NBA: Duncan feels uneasy coaching Warriors

Chapter 150 Finch: Yes, that's the effect!
After all, with regard to Giannis Antetokounmpo, the Blazers have no real opponents.

If it is blasted at a single point, it is easy to make the Blazers' poor personnel reserve even more tense.

If Jr. Lopez is fouled and graduated, the Blazers can only use the two marginal insiders.

Although Lopez Jr.'s single defense cannot prevent Giannis Antetokounmpo, but through team shrinkage, it can still cause some restrictions on Giannis Antetokounmpo.

Giannis Antetokounmpo is still a rookie after all, although his ability value has obtained 80% of the peak, and there is also a 10% bonus of the striker's bond.

Giannis Antetokounmpo spent most of the season adapting to this ability, but after all, it is not his current strength, and it is still different from his usual training game control over his body.

So after the Blazers adopted a shrinking defense, it also forced Giannis Antetokounmpo to make frequent ball-pointing mistakes.

Luol Deng and Iguodala's three-pointers reached the level of not being a shooter but just above the 3D pass line.

Ibaka is just hovering near the pass line.

Butler's three-pointer was below the passing line.

Terry Stotts also began to deliberately put Butler on this point. Butler's three-point shooting rate is not very sure, and he is not so decisive when he is released too many shots.

Fortunately, the Blazers have nothing to do with the Timberwolves' infinite defense strategy.

The first quarter is over.

Timberwolves 22:17 Trail Blazers.

For this result, the coaches of the two teams seem not very satisfied.

The weakness of the Timberwolves' lack of shooting still emerged. Although it was only the first round, they were still caught by the opponent.

Butler's three-pointer failed, and Giannis Antetokounmpo simply didn't have a three-pointer. A team's starter with two three-pointers is actually not so comfortable in the small ball era.

In the small ball era, even for teams with a center, most of them have the center who doesn't shoot and everyone else has it.

In the starting lineup, even for the Twin Towers, it is rare to have two players who are not good at shooting.

It is also because the Warriors are not good at shooting because Green is not good at shooting, but his tactical position is very important. The Warriors are prone to two players who are not good at shooting.

But this is based on the Splash Brothers' super accurate three-point shooting rate. Even the inside line without shooting must follow the three-point line for defense.

In this way, even if the Warriors' three-point shooting depends entirely on the outside line, they can still play out the passing and cutting system.

The most embarrassing thing about the Timberwolves' current lineup is that the team has no real shooter who can bring the whole team together.

Many opportunities were missed.

Su Chen naturally had a serious expression on his face, leading by five points didn't make him relax at all.

The same goes for Terry Stotts.

Originally, Terry Stotts thought that judging from the 2 wins and 2 losses of the two teams in the regular season, the two teams should have a fight.

The outside world also thinks so, so there are many voices about Black Seven.

By the time of the sprint stage, there was not much difference between the sixth, seventh and eighth places in the West.

And the gap between the first and third places in the West almost fixed the ranking.

The No. [-] Spurs in the Western Conference are too strong this season, and they are also a veteran team.

The Warriors, the third in the Western Conference, have fully found the state of the defending champion after the All-Star Game, and they have made great strides all the way.

Relatively speaking, last season was still weak, and the Timberwolves, who have completed the reconstruction this season, are undoubtedly a very soft one.

The Blazers management all agree that it is best to avoid the old strong Spurs and the defending champion Warriors.

It can be said that the Timberwolves are the opponents that the Blazers took the initiative to pick.

Shrinking the defense is what Terry Stotts thought of from the beginning. After all, Butler and Giannis Antetokounmpo's three-point shooting percentages are not high, and Butler occasionally shoots the latter basically does not shoot. .

But shrinking defense is only a moderate strategy.

Man-to-man can limit the opponent, which is undoubtedly the best.

"Aldridge's shooting percentage is still not good, but it seems a bit strange that Su Chen still chooses solo defense."

Terry Stotts thought, frowning.

Terry Stotts has studied the Warriors' tactics last season and this season.

After all, the management requires transformation, so he must learn.

Looking at the Warriors last season, Terry Stotts knows Su Chen's coaching style, and he likes change very much.

If a tactic doesn't work, after two rounds, Su Chen will call a timeout and change it immediately.

However, the effect of defending against Aldridge alone is only a relatively ordinary effect, Su Chen still did not change his strategy.

It seemed a little strange that Luol Deng continued to defend alone without even letting other people defend.

This is not in line with Su Chen's previous coaching style.

However, Terry Stotts didn't plan to adjust. Although he was five points behind, the Blazers still had a good chance of playing like this.

Pause time elapsed.

The second quarter begins.

Players from both sides play.

