Chapter 919: Defense First
Such a bench lineup is back, the Pelicans are point guard DJ Augustin, scoring guard Ronnie Brewer, small forward Oladipo, power forward Al Thornton, center Biedrins, and the Pelicans lineup is relatively average, not weak on five points, but there is no strong point.
It's especially obvious here in the Nets, the guard line is point guard Delon , scoring guard Joe Johnson, small forward Alan Anderson, power forward David Lee, center Garnett, obviously the two sides are prominent, and the middle is weak.
After the opening was the Nets' ball, and the Nets' ability to control the situation was really much better than that of the Pelicans, and Delon hung the basketball into the hands of Garnett on the inside.
People say that the greatest forward in modern times is Tim Duncan, but Garnett also has Duncan can't compare, Garnett's offensive weapons are many, defensive skills are unique among big forwards, such a guy, playing Biedrins actually doesn't need to use too much brain, not even a single dribble, made a feint behind him, and then immediately turned around to shoot.
Garnett simplified his shooting action to the extreme, and the feint also shook his shoulders tightly, but Biedrins couldn't defend at all and could only watch Garnett shoot his head.
This is not what Van Gundy wants to see, he yelled at Biederins on the sidelines, around the front, around the front, around the front, around the front, with Biedrins's height and strength, it is impossible to eat Garnett one-on-one on the back, and if you want to defend and contain Garnett, the Pelicans can only take the defense around the front Garnett.
The Nets have their own plans, they plan to consume the main body, and spend the team's most difficult period of time, but the Pelicans also have their own plans, and the Pelicans are going to use this period of time to drag the Nets, and then start from the Nets' weak front line to increase the Nets' counterattack.
The Pelicans rushed over, and then the surprising Oladipo reappeared. He kept stuck in the Nets' interior line, playing Alan Anderson was extremely depressed, is this still the way of playing small forward, before the game he saw that the Pelicans had such a guy in the video, but he never thought that Oladipo would play small forward today and play against himself.
Constantly running, Oladipo finally got the main position, just a little outside the three-second zone, behind him was David Lee, but David Lee didn't dare to pinch the past, and Alan Anderson had nothing to do with Oladipo.
Once Oladipo's position arrived. DJ Augustin's ball arrived soon, and now DJ Augustin's style is getting more and more atmospheric, and his ability to control the overall situation is very strong, and he also likes to cooperate with Oladipo in his heart, he likes this rookie very much.
DJ Augustine's basketball went into Oladipo's hands, and Oladipo dribbled twice in quick succession behind him, which was very unusual for Oladipo, and Oladipo's movements were known for their simplicity, but there was no follow-up action for these two shots. Just when DJ Augustine was a little surprised by his teammates.
Al Thornton suddenly sprang out from behind Oladipo and made a very nice baseline cover, he just ran out of David's side and used a reverse run to get out of position. Then he took advantage of Oladipo's position to card David Lee.
Al Thornton who ran out immediately received a pass from Oladipo, a wonderful small range of cooperation on the front line, and at such a close distance, Al Thornton directly sold = hand wipe board jumper. The basketball went into the hoop safely.
Seeing this, Van Gundy nodded, and Li Feng was also joking with Arenas beside him:
"This guy is wonderful, that's all I do."
Arenas smiled and said:
"Forget it. You won't be able to get through the gap just now. ”
When Hassan was on the Pelicans' bench, no one spoke on the Nets' bench, they all resented themselves in their hearts, they were so stupid, they were so impulsive, and they were so embarrassed to be played by these Pelicans rookies.
The Nets are extremely remorseful, but what's the use, they can only hope that their teammates can pull the score back.
The Nets' first-round offense is very simple, but it is impossible for the Nets to be so simple, Biedrins's defensive experience is also quite rich, he arrived here and immediately defended Garnett's front line, constantly stuck in front of Garnett, and constantly cut off Garnett's route to receive the ball.
Biderins is worse than the opponent in height and strength, but it is not necessarily worse than the opponent in footsteps, and it is not easy for Garnett to catch the ball when he comes around, so Deron immediately thought of another teammate, that is, Joe Johnson, when he looked at Joe Johnson, he happened to see Joe Johnson being chased by the opponent's little man, and today Joe Johnson met the opponent.
