NBA Building Cardinals

Chapter 134
At this moment, Liu Rui was sitting confidently on the sidelines, whispering to Bickerstaff, talking and laughing, not knowing what they were talking about.

Because the Knicks' backup center is Sandov, a super high center with a height of 218.

But the moving speed of the whole person is very slow. After all, when a person gains height, he must lose some mobility.

In a sense, this is also an equivalent exchange.

And Okafor likes to play this kind of player the most.

Because Okafor has never been the kind of player who uses his body to dominate inside, but he has the title of inside offensive kaleidoscope because of his very flexible offensive skills in the low post.

The footsteps and offensive methods are also very rich.

Facing this kind of player, unless his personal touch is bad, it is difficult to pose too much threat to him.

The players Okafor fears the most are Ben and Chandler.

An inside player with low defense and movement speed, but after all, there are only a few such players in the league.

As for Howard, after all, he hasn't grown up yet, at least for the past two years, Liu Rui still hasn't panicked at all.

But two years later...

Cough cough, let's talk about it later! !

Sure enough, House gave the ball to Okafor in the low post at the beginning.

Then he and Karim stretched to the two bottom corners, one left and one right, respectively. After all, these two people are the most accurate three-pointers on the bench.

Among them, House's three-point shooting percentage is second only to Kapono in the team.

So far, House has made 41.2% of his three-pointers.

If it wasn't for his height, I believe that under Liu Rui's hands, he would be reused even more.

Compared with House, Kapono's defense is also a mess, but after all Kapono has a height of [-] meters.

Most of the disadvantages on the defensive end are in footsteps and physical fitness.

But Kapono's offensive three-pointers are too accurate. Compared with House, he can not only shoot more accurately, but also shoot farther.

So even though his defense is a mess, Liu Rui has always placed him in the starting lineup and entrusted him with important responsibilities.

Except that the current Bobcats really have no better choice, players like Kapono and Korver have been the type that Liu Rui likes very much in the past two lives.

Just like Daniels of the Lakers in the previous life, fans jokingly called him a panacea.

Because the elixir can last! !

Many people don't understand why Daniels plays so well and can get a lot of points within a few minutes of playing.

But the Lakers coach still gave him very little playing time in every game.

Because his defensive ability is really poor, as long as he plays, he will be targeted by the opponent. On the offensive end, his role is to catch and shoot.

If he can make a goal, his role is very obvious, but if he fails to make a goal, his role on the field is limited to running back and forth, and becoming the opponent's attack point.

The same is true for Kapono, but fortunately, the Bobcats still have Wallace on the front line, and now they have two defenders, Ariza and Duhon.

It relieved Kapono a lot of pressure on the defensive end.

At least he was much more comfortable than in his previous life.

After everyone pulled away, Okafor got the ball at the corner.

Facing Sandov, there is no need for others to come up and cooperate with the pick-and-roll. Okafor's horned plane frame poses three threats.

Due to their height, inside players can dribble higher, so they are relatively easier to be intercepted.

As for Okafor inside, his skills are very comprehensive and his touch is very soft.

Coupled with his sharp footwork, he can have more offensive options in one-on-one.

Sandov is [-] meters tall, a typical traditional center of this era, and his biggest role is to use his height to protect rebounds and guard the penalty area under the basket.

Due to his average physical fitness, it is difficult to eat a few cakes on the offensive end, so he can only use his height and rebounds to make a second offense.

The common problem of this kind of players is that they are most afraid of pick-and-rolls and facing flexible inside lanes.

Because their tall bodies simply do not allow them to have excellent footwork.

Sandov took a step back, not daring to get too close to Okafor, otherwise Okafor would have passed him in one step.

Okafor took the ball to test it, and after the test step, he directly chose a mid-range shot.

sigh~
The ball went into the basket steadily, and Okafor, who had just come up, made a tentative shot.

It seems that Okafor's touch today should be pretty good.

Shaking his head, Sandov picked up the ball and prepared to serve it in the backcourt.

For Okafor's goal, Sandov has nothing to do.

After all, Okafor is a player who can play in the fourth and fifth positions. Unlike a traditional center like him, the matchup between the two has its own advantages and disadvantages.

In the contest between the two teams' bench lineups, the Knicks are obviously not the opponents of the Bobcats.

All four of the Knicks' firepower players were present in the first quarter.

This made the Knicks' bench lineup useless in the second quarter, and it also allowed Crawford, who had only rested for a few minutes in the first quarter, to lead the team to continue playing.

The two sides played back and forth, but the point difference showed no sign of narrowing.

Wilkens on the sidelines looked helpless. With more than six minutes left in the second quarter, Wilkens chose to switch the main lineup back to the field in advance.

And Liu Rui, who was sitting off the court, saw that Wickens chose to make a substitution, and also replaced Sampson with Buffalo White.

Putting Okafor at the fourth position is bullying the Knicks.

And he replaced the veteran Stephen Smith with Hart, allowing Karim, the left-handed throwing knife, to reach the third position.

Because on the defensive end, Hart's defense is still better than Kareem and Smith.

And for this kind of regular season, in Liu Rui's plan, Smith will not be allowed to play for too long.

Although Smith is a stable scoring point on the Bobcats' bench, as a veteran, it is difficult to maintain his state for a long time on the court, and fierce confrontation is more likely to increase the risk of injury for veterans.

In the regular season, what Liu Rui needs most from him is to help young players grow, and to use his experience to help the Bobcats stabilize the situation when the second team can't start the situation.

Faced with the current tailwind situation, Liu Rui still has to limit his playing time.

Before this game, Liu Rui chose to let Knight take a rest.

He was not placed on the activation list.

Because in the previous game with the Nets, Knight's wrist had some contusions, but after being checked by the team doctor, the problem was not serious.

So Bickerstaff has not made any adjustments.

But after Liu Rui returned, he directly chose to let Knight take a rest.

After all, there are still many people available to the Bobcats, and facing the Knicks' back line in this game, even if Knight plays, he doesn't have many opportunities to play.

Instead of playing with injuries, Liu Rui directly chose to let Knight recuperate.

And when Liu Rui proposed to take a rest, Bickerstaff was very puzzled.

This was just a frustrating wrist in the normal confrontation of the game. I thought it was too much of a fuss for Liu Rui to send him off.

Facing Liu Rui's proposed rotation, even the player Knight was incredible.

Because as usual, for a player of Knight's level, as long as the injury is not particularly serious.

The team will not protect them at all. The usual style is to play as soon as they can, and they can't play.

But Liu Rui, who came back from a later life, felt that it was very normal to take a rotation break, and didn't feel anything wrong at all.

I didn't expect them to have such a big reaction.

After all, later generations have a Hu Mamba who never plays back to back, and takes turns taking turns when he feels uncomfortable! !

So Liu Rui's arrangement can still be called a rotation? ? ! ...

(End of this chapter)