The Basketball Court Swordsman

In January, he averaged 26.2 points, 7.8 assists and 6.2 rebounds per game, and won the Eastern Conference Player of the Week with an all-around data. In the last game against the Bobcats, it also scored 22 points, 10 rebounds and 13 assists in a triple-double, helping the team stabilize the Eastern Conference rankings.

Do you think this is describing LeBron James? No, the person who got this series of data is a young point guard who is only in the third grade and has not yet executed his rookie contract, Derek Rose!

As the No. 1 pick in the recognized draft year in 2008, Derrick Rose has been attracting attention since his debut. You know, after Ross, there are uCLA iron men like Westbrook, Kevin Love, the behemoth known as the hope for the revival of native American whites, and Michael Beasley, the next Jordan…

But in such a group of powerful players, the Chicago Bulls resolutely chose the attacking number one from the University of Memphis, Derrick Rose!

Rose is also expected, he was able to score 16.8 points per game in his rookie season, and he still shot 47.5% from the field. His non-deceleration change direction, dazzlingly fast breakthrough and unscrupulous pull-up layup after jumping up without defensiveness made every Chicagoian cheered.

To them, this is almost a new era of Jordan!

In the second year, Rose’s scoring average soared to 20.8 points and his shooting percentage increased to 48.9%. His finishing ability became more terrifying. And the jersey sales of this supernova has soared to fourth in the league! This shows that Rose’s super popularity.

So as expected, Rose has evolved again this season. His confrontation ability is stronger, and his passing vision is much better than before. The three-pointer that has always been criticized has also made a good 33.2% shooting this season.

He has won a variety of gorgeous data, often appearing in the picture of the top five balls. When James decided to bring his talent to Miami, and Kobe embarked on his second trip to three consecutive championships, the brilliance of young Rose surpassed everyone.

Henson watched Rose’s game video, looked at Rose’s data at hand, and even couldn’t help feeling a little envious.

Teams with superstars are really different. Although Henson believes that the Pacers will have their own superstars in the future. But at least at this stage, he can only envy him.

But envy is envy, the game still has to continue. The energetic Bull had long wanted to get rid of the Pacers, and now that he encountered such a good opportunity, the Bull would naturally not let it go.

However, the Bulls coach, Tom Thibodeau who looks like the Penguin in Batman comics, is not a good guy. Thibodeau, who is obsessed with defense, will definitely try his best to contain the Pacers’ quick break. Moreover, the athletically talented Bulls can really follow the Pacers on the full court.

In this case, Henson can’t expect to rely on offensive basketball to beat the bulls. After all, the Bulls have the natural superstar Derrick Rose. On the offense, you can’t beat him.

But how does the defense contain the Bulls? The Bulls are not the only one who can score.

“British Jordan” Lor Deng, this man was deeply loved by Kobe. Had it not been for the Bulls management to use Lor Deng as one of the bargaining chips for Kobe at that time, Kobe might have really become a member of the Chicago Bulls.

Because in Kobe’s view, there is no Lol Deng Bulls, it would be better to stay with the Lakers.

In addition, Carlos Boozer’s strong addition last year also gave the Bulls a very firepower inside pillar.

Boozer Henson is naturally familiar with it. Yao Ming and the Rockets fell in the hands of the Jazz more than once when they hadn’t crossed over and were still fans. And Boozer, who was still playing for the Jazz at the time, brought Yao Ming a lot of trouble.

If you learn to deal with the Heat’s James and pile all the defensive forces on Rose, it will definitely not work.

Because unlike the Heat, if you let Lor Deng and Boozer let go, they can really kill you!

After thinking about it, Henson has only one way. It seems that the Pacers’ outside players must suffer a bit in the past few days of the game.

“Circular…one-on-one offensive and defensive training?” The next day, when Henson announced the new training requirements, all the players looked at each other in a daze.

“Yes, and I said, you are not allowed to shoot, you must break into the three-second zone before shooting. The confrontation should be as fierce as possible, of course, to ensure that your teammates will not be injured because of this. Stephenson, you go defend first, George, you are the first to attack.” Henson clapped his hands and let the Pacers outside players start “cannibalizing”.

At this point, everyone has to face fierce attacks from several teammates in a row. Then, so does the next person. Henson suspended all individual training and let all outside players practice like this. The end result is that in the afternoon’s confrontational training, everyone is extremely fierce when defending the ball holder one-on-one!

“What are you planning!? Don’t you create some defensive traps for Rose?” Frank Vogel is also a defensive master, which even Henson has to admit humbly.

“I will naturally adopt your plan. The inside players protect the place close to the basket. They must use a hierarchical defense against Derrick Rose. But what we have to do is to make it difficult for Rose to break through the first level! You know! , Frank, there is no shortage of perimeter defensive talents in our team. But if you rush to double-team, Rose’s greatly improved passing vision this season will let Boozer and Lor Deng kill us! So, watching the dead While Zell and Deng are at the same time, I plan to use the method of wheel warfare, a little bit with Rose.”

Seeing the defensive toughness of everyone on the court, Henson nodded happily.

“Wheel fight? To put it bluntly, isn’t it still one-on-one?” Vogel didn’t question Henson, the two coaches were just discussing it.

“Yes, not all. When the game starts, you can see the effect. My purpose is not to let Rose not score, nor to let him only score more than ten points. I know that this approach is difficult to contain Rose’s Scoring stats. But I promise, Rose’s scoring won’t kill us!”

On January 15, 2011, the Pacers, who had recently won three consecutive victories, and the Chicago Bulls, who had just got rid of their two-game losing streak, met at Conseco Arena. T.NT TV set the game as a national live broadcast. The well-known sideline reporter of the TV station “Man in Color” Sage came to the scene, Jeff Van Gundy and Indianapolis logo Reggie Miller came to explain in person.

There is a saying among American fans: “Where there is a classic game, there is Sag.”

Today, T.NT sent Sag here specifically, which shows how remarkable this Eastern War is.

Although today was at the Pacers’ home stadium in Conseco Arena, Henson still found that there were many fans wearing the Bulls’ No. 1 red jersey in the audience.

These people may come all the way from Chicago, maybe they are Indianapolis people, but they can’t resist Rose’s personal charm. Regardless of the reason, Rose’s popularity is truly in front of Henson.

Before the game started, Sager, who was very interested in Henson, came to him and asked him to do a sideline interview.

Sager’s question is simple, but also very compelling: “How do the Pacers plan to contain Derrick Rose’s offense?”

Sarger smiled, and Henson deliberately put on a serious face. He didn’t speak, but pulled out the handkerchief in the pocket of Sarger’s sky blue suit, crumpled it into a ball, then put it back into Sarger’s pocket, and then left.

Sarger looked at the camera, and then at the handkerchief that had been squeezed into a ball. Finally, he looked at Rose who was warming up, and he couldn’t help but shudder. It seems that Derek Rose will not have a great time tonight.

“Thank you for your answer, coach!” Sager said, ending the sideline interview where he was alone.