Players from both teams played on time. Reggie Miller received warm applause and cheers from the home fans, while Yang Jian received the loudest boos.
Home fans hope that today Reggie Miller will lead the Pacers to end the Sonics' winning streak, rather than becoming a stepping stone for the super rookie to become famous.
During the warm-up, Yang Jian felt good and hit consecutive three-pointers; his opponent, Reggie Miller, also practiced three-pointers and was even more accurate. During the nationally broadcast game on ESPN, some viewers in front of the TV became excited just watching the warm-up. They had a premonition.
The stars will score big points today.
The starting players of both teams stood on the court.
The SuperSonics changed someone today, starting with Payton, Yang Jian, Schrempf, Kemp, and Sam Perkins.
George Karl started Perkins in order to address the shortcomings of Pacers center Rick Schmitz's slow movement and to maximize the space.
Rick Schmitz is a white high center who is 224cm tall and weighs 113kg. He is slow-footed. He is a typical European center with accurate shooting and solid basic skills such as positioning, post-up, hook and passing support. Yao Ming joined.
In the NBA, the draft template was this person.
Facing such a high center, it is definitely not easy for the Sonics' inside players to hit the basket directly. They pull out to cover and then cut through, making it easier for them to get shots.
Pacers starting lineup: Mark Jackson, Reggie Miller, Derek McKay, Dale Davis, Rick Schmitz.
As soon as he saw the starting lineups of both sides, commentator Aaron Miles raised questions. "Coach Larry Brown had a problem with his formation today, and he actually sent the Twin Towers to start again. Yang Yi met
The Twin Towers team just needs to show its strength, and two big men can't help defend."
Jack Carter smiled and said: "I think Larry Brown is strengthening the defense in the penalty area, so that the big man can better cover Reggie Miller. Brown has always been a coach who attaches great importance to defense in the penalty area, but I'm afraid he won't be able to defend Yang Jian like this.
Good results.”
Larry Brown is a stubborn old-school coach. He feels that using the twin towers is the right choice, so the assistant coach can't change his formation even if he gives a hundred reasons.
In the 1990s, the saying "those who get inside win the world" blinded many coaches. The old-school coaches' argument was that the closer to the basket, the easier it is to score. The emergence of one or two players who are good at shooting three-pointers will not change their minds.
In the 1993-94 season, Larry Brown had just taken over as the coach of the Pacers, and Reggie Miller's average three-point attempts per game dropped to 3.7, and his playing time dropped to 33.4 minutes. Larry Brown is so stubborn, every time Miller
If Miller takes a lot of shots from outside the three-point line, he will give Miller "lessons" and ask him to shoot more mid-range shots and less three-pointers.
Larry Brown's most impressive basketball philosophy is - "Play the ball the right way"!
So what is the correct way? His players must defend unrelentingly, and then work hard on breakthroughs and mid-range shots, and try to reduce "low-percentage" three-point shots. Outside shooting is not the correct way. Shooting towards the three-pointer is not the correct way.
Just take one small step inside the line and you're right.
So in the 1993-94 season, the Pacers averaged 6.1 three-pointers per game. Whoever dared to shoot three-pointers was making things difficult for Larry Brown. He would push players who shot consecutive three-pointers on the bench to "calm down."
"After a while, when will you realize your mistake and then go on stage.
Last season, the NBA's three-point line was shortened, and Reggie Miller took more outside shots. Because Larry Brown asked him to shoot more long two-pointers, he became three-pointers, which seemed to guarantee a guaranteed hit rate.
Brown allows players to take more long two-point shots. If he transforms the three-point champion into a mid-range shooter, he feels that he is saving a lost lamb. This kind of coach is not an exception in the NBA. Jeff Van Gundy of the Knicks and Utah Jazz
Teammate Jerry Sloan has this tendency.
A person like Yang Jian who likes to shoot one meter from the three-point line will definitely be a marginal player if he joins the Pacers. In the eyes of Larry Brown, this kind of player is a fighter among the garbage, like the enemy who killed his father.
exist.
Before the game started, Reggie Miller started BBing at Yang Jian.
