Basketball: starting from the nerve knife

Chapter 198: The “Turtle Tortoise” and War Spurs who want to find their own way

The first quarter of the game is over.

34 to 27.

The lagging side …

It’s Team Thunder!

The atmosphere at the scene was much cooler than just now.

No wonder…

At that time, the “Thunder Second Youngster” played back and forth with the opposite side, and led by 1 point on the scene.

Then the other party put down Yao Ming, the inner core, and they took the complete body “three youngsters”, which should be an advantage in my game no matter how you look at it!

How so…

They looked to the Knicks’ bench.

Li Wan took the lead and sat down on the bench, Artest on the left-hand side brought him a towel, and Beverly on the right-hand side brought him a glass of Gatorade.

Then sit down with the “left and right protectors” style…

The guy who was like a mad dog on the field also made a provocative gesture towards the audience, and then sat down with a strange smile.

When he smiled, Thunder fans felt that even the use of “mad dog” alone was not enough to fully summarize the crazy level of this guy.

It’s just such a guy who has deflated Westbrook, who averaged 21.8 points and 8.2 assists per game this season.

Several times showed the expression of “is this stupid fork really playing?”

It’s even more impulsive to do things on the field…

This shows what Beverley has broken Westbrook’s mentality into.

Westbrook sat down angrily and clutched the towel in his hand, as hard as he could.

The expression of James Harden next to him was not much better.

He has always played by the rules, and he feels that in the time just now, his bottoms have been seen by the guy on the other side.

With every move he made, the fierce-looking “beast” on the other side was as if he could predict it in advance, limiting him very embarrassed.

The last time he lost so badly, James Harden seriously recalled, it seems that it was the first time he went to a nightclub and met an ordinary leopard-print aunt.

That night, he only had to study.

The expressions of the two people were not very good-looking.

As for “Dalang” Kevin Durant, he felt that he shot 3 of 8 in the first quarter, made 1 of 1 free throw, scored 8 points, and shot 3 of 4, made 2 of 2 free throws, and Li Wan, who scored 9 points, played a five-five…

I have to keep working hard…

His two “younger brothers” are obviously not good tonight!

In the second quarter, he had to try to beat the situation to “64”…

Kevin Durant was full of confidence, but when the second quarter started, he suddenly felt more and more uncomfortable.

Li Wan…

Why are you suddenly working so hard?

Tap!

Hurt!

At 3:15 in the second quarter, after both sides replaced the main player, Li Wan stepped up his defense against Kevin Durant.

Probably from the playoff level, to the Eastern Conference Finals level.

The reason was that Kevin Durant faced Lee Wan twice after the first quarter and hit two difficult goals. Li Wan’s hand was almost poked into his eyes, and this guy was stunned to hit the ball into the basket.

This aroused Li Wan’s interest.

Although Kevin Durant has won the “scoring championship” for many years in a row, his real solution is that after going to the Warriors, a group of people helped him share all kinds of pressure, so that he could concentrate on the offense.

Although he of the Thunder team also entered the finals and had many Western finals, but…

Probably wanting to take on more responsibility, he doesn’t always turn on “Shinigami Mode”.

In short, it doesn’t smell like that!

Therefore, Li Wan has been aiming to climb higher since winning the championship, and in his known script, his main opponents this season should be the Heat’s “Big Three” and the Dallas Mavericks.

Add a Derek Ross at most.

Kevin Durant’s name is not on the target list.

But Kevin Durant suddenly had a little more “death” look, so Li Wan decided to add a little more defensive intensity, just right… Dayao came up, the Knicks have more endpoints on the offensive end, and he can also save some of his energy.

Raising defensive strength to the level of the East and West Finals is a whole new world for Kevin Durant, after all, he has not yet reached the Western Conference Finals, and what kind of intensity it is, he has never seen it.

Naw, now Li Wan has arranged for him.

He was very uncomfortable…

James Harden is just as uncomfortable as Westbrook.

Artest and Beverley were so on the defensive end that they couldn’t form an effective counter-attack.

