Chapter 188: The Chosen One

Perhaps because of his personality and offensive choices, Lee's style of play makes Nash feel fancy. This is very different from Roy and Durant, who have the same potential as Lee.

Only Li Zhi himself knows that his fancy is only relative to this era, and in another ten years, Li Zhi's offensive choice is very suitable.

In the following time, the two sides launched a fierce offensive battle, and the scoring bands of both teams were scattered, which made the fans enjoy watching it.

Six minutes into the first quarter, the score changed to 18:13 with a cool pull-up layup from Crawford, and Suns coach Gentry realized the Warriors were on the rise and called a timeout.

As the Warriors players celebrated on the bench, Nelson smiled as he looked at his disciples and said, "Everybody did a good job, they couldn't stop us, and then they probably used tight defense to force us to make mistakes." We made substitutions below, with Shaq and Jackson taking a break, and Morrow and Nick coming up. ”

Everyone nodded, and with such a substitution, Nelson chose to give up defense and fight with the Suns to attack. All five of the Warriors on the court have three-point ability, and the Suns' tight defense is useless, and if they defend it, it gives the Warriors a chance to break through. Nick Young, Crawford, and Richie are all breakout maniacs who will deal a fatal blow to the Suns.

However, Li Zhi is a little worried about Milicic, such a lineup, Li Zhi will inevitably top the power forward position, the real interior line on the court is only Milicic alone, can he grab rebounds among the Sun's two major interior lines?

Again, Nelson briefly said that the Warriors adopted a hybrid defense after the timeout.

Hybrid defense is a defensive style of play in which the two forms of man-to-man defense and zone marking defense are intertwined, and its biggest feature is that it can flexibly make full use of the advantages of man-to-man defense and zone defense according to the opponent's situation, so as to improve the effectiveness of the whole team's defense.

This kind of defense is very powerful, because it can rely on fast rotation to prevent the opponent from attacking out of position, but it also requires a high level of tactical literacy, and it is a test of cooperation between players.

Based on man-to-man defense and zone defense, players must first master the methods and principles of these two types of defense, and be able to flexibly and rationally apply the basic principles to mixed defensive tactics.

At the same time, it is important to always be aware of the situation on the field and understand your responsibilities in defense. Do act faster, change in a timely manner, and "mix" without chaos.

The Warriors rarely used this kind of hybrid defense before, which required too much of the player's single defense ability, and the Warriors players except for Li Zhi, the single defense ability was surprisingly bad, and Li Zhi himself doubted whether this kind of defense could be successful.

The Suns' biggest offensive threat is Stoudemire, whose mid-range shot is too accurate for the Warriors to keep Milicic up against him. Nelson's replacement of Li Zhi on top is out of this idea, but Li Zhi will not give Stoudemire too much face, just interfere with him appropriately, if the restrictions on Stoudemire are too strong, the Suns will inevitably emerge new offensive points, which is not good news for the Warriors.

The players on both sides came on the field, and the defender of Li Zhi was replaced by Richardson, compared to the aging Hill, the physical Richardson can barely keep up with Li Zhi.

The Suns replaced Hill, and if they continued to use Hill to defend Rich, Gentry would feel that Richter could score 50 points. Replacing Hill is Leandro Barbossa, the sixth man of the 06-07 season, a speed-oriented guard who is good at passing on the fast break and has a good ability to grab points.

The Suns attacked, Nash took the ball to the left side, and suddenly shot from outside the three-point line, Crawford didn't react, and the ball went in.

18:16

Strong pitching is the most morale-boosting ball, and the Suns bench cheered.

On the defensive end, the Suns really started pressing, Crawford passed the ball to the high post Rich, and then Crawford and Morrow crossed the run, and the two ran to the left and right corners respectively.

The Suns adopt a zone press, not an ordinary man-to-man pressing tactic, which is more collective than man-to-man defense and more targeted regional joint defense.

After Milicic and Richie came out, the Warriors' players presented a five-man scene outside the three-point line, and Bitlins and Smalls had to follow, so that the Suns' interior line was empty.

