shooting guard era

Chapter 244 273. The Changed Carter

Seeing Okafor lose the jump ball again on the court, Bickerstaff shook his head. As long as he meets a center with better bounce, Okafor will hardly have a chance to win the jump ball.

The opposite center, Jason Collins, who has averaged about 5 points and 5 rebounds per game in his career so far, but has always maintained his starting position, can win jump balls on Okafor's head by bouncing.

Thinking of the inside line with a good bounce, Bickerstaff looked at Milicic on the bench. This No. [-] pick bounces very well among white players, even better than the black Okafor.

Okafor has grown stronger this summer. At the age of 23, his muscles and core strength have become much stronger than last year. After training with Rodman, his flexibility and ability to position inside have become stronger, but he just bounces. Seems to be getting worse, probably due to weight gain.

Let Milicic and Okafor double center start?

The idea was more appealing than Kerstaff, but Gerald Wallace was too good to be a backup, with Hill as a superstar at small forward.

For a while Bickerstaff felt a trouble called happiness.

Last season, we still couldn't get enough people together, but this year the frontcourt is full all of a sudden.

After thinking about it for a while, Bickerstaff had some calculations and did not consider putting Milicic in the starting lineup for the time being.

Today the opponent of the Bobcats is the Nets, one of the strong contenders in the Eastern Conference playoffs. Although they did not make the playoffs last season, their core lineup is still not to be underestimated.

Against Carter, Ye Han was very excited about this. At the beginning, he gave a big cap to Richard Jefferson who ran into the inside for an alley-oop dunk, and started a tough defense.

It's still the right of the net, Carter looked at Ye Han in surprise, such an active defense?

This is very unscientific in Carter's basketball view. After becoming the core scorer of the team, who would start like that and defend desperately?

At least he won't. In his impression, his cousin McGrady, who used to be his partner, threw the defense aside after becoming the core of the team's scoring.

In Carter's impression, only Kobe's pervert would want to destroy the opponent in every game, whether it was offense or defense.

The Nets continued to attack.

Ye Han defended Carter, and just returned to defend and sent a big block at the beginning of the game. The Nets' offensive routines are notoriously fast, which is not worse than when the Bobcats play fast breaks. His main defensive task is Carter, who is a top ten scorer in the league. defender.

Although Carter suffered several major injuries, his average scoring per game last season was still fifth in the league. Although his physical fitness was not as good as before his injury, he was still excellent. In addition, his overall scoring method, which is rarely praised by people, was a very important aspect of Ye Han. opponent.

But, unexpectedly, Carter dribbled the ball to the right and passed it to Kidd. He helped Kidd pick and roll and blocked Blake who was closely guarding Kidd!
See a ghost?When did Ye Han meet such a selfless Carter?Actually took the initiative to take on the role of a supporting role, to do pick-and-roll?
Starting from Carter and Kidd's pick-and-roll, the Nets' offensive tactics began to operate collectively, and everyone else moved and blocked their positions.The Bobcats are also actively rotating defensively, occupying a favorable position.

Carter's pick-and-roll for Kidd not only created opportunities for Kidd to break through, he also cut inside because of Ye Han and Blake's defensive changes.

Ye Han and Blake let go of Kidd tacitly and went to double-team Carter.

Sure enough, Kidd's choice was to give the ball to Carter.

Carter took off immediately after receiving the ball with one step inside the free throw line, and flew explosively to the basket.

The Bobcats were already prepared to deal with Carter's defense. Okafor appeared outside the reasonable collision zone early, raised his hands and jumped on the spot, blocking Carter's front. Blake ran over to Carter's third lane and prepared to take out the ball. , as long as Carter gets the ball below the waist, he is ready to shoot.

Is this bounce injured?When people saw that Carter's head was easily above the backboard, they exclaimed, how bad would this bounce be if he hadn't been injured?

Immediately, people couldn't help shouting "God", and Ye Han, who jumped up with Carter, looked directly at the basket!

Ye Han took off with all his strength, his head was already over the basket!
With a three-way attack, the New Jersey fans at the scene opened their eyes wide. They had seen Carter fly directly over the center's head for a dunk in the Olympics, and they were looking forward to another miracle from Carter.

However, Carter made the pass, and to everyone's surprise, it was thrown to Richard Jefferson, who cut in the middle, and the latter dunked with both hands to end the attack.

"Oh……"

The fans were a little disappointed. They thought they would see a three-man defense, but they still applauded. After all, this cooperation was very good. If it wasn't for Carter's pass, they would definitely receive a lot of cheers.

Passed the ball?The Bobcats were as surprised as the fans.

Ye Han looked at Carter and thought: Is this the same Carter who wanted to dunk when someone blocked him?When did you become so selfless?

Bobcats were attacking. Ye Han's game was completely different from Carter's. He just took the ball and did it.

The Nets let Kidd defend Ye Han alone.

Kidd's defense was second to none among point guards. His nimble footwork and excellent defensive anticipation kept Ye Han firmly in front of him.

