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Chapter 99 Opener

After Jiang Yan waved to the fans, she came to the Kings bench area.

Two minutes later, the Nuggets players came to the court one after another.

Among them is Jiang Yan's best friend Williams.

Yesterday, Jiang Yan treated Williams to a big meal!

At five o'clock, the game officially began.

kings starting lineup is
Point guard: Jiang Yan

Shooting Guard: Salmons

Small Forward: Aminu

Power Forward: Aldridge
Center: Robin.

The Nuggets starting lineup is

Point guard: Ty Lawson
Shooting Guard: Randy Foye

Small Forward: Kenneth Faried
Power Forward: JJ Hickson

Center: Wilson Chandler.

The first down was the Kings', with Robin scrimmage winning Chandler.

Jiang Yan slowly dribbled the ball to the frontcourt. This season, the Kings' offensive tactics will be based on positional warfare.

The Kings lineup is not suited for fast breaks, and Larry Brown will not let the Kings play fast breaks, not because of anything else, but because fast breaks will leave the team defenseless!

The defenseless Kings weren't something Larry had to live with!

Jiang Yan came beyond the three-point line and did not rush to attack. In the offensive tactics Larry Brown designed for the Kings, the most important link was the pick-and-roll!
Some people may think of the Jazz when they hear the word pick-and-roll, but they are wrong!

It is true that the Jazz use pick-and-rolls frequently, but the reason why the Jazz are famous for pick-and-rolls is not because of anything else, but because of the combination of Stokes and Malone, making pick-and-roll tactics famous.

In fact, with the tactical development of the NBA in recent years, which team did not use pick-and-rolls in offense?
Aldridge raised the three-point line and blocked Lawson for Jiang Yan, and then Jiang Yan brought Hickson to one side of the three-point line, and then the formation of the Kings and the formation of the Nuggets formed a misalignment!
Larry's strategy for Jiang Yan has three plans at this time!
One is that Jiang Yan shakes off Hixon to shoot a three-pointer, the other is to break through Hixon and then make a sudden point, and the third is to let Aldridge go inside and single the opponent's little man!
Although Larry Brown is not interested in offensive tactics, he still has the most basic tactical skills!
Facing Hixon's defense, Jiang Yan dribbled the ball with her left hand, and then broke through to the right of Hixon. Actually, Hixon's defense was pretty good. Seeing Jiang Yan's breakthrough like this, she turned slightly sideways, and then raised her right hand to cover Jiang Yan's defense. Yan's sky, at the same time his body followed Jiang Yan forward, squeezing Jiang Yan from time to time!
However, after Jiang Yan's breakthrough reached the intermediate level, this defense is still impossible to stop him from advancing!

When she took three steps to reach the mid-range position, Jiang Yan suddenly stopped dribbling the ball, then held the ball with both hands, and directly made a step-back jumper!

Hixon didn't jump up frizzily like other black people, but stopped after Jiang Yan, didn't take off, but just covered the sky with his hands straight above Jiang Yan.

This not only prevents Jiang Yan from making fouls, but also defends Jiang Yan's attack!
He was very relieved, because Jiang Yan's offense was not strong, and he firmly believed that Jiang Yan would definitely pass the ball if he defended like this!

But Jiang Yan made up his mind to score this goal by himself. This season, Jiang Yan is determined to bring the team into the playoffs, but he gave up on such a small defense. Is he still Jiang Yan?

And giving up offense at this time, so the five-month training in this off-season is for nothing?

I saw that after Jiang Yan was surrounded by Hixon, she didn't panic, but directly adjusted the shooting arc.

Hixon's palm is on Jiang Yan's shooting route. If he still shoots according to the original shot at this time, he will definitely be blocked!
After Jiang Yan adjusted the height, the basketball flew in the air and hit the backboard directly!

Just as the Nuggets were happily preparing to grab a rebound, the basketball changed direction through the collision of the rebound and went straight to the basket!
"brush!"

"Yan, two points!" The announcer's voice sounded at the right time!
Jiang Yan's rebound shot shocked the Nuggets. In their thinking, even if Jiang Yan's offensive ability has improved this offseason, it is impossible to become so strong!
And according to the preseason observations, Jiang Yan's three-point shooting ability has definitely improved, but he didn't expect that his layup ability has also improved at the same time!

After Jiang Yan scored the goal, her face was still expressionless, without any joyful smile, as if this goal never happened at all!
The other members of the Kings didn't celebrate by patting Jiang Yan's ass.

Because they know that Jiang Yan will become very serious as soon as she gets on the court!

Even now they are vaguely becoming expressionless on the court!
Just like the Spurs, the team spirit Duncan is a stone Buddha. Looking at the Spurs' style, they are always so calm and always so cold!

Jiang Yan is changing the Kings, so that the Kings have the same style as him!
The Nuggets attacked, and Lawson didn't intend to play a positional battle with the Kings. He directly got the ball and attacked the Kings' backcourt with his short legs!

