new lord of the rings

Chapter 39: No Waves Are Not Warriors

The Warriors have already led by 26 points, and everyone feels that they have made up their minds. Thibodeau, the Bulls players, the commentators, and the Warriors. Zhang Xin also sat on the bench with a smile on Curry, Thompson, Bane Adams, Bogut and Green are running on the field, ready to play this quarter, and wait for the Bulls to withdraw first, and then the fringe players run out of time on the court, and then they can rest and prepare for the next game.

Different weak teams have different ways of winning, but different strong teams have the same way of losing, that is: waves!

The formerly strong Lakers started to wave every time they took a big lead, and lost the game to waves in the end. Lakers fans jokingly called it "wave lake."

The same is true for the Warriors today. Zhang Xin watched the sudden change of situation on the field in a daze on the bench:

Curry dribbled the ball up the frontcourt, and Green hadn't come up to the pick-and-roll. Two steps away from the three-point line is a super long three-pointer, hit the iron!The bull made a switch;

Thompson received Curry, made a three-pointer from the corner, and shot without standing still. He hit the iron, and the Bulls turned back and Boozer made a high mid-range shot;

Green's high pick-and-roll, receiving a pass from Curry, a careless pass, was intercepted by Butler, and made a conversion;
Barnes pushed the switch, the ball was dribbled, and Hinrich controlled the ball and made a switch and went straight to the layup!
Mark Jackson immediately called a timeout, and the Bulls scored 8:0 as soon as the third quarter came up!

Mark Jackson didn't take it seriously either. It was nothing more than the fact that the players were a little slack. It would be good to call a timeout to let them adjust their mentality.

Pause back.

The Warriors showed another new trick, which opened Zhang Xin's eyes:

Bogut and Curry have a high pick-and-roll. Curry breaks through with the ball and takes away two people. Bogut catches the pass from Curry and dunks. , the warriors on the field laughed together;
Barnes made an off-ball screen for Thompson with a little more force, and was called an offensive foul. Bull Hinrich hit a three-pointer;
Green's arc top organization, Noah took two steps, Green got angry when he saw it, he pulled up angrily and hit an iron, and Hinrich came back and scored another three-pointer!

The point difference was chased to only 10 points left!
Mark Jackson was in a hurry and quickly replaced Iguodala and Zhang Xin.

Iguodala and Zhang Xin played to stabilize the situation.

Seeing that the Warriors hadn't scored for nearly 4 minutes, Zhang Xin thought about solving the scoring problem first, and made a gesture with Curry, who understood.

Zhang Xin slid around the bottom line of Green, came to the low post on the right, turned around and put Butler behind his back, received a lob from Thompson, and Zhang Xin singled Butler with his back.

Butler was terrified of being beaten by Zhang Xin's tactic. As soon as Zhang Xin was about to hit him back, Butler became very nervous and groaned inwardly.

Zhang Xin caught the ball with his right hand and pivoted with his left foot, and made a fake jump shot. Butler couldn't help but flew into the air: It's hard!
Flying Butler, Zhang Xin took a step forward with his right foot, and a small throw broke the scoring panic.

The offense is easy to solve, but the problem is defense. The Bulls have shown confidence. As long as they run out of open space, they can catch the ball and shoot.

Friends who have played ball know that no matter how good the defense is, when you meet an opponent who plays with confidence, no matter how good your shots are, you are blocked in the face, and he can still score!

The Warriors are not afraid. I can’t guard you, but you can’t guard me either. It’s just a confrontation. The Warriors kept their lead by 10 points until the end. At the end of the game, the Warriors led the Bulls by 136 points at 126:[-]. The two sides scored a big score .

It doesn't matter to the Warriors, after all, it has always been an offensive team, and it's normal for the opponent to score a high score. Anyway, I won the game with a high score;
Thibodeau of the Bulls blushed in the face of the reporter: "There is no player who has never been given a high score. It's not that we can't defend well. We also got a high score. Can a player lose if he loses? That's called defeat."

这场球勇士的球员倒是打爽了，数据好看嘛，一个个笑颜逐开，有七人上双，库里28分8助攻5篮板，汤普森25分4助攻4篮板，伊戈达拉10分6助攻5篮板，格林11分8助攻11篮板，博古特11分11篮板3助攻，巴恩斯18分4助攻5篮板张信33分10助攻9篮板，一个准三双。

Looking at the happy players, Mark Jackson's heart hurts: won't your conscience hurt!Scared me to death!
At the press conference, Mark Jackson criticized certain players for being unprofessional (there is a reason for their unpopularity, they finally ate dumplings...), and Curry, who followed him, frowned, and seriously reviewed what he did at a certain time. A little lax, you must seriously review yourself and so on.

The Warriors also made a summary after the game:

Correct attitude, face every game seriously, everyone has made self-criticism;

To sum up the success of today's tactics against the Bulls, Zhang Xin will do this.

