NBA Building Cardinals

Chapter 384 385. Forced Double Teaming (1 More)

Chapter 384. 385. Forcibly Double-Teaming

Before the start of the game, both sides were on the court for shooting drills.

An away game against the Heat seems to be just yesterday for the Bobcats.

Because in the opening game of last season, the Bobcats broke out the notorious largest fight in history with the Heat at the American Airlines Arena.

It was precisely because of the fight at that time that Liu Rui's name instantly entered the field of vision of most fans.

Because in that fight, the players didn't suffer any injuries. As the head coach, Liu Rui was almost sent to the west with a punch.

For this young coach who just joined the league, he was instantly known to a large number of fans.

Although the way to get acquainted was through newspapers, and it was not very decent, but for Liu Rui, it also brought a lot of unexpected benefits.

With the changes brought about by this kind of fame, Liu Rui also gained a firm foothold in the Bobcats ahead of time, which led to the subsequent step-by-step transactions and signings, and finally led the Bobcats to the playoffs last season.

And swept the Celtics 4:0 in the first round as the sixth in the Eastern Conference.

In the second round, it caused a lot of trouble for the defending champion Pistons. In an instant, Liu Rui's name was completely popular in the entire NBA newspaper.

So far, the name of coach Liu Rui is basically known to everyone.

Although the American Airlines arena incident is notorious in the history of the NBA, at least it brought huge benefits to Liu Rui and the Bobcats.

But that is the past tense after all. With two consecutive large-scale fights, the current alliance has also become a frightened bird.

If any team wants to gain the recognition of fans through this method, I am afraid it will face the endless anger of the league.

Therefore, these two large-scale fights have basically become the swan song in NBA history.

After the start of the game, the two sides also announced their starting lineups:

Hot fire team:

White Chocolate Williams, Wade, James Posey, Fat Toutuo Walker, O'Neill.

Bobcats:

Mo Williams, Christie, Joe Johnson, Wallace, Okafor.

After the start of the game, the Heat still continued their previous starting plastic surgery, and Liu Rui also took Christie back to the starting position in this game.

There is no other reason. Although Wade has not yet developed a long-range shot, but in terms of the starting speed of his first step, he is quite threatening in the league.

Even Christie's foot speed can't keep up with Wade's change of direction at all, but if it is in the case of taking two steps, the whole situation will be different in an instant.

Liu Rui is not afraid that Wade will kill the Bobcats with long-range shots on the court, but he is afraid that Wade will break through the Bobcats' defense again and again.

In this case, replacing Christie can at least limit Wade's breakthrough attack to the greatest extent.

The two sides jumped the ball, and the ball was taken by the Heat first.

In the positional battle, White Chocolate Williams passed the ball to Wade next to him after half court.

After all, for him, the positional offense on the court is not his stage yet.

Wade stood outside the three-point line to take the ball, and saw that the defender was none other than the well-known scalpel Christie in the league, and he stood very far back, allowing Wade to take more than two steps.

Wade frowned slightly holding the ball, and found that O'Neal was deeply stuck inside, and raised his right hand to ask Wade for the ball.

If O'Neal plays Okafor in the low post, he will have a clear advantage in both height and weight.

So seeing this situation, Wade also lobbed the ball high on the right to O'Neal inside.

After receiving the ball, O'Neal squeezed twice with his big butt behind his back.

Then the ball hit the ground slowly, O'Neal intends to use his body to squeeze some space under the basket, and then turn around and shoot.

But at this moment, Gerald Wallace let go of his defender Fat Toutuo Walker and double-teamed O'Neal.

You know, according to statistics, the Bobcats this season are the team that least likes to use double teams among all teams in the league.

In most cases, the team will maintain a single defense on the field, even though Wallace will sometimes make up for the help defense, but it is basically difficult to see a purposeful double-teaming scene for a star in the entire Bobcats team.

This scene not only stunned O'Neal on the field, but also made Riley, the head coach of the Heat, frowned slightly.

As for why it was the magician Riley instead of Van Gundy, because at the beginning of the season, he was not very satisfied with Van Gundy's team leadership record.

So Riley also chose to lay off Van Gundy and come down to take the position of head coach himself.

At present, Riley is the general manager of the team and the head coach of the team. One person takes on two positions.

Although he is ruthless and has no human touch off the court, it has to be said that Riley does have a strong strategy in terms of personal strength.

O'Neal on the field hesitated a little, but seeing Gerald Wallace getting closer and closer to him, O'Neal also hurriedly turned the ball to the fat-headed Walker on the outside.

Since Walker has the ability to shoot three-pointers, his biggest task on the court is to open up space for O'Neal. Otherwise, whether it is O'Neal's low-post strong play or Wade's change of direction breakthrough, it will be difficult to perform in a narrow space.

This is also the main reason why the Heat faced the Pistons last season and could only be out of the game with hatred, because there were no shooters to open up space for them.

After receiving the ball from O'Neal, Walker was obviously in a half-open position.

Because even though Gerald Wallace had already rushed out quickly, Walker still chose a three-pointer by taking this opportunity.

Bang~

Following Fat Toutuo Walker's strike, Joe Johnson, who flew out from the wing, also steadily accepted the backcourt rebound.

Before everyone could react, the Bobcats quickly launched a defensive counterattack.

If Fat Toutuo does have two talents on the offensive end, then he is definitely an out-and-out defensive black hole on the defensive end.

Otherwise, it is impossible for Riley to choose Haslem as the starting power forward in the playoffs under the normal trajectory and not use Fat Toutuo Walker.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of running, the Bobcats quickly pushed the ball into the frontcourt, and then Joe Johnson put a lot of pressure on the Heat from outside the three-point line, so that the Heat had to pay more attention to the Bobcats' movements outside the three-point line when retreating.

With the Heat's defensive lineup still not standing still, Wallace suddenly went all the way from the center line to the basket.

Because the counterattack speed of the Bobcats is too fast, in the current league, only solar energy can compete with it.

So Gerald Wallace has already taken the lead in the fast break, leaving Fat Toutuo Walker far behind. As for O'Neill, let alone, it is very rare to be able to run past halftime at this time.

Although it is said that he is a flexible fat man, no matter how flexible a fat man is, he will grow old one day.

Seeing that Wallace had reached the basket, Joe Johnson also threw the ball high.

Bang~

Under everyone's eyes, Joe Johnson and Wallace completed a beautiful alley-oop dunk! !

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