Chapter 409 How can this happen?
Many fans have noticed that when Wu Huang warmed up before the game, he put a head-mounted headphone on his head that was enough to blind people's eyes. This Bluetooth headphone, which is extremely good-looking and has a very eye-catching appearance, but has a very low sound quality, is a series recently launched by his company. Although the price is not low, the sound quality can basically be listened to verbs and big words, specifically for groups who do not seek sound quality but only seek appearance. Therefore, the only advantage of this headphone is that it has a high appearance, cool styling and design, which fully caters to the aesthetics of young people. It is the kind of thing that just go along, outsiders will say you are pretending to be compared, and insiders will say you are stupid.
But despite this, this broken thing is still in short supply before it is officially released, and the pre-sale delivery time is almost a month later.
This made the little singer who privately complained that "this broken headphone can only make a sound", stunned. Because judging from this momentum, the product Wu Huang created only has a good appearance but no sound quality, and has a high probability of selling a better sales prospect than the retro-style series she personally supervised.
Taylor Swift and Wu Huang made a series with their own name, but her headphones are just the opposite of Wu Huang Huang. They have sound quality but no appearance, and they are expensive. If she hadn't had the idol effect now, she would probably not be able to sell them at all.
Pacers starters today: George Hill, Paul George, Danny Granger, Taylor Hansbrew, Roy Hibert.
Vogel knew that his inside line lacked an all-around fourth position, and Hansblu had become a shortcoming in his system, but this kind of all-around inside line is rare in the entire league, especially not many fish worth fishing this summer. David West was originally the best choice, but when he went to the Knicks to hug his thighs, the Pacers had no choice but to seduce Nene, so they could only trade money to respond to the emergency.
The defense of the Knicks and Pacers is very similar in some aspects. Both sides rely on the players' personal abilities to support the entire defense, but on the one hand, they use their personal consciousness to conduct small-scale assisted defense and pressing, and on the other hand, they use their personal abilities to find ways to limit the ball to a small area, blocking the opponent's passing routes to force them to fail to run tactics smoothly.
At the beginning of the game, the Knicks' first offense made the Pacers players realize that their defense had not yet reached the real airtight. Wu Huang dribbled into the inside for the first time, and after attracting Hibert's assisting defense, he directly assisted Gasol in a mid-range shot.
"This slit is too big!" After Wu Huang assisted, he did not forget to mock Granger. He felt that the Pacers' shortcomings were not only Hansblu, but also one of the weaknesses of his defense line.
Granger has always been a player with strong offense and weak defense. Even though he is now very active in defense, his defensive ability is barely reaching the B-level. The Pacers' defensive system requires that each player's defensive ability reaches at least B+ level, otherwise they will not be able to kill their opponents and will reveal flaws.
The same is true for the Knicks. Their defense must also require everyone's assistive ability and defense awareness to reach B+ level. Today, their five starting players: Wu Huang, Iguodala, Bathir, David Si, and Gasol. In addition to David Si, they may be better at one-on-one defense, but his assistive defense is at least B-level or above. So the Knicks are stronger in defensive talent now than the Pacers. Their defense looks bad when they play the 76ers in the first round, but it is obvious that the Knicks players think that only attacking is enough to play the 76ers.
After the opening, the Knicks' offense focused on two ribs. Gasol and David West stood here on the left and right today. There were few people standing in the penalty area. Iguodala and Battier were scattered in the bottom corners on both sides, and cut into the basket along the bottom line whenever they had the chance. This three-line offensive tactic is to pull the Pacers' defensive formation apart, thus creating more space for Wu Huang to break through and dribble.
Hibert was originally guarding the penalty area, but facing the Knicks' two reliable inside players who made a mid-range shot, he had to follow out, which greatly reduced the Pacers' deterrence power at the basket, and also made Wu Huang's breakthrough and Iguodala's cutting into the game.
However, the first person in the Knicks team today was David Si. He was known as the king of the ribs when he was in the Hornets. This means that he had an amazing shooting percentage in this position. David Si had a shooting percentage of nearly 55% in the two rib areas in the first two seasons, and no one dared to let him shoot in this area.
Hansblu obviously couldn't handle David Si. The latter used his screen to make two consecutive shots. The Knicks scored 6:0 at the beginning, and Vogel immediately called a timeout.
"Retract the defense line, they want to break through us here, but they are dreaming that we want them to make a living." Vogel first gave the player a bowl of confusion soup, but he actually used a stupid method - Retract the defense line and surrounded the Knicks' two inside lines in the middle, so that they were surrounded on both ribs, and it didn't matter how hard they were inside.
But the problem is that after shrinking the defense, you have to empty the outside and bottom line. If the Knicks show off their power outside the three-point line after the timeout, then today's game will be very troublesome.
"George, Paul, you should pay attention to their passing routes and delay their passing outside the three-point line." Vogel could only pin his hopes on these two disciples who moved quickly and were tall and long in their respective positions. By the way, the names of these two are really easy to mess up. "Second" and "Name" are the same, which is the most sexy.
