"The Manhattan Challengers' defense was too small, so they almost completely gave up their defense against the outside. The gap between the inside line between the two sides is too big."

The Manhattan Challengers and the Raptors had a great game in the first half. Whether it was the three-pointer of the Manhattan Challenger player, the Raptors' frontcourt rebound, or the mutual data between James and Anthony, it can be said that both teams played their own characteristics in the first half. In this case, when the second half of both sides begins, both sides will naturally strengthen this.

For the Raptors, Manhattan's inside line almost does not exist, they can grab whatever they want. Also for the Manhattan Challengers, although the Raptors have strong movement ability in the double inside line, they are big men after all. In this case, they definitely have a lot of opportunities for three-pointers on the outside line, so for them, they can shoot whatever they want. It doesn't matter whether they enter or not, because this is what they must do if they want to win this game.

In this case, almost all of these two teams strengthened their first half style after the start of the second half. For a moment, the two teams actually entered the final battle ahead of schedule from the third quarter. Obviously, under such circumstances, as long as the two teams can grasp the situation in the third quarter, whoever can win the game.

For Kenny Smith, the commentator of this game, the Raptors didn't have to play so hard, but the team was indeed dragged down in this game. According to his idea, if Kwame Brown and Ilyasova had a stronger offensive ability, I'm afraid the Raptors would have won this game long ago. Now, because the Manhattan Challenger almost all his strength to shrink the defense line, Kwame Brown and Ilyasova did not even have the chance to enter the inside.

Although they can still grab some frontcourt rebounds, Kwame Brown does not have strong offensive ability and stable mid-range ability. Although Ilyasova on the other side has the shooting ability of traditional European inside, this rookie's inside is also extremely unstable. In this case, the team's offense is actually almost entirely pressing on Marbury and Anthony. At this point, the team's huge advantage against the Manhattan Challengers is slowly shrinking, especially after the start of the second half, the Manhattan Challengers seemed to block the Raptors' offense, but the Raptors still could not stop the Manhattan Challengers' breakthrough pass, which almost made the Raptors, who led the half in this game, confusing the situation.

"Last season they finally lost to the Lakers in the playoffs. This team now has to develop Kwame Brown's offense or make Ilyasova mature faster, otherwise their inside advantage can only be paper, and they need to share the pressure on the offensive end for Anthony and Mobri."

In the end, Kenny Smith looked at the final battle between the two players in the third quarter, Anthony and Mobley almost fought against the Manhattan Challenger team and said helplessly.

Zhuang Fei knows the Raptors very well. This team has not changed much from two years ago. Two years ago, the team's power forward was Marshall, and he is also an inside player with good shooting. However, his frontcourt rebounds are not as good as Ilyasova, but his shooting stability is better than Ilyasova now. At that time, Zhuang Fei did not dare to shrink. At that time, the Raptors were able to throw the Lakers to death.

So when he was in the Lakers, Zhuang Fei either crushed the Raptors directly with his invincible offense regardless of defense, or he tangled Weber and Kwame Brown. But now, he has no Weber and no other players who can tangle the Raptors' inside. In this case, if he wants to win or protect his basket, he can only shrink wildly. After all, in the first half, the Manhattan Challenger's shooting rate was so high that he was still 4 points behind in the end. Zhuang Fei could clearly realize that no matter how high he hits in this game, he always lets the Raptors grab the frontcourt rebounds, which will make their team's efficiency disappear. In the end, his seemingly risky decision was correct. At least it seems that the effect is good now, because when the third quarter started, not only five minutes later, both sides returned to the same starting line again.

"This guy is really powerful."

James stood in front of Kwame Brown and said in a little bit of a surprise. After the start of the second half, the team was playing the contraction defense as Zhuang Fei told him, but shrinking the defense was not just about retreating the defense line. After the second half, the reason why the Manhattan Challenger was able to block the Raptors was because James blocked Kwame Brown.

If both sides stand in the same place and fight against each other, James is naturally not the opponent who can block O'Neal's center forward. However, because Kwame Brown does not have strong ability to play and the task of grabbing the frontcourt rebounds, Kwame Brown cannot stand in the same place and keep moving or demanding attack from the outside. He has been moving.

In this case, it would be much easier for James to move to defend Kwame Brown. After all, in this case, he only needs to be able to block Kwame Brown's moving route. With his strength, he can still block Kwame Brown under such a defensive strategy. In addition, his footwork advantage and strength are not bad. After the second half, the Raptors' head of the inside activity was greatly reduced, and at least the offensive rebounds were no longer as terrifying as in the first half.

