Although Carmelo Anthony is the boss of the team, Anthony didn't seem to have any response to Iverson's "one more" behavior, and just opened up the space for Iverson to play singles.
Anthony does respect Iverson. Although he is obviously the boss of the team, at some times, he often chooses to be humble. This is also related to his character. It is also because of this that there is no dispute between the two over the ball rights.
Conflict broke out. However, it was also because of the mutual concession between the two that the Nuggets' two-gun backcourt has made little progress!
A team can only have one core. Even for those teams that are called dual-core, there is a priority between the two cores. For example, the OK combination in the Lakers dynasty era is known as the internal and external dual-core. The core is O'Neal on the inside, and Kobe is the core on the outside.
But O'Neal is the absolute core. Although Kobe is one of the two cores, he is in a secondary position among the two cores.
As for the Nuggets, there has never been a clear distinction between the two shooters on the outside.
Now Iverson's explosive power has declined due to his increasing age and frequent injuries. It is conceivable that as his explosive power gradually declines, his performance on the court will decline rapidly.
But now Iverson is still very powerful!
After several drastic changes in direction, Kobe tried hard to defend, but still couldn't keep up with Iverson's unpredictable dribbling. As his center of gravity shifted, Iverson broke through from the right, and a similarly urgent move came.
Stopped the jump shot and scored two points!
The first goal was evenly divided between the two sides.
After the first ball, both sides got on the right track. The game time passed quickly between the alternating offenses of the two sides. However, the Lakers gradually fell into a backward situation. Even though Staples' cheering sounds were endless, the Lakers did not.
Still gradually falling into a backward situation.
Until the sixth minute of the game, after the official timeout, Phil Jackson called a timeout first. Calling a timeout first rarely happened to Phil Jackson.
"Adrian." Phil Jackson didn't care about tactics, but looked directly at the frowning Adrian: "What's wrong with you?"
The key to the Lakers falling behind is that Anthony's defensive effect on Adrian's team is not very good! So far, Anthony has taken three shots and hit them all three times. Adrian's defense against him is useless.
Adrian frowned. He shook his head slightly and said, "Anthony's move today seems... very decisive!
The advantage of Anthony as a player is that he is very versatile. There is no offensive method you can think of that he can't do. But there are also disadvantages, that is, he is not very good at choosing shots. He often hesitates when there is an opportunity.
And he took action forcefully without any chance.
It is difficult for ordinary players to defend the strong Carmelo Anthony. His shortcomings are not too obvious. But when Adrian defends him, he can take advantage of these shortcomings. Anthony's shortcomings are probably due to
He has always been the team's first core. This is true whether in the NBA, college basketball, or even high school basketball. Therefore, no one has made specific requirements for his shots.
American college basketball is known as the stronghold of academic coaches and a hotbed of tactics. Indeed, some far-reaching classic tactics often appear. This is probably because college basketball coaches generally have very stable positions and do not have high record requirements. In addition,
The personnel changes are relatively small, which allows them to have sufficient time to research and create a strategy.
As we all know, a series of tactics currently popular in the league, such as run-and-gun offense, pick-and-roll offense, triangle tactics, Princeton tactics, Eagles offense, etc. were all born and brought into the NBA by college coaches, but they are not used in the NBA.
It is the mainstream among many conventional tactics.
Therefore, some people think that in terms of tactical literacy, college basketball coaches are better than NBA coaches!
This is bullshit!
Because the position is relatively stable, coaches who can often work for ten or twenty years without worrying about position or even record are different. NBA coaches feel quite precarious, and it is difficult for most coaches to stay on the same team.
It is extremely rare to work in the NBA for five consecutive years or ten years. Those who have worked in the NBA for decades, such as James Vicki and Jerry Sloan, can be seen everywhere in the NBA, but they are rare in the NBA.
At the same time, coaches generally do not have heavy game tasks. After all, the entire league only plays a few dozen games in a season, unlike the NBA, where each team plays 82 games per season, with an average of two days in the season.
A game, when the schedule is intensive, may even reach the level of one game a day.
