When pride still matters

Chapter 230 Silence is better than sound

Chapter 230 Silence is better than sound

There was only one emotion on Larry Brown's livid face.

He would not choose to replace him just because Prince failed to defend Yu Fei twice, because even if it was them, no one was more suitable to face Yu Fei than Prince.

Chauncey Billups has already tried it, Richard Hamilton? He's far worse than Prince.

So it has to be Prince, and it can only be Prince.

In the next round, Billups used a pick-and-roll attack, knocked down Horry in a misplaced position, and used rhythm to score a jumper in the paint.

4 is better than 2
  The Pistons finally scored, but Yu Fei also made a mistake in the next round, and his breakthrough pass was intercepted by his opponent.

This is inevitable.

Since you want to break the Pistons' iron barrel formation with yourself as the main player, you have to hold the ball a lot, and a high ball holding rate is accompanied by a high turnover rate.

For the Bucks, that's an affordable price to pay.

What the Pistons didn't expect was that the Bucks, a team that excels at offense, cannot be underestimated when it comes to serious defense.

The defensive counterattack caused by Yu Fei's mistake was caught up and interfered by Ray Allen.

Sprewell caught up with the ball on the floor and hit Prince's body, causing the ball to pop out of bounds.

Returning to the frontcourt, Yu Fei called the second position for a pick-and-roll.

The Pistons' starting lineup, which has strengthened the fourth position, has only one obvious hole left in Hamilton.

The Pistons' iron barrel formation has its rigid side. They must double-team the ball holder in some situations.

For example, now, if Hamilton does not help defend, Yu Fei can use the pick-and-roll to break through Prince's defense. Hamilton helps defend, leaving Ray Allen completely open.

That's Ray Allen, whose three-point shooting percentage is as high as 40%+!
  According to inertia and the concept that the Iron Bucket Formation must give their opponents three-point shooting opportunities, even Ray Allen will shoot them when they should.

Yu Fei passed the ball and Ray Allen hit a three-pointer.

7 is better than 2
  The Pistons request a timeout.

Larry Brown is a cautious person after all. He doesn't want Yu Fei to play at a comfortable rhythm, nor does he want to see the Bucks find their touch on the outside.

However, Karl didn't know what his senior brother had to do to deal with Yu Fei and Ray Allen's pick-and-roll offense.

To crack this, it's actually just one move, just switch defenses.

If you want to double-team, the bet is on Ray Allen's shooting touch.

George Karl thinks he has little knowledge. Although he has been in the basketball industry for decades, he has never seen a team take the initiative to bet that a sharpshooter like Ray Allen cannot shoot him in the open.

"Chris!" Karl called out Laettner from the bench and replaced Horry. "Play more pick-and-rolls and let Frye take care of them!"

The timeout ended, and the Pistons did not make any substitutions.

It's not difficult to understand that the Pistons emptied the rotation in the Rasheed Wallace trade. There are a lot of veterans left on the roster who can still be used in normal times. Now that they are facing a strong team like the Bucks, it is impossible for Brown to lower his offensive and defensive intensity in just a few minutes to test the substitutes.

Yu Fei first tried the three-point touch for Leitner.

At the beginning of the game, he looked for a pick-and-roll at the fourth position, and Rasheed Wallace naturally flanked him.

Yu Fei passed back to Leitner, who missed a three-pointer.

But the long backboard popped up, and Yu Fei predicted where the rebound would land, grabbed the ball, and barely let the ball stay in his hand for a second, pushing it toward Sprewell in the bottom corner like lightning.

Thinking his defensive possession was over, Richard Hamilton missed on Sprewell.

Sprewell hit a three-pointer from the bottom corner.

"Since the start of the game, the Bucks have a total of 10 points, 3 rebounds and 2 assists, all of which are related to Frye Yu!"

"Phil Jackson once compared Frye's style of play to 'sharing the cake.' Now it seems that it is not unreasonable. Frye is really good at sharing the cake with his teammates."

Then the game entered the Pistons' magical moment.

The Pistons use the iron bucket formation, and the Bucks also use the iron bucket formation.

This is an adjustment made by the Bucks themselves after enjoying the sweetness of the previous game against the Lakers.

Although the Iron Bucket Formation is afraid of big cores holding the ball, in the Eastern Conference, the only ones who can be called big cores holding the ball are Yu Fei, James and 0.5 Tracy McGrady.

McGrady had already gone fishing, and James was out of sorts for a while. Except for Yu Fei, no one could break the iron barrel array. This iron barrel array is not useful for flying, but it is not generally useful for dealing with pistons.

As high as Larry Brown's accomplishments are on the defensive end, he is as rough on the offensive end. It's not that he doesn't involve offensive tactics, it's just that he is often limited by personal preferences when designing offensive tactics.

The Pistons will play how Brown thinks it should be played.

There is no superstar like Iverson here who often likes to put himself above the team. Everyone plays the game step by step, and then they encounter the iron barrel formation that they are most familiar with.

If it doesn't work in isolation, and if the pick-and-roll attack doesn't stabilize the outside threat, there will be no room to go down.

Even after grabbing two offensive rebounds in one round, the Pistons' offense could not be completed.

Then, the Bucks were repeatedly hindered on the offensive end because of the incredible defensive coverage and athletic ability of the Wallace brothers.

Big Ben is really easy to make a living. His teammates gave him a XJBD goal in the opening game. He worked like crazy on the defensive end, continuously assisting in defense and blocking shots.