The Thunder’s reliance on the offensive end is the “Thunder Three Few”.

Now that the “three youngsters” have become “small dishes”, the Thunder’s offense has naturally stagnated.

On the New York Knicks’ side, the outside line was all focused on the defensive end, and the inside Yao supported the basket well, scored continuously, and soon stretched the score to almost 15 points.

This game also gradually lost its suspense.

In the end, the game was over, and the Thunder lost to the New York Knicks by 89-105 and 16 points at their home court.

Li Wan played 37.5 minutes, a new high since December, and cut a “triple-double” of 25 points, 10 rebounds and 11 assists, which was the first time he had scored a “triple-double” since entering December.

But his brightest performance tonight wasn’t on the offensive end, but on the defensive end.

Kevin Durant is averaging 46.2% from the field, 35% from three-pointers, and 88% from the free throw line this season, and scoring cannot be said to be chopping melons and cutting vegetables, it can only be said to be chopping melons and cutting vegetables…

But when he met Li Wan tonight, he was considered to be wilted, shooting a total of 25 times in the game, only hitting 8 of them, and the overall shooting rate was only 32%!

Li Wan did his best on the defensive end, and finally gave the new “scoring king” a taste of the long-lost “rookie game fear”.

That season, because his body was thin and his core strength had not yet improved, he suffered a lot at the confrontation end…

Tonight he was once again feeling ill in the confrontation!

It’s no wonder, it’s really better than static talent, Li Wan is really not much worse than him, Kevin Durant may be taller, and his arm span is also terrifying, but Li Wan’s arm span is equally terrifying, and…

His dynamic talent is even better!

Plus I’ve seen more of the world.

Although they all entered the league in 07, Li Wan is really a teacher teaching students tonight.

In the end, Kevin Durant, the student, was stunned.

This, what kind of defensive intensity is this?

How come you haven’t encountered it before?

I’ve obviously made the playoffs?

For the first time since Kevin Durant finished as the “scoring title”, he felt that he was not yet at the top.

He still has to walk a long way to find the “ultimate body” self.

All……

It’s just beginning.

Another person who feels Cao Dan because of confrontation is Westbrook.

“A turtle” has 17 points and 6 assists tonight, and there is no big problem with these two statistics, but his shooting percentage is only 33.3%, and there are 6 turnovers.

“He’s a mad dog, he’s totally looking for someone to fight, it’s not defense, it’s not basketball! ”

After the game, he also openly shot at Beverley, believing that his movements did not belong to the basketball court.

The first time he played, he was accused by the opposite player, Beverley faced the media a little stage fright, but he cheered himself up in his heart, and said: “This is my style of play, I treat every game as a war, what I have to do is do my best, if the other side thinks I am not doing right, then I am doing it right…”

Just tell the girl if you want it or not, say hate it or like it…

Well, not the same thing!

Anyway, it’s just…

I’m the dumbest, I’ll just prove everything with real deeds.

“I’m not going to change my style of play! ”

Li Wan was also asked by reporters about Beverley’s style of play.

In fact, even if Westbrook doesn’t bombard Beverley, the reporters feel more or less that Beverley’s action scale is a bit large.

This is almost catching up with the action of the late 80s and early 90s.

David Stern himself labeled “18 Forbidden”.

How so…

Started a “renaissance” in the defensive world?

Li Wan smiled.

He won’t whitewash Beverley just because he’s his teammate.

This guy’s movements are really big enough and dirty enough.

But in fact, every team will have one or two such players in the team.

In the 90s, that was the full-time bodyguard for core players.

For them, playing is not their main job, and protecting their boss is the most important thing, which is the key to getting him his next contract.

Like Oakley.

Now the NBA doesn’t have so much violent action, but every team still has such players. Of course, the role is no longer a bodyguard, but a “stalker” who makes the opponent’s core players as irritated as possible.

After Artest retired, Beverley was the one on the Knicks who was responsible for this kind of thing!

Judging from the effect of tonight, he also did a good job.

“A turtle” made him upset, and even cursed in front of the media.

