Chapter 359: Who Will Shoot Three Points in the Bottom Corner?
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In the third quarter, the two brothers' shapeshift* caused the U.S. team to lose the interior line, and NBA stars such as Dream Eight are familiar with the twin brothers, and the technical characteristics of both of them are also clear. So the elder brother suddenly used his younger brother's style of play, and the younger brother suddenly used his brother's skills, and it took the American team half a quarter of the game to readapt.
At the end of the third quarter, the score was 72:66, and the U.S. team actually fell behind by 6 points after three quarters, shocking the glasses of experts in a place.
The Wukesong Arena was filled with cheers from Chinese fans. Harper and his wife stood up and joined the Canadian fans around them in applauding their outstanding home players. Before the game, Bush Jr. believed that Dream Eight was the strongest dream team in the 21st century, and even set up a flag in public, praising "Dream Eight may be the most powerful dream team." ”
Then it is foreseeable that if Dream Eight loses this game, it will definitely be Bush Jr.'s own death, and the indiscriminate flags will basically not end well.
Fourth quarter, U.S. lineup: Delon. Williams, Michael. Reid, Carmelo. Anthony, Chris. Bosh, Carlos. Boozer.
The old K coach regrets the most at the moment is that he did not call the little bully Stoudemire and Duncan, these outstanding interior stars, into the team, I thought that relying on Howard and Bosh, the two young generations, plus Boozer, the veteran, should be enough, but these three inside semifinals were at a disadvantage when facing Spain, and now they are not opponents in the face of Canada.
At the end of the third quarter, Ji Guoqiu scored 22 points, 8 rebounds, 4 assists and 5 blocks, Ji Guoqiu had 16 points, 9 rebounds, 3 assists and 4 blocks, and Nash had 13 points and 4 assists.
For the U.S. team, Kobe Bryant. Bryant had 11 points and two rebounds. James had 8 points, 3 rebounds and 2 assists, Anthony had 8 points and 3 rebounds, and Wade had 12 points. Paul had six points and two assists, and Boozer had six points and four rebounds. Michael. Reid 6 points, Delon. Williams had 4 points and 2 assists, Bosh had 4 points and 1 rebound, and Howard had 2 points, 2 rebounds and 3 blocks.
In the fourth quarter, the U.S. team replaced the boss of the Bucks, the fringe man of the U.S. team, and Yi Jianlian's teammate Michael . Reed.
Coach K thinks that at this time, Reed can play a more lethal threat than the other stars of Dream Eight.
The Canadian team is too protective on the inside. Several outside giants of the U.S. team worked hard for three quarters, but they still can't play in the restricted area, and it is difficult to score points except for the number of blocks to the twin brothers.
In the first half, the U.S. team felt good, and the hidden dangers were not yet visible. After the hand felt down in the third quarter, there were not many ways for Kobe, Wade, James and Anthony, these are all top blacksmiths who have no friends and are not allowed to even smash the basket, all of them are unicorn arms.
Michael. Reed's three-point shot is limited in terms of strength over these four. But he's more suited to this kind of rhythm of the game, he's a goalscorer by nature, and it's the time he plays on the outside that he can't open the inside. Coach K recruited Reed into the team so that he could replace Ray, who refused to join Dream Eight. Alan.
The U.S. continued to hope for a three-pointer in the fourth quarter, and after Reed hit two consecutive shots, the Canadians called a timeout.
Canada reacted quickly and immediately adjusted their defensive set-up against Reid, but after the game restarted, Delon Brown. Williams also hit a shot from beyond the three-point line, and then the little fat man forced Nash to draw a foul and got two free throws.
Seeing this, Triano took the opportunity to replace Nash and rest for a while. But the fact that Nash is there or not has nothing to do with the defensive intensity of Canada's perimeter at all. Canada is not the only one on the outside who is a defensive black hole, and their two guards were blown up and exploded by the American team today. The culprit of Dream Eight's good outside shooting is the Canadian outside CBA-level defensive ability.
The twin brothers successfully blocked the inside line, and if Canada's outside line had been replaced by last season's Clippers' outside combination, the U.S. team might have been on their knees long ago!