In the past, he used his own unique set of skills to easily get rid of his opponent, but today he met Ronnie Brewer, these two people are like looking in a mirror, the two of them are a routine, so Joe Johnson is in trouble, although Joe Johnson is already running desperately, but Ronnie Brewer can clearly perceive Joe Johnson's movements, always in front of Joe Johnson.
Hamilton is actually in trouble at this time, in fact, if someone else comes, it is difficult for Ross or Li Feng to defend Joe Johnson, but today Joe Johnson met Ronnie Brewer, who is very similar to his own type, he can't dodge, Ronnie Brewer's defense of others lacks strength, but only defending Joe Johnson is the tip of the needle against Maimang, just defending.
Delong's experience is useless here, this time Delong is a little hairy, Kidd let his main forces come up to stabilize the situation, but when he got to the court, he was seen to death by others, and he was a fart.
Deron suddenly felt very tired, he faced DJ Augustin, and could only rely on his own strength to break through and compress the Pelicans' defense by breaking through with power, and then swapped the basketball into the hands of Alan Anderson.
Now here in the Pelicans, the worst defense is Oladipo, but Oladipo corresponds to Alan Anderson.
Alan Anderson shot in the open position, but missed, this guy's long-range shot is not trustworthy at all, Delon worked for nothing, watching Alan Anderson throw away the basketball, he shook his head there helplessly.
Garnett turned around to grab the rebound. But he really didn't expect that Oladipo, who was a little stunned just now, rushed in and dragged the basketball away from Garnett's head.
Oladipo's rebounding snatch is really violent, picking up rebounds on Garnett's head, it's really a newborn calf who is not afraid of tigers, but Oladipo did it.
When Bill Wharton saw this, he immediately smiled and said:
"The biggest failure of Garnett today is not that he can't be tortured by the front defense, but that he can't even grab a rookie guard's rebound, if I were he would be killed, Bill Wharton sarcastically mocked Garnett mercilessly on the side."
Garnett's frontcourt rebound he thought he could reach, but he didn't expect it. Someone said in front of him that the rebound was snatched, and he was helpless, and after Oladipo grabbed the rebound, he immediately passed the ball to DJ Augustin.
DJ Augustin and Deron should be regarded as completely two types of point guards, one is sleek and weird, the other is atmospheric and simple, DJ Augustin is very free and easy when he controls the ball, Delon wants to break the ball, and it is difficult to suppress DJ Augustin. Because DJ Augustin's ball control skills are quite strong.
The Pelicans' strategy under the top is to attack the Nets' front, so there is nothing to say, and in the Nets' half, Oladipo still got the basketball, at which point Alan Anderson was in pain. In fact, anyone who can't fully defeat Oladipo in terms of physical essence will be very painful, because even if it is just a little bit, he will eat you to death. But if you suppress him completely, Oladipo won't be able to play at all, and Oladipo is like a ruler. Yes yes, no yes no.
Oladipo got the basketball Alan Anderson was very painful at this time Joe Johnson passed by here and wanted to help Alan Anderson pinch Oladipo, but Joe Johnson forgot about it, and there was a guy next to him who was the same player as himself.
Players of their type will get a shot if they have the slightest chance, and when they get the basketball, they can decide the fate of the team.
Now Ronnie Brewer will let him know that the three-point is the most important thing for shooters to learn, Oladipo has just entered the team, but his vision is very good, Ronnie Brewer has just leaked here, and the basketball is in Ronnie Brewer's hands.
When Joe Johnson pounced back, it was too late, Ronnie Brewer opened fire with a pistol, and the short blow was fatal, and the basketball fell into the basket of the Nets.
DeLong saw that after these two rounds, it was absolutely impossible to fight like this, so he immediately discussed it with Garnett, let's not play a combination of inside and outside, let's play high cover.
Garnett was also pestered by Bidrins, and he immediately nodded in agreement, so the Nets came over and immediately began to play high cover, Garnett played high cover, and Deron staggered with him.
Deron thought that this could form a small fight and he could break through Bidelins, he knew that the Pelicans' defensive training was really well-trained, and the Pelicans' position was slightly wrong, and they immediately changed it after pressing, and it was DJ Augustin who returned to Delon, and it was Biedrins who appeared in front of Garnett.
That's when Bill Wharton said:
"Oh, the Pelicans have trained even the defense of the second team to this extent, and their level of training is really horrible."
