Basketball starts with breathing

Chapter 232 Is Lu Yu trying to defend against three? [The third update, please subscribe]

On April 4, the first round of the playoffs kicked off, and Chinese fans have been sitting in front of the TV since that day, waiting for the game to start.

The Bulls didn't play today, and their games won't start until the next day, April 4.

What fans are waiting for is the Mavericks game against the Timberwolves today.

"The two teams played really tight, and their shooting percentages were not high. This is because the defensive intensity of both sides was very strong. In the second quarter of the game, Wang Zhizhi came off the bench and hit a three-pointer. ball."

The voice of the commentary came from the TV, which made the fans jump up with excitement.

No one expected that Wang Zhizhi would make a contribution after he came up. The Timberwolves' insider Rasu Nesterovic couldn't prevent him at all. Wang Zhizhi floated outside and played very easily.

The head coach of the Timberwolves did not expect that the Mavericks' backup center would actually play the same way as their core Dirk Nowitzki.

When Garnett is on the court, he can still prevent him from going out. Garnett is down, and it is too difficult to prevent him from inside.

Wang Zhizhi played better and better. Even after all the main players were on the court, Don Nelson still kept him on the court, Nowitzki played as a power forward, and he played as a center. Although Garnett tried his best, the Timberwolves still lost.

101 to 94, the Mavericks won their first playoff victory.

Nowitzki scored 20 points and 11 rebounds, Nash had 9 points and 13 assists, of which five assists were passed to Wang Zhizhi. Wang Zhizhi felt hot today. He played 29 minutes off the bench and scored 14 points and 8 rebounds. data.

And Wang Zhizhi's excellent performance also surprised the Timberwolves.

But in Lu Yu's view, the overall strength of the Timberwolves is actually not enough. Even if there is no Wang Zhizhi, the Timberwolves will still lose the game.

Fight with the Mavericks.

Not to lose is strange.

Lao Tang's style of play is clean and refined, he is good at discovering new players, and he cares for players from the outside to the inside.

In addition, Nelson has a crazy personality and frequently acts out of the ordinary, and is known as a mad scientist.

In the coaching position, constantly innovating, trying various innovative play styles, leading the trend and refreshing.

As a coach, Nelson is like Shennong, who tasted all kinds of herbs, encountered 72 poisons every day, and got tea to solve them.Many of his basketball concepts, even in Lu Yu's previous small ball era, are still impressive.

Many of Nelson's playstyle concepts and team-building mechanisms were a little exaggerated at the time, or even alternative, but they were able to be carried forward by latecomers.

Without him, this is strength. The cognitive ability is too far ahead, and it is normal that it is not recognized by most people in the same period.

When Einstein proposed the two theories of relativity, many people were also in the same boat.The mass-energy equation is simple, but it contains the machine of the universe and the ambition to swallow the world.

The long-haired, unkempt Einstein was also a mad scientist in the eyes of most people.

Old Nelson is in the NBA, and he is also a mad scientist, a weird professor, and belongs to the category of strange people and strange things.

As a team coach, Don Nelson has endless forward-looking play styles, lofty ideas, and unrestrained ideas, which is a height that no other coach has ever achieved.

Sanders wanted to fight tactics and offense with Nelson, and he was obviously much more immature.

After the first day of the game, everyone was gathering game information.

Another game in the West was a slaughter. The Spurs beat the SuperSonics 110-89. Duncan asked for anything in the SuperSonics without any pressure.

The two games on the east side are the Nets against the Pacers and the Hornets against the Celtics.

Although everyone was optimistic about the Nets winning the game before the game, basketball is round and anything can happen.

The Nets were upset by the Pacers.

83 is better than 89
The Pacers had the last laugh. The Nets' proud offense did not play out, and was even suppressed by the Pacers, scoring only 83 points.

The main reason is that Kenyon Martin really thought he could single against O'Neal Jr. He forgot that he was just a pie-eating insider.

As a result, little O'Neal was pressed on the floor and thumped, screaming "No."

At this time, people discovered that although the Pacers are old and small, they are better at balance inside and outside. Reggie Miller is deadly on the outside, and O'Neal is on the inside.

