507. Unexpected direction (5600 words)

Liu Xiu made both free throws and the score was 6 to 0.

Nets coach Lawrence Frank was stunned at this time. Why did he start like this? He didn't respond and did not call a timeout.

The players on the Nets were also at a loss. The Trail Blazers continued to attack. Randolph took the ball and turned around and wiped Jason Collins into the inside. Under Mo Ning's defensive defense, he easily scored.

The Trail Blazers started with 8-0, Kidd called a timeout!

Kidd was also stunned just now, otherwise he would have called a timeout after McGrady's foul.

However, with Liu Xiu's free throws and the Trail Blazers' offense this round, Kidd calmed down.

As a veteran in his 11th year of his career, Kidd guessed McGrady's thoughts when Liu Xiu made a free throw.

This guy wants to steal the credit!

Kidd wanted to have a fight, but he held back.

Kenyon Martin left in a hurry, Kidd felt that he had a great responsibility. He lost two finals, and he blamed Kenyon Martin. After Kenyon Martin left, he realized that he had hurt this meritorious teammate who reached the finals. Otherwise, they would have the conditions to trade with McGrady if they kept Kenyon Martin.

Kenyon Martin wouldn't be so afraid of the Trail Blazers' inside line with him.

Thinking about the first time he met Kenyon Martin in his career that suitable for him, how joyful and happy he was at that time. Just like playing with McGrady now, Kidd realized that he was so comfortable with his teammates who had such singles ability.

Kidd returned to the bench and took the tactical board from Lawrence Frank, starting personnel adjustments and tactical arrangements.

McGrady was ready to have a fight, but looking at the tactical arrangement, her eyes widened.

Kidd gave up his core style of playing and changed to a single-based style of playing with McGrady!

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After the timeout, the Trail Blazers did not substitution, and the game only took more than a minute, but Liu Xiu and others reappeared and saw the opponent substitution!

Zhu Wan Howard replaced Jason Collins.

Nets offense.

Kidd advanced to the frontcourt and gave the ball to McGrady, who continued to score singles.

This time Payton did not continue to give Kidd a three-pointer. He knew Kidd was definitely ready, but Kwame Brown's timing for re-defense was better, and he did a great job of re-defense against McGrady. Randolph pushed Mo Ning, who wanted to eat cake, and Richard Jefferson, who was closely followed by Liu Xiu, had no chance.

But Zhu Wan Howard's position moves more than Jason Collins' level. He ran out of the position. McDie tacitly took the ball at the right time. Zhu Wan Howard hit two points longer than the bottom line!

2-8, the Nets finally got the pot!

Replacing Jason Collins with Zhu Wan Howard, the strengthening of the Nets' positional offense was immediate.

In the next few rounds, the Nets played a very efficient offense!

Kidd didn't want to be angry with McGrady. He has worked with McGrady for a season and he already knows McGrady well.

As a high school student, I can't understand human words.

Since McGrady wants to win the credit, let him try it.

When arranging the lineup and tactics, Kidd did not give any trouble to McGrady. Instead, he did his best to understand his teammates, devote his tactical reserves to arrange tactics around McGrady.

To let McGrady give up, Kidd has to make McGrady really give up.

It was the third time to play in the finals, and Kidd's thinking was clearer than the previous two times. His goal was to grab one of the first two away games and not rush for a moment.

Moreover, he also wanted to see if it could work. If it really works, he wouldn't be able to fight like this.

Effective adjustments, Kidd's absolute control over his teammates except McGrady is one of the reasons why the Nets' offense suddenly exploded, but the more important reason is that their style of play caught the Trail Blazers off guard!

Not to mention the Trail Blazers, the Nets didn't know they would play like this before the game.

McGrady has strong singles ability and a great threat. With Kidd helping to mobilize his teammates, Zhu Wan Howard has excellent mid-range shooting ability, Kidd has developed a three-pointer. The three of them are the core of the offensive, and they have created a good opportunity to eat cake for Morning and Richard Jefferson. The entire offense has been flowing. In the 5 minutes after the start, they scored 15 points!

Under the impact of the Nets, the Trail Blazers were a little panicked for a while, and their defense was not good, and their offense was affected.

Fortunately, Liu Xiu remained calm when facing the impact, directed Randolph to increase singles, and relied on Randolph's singles to compete with the Nets, forcing the Nets' defense to close down. In addition, the Nets had to take into account the high-level shooting of Liu Xiu and Payton, the opportunity for the middle distance of the bottom line on both sides came out, and both extramarital madmen made the mid-range shots!

With Zhu Wan Howard, the Nets' positional offense has been strengthened, but the mid-range defense between the two wings has been lost, and the defensive counterattack has been lost, otherwise the point gap can be further narrowed.

After scoring 8 points in a row at the beginning, the Trail Blazers' offense was affected for a while, but it adjusted and scored 11 points after that.

In the first quarter, McGrady's pass through the basket was shot out of bounds by Liu Xiu, who was saved by defending. The referee blew the whistle, and the Trail Blazers led the Nets 19-15 to enter the official timeout with 4 points!

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McGrady was very excited! He was too impatient to lose the score, and now he led the team to recover it!

He made 2 of 4 shots, and at the beginning, he was a tough shot. He made 2 of 3 shots and 2 of 2 free throws, scoring 6 points and 2 assists!

Before, he couldn't really compete with Iverson and Ko because he didn't have a chance.

But now he has it!

If he leads the team to win the championship and wins the FMVP, he will complete a reversal home run, and he will be left behind by two people far away to the top of the active outside player!

After Kidd finished the half-quarter, he would put aside his always dissatisfaction.

This teammate is really strong!

