king of defenders

Chapter 1070 A Different Celtic
The Celtics head coach secretly decided that he must have a good talk with Irving when he has time later to find out what happened, but there is no time now.

The intermission time is coming to an end soon, and he has to seize the time to arrange the tactics for the second half. Fortunately, the players look good now, which saves the effort of cheering them up and doing ideological work.

After pondering for a while, the head coach said: "In the second half, we will defend the zone defense, so we don't need to pinch Meng Yun, but the assist defense and switch defense must be fast, and we must pay attention to communicating with each other more, so as not to miss people. On the offensive end." Said, He looked at Owen, saw Owen's serious face and firm eyes, and suddenly felt certain in his heart, "On the offensive end, we will fight around Owen, and Owen will dominate every attack."

Hearing this, Owen's eyes lit up immediately, this style of play with absolute dominance is his favorite.

A group of Celtic players only hesitated for a moment, and then nodded in agreement, which surprised the head coach again.

You know, Irving's situation in the Celtics can't be said to be bad, but it's actually a bit embarrassing. The team management didn't clarify his leadership position, which caused many players on the team to disagree with his leadership position. Some people think that Irving is just a passerby and will leave soon. He will not become the real boss of this team.

So when it comes to the head coach, there will be problems. For example, when arranging tactics, he wants to make it clear that Irving is the absolute core, but the players don't agree with it in their hearts, and problems will arise on the court.

But it is obviously different now. He can see that the players' promises are not forced, not just verbal promises.

But why such a change?

"I can't figure it out." The head coach shook his head and decided not to think about it for the time being. Anyway, it's a good thing. He continued: "Irving, you should also pay attention, don't be too sticky to the ball. Not just Irving, Tatum, Smart, Rozier, you guys should also pay attention, don’t stick to the ball. To beat the Heat, we must rely on the strength of the team, rely on everyone’s efforts, the ball must be conducted, and everyone must participate in the offense.”

"Yes." Owen agreed first.

"Understood." Others also agreed.

Afterwards, he instructed some details, and the teaching assistant came to inform him that it was time to go out, and everyone left the locker room.

Here, the Heat have returned.

The halftime entertainment program on the court has ended, and the fans who went out to buy things and go to the bathroom also returned to the auditorium, waiting for the second half to start.

"beep"

The second half begins.

The Heat are on the starting five, as are the Celtics.

However, after only a few rounds in the third quarter, Meng Yun felt something unusual. He controlled the ball with one hand while looking at several Celtic players, frowning slightly: "It's a bit different from the first half before. , It seems that their morale has not been hit. Also, their defense has changed, but this is not the most important thing, the most important thing is that they suddenly seem to have become more tacit with each other."

Can tacit understanding be improved in just one, two, 10 minutes?

This is impossible.

Then there is only one explanation for the current situation, and that is cohesion.

Tacit understanding cannot be improved in a short time, but cohesion can be. To a certain extent, tacit understanding requires long-term training and mutual familiarity; but cohesion is similar to a kind of spiritual power, which does not change with time and space.

For example, some people can gather the people around them together with just a few words, let everyone's hearts resonate, and burst out a powerful force.

At this moment, Meng Yun felt this power from the Celtics players.

"It seems that defeating the Celtics is not as easy as imagined." Meng Yun shook his head and looked at Owen. He also noticed the changes in Owen. It was difficult to understand the changes, but he noticed them and was able to It is vaguely speculated that the change of the Celtics originated from Irving.

Although not sure what exactly happened.

But Meng Yun knew that there were some more variables in this game.

"Pull away." Meng Yun gestured, "No matter what happens, just break it with all your might."

The others pulled away, Meng Yun played singles, dribbled the ball continuously under the crotch, and then accelerated suddenly. At this moment, Hayward next to him moved closer, and Horford on the inside also took a step forward.Owen, Hayward, and Horford formed an inverted triangle, and Meng Yun was on one of the planes, about to plunge headlong into this triangle.

It is difficult to be surrounded on all sides on the court, because there are only five people in a team, and four people surround one player, which is all loopholes.

So three people surrounding one person is already a kind of limit.

At this moment, Meng Yun was about to be surrounded by three people. His heart skipped a beat, and he was keenly aware of the danger. He immediately flipped his wrist and passed the ball, and then he plunged into the encirclement and was tightly surrounded.

"It's okay." Meng Yun heaved a sigh of relief and couldn't help but feel palpitations.

Swish!
With a soft sound, Korver hit a three-pointer, and Meng Yun completely relaxed. Looking back on the situation just now, he couldn't help frowning. The problem was not the opponent's defensive tactics, but the cooperation between the opponent's players. People seem to have no communication, but the encirclement is just right.

Why is that?
Even Meng Yun didn't know that this was an action spontaneously produced by the players after they were highly concentrated. Owen, Hayward, and Horford did not communicate, but they were all highly concentrated and made the best judgments and responses. That's why this result came about.

This is actually a manifestation of cohesion.

If a team does not have cohesion, it is impossible to do it.

As time went by, Meng Yun was not the only one who felt the unusualness of the Celtics. Other Heat players, Coach Spoelstra on the sidelines, and even the fans in the audience felt the strangeness.

The most intuitive performance is that the Celtics' defense has become much stricter, their offense has become less impatient, and the score is gradually shrinking. Although the shrinking speed is not fast, it is indeed shrinking.

But in a few minutes, the difference between the two sides has changed from 15 points to 7 points.

The 8-point point difference was narrowed in a few minutes. This chasing speed is not fast, but it is very steady. You must know that there is no wave in this process. The Heat are always scoring, but the point difference is constantly shrinking. This is what disturbs Coach Spoelstra the most.

Because this was completely unexpected and should not have happened.

"What exactly happened?" Coach Spoelstra frowned and looked at the Celtics coach, but he couldn't find any clues, so he could only shake his head, "Request a timeout."

(End of this chapter)