NBA: Duncan feels uneasy coaching Warriors

Chapter 171 Three to one, Popovich's attention
Cole remembered Su Chen's call to stop the Timberwolves' fast-break opportunity just now, that is, he made it clear that he wanted every ball and called to hit Curry.

As for Green not changing just now, Cole didn't blame too much.

Covington's three-point opportunity did come out. As a 3D player, it is not a wise choice to release his three-pointer.

With Cole's ability, it is not impossible to deal with a roll call tactic.

For example, the strategy of reset after delay is the defensive system Cole uses to deal with the roll call tactics.

It's just that Cole is still a rookie coach, and his experience is not very rich.

Su Chen's sudden attack made it difficult for him to guard against it.

By the time Cole slowed down, Curry had committed five fouls.

At this time, there is no rush to think about what tactics to deal with the roll call. No matter what coping strategy he comes up with, Curry will not be able to fight during this time.

Cole doesn't have much confidence in this game now.

At this moment, the anger on his face looked a bit like impotent rage.

The Timberwolves camp is on the rise.

Hit Curry to his fifth foul, and they have a huge advantage.

The Warriors' comeback point was defeated.

"Our defense still needs to maintain strength. There is no need to specifically foul Thompson, but our defense must focus on taking care of him."

Su Chen took out the tactical board and drew the tactics against Thompson to the players.

There is one less Splash Brother, just to deal with one, Su Chen directly chose to use the simple BOX-1.

Curry alone is still difficult to understand, let alone Thompson.

Thompson had the ball without the ball, and sent two people to watch him.

Thompson's three-point explosive power is there, but without Curry's containment, it is difficult for him to support the entire Warriors with all the defense on him.

Pause back.

Warriors Lineup: Festus Ezeri (C), David Lee (PF), Harrison Barnes (SF), Klay Thompson (SG), Jordan Crawford ( PG)

Minnesota lineup: Serge Ibaka (C), Giannis Antetokounmpo (PF), Luol Deng (SF), Andre Iguodala (SG), Jimmy - Butler (PG)

It can be seen that the lineup of the Warriors re-entered. It can be seen that Cole even came up with David Lee, who he didn't like very much, in order to attack.

How much offensive pressure is the Warriors now.

Jordan Crawford has proved in previous games that he is not a stable shooter, but Kerr still uses it.

And the Timberwolves are still very thieves. After the roll call tactic ended, the Timberwolves switched back to the previous starting lineup.

The Warriors without Curry is equivalent to the Spurs without Duncan and the Heat without James.

Although the team still has a certain combat effectiveness, everyone else is a supporting role.

These supporting roles are perfect works when they cooperate with the protagonist, but without the protagonist, it is difficult for these supporting roles to make any waves.

Curry doesn't have six offenses yet, but he's almost there.

As long as Curry is on the court, the Timberwolves can go to Curry regardless of the cost, only one foul. Even if the referee will raise his hand, he cannot always protect it.

Without Curry's restraint, although Thompson's accuracy is scary, it is still possible to press Thompson with the size of the Timberwolves' striker.

As for others, like David Lee, Jordan Crawford.

If they want to fight, Su Chen will take a single defense, and it is their ability to score.

If they can really rely on offense to carry the team, they won't be marginalized in the Warriors.

When the third quarter is over.

Warriors 71:89 Timberwolves.

The Timberwolves entered the final quarter with an 18-point advantage.

At the same time, Thompson also committed a foul just now, and both Splash Brothers became major fouls.

In the last quarter of the game, the Warriors needed to chase points.

After not playing for a few minutes, Cole replaced Curry, and was beaten if he didn't replace it.

Next, the Timberwolves made a 2-minute impact on the inside line of the Warriors.

All the balls seized Curry's point to rush, and Cole set up a screen to return to the defense, but this missed too many three-pointers.

Although the Timberwolves do not rely on three-pointers as their main player, their ability to open three-pointers is still above the standard.

Protecting Curry in this way caused the Warriors to miss a lot of three-pointers.

The point is that even under such circumstances, Luol Deng found an opportunity to beat Curry.

beep!
Following the referee's whistle, Curry also held his head very annoyed.

In these 3 minutes, there have been two fouls that the referee did not blow. After all, once Curry goes to the Warriors, the point difference will be gone.

But the Timberwolves couldn't stand it and kept looking for trouble, just to hit Curry.

There's no way the referee can't keep blowing.

Curry committed six fouls.

Compared with the anger on Cole's face during the fifth foul, Cole was much calmer for this foul.

Because Cole also knows that the referee can't do anything about it, and there will always be fouls for such frequent impacts.

And because he over-protected Curry, he missed a lot of three-pointers.

This led to the fact that even though Curry hit a good shooting percentage on the field, he actually missed a lot of points, and the point difference between the two sides did not move at all.

The two sides almost reached the end of the game with a 20-point difference.

