Chapter 408: An Imperfect Team
(Ask for a commuter pass)
The Vancouver Grizzlies changed their tactics after the official timeout in the first quarter, and Jerry West gave the command of the team to Vince Carter, in fact, since Billups came to the Grizzlies last season, Carter has rarely appeared in the team's No. 1 position like this, but this time when the Grizzlies couldn't open the situation, Grizzlies head coach Jerry West decided to believe that the team's boss could lead the team out of this predicament.
Although Carter hasn't played the No. 1 position for a long time, after the game restarted, no one on the floor will see anything wrong with the league's best outside player, on the contrary, the swingman looks a lot better than Billups playing the No. 1 position, and this kind of 'retro' tactic for the Grizzlies is an attempt or a gamble by Jerry West.
But this attempt and gambling in the game restarted but received a very good effect, at least after the game restarted the balance of the Boston Celtics and Grizzlies broken, and Billups compared to Carter's organizational ability and passing ability is not bad, but Carter has a stronger individual ability than Billups, the current Grizzlies do not have an offensive tactical system, for such a team without an offensive system, then the team's offense is more about the player's personal drive, obviously, Carter is stronger than Billups when it comes to using his individual abilities to lead his teammates on offense, and Billups is not a notch.
Therefore, soon the Grizzlies firmly grasped the initiative of the game in their own hands, and the Grizzlies quickly occupied the initiative in the situation.
And judging by the performance of the players. There is no problem with the cooperation between Carter, Artest and Billups and even Rasheed Wallace, although there was a lot of discord in this team before the game, but it is absolutely not visible from this game, the current Grizzlies are not messed up, and the team's tactical execution ability is also excellent.
And as the game gradually deepened, the performance of the players of the two teams on the field was also slowly stretched. The Grizzlies are a bit of a gamer, and compared to the Grizzlies, the Boston Celtics are struggling.
"Coach. Isn't it time for us to adjust, from now on, Tracy's individual offensive 1 in this game is a bit strong, and Posey is also a little lonely against Billups in this game. You see if we're going to calm Tracy a little bit because he's not fit for such a massive individual offense at the moment, especially against Carter's defense."
On the Boston Celtics bench, Stephen Green said to Zhuang Fei with a worried face, now he is not very satisfied with the performance of the Boston Celtics players on the court, especially the team's core forward Maddie, in fact, before the start of this game, Zhuang Fei arranged the tactics of the Boston Celtics in the locker room, this game Maddie will be the team's offensive knife, and James Posey is the actual organizer, but as the game progresses, Zhuang Fei's pre-game arrangement is completely forgotten by Maddie. Now James Posey's situation is actually quite embarrassing, because of his own strength, he can't defeat the opponent by himself, and when he needs help, there is no one who meets the requirements, and Maddie, who can usually organize the team's offense well with him, is no longer organized. It's nothing if you meet an ordinary team or an ordinary strong team, but this time it's not an ordinary team's Grizzlies.
Stephen Green is worried about the performance of the Boston Celtics, and so is Zhuang Fei, but it's not a good time to make any adjustments.
"Tracy, it's okay to be inattentive"...,
Carter broke through Maddie in front of him with a simple change of direction at the top of the arc, and since a few top-level defenses in the opening game, Maddy has habitually been a little slack in defense again. After all, Carter has not had a personal offense for a long time, so Maddy's vigilance has also dropped a lot, but when Carter suddenly started, the Boston Celtics small forward was also a little surprised, and when Maddy regained his mood, Carter was almost to the basket.
Just when Jermaine O'Neal on the inside was about to go out to make up for the defense, the Grizzlies' offense changed again, Carter seemed to know that Jermaine O'Neal would come out, and the Grizzlies' big man threw the ball out of his hand almost at the same time as O'Neal Jr. came out.
And it was at this time that O'Neal Jr.'s back was smashed by this pass, and Rasheed Wallace also seemed to have a heart with Carter, the power forward directly received Carter's pass and completed the aerial relay behind O'Neal Jr., and at this time, Boston center Yao Ming, who was on the other side, looked helplessly, and there was not much he could do at this time.
At this time, Maddie also saw Carter's ability so intuitively for the first time in his NBA career, in the previous period of time, Maddie has been imitating Carter's passing, and even for a while, there was confusion, but even so, Maddie also thinks that he is not bad at passing skills, but seeing the Carter who is at ease just now, Maddie understands that passing ability and organizational ability cannot be equated in many cases. That's how a lot of times for an organization's defenders, assist stats can't measure their value. At this time, Maddie thought that he was a little behind Carter, at least he couldn't make the whole team smooth in the face of strong opponents like Carter.
"After seeing Carter's pass, we will continue to sigh that this player is definitely the most powerful outside line after Jordan, in the current NBA, there is no outside line with him out, he is completely able to let himself switch between scoring, assists and defense at will, even if it was Jordan back then, he and Jordan are very similar to each other to this extent, but Jordan was more dominant on the scoring end at that time, but in terms of the current league, Carter can also do what Jordan did at the beginning"
Unlike the two commentators in the ccav who are concerned about the Chinese players most of the time, Michaels, the commentator of ABC, is much more professional. And the position is not so clear, as a fan of Coach Z, the commentator has a lot of respect for Carter, and even elevates this swingman to the same position as Jordan.
