shooting guard era

Chapter 76. Bickerstaff
"Blevin, this way!" Ye Han easily threw off Joe Johnson's defense, and with a wide gap in the corner, he asked for the ball from Blevin Knight.

But the latter didn't seem to hear it. He dribbled around the baseline and ran to the free throw line.

Seeing Blevin Knight's actions, Ye Han knew that he really couldn't pass it on!
Sure enough, things developed as Ye Han expected, Blevin-Knight changed instantly, and he was completely different in the game from before.

A mature player who has been famous for a long time, the thing that the team fears most about him in the game is that he does things that he is not good at.

Because he is not a young player, not a player who is full of talents and needs to exercise his weaknesses, nor is he a superstar who is already good in other aspects and needs to develop new abilities, he has no potential to tap.

It's about Blevin Knight, playing against the Suns today, he seems to be a completely different person, he doesn't pass the ball anymore.

It's not aimed at Okafor, but it really doesn't pass the ball!

Another strong shot against the defense!It was Sean Marion who defended him!
Blevin Knight turned up the arc of his shot.

Seeing Blevin Knight's movement around the inside lane, Ye Han knew that he was going to shoot again. This had happened countless times today, so he immediately rushed into the inside lane.

Unsurprisingly, the deflection is very strong, and will hit the basket!
Marion immediately entered an emergency state of alert to guard against the No. 24 hitting the rebound.

On the other hand, Stoudemire felt bitter. He was a thin power forward who reached the center position and played very happily on the offensive end. He was tortured to death.But if he didn't grab it, he couldn't do it. He was so ruthless that he was entangled with Okafor in this game. He still didn't believe that grabbing rebounds could not grab a rookie.

Facts have proved that Stoudemire really can't grab Okafor. On the rebound side, he can only get tired of getting stuck with Okafor and try to interfere with the opponent's rebounding.

Fortunately, the Suns don't rely on Stoudemire's rebounds. They have super power forward Sean Marion, one of the contenders for the rebounding title.

After judging the landing point, Marion jumped very high, with his long arms stretched out. Even if Garnett and Duncan came to compete with him, it would probably be [-]-[-]. After all, the two big men are not as flexible as him.

but!

Just above Marion's head, a hand that was very fair compared to the black man controlled the ball in the air and directly pushed it back to the basket!
Ye Han made up the buckle through Marion!
"Fuck!" This is the voice of Marion.

Ye Han scored two points again, but this did not have much impact on the big score of the two sides.

Marion wanted to be rude, and his habit of playing fast breaks immediately made him temporarily forget the fact that he was in the background. He immediately picked up the ball and sent it to Nash, and then quickly played it.

Go straight to the person!
Stoudemire caught the ball to attract a double-teamer and gave it to Joe Johnson. The latter made a three-pointer, but Ye Han's brutal dunk just now was in vain.

73 to 49, halfway through the three quarters, the Bobcats have fallen behind by 24 points!The Bobcats' scoring has nothing to do with Blevin Knight. He scored 6 points and 0 assists today, shooting 18 of 2 from the field!Almost all of those points were scored when he was off the court. When he was on the court, he could only rely on Ye Han, Okafor, and Gerald Wallace to hit the second rebound to score.

To beat the Suns, the Bobcats must play well, or even supernormally.Ye Han dominates the offense. Relying on his powerful ability to attract defense, he can still play a good offense, but this good offense obviously cannot be compared with the number one offense in the Sun League.And Blevin Knight turned into a black hole as soon as he played, and if he was not allowed to play, he would have no chance of winning.

In the end, the Bobcats lost.

75 to 115, the Bobcats lost 40 points to the Suns!
Blevin Knight made 22 of 3 shots in the game, and took 24 shots in 22 minutes of playing time. This shooting efficiency, hit 3 times, and this shooting rate, compared with the previous him who averaged no more than ten shots per game, completely Another person.

Blevin-Knight's assist allowed Ye Han and Okafor both to score 20 rebounds today, Ye Han scored 23 points and 20 rebounds, Okafor scored 9 points and 25 rebounds, and the Bobcats rebounded and blasted the Suns.

However, just relying on two people fighting inside, neither one of them can shoot outside.Ye Han was double-teamed when he got the ball from the outside. He played without the ball and Blevin Knight didn't pass.

The Suns seemed to be a three-point team, and Stoudemire showed off on the offensive end of the interior and abused the Bobcats to vent the fact that the rebounds were robbed.

The Suns are one of the rare teams that use three-pointers to kill insiders. Their style of play catches everyone's eyes, including Ye Han.

In this way, Ye Han swallowed a loss under the kind encouragement of Nash, who was very mild-tempered and had 15 points and 15 assists today.

Things didn't end that easily. After the game, Blevin Knight and coach Bickerstaff had a fierce quarrel in the coach's office. The former expressed his strong dissatisfaction. He felt that he was cheated. He came here as a core player, as the leader of the team. This is what he has been looking forward to throughout his career, and he even rejected the tens of millions of annual salaries offered by many teams.

Bickerstaff belatedly sensed that events had been moderated, seeing Brevin Knight's snark fully exposed.

Bickerstaff obviously overestimated his ability to control the team. The head coach he admired very much was Red Auerbach, and he has been imitating the history of the incredible eight consecutive championships. head coach.

Bickerstaff has done a good job in many aspects, giving young players a lot of freedom, tactical arrangements, and rotation adjustments are all good.

But he is not good at controlling people's hearts, and he is far inferior to the Zen master who is at home.

Bickerstaff was right to adjust the roster and transition the team from Blevin Knight to a young core.

But he was in such a hurry!From the formulation of the policy for the first season in the off-season, from the preseason to the implementation of Blevin Knight as the core of the game, and now the regular season has been less than two months, the team began to prepare to abandon this average assists per game The second-ranked point guard in the league, too fast!

The Bobcats are not like last year's Cavaliers. Last year, the Cavaliers were able to change cores so simply because Ricky Davis was not the starting point of the team's offense. James, who is more capable of scoring, can be easily transitioned, and James Still playing point guard.

The Bobcats are different. What they want to marginalize is the core of the offense, the starting point of the team's offense.

At the beginning, there was a dispute between Blevin Knight and Okafor, and later the media revealed that Bickerstaff didn't feel too much wrong.

Which team has no conflict within the team?Kobe and O'Neal almost didn't fight, and they still won three consecutive championships, and they still got it by stepping on Duncan, who may have locked the position of the number one power forward in history in less than ten years.

But when Bickerstaff wanted to talk to Blevin Knight, who revealed the personality of a ruffian, thorny player, he knew the seriousness of the matter.

Bickerstaff recalled what Bobcats scouts had said about Blevin Knight—difficult to coach.

At the beginning, it was a star who wanted to sign immediately, but now it has become difficult to get off.

(End of this chapter)