Paul George and George Hill are still very obedient. The Pacers, the two outside lines, have been fighting for their lives from the first quarter of the game. If they were ordinary teams, they might not have any special responses. They can just play whatever they should. However, the cunning guys of the Knicks played a more hatred dog walking tactic. They used the continuous transfer of the ball to lead the Pacers players to run desperately.
When Vogel saw this scene, he knew in his heart that his players were still too young. Even Granger and Hansblu were not old-fashioned. Most of the players belonged to the younger generation. As a result, they were caught by the Knicks as soon as they started, and it would be difficult to win the game.
Emperor Wu is not an old man, but he is naturally cunning, and his teammates are really old man. Regardless of mentality, skills or experience, the Knicks players have an absolute advantage. They are not in a hurry to attack. It is like playing this game as a game, without any pressure or tension. However, the pressure on the Pacers players is too great, and there are many gaps on both sides. Now, in comparison with this mentality, the gap is naturally widened.
At 7 minutes and 40 seconds in the first quarter, Granger forced a breakthrough on the offensive end, but due to lack of skills, he almost made a mistake and was intercepted. The basketball was forced to the hands of Paul George, who was close to the sideline.
Paul George's position is very awkward, and this is a place where the Knicks had planned it. Before Paul George could observe his teammate's position, he was surrounded by two Knicks players.
Bathil reached out and poked the basketball off. Iguodala immediately picked up the basketball and passed it to Gasol. After the latter passed it again, the basketball had already flown to the midfield. There was no one in front of Emperor Wu. The Knicks easily intercepted the ball and scored two points.
The score was 13:4, and the Pacers played for almost five minutes and only scored 4 points. They had no choice but to attack the Knicks. Even the Knicks players had not yet taken out their pick-and-roll and fast attacks. After the position, they just used a large number of passes that were meaningless to make the Pacers players spin around.
This is obviously not a reflection of the real strength of the two teams. There is a problem with the Pacers' players' performance on the spot. They seem to be unable to play against the defending champion. After the players got the basketball, they feel their minds blank. They dare not play, dare to fight, and dare not show their skills... The operation of the entire team has become extremely stiff, which is obviously a problem with their mentality.
"Is it too weak? Is this the top five defense in the NBA?"
"How do I feel that their defense is not as good as ours?"
"I don't think they are any different from last year."
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The Knicks fans have already started to discuss it, and they also found that the Pacers are outrageously weak today, even worse than the 76ers in the first round. As for the strong defense reported by the media before the game, they can't see it at all. The Knicks fans only saw their players playing with passing balls since the beginning.
But Vogel knew that this situation was normal. Their offense was not comparable to those top teams. The only thing they could do was defense. If they could not play this advantage, it would be even more impossible to make an excellent offense under the chain reaction. A crushing defeat would be inevitable.
"Listen, you seem to be in a misunderstanding. No one can make the opponent unable to shoot. We just need to make their shots uncomfortable and difficult, instead of trying to cover their shots and then lose their position." Vogel saw that his players were too nervous. Although they were running desperately on the court, this kind of mad dog-like playing style was useless in the face of technical flow, and instead made themselves exhausted. Now these players need to relax and use their brains to make correct judgments. They must use their brains to play to have a chance.
There is nothing wrong with this, but bystanders are clear. This is not the case when they are in the position of the player. They can't see clearly where the winning direction is. They have been stunned by the more sophisticated and relaxed Knicks players. Young players like Paul George are almost beaten out of confidence in just a few minutes. He found that he couldn't handle Battier, and could not defend or attack, which made Paul George begin to doubt whether there was any problem with his ability?
Not everyone can handle Bathir. He played very smartly today. Paul George felt very uncomfortable when choosing positions in offense and defense alone. At the same time, he also knew exactly what the flaws of this sophomore rookie were.
Paul George does not have enough ability to break the ball with the ball. He relies more on off-ball cutting and shooting to score. In Battier's eyes, he doesn't like the ball with the ball. The last two are his best defense fields. Therefore, every time he takes offense and defense, Battier can make Paul George feel depressed.
The Pacers' team was in a similar embarrassment. The Knicks players have advantages in personal skills, game experience, offense and defense awareness, and self-confidence. All of these are not just the upper hand. The Knicks began to suppress the Pacers from the first second of the game, and did not give their opponents the chance to show their strengths.
Wu Huang's two three-pointers in the second half of the first quarter made the Pacers' situation worse. What's even more serious is that the offenses of substitutes such as Gallinari did not even have time to breathe.
Garlinari, who had just passed by the best sixth man, performed very well. This guy who was more talented than Paul George in Wu's eyes, at least not disappointed him today. The Italian scored an astonishing 11 points in the second half of the first quarter and the first half of the second quarter, and he had the energy to kill the Pacers alone.
The Pacers still had no power to fight back in the second quarter, and the score gap was widening. New York fans, who were as arrogant as the Holy Master, have begun to ridicule the Pacers players, which has also caused the Indiana players who are a little red-eyed to start to magnify their defensive actions.
