Chapter 330: Liberate Li Yang
"The Spurs have picked up the pace!
Van Gundy and Brooks, the two former and current head coaches, are undoubtedly the most sensitive to a team's tactical changes, so after Li Yang completed three consecutive attacks, they immediately saw what the direction of the Spurs' adjustment was. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Bonner starts and opens up space, which is naturally one of the important adjustments for the Spurs, and with this, the Spurs have another adjustment, which is to speed up.
In this game, the pace of the Spurs was faster than the previous two games, so Li Yang quickly launched an attack in the first two rounds without waiting for the Thunder's defense to settle down.
The advantage of this is that because the Thunder's defense is not completely in a good position, even if the Thunder want to attack, their attack is not as powerful as the attack in the positional defense, and Li Yang's attack is not so laborious.
As for Bonner's play, it is also very important, it is precisely because he has containment on the outside, so even if the Thunder's retreat is actually timely, but because of Li Yang's passing to the three-point line, they dare not unscrupulously pinch Li Yang.
This style of play, Li Yang is completely liberated, he can speed up like leading the bench lineup, and his impact advantage can also be fully exerted, maybe his assist will not be as high as the fourth game, but the damage is not less than that game at all.
And once Li Yang's offense is blocked, it doesn't matter, he can pass the ball directly back to Duncan, who is running behind him, and let Duncan hold the ball in the high post to attack, of course, this point was not shown at this time in the game, so Brooks didn't think of it yet.
"Speed up the retreat and pinch that guy in advance!" Brooks immediately made a gesture to the court after realizing the threat of Li Yang rushing up, signaling the Thunder players to pay attention to the speed of retreat, and at the same time pay attention to Li Yang's early pinching.
Brooks's reminder is still very effective, when the Thunder's offense missed, Li Yang took the rebound and rushed up again, he was immediately guarded by the Thunder.
Not only did Westbrook start leading the defense in the backcourt, but after arriving in the frontcourt, Perkins no longer fell to the low post, but formed the first line of defense near the three-point line, and Duncan was not completely in place at this time.
The Thunder's defensive strategy allowed them to finally force the Spurs into positional offense after Li Yang completed three consecutive attacks.
Li Yang was not in a hurry at this time, steadily pressed down the rhythm, and handed the ball directly to Duncan in the high position after Duncan came to the halfcourt, and then began to run himself.
For Brooks, he was undoubtedly satisfied with the team's defense on the court this round, and although Bonner got the opportunity to shoot a three-pointer in the end, Bonner's shot was not able to hit after all.
Back on the other side of the half, Reggie Jackson on the Thunder's side took advantage of the Thunder's second lack to attract defensive attention and hit a goal to tie the gap between the two teams.
After receiving Duncan's baseline serve, Li Yang began to attack quickly towards the other half again, and the Thunder's retreat was still very fast, although Li Yang rushed into the three-point line, he was stopped near the free throw line.
There is no longer an attempt to force a forward rush, this kind of thing can not be repeated, not to mention that Li Yang has done it three times before, and if he wants to try to break through the defense of the two directly, he will naturally encounter a tighter pinch, so at this time, Li Yang handed the ball to Duncan's hands.
After the ball passed through the hands of Danny Green and Leonard, it appeared in Li Yang's hands again, and Li Yang continued to dribble to the basket after receiving the ball.
When Li Yang rushed to the outside of the three-second zone of the baseline, it was Ibaka who was opposite Bonner at this time, so that Bonner once again controlled it, and the ball in Li Yang's hand was immediately thrown out and sent to Bonner outside the three-point line.
In the pinch, the best passing direction is naturally the position behind him where there is no bag and clip, and Bonner is in such a position at this time, so Li Yang's pass at this time fell steadily into Bonner's hands.
This time, Red Mamba Bonner didn't miss another opportunity, and his anti-aircraft shot went straight through the Nets and hit a three-point shot!
When Bonner's three-point shot, the power of the Spurs to adjust this starting lineup was fully revealed, and in the next round, when the Thunder's offense failed again, Li Yang launched another whirlwind attack after receiving a pass from Duncan, who picked up the rebound in the backcourt.
Although Duncan was still behind at this time, Li Yang's offensive acceleration was extremely resolute, this time, he rushed into the three-second zone before being stopped, and the basketball in his hand was handed over to Duncan again.
Duncan didn't press the rhythm after taking the ball, and raised his hand to shoot a false movement, shaking Perkins who was returning to the defense, and Duncan then used his slow three steps to carry the ball into the three-second zone to score two points.
The Spurs' tactical adjustments were never simply for the sake of adjustment, and in the following rounds, although Li Yang did not have the opportunity to score directly to the basket as he did in the opening game, and he may not be able to directly assist Bonner by three points like in the previous round, the ball passed by his hand spawned other offensive opportunities.
Danny Green and Leonard both got shots, and when the first game was played in the first quarter, the score of the two teams became 16:10, and the Spurs took a six-point lead, and the 16 points in the first quarter also showed the success of their lineup adjustment.
The two teams entered the time of the lineup rotation, and the Spurs went down for Bonner, but sent Dio, a guy who can also shoot from beyond the three-point line and attack the basket with big butts, and Ginobili is back on the court.
After 8 minutes of the first quarter, Li Yang was substituted for the break, and his style of play in this game was destined to make his physical exertion faster, so Popovich also replaced him from the break earlier.
In 8 minutes, Li Yang walked off the court with 9 points, 2 assists and 4 rebounds.
When Li Yang hit the inside again and again in the first quarter of the game, the outside world suddenly remembered that although Li Yang sent 15 assists in the fourth game, his greater damage was in his offense, Popovich's game liberated him on the offensive end, and the horror of Li Yang was no worse than Li Yang who sent a triple-double!
(To be continued.) )