I feel we are terrifyingly strong!
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I feel we are terrifyingly strong!
(Asking for monthly votes!) This is the first time people have realized that scoring 40 points in a single basketball game is so insignificant.
Ray Allen’s performance has been outstanding enough, you can’t blame a player who scored 43 points in a single game.
Well, unless your coach is George Karl.
George Karl kept humiliating Ray Allen during the post-game press conference.
“Outstanding performance?
What did he do outstandingly?
Outstanding enough to lose by 11 points?
Ray Allen is just a top softie!”
“Without a doubt, the second quarter was the turning point of the entire game, Roger played too tough, this is what we’re missing.
You can’t just think about being cool, you have to be ruthless enough, have a killer instinct, that’s how basketball should be!”
“Milwaukee fans need not worry, even though we lost the game, we at least have a boy as pretty as a Barbie doll, cheer up.”
Even Roger felt a bit sympathetic towards Ray Allen, who would want to play under such an old pervert who enjoys roasting players’ self-esteem?
Everything has degrees from mild, moderate, severe, extreme, to India, and George Karl’s insanity has undoubtedly reached the level of India, he simply doesn’t see his roasting targets as humans.
Luckily, Roger doesn’t have to work with George Karl, otherwise he might do the same thing as Sprewell.
Maybe that’s one of the reasons why George Karl is lifelong without a championship; the whole Celtics team is willing to fight for Auerbach, Jordan and Pippen are willing to fight for Zen Master, Duncan and David Robinson are willing to fight for Popovich, New York Gang is willing to fight for Pat Riley, Detroit Bad Boys would do anything on the court for Chuck Daly, Utah duo are willing to spend their entire career playing for Jerry Sloan.
He started coaching in the NBA in 1984, a full 16 years so far, working with countless players.
But no player would ever say the words: “I’m willing to fight for George.”
Anyway, that’s Milwaukee Bucks’ own problem.
Roger proved one thing with his 55 points in the first match—he is the protagonist of this dream season!
When the protagonist is absent, it doesn’t matter how many demonic dances take place on stage.
But now the protagonist is back, everyone has to get off the stage and make way.
Roger will chase each of you down.
Ray Allen was just the first person to be chased off the stage.
After this game, it wasn’t just Roger who gained praise; there was also Hawks’ new recruit Jeff Hornacek.
He scored 11 points with 4 assists in the whole game, hitting 3 out of 4 three-pointers, extremely efficient.
But the stats are secondary, the tactical impact Jeff Hornacek brought was very obvious, he showed the ingenious use of semicircle tactics on the outside core.
Lenny Wilkens’ inspiration came from the 2000 All-Star game, during that game Roger ended the Western Conference All-Stars in the last quarter, where the lineup was pretty much arranged in a One Star and Four Shooters formation.
At that time, the East with its huge advantage in the paint thought they were sure to win, O’Neal also believed the FMVP was at his fingertips, but Roger’s efficient solo plays in the One Star and Four Shooters setup destroyed the West’s advantage in the paint.
Although it was just an All-Star game, the gold value of that All-Star was arguably high, the intensity of the first three quarters was like the regular season, and the fourth quarter was almost like playoffs, making that victory very convincing.
Since then, Lenny Wilkens had been thinking how great it would be to implement this strategy in official games.
Today, he finally turned this idea into reality.
The only flaw was that Hornacek couldn’t play for too long, which made Hawks’ semicircle tactics like a special move in a game with a time limit, only able to sustain for a short period before entering cooldown.
This game, although Roger scored 55 points, the team really spread the lineup to give him a comfortable one-on-one opportunity for a not very long time.
Hornacek only played 22 minutes, in those 22 minutes, he, along with Pierce, Marion, or Bowen opened up space for Roger on the court for just over ten minutes.
Let’s just say Bucks’ perimeter defense was too bad, the three musketeers weren’t excellent defenders, which allowed Roger to score crazily in such a short solo time, laying the foundation of victory for Hawks.
Also, today Hawks’ three-point shooting was very good, they didn’t waste Roger’s solo time.
But what if one day when running the semicircle tactics and one someone shoots poorly?
Just watch the window for pulling ahead close?
Beautiful things naturally wish to be maintained for a longer time, the longer the better.
Lenny Wilkens now needs to find a golden durable method to extend the cooldown of the One Star and Four Shooters tactics.
A black coach letting a white player play the farmer’s battle to reverse the sky gang?
If that’s the case, then Lenny Wilkens might become the second greatest black leader born in Georgia after Martin Luther King.
But clearly he won’t do that, it’s only been a month and a half since the preseason training camp began, Hornacek has already gone through two knee fluid drainages.