Timberwolves starting lineup: Mike Muscala (C), Giannis Antetokounmpo (PF), Robert Covington (SF), Khris Middleton (SG), Patrick Beverley ( PG)

Trail Blazers starting lineup: Robin Lopez (C), Joel Freeland (PF), Nicolas Batum (SF), Wesley Matthews (SG), Maurice Williams (PG)

The Blazers just replaced Aldridge and took a rest, and everyone else was still on the court.

In the playoffs, the rotation is generally reduced. Generally speaking, a rotation of seven to eight players can maintain a certain amount of physical strength and strength of the lineup on the field.

The Blazers maintained a seven-man rotation and let Lillard and Aldridge go down to rest for a while.

As for offense, Mo Williams still has firepower, as a guard with an average of 17.8 per game at the peak of his career.

The Blazers want Mo to keep him on the bench when Lillard and Aldridge are off the court.

But the rotation of the Timberwolves made Terry Stotts simply unable to understand.

First of all, there are a lot of people who are replaced by the Timberwolves to rest. This is undoubtedly because the rotation of the Timberwolves is basically a rotation of nine to ten players.

What about playing in the regular season here?
If it is said that increasing the rotation makes Terry Stotts understandable, then this number of rotations is a mystery.

The effect of increasing the number of rotations is to make the players more physically active, and it's not that there are no coaches who haven't done this.

Is it wrong to choose the person who can restore physical strength?
Although Butler is the second head of the Timberwolves, in the first quarter, Butler often played the role of opening three-pointers, which can be said to have not contributed much.

The most tiring person in the Timberwolves' first quarter was Giannis Antetokounmpo.

The core continues to play on the court without rest, and all other role players rest.

This type of rotation is unheard of.

Even the director of this game didn't know what Su Chen was thinking, and even arranged a shot for Su Chen to close up.

When seeing Giannis Antetokounmpo continue to play, Su Chen looked at the court calmly from the sidelines, no different from usual.

At first, I thought that Su Chen had replaced the wrong person, but it seems that it was intentional.

This can't help but remind people that during the Timberwolves' 20-game winning streak, Giannis Antetokounmpo played a lot of games.

This is simply using Giannis Antetokounmpo as a donkey!

Unexpectedly, in the playoffs, Su Chen repeated the classic.

It's just that this time it was even more excessive. All the starters rested, but Giannis Antetokounmpo couldn't rest.

The Blazers have the ball.

Mo Williams advanced with the ball and called a pick-and-roll tactic.

Mo Williams, who used to be called Mo Buchuan, has matured a lot now.

Facing Beverly's biting defense, Mo Williams played very carefully and did not give Beverly's biting defense a chance to steal the ball.

Today's Mo Williams is more proficient in dribbling skills, and it is not that simple to grab the ball from such an old point guard by fighting.

Mo Williams has read the report given by the data analyst and knows that he cannot look at Beverly with the eyes of marginalized people.

After Mo Williams and Lopez Jr. played a pick-and-roll with the ball, Beverly was hit by Lopez Jr. and staggered by half.

Muscala wanted to go for a delay, but Beverley yelled at him to go back to his man, and he wasn't out of position.

At this time, Lopez Jr. had already cut into the penalty area.

Mo Williams, who was called Mo Bu Chuan, also had his pass key repaired.

A beautiful assist, allowing Lopez Jr. to complete this inside cut layup.

Timberwolves 22:19 Trail Blazers.

After Lopez scored the goal, he also let out a bad breath, and he was disgusted in the first quarter.

Seeing Muscala's performance, Su Chen on the sidelines rubbed his temples.

That's why, he is looking for an All-Star insider with the best shots, and Muscala is really useless.

Muscala is very comprehensive, with outside shooting, offense at the basket, rebounding, defense, and even a small low post.

However, while being comprehensive, it also makes Muscala very mediocre, and none of them can be picked out and put together.

The Timberwolves have the ball.

The Blazers still continued the shrinking defensive strategy.

But this time, the Timberwolves' lineup is very wide.

As soon as Giannis Antetokounmpo rushed in, he was caught immediately, but this time he was prepared in advance and the ball was very fast.

Terry Stotts also arranged a defensive rotation, but it seems that it is not easy for the Blazers players to execute this defensive rotation well.

The two insiders shrunk in, so Muscala gave priority to the vacancy, and Batum quickly filled it.

Muscala didn't think much, and passed it directly to Covington, and the Blazers also rushed towards Covington.

Covington continued to distribute the ball, and Middleton received the ball at this time.

This series of conduction balls is very fast, with the existence of [simulation glasses], this set of running balls in the face of shrinking defenses has been practiced very proficiently.

The Trail Blazers' Freeland hadn't made it up yet, Middleton received the ball and shot directly.

Freeland's interference was only the one that seemed to reach out, but in fact it was a shot with basically no interference.

