Chapter 439: Where is the conspiracy?
Yang Mo was dumbfounded, his mind had automatically pictured Liu Yifei and Kim Tae-hee lying on his bed at the same time. He found it extremely tricky. Compared with this, the Celtics in front of him were not a challenge at all. This was the ultimate test!
"Yang, Yang, are you okay?" Stan, who was next to him, saw that Yang Mo suddenly fell silent, thinking that something had happened to Yang Mo, and asked quickly.
Yang Mo was awakened from his worries by his question. He shook his head fiercely, trying his best to get rid of the mess in his mind temporarily, then picked up a pen and concentrated on drawing on the tactical board: "Next, our lineup is Wilt Chandler, Larry Hughes, Gallinari and Douglas. We will play fast breaks and speed up the tempo for no reason. We must defeat the Celtics before they figure us out, otherwise we will definitely lose when they wake up."
In the blink of an eye, Yang Mo came up with a completely different tactic from before. Although the Knicks can't come up with a truly balanced offensive and defensive lineup, they can implement all kinds of strange tactics, which is full of diversity. This is the ultimate reason why they can rank seventh in the Eastern Conference this year with such a weak lineup, because they themselves don't know what tricks they can play on the court, and their opponents don't know even more. The so-called "If the enemy doesn't move, I move, and if the enemy moves, I move randomly." I don't know what I want to do, and what the opponent can do to defend, so in the end I can only lose, lose, and lose again.
When the whistle blew and the game resumed, Doc Rivers was dumbfounded again when he saw the Knicks' lineup. Why did they replace three players at once? Even the center who looked the least like a center was replaced. Are we going to completely give up the restricted area next?
Doug Rivers muttered to himself. He had now focused all his attention on Yang Mo's tactics and neglected his own tactics. In other words, he, the head coach of a strong team, had unknowingly become the one who passively took the attack, and had completely forgotten the fact that his team was stronger than the Knicks.
Soon, Ray Allen on the court used the screen to cross run, get the pass and then hit an open three-pointer. This is his ability, as long as he is given a certain amount of shooting space, he can throw the ball in.
In the three-point shooting technique, Ray Allen has already become the best in history. However, for fans, Yang Mo seems to be better than him, because Yang Mo's three-point shooting rate at critical moments is so accurate that he can always use the three-pointer to stab the opponent's heart at the most critical moment, and the blood is deadly.
In an ESPN survey, Yang Mo was elected as the most dangerous three-point shooter in the league today with 79% of the votes. The second place was Ray Allen, but his vote share was only 11%.
Although Yang Mo ranked much higher than Ray Allen in the most dangerous three-point shooter ranking, Yang Mo did not respond immediately. The Knicks' three-pointer was still hit by Gallinani, who took only three seconds to run from one side of the court to the bottom corner of the three-point line on the other side of the court. He was so active that Douglas passed the ball to him at the first time, and he also fought hard and hit it steadily and decisively.
The following game was a complete contrast between tradition and radicalism. The Celtics continued to score goals through their positional offense, while the Knicks used a run-and-gun style, running quickly and shooting quickly to get a relatively easy shooting environment. With both teams having a relatively high hit rate, the two teams played at an even level.
Soon, the first quarter ended and the Knicks entered the second quarter with an eight-point lead of 31:23.
At this time, Doug Rivers was still thinking about Yang Mo's changes of tactics. To be honest, his interest in the game had completely disappeared. Instead, he focused on studying Yang Mo. He wanted to figure out how Yang Mo would arrange his tactics and how he should break it.
This is undoubtedly a bad thing for a head coach. After all, as a commander, the most important thing to win is to know yourself and the enemy. Now Rivers has completely given up on himself and put all his attention on Yang Mo. Fortunately, this is just a simple regular season game, otherwise he would have ruined everything.
"Yang has only scored 7 points so far tonight, while Kevin Durant has already scored 13 points, and they have only played one quarter." TNT commentator Collins somehow connected the two games that were played simultaneously tonight. Obviously, they were very interested in the battle for the second place between Yang Mo and Durant.
"It doesn't matter if Kevin Durant grabs it. There are still ten games left. Yang will always have a chance to grab it." Charles Barkley became calm after a moment of worry. In his opinion, Yang Mo was determined to give up his personal heroism tonight, while Kevin Durant took the word "independence" to the extreme. Comparing the two, Durant, who had more shots, would definitely get more points tonight.
"The charm of the goddess is so strong that even if she is married, there will still be people who work hard to score for her. Unfortunately, there was no goddess who could help Yang Mo score points tonight." Kenny Smith complained: "In the past two months, Yang has hardly had any scandals. This is incredible. Not only did Emma Watson not contact him, but even Paris Hilton, who used to come to watch the game, has disappeared. Yang looks very depressed recently!"
"It's really cheap for Yang to have scandals with those little stars. Don't forget, he is an entertainment tycoon." Barkley said with contempt: "A country bumpkin like Durant would of course want to drink Scarlett's bath water. But for Yang, the female stars who are willing to taste his bath water have long lined up from the peaks of Hollywood to outside Beverly Hills."
Barkley was bragging about Yang Mo on TV, but Yang Mo himself was sitting on the bench with a bitter look on his face. Indeed, he has many confidantes, and even the fingers on his hands and feet combined are not enough to count, but... this is really not an easy thing to deal with. It is amazing for an ordinary man to be able to deal with one woman in his lifetime. Two women can be called men among men, but Yang Mo now has to fight twenty alone, which... even the most manly man will have a headache. Moreover, he has a little devil who likes to meddle in other people's affairs and gives him bad advice. Last time, she made Girls' Generation be wiped out. Now he has put out a Chinese and Korean all-star lineup such as Kim Tae-hee and Liu Yifei, and he doesn't know if there will be other additions. When Yang Mo thought of this, he couldn't help but have a headache.
At this time, Stein came up and asked Yang Mo with his head down, "Yang, are we going to continue the run-and-gun game in the second quarter?"
"Continue." Yang Mo nodded. "Until they make a relevant containment response, we will just run and bomb."
After getting Yang Mo's answer, Stein nodded and stepped aside. He did not interfere too much with the team's offense. He was a defensive coach, and he had more research on defensive tactics. He was a little mediocre in offense. Moreover, facing a group of players like the Knicks, he really couldn't come up with any good tactics. It would be better to let Yang Mo tinker with it. In a sense, this is also called abdication.
On the other side, Rivers was still thinking, he still believed that Yang Mo was plotting a conspiracy. But at this time, Kevin Durant couldn't help it, he reminded Rivers: "Doug, don't we really need to adjust our tactics a little bit?"
"Ah?" Doug Rivers was a little unresponsive.
"For example, let Rajon Rondo put pressure on their point guard from the frontcourt. As long as the point guard is controlled, their running and gunning power will be reduced by half."
"Um...Okay, you go and try it." Doug Rivers said casually. He was still thinking about Yang Mo's conspiracy.
