basketball never sleeps

Chapter 169 The powder keg that almost exploded
Seeing Mo Wen falling from the basket, Larry Brown took a deep breath and loudly yelled at the Pistons players to defend well.

"Are you sleeping? The game has started, idiots!"

It was unacceptable for Mo Wen to dunk the first ball.

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"Coach Brown, Mo Wen got a 50-point triple-double today, can you tell me what you think?"

"Coach Brown, Milicic got a double-double in Duncan's defense, do you have anything to say?"

"Coach Brown, I was not optimistic about the two rookie players who played stars or even superstars in the playoffs. Do you think they didn't perform in the Pistons before because of your employment problems?"

As an old man who likes to maintain his wise and gentlemanly personality in front of the public, Larry Brown has had a difficult time during this time.

It is no secret that he has conflicts with Mo Wen and Milicic.

Brother Mo likes to play the real thing, move his mouth or something, it’s too salty, so after winning the Pistons, he rarely mentioned the conflict between him and Larry Brown, but Milicic, a young man, couldn’t control his mouth. After a little bit of performance, I will confide some "distorted facts" from time to time.

For example: Larry Brown’s unlimited personal attacks; blaming the tactical mistakes on the players’ poor execution, and then adjusting the tactics by himself in order to be backward compatible with the players’ abilities; the players adjusted the defensive strategy on the spot according to the situation on the spot , even if you succeed, you will be scolded afterwards...
Larry Brown didn't pay much attention to these "rumors and rumors" at the beginning. Compared with Mo Wen's murderous actions, this is such a shitty thing, sprinkle water on it

Besides, as the coach with the most team changes in the NBA, he has suffered a lot of criticism.

Milicic's coffee position is not even eligible for him to respond.

However, as Mo Wen and Milicic played better and better, Mo Wen directly soared into the sky in the playoffs, and the matter of making him overkill and overqualified was pulled out by the major media again.

It even once affected his negotiations with the Knicks on a big contract, and he had to stand up and respond.

"I admit that I was wrong before. Mo is a smart young man. Of course, he is just smart. He doesn't understand the true meaning of the team."

"But you have to know that no matter how strong a single player is, he can't stand up to a team. What a team needs is a firm performer, not someone who puts himself above the system with a little cleverness."

"Hitting super data? Heh, you don't think it's a good thing for the team if a player has 50% possession of the ball?"

"As for Dak, he is too immature, both physically and mentally. I said before that he needs a long time of training and training to become a real player, but unfortunately, he is too eager to be famous, which will ruin him. his."

These words are not blunt, he just firmly believes that he is right.

Played in the NBA for nearly 10 years and served as a head coach for another 30 years.

Mo Wen?What is a little Oriental?
Does a 20-year-old kid know basketball?
He knows that the time in the NBA is estimated to be no more than 5 years.

But it is a little bit of strength and good luck that he got into a good team and made some achievements. He has seen too many young people like this.

See what Iverson is now without him?
An average of 30+10 per game can't make it to the second round!
That is to say, Riley is outside and O'Neal is protecting him. Otherwise, Mo Wen is a ball?

In today's game, Larry Brown originally arranged a tactic against Mo Wen, but Mo Wen suddenly changed to playing off the ball, which caught him off guard.

but···
This doesn't seem to be a bad thing.

During the regular season, when the Heat went off the field in the second and third quarters, Mo Wen and Wade basically took turns holding the ball, so this is not an unfamiliar style of play.

From a statistical point of view, this style of play can maximize the offensive capabilities of Wade and Mo Wen. Only Wade with the ball can maximize his physical talent, and Mo Wen without the ball can also reduce confrontation. , tearing apart the opponent's defense with his ghostly moves.

However, correspondingly, Mo Wen without the ball can't play his organizational skills, and Wade's passing is still far from genius level.

Their offensive threat has strengthened, but the Heat's integrity will also weaken.

For a joint defense team like the Pistons, you are not afraid of your top stars, but you are afraid of your collective explosion.

Changing sides to fight again, the Pistons attacked, because they were delayed in picking up the ball and fell to the position. Billups did not take the initiative to attack this time but distributed the ball to his teammates.

After all, Billups also has a high success rate in singles. It doesn't mean that his skills are not good enough. His breakthrough success rate is not low, but after breaking through, he may not be able to make strong shots from beyond the three-point line.

In the regular season last year, his shooting percentage at the basket was only 47%, and his overall shooting percentage (39.4%) was only 38.8% higher than his three-point shooting percentage (0.6%)!

In the finals of last season, if he hadn't met Payton Sr. and Fisher, two experienced babies whose athletic abilities belong to the same downstream position, so that he could create a 180 club, the FMVP might be Hamilton's.

As long as his shooting is at the level of Marbury, the "God of Point Guard" may have nothing to do with Grandpa Sao Paulo.

Basketball went through several twists and turns, and came into the hands of the most reliable Hamilton.

Bow-nocking an arrow.

Swah——

After finishing the shot, Hamilton raised his hands and pointed at Mo Wen from afar.

