Coach: Coaching the Grizzlies at the beginning, playing the bantam

Chapter 325 Flowering both inside and outside! Eight consecutive wins!

Because LeVert entered the starting lineup, the Nets' three-point firepower became stronger in the second quarter.

Lu Yong sent Dinwiddie, Hardaway, Joe Harris, Tucker and center Wood.

This lineup has a very strong shooting ability. Even if the defense is poor, the offense alone can compete with the starting lineup of weak teams.

The Rockets' bench is also not weak, including Harden, Eric Gordon, Gerald Green, Tarik Black, and Nene.

Playing under D'Antoni, Harden's playing time is very high. He usually rests in the last two minutes of the first quarter and comes back in the second quarter to lead the bench with Gordon to ensure offensive firepower.

Unfortunately, Harden's rest time was too short, and the substitute's inside shooting was too tight, so he couldn't open up the space like Anderson and Mbah a Moute. Lu Yong directly arranged for players to flank, making Harden very uncomfortable.

With Hardaway and Harris hitting consecutive three-pointers, the Nets quickly opened the score with an 11-2 spurt. Only Gordon broke in and hit a floater.

The tactics arranged by D'Antoni are all initiated through the defenders. The Nets' second lineup is highly mobile, and Tucker and Wood move very fast inside. The Rockets' sudden points cannot guarantee efficiency, and they can only allow two players to play singles with the ball.

Shuangdeng let go of the knockdown, which was also a solution, but Lu Yong's defensive end decisively attacked, forcing the two to move the ball to the weak side, and Nene and Black finished the game.

The shooting range of the two is closer than the other, and there is more or less a mid-range shot in Nene. Black can only hit the basket, and his efficiency is low.

The Nets players were able to ensure shooting efficiency. The five players dared to take shots when they had the opportunity. Hardaway broke out and scored 9 points in a single quarter, and also had a 2+1 layup after a fast break counterattack caused Harden to foul.

Hardaway Jr.'s offensive talent has been fully realized this year. If he continues to play like this, he and Dinwiddie will have a chance to compete for the best sixth man.

All Lu Yong can do is to give the two the same tactical status. As for who wins the award in the end, it all depends on personal ability.

It is also an opportunity for Wood to challenge the old Nene with the ball. Not only is he young and fast, but he is also more explosive.

As long as Nene is passed by Wood in the first step, he can only pull someone from behind to foul, and he can't defend one-on-one.

Wood is good at face-to-face singles. Thanks to the strength of Hamilton, another substitute center of the Nets, he has received many opportunities on the bench this season. He currently averages 11 points and 5 rebounds per game, which is very good, and his shooting percentage is 55.6%. .

In order to help defend Wood, the Rockets began to shrink their formation. As a result, Joe Harris hit two three-pointers from the outside, which directly stunned D'Antoni.

Joe Harris doesn't average a lot of points per game, but he excels in efficiency. He shoots 47.6% from three-point range and averages 2.6 throws per game, which is extremely efficient.

He plays an obvious role in positional battles. Not only is he accurate in shooting, he can also make air cuts, and his defensive level is also above the league average.

Of course, what Joha is best at is catching and shooting after running. According to his characteristics, Lu Yong arranged a large number of off-ball screens or hand-offs at the top of the key, with a good success rate.

The Rockets were overwhelmed by this sudden offensive, and D'Antoni was forced to request a timeout and replace Anderson, Mbah a Moute and Ariza with several main players to shorten the rotation time.

When Lu Yong saw this, he did not underestimate the enemy. He immediately made a substitution gesture to the referee, and also took Millsap + Daluo in advance, continuing to use the twin towers to expand his advantage.

Anderson's defense against Lolita is basically just giving away food. If D'Antoni wants to strengthen the team's offense, he has to bear the risk of being overwhelmed by the defense in the penalty area.

The Rockets' uneven lineup was as efficient as air in protecting the frame, and the Nets had an absolute advantage tonight.

The Rockets' main players came out together to strengthen their offense, but they still couldn't catch up with the score.

At halftime, 65 to 51, the point difference widened to double digits.

Barkley commented: "The Nets are very different from the teams Lu Yong has coached in the past. Whether Lu Yong coached the SuperSonics, 76ers or Knicks before, he typically relied on offense to win, and defense could only win. It's just an embellishment. But now this Nets is a team that is both offensive and defensive. Not only Millsap, Lopez, and LeVert can use single defense to limit the opponent's scoring, but other teammates will also appear in time to help defend. It brings the vitality of young people to the extreme.”

"The Rockets, who are also a strong offensive team, are not good. They rely almost entirely on offense to win, especially when one of the three-pointers and breakthroughs is blocked by the opponent. The Rockets' game can even be described as a suicidal style of play. If Coach D'Antoni If they don’t do a good job of backup, it will be difficult for them to go far in the playoffs.”