The strongest teammate he has ever partnered with in his life!

Not just the club, Kidd feels that no one is better than McGrady even if he is a teammate in the All-Star Game!

During the adjustment during the suspension period, Kidd continued to strengthen McGrady's dominance, and he completely entered the role of auxiliary control.

Kidd admires Liu Xiu very much for a reason. Liu Xiu is good at playing auxiliary control styles, Kidd is actually particularly good at it. He actually played like that in his rookie year and won the best rookie.

At that time, his auxiliary control targets were Jim Jackson and Marshburn. However, after his rookie season, the then Mavericks coach Dick Mota felt that Jim Jackson and Marshburn were indeed not worthy of Kidd playing auxiliary control, and these two were more suitable to be scorers rather than all-round players, and drastically adjusted the three-man's playing style.

Dick Mota's operation allowed Jim Jackson and Marshburn's scoring ability to be more fully developed, with an All-Star prospect, and at the same time allowed Kidd's organizational offensive talent to be perfectly developed.

It is extremely easy for Kidd to get started after playing the auxiliary control. After playing for two rounds, he found the feeling.

After the official timeout, the Nets coach Kidd continued to act as the head coach's power to adjust personnel. Lawrence Frank did not dare to say anything more. The last coach who opposed Kidd was already by Foel.

Moreover, Kidd's on-the-spot adjustment is indeed a very good executive coaching level.

Nets' lineup: Kidd, McGrady, Richard Jefferson, Clifford Robinson, Jason Collins.

The Trail Blazers sent a combination of Xiao Feishi, Liu Xiu, extrajudicial madman, Raheem, and McDais.

The Nets' offensive change caught the Trail Blazers off guard. Morris Chicks, Huo Tu, Bu Shuai and others did not expect a way to curb the Nets for a while. Since that is the case, the coach boldly chose to fight!

So Kidd started the teaching model again, showing Liu Xiu what historical level auxiliary control is!

But Liu Xiu wasn't going to be beaten!

With Xiao Feishi, Liu Xiu not only can enter the auxiliary role to get a better chance to run without the ball, but the Trail Blazers also have the ability to counterattack and fight offense and defense!

In the second half of the first quarter, the Nets scored 13 points, led by McGrady's 4 points and 1 assist, and Kidd's 3 points and 2 assists, and their score increased to 28 points in a single quarter.

For the Trail Blazers, Liu Xiu scored 4 points and 1 assist during this period, helping the team scored 11 points in 5 minutes, and helping the team maintain the lead.

After the first quarter, the Trail Blazers led the Nets 30-28 and entered the break with two points!

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He made 4 of 7 shots and scored 10 points, 1 rebound, 3 assists and 1 block. McGrady's performance made his teammates extremely excited!

Originally, they were beaten by Kidd and cooperated with McGrady, but in fact they were dissatisfied. Kidd and McGrady, their teammates were obviously more submissive to Kidd. This is the real superstar who led the team in two consecutive finals. Although McGrady has won the scoring king, everyone knows that he is strong, but he thinks McGrady in his heart as a thigh.

But with Kidd's assistance, McGrady won the recognition of his teammates with her strength!

The Nets' mood was particularly high. In the second quarter, the entire Nets team played harder under McGrady's leadership!

In the second quarter, in terms of the temperament it showed, it became more calm, no longer the impetuousness after the start of 8-0, nor the impatientness after being beaten 15-11.

During the break during the holidays, Liu Xiu was called by the coach to discuss how to play. Liu Xiu and the coach agreed that the Nets were about to take shape. Since they didn't understand the current playing style of the Nets and it was difficult to defend, the warden gave an immature suggestion - don't worry, and slowly spend time with the Nets!

The Nets are not a young team, so it is impossible for them to maintain that sharpness.

Calm response is the best choice, and a steady attack and defense battle is exactly what Liu Xiu is good at.

In the first half of the second quarter, the Trail Blazers and the Nets played back and forth. Randolph, who was on the rotation, scored 5 points in a row. The Trail Blazers played the Nets 16-15 in the first half of the quarter. Not only did the Nets overtake the score, they also widened the gap by one point and stopped the Nets, 46-43. The Trail Blazers led the Nets 3 points and entered the official timeout!

However, after the official timeout, McGrady soared, making 3 of 5 shots in half a quarter and scoring 8 points, plus two assists, leading the Nets to score 18 points in the second half of the second quarter!

The Trail Blazers' offensive performance in the second half of the second quarter actually did not decline much. They scored 14 points in 5 minutes and 44 seconds, which was much better than the irritable and panicked performance in the second half of the first quarter, but they were still overtaken.

61-60, the Nets surpassed the Trail Blazers by 1 point to enter the midfield with a score of 33-30 in the second quarter!

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"When we started 8-0, I thought we would break the Nets when we wanted to start, just like the Lakers swept them easily. I didn't expect that they would sound the counterattack horn for them. McGrady's performance was too strong..."

After returning to the locker room, Randolph, who had been in a half, began to complain about the mode.

For him, it was too uncomfortable to be overtaken by the score.

He scored 13 points, 6 rebounds and 2 assists in the half. He and Liu Xiu scored 30 points, 9 rebounds and 7 assists in the half, but were actually overtaken!

McGrady's performance of 22 points, 3 rebounds and 6 assists in the first half made Randolph extremely crazy.

Under McGrady's leadership, the Nets made 24 of 43 shots in the first half, with a shooting percentage of 55.8%. Aside from the two shots at McGrady and Kidd, starting from the timeout at the beginning, the Nets made 24 of 41 shots, with a shooting percentage of 58%!

Liu Xiu's attitude towards being overtaken by the score is very different from Randolph.
To be continued...