new lord of the rings

Chapter 491 Frustrated Paul George!
Westbrook felt the strength of Rondo behind him, while observing the Suns' defense, seeing that the Suns did not intend to encircle and attack, Westbrook directly stepped back, then turned around and stepped forward, Rondo did not rush to attack, Westbrook pressed Rondo wiped the board successfully.

The Suns attacked, Zhang Xin caught the ball by running without the ball, attracted the defense, and gave the ball to Devin Booker who was emptied. Devin Booker made a decisive shot, but the ball did not score. This is normal, and it is impossible for every open space Can score three points.

Westbrook dribbled the ball quickly across the half court without passing the ball, and broke through directly and quickly. Rondo's speed could keep up, but it was difficult to resist Westbrook's impact. Rondo was knocked away by Westbrook Then he made a layup, and Gasol's big center hadn't fully settled down yet. Westbrook was forcing a quick start, relying on his own ability to beat Rondo.

Rondo was a little helpless. With his speed, he could keep up with Westbrook, but Westbrook had too much momentum after rushing up. He had no other way except cutting the ball, but cutting the ball is risky. If you are not careful, you may cut yourself into the field.

Zhang Xin didn't even frown, indicating that Rondo can defend normally. If Westbrook is willing to play like this for the whole game, it's fine. There is often a saying in the defensive strategy: cutting off the connection between the ball holder and other people.

The advantage of this approach is that if the superstar fights against a team alone, it is difficult for a superstar to have one person who can beat a team's physical strength and ability. Once the ball holder attacks too much, first, the feeling of other teammates will cool down. It’s because the enthusiasm of the teammates will decrease. As a result, the creativity of the entire team will decrease. Other coaches can make the opponent appear in such a situation, but Coach Donovan uses it himself. Naturally, Zhang Xin will not intentionally break the opponent. layout.

Sure enough, Westbrook continued to attack Rondo according to coach Donovan's arrangement. Durant and Paul George rarely even touched the ball. Although they knew this was the coach's arrangement, their enthusiasm was also decreasing. .

This is unavoidable. If you touch the ball less and run back and forth, it doesn’t matter for one or two rounds, but once you finish multiple rounds, you will definitely feel burnout in your heart. This is why Zhang Xin even though some teammates are not good at finishing. If you are strong, you have to pass the ball to him and let him participate in the offense, so that you can arouse the enthusiasm of your teammates.

However, this defect will not be manifested for a while. The Thunder rely on Westbrook to beat Rondo, temporarily leading the score, and it can be regarded as achieving their goal. Even if Zhang Xin allows Rondo to defend normally, but in Westbrook Under the impact of Brook, Rondo's physical exertion is still a bit high.

Coach Earl Watson quickly replaced Rondo with Hilde. Buddy Hilde is 193cm tall and weighs 96kg. He is also an extremely fast defender. It would be great to let him defend Westbrook. Not as good as Rondo, but when Zhang Xin is present, Zhang Xin can take on this role.

Hield not only restricted Westbrook, but also helped him on offense. Hield's three-point shooting percentage was the highest in the team. There is no doubt about the talent in points, and with Hilde, the space is widened.

Now the Suns are Zhang Xin, Devin Booker, Buddy Hield, Paul Gasol, and PJ Tucker. Except for Paul Gasol, the five have no three-pointers, and the other four are all three-point shooters. In this kind of space, there is no way for Zhang Xin to be stopped. Paul George has been focusing on defending Zhang Xin from the beginning to the present.

Paul George followed Zhang Xin closely, constantly confronting Zhang Xin with his body, entangled his arms with Zhang Xin's, squeezed, pressed, pulled, pulled, and all kinds of small movements followed. This is Paul George's landing The most defensive effort since the NBA. He used to go all out to defend James, but at that time he had to take care of the offense. Now Paul George's only task is to limit Zhang Xin. The offense Paul George can choose according to the situation, but Dono Wan didn't make any offensive demands on Paul George.

Paul George also knew that the key to winning or losing the game was whether he could limit Zhang Xin's performance. If Zhang Xin couldn't be restrained, it would be very difficult to win the game. Everyone in the Thunder knew how powerful Zhang Xin was!
Faced with Paul George's stalking, Zhang Xin treated it as normal. He had seen too many such defenses. When opponents were desperate, they would often use crazy defenses to find a chance. Crazy, Paul George's level of defense is not in Zhang Xin's eyes.

Zhang Xin held the ball at the top of the arc. Paul George lowered his weight and followed Zhang Xin closely. Zhang Xin turned his body slightly to protect the ball and observed the Thunder's defense. Staring at his own direction; Westbrook guards Buddy Hield, but the direction of his toes is towards himself; Robertson follows Devin Booker, but most of his attention is on his side, Adams sits under the basket, Just to catch his own self-casting net.

Zhang Xin stuck out his right foot, and suddenly broke through to the right. When Paul George was retreating, he turned in front of Paul George and broke to the left. When Westbrook got closer, a ground pass was passed to Hield, who calmly raised his hand and shot. Hilder's three-point shot was fast, but the ballistic was very positive, and he went straight into it. In the basket.

Paul George was a little annoyed. Zhang Xin's breakthrough was very simple, but extremely efficient. In the past two years, Zhang Xin didn't need to do too many moves for his breakthrough. He knew how to surpass others. -out just passed a lot of people, now Zhang Xin is like the peak Michael Jordan, it seems that the dribbling is simple, and the movement of passing people is also simple, but it is very relaxed and very calm, to use an idiom to describe it is : It's a coincidence that doesn't work!
But Paul George was even more frustrated in the next round. Faced with his staring defense, Zhang Xin took a tentative step to force him back, and then shot directly from the three-point line, without taking his defense seriously at all. And he really can't block it himself!

Paul George was very frustrated. When he was defending James Harden and Stephen Curry, who also like to shoot three-pointers, they would at least use a step-back to gain space, but Zhang Xin didn't need it at all. The control is really great. Just the moment he poked his shoulders to force Paul George back, he can take off and shoot directly. The speed of the shot is very fast, but it looks very stable!

Zhang Xin is really amazing!Paul George thought dejectedly.

(End of this chapter)