Chapter 716: The Celtics Are Different From Last Season
"Coach, what do we do now? Keep it up? Or do you need to change? ”
Boston, North Shore Garden, in front of the Celtics bench, Boston Celtics assistant coach Stephen Green looked at the head coach of the team next to him a little anxiously and asked a little anxiously, at this time, although the assistant coach of the Boston Celtics is no longer a rookie coach, but he is not calm. Because now their team has a huge problem, almost a big problem that can change the trend of today's game, that is, this team actually failed when it was against the Lakers on the offensive end.
What is the strongest weapon of the Boston Celtics? No one can answer it, this team is very balanced under Zhuang Fei's rule, both defense and offense are very balanced, it is difficult to say that these two things are separated, at least for the Boston Celtics now, there is no essential difference between the two, if the Boston Celtics actually have no big difference between defense and offense, then for the Boston Celtics these coaches this difference is still very big, because from the time before the Timberwolves, everyone knows, Coach Z's team has always been well-balanced in attack and defense.
However, the most reassuring thing about the Chinese is their offense, when they were in the Timberwolves, they played run-and-gun tactics to directly suppress the triangle offense of the Kings' Princeton and Lakers on the offensive end, and it was also in the Timberwolves, where the current Boston Celtics head coach almost created a lot of offensive tactics that are useful in the current NBA. And even after leaving the Timberwolves to the Boston Celtics, the Chinese head coach is still most reassuring about his offense, although the Boston Celtics are still very good on the defensive end, but the Chinese head coach does not have too outstanding defensive ability, which is basically known to everyone, just like when he was in the Timberwolves, many people said that Zhuang Fei would not play positional warfare and would not play traditional mode.
At that time, Zhuang Fei quickly came up with an inverted triangle three-inside tactic to slap these people in the face. However, when many people started to say at a very early age, even in college, that Coach Z's defense did not have a system and only relied on individual players. Zhuang Fei didn't come up with much to refute such a statement, because this is a fact, when he was in Wake Forest, the whole world knew that in the first two years. Wake Forest's defense is Duncan's defense alone, and when Duncan left for the third year, Wake Forest basically had no defense, relying on his own strong offense to force the NCAA.
And after leaving Wake Forest for the Timberwolves, the same. The Z coach is still unconvincing. The Timberwolves' defense is still a single defense, but the core player of the defense has changed from Duncan of Wake Forest University to Garnett of the Timberwolves, and when Zhuang Fei came to the Boston Celtics, such a defensive core changed from Garnett to Xiaoao, so many times, many people say that the invincible Z coach is still flawed, the Chinese has been unable to refute the reason, even if this year's Celtics head coach invited a defensive coach Thibodo, but obvious. If a team's defense really wants to be systematic, and if Zhuang Fei really wants to trust, it still takes time.
Obviously, for now, the Boston Celtics' defensive system is not enough for Zhuang Fei to use the team's defensive system to defeat the Lakers, even when he was in the Timberwolves, Zhuang Fei played the Lakers and never thought about using defense to deal with this team, and it turned out that the defense was useless when he was in the Timberwolves, and he could only play against the bomb, because the big fat man ignored the defense.
In this case, what kind of way does this game want to fight the Lakers in this game? Is it a passive way to adopt it, and then wait for the opportunity to prepare for the Lakers to fight back? Or simply fight the Lakers on the offensive end, beating the opponent at one of the Lakers' toughest points this season to formally establish the superiority between the Celtics and the Lakers? These are the two choices placed in front of Zhuang Fei before the start of the game, and when Zhuang Fei made a choice, he almost subconsciously chose his strongest weapon, that is, to fight directly with the Lakers.
In this area, although the strongest offense in the league this season is the Lakers, although the current Boston Celtics are far less capable of attacking than the original Timberwolves, Zhuang Fei still chooses to believe in his own judgment and his experience in the Timberwolves, and also chooses to believe in the offensive ability of his team's players, after all, his team defeated the Spurs in the finals last year because of his own offense, and because of Zhuang Fei's creation in the last two games. 1-4' tactic, although it is said that because of the departure of Arenas and Wade's immaturity, such a tactic cannot be played now, but this does not make Zhuang Fei discouraged or have other retreat ideas, in Zhuang Fei's opinion, this is an absolutely correct choice.
It's just obvious that this is the right choice for Zhuang Fei, and now it seems that it is not so correct. Because judging from the current situation on the court, the Boston Celtics, who play a triangle offense, can't get this kind of single-play tactics of the Lakers at all, at least in terms of the situation, this is like this
"The Lakers' individual defense is awesome, they are probably the only team in the league that can defend and defend against the Boston Celtics players" North Shore Garden's media commentary seat, Kenny Smith looked at the game on the court with some amazement and said with some surprise, the Lakers' biggest sense this season is their strange on the offensive end, with completely uncoordinated single tactics to become the league's first offensive team.
On the offensive end, the shooting rate of this team is 50% without passing, and the final shooting rate of passing the ball once on the offensive end is 55%, and the shooting rate drops to 45% when passing the ball twice on the offensive end, and finally the shooting rate of this team will fall quite seriously when the number of offensive passes the ball reaches 3 times or more than 3 times. The final shooting percentage was just over 40 percent, and such a bizarre stat is almost a direct representation of the team's individual attributes.
