basketball pope

Chapter 210 [Halo of hatred, only this one]

Chapter 210 [The halo of hatred, only this one]

All the media have reported about the Raptors' streak. Including the assistant coach, Yang Rui is only in his third season in his coaching career. He has helped two different teams hit the winning streak.

Coincidentally, when the Knicks broke their 16-game winning streak, they were beaten by the Spurs.

Spurs twin towers, amazing power.Popovich led the team to a 14-4 record and is also a favorite for the best coach this season.

Everyone doesn't want to be the background for the Raptors' record-breaking. This is not an ordinary regular season. The Spurs will definitely try their best to win, so they chose to practice extra.

During the practice game, Popovich scolded Duncan because Duncan played too many singles.But Duncan is in good shape, making most of the balls.

Someone double-teamed and didn't pass the ball, in Popovich's opinion, it was wrong, whether it scored or not.He's eccentric, doesn't want players to be too showy, and even thinks it's selfish to get 30 points.

Popovich asked the players to practice shooting more. The main practice tactics were Duncan and Robinson to support the offense, attract the defense to score the ball, and look for dislocation opportunities.

This is a game broadcast live in the United States. Popovich, who is 51 years old, does not want to be defeated by a rookie who is only 25 years old.Yang Rui's age makes the league's head coaches uncomfortable, with an aura that naturally attracts hatred.

Popovich will analyze opponents through data. The Raptors average 3 shots from 31.2-point line per game, and the team has only 87 shots. More than one-third of the shots are long shots, and have a 41.8% overall shot. Three-point shooting.

The Raptors Gemini had a sharp breakthrough, coupled with the inside support tactics, the players were all open and could not be double-teamed, so the hit rate was super high.

This kind of play is the only one in the league.

Popovich knows that it's not enough to just rely on the stars, and the perimeter must be shot, otherwise the Raptors can't be beat.

On the evening of the 5th, the Raptors' home court was full again, and the average attendance rate was already the first in the league.The facilities of the new arena are not as shabby as they used to be, and the fans are constantly raving about it.

Owner Richard Peddie was moved to tears when he saw the statistics. Before Yang Rui arrived, the front rows of the arena were often empty.

Against the defending champions, the atmosphere at home was at its peak, and the Spurs players were booed when they came out.

Fans are used to welcoming the visiting team in this way, no matter how strong or weak the opponent is, they want to help the Raptors in this way and let them achieve a better record.

Mike Brin explained the game again. He said: "The Raptors are ranked first in the East, and the Spurs and Trail Blazers are tied for the first place in the West. Both sides attach great importance to this game and are likely to meet in the finals. The Raptors have recognized The league's strongest outside line, the Spurs dominate inside."

Fraser looked at the information and sighed: "The Raptors have a number of statistics this season, the strongest attacking firepower, the strongest three-point firepower, and the most dunks. Many people say that the Raptors are soft inside, but in fact their organization and cars Mouth shots are a headache for opponents, and they give the guards room to break through, and I can't think of any weaknesses in them."

Brin smiled and said: "Famous coaches were defeated by Jerry Young one by one. No one said that Van Gundy and him had a mentoring relationship. The Knicks are not doing well recently, and they barely made it to the level of the playoffs."

"Van Gundy seems to be unqualified as an apprentice." Fraser teased.

Most Americans have a spirit of sarcasm, especially like to satirize people, and occasionally self-deprecating.

The Knicks are hopeless. If they don't play well, they will be criticized by thousands of people.This is indeed Van Gundy's responsibility. The five people Yang Rui looked for in the summer league, he let go of all those who could attack, leaving only those who could defend, and the idea of ​​​​building a team was wrong.

After the players warmed up, Yang Rui emphasized the tactics again. "Man-to-man, switch quickly, don't double-team, if they don't make a shot, grab a rebound and fight back immediately and play behind the twin towers. Chauncey, use your body to your advantage."

"Must win!" The players shouted together, led by Willis.

