Bishop of the Devil

The Zen master's idea was very simple, and Richard saw through it at a glance.

That is to let Luke Longley come on the court, enhance his rebounding ability and interior defense, and not give Ou a chance to make a second attack!

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"Jermaine, double team Jordan!"

Luke Longley had just come on, and Richard immediately started shouting loudly from the audience.

Let Ou double-team Jordan. As for Rodman, whose offensive ability is basically negligible, even if he gets the ball under the basket, he is completely unable to take action.

And Luke Longley's offensive ability is not very good. Ben only needs to take good care of Luke Longley!

This is almost Richard's way of treating others with their own medicine!

In the last game, Jackson continued to use tactics to eliminate the Blazers' advantage points, but in this game, Richard took the initiative and let Jackson follow his own rhythm.

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The game continued, with the head coaches of both sides fighting in various ways.

Jordan is naturally quite powerful, but the overall strength gap between the two sides is not too big, and the head coach plays a very important role in this.

Due to the very good shooting percentage in the opening game, the Blazers' generals are playing smoother and smoother on the court.

Especially for Kobe, he is not like Jordan who can play face-to-face in singles. Under Jordan's defense, he relies more on his teammates' pick-and-rolls to shoot...

The shooting percentage was quite good. By the time half of the game was over, Kobe had already made 4 of 7 three-pointers, and he also scored two two-pointers, scoring 16 points!

At halftime, the Trail Blazers led by seven points!

In the second half, Kobe's hand cooled down, but Robinson showed off his strength at this point, hitting three-pointers like a barrage of shots!

The three-point touch is contagious...

For those three-point teams in later generations, once one player has a hot three-point touch, it is likely to drive other players' three-point touch.

Obviously this is the situation with the Trail Blazers right now. Robinson, the leading scorer in the Trail Blazers, has inherited Kobe's fiery three-point touch!

The Bulls' offense is mainly based on mid-range shots, while the Trail Blazers are mainly based on three-pointers.

This can be seen as a collision of styles between traditional basketball and post-modern basketball!

Some experts have made statistics and found that among the three main offensive weapons of NBA players, layups, mid-range shots and three-pointers, mid-range shots create the lowest value...

The reason is that the layup is undoubtedly the highest shooting rate. Most players can shoot at least 50% at the basket. There are even some unremarkable players whose shooting rate at the basket is 20%. It can reach more than 60%.

For example, Curry in later generations had his best shooting percentage at the basket at 69.6%, which was infinitely close to 70%. Even in seasons that were worse, he still maintained above 60%.

As for a tank-like player like James, his shooting percentage at the basket is higher, reaching a maximum of close to 80%.

Moreover, it is also the easiest to draw a foul under the basket. It is much easier than shooting...

As for the three-pointer, the shooting rate is naturally the lowest among the three offensive methods, but he can't stop him from hitting a three-pointer. A three-pointer with a 40% shooting rate is equivalent to a mid-range shooter with a 60% shooting rate...

There are a lot of three-pointers with a 40% shooting percentage. There are dozens of them in NBA history.

And a mid-range shot with a 60% shooting rate? Even if it is a mid-range king like Jordan, his mid-range shooting cannot reach the level of 60%.

It can be easily seen that among the three offensive methods, a single shot can create the lowest value.

This is why later generations of basketball gradually began to use a "combination of inside and outside" style of play, that is, a style of play that combines the basket with three-pointers. The proportion of mid-range shots is getting smaller and smaller. Those traditional shooting guards who rely on mid-range shots have become It is becoming less and less popular...

There is no doubt that the style of play displayed by the Trail Blazers is basically the same as the style of basketball in later generations.

When Rasheed felt bad in the second half, Richard replaced Bowen again to face Pippen.

As a result, Bowen's three-pointers blossomed after he came on the court. In one and a half quarters of games, he scored four three-pointers!

The fans in the audience were completely crazy. Such a three-point rain was simply unbelievable!

"Beep!" The referee blew the whistle to end the game. The entire Rose Garden Arena was completely ebullient. They won!

Won a game at the hands of the league's dominant Bulls...

It can be said that the Bulls were completely stunned by the Trail Blazers' three-point shooting. Robinson scored a total of five three-pointers in the game. Kobe also scored five, Bowen four, Curry Sr. two, Wu Sheng two, and La. Sid one!

In a single game, the Trail Blazers scored a total of nineteen three-pointers!

These 19 three-pointers alone brought the Blazers a whopping 57 points!

Perhaps in the eyes of later generations of fans, a team scoring 19 three-pointers in a single game does not count. You must know that the Rockets have the feat of averaging 15+ three-pointers per game in a single season. I am afraid they have at least 20 games this season. Hit 19 three-pointers.

This is just one season for one Rockets team...

So the Trail Blazers' 19 three-pointers in a single game are really nothing.

But in this era, 19 three-pointers in a single game in the finals is enough to be called a miracle!

This is the finals...

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Zen Master also didn't expect that the Blazers would be so crazy in this game. They really dared to shoot three-pointers and scored!

The shooting rate is not particularly exaggerated. 19 three-pointers took 47 shots, and the three-point shooting rate was less than 41%.

But this was enough to give the unsuspecting Bulls a heavy blow and defeat them in the away game!

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After the game, the head coaches of both sides started the business mode of exchanging compliments. Anyway, it doesn't cost money to promote the other side, so you can just brag casually.

Jackson Jackson praised Richard for playing a historic game tonight, which is likely to change the future pattern of the league.

Richard praised Zen Master for using his troops like a god and building the Bulls into the most powerful team in NBA history.

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After the Trail Blazers play their first two home games, they will start a road trip, two consecutive away games.

In G3 of the finals, what shocked the entire basketball circle was that Richard once again led the Trail Blazers to win a game. Although they narrowly won by 2 points in the end, no matter what, the Trail Blazers now held a 2:1 lead!

Before the finals started, absolutely no one could have imagined this situation!

What they expected more was that the Trail Blazers would defend at least one of their home games, and then lose two of the Bulls' home games in a row, eventually losing to the Bulls 4:1.

Even at the end of the first game, countless people felt that the Trail Blazers were likely to be swept by the Bulls, because the performance of the two sides seemed to be somewhat different.