Chapter 114: [Brush Power!] 】
The Warriors led by five points at 52-47 in the first half. Fernandez and Blake's three-pointers helped the Trail Blazers bite the score, but their offense relied more on chaotic battles, and the Warriors played blocking and dismantling offense under the organization of Zhou Xuan, and the cooperation was very orderly.
Zhou Xuan scored 4 points, 2 rebounds and 7 assists, and he didn't shoot much, so he was not too surprised and could assist in a double-double.
At halftime, Nelson Sr. emphasized tactics: "Zach, Andries, you protect the backcourt rebounds in the low post, and immediately pass to Zhou or Stephen to launch a fast attack, in the first half we didn't play the advantage of the fast break, in the second half we should speed up the pace as much as possible." ”
Despite the lead, Nelson Sr. was not very happy with the players, and he was eager to take out the Trail Blazers in one go. And the Trail Blazers' joint defense did a good job, and Oden strengthened his interior defense after the game and recovered some points.
Zhou Xuan was also thinking about how to play better. He knows that the Trail Blazers have exposed two weaknesses, one is the point guard's defense, whether it is Blake or Rodriguez off the bench, they are not the type to be good at defense. The second is that Aldridge is not a qualified substitute, Oterlo is more suitable to play small forward, and there is only a big man Channing sitting on the bench? Frye, who had been traded from New York, was really not eyed by McMillan.
The Warriors fielded the strongest lineup, with Azubuike at the No. 2 spot and Morrow on the bench.
The main tactics of the Trail Blazers are really boring, always Roy and Aldridge's blocking, this team Roy is even more like a point guard than Blake, because the basketball is in his hands most of the time, Blake dribbles the ball across the half court and runs to wait for three points, which is somewhat similar to the Lakers, no wonder some experts predict that Roy will become the second Kobe. Their assists, shooting percentage, and rebounds are all about the same, but Kobe Bryant has more shots, so he has a few points more than Roy.
If you play a set of tactics throughout the game, it is easy for the opponent to find a defensive method, just like the Rockets keep playing to Yao Ming in the low post, and the whole game is in the inside pass, and the tired Yao Ming is half dead in the fourth quarter, not to mention the decrease in efficiency, but also increases the chance of injury. After Yao Ming's suspension last season, the Rockets' offense became more agile and won a staggering 22 consecutive wins. Sometimes it will be better to play a few more sets of tactics.
However, the Trail Blazers don't have any tactics, they just keep blocking and dismantling. Zhou Xuan went to defend Fernandez and gave up the top of the arc to Jackson. The Warriors aren't afraid to misplace when defending pick-and-rolls. Seeing this situation, Roy gave Fernandez a beating, wanting him to rely on his body to eat Zhou Xuan.
The 198CM tall Spaniard weighs only 84 kilograms, which is about the same as Zhou Xuan.
As a player, Fernandes' charisma and popularity often come from off the pitch. Female fans want to be the pillow man of this handsome Spanish man; Fashion editors are counting on this stylish "clothes rack" to win the pages of magazines; The paparazzi are expecting him and his glamorous girlfriends to create more glamorous things to help them make the news. He's a guy who plays on his ability to run and jump, but in the NBA, no one expects him to be a savior.
Instead of blocking, Fernandez dribbled through the middle, he first dribbled and opened the gap, dribbled behind his back to his left hand, shook his left shoulder and paused, and the ball was immediately handed over to his right hand to break through from the right. Zhou Xuan didn't take a feint, and followed the bottom line until he interfered in front of him. Fernandez relied on his height advantage to force a shot wide, and the rebound was picked up by Biedrins and passed to Jackson, who gave Azubuk to Azubuk, and immediately formed a counterattack.
Azubuuk formed a misalignment, singled Rodriguez, dribbled under the crotch and forced a breakthrough, ran the ball to the middle, Randolph rarely caught the ball quickly and then leaned on Aldridge in the middle to shoot, although the ball did not go in, but caused a foul.
Randolph made both free throws to make it 54-47. Aldridge received his third foul.
The Trail Blazers attacked, Rodriguez controlled the ball to the frontcourt, and Fernandez changed his play, went around from the bottom line, and threw off Zhou Xuan by relying on Oden's off-ball cover. Rodriguez has a good vision, and immediately passes the ball to Fernandes, Zhou Xuan can't catch up, Fernandez breaks through the middle and throws the ball in. 54 to 49.
In the face of misalignment, what Randolph did was actually take a step back to jam Oden, which looked as if he had made way for Fernandez, and Jackson on the other side was too late to make up for it. When opponents block and break down on Randolph's side, the defense is easy to leak, and this is an issue that the Warriors urgently need to solve.
The Warriors attacked, and after the players pulled away, Jackson also began to run back, borrowing Biedrins to cover the outside line without the ball, and Roy was blocked. Zhou Xuan immediately passed the ball to Jackson, but Jackson didn't shoot, attracting Fernandez to make up for the defense and passing to Azubuk, who cut in the middle, who went straight to the basket.
Oden couldn't follow Randolph, and it was Aldridge who made up for it. Azubuike's physical fitness is also great, he is a superman who can stage a tomahawk dunk, he rushed to Ade, Ade showed a lack of defensive experience at this time, if he stood still, maybe he would create a dribble collision, because he was outside the reasonable collision area, but he chose to jump off the block, the two collided in the air, Azubuke barely threw the ball out, although he didn't score, but the referee's whistle sounded again, and Ade was the fourth foul.
