When pride still matters

Chapter 231 And you, it’s impossible in your lifetime!

The Pistons know in principle that if they allow Yu Fei to fire up, they will repeat the same mistakes as they did in the regular season.

However, the inertia since the trade deadline has given them a strong sense of confidence in their defense.

This is human nature. After all, since they acquired Rasheed Wallace, they have become the team with the highest defensive quality in history, limiting their opponents to 78 points in every game. Until now, the Pistons have been completely in shape. Only allowed three teams to score 90 points in front of them.

Moreover, these games all take place during the regular season.

Since the playoffs, the Pistons have been synonymous with defense.

Especially after they suffocated the Pacers in the semifinals, they were even more consistent and did not take the league's top players in their eyes.

This led them to have a certain degree of self-confidence when they faced the Bucks again. They believed that they had the strength to lock down the Bucks.

But things were not that simple. Yu Fei entered the state at the beginning and broke through Tayshaun Prince's defense at a single point.

Although the Pistons used suffocating defense to cause the Bucks to have a four-minute scoring drought, they themselves were not used to the iron barrel formation.

When the Bucks found their touch, the Pistons fell into passivity again.

Ray Allen's corner three-pointer dared to shoot and Yu Fei's chasing three-pointer hit the soul, bringing the game to a different rhythm.

One characteristic of the Pistons' defensive failure is that the Bucks scored 27 points in a single quarter.

According to this score, after four quarters, the Bucks' total score will exceed 100 points.

Regardless of the low score, for the Pistons, letting their opponents score 100 points in a single game is as scary as "hell on earth".

In the next section, Yu Fei took a short rest.

Four minutes later, Karl replaced Yu Fei and equipped him with a 5 OUT lineup.

The people standing next to Yu Fei are Ray Allen, Shanton Anderson, Robert Horry and Christian Laettner.

Tonight, Ray Allen can be called the Pistons killer, and he never missed a chance ball passed to him.

Shandon Anderson was a surprise player in the second quarter. As another reinforcement the Bucks got in the Michael Redd trade, his position in the Bucks was Sprewell's backup.

In the second quarter of the game, Anderson was like Yu Fei's arm, stretching freely and hitting wherever he pointed.

He can knock down three-pointers and penetrate the Pistons' basket like no other veteran.

The space brought by the 5 OUT lineup gave the Pistons' Wallace brothers little opportunity to protect the rim, because Horry and Laettner's pick-and-roll at the fourth and fifth positions greatly consumed their energy.

The most important thing is Yu Fei.

Karl doesn't know any player who can do better than Yu Fei tonight.

The Bucks only started to come into contact with the 5 OUT lineup in the middle of last season, but they did not play a decisive role in the finals against the Spurs. However, against the Pistons, Karl felt that this was a tactic that was born to restrain the iron barrel formation.

Yu Fei completely controlled the 5 OUT lineup, and he also deliberately chose to shoot three-pointers from unconventional three-pointers half a meter or even one meter outside the three-point line.

When Yu Fei did this and made those three-pointers that seemed very unreasonable to the Pistons, an old basketball thinking was broken.

At halftime, the Bucks led the Pistons by 59 points, 40-19.

George Carl seemed to have seen the day when the old antiques headed by his senior brother were completely swept into the dustbin of history.

Carr walked to the sidelines for ABC's halftime interview.

"Coach Karl, you are the first team in a long time to score 59 points in half against the Pistons. How did you do it?"

How did we do it?
  Even Karl himself doesn’t have a clear answer to this question.

Carr said vaguely: "We took 13 three-pointers in the half."

Yes, this is it.

A light flashed in Carl's mind.

The NBA's regulation court is 94 feet long (28M), 50 feet wide (15M), and 10 feet high (3M), plus a few feet for aerial stunts. This results in a surface area of ​​nearly 13000 square feet, which works out to 10 square feet (12280M) if you only count the 442-foot-high rim, or 13144 square feet (443M) if you include the additional three feet at the top of the backboard.

从1932年首次出现的10秒违例和后场违例开始，到将球道从6英尺扩大到16英尺，再到1955年发明24秒投篮时钟，篮球比赛因而出现了最早的外线进攻和快攻。

Then, for a long time, basketball games were actually played within 16 feet of each other in the half-court. This is the reason why the Pistons' iron barrel formation is unbreakable, because the small space leads to one-on-one difficulties, and the three-point line introduced from the league in 1979 has always been ignored by the mainstream. Although the three-point shot entered a period of rapid development in the 90s due to the shortened distance, as the NBA extended it back in the 1997-98 season, the three-point line became a conservative option in the NBA.

不重视三分线，像活塞这样的球队就可以把你严格限制在13144平方英尺的5/1空间里进行肉搏。而一旦解锁三分球，比赛空间将变成13144平方英尺的4/1乃至3/1，这是以球员的射程来决定的。

In the first half, the Bucks directly used a high degree of conceptual dimensionality reduction to attack the iron barrel formation, making it impossible to look at each other. This is precisely why.

After thinking about all this, Karl smiled happily: "This is why we scored 59 points in the half. We should take more three-pointers in the second half. Long live Carnival Basketball!"