Jiang Yan has been using Lawson's trick all the time, so she was waiting for Lawson at halftime!
Salmons is staring at Foye, another fast-break engine of the Nuggets!
As a defensive expert, Larry doesn't know the offensive tactics of the Nuggets. In the daily defensive tactical training, the Kings have been training to quickly return to defense!
In addition, the Kings played fast breaks in the first half of last season, so they have a clear understanding of the offensive elements of fast breaks!

Jiang Yan and Salmons killed the two fast-break engines of the Nuggets, so why should the Nuggets give the Kings a charged blow?

In fact, the short board of the Nuggets is here. Their offensive tactics are too monotonous, just like Salt Lake City's pick-and-roll tactics, and their tactics are not rich at all.

Just like it is now, after the Kings strangled the Nuggets' fast break tactics, the Nuggets couldn't score easily in the first 5 minutes, they only scored four points!
These four points are still related to Lawson's personal ability and Jiang Yan's difficulty in defending the 183 small man!
Otherwise, the Kings can give the Nuggets a zero egg in 5 minutes!

But now the Kings' defense has been very successful, because the Nuggets coach called a long timeout.

Taking advantage of the trend, the referee made this timeout an official timeout!

The loyal fans of the Kings are very excited, because this year's Kings are definitely a strong team in the playoffs in terms of the first 5 minutes of this game!
While defending the Nuggets and scoring four points in five minutes, the Kings also scored 5 points in those five minutes.

Although this is related to the Nuggets' weak defensive ability, the Kings' offensive ability is also good!
In these 5 minutes, Jiang Yan firmly grasped the shortcoming of the Nuggets' backcourt duo, and frequently let Aldridge single them out!

After the timeout passed, the Nuggets finally no longer pinned their hopes on the fast break, but made changes.

The Nuggets coach replaced Foye with Evan Furnell, who had better defensive ability, and asked Furnell to defend Jiang Yan, while Ty Lawson was to defend Salmons, who had no shot rights!
As for the inside line, the Nuggets coach is so worried.

Hickson's defensive ability is good, and Wilson Chandler is a champion center, so there is no need to worry!

But if this is changed, the Nuggets' fast break system will be broken!

In the past, the fast break of the Nuggets relied on three people, one was Iguodala, the other was Foye, and the other was Lawson!
Now there is only Lawson on the field. If Jiang Yan implements the previous strategy, then the Nuggets will not be able to play fast break!
Lawson slowly dribbled the ball to the frontcourt, and after everyone on the Nuggets settled down, he began to break through Jiang Yan!The coach of the Nuggets is not blind. Since the Nuggets were unable to score through fast breaks in the first 5 minutes, then the Nuggets will play 'Giant Planet' this time!
Let Lawson beat Jiang Yan infinitely!
Although Jiang Yan tried his best to defend Lawson, he took full advantage of Lawson's short height and fast speed. Often when Lawson broke through, Jiang Yan wanted to defend, but after being shaken twice, his center of gravity became even stronger. The low Lawson went straight to extinction!

Finally a layup!
But Larry, who was sitting off the court, had a slight smile at the corner of his mouth, and that smile contained the meaning that everything was under control!

Giant planet?
He Larry Brown is one of his favorite opponents and he hits the giant planet!
He shook his head, as if he won the title of a superstar killer in 03!

Thinking of this, Larry narrowed his eyes even more, thinking that he had gone to the finals in 03!
I especially remember a shark jumping in the net he wove, especially a snake struggling in the trap he set...

During the period of his fugue, the Nuggets were evenly matched with the Kings.

The score between the two teams was 19:28 at the end of the first quarter.

The home team is behind, the away team is in front!
Lawson worked very hard during these 7 minutes. He has been playing singles. Even if he is not facing Jiang Yan, he will single-handedly play Jiang Yan through pick-and-rolls.

And the effect of this is also obvious, the original point difference of eleven points has been reduced to nine points!
However, Lawson is also very tired. Even if he has strong stamina, if he plays like this in the first quarter, he can only last two and a half quarters!

The Nuggets coach obviously knows this, but now there is no other way, either fast break, or Lawson singles!

On the other hand, Jiang Yan was not eager to show his offensive ability in the first quarter. Except for the first ball, he was organizing the offense for the rest of the time!
In addition to allowing Aldridge to score 8 points, the rest of the starters also scored!

It can be said that the team is blooming everywhere!
So with Lawson working so hard, the score was only pulled back by two points!

However, Jiang Yan's physical exhaustion was also very serious, because in the first quarter, in addition to organizing the offense, he also had to defend against the explosive Lawson!
Although the defense was unsuccessful, it took Jiang Yan a lot of effort!

Moreover, in order to consume Lawson's physical strength, Larry Brown, who usually only played 8 minutes in the first quarter, played the full first quarter for an unprecedented time!
So Jiang Yan was a little tired at this time, and quickly took a few sips of Gatorade from the staff, in order to quickly recover her strength and recharge her energy for the next battle!
(End of this chapter)