24 of 14 shots, including 3 of 8 three-pointers and 5 free throws. He scored 5 points, 38 rebounds, 10 assists, 7 steals and 3 blocks. In the absence of Bargnani, he fully assumed the main firepower output in the team.

(End of this chapter)