Legendary star

Chapter 201 I Like To Watch You Forge Iron (1)

"In the first quarter, we played a triangle offense. Tim singled the inside to attract double-teams, and Meng ran out of space on the outside, just like we did in the playoffs last season." Before the start of the game, Popovich announced After listing the starting lineup, he took out the tactical board that he had prepared long ago, and announced the tactics that the Spurs will implement in the first quarter.Since the Spurs have used the triangle offense many times in the playoffs of last season, and these players on the field are already very familiar with the triangle offense, so in this summer's offseason, the Spurs did not have too many offenses. for tactical training.

Although Jermaine O'Neal's strength is not weak, and he is one year ahead of Duncan in the NBA, but when he is paired with two FMVPs, Jermaine O'Neal seems a little immature, whether it is the jump ball at the beginning or the defense against Duncan, Jermaine O'Neal O'Neill is much worse.Although he has played in the Trail Blazers for 4 seasons, but the total playing time is not as much as Duncan's one season, so O'Neal's experience in the game is obviously lacking a lot, although the bounce and bounce speed seem to be better than Duncan, But O'Neal, who has never jumped the ball, is not sure if he is too nervous. Before the referee blows the whistle, O'Neal jumped up first. This behavior of O'Neal also caused the fans in the audience to laugh.

After Duncan successfully jumped the ball, Avery Johnson dribbled the ball to the middle circle, and directly handed the basketball to Duncan who was near the free throw line. Facing O'Neal who was pushing himself behind him, Duncan directly made a fake move and added his back Turning around, he shook O'Neal away, rushed to the basket, faced the empty frame Duncan didn't hesitate at all, and directly dunked with both hands to score.

When the Pacers sent the baseline ball, Travis Best dribbled the ball while gesturing towards Jermaine O'Neal. Obviously, in this game, the Pacers team is going to help Jermaine O'Neal pass and Duncan Confrontation builds confidence.After failing to trade Meng Xu, the Pacers are ready to build a team around Jermaine O'Neal, Reggie Miller and Jaylen Rose this season.

"Meng, don't you have a little memory? You can easily be fouled if you stick so tightly." For Meng Xu, who is following behind him and pulling his jersey from time to time, Reggie Miller really feels like vomiting blood now I feel that Reggie Miller was already quite uncomfortable under Meng Xu's defense in the finals last season, but after this summer, this guy's defense seems to have improved a lot. The most obvious thing is that his body is stronger. He has become stronger, and he has no advantage in physical confrontation with him, and what makes people vomit blood is that Meng Xu has gained so much weight, and his speed is still as fast as last season.

"Reggie, do you know what my greatest joy is?" When Reggie Miller stopped, Meng Xu immediately stuck to him tightly, put his left hand on his waist and pulled his jersey, almost directly Hugged him. "My greatest joy is watching you strike iron. The sound of clang clanging makes all my blood boil."

"MD, bastard, I'm going to score 30 points on you in this game." Reggie Miller, who has always been a first-class trash talker in the NBA, now finds that the guy in front of him is no worse than himself How many.

"Reggie, I don't want you to get 30 points by the end of the game, but 30 irons." After seeing Reggie Miller being a little angry at his own trash talk, Meng Xu's heart also rose. No small sense of accomplishment.But what Meng Xu didn't know was that the reason why Reggie Miller was angry was mainly because of the championship. He had worked hard in the league for 13 seasons without winning a championship, and this guy in front of him wore it in his rookie season. He won the championship ring, and even showed it off to himself before the game.

In the current lineup of the Pacers, Reggie Miller and Jaylen Rose are both players with very strong off-ball ability, so the Pacers' tactics last season were Reggie Miller and Jaylen Rose's running and running X**P tactics , but after the introduction of Jermaine O'Neal this season, in order to better integrate O'Neal into the Pacers' system, O'Neal has become the inside starting point of the Pacers' new tactics.At the same time, because O'Neal's current strength is not enough to support the entire inside line of the Pacers, Thomas' tactic for the current Pacers is a limited combination of internal and external tactics. The core of this tactic is actually the X* of Reggie Miller and Jaylen Rose *P tactics, just added a little O'Neal's singles and support in the interior, if the Pacers can have a player who is almost invincible in singles like Duncan or O'Neal, then this lineup will be perfect, but if this is destined is dreaming.So now Thomas can only pray that O'Neal will not waste his talent and can quickly grow into a superstar like Duncan this season.

