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Chapter 629 The Strongest Black Eight Team

"There are three remaining challenge opportunities in this floor. If you defeat your opponent within three opportunities, you are eligible to enter the upper floor. Special note, if you can complete the sweep, this floor will reward you with a random ability card. After three opportunities are exhausted, the mission is over and the challenge is over." All the abilities of those who have returned to zero." The same reminder, but this time the 4 teams randomly selected for Tang Qian are... huh?Four teams?Were there not three teams before?
Tang Qian took a closer look at the "calendar board" on this level, and it was impressively written: This level challenges a random playoff team in the history of the NBA, the number of games, 7 wins in 4 games, and the rules of the game. Space-time rules prevail.The challenger has two powers to pick teammates.

So, now not only are there 4 teams to choose from, but also 2 teams to choose independently?
The teams shown on the "calendar board" are Seattle Supersonics, Oakland Oaks, Toronto Musk, New Jersey Nets.

New Jersey Nets again?And the New Jersey Nets in the 2001-2002 season?coincide?still……

Tang Qian paid special attention to this matter, and then first chose Kidd in the 2001-2002 season, and then chose Ray Allen of the Seattle SuperSonics in the 2006-2007 season.There is no need to introduce Kidd. Why did you choose Ray Allen?The answer is obvious. "Gentleman Lei"'s super shooter style matches Tang Qian's current style of play very well, and there is no conflict or incompatibility between the three.

至于剩余随机队友则是迈克.威尔克斯（03-04赛季）、阿尔文.希姆斯（98-99赛季）、达米恩.威尔金斯（08-09赛季）、蒙蒂.威廉姆斯（94-95赛季）、耶里.维尔什科（05-06赛季）、沃利.斯泽比亚克（05-06赛季）、特里.卡特里奇（91-92赛季）、麦克.麦克纳玛纳（82-83赛季）、阿内特.莫尔特里（13-14赛季）。

What do these people say?Tang Qian looked at it in detail, and there were not many that caught his eye. Fortunately, there were Wally Szczerbiak and Terry Cartridge on the back. Otherwise, the combat effectiveness of this team would be really limited.

Mainly the bench lineup, basically they are people with 2~3+ career statistics per game. Such people, to put it bluntly, are "water fountain guardians". Except for garbage time, they have no chance to play.However, Wally Szczerbiak in the 05-06 season was still very good. This period happened to be his peak period, and he could contribute 19+4+3 data per game, and his shooting percentage was close to 49+40+90. Almost entered the "180 club".However, this person has a very serious problem, that is, he has a problem with self-confidence, and he is prone to lose the chain in the playoffs. The three-point long-range shooting skill that he was proud of in that era immediately changed from 4% to... ... 2%, almost cut in half.So with this person, you can play downwind, but against the wind, forget it.

Tang Qian meant to let him play the 3rd position, because his body is very thick, with a weight of more than 240+ pounds, and his height of 201cm cannot be said to be tall for the 3rd position, but it is enough.However, he can only say that he is serious about defending, but his ability... well, it is not enough.But Tang Qian thinks he can help him make up for this, as long as the opponent is not a super shooter team.

Tang Qian arranged for Terry Cartridge at the 4th position. Although the 91-92 season was the penultimate year of his career, he still had a data output close to 15+7.But the tonnage of this player is relatively thin, and he has only weighed less than 220 pounds for most of his career. If he wants to fight in the paint, the offense is good, but the defense does not need to be expected. His height of 203 cm also determines that he has never been that A reliable inside guard.Not everyone belongs to Dennis Rodman.

However, his offensive skills are not bad, which is enough, and Tang Qian on the defensive end can "wipe his ass" for him.

So the final lineup is PG Jason Kidd, SG Ray Allen, SF Wally Szczerbiak, PF Terry Cartridge, C Tang Qian.As for the sixth person, Tang Qian doesn't care, this group of people is similar, so let's decide according to the specific situation of the game.

After Tang Qian's teammates were selected, the "calendar board" restarted, and the final picture was fixed on the New York Knicks, the New York Knicks in the 1998-1999 season.When Tang Qian saw this team, he immediately reacted in his brain, because this New York Knicks team is an extremely famous team in history.Ranked only eighth in the playoffs, but counterattacked all the way and directly broke into the 1999 NBA Finals.This was simply astonishing at the time.