Li Zhi dribbled the ball under his crotch, lowered his center of gravity, and was ready to break through at any time, and Richardson was staring at the basketball. This is not a good habit, he let Li Zhi take a step, targeted defensive breakthroughs, afraid of Li Zhi's feints. But Li Zhi did not break through, and directly made a three-pointer.

Before making a move, Li Zhi deliberately raised the arc to not give Richardson a chance to interfere. Milicic saw this arc and quickly ran to the basket to grab the rebound, but was stopped by Stoudemire.

Bitlins watched the trajectory of the ball, judged the landing point and was about to grab the board, but found that the basketball board went directly into the basket.

21:16

It's also a strong shot, and Li Zhi's projection is no less than Nash's.

The Suns attacked, and they really took the point of playing Stoudemire, although Richie defended well, but Stoudemire was the most sure point of the Suns' offensive offense.

Nash gave Stoudemire after waiting for the Suns player to run out of position. Stoudemire turned around to shoot, and Li Zhi stepped forward, because he was afraid of being fouled, Li Zhi didn't dare to stick too tightly.

There was a bit of interference, but it didn't work, and Stoudemire hit a two-point shot.

21:18

The Warriors attacked, Li Zhi held the ball at the top of the arc again, and Richardson learned the lesson of the last time and did not let Li Zhi's shot again. Richmond didn't have a chance and gave it to Crawford.

Crawford didn't hesitate to receive the ball and turned past Nash. Nash can blow up Crawford on the offensive end, and Crawford can blow up Nash on offense, and Nash's thin body determines that he can never be a defensive player. The Suns were empty on the inside, and Crawford didn't have much effort to score two points.

23:18

Crawford has reduced his breakaway and increased his three-point shooting this season, as he can't stick to the ball like he did off the bench because of Richie's relationship with O'Neal. But reducing the break-through does not mean that Crawford's break-through ability has decreased, in fact, after coming to the Warriors, Crawford's break-through points have accounted for 75% of his points, with fewer shots, but increased efficiency.

It was Nash, who was uncomfortable, and he became the weakest point on the court.

The Suns attacked, Nash didn't want to find a court, and continued to give the Suns players opportunities, Barbossa cut to the basket and scored two points.

23:20

The Warriors attacked, and this time Li Zhi did not make a strong shot, passed the ball to Milicic on the inside, and then went straight down. Milicic made a ball-handling cover for Richie, and when Richie went down, it attracted Richardson's attention, the Suns defense shrank, and the perimeter gave the Warriors a shooting opportunity, and Morrow received the ball and scored a three-pointer.

26:20

In the next round, the Suns exploded, they played fast, didn't give the Warriors a chance to defend back, and Stoudemire received a pass from Nash in the front court, dunked and scored two points.

26:22

The Suns bombarded the effect, and in the next round, the Warriors attacked, and Nick Young didn't score three points from the outside. Bitlins grabbed the rebound and gave it to Nash, who launched a fast break.

Barbosa received a pass from Nash at half-court and lived up to Brazil's lightning name with a fast-break layup.

26:24

The score gap between the two sides was not large, and then the score was chasing me, and at the end of the first quarter, the Warriors led the Suns by 2 points at 40:38. The fast break battle on both sides was cool for the fans, and everyone felt that it was not in vain, and Stern nodded in the stands, very satisfied.

Gentry clenched his fists and felt that he could win this game, and if this trend continues, both sides have a high shooting percentage, and the Suns can win this game, they are in ninth place in the West, and they also need to win.

Nelson turned to look at the red-faced Gentry, his eyes narrowed.

Young man, do you think I'm going to play fast break with you normally? I'm just training and trying to see how far the Warriors' shelling tactics are.

Now that the results are in, the Warriors' current bombardment tactics are still immature, and they can only play a tie against the Suns without Marion. In the heyday of the Sun, they were the extent of the Western Showdown, and the era of bombardment obviously had to wait.

Nelson has been called a tactical maniac, but he doesn't go against the times, and if the bombardment doesn't make the Warriors stronger, then the Warriors can only wait for the right moment, or, for the right person. The tactical core of the bombardment is the point guard, and the Warriors need a point guard like that.

Touching his chin, Nelson looked at Nash.