Rebirth of Hayes Cyclone

Chapter 166 [Small ball tactics, who is the most authentic? !】

Although the opponent is not too strong, but two consecutive victories, the Bobcats have also received more attention. Whether they can surpass the Suns in previous years is the most concerned issue for fans.Although the Suns failed to win a championship, people like their offense and their style of play.

The offense may not win the championship, but it will definitely win the audience.The Bobcats ushered in D'Antoni, signed a group of players who could run and jump, and the offense became sharper.

This season, the head coach of the Suns was replaced by Terry Porter.Porter is a former Spurs player who only retired in 2002. Strictly speaking, Porter is not a particularly young coach because he retired at the age of 40. It can be said that he is highly respected, so his coaching has been quite smooth.Although the age structure of the Bucks' players is unreasonable and the defense is not strong enough, the Bucks still achieved 03 wins and 04 losses under the leadership of Porter in the 41-41 season, which is quite satisfactory.

But the Bucks, which had high hopes, were beaten back to their original shape in the following season. With a record of 30 wins and 52 losses, they missed the playoffs, and Porter was fired.

Porter's coaching experience is really unconvincing.The sun chose him as a coach more like a helpless move. In the summer, they contacted Adelman, but the latter joined the Rockets.The Suns also wanted to ask Van Gundy to coach, but Van Gundy gave up being the head coach and only joined the Bobcats as a consultant and assistant coach.

Porter's appointment did not bring too many tactical changes to the Suns. The Suns have played running and bombing tactics for three seasons and are the team with the deepest understanding of running and bombing tactics.If they fight positional warfare, they are self-defeating martial arts.Porter just instilled some defensive concepts into the players on the basis of running and bombing.

D'Antoni joining the Bobcats gave this game a special meaning.

D'Antoni's goal is to turn the Bobcats into the most gorgeous offensive team in the league and lead the team to win the championship. The first thing to surpass is the Suns.

The sun is more reluctant to lose to the bobcats.Being outmatched by the Bobcats, who have just started running, seems to prove that firing D'Antoni was wrong, which will make the Suns owner look a little embarrassed.

The Suns didn't pay attention to the Bobcats last season. It's normal to win by [-] or [-] points. Now the players don't have the confidence to win the game, not because of D'Antoni, but because the Bobcats now have Hayes.Last season, Hayes made the Suns players feel uncomfortable in almost every game, and he was the sun's nemesis.Marion, Diaw, and Stoudemire are difficult to guard him one-on-one, and the departure of Kurt Thomas this season has made the Suns' interior defense more vulnerable.

In order to clean up funds, the Suns did not make a lot of investment in the transfer market.The Suns signed Sean Marcos and Brian Keener to a one-year contract.They selected Fernandez in the first round of the draft, but after learning that Fernandez could not sign for the new season, they gave him to the Trail Blazers in exchange for cash.

The overall strength of the Suns has not increased but decreased compared to last season.When they started the season, the lineup even had only 13 players.

Center: Sean Marks, Stoudemire.

Power forwards: Shawn Marion, Brian Skinner.

Small forwards: Diaw, Rielle Marshall, Eric Piakowski.

Shooting guards: Raja Bell, Jalen Rose, Lindro Barbosa.

Point guards: Steve Nash, Marcus Banks, Alando Tucker.

Although the main force of the Suns seems to have a slight advantage in strength, the substitute players can't compare with the Bobcats, and it should be very difficult to fight.Before the game, the outcome of the two sides was predicted to be [-]-[-].

The Suns mainly rely on Stoudemire and Nash. Whether the Bobcats can win depends mainly on Hayes.Marion has been ravaged by Hayes last season, and Nash is the best passer in the league.Calderon's performance this season can be described as amazing, but can he compare with Nash?
Tickets for the game against the Suns were sold out early.The media played up this game as the battle of the century between the strongest offensive teams.The game was broadcast live across the United States, and people wanted to see what the two teams could do.

The Time Warner Arena, home of the Bobcats, has become the hottest arena in the league, with two consecutive games full of spectators.

In the locker room, D'Antoni said: "No one knows the Suns better than me. Although they have changed coaches, the players have not changed much. The only tactic that suits them is running and bombing. So in this game, they must still run. Others When the team encounters running and bombing, they always pay attention to defense and play positional warfare to reduce the number of offenses. But what I want to say is... I hope you will also run and fight with them to the end. Bobcats have a clear advantage, that is Substitutes. None of the 12 of us on the court were weak. The Suns were only 7 people who were really threatening. They couldn’t fight us all! When attacking, they moved flexibly and shot when they had the opportunity. Chuck and Gerrard can play singles !"

Veteran Kurt - Thomas because of knee discomfort in training, this will not play, Landry and Moon together into the 12-man squad.Except for Okafor, the speed of the other 11 players in this game is very fast.On the other side of the sun, there is also a group of speed madmen.

When defending, D'Antoni emphasized not to double-team Nash, cut off Nash's assist line, press the defense tightly, and try to exhaust his physical strength.Defensive man-to-man.

The first time he heard D'Antoni explain the concept of "man-to-man" in practice, Van Gundy's idea was to give him a brick.

Bobcats defense and last season's Rockets are two extremes.The Rockets attach great importance to the defensive system, and the offense relies on the stars; the Bobcats are all soldiers in offense, and the defense relies on personal ability.

Usually man-to-man means to determine which player to stare at the opponent, so that it is not easy to mess up.But D'Antoni's "man-to-man" running and bombing means that when the opponent makes a quick counterattack, he quickly returns to the defense and defends whoever is closest to him.So although the Bobcats now have many players with good single-defense ability, the Heat can score 90 points without Wade.If it is Van Gundy's tactical system, it would be good for the Heat to score over 70.

