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Chapter 174 "Qin Yue's Law" ( words updated per day, begging for monthly subscription!)
The Lakers' disastrous defeat in the opening game was like a warning, causing all the championship contenders in the league to fall into unprecedented panic.

Qin Yue's speed in attacking the basket was too fast thanks to his skills and talent.

So much so that after watching the video, each team found that when facing the Warriors, they were destined to do the same as the Lakers, finding ways to force Qin Yue to take a jump shot, or forcing Qin Yue to give up the ball.

But in this era, the league has introduced relevant regulations prohibiting defensive hand contact and strictly prohibiting physical collisions.
Therefore, the teams that could only provide limited interference to Qin Yue when he was shooting soon witnessed the flaws of this defensive strategy.

The Warriors' second regular season opponent is the Denver Nuggets.

The game was played at Oracle Arena.

In order to stop Qin Yue's unscrupulous breakthroughs on the court, Nuggets head coach George Karl specially formulated a strategy called triangle defense before the game.

That is, once Qin Yue tries to break through on the outside, Kenyon Martin and Ben Wallace, who are responsible for guarding the restricted areas on both sides, will immediately join forces with Chauncey Billups near the free throw line to encircle him.

And in the game, Anthony, who is responsible for defending Qin Yue, will also adopt a retreat defense to prevent Qin Yue from using him as a highway to break through.

Carl's idea is great.

Just on the court, under Anthony's devout prayers, Qin Yue first transformed into a human shooting machine, making 19 of 11 shots in the first half, including 9 of 4 three-pointers.

Then, facing the Nuggets' frenzied siege, Qin Yue made 2 assists with only 9 turnovers in the first half.

During the halftime break, Karl was interviewed by ESPN.

"You ask me which player is easiest to defend in this zone? Of course it's Michael Jordan and the Messiah."

Karl said with a look of despair: "When defending other players, you need to make various adjustments based on their characteristics and their offensive tactics. But when facing Michael and Messiah, you can only pray that their shots don't go in."

After a pause, Karl added: "Compared to Michael back then, Messiah is in an era where you can't put pressure on offensive players through high-intensity physical confrontation. I have no doubt that he can score 50 points per game in this era."

秦岳在与掘金的这场比赛里最终砍下了42分12篮板14助攻3封盖1抢断。

He failed to score 50 points as Karl predicted, not because his ability was not strong enough, but because he clocked out early after playing the first three quarters.

After the game, Anthony, who felt that Qin Yue had even shown mercy to him, said in an interview: "I prayed all night, but the way he responded to me was 'swish swish swish'."

After two games, the fear that GOAT brings to people has undoubtedly reached a new level.

In November, the Orlando Magic, who came to challenge the Warriors, were given high hopes by the world.

Dwight Howard is currently in the prime of his career, and theoretically his defense can cover the paint to the three-point line.

Stephen Jackson is a tough defender who will protect the Magic's defense on the wing in Stan Van Gundy's tactical system.

In addition, Rashard Lewis and Hedo Turkoglu are also two tall forwards.

Although they are not as good at defense as Jackson, the excellent model size is enough to ensure that they can put a certain amount of pressure on Qin Yue during the assisting defense.

The Magic played their best game that night.

But Jackson, who was responsible for facing Qin Yue on the court, collapsed first.

In order to avoid being easily squeezed by Qin Yue, Jackson, who knew that his tonnage was inferior to Qin Yue, focused his defensive energy on restricting Qin Yue from receiving the ball and using retreat defense to gain living space.

However.
"Normally, a player of his height would go to the low post and then ask for the ball," Jackson said after the game. "But he can go to the high post and catch the ball and attack you from a distance."

Moreover, similar to the previous game between the Warriors and the Nuggets,
Jackson could only exert certain weak interference on Qin Yue during his shooting phase. After each prayer, Qin Yue would respond to him with "Shua, shua, shua".

The three-point shot is indeed Qin Yue’s only shortcoming at the moment.

But if you can only weakly interfere with Qin Yue when he shoots three-pointers, how can you ensure that you can effectively reduce his three-point shooting percentage?

A good outside shooting environment can make Qin Yue feel at ease trying three-point shots on the court.

Moreover, once Qin Yue enters the three-point line, his long two-point shooting rate, which increases year by year, will also cause a lot of damage to the opponent's defense under the opponent's retreat defense.

During the game, Jackson had tried to put Qin Yue into the inside and then team up with Howard to strangle him.

But unlike James, the Magic can limit him by blocking the restricted area.

When Jackson tried to put Qin Yue, who was a full size bigger than James, into the Magic's restricted area, Howard was quickly forced to leave the court due to a foul crisis.

Jackson didn't want to say he was the one who killed Howard.

But judging from the progress of the game, he was indeed the culprit that caused Howard to play only 29 minutes and 58 seconds in this key battle.

The final score was 109 to 127.

The Warriors started with a long-awaited three-game winning streak, and Qin Yue scored a "40+" triple-double in three consecutive games.

After GOAT returned from injury, his increasingly sophisticated skills have made all the Warriors' opponents feel uneasy.

