Chapter 374: A Series with an Average of 50+ per Game

On this day, the New York media hyped up the Knicks' victory in Game 1, touting Zhao Dong's 68 points, the second-highest score in a single playoff game in history, and his reputation as the God of Efficiency resounded throughout the United States and the world.

But someone stood up and denied Zhao Dong.

Pippen accepted interviews with the media and criticized Zhao Dong.

He was traded to the Trail Blazers this season. Currently, the Trail Blazers have reached the second round and are facing the Suns. They are obviously stronger than the Suns and have a good chance of reaching the Western Conference Finals.

But his performance was average. He contributed 12.5+6+5 as the main small forward in the regular season, which was far inferior to the glory of the Bulls period.

After entering the playoffs, his performance was slightly better, with 15+7+3.

However, he can no longer perform like a superstar, he is just an average main player.

When he was with the Bulls, he was unable to do anything against Zhao Dong. He was very unhappy with Zhao Dong. Seeing Zhao Dong score 68 points, he might even surpass Jordan in the next game. Not happy.

"Look at the scores of other Knicks players, none of them scored more than 20 points. Feilong's success is based on other players taking fewer shots. He deprived his teammates of opportunities. His success is based on the pain of his teammates. , this is an absolutely selfish style of play that destroys teammates. How can such a person be called a god? He is far inferior to Michael."

Facing an interview with ESPN TV media, he blasted Zhao Dong.

This interview appeared on ESPN's NBA Sports Channel news at noon on the 7th and was seen by countless people.

"hehe!"

Zhao Dong just wanted to laugh.

Before his rebirth, the relationship between Brother Pi and Jordan was not very good. He often attacked Jordan to gain attention. This idiot deserved his bankruptcy.

Of course, Jordan also noticed this news, because this news involves him and Zhao Dong and has been reported by countless media. It is difficult not to know.

What a big head, he is following Zhao Dong now. Without Zhao Dong's support, the Mavericks will soon change hands. Wouldn't Pippen's song at this time be harmful to him?

He doesn't believe that Pippen is doing this for his own good. Who doesn't know that he is following Zhao Dong now?

However, in order to build a stronger lineup, he really felt sorry for Pippen and sat back and watched Pippen being traded away from the team, so now he can't say anything and can only swallow the yellow lotus in silence.

Make trouble for yourself.

Many media called him and David Falk, but he rejected them all.

Zhao Dong accepted a phone interview with the media at home. When asked what he had to say about Pippen's remarks, he asked: "Who is Pippen?"

That night, the Eastern Pacers went to war with the Bulls, and the Western Trail Blazers went to war with the Suns. In the end, the Bulls defeated the Pacers, and the Trail Blazers defeated the Suns.

"Who is Pippen?"

On the morning of the 8th, Zhao Dong’s words made the headlines of the New York Times’ sports section.

After Pippen saw it, he was so angry that the joy of the Trail Blazers' victory over the Suns last night was swept away.

On the evening of the 8th, the G2 game between the Knicks and the Digital Team began.

The Knicks really want to win this game and go to the road with a 2-0 advantage.

Because he wanted to win so much, Nelson was a little conservative in tactics.

Without Fordson, half of the interior defense collapsed, so he wanted to increase defense. After discussing with Zhao Dong, he asked Zhao Dong to take fewer shots and invest more energy on the defensive end.

At the same time, he also asked Zhao Dong to strengthen his organizational functions, pass more passes to his teammates, and activate the team's offense.

But unfortunately, if Zhao Dong takes fewer shots, other people's shots will definitely increase, and their offensive efficiency is obviously not as good as Zhao Dong, so the Knicks' overall offensive quality has been seriously affected.

You must know that Zhao Dong's talent is offense, not defense. Although defense is also very strong, all his best skills are offensive skills. The seven gold medal skills have gold medal special effects. This is why his efficiency is so high. The most important reason.

To put it simply, reducing his offense would do more harm than good, and the losses would outweigh the benefits.

Zhao Dong still played the entire game, making 13 of 20 shots, a shooting percentage of 65%, and 12 of 12 free throws. He scored 38 points, 18 rebounds and 10 assists. Such dazzling statistics, but the Knicks lost.

The outside touch was just sluggish. Zhao Dong passed dozens of passes throughout the game and only received 10 assists, of which 3 were fast breaks.

In the end, the Knicks lost the G2 game at 102:95.

The Knicks attacked from the outside 48 times and only made 17 shots, with a shooting percentage of only 35.4%.

After the game, Nelson took the initiative to take responsibility at the press conference, believing that the defeat in the G2 game was a tactical failure.

Although he lost the game, Zhao Dong's performance still received praise from almost all media, and his title of God of Efficiency still shines brightly.

However, some media pointed out that Zhao Dong's reduction in actions was influenced by Pippen's remarks.

This is of course nonsense. Nelson has admitted that this is his responsibility. It was the tactics he deployed that reduced Zhao Dong's shots.

Therefore, there is not much market for these media analyses.

