Chapter 632 The fusion of Kirilenko and Garnett
The more James wants to connect everyone else, the more likely he makes mistakes.
In the first goal in the second half, his breakthrough was only one step ahead and was bluffed by Xie Hou and Jeff Foster's assisted defense, and he put the ball away with both hands and threw it to the outside.
Banyani's soft receiver missed the emperor's wonderful pass.
The ball fell out of bounds.
"We are already 15 points behind, and this mistake is simply a little worse!" Knicks' home commentator Walter Fraser, who is different from ABC's commentator. His position is firmly on the side of the Knicks. Seeing the mistake, his game prospects are becoming more and more disappointed.
Several ABC commentators analyzed James' mistakes from a technical perspective.
"In fact, letting LBJ work as a full-time point guard is not the best decision. He lacks point guard instinct." Mark Jackson said a very abstract concept, "He is more suitable to be an all-around forward like Larry Bird."
"I agree." Van Gundy nodded.
Mike Bryn asked the audience's concern: "What is the point guard instinct?"
"Low down your position and still use your mouth to help your teammates run well with good tactics without the ball in your hand. This is the most basic thing. However, if LBJ doesn't have the ball in his hand, we can only see him standing on the top of the arc with his hands on his hips and doing nothing." Jackson's words sounded a bit sharp, but it was an objective problem.
Standing on the top of the arc with your hands on your hips and doing nothing - this description is undoubtedly biased, but it is not completely inconsistent with the situation. James does have a situation where he is invisible without the ball in his hand.
The same situation does not exist in Xie Hou.
His shooting technique allows him to steadily open up space, and his teammates don't worry that he will be emptied.
After several seasons of repeated tests, no team will treat Xie Hou as a player who can be emptied. That kind of thing only happened in his rookie season and sophomore season.
The scoring performances in the third and fourth seasons have brought extraordinary shocks to the league and the world.
Fans are basically sure that he and Kobe are the two players who can score the most after Michael Jordan.
As for who has stronger scoring ability, it is a story about Xie Mi and Kemi falling in love forever. In the end, the fans of the latter were defeated by the former fans with facts. Anyway, Xie Hou averaged 41 points per game from beginning to end last season's playoffs, and even had a miracle of 50 points per game in the first round. This is not something Kobe's fans can beat him by 81 points and 80 points.
Back at the game, Xie Hou still didn't touch the ball very much.
His teammates are accustomed to the days when he is the leader. Let's look at this goal. Papalucas called a pick-and-roll breakthrough, Banyani was pulled out, O'Neal was not on the court, and Sean Williams was provided with a penalty area defense for the Knicks.
This guy can send 0.4 blocks per game, which is not as good as Banyani, but his average playing time is only 15 minutes. If his playing time is converted to the same as Banyani, the blocking efficiency of both of them is similar.
Williams is responsible for guarding the penalty area, but he acts like a coward and dares not fight against Papalucas.
When the Greeks encountered this defense, they were completely fearless and scored a goal quickly.
51 to 34
The Knicks were 17 points behind the Pacers, and the smiling assassin put his hand in his mouth and whistled.
That was a clear tactical slogan, letting James play singles.
O'Neal was not on the court, and Banyani could still open up space. They expressed their attitude and wanted to give James the best offensive opportunity.
James let it go, and started to act resolutely and decisively. He called pick-and-roll, and when he met assisted defense, he pulled up boldly. He lacked ornamentality but was effective in making a quick stop and back jump shot.
36 to 51
"Arthur, you're going back the more you play." James was proud of his goal. "I don't need to be as twitching as you do."
Xie Hou chuckled, "If everyone who is 15 points behind is as tough as you, there will be no garbage time in the NBA."
When the other party makes harsh words, as long as the form is beneficial to you, you can present facts and reason so that he can't argue.
Although James's shot just now was beautiful, he only narrowed the gap from 17 points to 15 points.
Xie Hou's unballed state is getting better like "Hunting Ground", but he will not claim that this is his best state like Hu Ge. Papalucas is called pick-and-roll tactics.
1 After Hu Ge finished acting, he said that he could not get out of the role for a while. I didn’t get out of the role after watching it - why is there such a bad TV series?
Xie Hou stepped forward and blocked the Greeks.
The Greeks are looking for the feeling of dominating Europe, but he has never got such authority in the NBA.
After Xie Hou blocked it, he demolished it, and the Greeks tricked the attack on the earth.
Xie Hou grabbed the ball, drove it with one hand, collected the ball, jumped up with one hand throughout the whole process, stepping on the paint area. Banyani rarely had the determination to defend the penalty area, but he was really unlucky.
Xie Hou, who held the ball in one hand throughout the whole process, did not change hands when facing Banyani, and slashed a meteor-like buckle through his spaghetti-free body.
