Chapter 419: The Weakness of the All-Around Center
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"I'm sorry, please give way. A middle-aged white man with a strong body and body hair hurried through the players' tunnel. In order to maintain the wooden floor of the court and ensure that the Thunder and Trail Blazers players can play in the most advanced environment, there are many staff members who disassemble and assemble the floor in the Chesapeake Energy Arena today. As a result, the already busy tunnel for players is even more crowded today.
The white man quickly pushed open a closed door, and behind the gate was the home team training ground for the Thunder. But now, it's empty, and with yesterday's game just over, Van Gundy doesn't want his players to risk injury by scheduling early training. What was Van Gundy going to do that morning? What was he going to do was inseparable from the white man who was in a hurry now.
"Jeff, the footage is here. The white man didn't knock on the door, but walked straight into Van Gundy's office.
"Thank you Mogan, call Carl too, we have to work together. Jeff Van Gundy brought a bench and beckoned the white man named Mogan to sit down. This guy is the assistant coach of the Thunder, one of Jeff Van Gundy's right-hand men. And his role is to specialize in the defense of the Thunder.
"Hey, Karl, come to the office. Yes, yes, right now, okay. Mogan hung up the phone, then inserted the USB flash drive he had brought into Van Gundy's laptop. If you want to say that this era is really convenient, when Jeff Van Gundy wanted to video, it had to go through many channels, and it was not necessarily available. Now, with just a small USB stick, Van Gundy can absorb everything he wants.
"Grizzlies vs. Trail Blazers, Magic vs. Trail Blazers, Knicks vs. Trail Blazers...... Jeff, why do you have to watch the footage of these games? Mogan asked.
"Why? Gasol Jr., Howard and Stoudemire, these guys are the four trickiest Ann has ever faced this season. The fourth? The fourth is Morris! I want to see how Ann deals with strong opponents, he must have his own method, and our job is to kill this method completely!" Van Gundy clicked on the video of the match between Gasol Jr. and Anjie and carefully studied it.
"But Jeff, the Trail Blazers' top scorer in the last game was Aldridge. Mogan had to remind his partner that Morris had done a pretty good job defensively in the last game.
"You have to know that Aldridge wouldn't have gotten that high without Ann. See, we'll get the answer. Jeff Van Gundy took a sip of coffee, and he was immune to coffee, but it had become a habit for him.
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"Look, you don't have to do confrontational training today. At the away team's training ground at the Chesapeake Energy Arena in the afternoon, Rickard gave Anjie an ultimatum before the daily "Reserved Project" confrontational training was about to begin.
"Got it, I went to the treatment room to cooperate with Raspein's massage. Hey Camby, you can get a good night's sleep today!" Anjie joked with Marcus Camby on the other side of the court. Anjie doesn't participate in confrontational training, which is great news for Camby. At least today, he doesn't have to be tormented by that forever energetic imp.
The reason why Anjie agreed to Ricard's request so quickly was because all of Anjie's protests throughout the morning ended in failure. Anjie knew that if he said anything now, Rickard would not change his mind. Instead of wasting your tongue fighting with the stubborn Ricard, it is better to enjoy a massage meal. Anyway, after Anjie went through the confrontation with Morris, many places on his body were indeed very sore.
Just as Popovich is about GDP, Ricard is always confident in Anjie's form. Abnormal performance can also happen to Anjie, but the probability is very, very small. Now, adjusting Anjie's body to the best state can allow Anjie to continue his excellent performance.
An Jie originally wanted to play against his teammates at first, but he was really tired, and he fell asleep comfortably after being massaged for less than fifteen minutes......
Whatever the method, the Trail Blazers and Thunder are preparing for their next game. Van Gundy's good intentions, Ricard's caution. Morris's redoubled training, and Anjie's body recovered. Although today is a day of rest for the two teams, no one will really go to rest today.
What is the effect of the adjustment of the two teams on this day, and the outcome of the next game will be revealed.
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Anjie pushed Morris hard, but found that Morris was not moved at all.
"Since that's the ......" An Jie stuck out his tongue, Morris was so dead, presumably the center of gravity must be very high. So Anjie suddenly leaned on Morris and turned around to break through, intending to hit the basket directly.
When dealing with most opponents, An Jie can usually use this trick to help him out of trouble. But today, before his turning action was finished, Morris took a step forward and jammed An Jie's turning space!
Anjie was topped by Morris like this, stumbled to the bottom line, and the basketball almost got out of control. Morris let out a sigh of nervousness, he just thought that An Jie was going to succeed!
Anjie wanted to pass, but found that the Thunder's tight defense did not leave him any room to pass at all. In this formation, the Thunder team made it clear that An Jie wanted to attack!
forced An Jie to attack, and other teams couldn't pass the ball quickly to prevent An Jie from being unsafe in their penalty area. Only the Thunder team dared to force An Jie to attack. And the key to the Thunder daring to do so is Jeff Van Gundy, who is on the sidelines with his hands on the sidelines, and Andrew Morris, who is between Anjie and the basket.
