Chapter 415: Lethal Tactics
The Thunder are a very young team, and the young team has many advantages, such as they can always run tirelessly, they are not afraid of anything, they can do anything. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć But in Ricard's view, the Thunder have also exposed a lot of problems when they enjoy the benefits that those advantages bring to themselves.
Not calm enough, this may be one of the few faults that can be picked out by the Thunder, who has performed well this season. Looking at the big picture, the Thunder players are doing very well. But as long as you pick out the details, it is not difficult to find that at critical moments, the Thunder team except for Durant still looks a little frizzy when handling the ball.
Westbrook's powerful onslaught hides his erratic hit rate. Bledsoe's all-around performance was a high number of turnovers......
The further back on, the more intense the competition becomes. The more intense, the more frizzy the Thunder players will be. Ricard was very satisfied with the first half of the game The Trail Blazers bit the score, against an opponent of the level of the Thunder, if you want to win, it is impossible to climb to the sky in one step.
The Trailblazers had to grind slowly with them, bite slowly. In the end, when the Thunder's young people started to get impatient, the Trail Blazers' chance came.
Yes, Durant does have a composure and calmness that doesn't match his age, and he is very similar to Anjie in this regard. But compared to the current situation of more blossoming, Durant is left alone in the final moments of the game, wouldn't it be easier to defend.
"Don't be in a hurry! Don't think about completely crushing your opponent with just one offensive highlight, rest assured, at least for now, the Thunder are not going to give us this opportunity. Let's play at our own pace, and don't blindly follow the Thunder to the speed. I don't want to shoot too high and have multiple rounds, the success rate, that's the only thing I'm asking for!" Rickard didn't plan to devise a strategy that would allow the Trail Blazers to eat the Thunder in one bite.
Grind slowly, beat slowly. When it comes to crunch time, the Thunder are bound to have a gap. The only difficulty now is not whether they can pull away the score, but whether the Trail Blazers can withstand the next bombardment of the Thunder.
"Keep hitting the inside!" Jeff Van Gundy's arrangement surprised most of the Thunder players.
"Keep hitting the inside?" Westbrook repeated Van Gundy's setup.
"Yes, I know, Ann's defensive ability is terrifying. But you also have to know that the entire Trail Blazers team does not have a second interior defensive gate except for Ann. Don't tell me you can't run anymore with Canby and Thomas, you can't handle it. Continued to hit the inside line, and kept putting pressure on Ann. Let him foul, make him tired, let him go off!Only by letting An Jie go off the field, can we have a chance to gain an advantage!" Van Gundy arranged this way, not that he looked down on An Jie's defense. On the contrary, he did it because he knew Anjie's perverted defense.
This Anjie's enlightenment coach in the NBA knows very well that the only thing that can limit him is to let him not play! Looking at Anjie's performance in dominating the game in the early part of the second quarter, this kind of guy can't be limited by tactics. Even if the Thunder have Morris and Ibaka, Van Gundy doesn't guarantee that Anjie will be dumb.
He is now going to use the Thunder's richer firepower to drag An Jie down. At that time, even if An Jie really doesn't play, he will not perform well because he is too tired.
Westbrook swallowed, he was the best breakout for the entire Thunder team. Although Van Gundy didn't name him to go against Anjie alone, Westbrook knew that he would be the guy who fought Anjie the most.
A few years ago, when he was still in college, Westbrook's UCLA defeated Anjie's Iowa State University, and it was because of Westbrook's rebellious performance that Anjie was eliminated from the March Madness Tournament. But today, things are not as simple as they were then. Can we win again? Westbrook was really uncertain.
But for Jeff Van Gundy, everyone on the Thunder team has full trust. If they didn't even have this basic condition, the Thunder would not have made it to the Western Conference Finals.
So in the third quarter, An Jie found that it was so difficult to adjust his breathing.
Westbrook broke through with the ball again, and this was the fourth attempt he had made so far in the third quarter! But two of them, one resulted in an Ann foul and one was a hard-hitting goal. We don't know why the Thunder chose to attack the most solid part of the Trail Blazers, but Coach Jeff Van Gundy certainly had a point. As Mike Breen spoke, Westbrook once again threw himself into the air. Most of the defenders in this league throw themselves up first and then think about what to do next.
Westbrook, who is physically perverted, is naturally one of them, and An Jie saw that his former teammates were about to attack the frame, and he also gasped and forced his calves to exert force again and jump to block.
Just as Westbrook's basketball was about to be covered by Angel, the guy suddenly used a hook move in the air to distribute the ball to Sephorosa, who was ambushed in the bottom corner. Seforosa's defender Wesley Matthews was drawn to Westbrook's breakaway, and his easy three-point shot and basketball hit the ball with no surprise.
"It's rare for someone to make a layup or a pass under Ann's cover, but Westbrook did. And, he's doing a good job!"