Su Chen also didn't change the water dispenser player in advance. He had to wait for Cole to make a substitution before he changed.

This game made Kerr almost lose his temper.

Dudu!

With the whistle of the referee, the game is over.

Warriors 93:115 Timberwolves.

The Timberwolves won a hearty victory in the away game.

After winning this game, the big score between the Timberwolves and the Warriors: Timberwolves 3-1 Warriors.

The Warriors did not bring the game to the Battle of Tianwangshan. The 1-3 point difference disappointed the Warriors fans.

What disappointed the fans even more was the performance of the whole game.

Rather than saying that a certain player dominated the game, the Warriors have been led by the nose in terms of strategy and tactics throughout the game.

Originally, the fans thought that Cole was an excellent successor to the defending team, but it seems that Chunchun is the toy of the previous Warriors coach Su Chen.

Warriors fans don't admit that the Timberwolves dominated the entire series, but Su Chen ruled Kerr.

Originally, such a coach should continue to coach the Warriors.

But it is Lacob who is greedy for power, likes to control the team, and is unwilling to believe that Su Chen let Su Chen leave.

Many fans at the scene were very dissatisfied with Lacob and Cole.

They haven't left the field yet, and some people are yelling at Lacob and Cole.

"At first I thought it would be a very exciting and intense match, but Su Chen's strategic victory made this match without any suspense."

Johnson said with some helplessness.

"When Curry committed five fouls, the game was actually over. Cole's response was too slow."

"Whether it's Su Chen's roll call tactics or unlimited defense changes, BOX-1"

"Cole just yelled, hey man, you gotta figure it out."

Even Kenny Smith, who has a good impression of the Warriors, couldn't bear it at this time, and directly attacked Cole.

"Haha, anyway, congratulations to the Timberwolves, they won tonight's victory."

"In this series, they're going to control the match point."

Barkley was very happy to see Kenny Smith deflated.

"If Kerr continues like this, then the Timberwolves may end this series in Minnesota."

O'Neal said with a smile.

The game is over.

The best performance of the Timberwolves tonight is undoubtedly Iguodala.

In this game, Iguodala scored 23 points, 8 rebounds and 7 assists.

Moreover, Iguodala's ability to frequently call Curry at critical moments is crucial to this game. It can be said that the data cannot reflect Iguodala's help to the team.

The MVP of this game is undoubtedly Iguodala.

Giannis Antetokounmpo, who was originally the core of the team, performed much mediocre in this game, only scoring 16 points, 7 rebounds and 5 assists.

The team's statistics are quite average, and Iguodala is considered high.

Luol Deng, Butler, Ibaka and others all scored in double figures but didn't have too many points.

The rotation personnel of the Timberwolves basically have points. It can be said that this is a team victory.

This also makes people see clearly.

The Timberwolves do have the problem of insufficient star quality of the core players, but the Timberwolves have too many players, which is enough to make up for the problem of the Timberwolves' core quality.

The core of a team, even in a mixed situation, the team can win.

Such a team is the scariest.

On the contrary, a team needs the core players to score more than [-] points in order to win.

Then this team relies too much on stars, and does not have the team strength that a truly top team should have.

Now the Timberwolves beat the Warriors 3 to 1, and almost every game is suppressed.

If it wasn't for the Warriors scoring too many difficult goals in G3, the Timberwolves were actually under pressure in that game.

Most of the time, the Warriors play the role of a point chaser.

This is very telling.

Before the start of the playoffs, the Warriors were named as the top three candidate teams for the championship. As the defending champion, this is not an underestimation.

But it's like this, so many people didn't think of it.

The Timberwolves, a rebuilding team, not only won the second place in the Western Conference in the regular season, but also passed the first round.

Facing the defending champion, he also played such a huge advantage.

This is really impressive.

Warriors on the other side.

At this time, many players are not in a hurry to leave the player channel.

Curry gritted his braces and stood on the sidelines, watching the score on the big screen with some reluctance.

Thompson kept his head down. When the team was in trouble, he failed to stand up and help the team come back.

Green didn't say a word, and left directly from the player tunnel.

Many members of the other Warriors are players from last season, and they did the same when they faced the Spurs last season.

But at that time, Su Chen led them to regain their strength and made a shocking comeback.

But Cole, who is now the coach of the team, didn't make any moves at this time, or his actions were impotent and furious.

Some are yelling, but they don't know what they are yelling, and they haven't come up with a real solution to the problem.

In the last season, the story of their counterattack and winning the trophy was exciting, but this season it seems that the roles have been reversed.

They became the favored side, but were counterattacked by the team led by Su Chen.

In addition, O'Neal, who came to vote with a basic salary, is also numb at this time.

I thought the Warriors could lead him to become a champion, so I gave up the chance to win the middle class and came to vote with a basic salary.

It now appears that he picked the wrong team.

