Don't talk trash to him.

Chapter 167 Is this still Su Wan? Is this still Su Wan?
With a wave of his hand, the Pacers players on the field quickly dispersed.

After three months of running-in, everyone has already formed a tacit understanding, especially when it comes to Su Wan's various cool gestures, they don't have to think about it, their bodies will react automatically.

They didn't know how many times they had been ordered around.

It's just that Artest and Calderon didn't move Bobby Simmons and TJ Ford away from their defensive positions.

Ok……

If these two guys can play a distraction role, the Pacers won't need him to force singles.

Suwan's ball control ability has now reached 90 points.

He can do all kinds of "between-the-crotch dribbling" and "behind-the-back dribbling" with ease, and coupled with his strong control over his body, his current dribbling style is somewhat erratic, making it difficult to find a pattern.

Therefore, now there are very few opponents who choose to interfere with Su Wan's dribbling by frontal steals.

Making a steal will cause the body's center of gravity to shift, which will become an opportunity for Su Wan to break through.

Michael Reed was obviously one of them. He kept a certain distance from Suwan vigilantly, his eyes fixed on his feet, and moved sideways the moment he moved.

All I can say is that Michael Redd has been used to being the boss and now he has really forgotten how to defend.

After Su Wan noticed his defensive habits, he deliberately raised his foot, tricking him into shaking his center of gravity, and then he exerted force suddenly to get rid of him in one step.

But the next second after Reed was pushed behind him, the other four players of the Bucks immediately retreated, which made Bill Walton in the ESPN studio's eyes light up: "Wow, unanimous retreat, obviously the Bucks are more prepared for this game than we thought!"

Although all four of them tightened their defense, Bobby Simmons and TJ Ford were limited by their physical conditions and failed to form a good first line of defense. TJ was too short and too thin.

Bobby Simmons' mobility is completely not up to the level of a power forward.

He is actually more suitable to play the four position, but he lacks the body to play the four position.

The Bucks also had problems in the interior.

Jamal's lazy attitude towards movement became a very fatal problem. Bogut moved to a high position, but he still kept his feet in the reasonable collision zone.

From this we can see that the two people have different goals.

Bogut wanted to try to cause Suwan to commit an offensive foul, while Jamal wanted to create a confrontation under the basket.

There was a gap on the right side, and Bogut could only move aside reluctantly as he looked at Suwan who had almost jumped past him just now. If he committed another foul, it would be his second foul.

Only three minutes into the first quarter, he let Su Wan go. It was so embarrassing.

Although he is shameless, he is still young and would still feel a little embarrassed if it were too embarrassing.

"beep!"

He didn't foul, but Jamal in the paint did.

Terry Stotts watched Suwan walk to the free throw line and shook his head helplessly. He really didn't know what to do with these damn guys. He had already executed all the tactics he should have arranged, and even practiced them in yesterday's training game.

But the final result was far from satisfactory.

Fortunately, the Bucks' outside shooting was really good today. Bobby Simmons made another three-pointer. Carlisle couldn't help it. He called Artest to him and said, "Ron, do you really think you have secured the Defensive Player of the Year award? If he makes another three-pointer, I will send the video of this game to the officials and let them take a good look at how you, the favorite for the Defensive Player of the Year award, defend!"

The voices were all shouted into Artest's ears, spit flying everywhere, but Artest didn't dare to wipe it off.

Barkley saw this scene and laughed: "Rick's prestige in the Pacers is much higher now!"

From the outside, one of the main reasons for the outbreak of the "Palace of Auburn Hills Incident" was that Rick Carlisle lacked leadership over the team and no one listened to him.

Kenny Smith said: "Suwan made him Gregg Popovich."

Barkley laughed and said, "But I never saw Rick telling Suwan that data is useless and the team comes first."

Kenny Smith rarely said a joke: "If that's the case, (Rick) is not Popovich!"

Although Rick Carlisle has a stubborn personality, he understands the situation clearly and is not completely stubborn.

The ball still ended up in Su Wan's hands, but at this time, the Bucks double-teamed him in advance, and Su Wan, who had just caught the ball, had to pass the ball again.

"It seems that the Bucks coach is very afraid of Su Wan!"

