George Karl's defensive skills are really nothing to say, although the Nuggets have conceded an average of 101 points per game this season, but the main reason is that the offense and defense are fast-paced and have many rounds, they average 107.3 points per game, and the net score is as high as 7.3 points, you must know that the Grizzlies have a net score of 9.2 points.

The Nuggets are averaging 85 shots per game while averaging just 9.1 offensive rebounds per game, compared to 86 by opponents.

The Grizzlies are averaging 13.5 offensive rebounds per game and only 82 shots per game, and opponents are only averaging 78 shots per game, and the rhythm is not at the same level at all.

The Nuggets are relatively less suited to play positional offense, but they are good at forcing opponents into positional defense!

If you want to compare a team, the team that is very similar to them is the Miami Heat, both of which force the opponent into positional warfare on the defensive end and play defensive counterattacks!

The Grizzlies, who had a clear advantage at the beginning, rarely suffered a loss in the rotation phase!

hit the official timeout, and in almost two minutes, the Grizzlies only relied on Jordan Jr.'s cut dunk to score two points, and the others didn't score a point!

On the Nuggets side, after Lawson's counterattack engine came up, he helped the Nuggets score 6 points in a row!

The two teams played to a 16-all draw!

After the official timeout, the Grizzlies continued to adjust, Battier replaced, the outside trio remained unchanged, and the two-emperor interior combination played the rotation phase.

Facing the starting lineup of the Nuggets, the Grizzlies' coaching staff, coupled with the hard work of three players with strong defensive strength and analytical ability, defended very well.

The Grizzlies have also studied the rotation lineup led by Lawson, but in the face of this lineup and style of play that are too athletic and impactful, the Grizzlies are in a hard battle!

At the end of the first quarter, the Grizzlies trailed by two points 26-28 and went into the intermission!

Lawson played more than seven minutes and had three points and four assists

Sun Ce scored 9 points, 4 boards, 3 assists and 1 block after playing in the first quarter, mainly because of the 7 points at the beginning, and only scored two points in the back, and the next 7 minutes or so are considered normal performances, 2 points, 2 boards and 2 assists, but fortunately, there are 7 points and 1 assist at the beginning, and Sun Ce's data can firmly suppress Lawson.

Since the last game of the month was to play the Thunder, who are theoretically stronger in the playoffs, Coach Hollins did not continue to send Sun Ce to death at the beginning of the second quarter, but let Sun Ce rest and replaced the lineup of Conley, Morrow, Battier, Randolph, and Gasol Jr., trying to press the rhythm.

Lawson's physical condition is average, B+ level, more average than Sun Ce, and at the beginning of the second quarter, George Karl replaced the lineup of Lowry, Courtney Lee, Wilson Chandler, Al Harrington, and Nene.

The lineup is evenly matched, with Randolph and Gasol Jr. having stronger interior lines, but the opposing outside combination is significantly better than the Grizzlies' side.

The Grizzlies are a strong team on the inside, and the outside is actually mainly defensive players, with Randolph and Gasol Jr. on the inside, and Jordan Jr. is barely a core level, but there are three positions on the outside, and there are only two independent offensive points in the main rotation, Sun Ce and Conley.

It was also because Randolph basically didn't exert his strength in the first quarter, his physical condition was good, and he regained his desire on the offensive end, catching Nene and Al Harrington and beating him, so that he could tighten the score in the first half of the second quarter.

41-42, the Grizzlies reached the official timeout in the second quarter, narrowing the difference to 1 point, this half of the quarter is still very stable, Randolph scored 8 points alone, raising his personal score to 12 points, plus a three-pointer from Morrow, Conley and Gasol Jr. scored two points each to overwhelm the Nuggets lineup led by Lowry.

But that's enough for the Nuggets!

Relying on Lowry's excellent performance, the Nuggets withstood the moment when Randolph was powerful!

The situation was unfavorable, Coach Hollins did not panic, after all, the point difference was almost equal to nothing, and he re-sent the dual point guard combination of Sun Ce and Conley, plus the front court trio of Paul George, Battier, and Yi Jianlian, ready to deal with the upcoming track and field team impact with a small lineup.

Tony Allen used Tony Allen to defend Lawson before, but I have to say that today the Grizzlies made a mistake in the preparation of defending Lawson, Tony Allen did not defend Lawson well, but Coach Hollins and defensive assistant coach Dave Jogel were unwilling to use Sun Ce to defend Lawson, first, it was a problem of attrition, and second, it would affect Sun Ce's defense, which was not so friendly to the team's defense, but I didn't expect this decision to be a complete mistake, not only did not prevent Lawson, Sun Ce's co-defense also did not play much role in the Nuggets' style of play with their own offensive ability.

So this time Coach Hollins simply sent two point guards!

The Nuggets are in full swing!

They didn't have a bottom at first, after all, they were beaten up quite badly the last time they played against the Grizzlies.

But in the fight, the confidence came!

The combination of Lawson, Courtney Lee, Wilson Chandler, Gallinari, and Nene is here!

There is a sentence that Sun Ce really recognizes now.

Don't compare your hobby to someone else's profession!

Promoting counterattacks is not Sun Ce's hobby, but it is certainly not an aspect that he focuses on improving, but it is enough.

His advancing counterattack is based on his teammates' position After he relied on his position awareness and size advantage to grab the defensive rebound, he used his passing awareness, coupled with his teammates' counterattack ability and his own speed, to play a push counterattack.

This routine has been tried and tested repeatedly, and he has not deliberately strengthened his ability in this regard, after all, this is only a style of play in the rotation stage, it is enough, and he is more improving his technical and tactical qualities.

But since Lawson traded Anthony away from the Nuggets, abandoned Billups, and he and Lowry became the team's main point guards, he focused on studying this style of play, and didn't care about anything else, focusing on being the core of the offensive counterattack in the defensive counterattack.

Lawson already has a talent in this area, George Karl has created the best defensive counterattack tactics for him, coupled with so many teammates with excellent running and jumping ability, strong counterattack awareness, and independent offensive ability to respond when he can't organize the offense, Lawson's counterattack promotion ability has improved much faster than Sun Ce's after almost a season!

Speaking of promoting the counterattack alone, Lawson has a little bit of Kidd's shadow back then, of course, just this, he doesn't have Kidd's defense and rebounding, but in terms of advancing the counterattack, Lawson is stronger than Sun Ce!

At halftime, the Grizzlies were 54-59, five points behind the Nuggets!

Sun Ce watched Lawson play 13 minutes and get 5 points, 1 board, 6 assists and 1 steal...... The performance was better than the season average!

Lawson's bottle isn't that easy to hold!