rpbooks Chapter 367 Piston's Counterattack
Chapter 367 Piston's Counterattack
Chapter 367 Piston's Counterattack
Gao Tian watched himself make another shot, but still hit the ball that came out after a circle on the basket. He felt very helpless in his heart. This was his fourth three-point shot in this game, but he still made another three-pointer. Hit the iron, but his state has been poor in recent days, but judging from the results of the game, this does not seem to be a bad thing for the Bobcats, at least whether it is excellent performance, but in this game, the Pistons began to focus on James. Well, Sun Yue and Yi Jianlian, who have always had a stable output, both helped the team win.
Although the game reached the fourth quarter, Zhan En could no longer score and assist as strongly as before, but Sun Yue and Yi Jianlian stood up at this time, or they were just when Tian and Zhan En were out of order, He has stabilized his own performance, whether it is Sun Yue using the three-pointer he is not good at to force the Pistons to expand and change the Pistons' defensive formation, or Yi Jianlian's continuous single-handedly looking for misplacements. When he scored eight points in a row, the Pistons The head coach Saunders called a timeout to interrupt Yi Jianlian's offensive.
They all contributed these key strengths to the team in this game. At least the Bobcats were still only less than ten points behind the Pistons with 8 minutes left in the fourth quarter. This point difference is still within a catchable range Within the period, if it wasn't for Sun Yue and Yi Jianlian who were not afraid of the Pistons' defense, the Bobcats might have announced their surrender by now.
The team's star outside three-point shooting percentage dropped from 42.3% to 30%. Any team's offense will have a big problem. Originally in the third quarter of the game, the team's point difference was about to be widened to two. At ten minutes, Stotts had already set his sights on Hill and Webb, who had been talking and laughing on the bench, but after thinking about it, he finally gave up and let Hill and Weber go to Sun Yue and Yi Jianlian. Substitution, not only because Sun Yue and Yi Jianlian proved that they have the strength to help the team, but also because the Pistons have not shown that indomitable momentum so far, which makes people feel as if they are not doing their best.
Stotts is still cautious. He knows that calculations have always existed in the playoffs. If he is not careful, he may fall into the trap of the opponent. When they played against the Spurs in the Western Conference semifinals, they also led 2:0 at that time, but the Spurs easily told everyone in the following games that they were just playing with the Suns.
He knows that the head coach of the Pistons, Sanders, is not an ordinary person. It is very difficult to be able to grasp the current Pistons so well without extraordinary scheming and wisdom. The old guy from the 90s to the present, no one can guess what he is thinking.
What cards do the Pistons have?
Or, are they still trying to figure something out?
"Hamilton's nice cut, Rasheed Wallace very well passed the ball to the basket cut Hamilton, it's a typical Pistons move play, Hamilton layup... oh god, from the bobcats Defender Sun Yue's blocking is much higher than Hamilton's, and he seems to have seen through Hamilton's move, so did the Bobcats see and be able to deal with the Pistons' tactics in the third game?"
"Chauncey, hit 3!"
Sanders felt that the time had come. At this point in the game, he could basically be sure of the Bobcats. If Gao Tian felt unwilling to admit defeat, maybe their strongest strength was like this. After the previous two games, and today He felt that the Bobcats' offense and defense had been thoroughly figured out.
After Sanders signaled to change tactics, the players on the Bobcats felt the pressure instantly. Not only was it more difficult on the offensive end, but the speed and quality of the Pistons defense were better than before, and the rotation was faster, which made the Bobcats The offense stagnated to a certain extent, and they handed the ball to Yi Jianlian in time for singles. At this time, they would rather let go of the Bobcats' outside players, and let Rasheed Wallace rush over to take over Yi Jianlian.
Stotts began to frown. He knew that the Pistons had made up their minds to kill the Bobcats' offense. In other words, according to the current defensive strategy of the Pistons, they tried to reduce the chances and speed of the Bobcats' transition. Without backcourt rebounds, their players will stop the Bobcats' fast break as soon as they go online, because they know that the Bobcats don't feel good outside, so they are completely forcing the Bobcats to play positional warfare.
"Should we put Hill and Webber on now?"
Hearing the words of the Bobcats assistant coach, Stotts hesitated for a moment, and looked at the second elder who had been sitting on the bench as firmly as Mount Tai. He thought about it, but shook his head. The victory of this game is not very important, after all, the Bobcats Now that he holds a two-game lead, he feels that it is necessary for him to experiment. If Gao Tian's touch has always been like this in the next few games, how should the Bobcats win the game.
There is no doubt that playing positional warfare against the Pistons is not something they are good at, so there is only one thing they can do, and that is to grab rebounds and push back!
How can we quickly counterattack under the strategic defense of the Pistons?
He thought for a while, and finally set his eyes on Sun Yue, who was a little tired. Sun Yue's forward height of more than two meters was enough for him to grab rebounds in the Pistons' offense and defeat the Pistons' defense line from the backcourt. With vision, he is definitely the best player in the league for counter-fast breaks, and what the Bobcats need now is his role.
He asked the players on the field to hand over the ball to Sun Yue, let the rhythm play, and don't fall into the Pistons' positional conspiracy. Sun Yue did not let him down. Although he is only a rookie, he absolutely Not afraid of any player in the league.
Behind the two wonderful shots, the layup and assist after dribbling past Hamilton and Billups for an open three-pointer directly made the originally good-looking Sanders call a timeout with a black face, which was the last thing he wanted The scene I saw, and the continuous offensive of the Pistons just now, made the Pistons players ignore his defensive requirements. For Sun Yue, he resolutely refused to give him the chance to catch the ball and speed up!
Hamilton, who was reprimanded, quickly recovered his proper state, and his close defense followed Sun Yue closely. He made the Bobcats' offense stagnate again. Even though Zhan En wanted to push the speed, he failed to get in. Not to come, let alone Gao Tian, the two Pistons' attention is always on him. Even in this role, he only scored 18 points, and he made two of eight three-pointers. The Pistons haven't lessened their focus on him, either.
This is a determined decision not to let him score!
Gao Tian was a little speechless, but there was nothing he could do. The playoffs were like this. They were targeted. If they found a weakness, they would definitely catch it, and they would not give up unless they killed their opponent.
In the end, the Pistons defeated the Charlotte Bobcats with a slight advantage of 102:96 in the away game. Jiangxi scored 2:1 in the middle of the game. Those smug Bobcats fans, after all, it doesn't look like their team is going to lose!
(End of this chapter)