But it is a pity that they did not create the biggest "Black Eight Miracle". They were defeated by the Spurs 4-1 in the finals, fulfilling Tim Duncan's first championship trophy and FMVP in his life.Should this kind of luck be said to be good or bad?
The eighth place in the East is already the weakest level among the playoff teams, but it happens to be this New York Knicks team.

Tang Qian shook his head with a wry smile, without complaining too much, and stood where he was, waiting for the coin toss.

This time Tang Qian's guess was correct, and Tang Qian's team won the home court advantage of this round of the series.

The head coach of the team is still the same, he is a person who has never seen him before, but judging from the last game, the head coach's role is not very big, at least it was not obvious in the last round.

The two sides warmed up, and then the starting lineups of both sides debuted. Tang Qian's team was: PG Kidd, SG Ray Allen, SF Wally Szczerbiak, PF Terry Cartridge, and Tang Qian.The New York Knicks are: PG Latrell Sprewell SG Alan Houston SF Larry Johnson PF Marcus Camby C Patrick Ewing.

It looks very strong, but first of all, Ewing, the insider, is close to 37 years old. Although he can still output about 17+10 in the regular season and still average 2.6 blocks per game, his shooting percentage has dropped to the freezing point of his career.Compared with about 50% before, the "Gorilla" has only 43.5% of his field goal percentage left this season.If this kind of shooting rate is a defender, it's okay, but as an inside big center... well, it's a bit unreasonable.

But this is the data of the regular season, the data of the playoffs, the decline is huge, and there are only 13+9 data left at once.The ability to protect the basket has also plummeted. Compared with 2.6 times in the regular season, there are only 0.7 times in the playoffs, which is almost a fraction of the regular season.In this case, "Gorilla" Ewing is not terrible, and has long lost the glory of the "Four Major Centers" in the 90s.However, the insider rookie he is paired with is "third grader" Marcus Camby. This 24-year-old young man was crowned the league's block leader with an average of 3.7 blocks per game last year, and he has excellent physical fitness. For Tang Qian The team attacks the basket, which is quite unfavorable.

As for the others, the playoffs were played in an extraordinary state. Sprewell averaged 20+ points per game, Alan Houston averaged close to 19+ points per game, plus the former "Queen Bee" Larry Johnson's 11+ points. The three formed the starting perimeter lineup of the "Strongest Black Eight" team in history.

And their defense this season is super tough. The regular season only allowed opponents to average around 85 points per game. What about the playoffs?Even more exaggerated, there are only 83 points left.This is completely different from the frequent 110~120 in the "small ball era".Super slow rounds and a lot of positional battles are the magic weapon for this team to win.

Tang Qian faced them, and his attack would probably be extremely restricted.

The addition of Ewing and Camby, who just won the block leader last season, is enough to give any inside invader a nightmare.

And it just so happens that they are all very capable of protecting the basket.

Tang Qian thought about it and decided to reduce his shots and increase his teammates' outside strikes in this round of the series.

The idea is good, but it is not necessarily the case in a fight. Although Tang Qian has played in the NBA for a season and a half, it is the first time that this kind of ultra-low round hand-to-hand combat has been fought.In the first half, he felt extremely "constipated", because the opponent had no interest in fast break and sports warfare at all, and he played hard and hard throughout the whole process, with a low hit rate.But their shooting percentage is not high, but you don't want to go too high, if you can't block the ball, you will be knocked off if you hit it, and the penalty scale of this game is obviously towards the New York Knicks.

The referee has a wide range of penalties for physical confrontation, so it is not particularly obvious or bad fouls. Basically, you don’t want to whistle. The worst thing is to fight this kind of "hard battle".With a body over 240 pounds, it's more like a show, and it doesn't work at all.

Sprewell's defense is above average, and he has scored the best second defense once in his career. Against Kidd and stalking him, the effect is still good.The main reason is that Kidd averaged 01 three-point shots per game in the playoffs of the 02-4.5 season, but only hit 0.9 goals. Point shooting percentage.With such a large base of shots and only such a small hit rate, Kidd will definitely "take the blame".If he can maintain his career three-point shooting percentage of 20% and 18.9%, then the Nets will have no hope of surpassing the Lakers that season.

Well, at least like Iverson, winning one of the seven games should not be a big problem.