Kenny Smith nodded and said: "He is also a big man who can pull out to shoot three-pointers. The gap between Ryan Anderson and Luo is too big. It is not a good choice for the Rockets to let him play the starting center. It is better to reuse the Chinese player Zhou Qi, at least he can protect the rim at the basket."

Fans can all see that Ryan Anderson is not suitable to play center. Although he is slower at the 4th position, he will not become an obvious defensive black hole. At 2 meters tall, he doesn't seem short, but when playing center, he not only doesn't have the excellent lower body strength to carry people, but he can't even protect rebounds well. It's too extreme.

In Lu Yong's previous life, many people said that Ryan Anderson was delayed by the Rockets. Under D'Antoni, he often faced the doubtful life of being abused at the fifth position.

After all, Anderson averaged 17 points, 6 rebounds and 1.1 assists per game in the season before joining the Rockets. However, this year his scoring average dropped to 9.3 points per game and was wasted.

But in fact, the real reason why Ryan Anderson can't survive in the NBA is that his offense is unstable and his defense is poor.

That's right, even though Anderson once scored 8 three-pointers in a single game and shot 40% of his three-pointers in more than one season, in fact, his offensive efficiency is really unstable, and his career shooting percentage is only 42.2%, with multiple seasons shooting less than 40%.

Anderson was able to get a big contract all because of his high number of shots. In his peak season, he averaged 19 points per game in exchange for 16.1 shots. On the other hand, his draft template, Nowitzki, averaged a season low of 16 points on 23 shots per game. This is the gap in efficiency.

What really caused him to be abandoned by the Rockets coaching staff was his poor performance in last year's playoffs. He averaged 30.5 minutes per game, only scored 9 points and 5 rebounds, shot 39.1% from the field, and 28.3% from three-point range. He played continuously next to Harden. Three-pointers are unreliable, and we can only blame Anderson for his obvious regression.

No, to be precise, Anderson has not made any progress in so many years, and he has always been stubborn in tough battles.

In three years of playoff play for the Magic, Anderson's shooting percentages were 31%, 26.7%, and 34.1% respectively.

Anderson has exposed the shortcomings of unstable offense a long time ago. However, the Rockets general manager is a fool who only looks at personal data and does not look at real efficiency.

It is not so much that the Rockets delayed Anderson, but that the fans had too high expectations for Anderson and were misled by Morey's four-year, $4 million contract, thinking that he could really become the next Nowitzki.

However, Ryan Anderson's strength is at best an ordinary starter. It is normal to be unable to attack and defend. Having too high expectations is obviously not a good thing.

In the second half, in order to strengthen the defense in the penalty area, D'Antoni was forced to reuse the inside blue-collar Tarik Black and gave up strengthening the offense. He is no stranger to Lakers fans. He played for the Lakers from 14 to 17 and is a strong substitute inside man. From a technical perspective, Blake is a typical rough guy. His only advantage is that he has extraordinary enthusiasm and always tries his best to fly up and grab rebounds.

D'Antoni went to Blake because he was afraid of being beaten inside by the Nets. However, this substitution did not solve the problem. Instead, the Nets tactics targeted a wave of climax.

Dealing with a rough guy like Black is very simple. Russell plays pick-and-rolls and tries his best to create mismatches. As long as the mismatch is small and the opportunity is big, Black is dumbfounded.

In particular, this guy couldn't control the fouls well. He defended Russell and walked directly to the basket to get a free throw. If he didn't defend, he pulled up from the top of the arc and it was a three-pointer. The Rockets had no temper at all.

Moreover, Blake has no enthusiasm on the offensive end, and his poor offensive awareness cannot defeat Lopez alone. His rough offensive skills can hardly show his dominance in CBA.

At the end of the third quarter, the Nets extended their lead to 25 points and the game entered garbage time.

D'Antoni sat on the sidelines with a depressed look on his face. Before the game, he dreamed of ending the Nets' winning streak and defeating Lu Yong to prove that he was the most talented offensive master in the league.

As a result, the Rockets lost by 25 points in the third quarter. He was woken up before his dream was over. Don't be too cruel.

In the final quarter, the Nets deployed a full bench lineup, with Wood and Hamilton partnering in the paint, and the other three were Jeremy Lin, Monte Morris, and LeVert.

D'Antoni knew it was impossible to catch up with the score difference, so he also replaced the main players.

In an ordinary regular season, Lu Yong had no intention of killing everything. He just took this opportunity to arrange tactics for Monte Morris to brush up the data, allowing him to attack with the ball and serve as the team's tactical starting point.