Of course, D'Antoni also has his own advantages. Van Gundy has no confidence to lead these players to score so many points.The Bobcats lineup is completely pieced together, and they can play so smoothly after a month of running-in, and only D'Antoni can do it.He only emphasized two points, one is Hayes' offensive core, and the other is Calderon's offensive organization.Others are free to play.

On the other side of the sun, Terry Porter's meaning is also very firm. "Fight against them. The Bobcats are very fast now, and they will definitely run and bomb like the previous two games. You have to prove that you are the most authentic running and bombing team. When defending, if you get in position in time, you will defend the zone defense , and if they counter-attack, man-to-man."

Porter did not emphasize defense as usual. He found it useless to talk too much. The Suns defended and Nash's position was a loophole.The inside combination of Stoudemire and Marion is also difficult to effectively guard the basket.

Barkley and Kenny Smith partnered to call the game.

"Last season, the Rockets played against the Suns without suspense. This time Chuck played against the Suns by himself. Without Yao Ming to slow down the speed and McGrady to grab the shot, I don't know how he can perform. I am optimistic that he can play a wonderful game." Barkley Before the game started, I blacked out the two Rockets stars of last season.

"In the first game, Hayes played at a superstar level. In the last game, he only scored 14 points. It seems that his performance was not stable enough." Smith laughed.

"The Heat are too bad now. They handed in their guns and surrendered after only halftime at home, which greatly affected the star data. Chuck didn't do much offense in the game, and it all depends on the performance of his teammates. And Haslem is the only one in the Heat. A man who defends well, he didn't do anything, just followed Chuck, and Chuck passed the ball, which was also the right choice. He should have won the MVP last season, look what the Rockets have become without him?" Barkley Said.He deserves to be the biggest "Haimi" in the United States, and the Rockets are missing Yao Ming. He just doesn't talk about this, and the credit is all Hayes.

Both players played.

When playing, Nash walked up to Hayes, shook hands and said with a smile, "Chuck, we meet again."

"Hello, Steve. What tactics are you going to play today?" Hayes asked with a smile.

Nash smiled and said, "How are you going to fight? You tell me first and I'll tell you."

"Run and gun. After landing, I will play singles. Even if I say so, I don't think you can defend." Hayes approached Nash a little bit and whispered.

"Whether you can defend it or not, you will know in a while. Don't be too confident. Your defense is not comparable to last season's Rockets." Nash said.

Hayes is not talking.The game is about to start.

The Suns starting lineup has not changed from last season: Nash, Raja Bell, Diaw, Marion, Stoudemire.

Bobcats starting: Calderon, Pietrus, Gerald - Wallace, Hayes, Biedrins.

The two running centers Stoudemire and Biedrins stood in the middle circle, the referee threw the ball into the air, Biedrins and Stoudemire jumped high at the same time, Stoudemire first Touched the basketball, but failed to grasp the direction of the ball, Hayes grabbed the basketball.

Hayes passed the ball to Calderon, who drove the ball upfield and waited for someone to settle.

The first round is a positional battle.Nash thought.He and Calderon took a step away to prevent the opponent from breaking through.At this time, Calderon suddenly pulled up on the spot and shot a three-pointer.The ball draws a beautiful arc and goes hollow into the net. 3 to 0.

Returning to defense, Calderon opened his hands and made an "OK" gesture each.Sudden cold arrow is his trick.

The Sun quickly sent the baseline ball, and the Bobcats were man-to-man.Hayes followed Marion.

"Sean, in order to renew the contract with a high salary, you have to work hard!" Hayes said beside Marion.

Marion's 3-year contract extension of 6000 million US dollars was rejected, and Hayes did not open which pot to mention.Marion believes that the reason why he can't impress the club's top management is because of the existence of Hayes. People say that he is not as good as Hayes.He refused to accept it during the regular season last season.After the playoffs, he found that he was indeed inferior to Hayes in many aspects.

Marion pulls up high and sets up a pick-and-roll for Nash.Hayes switched positions to defend Nash.The legs were a little bit bigger, and Nash passed the ball through the crotch to the hands of Stoudemire under the basket. The latter turned around and dunked the ball with one hand! 3 to 2.

Nash smiled at Hayes, and Hayes ran to the Suns half court helplessly.

To defend Nash, you can't just focus on breakthroughs.Nash is different from the general guard, his offense is unsolvable.In addition to passing the ball, his personal offensive ability is also very strong. If he didn't want to connect the team, there should be no problem scoring more than 20 points per game.What makes Hayes unhappy is that he may be the background of today's top five goals again.

Calderon used Hayes to break through the pick-and-roll, and then returned to Hayes in the high post.The defender was replaced by Nash, and Hayes was not polite, and immediately stopped and shot a jumper, scoring 5-2.

Nash dribbled the ball to the frontcourt, and when Stoudemire stepped forward to pick and roll, a breakthrough from the left attracted Pietrus' defense, and passed to Raja Bell in the low corner. The latter made an open three-pointer and also scored! 5 to 5.

Bobcats attack, the Suns 122 zone defense, Hayes singles Marion with the ball at a 45-degree angle on the right side, Calderon throws the ball in, and Bell on the weak side immediately steps forward to double-team.Hayes picked up the ball, backhanded the ball over Bell's head, and it was just right to Pietrus, who was 60 degrees from the three-point line, and the latter made an open jumper. 8 to 5.

It's a beautiful no-look pass, with very fancy moves.

The results of Hayes' coordination training have come into play!

(End of this chapter)