The first half ended, and the New York Knicks scored just 50 points.

Basketball in the early 1940s, scored 50 points in the half, which was simply an astronomical figure.

The New York Knicks used new tactics, coupled with the Pistons' response to the disadvantage, which resulted in this result.

During the halftime break, the players returned to the locker room, and the audience began to discuss the first half.

"Unknown to me, the first half was over! The New York team actually scored 50 points! It's so strong!"

"Do you think this basketball game is completely different from the basketball game I watched before?"

"Today's basketball game is not slow at all, and the pace is much faster than before!"

"That's right. The player attacked quickly after getting the ball and did not keep passing the ball. Such a game is indeed much better."

"I really have no interest in seeing such a game, the kind of basketball game that was dragging in the past. It's so great now. The offense is overwhelming, but it's much more exciting than before!"

Basketball under the new rules has indeed a much faster offensive rhythm than previous basketballs, especially with the support of 24-second offense, which forces the team to launch an offensive as quickly as possible. This increases the difficulty for the team, but it is a blessing for fans.

Almost all sports, the offensive viewing is better than the defensive viewing, and this is even more so in basketball, a sport that requires dozens of ball rights conversion in a game. Basketball, without offense, there is no viewing. If you count the teams that win championships with strong defense, even if you can win honors, they are not as good as those teams that are promising offensively.

The management of the NBA has obviously realized this a long time ago. The rules modifications in recent years have also been encouraging offense. For example, after grabbing a frontcourt rebound, the offensive time is reset to 14 seconds; for example, the referee's various "body hair foul" judgments on the penalty scale, resulting in many minor physical contact not being considered fouls, thus causing the defender to give up that kind of iron-blooded defense.

The management of the NBA knows that audiences like to see more offenses and faster game rhythms, so they have to make improvements in this direction, even if some of the modifications are actually not conducive to the development of basketball.

After all, NBA is a business alliance, and everything is based on "money". It is understandable that they modify basketball rules based on business elements.

However, it is precisely because the NBA's modification of basketball rules is based on business considerations that many veteran old fans have a feeling that the NBA is becoming less and less beautiful and boring now.

The defense intensity of the NBA in the 1990s was indeed very extreme and perverted. For many old fans who started watching football in the 1990s, the NBA now may be more like a show. Although the players' data are very beautiful, and even a lot of incredible data continue to appear, the excessive protection of the offensive rules has greatly reduced the overall viewing of the NBA.

In the past, NBA defense was the cheapest way to win games. For example, in the Pistons team in 2004, a group of defensive players gathered together and could win the championship with low salaries, because the salary of defensive players is always lower than that of offensive players. Therefore, in that era, small teams rely on strong defense and do not have to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in luxury taxes, and can survive well.

However, the current NBA has greatly increased its defense restrictions. In this case, defense cannot bring victory, so everyone can only compare to offense. The best offensive guarantee is to let more experts gather in a team, and therefore the situation of stars joining together is becoming more and more common. For example, in the past two years when the Golden State Warriors were killing all sides, if a team wants to win the championship, then they must beat the Golden State Warriors. If they want to beat the Golden State Warriors, the first thing they need to ensure is the team's firepower output and cannot lose to Curryga, the god of Tom Gadurant.

As a result, recruiting more stars has become the team building idea for winning teams. Those small teams do not have that much money to strengthen, so they can only be beaten by strong teams. As a result, the gap between teams is getting bigger and bigger. Strong teams face weak teams, and they are paddled in the first and second quarters, and clocked in for three quarters to take off their opponents, which has become the norm. One-sided game, the score difference between 20 and 30 points makes fans lose interest in watching the game.

Too many games have also made fans feel aesthetically tired of the NBA. A team has to play 82 games a season, so losing several of them is not so important. Some unimportant games often fail to work hard. For 48 minutes, including the rest and timeout in the middle, it takes two hours to play. How many fans will watch these 48 minutes of games with great enthusiasm? Perhaps many fans only find a game with a relatively close score in the last five minutes to see the final moment of deciding the victory or defeat. As for the process of the previous 40 minutes, it doesn’t matter whether they watch it or not.

