Chapter 1279 Slow

Relying on slowing down to establish a defensive position, compressing the number of offensive possessions for both sides, is an important part of Larry Brown's defensive philosophy.

However, similar to the Knicks and Wizards before...

When the Raptors used full-court defense to help the 76ers speed up, even if Snow's playing style was stable, no matter how much he listened to Brown, he had to speed up his dribbling to get through the half-court.

Otherwise, once the Raptors' frontcourt double-team formed, Snow didn't have the confidence to bring the ball across the half-court as easily as Iverson.

On the court, the 76ers attacked, and in the case of a hasty bailout, Iverson obviously penetrated too deep.

And the most deadly thing was that Willis and Ratliff were also blocked by the rotating Raptors' forwards, unable to support Ai, who was deep in enemy territory.

So, after thinking for only 0.1 seconds, Iverson gave his answer.

He first stopped his pace with agility, then suddenly accelerated and twisted, performing a deceptive turnaround layup.

It must be said that the Four Guardians all have their own unique skills in snatching shots.

It's a pity...

Iverson's layup was beautiful, but as Coach Sun said, Su Feng knew Iverson too well...

Whether it was Iverson's playing habits or his offensive thinking, as long as this Ai raised his hand, Su Feng could easily guess what he wanted to do next.

Pa————!

In front of the TV, when Su Feng blocked Iverson's layup, the 76ers fans, who had just cried once, couldn't stop their tears again.

Although before, many Philadelphia fans felt that Su Feng's trade was not a loss for the 76ers.

However, as they relived Su Feng's meteor dunk through the TV lens, and his ubiquitous figure on the defensive end, how could the 76ers fans not be moved to tears?

It is said that only when you lose something do you know how to cherish it.

For Philadelphia fans who had tasted the sweetness of Su Feng, this game, after only watching a few possessions, made them feel as uncomfortable as if they had just eaten a kilogram of lemons.

"Are you okay?"

After blocking Iverson's basketball dream, Su Feng smiled and pulled Iverson, who had fallen on the floor, up.

Originally, Iverson wanted to give Su Feng an elbow to the kidneys, but after seeing Su Feng's jersey clearly, he silently retracted his elbow, pulled his headband, and walked aside with his head down.

On the court, the game continued.

After the 76ers inbounded the ball from the baseline, the experienced Willis broke the deadlock for the 76ers with a high post jump shot.

2 to 6.

However, just as Brown felt a slight relief, the 76ers' defense had problems again...

This time, Su Feng cut through the air from the wing.

Jordan, holding the ball with one hand at the high post, feigned a pass to McGrady, but in reality, he was assisting Su Feng.

Before the start of this game, Jordan, determined to make Su Feng happy, didn't mind being a "green leaf" for Su Feng once.

On the court, after receiving Jordan's pass, Su Feng calmly squeezed past Ratliff and scored.

2 to 8.

Ratliff, who had been elbowed by Su Feng, felt that Su Feng's strength seemed to be even stronger than last season...

To be fair, Larry Brown didn't underestimate the 76ers' interior defense.

Because under normal circumstances, the interior composed of Ratliff and Willis can indeed limit the penetration of most perimeter players.

However, Brown forgot that young players like Su Feng...

You can never judge his strength based on last season's standards.

In his previous life, Brown, who didn't like to use rookies, always thought that developing rookies was a very uneconomical thing.

However, he forgot that these rookies may not have a very high floor for the time being, but their ceiling is not something that veterans can compare to.

Undoubtedly, in this shortened season, with the blessing of form and stamina, he, Su Feng, can definitely rank in the top five among the current NBA perimeter players.

"The 76ers' offense is very rigid in this game." On the Great Celestial Dynasty TV, Coach Zhang said after Ratliff failed to post up against Big Ben.

"Even Ratliff's post up against Wallace can be used, Larry Brown's offensive tactics are really hard to describe," Coach Sun echoed.

Huh!?

'Wow, you're on fire today, Old Sun.'

After giving Sun Zhengping a gratified look, Coach Zhang continued, "Let's take a look, Jordan passed the ball to Su Feng again."

Coach Sun, who received Coach Zhang's encouraging gaze, smiled and said, "It seems that Michael Jordan himself is also very clear who has the final say on this current Raptors team."

Zhang Weiping: "......"

Sure enough, you can never expect Coach Sun to provide normal commentary for more than two possessions.

On the court, after the Raptors continuously attacked Iverson's side several times, Snow and Christie on the 76ers' side finally figured it out and began to desperately help Iverson.

But...

Who said that the Raptors' mismatches against the 76ers tonight can only be formed by bullying Iverson?

At the high post, watching Su Feng, who was holding the ball with one hand and showing off in front of him, the veteran Willis's head had been made bigger by Su Feng.

Willis, who is over 210 centimeters tall with shoes on, is already 36 years old even if he maintains his form well.

How can he, who is a Curry plus an Embiid older than Su Feng, stop Su Feng's unparalleled skills?

There is no doubt that Su Feng, whose dribbling ability is as high as 75 now, is the Raptors' golden flash!

