Vogel responded: "Roy is great, has height, has jumping, and smooth touch. He can hook like Yao and Ilgauskas, make mid-range shots, but his shooting speed is too slow."
I tried helping him adjust during the sumr league, but every ti he speeds up his shooting, he loses accuracy and gets anxious, affecting his ga mood. We tried again in the preseason, and ultimately decided to give up; this flaw can’t be corrected.
However, teams as fast in rotation as the Bobcats are few, Roy’s shooting speed may be slow, but at least he has a mid-shot ability, can shoot from all positions within the three-point line, mostly won’t be a drag on offense."
The Big Bird shook his head and said, "Right, we picked him mainly for his defense, it’s enough if he’s decent on offense. We’ve already got Danny and DeMar, Roy’s offensive potential is limited, just bring in a power forward with strong self-offense ability.
But there’s one more thing to note, his ntal resilience is too weak, misses two shots and he gets restless, you should talk to him more."
Vogel felt bitter hearing this but agreed, knowing that as a reserve head coach, if he doesn’t take on this work, he might remain a reserve forever.
But Hibbert’s ntal resilience is difficult to deal with.
It’s related to his growing environnt. Hibbert is a ’true black guy,’ played sports like golf, tennis as a kid, and played piano and violin... reached over 210 cm in height by high school, and only joined the basketball team after being begged by the head coach DeWayne Bryant, truly started getting into basketball then, received special permission before graduating high school to train with and play in gas with the Georgetown University reserve squad. Beca the core center in his freshman year season... has always been surrounded by flowers and applause, his resilience to setbacks is quite poor.
Feeling a pang, Vogel saw Granger patting Hibbert on the back, saying sothing, and Hibbert’s bitter face cracked into a smile... Eh hey!
Granger, having just comforted the little brother, suddenly felt a chill—was the arena AC too strong tonight?
...
After the tiout, the Pacers adjusted their offense... Go, Boss!
The Pacers’ head coach is Jim O’Brien, not a great coach, but quite skilled at nurturing outside talents. Anthony Walker, Pierce, were both developed during his tenure as an assistant coach with the Celtics.
After Big Bird ousted Carlisle, he imdiately decided to rebuild, signed Jim O’Brien to develop Granger, and Granger’s rapid growth last season owed much to Jim O’Brien.
Jim O’Brien also has strong execution power. It’s difficult to have his team perform, but he can strictly implent Big Bird’s ’showcase product’ without any outside interference.
Granger, facing the defense of Zhang Yang, tried not to go inside to avoid being double-tead, began utilizing his height and wingspan to shoot despite Zhang Yang’s interference, quickly breaking the Pacers’ scoring drought.
But for the Bobcats, this isn’t a bad thing, it’s a good thing!
Their wing defenders can engage in physical confrontations with the Pacers’ wing defenders all they want, not caring if Zhang Yang can hold his ground or gets beat, focusing on the physical battle to set the stage for the second and third roster’s defense.
Granger, at his peak, indeed had strong personal abilities, sowhat like his draft template T-Mac, with his rhythm-disrupting surprise strong shots maintaining decent accuracy.
In response, Zhang Yang’s approach was to single-handedly attack aggressively with Felton!
Felton played steadily, taking shots if he had the opportunity, passing to teammates if not.
Zhang Yang was different...
After the tiout, the Bobcats’ lead slowed down, once the lead exceeded 10 points, both sides went back and forth for a while, but the pressure on the Pacers’ players intensified.
If in the starting lineup this tactic affects the opposing wing shooter, the Bobcats would certainly be affected too, so just throw it!
Zhang Yang defended Granger, and Granger naturally defended Zhang Yang.
Having Ford or Dunleavy defend Zhang Yang ant giving away points.
Every ti Granger finished defending Zhang Yang’s charge, he’d get puzzled—have we really reached a point where we can only rely on star single plays due to our offensive tactics failing?
At 6:44 in the first quarter, Felton drove in but was blocked by Hibbert, had no choice but to pass it out to Millsap, who then passed it to Zhang Yang running to the top arc around the three-point line.
Murphy made an early move to defend the ball-receiving Zhang Yang. Zhang Yang turned and jumped right into the oncoming Murphy, using him as a prop, shot a three... and hit!
The Pacers called tiout, 24 to 9, the Bobcats’ lead grew to 15 points!
After the referee’s whistle, Zhang Yang and his teammates celebrated excitedly, his individual shots were on fire, and his teammates were thrilled watching too!
The Pacers’ players, anwhile, were all numb, especially Granger, who was single defending Zhang Yang, and Murphy, who helped on this ti.
In that shot just now, if Zhang Yang had reacted a bit slower, turned slower, or jumped slower... Murphy might have blocked it, the ball flew past Murphy’s fingertips!
Who the hell plays like this?
Kobe, Billups, those two reckless players wouldn’t dare to be this reckless, would they?
Big Bird, Vogel, Carlisle, and others were all stunned, is this how basketball is played?
Carlisle, relatively unfazed, said to Vincent beside him: "Does Jack have so misunderstanding about our defensive adjustnt plan? I sowhat regret saying those things."
Vincent: "It seems like Jack is playing this way because of your ’offense is up to the starting lineup’ comnt... but as long as he can make the shots, there shouldn’t be a problem, right? I don’t quite grasp the mindset of scorers of his caliber, do you?"
Carlisle: "...I feel like you’re insulting ."
anwhile, on the Pacers’ bench, DeRozan, about to be called to the court, was also stunned.
DeMar: Is this the youngest Finals MVP ever, the youngest scoring king ever Zhang San? My third brother is this fierce?
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