NBA season, the regular season will be played from one team in late October to late April. Perhaps only after the All-Star Game is over, each team enters the sprint stage of the playoffs, the game will appear more exciting and intense, and the teams will fight for the number of seats in the playoffs or the home advantage in the playoffs. Star players begin to burst out with true knowledge. Before the All-Star Game, I don’t know how many powerful players are actually paddling.

In this regard, the NFL in football is much better than the NBA. The NFL playoffs are 15 to 6, and the top two can play one less round of playoffs, so as to wait for the effort. The first in the NFL division is the first, and you must enter the playoffs. In other words, if you are not the first in the division, you can only compete for the two additional places, which will make the competitive pressure greater. In the same division, in order to compete for the playoffs, many enemies in the same division have been created. They are really fighting hard when they meet, and the unlucky division second in the division is also the same. To enter the playoffs, two or three teams have the same results, but because the record in the same division is not as good as others, they cannot enter the playoffs, which is also a common situation. Under this fierce competition, every game cannot be lost.

Compared with this, there are much fewer "grudges" in the NBA, and many teams even deliberately lose some games in order to select their playoff opponents. It is no longer new for Texas to enter the playoffs at the same time. It is not uncommon for five teams in a division to enter the playoffs at the same time. In the 2006 playoffs, five teams in the central region, the Bulls, Cavaliers, Pistons, Pacers and Bucks, entered the playoffs at the same time.

Therefore, the NBA League proposed to modify the playoff promotion rules and regulations, but there is no specific plan yet. The NBA League does not want to see that the team paddled in the regular season, resulting in a decrease in the viewing of the game.

What basketball in the 1930s and 1940s lacked the most is viewing, and both coaches, players and fans have become accustomed to the boring and boring basketball.

Since everyone knows that basketball is so boring and boring, they have not carried out reforms, and it is precisely because there is no business alliance like NBA.

At that time, the ABL League and the NBL League were relatively loose basketball organizations. They organized an alliance to really want to bring everyone together to play games instead of profitable commercial alliances. For example, the directors who are now filming art films are not to make money, so they don’t need to care about box office revenue, they just need to shoot the literary style in their hearts. Therefore, there will always be a lot of art films that the audience cannot understand.

Without the entanglement of interests, there will be no motivation for progress. Without commercial alliances, basketball naturally does not need reform.

In this regard, the development of basketball is really thanks to the NBA's commercial operation alliance. If NBA had not needed to make money, there might not have been any modification of basketball rules, and basketball would have no source of progress.

...

The 20,000 fans in Madison Square Garden obviously like basketball under this new rule. The faster offensive rhythm and more goals are catered to the fans' tastes.

In the locker room, Pistons head coach Carter Bennett was thinking about countermeasures in the second half.

In the first half, the Pistons were already behind a lot, and Carter Bennett didn't want to be beaten in the second half.

In fact, during the game, Carter Bennett had already started thinking about countermeasures, but due to his understanding and understanding of basketball, he did not come up with a way to deal with it. Now that it was time for halftime and entered the locker room, Carter Bennett could finally calm down and think about what methods to use to deal with the Knicks' quick breakthrough.

Although Carter Bennett was restricted by the times, he was at least the top basketball coach of this era. So after quietly thinking, Carter Bennett finally thought of a way to deal with it.

"We have to change our defensive strategy." Carter Bennett paused and continued: "In the second half, we need to reduce steals on the ball, just like the Knicks, occupy a good position and wait for the opponent's attack."

"At the same time, we have to shrink the defense line to deal with the opponent's fast ball-holding. Under this new rule, the offensive side cannot stay in the three-second zone for too long, so we were blown up several offensive three-second violations in the first half, but the defense side has no time limit, so we have to shrink the defense to within the three-second zone. Once they dribble into the three-second zone, they will face our intensive defense, or even multiple double-teams. We only need to defend them in the three-second zone, so the rule of offensive three-second violations will make them lose the ball."