It can be seen how much of a loss I suffered…

Li Wan’s final answer was: “There is not just one Beverley in the NBA, and the reason why he caused such a big dispute is just because he is a rookie, and in the first NBA regular season game of his career, he made a big move… That’s all. ”

Beverley defended Westbrook well, shooting 2 of 5 from the field, scoring 5 points, in addition to 1 assist and 2 steals…

In terms of his responsibilities on the team, plus this is his first NBA regular season game, it’s been really good.

Li Wan can give him a score of 9!

There is 1 point left, left for the future Beverley who has fully grown up.

Dayao had 20 points and 7 rebounds tonight.

Once again, the shooting percentage exceeded 70%!

Since coming to the New York Knicks, he has played one of the most threatening seasons of his career.

Don’t look at the average data per game is not as good as in previous seasons…

But now before the start of each game, the opposite coach will take the initiative to praise Dayao in front of the media.

The reason is also simple:

They found that they had dealt with Dayao before, especially around the front defense…

It’s basically ineffective.

Just like tonight, Perkins desperately went around the front, Yao Ming did not grab the position under the basket with him at all, and directly pulled out, pulling the basket empty.

In the case that another inside line has already been “seduced” by Lewis on the opposite side to go outside the three-point line, Li Wan’s unreasonable breakthrough is even more unreasonable…

In addition, Li Wan’s passing should be as intimate as possible, and even “door-to-door service”, directly “hand-to-hand” passing.

If you dare to wrap him like Westbrook, he will immediately pass the ball to Li Wan, who quickly retreats beyond the three-point line.

If you don’t wrap it…

At the moment, there are really few people in this alliance who can resist Yao Ming’s singles!

No, Minnesota Timberwolves coach Kurt Lambis stripped his hair and could only watch his apprentice Kevin Love being eaten dry and wiped under the basket several times by Dayao.

The New York Knicks easily defeated the Timberwolves 113-100 on the road.

Entering the third season of his career, Kevin Guofu has grown into a “wolf king” this season, averaging 20.2 points, 15.5 rebounds and 2.5 assists per game, ranking out on the list of rebounds per game.

To say that the Timberwolves were also really able to brush.

Even in this game, which was played by Yao Ming as a “teaching bureau”, he still grabbed 12 rebounds!

It’s just that the score is a little worse, only 10 points.

That’s half as much as his season average.

However, Love originally averaged only 47.4% per game this season…

In terms of interior position, his hit rate is low.

It can also be seen from this hit rate that Love mainly has more shots.

Otherwise, it would not be possible to play such a dominant statistic, and the Timberwolves are still angrily rushing for the “champion signing”.

The problem with Love is that there are not many means of scoring, especially less means of holding the ball…

Any absolute core that lacks the ability to hold the ball will not be able to support a team.

Dayao once again showed his absolute dominance on the inside.

But the next game against the Jazz, he suffered.

Because he met Al Jefferson!

When it comes to the real nemesis, this guy is the inside player who most restrains Yao Ming.

And it’s a double restraint on the defensive end, as well as on the offensive end…

The New York Knicks got off to a bad start, and D’Antoni took the game down at 5:14 in the first quarter.

Start using the “Kombat Whirlwind” against the opposite Jazz.

Al Jefferson is also essentially a “big tonnage interior player” who doesn’t move very fast.

Coupled with Delon Williams being caught up in unlimited singles, the New York Knicks narrowly won the game 113-95.

Dayao ended up playing only 10 minutes and 15 seconds, and D’Antoni didn’t let him play much after winning the first quarter… Since there is indeed restraint, it is better to arrange rotational rest.

Dayao has no opinion, he is this age, he can no longer specifically ask for his playing time in order to prove himself, disrupting the manager’s plan.

Moreover……

He also knew it was hard for him to hit Al Jefferson…

Li Wan finally took the New York Knicks to run a whole game, all the ball was concentrated together, the “D’Antoni system” infinitely elevated the characteristics of ball carrier data, once again reflected, Li Wan cut 35 points, 11 rebounds and 15 assists in the game “super luxury data”!

