They are all the top peripheral defensive monsters in NBA in this century.
On style differences:
Metta World Peace is a strong cross bite on a hard beating.
Tony Allen is the perfect crime of deliberate.
The defense of Tarzan is good at its low center of gravity, hard at the bottom, fast horizontal movement, fierce hands, accurate position can bite the breakthrough route; Half-time attack and defense, almost don’t want to pass in front of him; it can be protected from three positions. It cannot be overlaid.
Single-to-single at that time, the past also needs to be delaminated.
But he also has problems: big moves.
During the 2001-02 season in Chicago, there were 4 fouls in 31 minutes per game. In 2004, it reached its peak, but after the Auburn Mountain incident, it entered the era of new rules. When it broke through, it was not allowed to use hands. How much his defensive effect went on:
From the defensive player of the year to almost the same level as Battier.
Especially in the face of agile opponents, it also has a block and disassembly, Tarzan is often unsatisfactory.
In 2009, the Rockets played the Blazers. Roy once scored 42 points in a single game: Roy shot 15 balls in the whole game, and 8 balls were well covered in front of Tarzan, in addition, two balls were forced to cast against Battier (Battier was not blocked by cover), and one ball was empty from the back door. Bullying Tarzan is wrong.
— Tarzan special food cover, being so light and graceful as Roy, you have to eat flat.
In contrast, Battier is not as tough as Tarzan, but soft and tough, so the peak period is also longer: when he won the championship with Lebrom in 2012, Battier was 34 years old. This is also why, when playing the Lakers in 2009, the Rockets would rather let Battier master pester Kobe.
But Metta World Peace hard-hitting single defense is really good. In the 2010 finals, Tarzan caught Pierce.
Pierce is not better than Roy, but in 2010 Pierce was 33 years old, not fast enough, and it is not as good as Roy to use the block to split.
Don’t fight through the air, enter one-on-one attack and defense bite, Metta World Peace will not be afraid.
Metta World Peace play the Beast and score the target. The object is a beast, he can follow; The object is a bird, he is easy to eat flat.
In 2010, Durant, the youngest scorer in history, hit the Lakers in the first round and hit Durant Metta World Peace. Durant averaged 25 points and a three-point rate of 35% in six matches.
Metta World Peace at that time, he said that Durant just kept covering the cover-the implication was that holding the ball was nothing.
Two years later Durant trained the handball and made a strong shot. Revenge was Metta World Peace successful, but that was two years later.
Tony Allen had a wonderful self-statement about his style, describing how he deliberately committed a perfect crime:
Before each match, he would confirm his opponent and ask the videographer (such as Dan Hatfield of the Grizzly Bear) to record two or three matches of his opponent, watch and stare.
I have always seen that before every match starts, he knows his opponent’s offensive tactics like the palm of his hand.
At the beginning, he will let the referee know his own scale early and test the scale of the referee. On this basis, be the most ruthless.
When using the first arm resting to interfere with the opponent, move your feet actively: Do not move your hands, do not interfere with your opponent; If you do not move your manual feet, you will be fouled; If you do not move your manual feet, you will also move your manual feet, the referee will not blow.
To deal with long people, such as Durant, then sit on his lap with a low center of gravity and shield against balls.
As far as possible, use the jump to open your legs to rotate the periphery, which can quickly interfere with the shooting; If the opponent takes the opportunity to break through, it may also be possible to kick the ball out of the world-although be careful, don’t be blown by the referee.
For example, Kobe will give up one side of the breakthrough route that he does not like, oppress the other side and drive him into the trap. To deal with the master of the noodle basket, lower his hands, because Kobe may foul.
Communicate with teammates at any time and know when and where the cover comes from.
Never talk to your opponent. Defense is my job, just be a businessman.
— The surface is thick and tough, and the inside is full of details.
As mentioned above, Metta World Peace is good at single-to-single biting everything on the opposite side; But it’s a little bit of cover.
Tony Allen likes to cover.
He has a habit: the first time after attacking his opponent for cover:
According to his statement, the first step after the opponent has covered fengshui ball, which is the easiest to get rid of God-there are psychological tactics.
So he bent down and could copy Lillard and build Durant with his hands.
And, station position.
The most typical example: Durant raised his hand to shoot the fake action, and Allen posted the defense to give up the bottom line side; Durant broke through fengshui ball, Allen manually followed, and finally took the ball away from Durant.
He didn’t have the ability to block all the way as Metta World Peace, so he had a choice and a tough and meticulous entanglement, which was the most accurate in the existing penalty scale.
So obviously there are so many balls that people think, “Why can Tony Allen stop this ball without foul?”
On face pasters face Defense, Tony Allen is not as good as Tarzan; But he is more careful, more cunning, more deliberate, and better at perfect crime. Everyone he defended was thoroughly studied by him.
He was not born like this.
Tony Allen said the best player he had ever defended was Kobe.
On February 22, 2005, Tony Allen played Kobe for 8 minutes in rookie year and was fouled six times by Kobe.
Since then, he began to study Defense deliberately and how to make perfect crimes without foul.
His teammate Pierce told him, “If you match me every day in training, there is no one you can’t prevent.”
It was the repeated supervision of Pierce and Kobe, a friend, that finally reached the 2010 finals. Tony Allen could defend Kobe-subtly, Ci Shiping locked Pierce in the same series.
So since then, Tony Allen, especially in the playoffs, has played a role in defending everyone:
After all, among the defenders, there are few people who think like him and have been hardened by Pierce and Kobe in turn.
