full court guidance

Chapter 50 Thanks to Fei 2 Pig for the Reward
In 2000, Tim Duncan suffered the heaviest injury of his career-a torn meniscus.

The so-called meniscus is the layer of cartilage in the middle of the human knee, which can act as a buffer. Especially for athletes, a torn meniscus is almost equivalent to being destroyed in their career.

Tim Duncan, who was at the peak of his debut, after suffering this injury, many media have sentenced him to death, thinking that he will soon disappear from everyone.

But the Spurs have an amazing coach, Zhuge Popovich. After Duncan recovered from surgery, Zhuge Weiqi was extremely cautious in using him. up.

There was a game between the Spurs and the Cavaliers. The Cavaliers even sent out the promotional posters. As a result, Zhuge Weiqi didn't give any face at all, and directly put the GDP combination on the bench, and didn't give him a minute of playing time.

Duncan has always remained efficient. Until the age of 40, he can still contribute 8.6 points, 7.3 rebounds and 2.7 assists per game.

But this does not mean that the torn meniscus has not affected Duncan. His movement speed, bounce rate, and range of activities have all weakened a lot, from a flying monster to a floor flow.

Before he was injured, he was able to defend from the basket to the three-point line alone, and he did not fall behind against O'Neal at his peak.

After the injury, his defensive ability dropped significantly, which is why he is unwilling to admit that he is a center forward.

Yao Ming is tall, flexible with his feet, and has a soft mid-range shot. He was only slightly inferior when facing Duncan.

在姚明新秀赛季的时候，他第一次和邓肯对位，就拿到了27分18篮板3盖帽，18投10中，罚球7罚7。邓肯则是25分和12个篮板，21投8中，16罚9中。

In the original history, the two have played against each other 23 times in their careers. In addition to the shooting percentage, Duncan has an overall advantage in terms of statistics, which shows how terrifying this person is.

In addition to his own strength, his teammates are also very good. The French sports car Parker, the Pampas vulture (now still an eagle with fluttering long hair) Ginobili, and Bruce Bowen of the best defensive team, all Can give him strong support.

Before the start of the game, the two sides exchanged trash talk, and Bruce Bowen said that he has the ability to completely see death and be late, which made his shooting rate drop below 50%.

Late didn't respond to that, and he looked down on Bruce Bowen.

Bruce Bowen failed to participate in the draft in 1993, and later moved to France to play, where he learned his "skills", and dirty tricks emerged in endlessly.

2000 was Carter's peak season. He was the most popular star in the league when he won the slam dunk title. He also staged a death dunk in the Olympics, which made the French center lose face and announced his retirement.

However, the horse stumbled, he was him and he was him. Bruce Bowen stood up bravely. Facing the most popular star in the league, Bruce Bowen was fearless.

He was playing for the Miami Heat at the time. As the Raptors star, Carter singled out Bowen and chose a pull-up jumper.

Bruce Bowen put one foot under Carter's foot, causing Carter to step on his foot and sprain his left ankle.

On February 2004, 2, the Raptors took the initiative on the court and led the Spurs by 18 points. Bowen stepped forward again, tiptoeing, and told Carter for nothing!

On February 2005, 2, Carter, who had already transferred to the Nets, met Uncle Bao again, and Carter was plotted again. Fortunately, Carter was lucky this time and was not injured.But when he encountered black feet one after another, Carter also became furious, and chased Uncle Bao to fight, but was sent off the court.

Bruce Bowen gained a firm foothold in the league with this sleight of hand. Kobe, Iverson, McGrady, Nash, Paul... a long list of superstar names can all be linked to him.

How rampant his black feet are, even the vice president of the league knows how black his feet are, and called him specifically to ask him to change his defensive strategy.

But Zhuge Weiqi disagreed and asked Bruce Bowen to forget what the vice president said and stick to his own style.

Therefore, apart from his own reasons for Bowen's dirtyness, Zhuge Weiqi's connivance is definitely an important factor.

Leaving aside the factor of playing dirty, Bowen is actually not weak in defense, and he also has a baseline three-pointer. He is actually a pretty good role player.

Before the start of the game against the Spurs, McGrady, who was plotted against by Bowen, repeatedly told him to be late, telling him to be careful when facing Bowen, and pay attention to where he landed after jumping up.

After the game started, as expected, Bruce Bowen was responsible for marking late arrivals!
Spurs starters: Nazr Mohamed, Tim Duncan, Bruce Bowen, Ginobili, Tony Parker.

Rockets starters: Yao Ming, Juwan Howard, McGrady, Late, David Wesley.

Among them, veteran Juwan Howard returned from injury, giving Van Gundy a little more choice in employing people.

Muhammad won with a jump ball, and the long-haired Pampas Eagle Eurostepped inside and hit a two-pointer.