In addition, as a business league, everything is based on commercial value, and the personnel in the team change frequently. The coach himself is precarious, and the players change even more frequently. This makes it impossible for NBA coaches to concentrate on studying tactics. However,
When it comes to tactical application ability, NBA coaches are definitely more than one step ahead of coaches in the NBA.
This can be seen from the often seen four-guarantee-one tactic. For a team, no matter what tactic it is, it cannot be as effective as a superstar.
Carmelo Anthony is such a superstar. For Carmelo Anthony, since he was a child, the ball stayed in his hands most of the time, so he can choose to take action at any time, because of his
Versatile and excellent, ordinary players can hardly guard him, so no one accuses Carmelo Anthony of having problems with his shots.
After entering the NBA, this shortcoming of his was exposed, because in the NBA, the defensive pressure he had to endure was completely different from that in high school basketball and college basketball. His strong body allowed him to dominate in college basketball.
Wuji, but entering the NBA, there are definitely strong players similar to him everywhere, but there are definitely many!
He has also tried to correct these shortcomings of his, but it can be seen that the effect is not very good. After all, it is a playing habit that he has grown up with since childhood, and it is not easy to change.
But today...
Anthony's shot was extremely decisive!
It seems that as soon as the ball comes into his hands, he will quickly handle it, either shooting and scoring, or passing the ball. The sloppiness that was often seen in the past seems to have suddenly disappeared today.
"Yeah." Phil Jackson nodded. He also noticed this, so he called a timeout. Anthony's handling of the ball today indeed seemed very decisive. It can even be said that if Anthony had this decisiveness before,
His evaluation may be higher than that of James. This change should have been caused recently. I don't know what the old guy George Karl said to him.
However, after thinking about it, Phil Jackson was not too worried because he had a countermeasure: "Ed, suppress him and put more pressure on him. This is in the playoffs. Under normal circumstances, the action
If it's bigger, the referee won't call a foul."
"I get it." Adrian was stunned for a moment, then nodded: "I get it. Next, I won't let him handle the ball so easily."
Indeed, after entering the playoffs, the referee's whistle will generally become looser. This is to ensure the smoothness and excitement of the game, and also to try to allow the superstars to stay on the court more. In this way
Now, some actions that may normally be whistled for illegal fouls will be lightly let go by the referee at this moment. This is why the defensive intensity in the playoffs will increase greatly, because under the referee's relatively relaxed whistle, players will
Will make more bold moves...
Adrian, who appeared again, decisively increased his defensive intensity. The moment Carmelo Anthony received the basketball, he directly entangled him, waving his arms and colliding with Anthony.
With such frequent and intense physical contact, the referee can blow the whistle at any time. As for whether to blow an offensive foul or a defensive foul, it depends on the referee's mood. Adrian secretly turned his eyes to the referee, but saw that although he
Looking here, he held the whistle in his hand, but did not put it in his mouth. Obviously, this level of physical confrontation did not reach his psychological limit of whistle blowing.
A little aware of the softness of the referee's whistle, Adrian felt even more relieved. He pestered Carmelo Anthony fiercely, making Anthony hold the ball in his hand, but for a while he couldn't find a way to deal with it. The basketball was naturally
He stopped in his hands and finally turned his back, blocking Adrian behind him to block these disturbances. However, there was only less than eight seconds left to attack. More importantly, he was looking for
No more passing lanes.
"Pass it to me!" Allen Iverson yelled at Anthony.
Anthony actually doesn't have much passing experience. He seemed a little panicked under Adrian's pressure, and his handling of this ball once again seemed a bit sloppy.
In the end, although Iverson received the basketball due to Kobe's entanglement, the time to attack was almost running out. In desperation, Iverson could only choose to gamble on his luck with an outside three-pointer.
The shot was made under Kobe's interference!
Iverson's touch seemed to be quite good. The 24-second buzzer sounded before this hastily shot shot even touched the basket, but it went into the basket.
"Yeah." Phil Jackson frowned slightly, and then nodded slightly. Although the Nuggets still scored this goal, the tactics were completely blocked. It scored, but Ivor
