the rest, only noise

Chapter 166 The Book of War
There is no perfect defensive formation on the pitch.

Teams that like to press on the line will lose defensive rebounds;
Teams playing zone defense are afraid of the opposing big man catching and shooting at the free throw line and missing both corners;
And like the Blazers, the "LSK" formation that pays attention to high defense and defends the penalty area also has flaws.

Louis didn't point it out directly, he just wanted the players to judge the situation for themselves.Once they figured out the answer, Louie would call a timeout, reinforcing their impression.

"Our opponents are very targeted, but I believe you have already seen that the short corners of the left and right wings are the dead ends of the defense."

Louie emphasized.

Lambiel, who just made a mistake, said: "They know this, the ball is not easy to pass."

"It means that you should hone your passing skills. I don't want to talk about that pass." Louis lazily circled the focus on the short corner area. "If they can still use defensive resources to affect our passing, it only shows that we are not putting enough pressure on offense."

Louis said to Bird and Thomas in particular: "Strengthen our long-range offense and pull their defense further outside!"

The focus of the attack was arranged, and the short pause ended.

"I didn't expect such a clever change in the LSK formation." Tomjanovich said.

The reason why the Celtics did not attack LSK's back door before was that the back door was not the weakness of the LSK formation in the first place.

The LSK formation was originally designed to defend the penalty area, and it is absolutely impossible for the back door to be left open and no one to care about it.

If Ramsey doesn't change his players, then the LSK formation is a replica of the pocket formation. It is not a big threat to the Celtics, who have made the most three-pointers so far this season.

Ramsey did not forcefully apply the defensive system, but changed the tactical intention of the defense according to the characteristics of the Celtics.

From defending the restricted area to protecting the restricted area, but at the same time, pay attention to controlling the three-point line.

In this way, they are destined to be impossible to take care of behind, unless someone can teleport.

It is already the limit to arrange people around to break the Celtics' rumors.

The Celtics don't give less-than-passing players like Lambiel the ability to pass the ball through defenses anymore.

Lambiel became a kite floating on the outside, and it was impossible for the Blazers to follow the inside all the way.

So Thomas offered to pass him the ball.

Lambiel suddenly became the Celtics' main attack point, making 3 of 2 shots in a few minutes.

12 is better than 7
The Celtics reversed the offensive and took the initiative, much to Ramsey's surprise.

In his view, the Celtics only have two 5.4-pointers that need to be seriously considered.One is Bird, who averaged 39 three-pointers per game and shot [-]%.

The other is John Long, who averaged 4.8 three-pointers per game and shot 40%.

Bird is always in a high position, and the trajectory can be judged;

Lang initially shot from the bottom corner. In recent seasons, he has developed a 45-degree angle on the left and right wings.But most of the time, for the sake of the team's space, he will stand in the bottom corner as a tool to attract the opponent's attention.

Three-pointers have only been promoted in the NBA for four seasons today. It is a headache to have such two space points, but because their trajectory can be predicted, the Blazers can defend and limit their shots.

But now, Lambiel, who can also shoot three-pointers, but only 33% from the field, made three goals and scored two goals.

Suddenly there is an extra three-pointer, and the athletic ability of this modified LSK defensive network on the field is not enough.

Mychal Thompson hits Sampson in the low post.

The two fought fiercely, but in the end Thompson turned around and shot a fadeaway jumper. He made a serious mistake.Before the shot, there was no confrontation with Sampson, which allowed the latter to jump up on the spot and block his ball.

Long picked up the floor ball and passed it to Thomas.

The latter's defensive counterattack was superb.

14 is better than 7
"Beep!"

This time it was the Blazers' turn to request a timeout.

Bill Schonely, the pioneer of the Trail Blazers team and the home announcer, described the situation truthfully: "The strength of the Celtics is beyond doubt. If you trust the media's evaluation of Little Lu, Dr. Ramsey will suffer."

"Not enough energy!" Ramsey was very dissatisfied, "We don't have enough energy on the field!"

"Probably not athletic enough," said one of his assistants.

Ramsey looked at his assistant coach. The person who spoke was Bucky Buckwalter. This person was not only an assistant coach, but also the team's chief scout.He claimed that kid would become a second Bill Wharton.

Buckwalter is very clear that Ramsey is not easy to fool, but all players linked to Walton will make him lose his mind.

"Jack, maybe we need to improve the quality of the defense and find a way to 'put the brakes on' at the same time."

Rick Adelman, another of Ramsey's assistants, suggested.

"Yes, we have to!"

Ramsey is good at accepting other people's opinions. He thinks that other people on the coaching staff have something to say, and he will immediately adopt it.

So, he called out a great name from the bench: "Clyde."

"The Glider" Drexler came out.

Ramsey has always regarded Drexler as a power forward, and Buckwalter insisted that he can transform to a swingman. The University of Houston's system has affected his development.

Let a flying swingman play power forward?Do coaches really do this?

Ramsey doesn't believe that any coach is so stupid. There must be a reason to let Drexler play power forward. Now he needs this young man to show his physical fitness to strengthen the team's defensive quality.

"Clyde, you have to show your energy. I want you to sweep Boston's perimeter. I don't want to see any of them shoot three-pointers easily. You have to drive them in from outside the three-point line!"

Then, he issued another order: "Our energy and efficiency will increase! Also remember, give up the offensive rebound, listen, no offensive rebound! I repeat, no offensive rebound!"

The Trail Blazers are a special team. Their effective field goal percentage ranks among the top in the league, but at the same time, their opponents also rank among the top in the league in effective field goal percentage.The problem is, their ability to make opponents turnovers is the third highest in the league.

This is a contradictory statistic, because a high effective field goal percentage means that your defensive strength is not strong, causing opponents to make many mistakes, which seems to prove that your defensive strength is very strong?
The answer, the Celtics already know.

The energy that Ramsey emphasizes is the tacit understanding and consistency on the defensive end. Unlike other coaches, he likes to let players play man-to-man.

Because it is a coordinated operation, facing the Blazers' defense, even if they don't put much pressure on people, the turnover rate is very high.

And tonight their strategy was reversed, they gave the Celtics a lot of intensity.

Moreover, Ramsey has to give up another advantage of theirs-the offensive rebounding that ranks third in the league.

Use Drexler's athleticism to increase the range of LSK's defense and, at the expense of giving up its own strong point - offensive rebounding - to limit the Celtics' counterattacks.

Ramsay poses a difficult problem to Louis.

They did this to compete with the Celtics for tactical literacy, chemical reaction, and finishing efficiency after completing the tactics.

Only a truly systematic team dares to raise such a challenge.

The "gauntlet" issued by Ramsey in this way, Louis saw it clearly within two rounds after the timeout ended.

(End of this chapter)