Joan Barry laughed when he heard Bill Wharton's words:
"Don't forget about Bill, the Pelicans have been playing exclusively defense for a while, and they have always been a team that has always been professional in defense."
The guy who eats for the Pelicans is defense, especially in the previous period, so the Pelicans players have completely practiced it on defense, every subtle cooperation, every subtle rotation has been practiced.
In this way, it will be difficult for Delong to dismantle the basketball back, he can only stand on DJ Augustin by himself, DJ Augustin has just come on the court, Delong has already played a quarter, the two of them are against each other, Delong hit the basketball to the basket with great difficulty, and then shot it very simply.
DJ Augustin did his best to play this ball, and finally conceded the ball, that is, the gap between him and the opponent in terms of strength was too big, Biedrins and Al Thornton immediately came over to comfort DJ Augustin:
"DJ you've done your best, you've done your best."
DJ Augustine understood this, and he and Biedlings quickly said:
"We try to defend Delon and Garnett as well as we can, and don't let Garnett play me to consume Delon as much as possible."
Biedrins glanced at DJ Augustin, who said it was as simple as eating, but Biedlings knew it was hard. In the league, backhand screens are a key point and a difficult point.
But at this time, Biedlings still nodded vigorously, the Pelicans and the Nets started a new round of strangulation on the bench, the Pelicans' goal was very clear, the offense was to tear apart the opponent's front, Oladipo and Ayrthornton played a lot of small combinations.
This is obviously what the Pelicans have been prepared for, seeing the weakness of the Nets' bench in these two positions, Kidd saw this, very distressed, it is obvious that the opponent has studied you thoroughly, and then used conspiracy. With tactics, with a qiē means against your tactics, it is definitely not just a conspiracy, it is also backed up at the tactical level, this ball is lost on the conspiracy, it is better to say that you are not as serious as the opponent.
The Pelicans offense tore apart the opponent's front, the defense cut off Garnett's street ball, and kept an eye on Joe Johnson for Deron to attack. DJ Augustin alone with his body to go and Delong to consume.
DJ Augustin is not as strong as Delon, but he also has a lot of meat, you don't care what kind of meat it is, but DeLong is very uncomfortable at this time. At the end of the first quarter, DeLong was out of breath, and on the other side, Joe Johnson was chased by Ronnie Brewer, who was the shooter. Two people in one type, fully understood, such a defense is very close. It's hard to shake off.
Garnett is not tired, Garnett has no problems, but Garnett can't catch the basketball, so everything is in vain,
Kidd consumed the body of his main team, Kidd used his main player, but he did not close the score, the score between the two teams at the end of the first quarter was 32-24, 8 points, can have this effect or Delon is tired and half dead, desperately playing the result.
But looking at DeLong who was so tired, Kidd couldn't let him not take a break in the second quarter.
At the Pelicans, the players returned to the bench, and Van Gundy immediately walked over and crouched in front of everyone, lowered his voice and said:
"Our table today is very good, things are exactly according to our plan, if it continues like this, the Nets will be in a dilemma in the second quarter, let the main force play for fear of fouls and fear of consuming the body, and not let the main player come to widen the point difference, and it will be more difficult for the Nets to chase points."
Why does Van Gundy say this, the Nets are a good team, but compared with the Spurs, he just doesn't have the explosiveness of the Spurs, the Spurs have suppressed to a certain extent, and they will play a very fierce and explosive offense, they once played run and bang with the Suns, and finally won and lost the Suns.
The Nets don't have this kind of ability, the Nets' weakness is the poor explosiveness of scoring, the bench is shallow, there are not enough bench players, and now the Pelicans eat you this point, in the first quarter you fouled too much, you can't bench it, you can't score explosiveness, and the point difference is so bad that you can only chase it little by little.
"Our task in the second quarter is to try to create as many kills as possible, to create kills first, and then to open the score, the score is not what we care about the most, it's only the second quarter, but we need the score to put pressure on them."
The Pelicans are full of confidence and are completely in accordance with the schedule, and the players are very relaxed when they sit on the rest bench, DJ Augustin sat next to Li Feng and said:
"Li Feng, I've almost consumed that guy Delong, and then it's up to you, if you can work harder, you can get rid of that guy."
Li Feng thought about it for a while, it is really possible, if the other players of the Nets are not good, if he adds some strength to Delong at this time, Delong's legs will be weak in the second half, and when the Nets want to fight back, I am afraid that there is not even a person who controls the basketball.
