George Karl, a very powerful head coach, when he first came to the Nuggets, he grasped the Nuggets' greatest strength - cutting!

Although Kenyon Martin is on the short side among power forwards, he has a solid body and moves quickly. Camby is even better at pick-and-rolls and can create a lot of air-cutting opportunities for his teammates. At the same time, both of them are also players with strong physical fitness and air-cutting ability.

Extremely strong. When Andre Miller is playing in the back, both of them can pull out, pick and roll without the ball, or run inside. Rasheed Wallace and Kwame Brown have to keep up.

, these two people are very powerful when they rush into each other.

Moreover, the most important point is Andre Miller's back play!

This guy has great physical strength. He is worthy of being a physical monster who can score 52 points with unlimited back-up play at the age of 34. He just kept sticking his butt out and was beaten 20 times in the first half of the game!

18 points and 6 assists in the half, Anthony scored 11 points in the half, Kenyon Martin scored 9 points in the half, plus Nene who came off the bench scored 6 points and DeMar Johnson scored 5 points, plus Camby's 4

points, the Nuggets scored 53 points at halftime!

For the Hawks, Liu Mang scored 10 points and 6 assists at halftime, McGrady scored 12 points and 4 assists, Jason Terry scored 6 points, and Calderon and Rasheed Wallace each made a shot.

The three-pointers and outside shooting scores were pretty good, but the key to clinching the score were three physically fit men!

Iguodala came up and scored 4 points, Kwame Brown scored 10 points, and Josh Smith scored 5 points. The three of them were double-teamed when Liu Mang held the ball, and McGrady's long-range shot was increasingly blocked.

In the case of continuous air cuts, the score is scored.

Just as Liu Mang expected, the rotation defense brought about by the Nuggets' superior physical fitness can easily lock down the perimeter, but role players are much easier to score, especially those with bodies like Kwame Brown and Josh Smith.

A quality man, when Liu Mang and Tracy McGrady deliberately attacked in high positions and above to bring out the opponent's pressing defense, the three of them made continuous air cuts to help score at the basket when the outside line could not open up the situation.

After halftime, the two teams were tied at 53!

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"I will never listen to "Cloudy" again!" Liu Mang took a cup of Gatorade in one hand and asked Iguodala to take two cups of Gatorade, swearing as he walked to the player tunnel.

Andre Miller's post-up play is too unsolvable!

There are only a handful of point guards who have the post-playing skills of Andre Miller, and it's probably hard to find another one with his thick, floor-flowing body.

After Liu Mang returned to the locker room, he was thinking about how to solve the problem of Andre Miller playing in the back.

Neither Iguodala nor Korver can guard against Andre Miller's post-up play. McGrady and McGrady use pick-and-rolls to guard him. Prince has to guard Anthony. Anthony has no blind spots in his shooting, which is also a tricky thing.

The key to the defensive goal is that this is the early stage of the season, and the Nuggets are still looking for confidence in their young lineup. They do not skimp on physical fitness, just to win one game against the defending champion and gain confidence.

And their weakest shooting guard, there are so many shooters. Not to mention Bagner, the famous role player pitcher, even DeMar Johnson, has now practiced 35% of three-pointers.

Hitting percentage, this was the No. 6 pick selected by the Hawks themselves in 2000. The fact that the Hawks were blind to be the No. 6 pick was not because he had talent. It’s just that the No. 6 pick’s rookie contract was worth $10 million over four years. He took it.

With so much money and a weak will, the chance of losing money is very high.

No, after the rookie contract was over, no team wanted him. After practicing three-point shooting, he received another year's basic salary. The basic salary of NBA players is far more than ten or twenty times the salary of the middle class in the United States.

With a strong lineup and a desperate desire to win, it is difficult to guard the Nuggets.

The most critical thing is that there is one missing connection point for internal and external defense!

In the past, with Raheem around, there was no need to worry about this aspect. McGrady couldn't match Raheem in single defense on the outside, but McGrady couldn't match the connection between inside and outside defense.

This is really a headache!

And the inside attack cannot be opened!

It seems that the Hawks scored as many as 23 points inside in the first half of this game, but almost all of them were on cuts, that is, there were almost no singles points inside, and there were very few breakthrough layups.

Kenyon Martin and Camby's interior defense is too strong!

Kwame Brown has no inside singles, and Rasheed Wallace has almost no inside singles ability now.

Unlike Raheem who occasionally played in singles last season, Rasheed Wallace almost completely gave up on singles, and his head coaching also focused on open shots, catch-and-ball layups or dunks, and the rapid deterioration of post-ups and face-ups in the paint.

, it’s not that I don’t want to use it, it’s that I can’t use it anymore.

Normally, the basket should be open and then drive the outside attack. However, Liu Mang had to open up the outside and drive the inside attack. This is no longer a regular style of play.

