Chapter Thirty-Eight: Low Singles
After the timeout, the Clippers' on-court lineup became: Cassel, James Posey, Artest, Ji Guoyi, and Ji Guoqiu.
The Clippers' lineup, except for Cassel in the control position, is a short board, and the other four players are not mentioned on offense for the time being, and there is already some ironclad taste in the defense. After the team was traded, Dunleavy Sr. could only continue to experiment with the team's lineup during the regular season, frequently experimenting with various combinations to see which worked best.
James Posey is much more experienced than Garcia, seeing Ellis's three-point inaccuracy, he puts the three-point line directly to the opponent when defending, retreats to the mid-range defense, and almost steps on the three-second zone to defend the opponent.
Ellis was very awkward to deal with this kind of defense, he wanted to shoot but didn't dare, and finally broke through with his head bored, and he was not sure about shooting three points, even if Posey let him go two steps away.
At this time, Posey defended shooting, did not prevent breakthrough, watched the opponent's mid-distance, and let the opponent break through. The Clippers have more than one defense, and Ellis bursts into the interior line, and as soon as he closes the door, he can instantly lock the opponent in the three-second zone, form a small encirclement, break the ball or force him to make a mistake.
After the timeout, the Warriors' first mistake came from this, and Ji Guoqiu and Posey wrapped the Warriors' No. 2 position on the inside. Ellis burst to the inside line only to feel that there were enemies all around, let alone shooting, he couldn't even divide the ball, and finally couldn't dribble it and was blocked under the basket for a three-second violation!
James Posey knew that his team's two interior defenses were excellent, so he dared to use this defensive method, which is called closing the door and playing the dog, specifically against players who have no brains.
Davis saw that Ellis didn't have a chance and began to attack on his own. The bearded opponent is Kassel, so if you don't take the opportunity to bully the opponent at this time, will you still respect the old and love the young?
Cassel knew that he could barely defend himself, not only could he not prevent the beard, but he would have to recuperate for ten days and eight days after playing this game, so the aliens also learned James Posey's method, prevented the shot from breaking through, and put the beard inside and handed it over to the two brothers to clean up.
However, Davis was not fooled, he has been playing in the NBA for ten years, has a lot of experience, and is much more cunning than the young Ellis. Since the other party's inside line is obviously not easy to break through, how could he go in and kill himself? Every time he broke through, he made a pull-and-go jump shot from mid-range range of about 10 feet, and the beard was really accurate at this distance, and the Clippers were very injured.
Cassel couldn't defend the opponent, and the elder Dunleavy had already been mentally prepared to send him up to control the team's rhythm and prevent the Warriors from running with them.
The aliens were steady on the offensive end, unhurriedly transported to the frontcourt, and the Clippers began to fight positional battles.
Artest received the basketball on the left side of the rib, and the two brothers quickly moved to the weak side, leaving half of the court for him to play alone. Artest's singles are a powerful weapon for positional warfare, and brutality often means simplicity and efficiency.
Jackson's muscles bulged all over his body, and he stood up to his opponent, but the gap in strength could not be filled by will.
Artest squeezed two steps back with his brute force, and suddenly turned around and broke through......
Jackson's body froze, and it was too late to catch up, Artest used his body to block the opponent behind him, and scored two points with a one-handed slam.
Charles Barkley was particularly excited to see such a scene, exclaiming: "He's like a beast in the low post under the basket, and whoever comes to guard me feels sorry for him." ”
Old Nelson's face changed suddenly, Atai's style of play was too unreasonable, and he thought quickly, but there was really no player in the team who could limit this beast one-on-one, Jackson was already the strongest in their No. 3 position, and Barnes was not as strong as Jackson.
If you can't solve it, then let it go first. Replace defense with offense, offense is the best defense for the Warriors!
Old Nelson didn't believe that Artest was such a hard chisel, could he chisel them to death?
The next time the Clippers attacked, the basketball was handed to Artest again, and the two former teammates began to wrestle again.