This morning, Van Gundy, who had studied the footage all day, told Morris a lot of things to look out for when defending Anjie. First of all, it is necessary to be tough, and you must bear the impact of An Jie's back at the beginning. If An Jie's back play is unsuccessful, the rest of the Thunder team immediately leaves the team's defense behind and stares at the opposing player in front of him, while Morris pays attention to stepping up to beware of An Jie's sudden breakthrough. Of course, this is just one of the points Van Gundy emphasized to Morris. Through the video of the confrontation between Anjie and his fierce rivals, Van Gundy and his coaching staff have studied the habits of Anjie, an all-round center.
And all these arrangements were well executed by Morris on the court.
"Morris is simply a roundworm in Ann's belly, and he can always predict Ann's next move. Ann had a rough run on the offensive end today, and now the game is in the final moments of the fourth quarter, but his score is still stuck at 16. Kenny Smith looked at the scene suspiciously, Anjie was rarely so aggrieved by an inside lineman!
In fact, Morris was also very nervous, but surprisingly, most of the points that Jeff Van Gundy told him were fulfilled.
An Jie is holding the ball in the middle distance of the baseline at the moment, and he can only hold the ball with both hands at the moment, unable to dribble anymore. Morris raised his arms high to defend closely, and the rest of the Thunder were biting their opponents.
Aldridge seemed to get a little space to catch the ball, and seeing that there were only ten seconds left in the attacking time, Anjie hurried out the ball, hoping that Aldridge could complete the attack for him.
However, before the basketball could fly into Aldridge's hands, it was intercepted by the Congolese Ibaka in the middle of the way. The space left for An Jie is too small, even if his passing skills are very exquisite, it is difficult to complete the pass in this situation.
Defending and counterattacking after catching the opponent's mistakes is what the Thunder do best. Durant and Westbrook cut diagonally into the box from left to right, while Nicolaas Batum ran to the top of the arc beyond the three-point line. In just a split second, the Thunder set up three very dangerous offensive points in the Trail Blazers' half.
In the end, Ibaka's long pass came to Batum from beyond the three-point line. Batum didn't adjust and threw the ball in the direction of the basket again. At the same time, Durant, who was about to cut inside, rose to the ground, caught the basketball that was still in the air, and pressed it into the basket fiercely.
"Wonderful aerial coordination! The Trail Blazers are simply helpless against the Thunder's counterattack!"
The Chesapeake Energy Arena was in full swing, and today, they were finally playing their rhythm.
At 81-90, the Thunder already had a nine-point lead. The time left for Anjie and the Trail Blazers is only 2 minutes and 35 seconds.
After that, Raymond Filton handed the ball directly to Aldridge. Aldridge still scored on Ibaka's head with an elegant turnover jumper. Anjie didn't touch the basketball throughout the offense, which is also very rare in the Trail Blazers' games this season.
The Thunder did a pretty good job, but if there's one thing Jeff Van Gundy did wrong, it's that he miscalculated Aldridge's form.
He thought that Aldridge would not be able to break out again in this game, but it backfired, and today Aldridge still beat Ibaka, a terrifying blocker, to the point where he couldn't find the north.
Counting the goal just scored, Aldridge has already scored 28 points. However, 28 points, under the Thunder's strong offensive lineup, is not worth mentioning at all.
Anjie was strangled to death, and Aldridge had to fight alone. Others: Others lack An Jie's containment on the inside, and it is difficult to break through the Thunder's iron wall by relying on their personal ability.
As the game time passed minute by minute, An Jie, who gritted his teeth, found that it was still very difficult to lead the team to a reversal.
Anjie could see that Morris's kid was not feeling good, and he gave almost everything to see himself die. But most importantly, he succeeded. As long as he can successfully contain Anjie, Morris doesn't care how much effort he will spend.
Until the end of the game, the Thunder team could not reverse the score, and An Jie's score still did not exceed 20.
With a new low score in the playoffs this season, Anjie didn't expect that he would set such an embarrassing record in the Western Conference Finals.
Durant's still exaggerated 37 points and Westbrook's 27 points, plus Bledsoe and Batum's combined 21 points, made Aldridge's 28 points seem so weak.
As the star of the Trail Blazers, he was defended by Morris today with only 19 points, and his shooting rate was only 48%, less than half of it.
This data is by no means the data that Anjie should get after playing normally.
94-100, the Thunder moved the score to a 1-1 tie at home. The equalizer is a common situation in the playoffs, and it stands to reason that the Trail Blazers have nothing to be nervous about.
But the Thunder's victory was by strangling the Trail Blazers' best bit, which had to make Ricard take the loss seriously.
Morris kept waving his fist at the crowd and Van Gundy walked into the tunnel to the applause of the fans. An Jie watched all this from the sidelines, these two guys knew themselves best, and he was not surprised at all that they could find a way to limit themselves.
Morris and Thunder, are they really going to win themselves? Anjie clenched his fists and turned to leave.