Pistons head coach Carter Bennett sat on the bench and didn't know what to say, and the Pistons players looked at him at a loss. They never thought before the game that the first quarter would be like this.

The Pistons scored 15 points in the first quarter, which is a relatively normal score. 15 points in a quarter, and then a game is 60 points. In basketball in the early 1940s, if the team can score 60 points in a game, it will be considered an average offensive level above.

Considering that the new rules have only 24 seconds of offensive time, this makes the team's offense hastily and the offensive success rate will also decrease. In this case, if you can score 15 points in a quarter of the game, it should be considered to be a relatively excellent performance.

It can be said that after scoring 15 points in the first quarter, the Pistons showed their offensive level. If it were in normal times, whether it was head coach Carter Bennett or Pistons players, they should be satisfied with this.

However, the 27 points in the first quarter made the Pistons unable to satisfy the Pistons. This score of the Knicks means that the Pistons have been completely beaten by the Knicks on the defensive end.

If it is placed in the future NBA, it would be a relatively reasonable result to score 27 points in the first quarter, especially after the second offense has been changed to 14 seconds, and more than 30 points in a single quarter has become a regular operation of each team.

However, this was only 1942, and the score of 27 points in a single quarter was indeed amazing. Under the original basketball rules, the offense was so delayed. It was about the same difficulty as the current 50 points in a single quarter.

What’s more important is the difference between the 12 points!

With a difference of 12 points, four three-pointers can be recovered, and McGrady can earn one more point in 35 seconds. However, in 1942, 12 points was an insurmountable gap. Even if you were given three quarters, you might not be able to recover 12 points. Especially under the old rules, there is no limit on the offensive time. If a team gets a 12-point lead, they will definitely start to delay time and try every means not to attack, so as to maintain the advantage of these 12-pointers until the end of the game.

At this moment, just after the first quarter, the Pistons dug a 12-point pit. Many players felt that there was no hope of victory and were 12 points behind. This game was definitely lost!

As the Pistons head coach, Carter Bennett has more thoughts in his mind than players.

"It's all because of the tactic of dribbling quickly toward the basket! Why did this Chen Qiang come up with such a strange way of playing! Did he want to turn basketball into a sprint?" Carter Bennett said in his heart.

Carter Bennett doesn't know what language to use to describe the tactic of "fast breakthrough". He can only call it "dribbling quickly to the basket". However, as a basketball coach, he has long been sensitive to the reason why the Pistons' defense is hit by the Knicks because of the new tactic used by the Knicks.

"The New Yorker actually came up with a new tactic, so what should I do?" Carter Bennett frowned. For a moment, he couldn't think of a way to deal with it.

From the perspective of the future, basketball coaches in the 1940s were also real. Basketball coaches in that era prefer daily training rather than tactics. Therefore, in basketball in ancient times, tactics were very backward and tactic development was also very backward. In many cases, tactics progress was far from keeping up with the level of players developing new technologies, which also led to many new basketball technologies, because without appropriate tactical matching, they could not achieve the desired effect in the game.

It is precisely because the basketball tactical system has progressed slowly that most basketball coaches would rather stick to the rules. They are not willing to let players create new tactics, nor are they willing to let players try to use new tactics.

Before "Cardinale" Auerbach, the tactical system of basketball has not changed for decades, and the technology used by players has not changed for decades. The only thing that has made progress is the physical fitness of players. As the physical fitness of basketball players improves, players have also become higher, faster and stronger.

In the future, the NBA will undergo a new round of innovations in the tactical system in almost five or six years. For example, in the past five or six years, the Warriors' small ball style can be considered the mainstream in the NBA league; and in another five or six years, the Heat's three giants model leads the trend, and the NBA's mainstream tactical system is also based on this multi-giant model; in another five or six years, the Lakers' Ok combination, the super center and super outside duo combination was the mainstream tactical system at that time...

However, in the first fifty years of the invention of basketball, the development of the tactical system was extremely slow. In that era, if there were no major changes in rules, the tactical system of basketball would only stand still and would not make any progress.

This is also the reason why basketball could not beat baseball and rugby in that era. Baseball and rugby are constantly updating and developing tactical systems, but basketball has not changed at all.

At the same time, this is one of the reasons why basketball cannot beat football. The tactical system of early football has changed a lot. Football in the 1932 Olympics is completely different from football in the 1952 Olympics. Even though World War II broke out during this period, football was still stride forward. For basketball, there is basically no difference between basketball in the 1932 Olympics and basketball in the 1952 Olympics. They are both the same boring, and they are both the same score of 20 to 30 points in a game.

Early basketball is very backward, and this backwardness is holistic, from players to coaches, from technology to rules, from tactics to the entire basketball system, it is lagging behind in all aspects.

It is also because of this backwardness that Carter Bennett, as the head coach of the Pistons, was at a loss when using new tactics against the Knicks. He didn't even have the direction of tactical adjustments. At this time, Carter Bennett performed more like an audience than a team's coach!

...

Meanwhile, at the Ulling Stadium in Washington, the Washington Congressional game is also being played, his opponent is the Baltimore Bullets.

"Cardinale" Arnold Albach looked at his players and encouraged him: "You are doing a good job. After all, we are using a new tactic. It is normal for mistakes to make mistakes. It is beyond my expectations that you can perform like this. And we are in the lead now, and our opponents seem to be unable to find a way to deal with a quick breakthrough!"

At this time, the "Cardinal" Auerbach also began to use the tactic of rapid breakthrough.