Won his second “triple-double” in December.

Plus 12 “triple-doubles” in November.

Li Wan’s “triple-double” number this season has come to 14!

That’s more than a lot of players combined.

Westbrook, who was far away in Oklahoma, watched tonight’s Knicks-Jazz game.

Since the last time he played with the Knicks, Westbrook has often had the same dream, and there are always such pictures in dreams:

Yao Ming took the place of the card, and then Li Wanyi jumped up and snatched this rebound…

Well……

It was the scene he saw with his own eyes during the game.

In fact, he didn’t just see this scene once in that game… Otherwise, he would not have been so impressed.

And every time, Li Wan, who took the rebound, can always quickly put into the counterattack…

The New York Knicks have played this way several times!

One thing Westbrook knows very well is that he can never be a player like Jason Kidd, he is not a qualified playmaker, and he can watch the basket more often than his teammates!

He has always thought that a number one like him must take a path that belongs to his style, otherwise he is not destined to succeed.

And now…

He seems to have found his own path…

Especially after watching tonight’s game between the New York Knicks and the Jazz, he was even more determined to take the road of Li Wan.

Of course, he has to come out of his own style!

He doesn’t plan to be the next “Li Wan”…

Although this guy is bright enough, “Turtle Turtle” still wants to be the next self!

Take its essence, remove its dross, imitate and surpass!

Delon Williams also had good numbers for this game, 25 points and 9 assists, but only shot about 35% from the field…

In fact, this season to now, “Little Fat” has changed a lot.

It may be that Boozer’s departure has left him unhappy with management, and he has been a bit free of himself this season.

Even the old boss is no longer so harmonious, including this game, and you can see what he says to Jerry Sloan in dissatisfaction. And when he came on the court, he became even more intense, constantly singled, and the New York Knicks also completely opened the score at this time.

According to the current situation, the incident in Li Wan’s memory should be staged on time.

In Li Wan’s opinion, Delong Williams is a little confused about how many pounds he has, and of course, he is also a little unlucky…

But if he doesn’t fight with the old coach, he can brush for at least another two years, maybe meet two good teammates, and his career status can be higher.

At least, Chris Paul won’t just be “fleeting”!

It’s also possible to be a pain forever for Chris Paul’s entire career…

It’s just that at this moment, he really can’t be persuaded by anyone, personality determines everything, and the influence of some choices in the expansion period is huge.

And now, Delon Williams is in such a period of expansion.

But……

Let’s make a fuss!

Li Wan has always felt that the Knicks could be better on the defensive end and needs a defensive coach to teach them.

Is there anything better to do than Jerry Sloan?

At the same time, he can also bring that iron-blooded spirit!

Both of these things are needed by the New York Knicks…

Of course, it is really not certain whether you can invite this big Buddha at that time!

Li Wan did not continue to think about this matter.

After defeating the Jazz, the New York Knicks moved to Memphis to challenge the Grizzlies.

The day before the game, Mike Conley drove a Lexus given by Li Wan and invited him to dinner.

The Grizzlies also officially made the playoffs this season and are currently eighth in the West.

Although it was only December, it was still early for the playoffs, but if he did, it would be the first time in Conley’s career that he made the playoffs.

He was excited.

It has already regarded the Spurs as an imaginary enemy:

“You say, can I complete the ‘Black Eight’ like last year’s Ling? ”

In the eyes, with anticipation!

I have to say, this is also really daring to think…

As far as the Spurs are now sweeping the West, it’s not bad compared to the New York Knicks.

Mike Conley actually dared to beat their idea.

Eventually, though…

They really completed the “Black Eight”!

At this time, Li Wancai reacted, if the Grizzlies are still the same as the original, complete the “Black Eight”, then the league will have a “Black Eight Miracle” for two consecutive years!

This is also a record that is more difficult for the league to break, right?

At that time, the Ohio newspaper is expected to also make a big splash …

To say that this Ohio really does not have any basketball stars who can get their hands on. Even sports stars.

Although players like LeBron James and Curry are Ohio players, the United States values not geography but school.

