No.1 in basketball scoring-Chapter 847 - 365. Duncan from the fourth peak stage is on the way!_2

He tipped his toes and completed an almost perfect supplementary defense interference, truly remarkable!

The 4.0 version of Duncan is on the way!

Zhang Yang remembers that when Duncan was 39-40 years old, he had an outrageous stat - when he was on the court, opponents scored only 96 points per 100 possessions.

What does that mean? In the 11-12 season, Chandler allowed opponents 99 points per 100 possessions when on the court; in the 12-13 season, Gasol allowed 98 points, and in the 13-14 season, Noah allowed 96 points, all of whom were the best defensive players of their respective seasons.

And those three produced such performances before the "cylinder rule" modification that cut the Center’s role, Duncan did it after.

Since the defensive players in the 14-15 and 15-16 seasons were small forwards, making comparisons difficult, Drummond-Green from the 16-17 season is a more suitable comparison, as he allowed 99 points per 100 possessions that season.

The 4.0 version of Duncan, at the age of 40, only played about twenty-four to twenty-five minutes per game due to a decline in stamina, but his performance almost didn’t change year to year in 4.0.

A Duncan who was "born at the wrong time", had he been born 20 years later, wouldn’t have to worry about not having a DPOY, unlike now, where he only has MVP, FMVP, with no DPOY, questioned ’who universally recognizes him, his defense isn’t historically top-tier.’

In the transition of offense and defense, Conley grabbed the rebound, pushed to the frontcourt, initially wanted to lob to Duncan, but Duncan came out for the pick-and-roll, Conley chose to attack with the ball.

Duncan, like Zhang Yang, made a reasonable and steady choice.

When defending Howard, Brad Miller’s defensive awareness and small actions were completely countered by the opponent’s physical reactions;

When defending Yao Ming, Brad Miller’s small actions were like scratching an itch for Yao, who usually faced defense similar to wrestling;

But against Duncan, who had suffered two major injuries, lost explosive ability and speed at almost 32 and was gradually adjusting his style to rely on skill and static physical condition like the 4.0 version, Brad Miller’s one-on-one defense in the last play was quite good, making Duncan very uncomfortable!

Conley used Duncan’s screen to cut in, with no help defense on the flanks, he chose to attack big on small against Okafor’s defense with a floater... and missed it as well.

With the reduced weight, Okafor moved swiftly, defended in Duncan’s style without jumping randomly, relying on height and wingspan to interfere shots rather than blocking, executed the big-on-small interference quite well.

In the following few rounds, both teams were "clang, clang, clang", playing for more than 4 minutes, with Bobcats calling a timeout, the score reached 6 to 5, Bobcats leading by 1 point.

After Carlisle made the first wave of personnel adjustments, he looked at the scoreboard again, opened his mouth several times, but swallowed his words and sighed: "The Spurs are so stable, they haven’t been affected by the criticism at all, defending just as they should, as expected of Popovich."

Hill replaced Mike Miller, in the opening few minutes Mike Miller was completely locked out by the Spurs’ rotational defense on the perimeter, and in 4 and a half minutes received the ball only once with no shooting opportunities.

Hearing Carl’s sigh, Hill said, "This is the way an excellent coach should respond, Rick, if it were you, facing Jack as an opponent, you wouldn’t be overly concerned just because of his three-point performance against the Magic team, right?"

Carlisle thought for a moment, then replied: "Of course, changes in play style can be made immediately, but shooting ability doesn’t become stronger just because of a change in play style. Miller, Allen, and Stojakovic’s three-pointers can’t kill opponents, and for the most part, Jack can’t either. No need to defend against such low-probability events."

Hill got the answer he wanted, and his admiration for his coach grew, but he had another doubt: "But Jack’s offensive choices tonight seem overly cautious. With a score like this, he hasn’t taken a single reckless shot. I thought we were back in the phase of adjusting our offensive system."

Carlisle’s bald head seemed to shine for a moment as he smiled and said: "This is execution of plan 2, although we haven’t gained an advantage, we’re not behind either, Grant just play your game, don’t worry about him."

Neither ahead nor behind... Hill pondered for two seconds, suddenly enlightened, guessing the intentions of the coach and the star player...

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After the timeout, the Bobcats continued a tug-of-war with the Spurs.

The Spurs’ extremely stable style of play didn’t cause them to make rash adjustments when facing changes in the Bobcats’ gameplay.

This ’rashness’ can also be understood as confidence.

The Pistons and the Bulls were very confident in their own strength, but the Magic’s confidence was not in their strength, but rather in having previously won twice against the Bobcats, gaining the advantage of past victories, although the effects of confidence are similar.

Before facing the Bobcats, they already noticed improvements in the Bobcats’ offensive details, attempting preemptive offensive and defensive adjustments through analysis and research, without having played against the adjusted Bobcats.

But the Bobcats’ offensive basketball is different from the Suns’ German-run offense, and also different from George Karl’s track and field-style run-and-gun, and is completely different from the classic run-and-gun by old Nelson. Instead, it combines the experiences Carlisle gained from watching games on the sidelines in the 80s, learning next to famous coaches, his insights as a head coach, and some small-ball concepts provided by Zhang Yang, creating a completely new system, considered a brand new style.

The coaches of those three teams tried to start from the approach of countering the Bobcats’ system to make preemptive strikes, but ended up backfiring.

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