Chapter 421: The Crystallization of Wisdom Across Half a Century
New York in this era seems to be very prosperous, because skyscrapers began to rise in the United States in the 1880s. For example, the Empire State Building, the famous skyscraper in New York, was completed in 1931. By the 1970s
, when you walk on the streets of New York and look up, you can already see acres and acres of high-rise buildings.
If it weren't for the decoration style and the characters' clothes, Tang Qian would even have the illusion of being "in modern times".
The home of the New York Knicks, Madison Square Garden, has a long history.
Starting from the first generation, it was built in 1879, that is, in the late 1970s, but this is not the Madison Square Garden in front of us. The Madison Square Garden used by the Knicks home team should be from the "Garden Three Generations"
To begin with, the two generations of "Square Garden" before this have nothing to do with the history of the New York Knicks. However, the building in front of Tang Qian is the fourth generation building of Madison Square Garden, which only officially opened in 1968.
Becomes the new home of the New York Knicks.
In fact, this "new garden" brought a lot of good luck to the Knicks. It didn't take long for them to win two NBA championships. However, since then, the New Yorkers have gained nothing and entered a completely "green leaf" period.
Expect".
But compared to the Lakers' home court, the Great Western Forum, this place is undoubtedly more complete and more luxurious.
That’s not to say that the Lakers’ home court is not good. In fact, around the 1970s, the Great Western Forum was definitely considered a “super arena” in the NBA. But compared to Madison Square Garden in New York, it was intangible.
Zhong Yao is much "weaker".
So even though it was his "third time" here, Tang Qian couldn't help but look at the stadium a few more times.
"What's wrong, Wilt? Is this place so beautiful?" Jerry West seemed to have noticed something strange about "Tang Qian", so he asked. "Oh, it's nothing, I just think Madison is special today.
It's just different." "Tang Qian" replied casually.
"Specially different? Why didn't I see it?" Jerry West couldn't help but look at the huge building in front of him after hearing this, but still didn't find anything special. "Tang Qian" shook his head and said nothing more
While talking, the team walked into this "familiar yet unfamiliar" stadium.
Although it is the same Madison Square Garden as in 2013, it is obvious that it has been renovated later, and now it still has the "uniformly" 1970s decoration style.
"Damn, Wilt, you know, I hate it here! I hate the fans here! I hate the spotlight here! I hate the Nets here! I even hate the air here! This is me besides the Boston Garden Arena
, the most hated NBA home court!” Jerry West seems to still be brooding about what happened two years ago, because as a person who has made it to the finals seven times and has empty hands, this kind of resentment is far beyond that of ordinary players.
This year will be his eighth trip to the finals in his career.
If he loses again, Jerry West will immediately choose to take off his clothes and retire.
"Don't worry, Jerry, we will definitely win this series." "Tang Qian" said while warming up.
"Well, if I can do it, it means I haven't worn the Los Angeles jersey for more than ten years in vain." Jerry West said.
In fact, don’t look at the Lakers’ glory in the 1960s, reaching the NBA Finals 7 times, and they were unparalleled in the limelight. But those who truly understand that period of history know that that period was actually the most “painful” time for Los Angeles people.
.Why do you say that? Because they are the real "number one losers" and "golden sparring partners." The glory of the Lakers seems to have stayed in Minneapolis. Since moving to Los Angeles, Angel City, they have entered the finals frequently.
But he never got his hands on even one NBA championship ring.
This is the pain of Los Angeles people.
Even some New York media people directly claimed on TV and newspapers that Los Angeles would never be lucky enough to win the championship and that they were destined to be second best in the millennium.
All this made the Lakers and Los Angeles people angry and angry, but at the same time, they were helpless.
After all, basketball is a competitive sport, and it all depends on performance. If you can't get an NBA championship ring, then you can't refute or turn around. Therefore, the burden and pressure on Jerry West has reached this year.
reached the peak.
Why did he perform so poorly in this playoffs? The overwhelming external pressure has brought him to the brink of collapse. If he loses this series again and becomes the "overall runner-up", his 188cm body will
Completely crushed, without any delay.
Since the league has "revised the rules", it is impossible for "Tang Qian" to score alley-oops frequently anymore. He only did two or three in the last game, but the referees focused on "taking care" of them and frequently blew them away.
He scored a goal. Tonight's home game moves to New York, and I'm afraid the restrictions on his "alley-oop" will be stricter and more demanding.
"Tang Qian" sometimes really wants to punch this stupid "Second Generation Chairman" to death, but now is not the time to be angry and angry. The "hidden rules" have been set, and if you want to change them, you have to do this.
After the series, within these 7 games, it is undoubtedly a fantasy for the "league office" to go back on its word.
