Chapter 163 War of Attrition
Chen Feng's fierce performance, as if he was scattering, made Skeles keep pace back and forth on the sidelines. He didn't expect that it was originally a counterattack opportunity for the Bulls, but the kid took the lead.
Originally, Skeles had already explained during the halftime break. When he came up, he would use the cooperation of the inside and outside lines to tear open the opponent's defense line and use the time at the beginning of the third quarter to attack the opponent.
The feeling of being locked in the offensive point by the Celtics in the second quarter was so uncomfortable. Skeles didn't want to experience it again. He just wanted to take advantage of the short relaxation after the rest to make a time difference.
He even thought about it. As long as the first two or three minutes of attack can overtake the score again, there is no need to be too many, six or seven points, he will be sure to slowly fight with the Celtics.
After all, this is the home court of the Bulls. Once the momentum comes, the calves will be excited again. They are originally a group of guys who play with passion, and maybe they will play like something.
And this is their territory. If the opponent always lets his opponent walk by his bull's nose, not to mention that they are unhappy, those fanatical fans probably won't agree.
Although fans cheered for them throughout the first half, if the Celtics were still allowed to control the rhythm and drag themselves to death in the second half, only then would anyone know if the fans would turn against each other.
So no matter what, Skyles wants to change it. At least he needs to make the team's offense sharp, put some pressure on the opponent, and make the Bostonians start to make mistakes. Attack, they must be played!
No matter how bad it is, it is much better than the dry rhythm and slow attack in the second quarter. Skeles knew that the slow rhythm and style of play were the situation that the Bulls were most reluctant to encounter now.
They are not afraid of scoring with the Suns, but they are afraid of fighting with the Spurs. It is not that the Bulls have not laid a good foundation, but that guy is just playing with the experienced taste, which is a bit too difficult for people to be aware of.
It is not that easy for a group of calves who have just entered the league for more than two years. If they have psychological imbalances, what kind of situation might occur.
The Bulls are still fighting against you with a passion. If they score against tit, just like the first quarter, they can make unusual attacks.
But once the rhythm enters positional warfare, or frequent physical contact is required to gain an offensive opportunity, this makes Hinrich or Gordon a little at a loss and loses the shooting rhythm.
Especially when the two of Sinrich and Nosioni fall, as soon as the speed drops, they will never find the feel when they fight Rondo or Pierce, and their hit rate is unreliable.
Even the Bulls' live DJ sighed helplessly on the sidelines, "If Cork gets accurate and can score any goal, but if it's bad, even a junior high school student can beat him with a shot."
Sinrich, who had already had a 45% shooting percentage this season, always trembled involuntarily when facing Rondo's entanglement and Chen Feng's animal, his hands were always a little trembling involuntarily, not to mention the shooting percentage.
This guy has no usual touch at all. Even the brave state of the first quarter seemed to have been squeezed out in the second quarter. He only had an awkward one-shot shot. If there were no free throws, he would only score two points.
Hinrich is unstable, so Gordon doesn't expect to be more stable. Compared with Hinrich, his shooting may be more erratic, with three-pointers being able to score, but two-pointers are also all kinds of iron-kicks to smash rebounds.
On the other hand, the Celtics can stabilize and play against you, mainly because Auerbach's foundation was good enough. According to the old man, playing with the Celtics, you must understand how to implement the tactics.
Whether it is a fast attack counterattack or a positional battle after landing, as long as you don’t have the chance, you can pass to the last second. As long as you make sure to cause damage to your opponent, Auerbach doesn’t care whether you take one or twenty seconds.
The Celtics can calm down. Even if the scene is ugly, they can still be as stable as Mount Tai. This is Rivers' coaching style that follows Auerbach, and he tries not to follow the rhythm of his opponent.
Just like when Chen Feng was strangled at the basket in the second quarter, Rivers could still let the players keep an eye on the opponent's scoring points and slow down the entire pace, so as not to be killed by the opponent's attack.
When the pace slows down, the Bulls's point-scoring feel is weaker, and even in terms of hit rate, it is a few percentage points lower than the Celtics. This is probably not expected by most people, including Skeles himself.
In order not to let this embarrassing situation happen again, the tactics designated by Skeles during the intermission was to allow the players to rush up and get back the feeling of scoring.