At the beginning of the second quarter, the players of both teams returned to the court, and DJ Augustin was ready to continue to fight with DeLong, but when he arrived on the court, he found that DeLong had made it to the rest seat.
DJ Augustin felt unusually uninteresting, and glanced at Livingston, who was defending himself, he simply applied his unhappiness to Livingston, DJ Augustin suddenly accelerated the pace of the ball, playing Livingston, and then when Livingston was a little careless, he passed the basketball to Oladipo's hands under Livingston's crotch.
Oladipo simply completed DJ Augustin's crotch assist at this time, and directly turned around and shot, and now there is no Delong's Nets bench lineup, neither Anthony to organize nor Joe Johnson's move, this time the Nets are unlucky,
It didn't take 2 minutes, and the Pelicans immediately hit a wave of 10-2 small climaxes, pushing the score to a high score of 42-26 all of a sudden, and the Pelicans scored 40 points at the beginning of the second quarter.
It can be seen that the strength of the Nets' defense, and the potential of the Pelicans players to score, among which the outstanding one is Oladipo's table, Oladipo, who rarely shows three points, uses two three-pointers to make the Nets' defense completely overwhelmed, and Kidd shook his head when he saw this.
The Pelicans beat the Nets to this point in the second quarter, Kidd could only start to change the main team, at the beginning, he was still reluctant to use Garnett and Anthony, at the beginning of this Oladipo is really a bully, Alan Anderson's bounce is slightly worse than him, and he was bullied back and forth by Oladipo.
Kidd couldn't see it later, and finally replaced Anthony and Garnett, and this time he met Anthony, Oladipo had no firepower at all, but it was normal for Oladipo, and his style of play was decided, as long as I was better than my body, I would bully you to death, but as long as your defense was strong, I didn't have a choice.
By the time the fifth minute and 11 seconds of the second quarter, the main teams of both teams had returned to the court, and the Pelicans' main lineup was point guard Rose, scoring guard Arenas, small forward Li Feng, power forward Brand, and center Henson.
The Nets' main lineup is back with point guard Deron, scoring guard Joe Johnson, small forward Anthony, power forward Garnett, and center Garnett Lopez.
The two teams are back on the court, the Nets' first task is to chase points, this time the Nets Five Tigers came up, Garnett easily played Brand, but now the Pelicans' strategy is not in scoring, they score second, the first is to rectify the people, first the Nets people down, you guys are still a fart, Li Feng remembered what DJ Augustin said, tortured Delong, Delong, as the brain of the Nets, tortured him, and the Nets could not play 100%.
So after receiving the basketball, Li Feng slowly dribbled and saw Delong coming up, he immediately accelerated quickly and rushed towards the half court of the Nets, Delong finally rested below for a while, seeing that this was coming again, he could only follow Li Feng to rush, and also make physical contact with Li Feng, he couldn't let Li Feng rush up completely, and he had no way to play if he rushed completely.
He didn't expect that Li Feng was manipulating him, Li Feng pushed frantically and ran with Delong, but after reaching the half of the Nets, Li Feng suddenly pulled outside, and just when Delong felt that Li Feng was going to pass the person who came up behind him, Li Feng sat on Delong's body.
has to attack with his back, and suddenly Delong felt uncomfortable, what kind of bullshit things he has experienced, he is so unlucky, this Li Feng clearly doesn't want to let go of himself, and he knows the Pelican's whole thinking, Delong is smart now, he knows that the Pelicans' gang of bastards is correcting himself.
As soon as the ball was in Rose's hands, the Pelicans immediately opened up the space here, allowing Rose to single Anthony, who was physically strong, but not fast, took a duck step, and rushed towards Anthony with the basketball.
Seeing this, Kidd is really depressed, the Pelicans are definitely not playing basketball, but people, that is, when will your lineup be broken, when will it be so far, and now their goal is obvious, which is to beat Anthony.
The Nets immediately lowered a notch without Anthony's defense, and the middle link was gone, and then strangled your Garnett, and the Nets' offense immediately scrapped more than half, and the Pelicans played that.
Without Garnett and Anthony, even if the Nets relied on one or two people to break out, it would disrupt the whole system, so that the Pelicans' purpose was achieved. (To be continued......)