When pride still matters

Chapter 139 Carr’s Index and Yu Fei’s Law

When George Karl watched Yu Fei's game, he felt an emotion of joy or anger in his mind. Tonight was obviously the "big day" for the second-year player.

His shooting touch is fiery and he hits every shot.

As a result, his offense is somewhat detached from the team.Although a large number of singles and singles after calling pick-and-rolls have achieved results, Karl does not like it.

Karl admitted that the NBA needs star talent, but this is not what he is pursuing.

For him, a perfect NBA game is always based on 20+30+30+30.

What is 20+30+30+30?

That is, the entire team touches the opponent's ball 20 times (not necessarily blocking or stealing), gets 30 free throws, sends 30 assists, completes 30 shots, and layups/dunks in one game.

This foundation is also called the "Carr Index" by Carr's assistants. If the team reaches this index on a certain night, it means that their performance that night can be described as a team and they are both offensive and defensive.

To do this, it goes without saying much about the efforts on the defensive end, but the offensive end needs to let the ball flow.

Because 30 assists cannot be obtained by one person.

And once there is an unlimited singles situation like Yu Fei tonight, even if the Bucks lead the Nets by 27 points 20-7 in the first quarter, the Bucks will not have many assists.

After the first quarter, Karl replaced Yu Fei and took a rest.

Yu Fei, who played the entire first quarter, scored 16 points, 4 rebounds and 1 assist.When he found his shooting touch, not even the Nets could do anything against him.

Karl said to Fei: "Fry, New Jersey has 2-3 people paying attention to you every round. Do you know what this means?"

Yu Fei wiped the sweat from his face with a towel and responded casually: "Will my teammates have more opportunities?"

"Then do you know what to do?" Karl tried his best to remain pleasant.

But sometimes, if you show too much favor to the players, they will kick your nose in the face.

Yu Fei smiled and said: "Continue to play singles?"

"No! Oh my god no!" Gentle Carl suddenly turned into crazy Carl, "Damn you have to pass the ball! You have to pass the ball to maximize your own threat!"

In fact, Yu Fei knew everything, he just didn't want to cater to him.

He doesn't want to stay in Popovich's Spurs, a team that insists on teamwork and players will be rested if they score 30+ points.

Karl asked him to pass the ball, and Yu Fei wanted to know how to pass it.

"I am the one with the highest shooting percentage on the court. If I continue to shoot, wouldn't I be maximizing my own threat?" Yu Fei asked rationally.

Karl was asked.

"No, this is a fallacy! Only after you have fully demonstrated your personal threat, the defensive pressure faced by your teammates will be reduced. At that time, if you pass the ball again, it will bring completely different results!"

Since the head coach asked so, Yu Fei had no choice but to give him face.

Then he followed the other party's words and made a small request:

"Okay, but I need more shooters."

Karl looked at Yu Fei subtly, this was not an ordinary suggestion.

"Sprey, Rey-ray, Michael (Reed), Chris." Yu Fei said the four names, "I want to play with them."

Karl didn't realize that this was a 5 OUT lineup that was extremely rare in the big ball era.

His first reaction was: "Who plays power forward?"

Yu Fei said: "Me."

"You're going to play against Kenyon Martin? I know you guys have a personal feud, but Kenyon is a very old-school tough [-], do you really think you can play against him?"

Who's afraid of a tough [-] with a broken leg?

Yu Fei asked again: "How will you know if you don't try?"

Karl, who didn't know what Yu Fei was planning, was delighted. He was pleased with Yu Fei's toughness: "I support you!"

Yu Fei doesn't get carried away because of his good touch. Whether he can play the fourth position is based on the opponent's size and physique.

Kenyon Martin is the iconic brutal power forward of the modern era, like a technically crude version of Blake Griffin.Why do people call them Fauvists?It's not that they look like beasts, it's that they look like beasts when they attack the basket.

If this kind of brutal power forward wants to maintain his athletic ability and explosive power, he needs to control his weight.

Therefore, although Kenyon Martin looks like a muscular stick that Yu Fei cannot match, he is actually only 234 pounds (106KG).

Yu Fei's weight last season was 104KG, and he gained 2KG this summer.

In other words, he and Martin weigh the same.

Maybe Martin's absolute strength is still stronger than Yu Fei, but this is by no means a physically inferior matchup.

As the game entered the second quarter, the Nets gradually showed their style as the strongest team in the Eastern Conference.

Their positional warfare is very complicated and full of various routines, and only Kidd can understand these routines.

This is why Kidd obviously has poor independent offensive ability, but in the era of big ball that does not pay attention to three-pointers, he can revitalize the whole team with the super negative BUFF that was left empty.

The disadvantages brought by the sophisticated tactical system are equally obvious, that is, when the tactics are out of touch, the offensive ability will appear extremely weak.

The Nets showed signs of fatigue, which Yu Fei had already seen in the opening game.

They can go 4 minutes without scoring and then hold their opponents to within 2 points.

What an ugly game is this?
And the two finals played by this ugly team were not the lowest-rated games in history—leaving aside the campus finals—how unwatchable was the infamous 2005 finals? Already?

