Chapter 252: Basketball is a physical job
The Warriors gave the Jazz a dismissal at the beginning, and Richie, Jackson, and David Lee cooperated with the pick-and-roll, and Richter singled Millsap.
Against Millsap, Li Zhi didn't bother to play with his back, and directly broke through Europe and made a layup. Relying on this trick, Li Zhi scored 6 points in a row.
Millsap not only has no advantage in height, but also has slow steps, David Lee pulled to the outside line and cooperated with Li Zhi, so that Li Zhi played very easily.
David Lee also showed excellent offensive ability, Kirilenko didn't take David Lee seriously, but David Lee responded with a lethal mid-range shot. The Jazz's hybrid defense can't stop the Warriors, and the defensive core they used to rely on, Kirilenko, has slipped in form, which has brought limited help to the Jazz.
The Jazz didn't have an advantage defensively and had problems offensively.
The Warriors' man-to-man defense is effective, and everyone else can rotate in place except for Curry. Jordan Jr. followed Oku to interfere with the shot, David Lee defended Millsap, Lee dealt with Kirilenko, and Jackson defended Ronnie Brewer. Boozer, the Jazz's pick-and-roll core, is gone, and Delon isn't as strong as he used to be.
Curry, the Warriors' most scummy defense, is also 1.91 meters tall, which is much better than the original Lowry's defensive effect and can interfere with Derlon's outside shooting. DeLong's outside attack was blocked, and he missed several shots, and switched to a breakaway shot. But Memeteoklu, who received the ball, missed three shots from the outside, which is his weakness, which is very dependent on his feel, and once he feels bad, it is useless.
Rich's breakthrough and David Lee's mid-range shot made the Jazz miserable, and the Jazz had to call a timeout, change their defensive tactics, and change the original mixed defense to joint defense.
However, after returning from the timeout, the Jazz paid the price for their tactical mistakes. The Jazz compressed the interior defense, and the Warriors shot from the outside. Curry made 2-of-3 three-pointers from the perimeter and Jackson hit a three-pointer. But it was not Li Zhi who led the Warriors to play a wave, but David Lee.
David Lee didn't play much last season, and everyone's impression of him was still stuck in the Knicks era. The Jazz's player reports see David Lee as a stat brush who can score and grab the rebound. Yes, it's the brush. Even though David Lee can average 16.0 points and 11.7 rebounds per game in the Knicks, David Lee has never made the playoffs with the Knicks, and if he hadn't been traded to the Warriors halfway, maybe David Lee's playoff debut would have to wait longer.
There are many talented people in this world, but there are not many who have the heart and bearing, many people work harder and more anxious, but there are also people who work harder and more freely. David Lee is such a person, he was also regarded as the core of the future by the team, regarded as the cornerstone of the future, and was also in New York City at the beginning, and was also marginalized by the team, and this season, his eyebrows are still full of sunshine, and he teased his little brother Curry when he was idle: "You rookie, the data is a bit haha!" You have to understand your position, how to play like a shooting guard! ”
When David Lee came on the court, the whole court was clear, not because he was white, but because he never frowned, he had the shadow of many predecessors, and he was able to help his teammates score in the air with his passing like a cow. In addition, he is also a good mover, after Li Zhi broke through, David Lee can always run to the empty position just right, and then catch the ball and score. At the Knicks, he's not that kind of guy because everyone else can't score, and it's all going to come to him. But there are a lot of people who can play with the Warriors right now, and he knows very well that if he doesn't run, he may lose his rightful position.
Nick Young, Milicic, and Morrow all slacked off after winning the championship, so they were traded away by the Warriors, and David Lee didn't want to be next.
Jazz fans watched David Lee descend to earth in the first quarter, chopping melons and vegetables and brushing data, but they couldn't find a way to deal with it. They miss Boozer so much now.
For a moment, Salt Lake City fans were jealous of the Warriors, they already had a balloon star like Li Zhi, and a potential rookie like Curry, but suddenly jumped out with a well-rounded David Lee. David Lee's performance in the first quarter seemed a bit wink-wring, even heart-wrenching, to Jazz fans.
Many fans empathized and thought about what would happen if David Lee was replaced by Boozer? The answer is – not very well.
Boozer is very similar to David Lee, both of them are not at the top in terms of physical fitness, and they are both average in the NBA, but they have their own status with their acquired efforts. They are all mid-range shooters, and they both have a sense of rebounding, and mid-range shots and air cuts are their regular weapons. Even defensively, they are very similar - slow feet, poor reach, poor blocking ability, and defense is often criticized.
But there's one thing that's David Lee's unique weapon – passing. Garnett, Pau Gasol, Tim Duncan, LeBron James, these famous playmaking forwards, all have excellent handling and passing skills.
In other words, the current David Lee may become an All-Star like his predecessors, thinking of this, and thinking about David Lee who was chatting with Li Zhi on the Warriors bench just now, Jazz fans are not angry.
Li Zhi chatted with David Li for a while, and felt that David Li didn't want to be as honest as he seemed on the surface, but was a little slippery. Milicic wants to slip his head, but he is limited by the double damage of emotional intelligence and IQ, and often gets half the result. David Lee is in stark contrast to Milicic, he is very smart and lazy.
Li Zhi looked at his statistics in the first quarter, 8 points, 2 boards, 1 assist, 1 steal and 1 block, and then looked at David Lee, 14 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists. Around Li Zhi, a player with such a good mentality, now he can't help but scold: "Damn! ”
His hard-working breakthrough led the whole team, and the benefits were all accounted for by David Lee. It's like a jungler who works hard to bring the rhythm and assists in stealing all his heads, this feeling is like eating X.
Li Zhi looked at David Li's upright Chinese face, and couldn't help but want to scold him: "Human-headed dog!" ”
Basketball was a lucky job, when everyone else was gritting their teeth and sweating profusely to play confrontation, David Lee slid like a loach, stood on the outside and waited for Li Zhi's pass, and then shot and scored by himself. Or standing outside the free throw line after blocking and dismantling, receiving a pass from Li Zhi and passing to the outside, Curry easily hit a three-pointer, and David Lee happily looked at his own data, and couldn't help but have a feeling of "playing basketball is very simple".
"It's an assist!" Li Zhi lamented the unfairness of fate.