Healing Basketball

158 Chapter 158. The Rebound Thief

When the Grizzlies were attacking, White Chocolate advanced to the frontcourt, and Liu Xiu immediately pressed up to defend and fight.

White Chocolate lobbed the ball to Gasol, who was pulled to a high position, and then ran to the bottom corner on the right to reduce holding the ball and reduce the physical confrontation with Liu Xiu.

James Posey ran back, cut in from the side of Liu Xiu and White Chocolate, received a pass from Gasol on the right side of the free throw line, and continued to break through the inside.

The tactical purpose of the Grizzlies was to attract Liu Xiu, who was good at bottom line defense and flank defense, but this time it failed.

Tianzun is still guarding the basket!Because Bunch Wells didn't pull out, but stayed in a short distance to the left of the three-second zone.

James Posey cut and broke through to the right side of the three-second zone and stopped the ball. He didn't have the ability to make an emergency stop and shoot, and he didn't have the ability to attack the basket. He avoided the steal of Miles who was chasing the defense, and he passed the ball to the free throw. line direction.

Posey's passing method is a lob, and Gasol relies on his height and wingspan to win the ball in the air.

Randolph was very upset, but the defensive habits had already laid the foundation, and he immediately invested in single defense.

Attitude is very important. Although Randolph does not have the motivation to improve his defense, his attitude on the court is there. With his physical fitness and his insistence on not jumping around in defense, Gasol really can't shoot from long distances.

Randolph gave enough confrontation!
There is not much time to attack, Gasol chose to make a strong breakthrough!
A 215cm big center, he handles the ball very well!

Gasol one step inside the free throw line with a beautiful horizontal pull cross step past Randolph!

Looking at the basket in front of him, Gasol's blood was surging and his heart was surging.

He grabs the ball, jumps, and smashes it toward the hoop...

At this moment, what he heard was not the cheers he was expecting, but the screams of terror...

"Snapped"

There was a clear sound of blocking, and the ball was slapped out of bounds by Tianzun!
The fans at the scene saw Tianzun pounce on Gasol when he took off for a dunk, and wanted to remind him, but it was too late.

However, before the fans regretted that the goal was missed, they immediately started booing when they saw the scene in front of them!

"Ah... Suofute! Basketball doesn't lie!"

Tianzun roared at Gasol and sprayed a few words.

The fans immediately exploded, booing Tianzun crazily.

The referee hesitated for a moment, did not blow the whistle, and signaled the game to continue. The Grizzlies played the frontcourt, and the technical table returned to the watch, with 3.9 seconds left.

After being yelled at, Gasol came to the court to serve like a doormat.

This time, Tianzun and Gasol faced each other and stood in front of Gasol to interfere with the serve.

The expression on Tianzun's face can be described in one word - arrogant and domineering!
But in fact, his hands were shaking after he yelled just now—Little Qianqian!Although most of the technical offenses were cancelled, he was fined tens of thousands of dollars this season.

But the referee didn't blow it, and he immediately stood up.

The game continues.

Although Tianzun's interference is in place, Gasol still successfully sent the ball to White Chocolate.

White Chocolate immediately played the ball after receiving the ball, and Battier received the ball at a 45-degree angle on the left for a three-pointer...Missed!
Wells grabs the offensive rebound, lays up...hit!
Amidst the cheers of the fans at the scene, Wells raised his legs and jumped, raised his arms, and called to retreat.

This stick looks like a monkey, and the celebratory gestures are so monkey-like, but the strength is really strong!

After a bit of slander, Liu Xiu received the serve and advanced.

The Grizzlies' defensive formation has settled down.

Liu Xiu and Little Flying Squirrel played the tactic of sudden points + auxiliary control, just trying it out, but it really didn't work well.

The ball came to Tianzun in the middle distance of Tianzun, and Tianzun faced Battier's defensive straight arm and made an iron shot!

Gasol protects the defensive rebound.

Liu Xiu guessed this kind of situation. The old man Hubie Brown changed into this lineup during the rotation stage to deal with his and Little Flying Squirrel's sudden point + assist control style of play.

Battier + Posey, the front and defense line composed of these two people, the supplementary defense is first-class, and the white chocolate on the outside line is becoming more and more stable. Gasol's frame protection is greatly underestimated. Ernesto played more and more actively, and worked hard on the defensive end.

Mainly tactical!
The Grizzlies' double 3D unlimited switch defense is really good, both of them can switch from 1 to 4.

Fortunately, the Grizzlies followed up with an iron. Wells jumped up quickly under the basket and hit the ball, but failed to make up. Randolph protected the defensive rebound.

Even the second round of tactics did not come out.

