full court guidance

Chapter 54 There are a few familiar faces in the daily recommendation tickets.

Ben Wallace is a well-known rebounding idiot. He has a strong defensive ability. He has won 4 best defensive players and 2 rebounds in his career. However, his free throw percentage is terrible, the lowest in a season. Only 30% , the highest season was only 49%.

The Sharks, known for their poor free throws, are two grades higher than Wallace.

As a short center, defensive blue-collar, he has a coach who particularly likes him-Larry Brown.

The old-school Larry Brown refused to give the No. [-] pick Milicic any chance to play, always saying that he was not ready, but he wanted to transform the rebounding idiot into a real core of offensive and defensive integration.

No one can understand what Larry Brown is thinking. As an insider, Ben Wallace's true shooting percentage is less than 50%, and his free throws are terrible. Even if his offensive ability is developed, so what?As long as the shark-slashing tactics are used, he is useless on the offensive end.

Anyway, Larry Brown doesn't care about this. He insists that Ben Wallace's defense makes him the soul of the Pistons. How can the soul of the team have no offensive power?It doesn't matter if the efficiency is low. In the past, Iverson's efficiency was also low. Didn't he still reach the finals?
Before the start of the game, Van Gundy once again emphasized the tactics of focusing on the inside, asking Yao Ming to be tougher on the inside, and then focused on the team's defense.

After he finished laying out the tactics, Van Gundy gave the players the right to speak: "Do you have anything else to say?"

The players shook their heads and formed a circle. Mucci Norris stood in the center of the circle and began to mobilize: "Brothers, we finally made it to the finals. The championship trophy is within easy reach. The Pistons are our last An opponent, I hope everyone can do their best and don't leave any regrets for themselves."

For these Rockets players entering the finals for the first time, Norris is not required to mobilize, everyone will do their best, so his speech is not long.

The players put their hands together and shouted: "Houston, fighting!"

The game was about to start, Yao Ming went to late and bumped into him lightly: "I'm so small, I'm a little nervous, how about you?"

"It's okay, that's how it feels." I didn't feel that there was anything to be nervous about being late, and said with a smile, "Actually, I think you won't be nervous if you look at Ben Wallace more, his afro is just ridiculous. "

Yao Ming couldn't help but laugh: "I'm not confident today. The coach told us to focus on the inside, but Ben Wallace is the best defensive player of the four times after all."

Late glanced at him in surprise, and said calmly: "Don't worry, we have a great advantage against the Pistons, and it's easier than playing against the Spurs. Let me teach you, you just need to provoke Ben Wallace every time you score, and in the end It’s good enough to stimulate him to score against you, based on his efficiency, do you think they can win? Besides, Ben Wallace’s free throws are so bad, if we really can’t beat them, at worst, we can use shark-slashing tactics.”

After being relieved by being late, Yao Ming immediately felt less nervous, and felt that the championship trophy was already waving to him.

The Pistons have a better record and enjoy home court advantage. Amidst the cheers of the fans, the Pistons, a group of players who lack star flavor, walked into the court, and the game started quickly.

Yao Ming won the jump ball and passed the ball to Bob Sura.

He has a good attitude of admitting his mistakes, and he has worked very hard in recent training. Coupled with his height advantage, he immediately returned to the starting position as soon as he returned.

The outside line composed of Sura, Late and McGrady, at least on the defensive end, does not suffer that much.

Larry Brown is very confident in his team's defense. He only arranges matchup defense. Tayshaun Prince, who has the strongest outside defensive ability, is responsible for marking McGrady. However, he did not mark the late outside line as everyone expected killer.

Obviously Larry Brown believes that McGrady's point forward style of play is the biggest threat to the Rockets.

Since changing his style of play, it has become commonplace for McGrady to get a triple-double, especially the soaring assist data, making him look like an all-around fighter.

Sura dribbled the ball across the half, and honestly gave the ball to McGrady.

McGrady organized an attack at the top of the arc, first pretending to direct his teammates to move, and suddenly accelerated to break through Prince.

The little prince's wingspan is amazing, and his reaction speed is also very fast. McGrady failed to break through, so he had to pull out again and hang the ball inside.

Yao Ming received the ball near the bottom line of the basket and dribbled with his back in singles. The Pistons did not double-team.

In this situation, of course Yao Ming would not be polite, and immediately sat under the basket!
Once, twice!

Ben Wallace stood up against Yao Ming, but his lower body strength was not very good, so he couldn't stand up.

Yao Ming sat down to the basket twice, turned around and dunked, giving the Rockets a good start.

It can only be said that Yao Ming's height is too high, and he can easily complete a dunk without jumping at all. Ben Wallace has nothing to do with him.

Many people think that Ben Wallace in his peak period is very powerful and can defend against O'Neal.

In fact, this is not the case. In the 03-04 season, when the F4 Lakers played against the Pistons, it was Rasheed Wallace who was mainly responsible for defending O'Neal.