Kenyon Martin couldn't guard O'Neal Jr.

No one on the perimeter can limit Reggie Miller's deadly three-pointer.

The Nets' offense is better than defense. When they can't play offense, they don't need to watch defense, and what they fear most is a balanced offense and defense team like the Pacers.

But as long as they adjust over, the Pacers are still difficult to compete.

All in all, they're going to have a tough game on both sides in this series.

Another Hornets game against the Celtics, another one below.

The Celtics were fourth and the Hornets were fifth, and the Hornets beat the Celtics 80-79.

The Celtics were strong up front, but their back line was overrun by Baron Davis.

On the first day of the playoffs, eight teams were fighting against each other, and the other eight teams were not idle.

After studying the Magic's game tape, everyone up and down the Bulls felt that the first round of the playoffs was easy.

No matter from the lineup or from the record against the regular season, the Bulls have an absolute advantage.

"How do you think we should play this game?" Cartwright asked.

A smile appeared on the corner of Brad Miller's mouth: "It's still according to the previous style of play, starting from Lu Yu. Darrell Armstrong's defense is not good, and his height is not very high."

Richardson thought for a while and said: "The inside line is their weak link. Ewing has just come back, and now he can't even make the starting lineup. Counting on the old Cobra, he can't prevent us at all."

The Magic's starting center, unsurprisingly, should be Cobra Horace Grant.

Everyone, it seems that the Magic's defense is really vulnerable.

In fact, the Magic's defense is not bad, at least above the league average, but the Bulls are accustomed to using their own standards to measure their opponents, and I am afraid that the entire Eastern Conference will not be able to find a few better defensive teams than the Bulls.

Rivers also wanted to strengthen the defense, but it was difficult for a clever woman to do nothing, and the entire team could not find a decent defensive player. If Grant Hill did not get paid for the season, relying on Hill and McGrady, even if McGrady The defense is average, Hill's defense is at least fairly dedicated, and Ewing can definitely make a difference with the inside rim protection.

But now, Hill is reimbursed, and Ewing is injured.

Who to defend?
Can't Rivers be on his own?

In the middle of the season, the Magic also made reinforcements. Because of Ewing's injury, the team brought in Cobra Horace Grant. They thought they could strengthen the defense in the interior, but as a result... if the interior was really unusable, the inside would not be available. Firth can't wait to cut him now.

Privately, Rivers has said more than once that Grant is a locker room cancer!

In fact, the team's large-scale injuries have nothing to do with Rivers' coaching style. He has always liked 7-8 rotations, whether it is the regular season or the playoffs.

Although the result of doing so made McGrady's super-giant name, it also caused a wave of injuries in the team.

Now the lineup he can put out, as long as he is not a fool, he can guess it.

Center: Horace Grant
Power Forward: Pat Garrity

Small Forward: Monty Williams
Shooting Guard: Tracy McGrady

Point guard: Darrell Armstrong

Substitutes: Ewing, Mike Miller and Troy Hudson.

Gone.

Just these few people.

Others may be able to go up and mix for a few minutes during garbage time, or when these main forces are really unable to move, they can go up and fight.

The team is so miserable that they don't even have a real shooting guard, and they can actually make them into the playoffs. I have to say that McGrady is really a god of death this season.

Poor McGrady was moved from a small forward to a shooting guard position.

In this lineup, there is only one offensive point, and that is McGrady. Everyone else serves McGrady. The task of the two insiders is to grab rebounds, then hand them over to McGrady and continue to shoot.

Armstrong is one of the few bright spots in this Magic.

But after dribbling the ball past half court, he didn't have anything to do with him. Occasionally ambush with Monty on the flanks to shoot shots, which was one of their few tasks on the offensive end.

But Armstrong has a nice steal.

But in Lu Yu's eyes, a good steal doesn't mean a good defense. Armstrong's height limits his defense. Even if McGrady has a superhuman performance, if others can't defend, he will definitely lose.

What's more, can McGrady still perform like that under the Bulls' iron lock defense?