Jordan, like Jordan, was born in Brooklyn, New York, but everyone tied him to North Carolina and the Bulls.

LeBron and Curry are the same, although they are basketball stars who went out of Ohio, but they have not brought any honor to Ohio, so over the years, Li Wan and others, who won the first NCAA championship in the history of Ohio University, are the main targets of Ohio media coverage of NBA content.

Of course, the main thing is Li Wan!

No way, it’s too dazzling!

There was a lot of laughter at the dinner table, and there was a lot of alumni love, but when the game began, Mike Conley was full of intentions and wanted Li Wan to see his progress.

So far this season, he’s averaging 18.6 points and 6.1 assists per game.

This statistic originally had to be obtained in the seventh season of his career, and he had to wait until about 10 seasons to exceed it.

Now in the fourth season of his career, he did it…

The biggest part of this is mainly Li Wan’s influence, which made him realize that as the number one, he can also attack the basket as his primary purpose.

This will attract the opponent’s bag more easily.

And as he becomes more autonomous and aggressive on the offensive end, this does not …

The average data per game is coming immediately!

I can’t help but just come up with the data, and even the popularity is much higher.

After all, Mike Conley’s physical fitness is here, but all those who have good physical fitness, except for Marion’s few, rarely score unbeautifully.

Even if the posture is not beautiful, it can be very domineering.

In a word……

No matter from which angle, the outside line that can score is always more popular than the outside line that is always circulating.

Unless you’re Steve Nash, or the “white chocolate” kind of player who makes your teammates extremely comfortable or makes your teammates extremely flustered.

But Mike Conley’s desire to show is true, but in the face of Li Wan, he finds…

It’s better to be honest yourself!

Well……

Discovering this, Conley paid the price of 3 hats in a row…

Li Wan: Former teammates always want to show that they are old? Most of the time it is habitual, just give a few big hats.

So much so that although the Grizzlies won the game 99-90, Mike Conley was not happy.

He only scored 15 points and 5 assists, shooting 40% from the field, and ate a total of 4 blocks for Li Wan, all of whom were almost dizzy.

Li Wan cut down 30 points and 10 rebounds in this game, but only had 6 assists…

The teammates are not in form in this game…

Or, unknowingly, into the rhythm of the opposing team, the Grizzlies used a “meat grinder”-like defense, so that the Knicks could never find a coherent offensive feeling.

In addition, Dayao is indeed a little dilemma under the “left and right for men” of Mark Gasol and Zach Randolph. The hit percentage in this game is rare and does not reach 50% …

When Lewis’s slump can’t open up space for Dayao, the Knicks will have no one on the inside to share the pressure on Dayao.

Whether it is Shaq or Kwame, there are problems of their own, big and small.

Coupled with the fact that the score has been very tight in this game, D’Antoni has no chance to constantly change the lineup and try and make mistakes. In this way, the New York Knicks swallowed their second loss of the season.

Back in New York, the Knicks adjusted for the day as they officially met the San Antonio Spurs for the first meeting of the season.

As the first in the East and West, the current first and second in the league, the media has been looking forward to this game for a long time.

Everyone wants to see if the Spurs are running harder this season, or the New York Knicks’ “running combination” is more overwhelming…

To say that Popovich is really a genius.

This summer, the Spurs didn’t have a big deal.

There are no big signings either.

But Popovich was stunned to use the original lineup and several small contracts with the Summer League and the Development League, allowing the team to change its style and complete the transformation of “coming back from the dead”.

It has made the Spurs become the league’s powerhouse again!

Later, many people said that without Tim Duncan, Popovich is nothing, and this is not nonsense…

But in some seasons, it was indeed Popovich who played a big game in the position of head coach and general manager, so that the Spurs had the capital to continue to stand.

The 10~11 season is exactly such a season.

However, he is also blaming himself for last year’s operational mistakes.

The failure of the “big bet” Jefferson left the Spurs’ salary space in question…

The problem is so big that there is no money to rob people overseas, so I can only go to the summer league and the development league to find people.