Facing the Rockets' third-team backcourt, Morris did not disappoint Lu Yong. He relied on jump shots after the pick-and-roll to score 11 points in a single quarter, making 8 of 5 shots and 3 of 1 three-pointers. He scored 11 points, 1 rebound and 3 assists. .

Briante Weber, the undrafted pick, weighed only 75 kilograms. Morris didn't even lose in physical confrontation against Weber, and his data went very smoothly.

Jeremy Lin, LeVert, and Hamilton also made three-pointers. Wood also grabbed offensive rebounds many times and played an overwhelming second offense in the Rockets penalty area.

The Nets relied on the performance of their substitutes to widen the point difference in this quarter, and the Rockets were beaten without any power to fight back.

At the end, 131 to 98, the Nets defeated the Rockets at home by 33 points.

At the press conference, Lu Yong praised several core members of the team by name. A total of 8 people in the team scored in double figures.

米尔萨普得到最高的26分11篮板3助攻2抢断1盖帽，如果不是三节打卡下班，他高低拿个30+。

大洛佩兹20分9篮板2助攻4盖帽，拉塞尔16分3篮板10助攻1抢断，米切尔和哈达威也都有18分进账。

In addition, Dinwiddie, Wood, LeVert and Morris also scored in double figures.

The next day, the news reported that the Nets defeated the Rockets. Fans who did not watch the game were stunned.

I didn't expect the Nets to be so strong. First, they defeated the Big Three of the Green Army in the opening game, and now they crushed the Rockets, the number one team in the Western Conference, to the ground. They won six consecutive games at the start of the season. It didn't look like a team that had just experienced this. A revamped team.

Suddenly, more and more fans are praising Lu Yong online. He is using his magical coaching methods to lead the Nets to create miracles and have the team's best start to the regular season in recent years.

Of course, as early as last year after leading the Knicks to win the championship, Lu Yong has become recognized as the number one coach in history.

The praise from the fans can only be regarded as the icing on the cake. What really makes Lu Yong happy is the running-in and growth of the Nets' young players.

Even if the Nets may lose next, with this winning streak at the beginning, everyone's self-confidence will not be affected, and Lu Yong can try more lineup combinations.

On the 9th, everyone on the Nets took a flight to the West and began a turbulent road trip.

Fortunately, the Nets' opponent in their first away game was the Suns, a weak team, and their strength was very poor.

The Suns have been helping new players level up in the past two years. Except for the third-year Devin Booker, who is still able to play, everyone else on the team is mediocre. They kneeled five times in a row at the beginning and had the worst record in the league.

In addition, the Suns have many talented newcomers in Payton, Booker, Warren and Josh Jackson on the outside, and they still have some fighting ability. But the interior configuration is definitely the best in the league. The twin interior towers composed of Marquese Chriss and Alex Len have no deterrent effect, and the plus and minus values ​​have never been positive.

Especially Chris, as a blue-collar insider with explosive athletic talent, this guy actually likes to float outside and rarely attack the basket on air cuts. His average of 7.7 points and 5.5 rebounds per game seems good, but his field goal percentage is only 42.3. %, he couldn't score double digits on a bad team like the Suns, sorry he was the eighth pick in the first round of the draft.

Facing the weak Suns inside, Lopez, Millsap, and Wood on the bench were at their best again. They repeatedly attacked the basket and scored 2+1, which was easier than playing against the Rockets on the court.

At the end, 126 to 94, the Nets sealed their longest seven-game winning streak of the season with a big victory.

米尔萨普这场继续发威，仅出场26分钟，高效砍下23分12篮板4助攻1抢断2盖帽，还顺便将克里斯防的12投2中，只得4分5篮板，三节没打完就六犯离场。

Lopez didn't score much, scoring only 14 points and 9 rebounds, but he tied his career record with 8 blocks. Dealing with Alex Len was like bullying a child.

Substitute center Wood was also very impressive, scoring 21 points, 6 rebounds and 2 blocks with a shooting percentage of over 60%. The performance of the "Three Towers" in these two games left a deep impression on Brooklyn fans.

On the 10th, the Nets faced the Mavericks in the rebuilding period back-to-back.

This time it was the outside that broke out. Russell, Mitchell and Dinwiddie all delivered excellent performances, all scoring over [-] points.

Dennis Smith, the young point guard that the Mavericks have painstakingly cultivated, has good athletic talent, but his defensive habits are not good, and his fake moves fly away in a flash. He was beaten one-on-one by Russell tonight. He played 33 minutes and made 21 of 13 shots. , 10 of 6 three-pointers, 5 of 5 free throws, scored a career-high 37 points, 4 rebounds and 6 assists, establishing himself as a quasi-All-Star in one game.

(End of this chapter)