It's your turn, my little understudy.

Mo Wen raised his eyebrows with interest.

This action is the action that Hamilton would do after he made a hit under his defense when he was still in the Pistons.

He hadn't seen him in the four games of the regular season, so he almost forgot.

Needless to say, the Pistons are as brave as ever, they dared to provoke him knowing that he had such an explosive performance in the second round.

During the Heat's offensive round, Hamilton smiled after seeing Mo Wen hand the ball to Wade again.

He did it on purpose.

Because he didn't want to see Mo Wen playing with the ball either.

Everyone in the Pistons' starting five has a strong one-on-one defense ability-except Hamilton.

In order to maintain speed and agility, Hamilton weighs only 198 kg with the same height of 87 as Mo Wen.

Even if he is black, or from an athletic family, with relatively high muscle density, there is no way to avoid the disadvantage of absolute weight.

When he was in the Pistons last year, Mo Wen could sit and hit him with a weight of 100 kg. This year, although Mo Wen lost 95 kg, his strength has also improved at the same time.

Kobe is also capable of hitting him hard with his body weight, but he seldom tries to find his matchup.

But Mo Wen is different. In the regular season games between the Pistons and the Heat, he either picks and rolls himself and chases him, or passes the ball to Wade, who is running without the ball and forces him to switch, or chases him.

One person is not enough, two people are needed together.

Dogs are real dogs.

It shouldn't be his business if Mo Wen plays without the ball, right?

What about Prince?
He is willing to provide all support but practical help.

By the time Big Ben realized that it was a false pass, Mo Wen had already taken two steps and squeezed Hamilton into the penalty area on the right.

After a concealed elbow collision, the victorious Mo Wen pushed Hamilton away, vacated with one foot, and his arm catching the ball was like an elegant swan, swinging smoothly and silkily to pick the ball out.

Swah——

After landing, Mo Wen saw that Hamilton hadn't recovered his balance, so he went over to help him.

But he didn't expect this guy to knock off his arm as soon as he stood firmly.

"Don't touch me, bitch!"

Touching his numb arm, Hamilton looked at Mo Wen resentfully.

Play without the ball, play without the ball, come back, it's endless, right?

Do you really think you have no temper?If you dare to do this next time, labor and management will try to pull you down with technical fouls.

Mo Wen couldn't hear his voice, otherwise he would have to be reasonable, "I found your balance for you, why are you pulling people?"

Larry Brown was quite dissatisfied that the opening two rounds were beaten by consecutive strong beatings.

The roar came from the sidelines again.

But the Pistons players who are used to it are not very nervous.

They still attack according to the usual rhythm.

Billups and Rasheed ran a high pick-and-roll and rushed in. After Haslem switched defenses, he held the ball in the middle distance and made a single-handed posture with his body lowered, while Hamilton made a circle. With Rasheed's cover, he came behind Billups.

Billups, who had been observing everything from the corner of his eye, distributed the ball to the side and rear in a timely manner.

Rasul, who was chasing, was a step slower, but barely completed the eye-blocking before Hamilton shot.

Perhaps because his shooting movements were not graceful enough, the basket rejected the basketball.

The rebound was protected by Ao Pang, but the unwilling Daben did not give up the fight for the basketball. Before Ao Pang raised his elbow, he slapped the basketball at the same height as Ao Pang's head.

Snapped--

The crisp sound of slapping resounded across half the court.

Ao Pang was stunned for a moment, but when he regained his composure, his anger surged up in an instant.

Realizing that he slapped him wrong, Da Ben didn't have time to apologize, so he threw a fat elbow over.

Big Ben tried his best to avoid it, but he still brushed a side, and then he stiffly threw himself to the side.

Seeing that something was wrong, the referee rushed over with the linesman.

Blocked between the two with flesh and blood.

Fortunately, the referee blocked it in time.

Ao Pang has been annoyed by injuries during this time, and the injuries have affected his performance on the court, causing him to be questioned a lot. In addition, his wife almost gave birth prematurely due to some accidents recently. He was in a pretty bad mood at the time.

Being teased so unintentionally by Da Ben almost exploded.

Fortunately, the referee fought hard enough, and everyone from the Heat arrived in time, so they worked together to stop and appease Ao Pang.

Fearing that the conflict would escalate, the referee, who was frightened into a cold sweat, directly gave each of the first-level criminals a [-]-point blow.

At the same time, he repeatedly warned both parties not to cause trouble.

Generally speaking, if there is no Tianwangshan or a tie-break, the first game of each series is the most concerned.

When the news breaks at this time, the player may only be suspended and fined, and the referee involved may be about to lose his job.

Perhaps because the warning was useless, the referee reduced the size of the whistle in the following time, limiting the intensity of the confrontation.

But this did not reduce the intensity of the confrontation between the two sides. I felt that the collision between the innocent Da Ben and the even more innocent Ao Pang aroused everyone's anger.

In the first quarter alone, the referee sent out 32 whistles.

(End of this chapter)