Basketball: Starting from the Rodman template

Chapter 91
Woody and the Heat returned to Miami with a 3-1 record.

Such a record at the beginning is definitely a surprise for the Heat, which was ranked No. 12 in the Eastern Conference before the start of the season.

But only 4 games can't explain anything.

The media, which is often slapped in the face, is actually quite afraid of being slapped in the face.

They wrote the article here, if the Heat lose consecutive games next time, wouldn't it be embarrassing?
It's better to observe two more games to see if the Heat this season will become the "dark horse" in the East. It's not impossible to flatter and brag about them, but that's usually when there is no news to release.

There was a focus battle yesterday.

The 03 "Peerless Twins" LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony played against each other for the first time in their careers at the Cavaliers' home court.

LeBron James has had a rough life lately.

The team played so well in the first game, but the team lost. The most embarrassing thing is that the pattern of facing the media after the game also lost to Woody and Carmelo Anthony.

Especially Anthony, who looks quite honest. I didn't expect to be full of bad water. If he didn't play well, he said he didn't play well. What the hell are you saying I don't care about the data?

At that time he knew that Carmelo Anthony had changed!
The "bad luck" didn't just go away.

In the second game of the season, the Cavaliers challenged the Suns away.

LeBron James continued to play strongly, scoring 21 points, 12 rebounds, 8 assists and 1 steal, including 10 backcourt rebounds. With the first "double-double" in his career, he led the Cavaliers to suffer a two-game losing streak by 9 points .

If it is said that after this game, his team can still give him two announcements about his personal performance.

Then in the third game of the season, an away game against the Trail Blazers, the Cavaliers not only lost another 9 points, but LeBron James himself made 12 of 3 shots, not to mention 25% shooting, and only scored 8 points.

He also got 4 rebounds and 6 assists.

But compared to teammate Big Z's 21 points and Ricky Davis' 16 points, 8 rebounds and 7 assists, his statistics are somewhat behind.

On the other hand, Carmelo Anthony, except for the first game with the Spurs' stats, he scored 18 points and 9 rebounds against the Rockets in the other games; he scored 23 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists against the Sacramento Kings. The gold team's record is also very beautiful 2 wins and 1 loss!
It can be said that in all aspects, LeBron James is extremely embarrassed.

Meeting under such circumstances, he is undoubtedly the more urgent one.

It's a pity that the Nuggets, who played away in this game, won by 4 points and rewritten their record to 3-1. The Cavaliers are happy to start with a 4-game losing streak, and a victory is hard to come by!
The coaching staff on both sides have very clear ideas about the arrangement of this game, that is, to prevent Carmelo Anthony from having a good time with LeBron James.

Judging from the data of the audience, both sides have completed their tasks:
Carmelo Anthony only scored 14 points, 6 rebounds and 2 assists after the game, and his shooting percentage was only 35.3%!

And LeBron James was even worse. He only hit 11 goals in 3 shots, and his shooting percentage was 27.3%. Nine are backcourt rebounds.

When Barkley looked at this data, he was very puzzled: "A No. [-] player, how come there are so many backcourt rebounds?"

The data is half-baked, and the performance is not bad, but the Nuggets won, so Carmelo Anthony showed a "melon-like" smile after the game.

LeBron James faces growing skepticism.

Especially with Woody's double-doubles so far and the popularity continuing to rise, some media who watched the excitement and didn't think it was a big deal sent a "soul torture" to the Cavaliers management: "Will you regret it? Instead of choosing Woody, I chose LeBron James!"

So scared that Jimmy Paxson didn't dare to appear in front of the media for two days.

But on the second day after the Nuggets won the Cavaliers, some media suddenly posted that "the existence of Ricky Davis hindered the growth of LeBron James!"

"LeBron James is a ball-handling player, but he cares too much about the existence of Ricky Davis, which makes him unable to play in his normal way. The Cavaliers management must make a decision. -James, send Ricky Davis away!"

And at this time, many of Ricky Davis' previous bad things were revealed. For example, in order to get a "triple double", he threw a similar news towards his backboard.

After such a wave of public opinion, the entire Cavaliers obviously became a little bit wrong.But in their fifth game of the new season, their opponent is still the Indiana Pacers, the new overlord of the Eastern Conference with 4 wins and 0 losses so far!