Zhang Xin said: "Today Thibodeau's defense is actually relatively successful. He uses local three defenses and two and strong side stacking + zone defense, trying to ensure that there will be no five defenses and four or even five defenses and three defenses. We are not the presence of five minors. When they went up, they were very successful in defending;

But what we have done more successfully is that when our five juniors are on the court, in addition to the three-point group that can open up space, we also have reliable weak-side offensive options to deal with their strong-side stacking. The reason why they collapsed thousands of miles when Xiao was on the court was that they could not have enough mobility to defend the weak side when the strong side was stacked;

So we can draw two lessons:
One is to strengthen the weak side offense when we face this defensive strategy;

The second is to avoid being forced to hit the weak side when partially double-teamed. This year's Spurs and Heat are both masters in dealing with this kind of defense. We must be prepared. "

Everyone in the Warriors applauded, especially Bogut, Thompson, Blake, David Lee and others. They rarely heard Zhang Xin’s explanation of tactics. Zhang Xin usually discussed tactical arrangements with Mark Jackson and Curry Iguodala. , Zhang Xin’s summary today made them suddenly think: Why did the Warriors undergo such a radical change after Zhang Xin came to the Warriors?
Is it just because of Zhang Xin's personal ability?
How did the five small lineups come about?You know, Barnes can replace Zhang Xin’s role to a certain extent, why Mark Jackson didn’t put up this lineup before, and why the strength of the rotation lineup can improve by leaps and bounds. Thompson was here to lead the team before, Thompson Doesn't his offensive ability work?Of course not. Listening to Zhang Xin's summary today, they found that there is only one truth, and it is everything brought by this young man!
"Also, I have another idea, Stephen, about you." Zhang Xin and Curry smiled.

Curry nodded with a smile: "Just say it, I'm listening."

Zhang Xin nodded: "Stephen, as our boss, is the engine of the team. No one of us can compare to Stephen in this regard. Everyone should have no objection to this?"

The warriors nodded, there is no doubt about it.

"To improve our combat power, I have a few suggestions:

One is to enhance Stephen’s personal defensive ability. Stephen, I’m not saying you’re not good at defending. What I’m talking about is that you’re facing a misplaced defense. As a breakthrough and being played by infinite dislocation singles, if Stephen is forced to foul too many times, we will lose this most powerful engine!

The second is that since we know this situation, Stephen will go to single defense for a short time, but we must find a way to hide Stephen! "

Curry frowned: "You mean to use a big delay, and then let the original defender go after it?"

Zhang Xin gave a thumbs up: "That's it, Stephen is worried about communication?"

Curry nodded: "Exactly."

Zhang Xin smiled: "That's why I brought it up now. We need to train specifically for this kind of situation. Before the playoffs, we should practice this big delay and switch defense very well. Well, we can train well. Let’s say it’s LeBron James against the Heat.”

Mark Jackson nodded: "I agree with Zhang's idea. I will work with the coaching staff to design the training method. Stephen, you may have to work harder next time."

Curry said happily: "As long as it can improve the strength of the team, I will do anything. Thinking of this year's playoffs, I can't wait!"

Zhang Xin smiled: "Stephen, don't worry, there are more difficult ones. What I just said was just defense. Have you ever thought that with our five small lineups shining, you said that other players who are interested in the championship Will the team use a small lineup to restrain us?"

Iguodala frowned: "This is for sure. When the big lineup suffers from us, there will definitely be a small lineup to deal with us. Let alone using a small lineup to deal with us infinitely. Maybe we don't have a chance at easyball."

Zhang Xin said: "That's it, as Andre said, this kind of situation is bound to happen:

There are times when the three-pointer is missed;
There are times when the transfer ball is stagnant;
We have a lot of off-ball screens and on-ball pick-and-rolls. What can we do when facing a small lineup that can switch us infinitely? "

Green frowned and said, "There aren't many teams that can do this, right?"

Curry stopped Green: "No, although there are few, there are. The Thunder, Spurs and Heat are all experts. Since we are going to the finals, these teams are the enemies we need to face."

Zhang Xin nodded: "When we are all restricted like this, we have only one way, strong shots, strong shots at the moment of pick-and-roll and defense, Stephen, you need to practice strong shots."

Curry said with a smile: "Don't worry, I will work hard, but when faced with this situation, do we have a more reliable method?"

Zhang Xin was a little confused.

Curry laughed: "You missed yourself. When we couldn't open it, there were still your post-up singles and breakthroughs. Zhang Xin, you don't know how strong you are!"

Zhang Xin was surprised: "Oh my god, I really forgot about myself. Now my singles ability is not inferior to that of Durant in the 18th season. This is the master's nirvana! This is definitely the same as Durant's. The singles are evenly divided, plus I am 5cm taller than the gang leader, and there are even more changes."

Zhang is confident. In this way, as long as Curry's defense is made up, the Warriors can basically cope with various situations, and the rest will be left to God.

But do your best, each according to his destiny...

But isn't the destiny in human affairs?
(End of this chapter)