If someone tells you that there was once an NBA team that could score more than 120 points almost every night, and in the team list, 8 players scored double points in the season, what will your first reaction be? What kind of cosmic team is coming out of my mind?
The Nuggets striker Walter Davis still cannot forget the “magic eight minutes”: in November 1990, the Nuggets fought against the sun. He hurt his elbow as soon as he started, and returned to the dressing room for treatment after the end of the first quarter. Davis clearly remembered that the nuggets were only 3 points behind the sun 47-50 at that time, but just eight minutes later, when davis returned to the stadium, he found that the sun had already killed the nuggets 38 points.
Nostalgic empty singing and hearing flute Fu, turning to the countryside like a rotten Ke Ren. Time was gently removed like a yogurt cover. The defense of the Nuggets left on it was completely licked by Kevin Johnson’s initial run and the sun. The bright red numbers from 50 to 88 twinkled in his eyes. Davis’s blank brain could only squeeze out this sentence: “What happened?”
Walter Davis
Nothing happened. This sense of confusion filled every game of the 1990-91 nuggets, but in front of the fourth sun of the goal difference league, the chaotic state of the Nuggets reached its peak. The sun scored 107 points in half, and the second half was directly reduced to the rubbish time of the wedding brush. The two teams cut 316 points all over the occasion, and many NBA brush score records created have not been broken so far. Even the crazy All-Star game, it was not until 2014 that it could break through the 316-point mark.
The record created by the nuggets is far more than that. Their average score is as high as 119.9. This record is the best of the league, even higher than the sun that beat them violently. It was not until this year that they were broken by the kings. The whole team scored double in eight games, scored 100 points in 77 games, 120 points in 43 games, and 140 points in 7 games, there were even two matches that broke the limit of 160 points… even in the 1980 s, when the speed of all members increased and the trend of small balls became more and more popular, they were unimaginable performances.
Then, such an epic offensive brigade, 20 wins and 62 losses in the season.
The reason is blind and visible: it is more extreme than epic attack, which breaks down the Defense of NBA lower limit. The average score of this nugget team was 130.8 terrible points-while their average score was 120 points, each opponent could score 10 points more than them.
There were 9 games in that season, and the opponent scored 150 points on the Nuggets. This unprecedented record has not been broken so far, and no one can be as shameless as them on the defensive end. Considering that the average offensive efficiency of the league in the 1990-91 season is 106 points, which is equivalent to every opponent of the nuggets, an MVP nowitzki in the 2006-07 season has been added.
The crazy play of nuggets is not groundless. As early as ten years ago, this crazy gene accompanied coach Doug Mo to Denver. Coach Mo is keen on running tactics and likes to end the attack before the opponent falls into position, strictly requiring them to hold the ball for no more than 2 seconds. At that time, the Nuggets assistant said frankly: “You can’t describe it with tactical charts, and the pencil Japanese paper can’t describe its whole picture. Basically, there is no routine in this competition style, it depends on the improvisation of the players.”
Doug Mo
Under the influence of doug mo’s running tactics, the average rhythm of nuggets jumped to the first in the league, and then dominated the list for 9 years until the 1989-90 season, only then did the Nuggets give up the throne with the first rhythm and rank second. In that year, Doug Mo left the Nuggets and changed into the crazier Paul Westhead, letting the Nuggets return to the rhythm list “one big brother on the list”.
Doug Mo’s Nuggets career was not bad. During his 10 years of coaching, Nuggets became the strongest attacking team in the league six times, entering the playoffs for 9 consecutive years and once entering the West. But coincidentally, in the 1981-82 season, which was the first season when he fully coached the Nuggets, the Nuggets scored 126 points, ranking first in the league, and the average score was as high as 126 points, it became the second worst defensive team in NBA history.
Doug mo accidentally injected mad genes into the nuggets. Nine years later, mo’s successor and spiritual successor led the team to refresh the record just after he left the nuggets.
Paul Westhead
Westhead’s career can be said to be his debut and peak. He became the coach of the Lakers in 1979, leading the rookie magician and the prime minister Jabbar to win the championship. But the next year, he had a contradiction with the magician-westhead took jabbar’s ball-holding attack as the core, while the magician preferred to speed up all the staff. The difference in rhythm and philosophy, coupled with the first round of the second year, made Westhead overclass.
Later, Westhead faded out of NBA and went to NCAA’s Loyola Marymont Lions (PS: to make a digression, Cui Yongxi is currently training here) to coach. It seems that the magician opened his mind. In The Lion team, Westhead played a fast-paced and counterattack basketball track and field match, leading this small team that did not enter the NCAA elimination match steadily every year, the average score of the team inner core has always been the top of the United States. By 1989, the average score of the Lion team soared to 122 points, and it is still the record holder of NCAA.
The routine of the Lion team: the control guard buried himself in fengshui ball and threw it away at half time or found someone receive the ball
With the experience and confidence of the winners, westhead returned to NBA. He called on the players to speed up and then speed up. The players rushed to the front court and shot at the sight of rim: “we kept a rapid pace at both ends of the attack and defense, A strong blow to the opponent. Once this system works properly, it is not as simple as one plus one equals two, but one plus one equals seven.”
Westhead, who likes to talk about Shakespeare’s poems in the dressing room, may not have enough skills in mathematics, but he has never lost anyone in confidence. This set of high-intensity attacks, the full-court defensive strategy can only be used in amateur matches, but he still insists on this sleeve of NBA opponents easily poked through.
At that time, the general manager of the nuggets, burney bikstav (that is, JB-bikstav’s father), also favored him: “many people in the league don’t like this style of play because they don’t want it to work, they know that once it works, other teams will have a hard time.”
Burney bikstav
This set of play really worked from another point of view. The biggest problem faced by Nuggets is the lack of physical strength caused by high-intensity round-trip running. In that epic cut-off competition, kevin Johnson scored 23 points and 17 assists. As soon as the game was over, he covered his cramped ribs and cried: “I cramp in the second quarter, I feel that I ran 16 miles in that section.”
It would be worse if we were at the home court of the Nuggets plateau. At that time, the referee Evans quipped before the match: “before the end of tonight, I really want to have the iron lung of a trumpeter.” Even the Nuggets home announcer complained bitterly: “You must keep saying it until there is a foul on one side, you can take a little breath.”
This is the long history of the Nuggets “track and field team”. Long before jokedge, Murray, Tai-Lawson, Faried and JR-Smith, the predecessors of plateau blood were already running to death.
Michael Adams
To be fair, the nuggets in the 1990-91 season are indeed a number of offensive teams. Their leader is michael adams, who is less than 1.8 meters tall and has an average of 26.5 points and 10.5 assists, throw 8 three-point goals each with strange pushing posture, and earn three points in 79 consecutive games, creating NBA three-point lasting record-until Curry dominates the three-point list.
Interestingly, curry’s draft template mohammed abdu-ralph was adams’s substitute at that time. Abdu-ralph, who was in the rookie season, watched adams take 22 crazy shots every night, the young heart was greatly shocked.
Adams’s strange throwing position
Years later, Abdou-Ralph recalled, “it was not the coach who gave him the green light, but the lamp tube that was directly put in his hand.”
Adams’s most famous game was to face the stag led by Alvin Robertson, burst into the small universe, cut the highest 54 points in the game, and then defeated the opponent by 4 points in overtime. This is almost the epitome of the Nuggets season: in the state of almost no defense, the two sides cut 276 points together, I take away the data, you take away the victory, welcome to come again next time.
Adams superstar-level data
In the 66 games adams played this season, there were 23 single games with 30 +,6 games with 40 +,1 game with 54 points, and 40 games with more than 20 shots, for a small man who is 66 in the third round of the draft, it is quite ridiculous……
What is even more outrageous is that adams became the first player to get an average of 25 points and 10 assists since NBA entered the three-point era (it was not until the 2016-17 season that harden and weishao also got such data) under the circumstances, this season has not been selected as an all-star.
Adams has very flexible control and strong ability to stir up the situation.
Passing is also very coquettish and imaginative.
Adams is the external engine and counterattack driver of nuggets, and also serves as a licensing job.
Another core of this team, Orlando Woolridge, was Jordan’s first helper (and the first person who threatened to break Jordan’s leg), the first player who finished the dunk at the bottom of the dunk contest averaged 20 + per game. After the drug ban fell to the bottom of his career, he found himself in the Nuggets team, with a hit rate of 50%, he scored 25 points in the field. His athletic ability and the lethality in the Forbidden Zone are also the magic weapons of nuggets in attack and box office.
Classic tactics: Woodridge mid-distance back
He scored such a goal many times.
Woodridge’s internal hard chisel
To be fair, this nugget’s offensive talent was really strong. At that time, almost everyone in the team had the ability of medium and long distance projection, including the starting center rasmarsen and the substitute center Joe Wolfe. Even if they sometimes fall into positional warfare, defenders can use fengshui ball and flexibility to disturb the defense. The inside line and the front line are not empty at all.