On the wing, after Su Feng passed Willis in one step, he rushed into the restricted area, facing Ratliff, and executed an domineering Emperor's Three-Step Layup.

Clean, concise, and straightforward.

What's with all the fancy stuff in Su Feng's way of basketball?

Heh, Philadelphia Irving?

Now, please call him the Toronto God of War!

Bang, swish!

Beep!

The shot went in, the whistle sounded, and there was also a free throw.

"Wow, Su Feng is too fierce on this play," Coach Zhang said on CCTV.

"Su Feng is treating the 76ers' restricted area as his own backyard, coming and going as he pleases," Coach Sun echoed.

On the court, Ratliff really couldn't do anything about Su Feng.

Because Su Feng was also very familiar with him.

Whether it was his help defense habits or his defensive positioning, Su Feng's shot just now looked like a hearty kill, but in reality, Su Feng's goal from the beginning was Ratliff, who was guarding the 76ers' restricted area.

And originally, this familiarity should have been mutual.

However, in Ratliff's eyes, Su Feng's current playing style had completely changed.

Hmm...

In fact, how could Su Feng change his playing style in a short period of time?

What he really changed was that now, he had a group of teammates who could help him create space.

In the new season, Su Feng's scoring didn't seem to have improved much compared to last season in the first two games, but his efficiency was much higher than last season.

Ratliff didn't dare to help defend at the first time just now because at the moment Su Feng broke through Willis, the other Raptors players on the court were already prepared to receive the pass.

On the court, after Su Feng made the free throw, the score became 2 to 11, and Brown had no choice but to call a timeout.

Obviously, the development of this game had completely exceeded Brown's expectations.

Where were the one hundred sets of tormentor tactics he had carefully prepared for the Raptors before?

"Slow down the pace of the game, as long as we can defend, we can catch up."

Of course, as a generation of "famous coach," Brown's expression was still calm during the timeout, as if everything was under his control.

But...

After the timeout, Su Feng felt that this Brown person was completely hopeless.

Because in the case of being behind, although it is indeed necessary to improve the defense to catch up, but...

If you can't score on offense and you play so slowly, what's the difference between this and chronic death?

There's no way, Brown is just so stubborn.

Even if he is very panicked in his heart, he only believes in his set of tormentor tactics.

……

At the end of the first quarter, Brown successfully limited the Raptors' single-quarter score to under 30 points.

However, the 76ers fans in front of the TV were not happy at all.

Because the score was 14 to 28...

The 76ers were behind the Raptors by a full 14 points.

In the second quarter, in order to catch up, Brown chose to keep Iverson on the court.

And the Raptors replaced Joe Smith, Old Curry, and Nash to partner with Su Feng and Big Ben.

To be fair, Smith was even more excited than Su Feng against this 76ers team.

Because if Brown hadn't made Smith so miserable last season, why would this dignified No. 1 pick in 1995 be in this situation?

In his previous life, in this NBA world, the person who wanted to punch Brown to death...

Was never just Milicic alone.

In the second quarter, Smith, who came off the bench, not only performed well on the offensive end, but even on the defensive end, where he was not good at, he was also particularly hardworking.

If Smith's inner voice at this time were to be translated into Chinese, it would probably be as follows:

Brown, you old thief, have you seen this 40-meter long knife in my hand?

"Last season, Larry Brown refused to give this No. 1 pick more playing time because Smith's defense was not good.

But now it seems that Smith was really delayed by Brown."

Coach Zhang said on CCTV after Joe Smith scored for the Raptors in succession.

"Smith's excellent performance tonight is the best response to Brown," Coach Sun added.

Alright...

On the 76ers' bench, Larry Brown was no longer just panicked now.

But...

If the game continued like this, then he wouldn't be able to get rid of the blame after the game.

In the second quarter, the Raptors, who replaced their substitutes, slightly declined in defensive quality, and Iverson took the opportunity to bully Nash, scoring many incredible shots for the 76ers.

But in turn, Joe Smith, who was madly pick-and-rolling with Nash, was having a great time.

Honestly, it's just that Joe Smith doesn't know that there will be a person named Stoudemire in the future.

Otherwise, he would definitely sigh:

So, this is Amare Stoudemire's output environment?

And besides Joe Smith getting more and more courageous, playing like a God of War in the second quarter...

In order to save the wrong values of his two sons, Old Curry used practical actions to explain tonight:

Curry's father is Curry's father.

And now, the 76ers couldn't stand it anymore.

Because after the Raptors' perimeter also opened up, facing the containment brought by Su Feng's strong attacks, the 76ers' substitute lineup couldn't stop the Raptors' wave after wave of attacks.

And in reverse, as Iverson's stamina declined, the 76ers' offense stagnated again.

"If Iverson continues to play like this, he will definitely be exhausted to death tonight.

Because the Raptors are now defending smaller and smaller, even Nash is almost becoming a center," Coach Zhang exaggeratedly complained on CCTV.

"This is the so-called one general is incompetent and exhausts the three armies.

I remember that Coach Zhang once popularized to our vast number of basketball enthusiasts that three-pointers and breakthroughs have a close connection," Coach Sun said.