Roar Tianzun had a strong scoring ability at his peak, and his defensive ability was not inferior to Ben Wallace. With his excellent height and wingspan, coupled with his teammates' help in defense, O'Neal's performance... was not affected in the slightest.

In that round of the series, although the Lakers lost the game in the end, O'Neal's own statistics were actually very good.

He averaged 26.6 points, 10.8 rebounds and 1.6 assists per game.

If the Lakers had an undercover player who averaged 22.6 shots per game and shot only 38.1%, it would be impossible for the Pistons to win the championship that year.

One more thing, a center who averages 16.8 shots per game and shoots 63.1% is not the player with the most shots on the team, can you believe it?
So the most overrated defensive player in the league is actually Ben Wallace.

He just took advantage of the system and his teammates, and left fans and so-called experts with a good defensive impression.

Looking at his original historical data, you can know that after leaving the Pistons, his data dropped sharply. Not only could he not support a team's defense, but he even became a representative of high salary and low ability, which shows his strength.

After Yao Ming made a hit, he turned his head and glanced at Ben Wallace, and suddenly made a V to him.

Ben Wallace was stunned for a moment, obviously he didn't understand Yao Ming, who has always been relatively silent on the court, what the hell was going on.

The Pistons' offense was slow, with Richard Hamilton running off the ball non-stop.

Chauncey Billups, the least star-flavored FMVP, organizes the Pistons' offense. He is 191cm tall and weighs 92KG. He is a pure heavy-duty point guard.

His breakthrough ability is average, his passing ability is excellent, and he has a pretty good mid-range shot, which makes his style of play very simple. Looking at his career records, it is almost difficult to find that he has the kind of amazing Performance.

Billups and Hamilton run a pick-and-roll against a late switch.

The two made physical contact, and Billups was surprised. He didn't get any advantage in the confrontation when he had an advantage in weight?
The Pistons and Rockets played against each other too early in the regular season, and failed to have a direct dialogue with Late, which caused Billups to make a calculation error.

Coupled with the fact that his jaw-dropping three-pointer late has become his most powerful label, many people have intentionally or unintentionally ignored his performance on the defensive end.

Billups is not the kind of point guard who messes around. Knowing that he is not sure about being late, he immediately changed his strategy and passed the ball to Hamilton. Bob Sura followed him diligently and didn't give him a shot.

Hamilton immediately passed the ball inside and Rasheed Wallace received it.

Juwan Howard is getting old and can't keep up with Rasheed who is in his prime.

Roaring Tianzun's classic straight-arm jumper, the ball is scored!

The Rockets organized an offense, but Yao Ming still played inside. When the two had a physical confrontation, Yao Ming began to chatter nonsense.

"Ben, I already scored two points, what about you? Prove it to me, you are a top center forward who can be equal to me on both offensive and defensive ends, not just a blue collar."

Ben Wallace is smart, but that doesn't mean he doesn't have an offensive heart.

In fact, Ben Wallace looked down on Yao Ming from the bottom of his heart. He thought Yao Ming was too soft.

Holding his breath, Ben Wallace tried his best to stand against Yao Ming, but the effect was not ideal.

This time Yao Ming did not choose to forcefully sit and hit the basket, but turned around in the middle and turned around to shoot a jumper.

He's so tall, Ben Wallace can only hope he doesn't make the shot.

But there was one person who obviously didn't think praying was useful. He jumped out from the side and jumped high to interfere. It was Rasheed Wallace's assisted defense.

Interferenced by Rasheed Wallace, Yao Ming missed the goal.

Ben Wallace grabbed the rebound, and the Pistons, who had an advantage in athletic ability, didn't push the fast break to counterattack, and slowly fell to the ground.

It took 18 seconds for the Pistons to end the attack, with Hamilton missing a jumper and McGrady grabbing a defensive rebound.

The Rockets continued to play inside, and Yao Ming chose a turnaround jumper toward the baseline. This time, Rashid couldn't make up the defense. He felt soft and easily hit the ball.

After the goal was scored, Yao Ming smiled at Ben Wallace: "Ben, I already have 4 points!"

Big Ben's lungs are about to explode, is this guy trying to anger me on purpose?
The Pistons attacked, and Daben planned to return one, but Yao Ming's height put him under tremendous pressure. Daben hesitated for a while, and finally chose to pass the ball.

Prince received the ball from the outside and transferred it, and Hamilton made a shot.

The Rockets attacked again, and Late used Yao Ming's pick-and-roll to get an open spot. McGrady passed the ball in the first place.

When returning to defense, Late patted Yao Ming and said in a low voice, "Leave a little defense against Ben Wallace, you put too much pressure on the defense, he won't shoot."

Yao Ming was stunned for a moment, and said worriedly: "This is not very good. After all, it is the finals. If I play with fire on the defensive end, will I play with fire?"

(End of this chapter)