Obviously, the Knicks' style of standing in position to defend, reminded Carter Bennett, making him realize that with the 24-second offensive rule, it is unnecessary to keep stealing. Anyway, when the 24-second time comes, the opponent has to attack without attacking.

The continuous attack violation was hyped for three seconds, which reminded Carter Bennett that the defenders could stand in the three-second zone indefinitely. As long as they defended within the three-second zone like an iron barrel, the Knicks' breakthrough would be aborted.

After Carter Bennett finished speaking, he made some special tactics, and the time for the halftime break was already here, and the players stood up one after another and returned to the field.

...

At the beginning of the second half, Chen Qiang had already seen that the Pistons had changed their defensive strategy. Their players did not continue to try to intercept the ball, but stood in a position like the Knicks. The Pistons' defense position also shrank within three seconds.

The Knicks' breakthrough style of play was immediately severely hindered. After players broke through to the three-second zone, they often faced the clamping of two opponents, and the players responsible for the empty cut also encountered the Pistons' strict defense, and even if they received the ball, they could not easily score.

The physical fitness of Pistons players is already better than that of the Knicks. In one-on-one situation, it is obviously the Knicks players who suffer.

"It seems I have to play again." Chen Qiang stood up and began to do warm-up exercises on the sidelines.

...

The Knicks substitution, and Chen Qiang walked onto the field.

"Be careful, that Chinese man is on the court. He is the fastest running person in the world. You should add more damage to him!" Carter Bennett shouted at his players.

In the first half, Carter Bennett had already seen Chen Qiang's sharp breakthrough. Whether it was the speed of breakthrough, the skills of breakthrough, and the timing of breaking through the ball, Chen Qiang was better than other Knicks players. At this time, Chen Qiang appeared again, and the Pistons naturally did not dare to take it lightly.

The Pistons were afraid of Chen Qiang's speed, so this time the Pistons' defense shrank very far behind, almost building up two layers of human walls. Even if Chen Qiang successfully broke through the first line of defense, there were defensive players waiting for Chen Qiang behind!

Chen Qiang estimated that it would not be impossible if he forced himself to break through and use his body to eat the other party, but Chen Qiang did not intend to do that.

What Chen Qiang hopes is to reform the entire basketball sport and change the basketball sport. If only a player forced himself to crush the opponent with his body, it will not play a role in reform. Chamberlain, who scored 100 points in a single game, has only one of them in history. One Chamberlain may attract more spectators to watch basketball, but it cannot change the entire basketball sport system.

If you want to reform basketball, you also need to start from the technical and tactical aspects, adopt new tactics, demonstrate new technologies, and use these to promote the development of basketball.

So Chen Qiang planned to take out another weapon and jump shot from the middle distance.

Faced with the Pistons' contraction defense, Chen Qiang stood firm directly at the position he was good at mid-range shots, and then aimed at the basket not far away with his eyes.

At this time, the Pistons were still wondering why Chen Qiang suddenly stopped. Chen Qiang suddenly jumped up and completed the attack with a mid-range shot. The Pistons players did not react at all. No one forward interfered or tried to block.

For Chen Qiang, this is an open shot. Although Chen Qiang cannot guarantee 100% of his open shot, his shooting percentage is still very high.

With a "swoosh", the basketball entered the basket unbiasedly.

The scene was quiet for two seconds before the audience reacted, and then countless screams rang out.

"Oh my god, what did I see just now? At such a distance, he actually shot directly!"

"Far shot, he chose to shoot far, it's really bold enough!"

"Using long-distance shooting as an offensive method is simply gambling!"

"How could anyone use this kind of offense? It's so crazy!"

For people of this era, Chen Qiang's mid-range shot from outside the three-second zone is indeed a "long shot".
Chapter completed!