Although the Pacers players are all playing for O'Neal, the current O'Neal is obviously unable to single-handedly beat Duncan under the basket, but O'Neal also has his own advantages, that is, excellent movement and mid-range shooting. After driving Duncan into the inside to no avail, Jermaine O'Neal very cleverly chose to leave the basket, and at a position more than 5 meters away from the basket, he directly turned his back and shot backwards. Duncan was also a little helpless for Jermaine O'Neal's offensive method , can only watch the basketball thrown by O'Neal fall into the basket.

O'Neal was an ordinary defender in his first year of high school, but in his second year of high school, O'Neal grew almost 20 centimeters in one year. It is difficult for a player with inside height and guard skills not to be noticed. Because of this, Jermaine O'Neal became a talented player with the same reputation as Iverson and Kobe in the United States.And O'Neal's guard-like ballhandling and shooting skills haven't diminished as he's put on weight to adapt to the paint.Most of the players in this era will imitate Jordan's fadeaway jumper, and Jermaine O'Neal is no exception. He is 2 meters tall, has excellent movement, and has a good fadeaway jumper. embarrassment.

O'Neal's attack this time obviously made Duncan very embarrassed. An inside player with a height of nearly 7 feet floating outside to shoot is still very rare in this era. Although Duncan's footwork is also very good, it is obviously impossible to guard against it. It's so far away, and the Spurs' current power forward on the field is a small forward like Sean Elliott, so if he is asked to make up defense, he can only be blown away by O'Neal.

In the first half of the first quarter, if we only look at the statistics, O'Neal and Duncan had a mutual explosion. There is no good solution to this offensive method of constantly pulling outside.Therefore, facing Tim Duncan in the first half of the first quarter, Jermaine O'Neal actually made 7 of 4 shots, scored 8 points and 3 rebounds, and Duncan also made 6 of 4 shots, 9 points and 4 rebounds.

At the same time, perhaps for the sake of building confidence in O'Neal, Thomas arranged for O'Neal and Duncan to fight hand-to-hand under the basket throughout the whole process, and did not double-team Duncan at all. Therefore, although Duncan maintained a high shooting percentage, Popovich had Meng Xu and Reggie Miller played soy sauce all the way in the first half of the first quarter. Reggie Miller made 1 of 0 field goal, 0 points, 0 rebounds and 0 assists. Limited, 0 points, 2 rebounds and 0 assists.

The triangle offense is said to be a tactic that encourages singles but restricts singles, but its essence is to make singles more comfortable for the strongest player in the team. Therefore, the Spurs' tactics in the first quarter can be said to be successful. It can be said that he failed. It can be said that he succeeded because Tim Duncan was indeed very comfortable in singles. O'Neal was worse than Duncan in terms of height, weight, strength, and game experience.However, in Popovich's tactical arrangement before the game, he wanted to use Duncan's singles inside to attract the Pacers' double-teams, so as to create shooting opportunities for other Spurs players, especially Meng Xu, but The Pacers did not double-team Duncan, even if Jermaine O'Neal was vomited by Duncan, they did not double-team Duncan. The superstar singles tactics of Duncan singles O'Neal.

During the official timeout, Popovich shook his head and looked into the distance. Thomas, who was smiling and encouraging O'Neal, didn't know what he was thinking at the moment.On the other hand, the smiling assassin Thomas was very satisfied with Jermaine O'Neal's performance in the first half of the first quarter. Jermaine O'Neal's skills and talents are undeniable. Unable to resist Duncan, he used his footsteps and shooting to pull him outside. It seems that Larry Bird's robbing trade once again proved Larry Bird's excellent vision.

"Tim, in the next game, continue to play singles on the inside, but I hope you can cause damage to the Pacers' inside, and making them a foul is more important than you scoring two points." After telling Duncan, Popovich turned his head to look at Meng Xu again: "Meng, you have to use your speed to defend Tim on the opposite No. 7, don't defend him from behind, go around him directly, don't let him It's so comfortable to shoot."

"oh, I understand now."

Thanks to the silent Xiaobai. . .thank you

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