chsdbacks Chapter 524 Blood and Fire
Chapter 524 Blood and Fire
Chapter 524 Blood and Fire
Chapter 524 Blood and Fire.
Ten seconds before halftime, because the offensive clock was about to run out, Van Horn pulled up a three-pointer.
For such a shot, his height is a great advantage. Hill also jumped up hard and gave super interference, making his three-pointer miss the basket.
Ben Wallace relies heavily on his opponent, neither letting the opponent get close to the rebound, nor grabbing the rebound himself.
It's the only Pistons game in the league where this happens.
The insiders voluntarily give up rebounds to add an indirect rebound to their technical statistics.
Mo Mengchen picked up the rebound, and Hill, who had just interfered with Van Horn, strode forward.
Passing the ball from the backcourt to the frontcourt, Hill completed a dunk, leaving only five seconds for the Magic.
64 is better than 51
Five seconds before halftime, Van Horn made another shot at the buzzer and missed.
So far, the halftime game is over, and the Pistons entered the second half with a 13-point lead.
Mo Mengchen scored 8 points, 8 rebounds and 11 assists in the halftime. His data is close to a triple-double. As long as the Magic is stronger, it will be no problem to get a triple-double after the game.
Reporters waited on the sidelines, and they had many questions they wanted to ask.
"The first game of the semi-final went so smoothly, is this within your plan?"
The sound at the scene was too noisy, and the reporter was afraid that Mo Mengchen could not hear clearly, and the voice of the question was very harsh.
Mo Mengchen's answer to him was: "We don't like smooth sailing, of course it's not in our plan."
It was difficult to get words out of Mo Mengchen's mouth during the game.
Mo Mengchen is not a media killer who doesn't give a chance to make a fuss at all. When necessary, he will say things that make people have to prick their ears to listen carefully.
Not including now.
During the competition, Mo Mengchen was always very focused.
He walked back to the player tunnel, and the fans near here cheered him, but he didn't respond, and walked in indifferently.
Hill was waiting for him at the old place.
At the end of each halftime, Mo Mengchen or Hill will accept on-site interviews, and the other person will wait in the player tunnel for the other party to finish the interview, and then go to the locker room to discuss the first half of the game.
In the halftime, Hill's data was not much worse than that of Penny, who concentrated most of the team's firepower.
便士半场得到21分4篮板5助攻，希尔今晚触球时间不长，大部分时间都充当着终结点，轻松地拿下22分6篮板2助攻。
In terms of the difficulty of scoring, Penny is undoubtedly greater than Devil's Mountain.
"However, we also accumulated a lot of inside fouls." Hill said.
This is not a surprise.
The difference between the Penny Law and Jordan's Law is that they can't be like the Pistons back then, when they saw Jordan rising and fouled him heavily.
Malicious fouls can only be replaced by ordinary fouls.
Moreover, the deterrent effect of malicious fouls is also converted into a depleting effect.
A large number of fouls were concentrated on Pence. In the first half alone, Pence was violated 12 times.
For that, the Pistons paid for three fouls by Ben Wallace, two by Rasheed, three by Ricky Davis and four by Jerome Williams.
The scary thing is that after so many fouls, the Pistons can still send Pollard, Miller, and Barkley to continue fouling.
And Penny's physical fitness is bound to not be able to suffer such frequent rough fouls.
"With this strength, if no one provides him with fire support, he won't be able to survive the third quarter." Mo Mengchen said decisively.
It was a proposal to use Jordan's rules to deal with Penny, and Westphal accepted it after simulating it in the team.
Because they have the capital to do so.
Although Penny is strong, he is still some distance away from the peak Jordan. Moreover, the Pistons' current inside reserves and overall defense are also stronger than that Pistons.
They went back to the locker room, where Westphal was focusing on defending Penny in the third quarter.
"AH, don't begrudge your foul, do it when you have to, remember, as long as the penny falls, we win."
It was rare for Westphal to be so ruthless.
In fact, he can try to hold something in his mouth like Marlon Brando, lower his voice, and hug a cat, so he looks more like the gangster godfather.
The only flaw is that Westphal is too kind and lacks the godfather's decisive killing spirit.
In the second half, Hardaway pushed forward with the ball and set up a high pick-and-roll for Van Horn. As soon as the two rolled, he rushed to the basket, his footsteps were too fast for people to keep up, and he flew to the basket to score.
53 is better than 64
As long as the penny doesn't collapse, the Magic can't lose.
Mo Mengchen dribbled the ball across the half, and Hill went to the line to get the ball.
Mo Mengchen handed over the ball and walked to the left corner, forming a V-shaped stance.
Rashid pretended to run to the high position, as if he was going to help Hill pick and roll, but before the pick and roll happened, he was like a pedestrian who saw the doomsday, and ran to the bottom corner in horror, which was where Mo Mengchen was.
