Chapter 17 A wave of ten consecutive victories!
After the timeout, the Heat made Wade score two mid-range distances through the pick-and-roll. Before Kerr could react, Zhou Mubai had already commanded and changed defense on the court.
From human-to-person to joint defense!
The Knicks boldly released James and Wade's long shots, which made Miami Heat feel at a loss.
Zhou Mubai smiled.
The Heat's offense is that the Big Three fights one after another, and then the role player shoots. The Knicks use joint defense to curb James and Wei's breakthrough and force them to shoot long-distance shots. James and Wei's long shots are not stable enough, and they are immediately confused.
Zhou Mubai has studied the Heat's game and suddenly saw the Heat's problem. After trying this out, Zhou Mubai can be sure that if the Heat cannot change this problem, then as long as they encounter experienced teams who are quick to transfer the ball and make more three-pointers to defend, they will be very troubled, such as the Mavericks, Celtics, Spurs, and their own Knicks.
The Heat cannot break the defense and have no way to limit the Knicks in offense.
The Heat's defense uses a large number of pinchs and three-pointers to control the Knicks. If it were the Knicks before, the Heat could work when defending like this, but the Knicks are no longer limited to singles and three-pointers. The Knicks' back-door and empty cuts cut the Heat's defense into pieces, and it seems to be full of holes.
If you can't defend yourself from playing, such a Heat cannot defeat the Knicks.
The Knicks easily checked in again for three quarters.
James and Wade looked very bad.
In fact, what they fear most this year is not the Knicks, but the Celtics. Although the Heat lost to the Celtics at the opening ceremony, the score difference is not big. They believe that as long as the tactics are well trained, there is no problem in defeating the Celtics.
Unexpectedly, when they met the Knicks, who they felt was no threat, they suffered such a great humiliation. How could they bear it?
Especially the Knicks seemed to defeat them easily and didn't spend much effort at all.
Zhou Mubai did not have many surprises with such an ending.
His plans are all aimed at the Heat's flaws. The Big Three all have flaws, especially the flaw in range, which is what he targets the most.
Why did Zhou Mubai lead the Knicks, a team that was not strong overall, to the finals last season and defeat the powerful Lakers in the finals is his comprehensiveness.
James is known as an all-rounder, but one thing that is not bad, but not top-notch is his long-range shot.
Zhou Mubai is using this tactic to arrange this point, and this point is enough to be fatal, which also shows other teams the way to deal with the Miami Heat.
However, this may be a good thing for the Heat. At least they know their shortcomings in time and there is still a whole season to rectify.
However, the Knicks' relaxation shocked everyone.
Although it was not worthy of strategy to hit the Heat's weakness, the tactical qualities shown by the Knicks were shocking.
Although it was only the second time to fight Princeton's variant tactics, it made people feel full of tacit understanding.
However, everyone who sees it knows that this is not because of tacit understanding, but because their tactical qualities have reached a very high level to achieve this effect.
Especially Zhou Mubai's personal ability makes the stagnant that should have become extremely lubricating.
Princeton's tactics make the opponent unable to attack Zhou Mubai. With Zhou Mubai's ability, it is easy to fight and break through one by one, which forces the opponent to defend. Everyone has to do their best to follow their defenders and have to be diligent to defend. This way, it is understandable that there are many loopholes.
The Heat's single defense ability and pinch ability have a high defense ceiling because of their top talent, but they can't even defend the Knicks. It is estimated that few teams in the league can defend the Knicks in this way.
However, there are not teams that can defend themselves, at least the Celtics and the Spurs can be expected.
It just makes people feel troublesome that the Knicks are no longer just an offensive team. Their defense is just a headache. It is not terrible to have super offense. If you add super defense, it is frightening. Generally, such teams are real dynasty teams.
Is the Knicks going to establish a dynasty?
The Knicks are the defending champion, but they are ignored after the start of the new season. They use this game against the Heat to tell everyone that the defending champion is the defending champion. You can despise it, but you must never ignore it!
After this game, the Knicks defeated the Hornets, Trail Blazers, Nuggets, Clippers, Warriors and Timberwolves in succession, winning ten consecutive victories!
The Knicks started with a 10-game winning streak!
After six or seven games of running-in, Iguodala's new teammates have initially integrated into the team, and the variant Princeton tactics have basically taken shape. In this process, many detailed problems have been found and improved. Zhou Mubai acts as a bottom-end support and always forces the field to be controlled when the game is uncontrollable.
When the Knicks changed coaches, some experts predicted that Zhou Mubai's average per game data would decline, and even broke the record of triple-double per game. However, the facts proved that the average per game data did drop, but the average per game was still firm.
The decline in data is not because of the less ball holding, but because of the less playing time. Last season, Zhou Mubai averaged more than 40 minutes per game, and most of this season are less than 30 minutes. The time and ball holding are greatly reduced, which has caused the score to decline, but assists and rebounds are rising, because Princeton's tactics are more suitable for him to pass and grab rebounds. In ten games, Zhou Mubai's average data is 31.1 points, 14.5 assists, 13.8 rebounds, 3.8 steals and 1.1 blocks!
Although his score dropped, Zhou Mubai grew into a more terrifying player.
In addition, someone discovered a very interesting thing. As long as Zhou Mubai was present, he never stopped. He was running every moment, using cover, cut in, back-running, hand-by-hand breakthrough, grabbing rebounds, and running every moment, which made him the object of least willing to defend.
According to Billups, he is like a never-tiring dog, he is running all the time!
Billups is not insulting Zhou Mubai, and dogs are not a despicable title in the United States.
Defending Zhou Mubai has once again become a big problem.
In the past, Zhou Mubai needed to have the size to fight against players like Artest, but it is not very feasible now, because if Artai went to defend, he would not be able to keep up, because if he wanted to follow Zhou Mubai in the crowd, such a large defensive player would definitely not be able to keep up.
But he sent a small defensive player to defend, and was crushed by Zhou Mubai in his body!
Chapter completed!