No wonder J. Walter Kennedy was so unpopular in history. It’s strange that he can be “popular” because he’s such a ****.
At the beginning of the game, the Knicks took the lead. They made all 4 shots and 2 free throws at the beginning, scoring 10 points. And what about the Lakers? I didn’t expect that the Knicks would attack so fiercely and have such strong firepower.
It was a big loss. After seeing this situation, Lakers head coach Bill Sharman immediately made a tactical gesture on the sidelines, and this new tactical gesture caused the Lakers players to immediately start walking around.
"Jerry West of the Lakers was controlling the ball from a long distance, and Wilt Chamberlain left the paint and set up a single pick-and-roll. With the help of the pick-and-roll, West immediately moved and rushed towards the Knicks' paint.
. But we had expected this move. Jerry quickly followed up and completed the defense switch with Walter. In front of West, Walter was missing, but there was a taller and heavier Lucas. Now Los Angeles
People are trapped in a cocoon." But before the Knicks' on-site commentator finished speaking, the Knicks' basket was violently looted, and "Tang Qian" was hanging high in Madison Square before I knew it.
On top of a garden basket.
"Nice pass~Jerry~" "Tang Qian" said after landing.
West is indeed a "legendary star". His basketball IQ is extremely outstanding. He quickly mastered the high-post pick-and-roll inside and outside. Although it is not "operating as expected", after all, he is "learning now and selling now". He can
To reach this level, it is already quite strong. After all, it was the first time for the opposing team to face this kind of "high pick-and-roll and inside tactics", so they did extremely poorly in many places.
This scene made Knicks head coach Reid Holzman frown a little, because after the "pick-and-roll alley-oop" and the "high pick-and-roll", the Lakers actually had a brand new offensive tactic. This one
Is Bill Sharman really so smart? I have never seen the Lakers use him in the regular season. Could it be...
Didn’t you just come up with it???
Reed Holzman was startled as soon as this idea came up. Everyone knows that developing and researching new tactics is an extremely time-consuming and mental task. Otherwise, if the immature tactics are directly put on the table, then
99% of them are looking for boredom and humiliation. In the history of the NBA, there have been such "whimsical" people, but as a result, they all ended badly.
Could it be that... this "newcomer" in his early forties is really a "tactical genius that comes only once in a century"?
No, it’s impossible! Don’t scare yourself before you get the exact answer!
After calming down his emotions slightly, Reed Holzman began to observe carefully and search for a solution.
As long as it is a tactic, there must be a way to deal with it.
However, what really drove Reid Holzman crazy was just beginning. When he finally figured out the method of "high pick-and-roll and inside" and was about to formulate cracking tactics, the Lakers came up with a new strategy.
Something comes out.
"High pick-and-roll" is mainly used by No. 52 of the Lakers, Happy Hairston, because compared to "Tang Qian" who has no mid-to-long-range shooting ability at all, he still has a certain mid-to-long-range jump shooting ability. Although
It was just as bad when someone was guarding it, but it was still somewhat accurate when it came to open shots. This gave the Knicks the opportunity to be caught off guard.
Swish, brush, brush~
And tonight, his mid-range touch was very good. After "high pick-and-roll" with Jerry West, three mid- and long-range shots were accurately hit into the New York basket. In this way, the Knicks' original
The contraction strategy has been changed. Someone must be saved at any time to prevent the Lakers' No. 52 from taking an open shot after the pick-and-roll.
But when you did this, Happy Hairston stopped shooting, moved one hand with one hand, and passed the basketball in his hand again.
Brush~Jerry West scored a field goal.
Brush~Gail Goodrich made a shot.
Swipe ~ "Tang Qian" cuts through the open space and slides the basket to score.
All of a sudden, No. 52 of the Lakers, who was originally not good at assisting and passing, successfully scored 3 personal assists.
In this game, "Inner Demon" only weakened Tang Qian's competitive state by 10%, so he can still perform well if he works a little harder.
After all, his opponent Jerry Lucas is much shorter than him. As long as he uses his athletic ability to attack him, he will have difficulty defending.
Jerry Lucas is a typical white inside man, and the training and medical conditions in that era were relatively backward. As soon as he passed the age of 30, he also entered a rapid downward trajectory. In fact, this season, it was Jerry Lucas.
It's his last peak season. After he turns 33 next year, he will become an ordinary player. Whether it is points or rebounds, they will become "poor" single digits. This is for someone who can average 20+20 per game in his peak period.
For a "man of God", this is undoubtedly a big cliff-like landslide.
However, this season, he can still average personal data of close to 17+13+4 per game, and his shooting percentage has risen to more than 50%. As an inside player who mainly focuses on shooting, this shooting percentage is already quite superb.