The "five-game losing streak" seems to be imminent...

At the same time, Woody and the Miami Heat also ushered in the challenge of the Phoenix Suns.

Before the game, the American Airlines Arena was even more crowded.

Woody's answer to why he doesn't wag his finger after a shot has been sent back to Miami.

To be honest, there is no selection similar to the "Top Ten People Who Touched Miami", otherwise, Woody would have a place this year.

Such a talking rookie, who can stand it?
He treats us so special, of course we have to come to the scene to support him!

As long as you LeBron James can sell tickets in Cleveland, right?
I heard the venue was full?
Then we must give Woody's cards a facelift too!

This wave, this wave is called "two-way running"!
The basketball atmosphere in Miami is not very hot, but there are really many people here. If you really want to say cheers, let alone the 1 seats in the American Airlines Arena, even if it doubles, it can be occupied by him every minute. full!
When the Suns players came out, there were huge boos after another.

These boos are directed at Stoudemire and Marbury.

Before the game, a reporter asked Stoudemire: "What do you think of the performance of China's rookies?"

Stoudemire directly said: "I think his performance is exaggerated! His performance in the first four games should not have such enthusiasm!"

When the reporter asked him "Will you shake Woody like Yao Ming?", Marbury said without any hesitation: "Of course, he'd better not give me such a chance, otherwise, he will Become the background board in this game!"

Marbury is purely nervous, and Stoudemire is somewhat targeted.

Just like he was not convinced that Yao Ming became the "No. Well, long before the draft, he noticed Woody and the template given to him by the media. At that time, he held his breath and wanted to give Woody some color.

In this game, he has been counting on his fingers!
When Woody came on stage, the whole venue was boiling.

The big screen at the scene also kept flashing close-up shots of him. Compared with the first day when he stood on this stage, he was a little more calm and calm.

He noticed Stoudemire's covetous look and Marbury's playful expression, but he didn't show too tit-for-tat performance.

It's not that he was cowardly.

Instead, he glanced at the two dazzling tasks on the system panel, for fear that he would accidentally laugh out loud.

Like before Glenn Robinson spammed him.

When he heard the trash talk at first, he was really angry, but when the task came, he stopped angry immediately.

Where is this opponent?

Isn't this the "stepping stone" on my road to success!

Send me achievement points!

How could such a "good brother" make Woody angry?
Two tasks, the first task is to play better data than Stoudemire, rewarding 5 achievement points.

Achievement points are high!
Of course, the task is really difficult...

小斯本赛季打完4场比赛，场均可以拿到20.5分9.5篮板1.5助攻1.5抢断以及1.5盖帽；

伍迪4场比赛打完，17分12.5篮板3.5助攻3.5盖帽；

Except for scoring average, it is true that Woody's other statistics are better than Stoudemire's, but the problem is...

Woody's weak link right now is his scoring!
It really depends on the sky and the earth and the team!

If the Heat's rhythm is up, his scoring will be smooth, otherwise it will be very difficult. In the first 4 games of the new season, he did not score more than 16 points in two games, all because the Heat's offense failed to run.

Tonight, this will also be the key to whether Woody can complete the task!

There was also a mission for Marbury, which Woody ignored directly.

The task required him to shake Marbury to the ground. As far as he is "a dribbler", it is impossible to shake him to the ground, but it is possible to knock him to the ground.So even though the success point is as high as 10000 points, Woody can only pretend not to see it.

When the game was about to start, the big screen at the scene gave the starting lineups of both sides:

"For the Heat: Wade at No. [-], Jones at No. [-], Woody at No. [-], Odom at No. [-], Grant at No. [-];
For the Suns: Marbury at No. [-], Joe Johnson at No. [-], Leandro Barbosa at No. [-], Marion at No. [-], Amare Stoudemire at No. [-]; "

The Suns have done a good job in team building in the past two years. In the summer of 02, they traded Joe Johnson and selected Amare Stoudemire at the same time, which have become the backbone of the current team.

小斯本赛季场均可以贡献“20加10”的数据，乔-约翰逊也很不错，这赛季4场比赛场均17分5篮板4助攻1.5抢断。

Coupled with Marbury who averaged 20 plus 8 per game, and Marion who averaged 20 plus 9 plus 2.5, this team is definitely a group of elite players just looking at the data panel.

