Head coach of parallel imports in the NBA

Chapter 281 The Road to Defending the Title 4
The Timberwolves' offense is obviously a center-forward tactic centered on Oden, and the running and passing of the other four players revolve around Oden.

The Cavaliers' defense is also aimed at Oden, as long as Oden holds the ball, he will double-team immediately.

But now with the Timberwolves' other players opening up on the outside, this is definitely a big challenge for the Cavaliers' double-team defensive tactics.

Many teams have used this defensive tactic this season. How to succeed is that you have to cut off Oden's passing line when double-teaming him. In addition, you must ensure that the Timberwolves' outside shooting rate is not good. In this case, double-teaming can be considered to contain the Timberwolves.

Looking back at the Cavaliers' offense, Chen Dazhuang's defensive tactics on the Timberwolves' side did not exceed many people's predictions. After all, whether it was the Timberwolves' regular season match against the Cavaliers this season, or last season's Finals against the Heat For James, the Timberwolves have their own understanding of James.

That is, I am determined not to double-team you. If you want to score, you must solve Bennett's entanglement, and Bennett's defensive focus is to defend James' outside line, and it is secondary to breakthroughs.

While the others are guarding against the other four Cavaliers when James holds the ball, all kinds of going around the front are trying not to let you help James as much as possible.

After a few rounds, the tactical intentions of both sides became very clear.

Wolves versus tigers.

Obviously, the tigers can't stand the bite of the wolves. The Timberwolves' outside line is also showing off frequently when Oden is double-teamed. On the Cavaliers' side, although James still maintains a fiery touch, the score has a tendency to be pulled apart. .

Every time James scores a goal, he needs to expend a lot of energy to fight with Bennett, and when he can't score from the outside, he will be strangled by Yi Jianlian and Oden when he goes inside.

Especially after Middleton and Bennett successively opened up the outside touch, Da Zhuang also replaced Yi Jianlian with Sims, so that Sims well protected Oden from falling into the Into the foul trap.

In terms of single-round defensive strength, Sims' defensive strength is much stronger than Yi Jianlian's.

Chen Dazhuang just wants to add another hurdle to James' breakthrough.

Make its consumption bigger.

Many people who followed this game shook their heads while watching James keep falling into the singles trap created by the Timberwolves for him.

Everyone knows that this is a slow death for the Cavaliers.

Unless Blatter replaces James now, but once James is replaced, let's not talk about whether James will have any opinions. Whoever comes up can still maintain the pressure on the Timberwolves in the score.

Now for the Cavaliers and James, the higher the score of James, the faster the Cavaliers will die. The Cavaliers urgently need someone who can stand up and help James to share the pressure.

At 9 minutes and 13 seconds into the first quarter, Blatter asked for a substitution after thinking about it for a while.

Jones came on to replace James.

But what makes Blatter uncomfortable is that the Timberwolves' Da Zhuang followed behind and replaced Lin Shuhao with Dinwiddie, Grant replaced Bennett, and Yi Jianlian replaced Sims.

In the next two consecutive rounds, it was as if the Timberwolves had seen the Tigers injured and there was a flaw. The Timberwolves swarmed up and stared at Jones at this point and began to show off.

After Yi Jianlian mentioned the high pick-and-roll, Dinwiddie dribbled the ball into the interior, and then handed the ball to Oden, and then he ran along the baseline to the corner on the weak side, and Oden didn't care whether the opponent was covered or not. Clamped and threw the ball directly to Yi Jianlian who was standing outside the three-point line. After Yi Jian connected the ball, he handed the ball directly to Middleton without a pause.

After drawing Jones' defensive attention, Middleton turned the ball over.

The basketball quickly switched the object of the ball in the hands of the outside Timberwolves players. Finally, after a few rounds, Grant was emptied in the bottom corner, and then the basketball was sent to Grant in time.

After Grant made some adjustments, he made an open three-pointer with precision.

This offensive routine is like a microcosm of the Timberwolves' offense after Jones came on the court.

The outside line of the Timberwolves began to show off.

However, Jones' appearance seemed to hasten the death of the Cavaliers. Irving, who was highly expected by the Cavaliers fans, did nothing at all under the joint strangling of Dinwiddie and Middleton.

Especially on the perimeter, the Cavaliers have missed a three-pointer throughout the first quarter of the game.

Not to mention missing a three-pointer, under the defense of the Timberwolves, the Cavaliers rarely even have a chance to make a three-pointer.

Blatter on the sidelines watched and shook his head.

Like Chen Dazhuang last season, this is also Blatt's first season in the NBA as a head coach. Lutter still hopes to win the NBA championship in his first season.

But now, after seeing the performance of his opponents on the court, it can be said that Blatter's confidence has been seriously hit.

Soon the first quarter ended with the referee's whistle.

31 to 25, the Timberwolves led the Cavaliers by 6 points and ended the first quarter.

But after the two sides changed into the rotation lineup in the second quarter, Blatter couldn't hold it anymore.

Because Oden still stayed on the court in the Timberwolves' rotation.

Dinwiddie, LaVine, Bennett, Yi Jianlian and Oden appeared in the second quarter lineup.

Facing the Cavaliers' bench, this lineup quickly defeated the opponent, and the point difference was pulled to double digits in an instant.

Seeing this situation, Brandt could only switch to the starting lineup, while Chen Dazhuang of the Timberwolves did not make any moves after seeing this situation, and still entangled with the opponent with this lineup.

Until the game progressed to the 4th minute and 49th second of the second quarter, Grant replaced Bennett, Sims replaced Yi Jianlian, and Taylor Zeller replaced Oden.

Many people don't understand Chen Dazhuang's substitution strategy, and they don't know why the other party wants to change like this.

However, as the game progressed, everyone thought that the Cavaliers should start chasing points after Oden's next game, but in fact the situation on the court is showing an anxious situation.

Because James is still caught in Grant's entanglement, Grant's defense against James can be said to be stalking, although it can't stop James from scoring, but the oranges for James, Grant is even more difficult to deal with than Bennett.

(End of this chapter)