The Basketball Court Swordsman

Derek Rose is proud of his spring breeze. After all, this is not the first time he has used his explosive personal ability to open the score difference. Fans and commentators all praised Rose, as if Henson and his Pacers were destined to become another dead soul of the Windy Roses.

After the timeout was over and the game restarted, it was discovered that Hinrich, who had played well in Chicago, did not play. Instead, the infamous “problem player” before the draft, Lance Stephenson.

At the same time, Henson replaced Matthews with Paul George, Danny Green replaced Dunleavy, McRoberts replaced Granger, and Jeff Fords replaced Horford.

It stands to reason that this is a very routine substitution. But everyone present, including Reggie Miller, who often commented on Pacers games, was taken aback.

What’s happening here? That guy, Henson Joe, actually used a double inside lineup for the first time? You know, Henson has always attracted attention because of his small lineup. Under normal circumstances, he will use McRoberts to play the fifth position. Today, however, Henson put the old-school center Jeff Fords on the field. What is this guy’s idea?

Henson did not intend to explain to the fans and the commentators, the game will begin immediately. The Pacers have played two inside lanes, including a traditional inside laner Ford, so the offensive speed has slowed down slightly.

On the Bulls side, in addition to Rose and Lor Deng, they also replaced three players. The inside line also changed from fierce Boozer and Kurt to Ty Gibson, who once made Henson extremely optimistic, and Turkish center Omer Asik, who had a softer playing style.

Generally speaking, the defensive strength of the Bulls’ current lineup is not as good as the starting lineup, and the interior defense is weak. So Henson can slow down and smash the Bulls.

Through patient conduction and superb cover, Stephenson froze with a beautiful breakthrough to score a three-pointer on Asik’s head.

Although Stephenson is immature, even Henson must admit that guy’s offensive talent. Maybe his data is not pretty, but the occasional flash of inspiration can always surprise people.

Thibodeau didn’t know why Henson didn’t use Hinrich, but chose the **** from Harlem. But if Henson hopes to change the situation through Stephenson’s scoring ability, then he is digging his own grave!

Rose’s impact is still unscrupulous, it seems that this guy does not intend to stop here, even if he has already scored 8 points before the first quarter of the game is over.

However, when Rose pushed past halftime, he found that the defensive strength of the Pacers’ second team did not decrease at all. It can even be said that it is even stronger.

Stephenson violently stopped Rose. Even if Rose can change direction without slowing down, he still needs room to move. And Stephenson started a hand-to-hand fight with Rose near the midfield line.

Of course, this kind of rough defense can’t beat Rose. Ross and Lor Deng played a screen, not for a breakthrough, but for a change of defense, to push the annoying Stephenson away.

Stephenson had to keep up with Lor Deng because of the pick and roll, but Rose did not become relaxed, because he just got rid of Stephenson, Danny Green immediately posted it!

“Perfect change of defense! Derrick Rose can’t beat the pace under the tacit change of defense of the Pacers!”

Ross didn’t expect Green to make up defenses so quickly. After all, Dunleavy didn’t put him so much pressure on defense in just seven and a half minutes.

But this is still not troublesome to Rose. He turned around and wiped Green in a very small space, and once again entered the restricted area!

This time, the person guarding the inside is Ford, a heavy traditional center. In fact, this is why Henson needs Ford to play. His strategy for this game was to defend firmly from the beginning!

Although Fortes can’t jump very much, his tonnage is right there, able to withstand Ross’s impact.

Ross confronted Fortes in the air and slowed down. Taking advantage of this opportunity, the tall and long-armed Paul George slapped him and slapped the basketball in Rose’s hand from the side!

“A beautiful cover from Paul George, Derek Rose missed it!”

It can be said that the Pacers used the strength of the whole team to contain Rose. This defense is not unfavorable!

Before Reggie Miller finished speaking, Stephenson picked up the basketball and pushed it past half-court. For the first time in this game, the Pacers played their favorite offensive and defensive conversion!

Rose rode a thousand, and immediately chased after being blocked. I have to admit that Rose’s speed is amazing. Stephenson clearly leads Rose by a lot, but Rose froze to use his athletic ability to gradually narrow the gap between the two.