"Coach Z's ability to train players is excellent, this Carter makes people feel desperate, does he regret cultivating such a perfect enemy for Coach Z now? Of course, we know that this can't happen for Coach Z, whether it's Duncan in the past or Carter in the past. None of the Chinese coaches have shown such emotions"
"As far as we know, Maddy, the young small forward on the Boston Celtics, has been being developed by Coach Z as the next Carter, and at the moment this small forward has a long way to go. He doesn't need anything else right now, what he needs most now is how to defend the player across from him, of course. For the Boston Celtics right now, in addition to defending and limiting Carter, they need to improve their scoring ability and style, and they need to constantly put pressure on the Grizzlies.
"Of course, it would be better if Coach Z could call a timeout to rearrange the Boston Celtics' tactics at this time, but from the current point of view, Coach Z does not seem to have this plan, this team is still going on step by step, maybe the performance of the two teams on the court is still in line with Coach Z's expectations"...,
Compared with the current highlight performance of Carter and Grizzlies, the performance of Maddie and the Boston Celtics is indeed a little embarrassed, but this is indeed in Zhuang Fei's expectations, Zhuang Fei had this estimate before the start of this game, especially in the first quarter of various situations Zhuang Fei estimated. Now the performance of the Grizzlies and Carter is naturally within Zhuang Fei's estimates.
It's just that compared with Zhuang Fei, Maddie on the court is not so calm, the core player of the Boston Celtics is still desperately challenging Carter, and it is obvious that the small forward wants to redeem the defeat through his performance, just like Carter is doing now. Since Carter can do it, he naturally hopes that he can do it.
Of course, although Maddie has been in a weak position now, for a player of Maddy's level, no player in the league can say that he can freeze him, although he is far from Carter in many aspects, but this 'brave' small forward is still maintaining a certain performance through his absolute strength. This performance of his is also one of the important reasons why the Boston Celtics can bite the score a little bit at the moment.
So at the end of the first quarter of this game, although the Boston Celtics were at a disadvantage in all aspects, the final score was 18-24, only six points behind, and in Zhuang Fei's opinion, these six points are nothing to the current Boston Celtics
"This guy is really good."
Zhuang Fei looked at the Grizzlies' big center on the court in a daze with a surprised face on the sidelines, in this game Zhuang Fei expected that his team would be completely inferior in the lineup competition, but the Boston Celtics definitely have an advantage in the bench lineup, because the Grizzlies have brought too many interior players this year, so they don't have many players with strength on the outside, and many times the team's main point guard Billups has to take the team's second team to play for a period of time in the second quarter. This is also the time when the Boston Celtics are chasing points.
A large part of the reason the Grizzlies lost four games at this point in the game is that they haven't found their rotation yet, and they don't know how to rotate the team's players to get the most out of them.
Therefore, Zhuang Fei's expectation in this game is that after the confrontation between the two teams' second team, the Boston Celtics will be able to recover the score lost by the lineup.
It's just that Zhuang Fei is a little disappointed that things are not going so smoothly, in the previous Grizzlies games, the main attack point of this team's second team is Billups, Billups is now very good, but there are some nerves on the offensive end, this is a player who lacks scoring stability, so Zhuang Fei is not afraid of such a player. It's just that it's clear in this game that the Grizzlies' second team is not Billups as Zhuang Fei expected, but Olajuwon, a free agent signed by the Grizzlies this summer, and the legendary center takes over the responsibility for this team's second team scoring.
In previous games, the legendary center was more on the court and knew 'soy sauce', and the reason Jerry West signed him to the Grizzlies was not to let him play in the regular season, so this center is also extremely easy for now, but, obviously, from today onwards, the legendary center will be burdened by Jerry West.
Although the former boss of the Rockets is old, which is mainly reflected in the decline of his athleticism, his offensive awareness and scoring awareness are still there, as long as he is given a chance, the Boston Celtics' current second team, whether it is Oku or Kirilenko, has no way to take him.
Although Arenas was also in power in this game, it did not allow the Boston Celtics to overtake the score, and the opponent's Olajuwon offset a lot of Arenas's role. …,
"Coach, if you give this team time to let them run in the lineup, then this team is too strong, and it basically has no shortcomings in all aspects" Stephen Green, the assistant coach of the Boston Celtics on the side, said to Zhuang Fei with a worried face, for him, the Grizzlies are the enemy of the team, and the stronger this team is, the more disadvantageous it is for the Boston Celtics, so he naturally doesn't like this team getting stronger and stronger, but judging from the current trend, There are no external factors that can stop this team from going from going strong.
"Yes, if you can give them time, they can indeed become very strong" Zhuang Fei also nodded after hearing Stephen Green's emotion, compared to Stephen Green, Zhuang Fei has a more intuitive understanding of the strength of this team, this is a strengthened version of the 2004 Pistons in his previous life, this is a team with an A+ player and 3 A-level potential players, so that such a team grows up It is naturally difficult for a team to beat them.
When the game ended at halftime, the score changed again, and the Boston Celtics are now 40-47 trailing the Grizzlies by seven points on their home court.
It's just that Zhuang Fei didn't have a depressed look at this time.
"It's hard to beat this team, but it's not like it's out of the question"
Zhuang Fei thought as he looked at the Grizzlies who walked off the court. (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )