Legendary star

Chapter 156 Three Inside Tactics

On May 2000, 5, in the locker room of the visiting team at the Alamo Stadium, the head coach of the Trail Blazers, Mike Dunville, stood at the door with a dignified expression, making the final tactical arrangement. The importance of this game is self-evident. , there is still a glimmer of hope. If you lose, you can only make the last struggle in the Moda Center.

Obviously, this kind of result is undoubtedly the result that Mike Dunville is the last to see. If he can choose, Mike Dunville naturally hopes that the Blazers will eliminate the Spurs, enter the finals and win the championship, but obviously this kind of thinking is very unrealistic. But even so, Mike Dunville also hopes that the Blazers can persist until the last game, the last moment, even if they lose, they must lose with dignity.

"I won't say much about the others. What we need now is a victory, victory, OK!" When Mike Dunville finished arranging the tactics, he also shouted the slogan of victory loudly in the locker room.

It's just that although he shouted loudly in the locker room, when the door of the locker room opened and saw the first player coming out of the opposite Spurs' locker room, Dammons who yelled the loudest just now Tadmire was scared in an instant, and even his calves began to shake uncontrollably.

When the Spurs' locker room opened, Meng Xu, who was the first to come out, was also a little surprised. He seemed to come out a little early today, but Meng Xu still greeted the players of the Blazers opposite him cordially: "Little Flying Squirrel Hello sir."

"Hmph." Ignoring Meng Xu completely, he shook his arm. Damon Stoudemire, as the first player of the Trail Blazers to play, walked into the player tunnel and walked towards the direction of the court, leaving him standing still. At the door, Meng Xu looked embarrassed.

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"In this game, the Trail Blazers lineup has made a lot of changes. The most important point is that Detlef Schramf replaced Steve Smith in the starting lineup. It seems that the Blazers are going to Playing a lineup of 3 inside. The rest of the positions have not changed, the center is still Arvedas Sabonis, Rasheed Wallace appears at the small forward position, and Scottie Pippen's The position on the court is the shooting guard, and the point guard is still Damon Stoudemire. The Blazers' lineup is very interesting. Except for the flying mouse, the other four are all over 2 meters tall. This change in player will be an important test for the Spurs."

In order to limit Duncan's singles and Meng Xu's breakthrough to the maximum extent, Mike Dunville also came up with a three-inside tactic ingeniously. Such a non-mainstream tactic, but the three-inside tactic strengthens the inside defense. A very big loophole, this game is also a very big test for Scottie Pippen and Damon Stoudemire's perimeter defense. You must know that the Spurs' perimeter four irons, now except for Avery Johnson, The remaining three players all made more than 3% of their 42-pointers in the playoffs. The first game between the Trail Blazers and the Spurs was mainly due to the three-point rain lost to the Spurs.

After Michaels and Magician read the starting lineups of the two teams, the pre-match warm-ups of the two teams have also ended, and all the main players have entered the court. Duncan held the basketball used in the game in his arms as always, And Meng Xu stood behind Duncan with his hands on his hips, watching Duncan's almost religious opening.

Perhaps it was the effect of Duncan's devout prayers. In this game, Duncan beat Rasheed Wallace and easily won the first wave of possession for the Spurs.

After Avery Johnson dribbled the ball into half court, he looked at the three insiders of the Blazers who were already in position. He made a pick-and-roll with Sean Elliott and got rid of Damon Stoudemire who was defending himself. After that, the basketball was handed over to Sean Elliott who went down the edge of the paint area, but because the Blazers placed three players near the paint area, plus the basket and Arvedas Sabonis Duncan, who is fighting for position, is now very crowded under the basket.And now Sean Elliott holding the ball is also very difficult to handle. In the tactical arrangement before the game, Sean Elliott is not needed to attack with the ball. He only needs to be in the left and right corners for Duncan Open up the position, create opportunities for singles, and then wait for the opportunity to find an open space.

Just after Sean Elliot hesitated for a moment, Rasheed Wallace had already appeared in front of him. In desperation, Sean Elliot had to pass the basketball back and there was no defense Mario Ellis.

After the start of the game, Duncan was defended by white center Detlef Schramff. Due to his lack of height and strength, Detlef Schramff's main defense against Duncan was to go around the front , while Avidas Sabonis sits on the other side of the basket, watching Meng Xu who is trying to slip to the bottom line while waiting for an opportunity to support Schramf, and Rasheed Wallace, who is extremely mobile Cruising near the free throw line.This defensive tactic is completely a replica of the Spurs. David Robinson and Duncan sit at the basket, and Meng Xu sweeps almost all areas from the free throw line to below the 3-point line. There is still a gap between the speed of movement and the players of the Spurs, so the range they can defend is far less than that of the Spurs.

The Blazers' defensive rotation after the opening was still very good. Mario Elli just received the ball on the left side of the 3-point line, and Pippen's supplementary defense was already in place. After the Blazers used the tactic of three inside lanes, Pippen Peng's defensive pressure is undoubtedly the biggest among several players on the field.

Mario Eli turned sideways to Pippen to protect the basketball in his hand. At this time, Meng Xu had already circled from the left side of the court to the right side, and ran to the 3-degree angle on the right side of the 45-point line again.

Seeing that the attack had consumed 20 seconds, Mario Elli, who was suppressed by Pippen and had no chance to make a move, directly passed the ball horizontally to Meng Xu, who was unguarded in the distance.

After receiving the ball, Meng Xu didn't hesitate at all. Facing the rushing Rasheed Wallace, he jumped up directly and threw the first shot of the game on the right side of the 3-point line.

As Meng Xu threw the ball into the net, the entire Alamo Stadium suddenly boiled.

"The Blazers are going to be difficult." Magic Johnson has also heard about Meng Xu's first ball rule recently. Although he scoffs at such mysterious things, after carefully reading Meng Xu's technical statistics for each game, The magician also has to believe that this law seems to really exist.

(End of this chapter)