Chapter 922: Victory in the North Shore Gardens
(Double grip on the opponent's point guard, the most recent example was in the 2012 Western Conference Finals Thunder vs. Spurs, and finally the Thunder changed from 0-2 to 4-2 with this tactic, and this is where Parker has been criticized by many experts, many people think that he is not enough to be the first in the league or the top three point guards is also the reason, Parker is not very good at handling the ball in the face of double packs, and everyone knows that the biggest difference between general stars and superstars is the ability to handle the ball when packing, This chapter is also the fisherman's thoughts when he watched the game between South Korea and China, and these new generation insiders such as Yi Jianlian and Wang Zhelin who chose the Chinese men's basketball team are really poor in handling the ball in the face of the pinch shot, I hope there will be improvement)
"Kenny, if I'm not mistaken, Coach Z is double-hitting the Boston Celtics' point guard?"
Barkley looked at Bryant on the court with some surprise as he completed the dunk to the applause of the Boston Celtics fans, and then asked Kenny Smith on the side with some confusion.
He's not quite sure if he's right, in the NBA, for a player who can't defend, many times will take a pinch, such as a double, and even three or more pinching, such as in the Christmas game, the Lakers O'Neal made a four-man pinch.
It's just that the defensive method of pinching has always had advantages and disadvantages, as long as the player who is pinched has a strong passing ability, then the pinching is equivalent to a defensive failure, so many times, if it is not a last resort, no NBA team will adopt the kind of defensive method that the Lakers faced Jae Williams just now, especially for players like Jae Williams whose offensive ability is not very good, it is completely unnecessary. Even Jay Williams is really good offensively. But in the average team, it will not be flanked. After all, he's a point guard, isn't he looking for death by hitting a point guard?
So in the past few decades in the NBA or in the more than 100 years since the emergence of basketball, basically no strange coach will play this set, not only risky but also ineffective, unless the opposing point guard accidentally stops the ball or goes to a corner where there is no passing space, like Jay Williams just took the ball at the top of the arc and hit it is incredible.
"Well, that's right, Coach Z is on the pinch. And the first time it was successful" Kenny Smith also sighed at this time and sat down, facing Barkley's puzzled eyes, he also didn't know why Zhuang Fei was like this, but at this time for him, he could only watch the game next, for the current level of understanding of Zhuang Fei, at this time he naturally could not say that Zhuang Fei was a faint move, and no one in the current NBA could say whether the Chinese had a faint move before the end of the game.
"Was he trying to disrupt the rhythm of the Boston Celtics?" When he thought about it, Kenny Smith seemed to think of something, and Paul really probably couldn't play the Boston Celtics in terms of playing rhythm alone. But what if you're asking your teammates to help? If Jay Williams was really caught in a double by the Boston Celtics as soon as he got the ball, and he could still control the tempo as he does now, then he wouldn't be Jay Williams.
"It's just that Coach Z is really not afraid of Williams' passes? He's a first-class passer," no matter how many doubts there were in his mind. At this time, Kenny Smith couldn't find an answer, and finally could only focus on the court.
At this time, the same frown as Kenny Smith is Boston Celtics head coach Larry Brown, who is now standing on the sidelines, but the Boston Celtics head coach knows much more than Kenny Smith's analysis. And it's also much clearer.
"Want to disrupt the Boston Celtics' offense by disrupting Jay's offense by disrupting Jay's offense by disrupting Jay's control with a two-man pinch?" At this time, after Kobe Bryant's dunk was completed, Larry Brown also looked at Zhuang Fei with some thought.
"It's really a desperate plan, knowing that the Boston Celtics have too little offensive range, even if they take out one person to go out and wrap up, they will rotate back very quickly, but don't you really think that our team can't shoot from the perimeter?" At this time, Larry Brown was also a little angry in his heart.