For this team, and in the same way, the six stars in such a single attribute are not only strong on the offensive end, but also on the defensive end, these six Lakers stars are also very good at individual defense, and what is more terrible is that this team really knows how to defend the triangle offense. Perhaps in the entire NBA, except for Zhuang Fei, no head coach has Phil Jackson who knows more about Zhuang Fei's triangle offense, and judging from this game, the Lakers head coach is also quite thorough.
"yes. Let Kobe defend Maddie one-on-one, and the other four positions are also one-on-one staring at their own players, in this case, Maddie is completely unable to attract pinch shots, it turns out that one-on-one man-to-man defense is the best defense to deal with the triangle offense, from now on, Maddy's offense can not have the same dominance as Jordan back then, however, Kobe's defense is really good. Although he is a cut short of Maddie in height. But Maddie is difficult to get up even if he shoots, his defensive timing is very good, although Maddy can still score, but there is no way to lead the whole team, and his killing has no way to make the Lakers jealous"
After listening to Kenny Smith's words, Barkley on the side also said helplessly, although he is a fan supporter of Maddy, it is obvious that the current Maddie cannot be compared with Jordan back then, especially Jordan when he won the first three consecutive championships that year. In fact, the biggest difference between Maddy and Jordan is that the Celtics leader is a pass-oriented triangle offensive core rather than a personal scorer like Jordan, in this regard, Maddy's scoring dominance is lower than Jordan's, but it is stronger than Jordan in passing and vision, but in the face of such inhibition of the Lakers, his passing and vision are not very useful in the absence of a way to attract pinching, so Jordan will be more effective at this time.
"I think this is also the reason why Coach Z will continue to develop new tactics in his team, from his use of triangle offense in the Celtics to establish a dual-core model like Wake Forest means that he does not fully believe in Maddy's scoring dominance, and the reason why the Boston Celtics beat the Spurs last season was not because of Maddy's invincibility in the triangle offense, but because Arenas' 1-4 tactics as the core completely defeated the Spurs, at least the current Maddie is not at the level of Jordan and O'Neal in terms of scoring, Although Wade's data this season is very good, not even much worse than Arenas at the beginning, many people also think that Wade has completely replaced Arenas, but now it seems that the role of Arenas has emerged, if Arenas is still there at this time, the Boston Celtics can use 1-4 tactics to change the Lakers' defense. The current Boston Celtics' offense is too single, maybe they can try the No. 5 tactic, but this Laker is not just one O'Neal Laker now, and the Lakers' ability to defend and press on the inside is not low"
In the end, Kenny Smith also frowned and said, the Boston Celtics and Lakers have a single offense this year, the Lakers are their own stars one after another, and the Celtics are completely dependent on the triangle offense when Wade has not grown up, and in this game, when the triangle offense of the single Celtics can't be effective, in fact, in the end, the Celtics' offense is also equivalent to a one-on-one single, but from the current point of view, The Celtics, who were forced to play one-on-one, are naturally not the Lakers' opponents who have been playing one-on-one for half a season, even if the individual ability of the Celtics players is not low on paper, but this is not their usual model, and now the most difficult point for the Celtics is to completely fall into the Lakers' mode, which is quite a terrible point.
"Kenny, what do you think will happen to the Boston Celtics in the next game with a new attacking core?" While Kenny Smith was sighing for the Boston Celtics' offense, Barkley on the side pinched his chin with his right hand and said.
"A new offensive core?" Kenny Smith was also stunned, after winning last season's Finals MVP, Maddie's popularity has risen rapidly, if in the past, the Boston Celtics star could not completely cover up the light of his teammates, then now, the Boston Celtics star is able to cover up a lot of his teammates, such as Yao Ming, the biggest victim.
In last season, the core of the Celtics' triangle offense was him and Maddy, which is a fact that almost everyone knows, and now, in this season, the Celtics have slowly tilted such a dual-core model to Maddy's side, because the status of the two is getting bigger and bigger, many times, this is the player's subconscious tilt, such as Yao Ming will often begin to let Maddie, and Maddie is happy to accept this courtesy many times, so in this season, Another reason for the Celtics' single offense is that Maddie's rise has upset the balance of his and Yao Ming's coexistence. At this time, Barkley said that the change of offensive core naturally meant that Maddie should stop first and let Yao Ming try first, maybe the triangle attack dominated by Yao Ming could have a different effect.
"This may be a very good way, but I don't know what Coach Z will choose, for now, if the Celtics want to successfully defend the title, they must find a different way to attack, even if it is a direct replacement for a single player like the Lakers" Finally, Kenny Smith nodded again and said
"It seems that I miscalculated" Zhuang Fei, who looked at the Boston Celtics who was completely passive on the court, also said helplessly on the sidelines, and Green on the side also sighed. Now that the half game is almost over, the Celtics have fallen behind by 15 points, this is the gap between the two teams in the first half, although this is not the difference in the strength of the players of the two teams is indeed the reason why the Celtics are not prepared to fall into the rhythm of the Lakers, and it is also the reason why Zhuang Fei is too confident in his team's offense, and more importantly, he despises the Lakers' offense, Green knows this, and he also knows that his teacher also knows only one point, the most important thing now is what to do in the second half, if the Celtics continue to be led by the Lakers, this game will lose by more than 20 points. It's just that at this time, he doesn't know what to do at all, maybe in his heart, his teacher shouldn't let him down. (To be continued.) )