But from the beginning to now, they have finished 4 games, only won the Cleveland Cavaliers, and lost all the other 3 games.

Head coach Frank Johnson said calmly: "It takes time for the lineup to run in, and I can slowly feel that this team is getting better and better!"

But news from Phoenix that calls for his dismissal are growing louder.

To put it simply, this is a game that cannot be lost for Stoudemire who has spoken harshly, and it is also a game that cannot be lost for him.

As soon as he came up, Stoudemire's momentum was very fierce, and he grabbed the first attack for the Suns.

Marbury held the ball for halftime, and his teammates hadn't settled down yet. He suddenly started to move towards the inside and killed.

His nickname is "Lone Wolf", but in fact, Marbury's style of play is not unique. His style of play is actually more of a traditional No. [-] position. He is good at using his personal breakthrough with the ball to find open opportunities for his teammates.

In the first 8 seasons of his career, his average assists per game in the seasons exceeded 7.6, and his average assists per game in his career exceeded 8!
It's just that the assist-to-turnover ratio is not very good, and the average turnover per game is around 3.5 all the year round.

This may have something to do with his liking to disrupt wars.

Just like now, his teammates didn't have a firm foothold, but doesn't that mean that the opponent didn't have a good defensive position either?

If you don't attack at this time, when will you wait!
Wade allowed his fake to go sideways, but Woody on the wing quickly caught up, and Marbury made a deft pass, but Woody was back in front of him as Barbosa got the ball .

The distance from the high position to the flank is not long, and with Woody's moving speed, the delayed return to defense can be done in one go.

Barbosa is also a rookie this year, but his pick is incomparable with Woody and Wade. He was not selected until the 28th pick in the first round.

Known as the "Brazilian Lightning", he is famous for his speed.

But as soon as he started to break through, Woody's rapid lateral movement forced him to "brake".

At this time, the problem of his poor vision was also exposed.

Ordinarily, at such a time, he had to find his teammates, but because Woody was already entangled, he had no time to observe his teammates with a sidelight, so he chose to move forward recklessly.

But just as he accelerated his breakthrough again, Woody suddenly stretched out his hand quickly and knocked the ball off his hand face to face. Barbosa staggered forward involuntarily, and Woody grabbed the ball that remained in place.

Successful steal!
The auditorium didn't realize it at first, and when Woody dribbled the ball and the rest of the Heat team followed suit, they rushed to cheer.

Barbossa remained where he was.

5-on-4 in the frontcourt.

Woody gave the ball to Odom early.

"PDD" held the ball in the center to support, without rushing, a beautiful "pass without looking", directly crashed into Stan Van Gundy, but fortunately Jones appeared in this direction in time, took the ball, and attracted the winger After Joe Johnson put it up, he pushed the ball with both hands, gave the ball to the basket, and Woody, who stole the fast break opportunity, also became the end point of this round.

But when he raised his hand to dunk, Marion flew over from nowhere and raised his hand to block the shot.

"OMG!"

An urgent cry came from the nearest auditorium.

This fan saw with his own eyes that Marion, who was still defending at the three-point line just now, appeared in front of Woody with a "teleport".

This speed...

So fast!

Woody immediately changed his move and pulled the bar in the air. When the ball hit the backboard, he jumped up quickly after landing.

"Shh!"

Successfully tipped the basket and completed the goal.

Now it was Marion's turn to look surprised.

He turned slightly sideways and glanced at Stoudemire.

Amare's bullet speed is considered fast among the people he has met.

But with Woody's move at the basket just now, he felt that Stoudemire was probably incomparable.

Stoudemire looked at Woody's operation under the basket, and was a little surprised.

This speed...

Then he noticed the way Marion looked at him!
Hey, what kind of look do you have?

He felt underestimated!
The issue is……

I did nothing!
The Heat started 2-0 under Woody's physical fitness.

"Nice, man!" Jones clapped Woody's hands.He was boasting about Woody's steal.The training these days has gradually paid off.

Steals are the same as blocks, and more depends on awareness.

Marbury chose to wait for his teammates to settle down this time.

Then called Stoudemire's pick-and-roll.

The following is Stoudemire's specialty.

Grant followed suit and stuck very tightly, but he felt that he had just delayed Marbury, and when he turned to look for Stoudemire, the guy had already returned to the basket.