It seemed very difficult for Ye Han to use the ball to break through against Kidd. Kidd is very experienced in defensive breakthroughs.

However, what makes Ye Han stronger is his use of his body, taking advantage of the offensive player's first move, knocking away Kidd and forcing his way in.

Kidd subconsciously wanted to block Ye Han with his hands, but he stopped halfway. The new rules of the league have already made the defensive players panic.

After Ye Han broke into the inside line, he forced a layup against Collins' defense and caused the opponent to foul and score 2+1.

Collins and Okafor are far behind. Whether it is statistics or role, he is not worthy of a starting position. When the Nets reached the Finals for two consecutive years and lost, they lost on the inside.

At the beginning of the game, the Bobcats insisted on the tactical arrangement prepared before the game. The defensive end strangled Carter and Richard Jefferson. A scorer is the best way to go.

Relying on Carter's selfless style of play, the Nets let the Bobcats' defensive goals fail. Carter's changes in the Nets over the past year have shown a completely different look from the Raptors.

Although Carter had more than 3 assists per year during the Raptors period, it was based on a high concentration of ball possession and a lot of playing time. After he came to the Nets last year, the more than 50 games he played changed very much, and his average assists per game reached his career. A new high of 4.7 times.

The defense of the Nets has collapsed in the past two years. After losing Kenyon Martin, their inside line has become the back garden of their opponents. There is only Kidd on the outside line. Among the others, Richard Jefferson's defense is not bad. .Let alone Carter, his defense has never been very good. In the early years, he could rely on his physical explosiveness to occasionally block a shot. Now, after being seriously injured twice by Bowen, his linear acceleration and jumping still have seven or eight points of the strength of the year, but Traversing and changing direction, basically ruined.

Now Carter's defense is like the road in the morning.

However, on the offensive end, the cooperation between Carter and Kidd this year is obviously much better than last season. Kidd can always send the ball to Carter's very comfortable offensive positions. Carter forces the Bobcats to play in these positions. Double-teaming and assisting defense, showing gaps in other positions, Carter himself is no longer the same as before, he wants to dunk when he sees the basket, and sends many exquisite passes.

The Nets' offense competed with the Bobcats in the cooperation of Kidd and Carter.

The Bobcats focused on Ye Han's personal offense in the first quarter, shooting from inside and outside like a lone wolf to blow up the Nets' poor defense.

After the first quarter, the scoring efficiency of both sides is very high, 33 to 31, the Bobcats lead by two points.

Fans were hooked on the offensive battle, and the ratings of the live broadcast of the game on ABC TV also hit a new high for the match between the two teams.

The happiest thing is the president David Stern. Last season, the Suns turned from a cancer in the ratings of the previous year to the king of the ratings. He was inspired. The offensive team is always sought after by the audience, so he came up with the perimeter protection The new rule of the law forced most teams to start focusing on offense, which raised the viewing pleasure of the game to a higher level.

Of course, there are also teams like the Spurs, which still firmly maintain the tradition of "no more than a hundred good teams" and never score more than 100 points per game.

……

In the second quarter, the Bobcats caught the Nets by surprise.

Although the Bobcats' defensive strategy deviated, their offense was still effective. Ye Han was strong. Immediately after the Nets had just adapted to Ye Han's strength and made a change, the Bobcats suddenly turned into an overall offense in the second quarter. Hill and Misilic, who played in rotation, took advantage of Ye Han's restraint to send beautiful passes to other teammates who had scoring opportunities.

In this quarter, the Bobcats replaced a ridiculously tall lineup. Ye Han, Kapono, Hill, Milicic, and Okafor, the average height of the five was over [-] meters!
In addition, except for Okafor, these players all have mid-to-long range shots, and except for Kapono, they are all very good at rebounding.

The head coach of the Nets, Lawrence Frank, was tricked. This young coach is really not very good. In the summer of 03, he took over the team that had just reached the finals for two consecutive years. He almost failed to bring the team to the lottery zone. Then in the second year, that is, last season, the team successfully prevented the team from making the playoffs.

Frank seemed slow to react, and when he made a change to his opponent's attack, the opponent was even faster than him to make the next move.

It's the same this time. Although Bickerstaff is not very good at tactical design, he is top-notch in terms of player rotation and bold changes. It has been seen from several matches last season that the head coach of the Nets is really not very good. In this way, he also found out the level of the opponent, and made changes one step faster.

Ye Han scoring 22 points in the first quarter alone was scary, but the Bobcats were even more scary when their role players fired.

Kapono hit 5 three-pointers in a single quarter in the second quarter. Milicic, who practiced outside shooting hard in the summer, also scored 8 points in the middle and long distances. In addition, Webbers replaced Hill in the last 4 minutes before halftime. Telang shot very well and scored 7 points in a row. These three substitutes scored 30 points in a single quarter. The strong firepower directly stunned the Nets.

The Bobcats also scored 44 points in the second quarter under the leadership of Milicic, 44 to 27. The Bobcats opened up a 17-point difference in a single quarter, widening the total point difference to 19 points, and the score was 77 to 58. leading.

(End of this chapter)