Billups has not played much this season, and his main task is to shoot three-pointers, averaging only 10.5 points per game.The Trident takes up a lot of the ball, and everyone else has to take fewer shots. Christie averaged only 7.3 points per game.

But that doesn't mean role players don't have a chance to perform.In the necessary games, Yang Rui will arrange tactics for the role players. Today, the biggest defensive weakness of the Spurs, in addition to the speed of the two towers, is the "little general" Avery Johnson, who is 178cm tall. He is very poor against.

Once the Spurs are back on defense, it is difficult to break through the defense. If the Raptors want to win, they have to increase fast breaks!

Raptors starting: Billups, Christie, Carter, O'Neal Jr., Miller.

Spurs starting: Avery Johnson, Mario Elie, Chuckie Brown, Duncan, Robinson.

After seeing the success of the Knicks in 98, the Spurs began to pay attention to the three-point shot, introduced veteran Mario, and also had Terry Burt, Jaren Jackson and Steve Kerr who were good at shooting three-pointers on the bench.

Chucky Brown started, in order to defend Carter, the Spurs do not have a good small forward is also a shortcoming.They play a lot of people, and the stars only have twin towers, so they are not favored by the public.

Duncan beat O'Neal on the jump ball, and the Spurs took the lead.

After the players pulled away, Johnson and Robinson played a pick-and-roll, attracting Miller's defensive pass to Duncan.Duncan leaned on O'Neal on the right and turned to the middle and threw the ball. 0 to 2.

In the Raptors positional battle, Miller organized in the middle, Carter and O'Neal Jr. had no ball cover on the left, and Billups and Christie opened on the right.

Carter caught the ball, and Brown chased after him.Carter took a step to the right after dribbling the ball under his crotch, leaned on Brown with his back, turned to the left, and made a 50-degree pitch. 2 to 2.

The Spurs attacked, Duncan caught the ball on the right, leaned on O'Neal Jr. twice to turn to the baseline, and made a 45-degree shot. 2 to 4.

Duncan is a god, the rookie is the pinnacle!When other rookies are still worried about playing time, he handed over the top data of 21.1 points, 11.9 rebounds, 2.7 assists and 2.5 blocks in his rookie season, leading the league!

Little O'Neal has improved again this season, and his opponent Duncan is still not an opponent, let alone now, even O'Neal, the peak of the Pacers period, has been taught by Duncan several times.

Yang Rui didn't arrange for double teams, not to train O'Neal, but to not want to have obvious space on the periphery. The Raptors' defense focused on three-pointers.

The Raptors attacked, Billups dribbled the ball to the frontcourt, and played a pick-and-roll with Miller to the left. After attracting Robinson to switch, he distributed the ball to the middle.

Johnson worked hard on defense. He was 178cm tall and was close to Miller. He wanted to interfere with his shooting rhythm. Miller was not an ordinary big man.

Duncan followed O'Neal to the outside, Carter took three steps to catch the ball, and relied on veteran Brown to make a basketball score. 4 to 4.

Chucky Brown is 201cm tall and weighs 97kg. He was selected by the Cavaliers as the 89th overall pick in the second round in 34. His physical fitness was also very ordinary when he was young, and his jumping ability was far worse than Carter's.When someone like Carter jumps up, the perimeter player can't cover it at all.

The Spurs attacked, Billups put Johnson two steps away, and he didn't guard the shot. After Robinson picked and rolled, he bypassed the screen to catch up.

Johnson broke through without scoring the ball to the middle, and Miller defended Robinson closely.

Facing the seemingly soft Miller, Robinson, the team's second scorer, chose to play singles. Miller followed through with the ball and made a strong throw from the left baseline, which missed the basket under interference.

Miller's strength is not bad, he will be abused when he encounters O'Neal, and he will not suffer in confrontation of this type of Robinson.On the other side, Carter grabbed the rebound and passed to Christie, who quickly advanced to the frontcourt to Billups.

Billups took the ball with both hands and changed direction, leaning on Johnson's right side to force a layup. 6 to 4.

The Raptors are starting to take advantage of their talent again!

(End of this chapter)