Of course, although James is very good at defending Kwame Brown at this time, the Raptors' frontcourt rebound has lost that absolute advantage, but there are still advantages. After all, James only has one. Although such a contraction of the top man can make the Raptors stand up, the other one is not so easy to stand up. Fortunately, Bonner can still use his experience to fight Ilyasova. Although Ilyasova has shown great talent at this time, after losing Kwame Brown, a point that can be restrained by him, his individual skills are still a little lacking.

In this case, the two teams actually reached a balance of power at the end of the third quarter. This was a real balance of power. This game was evenly matched under the unbelievable eyes of almost everyone. You know, before the game, almost everyone thought that the Manhattan Challenger would be an unquestionable defeat.

"We can actually tie the Raptors now, how is this possible?" Even now, Mike Woodson, the assistant coach of the Manhattan Challenger who was standing next to Zhuang Fei at this time, was a little unbelievable. After all, for him, before this game, he didn't think his team could win at all. This was not because of his lack of confidence, but because of strength. It was just that at this time, when he looked at the situation on the court, and it seemed that the Manhattan Challenger was blooming everywhere because of the players and the Raptors maintained their attacks with double guns, in fact, the Manhattan Challenger even had a little advantage at this time, so in fact, this was not a theoretical absolute balance of power, but the Raptors' weakness and the advantage of the Manhattan Challenger, which was too incredible for Woodson and many people!

"This guy really brought this team on track in less than half a month. This is too terrible, right?" At this time, when Woodson looked at Zhuang Fei on the side, he still felt a little dreamy.

Of course, the one who feels like a dream is not just the assistant coach of the Manhattan Challenger, but also the Manhattan Challenger players who are fighting hard with the Raptors on the court. At this time, they really believe what Zhuang Fei said in the locker room. They can really defeat the Raptors in this game.

For them, they had already prepared to lose in this game. Perhaps for LeBron James, he was a firm supporter of defeating Anthony and the Raptors. Others may not be. In this case, when the game that was determined to lose was given to them, they saw real hope of winning, the power that the team burst out really shocked Zhuang Fei.

"This game is finally coming to the last moment." When he saw the Manhattan Challenger players on the court getting more and more fierce, or when he saw the Raptors slowly unable to resist it, Zhuang Fei on the sidelines also smiled.

Of course, compared with Zhuang Fei's smile, the face of the Raptors' head coach Sam Mitchell on the side was much ugly at this time. Before this game, facing the Raptors, many people had such a contraction in Zhuang Fei's defense, just like the Lakers now, but not many teams that are really effective. After all, if no one can withstand Kwame Brown, even if it shrinks, it will be useless. It's just that obviously, Kwame Brown was held back, and the Raptors' biggest advantage cannot be played out now. At this time, other Raptors' players on the court were not better than the Manhattan Challengers' performance, or if they were purely competing on the outside, without the support of Kwame Brown's frontcourt rebounds, the Raptors' outside still had some disadvantages when they faced the Manhattan Challengers' outside, which made him restless on the sidelines.

This game is very important to him. At least in his opinion, this is almost a few chances for him to defeat Zhuang Fei. If he drags it down, he really does not have such confidence to defeat Zhuang Fei. After all, Zhuang Fei's ability to rebuild the team is extremely terrifying. He can turn any bottom team into a league championship contender in one year. As someone who has followed Zhuang Fei for three years, he naturally knows that in this case, his winning can only be obtained when Zhuang Fei's reconstruction of the team has not been completed.

If this opportunity is lost, Sam Mitchell doesn't know when he will wait. At this time, he sees the offensive role on the court less and less, but when he is defending, the Raptors' double towers are getting more and more clumsy by the Manhattan Challenger's extremely three-pointer shooter. At this time, the Raptors' head coach fell into a choice.

Should Kwame Brown be removed at this time?

This is a difficult question to decide. Although Kwame Brown is completely suppressed in the data, James can use more energy to attack without his restraint. The Manhattan Challenger also has more energy to attack, but if he doesn't win, it is obvious that the pressure has been a little dizzy by Bonner's three-pointer and James' breakthrough. At this time, the Raptors' seemingly luxurious inside shortcomings on the defensive end are completely exposed. Ilyasova is now unable to provide any help to Kwame Brown. After all, in the NBA, offense mainly relies on talent, and defense is more reliant on experience. This second-year insider is completely unable to fill up the position or assist in defense in terms of experience.