As a professional shooter, this level of interference is no different from defense on the field.

Middleton made a three-pointer.

brush!
The ball goes in.

Timberwolves 25:19 Trail Blazers.

When Butler goes down, the lineup of the Timberwolves on the field will have no projection weakness.

Muscala, Beverly and Covington are all 3D open three-pointers on the pass line.

Middleton is even an elite shooter, and even when the outside line has no chance to shoot, Middleton can still run without the ball.

Then another offensive and defensive round was played.

Mo Williams found a chance to make a mid-range shot, but was still interfered by Beverly and missed the shot.

Giannis Antetokounmpo still rushed in, the Blazers' defense still took a contraction, and this time the Timberwolves still quickly moved the ball on the outside.

Covington got a shot with this ball.

But it was so strong that the ball bounced directly behind the backboard after bouncing off the frame.

Out of bounds.

At this time, Aldridge was already waiting on the sidelines and re-entered the field.

Aldridge has an immediate impact.

After he came on the field, he found the matchup with Muscala through the pick-and-roll screen.

This time facing the rookie Muscala, Aldridge hit hard, turned his back and rushed towards the basket.

Muscala misses Aldridge's turn and strikes again.

beep!
The referee's whistle sounded.

At the same time, Aldridge also made a turnaround layup.

2+1!

Aldridge goes to the free throw line and hits the free throw.

Timberwolves 25:22 Trail Blazers.

On the offensive end, Muscala got an open shot, but still missed a three-pointer from the corner.

Mo Williams made a fast break and passed to Batum.

After Batum attracted two people to defend, he passed to Matthews.

Matthews hit a three-pointer from the outside.

Timberwolves 25:25 Trail Blazers.

This wave directly tied the score.

beep!
Su Chen's patience with Muscala had reached a point, so she called a timeout.

Muscala's ability on the court is still much worse.

Su Chen can directly add offensive and defensive skills to the players, but the striker's fetters and ability values ​​are fixed, and the two Muscala can't get benefits.

The peak Muscala is struggling to play high-end rounds, let alone the rookie first-year Muscala.

Although on the offensive end, Muscala can open up three-pointers, but on the defensive end it is a bit too mediocre.

It has reached the level that can be called by Aldridge.

Pause back again.

Muscala was replaced and Josh Smith was replaced.

Seeing this lineup, Terry Stotts was a little relieved, he thought Su Chen would make some adjustments.

It turned out to be a Josh.

The Timberwolves have three players whose three-pointers are below the pass line. Except for the starters Giannis Antetokounmpo and Butler, it is the substitute Josh.

When the Timberwolves have two players without [-]s on the court at the same time, the game is very simple.

Just let it go!
Timberwolves attack.

As for the Blazers, when they arranged before the game, they had already said that they could put three-pointers against three players to defend.

So when he saw Josh on the court, Aldridge, who was in charge of defending Josh, refused to go out.

He, like Lopez Jr., stands near the free throw line.

After Giannis Antetokounmpo dribbled the ball for half court, he suddenly gave the ball to Josh. The ball turned out to be Josh playing a ball.

This is still quite rare.

After all, when Giannis Antetokounmpo is on the court, the ball is basically handed over to Giannis Antetokounmpo.

Even the bullhorn offensive tactic launched with Middleton needs to pass the ball in the hands of Giannis Antetokounmpo to contain the defense.

Josh's offensive ability is not very strong.

However, at this time, Giannis Antetokounmpo walked directly to the free throw line and made a pick-and-roll action.

Josh, who was outside the three-point line, faced the situation that there was no defender in front of him, so he didn't need to make any moves and rushed in directly.

Josh went straight to Giannis Antetokounmpo's pick-and-roll, and it was open.

Aldridge was caught on a Giannis Antetokounmpo pick-and-roll, and Lopez Jr. hesitated, wondering if he should step up to help.

But just as he was hesitating, Josh made a direct mid-range shot.

brush!
The ball goes in.

Timberwolves 27:25 Trail Blazers.

Josh's CIC is actually not stable.

But fortunately, at the start of the game, Su Chen remembered the cooperation between Josh and Gobert, which reminded Su Chen of one thing.

Giannis Antetokounmpo can actually play inside, and even his ability to catch and finish is far better than Gobert.

This made Su Chen think at the time, can Josh and Giannis Antetokounmpo, who don't have three points, play this kind of pick-and-roll?

So Milosevic was asked to train Josh's mid-range and floating shots more. After one season, Josh's mid-range and floating shots have become much more stable.

Coupled with the 10% increase in striker fetters, the current Josh can basically be used as an enhanced version of Kyle Anderson with athletic ability.

Originally, I thought that with Ibaka, it seemed that there was really no need to practice, but it would be useless if there was an inside offensive coach like Milosevic.

