Youth is the greatest capital. The Pacers’ lineup is very young now, and their impact and sports talent are very strong.
Granger hit a mid-range shot in the bottom corner, and then hibbert hit it hard at the basket. The pacers played a wave of 8-0.
22 to 21, the Pacers overtook the score.
Before this game. Larry Bird talked to O ‘Brien on the phone, and Bird asked O ‘Brien to arrange troops normally. This game does not need to consider the cultivation of rookie.
O ‘Brien knew that Byrd had assigned him an assistant, and the task of cultivating young players should be handed over to the new guy, and a big stone in O ‘Brien’s heart was put down.
After a frenzied attack by the Pacers, they led the Pistons by 31-25 at the end of the first quarter.
Both Li Cheng and Granger played the first quarter, and they also jointly contributed 23 points in the first quarter. Such offensive firepower made the Pistons speechless for a while.
The Pacers took the lead with the younger Gemini, and the head coach of Pistons looked at these veterans, which was really helpless.
If Billups and Rasheed Wallace could be five years younger. Why did the Pacers take advantage of the young players’ physical strength so unscrupulously to take the lead at the end of the first quarter?
In the second quarter, the Pistons were replaced in a larger area, and their lineup must be rotated, otherwise they will not have the physical strength to play after entering the playoffs.
Stucky, who has great potential, was put on the piston. This is a promising star in the Pistons, but the Pistons hope this kid can take over Billups’ class.
Stucky’s physical fitness is excellent, and his height of 196 often makes him eat the opposing point guard to death.
At the beginning of the second quarter, the pistons also took advantage of Li Cheng and Granger’s absence. Stucky succeeded in consecutive dislocated singles.
Stucky hit three shots in a row, and Mark Hill, the black man of Pistons, also hit two goals and scored four points. On the other hand, the Pacers, only Chamos hit a three-pointer on the outside. The piston hit an attack wave of 11 to 3. In an instant, the score came back.
Pacers have made great changes in their lineup this summer, but there are so many young players in their team that their bench depth seems to have deepened a lot, but in fact their bench lineup is very fragile.
Li Cheng and Granger only sat off the court for four minutes, so O ‘Brien had to send them on again.
The Pacers’ current lineup is still too dependent on the combination of Li Cheng and Granger, who occupy too much firepower output of the Pacers. Almost all the Pacers’ tactics revolve around the two of them. The Pacers’ seemingly complicated tactics, but Li Cheng and Granger did most of the things.
There is nothing O ‘Brien can do about this design, because there are too many new players in the Pacers, and many tactics can’t be fully used.
Seeing so many rookies sitting on his bench, O ‘Brien has a little headache.
Although youth is capital, the Pacers’ lineup is a little too young!
After Li Cheng and Granger re-played, the Pacers instantly regained their advantage in the scene. Lopez and Ibaka on the court also found the backbone because of the return of Li Cheng and Granger.
In addition, Li Cheng also took over the possession of the ball by Chamos, and this boy was bullied by stucky, which was a bit miserable.
Now Chamos is mainly used as a battery outside the team’s three-point line, while Li Cheng organizes the team.
Li Chengzhen’s goal is to play all-star in any position. After he played point guard, stucky couldn’t do anything about his passing. After Li Cheng went on stage, the pacers seemed to be complete in an instant, and all the passes and runs were very reasonable.
Two minutes after Li Cheng played, the Pacers overtook the score again. Sung Jae Lee sent three assists during this period. (To be continued. . )
Chapter DiErLiuJiu Upgrade the strongest spear
O ‘Brien didn’t care about the training of the rookie in this game, but the Pacers’ play in this game is still very biased towards Li Cheng and Granger.
In front of this group of veteran pistons, Li Cheng and Granger can’t get some overwhelming advantages.
For a defender, youth means that he can run and jump, but it also means that he has no experience. For an elderly defender, age means that he can’t run or jump, but they have very rich experience.
Therefore, Li Cheng and Granger did not gain an advantage over Billups, Hamilton and Prince. But they are young, so they can run and jump better than those veterans in Huosai.
Li Cheng and Granger kept ahead of the score by playing more time than the veterans of Huosai.
At the end of the first half, the Pacers led the Pistons 49-46. In the locker room, O ‘Brien said a very reasonable sentence, "You are younger and more energetic than them. So although we only have a 3-point lead now, as long as we maintain the consistency of our attack, our advantage will grow with time. "
"The old guys in Pistons are all going to retire. There is no reason why we can’t beat them!"
Compared with the pistons, the biggest advantage of pedestrians lies in their youth.
In this game, O ‘Brien didn’t make a substitution that interrupted the continuity of the team’s attack. His substitution has always been very cautious.
Ibaka and hibbert can still be substituted, while Lopez has no chance to play at all.
Chamos only got a little playing time in the second quarter, and Rush only got a little playing time after Li Cheng and Granger were tired.
O ‘Brien still uses relatively experienced Mike Roberts and Foster.
