Basketball myth

Chapter 178 Future Tactical Advantages

"Stockton is a team-oriented player. When all players faced the same situation, of course he would choose Malone. However, the Lakers intentionally or unintentionally blocked all the routes through which Malone could get the ball. Well, of course, with Stockton's skill, this is nothing! But once the pass is passed to Malone, the Lakers will either double-team immediately, or Barkley's defense will retreat half a step to keep up with Malone's speed At this time, according to the success rate, Malone will of course choose to shoot or pass back to the outside line, instead of rushing to the inside of the Lakers who are already prepared! But such a Malone is already an outside line The player! Not the player who can kill the inside!" Johnson looked at the situation on the field and made his own analysis!

Um!Master Magician has found the key point!Stockton's success cannot be copied, and there will be no point guards of his type in future generations!They are the same, there is no comparison!
When people in later generations call a certain player, they are the descendants of the magician, such as Nash, but you must have never heard of the descendants of Stockton, um!Those who use him as a template are useless!No one can become his second, or be reduced to a second-rate defender!Either change yourself!why?

It is because of talent and tactics!As a white defender without much talent, Stockton's skills have been brought to the extreme!That is the only product of the Jazz, a product of that era, or to put it bluntly, he is a product of the peak pick-and-roll tactics!

Stockton's greatness is because he brought the pick-and-roll tactics to an extreme. The pick-and-roll with Stockton and the pick-and-roll without Stockton are two completely different teams!Later, the team's tactics only used the pick-and-roll as a means, and did not use the pick-and-roll as their main tactic, because the main point is that this is a tactic that uses part to fight the whole, a tactic that has proven impossible to win the championship. tactics!
The partial meaning is that you can take one player and use your absolute advantage to quickly knock down the opponent's players. However, when this player encounters a competing player, he will be completely destroyed!This was the case when the Spurs attacked in 11. They used the pick-and-roll as a method, constantly picking and splitting the ball, coupled with all kinds of serious and demanding running, the tacit understanding of all players, and the cooperation of all players, which soon led to The offensive position of a Spurs player will be displayed, and all players will join in, and only then will such a terrifying Spurs team appear!
If it is just a pick-and-roll tactic, if you rely on this item to play, you will see the vision of the point guard and the person who picks and rolls with the point guard. Karl Malone is rare in the history of the NBA. He can shoot from the outside, run and shoot, and defend, and his muscles can turn the basket upside down!
The small ball tactics of the Nash era used the three-pointer as a common tactic for the team, but what about the Jazz?That's just a means of individual players, and it's never necessary, just because of Malone's existence!

We all say that Stockton and Malone's team, they are no different from each other!Why?Because their historical status is the same, only one person is not the 98 Jazz!Jordan is different. With or without Pippen, Jordan is a unique existence!
While Malone relies on pick-and-rolls, Stockton relies even more on Malone!When Malone is extremely active behind the court, Stockton's calmness will connect the whole team's offense!
To become the second Stockton, then you must find the second Malone!Um!Such a probability, if you think about it, you will know how low it will be!
A more conscious point is that Stockton relies on passing the ball to drive the team's offense, not his own offense. Even if he has a super assist ability and can determine the victory of a game, there is no way Decide the outcome of a round of 7 games!

As a team-oriented player, Stockton definitely thinks that he can pass to the point that directly breaks the opponent's offense, instead of attacking all by himself to create points that can break the opponent's defense one by one!
Therefore, the Jazz has a problem. Since the shooting rate from the outside is very high, why is there a risk of passing to the inside!

But now Thomas has given Stockton such a conundrum!There is no room for three-point offense. When Kobe is defending, he doesn't care about any tactics. The only requirement is to keep an eye on Hornacek and not give him any space to shoot!The 2 points in the middle distance and the 2 points in the three-second zone are both two points, but the effect is very different!
Everyone on the Jazz team, all the players and the coaching staff, none of them are from later generations. They don’t know the evolution of the pick-and-roll tactics. They don’t know that this is the last peak of the Jazz team. Easily handle the Lakers team last year!Of course they have high confidence in their tactics!I think that as long as we faithfully implement the pick-and-roll tactic, we can win!
This is Thomas from later generations’ final tactic against this Jazz team!
Derek didn't have any reaction to the magician's words. He couldn't say what the Jazz would do this season!The current pick-and-roll tactic of the Jazz is synonymous with the pinnacle of the league, and it is the most advantageous tactic for challenging the triangle offense!

So no one answered the magician's question, but transferred to the game!Start laughing at the embarrassment of certain players and avoid discussing any tactical issues!

This approach of the Lakers brought a relatively fresh game. Except for some fans who watched the tactics would be very boring, others watched Stockton's performance, using his unpretentious passing skills, Turning every pass into a powerful assist, all the players of the Jazz started their mid-range shooting performances outside the three-second zone and within the three-point line!

If it is a team that mainly shoots from the outside, Thomas would not dare to do so, such as the Bulls!However, for the Jazz, without Malone's inside offense, there is not much left for the Jazz!
Stockton still didn't make any wrong passes, and he still used the tactics that can always win!However, for mid-range shots and shots in the three-second zone, even if the shooting rate will be the same for a period of time, it cannot be like this for the entire game!

Until 5 minutes before the intermission, the Jazz players who were still immersed in the perimeter and had a gap, their shooting percentage dropped a lot, and they missed 5 shots in a row. The Lakers seized this opportunity. The son expanded the score to 10 points!Until halftime!
Sloan watched the entire first half of the game in silence. During the timeout, he asked Malone to go inside to find opportunities and asked Stockton to give more balls to the inside players. When he didn't get a good chance at the basket, and his shooting percentage at the basket was not as high as that of the mid-range shot, Sloan was speechless!
He himself doesn't know where he is wrong?Do you blame your own players for inaccurate shots?My own team is not that kind of team either!

After thinking about the entire first half, Sloan decided to make some changes, so during the halftime break, he said: "Guys! We are going to change our offense in the second half. Malone, you have to go inside. Other players pull Open the defensive distance and give Malone the space to attack! Stockton, you have to keep running, combine the offense of the whole team, don't stick to the ball! Focus on the inside!"

"We can no longer underestimate the Lakers! They already have the strength to fight with us, and their defense is very strong! Their offense can also be tied with Malone under the leadership of Hill! Therefore, we have to use Let's do our best! We must play like the Bulls! Otherwise, we will fail!" Sloan said very seriously!

Sloan realized the horror of the Lakers, or realized his own crisis, but he didn't have any tactics that could help the team, he only had players he could use!

In fact, it is not Thomas who is fighting against Sloan, but the experience of the NBA after 15 years of development!

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