Their cooperation lingered between tacit understanding and embarrassment, but they were always very destructive. Everyone had a crazy attack mentality and decisively shot every good and bad opportunity. Especially when these pictures happened more than 30 years ago, this team really looked very different.
The transfer fit after blocking and removing is quite smooth
Adams broke out and the center stepped on three point line
However, their defense was hardly like NBA level. The nuggets in doug-mo period had at least NBA level defensive strategies and awareness. In westhead period, the nuggets defense became like this:
Attack in advance without any threat, which is more loose than training.
They are high, the opponent is even higher, warrior TMC three-person combination cut 99 points
In the scenes scored by opponents, there are often no more than 5 people in the front court.
The result of the symbolic tightening of the whole court is that the piston yo-dog
I don’t know. I thought it was playing the ball in the front court.
The Nuggets will always have their watch. As long as the opponent passes out the ball (which is easy for them), the subsequent rotation will be a mess, so the Nuggets opponent can play a higher score, more coquettish operation and smoother cooperation.
In that match with the piston, Rodman took advantage of his enthusiasm and various defensive loopholes of the Nuggets to eat bread crazily, cut 34 points and 23 rebounds, experienced a huge feeling, and brushed the highest score in his career.
Four Nuggets players in the basket collectively watched Rodman attack for the second time.
What is even more outrageous is that the nuggets hit only 44 percent in those years, ranking the fourth lowest in the league, while the hit rate of their opponents is 51 percent as open as open, the level of limiting the opponent’s hit rate is also the league’s top four. All teams like them, even cainiao who first joined the league, such as the sun rookie and sebaros who scored in single digits, they can score 32 points in front of the Nuggets-the substitute played for 23 minutes and only used 15 shots.
However, behind the 26.5-point average of the nuggets, adams, the head of the nuggets, was his hit rate of less than 40% and his three-point accuracy of less than 30%. Cainiao abdou-raouf can shoot 15 times in 22 minutes, and the hit rate is equal to adams.
Adams Classic one dozen nine
Adams one-stop Iron
Run and Brick
Rauf: Learning is abandoned
It is hard to describe what kind of spirit it is. Just before the battle between the nuggets and the sun, they just had a fight with spurs, and the nuggets shot a score of 90-83 in the first half, walter Davis said proudly in midfield: “It’s unbelievable to see the helpless expression of the opponent. I have never played in such a good team.”
Davis soon regretted it. In the second half, 78 points were cut off at the last spurs, and the nuggets were finally sent away at 161-153. After witnessing this split feast, retired George Gewen quipped: “I will come back for this game.”
However, from the perspective of fans, the 1990-91 nuggets are indeed a beautiful landscape in NBA history. They wore rainbow-colored snow mountain jerseys and played games with climax and never stopped, at both ends of the attack and defense, the scenes are full of appreciation. As an opponent, you can also give your home team a hearty victory, which is “the best bad team”. Everyone-even some Nuggets fans-likes them. Until today, there are still people who are obsessed with this crazy, best and worst team.
This group of people naturally did not include the Nuggets management. The experiment in the 1990-91 season ended with a disastrous defeat. They quickly stopped Westhead’s experiment and selected dikenbei Mutombo with the No. 4 sign exchanged with 62 negative, and traded Adams to Washington. Although the Nuggets still had a poor record in the 1991-92 season, with the help of Uncle mu, their defensive efficiency jumped to the middle game of the league and began to play like a normal NBA team.
In 1994, under the command of the new master, handsome dan issel, the nuggets who finally learned to play well returned to the playoffs. In the first round, under the condition of falling behind from 0 to 2, they went straight to three sets and eliminated the western first-name super speed team, the first “black eight miracle” in NBA history was staged, and the second round was still behind 0-3 with the top jazz led by utah to grab seven. The Nuggets that year were the fifth in the defense efficiency league.
Black Eight Nuggets
History becomes a story, and the story becomes a legend. The Story of 1990-91 nuggets is too curious, but it is also a wave of sword deviation in the tide of basketball. In the history of professional basketball, left a sharp mark like “Children doodle and play.
On the other hand, standing on the field of professional basketball, it is always the truth of incontrovertible to win the game by attacking and defending. The nuggets of the last century set an example. The experience and lessons of both sides are unforgettable enough to make the current nuggets take the lead and reflect upon oneself three times a day.
Play and play, make trouble, don’t joke about the champion.
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