Deron Williams, who scored at the basket, slammed Brook Lopez with expressionless face and then stepped back to defend.

Wu Feng narrowed his eyes slightly, thinking about how to fight next...

Josh Smith sent the ball to Wu Feng and then ran quickly towards the Nets' halftime.

"Clang", a sound of ironclad sounded.

Josh Smith failed to make a mid-range shot, Wu Feng jumped up suddenly, hugged the flying basketball and grabbed the offensive rebound.

After grabbing the offensive rebound, Wu Feng made a move, rolled over and put the ball into the basket.

Deron Williams glanced at his teammates' position, then faced Wu Feng's defense, dribbled the ball in two consecutive times, followed by a step back, and made a jump shot from the outside of the three-point line.

With a "swish", the basketball sounded and entered the net.

"Sheit, why is this guy so accurate?"

Larry Drew, who was standing on the sidelines, saw Deron Williams hit another three-pointer, quickly called for a timeout.

During the time when Deron Williams returned to the court, the Nets played a 7:2 climax. Although the Hawks were only 5 points behind the Nets, the Hawks were gradually at a disadvantage.

Under the leadership of "Dr. Xiaopang", the Nets have already driven out their momentum.

When Deron Williams first entered the league, three-pointers were not good. However, this season, his three-pointers ability has improved significantly.

The three-pointer just now faced Wu Feng's defense and hit a steadily, which is enough to illustrate the problem.

After this timeout, Larry Drew replaced Cocksinridge and Marvin Williams. And on the Nets, Chris Humphries also came up.

Wu Feng would not be scared by Deron Williams' performance. He caught the ball in one step inside the three-point line and aimed at the basket, which made an unreasonable jump shot. The basketball drew a beautiful arc and flew into the box.

Wu Feng was completely in a row with Deron Williams, and the two of them were slamming back and forth.

Deron Williams organized the Nets' offense and broke through the baseline. The pass behind him was given to Santietta Génis at the top of the arc, who scored a three-pointer with a hand.

With a "swish", the ball entered again.

The Hawks attacked. Marvin Williams received a wonderful pass from Wu Feng, and the bottom corner also made a beautiful three-pointer.

During this period, the hit rates of both sides were quite high.

Deron Williams tangled to the basket from the middle and received the pass from Schalton Williams. He made a layup directly, but was disturbed by Wu Feng and failed to make a layup.

Al Horford caught his eighth rebound in the game and threw it to Wu Feng.

After halfway through the dribble, Wu Feng used Josh Smith's cover to go straight to the Nets' basket and attracted another defensive player to make up for defense.

The result was predictable. Wu Feng directly passed the ball to Josh Smith, who was free of charge. After receiving the ball, he took a big step and then dunked.

Avery Johnson shook his head in disappointment as the Hawks completed another wave of attack.

In the second quarter, the Nets' defensive intensity dropped a lot.

So Avery Johnson also requested a pause.

"I believe everyone understands the purpose of my call for this timeout. Look at your defense, it's like a piece of paper. I don't want to see such a defense again. If anyone still has this attitude, then anyone will end up. There is no shortage of people in our team." Avery Johnson yelled at the Nets players angrily.

After the timeout, Wu Feng of the Hawks was replaced by Jeff Teague.

The game has begun. Wu Feng only took a break at the end of the first quarter. So for the next game, Larry Drew decided to give Wu Feng a rest for a while.

And Nets small forward Marshan Brooks replaced Damon James.

Perhaps it was Avery Johnson's reprimand that worked, and the Nets indeed strengthened the intensity of the defense in the following game. This made the Hawks' offense at a loss.

Deron Williams easily led the ball across the half, and passed the ball quickly bounced into Chris Humphries's hand, who turned around and made a jump shot.

Marvin Williams' three-point shot missed, and Al Horford grabbed the offensive rebound and handed it to Cocksinridge. Cocksinridge singled Marshan Brooks, and made a backward jump shot, but he didn't make a hit. After Brook Lopez took the defensive rebound, he quickly stuffed it into Deron Williams' hands.

