Chapter 957: Two Guns Strike Together
McCollum was startled by Lillard's sudden pass, but he did a good job of seizing the opportunity and not letting it turn into a missover.
Raising his hand to make a layup, McCollum and Lillard completed a beautiful combination.
"Well passed!"
McCollum didn't know if Lillard had intentional or not, but he knew that the ball was well passed and he could easily score on a layup.
Lillard was also a little stunned for a while, strange, why did he subconsciously pass the ball just now?
But fortunately, the results were very good, and Lillard didn't think too much about it.
But McCollum kept an eye on it, as if suddenly he had caught something.
On the Spurs' side, Jokic used his footwork to hit the opposite one, and when he turned around, the Trail Blazers attacked again.
This time, it was Lillard who burst into the ball, and McCollum deliberately chose a position away from Lillard, and then prepared to test his conjecture.
Lillard accelerated his breakthrough, this time the Spurs chose to switch defenses, Ginobili came up to block him, and the old spicy demon knife faced the young Lillard, and it was like Mars hitting the earth in an instant!
Lillard raised his hand to resist Ginobili, he didn't have any affection for the veteran, and pushed Ginobili to the inside.
Ginobili used his experience to stabilize his position, and although he was pushed back, he was always between Lillard and the basket.
And at this time, McCollum, who had been going around in circles on the other side, suddenly shook off Mills with a feint, and then rushed straight to the inside!
"Ball!"
McCollum shouted, and Lillard, who was breaking through, heard this, as if a conditioned reflex, and threw the ball in the direction from which the sound came!
"Pass beautifully!"
The height of the ball was exactly McCollum's waist, and it happened to appear in McCollum's forward path, McCollum received the ball and lifted it easily, and it was easy to score the ball!
"Good shot!"
Lillard was also excited, and McCollum bumped his chest to celebrate, all the time the two of them came up and could only play one person alone and the other watched, but I didn't expect the two to play a perfect match today!
"How did you do that?"
Lillard asked McCollum when he returned to defense.
"Follow the feeling."
McCollum didn't have time to talk to Lillard because the Spurs had already rushed over, but his following the feeling was remembered by Lillard.
This time the Spurs' offense was a little anxious, Ginobili stepped to the basket and went around the basket again, and Carman took the rebound and pushed McCollum to play a fast break!
"Damian, run with your feelings!"
McCollum yelled at Lillard as he pushed forward and he was going to try to see if he could do that when he was in possession of the ball!
The Spurs quickly changed defenses, Green entangled McCollum and didn't let him play the fast break, but McCollum didn't plan to break through him this time, quickly dribbled and shook out a space where he could pass the ball, and McCollum directly pushed the ball out in the direction he expected!
Whether you can receive this ball or not depends on whether Lillard and himself have a tacit understanding!
"Smack!"
Lillard was on a high-speed breakaway, and then he suddenly felt something flying towards him, and the next moment, the basketball appeared in his sight, but fortunately he reacted quickly and reached out in time to take the ball down.
But it felt smooth, and after winning the ball, Lillard took three steps to make a layup, and before the Spurs defense was in place, he scored a layup!
In the next few rounds, Lillard and McCollum seemed to really call, and the two actually played a very good match, passing the ball to each other in a good way.
"Pause!"
The Spurs immediately called a timeout and couldn't let the Trail Blazers get up like that.
"Damian, I know how the two of us are going to work together!"
Back on the bench, McCollum was thrilled that NND had finally found a way for himself and Lillard to form a golden pair.
"You mean......" Lillard actually had some eyebrows, but he wasn't sure because he always felt like it wasn't particularly perfect.
"That's right, it's just like just now, let's follow the feeling, when one person controls the ball, the other person runs and breaks through according to his own habits, and then when he passes the ball, he also passes according to his own prediction."
McCollum was thrilled, but that wasn't really a way to do it, because a lot of times it looked like a gamble, and if the other guy didn't run the way he wanted, it was a mistake.
But McCollum and Lillard's playing styles are too similar, and the two of them can actually be said to be the same person, both of whom play with a breakthrough-oriented style. In many cases, the person in possession of the ball can guess where the opponent should be at this time from his own point of view, and then pass the ball.
In the same way, the person who receives the ball can guess the route of the pass, and then just run over it in time.
This tactic, abbreviated as "people running with the ball", can only be completed if the style is very similar to everything and the partners trust each other very much.
It has to be said, Lillard and McCollum, they have the potential to use this trick.
"Defend those two and don't let them play easily."
On the Spurs bench, Popovich was teaching his disciple confidential matters, and he obviously saw that the backcourt double guns composed of these two people were indeed very powerful, but the cooperation between them was still relatively jerky, and those passes were more like instincts.
"Coach, I'll go up, Kehuai and I will be in charge of one by one." Qin Yan put forward his own suggestion, for this kind of opponent, one-on-one is the best way. One-on-one does not change defenses, curb their breakthroughs, and then the two gibbons can be ready to break the ball at any time, so that their cooperation cannot be played.
"No, you continue to rest, for their combination that has not yet taken shape, you two have to make a move, so how can I withdraw my level?"
Popovich refused very "arrogantly", it is true that Qin Yan and Leonard can perfectly restrain the two of them, but the "double guns" that have not yet taken shape should not let the Spurs use their trump cards so early.
"Matt, Danny, you two are going to deal with them next, one-on-one without changing defenses, don't reach out for tackles, just interfere with their dribbles. The rest of the man protects the rebound. ”
Popovich replaced Tucker with Barnes, and then let him and Green deal with the Trail Blazers.
However, the two guns that found a way to cooperate are not so easy to deal with, although Green and Ba Ye work hard, but the two talented young people still rely on their own feelings, keep running with the ball, and find space from the gaps in the Spurs' defense to complete the cooperation, and the two guns are combined to continuously narrow the difference between the two teams.
"Qin, Kehuai, you guys are ready to go!"
Popovich couldn't hold his face a little and beckoned Qin Yan and Leonard to get ready to play.
In fact, there is no problem with Popovich's tactics, it's just that the Trailblazers' two guns hit together for the first time, and the hit rate is just a bonus......