Chapter 149: Wolf Pack Tactics
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The Timberwolves' locker room is very quiet, except for the players' gasps, everyone is tired after this intense first half, but now these players of the Timberwolves do not make people feel that they are tired players, on the contrary, their eyes are very bright, very bright, such players cannot be evaluated by physical condition.
In such an atmosphere, all the Timberwolves players are looking at their head coach with wide eyes, and everyone is waiting for his final instructions, it is obvious that these Timberwolves players want to fight with the Spurs and fight with the Spurs vigorously. However, they were a little disappointed that their manager didn't seem to have such an idea, or that he was still thinking of something better.
At this time, a very soft voice muttered: "What are you playing if you keep going on like this, you will be consumed directly by the spurs, it is better to fight directly." ”
It was Pierce who had been very depressed who made this sound, Zhuang Fei glared at Pierce fiercely, Pierce's neck also shrank, Zhuang Fei still didn't speak, he was making the final decision, if he really released the power of these players, no one knows what the result would be, now the Timberwolves are strictly in accordance with Zhuang Fei's layout tactics at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, the defense is contraction, and the offense is the shooting after the breakout and blocking, this is to make as few mistakes as possible, This is also a tactic of waiting for the opponent to make mistakes, and the three games that the Timberwolves won in this series were not won so smoothly and steadily, it can be said that they were all won back by gambling, obviously. These players of the Timberwolves still want to gamble once, and they will naturally not lose nine out of ten like real casinos on the basketball court, but they are still thrilling, even if they have won three games, Zhuang Fei will never say that he will continue to bet on the fourth game. Zhuang Fei understands very well that this is not the royal road.
Zhuang Fei glanced around at these players of the Timberwolves, everyone's eyes were full of that indescribable light, and seeing this Zhuang Fei hesitated again. What to do?
"I'm still thinking about what I'm doing so much. My big four small this season was not a royal tactic, and now I am still afraid of something," Zhuang Fei sighed in the eyes of all the Timberwolves players.
"I decided, in the second half we will change tactics"
"Really. Great."
"FVCK, I've wanted to do this for a long time"
"Coach, let's fight with them"
For a while, the Timberwolves' locker room immediately changed from the silence just now to a vegetable market. Obviously, the Timberwolves players were dissatisfied with being completely suppressed by the Spurs in the first half and were ready to play a big game with the Spurs.
"Coach, what do you say we should do, are we still shooting three points like crazy in the previous games?" At this time, Garnett's question made the Timberwolves locker room quiet again. Everyone looked at Zhuang Fei again.
"No, in the second half, I'm not going to continue the umbrella tactics, and we haven't reached the time to fight for three-pointers" Zhuang Fei shook his head and said: "I want you to break through in the second half"
"Breakthrough? Coach, you're not kidding, are you? Pierce looked at Zhuang Fei and asked suspiciously, isn't it looking for death to play a breakthrough with the Spurs?
"The coach is talking about breaking through the ball, right? But wasn't that our usual tactic in the first half? Nash also had a question, and the specific tactics against the Spurs and Timberwolves changed from blocking and picking to blocking and breaking points. The effect is not bad, although the Spurs do not have much space on the outside, but the Timberwolves players' shots can still maintain the score, although this score can not beat the Spurs, but it can also maintain a certain point difference without being pulled away, Nash thinks that Zhuang Fei means to increase the proportion of breakthrough points.
"Nope. I'm not asking you to increase the intensity of the breakthrough ball, but to let you directly use the breakthrough to score," Zhuang Fei said to the Timberwolves players with a smile.
Use the breakthrough to score? Face the twin towers of Duncan and Robinson? At this time, all the Timberwolves players are stunned, is this something that can be done, although their fighting spirit is very high now, but they are not yet high enough to have a hot head.