And more importantly, the inside strength of the piston is not very strong. Prince often makes a guest appearance at the fourth position in the lineup of Pistons, and Rasheed Wallace is also a relatively outside player. Therefore, even if the weakness of the pedestrian is exposed to the piston, the piston can’t give the pedestrian a fatal blow.
In the third quarter, Granger broke out before Li Cheng. Granger showed his effect for the first time in this summer’s training. He first hit a mid-range shot under Hamilton’s closed-eye defense.
This mid-range shot completely opened Granger’s scoring account in the second half of the game. Then he hit a three-pointer from the bottom corner, and then broke through to the inside and hit a layup while causing Rasheed Wallace to foul.
If the ball Granger is placed on the piston at the peak, it goes without saying that it is definitely a big hat. At that time, the Pistons had Ben Wallace, known as the no-fly zone, but how many defenders’ nightmares were caused by Rashid Wallace’s long arms?
It’s just that time flies now, Big Ben has taken off the armguard of the no-fly zone, and Rasheed Wallace has gone from bad to worse.
When Granger hit a layup near the baseline and beat his chest and roared, the roaring Buddha didn’t open his mouth and rebuked Hamilton who was missed by Granger. He just stood there, his waist crossed. Look at Granger. His body standing there exudes this kind of helplessness of the hero.
Granger’s performance is not over. Granger’s style of playing is unpretentious, but sometimes it is extremely lethal.
Granger shot from inside out, and one man scored 18 points in the third quarter, while Li Cheng swept the Pacers’ remaining 12 points in this competition.
Intown Gemini scored 30 points in this section, and the scoring efficiency of Pistons in this section was lower than that in the first half. After three quarters, the Pacers led 79-68 by 11 points.
At that time, the piston that often limited the opponent’s score to 80 points was gone, and now the piston is really old. The grassroots champion who almost swept the Lakers f4 that year is completely old.
In the final fourth quarter, Li Cheng and Granger each played for 3 minutes. Li Cheng made 4 of 4 shots in the first three minutes, including a 3-pointer, and scored 9 points in total. After that, Granger also made 4 of 4 shots. Scored eight points.
The perfect play of the Indian city binary star made the game end 6 minutes ahead of schedule, and finally O ‘Brien sent the pacers’ purest substitute to brush the experience.
In the end, the Pacers beat the Pistons 106-97 away and won two consecutive victories since the new season.
Granger scored 34 points and Li Cheng scored 33 points in this game. The two of them jointly contributed 67 points of data, and their horrible scoring explosiveness was revealed.
Granger edged out Li Cheng as the best player in this game, but for such things as the best player in a single game. Li cheng doesn’t care anymore.
In the last few games of last season, the Pacers’ best player in a single game was basically Li Cheng. At that time, his amazing rise and his contribution to the team in every game did not need to be entangled at all. The best player on the spot must be his.
However, this season, Li Cheng’s performance has been commonplace in the eyes of many people, and Granger has grown a lot this summer.
However, this phenomenon is absolutely good for Li Cheng. After all, Granger’s strength shows that the Pacers team is even stronger. The fact that the Pacers are stronger is the most straightforward weight for them to compete for the championship.
After the game with Pistons that night, the Pacers immediately got on the plane to Indianapolis. When they returned to Indianapolis, it was the second day of their game with the Pistons, and they were going to collide with the Celtics that night.
All the pedestrians dragged their tired bodies back to the hotel. On this day, the team will not arrange a lot of training content, but just arrange some shooting training after the afternoon rally.
The players are all asleep, and after a fierce game, they really have no strength to go out and fool around.
However, O ‘Brien still didn’t sleep after the players fell asleep. At this time, he was having a long talk with John Stegen in the room.
"Jim, this is my training plan. Take a look." John Stegen cut to the chase.
O ‘Brien looked at Stegen’s training plan. Most of these plans were aimed at the domestic rookies, which was a headache for O ‘Brien, but someone came to take on the problem for him, and O ‘Brien was also happy at leisure.
"Your plan is very detailed, so be it! These boys will be handed over to you. " O’ Brien said.
"There is another person, you also give it to me together!" Stegen rubbed his hands and said.
O’ Brien gave Stegen an inquiring look. Stegen smiled and said, "Give me the training plan about Li Cheng!"
Li Cheng is the number one star in the Pacers team now, and O ‘Brien can’t trust Li Cheng to Stegen, a young man! If there is a problem with Stegen’s training plan and Li Cheng is injured, then the Pacers can be said to be really no generals in the army and will be bullied.
"This is my tailor-made training plan for Li Cheng. Please have a look first." Stegen handed O ‘Brien another document.
O’ Brien looked at it twice and said, "Do you want to strengthen Li Cheng’s breakthrough?"
"Yes, Li Cheng’s average number of free throws per game is only 2.5 now. He only made five free throws in these two games. This number of free throws is really too small for a star of his level." Stegen road.