But Popovich did have dog luck …

Gary Neal is another representative of his work this season, and he did not even enter the draft, playing summer league for the Spurs in the summer, thus earning a salary.

So far this season, he is averaging 9.8 points per game, the perfect backcourt substitute, and such a player, Popovich has only spent 530,000 knives…

It is also he who adds George Hill and Tony Parker and Ginobili, several “backcourt engines” to allow the Spurs’ “classic car” to continue to “charge”.

Of course, the biggest contributor must be Tim Duncan, the Spurs’ eternal “needle in the sea”, and also Popovich’s eternal supporter.

Having lost 4.2kg this summer, he completely gave up his most threatening low-post singles technique and further surrendered the offensive power within the team, becoming a complete blue-collar worker responsible for supporting the entire team’s defense.

This led to a career-low 13.4 points per game!

0.7 steals and 1.9 blocks are his new highs in the past three years…

There are always great players, and great and obedient players really don’t often have.

Popovich Cup does have a set…

Against such a lineup, D’Antonis’ idea was to keep the whole rhythm down.

Judging from the scores of the two teams at the end of the first quarter, the effect was not very satisfactory.

The Spurs led by six points at 37-31.

D’Antoni sighed a little:

The tactical quality of this Spurs team is really too high!

He is also engaged in fast attack.

He knows very well that it is not difficult to get up quickly, but it is difficult to be “fast and not chaotic”.

So in the “D’Antoni fast attack system”, there is absolutely only one ball carrier, and everyone plays tactics around him.

The Spurs are different, they cooperate a lot, but they can still do it on the field, fast and not chaotic, many attacks they are through seven or eight or even a dozen quick passes, passing out of the vacant position…

It was also an eye-opener for D’Antonis.

The New York Knicks also failed to stabilize the situation.

Because the opposite side is passing the pass, it will mess up your entire defensive formation…

Inevitable ups and downs in mentality…

Under this system, it is difficult for Dayao to be as calm as usual.

Seeing this, D’Antoni also very decisively put Dayao off the field.

How to defend, that’s not what D’Antoni is good at.

It was also difficult to rely on Li Wan alone to direct the defensive formation on the field.

D’Antoni decided to start with what he is good at, such as:

Quick-attack!

Since you can’t slow down the whole rhythm, then simply pull the whole rhythm faster!

Li Wan nodded and agreed with D’Antonis.

In fact, the Spurs’ offensive system this season is a pure “small-ball play”, with various passing balls opening up offensive space and relying on defense to fight back…

It is also because the Spurs’ “small-ball play” was “black eight” in the playoffs, which has the popularity of the “small-ball era” because of the lonely saying of “traditional centers”.

There’s no better alternative to the “traditional center-era” style of play than the Grizzlies this season…

But if anything, this point of view is a bit backward.

After all, there is no clear “cylinder” protection mechanism this season, there is no “body hair whistle” that reaches out and fouls, and there is no saying that the interior defense can only “jump vertically”…

These rule changes are the main reason for the complete demise of the “traditional center era”.

The Timberwolves proved to everyone how ridiculous the “reverse version” is!

Curry grabbed 11 rebounds alone, while Gobert and Towns on the opposite side grabbed 10 and another grabbed 4.

The two interior linemen combined, there is no obvious advantage in the number of rebounds…

For such a “small-ball play”, Li Wan agreed with what D’Antoni said:

Fast!

More importantly, this is a regular season, and Li Wan, the end of the Spurs this year, is also very clear, there is no need to let Dayao work hard in such a game, and it is best to have a “vacation break” directly!

After adjustments, the lineup on the New York Knicks’ side is: No. 1 Li Wan, No. 2 Ray Allen, No. 3 Artest, No. 4 Lewis, No. 5 Kwame Brown;

The Spurs’ lineup is: No. 1 Tony Parker, No. 2 George Hill, No. 3 Jefferson, No. 4 Matt Bonner, No. 5 Tim Duncan;

Li Wan pulled the elbow pad…

Come on, then see who can run better!

8 thousand, tomorrow 12 thousand, something today …

(End of chapter)

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