Just like in the first quarter, you use your score to make your opponent panic and then wait for the opponent to make a mistake, especially those kids on the outside, you must press your sharp horns on your opponent's chest!
However, before Skeles' wishful thinking was done, he was stunned by Chen Feng's wild blow. The boy didn't wait for the Bulls to rush up, but took action first.
It would be fine if it was just a block on Sinrich, but when Chen Feng moved, the Bulls started to panic again because the destructive power of that guy was really too powerful.
If Chen Feng fought Wallace in the inside in the second quarter, then as soon as he came up in the third quarter, he didn't care who was behind him, and he started to rush to the Bulls' outside scoring points.
No matter whether it is Sinrich, Gordon, or Nosioni who was slapped on the floor just now by him, he will definitely bump into Chen Feng head-on.
Rondo, Pierce, and Tony Allen are stationed on the periphery. If the opponent throws a three-pointer, they will open their hands to interfere and try not to give them a comfortable opportunity to take action.
If the ball is in, even if they are lucky, if they don't, Chen Feng and Jefferson will naturally compete for rebounds with PJ Brown and Wallace.
Although Wallace did not get a few scoring opportunities in the second quarter, Chen Feng was not suppressed by him in the competition for rebounding on both offense and defense, and the two of them fought for half a pound.
Wallace has experience, accurate positioning, and full of strength, but Chen Feng has amazing jumping power and is also fierce enough. Even if the position is not so accurate, he can use his long arms to recover his disadvantages.
In general, the rebounds on both sides are evenly matched. On the defensive end, they can control the rebounds. On the offensive end, whoever is lucky enough will belong to whoever is.
With Jefferson and Chen Feng at the basket, Pierce and others can also defend on the periphery with confidence, but the only change this time is that once the opponent breaks through and breaks in, they will definitely chase them to the end.
In the first two quarters, if the opponent breaks through and breaks in, the Celtics may choose to change positions and defend directly, the big man comes out to block, and then the lost players retreat to the side to assist in defense.
But this time it was completely different. No matter how they were passed by their opponents, they would choose to turn around and chase them to death.
Because these guys all know that as long as they catch up, even if they can't stop them immediately, Chen Feng will come out from the inside to intercept the opponent's breakthrough.
As long as they can curb the opponent's speed, they will be double-teamed defense. This distinctive defense makes Sinrich and the others a little miserable.
Moreover, Chen Feng was very aggressive, with Jefferson behind him to make up for defense. The most important point is that Wallace's offensive ability is almost zero. As long as he is not allowed to dunk or hit the board, there is almost no effective scoring method. Chen Feng dares to let him make a mid-range jump shot. As long as he is slightly disturbed, the "Big Ben" often cannot take action, which makes Skeles stand on the sidelines and can only spread his hands.
There is no way! There is no way anyone can be the head coach. Wallace's scoring ability is not very good, and it has been a day or two. From the day he entered the league, he has been a standard blue-collar worker, and scoring has always been a weakness.
And if someone interferes, this old guy won't say anything about scoring. Jefferson was not a vegetarian at first. If he had a negative scoring ability like a number one insider, he would be very skilled at any time.
Chen Feng was so swooping out, not only his movement speed could ensure his retreat to defend, but also because he knew that Jefferson could fill up his position and completely strangled Wallace's point.
Even if Wallace can pass the ball to PJ Brown, Chen Feng still has enough time to retreat to the basket to defend. It may be a bit tiring to fight Wallace alone, but if he kills that old guy Brown, Chen Feng is still sure.
Like that time, PJ Brown obviously suffered a loss in the low post movement. He never expected Chen Feng to slip over so quickly. If he was not careful, Chen Feng would racquet off the racket.
The Bulls' inside offense was not intended to be the main offensive point, let alone this time. How to do it? Wallace's hit rate, Brown's low post movement, and Skyles was crazy unless he was crazy.
The outside world, which had high hopes, and Chen Feng intervened, Skeles' tactical arrangements were all lost. With Chen Feng in the inside, he would be killed by two people unless he immediately stopped and jumped after the breakthrough, and the pass might be cut off, which made Sinrich and his group quite depressed.