Liu Xiu didn't pay attention to this just now, and devoted himself to how to help his teammates defend better.

Now I found that something was wrong, the opponent's team attacked and suddenly disappeared!
After receiving the pass from Randolph, Liu Xiu recalled the opponent's two rounds of offense... There is a way!
In the frontcourt, Liu Xiu made a gesture to pass the ball to Little Flying Squirrel.

The little flying squirrel was shocked!
Playing tactics, if he plays well, of course he is willing.

But what he likes most now is singles!

After accepting this role, he has been working hard to adjust to the sixth man's style of play since the beginning of the season.

open the waves!
After lucking twice, seeing Liu Xiu cut to the bottom line, Little Flying Squirrel directly pulled up a three-point shot...

"bang"

Iron!

The defensive White Chocolate didn't react, and neither did the rest of the Grizzlies.

But the Trail Blazers players are always ready!

Tianzun jumped up high, and pressed the popped ball back to the basket through Wells who retracted to the basket!

Beautiful buckle!
Tianzun screamed twice excitedly, did not forget to add the phrase 'basketball can't lie', and quickly retreated.

After Liu Xiu and Tianzun high-fived, they looked at Bangzi on the opposite side, sure enough, they were hooked!

Bangzi ran aggressively to the frontcourt, crouched at a close distance and couldn't come out.

White Chocolate gestured to Wells twice, but the other party ignored him, and there was nothing he could do.

Cowardly, White Chocolate didn't want to be irritable and direct, but adjusted his style of play based on the actual situation.

Signal Gasol low singles!
Gasol received the tactical gesture, glanced at the hateful Tianzun, hesitated...

But he also discovered the problem on Wells' side. He couldn't play tactics, so he had to find a way to hold on before the coaching staff called a timeout.

The best way is for him to go to the low position...

Bite the bullet and came to the low position, when Gasol leaned against Tianzun, he felt more malicious.

Not daring to dig inside, Gasol caught the ball one step closer, turned over and made a jumper... Iron!
This is not the back play he is good at!
Once again, the stick grabbed the ball nimbly like a monkey, causing Randolph to foul and go to the free throw line.

This stick is really good at offensive rebounds!
Liu Xiu remembered!

In the 2006 playoffs, this stick smashed Duncan by rushing to grab offensive rebounds. In one game, he had 10 offensive rebounds in a single game. Relying on the second offense, he shot a super high shooting percentage of 17 of 12.

Although it was the worst year of plantar fasciitis and Duncan played the worst performance of his career at the age of 30, Duncan was in the second team and second defense that year.

It is enough to prove the strength of Wells' contract year!
Yes, that summer, Wells received a five-year contract offer of more than 5 million US dollars, but he didn’t think it was enough, so he left the Kings alone. In the end, the Kings withdrew the offer, and then he joined the Rockets with a basic salary...

After Wells drew the foul, he jumped to the free-throw line on a monkey while the fans cheered.

Liu Xiu hurriedly pulled Tianzun, Randolph, and Miles to give some instructions.

As for Little Flying Squirrel... regarding the offensive rebound, if the ball bounces out and lands in his hand, that's okay.

Wells made one of two free throws and made the second free throw.

Tianzun fiercely blocked Gasol, Randolph blocked Posey, Liu Xiu grabbed the defensive rebound, turned around and advanced quickly.

The Grizzlies didn't give the Trail Blazers a chance to make a quick break, and Liu Xiu immediately handed it over to Little Flying Squirrel in the frontcourt.

Little Momonga hits the waves + rushing and grabbing!

There is no such thing as one shot and four grabs!

Little Flying Squirrel was full of confidence, stopped at the free throw line for a jumper, chased and defended against White Chocolate, and made a mid-range shot!
When it came time for the Grizzlies to attack, their offense had stalled.

The ball goes to Battier because Battier's side has the best chance of a mismatch -- singles on Momonga.

Little Flying Squirrel rushes to defend, and Battier carefully protects the ball and breaks through.

Battier's breakthrough failed to accelerate. At close range, he encountered Miles' defense and failed to make a throw... Randolph doesn't think about grabbing the rebound now, and blocks the damn stick first!

Teammates get stuck, Liu Xiu closes the board.

However, when the Trail Blazers attack, they can only look at the Flying Squirrel's singles touch and the success rate of offensive rebounds.

In the next few rounds, both teams played singles + rush.

On the Grizzlies side, the confrontation they took the initiative to set off had already had a great impact when they played a team offense, and now it is enough.

Little Flying Squirrel's singles success rate is also not good. White Chocolate's defense is really good. He is not the top single-defense player, but he does not make mistakes on the defensive end and defends very steadily.

Facing such a defensive player, Little Flying Squirrel is really difficult to deal with.

