For Bellman, the new assistant coach of the Trail Blazers, the big problem he has to face, in addition to the fact that the NBA professional players are not NCAA college students, another challenge is the huge difference between the NBA's defensive rules and college basketball.

In addition to the difference in the scale of referees' blowing penalties, the biggest difference between the NBA's defensive rules and the NCAA's rules is that the NCAA allows the existence of joint defense, while the NBA does not.

And the NBA's defensive rules are not as simple as not being able to defend together, and the core definition of the "illegal defense" rule formulated by the league is: you can't trap people without the ball.

In other words, the only defensive methods that the defender can use on the field are man-to-man, the ball carrier, and the defense, once there are two players who have a bag on a non-player or a player on the defensive side cannot find an offensive player who is opposite him, then the defender will be judged as an illegal defense, and the attacker will make a free throw.

For Bellman, who is good at using joint defense and has adapted to the rules of college and high school, it will be difficult to integrate his defensive thinking into the NBA.

In order to solve this contradiction, Bellman did a lot of preparation before going to the Trail Blazers for an interview, studied a lot of tactical books, and watched a lot of videos of NBA games.

After a detailed analysis, Bellman believes that in today's NBA, although joint defense is prohibited, it is the referee who judges illegal defense, and the referee is a human being, not a machine, and the judgment on illegal defense itself is very vague.

Therefore, Bellman proposed that when the overall individual defense ability of the Trail Blazers is not strong, play the rules of the edge ball and covertly use "illegal defense" to improve the team's defensive efficiency.

His idea has also been affirmed by the management of the Trail Blazers, who believe that it is indeed difficult to wrestle with the Lakers without making some tactical innovations and making some crooked moves.

Later, during the team's training, Bellman began to emphasize that when the players are defending, they should always pay attention to the opposing arrows without the ball while keeping an eye on the opposing players.

Of course, this transition process is very difficult, and sometimes you accidentally lose your own defense and don't look at the arrows without the ball; Or simply pay too much attention and be found by the referee to blow illegal defense.

Sampson's goal was like this, after he and Gan Guoyang switched defenses, he was going to defend Adams, but he saw Sanders cutting inside, so according to Bellman's instructions, he wanted to delay a little and interfere with Sanders's movement.

But his movement was too obvious, it was aimed at Sanders, so he was caught by the referee and blew an illegal defense.

Obviously, it is really difficult for a veteran player like Sampson to adapt to such a defensive strategy, after all, he has been playing in the NBA for so many years and has long been used to the simple man-to-man defense.

Not only Sampson, but other players are also gradually learning and adapting to this defensive method, maybe they don't need to defend too tightly against a team like the Suns, but the regular season is a place to experiment and run-in, and I believe that this kind of defense will come in handy in future tough games.

With the Suns hitting free throws, they made it 14-9 and trailed by just five points.

The effect of Edwards on the court is indeed obvious, Gan Guoyang returned to the basket, the Suns' outside transmission ball suddenly smoothed a lot, Sanders cut the basket and made a layup, but was interfered with by Gan Guoyang, the layup missed, and Drexler won the rebound.

This time, Ramsey didn't shout run-run-run again, and Drexler began to dribble across half court to organize the offense.

"Drexler dribbled and attacked, he and Gan did a block in the high post, Gan caught the ball at the free throw line, and made a jumper! The ball didn't score...... But Gan grabbed the rebound in the frontcourt, under the basket, shook off Edwards, and dunked! A beautiful vigorous dunk with a little wobbly hoove. ”

Gan Guoyang did play more relaxed, and the hard training in Houston and the complete training camp after arriving in Portland made Gan Guoyang in very good shape.

It can also be seen from his mid-range shooting that Gan Guoyang's mentality of playing is still very relaxed, and he began to try various offensive methods.

And although the ball didn't score, it collapsed far away, and Gan Guoyang also picked up a frontcourt rebound to score the ball.

Gradually, the Trail Blazers began to slowly return to the familiar game mode of last season, with Gan Guoyang guarding the basket and defending individually on the outside.

The Suns' shooting percentage quickly increased, especially Sanders, and Vanderwich still couldn't restrain him.

But Sanders was also unable to contain Van Dewig, who also showed good athletic form, and his shooting still has a strong killing ability, and for the entire Trail Blazers, Van Dewicki is a tactic in his own right, and a very efficient tactic.