Davis chose to trap Artest this time, but the latter couldn't cope with the double pack, so he hurriedly passed the ball out, and Cassel shot three points in the open space.
"Bang!"
Cassel has not been good at three points in recent seasons, and he didn't hit this empty spot, and the basketball was obtained by the Warriors, which was another quick counterattack.
Davis received the ball and dribbled forward, Cassel couldn't keep up after half the court, Artest was strong, but the defense of this kind of fast attack was also lacking. The same is true for the other three Clippers, the two brothers can run compared to the interior players, and in the face of the Warriors' guard line, the two of them can't catch up as if they can't return to defense early.
Ellis received a pass from Davis and scored two points with an easy empty layup.
With a score of 36:46, the Clippers were already 10 points behind the Warriors in the blink of an eye.
"Hit the success rate, pay attention to the return defense, block the defense!" Dunleavy Sr. shouted from the sidelines, but did not call a timeout.
The next time the Clippers attacked, Ji Guoqiu made a no-ball cover at the free throw line, and his younger brother Ji Guoqiu suddenly started to cut.
Harrington was a step slower, and when he tried to keep up, he was blocked by Ji Guoqiu and completely lost his defender.
Cassel passed the basketball to Ji Guosha, who ran out of the space, and this time Jackson made up for it and let go of Artest to make up for Ji Guosha.
Ji Guoyi turned the shot into a pass and sent the basketball into Artest, who faced Bitlins' rotation defense and threw the basketball again......
Ji Guoqiu had already rushed to the basket, received an aerial relay from the basket, and poured the basketball into the basket with both hands!
Charles Barkley was full of praise for the Clippers' offensive coordination: "You can see that the Clippers have enough talent in these players, they just need time to grind. Artest is an offensive and defensive player, plus two interior twins with great potential, and a championship-experienced sixth man like Posey, and the Clippers are not out of the playoffs this year. As for what can be achieved? It depends on what kind of process they can run into. ”
Kenny Smith added: "They have great veterans like Mobley and Thomas, who are not bad on paper, and I think the key to what they can do is in the twins, and what they can do in their first season will determine the team's line. ”
In the second quarter, the two teams went back and forth, and both sides could score points during this time on offense, but their respective shortcomings determined that neither of them could limit the opponent's scoring, and the game naturally became which side scored more? Either side will achieve the rhythm of victory.
Such a game would be extremely bad for the Clippers, who would not be able to beat the Warriors offensively.
Dunleavy Sr. called a timeout at 3:05 in the second quarter, and the score was 43:51, and the Clippers trailed by eight points.
Before the half was over, the Warriors had already scored more than fifty points.
"When we get back on the court, we can't keep an eye on Davis, we can't give him an open chance to score, Ellis and Jackson don't need to care from 15 feet away, and then we shrink the defense, the main defense from mid-range and under the basket, and see if they can shoot us?"
The old Dunleavy is betting on the opponent's three-point inaccuracy, in fact, the Warriors' starting three, Davis, Ellis and Jackson's three-point shots are unstable, especially Ellis basically has no three-point shooting ability, they want to win, they have to make a fuss from this, sometimes the game is a gamble.
Back on the court, Ji Guoqiu lightly asked for basketball in the low post, Bitlins didn't pay much attention to this, and it was clearly marked in the scouting report he got before the game that Ji Guoqiu had no ability in the low post, just need to pay attention to his mid-range shooting.
The Clippers returned to the court, and the lineup became Blevin Knight, Mobley, Artest, Ji Guoyi, and Ji Guoqiu.
Blaven knew that Ji Guoqiu had been training to attack in the low post, and when he saw that he was going to be in place, he happily passed the ball into the inside.
Bitlins was a little puzzled, did he really want to beat him with his back?
"It's good, I'll cut you first!"
Bidrins felt that his face was still hot, and then thought of what happened to him, and immediately decided that he must prevent the opponent's self-defeating attack, and it was best to give the opponent a big hat to relieve the hatred in his heart!
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