After Wang Yi hit the ball, he turned to Battier Jr. and said: "2000!"
The little Shane frowned again.
2000 is not a small amount.
At this time, Pelicans coach Rondo quickly called a timeout.
The Pelicans were stopped in just three possessions.
This is tantamount to giving the Pelicans a head-on blow.
At this time, Pelicans coach Rondo tried his best to calm the players' emotions after coming off the court.
"Don't panic, their unconventional style of play won't last long, and I already have a way to break it."
"Next, if Wang Yi still guards Zion, then Zion will pass the ball out."
"At that time, their big men were used to defend our perimeter players. We could mobilize their big men by passing the ball so that their big men could not keep up with our speed. At that time, we had an opportunity at the three-point line.
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"After we make a three-pointer, they will inevitably adopt conventional defense, letting Wang Yi defend the perimeter and the big man defend Zion. Then we can enter the one-star four-shooter system we are most familiar with."
"On the defensive end, since Wang Yi likes to cause trouble in the mid-range, we will adopt a zone defense strategy to completely strangle his mid-range."
When everyone heard this, they all nodded.
As for the Kings, the coach asked Wang Yi after the game:
"What are you going to do next? Do you want to fight like before?"
Wang Yi shook his head: "If I guard Zion too hard, they will pass the ball out and let their small three-point shooter hit our big man. If our big man can't keep up, he will let it go."
They shoot three-pointers. So then we have to switch back and forth, with the inside defending the inside and the outside defending the outside."
"At the same time, the Pelicans will either guard the rest of us on their defensive end and only let me attack alone, or they will use a zone defense strategy to prevent my mid-range."
"If they let me attack, it's easy to say, I will make them pay. If they use a zone defense, then we will use the normal method of breaking the zone defense and shoot three-pointers."
When everyone heard Wang Yi talking about shooting three-pointers, they all frowned slightly.
Because the Kings' strongest three-pointer is Danny, but now Danny is not here.
Of all the remaining players, Mane has a 38% shooting rate from three-point range.
Ross scored 36 percent, just passing.
In these games after Wang Yi's comeback, his three-point shooting percentage was only 31.7%, which was far from satisfactory.
Can the Pelicans really win by relying on three-pointers?
Although everyone did not understand Wang Yi, the coach knew that this was a helpless move.
If you want to break the zone defense, you must either play fast breaks, shoot three-pointers, or have a tall man on the free throw line who can provide support in the center.
Now the Kings can't play fast break. Although Bond has a high basketball intelligence, he hasn't done much support before. It's a bit too risky to suddenly ask him to provide support.
So we can only look at the three points.
After taking the field again, the Pelicans attacked.
This time when Zion got the ball, it wasn't Wang Yi who was guarding him.
But Turs.
Rondo on the sidelines turned his head and glanced at D'Antoni.
Based on his understanding of Wang Yi and D'Antoni, such a change was definitely made by Wang Yi.
The Kings obviously guessed in advance that they would play on the outside next, so they defended in advance. The outside line defended the outside line, and the inside line defended the inside line.
D'Antoni does not have such adaptability and ability to predict in advance.
But switching back won't help. Let Zion eat only the Kings' inside line. Wouldn't that be sending a sheep into a tiger's mouth?
At this time, Zion saw that Turs was the only one guarding him, and he immediately became energetic. He had just been defended by Wang Yi three times in a row. He also held a breath in his heart. Now that he encountered a soft persimmon, that was not enough.
Pinch it hard.
Just crush him.
So, he leaned his back against Tours and pushed in two steps hard.
Tours tried his best to hold up Zion.
He has only one mission in this game, which is not to strangle Zion to death, but to consume Zion as much as possible.
In the end, after Zion got under the blue, he let out a tiger roar directly through Tours, and then dunked successfully.
The bad breath in my heart was finally relieved.
Looking back, when it was the Kings' turn to attack, the Pelicans turned into a zone defense.
There are two-third zone defense and three-two zone defense. Now in order to curb Wang Yi's lethality in the mid-range, they specially adopted a three-two zone defense.
With three people on the free throw line and its extension, Wang Yi would have to face double-teams from two or even three people no matter which way he leaned.
Seeing this, Wang Yi threw his hand and passed it to Mane on the outside.
Mane took the ball and shot a three-pointer directly.
Uh-huh...
This three-pointer was accurately hit.
Mane excitedly high-fived Wang Yi: "The boss passed the ball beautifully!"
Wang Yi also rubbed Mane's head: "You have also learned from Mitchell. This ball has nothing to do with me passing it. It is just an ordinary pass. It was your own good shot."
In the next few balls, when the Pelicans attack, Zion will play the ball, while the Kings will defend others, leaving West Coast to play.
When it was the Kings' turn to attack, since the opponent was in a zone defense, the Kings always found players outside the three-point line.
The entire first two quarters were basically played like this.
The Kings' three-point shooting was pretty good today. Rose had three points, Mane had three points, and Wang Yi also scored a three-pointer.
At the end of the first half, the Kings temporarily led by one point at 55:54.
It seems that in the first half, except for the three times when Wang Yi defended Zion alone, which was impressive, in the rest of the time, both teams played well, and there was nothing amazing.
However, in the third quarter, the situation of the Kings took a turn for the worse.
In this section the king though has been restricting Zion.
But Bond and Tours didn't do a very good job of limiting Zion.
Zion can be said to have overturned everything on his own in the paint.
In just three minutes of play, Bond had already committed his fifth foul, and Towers had already committed his fourth foul.
Bond had to sit off the court, and Tours also seemed a little restrained on the court after his fourth foul.
This allows Zion to do whatever he wants in the paint.
I originally wanted to consume him, but now he has consumed two people first.
The game is like this, even if you make a plan in advance, sometimes things don't go according to your plan.
The defensive end could not guard Zion, and there was also a problem on the offensive end. The Kings began to become inaccurate in the 3rd quarter.
Wang Yi made 0 of 2 3-pointers, Rose made 1 of 3 shots, and Mane made 0 of 3 shots.
As a result, the point difference was quickly widened by the Pelicans.
With six minutes left in the third quarter, the score difference had already reached 12 points.
The entire Pelicans home court immediately erupted.
The commentator also became passionate at this time: "Come on, come on, the scene we want to see is finally here. Although the Pelicans' shooters did not perform well today, the Pelicans' inside man Zion has scored so far.
With 38 points, he defeated the Kings alone."

Chapter completed!