From today on is the king

Chapter 448 446. The opening was targeted
Maurice Cheeks, the second-year head coach, tried his best to support the Trail Blazers that were about to collapse when Sabonis left in the summer of 2001.

Coach Cheeks can always surprise Trail Blazers fans. The former 76ers' five-time All-Defensive Team and four-time All-Defensive First Team star can always come up with strange tricks on the defensive end.

Generally speaking, most teams don't want the opponent to pass the ball on the offensive end, and they don't want the opponent to play a smooth team offense. It is best for the opponent to play singles all the time.

Unless they are as strong as the OK combination, both of them are invincible players in their respective positions, and they can single-handedly beat their opponents to death. Generally speaking, any team wants to play a team offense, and no one wants their opponent to pass the ball and play a coordinated offense.

But today, the Blazers really did just that, forcing the Eagles' starting lineup to pass the ball continuously, not giving Raheem, who has an absolute singles advantage, a chance to succeed in singles, just defending the basket and quickly rotating defenses from the outside, forcing the Eagles to continue passing the ball.

This shows Coach Cheeks' excellent defensive awareness as the player who used to be the league's number one defensive player at the point guard position, and judged the weakness of the Eagles' starting lineup without a player who can really play the core of the organization.

The first ball, relying on Muhammad's flash of throwing and receiving the ball to turn the ball into an off-ball pick-and-roll, the Eagles played well in the first offense. In the second offense, Rahim was assigned to Prince, and Prince also made a shot.

Since the second half of last season, Jason Terry has less need to be responsible for organizing the offense, and this year is even more so, so the organization of offense has degraded a lot.

A team needs different roles. When a player comes to a team, especially a strong team, he also needs to improve and degenerate his role. When Jason Terry was drafted by the Eagles, he was trained as a core point guard. He also averaged 5 assists per game in the second grade, and he should have averaged 7+ assists per game in the third grade. But after Liu Mang came, Jason Terry’s scoring talent showed more vividly, and he didn’t have so many performance opportunities in passing. slipped.

This is not about not giving the ball to him to organize the offense, it is indeed a substantial improvement in one aspect, and the other aspect will inevitably decline.

Just like Bosh, the inside core of the 361 combination, he needs to transform into a three-point insider when he cooperates with James, and then plays very well as a three-point insider. He has made great progress in this area in one or two years, but rebounding and defense at the basket have become extremely poor.

This is a technical choice. When it is selected and developed in a new direction, some original technologies will not be used for a long time, and will decline and degenerate over time.

Jason Terry scored an average of 20+ points per game last season, which he hadn’t achieved in 20 years of his career. However, his role in organizing and attacking has diminished, and his organizational ability has begun to weaken. At his peak, he should have [-] or more assists, but this season has basically stabilized at [-] or so.

Of course, because Jason Terry is still in the growth stage, let him focus on developing his scoring ability, it is very likely that his scoring performance will reach a height that he could not achieve under the original comprehensive development.

In fact, there is Jason Terry, who averages 3 assists per game, and Raheem, who averages 17 assists per game. The organizational ability of the starting lineup is sufficient most of the time, and there is no big problem at ordinary times. The Eagles average [-] assists per game. The two add up to almost half, which is completely sufficient.

But the Trail Blazers' defensive lineup is good enough, specifically targeting the Hawks' offense, and forcibly stuffing the strong and weak sides that the Hawks originally cut together. This is the biggest problem for the Hawks.

Of course, this is based on the fact that the Blazers have a comprehensive defensive master like Rasheed Wallace and an experienced veteran like Pippen.

After playing for more than 7 minutes in the first quarter, it seems that the Eagles did make a lot of moves and passes, but the ball always passed to positions that players are not good at, such as Muhammad's mid-range, Ratliff's baseline mid-short range, and Jason Terry.

Conversely, the Eagles’ defense against the Trail Blazers was well prepared to defend against the Trail Blazers’ offense, but today the Blazers played very simply. Rasheed Wallace’s close-range singles, Wells’ breakthrough scoring and low-post strong play, played completely beyond the Eagles’ expectations, and the efficiency was extremely high. Wells’ skills have improved this year. In the first year of just getting a big contract, he must perform better.

By the time of the official timeout of the first quarter, the Eagles trailed 9-16 by 7 points.

Seeing that the Trail Blazers had such a strange move, Liu Mang sighed to himself that it really deserves to be a team that can not be left behind among the western powerhouses. It's really strong!

The reason why Coach Kruger didn't make the substitution in advance, but waited until the official timeout, was because he wanted to study the Blazers' offensive and defensive strategies. A few minutes behind is not a big problem, and the game time is still long.

"Ace, Tyshawn, Sharif, Carlos, Theo, you go on the field, Theo pays attention to the top defense inside, Carlos pays attention to blocking the opponents who cut the air, Sharif, the help defense of the two bottom line areas and the help defense of the basket are handed over to you. Ace and Teshawn do a good job of single defense on the outside..." Coach Kruger did not arrange too many offensive tactics.

Liu Mang who played was a little confused, isn't the opponent mainly playing singles today?Why is it arranged to prevent the opponent's team from attacking?
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