Deron Williams hit a three-pointer again without anyone to guard it, and Koksinridge only took six seconds to return. He broke through to the Nets' three-point line, directly hitting a three-pointer and also hitting.

But in the following time, Deron Williams launched a fierce counterattack.

After halftime, Deron Williams threw the ball high, and Marshan Brooks jumped high from the wing to the basket and dunked with both hands.

After only one and a half minutes of the timeout, Deron Williams scored 3 points and 2 assists. His performance was too exciting, which made all the fans scream.

With four minutes left in the first half, Wu Feng made another appearance, but Wu Feng did not take advantage of the showdown with Deron Williams.

Wu Feng quickly led the ball through half the game, watching the "Chef" keep getting stuck in the inside and asking for the ball, and a high hanging ball was quickly handed to Al Horford's hands.

The ball was very clever, just as Al Horford turned around and carried it hard, and his shoulders suddenly exerted force, squeezed Chris Humphries out and won a little room for jumping at the basket.

Al Horford was really like a fierce 'cheat', yelling at the basket, and his huge body soared into the air. Brooke Lopez, who was resting on defense, could not stop his movements at all. On the contrary, the referee called a defensive foul because he had just stepped on one foot in the reasonable collision zone.

In the NBA court, the basket has a semicircle with the center of the basket as the center and a radius of 4 feet. This area is called a reasonable collision zone.

Standing within the arc, as long as the defender has physical contact with the offensive player, a defensive foul may be awarded. Outside the online, the defender can stand in advance. If the offensive player touches the defender with his body, the offensive player will be awarded an offensive foul. In the reasonable collision zone, when the opponent attacks, the defensive player will not be called a foul if he jumps up, and if he doesn't jump, he will be called a defensive foul.

Al Horford hit the first free throw, but bounced out of the basket for the second free throw.

The extremely ferocious Al Horford grabbed the offensive rebound and then passed the ball to Wu Feng on the outside.

After Wu Feng received the ball, he quickly broke through, but as soon as he took the first step, the ball in his hand disappeared.

Wu Feng looked up at the watch and the ball was cut off by Deron Williams.

"Swish", Deron Williams made a breakthrough layup and completed a fast break counterattack.

This was Deron Williams' 21st point scored in the first half, and Wu Feng's mistake just now was also his third mistake in this game.

Avery Johnson was very satisfied with the current situation of the Nets. He sat on the coach's seat with a smile on his face and was discussing something with the assistant coach.

Hawks coach Larry Drew is not in the mood to sit at this moment. He is standing on the sidelines, anxiously reminding the players to defend, pass more balls, and cooperate.

The Nets' outside line is very crazy. The Nets' outside line led by Deron Williams has brought a great impact on the Hawks.

Larry Drew quickly called a timeout and prepared to arrange the defense in the last two minutes of the first half. Find the right opportunity to narrow the gap to single digits.

Now, the Hawks are 13 points behind the Nets. This is a very big test for the Hawks. If they cannot narrow the gap to single digits before the end of the first half, it will be difficult to play in the second half.

Larry Drew also understood that the continuous back-to-back had exhausted the players physically and mentally. So during the timeout, he did not criticize the players' performance with a stern face, but encouraged them earnestly.

"In the last two minutes, we must do the defense well. The Nets' outside feel is too hot, and they can always hit our basket. We must strangle them and then use our inside advantage to pose a threat to the opponent's inside. So, next, we have to play two-and-three-way defense." Larry Drew held the tactical board, drawing and placing tactics in detail to the players.

Joint defense, as the name suggests, means joint defense. It is divided into joint defense and counter-attack joint defense. If combined with the man-tapping, it can also be changed into mixed defense.

The biggest difference between joint defense and man-to-peer is that people-to-peer targeting is the ultimate goal, while joint defense is the ultimate goal of preventing the ball.