The reasonable master sighed: "The Clippers can win the championship, and at the moment, it seems that their outstanding outside defense ability is not a small credit, Artest and Posey's forward pairing, even in the NBA against Pierce and Ray. Allen is only slightly down, and with the twins beating Garnett, the Clippers' point guard has been ravaging opponents again, and the victory is not surprising. ”
Canada had some problems on both ends of the offensive and defensive ends in the fourth quarter, the U.S. team implemented half-court pressing on the defensive end, and Ji Guoyi didn't hit a goal from a distance until 7:05 of the fourth quarter.
With a score of 74:74, the two teams drew again, and the United States team had unknowingly closed the 6-point difference.
Bosh then also scored a goal in the middle distance, the two brothers had nothing to do about it, they could only hold the penalty area and the position close to the penalty area, once the two of them expanded, the United States team was a good breakthrough player on the outside, and the two big butts had to play them to death when the time came, and finally they couldn't defend it inside and out.
A minute later, Nash, who had just rested for two minutes, returned to the game, and the United States team hit one after another on the outside during this time, Triano knew that the Canadian defense would definitely not be able to prevent it, so he could only look forward to attacking and attacking to bite, biting the opponent to form a stalemate, and waiting for the American team to decline.
Moreover, once Canada is not present, the U.S. team can safely flank the twin brothers on the inside, which leads to a chain reaction, and the Canadian triumvirate must be present at the same time to play on the offensive end.
As soon as Nash came on the court, he immediately played a blocking and dismantling cooperation with Ji Guoqiu, and the fake panda received the basketball down, and scored two points with a * throw to the board against the little fat man who changed defenses.
The U.S. team's defense and dismantling are still so clumsy, Canada used a whole game of blocking and dismantling, and the U.S. team still couldn't prevent it in the final quarter.
Coach K looked at Howard, who had already committed four fouls, in fact, Warcraft's anti-blocking and dismantling ability is the top level among the interior players, O'Neal and Yao Ming's anti-blocking and dismantling will make the coach can't help but scratch his hair, but Howard is not afraid, because his mobility is barely the difference between swing people, a little worse than the two brothers, but most of the defensive blocking and dismantling cooperation is enough.
It's a pity that Howard was plagued by a foul crisis on the court today, and he has only played ten minutes of the game so far, holding his breath, and the United States team has no way to face Canada's blocking.
Coach K also had a whim in the third quarter and used Chris. Paul and Bosh, and Delon. Williams and Boozer are real-life partners who are good at blocking and pick-and-roll. Trying to treat others the way they did.
The twins' ability to defend pick-and-rolls was on full display in last season's series against the Jazz. Williams and Carlos. Boozer died at the hands of the two brothers last season and is now on a more favourable Olympic arena. The U.S. team's pick-and-roll combination added two more blocks to the duo, but other than that, it didn't do much.
After the Clippers won the championship last season. Some voices have been ridiculing that the twins are not in top physical condition and lack of strength in the lower body, which is far inferior to the era of the four centers and Hall of Fame power forwards such as Malone and Mourning.
The most common rhetoric of these people is nothing more than that the two brothers' low-post offense is difficult to achieve, and they will only float outside to shoot mid-range and three-pointers, and they can't even rank in the nineties. Today's fans say that these two men are dominant, and that the center is weak because of the development of basketball, and "there are no tigers in the mountains".
In fact, this statement makes a logical mistake, which is to equate offensive and defensive dominance with the ability to dominate the penalty area on the offensive end. Who said that if you are floating, you will not be dominant? As for their criticism of the two brothers' lack of strength in the lower body, they don't know that it is this V-shaped body shape that has created the best pair of interior defensive combinations in a decade.
After Nash came on the court, the Canadian team once again formed a stalemate with the United States on the offensive end, and the two teams were tied in the score, and a battle of offense began in the final quarter.
Coach K called a timeout in the last six minutes of the fourth quarter, and he found that the two brothers' positions could cover the entire box plus the area near the free throw line, which meant that there were basically no blind spots. But there can't be anything perfect in this world, and the old K coach took a closer look and finally found that the only thing that this formation can't take into account is the two bottom corners - Canada's cover door is on the three-point line in the two bottom corners.
It's easy to find a weakness, if the basketball can pass to the two corners to get an open shot. They will have a chance to crack the Canadian team's defense and send the Canadian team back to the west.
