Chapter 128: Breaking tight without the ball?
Coach D'Antoni has doubts about Zhou Mubai's proposal, but without any other solution, it's okay to give it a try.
Return to the field.
The Knicks ball was in charge, Zhou Mubai passed the frontcourt with the ball, Ray Allen and Rondo hit the ball again, and Zhou Mubai passed the ball to Larry Hughes. This time, Larry Hughes did not shoot, but gave the ball to El Harrington who ran out.
Coach Rivers frowned, did he change his tactics?
It is understandable to change the tactics, after all, the old path cannot be understood, so it is understandable to change the tactics, but if the Knicks Zhou Mubai does not hold the ball, the Knicks' combat effectiveness will be reduced by at least half.
Zhou Mubai didn't hold the ball, and Lei Allen couldn't go to the attack with Rondo, so he could only return to his own defender.
Zhou Mubai started running.
Rondo felt a little uncomfortable - Zhou Mubai not only had fast running position, but also had a lot of changes in rhythm, with protruding and straightening. Rondo felt a little sore in his ankle even after running.
Not only that, Zhou Mubai's running position is quite strategic. Not only does he use his teammates as a wall, but even Parsons and Garnett treat it as a blocking wall. Rondo feels that it is impossible to move forward.
Zhou Mubai ran out of the three-point line around the three-point walls. Harrington's ball arrived immediately. Zhou Mubai pulled up from the three-point line and shot, making a three-pointer!
Ray Allen was immediately amazed - he is an expert without a ball, so he could fully understand the mystery of Zhou Mubai's operation. This is simply a textbook-like running position.
Rajon Rondo is not a defensive expert, but his outside defense is very good. In addition, Rondo himself is very agile and has a strong ability to defend players without the ball. Unexpectedly, even Rondo was removed.
During this sprint, Rondo felt that his breath was a little uneven, and his breathing was a little more difficult than usual. Zhou Mubai seemed to be nothing, and Rondo couldn't help frowning. He remembered that Zhou Mubai was an Iron Man who could break through forty-eight minutes in a row. If he defended like this, he could be at most for a long time.
Sure enough, Zhou Mubai was still running without the ball in the next round. Rondo faced many obstacles and used all his strength to keep up. However, Zhou Mubai shook his center of gravity and Zhou Mubai broke through to the inside.
D'Antoni finally felt relieved. Only when Zhou Mubai had the opportunity to break in would the Celtics' defense appear and the outside would have a more relaxed chance to get out of the phone.
D'Antoni is not worried about whether Zhou Mubai can pass the ball out of the Celtics' iron wall. This is what Zhou Mubai is good at.
As for whether he can make a shot from the outside, D'Antoni was not worried. After this period of running-in, he also gained confidence in the Knicks' three-pointers - as long as the rhythm is right, he can always maintain a three-point shooting percentage.
The so-called three-pointer is one more than two points, and the Knicks perfectly reflects it.
During this period of game, the Knicks often wins when their rebounds are worse than their opponents and their shooting percentage is not as good as their opponents.
Sure enough, Zhou Mubai's breakthrough made the Celtics' defense shrink. Zhou Mubai passed the ball to Jeffries in the bottom corner, and then Jeffries hit a three-point worth a thousand gold.
This is the first time the Knicks scored in nearly four minutes except Zhou Mubai.
6:10!
The Knicks used seven shots and only two hits. The Celtics used six shots and hit five of them, but the score was still close.
This is the power of three points.
Rivers was very cautious, the Knicks only made two three-pointers, and he immediately called a timeout.
In fact, there was no adjustment. It was just that other players were asked to provide more assistance to Ron. When Zhou Mubai passed by, others tried to fight Zhou Mubai as much as possible to reduce his speed so that Rondo could keep up. Then, once Rondo was removed, the nearest defender went up to make up for defense.
The central principle is to change Zhou Mubai's rhythm.
Come back from the game.
There was no problem with the Celtics' offense. Perkins carried Gallinari to score at the basket - Perkins' strength and size were not something that Gallinari could resist alone.
Back on the offensive end, Zhou Mubai found that his physical contact had increased and there were a lot more, and there were quite a lot of them, which was unnecessary, but it did have an impact on his movements.
With the help of his teammates, Rondo finally followed Zhou Mubai's footsteps, but this was useless, because what Zhou Mubai wanted was not to be pinched when he was on the line, that is, he was pinched outside the three-point line. Once he was pinched inside the three-point line, it meant that the Celtics' defense line had to shrink.
The moment Zhou Mubai received the ball, he put the ball forward, pressed half of his shoulder and broke through inside. Rondo reached out to pull the ball from behind. Zhou Mubai moved the ball directly in front of him. Rondo took a blank, but he completely lost his position.
Rondo lost his position, so his teammates had to make up. Perkins let go of Jeffries, Garnett on the other side let go of Garlinari, and reclaimed the inside.
Zhou Mubai passed the ball to Gallinari in the bottom corner of the other side, because Rondo on this side had already let go of Zhou Mubai to make up for Jeffrey, and Gallinari was the better choice.
Garinali received the ball, Pierce rushed over, and Garinali passed the ball to Harrington at the forty-five degrees. Harrington was completely empty and gently tiptoed and made a three-pointer.
Three points again!
9:12!
Coach D'Antoni finally felt relieved - everything was alive!
When Zhou Mubai ran up and teared up the Celtics' defense, the outside three-point shooters had room to shoot calmly, which also meant that the Celtics attacked Zhou Mubai's bankruptcy.
"This is the terrible thing about players like Zhou Mubai. If you don't attack him, he will kill you by himself. If you attack him by himself, four others will kill you by himself." Kenny Smith praised.
"Yes, there are not many players who can combine personal offense and pass so naturally in NBA history, and only LeBron can do it in active service, but Zhou Mubai has another advantage." Barkley kept it a secret.
Kenny Smith praised the good joke: "Oh, what is it?"
"No ball!" Charles Barkley said, "Generally speaking, players who are good at holding balls are not good at holding balls, or are unwilling to play without balls, but I can't see this in Zhou Mubai. His playing style has always changed from time to place. Although he plays with balls most of the time because the profits of playing with balls are better, once he needs to play without balls, he can immediately change the mode. This kind of player is really terrible!"
"I remembered that Zhou Mubai seemed to play without the ball at the Lakers at the beginning."
"That's right, because he just joined the Lakers, it's not his turn to control the ball, and it was discovered at that time. Hehe, now it seems that there is still suspense in tonight's game. That bet fan is worried."
Barkley smiled humbly.
The director was also naughty and immediately switched out the previous picture - if you can win tonight, I will eat twenty pounds of shit!
Chapter completed!