Chapter 101: Blocking and Sweeping, the end of the first round

In addition to congratulating the Cleveland Cavaliers for sweeping the Atlanta Hawks 4-0 and successfully advancing to the second round, the Cleveland Cavaliers made a detailed review of the blocking and dismantling cooperation between Zhang Kong and James in the second half of the game. Forrest gump

"There's no doubt that last night's game at Phillips Arena in Atlanta was the most intense game in the first round so far. The Eagles, who were cornered, burst out with terrifying energy, and at one point kept our Cavaliers scrambling with their brutal defense and tenacity. But at the critical moment, the two cores of the Cavaliers, Zhang Kong and James, showed a pick-and-roll cooperation, and we can note that in the previous games, Zhang Kong and James have never made such a cooperation. In the course of the game, the two chose this way of cooperation after a short discussion during the game. That is, it is a self-determination between the two cores. There is no doubt that this is a flash of genius and the most suitable tactic for the two of them. ”

The offensive tactics of the entire alliance are really rich and could be written in a book. However, it is relatively simple and direct, and it can be easily used by anyone, but it has an extraordinary and practical tactic, and the first is to block and dismantle the tactic.

At the beginning, Jerry Sloan relied on a set of blocking and dismantling tactics, with John Stockton and the old Malone, two superstars, in the NBA in the 90s, entered the finals twice, and entered the playoffs for 13 consecutive years, if it wasn't for the fate of the Utah double steam was too tragic, in the late 80s and early 90s, they met the Rockets and Bulls who were at their peak, and met the unparalleled god in the world - Jordan and 'Big Dream' Olajuwon, maybe they would have had a chance to reach the top.

finally survived until the big dream and God both retired, but the sudden rise of the OK combination shattered the dream of the old Malone and Stockton champions. In the end, Stockton chose to retire, and Malone, for a championship ring, did not hesitate to carry the notoriety of hugging his thighs on his back, and ran to Los Angeles to join the 'big shark' O'Neal.

This can only be said to be fate.

But no matter what fate does, Jerry Sloan and his clean-cut pick-and-roll tactics did shock the league for a while under the 'black and white' performances of Malone and Stockton, Utah.

There are countless teams in the league today that play pick-and-roll, and the Spurs Duncan and Parker, Duncan and Ginobili are the pick-and-roll teamwork. The classic pick-and-roll between the Phoenix Suns, Nash and Stoudemire. Pick-and-roll coordination between Paul and Chandler of the New Orleans Hornets. Forrest gump

Even some teams that are constantly blocking and dismantling often have blocking and dismantling cooperation in official games.

On the NBA court, pick-and-roll is the easiest and easiest tactic to create misalignment. And misalignment, for these NBA players, often means easy scoring opportunities.

Once the pick-and-roll between the ball carrier and the blocker is complete, the opponent must also be switched in order to defend the opponent. At this time, there will be a situation where the inner line is small and the outside line is big and small. On the inside, a small player can use his nimble skills to score a layup, or simply jump on a big defender to get a foul, or a strong ball-carrier like James can directly press the opponent's less strong interior to score.

On the outside, once the ball carrier passes, if it is a big man with mid-distance shooting ability, he can shoot and score without interference, and the height difference between the outside and the inside line allows the big man to shoot as if he was not interfering, and even deliberately block the defender behind him when he is down, resulting in a real interference-free offense.

In the fourth game with the Hawks, the Cavaliers eventually won with a score of 109:85. After James and Zhang Kong's blocking and pick-and-roll cooperation was turned on, the Hawks completely declared that they had lost the way to defend the two, although they still fought hard, but they were never able to stop the two from scoring easily.

Without Josh Smith's interference, James, who has been given the acceleration space, is more like a complete life, showing his all-round skills on the offensive end.

In the end, James scored 38 points in the game, including 28 points, in the second half of the third quarter and the fourth quarter. He also dished out 12 assists and recorded a luxurious double-double for the first time since entering the playoffs.

Zhang Kong got 22 points, 28 rebounds and another double twenty close to 20+30 data, the extremely low shooting rate of the two teams in the first half also made Zhang Kong usher in a crazy opportunity to brush rebounds, but no one will think that Zhang Kong is brushing data, because of his 28 rebounds, 15 are frontcourt rebounds. It's just because of the Hawks' rough defensive approach to him that Zhang Kong's shooting rate fell below 60% for the first time in his career, four of ten shots, one of three three-pointers, and 10 of 16 free throws, just 50 percent of the shooting rate is already qualified for the general inside, but for Zhang Kong, whose shooting rate is as high as 68% so far this season, this shooting rate is still a little too low.