"It can be seen from the double-team just now that the Bucks coach has specially studied Suwan's ball-holding offense! Hehe, it's just that the execution of the Bucks players on the field is too poor."

Everyone reacted quickly to the double-team just now, but the final result was like this, which really opened Barkley's eyes.

But that's true, otherwise how could they be ranked eighth in the Eastern Conference?
Terry obviously also realized that the more people involved in team defense, the easier it would be to make mistakes, so he simply didn't let Suwan attack with the ball.

"We all know that Su is a very good player who is good at attacking with the ball, but when he is off the ball..."

As soon as Barkley finished speaking, Suwan went around Calderon, received the ball, took a big step sideways, and shot directly from the right elbow. TJ Ford ran over and double-teamed Reed, but he could only watch Suwan complete the jump ball.

Bucks: Oh no, Barkley is coming at us tonight!
"It's okay, it's okay, keep defending like this!"

Reed missed the shot and it was the Pacers' turn to attack again. Terry insisted that Suwan's shot after catching the ball was just a coincidence.

Ok……

He must think so!
Otherwise, something big will happen!

result……

Something big happened!
Su Wan came out from the wing again, took the ball and shot immediately, and this time it was a three-point shot.

"Shh!"

"Wow!"

Suwan scored 5 points in a row, which made Barkley sit up from his chair.

I can’t sit and watch it anymore. I can’t sit and watch it anymore.

Su Wan is going to give him another surprise.

How could he sit still?
Ford himself scored a goal, which stopped the bleeding for the Bucks, and then it was the Pacers' turn to attack again.

This time, the Bucks defended tightly around the three-point line where Suwan was moving. Suwan immediately made a gesture towards Calderon that no one else could understand except the two of them. The Spaniard quickly took advantage of the open space on the other half that he had created to break through.

Pass the ball to O'Neal Jr. under the basket.

In this round, Jamal suddenly became a little motivated, and O'Neal Jr. missed the opportunity to dunk in the first time.

"ball!"

Hearing the familiar sound of asking for the ball, O'Neal Jr. quickly found the familiar No. 99 of the Pacers and passed the ball to him.

When Bogut noticed someone appearing in front of him, he could no longer dodge and could only stand there and take the hit.

"Bang!" There was an "explosion" above his head, and Bogut fell directly to the ground with the huge impact force.

"Wow!"

This time it wasn't just Barkley, the entire Bradley Center exclaimed in amazement.

Suwan, who dunked Bogut to the ground, roared loudly like a god of war.

He was still a little surprised that Bogut didn't do anything dirty.

Is it because I feel a little restrained as a rookie, or is it because this crooked tree hasn't completely grown crooked yet?

It is well known that Bruce Bowen did not play dirty tricks at the beginning, but he gradually learned how to play dirty tricks after joining the Spurs. The growth environment has a self-evident impact on the growth of players.

Of course, this does not mean that Suwan will change his opinion of Bogut.

What is going to happen will still happen. At most, Su Wan will not do anything out of the ordinary to him now.

Alas, what a pity, he was ready to give Bogut a few good shots tonight.

"The Bucks' inside line is really different with you. I've never dunked so easily!"

After talking trash, Suwan walked towards the free throw line. The moment he made the free throw, Terry called a timeout.

There was no way. Su Wan had scored 8 points in a row in the past period of time. If he didn't call a timeout, the score gap would be widened immediately.

"Is this still Suwan? Is this still Suwan?" Barkley shouted excitedly in the studio.

I originally thought that the Bucks' double-teaming would weaken Suwan's presence on the offensive end, and the Pacers would need to find another way, but the result...

There is no need to think of any new ideas. Even if Su Wan is playing without the ball, his firepower is still so fierce.

Kenny Smith began to look through Suwan's past statistics again, the more detailed ones, until the Bucks' timeout ended, and he finally finished looking at the data he wanted to see. While the players were on the court, he said, "Suwan has gradually increased the proportion of catching and shooting since a month, but we didn't pay much attention to this at the time..."

There are many reasons, such as Kobe's 81 points, All-Star starting lineup and a series of other fun things that require their attention. Compared to the court, they put more energy off the court.

As a result, Su Wan's playing style has quietly changed, and he has become more proficient in many off-ball plays, but they are still looking at him with the old perspective.