Yu Fei is waiting for the moment when he is summoned again by George Karl.

The Nets, under the leadership of Kidd, used the second lineup to chase points continuously.

A little-known unknown person stood up. His name was Lucious Harris SG. ABC introduced him as the first pick in the second round in 1993. It was this veteran who had worked quietly in the NBA for many years. , became the main player in the Nets' point-chasing momentum.After Harris made a three-pointer, he completed consecutive layups with the help of Kidd. Only 3 minutes into the second quarter, the Nets had already chased the point difference to only 1 point.

29 is better than 30
In other words, the Bucks only scored 3 points in the past 3 minutes.

"Their main lineup hasn't returned yet, and I can't change to the lineup you mentioned." Karl said to Fei, "Your task now is to break our scoring drought."

Yu Fei joked: "Should we use passing to interrupt or singles to interrupt?"

Karl said angrily: "No matter what method you use, as long as it works!"

Okay then.
Yu Fei hopes that Coach Karl will like his unlimited singles.

Compared to Karl, Yu Fei still prefers Collins. Although the latter cannot break free from Jordan's shackles, his constraints on the stars are basically zero.

He believes in the abilities of the stars and is willing to give them power on the court.

Yu Fei remembers that when he played under Collins, he was never asked to pass the ball, but this did not affect his average of nearly 7 assists per game.

What does this mean?He is a player who likes to pass the ball.

I played singles tonight just because I felt good.

To put it in the most straightforward terms, is it wrong to shoot more if your hand feels good?
Look at what Kidd did. Whoever has a good touch is like a duck feeding the ball to the opponent's hands.

Therefore, Yu Fei does not feel that he is alone. He keeps passing the ball - he passes the ball to himself who has the best touch.

Well, maybe he should ask Kobe and Iverson to hold a symposium on "how to rationalize the isolation style of play".

Currently, the Bucks have Kevin Ollie, Michael Redd, Anthony Mason, Christian Laettner and Dan Gazulic on the court.

Yu Fei greeted Leitner and asked him to find a way to kill the ball so that he could play.

So Laettner decisively fouled his opponent.

Yu Fei replaced Mason.

Yu Fei came on the court and faced the Nets' substitute forward Rodney Rogers.

The Nets serve again.

Kidd holds the ball at the top of the arc and calls for tactics, which are still complex tactics.

Yu Fei saw four other people running at the same time.

Rogers, who Yu Fei was facing, was obviously not the end point of the tactics. He stood on the left side outside the paint area and provided a cover for Lucius Harris.

Yu Fei decisively changed defense.

Complex tactics, if executed well, can indeed easily shake the opponent's defense.

But not every point guard can figure out the tactics.

For some mediocre point guards, even if their teammates run out of tactics, they cannot seize the opportunities created by tactics.

Because those opportunities are always fleeting.

The point guard who initiates the play is like a prophet in a certain situation and needs to anticipate opportunities before they arise.

This is the difference between a player like Kidd and other players at the same position.

He always saw the development three steps later when he took the first step.

Kidd hit Rogers, who was not at the end of the tactics, with one shot.

Rogers turned around and attacked the basket, using his physical advantage to score 2 points.

30 is better than 31
The Nets achieved a lead in the first round when Yu Fei was substituted.

Seeing this scene, even George Karl couldn't help but shake his head and admired, "This is Jason Kidd, he is the number one point guard in the world!"

For everyone who loves offensive and defensive tactics, the Nets' games are wonderful. Their tactical complexity, the players' rigorous movement, and the master's instigating ability are all amazing.

These are the reasons why Yu Fei thinks the Nets game is ugly.

Because there is a 20-year generation gap between them.

This is not Yu Fei's problem alone. Almost everyone who is accustomed to the rhythm of small ball games will not be accustomed to the rhythm of games in the big ball era.

Yu Fei asked for the ball from Oli (point guard), and the Nets still asked Kidd to defend Yu Fei.

Facing Kidd in the frontcourt, Yu Fei asked while controlling the ball: "Why do you play so complicated in every round?"

Hearing this, Kidd said arrogantly like a master who looked down on his juniors: "You won't understand!"

If you understand it, can you beat your wife like you?
Yu Fei snorted, said nothing, suddenly started and then changed direction, making himself half a body ahead and then stopped suddenly.

For Kidd, due to his size disadvantage, once Yu Fei is ahead in body or position, it will be difficult for his defense to be effective.

"Shh!"

Yu Fei faced Kidd and scored in singles, and said: "Hey, Jason, are the two points scored by complicated tactics more noble than the two points I scored by easy singles?"

Kidd's face became ugly, but most people didn't know what happened.

Only Christian Leitner has an idea of ​​what's going on.

If someone is still in a good mood after playing a game with Yu Fei, it can only mean two things, that person is too bad, or Yu Fei's performance is too bad.

You can call this Yu Fei's Law.

This is the experience that Leitner summed up after being brutally tortured by Yu Fei in DC for a year. I hope everyone knows this.

(End of this chapter)