From today on is the king

Chapter 925 924. Coach Kruger's Progress (seeking monthly ticket)

The Eagles started with an 8-2 start!

The Suns called a timeout!
Except for Quentin Richardson's mid-range jumper and two points, the Suns had no points in the first 3 minutes!
Since the Suns lost the jump ball, they played awkwardly, and the Eagles took the initiative.

Mike Woodson asked Liu Reck to defend against the big Q. In addition to Liu Reck's good physical strength and no problem running with the big Q, he also wanted to take advantage of the fact that Liu Reck's assisted defense is better. Liu Reck's single defense is not as good as Prince, and it may be slightly inferior to McGrady who focuses on defense and passing.

Liu Mang was not afraid of confrontation, dared to collide with Stoudemire, actively flanked Stoudemire with Kwame Brown, and consciously released the big Q open shot of the Suns starting with the worst scoring ability inside and outside.

Quentin Richardson has been studied in depth by the Eagles coaching staff. In fact, the Eagles coaching staff have studied the characteristics of the eight players in the main rotation of the Suns.

After the game lost to the Suns, the Eagles coaching staff regarded the Suns as their imaginary opponent in the finals after the Spurs, and they have carefully studied the games from the Suns preseason.

After research, it was found that the Suns coach D'Antoni didn't know why he was very keen on the eight-man rotation. If the main force was strong enough, he would like to play five players in rotation until the end of the game.

Not only D'Antoni is strange, but the entire Suns are also very strange. Stoudemire showed his mid-range shooting talent last season.

The distance between the second and the third is a Strait of Malacca. The third Kwame Brown has dunked 101 times so far. The three of them are the only three players in the league who have broken [-] dunks so far.

That is to say, Stoudemire averaged nearly 8 points per game due to dunks.

Nash is also very strange, he likes to lick sweat with his tongue without applying chalk.

Joe Johnson’s mid-range and long-range shots against defenders are more accurate than counterattack open shots. Of course, Joe Johnson’s open three-pointers are also very accurate, with a 40.00% six-point three-point shooting rate, but one-on-one singles are more accurate, and the single-play three-point shooting rate is as high as 50.00%.

Sean Marion is very different from the Suns but fits well. He loves defense.

Love defense is not a problem, but the Suns love defense, and with a height of 15 meters, they have a defensive efficiency second only to Duncan and Rasheed Wallace in the league.

But Sean Marion ranks sixth in offensive efficiency among power forwards in the league, which makes him a perfect fit for the Suns.

And the weirdest one is Quentin Richardson, who couldn't make a shot without running to catch and shoot!
Quentin Richardson averaged 2.9 three-pointers per game this season, ranking third in the league, second only to Ray Allen's 3.1 three-pointers per game and Liu Mang's 3.8 three-pointers per game.

This opened Mike Woodson's mind, and arranged an unimaginable defense, emptying the league's third three-pointer this season!

Of course, it is not pure shorting, which is courting death, but a skillful shorting.

The first is to do a good job of retreating and defending. Regardless of whether you can play or not, you must firmly control the defensive position and try to let the Suns fall into positional battles as much as possible.

Then, McGrady and Rasheed Wallace went to mark the open three-pointers of Marion and Joe Johnson. Marion was a little more difficult to deal with.

Liu Mang, Kwame Brown, and Prince strictly implemented Mike Woodson's defensive strategy, forcing the Suns to concentrate the ball in the hands of Nash and Stoudemire, vacating a large gap in the top arc for Nash and Stoudemire to pick and roll, and then when Nash passed the ball to Stoudemire, Liu Mang and Kwame Brown pinched Stoudemire.

The defensive strategy is simple and crude, but it works!
The main reason is that the Suns did not start running and bombing. Although the Suns are also very powerful in positional warfare, Mike Woodson played something different this time. After Stoudemire received the ball, Big Q had already run out of space and stopped.
The problem of rhythm is not a big problem for a superstar like Nash, a player like Stoudemire who has the strength of a top star under Nash's pass, or even a top star like Joe Johnson and a real top star like Marion.

But for a role player like Quentin Richardson, who is particularly dependent on shooting rhythm, the problem is big.

Big Q is great this season, the best scorer of the Suns, but his shooting rate is only 30.00%30.00, and his three-point shooting rate is not bad, 6%5000, but his sense of rhythm is not right, so he plays poorly and relies too much on rhythm. It was sold off after playing for a year because of this.

开局老鹰队5投4中拿到8分，但太阳队只有4投1中，德安东尼被迫叫了个暂停。

D'Antoni really didn't expect this to happen. He couldn't beat the Rockets and he recognized it. The opponent's rhythm was so slow that they couldn't pick up the speed. They couldn't beat the Spurs and recognized it. The opponent's rhythm was steady and Ginobili showed off.

But the Eagles who have won once, D'Antoni is very confident, the kind of self-confidence bursting, the Suns are really regarded as a "championship team" because they have defeated the Eagles once.