The scoring of the two teams depends on rushing.

Offensive rebounds, the two teams have similar rushing abilities.

But in terms of guards, Randolph and Tianzun block people, and Liu Xiu closes the boards, which has an advantage over the Grizzlies' guards!
And this is an advantage that has always existed!
With the strengthening of the running-in, the Grizzlies have become more stable in style of play, a bit like the Spurs.

But the biggest gap between them and the Spurs is the protection of defensive rebounds.

The Spurs averaged 45 rebounds per game, limiting their opponents to only 42.4 rebounds per game.

The Grizzlies averaged only 41.2 rebounds per game, and their opponents averaged 44 rebounds per game.

After the first quarter, the Trail Blazers relied on rebounds to successfully overtake the score, leading the Grizzlies 22 to 20 and entering the intermission!
……

11 to 10 in the first half and 9 to 12 in the second half.

The old coach Hubie Brown stood on the sidelines, with his windbreaker held up by his sides and his hands in his pockets.

Just like a little spirit...a spirit old man.

How the hell does he want to fight that bearded man opposite him!
He has long seen the strategy of the Trail Blazers-stimulating Wells to go inside is better than anyone else's offensive rebounds.

Because the stick Wells didn't pull out the off-the-ball pick-and-roll and move to stir up the defense, Tianzun stayed at the basket, and the threat of Shane Battier and Posey's cutting was greatly reduced, so low that the 52-point gentleman on the opposite side didn't have to shrink.

Liu Xiu's increasingly excellent flank defense ability was originally a part that the Grizzlies wanted to use in their offensive tactics.

And Battier and Posey's catch-and-shoot mid-range shot... If the two had this ability, their Grizzlies would have taken off early!
The Trail Blazers were so disturbed, although the Trail Blazers failed to take the initiative and could only fight, but the Grizzlies' rhythm control initiative was gone.

Of course, Hubie Brown didn't call a timeout because of this.

Calling a timeout does not necessarily lead to a better adjustment. Anyway, it is all about rushing, so let's give it a try to see which side is in better condition.

Obviously, the better condition is the opposite side...

Then, the grumpy old man entered a timeout and stood on the sidelines glaring at Maurice Cheeks.

After staring for a minute, after the players took a break, Hubie Brown turned around and adjusted his style of play in the second half.

……

On the other side, being stared at by the 70-year-old man for a long time, Maurice Cheeks felt aggrieved.

What does it matter to him!
It's not a tactic he arranged!
I'm a bit complaining about my rookie's on-court resilience...

The reaction is too fast!

It only took two rounds to formulate a strategy to directly wipe out the opponent's team's offense.

It seems very simple, but it is not a simple matter to grasp these points.

But, although it's inexplicable to 'take the blame', it's easy!
There is no need for their coaching staff to choose a direction to adjust with their brains, and now the direction is already there-drag the opponent into the quagmire of the iron fight!
They have fought a few iron fights recently, and now they have a lot of experience in how to fight iron fights.

The Grizzlies are hitting the guns!

……

The game entered the defensive tug-of-war mode early.

This is more favorable for the Trail Blazers.

When the Trail Blazers defended against the Grizzlies, no matter who they are, as long as they really need it, they can let someone go without hesitation.

The ever-increasing confrontation has greatly interfered with mid- and long-range shooting!
Gasol and Tianzun, the two masters of COSCO, have been greatly affected.

This effect becomes more obvious as the game month progresses.

But when the Grizzlies were defending, there was one person they didn't dare to shoot for him.

This person is the warden, the general, Mr. 52 points... Liu Xiu!

Two months ago, the 52 points in a single game that shocked the basketball world left a psychological shadow on everyone in the Grizzlies.

Most of them are very sure from their subjective consciousness that it was just a game where Liu Xiu broke out, and the probability of them meeting again is as low as that of the Blazers team opposite them this season. The probability of directly winning the championship is equally low.

But when it comes to the game, they subconsciously pay more attention to Liu Xiu's defense.

Especially after Liu Xiu caught the ball and scored a three-pointer in a big gap before the official timeout in the second quarter, the Grizzlies always ensured that there was someone in front of Liu Xiu before the opponent made a shot.

Of course, the Grizzlies at home also have their advantages.

Better preparation, better physical strength, better rotation strength...

But these trivial conditions are not as important as Liu Xiu's threat.

Another point is also related to Liu Xiu.

As the competition progressed, Liu Xiu's advantages in flexibility became more and more obvious.

In the eyes of the Grizzlies, Liu Xiu is like a 'thief'!
Many times, when their insiders wanted to get offensive rebounds or defensive rebounds, Liu Xiu stole the ball!
(End of this chapter)