Legendary star

Chapter 141 The Spurs' Triangle Offense

"Greg, the current state of the team is very good, but compared to the last two games against the Lakers, Meng's state is not very good."

On May 2000, 5, after a day off in San Antonio, the Spurs headed to Portland. The first two games of the Western Conference finals of this season's playoffs will be held at the Moda Center, home of the Portland Trail Blazers. There are still 22 hours before the start of the game, and the Spurs team has already entered the Moda Center in advance, and they are also getting used to the game venue in advance while conducting pre-match training sessions.

"Oh, Meng's condition is not good? Is it because he didn't rest yesterday?" Since the second half of this season, Popovich has begun to adjust the game status of all players in an orderly manner, in order to win in the Western Conference Finals or the NBA Finals. In the finals, the player's state was able to reach its peak. After the 7 games against the Lakers, the state of most of the Spurs' players has been gradually stimulated. On the contrary, compared with the previous round, Meng Xu did not improve. There has been a drop in status. You know, in the series against the Trail Blazers, Popovich has high hopes for Meng Xu.

Although there is no David Robinson, there is no problem with Duncan's ability to deal with the inside combination of Rasheed Wallace and Arvidas Sabonis, but the key reason why the Spurs are blown up by the Blazers every time , It’s not from the inside, but the outside group has been blown up, so Popovich attaches so much importance to Meng Xu, with Meng Xu’s ability in the last round of the series, and the current Scottie Pippen interaction Winning or losing can still be achieved. As long as the Spurs' outside line is not hung up like before, there is still a little hope for the Spurs in this round of series.

After observing from the sidelines for a while, what makes Popovich a little uncomfortable is that compared with the previous round, Meng Xu's state has declined not just a little, but a lot.Meng Xu, who is training before the game, is also very aware of his current state. After using two bottles of enchanting potions in a row, Meng Xu quickly fell from an extremely excited state. Since yesterday, he has been a little listless since yesterday. In the enchanted state, Meng Xu's ability value is very close to 90, and many attributes are overflowing, but Meng Xu's current ability value is only 79, and there is a world of difference between the ability value of 79 and 90, even Kobe of 89 , and the 90 Kobe is not the same person.

For the opponent the Spurs are about to face, whether it is Popovich or Mike Budenholzer, they are very clear in their hearts. After losing David Robinson, there is a qualitative gap between the Spurs and the Trail Blazers. Yes, the Spurs have no one to use inside now, and Sean Elliott has reached the point where he is going to play power forward, while the Blazers on the opposite side have 3 All-Star insiders and two strong substitutes. Not to mention the outside line group, if you just look at the configuration on paper, the Blazers should be the championship every year.

So at this time, when I saw Meng Xu who was doing running training on the field, whether it was Popovich or Mike Budenholzer, they all looked dignified and helpless.

Among the remaining 28 teams in the entire league this season, the only one that can not lose against the Trail Blazers is the Lakers. The Lakers' triangle offense really played the role of 1+1>2, so after all night After night's thinking, Popovich also pinned his last hopes on the triangle offense. Fortunately, when the Bulls dominated the league before, Popovich had more or less studied the triangle offense tactics, and in order to To deal with the Lakers, Popovich and his assistants have carried out targeted research and cracking on the Lakers' triangle offense since the second half of the season.

So now Popovich also hopes to transplant the triangle offense to the Spurs. Duncan will assume the same role as O'Neal. Although the deterrence at the basket is still not as good as O'Neal, it is enough to deal with all the insiders in the league except O'Neal. Yes, and at the same time Duncan's coping ability is not bad at all compared to O'Neal.And Avery Johnson is Ron Haber of the Spurs. Although Ron Haber's understanding of the triangle offense is much different from that of Ron Haber, in line with the principle of enough, Avery Johnson can also adapt to this role. The last one is Meng Xu, in the triangle offense of the Spurs, Meng Xu will assume the same tactical position as Kobe in the Lakers. Meng Xu's excellent breakthrough and the league's first-class outside shooting ability may not be as good as Kobe in scoring continuity, but with Meng Xu Popovich is also looking forward to Xu's relentless character at critical moments, whether Meng Xu can adapt well to this role.Once the Spurs successfully play the triangle offense, not only will they have the hope of defeating the Blazers, but more importantly, after the return of David Robinson, the Spurs will have more tactical options, not as before, the Twin Towers and INSIDE- OUT has gone all over the world.

The Spurs are now training tactical moves under the triangle offense. In order to prevent early exposure, all tactical moves are carried out separately, and they are softened together until the game. Through observations during training, whether it is Duncan or Eric Free Johnson has already adapted to his new role very well. What is more troublesome now is the cooperation between Meng Xu and Mario Elli. There is always a problem of repeated moves between the two.

"Okay, everyone take a break first." Popovich and Mike Budenholzer held the tactical board, called all the players on the field together, and began to re-explain the tactical movement under the triangle offense, especially Meng Xu and Mario Eli were even guided by Popovich alone.Because it is in the Trail Blazers arena, out of the principle of confidentiality, the Spurs are now not only training in running positions, but even guiding tactics separately.

"Meng, come and sit here." After explaining the tactics, Popovich dismissed Mario Eli, called Meng Xu to his side, and at the same time took a towel from behind and handed it to Meng Xu: "how do you feel?"

"It's okay, I just feel a little tired." Meng Xu sat on the seat, took the towel and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

"The schedule of the playoffs is very intensive, so many young players will not adjust their state and mentality, which is why many rookies do not perform well in the playoffs." Seeing Meng Xu nodded, Popovich went on to say: "In addition to exploring the method of adjusting the state by yourself, you can also ask those veterans for advice."

"Well, I see, coach." While speaking, Popovich looked at Mario Elli and Sean Elliott in the distance, wondering if it was because of intentional paddling and pretending to be dead, Mario Ellie and Sean Elliott performed far better in the playoffs this season than they did in the regular season.

"Go, Meng, adjust yourself. Whether we can win this round of the series, you are the most critical point." Popovich patted Meng Xu's shoulder: "I have always been very helpful to you." confidence."

Although Popovich's statement is no different from the Rockets coach Tomjanovich's champion's heart statement, this set of statements is still very good for mediating players' mentality.

It's just that although Popovich hopes that Meng Xu can learn how to mediate the state, Meng Xu himself knows that it's not that his state is not good, but that today's drowsy state is really a sequela of the enchanted potion Ah, according to Anna, there is no way to recover within 5 days. If I knew this thing had such a serious side effect, I should have been more careful when using it.

　It was put on the shelves today, but it was dropped from the favorites after a while, and my heart was so cold when I saw it.

　　Thank you Wolong Zhuge for your reward, thank you for the monthly pass that is actually lonely, this is the first monthly pass, thank you again.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)