NBA Building Cardinals

Chapter 205 Forced a tie
After coming back in the second quarter, the two sides sent a substitute lineup to continue the contest.

Of course, the Spurs' bench lineup cannot be said to be bad. After all, there are Manu Ginobili and Robinson on the bench.

However, there have not been many excellent players in the interior for rotation. This is also the main reason why Duncan's average playing time per game ranks first in the team this season.

This season, the Spurs' backup center is Muhammad, a typical rough center, but his personal style of play is tough. Of course, he only knows how to use his muscles to fight tough.

And Jefferson, who has dexterous footwork in the low post, likes to face this kind of defensive center most.

In the traditional cognition of centers, the competition is about height, weight, wingspan and muscle collision inside.

Until that time, a center named Olajuwon was born, not only possessed excellent physical fitness, but also used an original dreamy footsteps to play a world under the basket.

The super high mobility also helped Olajuwon to produce a lot of comprehensive data.

And Al Jefferson is recognized as one of the players with the best footwork at the basket since Olajuwon.

If it weren't for that fragile body, maybe it wouldn't have ended in a mess.

Facing Jefferson, the Spurs did not intend to double-team in the second quarter.

Jefferson took the ball, shot from inside and outside, and hit the steel skillfully, helping the Bobcats and the Spurs keep clinging to the score in the second quarter.

With the return of the main lineups of both sides, the Spurs defended a three-two zone defense, mainly intending to defend the Bobcats' outside shots.

And with Duncan on the inside, even in the state of three-two defense, he has formed an impregnable wall under the basket.

Watching the Spurs change, Liu Rui made the classic three-shot headshot gesture on the sidelines.

The weakness of the three-two defense lies in the two bottom corners and the short-range shooting from the inside.

Since the Spurs will put up this formation after the substitution, it is impossible not to think of the weakness of the three-two defense.

There will definitely be arrangements, so Liu Rui directly does the opposite and refuses to hit these two points.

The reason why league teams defend less zone defense is that zone defense needs to force every player to stand in a designated position.

Not only does it require the tacit cooperation of teammates on the field, but also because on the defensive end, once the formation of the zone defense is disrupted, there will be many flaws.

On the contrary, it will bring more shooting opportunities to the offensive side.

In the beginning, the zone defense was to limit pick-and-rolls and hard hits to the basket.

Because a lot of teams run a lot of off-ball pick-and-rolls to create shots.

For the three-two defense, players only need to stand in their own positions and cover the empty space around them, and they don't need to follow the pick-and-rollers to move around.

In the off-ball pick-and-roll defense, it has shown amazing results.

But everything remains the same, and if there are advantages, there will naturally be disadvantages.

Although in the off-ball pick-and-roll, the three-two defense can guarantee its own position, so as to achieve no loss of position.

But it is precisely because each player needs to stand in a designated position, which also restricts the defenders defending the zone defense to their own movement space.

Let the entire team lose a lot of agility on the defensive end.

Mo Williams' direct shot after the pick-and-roll, facing the zone defense, is definitely the best way to attack.

Because of the positioning, the pick-and-roll defense will try to expand the defensive space to the three-point line.

But in order to maintain a position, you will never choose to go around the screen.

This allows Mo Williams to have a lot of space for the drift shots after the pick-and-roll that Mo Williams usually coaches.

After seeing Liu Rui's gesture of switching tactics on the sidelines, Mo Williams used Wallace's pick-and-roll.

With the help of the card points in the repeated area of ​​each player in the three-two defense, decisively choose to shoot outside the three-point line.

Bang~
Mo Williams' shot was a bit too strong for this ball, and it hit the blue neck, but he didn't make it.

But Liu Rui on the sidelines still gave his own applause.

Let’s not talk about whether the shot is good or not, but playing like this on the court is definitely the most effective way at present.

After all, even in the case of an open position, it is impossible for a player to guarantee a 100% three-point shooting rate, let alone such a shot after the pick-and-roll.

As long as the opportunity comes out, the players can make shots, even if they can't make a shot, this is a good tactical execution.

In the second half of the second quarter, after the main lineup came back, the two sides were still in anxiety.

After Mo Williams used the pick-and-roll, he made many shots, but unfortunately, he didn't make many shots.

The hit rate can only be regarded as average, so at the end of the second quarter.

The Bobcats are on the road with:
45:45
It was a tie with the Spurs.

This made the Spurs' home commentary amazed again and again.

After all, before the game, no one thought that the Bobcats would fight the Spurs to this level.

The two teams were inseparable. At the end of the halftime, it can be said that they were evenly matched.

Narrator: "My God, I feel really dazzled, please tell me if there is something wrong with the scorer on the field."

So far, the Spurs have only lost six games in total, and these six games have been lost to teams currently in the top eight in the East and West, and playoff-level teams.

So in this game, the Bobcats actually tied with the Spurs at halftime, and judging from the situation, it still felt like they were vaguely suppressing the Spurs.

"No, no, I think in this game, the Bobcats played more like a strong team than the Spurs. The Spurs have made adjustments twice in this game, but after the adjustments, the Bobcats still maintained the score on the court."

"Even suppressing the Spurs for most of the game, it makes the Spurs look more like the team chasing points, which is really incredible."

Another commentator on the field was also very surprised.

There are many ceremonies in the NBA where a weak team upsets a strong team, but usually the players of the weak team feel very mixed.

But this game is obviously different. Playing so far, the two teams have finished halftime, and the Bobcats don't feel much better.

The team's overall shooting percentage was only 44.2 percent.

The Spurs have 48.6%.

The Bobcats ended the half with an even lower percentage than the Spurs, but the two teams were tied.

In the offensive rounds, the Bobcats are obviously much higher than the Spurs.

It is precisely this kind of Bobcats team that does not feel overwhelmed, but uses a normal way of playing, but is on par with the Spurs. This comparison before and after surprised the commentators on the scene.

If you don't look at the teams, but just look at the technical statistics of the two teams at the end of the halftime game, most of them will think that this is a game between two equally well-matched teams.

Rather than a matchup between a title favorite and a team struggling for a playoff berth...

(End of this chapter)