NBA Please Answer 2007

Chapter 186 The Chosen One
Perhaps because of his personality and offensive choices, Li Zhi's style of play made Nash feel fancy.This is very different from players like Roy and Durant who have the same potential as Li Zhi.

Only Li Zhi himself knows that his flamboyance is only relative to this era. In another ten years, Li Zhi's offensive choice will be perfect.

In the following time, the two sides launched a fierce offensive battle. The scores of the two teams were very scattered, which made the fans very enjoyable.

Six minutes into the first quarter, with Crawford's cool pull-up layup, the score became 6:18. Suns coach Gentry realized that the Warriors were on the rise and requested a timeout.

Warriors players celebrated on the bench. Nelson smiled, looked at his disciples and said, "Everyone did a good job. They couldn't defend us. Next, they will probably adopt a tight defense to force us to make mistakes. Let's make substitutions, Shaq and Jackson take a rest, and Morrow and Nick come on."

Everyone nodded. With such a substitution, Nelson chose to give up defense and fight the Suns for offense.Five players on the Warriors field are capable of three-pointers, so the Suns' pressing defense will be useless. If they defend, they will give the Warriors a chance to break through.Nick Young, Crawford, and Li Zhi are all breakthrough madmen, and they will give the Suns a fatal blow.

However, Li Zhi is a little worried about Milicic. With such a lineup, Li Zhi must be at the power forward position. The real insider on the court is only Milicic. Can he grab rebounds among the two big insiders of the Suns?

Nelson briefly said that the Warriors adopted a mixed defense after the timeout.

Mixed defense is a defensive play in which two forms of man-to-man defense and zone-to-man defense are intertwined. Its biggest feature is that it can flexibly make full use of the advantages of man-to-man defense and zone defense according to the opponent's situation, so as to improve the effectiveness of the team's defense.

This kind of defense is very powerful, because it can rely on fast rotation to prevent the opponent's misplaced attack, but it also requires high tactical literacy, and it tests the cooperation between players.

Based on man-to-man defense and zone defense, players must first master the methods and principles of these two defenses, and be able to flexibly and reasonably apply the basic principles to mixed defensive tactics.

At the same time, we must always understand the situation on the field and understand our responsibilities in defense.To act faster, change in a timely manner, "chaotic" but not chaotic.

The Warriors seldom adopted this kind of mixed defense before, which required too much single-defense ability of the players, and the single-defense ability of the Warriors players was surprisingly bad except for Li Zhi. Li Zhi himself doubted whether this kind of defense would be successful.

The sun's biggest offensive threat is Stoudemire. His mid-range shot is too accurate, and the Warriors can't let Milicic face him.Nelson replaced Li Zhi with this idea, but Li Zhi will not give Stoudemire too much face, just interfere with him appropriately. If the restrictions on Stoudemire are too severe, the Suns will inevitably have new offensive points. This is not good news for the Warriors.

Players from both sides played, and the defender of Li Zhi was replaced by Richardson. Compared with the old Hill, the physically fit Richardson could barely keep up with Li Zhi.

The Suns replaced Hill. If Hill continues to defend Li Zhi, Gentry will feel that Li Zhi can score 50 points.Hill was replaced by Leandro Barbosa, the best sixth man in the 06-07 season.

The Suns attacked, Nash dribbled the ball to the left, and made a sudden shot from outside the three-point line. Crawford didn't react and the ball scored.

18:16
**Strong throwing this kind of ball is the most morale-boosting, and the Suns bench cheers.

On the defensive end, the Suns really started pressing. Crawford passed the ball to Li Zhi, who was in the high position. Then Crawford and Morrow crossed positions, and the two ran to the left and right corners respectively.

The Suns adopt a zone press, not an ordinary man-to-man press tactic. It is more collective than man-to-man defense, and the zone defense is more targeted.

After Milicic and Li Zhi came out, the Warriors' players presented a situation where five players were outside the three-point line. Bitrins and Stoudemire had to follow, which left the Suns inside empty.

Li Zhi dribbled the ball under his crotch, lowered his center of gravity, and was ready to break through at any time, while Richardson was staring at the basketball.This is not a good habit, he let Li Zhi take a step, targeted defensive breakthroughs, afraid of Li Zhi's fake moves.But Li Zhi didn't make a breakthrough, and directly made a three-pointer.