Mustache has always been arrogant, otherwise he would not have been in the future when Kobe was reimbursed when he coached the Lakers. In the second year when Kobe was reimbursed, he would not fight for the No. 4 pick. He forced himself to win 3 games in the last [-] games.

After D'Antoni won the Hawks once, he felt that the Hawks were not their opponents.

Unexpectedly, at the beginning of this game, the opponent's defense was extremely targeted.

The Eagles coaching staff spent a long time studying the Suns, and even when Coach Kruger and Mike Woodson were on vacation during the All-Star Weekend, they were still in touch to study the first strong enemy back this All-Star Weekend.

But D'Antoni didn't think so much, his belief was to shoot and shoot again.

Deliberately giving Stoudemire a chance to cut in, and then actively flanking, reducing Nash's breakthrough, allowing Quentin Richardson to make a fixed-point shot...

D'Antoni didn't make substitutions, he didn't like substitutions and made some offensive adjustments.

As for the defensive end, the Eagles counterattacked three times...as long as the shots are not made.

For the Eagles, after the first round of tactics was successful, coach Kruger waited until D'Antoni called a timeout, and immediately began to deploy the second-stage tactics. Mike Woodson was on the side to supplement the defensive computer. They were quite well prepared for this game.

D'Antoni laughed after he won them last time. They still remember that after staying with a certain No. 1 player for a long time, the two have become a lot more stingy.

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Back from the timeout, no substitutions were made on either side, and the Suns played in the frontcourt.

After receiving the serve, Nash came to the top arc and found that the man defending him was replaced by Liu Mang!

different!It is different from what the coach expected!
Wouldn't the party with the agreed tactics succeed in making adjustments first?How did this law change when it came to the Eagles!

Nash bit the bullet and asked Stoudemire to come out for the pick-and-roll, and the person who followed Stoudemire also changed, becoming Rasheed Wallace!
Stoudemire actually came up to block Liu Mang this time. Nash broke through the pick-and-roll. Stoudemire blocked Liu Mang and then cut from the left side of the basket. However, Rasheed Wallace did not switch defenses, but kept sticking to Stoudemire to prevent Stoudemire from rushing into the inside.

When Nash turned away from the free throw line, he saw Liu Mang forcibly bypass the push and rushed towards him. When he visually visually, he saw that Qumei Brown was blocked by Qume Brown when he cut in from the bottom line. John Johnson stood by McGrady. Big Q was also tightly chased by Prince. Let Qua Mei Brown rush into the basket, and entered Liu Mang and Qumei Brown Pyramid ...

For a moment, Nash thought about various passing schemes in his mind, but none of them were good. When Nash reached the free throw line, before Liu Mang's defense was in place, he stopped for a jumper and threw the ball to the basket in the posture of riding and archery!

"Swish"

The ball hits hollow!Nash's shooting is great!Among the outside players this season, his overall field goal percentage of 40.00%40.00 is second only to McGrady's [-]%[-], which is [-]% higher than Kobe.

Liu Mang chased and defended as fast as he could, but he still couldn't catch up.

But he didn't hesitate, and immediately rushed back to the basket to pick up the ball, quickly sent it to McGrady, who was already about to play, and then rushed towards the frontcourt, and Prince on the other side also quickly made a quick play.

McGrady received Liu Mang's serve at the center line and continued to accelerate.

Big Q, Joe Johnson and Nash, who scored the goal, quickly chased McGrady and Prince. Liu Mang followed closely behind, and when he was outside the three-point line, McGrady, who was flanked, immediately passed the ball to Liu Mang.

Just as Liu Mang received the ball and took off, Nash who turned around and Marion who retreated quickly rushed forward. Marion's long arms covered Liu Mang's shooting space!
After Nash was dunked, the defense worked hard but couldn't defend it. Now it became even harder. Liu Mang really didn't dare to throw in the air. He only had three players on the fast break, and all five opponents had reached halftime. When Liu Mang reached the highest point of the jump, he still didn't shoot. He just threw it to the left side of the basket.

"Ding... Aerial magician triggers at level 4. The host jumps up and passes the ball to deceive the opponent's defender and leads the opponent with the ball."

When luck comes, you can't stop it!
When Liu Mang passed the ball, Stoudemire, who had just rushed into the three-point line, made a misjudgment and pounced on McGrady. Prince rushed up to receive the ball, jumped up with the momentum of the sprint, and scored two points with a split dunk after a low-altitude flight!

Prince didn't talk too much. He was a short jumper and pretended to be a landing buffer to bend his legs. He knocked the ball out of bounds and hit the bottom line reporter, blocking the Suns from picking up the ball and serving it immediately.

Of course, it’s not just that, two people from the Eagles didn’t participate in the fast play at all, otherwise Liu Mang wouldn’t be able to shoot without restraint. Rasheed Wallace and Kwame Brown were on both sides of the free throw line in the backcourt!
Nash didn't know what to say to Liu Mang's pass this time. There was no one in the direction of Liu Mang's pass. Did he trust his teammates so much?

