NBA: Duncan feels uneasy coaching Warriors

Chapter 4 Continuous stop Popovich
Popovich was a little surprised and glanced at Su Chen on the sidelines of the Warriors, and found that Su Chen was also looking at him at this time.

But Su Chen didn't look at Popovich, but focused on the field.

Popovich looked a little weird. He had never met such a strange opponent like Su Chen.

In fact, at this time, Su Chen was trying to conceal his intentions so as not to look at Popovich, so as not to let Popovich guess his intentions.

Su Chen wanted to predict the Spurs' offensive routine, but the Spurs' offensive routine was too complicated, but when he put on a zone defense, the Spurs didn't have so many choices.

Zone defense is a little risky, but he has to take it.

The situation on the field was indeed as Su Chen thought.

The Spurs' three-pointers are not particularly good, but the Spurs have a legendary power forward like Duncan.

The easiest way for the Spurs to break through the zone defense is to let Duncan dominate the ball near the free throw line. By observing the defense, he can choose to make a mid-range shot or pass to the open three-pointers on the left and right sides.

There is no need for Popovich to deploy on the spot at all. The Spurs are specially trained to break the zone defense.

Parker gave the ball to Duncan near the free throw line after gesturing a zone-breaking tactic.

Su Chen's arrangement predicted this point. After all, he has done a lot of analysis of the Spurs' tactics and knows the Spurs' conventional way of breaking the zone defense.

Naturally, he won't give Duncan the space to handle the ball slowly at the free throw line.

Almost the moment Duncan received the ball, before turning around, Bogut and Green both sandwiched Duncan into a hamburger.

The pinch came too fast, 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. He has rich experience in handling the ball and immediately threw it to Leonard, who is relatively weak in defense.

But in any case, the ball was passed out without a firm foothold.

Even if there are no mistakes, the strength is a bit too strong, and when Leonard adjusts, he will be compressed immediately and there will be no room for shots.

Leonard immediately passed the ball to Danny Green on the other side.

Danny Green didn't hesitate after receiving the ball, and directly chose to catch and shoot.

The point of Danny Green was set as a bait by Su Chen. He had predicted that Danny Green would become the end point of breaking the zone defense.

Thompson, who threw Leonard just now, actually didn't have all his strength at all. The moment Leonard passed the ball, he changed his center of gravity to Danny Green to defend.

Danny Green's shot was quick, but he was still interfered by the defensive interference of Thompson who predicted the run in advance.

And Danny Green has a nickname called Tielin, which is not for nothing. He is very accurate when he is accurate, but he is also very iron when he is iron.

This is why Su Chen dared to use Danny Green as bait.

After getting an interference from Thompson, the ball bounced out of the box.

Bogut accepted the rebound without any pressure, because the Spurs had no one to fight for the rebound, and they all returned to defense.

Popovich just arranged, don't give the Warriors a chance to break fast, so the defense speed is quite fast.

There was no fast break opportunity for this ball, so Curry did not run forward, but came to catch the ball and dribble the ball across half court.

Offensive and defensive transition, now is the Warriors' offensive round.

Curry dribbled the ball across half court, waited for his teammate to settle, and then handed the ball directly to Bogut, who looked like he was going to pick and roll.

Defensive Curry was replaced by Danny Green, and he 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 instead ran a three-pointer in the other direction.

This scared Danny Green to chase after Curry.

The warrior is a dual-threaded operation at this time.

On one side, Thompson made a screen for Curry, and Curry 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 set Thompson for a pick-and-roll [-].

Because of Thompson's excellent touch before, Leonard has already gone to defend Thompson.

However, Curry and Thompson's mutual cover movement prevented Danny Green from following Curry immediately. In desperation, Leonard had no choice but to chase Curry.

Thompson's touch is good, but Curry's three-pointer can't open up.

Danny Green also observed that Thompson was running towards the three-point line, where Bogut had already leaned over to set up a pick-and-roll action.

Obviously this is a Thompson off-ball three-point tactic.

In addition, when Popovich paused, he also emphasized the need to defend the Warriors' three-pointers. Both Duncan and Danny Green were leaning towards Thompson's three-pointer position.

But at this moment, Thompson suddenly accelerated and ran inward.

Green is also in a back-up state, passing the ball at every turn, and it is directly sent to Thompson on the way to cut inside.

Due to the addition of simulated glasses, when this tactic is deployed, it is equivalent to practicing thousands of times.

The whole coordination is also very smooth.

The Spurs' overall defense is near the three-point line, and their energy is also on pressing errors and intercepting passes.

Without breaking the pass, Thompson received the ball to the inside and there was no one there.

Facing the unguarded basket, Thompson made a simple layup to save energy.

This ball is also easy to put in.

Spurs 83:73 Warriors.

The entire arena was also quiet.

It's hard to imagine this scene. The Spurs, a legendary strong team known for their defense, unexpectedly appeared in a situation where there was no one inside and was stolen by the opponent.

Don't look at the Warriors' cooperation, which is complicated to say, but it only takes a few seconds on the court.

It seems that a very simple tactic broke through the Spurs' defense.

From 18 points to 10 points, the nature of the game has changed.

Compared with the silence before the Warriors' bench, this goal made me excited all of a sudden.

Even David Lee and Jarrett Jack, who were still unconvinced before, couldn't help standing up at this moment, with expressions of disbelief on their faces.

In a short period of time, they beat the Spurs 8-0. Is this still the super defensive team Spurs?
This is probably also the charm of small ball tactics. In the small ball era, there is no absolute defense. Whether to burst or not depends on the player's own touch.

beep!
At this time, Popovich actually called another timeout.

Who would have thought that this new coach who came up temporarily to replace him stopped Popovich twice in a short period of time.

This is incredible.

Even against a legendary coach of the same level, Popovich's timeout can also have an effect.

It is equivalent to saying that Popovich's timeout in the last one did not work at all, so another one needs to be called.

Although still 10 points behind, the momentum of the two sides is completely different at this time.

The mood of the entire bench for the Spurs obviously felt that something was wrong, rather, the morale of the Warriors was high and everyone looked excited.

"It's a pity, if other coaches definitely won't let go of their face and watch a few more rounds."

As long as Su Chen shook his head secretly.

(End of this chapter)