The Legend of the Hungry Wolf in Basketball

Chapter 505 [Taking the Warriors lightly, winning the first battle]

The baby was too excited when he was just born, and Ye Feng made a lot of moves on the court.Thibodeau replaced him early to remind him not to make dangerous dunks to prevent injury.

After the three consecutive championships, the vision of the Clippers coaching staff has long been different. Before the finals, they do not intend to let the players do their best. As long as they can advance, it doesn't matter even if they play one or two more games.Rookies need playoff experience and playing time more than star players like Ye Feng and Love.

Thibodeau had already shared his thoughts with Ye Feng, and planned to use the first two rounds of the playoffs to fine-tune the lineup. It is not that no NBA team has done this before. For example, in the season when Adelman just took over the Rockets, he disabled Yao Ming in the regular season, but he dared to train Novak and Brooks in the playoffs.

With Ye Feng off the court, the Clippers' outside offensive power has dropped a lot, and instead they mainly focus on Gasol and Love's inside attack. Thornton missed a lot of games in the regular season, and now he needs to play time to regain his form.

After that, Curry made two jump shots with an emergency stop, DeRozan also broke through and made a basket, David Lee also made a high shot, and caused a foul and got a free throw... The Warriors seized the opportunity and played a wave of 10-0, overtaking up the score.

Within 3 minutes, the Clippers scored a goal from Love.Seeing that the Clippers were suppressed by the Warriors at home, many fans shouted "Hungry Wolf", hoping that Ye Feng could play as soon as possible, but he still sat on the court until the end of the first quarter.

In the first quarter, the two sides battled to a 27-level tie.In the second quarter, the Clippers sent Mark Gasol, Perry Jones, Matt Barnes, Marcus Thornton, and Kirk Hinrich.

The Warriors also played off the bench, the Clippers gradually regained the initiative, and Thornton found his touch and scored consecutively.

Ye Feng's mood gradually relaxed.Thibodeau is right, he really needs to rest, although his physical strength is fine, he is very tired mentally.There is no suspense in the first round of the playoffs, and he should give the opportunity to the rookies.

He sat off the court for another 6 minutes, which was equivalent to a whole quarter of rest, before he went into battle.The Gasol brothers were on the court together, and Perry Jones and Ye Feng played a pick-and-roll, allowing him to attack in a misplaced manner and quickly hit two goals.

The Warriors couldn't effectively double-team Ye Feng. The Gasol brothers were on both sides of the low post and had an obvious height advantage.If you don't switch to a taller player to defend, you can't block Ye Feng's dry jumper.If outside players double-team, Ye Feng will pass the ball to Thornton and Jones, both of whom have good shooting ability.

At halftime, the Clippers led 55 to 48 by 7 points.

In the third quarter, Ye Feng continued to play and played very steadily. He mainly responded at the top of the arc and only shot when the opportunity was good. The main attack point was always on the Gasol brothers and Love in the interior. Thornton shot more times than Ye Feng. Many, fans who want to see him sixty or seventy points are bound to be disappointed.

Ye Feng only took 10 shots in the first three quarters, hit 7 goals, made 2 of 1 three-pointers, and made 4 of 4 free throws. He scored 19 points, 7 rebounds and 7 assists. He did not attack hard. He still gave the Warriors a headache. Ships attack more flowers.The point difference widened to 2 points.In the fourth quarter, Ye Feng went off to rest again, and the Clippers replaced Marc Gasol, Robert Thackeray, Matt Barnes, Jeremy Lamb, and Isiah Thomas.

As a rookie with the 12th overall pick, Lamb didn't get much playing time in the regular season. Now Thibodeau has given him a chance to perform and arranged pick-and-roll tactics for him, hoping that he can help the team with a steady emergency stop jumper.Thackeray played to strengthen the defense.

At this time, the CCAV5 commentator who is now broadcasting the game is very dissatisfied with Thibodeau's formation.Many Chinese media believe that Yi Jianlian still has great training value, and even has the opportunity to become an All-Star. Yi Jianlian scored 30+10 when he played against Spain in the Olympics, and he was almost blown to another planet by them. Can compete with any star insider in the NBA.In fact, Yi Jianlian's defense is so bad that it is already a miracle that he can last this season in the NBA and win the championship ring.Everyone has seen the signs that Yi Jianlian will leave after this season.

"Magic" Johnson said: "Thibodeau is really good at employing people. The 60 rookies in the Clippers for two consecutive years have all played at the same level. Thackeray has a height advantage, a good physique, and the ability to support offense is also qualified. It is just an offensive method. Too little, just relying on height to shoot, easy to be blocked."

Van Gundy said: "He now plays more time than Yi Jianlian, and his defense is better than Perry Jones, who the Clippers focused on training."

The Clippers put on a substitute, and the Warriors played with all their main players.The goals of the two teams are completely different. The Warriors have to fight every game and resolutely avoid being swept.

In the past few seasons, the Clippers have always swept and advanced in the first round, and it is rare to enter the playoffs once. The Warriors don't want to end like this.Stephen Curry played especially hard. This is not to prove anything at the Staples Arena, but he is a restricted free agent after the end of this season. The Warriors are also worried about his potential injury and did not renew his contract in advance. , He has no problem with his ankle this season, so he has to try his best to play good numbers and win a big contract for himself.

