The Nuggets' strength is really good, with offensive arrows and field control masters. However, the Nuggets' deep bench did not gain any advantage against the Knicks. This was originally the only advantage that the Nuggets could defeat the Knicks, but this year's Knicks' bench is no less than any team. The reason is naturally because Kevin Martin and Jamison retreated from the start to the second team.

Kevin Martin is a player who can be the leader of a weak team. If he puts him in the second team, he is naturally an outstanding person. With the threat of Martin's offensive, other people will naturally have more opportunities. To a certain extent, the second team is a more reasonable configuration than the first team.

The first team has a huge defensive ability, but because there are three who are not good at three-pointers, the space is compressed too small, which has some constraints on Zhou Mubai's ability performance. Fry, Williams and Martin in the second team have three-pointers, Jamison and Spetts have a medium distance. When all players have baskets, it is difficult for the opponent to defend.

The Nuggets' starting lineup did not gain any advantage against the Knicks' starting lineup. Although the Knicks' starting lineup configuration is not conducive to offense, the Nuggets can't stand the defense. Moreover, Zhou Mubai is good at building a dojo in a snail shell. Although the space curbs his ability, it does not mean that he is powerless.

Although the lack of a shooter made Zhou Mubai's pass unable to mobilize his opponent with a big opening and closing, he could still rely on attracting his opponent's attack and then pass the ball to his empty-cut teammates in a small space.

Of course, this is much more difficult than when he has a shooter group, and it is not as efficient as that, but he still commands his teammates to attack above the league level.

In other words, the starting lineup will upgrade defense to the top three levels of the league, sacrificing the appearance of the offensive ranking dropping from first to fifth and sixth.

In a word, the Knicks have achieved both offense and defense.

However, Zhou Mubai was indeed dissatisfied. Although the Knicks still won 20 points in the match against the Nuggets.

Zhou Mubai can work diligently according to D'Antoni's tactics, or change according to the situation on the field, but Zhou Mubai feels that D'Antoni's tactics are still too passive and simple.

Fighting fast attack and defensive counterattacks are actually concepts rather than tactics. Fast attacks value opportunities more. It is hard to say that they are a way of playing that truly reflects tactics. In fact, many teams can play very beautiful fast attacks. If the opportunity is good, it is difficult to have so many fast attack opportunities in the playoffs.

And positional warfare tactics are D'Antoni's weakness.

D'Antoni's positional warfare tactics relies heavily on the ability of defenders, both in the Suns, the Knicks, or later the Rockets. He relied on Nash in the Suns, and first came to the Knicks and later relied on Billups. When he arrived, he worked hard to build James Harden.

The characteristics of the team he coaches are very obvious, that is, the regular season super gods will appear weak in the playoffs, which is actually the reason for his tactics.

Zhou Mubai discovered this problem last season. He raised it during the season, but D'Antoni did not accept it. If it weren't for Zhou Mubai's super-god ability, the Knicks would not have been able to make it to the finals, and even the first round might not be able to pass.

Zhou Mubai originally thought that D'Antoni would learn from his mistakes this season and make drastic reforms, but from the training camp to the playoffs, the regular season has begun. D'Antoni didn't even mention it, and the tactics he showed were still the previous ones.

It seems that D'Antoni did not realize that there was something wrong with his tactics, and even meant to be proud of his tactics?

Zhou Mubai even suspected that D'Antoni believed that his tactics were fully utilized in the playoffs, proving that his tactical philosophy was correct?

Zhou Mubai felt that it was very likely that he planned to test it, so after the game, he refused to accept an interview, took a shower and waited in D'Antoni's office.

After waiting for more than an hour, D'Antoni came back with a tired look on his face. After all, he was old and had to be interviewed for the whole night of the game. He had to prepare for the game before that, which was indeed very tired.

When D'Antoni saw Zhou Mubai, he was stunned: "It's so late, why are you still here?"

Zhou Mubai smiled and said, "I have something to look for you."

D'Antoni hesitated and said, "How about I'm very tired now if I'm talking tomorrow."

Zhou Mubai shook his head and said, "I think it's better to have a chat."

D'Antoni could only nod, "Okay, then you say."

Zhou Mubai said: "Mike, do we have new filings on tactics?"

D'Antoni looked at Zhou Mubai and seemed a little dissatisfied: "Zhou, I know you have a high tactical literacy, but there are several coaches in the tactics that we are formulating, so you don't have to worry about it. Aren't we playing very well now?"

Zhou Mubai looked at D'Antoni in surprise: "Mike, do you remember what I mentioned last season about the role of tactical diversity in the playoffs?"

D'Antoni nodded, his tone was a little impatient: "But we also won the championship last season, which shows that our tactics are not a big problem. Although there are some minor flaws, no tactics are perfect. Our coaching staff will do their best to solve the problems that have occurred. It's already very late in the week, why don't we talk about it tomorrow?"

Zhou Mubai nodded with a smile: "Okay, Mike, I think you are really tired, so you can have a good rest and chat tomorrow."

Zhou Mubai was thinking about his thoughts silently on the way back to the apartment. Sure enough, his previous guess was correct. The success of last season did give D'Antoni some illusions.

This illusion is very interesting. The reason why D'Antoni had the illusion that his tactics were not problematic was actually Zhou Mubai.

Zhou Mubai's ability is too outstanding, but his playing style is indeed played according to D'Antoni's tactics. Even the approach to adaptability is played according to D'Antoni's tactics. However, because Zhou Mubai's ability is too outstanding, he corrupts the originally not-good tactics into magic, which makes D'Antoni think that his tactics work.

To put it bluntly, the so-called tactical success is just because Zhou Mubai is so capable that he can barely execute the tactic successfully. If someone else comes, he will probably have failed.

The reason why Zhou Mubai had to fight according to D'Antoni's tactics is not because he did not have his own tactics, but because everyone is under this tactical system and can fight according to the tactical system to better cooperate. If he leaves the system, it is difficult to truly cooperate well.
Chapter completed!