"Vanderwig receives a pass from Drexler and hits a jumper from the right wing! At 22:16, the difference changed to 6 points. ”

Vanderwig counter-attacked, after receiving the ball on the right flank, performed a "Van de Veric step", easily shook off Sanders with a tentative probe, and then hit an 18-foot jumper.

"Buzz~" At this time, the buzzer on the sidelines sounded, and because there was no dead ball timeout on both sides, the first quarter entered the official timeout, and there were still 2 minutes before the end of the first quarter of the game.

"Gan, take a break, Carl is on the field. And Clyde down, Paxson plays, Kiki, you can also take a break, Jerome you play. "The Trail Blazers started their first personnel rotation, three up and three down.

Now Paxson has become Drexler's backup, although he is a little unwilling, but he does have a gap with Drexler in terms of personal ability, which is especially evident in the Western Conference Finals against the Lakers.

In the Western Conference Finals, Drexler is often the team's first defensive point on the outside, responsible for defending Magic Johnson, and on the offensive end, he also has the responsibility of fast break and organizing positional offense, which Paxson can't do.

However, in the first few games of the season, the burden on Paxson's shoulders is not light, Drexler due to a leg injury, the playing time of each game will not be too long, and Paxson is still required to be able to make continuous contributions on the court.

"How about Mr. Bellman, what do you think of our defense?" After Gan Guoyang got off the court, he drank water and asked Coach Bellman, who was sitting next to him.

"It's good, but when the opponent's offensive strategy suddenly changes, your response is still insufficient, so you go back to the familiar routine." Bellman also pointed out the main problem facing the Trail Blazers in the past 10 minutes - still not enough running-in.

The Trail Blazers have been quite skilled on the offensive end, but the defensive end still lacks enough tacit understanding in terms of switching defenses.

When the Suns change their offensive strategy, such as replacing Edwards, Gan Guoyang and Sampson should be swapped in time.

Moreover, if in the future game, there is a situation where the opponent's interior players open up space, there should be players who come out in time to exchange defenses with Gan Guoyang, so that Gan Guoyang can not only take care of his own defensive area, but at the same time will not be completely empty or blown illegal defense by the opposing players.

"We still need to adapt slowly, to be honest, I almost forgot how to defend the joint defense, standing on the field inevitably have to think about where to go, but also think that we must keep an eye on our own people, otherwise we will be whistled for a foul."

"Actually, I've watched a lot of game videos, and the blowing penalty for illegal defense is not so strict, I don't believe you can try it in the future." Bellman leaned into Gan Guoyang's ear and said.

Gan Guoyang thinks about it, because in the rapid transition between offense and defense, there is often a situation where the opponent cannot be found, and the first step of a center like Gan Guoyang must be to go straight to the basket to defend, and the opponent's center may still be slow in the backcourt, at this time the illegal defense is very difficult to judge.

Gan Guoyang nodded, he had already begun to think about how to use this system to deal with the Lakers' super outside line when he met the Lakers in the future.

But the situation on the field is tilted towards the side of the sun.

After surviving a rough start, the Suns' offense began to find its groove, and Alwan Adams finally began to show his worth.

After Gan Guoyang went off the court, the interior defensive intensity of the Trail Blazers dropped a notch, and Adams used his outstanding skills to break through the middle twice in a row to make layups, and his steps were very clever, and Kenny Carr was almost turned around by Adams.

And the Trail Blazers' offensive efficiency is also starting to decline, and Colter doesn't seem to have improved much from last season, and he didn't know that the guy spent a summer there all summer.

During training in training camp, Ramsey felt that Colter's condition was not very good, and although he was still in good shape, his individual ability did not improve much, and his physical condition even declined.

This is clearly the result of not doing physical training in the summer.

"Colter holds the ball and drives to the basket! The ball was bigger, the rebound was picked up by the Suns, and now the score is 28:24, the Suns are only four points behind, and there are 19 seconds left before the end of the first quarter, the Suns' last offense...... Adams gets the ball in the high post, Kenny Karl defends Adams, and Adams is watching...... Adams broke through with the ball, Sampson made up for the defense, Adams gave the ball to Davis on the right, and Davis shot in the middle! The ball is in! Two-point shot, Wat-Davis, 28-26, Suns and Trail Blazers just two points separating. ”

With a long-range three-pointer missed by Paxson, the Trail Blazers had a two-point advantage over the Suns, and the first quarter ended.

Ramsey looked at his bench and thought he was going to try it out with a young point guard.

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