The rookies of the Clippers have good personal ability, but they are not good at controlling the rhythm. Especially Mihm and Thackeray, two players who don’t play often, are a little busy and can’t control the number of fouls. Fortunately, the Warriors’ shooting percentage is not high. Chasing points Slowly, Ye Feng was able to rest for a while.

The Warriors recovered a lot of points with free throws.In the 6 minutes of the last quarter, the point difference was narrowed to only 7 points, and the hope of winning was regained. At this time, Thibodeau sent Ye Feng and other main players to play.

The three star players Gasolton and Harrison, two role players who can shoot suddenly, are the strongest lineup that the Clippers can play now.

The tactics still put Gasol and Love in the low post, Ye Feng and Thornton play pick-and-roll cooperation on the outside, and Harrison looks for three-point opportunities on the bottom line.This style of play can involve the Warriors' 23 zone defense, allowing Ye Feng to get singles opportunities on the outside.The closer to the basket, the higher the shooting percentage. It is impossible for the Warriors to give up the defense of the basket in order to double-team Ye Feng on the outside at critical moments.

In the final stage, Ye Feng started the main attack, and his opponent was DeRozan, who played nearly 40 minutes.As soon as he got the ball on the perimeter, his teammates all pulled away. It was impossible for Curry to let Thornton go to double-team Ye Feng on the perimeter. He knew Thornton very well. If you don't go in, you can also attract the defense to pull out the space.What left the deepest impression on the Clippers this season was not the cooperation, but Ye Feng's individual singles. When no one in the team averaged more than 5 assists per game, the opponent who could still fight had no power to fight back.

Ye Feng turned to face the frame at the top of the arc, dribbled the ball from his crotch to the right, and relied on DeRozan to dribble to the low position without haste. He has strength advantages and height advantages, and it is more effective to squeeze the opponent so that they cannot jump up.At 45 degrees to the right, Love has pulled to the outside to make room, David Lee followed, Ye Feng immediately turned his back to the inside lane, leaned on DeRozan and hit the board with one hand.

DeRozan's jumping ability can't be used, there is no way.

At 5 minutes and 04 seconds, David Lee and DeRozan switched positions to defend. Ye Feng stopped suddenly and shot quickly during the process of changing positions, and the baseline was hollowed into the net.

At 4 minutes and 22 seconds, David Lee defended close to the right. Ye Feng turned to face the frame and dribbled the ball under his crotch continuously. After the action shook David Li, he made a foul and threw the ball in with one hand to score 2+1.

At 2 minutes and 45 seconds, Ye Feng intercepted Klay Thompson's pass and made a fast break alone.He deliberately performed, took off one step before the free throw line, glided for a long distance, and dunked the basketball with one hand and scored!This was another slam dunk contest action, and the fans in the audience erupted and gave a standing ovation.

At 2 minutes and 13 seconds, Ye Feng attracted a double-team, passed the ball out of the perimeter, and Love made a three-pointer.The Clippers scored 5 consecutive offenses, extending the score to 15 points and securing the victory.

"Magic" Johnson sighed: "The difference in strength between the two sides is not small. If the Clippers didn't want to train new players, they should be able to easily beat the Warriors by 30 points. Ye Feng only needs to play hard for a while, and other teams can suffer. He’s shooting with great accuracy now regardless of his offensive methods.”

Van Gundy said: "He is too comprehensive. The tall ones are not as fast as him, the fast ones are not as tall as him, and the tall and fast ones are not as good as his skills. This game has a short playing time, otherwise it will be easy to score more than 40 points. But playing I don't think he will try his best for the Warriors, otherwise it would not be difficult to average 50+ per game in this series."

Johnson agrees. "Ye Feng played amazing numbers in the regular season, but in the playoffs, he also needs to allocate his physical strength reasonably. There is really no need to expend too much physical strength in the first round."

Ye Feng got addicted to scoring in the regular season, and now he doesn't need to use scoring to prove himself.

The overall situation has been decided, and both sides have replaced all the main players.In the end, the Clippers won 115 to 101 and made a good start to the playoffs.

Ye Feng was very efficient in this game. He played 28 minutes, made 14 of 11 shots, 2 of 1 three-pointers, 5 of 5 free throws, and scored a quasi-triple double of 28 points, 10 rebounds and 8 assists. 28 points is already relatively low for him.

Love, the Gasol brothers, Thornton, Harrison and others also scored in double figures. The Clippers changed from Ye Feng scoring high points alone to last season's multi-point offensive mode. scared.

The Warriors players also seemed to perform well, with 5 scoring in double figures.The highest scorer was Stephen Curry with 24 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists, and David Lee with 21 points and 13 rebounds.Carl Landry also scored 17 points.However, their problem is very obvious, the defense is too poor, even Bogut is only good at low post defense, slow lateral movement, and it is very difficult to defend against pick-and-rolls.

The Warriors' style of play can score a lot of points, but there is no threat to the Clippers. The coaching staff has already begun to consider the next opponent.In the next game, Thibodeau will give the rookies more playing time. Ye Feng, Love and others have little room for improvement. Letting the rookies let go is the most important thing.

(End of this chapter)