It was time for the Suns to attack again. Nash played for half a quarter and was used to advancing in positional battles. The Eagles couldn't get two inside lanes, and the three outside lanes came and retreated quickly.

Nash advanced to the frontcourt and continued to play pick-and-rolls with Stoudemire. They all started from pick-and-rolls in positional battles. The Suns not only ranked first in the league in counterattack scoring, but also ranked first in the league in pick-and-roll offensive scoring.

Nash continued to use the pick-and-roll to get rid of Liu Mang, and got another shot from the mid-range. This time, the pull-up jump shot was not as good as last time, and the mid-range pull-up jump shot was missed!

The Eagles counterattacked!
The three major arrows waved their whips, and the cavalry company charged!

In the next period of time, Nash felt that something was wrong the more he played, it wasn't that he didn't have a chance to make a phone call, but that he had too many phone calls!
It's so awkward!

The Suns usually play their own rhythm, regardless of the opponent's rhythm. In fact, when they fight against any opponent, they just study how fast the opponent's defense is, how much the rhythm needs to be improved, how the opponent's flanking situation is, and which teammate is easier to send the ball to.

The offense of the Suns is so powerful that they can ignore the defense of most opponents. So, apart from slowly studying their opponents at the beginning of the season before their self-confidence rises, they have not slowly studied their opponents for a long time. Their arrogance has already risen. They think that they are the next Eagles. Just use it.

But now that Nash feels it, the Eagles have a targeted defense against them, so let him score and cut off the connection between him and his teammates!
Nash made 7 of 4 mid-range shots. He made 9 of 5 shots in the first quarter. One of them was a three-pointer. He scored 11 points in a single quarter, but only had two assists. The key point is that his teammates only had two assists.
The Suns only scored 24 points in the first quarter, which is far lower than their 29 points per game in the first quarter of this season, second only to the Eagles' 29.6 points per game.

Although Nash got a lot of shots, he had too few effective offensive passes. No matter how D'Antoni adjusted his tactics, the Eagles only had two defensive priorities.

First, stare at other people and prevent Quentin Richardson from running to catch and shoot. Marion and Joe Johnson are both spot-up shooters when it comes to catching and shooting three-pointers. Marion also has air cuts. Joe Johnson does not have very good scoring ability at the basket. , After studying Marion's running position, the defense is very targeted.

It is not enough to be targeted. The most important thing is the second point. Let Nash have a chance to shoot when he breaks through. Never switch defenses, just let Nash shoot.

Nash's scoring ability is very strong, especially strong. The point guard is in the same level as Liu Mang and Iverson.

But Nash scored a lot and the offense was not organized, it still doesn't work!He doesn't have the mentality of Liu Mang and Iverson to go to the bottom!
Nash knows that the first choice of a passer is to shoot, but he made 9 shots in the first quarter, but he averaged only 11 shots per game this season, so he was flustered!They just wanted to pass the ball, but they missed a lot of real opportunities. When the pass was made, Joe Johnson could only play singles. Thanks to Joe Johnson's singles, otherwise they might not even get 20 points!
As for the Eagles, Liu Mang, like someone in Los Angeles, suddenly fell in love with receiving the ball and jumping up to attract the defense to pass the ball. The Suns' two defensively active Nash and Big Q and one defensively aware Marion made their heads big. The pass was absolutely amazing, like throwing it casually, but he really got 3 assists in a single quarter.

But with this style of play, after the first quarter, the Eagles scored 8 points in a single quarter by relying on their 2-31 lead at the start, leading the Suns by 7 points!
Leading by 7 points in the first quarter, the Eagles are getting more and more motivated!

After Liu Mang succeeded in the first tactic today, he devoted more attention to the tactics and strategies of the coaching staff. Throughout the first quarter, the tactics were effective!

In the first quarter, Liu Mang didn’t make many shots. He passed the ball 7 times, three of which turned into assists, and made two turnovers. He made 8 of 4 shots and scored 9 points.

Leading the Suns into the second quarter, the rhythm belongs to his side. Liu Mang is very happy, but even more happy is the improvement of Coach Kruger after losing to the Suns last time!
Coach Kruger has gradually developed from a tactical provider who is proficient in various tactics, a tactical coach who builds a tactical framework, to an on-the-spot coach!
　The neighbors next door had a quarrel in the middle of the night, and I couldn’t sleep because of the quarrel. I knocked on the door and asked. It turned out that they were arguing about getting a divorce.The aunt next door calmed down after my persuasion and began to complain: Your Uncle Li cheated on you seven times before, and I didn’t even give him cigarette money to keep him in check. Unexpectedly, he got a college student with only four yuan of bus money...

　　I can't sleep now thinking of how I've been solving personal problems with my hands for so many years...  

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