You are the pearl, Mo Mengchen

Chapter 43 Iron-Blooded Knicks

With the victory over the Hawks, the Pistons' season officially began, but that didn't make it easy for them.

In the second regular season, they met the Lakers who lacked stars but focused on overall cooperation. Their All-Star center Divac would contribute an All-Star season before they traded for Kobe Bryant. This night, he coordinated the overall situation with extremely terrifying wisdom, scoring 22 points, 11 rebounds and 7 assists to defeat the Pistons.

It was also on this night that Mo Mengchen discovered the system's punishment measures.

Before the start of each game, he will receive four or five tasks, and one task is fixed, and that is to win the game.

If you do not win the game, on the basis of deducting the fixed reward of 100 attribute points for winning the game, you will also subtract half of the attribute points for completing the task.

In other words, if you usually win a game, you can get about 800 attribute points. If you lose the game, you can only get 350 attribute points at most.

In the third game, the Pistons faced the new Raptors. The only shining point of this uncompetitive team was Damon Stoudemire, who was also in the 95 class. Unfortunately, they eventually lost the game.

Mo Mengchen continued to maintain an efficient and impressive performance.

He played 28 minutes and scored 25 points and 4 rebounds violently compared to the opposite student of the same year. His score was not conspicuous, only 6 points, but in addition to these 6 points, he also had 11 rebounds and 11 assists. For the first time in his career, he scored a double-double.

Such unusual data made the Raptors' home commentator Quincy Angus utter a classic comment; "If Dor.Mo can increase the aggressiveness of the offensive end, a triple-double will be easy for him."

As for the so-called "Dor.Mo", it was Mo Mengchen's nickname.

Mo Mengchen's part-time job in St. Lucifer is no news. Anyone who knows about the Pistons knows about it, and he is not a fake name. Every two days, he will go to St. Lucifer to complete an operation .

So far, he still maintains a 100% operation success rate. All the patients he treated have become his fans. His fame has swept Detroit. Whenever he enters Auburn Hills, he gets cheers comparable to Hill, second only to Hill. in Dumas.

Fans shouted: "Dor.Mo!"

Gradually, the nickname replaced "Mo", and even his teammates started calling him that.

Two days later, the Pistons headed to the Capitals to challenge the Bullets.

It is also a team that lacks competitiveness, but the Bullets have many champions including Rasheed Wallace. This game is a duel between two 95-year-old players.

That night, Mo Mengchen played 30 minutes and scored 11 points, 7 rebounds and 7 assists, leading the team to win, while Wallace on the opposite side scored 15 points and 11 rebounds.

The Pistons won two consecutive victories, and Mo Mengchen scored in double figures for the first time in his career.

It seems that they have entered the state, but the next game made everyone helpless-their opponent in the next game was the Bulls who came with anger.

Needless to say, the grievances between the Bulls and the Pistons, this is a pair of enemies who do not need to do pre-match mobilization as long as they meet.

The Bulls are determined to win the championship again, and the Pistons are not considered by them at all.

This was a typical 96 Bulls slaughter game. The Pistons tried their best to draw with the Bulls at halftime. In the third quarter, the ferocious Bulls gave the Pistons a 24-3 in one breath, and the Palace of Auburn Hills was silent.

这波进攻奠定了公牛的胜局，终场，乔丹砍下35+5+5、皮彭三双、罗德曼6分20篮板。

Dumars scored and swallowed eggs in the confrontation with his old opponent, and his performance was terrible. Mo Mengchen was slightly better, but the Bulls' defense made him feel the strength. Before that, the strength of the Bulls only existed in his impression, and Now, that is no longer an impression, but a beating that happened to him, a major defeat engraved deep in his mind.

It's like watching an operation for the first time as an intern, or accidentally injuring a patient during the post-operative cleanup and causing serious consequences.

This kind of failure can destroy people, or it can turn into a strong energy that inspires people to forge ahead.

new York
first city america

The Pistons took a special plane and landed at Kennedy International Airport. Tonight, they will challenge the Knicks who are ready to fight.