People arrive at the ball!

Marbury's high throw was very comfortable. Just a little above the basket, Stoudemire dunked with both hands.

"Bah!"

With smooth lob cooperation, the Suns pulled the score back to a 2-2 tie.

Stoudemire gave Woody a provocative look.

Odom has averaged 19 points per game in the past two games. His ability to break through with the ball, which does not belong to the fourth position, allows the Heat to open up space inside.

But in this game, he was a little invisible again.

In the face of "hackers", his breakthrough is a bit like "grandpa" crossing the road.

Fortunately, the east side is not bright and the west side is bright, and the fourth position is fine without moving the ball, and there is Wade in the first position!

Facing Marbury with a height of "188", Wade has the advantages of height and tonnage, and this can precisely give full play to his advantages of explosiveness and strength.

"Bah!"

Solid confrontation, Wade's speed was too fast, Marbury couldn't dodge, the center of gravity shook violently, Marbury watched Wade break through from beside him.

At the free throw line, Stoudemire made up the inside.

This caused Grant to be completely emptied at the basket.

Don't forget, Marion has been pulled out by Odom.

In order to block the shot, Stoudemire gave Grant an absolute vacancy!

Even if Grant is just a blue-collar with almost no scoring ability, he can still grasp the opportunity to score when he takes the ball and dunks.

"Bah!"

Marbury and Stoudemire looked at each other, Johnson looked at this and that, and didn't know which one to blame for a while!
The two sides can be considered to have found the weak link of the opposite side and the way to score.

Between you and me, the first quarter ended quickly, the score was 29 to 27.
Relying on the initial lead, the Heat barely had a 2-point difference.

For the Suns, Stoudemire was their absolute "main force" in the first quarter, scoring 8 points and 3 rebounds!

It is indeed a bit difficult to find 5 achievement points.

Woody only scored 5 points after the first quarter. In addition, the number of rebounds was the same as Stoudemire's, only 3, and 1 steal.In fact, Woody's presence on the defensive end is much stronger than that of Stoudemire. He locked up Barbosa, the same year's show, and helped the inside and outside defenses very well.

As of the end of the first quarter, the Suns shot less than 45% of their shots facing Woody, while the Suns' entire team shot more than 50% in the first quarter!

Facing Woody's shot, the Suns' success rate dropped by a full 5%!

The Heat's scoring success rate against Stoudemire is as high as 60%, which is 10% higher than their average shooting rate in this game!

In order to block shots, Stoudemire continued to miss defenses, which led to the Heat's successful scoring again and again. Grant easily scored three times in the first quarter and scored 6 points in a single quarter.

As far as his scoring ability of averaging 6 points per game is concerned, the last time he scored 6 points in a single quarter is unknown when it happened.

It's a pity that these data cannot be reflected intuitively, so just looking at these basic data, Stoudemire has a slight advantage.

Woody is not in a hurry. The Heat haven't come up with their best "anti-reverse tactics" in this game. When the offensive and defensive teams enter the rhythm, Woody has a lot of room to play.

Still the same sentence, now he mainly relies on the team to score.

Stan Van Gundy gave Odom more patience, allowing him to play 10 minutes in the first quarter.

Even if the past facts have proved that Odom is prone to stretching his hips when facing those highly mobile four positions, and Marion is just the top "mobile four position", Van Gundy still continues to make Odo Tom stayed on the field.

Not only did Odom play well in the first two games, but also because the Heat's starting lineup gradually took shape, with Wade at the first position and Jones at the second position, the Heat's starting lineup lacked a player who could organize the offense. Odom's Existence is very important, and the starting position at No. [-] must belong to him.

Allowing him to play more is also to run in the lineup and let the starters have more tacit understanding.

But then, when it was time to open the score, the Heat wanted to win this game, relying more on "anti-reverse tactics" than ever before. After all, the first quarter has proved that the opposite is a "big colander". Can't stand their attack.

Now they only need to suppress the opponent's offensive and widen the point difference, which can be said to be a matter of minutes.

Wallace came on the field and received warm applause from the fans.

His drive reminded many Heat fans of the former "Heat soul" Mourning.

They love players like this!
Pat Riley only used one substitute for the second position, and he got such a powerful "all-around fighter", they liked it even more!
Woody moved to the [-]th position, facing one of the best [-]th positions in the league, "Hacker" Sean Marion!
The strength of the Heat's bench is much higher than that of the Suns.

