nba championship predators

Chapter 71 The New Mad Scientist ([-])

After five games, Van Gundy got the result he wanted. Among the five substitutes, Mark Jackson and Kurt Thomas were old faces from last season. Van Gundy's small notebook recorded data that they didn't even know.The three people in the key test are all distinctive:

Gerald Wallace and Corey Maggette are very similar in size, and they are also muscular sticks, but Maggette looks stronger.The style of play is also similar, they are all crazy bombing baskets, but they are different: Gerald Wallace is going to the basket, he will desperately put the ball into the basket, and then fall heavily to the ground like diving, very passionate and very bloody;These two people attacking the basket in turn can make people excited, and they can also drive opponents crazy (Maggette averaged 15 free throws per game in these five games), and the two also maintained a good average of 15+ per game.

On the offensive end, Maggette is stronger in terms of killing the opponent's inside line, but the gap between the two on the defensive end is a bit big: In 36 minutes of playing time, Gerald Wallace averaged 2 steals and 2 blocks per game while Corey Maggette averaged none. It's not a matter of attitude.Maggette seems to be a little slow to react, always a beat behind others.On the offensive end, his style of play covers up this shortcoming very well, and on the defensive end, such shortcoming is infinitely magnified.

Van Gundy was very troubled. He wanted both Corey Maggette's foul-making ability and Gerald Wallace's defensive ability. It would be great if the two could fit together. A proper sixth man!
Chris Anderson, who needs to be tested, did not bother Van Gundy. His advantage is that he is energetic, desperately defending, blocking, grabbing rebounds, and blocking shots; his disadvantage is that he loves to jump too much, is easy to be cheated and fouled, and his offensive skills are extremely rough. He can almost only dunk.Proper substitute man, if you don't substitute, who will substitute?
Satisfied, Jeff Van Gundy finally announced the end of the observation period for the substitute players, and the second phase of tactical training - the elevator door tactics!

This is the modified elevator door tactics after half a month of repeated deduction by Jeff Van Gundy and Tom Thibodeau. It is a thick book with more than 30 derivatives.Different from the Warriors version, Ben Wallace becomes the tactical core of the other end. He does not need to retreat to the bottom corner, but needs to guard the basket, and is ready to cooperate with the other four to initiate the alley-oop, or to ensure the offensive rebound for the second attack.

Easier said than done.What was especially embarrassing was that in the first training session, the substitute lineup assigned to another group used the first tactic of "Jordan's Law" under the guidance of the veteran Mark Jackson, double-teaming Zhao Ke crazily.It directly shattered the idea of ​​the coaching staff trying to use the elevator door tactic to help Zhao Ke score points. Angry Van Gundy threw the tactic board on the spot and ran to modify the tactic.

Zhao Ke actually remembered wrongly. This is the real version of "Li Gui meets Li Kui". The elevator door tactic was tailor-made for Curry when Mark Jackson was the head coach of the Warriors. His successor Steve Kerr later carried forward this tactic.

The training is blocked, and the game has to continue.

In the next game, Van Gundy finally started to rotate normally. Rasheed Wallace took the lead in breaking through the pre-match shooting test and got the team's second shooting right.

In the past half month, he practiced three-pointers harder than Zhao Ke.Can you not work hard?Not letting the mid-range shot, Rasheed Wallace on the offensive end directly let the waste become Kurt Thomas, the baby feels bitter.

In the remaining 11 games in November, the Knicks' opponents are: Heat, Nets, Clippers, Warriors, Suns, Bulls, Eagles and Eagles.

The Knicks, who are back on track, have shown extremely strong defensive efficiency. In these eight games, none of their opponents scored more than 80 points, and the Knicks averaged 102 points per game.

Zhao Ke's shots didn't increase much. At the beginning of the season, his teammates needed the ball.Some need to swipe data to sign a better contract, such as Artest with an annual salary of one million;

Zhao Ke still only shoots open three-pointers, averaging 14 shots per game, scoring 11.5 and scoring 34.5 points.Billups averaged 16 assists and Ben Wallace averaged 14 rebounds.Rasheed Wallace, who was unlocked by a three-pointer, got the team's highest shot right, averaging 16 shots per game, scoring 23.5 points, and making 9 of 4 three-pointers.

Under the leadership of this group of fierce men, they outperformed their opponents by more than 20 points in each game, and easily won 8 games.In addition to defeating the Warriors and Trail Blazers after losing to the Trail Blazers, the Knicks won the league's longest 10-game winning streak in the new season.And ranked first in the East with a record of 14 wins and 2 losses, and second in the league.

The first team in the league is the Los Angeles Cosmos. They first won 7 consecutive victories, then lost to the underdog Suns inexplicably, and then won 8 consecutive victories again after realizing their shame.

The Knicks' amazing record and Zhao Ke's abnormal shooting rate finally alarmed the NBA's top management. They awarded Zhao Ke, who was not optimistic before, the best player of the month in the Eastern Conference as a consolation.

其实赵客以场均30.5分、3.8个篮板、1.7次抢断、3.6次盖帽的数据，完爆他的竞争对手贾森基德场均13.3分、7.6个篮板、9.6个助攻、1.8次抢断。球队战绩也遥遥领先，基德的篮网10胜5负。凭实力也足以拿下东部最佳，甚至他的得分比西部最佳的科比还要高，科比才27.6分。

Zhao Ke finally appeared in the eyes of the major media, but there is no good news. Everyone is predicting when Zhao Ke's hit rate will drop...

A player with an average of 30+ shots per game does not average more than 15 shots per game. When did scoring in the NBA become so easy? It must be temporary, it must be temporary!

Induced by the media, the Knicks fans were also unhappy. They didn't like Zhao Ke from the beginning, thinking that he was just a yellow-skinned guy who always floated outside and shot three-pointers, so there was nothing hot about him.As for the hit rate and scoring, it's just a good feeling recently. Who doesn't eat dumplings during the Chinese New Year? (This dumpling has been eaten for a month.) Even they don’t like Van Gundy anymore. They feel that the team’s play is unstable, the style changes, and the starting lineup plays less time than the substitutes. They feel that Van Gundy is about to ruin the team.Van Gundy was very angry. If it weren't for Tom Thibodeau's persuasion, he would start the second wave of substitute battles in a fit of anger!

(End of this chapter)