"Beep!!!"
The brave and fearless defense not only failed to successfully defend the opponent's attack, but also was called a foul. This is what Banyani hates defense.
The referee is sometimes so inconsiderate.
"LeBron, who did you say is to shrink his hands and feet?" Xie Hou showed his muscles confidently. This was a head-on goal. Although Banyani was a soft ball, not everyone could block his body. How do you block and not defend people?
Added penalty points, 54 to 36.
"Although the Knicks' scoring momentum has not stopped, the Pacers have pulled the score more and more."
"It's not good, the situation is not good."
Anyone can see that the situation is not good, and what's worse is that the Pacers use offense to improve defense, and the defense of the whole team has been upgraded in smooth offense.
The Knicks are familiar with such defense. Before, when the Pacers were in a neat manner, they often had such an effect.
Now they have two absolute main players in the inside. Xie Hou temporarily played the power forward. His assisted defense power is 70% of that of Kirirenko, which is enough. In addition, Jeff Foster actively participates in the defense. Papalucas, Granger, Artest on the outside have no obvious flaws, and none of them are good at it.
Whether the defense is good depends on whether there are many defects.
The Pacers' assisted defense is not as suffocating as before, but their book lineup is really without blind spots.
The Knicks were so defensive that they could not play the tactics, and even the right to fight James was deprived of his right to fight one-on-one.
Jason Richardson had no choice but to make a three-pointer. When he met Artest, he felt cold and failed to hit the move in a hurry.
Bang!
New Yorkers felt a little nervous.
Long rebounds, counterattack.
Papalucas won the rebound, and his fast break attracted the pursuit of James and others.
The Greeks were not worried about the success rate of counterattacks. He restrained all the defenses of James, Richardson and others and smashed the ball towards the rebound.
James's pounce was fruitless.
He lacked experience. Richardson had no room to jump. He was about to grab the defensive rebound. Xie Hou, who followed closely behind, seized the position of Papalucas' attack, grabbed the defensive rebound, ignored the assisting defense of others, jumped up with all his strength without confrontation, and filled the basket with both hands.
56 to 36
"The Pacers lead the Knicks by 20 points!"
"The Knicks requested a pause!"
Xie Hou fell from the basket and happened to face James standing under the basket.
Also without the ball in his hand, he hit the other side of the field, and it took James four years to become a real point guard.
"The Arthur we see now is completely different from Arthur in the past few years."
"Like two different players."
"Not counting this game tonight, Arthur averaged 28 points, 15 rebounds, 6 assists, 3 blocks and 2 steals per game."
"His rebounds have been greatly improved, scoring and assist numbers have dropped, and the defensive data has skyrocketed."
"After Andre Kirilenko and Jermaine O'Neal were injured, the Pacers' inside line was unprecedentedly empty, and some people thought they would be beaten up, but Arthur stood up and he played in the fourth position for two consecutive games."
“As the first person in the league, his sense of responsibility is admirable.”
“As a player, I’m amazed by his comprehensiveness.”
"He's the best as a defender."
"What's scary is that as a power forward, he is probably the best too." This very "thank you" quote comes from New Yorker Mike Bryn.
After the pause, the Knicks replaced O'Neal and made a slight adjustment.
The offensive center of gravity shifted from the outside to the inside. The most inconsistent thing about James and O'Neal is that his projection is not as reliable as the Sharks' previous predecessors.
Fortunately, he is an outstanding cake maker, otherwise the two of them would be in harmony with each other and would be incompatible with each other.
Sharks are feasible when they are physically fit.
However, for the current Shark, he will have to stop at most 6 minutes each time he plays.
Within 6 minutes, the shark's dominance is obvious.
The Pacers' 20-point lead was scored by him alone to 14 points.
After 6 minutes, he gradually couldn't cope with the increasingly high defensive intensity. When everyone was about to kill him, he was overdrawn.
Passing the ball outward, James, and hitting the iron.
Jason, a patient with Indian phobia, also got a three-pointer and then made a blacksmith.
Both opportunities were lost, and what was even more hurt was that the counterattacks received by the long rebound were all captured by the Pacers.
The score that the shark worked hard to get back was instantly beaten back.
With an advantage of 18 points, the Pacers are sure to win.
Three minutes before the end of the third quarter, Xie Hou held 24 points and 15 rebounds and got off the court.
In the fourth quarter, he came up to play politely for 6 minutes, and the Knicks were powerless to resist.
The 8 minutes before the end of the game can be regarded as garbage time. Sun Yue and others were doing their best. Xie Hou was so proud that he would take care of him like the kindergarten director until 6 minutes before the end of the game and left gloriously.
When he left the court, his statistics were 28 points, 20 rebounds, 6 assists, 4 steals and 4 blocks.
Chapter completed!