When the Bulls attacked and saw the players' defensive positions, all the fans watching the live broadcast were surprised.
Zhang Lili said curiously: "Huh? Yang Jian didn't play against Jordan at the beginning. He was responsible for defending Harper, and Payton defended Jordan. Yang Jian started to press at halftime."
Sun Zhengping said: "The SuperSonics' tactics...are offense-oriented?"
Zhang Lili said with a smile: "It makes sense for Payton to defend Jordan. He is the best defensive player this season. It is easy for Yang Jian to defend Harper. He can put more energy on the offensive end."
Ron Harper was stunned when he saw Yang Jian coming up to press him, and almost made a mistake in bringing the ball back to the court.
Harper is a shooting guard who is 198cm tall and plays a guest role as a point guard. He is not very flexible. He felt fine against Payton, but he was tightly entangled against Yang Jian and could not get out of the way.
Yang Jian's confrontation ability is stronger and he can block Harper. It is impossible for the referee to call the star a pressing foul right after the game. Harper protected the ball with difficulty, let alone organizing, and it was difficult to bring it to the three-point line. He passed it to
Pippen responded.
Pippen brought it to the left and passed it to Jordan, who was fiercely stuck with Payton. Jordan took the ball in the low post on the left, took a step outside, turned around and shot a fadeaway jumper. His shooting action was very beautiful, but under the interference of Payton
Missing the basket, Yang Jian retreated and grabbed the rebound on the right side of the penalty area.
Before the game started, the SuperSonics coaching staff had already formulated a complete offensive and defensive strategy. Today, Yang Jian did not fast break, and the Sonics and the Bulls fought for position. When defending Harper, Yang Jian shrank to the penalty area at any time to help his teammates protect backcourt rebounds.
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George Karl arranged this to limit Dennis Rodman's ability to rebound. Everyone knows how good Rodman is at rebounding. He has good awareness and is very active.
If Kemp and PJ Brown can't protect the backcourt rebounds, what about Yang Jian?
This is not to help Yang Jian brush up statistics, but he is the most suitable for this job. If the Bulls' outside point guard is Steve Kerr, Yang Jian cannot shrink to the area near the penalty area and has to defend three-point shots from the outside.
Harper can only occasionally hit mid-range shots, and basically does not rely on his three-pointers. He averaged 1.3 shots per game in the regular season, hit 0.4 goals, and hit 26.9%. Yang Jian can defend a person like this, and it will be fine even if he is two meters away.
In the SuperSonics position battle, Payton dribbled the ball across half court and passed it to Schrempf to set up in the high post. Payton also moved around to look for opportunities to catch the ball and shoot, and the person who was mainly guarding him was Harper.
The Sonics' offensive routine is also targeted, in order to make it difficult for the Bulls' wing players to help defend. In addition, Longley is slow and is not good at helping to defend pick-and-rolls. If the two defenders move together, there will always be someone who can easily get a chance.
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When Schrempf is organizing, he can attract Pippen to his side. In this way, the Bulls' best defender on the wing will not be able to move to other positions to defend.
Yang Jian attracted Jordan's defense on the right baseline. Payton ran up the line under the ball-free cover of P.J. Brown in the low post on the left. He caught the ball and shot a quick mid-range shot. His opportunity came up, but Longley didn't guard it. Haha
Po interfered and was a step too late, but unfortunately the ball didn't go in.
The Bulls attacked and the players gathered near the penalty area.
When Toni Kukoc didn't play, the Bulls only had Jordan and Pippen who were good at shooting. Kemp let Rodman stay two meters away and didn't care about him at all. He was near the penalty area, preparing to double-team breakthrough players and fight for rebounds.
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Rodman has only been selected to two All-Star games in his entire career, because his offense was so bad. He averaged 20 points per game in college and relied on his body to bully people younger than him, but he won't be able to do that in the NBA.
Rodman only scored in two ways, fast break layup and second attack. This is already the minimum standard for a player.
Many people don't believe it, but the Bulls actually rely more on defense to win. When they attack, they have a lot of possession of the ball, mainly star players playing in isolation, and a group of blue-collar role players are very defensive.
Jordan caught the ball and hit Payton with his back, and was double-teamed by Kemp. He passed the ball. Pippen failed to break through Schrempf's defense, and took two steps and passed it to Lu Lu in the low post on the right.
