In fact, Scott Brooks also felt a little incomprehensible about Su Chen.

After all, Su Chen was last year's champion coach, and at the same time, he also played a record of 20 consecutive wins in the opening game this season, putting aside the public's prejudice against Su Chen, Su Chen does have some ability.

Whether it is Su Chen when he was with the Warriors or Su Chen at the Timberwolves now, Scott Brooks has found that he doesn't like to use the interior to attack.

When I was with the Warriors, the interior line was basically pure blue-collar.

The offensive interior line has no tactical position in his hands at all, and David Lee was the only All-Star of the Warriors last season, but he was directly pressed to the starter, even if he played as a substitute, he was to do some blue-collar things.

If Su Chen had such a system, then he wouldn't have much to think about.

However, Su Chen went to the Timberwolves and changed the system.

But after changing the system, Su Chen still doesn't treat the inside line very well.

The first thing he did in the offseason was to trade the team's original core, an All-Star-caliber offensive interior player, Love.

At the same time, let Gobert and Muscala play inside.

Muscala is a pure tool man who opens up space, and there is nothing to say.

Although Gobert seemed to have a lot of offense a while ago, in essence, Gobert is still a blue-collar who eats cakes.

And through Scott Brooks' recent use of Gobert, he also realized that Su Chen seems to be making a good deal for Gobert's data.

Because in Su Chen's eyes, Ibaka's all-round and speed-type inside line is his goal.

Scott Brooks has also coached Ibaka for so long, and he still knows a lot about Ibaka, so he has a bit of a regular interior attack.

But if he is allowed to be a pure blue-collar player, Ibaka is top-notch except for the quality of pick-and-rolls and rebounds.

Although Giannis Antetokounmpo plays the power forward position, he is actually a ball-handling style of play, which is a small forward who does not shoot.

Scott Brooks knows very well that in Su Chen's system, he doesn't regard the inside line as the core at all.

So, apart from Gobert, he doesn't want to play on any other inside line.

At this time, both sides jump the ball.

Gobert jumped to the ball for the Thunder.

After Sofrosa got the ball, he dialed it directly to Durant.

Durant is now the boss of the Thunder, and although Westbrook has not lost the ball, at least the first big ball should be handed over to Durant.

Durant motioned to pull away.

This is to turn on the stand-up singles mode.

The main defense against Durant is Andre Iguodala.

"Why don't you let Giannis Antetokounmpo defend Durant, is there a communication error?"

Kenny Smith said at this point.

Durant's singles are mostly from mid-range, and his very long arms combined with the distance he pulls back make Durant's shots look like they can't be interfered with.

And Giannis Antetokounmpo, who is also tall and has long arms, looks like he can compete with Durant.

During the pre-game analysis and discussion, the members of the gold medal commentary team all agreed that it would be Giannis Antetokounmpo who would defend Durant alone.

"Su Chen on the sidelines is very calm, it seems that this is arranged."

Johnson spotted the situation on the sidelines at this time.

Generally speaking, when there is a misalignment, the coach will shout a warning from the sidelines.

This has nothing to do with the coach's personality, this is a very basic job of the coach, because the players are constantly secreting hormones when they play on the field, even some players with high ball intelligence can't think of a way to calm down at the first time.

At this time, the coach on the sidelines must remind the players.

Su Chen is so calm, either he is an amateur or he has arranged it in advance.

"Giannis Antetokounmpo is defending Sofrosa from the outside, and he's very focused."

Barkley said with a smile.

In this way, the Timberwolves' strategy is really to let Iguodala defend Durant.

"It's crazy."

O'Neill shook his head as well.

Now Durant is at the peak of his career and has won the scoring title for a second time, especially this season's MVP is also far ahead.

Durant's firepower is not in doubt at all.

Even in the face of a player of similar size, Durant can still take a dry pull that ignores the defense and throws into the mid-range shot one by one.

Durant's official height is 2.08 meters, but in fact, Durant is more than 2.08 meters at all.

Durant is not alone in lying about height, many people in the league will report a fake height in order to play their favorite position, but these people usually overreport a little bit more.

It's really rare to lie so much about Durant.

In the same frame photo of Durant and some centers, the height does not seem to suffer at all, and even when facing Cousins, it is significantly taller.

Although there are reasons for taking pictures, there are angles, but Durant and so many interior players have not suffered from taking photos, so it can't be a matter of camera angles every time.

Giannis Antetokounmpo's height is 2.13 meters, but when he met Durant just now, the two didn't look like there was any height difference.

And Iguodala is only 1.98m.

When Durant, whose actual height can be compared to an interior player, faces Iguodala's 1.98 meters, a big gap can be seen visually.

It's almost like a joke.

People seem to have seen Durant score wantonly on Iguodala's head.

And at this time, Durant obviously doesn't see Iguodala as a human being.

He didn't even dribble the ball, and after making a triple threat, he was going to pull Iguodala directly.

When he got up, Iguodala couldn't even seal his palm, and the difference in height and arm span between the two was really big.

But Durant felt that something was wrong at the moment he got up.

Because when he got up, Iguodala played him up against him, so that Durant did not find a comfortable position.

When he shot, his movements were a little deformed.

Clang!

Durant's mid-range shot hit the iron.

"Does it feel bad?"

"This shot didn't go in."

"Iguodala didn't interfere with him in the slightest."

In the commentary seat, there was an exclamation almost at the same time.

When Durant got up just now, it was obvious that Iguodala didn't give any interference, because Iguodala couldn't click the ball in Durant's hand at all.

If you want to interfere with Durant, you can only hit Durant's arm.

But just now Iguodala just made a simple face cover, blocking Durant's vision, such a simple defense.

The defensive action of sealing the face, even for ordinary shooters, is useless.

As professional players, they all have a good sense of the ball, especially as Durant, which is useless.

If it were so simple to defend Durant, Durant would not have won the scoring title for a long time.

So the commentators feel that it's just a matter of Durant's bad hand.

However, Su Chen, who was on the sidelines, smiled without a trace.

For Durant's defense, as a traverser, he knows exactly what it takes to defend Durant.

Trying to rely on height and reach to defend Durant is not a viable path.

Even Giannis Antetokounmpo, who is at his peak, has no great effect on defending Durant after an Achilles tendon injury.

In the '21 playoffs, the Bucks didn't believe this at first, allowing Giannis Antetokounmpo to defend Durant in the first two games.

But Durant averaged 30.5 points per game while shooting 55.8 percent from the field, which is no different from the average player defending Durant.

It's basically all about Durant's own feel.

The person who really plays a defensive role against Durant is Tucker.

Defending Durant has never needed height and reach, but strength, or lower body strength to be exact.

At the moment when Durant rises, there is no room for Durant to rise.

Durant's lower body strength is relatively weak, and the moment he gets up is squeezed away, his entire shooting rhythm will go to an unfamiliar rhythm for him.

At this time, you only need to cover Durant's face defense and block Durant's sight, and you can really limit Durant.

The unfamiliar rhythm of the shot, as well as the defense of the face block, Durant's hand will be abnormal.

Of course, to truly limit Durant all over the court, Iguodala can't do it alone.

At least one other person, similar to Iguodala, is needed to defend Durant in a biting manner throughout the court.

The effect of this first round was to meet Su Chen's requirements.

Iguodala is only 1.98 meters, but in this way, he is very suitable for defending Durant.

After all, even James can carry a person who can carry Durant, which is not a big deal.

The Thunder didn't care too much about it, and they all went back to defense immediately.

They also felt that Durant just didn't feel good and didn't throw it in.

(End of chapter)