Moreover, the Celtics are not only so defensive, but also after the ball is intercepted or the pinch is successful, they either play fast break counterattack or slowly fight with you after they fall.
That kid Chen Feng made Skeles scratch his head, because the little beast let Wallace be on the defensive end, but they were all on the offensive end, and this kid put all his efforts into the basket.
Regardless of whether he had the chance or not, Chen Feng just rushed hard. Even if he felt he couldn't get in with the ball, he would still make a move. However, this time he rushed back and did not care about it.
If the opportunity is not in place, he will not take action. Even if he squeezes into the basket, he will find an opportunity to pass the ball. However, he will not stop at all when physical contact and confrontation, and he is simply forcing Wallace to bear himself.
Skeles is not an idiot, he can't see Chen Feng's intention, that kid is playing a war of attrition with the Bulls. On the defensive end, as long as he is not fighting for rebounds, he will try not to force Wallace.
But his interference to the outside has become a big threat to the Bulls, even a threat!
Moreover, on the offensive end, he fought for Wallace with his life. First, he wanted to cause Wallace to foul, and second, he was purely head-on pursuit of confrontation, which was to rely on his body to fight against "Big Ben".
That's right, Wallace is the best defensive player in the NBA, but this guy is already 32 years old. Although he is still extremely strong in physique, he will never be able to fight against a good guy who is less than 20 years old.
Originally, the two people have a good physical fitness. If one side sacrifices its life to fight you to the death, and on the other side, as long as you avoid it, you may be defeated by your opponent.
So Wallace did not dare to slacken, so he could only carry Chen Feng out, but this old guy definitely didn't know that there was an old saying in China, saying that boxing is afraid of being strong.
Moreover, when he and Chen Feng were in a defensive position, most of them were in a defensive position. The offensive side took the initiative, and the referee could not always call Chen Feng a foul on the offensive.
If these two tough guys meet, it is normal to have a fierce physical contact, which is very unfavorable to the defense side. Moreover, Wallace had already committed two fouls in the second quarter.
When the referee made a foul on Wallace for the fourth time, not only the tough Wallace was yelling at the referee to express his dissatisfaction, but Skeles on the other side also kept complaining loudly.
"Damn it! That's not a foul!" However, Skeles' complaint received no response, and Wallace's roar also brought the referee's warning.
If you express your dissatisfaction like this, the referee doesn't mind thinking of "Big Ben" as a technical foul. Although this is the Bulls' home court, Wallace's toughness will also bring negative effects in the confrontation at the basket.
With constant physical contact, Chen Feng never went down to rest for nine minutes except for the timeout in the third quarter. He just carried Wallace to fight.
Although the wild boy was gasping heavily, this kind of physical contact was too exhausting. Two equally strong beasts collided with muscle mass at the basket for almost ten minutes.
But even so, Chen Feng grabbed 5 rebounds from Wallace and 6 points, which made the opponent pay two fouls, which made Skeles scratch his head and replace Wallace.
When Wallace was replaced, the Bulls were still six points behind the Celtics. The 4-point advantage after the start of the third quarter was still maintained slowly, which made Skeles anxious on the sidelines.
Chen Feng made one of two free throws, but the advantage of seven points gave them enough confidence to deal with their opponents, not to mention that the Bulls came to replace Wallace with Roll Deng.
This guy who has been on the bench for a long time is not only cold in his hands, but also colder in his heart. He makes him fight to the death with Jefferson and Chen Feng? Uh, just thinking about it, he is already desperate.
When Skeles replaced Wallace again when he was ten behind, the third quarter was more than fifty seconds left, and the miserable Roll Deng gave the Celtics three-pointer in vain.
His two fouls allowed Jefferson to make three of four free throws. When the difference became double digits, the entire United Center Arena was in a turmoil.
I am at home and have a lineup that is stronger than my opponent, so I can just play like this bear? Is this still the third brother in the Eastern Conference? Your uncle! Can you play the game seriously?
Hearing the dissatisfied booing from the fans, Skyles almost hit the floor with his head, "This fucking damn war of attrition! We were actually exhausted by the Bostonians!"
Attrition War, if someone told Skeles before the game that your team would be dragged to death by the Celtics, no one would believe this, and they would even laugh at the person who said this.
But now, this is the fact, the cruel fact...
Chapter completed!