However, Pippen, who was hurt by Zhao Dong, stood up again and bombarded: "An extremely selfish guy, in order to prove that he is not a selfish player who ruins his teammates, he actually passed the ball when he could take action. Given to a teammate who is not in a good position, everyone knows who is responsible for the Knicks losing the G2 game..."

"Shaq, if we meet the Trail Blazers in the Western Conference Finals, kill that thing."

After arriving in Philadelphia, Zhao Dong saw the news of Pippen's interview. He was also angry and estimated that the Suns could not defeat the Trail Blazers, so he called O'Neal.

"Are you crazy, Feilong, I'm the center, and you want me to play against Pippen?" O'Neal yelled strangely.

"Shaq, Reebok might go bankrupt. Do you want to sign with Nike or Feilong Sports for your next sneaker contract?" Zhao Dong asked.

"Uh, okay, okay, as long as he dares to rush in, I will kill him." O'Neill's tone immediately changed, and he agreed with a smile.

Now that the Lakers are leading the Mavericks 2-0, he is in a good mood and it doesn't matter if he does a small favor for Zhao Dong.

That night, the Bulls tied with the Pacers, and the Trail Blazers defeated the Suns twice.

At 8pm on the 10th, the G3 game between the Knicks and the Digital Team begins.

At the same time, the G3 game between the Lakers and the Mavericks also started.

Nelson learned the lesson from the failure of the G2 battle, and when formulating the tactics for the G3 battle, he directly gave Zhao Dong unlimited firing rights.

In his words, we have the god of efficiency, so we should use offense and efficiency to defeat our opponents instead of pursuing reasonable distribution of shots.

In fact, this is more suitable for his personality and tactics. He is a person who advocates offense. In the G2 game, he sacrificed offense in pursuit of defense just because of the Knicks' own defensive foundation.

But now there are no players left in the Pat Riley era, and only two assistant coaches, Xiao Fan and Thibodeau, are left. Therefore, the Knicks' defensive foundation has actually been lost a lot.

In addition, Zhao Dong himself is a person who is better at offense than defense, and he has also affected this team to a certain extent.

As soon as the game started, Zhao Dong started to focus on the attack, sometimes running without the ball, sometimes breaking through with the ball. The most important way of playing was to attack the inside of the digital team.

Because the postman's rim protection ability is average, Ratliff, who has excellent rim protection ability, is his first target.

After halftime, Ratliff had committed four fouls. Zhao Dong had 13 free throw opportunities in the half. He scored 36 points in the half, leading the team to an 8-point lead at 56:48. The defeat of the digital team was certain. .

Larry Brown put Ratliff on the bench in the third quarter in order to keep his hopes alive.

He thought that Zhao Dong, who had played the main offense for two quarters, would take a break in the third quarter and the Knicks' offense would take a break, just in time for Ratliff to come off the court and avoid the limelight, but he was wrong.

When Zhao Dong saw that Ratliff was not playing, he continued to attack with all his strength in the third quarter, scoring 11 points in the half, widening the point difference to double digits. Larry Brown had no choice but to replace Ratliff.

Then, Zhao Dong continued to attack Ratliff. Before the third quarter was over, Ratliff committed five fouls and sat back on the bench.

In the final quarter, Ratliff played again, but only played four minutes and committed six fouls.

At this time, the Knicks were already leading by 15 points, and there was only one postman left in the digital team. After all, Teiron Hill was not as strong as Ratliff and failed to withstand Zhao Dong's attack. In the end, the Knicks won the key G3. battle, leading the digital team two to one.

Zhao Dong was on full fire for 48 minutes, making 23 of 35 shots, with a shooting percentage of 65.7%, 1 of 2 three-pointers, and 19 of 21 free throws. He scored 66 points, 15 rebounds and 5 assists.

After three games in the second round series, he averaged 57.3 points per game and shot over 60% from the field.

In the playoffs, he scored such a score in the series. His efficiency is so high that it can be called the best in the history of the league, and it also makes his title of efficiency god even more shining.

"Feilong, if you can average 50+ points per game throughout the second round series and maintain a shooting percentage above 60%, you will be the real efficiency god."

After the game, team reporter Thomas was excited.

After returning to the locker room, the results of another second-round game came out. The Lakers unexpectedly lost the first away game and were pulled back by the Mavericks.

Under the exhaustion of the Mavericks' alternative twin-tower tactics, O'Neal and Big Ben passively followed to the three-point line every time on the defensive end. Their physical energy was greatly consumed and their condition declined. This was the biggest reason why the Lakers lost the game.

The next day, Zhao Dong's performance received countless praises. When the media reported it, they basically called him the God of Efficiency. This means that his efficiency has been recognized by the media.

That night, the Bulls defeated the Pacers and the Suns defeated the Trail Blazers, so the second-round series between the East and West ended in a two-to-one tie.

On the 12th, the G4 game between the Knicks and the Digital Team began.

Knicks: Zhao Dong, Willis, Rodney Rogers, Stackhouse, Ginobili.

Numbers Team: Leo Ratliff, Karl Malone, George Lynch, Allen Iverson, Eric Snow

Zhang Lijia praised before the game: "Zhao Dong consumed too much physical energy in the regular season, and even played the whole game in the playoffs. He took so many shots and consumed so much physical energy, but he was still able to maintain such a high efficiency. , He truly deserves to be the God of Efficiency!”

