ATPnovel Chapter 143
Chapter 143
Chapter 143
After winning the Knicks, the Suns ended their December. After a short rest day, they had to experience another long-distance three-way trip to Detroit, Chicago and Toronto, Canada.
When seeing the upcoming schedule, all the Suns players felt a little helpless, including coaches such as D'Antoni and Stotts, who were also very distressed. Such a three-game streak is a great challenge to the players' physical fitness. What the team fears most It is like this kind of game that travels back and forth in all directions in the United States. On the one hand, it is because of the mental torture of the players on the long-distance plane. The kind of NBA players who sit in the narrow seats of the plane for more than ten hours It is simply torture.
On the other hand, the pressure brought by this kind of exhaustion will lead to a significant increase in the probability of player injury. In many cases, the injury of the player is due to the body being too exhausted and the body suddenly collapsed at a certain moment. It will lead to irreversible injuries. According to the data, in away games, especially in consecutive away games, the chances of players being injured will be two to three times higher than those in home games!
But there is no way, they can't choose to give up the game, it can only depend on the players' own ability to adjust.
Arriving in Detroit, what Gao Tian saw was the atmosphere of decline that could not be concealed under the prosperity. The current Motor City is still one of the most prosperous cities in the United States, but this is all on the surface, and the high-rise buildings cannot conceal the dilapidated color deep in the city. , Gao Tian only saw numbness on the faces of people coming and going.
There is no vitality that a city of heavy industry should have!
And the fate of the Pistons in Detroit seems to be doomed. Everything in it is firmly tied to the city. When Detroit was prosperous, the Pistons won the championship. Doomed to follow the Motor City to defeat!
Even if the Pistons still retain the big frame when they won the championship, they still have "off-the-ball master" Hamilton, the soul of the Pistons, Chauncey Billups, and "Roaring God" Rasheed Wallace, but with the core The aging of the players, their inevitable decline in strength, in Gao Tian's impression, this should be the last year of their peak.
In the next ten years, the Pistons no longer have the current strength.
The establishment of a championship team requires a lot of hard work and a long time. The most important thing is to have a little but very crucial luck. Some teams even lack that little luck. The team hasn't won a championship for decades!
However, it only takes a month or even a few days for a championship team to disintegrate. When the core leaves the team, the team is aging, the locker room is not harmonious, the team management has ideas, and the owners and players are not in the same direction. If only one factor appears, the team will have problems!
However, this definitely does not mean that the Pistons are not strong enough, even if the sun sets, they are still warm!
The game is very hard for the Suns. The Pistons may not be the strongest opponent they have ever encountered, but they are definitely the most difficult one!
When attacking, Hamilton's movement on the outside stretches the space and looks for open opportunities. Billups watches all directions and listens to all directions to control the overall situation. Wallace on the inside is constantly grabbing positions and preparing to catch the ball. Terrible, their meticulous defensive system makes their defense impeccable. For a while, even the Suns with the strongest offensive firepower cannot break through the defense.
The head coach of the Pistons, Philip Saunders, looked at the very anxious scene with his chin in one hand and muttered. He has nothing to change about this Pistons. From ancient times to the present, this meat grinder has not changed in the slightest!
They have always had iron blood and tenacity that make everyone feel desperate. No matter what kind of opponent they face, they will not be afraid, even if the inside defense of Ben Wallace's departure from the Pistons is no longer the top level of the league, but Their defensive system is also enough to make them one of the best teams in the league.
As the godfather coach of the Timberwolves and Garnett's mentor, Philip Saunders, who has been with the Timberwolves for nine years, has no doubts about his tactical skills. He is very satisfied with the Pistons, which even he can't be too picky about. , Facing the vast majority of teams in the league, he will not feel embarrassed, and it can even be said that the opponent is embarrassed about how to break the iron wall of the Pistons.
But it is just that the Suns are such a cross-generational team. Every time they face the Suns Pistons, they will be very tangled. At the end of the game, the score is often not as close as expected, and there is often a huge reversal. This time the Pistons beat the Suns by more than ten points, and the Suns will win the Pistons by more than ten points next time.
The Pistons' tactics emphasize slowness!
They will never play fast break easily, and they will never choose other methods if they can play positional warfare. Every ball is given to the inside as much as possible, because the height and size of the inside will make most of their rebounds even if they miss the shot. It's all under control.
However, the Suns are a completely opposite team to the Pistons. Their running and bombing emphasizes eight-second fast breaks. At the basket, the Suns have the highest number of three-point shots and shooting percentage in the league. The Pistons are strong inside and focus on rebounding, while the Suns only have Stoudemire himself in the inside offense, and it is easy to lose rebounds. Everything about them seems so contradictory .
The Pistons' perimeter defense is also quite good. Hamilton was the defensive player who bet to take over Kobe in the finals. His off-ball defense is undoubtedly the top group in the league!
Seeing the team's starting small forward Prince being scored by Gao Tian one after another, he couldn't help but frowned and signaled Prince to switch defenses with him. The Pistons fans saw the team's outside defensive gate personally defending against this The rookies who have been scoring continuously are also cheering for a while. They have long been unhappy with the number 24. They have never liked this number very much.
Gao Tian felt that Hamilton, who had been stuck in his best position to catch the ball, was also in his heart. The defensive master is really not just kidding. Only when he is really defended by Hamilton can he feel the power he gives to an attacker. Enormous pressure.
Relying on his height, Gao Tian still received Nash's pass despite Hamilton's interference, and tried to feel Hamilton's strength, which was very powerful. Aspects, but his body is by no means as thin as it appears on the surface.
Gao Tian put the ball with his left hand, shook it in a disguised form, and then retreated directly outside the three-point line. He was not afraid of Hamilton's hand on his face, and simply hit a three-pointer, just to bully you because of his height!
This goal is also a microcosm of the whole game. The Suns players felt very hot today. In the first quarter, they hit seven three-pointers and scored [-] points.
Seeing this, Philip Sanders shook his head. He had a hunch that the Suns might win today. As long as the Suns feel very good every time, it means that they will win the game. As expected, The feel of the Suns players has always been maintained at a fairly good level, and they have already led by as much as 5 minutes after the start of the fourth quarter.
Saunders couldn't do anything, so he directly replaced the main force and announced that he would give up the game.
(End of this chapter)