freeallnovels Chapter 1624 Offensive Dilemma
Chapter 1624 Offensive Dilemma
Chapter 1624 Offensive Dilemma
On June 2007, 6, the day of Game 8 of the NBA Finals, the Boston Celtics took a special plane to Phoenix.
The outside world has great expectations for the Celtics' away trip.
Although it is three consecutive away games, they have already won two games at home. Therefore, as long as they win one game in three away games, they can grasp the match point. If they win two games, they can win the away game and rebuild the glory of the Celtics.
Basically, all teams that are at a disadvantage in the playoffs will actively increase the confrontation level to create variables.
Even a western team like the Suns would do this because they have Garnett on the team.
As a super giant, Garnett's only fault worth criticizing is the unreliable offensive stability at critical moments. Therefore, he will choose to use defense as much as possible to change the current situation.
Louis made preparations for the players in advance, hoping that they knew that the away game would be far more difficult than the home game. However, that night, at the beginning of the game, the defensive aggression shown by the Suns still made the Celtics at a loss.
As an Eastern team that stood out from the Eastern Conference, the Celtics endowed the Eastern Conference champions with some rare characteristics: such as gorgeous offense, simple and mysterious "7 seconds or 20 seconds" offense, Lu Wuxian's gorgeousness and Manu Ginobili's enchanting... Since the Celtics in 1986, no Eastern Conference champion team has played a similar performance.
However, compared with the Celtics 21 years ago, the Celtics this year are much less reckless in fighting bloody opponents.
Especially against the Suns, who look more like Western Conference champions than Western Conference champions.
Whether it is tactics or offense, they are fully confident.
The Suns have proved in two games that any team that tries to play in the Celtics' comfort zone will be severely defeated.
For the Suns, which is famous for its running and bombing, this is really an unbearable burden for the team. However, the weight of the championship is always heavier than imagined. If you can't bear this pressure and blaze a new path, you can't become a champion.
So the Suns chose to do what Eastern Conference teams have done over the past few decades when their offenses fail.
Confrontation, hand-to-hand combat, strangulation.
This way of playing is both brutal and has no gold content.
It's so easy to operate that even the Oden Trophy winner Golden State Warriors and Durant Trophy winner San Antonio Spurs, who were drafted the No. [-] pick to do the same thing, can deploy it with zero mistakes.
The "harder" game is not a technical issue for the players, but a matter of willingness. Whoever wants and desires more will be able to behave more cruelly and viciously without any scruples.
Unfortunately, this is precisely one trait that the Celtics lack.
Although they have scumbags like Zaza Pachulia and monsters like Manu Ginobili who have more petty tricks than Tianling Gai's hair, they can't turn the Celtics into a dirty and tough traditional eastern team.
Their existence can at most make the Celtics a copy of the GDP Spurs. Dirty, but only those teams who don't know how to be dirty. If they meet real experts, they will suffer.
This problem lies in the core players.
Generally speaking, what is the temperament of the core players, what is the temperament of the team.
Lu Wuxia and Yao Yueban can basically be regarded as the best-tempered and second-best players in the NBA. At most, the former's trash talk caused controversy, but Wuxia has never been accused of illegal basketball moves.
Although Yao Yueban showed enough scheming after retiring from the game, he really didn't have any special tricks as a player. Louis has given up on him to make efforts in this area, but he is flawless...you can also tap your "potential".
Louis believed that this kid had definitely inherited the gene of honesty in his bones.
The so-called dog jumps over the wall in a hurry, and the rabbit bites in a hurry. Honest people will basically commit extreme crimes with the anger of "it's not me but the world" when they are in a hurry. If not, Louis feels that he would never be a boxing referee on the spot...
When will the flawless and loyal blood successor limit boundary be awakened?Could it be that he also needs to be completely blown up like Benj and get the BUFF "Dog Special Spit" in order to go crazy?
Who will be Bird in Flawless Life?
Louis looked at Garnett seriously.
He shook his head, feeling impossible.
Let's not say that Garnett is a bit bullying. Although he has said many times in the game that he will do nothing to Wuxia, he actually gave Louis face and did not really do anything.
Whether in public or private, it is difficult for Garnett to do this.
However, before Louis can focus on this matter, he must first solve the problem of the team's shooting percentage.
The away game has its own difficulties.
Here, the physical confrontation, the referee's scale, and the on-site environment are all heading in a direction that makes the visiting team uncomfortable.
The Celtics encountered a problem when they came up, and their outside shooting felt nothing.
First, Yao Yue, the most stable inside turret in the league, missed his usually very stable three-pointer at the top of the arc.
Then Ginobili received the ball for a three-pointer.
Then Kirilenko's open three-pointer was a good opportunity, but he couldn't make it.
The Suns failed to make a three-pointer and couldn't catch the long offensive rebound. The Suns made three counterattacks in a row. The opening 6-0 start was all anti-reverse scoring.
Louis decisively called a timeout.
This is a normal timeout rhythm, but anyone who is familiar with Louis knows that he is a coach who does not play cards according to common sense. Under normal circumstances, even if the opening is pulled by 6 points, he will not directly call a timeout.
It is now called a timeout. There are several reasons. One is that the team has no touch from the outside, but they obviously have no touch, but they choose to shoot from the outside for three consecutive rounds.This is a typical path dependence. In the past, the problem could be solved by shooting, but now that the shooting is not effective, you have to continue to shoot. If you hit a few more similar shots, the point difference will be 10 points, and the scoring of defensive counterattacks is very comfortable for the Suns.
They just need to defend with all their strength and wait for the Celtics to miss the ball before going down quickly.
This kind of rhythm is something Louis doesn't want to see anyway.
"Wish, Manu, although we have always pursued the opening style of dynamic offense from the outside, if we don't feel good tonight, we should attack in a different way!" Louis said, "Kyle, you replace Andre, Mike, you replace Paul."
Less than 2 minutes into the game, Luigi directly replaced Milicic and Gasol, allowing the Celtics to enter the final stage of the touch test-in the five-out environment, will the three-pointer continue to fail?
Lu Wuxia remembered his father's words.
If the five-out lineup still can't make three-pointers, then take the initiative to seek changes.
Lu Wuxia didn't want the team to continue to make a fourth three-pointer after missing three three-pointers in a row.
There is an invisible and intangible momentum on the court.
The current Celtics just don't have the momentum to make three-pointers. Instead of wasting the deterrent force of five-out to try to make three-pointers, it is better to stop shooting three-pointers and maintain the deterrent force of five-out to attack the opponent's inside line.
It's a simple mental game.
The Suns, who defended the Celtics with 3 of 0 three-pointers in the opening game, will be excited about their defense, but will they feel that the Celtics' three-pointers tonight are not good because of this defensive result?of course not.Because the production of three points and three points is too small, it cannot explain the problem.
Therefore, the Suns will not let go of their three-pointers because the Celtics can't make a three-pointer. They will only devote more energy to chasing the opponent's shooter because of the appearance of the five-out lineup.
After Yao Yue's half-arc top pick-and-roll, he bounced away and Lu Wuxia broke through with the ball. During the period, his eyes, gestures, and steps all looked like he was going to take advantage of the ball.
As a result, as soon as Iguodala's defense slackened, he kicked his nose to the face, dribbled the ball to the penalty area, and scored in front of Milicic's face, breaking the Celtics' scoring drought.
2 is better than 6
"After the opening 2 minutes, Wish led the Celtics out of the offensive dilemma!"
(End of this chapter)