In the player tunnel, Yu Fei didn't know that his head coach had realized a truth on the sidelines. He was opposed to the idea of ​​taking more three-pointers in the second half.

The reason why the carnival basketball in the first half worked was because the Pistons didn't think about it, or in other words, they didn't believe that any team would dare to play like this in the Eastern Conference finals.

If the Bucks have a clear goal of using three-pointers to break the iron barrel formation, they will naturally not sit still and wait for death.

This is an era where defenses are allowed to take action, and the Pistons have the ability to use the rules to obliterate their shooting touch. Therefore, what should be done in the second half is to use the three-point threat brought by the carnival basketball in the first half to increase efforts to penetrate the Pistons' penalty area.

Once the Pistons' basket is also penetrated, it will be impossible for them to come back tonight.

When Yu Fei shared his thoughts with Karl, Karl felt that Da Fei looked young and frivolous, but in fact he was as stable as an old dog.

This is not a chance that I want to leave to the Pistons.

"This is the optimal solution." Karl said to Fei, "But do you really want to do this? Obviously, the style of play in the first half is more suitable for you."

But Yu Fei knows the importance.

Normal people know how to choose between playing well but being overturned and playing poorly but being able to win reliably.

"I just want to win."

Yu Fei made his attitude clear to Karl.

Karl nodded and had no objection.

In the second half, the Pistons thought the Bucks would continue to use a 5 OUT lineup. Their butcher's knife was ready and they were about to severely flog the Bucks.

However, the Bucks started with Mason and Mutombo, an interior combination that can defend toughly and protect rebounds.

Yu Fei was not in a hurry to launch an attack. He waited for his teammates to get into position, passed the ball to Mutombo, and asked him to perform the legendary zombie hook for everyone.

Although Mutombo's back blow is not beautiful, it is enough to offend people. His movements are as stiff as if he is stuck. He pushes it one time and another, but he doesn't move at all.

When he saw that he couldn't get through, Mutombo didn't worry and just hit a zombie hook directly on the spot.

Of course this is impossible to hit.

However, even if they didn't score, the Bucks retreated quickly enough, and the Pistons couldn't mount a decent defensive counterattack. After a dribble from the outside, Billups chose to collect the ball and pull up.

"boom!"

Also missed.

The Pistons' positional warfare offense was so rough that it was hard to believe they could make up the 19-point gap.

Yu Fei got his 13th rebound tonight.

Although the second half has just begun, Yu Fei's data has already reached a triple-double, currently scoring 16 points, 13 rebounds and 11 assists.

Yu Fei suddenly raised his hand, called the pick-and-roll at position [-], and called Richard Hamilton's name.

The intense stalemate phase has passed. Now the Bucks lead by 19 points and are already halfway into garbage time. It is time to resolve some personal issues.

"You don't think that you can make me forgive you for refusing to shake my hand by cowering like a turtle, do you?" Yu Fei said, without making any unnecessary movements, he just used his body to push away Hamilton's defense until he reached the free throw line. The position suddenly brakes.

Hamilton fell to the ground due to the loss of external pressure.

He has a good group of teammates.

The Wallace brothers made up the defense so quickly, but Yu Fei took action long before he fell to the ground.

"Shh!"

"Why do you have to act like I'm sorry for you?" Yu Fei mocked, "It's you who deserted, and it's you who betrayed Xinjie. You showed your loyalty to Michael after the season but you were still traded like a dog. You are the same person!”

Hamilton's only lifeline is
  "Didn't you get traded?!" Hamilton screamed, "What qualifications do you have to say to me!"

Yu Fei laughed as if he heard a joke.

He was not even interested in refuting Hamilton.

From this moment on, as long as Yu Fei gets the ball, he will call Hamilton in the pick-and-roll at No. [-].

He doesn't necessarily have to complete a personal offense, but he will definitely expose all the flaws in Hamilton's defense.

Hamilton would get knocked down, he would get fouled, he would make turnovers, he would get shots over his head, he would get pushed away and dunked, but there would be no decent successful defense.

Three minutes before the end of the third quarter, Hamilton had already committed five fouls. The only reason why the Pistons did not replace him was that the game had entered garbage time-the Bucks led by 25 points-and Larry Brown, for some unknown reason, actually gave This gave Hamilton and Yu Fei a chance to settle on the court.

Why does he think Hamilton, who was beaten by Yu Fei from the beginning of the third quarter, is qualified to make a decision?
  He is just Yu Fei's plaything now.

In this round, the Bucks' pick-and-roll at positions [-] and [-] successfully brought out the Wallace brothers. Yu Fei suddenly stopped and started, and suddenly made a Tim Hardaway-style killer change of direction in front of Hamilton. He was cruel and cold. , decisively strangled the masked man's ankle, causing him to fall to the ground on the spot.

But Yu Fei rushed to the basket like the overlord who dominated the game, jumped up with all his strength, and performed a backhand dunk with his hands folded in the air.

"My debt has been paid."

"And you," Yu Fei looked down at Hamilton with disdain, "it's impossible for you in your lifetime!"

(End of this chapter)