Zhuang Fei's move is already obvious, so that Williams loses the ability to control the game, thinking that the team's current offense is all chiseled inside, if you want to break the Lakers' pinching and let Williams regain control of the game, he needs more perimeter offense, expand the offensive range, and make the Celtics' rotation defense distance wider, in this way, the Lakers' fast break will inevitably rise, and if the Lakers really run, then the Boston Celtics don't want to suppress it, As for Williams, who doesn't care about the double attack, hand over all the requests to Maddie and Yao Ming to play singles by themselves, the Celtics, who have no offensive system, have already attacked very often, and if there is no Jae Williams, the Boston Celtics' offense will be even worse, and now even if the rhythm is all on the Celtics' side, they are only three points ahead of the Lakers after playing less than half a game, and the Lakers have scored nearly forty points now with more than five minutes left in the half.
You know, in the last game, the Boston Celtics played against the Grizzlies with the same defensive intensity and same strategy, and the Grizzlies only scored 34 points in the half. It can be said that this game is not that the Boston Celtics' scoring ability is too low, for now, the Boston Celtics' offensive ability is still very good under the organization of Williams, but the Lakers' offensive ability is too strong, and it seems to be completely suppressed by the Boston Celtics, but it has been biting the Celtics.
"Is this a team that can score more than 100 points no matter how you defend it?" When thinking of this, Larry Brown also remembered the 2001 NBA Finals, when he met the Timberwolves led by Zhuang Fei in the Finals, the Timberwolves at that time were like this, no matter what kind of defense they encountered, they could score more than 100 points, if they couldn't score more than the opponent, even if their defense was good.
In this case, Larry Brown couldn't have thrown Jay Williams away. Although he is more light on offense. But play against the current Lakers. Not only does it need to be extremely defensive, but it also needs to be extremely aggressive, and the Boston Celtics head coach turned his face to the side again when he thought about it.
"It seems that Greg's analysis of this Laker is correct" Finally, thinking of his disciple Popovich's reminder to himself in this game, the Boston Celtics veteran coach also regretted it for a while, if he really listened to Popovich's reminder and had a preparation in advance, it would not be like this.
Now Larry Brown is figuring out a way on the sidelines, and the Boston Celtics on the court quickly messed up the offense after Jay Williams was pinched, and Maddie, who dominated the ball on the court, was very well organized. But he was not able to play too many offensive routines, and slowly his individual offense was increasing, and the number of misattacks was also increasing, and the speed of the Lakers was a little unbearable, and when Larry Brown was pacing next to him, there were three minutes before the end of the half, when the Boston Celtics caught up with the score and overtook it, in this case, Larry Brown had to call a timeout to stabilize the team's current situation.
It's just that although the Boston Celtics stabilized after the timeout and there was no collapse, it was after the halftime. The score on the court became 52-48, and the Los Angeles Lakers led by four points on the road.
"Coach. We succeeded" At the end of the half, Green, the Lakers assistant coach on Zhuang Fei's side, also looked at Zhuang Fei with some excitement and said, and at this time Zhuang Fei smiled very calmly and shook his head.
"It's still a long way off, hasn't Larry Brown not made a choice yet? How can this be considered a victory, let's take a look at it in the second half" After finishing speaking, Zhuang Fei took the Lakers players back to the locker room, and Green looked at his teacher's back and nodded thoughtfully, and finally followed with a smile, and at the same time looked forward to what kind of situation the Lakers and Celtics would have in the second half.
Of course, at the end of the half, the fact that the Lakers were leading made the atmosphere completely different from just now, whether it was the Boston Celtics fans or the Ardelson in the stands, at this time the Celtics' rich second generation face was already full of gloom, and he didn't know why suddenly his team had problems. It's just that even if he doesn't know, now he can only wait for the end of the game to question the team's manager.
"It's a good choice to double the attack, this is to give Larry Brown two ways, one is to replace another group of players, and then play against the Lakers, the other way is to put Jae Williams life or death, and finally put the team's offense regardless of the ranking, play defense in the ranking, if you can defend the Lakers' half-court score to no more than 40 points, like the last game against the Grizzlies, although the Timberwolves only scored 70 points, but the Grizzlies only scored more than 60 points, and in the end the Celtics still won, Now it's up to Larry Brown to see if he has confidence in his defense" After watching the small half of the game, how can Kenny Smith not know what trick Zhuang Fei is playing now, it can be said that now Kenny Smith definitely admires Zhuang Fei's strategy.