In the new season, after Su Feng left the team, this 76ers team only averaged about 7 three-point attempts per game.

Honestly, with this kind of three-point attempts, the perimeter of this 76ers team has no threat to the Raptors at all.

And in contrast, the Raptors, who average nearly 20 three-point attempts per game in the new season, can play offensive basketball in this era precisely because they can always use three-dimensional attacks to make their opponents lose sight of the other on the offensive end.

Excellent tactics plus terrifying talent, in the second quarter, when Jordan, Carter, McGrady and others came back, the score of this game had already reached 24 to 50.

With more than 5 minutes left in the second quarter, even the commentators in the United States were sighing that the 76ers' decision to trade Su Feng before was a wrong choice.

To be fair, if this 76ers team didn't have a coach, they might not have lost so badly.

Because when facing them, Su Feng was very clear that this 76ers team still had a certain amount of hard power.

However, the wrong tactics plus the usual stubbornness destined this 76ers team to only go to eternal doom.

In his previous life, relying on Iverson's runaway state, the 76ers could reach the Finals in the future through a four-for-one strategy.

But facing a swingman-heavy team like the Raptors, Iverson would only be able to go on a rampage if Su, Carter, McGrady, and Jordan all had diarrhea at the same time.

As long as the 76ers can't protect their one, then the rest will be relentlessly suppressed by the Raptors.

……

At the end of the first half, the Raptors fans at the Air Canada Centre were already ecstatic.

Because since the Raptors joined the NBA, they have never achieved such a great achievement as a three-game winning streak.

33 to 62...

In the words of the Raptors fans, if the 76ers can prevent them from breaking 100 points in three consecutive games, then these dragon fans will never watch the NBA again in the future.

After the half-time break, more than whether the Raptors could achieve a three-game winning streak, many neutral fans were most concerned about how many points the Raptors would win against the 76ers in this game.

Because fans who watched the live broadcast of this game felt that the Raptors and the 76ers were not teams of the same level at all.

In the third quarter, the never-say-die Iverson still took the lead, constantly launching suicide attacks on the Raptors' position.

Unfortunately, what was despairing was that not only did the score between the two teams not narrow, but it continued to widen...

On the 76ers' bench, Brown, who had completely lost his composure, kept making substitutions, and in the case of being far behind, even Camby was sent up by him as the main offensive player for a few minutes.

As a result, Camby, who had also complained that the Raptors team was too broken last season and had repeatedly taken the initiative to apply for the Raptors to trade him, was dumbfounded after taking the court.

Because, after going to Philadelphia, not only could he not get a starting position, but in reverse...

In the new season, the Raptors had suddenly become the most popular team in the league.

It has to be said that fate is such a trickster.

"It's too tiring to watch the 76ers play offense, look, Su Feng easily scored 20 points on the Raptors' side," Coach Zhang complained on CCTV.

"It seems that the only thing that can defend Su Feng tonight is the score between the two teams," Coach Sun said.

Hmm...

If there was anything that made Su Feng annoyed in the new season, then besides his high shooting percentage, it should be the fact that he couldn't play 48 minutes every game.

Of course, as the season progresses, the Raptors cannot win every game by a large margin, so in Su Feng's view, he will still have the opportunity to show his love for basketball next.

Yes, that's right, is it because he, Su Feng, is greedy for a mere blacksmithing value that he doesn't want to rest?

He, Su Feng, has an endless love for basketball!

……

At the Air Canada Centre, after three quarters, the score was 50 to 88, and Davis was ready to call it quits on the Raptors' side.

On the other side, Brown's face was ashen.

Tonight, the camera has given Brown many close-ups.

From being full of confidence at the beginning, to being anxious in the middle of the game, to being extremely uncomfortable now, even if he tried to pretend to be calm, Brown's micro-expression changes could not escape the camera's sanctions.

In the fourth quarter, with both teams replacing their substitutes, this game was declared to have entered garbage time.

And originally, Brown, who had held the idea of continuing to beat this Raptors team even if they had a big lead before the game, never expected that in this game, the situation would turn into a situation where even if they were far behind, he had to encourage the players not to give up...

There was no way, if the game ended with such a score, then he didn't know how many spittle stars he would have to endure after the game.

But...

Looking at Joe Smith, who was killing the game in garbage time, Brown felt that Davis was too shameless!

John, it's all garbage time, and you're still letting a No. 1 pick play on the court?

And that guy named Dell Curry, you're so accurate with your three-pointers, do your family know?

"Stephen, why aren't you cheering for your dad?"

On the Raptors' bench, Su Feng asked curiously while rubbing Curry's face.

"Tch, besides being able to shoot three-pointers, what else can he do?"

In this life, Stephen Curry, who only wants to be a dunk king, rolled his eyes at Old Curry on the court and said.

Su Feng: "......"

Looking at Curry, who has no interest in shooting and three-pointers, honestly, if Curry goes down a wrong path in the future, then it's really not his Su Feng's business.

Because of this...

Carter also did it!

McGrady also did it!

Jordan also did it!

……