Cartwright was a little hesitant. He knew what everyone was talking about were the shortcomings of the Magic, but he always felt a little uneasy in his heart, perhaps because he was a rookie coach in his first playoff appearance. , Or maybe McGrady's performance this season is really too scary, making him worry about his team's defense.

"What you said is very reasonable. We have a great advantage in the face of magic."

He interrupted the players' discussion with a light cough, and continued: "But the Magic can get the sixth-best record in the Eastern Conference this year, and it's definitely not as weak as we thought, and if they're really bad, they won't be able to make it into the season. In the playoffs, we have to prevent things like capsizing in the gutter."

The lights flickered in the room, and he cut the tape back to a Magic game.

"Don't worry, Bill, I'll beat the Cobra until he can't find his glasses." Brad Miller laughed: "McGrady is very good, but he can't have a terrible performance every game. "

"What if he just played three games on us?" Cartwright asked rhetorically.

"Uh..." Miller was speechless.

The room fell silent for a while, except for the occasional rumble in the video.

After a while, Charles Oakley nodded and said: "Bill is right, we have to be fully prepared, of course, everyone has to have confidence that our defense will definitely limit Tracy's performance, not to mention, We have a more balanced attack than them, and as long as we play properly, we can definitely win the game, and if they want to win, we'll spank them."

He is the big brother of the team, and he needs to stand up and encourage everyone at this time.

Cartwright shook his head. Oakley had a bit of stubbornness on his body. It was okay for him to go out and fight with the players, but he was somewhat unqualified as the leader of the locker room.

Cartwright's gaze turned to Lu Yu, who was sitting in the corner watching the video without speaking.

Lu Yu felt Cartwright's gaze and knew that Cartwright wanted him to stand up and remind his teammates not to take it lightly. After he coughed lightly to attract the attention of his teammates, he said lightly, "Actually...the defense can still be done. better."

Defense?

Artest and Richardson were dumbfounded. They are now responsible for the defense in the backcourt. Lu Yu said that he should do better defense. Isn't that the task of the two of them?

"Lu, we don't understand, is there anything else that needs to be strengthened?"

Lu Yu shook his head with a smile: "It's not that you need to strengthen, I'm talking about my defense!"

"Your defense?"

"of course."

Lu Yu stood up and walked to the tactical board.

"Everyone should have heard the saying, 'The offense may go wrong, but the defense won't', then I will use my defense to make McGrady's offense go wrong, Quentin and Ron, you are responsible for assisting the defense at any time, as long as you can Help me strangle Maddie and I'll get you an autographed photo of Scarlett Johansson."

Quentin Richardson's eyes lit up.

Compared to him, Shatai is a lot smarter. He and all the other team members realized that something was wrong in Lu Yu's words.

Does Lu Yu want three defenses and one defense?

……

In the evening, Lu Yu rejected Charlize Theron's plan to create a human being, and he didn't know what Charlize had been crazy about recently. He asked Lu Yu every time... Anyway, what she meant was that she wanted a baby in particular.

Lu Yu wanted to focus all his energy on tomorrow's game, but he could only decline Charlize's love's encouragement.

and shut her out.

Charlize could only go back to the next door angrily.

Just kidding, for the playoffs, Lu Yu recently blocked Scarlett Johansson's cell phone number.

As for Jessica, she's busy and doesn't have time.

As for Annie, it seemed that the filming was almost over, but she didn't say when she would come back.

During this time, Lu Yu's breathing technique progressed slowly, especially Yanzhi's breathing technique, which has only increased by 2% so far. In addition, the playoffs are about to start, and Lu Yu has no time to study how to go faster. growth of.

Before going to bed, Lu Yu opened the system panel and took a look.

[Host: Lu Yu]

[Water Breathing: 81%]

【Breath of Thunder: 78%】

[Breath of Fire: 63%]

[Breath of the Wind: 53%]

[Breath of the Rock: 3%]

Can only hope that the game will find out if there is a way to improve.

The lights in the house are a bit dazzling. Tomorrow, the playoffs will start...

　Let's get a monthly pass~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)