Chapter 220: Take the initiative to ask for help
During the pre-game training, Pritchard made detailed arrangements for the Warriors, after all, the opponent is the mysterious old Nelson, who cannot be ignored.
In the two positions, the Trail Blazers are clearly superior, Ade at the power forward position, and Xue Ding at the No. 2 position.
In terms of lineup, the Warriors' lineup is very strange, with 7 guards, accounting for half of the team, which is simply overcrowded.
Starting two-gun Curry, Ellis, with a Murray, three guards, plus a scoring forward, if Toover is to be a historic center, it is quite a bit of a big and a small one.
For Curry's defense, Pritchard's tactical arrangement is that Roy uses his rich experience to limit him, Ellis is fast, small, and not very accurate on the outside, and the small man rushes to the inside, facing Ade and Chandler, that is, he is looking for trouble.
And Margety, who averages 15 points per game, has excellent athleticism, is good at shooting, and has the best three-point shooting rate in the league.
Therefore, the responsibility of defending Margeti was handed over to Xue Ding, the fiercest man is the opponent who should defend the most accurately.
But judging by the current effect, it is completely off track.
Curry has scored 14 points on 6-of-7 shooting, including 4-of-4 three-pointers.
Pritchard called a timeout to ease his opponent's momentum.
Roy down, Fernandez on, with speed against speed.
The score was 12:20 with three minutes left and the Trail Blazers trailed by eight points.
Xue Ding held the ball for half the court, watched Ade completely rely on Margeti, and it was a lot higher, and directly dropped the ball to Ade.
Ade received the ball and turned to shoot a jumper, Margeti struggled to interfere, but it still played a role and hit the iron.
Ellis took the rebound and rushed to the frontcourt, but Fernandez defended in time and didn't give the fast break a chance.
The backfield personnel slapped their horses and killed, and instantly turned into a positional battle.
Curry was in the crowd, constantly running without the ball in a figure-8 shape, and his teammates blocked and dismantled in time, gathered and ran back, and quickly ran out of the open space.
Ellis hesitated, but passed the ball as soon as possible, and Curry raised his hand to hit a three-point shot.
Xue Ding felt that there was a fighting intent burning in his body.
It's like seeing someone else playing with something, it's very relaxed, and if this person looks at it from the physical condition, it's not as good as you, it's a man, and it will make me feel like I'm going to try it too.
Xue Ding is like this now, looking at Curry's relaxed and elegant three-point, Xue Ding, who has tried Curry's legendary scene, has a lot of itching in his hands.
Xue Ding held the ball and quickly pushed it to the frontcourt, and Curry continued to defend in a harassing manner.
"Accurate Shot"
Xue Ding pulled it up directly, and Curry also gave up blocking, his height and bounce were not at the same level.
A graceful arc, "Huh" the familiar hollow sound of entering the network.
Pritchard, who stood up, sat down again, although Xue Ding did not follow the tactics, but it was the last word to score, let's see first.
The score was 15:23, still 8 points behind.
Murray dribbled to the frontcourt, Curry cut high to the left for three seconds, and ran to the right baseline, chasing people all the way, all the way to the teammates were blocked, the receiver got up and down, and hit a three-pointer again.
The home fans cheered wildly, and the score continued to expand to double digits, 15:26.
With 1 minute and 20 seconds left in the first quarter, when Curry was superb, Pritchard replaced the main force and let the bench come on.
Seeing this, Nelson made the same substitution.
The two sides came off the bench to end the first quarter with a 2-2 draw.
In the first quarter, Xue Dingjue was very aggrieved, and he didn't feel like playing at all, and all the centers of gravity of both sides were attracted by Curry's excellent play, as the strongest point, he didn't match at all.
If you want to talk about defense, the opponent has no defense at all, just play the offense to the extreme, and in fact it has been done.
Offense is the best defense, and that's one of the fundamental philosophies of the old Nelson.
"I'm going to defend Curry"
Xue Ding took the initiative to ask, and the head coach agreed without hesitation, and Batum also showed a relaxed expression, as if relieved.
At the beginning of the second quarter of the game, Xue Ding went directly to the court and did not continue to rest.
The main players of both sides continued to play.
Curry dribbled into the half, Ellis interspersed from the left 45 to the right low corner, and Murray quickly ran from the high right to the left low corner and made a block with Margety.
Ade was delayed, Margeti received the ball high and hit a big two-pointer.
When Xue Ding defended him before, he never had a chance to play.
Now it's finally time for the opportunity.
Sensing the change in the Warriors' offensive strategy, Xue Ding motioned to his teammates to maintain the original strategy.
When you're behind, you have to score and you can't respond, which is dangerous.
The fans at home add too much to their momentum, and it is easy to affect their mood.
After receiving the ball, Xue Ding advanced at high speed, and the warriors had already returned to the place, and the people on his side had not followed.
Xue Ding accelerated one step, a small change of direction inserted from the middle of Curry and Morrie, Curry bent down to pull out the ball, it was too late, the inside line Tofer made up, Xue Ding made a sharp stop and an acceleration, and easily picked up the basket.
Scoring is the best response.
In the next draw, Murray dribbled the ball across the court, Curry continued to run without the ball, and Xue Ding followed closely behind.
If you say who knows Curry best, it must be Xue Ding, although it can't be said that he has 100% predicted Curry's line, but it is no problem to be only 80%, plus the advantages of height, arm length, and bounce, two steps and the like can form interference.
Curry obviously felt that he had the opportunity to run out of the empty position, and he had to play a lot, and the key and most frustrating thing was that some of his counter-runs, turnaround routes and skills, Xue Ding knew the same.
But Curry is still constantly changing the pace and route between them, trying his best to create opportunities for himself.
There were 7 seconds left on the clock, and Curry had not yet run out of position, affecting the execution of the tactics, Margeti quickly came out to catch the ball, turned and jumped, but this time Ade followed, stretched out his long arms and pounced, almost blocked.
Three do not stick, Chandler took the rebound.
Xue Ding advanced with the ball, both sides retreated quickly, Ade mentioned the high position, Margeti followed, firmly in the back, to prevent Ade from turning.
Fernandez and Batum brought Murray and Ellis to the bottom corner, respectively.
Xue Ding raised his hands, hoisted the ball to Ade, quickly made a feint to the left, shook off Curry, and went straight in from the right to talk about "NBA Brutality" with more like-minded people, WeChat pays attention to "excellent reading literature", chats about life, and looks for confidants~