Chapter 150: Fighting the Spurs

Vicky looked at Jackson hanging on the basket and was a little distracted, it is not uncommon for the Spurs to lose frontcourt rebounds, any team will lose frontcourt rebounds, including a twin-tower team like the Spurs, but the Timberwolves used frontcourt rebounds to directly complete the penalty area scoring in this way is the first time in this game, and even the entire series has not appeared a few times, just now the Timberwolves' group of physically gifted young players collectively rushed to the basket The shocking scene he still can't forget.

Zhuang Fei has never tried such a strategy of grabbing frontcourt rebounds, and the NBA has never had such a group rushing to grab frontcourt rebounds, so Zhuang Fei was extremely apprehensive when formulating this tactic, everyone knows that rushing to grab frontcourt rebounds is a price, if you can't grab it, the opponent takes the rebound, and it will immediately be the opponent's counterattack, not to mention that all players like Zhuang Fei and the Timberwolves basically kill this kind of robbery under the basket, and the Timberwolves' current defense will not have anyone who retreats at all. Even if the Spurs players are slow, they can easily play the Timberwolves and counterattack quickly, of course, in order to prevent such a thing, Zhuang Fei still left a player outside the three-point line. But even so, this is still a life-fighting tactic, and all the tactics that Zhuang Fei formulated in this round of the series with the Spurs are very correct in the eyes of the outside world, and in his own opinion, they are all life-fighting tactics. Like the umbrella tactic, the pack tactics succeeded when it first hit the NBA schedule, which was a great blessing.

In the NBA, it is not uncommon for players with athletic talent and good jumping to rush to the frontcourt to rebound, but it is the first time that a desperate situation like Zhuang Fei and the Timberwolves has happened, and there is no one who can have such great determination and gambling as Zhuang Fei. Either you don't play, or you play big if you want to.

"What a terrible opponent" It's the first time that Vicky has such a huge sense of frustration and fear for a person, even Bulls head coach Phil Jackson didn't make Vicky feel like this, Zhuang Fei is the second, and the first is former Pistons head coach Chuck Daley.

Just like the Spurs opened the outside, the Timberwolves opened the Spurs' impregnable interior with this unheard of new tactic, and there was no way to face a crazy Robbic Vicky like the Timberwolves. Although the Spurs players have opened up their outside touches, they still can't change the fact that they are a group of old men, a group of players who lack athleticism. Fight with Jackson, Mobley, Garnett, and others. It's basically impossible, and the Timberwolves don't just let people grab the rebounds in the front court, but also Pierce's breakthrough and containment attention, as long as Pierce breaks through Robinson successfully, Duncan has to make up for the defense, which also provides an opportunity for the Timberwolves' rush, this tactic to strangle the Timberwolves is not nothing, as long as Robinson or the Spurs can prevent Pierce's breakthrough on the outside, but this task is not very easy, so that Vicky has to consider the defensive line retreat. Only in this way can the Spurs' restricted area be protected, but if it is retracted, it will inevitably give the 1 Timberwolves a chance on the periphery, and the Timberwolves are also shaken by their ability to take terrible three-point shots.

"Is it important to protect the backcourt rebounds? Or is it important to defend the opponent's perimeter? Vicky also fell into the same choice as Zhuang Fei just now.

"Since Coach Z chose to wait and see what happens, then I'll wait and see what happens this time. Maybe it was just an accident that I lost that rebound," Vicky sighed softly as if he had made a major decision.

Nash is still standing at the top of the three-point arc this time looking at Pierce's back, since the last breakthrough tasted the sweetness, as long as the Timberwolves attack, Pierce looked at Nash with bright eyes, and Nash had to hand the ball to him. Nash is a very happy guy for his teammates, and since Pierce is happy, let him play, and it doesn't matter if he's watching from the sidelines. He likes to see his teammates playing happily, and it is more important for his teammates to be happy than for himself to be happy.

"The ultimate purpose of the coach to formulate such a strategy is to compress the Spurs' defensive formation, but seeing the current situation, the Spurs don't seem to have this plan, it seems that a success is still not good, and it will take a few more times to do it" Nash thought secretly in his heart, his tactical understanding of Zhuang Fei is the best in the whole Timberwolves, and now the Timberwolves are probably ready to do this all the time after tasting the sweetness of the last offense, but Nash knows very well what Zhuang Fei needs him to do, as long as the Spurs defense line retreats, The Timberwolves are still a three-point shot that breaks through the ball.