Nike, which suffered an avalanche last year due to Qin Yue's season-ending injury, has also been secretly working at full capacity to try to further build Qin Yue's GOAT image.

but
David Stern, who noticed that Qin Yue's strength had not decreased but increased after his return from injury, made the following timely balance to the increasingly unsolvable GOAT after holding a routine referee meeting in November:
In view of GOAT's hard-breaking ability that gives NBA teams a lot of headaches, from now on, GOAT's star whistle on the offensive end will be replaced by a reverse star whistle.

Moreover, when defending the GOAT, except for flagrant fouls and overly obvious fouls, defensive players will not have to abide by the Hand-Check rule that the league has long abolished, and can, to a certain extent, provide the GOAT with a higher intensity of defense through physical collisions.

Of course, as compensation, the GOAT's star whistle on the defensive end will still be retained.

In addition, all referees in the league will turn a blind eye when the GOAT is defending to ensure that the GOAT can vent appropriately on the defensive end.

For Stern, who is well aware that balance exists among all things, this emergency update is crucial.

In November, the Warriors continued to play at home and welcomed their fourth regular season opponent of this season - the Charlotte Bobcats.

This summer, Ron Artest, who renewed his contract with the Bobcats, took the initiative to propose before the game that he would be responsible for defending Qin Yue.

As Qin Yue's former teammate.
Artest knew very well that Randolph, Okafor and Biedrins were no match for Qin Yue.

Although Artest himself had no confidence in being able to limit Qin Yue, as a true warrior, Artest, who had been influenced by Jordan and completely regarded himself as the owner of the Bobcats, still took the initiative to take the responsibility before the game started without hesitation.

However, what puzzled Artest was
Shortly after the start of the game, when he had to stop Qin Yue by committing a foul because of his defensive loss, the referee was like a blind man and ignored his cutting foul on Qin Yue.

Therefore, Artest, who was good at testing the referee's penalty standards by taking advantage of the situation in the game, gradually increased his defensive strength against Qin Yue.

"Isn't this a foul?"

On the court, after a violent physical collision, Artest was secretly surprised in his heart.

"Isn't this a foul?"

In the restricted area, Artest was the only one hanging on Qin Yue's arm. If it weren't for personal experience.
He really couldn't believe that the referee in charge of this game was Dan Crawford, who always had a good relationship with Qin Yue.

In fact, soon after the start of this game against the Bobcats, Qin Yue fully felt the reverse star whistle he enjoyed on the offensive end.

And
When Qin Yue told Crawford "Hey, Dan, remember you owe me a free throw" as he did in the past, Qin Yue found that Crawford always deliberately avoided him.

Facts have proved that if you want to form the "Qin Yue Law" in the true sense, the efforts of defensive players alone are destined to be insufficient.

But with this game refereed by Crawford, the NBA teams saw through the television broadcast the treatment Qin Yue enjoyed on the offensive end. As the regular season of this season continues to deepen, it is only a matter of time before the "Qin Yue Rule" is finalized.

Although in this game against the Bobcats, Qin Yue still scored 34 points with the help of his old teammate Artest and the united defense of the Bobcats.

But considering the Bobcats' defense in this game, which was comparable to that of the 1990s, Qin Yue only got six free throws for the first time. "You won't hate me for this game, right?"

After the game, looking at Qin Yue who was elbowed and violently bumped by him, Artest said tremblingly: "I don't know why the referee allowed me to use such a rough defense against you."

Qin Yue, who was immersed in the joy of leading the Warriors to a four-game winning streak at the start of the season, said with a smile: "Ron, I'm not as stingy as you think. I said, we are just no longer teammates, but we can still be friends."

Seeing this, Artest breathed a sigh of relief.

But soon after Artest left, Brown, who knew Qin Yue best, said, "Boss, do you need me to notify management to reduce the amount of footage of Ron appearing in our championship documentary?"

"Who is Ron?" Covering his chest covered with bruises, Qin Yue gritted his teeth and said, "Did we have such a person when we won the championship?"

Hearing this, Brown nodded in understanding.

Sure enough, even though he has become the GOAT, Qin Yue’s mind is still as narrow as ever.

Of course, Qin Yue, who was just joking with Brown, would never really ask the team management to cut out the footage of Artest in the Warriors' championship documentary.

In November, after Stern's emergency update, Qin Yue's frequency of scoring "40+" triple-doubles in games dropped significantly.

Although Qin Yue hated Stern's unfair treatment more than anyone else, Tim Grover's advice to him to change his playing style during his recovery and his hard work on back-to-the-basket singles and mid-range and long-range jump shots helped him adjust quickly.

In fact, Qin Yue’s recent scoring decline is mainly because he does not want to consume too much energy in the regular season.

Moreover, as Qin Yue gradually felt that he enjoyed more star calls on the defensive end than before, he soon put his fun on the court into torturing the players he was responsible for defending.

Kobe, who led the Lakers to challenge the Warriors in mid-November, and his teammate Pau Gasol unfortunately ended up in tragedy.

In the game, when Gasol was knocked to the ground again and again by Qin Yue's fierce collisions, Gasol made only 10 of 2 shots and 4 of 4 free throws throughout the night, and only handed in a report card of 8 points, 7 rebounds and 3 assists.