Hill doesn't need a two-person pick-and-roll to break through. Wallace is in this block, and he explodes immediately.
With his first step, calling the pick-and-roll is not necessary, it is done to make the play run smoothly.
Devil Mountain made a breakthrough, Mo Mengchen swam to the left 45 degrees with Rashid's cover, Hill's attack was blocked and he passed the ball out.
Mo Mengchen received the ball outside the 45-degree three-point line on the left, raised the knife and hit a three-pointer.
67 is better than 53
"They have to play at least ten V-shaped offenses per game. The difficulty of this tactic is that Grant and Dor.Mo's vision is too outstanding. Once they attack in a stance, the opponent may be able to prevent their breakthrough. But it's hard to limit high screens and moves."
Moreover, not counting the time of dribbling the half-court, in this round, it took less than six seconds from Mo Mengchen's pass to Hill's breakthrough and scoring to complete the offense.
The tempo picked up.
Hardaway also wanted to take advantage of the chaos to grab points and play faster.
"Damn it, you can't fight like this!" Daly said impatiently.
Hardaway dribbles to the weak side, which is the position of a one-on-one player. Here you can see the overall situation. The all-round ball creator can judge the situation and score one-on-one. He can also disrupt the opponent's defense and assist others to score.
Penny's offense failed to start, and the Pistons' double-teaming happened just right.
Hill on the left, Houston on the right, one with a height of 201 cm and one with a height of 203 cm. Two flankers who are no less tall than Penny double-team at the same time, completely blocking his vision.
Mo Mengchen glanced at the Magic's position, ran ahead, and blocked the passing route.
It's a dead end game.
Penny can only pass the ball, and when passing the ball, he has a hunch that it will be difficult for the ball to enter the position he wants to pass.
His premonition was correct, Mo Mengchen was already waiting there, and when the ball came, he immediately stopped it.
"Father, me, me, me!"
Rasheed ran forward like a giant bear standing up.
Mo Mengchen stood still, grabbed the ball with his right hand and threw it into the air.
A layman will feel that he has great strength, and he passes this kind of ball with a seemingly ordinary movement.
Those in the know will be amazed at his grasp of the length and proportion. It seems that he passed it out casually, but in fact he has already taken Rashid's speed into account.
From the viewing point of view, there is nothing to choose.
Responding to one another, Rashid took the ball up front, ran to the basket, and bombed the basketball into the basket like a gorilla.
69 is better than 53
"Their defense is the bank!" Rasheed laughed.
The whole audience is cheering for him.
In fact, Rasheed doesn't like to hear cheers, he has a quirk, he likes to hear boos.
He's a big fan of the boos he gets when he's brilliant.
This probably explains why he likes to annoy away fans so much.
When those people booed him, they thought it was a way of expressing their displeasure, but for Rasheed, booing meant cheering.
The 16-point gap made the Magic choose to suspend. The Pistons have used a season to prove their offense.
Once they start, they must be interrupted immediately, otherwise the seemingly small point difference may be expanded to a desperate number in a short period of time.
Penny clenched his fists. He had done everything he could on the offensive end, but the game still went in the opposite direction.
The Pistons were too strong to chill him.
Only three years later, the gap between the two teams has become so great.
"Look up at me!" Daly yelled, "The difference of 16 points is definitely not the gap between us and them. Don't think that you tried your best. That's self-deceiving bullshit! Look up like a man and listen to me!"
Daly's eyes were bloodshot, and his face was livid: "I can't wait to play for you guys. You guys played so bloodlessly!"
"Give me a hard time, hit harder!" Daly didn't arrange any tactics.
Mo Mengchen and others walked to the field.
Looking at the blood-colored members of the Magic team, Mo Mengchen said to his teammates: "Have you ever seen a wild dog cornered?"
No one knows what the point of this question is.
Rashid replied: "Yes, very fierce."
"Yes, no matter what kind of character a wild dog is, as long as it is cornered and threatened, it will bite you back, and humans are even worse!" Mo Mengchen said loudly, "I don't have any opinions on our opponents, I just know Remember what happened three years ago."
"Now that the same opportunity is in front of us, we are stronger, so I was thinking," Mo Mengchen said, Hardaway had already dribbled in front of him, "why not sweep them?"
This sentence was also heard by Hardaway and the others.
The Magic, which was already prepared to fight the Pistons, was even more furious.
Sweep?
"You're dreaming!" Hardaway shouted.
From now on, the intensity of confrontation will be upgraded. The Magic intend to rely on high-intensity confrontation to change the situation on the court, but they obviously forget that the Pistons have experienced the blood and fire that a team should experience on the road to success in the past three years. .
They'll just play harder and harder than the Magic.
Penny speeded up and broke through Alan Houston, thinking he could attack, but Rasheed quickly denied and knocked him to the ground.
A violent foul stopped Penny.
Rashid raised his hand in a rare claim to the referee's call.
(End of this chapter)