The Spurs took the lead, and the Rockets didn't panic at all. According to the established tactics, they slowly dribbled the ball across the half. David Wesley passed the ball to McGrady, and he opened up space in the bottom corner.

Yao Ming was on the inside, and McGrady passed the ball. Faced with Duncan's interference, Yao Ming did not choose to attack under the basket, but passed the ball out to McGrady to reorganize.

Late moved to the top of the three-point arc and made an outside pick-and-roll with McGrady.

In today's league, pick-and-roll tactics are the signature of the Jazz, and their head coach Sloan seems to know only this trick.

The internal and external pick-and-roll represented by the Jazz is a classic, but the Rockets' outside pick-and-roll has gradually become a routine tactic, and its support is the terrifying three-point shooting rate of the late arrival.

Bruce Bowen is 34 years old this year. His footsteps are not as flexible as when he was young, and his speed is much slower, but he still closely follows the late arrivals. He does not give late arrivals a chance to catch the ball at all. Billy, too, was watching the late arrival vaguely.

McGrady took advantage of the late pick-and-roll to get inside, Yao Ming had already pulled Deng away, and McGrady made an easy layup.

This time he could have chosen to dunk, but it may be a lesson learned from his previous dunk injury. McGrady doesn't dunk very much now.

The Spurs attacked, Deng Daidai caught the ball inside and hit the inside, and under the defense of Yao Ming, he hit the rebound and shot hard.

In fact, when playing against Yao Ming, although Duncan averaged more points per game than Yao Ming, he took 4 more shots than Yao Ming, and his shooting percentage was worse than Yao Ming.

Yao Ming is very afraid of those fast-moving insiders who have a range in the middle and long distances. Deng Daidai can shoot in the middle and long distances, but his shooting percentage at this distance is not enough to kill the game, so Yao Ming is not afraid of him. , is entirely due to the different levels of helpers.

The Rockets attacked again, and the Spurs obviously put important defensive points in front of the late arrival.

Zhuge Weiqi obviously believes that the late three-pointer is more threatening.

David Wesley and Juwan Howard got a lot of open opportunities, but their performance was mediocre, and their shooting percentage could only be considered qualified.

Both sides come and go, and each other has offense and defense. As a strong defensive team, both sides limit the opponent's shooting rate, so the efficiency is not very high, and the game is a bit dull.

Late only got two shots in the first half of the first quarter, one hit a 3-pointer, and one was interrupted by Bruce Bowen.

During this period, Bowen didn't use any tricks, and seemed to be planning to finish the game cleanly.

The score between the two sides was very tight, and the score rose alternately. You hit an iron, and I returned an iron. Basically, it takes 2-3 attacks to hit a ball.

When the official timeout was entered, the score between the two sides was just 11:10, and the Rockets led by 1 point.

During the timeout, Van Gundy once again emphasized the issue of the distribution of the ball, requiring that if an opportunity arises before being late, the ball should be passed immediately.

His ability to adjust the offense is really limited, and the three-point marksman who is late is greatly reduced in his hands.

After the timeout ended, the Spurs seemed to have adjusted their defensive focus. Bruce Bowen still kept up with the late arrivals, but Ginobili and others no longer double-teamed the late arrivals. defense.

This increases the chances of being late. McGrady has a good mentality now and will not be greedy for the ball. Seeing an opportunity for being late, he passes the ball over immediately.

He was late to catch the ball and saw that Bruce Bowen was half a step away from him, so he immediately chose to shoot.

Bowen seemed eager to make up for his mistake, and immediately rushed forward, slamming into late.

The ball barely took off when it was late, but the ball had already been thrown out, hit the basket twice hard and fell out.

At the same time, the referee whistled, Bruce Bowen made a defensive foul and made 3 free throws!
Late got up from the ground and gave Bruce Bowen a hard look.

Bruce Bowen let go of half a step just now, it was intentional at all, he did something wrong!
When he was late and bumped, he was elbowed hard in the chest, which almost made him lose his breath.

Affected by this elbow, he missed all of his late free throws!
"Trash, are you trying to get me out?" When he returned to the defense late, he whispered something in Bruce Bowen's ear.

Bowen had already practiced calmly, as if he hadn't heard it, and continued with his mission.

The Spurs attacked, and Bruce Bowen got an open chance from the bottom line. Unfortunately, he seemed to have a bad hand today and missed the goal!

Yao grabbed the defensive rebound, gave the ball to David Wesley, and slowly dribbled the ball across half court.

The ball hasn't been given to McGrady yet, and the late side has already beckoned for it.

Bruce Bowen took another half step deliberately, and he would not be polite if he was late, and he shot immediately after catching the ball.

This time he took off, but his eyes were not looking at the ball at all, but at Bruce Bowen.

Sure enough, Bruce Bowen rushed up again, he seemed a little unable to stop, and rushed all the way to late, one foot was already inserted under late, Bruce Bowen's signature black foot came!
(End of this chapter)