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Langley, who is 218cm tall and weighs 120 kilograms, relied on his body advantage to take advantage of PJ Brown and turned around to shoot from the baseline. He avoided PJ Brown's block, but his shot was a little far away from the basket, and the ball bounced out of the frame.
Pippen grabbed the offensive rebound, and the second attack resulted in Schrempf's foul.
Zhang Lili lamented: "The SuperSonics players defended well in the opening game, and Schrempf's foul was timely, but he didn't catch Pippen and let him make an air cut."
Sun Zhengping said: "The Bulls players are very active in grabbing offensive rebounds. Pippen's confrontation with Schrempf is a strong point of the Bulls. The SuperSonics mainly have to guard Jordan and Pippen."
Pippen made two free throws, opening up the situation for the team. 2 to 2.
During the SuperSonics offense, Yang Jian once again led Jordan to run without the ball. Relying on PJ Brown's screen, he received Schrempf's pass from the center at 60 degrees outside the left three-point line.
This time, Longley didn't help on defense. Pippen was also not easy to help on defense. If he left, Schrempf would definitely cut from the center.
Yang Jian caught the ball and shot a three-point jumper. Jordan was slow to catch up with the interference, but the ball bounced out of the frame and Rodman grabbed the rebound.
How to maintain a normal mind in important games is a problem that all NBA players need to solve. After participating in the game, Yang Jian truly understood why players who have played super statistics in the finals are called superstars.
Because players entering the finals for the first time will definitely be very excited and it will affect their performance.
Even the cheater Yang Jian is no exception. This is the highest stage in the NBA and the highest stage in the world of basketball. The gold content of a player winning the NBA championship is definitely greater than winning the Olympic men's basketball gold medal.
Yang Jian called up the system panel before the game and looked at the system evaluation to repeatedly confirm that he was a star with many trump cards. After the game started, he still couldn't calm down completely.
In a parallel world, there are very few stars who put up luxurious statistics and helped the team win in their first appearance in the finals. There are only a few people in the entire history of the NBA. These people have all received high praise and a good historical status.
The only exception is probably Dwyane Wade. He reached the finals in the third year of his career. As the core, he played terrible data and won the championship and FMVP. Later, I don’t know why, this guy had to enter the finals once and was beaten.
The players formed a team to play brother basketball, and even volunteered to be others' younger brothers, and they have since become pseudo-tycoons.
It is the first time for the Sonics players to play in the finals, which is indeed the Sonics' biggest weakness. They may get better and better as they play, but they don't have time to adapt.
The Bulls attacked, the players pulled away, and Pippen passed the ball to Jordan, who was in a position on the right. Jordan turned his back and took the ball with one hand to observe the movement of his teammates, and suddenly turned around and forced a breakthrough to the baseline.
Kemp came up at 45 degrees to help Payton double-team. Jordan made a feint and turned around to rely on Payton to break through. Kemp saw that it was difficult to help block the shot, so he and Jordan sandwiched Payton.
Jordan made a quick layup before P.J. Brown defended. 2 to 4.
Payton didn't cover Jordan and didn't foul. He defended very cleanly.
During the SuperSonics offense, Yang Jian made adjustments. He relied on his teammates to cover Longley's movement without the ball, and received the ball a little inside the left three-point line.
Langley still didn't come out to help defend, so Jordan hurriedly chased after him to avoid Yang Jian's jump shot. Yang Jian made a fake move, lowered his center of gravity and smacked the ball forward, taking long strides to change direction and pass Jordan.
Jordan braked suddenly and tried to move laterally, but it was too late to defend, and he did not reach out to foul. Yang Jian's center of gravity was very low, he took one step to pull the ball, entered the penalty area in two steps, jumped up, and pulled the lever in the air to avoid Longley's side block.
, scored with a right-hand basket. 4 to 4.
After scoring the goal, Yang Jian roared and celebrated while adding buffs to himself.
Langley had already committed a foul just now and was a little hesitant when making up the defense.
Langley blocked the shot from the side and did not block Yang Jian's forward route. As long as there was physical contact between the two, the referee would 100% call a defensive foul. He also had to defend the penalty area and couldn't just make two fouls and rest.
Zhang Lili shouted: "Beautiful, Yang Jian succeeded in breaking through against Jordan. He really dared to fight, and the same is true in the finals."
Sun Zhengping said: "His speed is the best in the league, and it is difficult for him to play against Jordan. The best way to guard against him is to keep close to him to prevent him from starting quickly, but no one can stick to him all the time."