In fact, Su Wan himself was a little surprised that he played so well today.

After the accumulated zone value from so many games in the past raised his three-point potential to 95 points, he also improved his potential for catching and shooting.

Now both of these abilities have been significantly improved. After this period of training, the three-point shooting has reached the main level of 70 points, while the catch-and-shoot ability has reached 81 points.

It’s just that he is still more accustomed to various offenses after holding the ball, and is not very used to shooting three-pointers.

Well, compared to three-pointers, mid-range shots and breakthroughs are his more powerful weapons.

People are more confident in areas where they have higher abilities, and Su Wan is no exception.

And if he keeps shooting three-pointers from the outside, there will be no one to continuously put pressure on the basket, forcing the opponent to shrink to the basket.

This season, O'Neal Jr. relies more on the ball handler to "feed" him the ball before he can impact the basket. The defender can either react in advance or not react at all, so he will not double-team him under the basket.

Only when the Pacers missed outside shots and fought for rebounds would O'Neal Jr. force the opponent to shrink under the basket.

"Second-offense threat" is his most significant improvement this season, in addition to his explosive impact under the basket.

But his ability to attract double-teams in the low post is almost gone, and this part needs to be supplemented by Su Wan.

But also because of the reduction in ball possession, O'Neal Jr. has a lot of physical energy to devote to the defensive end. Otherwise, how could he maintain his concentration and high quality on the defensive end for such a long time this season.

O'Neal Jr. was not very adaptable at first, but as his statistics gradually increased, this season's statistics reached 21.4 points, 11.3 rebounds and 2 blocks, he began to enjoy it.

If he knew that losing weight helped him avoid the injury that would have otherwise sidelined him this season, he would probably be happier.

As a result, Suwan's performance on the ball-holding end has become more and more eye-catching this season.

This is also the reason why Suwan’s improved off-ball offensive skills have not received much attention and discussion.

Of course, this wave of 8 consecutive points will definitely cause crazy discussions after the game.

The Bucks' extremely targeted defensive arrangement allowed him to fully demonstrate his scoring ability on the off-ball end.

Just look at how excited Barkley is.

How surprising it is that he scored 8 points in a row.

This means that from now on, if you want to limit Suwan, you must not only consider when he has the ball, but also when he doesn't have the ball.

what?
Maybe he was just in good shape, so he performed so well off the ball tonight?
There is nothing wrong with this.

But if you ask those teams that faced the Pacers in the playoffs, should they bet on Suwan's poor off-ball condition that day at the critical moment of the game?

For a player like Suwan, when he performs well enough on the off-ball end one day, it means that from that day on, other teams in the league can no longer underestimate his off-ball ability.

Of course, from Su Wan’s perspective, there is another reason that cannot be ignored.

That is, the defensive quality of the Bucks is indeed poor.

If someone else were to execute the same tactics, he would probably be restricted, after all, this was before he opened "The zone".

Michael Reed didn't know if he was stimulated by Suwan's consecutive scoring. In the first round after returning to the court after the timeout, he received a pass from Ford and made a shot against Suwan.

Yes, yes, that’s great!

Originally, Michael Reed was going to score 11 points, a career-high in a single game, on November 11 of next season. Given the date, Suwan had reason to suspect that he was stimulated by something and went all out in that game.

This means that Reed has actually entered his absolute peak since the beginning of this season, and when he is in good shape, he is indeed not easy to limit.

But in this case...

Su Wan has one more reason to score high tonight.

They are both new generation No. 25 players whose average points per game have exceeded points this season. There is no reason why Suwan cannot beat Michael Reed.

Therefore, as soon as Reed scored, Suwan took the initiative to ask for the ball. Facing Michael Reed, he shook off continuously and made his signature mid-range shot.

Less than 10 seconds later, in the other half, in almost the same position, Reid received a pass from his teammate and made a direct jump shot from mid-range.

The cheers at the scene gradually grew louder.

They were extremely delighted by the toughness of Michael Reed.

This is why they sent Ray Allen away and promoted Michael Reed!
This chapter is mainly for brothers to see some of Su Wan’s new offensive methods added in the past two or three months, and to understand Su Wan’s current playing style.

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