Healing Basketball

Chapter 694 Chapter 694.

For the adjustment of the intermission, Maurice Cheeks more firmly implemented the strategy discussed during the official timeout of the first quarter, but only made adjustments in details.

20 minutes passed quickly, and the Trail Blazers returned to the court.

Looking at the re-appearing starting players, the vice president asked the coach: "Morris, I have been wanting to ask just now, with such a casual adjustment of tactics, aren't you afraid that you won't win 70 wins if you lose this game? The boss is there Watch."

"Then let him watch." Maurice Cheeks leaned back in the chair: "The contract extension has been signed, and the championship ring has been taken. If he doesn't like me, he will fire me."

"..." The vice president was at a loss for words for a moment, he couldn't believe that he actually thought it made sense!He quickly shook his head and changed the question: "But if we lose, it will be difficult for Jess to be the MVP. With such a lineup, Nash won 8 wins in an 55-man rotation, and even sniped our 70 wins..."

Maurice Cheeks did not wait for the vice president to finish, and interrupted: "He thought of the tactics, and he suggested this way of fighting. What can I do? Don't rely on me. I won't recite it." pot……"

"..."

The vice president really wanted to strangle this friend and partner to death.

Xiu Erhua is getting more and more serious!

Soon, the third quarter began, and the two teams changed into the starting lineup tacitly.

The Suns go first, Tim Thomas pulls to the corner, accepts a pick-and-roll pass for a [-]-pointer... misses!
Kwame Brown protected the defensive rebound and passed it to Liu Xiu.

Liu Xiu advances across the half court, passes to the extrajudicial lunatic at the top arc, and then comes to the right side of the free throw line and leans against Raja Bell.

The extrajudicial lunatic lobbed the ball back to Liu Xiu. Liu Xiu caught the ball and hit Raja Bell, turned around and broke through, took two steps to close range, took off, and shot...

The ball has a great sense of rhythm, Raja Bell turned around and took a slow shot, Kurt Thomas extended out to make up the defense, and Liu Xiu's close-range emergency stop jumper hit!

60 to 66, the Trail Blazers narrowed the point difference to 6 points.

At the same time, Liu Xiu's personal score reached 20 points tonight!
Just now, Trail Blazers fans felt thrilled when they saw the ball. Liu Xiu made it right, but Raja Bell was almost able to stick to it to cause interference, and Kurt Thomas' block was also 0.5 seconds slower. ...

But the thinking of the Suns players is-they are so defensive, they can still make it!
In the next two rounds, the two teams each scored a goal. The Suns relied on the team offense to help Raja Bell score a three-pointer on the wing; Bubu's three-point shot missed, but the European Bubu made a layup from close range and caused a foul by the shrinking Nash, and an additional penalty was also scored.

With a score of 69 to 63, the Suns still have that much lead, but the pressure on the Suns players has increased.

In the last 3 minutes of the second quarter, Eddie House, Barbosa, and Dior couldn't defend Liu Xiu from the perimeter. The Suns players didn't think there was any problem, it should be.

But now Raja Bell is back on the field!Plus Marion and Double Thomas, still can't limit the Warden!

Just now Liu Xiu missed a three-pointer with a step back. It wasn't because Raja Bell stopped him. Liu Xiu got a shot by taking a step back smoothly, but the ball was missed.

When the Suns attacked, Marion helped Nash block the outlaws and then withdrew from the three-point line. The outlaws and Kwame Brown pinched Nash, Nash scored Marion, and Marion made a three-pointer... Iron!Terribly crooked!

Randolph protected the defensive rebound, Double Thomas led his teammates back to the defense, Liu Xiu received the ball and couldn't make a fast break, he didn't rush, and controlled the rhythm.

Finally, after his teammates settled down, Liu Xiu saw that the defensive position on the opposite side had changed again!

Liu Xiu stopped playing singles and beckoned for a pick-and-roll.

Kwame Brown ran out to help Liu Xiu block Raja Bell. Unsurprisingly, Raja Bell chose to go up the line to chase Liu Xiu, and did not give Liu Xiu a chance to shoot a three-pointer. The expanded Marion In defense of breakthroughs, the two formed a tendency to encircle Liu Xiu, and their defensive adjustments and cooperation were very tacit.

Liu Xiu plunged headlong into the pinch between the two, rushed to the right, brought the two to the right of the three-second zone, and then sent a lob... Kwame Brown cut to catch the ball at close range, clenched his hands tightly The ball took off against Kurt Thomas who was blocking him, and collided with Kurt Thomas who followed him...

Kurt Thomas was knocked to the ground and fell, Kwame Brown dunked with both hands, adding an assist for Liu Xiu!
62 to 66, the Trail Blazers narrowed the point difference to 4 points, and this time it was the Suns' turn to be stopped!
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At the end of the first half, even if the Trail Blazers played a 14-10 counterattack and narrowed the point difference to single digits, some commentators still said that it was only because of the rest of Nash and Raja Bell that the Trail Blazers were able to set off. Counterattack, wait until the two come back...their faces were slapped.

There are the kind of commentators who like to make predictions, everyone looks down on them and feel that they are the best and grandstanding, and there are commentators who really explain and analyze well.

Many commentators deduced from common sense that D'Antoni should let Marion go to the power forward position at this time to maximize the use of Marion's supplementary defense and assist defense, and replace James Jones at the small forward position. Solid, charismatic third-year player.

But D'Antoni is by no means an ordinary person. He replaced Tim Thomas and moved Marion to the power forward position, but not for defense, but to replace Diao and strengthen the offense!

D'Antoni saw the problems they encountered on the defensive end at a glance-the physical strength of the three of Raja Bell, Marion, and Kurt Thomas declined, and the defensive movement slowed down a bit.

Just for this loss, Liu Xiu caught and scored consecutively, leading his teammates to launch a counterattack.

It was the same when Kobe played them. At the beginning they could rely on the three major defensive masters to limit Kobe, but they couldn't hold back after the fight.

How to solve this problem?
D'Antoni suffered from the loss of the Lakers before. Kobe won 50+ in a single game and took away the victory. He didn't get any of them because he was always struggling with how to deal with Kobe.

He learned from the experience of playing against the Lakers and chose not to solve it. The Warden scored fiercely. In the 6 minutes from the end of the second quarter to the beginning of the third quarter, the game time has soared by 15 points. .

It is certain that the warden will organize an attack by means of flanking.

D'Antoni's coping strategy-to bang!
After returning from the timeout, D'Antoni restricted Liu Xiu's scoring + counter-bombing strategy. The Suns players played very happily. They didn't want to see Liu Xiu scoring 50 or 60 points, and they were also close to the Trail Blazers in terms of scoring. Yes, but after the official timeout in the third quarter, their performance took a turn for the worse!

(End of this chapter)