Versatile Point Forward

Chapter 289
Looking at the Celtics roster and scouting report, McMillan frowned. This is a different feeling from facing the Lakers.After all, the combination of the Celtics' Big Three is more terrifying than Kobe's, plus Gasol and Odom and others are no good. What's more speechless is that the atmosphere in their team is still very good, although Pierce is the team's leader. Soul, but he will not take over the team's offense for no reason like Kobe, Ray Allen and Garnett will give him enough help.

This is indeed a difficult opponent to deal with. He is strong, willing to share the ball, and has almost no weaknesses. Does it really depend on the player's on-the-spot performance?Of course, this has to be taken into account. Without the on-the-spot explosion of players, the Blazers are at least too inferior to the Celtics in terms of hard power, so they are likely to encounter absolute crushing in terms of strength.But tactics are also a very crucial part, you can't expect Ye Feng to continue playing singles with the ball, can you?Even if he has this ability and this idea, McMillan will not agree. You must know that the Celtics' defensive strength is much greater than that of the Lakers.

So what kind of tactics should be adopted?

In terms of the cards that the Blazers can play, the pick-and-roll is undoubtedly the most powerful and the most trouble-free. With Ye Feng as a breakthrough master, it is a waste not to play the pick-and-roll.However, in addition to the pick-and-roll, there must be different tactics as supplements. After all, not every team's core players can achieve the ultimate in simple pick-and-roll tactics like the "Utah Shuangsha".However, McMillan suddenly thought of a team known for its flamboyance, and also thought of a tactic that could be used. It was the king led by Webb, Williams and Peja, and the tactic was Princeton.

Princeton is a very famous tactic. Its reputation in the league may be similar to that of the triangle offense. The only disadvantage is that no team has tried to use pure Princeton to win the championship, and the triangle offense is proved by the Bulls Dynasty and the Lakers Dynasty. passed.Many tactics will more or less have the shadow of Princeton, but apart from the Kings under Adelman, few teams completely use Princeton as their team's basic tactics.

The motto of Princeton tactics is "Strong can take advantage of the weak, and smart can take advantage of the strong." The essence of this style of play is "human movement, ball movement, and coordination". Human movement refers to moving without the ball and cutting in the air. And anti-running, the ball moves continuously to pass the ball and share the ball.Among them, the reverse run is the signature of Princeton's style of play.Princeton is touted by many as being able to crack any defense as long as it meets the requirements, but that's only theoretical.McMillan did not intend to copy it completely, it is still possible to refer to it, and Princeton's spirit of sharing the ball is more in line with the Blazers' long-standing style of play.

Princeton's most basic tactic is to let the player in the fourth position hold the ball in a high position, and then the second and third positions alternately run. Both of them can use the opponent's off-ball running as a pick-and-roll, cut into the inside and score directly.And if there is no screen, the cutting player can continue to move along the baseline and take the defender away, and the other person can move to the strong side of the three-point line to receive the ball, which is also a gap that can be exploited .This tactic sounds simple, but the most critical point is, as the team's starting power forward, can Aldridge take on such a heavy responsibility?
The first game of the finals is scheduled for June 6, local time, which means that the Blazers who finished the division finals first got nearly a week of rest.However, apart from giving the players a day off at the beginning, McMillan spent the rest of his time on tactical training, as well as recovery-oriented training.The players have no resistance to such an arrangement, and they also know that the finals must be a fierce battle. If they want to find a glimmer of hope of winning in such a difficult environment, they must seize the remaining time to prepare themselves more fully.

To McMillan's relief, Aldridge worked hard to carry the burden of the high-level organization despite stumbles and even occasional mistakes. As the other two key players in the team's tactics, Ye Feng and Batum, they They have mastered the running position of this tactic in a very short period of time. Although it will take a long time to fully understand it, their running position is already decent.Moreover, Ye Feng also had a big brain hole, and he invented a few new small coordination in the process of getting the ball. His idea is very simple, try to get all the players involved, otherwise, with the Celtics' defense, the It's three-on-five.

The Celtics, who were resting in Boston, did not conduct targeted training. They believed that the team's own conventional tactics were sufficient.Although the experience of the Big Three is not enough to underestimate their opponents, the fact is that the Blazers are at least one level lower than the Celtics in every aspect. Caution does not mean that they have no confidence in themselves. The Celtics are now full of confidence in themselves, thinking that the Trail Blazers, the sixth youth team in the West, will not have any impact on them winning the championship again. As long as the team performs normally, it will be enough to kick them away.

But what made them curious was that the Blazers had a closed training session. Of course, reporters were still allowed to go in to take pictures during the warm-up before training and recovery after training, but during tactical training, no matter how big a reporter you are , will be politely but resolutely invited off the court by the Blazers staff, and they will not be shown any training content at all.Soon the rumors spread. No one thought that the Blazers still had any secret weapons. They all guessed that they were playing tricks, hoping to put some pressure on the Celtics. Sneering, in their view, the gap in strength is irreparable, it is useless for you to hide it, the weak are the weak.

The whole Blazers team didn't pay attention to what the outside world was talking about. Although they knew what they said with their knees, it was nothing more than overreaching, posturing, and so on.But the Blazers didn't make any statement, allowing those reporters to catch up on their own media platforms. Now every minute and every second of them is precious. This is related to what kind of performance the team can play in the finals. Sometimes they disdain to engage in verbal disputes.

Since you like Beep, then you can play by yourself, and we will let you see the training results when the finals start.

(End of this chapter)