"Dor.Mo, there are rumors that you will replace Joe Dumars as the starting No. [-] for the Pistons. Is this true?"

"I haven't heard about it."

"You defeated the Bulls at home before, will this affect your preparations for tonight?"

"will not."

"John Starks said they're going to be tougher than the bulls and you're going to have a losing streak tonight. What do you think about that?"

"Hopefully we won't be 18 for 2."

Mo Mengchen answered reporters' interviews while walking, and finally boarded the team's bus.

This city is not new to many players, and rookies like Mo Mengchen, Ratliff, Reed, and Lore are all coming to the Big Apple for the first time.

Except for Mo Mengchen, the other three were very excited.

"Rookie, did you really say that to the reporter?"

Alan Houston came over and asked.

"Which sentence?"

"Hopefully none of us will be defended 18-of-2," Houston said. "That sentence."

"I said," Mo Mengchen glanced at him, "Is there any problem?"

Houston laughed and scolded: "You bold bastard, how dare you say so? That lunatic will kill you!"

"If we are not prepared, their defense will kill us all." Mo Mengchen said solemnly.

I mentioned the era of iron and blood defense before, so what is the era of iron and blood defense?

Before the 92-93 season, the mainstream of the league was offense.

91公牛、88湖人、87湖人、86凯尔特人，这几支冠军球队都有个鲜明的特点：进攻效率高达120。

It was an era where offense was paramount. The team with an offensive efficiency of 120 was arguably the best team, and there were a lot of teams with an offensive efficiency of 110.

Later, the Pistons took advantage of this rule before the introduction of malicious fouls, combined with their own strength, and won two championships from the Devil Bird God. After the introduction of malicious fouls, their game style had a huge impact.

There is one, drawing on their experience, while not relying on malicious defense.

In the 92-93 season, the Bulls continued to play an offensive efficiency of 120. Jordan was attacking for the first three consecutive championships. In the same season, the Knicks under Pat Riley went against the trend and focused on defense. Speaking of it, the defensive efficiency of 99 is extremely terrifying.

It was also the Knicks, in the playoffs of that season, through heavy blocking and oppressive defense, Jordan played the worst series in his peak period. Although they lost in the end, their tough defense , A wake-up call to other teams that lack talent.

"Defense is the key to shaking the king."

The rapid spread of the Knicks' iron-blooded defense system in the league.

Since Riley's iron-blooded defensive system is not a short-term tactical improvement based on a single player (Mark Eaton) like the Jazz in the 80s, it is a set of core defensive concepts and execution details that are extremely replicable. defense system.

This defensive system does not have high requirements for the offensive skills of the executive players. It is a set of side-door tricks that can quickly improve the defensive skills of mid-level players, thereby greatly improving the team's defensive efficiency on the basis of the original personnel.

Therefore, once this set of magic tricks spreads, other teams lack offensive players, which leads to the perennial second-tier teams whose offensive level is in the middle of the pack. Leading to a substantial improvement in the level of multi-team defense.

This is like, originally the school of mathematics ruled the world, but a second-class high school (Knicks) suddenly introduced a top mathematics teacher in the country, but this teacher did not continue to teach mathematics, but volunteered to teach Chinese , and actually explored and innovated a brand-new set of Chinese learning strategies. His students learned Chinese according to this language learning strategy. You can get more than 70 points in the test in a short time, and you can even get 80 points in the test if you work harder.

"Are you kidding me? It's not like I haven't played against them before. Do you need to tell me?"

Houston naturally knows how good the Knicks are, but he doesn't want Mo Mengchen to remind him that he is the one who has actually played against the Knicks. Do you need this rookie reminder?Isn't that funny?
"If you can stay awake all the time like Grant, I don't need to remind you." Mo Mengchen whispered.

"But you also said that Grant's three-pointer is not a threat." Houston grumbled carelessly.

Devil Mountain, who was resting on the bus, was startled and stared at him sadly and angrily. Is he inferior if he is not good at three-pointers?

PS: I feel that the time for me to release the new book is wrong, because the editor is on vacation during the Spring Festival, and I don’t go to work until No. Yes, let's celebrate, it's only three o'clock
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