"Coach, I know we need to score inside and our inability to score in the box has led to a lot of pressure on us from the outside. But if you break through directly to challenge the twin towers, it is better to let Kevin take the ball and go to the inside to play strongly, maybe it's a little better" Nash said distressedly, of course he knows what the dilemma facing the Timberwolves is now, that is, there is no fast break, no inside scoring, and there is no way to compress the Spurs' defense, which also leads to the Timberwolves' outside offense can not be completely fast, in the face of a pair of interior lines like the Spurs, who dares to say that they can compress the Spurs' defense? The Lakers may not be able to do it. Nash also knows that in theory the team should play like this, but the theory is only the theory after all.
"I'm not talking about letting the breakout person score directly" Zhuang Fei then smiled: "Nash and Paul are responsible for the breakthrough, and others such as Kevin, Jackson, Mobley and others all follow up to the Spurs' basket at the same time to rush to the front court to rebound the ball for a second offense."
Zhuang Fei glanced at these players of the Timberwolves and found that they were all now speechless with their mouths wide open.
"I know you definitely don't have much chance of success in attacking Duncan, but you can go to Robinson, Nash and Paul can attack him, my purpose is not to need you to break through to score, but to let you attract Duncan's attention, as long as Duncan divides a little attention, and your goal is not to shoot the basketball, of course, if you can break through Robinson and still avoid Duncan's defense and throw the ball in, it's better, if you can't do it, smash the basket or rebound crazy hard, Let the offensive rebound fly to Kevin's head as much as possible, and then Kevin will take advantage of the situation to enter the Spurs interior for a secondary offense. ”
"Of course, it's not necessarily just Kevin who rushes to grab the rebounds in the frontcourt, everyone else can, as long as you see Nash or Paul break through, everyone will kill me to the basket at the same time, and only one person will be left outside the three-point line, if Nash breaks through, then Paul will stay outside the three-point line, if Paul breaks through then Nash will stay outside the three-point line, do you understand what that means"
"Coach. Are you asking us to use the number of outside players to compress the Spurs' defense? Kevin and Jackson have good frontcourt rebounding, plus my or Paul's breakthrough attracts attention, the Spurs may not be able to hold the basket even if they have twin towers, as long as we have a second offense, then the Spurs must use outside players to protect the basket, so that as long as the next time we continue to break through, the Spurs will inevitably shrink smaller. So we have a lot of space on the perimeter, which is an indirect way to compress the Spurs defense, and one of Paul and I stayed outside the three-point line just in case there was no offensive opportunity after grabbing the rebound, and we could use my one-on-one offensive ability with Paul to end the fight? Nash asked with a puzzled look on his face. This is a strange tactic that he has never heard of, and if it is only conceived, it can completely solve the current imbalance between the Timberwolves inside and outside, and at the same time, it can also suppress the range of movement of the Spurs' twin towers. It can also compress the Spurs defense, so that the Timberwolves' breakthrough tactics will be more lethal, but this has high requirements for the breaker, who must be able to shoot and have a good sense of passing, and the players involved in rushing to grab the rebound in the front court are also very demanding, but these harsh conditions, the Timberwolves have all of them, not only Nash and Pierce can take on the tactics of the breakthrough, and even Mobley can do it.
"Remember, our goal is to muddy the waters in the Spurs penalty area. The more muddy the better, the more chaotic the better, only in this way can we profit from it, do you understand" Zhuang Fei said with a smile at the end.
"Understood"
"Coach, don't worry"
"We will be able to get the job done"
Zhuang Fei looked at the already excited Timberwolves players and nodded. He continued: "As for the defensive strategy, I don't plan to change it for the time being, we still keep shrinking, let's show the Spurs our passion in the second half."
"These Timberwolves players seem to have changed a little" Vicky saw the Timberwolves players who came to the court in the second half, and his heart burst out, if the eyes of the Timberwolves players were depressed at the end of the first half, then now there is hope and a smile in their eyes. It was only a 15-minute halftime break, and they had changed so much, which made Vicky turn his eyes to Zhuang Fei again, but he didn't see anything from Zhuang Fei's face.
"There must be something yīn plotting" A yīn plotter's intuition told him that Zhuang Fei definitely wanted to play yīn against him.