This time the Timberwolves did not score directly, this time the rebound was still grabbed by Jackson, but because the Spurs players were prepared, so he had no chance to score, and he looked left and right at the basket full of people, and he couldn't get up and shoot at all, at this time he remembered that the Timberwolves had another player on the outside, so he turned sideways, squeezed a little space, and threw the ball to Nash, who had been waiting at the top of the arc for a long time, the speed of the ball was extremely fast, the little general did not intercept it halfway, after Nash took the ball, One changed direction to accelerate, then the other pulled back, got rid of the general's defense, and easily shot a three-pointer at the top of the arc. These are his two favorite offensive styles this season, one is a mid-range jumper after a break or pick-and-roll, and the other is a pull-back three-pointer like this, especially in the arc position.

"Steve's offense is still very reassuring," D'Antoni said happily, unlike Zhuang Fei, he is the coach who is directly responsible for the team's usual offensive training, and it can be said that among the three tactical cores of the Timberwolves, his favorite is Nash, this somewhat soft point guard is more and more like the best point guard candidate in his mind.

"Yes" Zhuang Fei smiled and nodded, this tactic has succeeded twice in a row, now it's time for Vicky to call a timeout, Zhuang Fei thought with a little joking, this extremely cautious coach probably can't tolerate such a thing happening again

"Guys, good job, now we can execute the next step, I think the Spurs will break out in a cold sweat when they see our breakthrough," Zhuang Fei said with a smile to the Timberwolves players from the court.

"Coach, I played so well just now, I haven't been so cool for a long time" Pierce said with a smile, his performance on the court just now was 2 shots and 0 shots, and he didn't score a point, but what can this be? This is deliberate by the coach, and the Timberwolves have grabbed rebounds in the front court on both occasions and scored both, so he doesn't have to carry any psychological baggage at all, and it is difficult to shoot in the face of the Spurs Twin Towers, but he can do it if he can't shoot on purpose.

In addition to Pierce's excited grinning, the rest of the Timberwolves players are also relaxed, and now the Timberwolves have found a way to overcome the Spurs' twin towers height advantage, which is strange but undoubtedly effective.

He was also very pleased to see the excited expressions of these young players of the Timberwolves, and the fighting spirit of these young people has come up, which is a great thing for the Timberwolves.

"Next, let's start the second part of our tactics, that is, to break through the ball, the essence of our team is still shooting, and now we can compress the Spurs' defense, then we will also start to shoot three-pointers, Paul, Nash, you continue to break through, everyone else runs, your space will be very large" Although the corners of Zhuang Fei's mouth were smiling, his eyes were full of coldness.

"Coach, don't worry, we know what to do"

"yes, we're the best in the league than shooting"

Vicky doesn't know what the outcome of his timeout arrangement will be, but he really doesn't dare to bet now, after all, it is the Timberwolves who are behind now, he doesn't need to bet, he just needs to ensure that the team has an advantage in the score after entering the fourth quarter, and as long as the game enters the fourth quarter, the Spurs have the ability to beat the Timberwolves. So now you can only choose to shrink the basket to protect the backcourt rebound, the Timberwolves' group of players are so good that almost no one can stop them from rushing, and he still has some lingering palpitations.

Elliott is very annoying, Pierce is so annoying, he has rarely seen a young player with such all-round offensive skills before, but he met two in this year's playoffs, the god-like man of the Grizzlies still has a strong mark in his heart, and almost all the Spurs' outside power has not stopped him, which is also the main reason for the collective downturn after the Spurs entered the playoffs, and they have not yet woken up from the competition with the Grizzlies, and now they are facing this Pierce although they are inferior to Carter in all aspects, But it's also very difficult.

"It's not good, it's leaned on by him again" If it was the previous game, Elliott was not afraid of Pierce, because he knew that Pierce would not break through, if he just stepped back to shoot, Elliott believed that he could use his strong body to make Pierce lose his shooting rhythm, and then hit the iron. But now it's different, the Timberwolves' strange tactic just now was launched from Pierce's breakthrough, and now he doesn't dare to let Pierce break through.

"It's still slow" Looking at Pierce who disappeared in front of him, Elliott was anxious for a while, and then chased after him from behind, at this time the Spurs players saw that Pierce had broken through, and they all became very careful, and immediately reclaimed the main position of the card, so as not to let the group of young players of the Timberwolves impact. But to the surprise of all the Spurs players, this time Pierce did not choose to go head-to-head with Robinson, but broke through Elliott and threw the ball diagonally above the left, Nash received Pierce's pass in the arc, did not stop the ball, and directly pushed horizontally, Jackson, who had just been pulled out of the three-point line, rose up 45 degrees on the right side, and the three-point shot was steady, and the Spurs player who defended him was now watching him three steps away, still preparing to prevent him from impacting the basket.

"Brush" Jackson's three-point shot through the needle into the net.