Josh himself couldn't practice three-pointers, so he simply practiced mid-range shots and floaters.

Originally, Su Chen thought it was unnecessary.

But now it seems that I am really far-sighted.

Muscala is still embarrassing, and Giannis Antetokounmpo has better physical strength, plus there are physical strength potions.

That means Giannis Antetokounmpo will be on the court longer than other players.

Ibaka is because of too much use, playing closed games and then declining athletic ability. Naturally, Ibaka can't be a bully.

Then the person who is paired with Giannis Antetokounmpo on the bench is originally suitable for Muscala, but now that Muscala is unavailable, Josh has to be used.

It's not that Giannis Antetokounmpo can't play inside alone.

But Giannis Antetokounmpo has already been used as a bully, and it is a bit too small to let him go to the inside.

Terry Stotts watched from the sidelines, stupefied.

When did the Timberwolves play Josh and Giannis Antetokounmpo's pick-and-roll?
Never played!

When the Timberwolves won 20 consecutive victories, Gobert was there at that time and played some pick-and-roll tactics around Gobert.

After Gobert was traded, the Timberwolves have already determined the core of the double-rush formation with Giannis Antetokounmpo and Butler, even if there is a pick-and-roll, it is the corner position.

This kind of double big pick and roll, after the Timberwolves, basically never played.

How about hiding a big move here to deal with him?

Terry Stotts didn't expect that Su Chen would attach so much importance to him, hiding a big move that he hadn't used for a season and directly attacking him.

Terry Stotts' on-the-spot ability is not very strong, and many strategies must be studied and formulated in advance.

He will formulate multiple sets of strategies to make his on-the-spot ability look good.

But this set, he really didn't study it.

It's the Blazers offensive round.

Aldridge was also stunned for a moment, Muscala was not on the court, and the other Timberwolves' strikers were hard to find a matchup.

Can't order Giannis - Antetokounmpo to fight
Regarding Giannis Antetokounmpo's defensive ability report given by the data division, it is obvious that he is strong in post defense.

Then hit Josh Smith.

He didn't even need to look for him, Josh Smith was the one who defended him.

Aldridge caught the ball in the low post and went straight to gouging Josh.

However, Josh's static strength is not low, coupled with the fetters of the striker, Aldridge can't move.

There is no way, only by borrowing strength and then turning over and leaning back.

Josh's defensive method is actually very simple, that is, to jump with the opponent, and then block or interfere with the ball with his excellent bounce and excellent wingspan.

But this season, Su Chen asked the defensive coach to change Josh's defensive habits.

In short, let Josh not take off at the same time as the opponent, but take off half a beat later.

Taking off at the same time as the opponent, Josh is very easy to be confused.

As for the problem of being too slow to keep up, Su Chen said that he just practiced like this.

The fetters of 10% strikers can more or less make up for the delay.

Aldridge's receding range is actually not low, but he was still disturbed by Josh.

clang!
Aldridge hit the iron with this ball.

Josh replaced Muscala, which is a three-dimensional improvement for the offensive and defensive strength of the Timberwolves lineup.

That's why Su Chen wanted to trade for Josh.

Josh's physical talent can be called the civilian version of James.

Although he has many shortcomings, such as poor 1V1 singles efficiency, unstable three-pointers and so on.

These shortcomings are what will allow Josh to reach the point where he can play without the ball in a few seasons.

But Su Chen was able to avoid these Josh's shortcomings and let Josh only play to his strengths.

For example, excellent organizational ability, finishing ability near the basket, and top-level switching ability that can defend both inside and outside.

in the next few minutes.

The Blazers also suffered from this lineup.

Even after Lillard was replaced, the Blazers felt helpless against the connection between the Timberwolves' inside twin towers.

Offensively, Josh and Giannis Antetokounmpo are very versatile.

If there is an opportunity after the pick-and-roll, Josh can make a mid-range shot, a short-range throw or a layup.

And once he was too defensive against Josh, Josh would directly throw the ball into the sky.

Giannis Antetokounmpo's excellent jumping and height and wingspan make it very easy for him to catch this kind of ball.

Because it is a high throw, it is also difficult to break the passing line.

Speaking of which, this is the result of Gobert's weight training.

The Blazers' outside players come to double-team, and Josh's excellent organizational skills can also find the openings on the outside.

If the Timberwolves coach Finch saw such a cooperation later, he would definitely be surprised.

Finch: Yes, I just want to play this kind of two-tower coordination!
Giannis Antetokounmpo and Josh can even vary the play.

It becomes Giannis Antetokounmpo holding the ball, and Josh goes to pick and roll to eat cakes.

These two are players who can eat cakes, organize and finish. The two cooperate with each other, so that the Blazers don't know who to defend for a while.

(End of this chapter)