But Kidd's three-point shooting percentage that year was simply a "mystery". He himself was later interviewed and claimed that his "damn three-point shooting percentage" ruined the Nets' No. A championship trophy.In fact, this is a bit exaggerated, because the Lakers that year had too obvious an inside advantage. The "Peak Sharks" showed their power, and the Nets were completely unable to parry the inside. Winning is even harder.

You must know that Kidd's three-pointers are basically shot only when there is a chance, which is completely different from Kobe's type.

In this way, he also shot about 18% of the three-pointers. How can we not let the Nets despair that year?

And in this game, it was Tang Qian's turn to despair, because Kidd had already shot 4 3-pointers in the open, but... Fucked none of them.Seeing this, Tang Qian almost "rolled his eyes".

Coupled with the fact that No. 3 Wally Szczerbiak was also in a "sluggish" state, Tang Qian's team was under tremendous pressure in the first game.

At halftime, the Tang Qian team trailed the New York Knicks by 6 points.

The Knicks scored 45 points in the half game, what about the Tang Qian team?Only got a pitiful 39 points, what is called "hand-to-hand combat", this round of the series is called "hand-to-hand combat".You can score 70-80 points in half a game compared to later generations. The speed and rhythm are completely different.You must know that what is being implemented now is the NBA rules of the 98-99 season. For outside players, this era is an era of "tortured" because... Hand-Checking is very popular, although the rules have been revised once in 94. , but it is still difficult to break through and tear the defense.

As for the "body whistle" or something, don't even think about it.

In the 98-99 season, Hand-Checking can no longer directly use the palm to push people to defend, but the forearm is still no problem, and then there is the most important point... Whether it is the offensive or defensive side, it can be used in a certain way. To a certain extent, it violates the advantageous position already occupied by the opponent.This regulation seems very professional and difficult to understand, but when you experience it, you will understand that the large-scale competition for positions is scary.Well, and this season's Hand-Checking also allows the defender's forearm, shoulder, buttocks and other parts to change or block the attacker's attack path.Looking at it now, do you feel that the basketball of that era is completely different from the modern one?
Later generations of Kerr said, it makes sense, the revision of the league rules determines the strength and decline of a team.More generally speaking, it means "one version casts one type of great god".When the rules have not changed, there is no comparison to directly compare the legendary teams.If you let the "72-win Bulls" play the rules of the 2017 game, then half of the game will be sent off. Conversely, if you let the 2017 championship play the rules of that era, it will only be blasted by the Bulls, and it will be completely inaccurate. .

In this way, you can understand that in the era when Hand-Checking has not been cancelled, unless super scorers, breakthroughs, breakthrough players simply do not have this "conventional" ability.The opponent's defense will make you "painful".

Therefore, in the 90s, the shooting percentage of outside players was generally low. It is not unreasonable. Even after "Joe God" got a little older, he lost the support of Superman's body, resulting in a drop in shooting percentage. The Bulls made only 46% of their shots in the last year. Rate up.In fact, looking at the data of the playoffs is even clearer. The 90s was the period when Hand-Checking was strictly enforced. Compared with the lenient hand-checking in the 80s, Qiao Shen’s shooting percentage has been declining since 92.Even at the peak of 30 years old, that's only 47%.

47% is certainly superior compared to others, but compared to his own previous hit rate, it looks a bit ugly.

Therefore, under the highly stringent Hang-Checking rules, it is a strongman who can exceed 45%, and Qiao Shen's later stage is the last example.But if he comes to Hyundai... that's hard to say. It is estimated that the shooting rate will exceed 50% again, because in terms of shot selection, Qiao Shen is still unique on the outside.

During the intermission, Tang Qian and Ray Allen said: "Ray, just shoot, now you need to open the gap, I will try my best to grab the rebound."

Ray Allen glanced at Tang Qian, nodded and said, "Okay, I will strengthen my shooting attack in the second half."

PS: I saw the discussion of some book friends. Well, Xiao Zi can only say that I am very grateful to everyone for helping Xiao Zi to speak, but it is impossible to write a book to satisfy everyone. Even Jin Yong and Gu Long can't do it, let alone Xiao Zi.So what Xiao Zi has to do is to persevere.

I won’t say anything, I will add more tonight~ Thank you for your love~
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