"I hope Feilong can create another miracle in the next series and score 50+ points efficiently." Su Qun said excitedly.

In the TNT live broadcast, Barkley laughed and said: "Both the Knicks and the Digital Team have strong defensive players. The Flying Dragons, Postman, and Ratliff are all top defensive players, but this series is a fight. Fighting against each other is probably something we couldn’t imagine before.”

Smith laughed: "The Knicks have no choice but to sacrifice defense. Without Fordson, they won't be able to play such a strong defense in the interior.

As for the numbers team, Larry Brown is a defensive head coach. In this series, it's not that he doesn't play defense. He has been emphasizing the importance of defense. It's just that Feilong's offense is too powerful. He defends It's just that it can't stop, so it seems that the digital team has lost its defense, but in fact it is not. "

"Actually, it was just blown up by the flying dragon." Buckley laughed.

"The digital team is actually really strong. They have the defensive system built by Larry Brown with Postman and Ratliff as the defensive core, and the powerful offense of the Email combination. Their offense and defense are both top-notch, but they have failed to achieve efficiency. God." Smith smiled.

At eight o'clock, the game starts, with the numbers team attacking first.

In terms of offensive tactics, the numbers team is still the same, with the postman's stretch + Iverson's sudden scoring tactics, and Larry Brown can't come up with any more offensive tactics.

Under the threat of the Postman's elbow, the Knicks had no one else who could restrain him well, so it was very passive and difficult to defend the Postman, and the defensive effect was not good.

Coupled with Iverson's lightning breakthrough ability and restraining Zhao Dong, the Knicks' defensive tactics were unable to produce a strong defense against the simple and efficient offensive tactics of the digital team.

"Uh-huh!"

When Zhao Dong returned to defend the basket and double-teamed Iverson, the postman who was one step inside the three-point line received the ball from Iverson and made the first shot.

Rogers, the starting small forward, defended the Postman. Under the threat of the Postman's elbow, he still did not dare to get close, giving the Postman enough room to take action.

Zhang Lijia sighed: "If Fordson were here, there would be no chance for Postman to make such an easy move. Postman has played with Zhao Dong for several seasons, and he has never played such an efficient performance like this time. He played with Zhao Dong for several seasons. He always plays the role of being beaten on both offense and defense."

Su Qun nodded and said: "So if the Knicks want to win now, they can only let Feilong and E-mail combine to compete for offensive efficiency. Whoever is more efficient will win."

Knicks offense.

Everyone was pulled apart, including veteran Kevin Willis inside, the digital team's defense was stretched, and Zhao Dong personally controlled the ball outside the left three-point line.

Facing Zhao Dong on the outside was George Lynch. Larry Brown did not arrange a double-teaming tactic on the outside. Instead, he played two or three defenses, single defense on the outside, and strict defense on the inside.

Because Zhao Dong mainly attacks, for the sake of offensive efficiency, he mostly rushes in to attack, so he gave up the double-teaming on the outside and strengthened the inside defense, with the main defensive goal of reducing Zhao Dong's offensive efficiency.

Zhao Dong made a fake shot and then broke through George Lynch and entered the wing.

As he broke through, the digital team's zone defense formation immediately began to shrink. The center of the contraction was the left waist and left elbow area in the paint area.

This area is the only way for Zhao Dong to break through. Larry Brown's inside defense requirement is to block Zhao Dong in this area to prevent him from entering.

The reason why Zhao Dong is so efficient is that most of his offense occurs in the area near the basket. If multiple people can double-team him in this area, Larry Brown believes that his efficiency can be reduced.

As Zhao Dong burst into the left elbow area, the postman on the left low post, Ratliff under the basket, and George Lynch who had just been burst behind him formed a three-person double-team on him.

At the same time, Iverson and Eric Snow on the weak side also formed a defensive trend against him. As long as he was blocked by three people for half a second, a five-person double team would appear immediately, and he would be completely surrounded.

As soon as Zhao Dong rushed to the left elbow area and saw that he was about to be surrounded, his first reaction was to immediately stop and slow down, pull the ball up from the floor, grab it in his right hand, and then make a horizontal jump that changed direction, directly from The postman ran through the gap between Ratliff and Ratliff.

This horizontal jump immediately allowed him to get rid of the upcoming double team and complete the breakout.

The next moment, he jumped up after a small step, threw the ball to the backboard with his right hand, and with a bang, the ball hit the board and went into the basket.

In this offense, he combines the two gold medal skills of emergency stop jump shooting and rebounding skills, and still has excellent escape and finishing abilities.

The change of direction and sideways jump after the sudden stop and deceleration was the key to escape, which directly allowed him to jump out of the encirclement.

"Beautiful! It is this extraordinary ability to escape that gives Feilong a super high hit rate. When he takes action, no matter how many defenders are in front of him, he will get rid of him."

Buckley roared excitedly.

Smith said equally excitedly: "Yes, his escape made the defenders become cripples. They couldn't keep up with the rhythm of Feilong at all."