The first to use the fast breakthrough tactic in history was Auerbach in 1947. Now Auerbach is the head coach of the Washington Congress and leads the team to play in the professional league. Naturally, he wants to perform well, so he brings the fast breakthrough tactic to his team.

However, Auerbach in 1942 has certainly not as powerful as Auerbach in history as Auerbach in 1947, so the rapid breakthrough tactic he has developed now is not that powerful, and there are even too many details to improve.

It can be said that Auerbach is still exploring a tactical system of rapid breakthroughs. The tactics with a winning rate of more than 80% in 1947 were still in its original stage in 1942.

But even so, the Washington Congress is still ahead of the Baltimore Bullets.

The Washington Congress is a newly established team. If it weren't for the boss Miguel Youlin's plan to use basketball to subsidize the income of the Youlin Stadium, there might not be such a team at all. In this regard, the Washington Congress, like the New York Knicks, Boston Celtics and other teams, has just formed a straw team to make money.

The Baltimore Bullets used to play in the ABL League. Although the management of the ABL League is chaotic and the team is very mobile, it is still a professional basketball league. A team that can play in the Professional Basketball League is not much weaker. As a result, it cannot beat a newly formed straw team like the Washington Congress. It has to be said that the tactics of quick breakthrough are indeed very powerful in this era.

At this time, Auerbach was somewhat complacent about the new tactic he created. As a young coach in his twenties, he created a new tactic, and the effect was very good. He could suppress the Baltimore Bullets, which was enough to make Auerbach feel proud.

"Cardinal" Auerbach was holding the small notebook in his hand and recording the situation of the Washington Congress every time it used the rapid breakthrough tactics. He planned to go back to summarize the tactics and then improve the rapid breakthrough tactics. He did not know that in New York, hundreds of miles away, Chen Qiang had already made a complete rapid breakthrough in actual combat.

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In Madison Square Garden, the Knicks and the Pistons' match came to the second quarter, and the pace of the game was similar to the first quarter. The Pistons used their outstanding personal abilities to score. The Knicks' quick breakthrough and breakthrough pass tactics can still easily tear open the Pistons' defense line.

Chen Qiang still did not play, and he planned to give the players more opportunities to be familiar with tactics. The Knicks' players did not disappoint Chen Qiang. As the game progressed, the Knicks became more and more proficient in the use of quick breakthroughs, and the cooperation between breakthroughs and passes was becoming more and more tacit.

Chen Qiang originally thought that in the face of a new tactic, Pistons head coach Carter Bennett would respond in a very short time. After all, the Pistons of this era are the champion team of the NBL League and can be regarded as one of the strongest professional basketball teams in the world. However, Chen Qiang obviously overestimated Carter Bennett's ability and overestimated the ability of basketball coaches of this era. Until halfway through the second quarter, Carter Bennett still did not make any tactical adjustments.

In the future, this is simply impossible. During the game, the opponent makes tactical changes. Even if he only scores two or three goals in a row with new tactics, the coach will change his playing style, such as asking a timeout to remind the player, or making substitution adjustments.

Now, the Knicks' new tactics have beaten the Pistons for a quarter and a half, but Pistons head coach Carter Bennett has not made any noise. Even if you don't know how to deal with it, at least you have to try to make tactical adjustments, what if it works!

Faced with this situation, Chen Qiang didn't know whether to be happy or depressed.

Happy that if the Pistons head coach does not make adjustments, if he continues to play like this, the game will definitely be missed and the Knicks will definitely win the game.

What’s frustrated is that basketball in the 1940s was so behind that even though it was as strong as the Pistons, they were clearly pressed on the ground and still didn’t know how to change it. This is no longer a problem for a certain player or a coach. Such a basketball sport is not enough to just modify the rules, and it also requires a complete revolution!

In the second half of the second quarter, the players' physical fitness began to decline significantly, and their running was obviously not so active at this time. It is okay for the defensive side to stand well, as long as they stand in a good position, after all, the movement range and movement distance of the defensive side are much smaller than that of the offensive side, but the offensive side is different. They must open up space through movement and create offensive opportunities.

At this stage, both sides' offenses stagnated briefly, and the offensive efficiency also decreased significantly.

However, the situation of the decline in offensive efficiency between the two sides is different. The Knicks' offensive rhythm has problems, which is obviously not as smooth as before, and the shooting rate has also decreased; while the Pistons have led three offensive violations in just three minutes.

The exhaustion of physical strength has seriously reduced the movement ability of the Pistons, which also caused the Pistons players to stay in the three-second zone for longer while attacking, which eventually led to a three-second offensive violation.

An old professional team like the Pistons is definitely not as adaptable to new rules as a newly formed team like the Knicks. Moreover, the Pistons also use the basketball tactics under the old rules. When players are physically energetic, they can forcefully increase their rhythm. However, when players' physical fitness decreases, the offensive rhythm slows down, and there are naturally more three-second violations.

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In the stands, Dwight Clinton Middle School star center Dolf Shayers frowned.

"The rule of the three-second violation of the offensive has been expanded by the three-second zone, which has indeed limited the role of the center in the offense. As before, standing near the basket and waiting for the ball is impossible. Once the center gets the ball, it cannot hesitate at all. You have to launch an attack immediately. This also has higher requirements for the center!"

Dolf Shayes has realized that if the center plays like before, it may eventually become a goalkeeper who defends the basket, and will become unsuccessful during the offense, and even hand over the ball to the opponent for three seconds of offense.

"Under this new rule, the center must change." Dolf Shayes said in his heart.

However, Dolf Shayes is just a middle school student. Although he knows that the center must make changes, his understanding of basketball does not know where to change!

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Chapter completed!