The second and third joint defense is transformed from the most basic 212 joint defense. The advantages are similar to those of 212. Both aim to consolidate rebounds and protect the basket, and strengthen the defense against the opponent's bottom line. The blind spot on the outside line is similar to 212. However, if the center at the basket is too slow, the forward who is inserted from 45 degrees may be mad at the free throw line and the blind spot of the small penalty area.

The advantage of the second and third joint defense is that it strengthens the periphery defense, which is conducive to defending the mid-range shots on the front and sides of the periphery, and is also conducive to the periphery intercepting the ball and counterattacking and fast attacking.

Since there are advantages, there are disadvantages in the second and third-tier defense. Its disadvantage is that the defense in the two bottom corners and free throw areas is weak, and the defense is prone to fouls to grab rebounds, which is not conducive to the defense's rebounds.

The second and third-tier defense set up by Larry Drew had an effect in the following time. Not only were the outside shots pinned by the Hawks, but the firepower that hit the basket was extinguished by the Hawks.

Moreover, the Hawks used the second and third joint defense to force the Nets to make mistakes, and they used these mistakes to make a fast break counterattack.

With the end of the first half, the score between the two sides reached 44:50.

The Hawks scored a 11:4 climax in the last two minutes, successfully narrowing the gap to 6 points. It can be said that the tactics laid out by Larry Drew at the last moment of the first half were very successful.

However, Larry Drew also understands that the second and third joint defense cannot be used all the time. During the half-time break, the opponent will definitely develop a tactic to crack the second and third joint defense.

Deron Williams walked towards the rest area, and fans at the Continental Aviation Center are calling his name.

It is also understandable that Deron Williams, as the best player in the first half, deserves such enthusiasm from home fans.

In the first half, Deron Williams played for a total of twenty minutes and only had four minutes of rest. In these twenty minutes, he made nine of fifteen shots and frantically slashed 23 points, making him the player with the most points in the first half.

In addition to scoring 23 points, "Do Xiaopang" also gave 7 assists, forcing Wu Feng to make three mistakes. Such a performance can be regarded as the most valuable player in the first half.

Wu Feng, in the first half, played about four minutes less than Deron Williams. He played against Deron Williams in this game. Therefore, he scored a lot.

16 points are the highest score for the Hawks.

"Wu, do you think your opponent today, Delong, is how he performs?" The female reporter of tnt handed the microphone to Wu Feng.

Wu Feng wiped the sweat from the corner of his eyes, and then replied bluntly: "Delong is a very outstanding player. He is at the top of the league in this position. His performance today is very consistent with his identity. I like to fight against such opponents."

"Then are you sure to beat them? I mean. Can you help your team take a victory away from the Continental Aviation Center Arena?" the female reporter continued.

Wu Feng smiled and shrugged, saying, "Everyone wants to win, it is very difficult to defeat them. However, we are never afraid of doing such a thing. I believe that as long as we perform normally, we can definitely defeat them."

"Okay, thank you. I wish you and your team a great performance in the second half."

"Thanks."

After finishing the interview, Wu Feng quickly slipped to the locker room.

It is a very hard thing to confront opponents like Deron Williams. The reason why he took so long in the first half was because he consumed his energy too quickly.

Ross was very fast, and he had to increase his speed to the fastest to defend him.

Wu Feng estimated that Deron Williams' speed should be around 92, and his own speed is at this level. Therefore, in order to be able to defend him, he must do his best.

Unfortunately, in the first half, he did not effectively defend Deron Williams. He allowed the opponent to score 23 points in the first half and had a 60% shooting percentage.

This is something that Wu Feng cannot tolerate.

"It seems that I have to work harder to train. After so long, my speed should be almost improved." Wu Feng lay in his position, thinking in his mind.

At this time, Deng Houjian came to Wu Feng and asked him if he would take this time to have a massage or something to relieve his fatigue.
To be continued...