"Use all methods to get the final battlefield to the most familiar and awkward place of the other party, this is really Coach Z's style," Kenny Smith said with some sighs at the end.
"Kenny, do you mean to say that Coach Z is insidious and cunning?" Barkley also understood a little after Kenny Smith finished explaining, and after he finished speaking, Kenny Smith's face was also full of contempt, what is insidious and cunning? It's a battle of wit.
It's just that in Kenny Smith's opinion, this time Larry Brown has the upper hand after the opening game because of his relatively good preparation in the early stage, and now he is completely at a disadvantage.
Of course, Kenny Smith is now excited to see what decision Larry Brown will make in the second half, using offense to save Williams or just fighting defensively. When the problem of the Lakers' double bag has not been completely solved, he only has these two options, of course, it is not ruled out that Larry Brown will find a way to deal with the Lakers' double bag in the locker room, so that's another story.
It's just that after the start of the second half of the game, the Boston Celtics' choice is obvious, that is, defense, still insist on defense, even if the team's offense on the court is now chaotic, the rhythm is also chaotic, Larry Brown even let the Boston Celtics players not be allowed to attack indiscriminately for 24 seconds, in this case, the Boston Celtics head coach's choice is already very clear, he chose his own defense to beat the Boston Celtics.
"This is really a choice that meets Larry Brown's" Zhuang Fei looked at the Boston Celtics who were extremely chaotic and slow on the court, and said helplessly, when the other party did not hesitate to sacrifice their defense to contain the Lakers' offense, Zhuang Fei and the Lakers really don't have much to do now, and the Boston Celtics' defense is indeed very good.
"But then it will be difficult for them to catch up with our lead" After Zhuang Fei finished speaking, Green on the side also said with a smile, because even if the Boston Celtics are so desperately pinching the Lakers' offense, in the end the Lakers scored more points than the Boston Celtics, which is simply a miracle.
"It's not a good game, but it's full of connotation" When the game started playing with the Boston Celtics for 24 seconds, the game changed a different flavor, Kenny Smith said that it was not exciting enough to be worthy of Zhuang Fei and Larry Brown, and the game could be described as ugly in the second half.
In the third quarter, one scored 21 points on both sides and the other scored 18 points, completely without any beauty, of course, the Lakers are a little better, although whether it is the No. 5 tactics or other 1-4 tactics there is no limit, but after all, the scoring methods of the Lakers' tactics are still very beautiful, although the number is less, and the Celtics don't even have the beauty of scoring, at this time Kenny Smith understands why the Boston Celtics' attendance has dropped so much this year, The fans can't be blamed for that.
If the Celtics' opponent in this game is not the Lakers, it is estimated that this game will be an 80-70 or 70-60 game.
It's just that even if there are Lakers in this game, the Lakers only scored 73 points after the end of the third quarter, and the Lakers scored more than 73 points in the half of the game in many cases, and the score of the two sides was 87-78 when the game was more than halfway through the fourth quarter, until the last moment, there was really no way, Larry Brown found that he really didn't have the ability to limit the Lakers' halftime score to less than 40 points, the head coach of the Boston Celtics finally gave up his most trusted defense, Prepare to make another choice.
And when he made that choice, the Los Angeles Lakers scored 104 points at the end of the game, while the Boston Celtics ended up scoring 92 points, and the Boston Celtics still lost on their home court.
And when the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game, the TV camera clearly caught the Boston Celtics owner leaving the seat angrily amid the boos of the fans, and similarly, when the TV camera turned to the Boston Celtics head coach, the old coach's face was ugly.
"It's a really peculiar game, but in my opinion Larry Brown didn't lose, this game was the first game of the season in which the Lakers scored under 110 points per game, and if they could, the Boston Celtics could even contain the Lakers' scoring to less than 100 points, and Larry Brown's defense was really good."
After the game, Kenny Smith also said thoughtfully that if the Celtics had enough time to prepare and crack the double attack against Ja Williams, I am afraid the result of this game would not be like this.
So it's actually a shame that Larry Brown lost. (To be continued.) For mobile phone users, please go to read. )