NBA: Duncan feels uneasy coaching Warriors

Chapter 135 Can't deal with him, can't deal with you?

Thunder offensive round.

Just now Westbrook took the ball and attacked for a round without much difficulty.

So Durant also felt that he could do it, and signaled to Westbrook that he wanted the ball, and Westbrook gave the ball directly to Durant without hesitation.

But facing Iguodala's defense this time, Durant didn't have the confidence to play alone, but called Gobert.

Regardless of Gobert's shortcomings, the quality of his screens is due to his generous body, which can indeed provide teammates with very comfortable pick-and-roll screens on the offensive end.

If it weren't for Gobert's advantage, the Thunder wouldn't even know how to use Gobert.

In any case, Gobert can create a shooting environment for Durant on offense, and then protect the rim when he can rebound and defend at the rim.

This is at least functionally better than Ibaka.

Even Iguodala may not be able to squeeze Gobert's defense well, even if he barely squeezes through, it will be difficult to interfere with Durant's lower plate and interfere with his shot.

But Gobert didn't bring up the screen immediately, but reached out to Durant for the ball.

It's not that Gobert can't recognize who is the boss of this team. As a rookie who was traded, he dared to ask for the position because Gobert discovered that Butler was actually guarding him.

This is obviously a misplaced opportunity.

To give or not to give?
Durant thought about it and chose to give it.

After all, Gobert is so big, isn't it easy to beat Butler?

Also when giving the ball, Butler continued to increase his downside confrontation with Gobert, which made Gobert stagger when he received the ball.

The imbalance of the center of gravity made Gobert even more unstable in receiving the ball, and the buttery hand attribute appeared again.

Gobert took two shots in a row and couldn't get a firm grip on the ball.

But at this time, Giannis Antetokounmpo had already swept over, directly increasing the confrontational force and robbing Gobert into a group.

Butler also ran over directly, and while Giannis Antetokounmpo and Gobert were fighting for the ball, he directly intercepted the ball.

After Butler copied the ball, he didn't stop at all, and ran all the way with the ball.

However, with the lesson of being played fast break by the Timberwolves before, the Thunder also shrunk the ball very quickly, except for Gobert, all of them have shrunk back.

Butler slowed down, seemingly wanting to organize a positional attack.

But just when the Thunder players relaxed their vigilance, Butler made another sudden acceleration and rushed towards the inside.

Thunder's people also rushed to help defend.

Butler just threw his body to the basket and played very tough.

beep!
Although the ball was not scored, Butler caused a foul.

One of two free throws.

Timberwolves 8:2 Thunder.

Scott Brooks, who was on the sidelines, grinned and couldn't bear to look directly.

Although he already knew about Gobert's butter hand problem, he didn't expect that just Butler's confrontation with Gobert could have such a big impact.

At the same time, Scott Brooks was also on the sidelines, shouting a tactical signal to Durant.

Durant understood immediately and made a tactical gesture.

Su Chen on the other side smiled slightly.

He asked Butler to defend Gobert, which actually had two intentions.

The purpose of the first layer is to guide the Thunder to pass the ball directly to Gobert. Su Chen is very clear about Gobert's ability.

Regardless of whether Gobert is in the post-Jazz period or the Timberwolves period, if you pay attention to the games of these two teams, you can often find an interesting thing.

That is, Gobert was misplaced at the basket, and Gobert stretched his arms to ask for the ball from his teammates.

But the teammates didn't give it to him, and the coach didn't say that he should give the ball to Gobert. Everyone had a normal expression.

On the contrary, some commentators who seldom comment on Gobert's games will say something unclear when they find out about this situation.

such as.

"Why not give the ball to Gobert."

"Gobert is empty under the basket, why didn't xx player pass it to Gobert just now."

"This game is really worthless for Gobert. Gobert has so many opportunities under the basket, and the Jazz/Timberwolves players just don't pass him."

Many people who don't often watch the games of these two teams will even complain about Gobert after watching the games.

Jazz Mitchell didn't pass him the ball, and Timberwolves Hanako didn't pass him the ball.

But in fact, many of the so-called big and small opportunities that Gobert presented were traps deliberately set by the opposing coach.

Passing the ball to Gobert is a trap.

The reason why Gobert is like this is not only because of Gobert's buttery hands, the biggest reason for his buttery hands is in the final analysis his lack of core strength.

Under the confrontation between the same inside players, if Gobert was hit a little bit, he would be stumbled.

Then he really met the little guy and got the ball. If the opponent is a powerful striker, Gobert would have a hard time scoring the ball.

It's normal for Gobert to cause a foul or just not put it in.

Only when he is playing a guard can he really put it in steadily or not put it in but cause a foul.

Su Chen was able to use Gobert so well before because Giannis Antetokounmpo had already cleared the obstacles for Gobert, and at the same time was still lobbing the pass.

Gobert has height and wingspan and a certain speed, and the defense was dragged away by Giannis Antetokounmpo, so Gobert reduced the confrontation.

Whether it's an alley-oop or a second offense to grab a rebound, most of the time it's done without confrontation.

If there is no confrontation in the NBA, Gobert can be said to be the number one center. His height, wingspan and athletic ability are very strong.

As for the second meaning of letting Butler defend Gobert.

Su Chen looked at the field and smiled slightly.

Because of the situation on the court, he was moving towards his preset plan.

Durant was holding the ball outside the three-point line, and when he saw Gobert reaching for the ball under the basket again, he didn't intend to give it to Gobert, but made a gesture to let Gobert step forward to pick and roll.

Gobert is a little emotional, but on the court, Durant is the boss of this team.

As an outsider, it's not easy for him to get mad at Durant.

Although he was able to box Anderson in the Timberwolves, facing Huazi, who has already taken over the baton of the team boss, he seems much gentler.

Durant asked Gobert to pick and roll, and Gobert also came to pick and roll.

Originally, Durant felt that with Gobert's pick-and-roll level, he could easily help him keep Iguodala behind him.

But Iguodala didn't go around the pick-and-roll at all, but got stuck directly in front of Gobert, and it was Butler who defended Durant.

No matter how the pick and roll is, the Timberwolves have adopted a strategy of switching defenses.

After two pick-and-rolls, Durant found that there was no chance at all, so he simply let Gobert go down.

At least let Gobert bring in the annoying Iguodala.

When going down, Gobert wanted the ball, but Durant ignored him at all.

Durant wants to play Butler directly.

There are not many people in this league who can defend him, or even none.

Then Iguodala couldn't guard him before, but for some reason, he was suddenly able to guard him.

Iguodala is not easy to fight, can he beat Butler?

Is it true that he, the league's consecutive scoring champion, is a vegetarian?

Can the Timberwolves stop him if they come at random?
What a joke!
Can't deal with him, can't deal with you?

(End of this chapter)