1407. Start with Strategy (Part 1)

James's side envied Sun Ce for sending what kind of inside line he wanted, but Sun Ce's side was really not very happy.

The pressure is a lot higher against James defense than against Leonard or Josh Smith or Gay or Danny Green!

In terms of defense, whether it is in terms of defensive efficiency, defensive data, or actual results, the Heat are stronger than the Lakers and Spurs!

The first quarter reached an official timeout, and the Grizzlies trailed by four points at 11-15.

In the more than 4 minutes from the early timeout to the official timeout, the Grizzlies only allowed the Heat to score 8 points, but they themselves only scored 7 points!

didn't let the Heat quickly pull the gap away, but it couldn't narrow the gap either!

After the official timeout came back, Coach Hollins made a judgment and sent a combination of Nash, Sun Ce, Klay Thompson, Paul George, and Yi Jianlian to play offense.

Coach Hollins recalls the Spurs and Lakers beating the Heat in the regular season, and the Heat, who are in a crazy 30-game winning streak, have beaten the Spurs and Lakers.

In addition to a crazy 30-game winning streak, both the Spurs and Lakers have beaten the Heat.

And to beat the Heat, it doesn't rely on defense, it is true that they all have defensive combinations that limit James, such as the combination of Gay and Duncan, and the combination of Ci Shiping and Josh Smith.

But in the win over the Heat, the Spurs relied on 37 points in the first quarter, and the Lakers relied on at least 28 points in each of the four quarters.

One is to use the super offensive in the first quarter to stun the Heat, and the other is to rely on the scoring ability to stabilize to the dreaded No. 1 in the league to defeat the Heat steadily.

And these two points...... None on the Grizzlies' side!

However, the opening game tried to play defense, but the Heat faced their Grizzlies' defensive lineup, and the offensive efficiency was not good, except for the high efficiency of scoring 7 points in the first two minutes of the opening game, and only 92 points per 48 minutes in the next 4 minutes.

The Heat played their Grizzlies' Sun Ce, Jimmy Butler, Klay Thompson, Randolph, and Larry Sanders' lineup offense was blocked, with Sun Ce and Larry Sanders, two players who were excellent at helping to defend at close range, Randolph squatted under the basket and used his mobility to resist James, and Sun Ce and Larry Sanders switched defenses to help defend Bosh's cut and James' turn, which worked very well.

But on the other hand, Gasol Jr. is not on the Grizzlies' side, and Sun Ce and Randolph lead the team, and there is no third player with the ability to score independently, just like the time when they beat the Heat in the early part of the regular season, the Grizzlies' own offense is really not good!

The Heat have a hard time playing against their defense, and they don't have a high playmaker like Dio, Josh Smith, Duncan, and Noah, and it's hard to deal with the Heat's defense.

The Grizzlies sent a run-and-bomb lineup on the side, and the opposite side also replaced Wade, Chalmers, and Nene with a lineup of Norris Kerr, Ray Allen, James, Bosh, and Chris Anderson.

Defeat the opponent by splashing, and rely on pickled peppers at all times!

Thanks to Paul George's three-pointer late in the first quarter, the Grizzlies went into the break from a three-point deficit of 27-30 and did not trail by more than five points in the first quarter.

Back on the bench, Sun Ce had a new idea about how to deal with the Heat, but it was an idea that was difficult to implement.

They don't have the offense of the Lakers or the Spurs!

Sun Ce found that although defending James is a good way to deal with the Heat, the most critical thing may be not defense, but offense, and to deal with the Heat team's defense, the high-level strategy player is the most important!

There will always be gaps in high-speed rotation defenses, and players who can be on the inside of the high post are undoubtedly the easiest to find gaps in the opposing defense.

And their Grizzlies' high-level playmakers, who don't have the athleticism of Duncan and Josh Smith, Dior, and Noaa, are indeed very limited.

The opponent has Nene to block James and limit Gasol Jr.'s defense under the basket, which is not as effective as the athletic Larry Sanders, and Gasol Jr. and Larry Sanders are not as effective as Howard's defense at the peak of last season.

Sun Ce shook his head, rearranged his thoughts, and found that whether it was the strategy of the Spurs, the strategy of the Lakers, the strategy of the Bulls, and the strategy of the 76ers last season, they were not suitable for the Grizzlies.

Sun Ce squatted in front of the bench and posed for joyful thinking, and suddenly, as if a light was on his head, he had an idea!

After thinking about it quickly, it is feasible, but this is a gamble on luck and status, Sun Ce wants to be safe, but James is the most stable player in the league today, and may be the player with the highest lower limit in NBA history, and it is not a very suitable strategy to be stable compared with the Heat team.

Moreover, the reason why gambling is harmful is because the temptation is too great!

Sun Ce got up, walked over to Coach Hollins, and reached for the tactical board.

Coach Hollins was struggling with what to do, and when he saw Sun Ce reaching over, he subconsciously let go of the tactical board that he had been holding in his hand until he was dead......

When Coach Hollins was squeezed away by the players and saw the assistant coaches and players surrounding Sun Ce, he reacted that the tactical board was gone!

Finally squeezing into the crowd, Coach Hollins found that Sun Ce was not arranging tactics this time, but asked offensive assistant coach David Fitzdale and defensive assistant coach Dave Jogel what offensive and defensive strategies they had.

What kind of routine is this? Coach Hollins saw Sun Ce let the two assistant coaches arrange offense and defense, and then pick people to play, Coach Hollins fell into deep thought, forgetting the sad urge of the tactical board slipping through his fingers......

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At the end of the intermission, on the Heat side, the combination of Wade, Ray Allen, Mike Miller, James, and Nene came on.

Ensuring that the Big Three always have two of them on the floor is something that the Heat take very seriously.

The Grizzlies fielded a combination of Son Ce, Jimmy Butler, Paul George, Battier, and Gasol Jr.

The Grizzlies' lineup was a bit of a surprise for the Heat, who originally intended to use positional play to force the Grizzlies to reduce their use of Gasol Jr.

Are they not afraid of the defense of Gasol Jr.? Of course I'm afraid, so I used the pick-and-roll offense from the beginning, wanting the Grizzlies to reduce the use of Gasol Jr. and disrupt Gasol Jr.'s rhythm, if it hits a critical moment, Gasol Jr. is not in good shape, they are more advantageous.

The Heat are ready for Gasol Jr. to probably play in the final moments of the first half, the final moments of the third quarter, the final moments of the game, but Gasol Jr. is on now!