Azubuuk made one of two free throws to make it 55-49.
McMillan was very unhappy with the referee's decision, so he had to replace Ade and replace him with Otero to play the number 4 position.
The Trail Blazers lost Ade, and the power of blocking and dismantling became smaller, Roy broke through the pull-up jump shot and couldn't score, the rebound was won by Randolph, and the third quarter just began, and the fat man's rebounds had already doubled.
In this round, the warriors fell into battle, and Zhou Xuan asked Randolph to come out to block the demolition, and waved his hand to Jackson on the right, signaling him to cut in the air.
Randolph blocked Rodriguez, Zhou Xuan bypassed Randolph to break through from the right side, and Outlaw switched defenses. He is also a devil with extremely perverted physical fitness, loves dunks and blocks, and his pace with people is very fast, and he blocked Zhou Xuan in front of him at once, but this is also what Zhou Xuan wanted, and he immediately distributed the ball back to Randolph.
Randolph has never been lazy on the offensive end, and he has to work the ball in the card position, squeezing Rodriguez away and taking the ball in the middle and taking three steps inside. Oden hurriedly let go of Biedlings to block under the basket. Randolph doesn't pass the ball, he doesn't care how badly Oden is blown by the media, in his eyes, this is a first-year rookie, although an old face looks like it's time to retire.
Randolph hit Oden and threw the ball high to the basket with his left hand, the ball arced very high, almost straight up and down into the basket, the referee blew the whistle again, the thug fouled, 2+1.
Randolph roared angrily, and clapped his hands with Zhou Xuan, who came forward.
Say I'm a cancer? Look at it, those guards who don't pass the ball to me after blocking and can't shoot to attract defense after breaking through are cancers! Randolph looked at Zhou Xuan and remembered the Knicks' little man who ran fast and jumped high. Robinson, the person who only knows how to break through and shoot is actually called a point guard, so what kind of guard is that?
Randolph also shot nearly 80 percent from the free-throw line, making free throws safely. 58 to 49.
Trail Blazers head coach McMillan quickly called a timeout, and he found that the situation was not good, not only because the score was behind, but also because the core players had too many fouls, and Oden was already his third foul. How to limit Zhou Xuan and Randolph's blocking and dismantling on the offensive end, he has to arrange it well.
Zhou Xuan didn't score much, but McMillan didn't dare to underestimate it, he felt that Zhou Xuan was like Blake with stronger organizational skills, he didn't shoot the ball with pressure, so he shot less, but once there was a vacancy, he could also score.
The home fans gave Randolph a round of applause, and for the first time, they already had some of a liking for the big fat man. The news says he's a cancer, but now the team is leading, he's the top scorer, and he's also a great rebounder, where is the poison? I didn't see it. Everyone said that Randolph was a cancer, but more because people were the same. It's not the performance on the pitch that he's poisoning, it's the background and character.
The American media said that Randolph was mainly from a "prison pioneer" in the early part of his career. At that time, the Trail Blazers had been in the first round of the playoffs for three years in a row, and a Trail Blazers player appeared on police records almost every month. Either Randolph was arrested for drunk driving, or Damon? Stoudemire had marijuana in his home. Either Patterson was charged with domestic violence, or Woods was arrested for possession of marijuana and guns. The maximum time the Trail Blazers have not had a player arrested, suspended by the league or team, or police not called into their home in a year is 17 days. In such an environment, of course, people will be suspicious of Mrs. Lando's character. When Portland gradually fell from a competitive team to a lottery team, Randolph's individual talent began to explode, which made people doubt the moisture of his statistics, but the poor defense was caused by the team as a whole, and he could not be blamed alone.
The Trail Blazers and Knicks have no hope of making the playoffs, the players are extremely selfish, the whole team is not active in defense, and many people are just brushing up on the data, in this case, it is useless for Randolph to try to defend hard. Now that it's the Warriors, a strong team, Randolph wants to change his mind. It's not because of what the coaching staff teaches him, it's that he's a professional basketball player and he's hungry to win. Could it be that when he almost had a shocking reversal in the playoffs against the Mavericks, facing Nowitzki, what he wanted was to brush up on the data?
After the suspension ends. Roy broke through by covering, played against Biedrins himself, and made a layup after breaking through with the ball. 58 to 51.
The Warriors attacked, Zhou Xuan led the half, Jackson relied on Biedrins to get rid of Roy without the ball, and Zhou Xuan passed the ball. Ottro Jackson bobbed and stepped back to shoot wide.
Under the basket, Oden was sandwiched between Biedrins and Randolph, and no matter how good the bounce was, he couldn't show it. Biedrins grabbed the rebound first and missed the second attack, and Randolph grabbed the rebound in the front court and scored a rebound. 60 to 51. Oden didn't dare to foul, and if he went off the court again, there would be no one on the inside.
This is Randolph's personal 21st point in the game, and he completed 20+10 in less than three quarters, and the "brush" is powerful!
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In the fourth chapter today, Randolph will be powerful, and Rabbit Grass will also be powerful today. There is another chapter at 10 o'clock, Xie Lu thanks his friends for their support!