The doubts and minor worries of the fans before the start of the game quickly dissipated as the game progressed. Because the Orlando Magic took the lead at home, with a huge score of 13:4.
Andre Miller's three-point ability has never been developed, which is what he is most criticized for. Iguodala's shooting is also unstable. His biggest weapon is his strong body and explosive shooting ability.
Physically, he breaks through for layups and creates fouls. Willie Green is also a defender who is good at breakthroughs, but he also has a certain mid-range shooting ability, and his three-pointers are also not very good. His three-point shooting percentage this season
There is only 285%, and the hit rate of just over one out of four does not pose much of a threat.
Stan Van Gundy had already introduced this in detail to the Magic players before the game started. So after the game started, the Orlando Magic took the initiative to reduce the defensive radius and closely guard the area from the free throw line to the basket.
The defense at the three-point line is relatively open, and only when someone attempts a three-pointer will Adrian, the fastest man, jump out to interfere.
The shortest player on the Magic team is Adrian, but he is also 203 centimeters and six feet eight inches tall. The other players are seven feet or close to seven feet. This bunch of tall people close to seven feet almost makes the Magic
The entire area within the team's free throw line was completely packed. The result of this was that the 76ers' breakthrough players were wide-eyed but unable to find any good breakthrough routes from the Magic's court.
As a result, after the opening four minutes of the 76ers, apart from Willie Green hitting a mid-range shot, only Andre Iguodala broke through the paint and caused Gortat to foul and win two free throws.
The rest of the 76ers' offense was either under interference or simply blocked.[
On the offensive end, Hedo Turkoglu and Sharad Lewis are both 208 centimeters tall, and their opposing defenders are 198 centimeters Andre Iguodala and 190 centimeters Willie.
-The height difference between Green, Sharad Lewis and Iguodala is 10 centimeters, and the height difference between Hedo Turkoglu and Willie Green is 18 centimeters. Such a huge height difference makes the two
People can freely shoot jump shots in front of their defenders without worrying too much about being interfered with or blocked.
If it weren't for the fact that Hedo Turkoglu and Lewis didn't feel very good because they consumed too much energy in the game the day before yesterday, the Magic's lead might have been even greater. And Adrian, in the first four minutes, he
He didn't take a single shot. His job in the first four minutes was to dribble the ball to the frontcourt and pass it to Lewis or Turkoglu, and then watch them take off from the three-point line again and again, waiting for his assists to increase. In fact,
In just four minutes, Adrian has already scored four assists with the help of the two of them.
Gaining assists... There is absolutely no more pure way to gain assists than this.
Beside the 76ers' bench, head coach and vice president Larry Brown immediately stood up and called a timeout. In these four minutes, Larry Brown was completely sure that the Magic's lineup arrangement was not Stan Van Gundy's request for change.
Try, but he saw through the biggest weakness of the 76ers' starting lineup and used the only resources at hand to make a targeted arrangement.
"He is really carved out of the same mold as that old fox!" Stan Van Gundy's performance made Larry Brown couldn't help but think of his old rival. Now the Heat's general manager, the 'magic fortune teller' Pat Riley. Stan -
Van Gundy studied under Pat Riley and first debuted with the Heat under Pat Riley. Unexpectedly, after several years of polishing in the NBA, he became more and more similar to the old fox Pat Riley, specializing in
Find your opponent's weaknesses and strike hard!
After calling a timeout, Larry Brown chose to make a substitution. He replaced Andre Miller and replaced him with Lou Williams.
Now that the Magic have seized on the 76ers' three-point inaccuracy problem and attacked it, the easiest way is to shoot the three-pointer. As long as the outside players can hit the three-pointer, this special defensive model will be self-defeating.
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The reason for replacing Lou Williams is precisely for this reason.
As a high school player entering the NBA, it is difficult for Williams to gain sufficient trust, and Larry Brown rarely trusts young players. But this time is different, he needs Williams' three-point ability.
Before entering the league, Williams was a well-known star player in the United States, but after entering the league, his performance was not satisfactory. However, several years of training and substitute career have gradually sharpened Williams' three-pointers.
Come out, his three-point shooting percentage this season reached 359%. This statistic is already quite impressive.
After coming on the court, Lou Williams performed very actively. He quickly took advantage of the space in the Magic's perimeter defense to hit a three-pointer, and then the second!
The Magic's defense naturally expanded. As the Magic's defense expanded, the previous stranglehold on the breakthrough route naturally collapsed.
This gave Iguodala and Green, for example, more room to break through. The Philadelphia 76ers finally broke their scoring drought, and the game became normal. However, this lineup is quite powerful on the offensive end.
In the time, the score was not close, but was further widened because Lewis, who had found his touch, hit three consecutive mid-range shots.
"Be more serious, Hida. Don't let that little guy get rid of you so easily!" Stan Van Gundy shouted loudly on the sidelines to remind Hida Turkoglu to pay attention to defense.
This made Adrian frown a little. Larry Brown on the sidelines of the 76ers showed a faint smile.
"Sure enough, it's still tender."
After the defense line was stretched, Hida Turkoglu's defensive ability was somewhat insufficient. The most important thing to do at this time is to replace Hida Turkoglu and replace him with Keith Bogans, who has better defense.
Mark Willie Green, who is obviously in good form today, and freeze the opponent's outside arrows.
"It seems that my head coach's ability to adjust on the spot is a little bit poor." Adrian twitched his lips and said, "If it was Phil Jackson, he should have been replaced by this time."
But he also doesn’t want to think about it, how many coaches in the league can make on-the-spot adjustments up to Phil Jackson’s level? Phil Jackson is a well-known championship coach in the league, and Stan Van Gundy... he is indeed very capable. Collect
He collects the opponent's information, analyzes the opponent's strengths and weaknesses, and formulates tactical changes that can restrain the opponent. This is a skill he learned from the 'magic fortune teller' Pat Riley.[
But in terms of on-the-spot adjustments, the gap between him and veteran and cunning championship coaches like Phil Jackson, Pat Riley, and Larry Brown is really not that big. (To be continued.)