"It's okay, Ann, or I'll play the number five position?" Aldridge saw that An Jie was sweating and made a suggestion to carry the impact for An Jie.
"No, LaMarcus, you'll have to focus more on the offensive end! Don't forget, Ibaka's kid is very difficult to deal with!" Anjie waved his hand and took the basketball from the referee's hand, ready to start the next round of counterattack.
Seeing that the frequency of the ups and downs in Anjie's chest gradually increased, Jeff Van Gundy was a little relieved. Not everyone dares to use his tactics to play the Trail Blazers, and not everyone can cause trouble for Anjie. But the Thunder have one of the most lethal breakouts in the entire league! Westbrook's impact will be difficult even for Anjie, the defensive player of the year.
Defensively, there are Westbrook and Angel. On the offensive end, his other good brother Andrew Morris is with him to sweat his sweat.
Morris's toughness in playing is on par with Anjie's, and his strength is slightly better. It is not unreasonable for Anjie to ask Aldridge to focus more on the offensive end, because this guy knows that it is difficult for him to care about both offensive and defensive ends in the third quarter.
If An Jie tries his best to consume at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, he will only end up consuming himself. He had to make a choice and take care of everything. An Jie, on the other hand, chose defense without hesitation.
So in the subsequent offense, An Jie's role changed from an offensive terminator to an offensive organizer. The basketball will still pass An Jie's hands, but An Jie's own offenses have been greatly reduced.
Fortunately, although he has been a terminator for so long, An Jie's ability to respond has not regressed at all. Under his conduction and command, the Trail Blazers still played some counterattacks, so that the score was always tight.
Aldridge also seems to be showing signs of outburst, and Ibaka has found that this big man who has the exact opposite style of play is always able to magically score the ball under all kinds of interference.
But all of this is based on AnJie's effective organization and firepower attraction.
A few minutes later, Anjie immediately began to show his weakness. There's no way, when a young team takes turns attacking you, your consumption of these few minutes can be worth more than ten minutes of others!
Rather than let Anjie, who was seriously depleted of physical strength, give the Thunder a needless foul on the court, Rickard felt that it was better to replace him for a break now.
Bringing on Marcus Camby and Jamal Crawford for Angel and Gerard Wallace, Rickard is hoping to use more outside firepower to hold out in Angel's absence.
On the Thunder's side, Morris and Westbrook, who have been fighting with Angel, were replaced by Jeff Van Gundy. But even so, the Thunder still have Bledsoe on the court and still have scoring champion Kevin Durant. The situation of the Trail Blazers is not optimistic.
Aldridge held Ibaka with one hand and dribbled the ball skillfully with the other. Hit the ground, exert power, lean back! Aldridge then used a tough way to push in the direction of the basket!
"Peng!" The muffled sound of the muscle collision between the two made An Jie, who was sitting on the bench, hear it clearly.
Aldridge's back-to-back push is actually much better than most people think.
With two steps to get the rhythm and space, Aldridge turned over again for a jumper.
Simple movements, ordinary offensive methods. Aldridge, however, has done it all to the extreme!
"Basketball again! LaMarcus Aldridge, his offense has left Ibaka helpless! God, if Ann dominated the second quarter, then Aldridge completely dominated the third quarter!"
Seeing Aldridge score again, An Jie suddenly "bounced" off the bench. He waved the towel wildly, and at this moment his reaction was no different from that of a normal fan.
The shy Aldridge also smiled at the bench, but this smile could make An Jie rest at the bottom.
Van Gundy frowned, he thought that after An Jie left the game, the situation would be completely controlled by the Thunder team. Unexpectedly, Aldridge's strong form made Van Gundy receive little effect.
Kevin Durant's more comprehensive scoring range and the Thunder's own more powerful offensive firepower have indeed given the Thunder a slight advantage. But this advantage is far from what Van Gundy expected.
In the end, with only three minutes and twenty seconds left in the third quarter, both teams replaced all of their main players. The game once again changed from a fierce battle to a transition period, and as always, the Thunder's second lineup still overpowered the Trail Blazers, but a seven-point lead certainly couldn't satisfy Jeff Van Gundy.
You know, in the third quarter of the game, Anjie rested for six minutes at the bottom! Only seven points were scored in six minutes, which was definitely not what Van Gundy wanted.
Perhaps the tactic of continuing to attack the interior has achieved some success, otherwise the Thunder may not even be able to get this seven-point advantage.
But Aldridge's standing up and the perseverance of others made Anjie proudly recover.
With 7 points, Van Gundy was unhappy with the result, which Ricard had expected.
In the first three quarters, the Thunder's indiscriminate bombardment of the Trail Blazers finally took it down. In the fourth quarter, it was the Trail Blazers' turn to attack, right?
has been suppressing the Thunder that the Trail Blazers are playing, and they don't know that danger has crept in......