nba championship predators

Chapter 90 Larry Brown is Hungry

In the end, the Philadelphia 76ers took home a friendly victory on New York Knicks territory. Everyone got what they wanted and everyone was happy:
Iverson scored 42 points, the sixth consecutive 40+ game;

Larry Brown saw a whole "elevator door" play;

Zhao Ke scored 36 points and 6 blocks.

As a beneficiary of the elevator door tactics, Zhao Ke's three-point shooting rate rebounded again. Without using the skill pack, he made 22 of 12 shots and his shooting rate reached 54%.His six blocks were contributed by the four new aids of the 76ers, Derek Coleman, Matt Halprin, Corey Blunt and Derek McKay. Snow, Iverson and Uncle Mu are too familiar to do it.

After the game, Zhao Ke prepared to entertain all the visiting 76ers. Larry Brown had a good impression of Zhao Ke and praised him for going to heaven.And it’s been almost a year since I owed Uncle Mu and the others a silent meal. During the game, Snow had viciously reminded Zhao Ke: I’m too hungry, I don’t know if I can continue to keep silent...

Moreover, it is estimated that it will be difficult to meet the 76ers in the playoffs, and it will be difficult for them to enter the second round. Who knows which team everyone will be in next season?

The 76ers are struggling so much. From the perspective of spirit, they are no longer the silent iron army of last season.The famous "devil coach" Pat Riley once said: "The one who kills the championship is the championship itself."

After winning the MVP Grand Slam, the No. 1 Iverson in the league, who was complacent, began to linger in the feasting and feasting, and often missed training.Mutombo, Snow, and McGee, the three remaining veteran players, each have their own hidden dangers. The ominously aged Uncle Mu began to decline, averaging 36 minutes per game, 3 minutes more than last season, but 2 fewer rebounds.However, McGee and Snow were obviously overdrawn last season. This season, there were two minor injuries in three days, and their state declined terribly.

And something more influential and long-term than Jordan's comeback happened this season:

On April 2001, 4, the NBA officially made a decision. Since the 12-2001 season, the NBA has implemented four new rules:

1. Regional defense (joint defense) legalization;
2. The three-second rule of defense is implemented in the restricted area;
3. The time for dribbling the ball across the front court is reduced from 10 seconds to 8 seconds;
4. The defensive team is allowed to have short-term physical contact with the opponent without affecting the forward path of the offensive player with the ball.

The first two are said to be set to limit the unsolvable O'Neill, but it turns out that the reason why O'Neill has no solution is that the rules cannot limit him.

Before the zone defense, no one could double-team O'Neal before he received the ball. After that, many teams began to double-team O'Neal in advance, trying to make it more difficult for him to receive passes in the low post.The keen O'Neal strongly criticized the new rules at the time, thinking that the league was targeting him, but in the next five seasons, the zone defense did not have much impact on O'Neal, a monster with height, arm length, strength, speed, and agility that comes out once in 30 years.

The power of the new rules didn’t become apparent until O’Neal got old. Before that, it was a defensive center like Mutombo who was hit more seriously by the three-second impact.

Missed the passenger car!In the following years, these rules directly led to the desolation of the center position. Later, Tyson Chandler and Joakim Noah even scored 10+10 data to become top centers.

And the more serious harm to Chiyu was reflected in Iverson:
Under the man-to-man rule, Iverson's cut is unstoppable. What Tyronn Lue did back then was to restrict him from receiving the ball, and once Iverson received the ball, the entire league could only resign himself to fate.He can swoon defenders with a butterfly swing and then score easily with a mid-range shot or floater around the rim.What restricts him can only rely on the second defender to double-team him, but this means that his teammates are open, and Iverson's breakthrough points are also sour.

But under the zone defense, in the face of Iverson's breakthrough, the opponents don't have to be in a hurry as before. They can make arrangements in advance and make a gesture to encircle, but they are not in a hurry to close the net.When Iverson picked four, they surrounded him, and when Iverson passed the ball, they expanded outward, and the open opportunities for teammates were fleeting.

Moreover, the only tool to break the zone defense - the sharp three-pointer, is something that the tough guys of the 76ers can't get out of it.

Take a handful of Doudizhu cards, and they will play with you to upgrade.Counting on Billy King's No. [-] big gauze in the alliance to shuffle the cards?Let's wash up and sleep.

Mr. Brown is interested in leaving. He is not a long-term person, otherwise he would not go around the ABA, NBA, and NCAA.He's got everything he wants in Philly, and it's time to get out.

He has taken a fancy to the New York Knicks, and if he hadn't been ready for the face, he would have gone to James Dolan now.

Before today's game, Larry Brown didn't quite understand the last two rules of the new rules, but after playing two games with the Knicks, the old man understood that these two rules are the ultimate meaning of "muscle stick track and field".Especially watching the tactics of the Knicks running the whole game, the old man is greedy. Look at the strong defensive monster Ben Wallace, the powerful Rasheed Wallace and Artest, the calm Billups, and his favorite Zhao Ke. This fucking is the perfect platter for the fourth new rule.

The drunken Larry Brown asked Zhao Ke to invite all the Knicks teammates and coaching staff at the same time. The reason was: Mr. Brown wanted to discuss the Knicks' new tactics with them.

Jeff Van Gundy and Tom Thibodeau are happy to go, the elevator door tactics are a conspiracy, welcome to steal the teacher, but the key is that you have elevators, no Zhao Ke!Just like the Warriors more than ten years later, other teams want to imitate, the elevator can imitate, the door can imitate, "primary school students" you can't imitate!
Larry Brown, who has a dark heart, is close to every player he admires, which flatters the Knicks: This is the champion coach, this is the NBA and NCAA double champion coach!
But that's all. Larry Brown hasn't even found his next club (preferably the Knicks), and it's just a good relationship now.

And what about Zhao Ke?He wanted to get Iverson drunk and set him up.

In fact, there is no need to set it, Iverson will speak for himself.What happened happened, such as drinking, such as being late, such as missing training.But what shouldn’t have happened didn’t happen. Perhaps winning the championship last season made everyone a little tolerant. Larry Brown didn’t have a tense relationship with Iverson.Tawana is still the most important, won the championship, and the focus is back on the family side.

That's good, idol, I'm not in vain to live a new life, Zhao Ke fell into a deep sleep.

(End of this chapter)