As Rasheed Wallace is a rare player in the Pistons starting lineup who can bring a height of seven feet, his rebound protection is as important as high-post sweeping.

The most important thing is that in addition to complementing Big Ben on the defensive end, this guy also has a low-post, straight-arm turnaround jump shot that Big Ben can't match on the offensive end, and a mid-to-long-range catch-and-shoot shot after the pick-and-roll.

At first, no one thought it was a big deal.

It wasn't until the scoring drought lasted four minutes that George Karl requested a timeout. This kind of defense made Karl feel terrible. Even Yu Fei was wiped out by the fierce physical confrontation, and all his shots and throws missed.

Karl originally wanted to create an isolated singles opportunity for Yu Fei on the weak side.

But Yu Fei refused. He took the tactical board, pointed to the bottom corner on the left and said: "As long as I complete the breakthrough, in order to shrink their defense, this place must be empty, Rey-ray."

Ray Allen responded: "I'm going to run into that position."

"Then we'll have no problem." Yu Fei returned the tactical board to Karl, "It's only been four minutes without scoring. George, you are a little restless tonight."

Karl became anxious: "Then you just hurry up and score a goal for me. If the goal is scored, I will be angry!"

Hearing this, Yu Fei smiled.

The timeout ended and Yu Fei returned to the court.

Although the game started smoothly, the Pistons, a gang of pig-killers, naturally like to feed the fans shit. This is their ancestral habit.

However, Yu Fei still summed up some experience in the past four minutes.

The Pistons are good at using people to fill space and make full use of the defensive area of ​​​​Prince and Wallace.

A good person, Larry Brown likes to put him in an inconspicuous and key position, letting him open his hands to block space and act as a defensive deterrent.

I have to say he succeeded.

Especially when the Bucks feel out of control, this kind of defense is as annoying as a booger stuck deep in the nostrils.

After the timeout, Yu Fei did not immediately create a three-point opportunity from the corner. Instead, he passed the ball to the basket through a breakthrough, causing Gadzulic to cause a big defensive foul and made one of two free throws at the free throw line.

This was the first time in four minutes that either team scored.

The change of pace brought about by a timeout can always allow a team to break up its original rhythm.

But the changes in the timeout are relative. On the Pistons side, Rasheed Wallace took the ball in the low post and scored 2 points for the Pistons with a straight-arm jumper.

Yu Fei took a deep breath and gave Ray Allen a look before launching the attack.

Allen understood.

Immediately, Yu Fei did not call a pick-and-roll, and quickly started after crossing his crotch continuously. Prince was not shaken away, but Yu Fei relied on his body to forcefully knock out a hole.

From the Pistons' perspective, this kind of reckless behavior is a sign that the Bucks are losing patience.

The iron barrel formation is bound to encircle them.

However, just when they were about to complete the siege of Fei, Yu Fei, who seemed to have lost his mind, suddenly stopped, grabbed the ball with one hand, swung it acrobatically left and right, and finally passed the ball from behind to the left. Ray Allen in the side corner.

Ray Allen, who had been waiting for a long time, caught the ball and bounced up quickly with his straight body.

"Tsk, tsk." Every time I watch Ray Allen shoot, Yu Fei wants to hang up and beat those people who keep saying that Ray Allen is a shooting textbook.

BYD is this a textbook?

Just this speed of the bullet, this speed of shaking the shoulders, holding the ball, and dialing it out, is it a textbook?

The main thing is that he shoots so fast, but maintains the balance of his whole body at the moment of shooting, which stabilizes his shooting percentage.

This ball is there.

Yu Fei thought to himself, and the ball flew along the basket and hit the ball hollowly.

"The bottom corner is undefended, right?" Yu Fei looked at Larry Brown mockingly, "If you do this, something will happen in FIBA, where the three-point line is shorter."

Brown said arrogantly: "This kind of thing is not your turn to care about as a person who refused to be called up by the national team."

"I'm not rejecting the national call-up, I'm rejecting your call-up!" Yu Fei actually stayed in the frontcourt and started to quarrel with Brown, "Look at KG, T-MAC, and Kobe. No one wants to play for you!"

The Pistons are bloody. Seeing Yu Fei disrespecting his coach so much, Rasheed Wallace came up and performed a hymn of loyalty.

"You better shut up, Frye!" Rasheed yelled.

Although the matter did not escalate, the two teams' dislike of each other deepened not a little bit after Yu Fei's trouble, so they became more thorough in the physical confrontation.

In order to ease the situation, the referee blew a body whistle to force both sides to reduce the intensity.

But after all the trouble, the game still needs to be played. The Pistons can't find a stable scoring point and once again let Rasheed Wallace play from behind.

This time, Yu Fei left Prince behind and went to double-team Rashid.

Rasheed passed the ball to Prince, who missed a three-pointer.

Yu Fei grabbed another rebound, and the Pistons retreated at full speed like a frightened bird.

The leader, Prince, was standing on the three-point line, ready to step forward to apply pressure. However, Yu Fei stopped suddenly one meter outside the three-point line at the top of the arc and collected the ball - what did he want to do? ——With a thought, Prince instinctively moved forward, but it was too late.

Yu Fei quickly shot a chasing three-pointer.

There was no time left for the piston to react.

"Shh!"

Yu Fei spread his hands like Michael Jordan in 1992.

This is how I play when no one is guarding me.

He didn't say a word, but silence was better than sound at this moment.

(End of this chapter)

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