So when the starters on both sides returned to the court, the point difference had reached 6 points.

Caron Butler was in very good form tonight. He scored five points in a row as soon as he came up, and he directly gave the Suns a starter and returned to the field.

The first attack back belongs to the Suns.

Marbury faced Wade with the ball and called Stoudemire's pick-and-roll. Wade made a timely round this round.And the quality of the pick-and-roll given by Stoudemire is not very good.He has pick-and-roll potential, but the ability to do that hasn't been fully developed yet.

This is also the reason why the Suns management wants to change the head coach. They feel that Stoudemire has greater potential waiting to be tapped.

Marbury forcibly walked towards the basket. Woody stood on the side of the "three-second zone" but didn't come in to intercept.

In the end, he turned his heart and made a firm shot from the basket. The ball flew out of his hands, but before it flew to the highest point, Woody, who was waiting by the side, rushed to him and slapped the ball out of the baseline , flew to the hands of the auditorium on the sidelines, with such force that it hurt the fan's hands.

Domestic CCTV-5 broadcast the game today, and the domestic fans who saw this scene were all overjoyed.

Last season, after Marbury threw Yao Minghuang to the party, the entire Suns bench laughed together, which aroused huge repercussions in China. A group of people, including Marbury, were directly included in the "blacklist" of domestic fans.

They have waited too long to see Marbury make a fool of himself in the hands of Chinese players.

Now Woody gave them a bad breath!
The cheers in the auditorium were instantly full, and many fans stood up spontaneously, their expressions became more and more expectant...

Woody stretched out his hand, but he didn't shake his fingers. Instead, he scratched his head and made an expression of "I actually slapped your hand so far" towards Marbury. Diaphragm should not be light.

The atmosphere at the scene was even more exciting. Although it wasn't the finger wagging they were expecting, this celebratory action, coupled with the director's very sensible close-up shot of Marbury, still cheered them up.

Marbury's desire to attack became stronger, and he served again. He dribbled the ball continuously, stunned Wade in place, and broke through with a skillful crotch dribble, reaching the three-point line from Wade's side. Inside.

The dribbling breakthrough ability of the legendary street player in Queens, New York is fully reflected in this one.

But in this league full of people, it's one thing to look good, but another to make the ball.

Marbury was obviously discouraged. Just before the free throw line this time, he made a throw, and he didn't mean to go inside at all.

but……

Woody was stunned and jumped in front of him in time.

This Nima!
Marbury was so frightened that his hands instinctively shook, and he tried his best to move his fingers that were still stuck to the ball, to raise the arc of the ball, and finished the shot dangerously against Woody.

"Backboard!"

Woody kept his eyes on the ball and noticed the change in Marbury's hand shape. He felt that Marbury would definitely not be able to make such a difficult shot, so he yelled and turned around and ran towards the backboard.

When Grant heard his words, he instinctively sank down, and stuck Stoudemire firmly behind him, preventing him from moving.

After working with Woody for 4 games, Brandt is now very clear about his position at the basket:

Just snap that damn slot in and Woody does the rest!

But on the other side, Marion also rushed towards the rebound.

Averaged 4 rebounds in 9.5 games this season!
The average rebounds per game in the previous three seasons were above 9.5.

This is "Hacker" Marion. He is only 2 meters tall, but he has a very good rebounding technique.Often relying on accurate predictions and excellent physical fitness, he staged a good show of "picking melons" on top of others!

Just look at the eager Stoudemire's reaction to seeing Marion sprint to the backboard.

Immediately, he was no longer in a hurry, but pulled it out.

It seems that there is no doubt at all about Marion grabbing a rebound.

"Snapped!"

The sound of closing the ball sounded two seconds later, and the ball had just bounced off the backboard when it was intercepted by a big hand.

Not Marion, though, but Woody!

With a more accurate prediction of the jump, Woody grabbed the rebound first.

"start running!"

Before Marion could gain a firm foothold, the Heat launched a counterattack amidst Woody's yelling.

The head coach of the Suns, Johnson, stood on the sidelines, watching the Heat's "quality monsters" easily complete the counterattack, and he couldn't help saying:
"These animals!"

　The second is sent.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)