In a parallel world, when Miller retired, his farewell message to Pacers fans was "A game without swear words and middle fingers sucks." His trash talk was either humorous and sarcastic, or a series of curse words in the style of black people swearing.
But Yang Jian is Chinese. When Chinese people hear black people swearing, it feels like watching a Samuel L. Jackson movie. Even if you curse Fuck a hundred times in a game, your mouth will be dry and your tongue will be dry. To the Chinese,
How much psychological damage can it cause?
Isn't this just practicing English listening? And compared with the profound and profound Chinese, Americans' curse words are too poor. Reggie Miller doesn't dare to curse racial discrimination. If anyone touches this bottom line, things will easily get into trouble, nba
Absolutely zero tolerance.
As Miller was scolding, Yang Jian suddenly smiled, with a bright and sunny smile, more innocent than Michael Jackson's smile.
Reggie Miller was stunned. It was the first time he saw someone who could still laugh after being insulted by him.
Are you shaking? I scolded you so unpleasantly, but you still laugh. Are you a normal person?
No, he's Chinese... Could it be that his English isn't good enough and he can't understand what I'm saying? Damn it, aren't I doing useless work? The clown is actually me.
Yang Jian laughed because he heard the system prompt tone.
"The host witnessed history. Star player Reggie Miller trash-talked before the start of an NBA game and received 1 attribute point. One of Miller's talents was randomly selected - Big Heart!"
Yang Jian quickly called up the system page, increased his mental attributes to 28, and glanced at the new skill introduction.
"Big Heart": "In the parallel world, Reggie Miller has played a total of 19 game-winners and near-winners in his career. He has a big heart, and the number of key shots he has made cannot be measured by the number of times! The host has obtained this talent,
It can slightly improve the hit rate of key shots.”
It’s not the 115 buzzer beaters made up by someone on the Chinese Internet who wanted to identify him as a bad guy, but Miller did hit a lot of key shots.
Among Reggie Miller's 19 buzzer-beaters, there were 4 in the playoffs and 2 buzzer-beaters. Looking at the scoring method, he had 5 three-point buzzers, 5 mid-range buzzers, and 9 free throws.
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No matter how Reggie Miller plays or what his personality is, his eight points in a row in 8.9 seconds is truly classic and can be called a miracle. This happened last season, when Miller led the Pacers to eliminate the Knicks 4-3 and advance to the division.
In the finals, they were unfortunately eliminated after a tiebreaker with the Magic.
Everyone has heard of the "Miller moment," and this was his performance in the playoffs. This is not comparable to someone who scored consecutive comebacks at the end of the regular season and has been praised by fans for a lifetime.
After Yang Jian obtained this "big heart" talent, his attributes also changed.
His shooting accuracy attribute suddenly improved by 5 points, and the overall evaluation given by the system also changed.
"80 points a, a first-class NBA star, you can take on heavy responsibilities and make key shots at critical moments in the game."
Being able to handle key goals and score key goals in a one-on-one manner is the hallmark ability of a superstar. So this kind of critical moment has another name, and that is superstar moment! Yang Jian's key goal ability has slightly improved, and his evaluation has been greatly improved.
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This innate skill does not require him to do anything to add buffs, and it can be called a magical skill. Whether the key ball is accurate mainly depends on the player's psychological quality. With this skill, Yang Jian will definitely be more daring to take action than his teammates at the last moment.
He was only rated as an ordinary star before because his playing skills depended on his body and his skills were average. Moreover, he had never proven his ability in key balls. Now he has a big heart and can be used when he is anxious.
However, the SuperSonics were defeated by most teams, and there seemed to be not many key shots to be made. The NBA official's general definition of a key moment is that the score difference between the two teams is within 5 points in the last 5 minutes of the game.
Yang Jian put away the system page and looked at Reggie Miller. He felt that this man was handsome and not annoying at all. He got so many benefits from listening to Miller say some dirty words, and Yang Jian was willing to call him "Fuck Man".
Yang Jian would not explain to Reggie Miller why he was laughing. Schmitz won the jump ball and the game began.