Nash held the ball near the center circle to observe the situation of the Spurs' interior line, Robinson stood on the right, then the Timberwolves' breakthrough direction was naturally on the right, Nash is now ready to implement the coach's strange tactics, but halfway through, Nash saw Pierce's eyes glowing and saw him, so he could only helplessly hand the ball to Pierce. He shook his head helplessly.
Zhuang Fei on the sidelines frowned again when he saw this scene, Nash's old mistake was made again, too selfless, as long as Pierce or Garnett asked for the ball casually, he could let him give up the ball. However, Zhuang Fei has not had time to solve Nash's problem yet.
Pierce received Nash's pass and directly hit Elliott who was defending him head-on, and hit the basket, the resentment and anger accumulated in the first half were all vented at this time, and even Elliott, who was defending him, was also very surprised when he was hit by the pain.
"This Pierce is sick again" Vicky was speechless on the sidelines, the most impressive thing about him in this round of the series was Pierce, especially when the Timberwolves played the Spurs in the first two games, this Pierce was too fierce, even to the point of being brainless, and Pierce was much better after those two games, but now he seems to be getting sick again.
Pierce looked at the ushered Robinson with a burst of excitement, and finally faced this big man again, this feeling was extremely familiar, and as familiar as he was Robinson, which also reminded him of the heads-up between him and Pierce in the first two games of this series.
"Pierce is ready to hit the basket again, his choice is very unwise" ABC commentator Michaels sighed and continued: "His turn and breakthrough is beautiful, he can break through Robinson but can't avoid Duncan, hey, what's going on, at the same time as Pierce hit the basket, Garnett, Jackson, Mobley also hit the basket from different directions, and the Spurs players who defended them were obviously surprised by this sudden situation, and they were a little stunned for a while, Now they're half a step behind the Timberwolves."
Duncan originally wanted to seal Pierce, but suddenly he found that three Timberwolves players rushed in behind him, and there were two Spurs players behind the three Timberwolves players, and for a while, the restricted area was about to welcome eight players from two teams.
"What's going on?" Even if Duncan was puzzled, he didn't care so much about the shot that was ready to block Pierce, Pierce did shoot, but Duncan had no way to block the ball at all, the arc was too high, and he didn't go to the basket.
Pierce did not go to the basket with this ball, he went directly to the board to find Garnett on the other side according to Zhuang Fei's instructions, but the position of this board was not good, and he did not fly to Garnett's side at all, but flew to the other side, and at this time, two Timberwolves players and a Spurs player on the other side jumped up at the same time.
"What's going on, is Pierce shooting or passing? Is this intentional or unintentional? ”
Jackson grabbed the basketball one step ahead of Mobley in the air, and hung it directly on the basket with both hands.
All the players below Jackson hanging from the basket were stunned, including the Timberwolves players.
"Is that what the coach wants? In this way, the Spurs will be a bogey for our breakthrough, this is the first secondary attack we won in this game" Nash stood on the outside, so he saw everything clearly, the Spurs' two big interior lines have no advantage at all under the impact of the Timberwolves.
Michaels watched in amazement as the group of players collectively slaughtered to the basket, although he was mentally prepared for the endless variety of tactics in this series, and he was prepared for any situation in this game, but when it really happened, he was still surprised and speechless.
"That scene was so shocking, Jackson came out on top, he finished this second offense before the Spurs players and his teammates, and the Timberwolves once again seemed to have invented an unheard of tactic to complete the interior scoring that the first half couldn't do, and if I could, I would like to call this a 'pack of wolves'"
"That's right, it's like a pack of wolves staring at their prey, and now the Timberwolves use the wolf pack tactics to use their physical talent to complete an inside score, then now the Timberwolves, who are already in a weak position, can reach an even match with the Spurs, and this game will become more intense." Michaels finally said excitedly, he thought the Timberwolves were going to lose, but Coach Z surprised everyone again.
"It's so interesting, this game didn't come in vain" The magician's eyes lit up as he looked at the two teams on the court, and the game became interesting again.