Furthermore, Tang Qian felt a little unsure when competing with him for rebounds. Why? Because he has a "special function", that is, he has a super memory and can easily remember everyone's shooting movements and shooting habits.
The placement of the shot. Yes, you read that right, it’s everything to everyone.
It may sound exaggerated and nonsensical to you, but as a short post with a height of only 2.03cm and a white post, he has been able to average 20+20 points per game in his career many times, ranking second in the rebounding list for many seasons.
How could it be possible if the "two great beasts" Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell didn't have two brushes? And his "help" is his "superhuman memory". Tell me a true history, you
You will understand that he is definitely not bragging.
During a live television broadcast in the 1870s, he actually casually recited all the phone numbers on the first 500 pages of the Yellow Pages in Manhattan. Yes, all of them, and there was not a single one wrong, not a single one omitted, and it was still live. This
This ability can probably be regarded as a "gold finger" level, almost equivalent to the "photographic memory" in ancient China.
So when he said that he can remember the playing habits of every league player, that may be true.
Otherwise, it is really inexplicable that a person who doesn’t run very fast, jumps very high, and has an average wingspan and height can actually average rebounds per game for many seasons, second only to Wilt Chamberlain and Wilt Chamberlain.
Bill Russell said that he didn't have any "plug-in" assistance, but I'm afraid no one believed it.
Therefore, Tang Qian felt great pressure as he competed with him for rebounds. This was the first time since Dennis Rodman that such a short insider could compete with him, and even faintly overpower his own Jerry.
Lucas' "memory rebounder" is indeed extraordinary, far beyond ordinary people's imagination.
If this were the first two games, after Tang Qian was held back by him, the Lakers would probably repeat the same mistakes as the "first eight games" and suffer a complete defeat.
But it's different now. Ever since Bill Sharman started implementing the "high pick-and-roll tactic" in the Lakers team, the offensive pressure on Tang Qian has suddenly become much less. And he can do many things that he couldn't do on his own.
It has been successfully used in the team. For example, the "high pick-and-roll" done by Happy Hairston and West is a typical example. If it is replaced by Tang Qian, it will not work properly at all, because he does not have any
long-distance strike capability.
As a result, there will be fewer changes in the "high pick-and-roll tactics" and it will be easy to be targeted and defended.
But at this moment, the Knicks are the team that is really going crazy.
The Lakers' "high pick-and-roll tactics" have endless changes. No matter how they formulate defensive strategies, they will be stunned by the "new tactics" they have never seen before, and their heads will turn away. At this time, the "core" of the Knicks
"Bones" Reid Holzman was also a little overwhelmed. Although he has strong coaching ability, he is also a future Hall of Fame head coach. But facing a "new tactical system" that he has never seen before,
He could only be in a daze, unable to keep up with the Lakers' offensive rhythm.
Because "tactical system" is not as good as "tactics", the latter is often single and fixed, with limited variability and flexibility. It is easier to be targeted and come up with restraint methods. But the former is different, as long as it involves "system"
After the word ", it becomes an almost "omnipotent" thing. Compared with the latter, it is unfixed, changeable and unpredictable. If you go to the left, I will go to the right. If you go ahead, I will go to the right.
Just go around to the back. Anyway, if you want to restrain yourself from death, it is more than ten times more difficult than the latter?
Therefore, even if the Lakers' "tactical system" was just "crammed", it has transcended this era too much. Without a systematic multi-person study and long-term study, there is no way to find its problems.
And Loophole. Reed Holzman is strong enough. "Zen Master" Phil Jackson even called him "Teacher" in public. Some of his tactical concepts and tactical views will even be regarded as "Zen Master" in the future.
It was incorporated into the "triangle offense".
But facing a "new tactical system", he was still a little dumbfounded.
If he takes out individual tactics, he can think of a way to deal with them in a short time, but a complete tactical system, let alone him, even "Zen Master" Jackson, Popovich, and "Cardinal" Auerbach
, together, it is impossible to find countermeasures in just a few games.
Because the entire future tactical system is moved here, this is originally a huge BUG and a huge plug-in.
The development of basketball in the past few decades is not in vain. The wisdom of countless people and countless games is of course close to perfection and close to perfection. At least from the perspective of the tactical system, it is like this, very complete, and
All linked together, no big mistakes or fatal loopholes
Therefore, throughout the entire game, the Knicks were in a state of "confusion." Except for the opening moment, there was not even a minute left for them to take the initiative. As a result, the score fell by a big margin.
Failure becomes a matter of course.
In the third game, the Lakers defeated the New York Knicks at home 115-95 on the road with 20 points, rewriting the series score to 2:1. Jerry West had 17 assists in a single game.
Was elected the best player tonight.
In the end, the Knicks left Madison Square Garden with their heads down and depression.
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