When the Raptors head coach Sam Mitchell was in a dilemma on the sidelines, the situation on the court had already reversed. At this time, the Manhattan Challengers, who had been four points behind in the first half, had already led by 4 points at the end of the third quarter. In this quarter, the team maintained the shooting percentage of the first half, but also protected their backcourt rebounds, which made the Raptors' second offense much less.

"If the Raptors don't change at this time, this team will probably lose this game." Kenny Smith looked at the Raptors fans who were no longer so optimistic in the stands around, and then looked at Zhuang Fei on the Manhattan bench on the court. At this time, the general trend of the game was once again grasped by Zhuang Fei. In this game, Sam Mitchell and Zhuang Fei still won. Sam Mitchell is in a dilemma now and dare not gamble. Zhuang Fei gambled decisively at the beginning of the second half and then won. Such decisiveness and judgment are not something Sam Mitchell can have now. So in Kenny Smith's view, in the league, in terms of decisions and judgments on on-site command, there are probably only Povitch and Pat Riley or Stephen Green of the Lakers, who can compare with Zhuang Fei, and the others are too far behind.

Of course, if you don't change at this time, you will lose. Raptors' head coach Sam Mitchell is naturally very clear about this. So after the fourth quarter of this game, all the starters who flew together remained on the court, but Roy replaced Barrea on the side of the Manhattan Challenger, and the rookie point guard Kyle Lowry, who performed well this year, replaced Kwame Brown.

After being forced to a dead end, Zhuang Fei's student Sam Mitchell was finally forced to make a decision. It was obvious that when he made this decision, he gave up all the team's inside advantages, including the team's inside rebounds, inside defense, etc. The team's perimeter defense will be much better and the offense will be much better, but this team will have no deterrent effect on the Manhattan Challenger.

Especially when both sides came on the court in the fourth quarter, when Zhuang Fei did not play the three-point tactics like the first three quarters, but instead let Roy and James take turns holding the ball and hit the Raptors' inside, almost no one could stop these two people because of Kwame Brown's fate.

Although Manhattan cannot stop Anthony and Mobley's attack at all, there is no doubt that both sides on the court have entered a tug-of-war, and such a tug-of-war is naturally a more favorable side for the Manhattan Challenger who is ahead of the score.

"Coach Z has done a great job of breaking up the Raptors' inside advantage in this game. I think many teams can also learn from them when facing the Raptors in the future. This is simply a textbook practice. Now that the two teams have entered the real team's decision game, James and Roy face Anthony and Mobley. Judging from the two, the Raptors still have a chance."

But Kenny Smith finished speaking, and after seeing Roy's one-stop breakthrough Mobley, he was a little unconfident. The Manhattan Challenger rookie player was amazing in terms of ability. In addition, he almost rested on the sidelines the entire third quarter, and this guy's physical fitness was the highest player on the court.

"Did Coach Z have expected that this game would be bayonets, so he kept putting Roy off the court? It would be terrible." When Kenny Smith finally thought of this, he looked at Zhuang Fei who had been smiling on the sidelines in disbelief. At this time, Zhuang Fei was already thinking about the fact that this game might win.

"Damn it, this guy is too fierce, right?"

This game was not very smooth due to the foul crisis. Iguodala was hit by Anthony directly and broke through again. It was a bit unbelievable. You know, his strength has always been something that he is extremely confident about, and now even the thing that he is most confident is now defeated by Anthony. This is simply unacceptable for him, especially after he was knocked away, the referee even blew his foul after he blew his foul. After all, this is the first time he has been fouled by six fouls this season, and he has not blocked this man's defense from beginning to end.

"Andre, you need to rise up when you see the gap. There is no need to be so disappointed. And in my opinion, your ability is far more than this." Zhuang Fei smiled and patted his shoulder after watching the pizza. This made Iguodala feel better after seeing him.

When Iguodala left the court, the situation on the court was basically at the end. At this time, with Baria, who was substituting Iguodala, threw a very long-distance three-pointer with two and a half points left. At this time, the Manhattan Challengers had basically locked in the victory of the game.

When the game ended, when the final score showed 116 to 108, when the Manhattan Challenger defeated the Raptors away, almost everyone on the scene or everyone in front of the TV saw the Manhattan Challenger players who had already celebrated wildly on the court, they would be silent, and when they looked at the Chinese on the side, they were also silent.

"Can you win such a game?!" (To be continued. Please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!)
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