At the same time that the Cavaliers swept the Hawks 4-0, another round of the playoffs in the East has also ended, at the home of the Washington Wizards, in the MIC Center Arena, the crazy Monster dunked thirteen times, scored 36 points + 22 rebounds super data, and led the Magic team to 118:105 to beat the Wizards again, becoming the second team in the East to sweep the first round of the playoffs.

The terrifying 30+20 data it played in the fourth game also made people exclaim unstoppable Warcraft!

Howard's excellent state naturally made the Cavaliers' coaching staff extra concerned, after all, with the Magic sweeping the Wizards to advance, the Cavaliers' opponent in the next round was determined.

The Orlando Magic will be the Cavaliers' opponent in the next round.

For the Magic, neither Zhang Kong, James nor Mike Brown are worried, and the Magic are an easy opponent to deal with compared to the Wizards. After all, the Magic team really took a shot of Dwight Howard, and the Cavaliers had Zhang Kong and James. It's a big deal to play against the Magic, just let Zhang Kong go to defend Howard. Howard doesn't have a lot of control on offense, and his main offensive means now are dunks that force cuts into the restricted area and small hooks under the basket, and his hooks are not good enough, and he can't do both left and right.

As long as he is pushed out of his attack range, he will do nothing on the offensive end except for the second offense of grabbing the rebound in the frontcourt. Howard can play so well against the Wizards, and it has a lot to do with the fact that the Wizards don't have a tough and powerful center blue-collar team, Jamison is a technical interior line, and the other interior lines are mostly slender and slender. Not having a muscular, powerful interior shield blue-collar is the biggest shortcoming that the Wizards exposed against the Magic.

However, the Knights are not afraid of this, and in terms of strength, Zhang Kong is not afraid of anyone in the alliance. It's more than enough to contain the monster on the defensive end. Even if Warcraft's defensive ability can limit Zhang Kong to a certain extent on the offensive end, the Cavaliers still have James.

In the regular season, the Cavaliers once killed the Magic three times, and in the playoffs, the Cavaliers were just as fearless. At the same time, a number of awards have been given in the playoffs that have been played, starting with the Most Improved Player award, which was won by the Magic's Sido Turkeglu, who appeared in 73 games for the Magic last season and averaged 13.3 points, 4.0 rebounds, 3.2 assists and 1.0 steals per game. Hitt Turkgrew averaged 19.5 points, 5.7 rebounds and 5.0 assists per game in 82 games for the Magic, shooting 45.6 percent from the field, 38.8 percent from three-point range and 80 percent from the free throw line up from 73.8 percent last season.

This was followed by the Sixth Man of the Season award, which Manu Ginobili received from league officials after returning to the ATA Center Arena at home during Game 5 between the Spurs and Suns.

Also announced are the league's All-Defensive Team.

First Team: Center: Zhang Kong (Cleveland Cavaliers), Power Forward: Kevin Garnett (Celtics)Small Forward: LeBron James (Cleveland Cavaliers)Shooting Guard: Kobe Bryant (Los Angeles Lakers)Point Guard: Chris Paul (New Orleans Hornets)

Second Team: Center: Dwight Howard (Orlando Magic)Power Forward: Tim Duncan (San Antonio Spurs)Small Forward: Dirk Nowitzki (Dallas Mavericks)Shooting Guard: Deron Williams (Utah Jazz)Point Guard: Steve Nash (Phoenix Suns)

Third Team: Center: Yao Ming (Houston Rockets) Power Forward: Carlos Boozer (Utah Jazz) Small Forward: Paul Pierce (Celtics) Shooting Guard: Tracy McGrady (Houston Rockets) Point Guard: Manu Ginobili (San Antonio Spurs)

In terms of the best defensive team, Zhang Kong was once again elected as the center of the best defensive team with an undisputed attitude.

All-Defensive First Team: Center: Zhang Kong (Cleveland Cavaliers)Power Forward: Tim Duncan (San Antonio Spurs)Small Forward: Kevin GarnettSwingman: Bruce Bowen: Shooting Guard: Kobe Bryant.

All-Defensive Team Second Team: Center: Marcus Camby (Denver Nuggets) Power Forward: Prince Small Forward: BattierScoring Guard: Raja Bell Point Guard: Chris Paul

After the announcement of the league's All-NBA and All-Defensive Team, the only remaining awards in the league are regular season MVP, rookie MVP and best defensive player.

However, in the eyes of the media and the public, the rookie MVP is already a sure thing to belong to Zhang Kong, and now it is just about to be announced, and half of the best defensive players have fallen into Zhang Kong's bag, from his data, from the fact that he entered the first team of the best team and the first team of the best defensive team at the same time, this award basically does not need to be doubted.

The only thing that really has suspense is the regular season MVP, because Zhang Kong announced that he would give up, so now there are only two people left who can compete for this award, James and Kobe!

23VS24！

Source: Forrest Gump