Like Wade, Rose’s chase is a headache for countless players. Stephenson jumped up after he entered the penalty area, and Rose followed suit and leaped forward, straightening his arm! However, Stephenson did not lift the basketball at all, but sent the ball from the open legs to the back in the air!

“Puff!” Reggie Miller almost didn’t laugh. Stephenson had a good idea, but the action was really not good.

Stephenson’s passing moves are comical, but he still managed to get the ball to the hands of Paul George. At this point, Rose has flown out of the bottom line, and the rest of the Bulls naturally cannot participate in this “sports war.” George received the basketball, held it up with one hand, and after gliding for a distance like an eagle, he used a heavy tomahawk-style dunk to end the offense!

At the moment George succeeded in dunking, there was a tsunami of cheers from the stands behind Henson, and Henson raised his arms, as if he was the commander of this “cheering symphony”.

“3 points, George’s dunk made the Pacers close the point difference to 3 points! There are still a few minutes before the end of the first quarter. Coach Thibodeau should have hoped to expand the point difference, but now, the Pacers are in Narrow the difference step by step!”

Thibodeau became irritable again and yelled from the sidelines. Henson smiled unkindly. Although he respected Thibodeau, the appearance of Thibodeau… is exactly the same as the grumpy Penguin after the evil plan in the Batman comics was shattered.

However, Thibodeau’s irritability obviously did not improve the Bulls’ performance. Henson suddenly increased the defensive intensity, causing Rose’s offense to repeatedly hit a wall. He didn’t score any more points in the first quarter of the game until Rose came to rest.

On the contrary, the aggressive perimeter players who have been trained by Henson these days have cost the Bulls second team defense. The repeated impact of George and Stephenson disrupted Thibodeau’s plan.

In the end, the Pacers ended the first quarter with a 2 point lead.

Jeff Van Gundy yelled in disbelief: “The Pacers, who likes to use fast offense to destroy opponents, actually used traditional defense to reverse the situation today!”

Henson’s defensive formation makes Rose’s impact no longer difficult to stop. All three outside lines can be misplaced to guard against Ross, and they are also very fierce. When Rose finally got exhausted into the penalty area, there were fierce Fortes and McRoberts waiting for him.

Not long after the start of the second quarter, Henson switched back to a regular starting. In this section of the game, Henson’s frequency of substitutions is very high, and almost all changes are made on the outside.

Holiday defended for a few minutes, and Stephenson came up to defend for a few minutes. Stephenson began to tease, and Henson took George to one-on-one with Rose. After George was fouled, the realistic version of “Coach I want to play basketball” Danny Green took over. In the end, Wesley Matthews will let Rose, a genius, look at the power of losing the draft.

Whenever Rose faces at least two tough defenders who are energetic and want to tear him to pieces. When he finally got inside, he had to fight against it with a tough second line of protection.

In the second quarter, Rose played very uncomfortably, and his shooting percentage dropped all the way. Thibodeau did not expect that Henson would actually use his best defense to deal with himself.

This multi-level defensive system is actually what Henson learned from Thibodeau. Butler University Bulldogs coach Stevens taught Henson the method of learning video, allowing Henson to absorb the essence of many coaches into his team. Among them, naturally includes Thibodeau’s defensive arrangement.

Of course, Henson did not imitate vaguely. Instead, add your own thinking while absorbing the other’s strengths. What’s more, Henson’s assistant Vogel is a defensive master, so it makes sense that the Pacers can play a high-quality defense.

With the Pacers’ increasingly tough defense, Rose began to look for Lor Deng, his most trusted helper on the offensive end. It’s just that Paul George and Danny Green returned to defense in a timely and active manner, which did not give Lor Deng too many easy shots.

“British Jordan” today’s hit rate is not high, or even bad. After halftime, the hit rate will exceed 30%. Lor Deng took three more shots in the half game than Rose, but only 4 of 12 shots and only 9 points.

The Pacers’ outside players furiously defensively, and the Bulls returned to the locker room with a 6-point disadvantage in the half. Henson prepared a tough wheel battle, so that the omnipotent Rose also fell into trouble.

During the intermission, Sager found Thibodeau, hoping to talk about his views on the first half of the game.

Faced with the camera and the 6-point difference, Thibodeau was quite helpless: “Maybe, Coach Henson gave the players blood during the break just now!”

“Penguin” said.