And what about Qin Yue?

秦岳总计砍下了31分18篮板11助攻4封盖4抢断。

With the referee's consent.
Qin Yue, who can use his physical talents to bully opposing players, has made many steals on Gasol on the court.

In the second game against the Lakers, it was thanks to Qin Yue's freezing of Gasol that the Warriors effectively restricted the Lakers' triangle offense.

Moreover, after this game, the Lakers players, who lost again with a score of 106 to 118, were unable to protest against Qin Yue's brutal behavior on the court after the game.

Because if they wanted to protest, they would first have to admit that they used various non-basketball methods to affect Qin Yue's offense during the game.

This is the brilliance of Stern's balancing act.

Stern just didn't want to see Qin Yue scoring too easily on the court.

But if Stern does not give Qin Yue some countermeasures
Even if the league does not allow other teams to commit malicious fouls against Qin Yue, there will definitely be some villains who will try to commit malicious fouls against the GOAT.

Qin Yue and the Warriors ushered in the latest version of the "Qin Yue Law" in their game against the Celtics in late November.

In this game, Alvin Gentry, who replaced Rivers as the Celtics head coach this summer, took the initiative to send Al Horford to face Qin Yue, but did not double-team Qin Yue or force him to pass the ball in the first three quarters of the game like other teams did.

"We can't let his teammates get easy shots in the first three quarters," Gentry told the Celtics before the game. "It doesn't matter if he's firing on all cylinders. We have to wait until the fourth quarter to change our defensive setup."

In addition, when Horford was defending Qin Yue, the Celtics also provided Horford with sufficient support through overall formation movements.

This allowed Horford, who originally had no confidence in confronting Qin Yue, to finally gain the courage to stand up and face Qin Yue in the third season of his career.

Although in the game, GOAT was still unstoppable and scored 36 points in the first three quarters under Horford's high-intensity defense.

But in the fourth quarter of the game, as the Celtics suddenly changed their strategy and frequently sent out Duncan and Pierce to encircle the GOAT in turn, when receiving the pass from the GOAT, the shooting percentages of other Warriors players were obviously not as good as before.

On the court, the Celtics kept the score close and fought with the Warriors until the very last minute.

With 57 seconds left in the game, the Celtics were still leading the Warriors by two points and had possession of the ball.

This is a defensive round that could very well decide the outcome of the game.

Pierce, who was responsible for holding the ball and playing one-on-one on the wing, deceived Wallace with his dribble and drove into the Warriors' restricted area like a classic car.

But this old car with a strange rhythm cleverly passed the basketball to Duncan at the moment when Qin Yue's assist defense came.

Fortunately, Qin Yue's reaction speed, which was developed through his full commitment on the defensive end during this period, successfully helped him block Duncan after a quick turn.

However, this good block, which had nothing to do with a foul from every angle, was called a foul by Joey Crawford, who had to see an ophthalmologist afterwards.

Qin Yue couldn't accept this penalty which might change the course of the game.

And what about Joey Crawford?
In fact, Crawford was also very upset the moment he blew the whistle.

Because it was a complete misfire.

Crawford knew very well that Qin Yue's block could only be described as clean.

He just forgot that the player who blocked Duncan in this round was Qin Yue because he had been giving him the star whistle in the previous game.

In Crawford's opinion, not to mention that Qin Yue's block was not a foul, even if it was a foul, he should not have blown the whistle as long as it was not too obvious.

But since the whistle had already sounded, Crawford could only continue to make the mistake of misjudgment.

In the end, thanks to this controversial call, the Celtics became the first team to defeat the Warriors in the new season.

"Don't be sad, I know you didn't hit my hand."

After the game, looking at Qin Yue who was still angry, Duncan took the initiative to comfort his junior and said, "Joey's penalty standards are always so confusing. I don't like the games he officiates."

Hearing this, Qin Yue said dissatisfiedly: "It's fine that he allowed you to play rough defense against me in the game, but why did he help you steal the victory that originally belonged to us?"

Duncan knew Qin Yue's character and knew that he was angry, so he took the initiative to change the subject and said, "Come to think of it, this is the first time I've seen you so anxious in a game."

Qin Yue said: "If it were you, you would be anxious too."

"No, I can't bear this kind of blow." Duncan spread his hands, "Believe me, if it were me, I would probably kneel down to Joey."

Qin Yue didn't believe that Duncan would kneel down to Joey Crawford because of a mere misjudgment.

After all, in his memory, even when he was called for a technical foul by Joey Crawford for smiling on the bench, Duncan just showed a shocked expression at the time.

However, after Duncan said this, Qin Yue, who was in a much better mood, smiled and said, "If you really kneel down to Joey, I think this will definitely become big news that will shock the entire league."

Duncan nodded and said, "Do you think people would use the phrase 'kneeling down' to describe that scene?"

Qin Yue nodded without hesitation: "Yes."

Duncan groaned and said, "If there is a chance, I really want to try it. You know, I haven't been on the headlines for a long time since I divorced my ex-wife."

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