After this timeout, the U.S. team changed lineup again, replacing Kobe Bryant and James. Actually, Michael. Reid is more suitable for the tactics of the old K-coach, but he can't always put Kobe and James on the sidelines in the final stage, right?
The coach of the Dream Eight team is so helpless, even if the old K coach is famous enough, he must follow the rules. It is not up to him, the coach, to decide who to enter the U.S. team, but most of them listen to Nike, the biggest sponsor of the Dream Eight team. No matter how good your skills are, as long as you are not a signed player under Nike, you don't want to join the dream team. Even if you enter, you can only be like Michael. Reed plays soy sauce like Monster, and Warcraft's nominal starter, but his real identity is blue-collar. If you are as strong as Wade, you have to play off the bench because Kobe, James, Anthony, Bosh, Paul...... These core strengths are part of the All-Nike umbrella. Howard and Wade, on the other hand, are owned by Adidas.
Speaking of which, the shame of dreams and dreams is not unrelated to the competition of these sports giants. From 2000 to 2006, that is, after the Sydney Olympics, the sponsor of the Dream Team became Reebok, so the core of the Dream Team was naturally Reebok's stars.
But the problem is that the superstars at that time, O'Neal, Duncan, Garnett, Carter, Maddy, Kobe Bryant and others are all important forces for Nike and Adi, if they enter the dream team, they will have to give Iverson a hand, Adi and Nike are naturally unwilling to do this, and only send a few young rookies to do perfunctory.
Therefore, Iverson, as the number one star of Reebok at the Athens Olympics, entered the dream team and assumed the position of captain and core.
But at the same time, O'Neal, Duncan, Garnett, Carter, Maddy, Kobe Bryant and others all refused to play for their country.
Next up at the 2002 World Championships, Byron Brown. Davis is also a Reebok star, and O'Neal, Duncan, Garnett, Carter, Maddy, Kobe and others also did not play.
During this period, the Dream Team was the least stardom, and it was not until after 2006 that this situation changed, when the Dream Team signed a sponsorship contract with Nike in 2006, and then the power of the Dream Team changed dramatically.
First of all, Reebok's stars don't want to come in again, and Adidas stars have to play when they come in. Especially after 2006, Kobe Bryant, who had never participated in the Dream Team, took the initiative to ask Ying to play for his country. Why does Peter Pan, who needs the most exposure when he was young, always close the door to the basketball association, but at this moment, nearly 30 years old have reached the peak of fame, but he has to be so active? The reason for this is certainly worth playing, and there is no second explanation other than Nike behind it.
It is worth mentioning that the jersey sponsor of the Duke Blue Devils has always been Nike, and Lao K is one of the few coaches with a personal sponsorship contract, and the sponsorship brand behind him is naturally Nike.
So it is conceivable how the old K coach can press the stars of Nike on the bench.
The U.S. team switched to the full lineup in the final half of the quarter, and of course, Kidd was replaced by Chris Kidd. Paul replaced, and the old demon will complete the task after playing the first half and the first few minutes of the second half.
Coach K guessed right, the Canadian team's position is indeed afraid of the bottom corner three.
But here's the problem, after the U.S. team restarted, they didn't shoot that damn empty three-point in the bottom corner into the basket, only heard the "bang" of iron on the basket. The bottom corner three-point thing is simply the patent of role players, these stars in the Dream Eight team are either at the top of the arc or on the wings, only in these two positions can they dribble and break through, in order to exert their power, which of the stars is in the bottom corner to break through?
So naturally Kobe Bryant. Bryant lost one first; Then the melon, under the cover of the false fox, almost came to a three-no-stick; In the end, the gorilla was very face-saving, he really threw a three-no-stick, the basketball basket almost hit the head of the panda brother, and the Wujiao Song Arena was full of laughter from Chinese fans and Canadian fans.
At 4 minutes and 40 seconds in the fourth quarter, the score was 83:79, and the United States team missed three consecutive attacks, and the Canadian team immediately regained the lead. Both teams had a very high shooting percentage today, which led to the fact that as long as either side hit the iron continuously, the score would immediately fall behind.
The old K coach was disgusted off the field and pacing back and forth showed the anxiety in his heart, and now how much he wished there was a bruce. Bowen gave him a use, and the third uncle had a hit rate of more than 40% in this position, which could solve the urgent need. (To be continued) R655