NBA: Crazy Little Giant

As a center of the younger generation, Gobert actually didn't want to adopt the front defense.

But he was beaten by Chen Cheng and had no choice but to lower his posture......

Gobert's standing reach of 292cm is the same as Chen Cheng's.

Although he was very uncomfortable being blocked by Chen Cheng, his body was staggering.

Westbrook, who was holding the ball on the outside, frowned slightly, but he still believed in his big man.

High pass.

Chen Cheng and Gobert jumped at almost the same time.

Gobert's fingertips touched the basketball.

This made Chen Cheng almost lose the pass.

While stumbling.

Derrick Favors on the weak side came to double-team......

"Small town, be careful"

"Small town..."

Mr. Su and Mr. Zhang, commentators of the Tianchao Sports Channel, both worried about Chen Cheng.

Young centers are afraid of being double-teamed.

In the finals between the young Sharks and Olajuwon, the two were evenly matched in terms of statistics, but the Rockets equipped Olajuwon with a group of shooters, plus his excellent passing ability, which directly swept the young Sharks.

When Favors came over to double-team him, Chen Cheng, who had an excellent field of vision, noticed the open space of Ilyasova in the bottom corner.

But as soon as the basketball was passed.

Favors, who came over to double-team, immediately turned around and chased Ilyasova.

Favors' basketball IQ and defensive sense made this pass lose its threat.

Ilyasova had no choice.

He could only pass the ball to Westbrook on the outside.......

"The Jazz's defense was very successful this time."

"The Thunder still exposed some problems when facing the team in the semifinals of the playoffs."

Looking at Westbrook who was reorganizing on the outside, Teacher Suqun analyzed the situation on the court.

Although Gobert was beaten badly by Chen Cheng, he was much more embarrassed than Joel Embiid at that time.

But the Jazz are not a weak team. Even in the wild West, the Jazz made it to the second round this season in the previous life.

In this defensive round.

When Chen Cheng staggered and couldn't hold the ball steadily, Favors came to double-team him immediately, but this was not a real double-team, but to scare Chen Cheng to pass the ball.

Favors' goal was achieved.

First, Chen Cheng lost a good opportunity to attack the basket.

Second, Ilyasova didn't have any chance to shoot a three-pointer, so he could only pass the ball to the outside to reorganize........

At this time, there were only 10 seconds left in the 24-second offensive time.

Westbrook asked Chen Cheng to come forward to screen for him.

Chen Cheng screened and hooked George Hill.

But Gobert did not follow and continued to squat and defend.

Westbrook challenged Gobert with his powerful impact

""Pah!"

Gobert blocked Westbrook's basketball with a block. The rebound was picked up by Gordon Haywood.

Haywood wanted to push for a fast break.

But Robertson, who had a shoe-horn face, stuck to Haywood like a dog-skin plaster.

This prevented Haywood from pushing forward and forced him to engage in a positional battle.

In the positional battle, Haywood asked Gobert for a pick-and-roll.

After a single block, Haywood and the opposing defensive player Robertson opened up a half-body gap.

An emergency stop and an emergency start.

He completely got rid of Robertson and faced Chen Cheng's backup defense.

Haywood faked a shot and passed the ball to Gobert who was coming down.

After Gobert received the ball, he dunked.

This attack and defense helped Gobert regain some face........

6 minutes and 23 seconds in the first quarter.

Haywood did the same thing and played pick-and-roll with Gobert.

But this time Chen Cheng switched defense directly.

Haywood's athletic ability is not as good as Oladipo's, and the difference is quite a bit, but Haywood's three-point accuracy, wide field of vision, and good organizational skills.

The most important thing is that Haywood is 203cm tall.

The shooting space is not comparable to Oladipo's 193cm.

Haywood called on Chen Cheng and dribbled the ball in a rhythm to constantly disturb Chen Cheng.

Chen Cheng, who was fully focused, showed his coordination ability that was inconsistent with his height and his footwork on the outside.

Even though Chen Cheng's single defense on the outside could keep up with Haywood, he was not in the mood to care about other things.

At this time, Favors, with his strong body and good athletic ability among players in the same position, took advantage of Ilyasova's inattention and created space in an instant.

Haywood made a ground pass.

After Favors received the ball, facing the Thunder basket that was moved away from the basket, he made a dunk........

8 minutes and 11 seconds in the first quarter.

The Jazz had already narrowed the gap to 2 points.

In addition to the Jazz's overall good defense, there are several other reasons.

Back-to-back games were a bit exhausting for the Thunder.

Westbrook's touch tonight did not return. He made 1 of 5 zombie jump shots after the pick-and-roll.

Chen Cheng's terrifying rebounds were also severely restricted by the efforts of the Jazz team.

The Jazz obviously studied Chen Cheng's games.

The head coach knew very well how terrifying Chen Cheng's rebounds were.

They adopted several strategies:

1. On the offensive end, try to move Chen Cheng away from the basket as much as possible to make it difficult for him to grab offensive rebounds.

2. Favors did a good job of positioning. Favors, who is 208cm and 114kg, has stronger lower limb strength than Gobert. Although he can't stand up to Chen Cheng one-on-one, he can delay his positioning to create good rebounding conditions for Gobert.

3. If Favors is too late, let the player closest to Chen Cheng do his best to prevent Chen Cheng from coming to the basket.......

Fighting for rebounds is not just the job of the two big inside players. Often, it requires the efforts of the entire team.

In the first quarter, Chen Cheng was closely guarded by all members of the Jazz. The other teammates were not very defensive tonight and could not stand out. This meant that Chen Cheng only had a pitiful 4 rebounds.

Among them, there was only 1 offensive rebound.

4 rebounds in a single quarter, theoretically, there should be 16 in the whole game.

This is not bad for an All-Star inside player, but for some reason, when Chen Cheng only had this rebounding data, the fans felt that Chen Cheng played poorly tonight.......

"List!"

"Do you want to continue resting?"

With one minute left before the start of the second quarter, coach Donovan looked at Chen Cheng, whose breath was still uneven.

The devil's home court, plus the entanglement of the two inside players, made Chen Cheng's physical strength very exhausted.

"No need."Chen Cheng took off the towel on his head and said with a firm and confident look.

At the same time, coach Donovan also saw the"murderous intent" in Chen Cheng's eyes.

The whole person seemed to have changed a little.

Chen Cheng was only one rebound away from being able to upgrade [Giant Slaughterhouse (Bronze)] to [Giant Slaughterhouse (Silver)].

Of course, this was not the point.

The point was that Chen Cheng, whose rebounds were restricted, seemed to enjoy this kind of trouble.

He couldn't wait to go on the court and ravage and destroy the troubles brought to him by the opponent.