Before making the shot, Li Zhi deliberately raised the arc so as not to give Richardson a chance to interfere.Milicic saw this arc and hurried to the basket to grab a rebound, but was stopped by Stoudemire.

Bitrins looked at the trajectory of the ball, judged the landing point and prepared to grab the rebound, but found that the basketball hit the basket directly into the basket.

21:16
They are also strong shots, and Li Zhi's shots are no less than Nash.

The Suns attacked, and they really took the point of playing Stoudemire. Although Li Zhi defended well, Stoudemire was the most sure point of the Suns' offense.

Nash gave Stoudemire after waiting for the Suns to run out of position.Stoudemire turned around to shoot, Li Zhi took a step forward, because he was afraid of being fouled, Li Zhi did not dare to stick too tightly.

Interference a bit, to no avail, Stoudemire hit two points.

21:18
The Warriors attacked, and Li Zhi held the ball at the top of the arc again. Richardson learned the lesson from last time and did not let Li Zhi shoot again.Li Zhi had no chance and gave it to Crawford.

Crawford didn't hesitate to catch the ball and turned around to pass Nash.Nash can blow up Crawford on the offensive end, and Crawford can also blow up Nash on the offensive end. Nash's thin body determines that he will never be a defensive player.The Suns were empty inside, and Crawford scored two points without much effort.

23:18
Crawford has reduced breakthroughs this season and increased his three-point shots. Because of the relationship between Li Zhi and O'Neal, he can no longer stick to the ball like he did when he was on the bench.But the reduction of breakthroughs does not mean that Crawford's breakthrough ability has declined. In fact, after coming to the Warriors, Crawford's breakthrough points have always accounted for 75% of his points. There are fewer shots, but the efficiency has increased.

After being passed, it was Nash who was uncomfortable. He became the weakest point on the court.

The Suns attacked, Nash didn't want to find a place, and continued to find opportunities for the Suns players. Barbosa made an empty cut layup and scored two points.

23:20
The Warriors attacked, this time Li Zhi did not make a strong shot, passed the ball to Milicic inside, and then went straight down.Milicic made a ball-holding screen for Li Zhi. When Li Zhi went down, he attracted Richardson's attention. The Suns' defense line shrank, and the outside gave the Warriors a chance to shoot. Morrow caught the ball and scored a three-pointer.

26:20
In the next round, the Suns broke out. They played fast and did not give the Warriors a chance to return to defense. Stoudemire received a pass from Nash in the frontcourt and scored two points with a dunk.

26:22
The sun's bombardment had an effect. In the next round, the Warriors attacked, and Nick Young missed a three-pointer from the outside.Bitrins grabbed the rebound to Nash, and Nash launched a fast break.

Barbosa received a pass from Nash at halfcourt, lived up to the name of the Brazilian Lightning, and made a fast break layup.

26:24
The score difference between the two sides was not big, and after that, the score was chasing each other. At the end of the first quarter, the Warriors led the Suns by 40 points 38:2.The fast-break battle between the two sides was exciting for the fans, and everyone felt that it was not in vain. Stern nodded in the stands, very satisfied.

Gentry clenched his fists and felt that he could win this game. If this trend continues, both sides will have high shooting percentages. The Suns can win this game. They are in the ninth position in the Western Conference and need to win.

Nelson turned his head to look at Gentry, who was blushing, and narrowed his eyes.

Young man, do you think I'm going to play fast break with you normally?I'm just training, trying to see how far the Warriors' bombardment tactics are.

Now the results are out, the Warriors' current bombardment tactics are immature, and they can only draw against the Suns without Marion.In the heyday of the Suns, they were at the level of the Western Conference Finals, and the era of bombardment obviously still needs to wait.

Nelson is known as a tactical lunatic, but he will not go against the times. If the bombardment cannot make the Warriors stronger, then the Warriors can only wait for the right time, or wait for the right person.The core of the bombardment strategy is the point guard, and the Warriors need a point guard like that.

Touching his chin, Nelson looked at Nash.

(End of this chapter)