Wu Huang's breakthrough at 6 minutes and 05 seconds in the second quarter was knocked to the ground by Granger, which also made Granger suffer a technical foul. Soon, Tony Allen vented his anger for his boss, and the same pounce broke through Granger's eyes, which also made the field see red.
The referee once again showed a technical foul, and the game situation began to show signs of losing control. Many Pacer players saw that they were almost 20+ and had no mentality. They could not accept their performance so badly.
Emperor Wu knew that he had two choices now. He could use the opponent's mentality to frequently use the opportunity to cheat fouls to score points, but he realized that the Holy Master of the porcelain chose to invisibility. For example, he was too lazy to take the risk of winning or losing. At this time, he would let his teammates rush up to harden the anus and become obscene behind him. It was a wise choice.
Gasol also thought so. D'Antoni also saw that his two greedy and fearful death were scared, so in the next game, he used more players who were not afraid of death to be with these two partners. Whiteside and Tony Allen got a lot of playing time.
Today's mustache consciously hides David Si and Iguodala, and he is ready to let these two men take on the responsibility in the next game.
"Isn't it just a rotation? I can do it too!" D'Antoni thought proudly, and he didn't realize how good the cards in his hand were. He probably would have to kill his opponent if he played a few games.
Although Emperor Wu became cowardly, it was not the case in the eyes of the fans. What they saw was that Emperor Wu often dribbled the ball and shuttled freely in the Pacers' defense... This was not cowardly, it was obviously angering. The Holy Master's playing style was full of provocation.
But the insider knew that Wu Huang was just wandering back and forth outside the Pacers' defense line. Even if he occasionally entered the basket, he had no intention of shooting. He would not really go deep into the hinterland to shoot. He just made an arc and ran out just like going in for a walk.
But it has to be said that Wu Huang's solid ball-handling skills and the Pacers' fear of him made him stroll around the penalty area, as long as he did not make a shooting move, the Pacers' players did not dare to go up and press and double-team, because they didn't know what plane the Holy Lord was doing and were worried about a conspiracy.
Wu Huang didn't have any conspiracy? His playing style is purely a pretentious way. After a trip, he not only did not disrupt the opponent's defense line, but instead made his team's offensive position very embarrassing. The only purpose is to make fans think that he is very powerful and awesome. No one can do anything to him if he can run under the opponent's nose.
Wu Huang dares to play like this, not only because the team's leading advantage is big enough, but also because his side can defend the Pacers' offense on the defensive end.
The combination of Whiteside and Gasol had an unexpected effect. These two tall men with a height of 213cm and a wingspan of more than 230cm were on the penalty area. It was really like a cover for the sky and the sun. The Pacers players were unable to attack at all when they were in poor condition. Before the end of the first half, they also got a big hat from Whiteside and Gasol each.
The score was 61:43, and the Knicks entered the second half with a huge advantage of 18 points.
Emperor Wu's data in the first half was very good. In the second quarter, he dribbled the ball to the Pacers' penalty area several times to prove that he was very awesome. Then he ran to the outside line in an extremely vulgar way for his teammates to pass the ball to him. He dribbled the ball to the frontcourt and started watching the show mode.
But the most slutty thing is that this mode of watching the show can still bring him a lot of points. In the second quarter, Wu Huang scored a total of 4 three-pointers, scored 5 three-pointers in the first half, scored 19 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists, and took all the credit on himself in an instant. A large number of Knicks fans thought that the team played so smoothly today, of course it was all the credit of Lord Saint Master.
At this time, we can understand why Owenxue died miserably.
Not everyone can make trouble but can't die, not everyone can get crazy on the court like him and win and win, not everyone can achieve the protagonist mode of "losing teammates in CBA, winning the game is invincible". Only Kobe can do this protagonist halo in the past few years, and even James can only secretly envy him.
Paul George was depressed at the end of the midfield. He couldn't figure out why his team was playing so frustrated today?
"It shouldn't be like this!" Paul George shouted in his heart! When they face the Heat in the regular season, they often have some advantages. But now they are facing the Knicks, why is it so unbearable? Is the defending champion really that powerful?
This problem can only be explained by "playing style". What the Knicks are most afraid of now is sports teams with insufficient IQ balance, which is a bit tricky for old fry like the Spurs. Moreover, their coaches have some conflicts with their own style, so the Knicks are likely to fail when facing such experienced and brainy teams.
Once the Knicks want to win in this situation, they can only rely on Emperor Wu, Iguodala and Gallinari to play hard. This is also the real value of Emperor Wu. He is like a well-educated Liu gangster. He usually likes to reason with you, but once he finds that the truth doesn't make sense, he will become unreasonable than anyone else. So don't think that the Holy Lord really only knows how to watch dramas, grab the merits and mess around.
Today's Pacers are obviously the kind that can be reasoned. In the second half, the Knicks continued to play gentle and harmonious with the other party. Although the Pacers wanted to turn against each other several times in the whole game and push the table and act like a rogue, it's a pity that their fists were not as big as the Knicks, and they soon went back to confront each other.
Chapter completed!