To deal with Nowitzki, the Bulls can only rely on Chen Jie to go head-to-head with him.
The score increase with Nowitzki is not only Chen Jie's personal decision, but in fact, it is also helpful for the entire team's tactics.
After all, the Bulls are still leading and Nowitzki can score, but as long as Chen Jie is not too far away from Nowitzki's scoring, the Bulls can still win.
But for Chen Jie, of course he wants to win the personal contest with Nowitzki.
During the halftime break, Skiles specifically explained that if Nowitzki continues to play singles in the second quarter in the second half, then the Bulls have only one tactic, which is to hand the ball to Chen Jie and cooperate with Chen Jie.
Score with Nowitzki.
Because for the Bulls now, only Chen Jie can continue to hit the opponent offensively.
The Bulls players certainly have no objection to this.
In fact, the Bulls have implemented this tactic many times for so long.
Many media are saying that the Bulls are now a team that relies too much on Chen Jie. If Chen Jie is injured one day, the Bulls will suffer disaster.
In fact, what they said is not wrong. Skiles knows very well in his heart that the current Bulls can do without Luol Deng, they can do without Hinrich, they can do without Chandler, they can even do without himself, but they can't do without Chen.
Jay.
Chen Jie is the guarantee for the Bulls to win. The Bulls with Chen Jie and the Bulls without Chen Jie are two completely different teams.
I guess no one in the alliance would disagree with this.
Skiles actually thought about deliberately reducing Chen Jie's playing time. Slowly let the Bulls form a complete and stable offensive and defensive system. In this way, even if Chen Jie is injured and needs a truce, the Bulls can still maintain enough
competitiveness, and with Chen Jie back, the Bulls can reach another level.
But Skiles' attempt failed because of the fight in Miami.
Kirk Hinrich and Luer Deng, the Bulls' two main perimeter players, have been suspended for 15 games. At this time, even if Skiles wants to reduce Chen Jie's playing time, it is impossible.
Jay, there really is no one available for Scales.
During this period of time, he could only rely on Chen Jie's ability to take the lead first. As for that attempt, he would wait until Hinrich and Lu Erdeng came back.
Fortunately, Chen Jie was in surprisingly good shape during this period. Instead of declining, the Bulls' record improved. From third in the Eastern Conference to second in the Eastern Conference, second only to last year's championship Pistons.
However, behind such a glorious record is Chen Jie's playing time of almost 40 minutes in every game.
Skiles is still a little worried in his heart. Chen Jie is still a young man. In his rookie season, he has such physical strength, but he cannot overuse it. Otherwise, Chen Jie may suffer from injuries in his future career.
With you.
Furthermore, the season is about to start in February. Generally speaking, the so-called rookie wall will basically appear in February.
For a rookie of Chen Jie's level, although there is a rookie wall, it will be over in less than half a month.
But the excessive use of Chen Jie now consumes his physical strength in advance. When the rookie wall appears, Scales is really not sure how long it will take for Chen Jie to get over it.
At that time, it may be the most difficult time for the Bulls this season.
After arranging the tactic of passing the ball to Chen Jie, looking at the tactical board, Skiles had so many worries in his heart.
However, now is not the time to talk about this.
Skiles could only pay attention from the bottom of his heart and slowly adjust Chen Jie's physical strength in the future.
In today's game, we still have to rely on Chen Jie.
This is actually Skiles' biggest dilemma.
On the one hand, he wants to adjust Chen Jie's physical strength and reasonably arrange Chen Jie's playing time.
But on the other hand, the Bulls cannot do without Chen Jie for a second. After all, the Bulls have a good record now, and Chicago fans all hope to have a successful season.
This is somewhat contradictory.
Chen Jie is not a robot. Sooner or later, problems will arise if he is overused.
Scales could only be cautious and seize every opportunity to give Chen Jie some rest.
This contradiction may not be visible now, but Scales is really afraid that one day it will explode.
If one day Chen Jie falls down due to injury, you can imagine what the Bulls will be like at that time. Moreover, when the time comes, the media will probably criticize Skiles for his excessive use of Chen Jie.
Scales scratched his hair.
Many coaches in the league hope to have a promising newcomer like Chen Jie in their team, but who knows that having Chen Jie is not all happiness, sometimes he also has brains.
Naturally, the Bulls players would not have thought of these issues.
They only feel that being teammates with Chen Jie is a very happy thing.
In the past, if they met a team like the Mavericks and a player like Nowitzki, especially when he was in such good shape, the Bulls players would definitely be afraid in their hearts.
But now that they have Chen Jie, it's different.
What's wrong with Nowitzki being able to score? Our Jay can do it too, and he's not necessarily worse than Nowitzki.
This change comes from within.
This kind of confidence is helpful for players' performance on the court.
The so-called mvp not only refers to one's contribution to the team, or one's contribution to helping teammates score. In many cases, it is also reflected in times like this, when one can bring confidence to teammates in times of adversity.
It can be said that Chen Jie is that kind of MVP-level player.
In fact, if Chen Jie is not a rookie this year, the Bulls can maintain the second place in the Eastern Conference. With Chen Jie's performance and data, even if he cannot compete for the mvp trophy, he is definitely qualified to compete for it!
Of course, now, this award is probably still a plaything in the hands of people like Iverson, Duncan, Nash, Kobe and Garnett.
These are the rules of the alliance, and no one can do anything about it.
Even James last year and Duncan in 1997 could not change the rules.
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Unknowingly, the fifteen minutes of halftime were over, and players from both teams returned to the court.
It can be seen that although it is still lagging behind, the atmosphere at the American Airlines Center has not become silent because of this.
Probably it was Nowitzki's performance that gave them hope. At this moment, the fans at the American Airlines Center cheered loudly. (To be continued...)