The most important thing is the rhythm!

The Eagles have always been one of the teams best at controlling the rhythm, but this time, the Nuggets have led them into a very weird rhythm!

It seems that the Nuggets are running so fast and seem to be playing with speed. In this case, the Hawks are not afraid at all.

But in fact, George Karl is using speed as a cover. They do speed up when defending, but they are constantly suppressing the rhythm on the offensive end, because every time Andre Miller plays from behind to organize an offense, almost

They all used up the attack time to close to 20 seconds. The half-court advance was pressing for time. When they ran to the low post, the 24-second attack time had already passed by 14 or 5 seconds. Then during the five-second back-up time, they either shot.

Or wait for teammates to have a chance to pass the ball.

That is, Andre Miller held the ball for more than 6 minutes in half the game! The ball holding rate was as high as 50%!

A player with a high ball possession rate is usually not a good thing for a team, but nothing is absolute. When a player like Andre Miller

Liu Mang has calmed down now and has an impression of this style of play! This is the Nuggets' ultimate move to reach the Western Conference Finals in the 2008-09 season!

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! At that time, Billups and Anthony, who were already 33 years old and past their prime, took turns to support the offense in the low post. On the defensive end, they relied on the physical fitness of the team to suppress the regular season.

Second, reaching the Western Conference Finals in the playoffs.

Liu Mang thought about it carefully, what did the Lakers rely on to eliminate the Nuggets in the Western Conference Finals?

Kobe's mid-range shot? This must be the main reason. Liu Mang remembers that in the Western Conference Finals, Kobe averaged almost 35 points per game and had a field goal percentage of 489 points. The offensive end must rely on Kobe's scoring and Gasol and Odo.

Mu’s support...

Odom?

Liu Mang remembered that Odom and Ariza formed a super powerful combination of unlimited inside and outside attacks that year! Together with Gasol's defense at the basket, the Nuggets won by team defense! It seems that that year

The two teams scored very high, but the key to the victory lies in the assist defense of Ariza and Odom and the internal and external single defense of Kobe and Gasol!

Where is Ariza!

Liu Mang stood up suddenly and looked around...I remembered that Ariza was playing in the major leagues...

Moreover, there is no such a physical guy like Odom who can guard even point guards seriously...

Wait, Liu Mang looked at Iguodala, who was holding Gatorade helplessly, and Josh Smith, who had just returned from using the toilet and didn't know if he had washed his hands...

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Coach Kruger and Mike Woodson have a headache, the Nuggets are conspiring!

It is clear that the offensive end wastes time and the defensive end presses the defense to affect the rhythm of the Eagles. The Eagles still have to play with the rhythm. The offensive end wastes time and the steady Andre Miller controls the ball. It is difficult.

Find a way to solve this problem.

The most important thing is that Andre Miller's low post singles are too stable!

It is not difficult to guard outside players in the low post. This is not something that has happened in the past few years. It has been like this almost forever, because there are too few players who are good at low post.

If you defend the outside line very well, the investment and return will not be directly proportional, and most of the time, there will even be no return at all.

Mike Woodson can only try his best to prevent other people's air cuts and off-ball pick-and-rolls, but if he can prevent it so easily, Anthony will not be able to compete with Billups in his peak post-up period.

By then the Nuggets could reach the Western Conference Finals.

What coach Kruger can do is to use the outside singles cooperation of Liu Mang, McGrady and Jason Terry when two of the three are there, and do a better job in creating opportunities for the inside.

Just when the two of them had a headache, they saw a figure approaching.

Coach Kruger held the tactical board tightly, and an unknown premonition came...

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The intermission was about to end, and the players from both teams returned to the sidelines. Iguodala excitedly handed the four Gatorade cups in his hand to the staff, without even bothering to wonder how Liu Mang could drink so well.

This electrolyte drink and two brioche buns I just ate.

Agent Jeff Schwartz told Iguodala that he must work hard to show his shining points every time he plays, so that the coaching staff and the company's boss Liu Mang can see that although Iguodala himself is not

Liu Mang knew when his shining point was found, but now, he has more opportunities to play! As long as he does what the boss said!

At this moment, Iguodala felt that Liu Mang, who was holding the tactical board just now, was so handsome!

Also very excited is Josh Smith, who is exercising and may be running non-stop in a while!

Watching the lineup of Liu Mang, Tracy McGrady, Iguodala, Josh Smith, and Rasheed Wallace, Coach Kruger was unsure about Mike Woodson, who had just perfected a certain hooligan's defensive strategy.

Asked: "Mike, is this okay?"

"Probably... I think it would be more interesting to replace Rasheed and use Josh and Tyshawn to partner in the paint."

Looking at Mike Woodson, who is becoming more and more obsessed with weird tactics, Coach Kruger feels that he is out of tune with this team...

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Chapter completed!