Chapter 4: Stopping Popovich in a Row
Popovich glanced at Su Chen on the sidelines of the Warriors with some surprise, and found that Su Chen was also looking at him at this time.
However, Su Chen did not look at Popovich, but looked at the field intently.
Popovich's expression was a little strange, he had never met a strange opponent like Su Chen.
In fact, at this time, Su Chen was trying his best to hide his intentions so that he would not look at Popovich and not let Popovich guess his intentions.
Su Chen wanted to predict the Spurs' offensive routines, but the Spurs' offensive routines were too complicated, but when he put on a joint defense, the Spurs didn't have so many options.
The joint defense was a bit risky, but he had to take the risk.
The situation in the field was indeed as Su Chen thought.
The Spurs' three-point shooting isn't particularly good, but the Spurs have a legendary power forward like Duncan.
The easiest way for the Spurs to break down the defense is to let Duncan dominate the ball near the free throw line, and by watching the defense, he can choose to shoot himself from the center or pass to the left and right three-point positions.
There is no need for Popovich to deploy on the spot, and the Spurs are specially trained to break down the defense.
Parker played the ball to Duncan near the free-throw line after making a combo play.
Su Chen's arrangement predicted this, after all, he had done a lot of Spurs tactical analysis and knew the Spurs' conventional way of breaking the defense.
Naturally, he doesn't give Duncan room to slow down at the free-throw line.
Almost the moment Duncan received the ball, and before he could turn around, Bogut and Green both sandwiched Duncan into a hamburger.
The pinch came too quickly, Duncan didn't turn around, his center of gravity was a little unstable, and he had to pass the ball immediately.
Fortunately, Duncan is the axis of the Spurs, and he has a lot of experience in handling the ball, and he immediately threw it to Leonard, who was relatively weak defensively.
But in any case, the ball came out on an unstable footing.
Even if there is no mistake, the force is a little too big, and when Leonard adjusts, it is immediately compressed and there is no room to shoot.
Leonard immediately distributed the ball to Danny Green on the other side.
Danny Green didn't hesitate after receiving the ball and chose to take the ball directly.
Danny Green's point was set up as a decoy by Su Chen, and he had predicted that Danny Green would become the endpoint of breaking the defense.
Thompson, who pounced on Leonard just now, actually didn't have all his strength at all, and changed the direction of his center of gravity at the moment of Leonard's pass to make up for Danny Green.
Danny Green made a quick shot, but was still distracted by Thompson's defense, which anticipated the run in advance.
And Danny Green has a nickname called Tielin, and it's not for nothing, he's very accurate when he's on time, but he's also very iron when he's iron.
This is also why Su Chen dared to use Danny Green as bait.
After eating Thompson's interference, the ball jumped out of the box.
Bogut didn't have any pressure to take the rebound, because the Spurs didn't have anyone to fight for the rebound, and they all went back to defense.
Popovich had just set it up and didn't give the Warriors a chance to break fast, so he was pretty quick to defend himself.
There was no fast-break opportunity for this ball, so Curry didn't run forward, but came over to catch the ball and dribble it across half court.
Offense and defense transitions, and now it's the Warriors' offensive round.
After Curry dribbled the ball through half court, he waited for his teammates to settle down, and then handed the ball directly to Bogut, who looked like he was going to pick it up.
Defending Curry was replaced by Danny Green, who was still preparing to go around the pick-and-roll, but who knew that Curry gave the ball to Bogut and didn't go to the pick-and-roll at all, but ran a three-pointer in the other direction.
This scared Danny Green into chasing after Curry.
The Warriors are dual-threaded at this time.
On one side, Thompson made a cover for Curry, who made a three-point run without the ball.
On the other side, Bogut gave the ball to Draymond Green, and then Bogut looked like he was going to make a pick-and-roll for Thompson.
Because of Thompson's excellent touch before, Leonard has gone to lead Thompson.
However, Curry and Thompson's cover runs for each other made Danny Green not follow Curry for the first time, and Leonard had no choice but to chase Curry.
Thompson's hand is good, but Curry's three-point shot can't be empty.
Danny Green also observed that Thompson was running towards the three-point line, where Bogut had leaned over to make a pick-and-roll.
Apparently this is a Thompson three-pointer without the ball.
In addition, when Popovich took a timeout, he also emphasized the need to defend the Warriors' three-point shooting, with Duncan and Danny Green both leaning towards Thompson's three-point position.
But at this time, Thompson suddenly accelerated and reversed the inward cut.
Green was also a back-to-back, stitch-like pass that went straight to Thompson's cut.
Due to the bonus of simulated glasses, this tactic is equivalent to thousands of drills when arranged.
The whole fit is also extremely smooth.
The Spurs' overall defense is near the three-point line, and the energy is also on pressing turnovers and passing the ball.
Without cutting off this pass, Thompson received the ball to the inside and turned out to be empty.
Facing an unguarded basket, Thompson made a simple layup that saved his strength.
The ball is also easy to put in.
Spurs 83:73 Warriors.
The whole arena was also quiet.
It's hard to imagine this picture, the legendary Spurs, which are known for their defense, actually have a situation where the inside line is empty and the opponent steals points.
Don't look at the Warriors' cooperation, it's complicated to say, but it's really on the court, it's only a few seconds.
It seems to be a very simple tactic that breaks through the Spurs' defense.
From 18 to 10, the nature of the game has changed.
Compared with the silence before the Warriors' bench, this goal scored and suddenly became excited.
Even David Lee and Jarrett Jack, who were still unconvinced before, couldn't help but stand up at this time, and they all had expressions of disbelief on their faces.
In a short period of time, he actually beat the Spurs 8-0, is this still the super defensive team Spurs?
This is probably also the charm of small-ball tactics, there is no absolute defense in the small-ball era, and whether the score is exploded or not depends on the player's own feeling.
Honk!
That's when Popovich called another timeout.
Who would have thought that this rookie coach, who came up to replace him temporarily, stopped Popovich twice in a row in a short period of time.
It's incredible.
Even a timeout against the legendary coach of the same level, Popovich, can have an effect.
In other words, the last Popovich timeout was completely ineffective, so it was necessary to call another one.
Although they are still 10 points behind, the momentum of the two sides is completely different at this time.
The mood of the entire Spurs bench obviously felt that something was wrong, quite a while, and the morale of the Warriors was high, and everyone was excited.
"It's a pity that if other coaches don't let go of their minds, they will watch a few more rounds."
As long as Su Chen secretly shook his head.