ATPnovel Chapter 368 Feeling Powerless
Chapter 368 Feeling Powerless
Chapter 368 Feeling Powerless
The Hornets' plight this season is mainly due to the degradation of Al Jefferson inside, and Kemba Walker did not grow up as fast as possible.
But in this game, since Kemba Walker hit a three-pointer, the Hornets played very well.
The Hornets are a bit short on the inside, but Jefferson and Biyombo are both strong, and Cody Zeller can also be a little stronger. The Hornets' defensive strategy is to rotate a few insiders, and then the striker helps defend, which is also a lot in the league. The way the team defended Xiang Chu.
The Hornets are not saying that they are particularly good at defending, but they are also considered people.
It's just that Gallinari had another truce, and the Nuggets didn't enter the state immediately after starting the outside line, allowing the Hornets to take the initiative to bloom more.
Kemba Walker is playing well, but he is not in a crazy output mode.
The Hornets scored goals in several starts, and Gary Neal and rookie Hairston also played well on the bench.
For their two strong points, the Nuggets are not badly restricted, and the Hornets are a group of substitute players who broke out.
The performance of the Nuggets can only be said to be too ordinary.
So at the end of the first half, they were rarely behind by double digits.
In the second half, the Hornets were still in full bloom, and their state was really good.
When no one expected, the Nuggets lost away.
It seemed very easy for the weak to defeat the strong in this game. On the surface, it seems that many teams can do it.
In fact, it is not easy to achieve this goal. First of all, the Hornets have a meat shield, and secondly, it is much more difficult for all players to perform well than All-Star players.
You must know that the Hornets' assists are more than twice that of the Nuggets, and none of them has assists in double figures.
In other words, everyone has assists, and a strong offensive team like the Nuggets can't do it.
The Hornets belong to a team with relatively poor offensive power. This is purely a small probability event.
As for the emergence of many Nuggets strategies outside, it is basically just a joke among fans. If professionals believe it, there is something wrong with their brains.
Shouldn't lose, there is still some pressure. Xiang Chu now has nine great skills, but it is impossible to crush a team by himself. The main reason is that the western competitors put more pressure on people.
This season the Warriors seem to have taken medicine, and now Xiang Chu wants to directly encounter the bottom.
The Grizzlies performed normally. They had a chance to overtake, but after losing a game, it is estimated that they will have to wait for another opportunity.
It's not the playoffs, and Xiang Chu is not too concerned about losing. They must not let the opponent play crazy performances in the next game.
The second game is to play the Nets. It stands to reason that it will be more difficult to play back-to-back away games.
But for a strong team like the Nuggets, as long as they don't run into teams of the same level, the key still depends on their own state.
The Nets are not in good shape this season, although their performance last season was mediocre.
After the crazy failure of last season, the Nets have recognized the reality. Basketball is not a simple game of throwing money, and it is not that the peak All-Star role is not as great as they imagined.
They gave up Pierce in the summer to clear some space, and then traded Thornton to get Jarrett Jack with a shorter contract. The strength of the All-Stars has declined again.
Deron truce in this game, Lopez just came back to play as a substitute, the Nets are definitely not as strong as the Nuggets, but with the previous losses, the Nuggets dare not be careless.
In other people's home court, sometimes it is easy to go wrong.
Sure enough, the Nets started their offense very strongly.
Joe Johnson and Jarrett Jack performed very well, giving the Nuggets enough oppression.
On the defensive end, they used Mason Plumlee to defend Xiang Chu and Garnett to assist in the defense. I thought this configuration could be done, after all, Garnett has a very good defensive awareness.
Unexpectedly, Garnett's current physical strength simply cannot support a strong confrontation, and Mason Plumlee is not as strong as his brother.
The Nets have also tried to let Lopez come up as the main defense, which is indeed much better.
Lopez is still very strong, but he has just come back. Hollins, the new head coach of the Nets this season, saw Xiang Chu's fierceness, and was very worried that Lopez would be injured again.
This buddy is good, but his body is a little fragile. He is the first scoring point for the Nets. They really dare not let him resist Xiang Chu when he has not fully recovered.
Therefore, the Nets finally chose an offensive battle, and then played a striker with one big and four small ones. Xiang Chu let him wreak havoc on the inside, and they fought outside.
In many cases, the team chooses a tactic not because this tactic is the best, and the team configuration can only be like this, and it is not the playoffs. The Nets do not intend to go all out.
For the Nuggets, in addition to Xiang Chu, Knight and Middleton also played well.
On the bench, Williams played normally, Belinelli and Faried also played well, so this game is a real scoring battle.
It wasn't until the team's main force answered in the second quarter that the shooting percentage became normal.
During the team's game, sometimes there will be a "wind", that is, the team's state will explode. If the other side does not keep up, it will become a wave.
But that kind of strong state generally won't last for a long time. Experienced coaches will definitely let the team's good touch be fully displayed, and they will be able to seize the opportunity to interrupt the opponent's state.
At the end of the second quarter, Xiang Chu made a tip-up and the two sides tied at 58:58.
Relatively speaking, the Nets scored relatively concentrated, and the Nuggets fine-tuned their defensive strategy during the intermission.
In the third quarter, their defense was very successful, and Jack's efficiency dropped a lot.
But Joe Johnson is not so easy to solve, his singles is really pretty good.
But his style of play is relatively classical and not very efficient.
Although the Nets' defensive targeting has also been strengthened, the Nuggets still rely on the cooperation of Xiang Chu and Knight to become the leading team.
The Nets increased their three-point attempts, but the effect was not good.
The two pitchers on their bench, Mirza Teletovic and Bojan Bogdanovic, both had poor hands, and in the end they still had to play stronger singles.
Joe Johnson is the most reliable player on the offensive end of the Nets, and the Nets only let him rest for 2 minutes.
When Xiang Chu came on the court, the Nets had chased the score to only 4 points, and the fans in the Barclays Center Arena also hoped for a miracle.
But in front of Xiang Chu, some things should not be expected.
He looks like an overlord stepping up and dunking Plumlee. He is also a big man on the inside. Xiang Chu's sense of oppression and security is a different level.
The home fans shouted Joe Johnson's name, and Joe Johnson hit a three-pointer again.
But, that's all.
Next, Xiang Chu scored 6 points in a row to help the team open the score again, and the Nets players suddenly felt a sense of powerlessness.
(End of this chapter)