Everyone in the Warriors is disappointed, and the defending champion is about to stop in the second round.

the other side.

Timberwolves press conference.

"In the entire series, you are so clear about Cole's tactics, have you done a lot of targeted analysis?"

A reporter asked Su Chen a question.

"I just do what I should do and leave the rest to the players. I trust my players and they are all very good."

Facing this question, Su Chen replied with a smile.

Obviously, the media can now see that throughout the series, Su Chen targeted Cole's tactical system too much.

And these targeted methods basically hit the Warriors' weaknesses, which makes it difficult for the Warriors to fight back.

Cole got into these troubles, and he hasn't solved a single one of them until now.

In fact, it's not just these media people, people in the industry, even old fans who watch a lot of football can see how much the Timberwolves have taken advantage of tactically.

In terms of player ability, Curry also contributed 50 points in a single game. Last season's FMVP was gold.

But with such a deal, Su Chen really used an old car to win Cole's sports car.

"The series is not over yet. The Warriors are a very resilient team. You know, last season, I won the championship with this Warriors over the mountains."

"They're not easy to deal with and we can't take it lightly."

At the end of the press conference, Su Chen answered this question.

There is nothing to say about Su Chen's attitude.

The next day.

With regard to the series between the Timberwolves and the Warriors, the direction of the media has been very biased.

"Using Su Chen to play the remaining tactics, Cole paid for three losses. "

"Curry can't help the Warriors with 50 points. The coach is the biggest problem for the Warriors. Will Cole leave get out of class? "

"Dominance from the Coach!The data shows that after each timeout, Su Chen leads Cole in 71.6% of the rounds. "

"Ruthless Crushing!The biggest contributor to the Warriors championship last season was the coach. "

"Three-point tactics become the mainstream of the league?Su Chen taught the small ball era a lesson. "

The wind direction of the entire news is basically the voice of criticizing Cole.

The Warriors now have a very high popularity, and the Splash Brothers have also proved their strength. Their style of play is the most enjoyable team in the league.

Many analysts are saying that after the implementation of the new rules of the league, the Warriors' tactical system is the most efficient under this set of rules.

But now, as the founder of this system, first of all, he stopped playing.

Not only does he not fight, he has already figured out a tactical system to deal with himself.

This made people feel that Su Chen was outrageous.

Generally speaking, the players dominate the game, and the coach is a supporting role.

But now this round of the series between the Timberwolves and the Warriors is gradually subverting people's concepts.

Looking at it now, Su Chen seems to be the biggest contributor to the Warriors' championship last season.

Lacob just felt that the coach was a supporting role no matter what, so when Su Chen asked for power, he refused without hesitation.

It is the kind that is not discussed directly.

At the beginning, when Su Chen left the Warriors, many people laughed at Su Chen, thinking that Su Chen was too arrogant.

He just happened to meet a strong team and won a championship.

He actually broke away because of management rights and the team.

The remarks at the time felt that Su Chen, a rising star, had become a meteor moment.

However, with the current trend of public opinion, there are basically no people who ridicule Su Chen.

Instead, Lacob was almost ridiculed by the entire network.

Letting Su Chen go, and being beaten by a rebuilding team led by Su Chen, he was about to be eliminated.

If the Warriors can't come back and are really eliminated, Lacob will become a joke in the industry.

San Antonio.

This night, the Spurs game is going on.

Their game will be played one day earlier than the Timberwolves.

Now facing the Thunder, they have taken a 3-1 lead.

And in tonight's game, with the Thunder's two juniors shutting down, the Thunder was also eliminated by the Spurs without any resistance.

The Spurs 4-1 the Thunder and advanced to the Western Conference Finals.

Although everyone in the Spurs was happy after the game, they didn't feel that excited.

After that trade, the strength of this Thunder team dropped by not a little bit.

In the game that the Thunder won, they all scored 60+ points by relying on the combination of the two teams.

But under the tight defense of the Spurs, the Shuang Shao did not continue the fiery touch.

After the game, Popovich accepted an interview casually and went out of the arena.

After returning home, Popovich did not rest immediately, but took out a notebook from the cabinet.

"The opponent in the Western Conference Finals should be that kid."

Popovich flipped open his notebook.

He hasn't opened this notebook for a long time. The last time he opened it, he wrote these notes after being overturned by the Warriors last season.

In the notebook, some terms and pictures were densely written.

Not to mention laymen, even people in the industry may not understand it.

Among them are the special symbols that Popovich is used to.

"However, he no longer uses these tactics."

After a few scans, Popovich closed the notebook again.

Then put the notebook back in the cabinet.

"He can win the Warriors. It seems that he not only understands his own tactics very well, but also has a new understanding."

Popovich sat on the couch and stroked his chin.

Then, Popovich took out the phone.

"Su Chen's video should be viewed in three stages, one stage when he won 20 consecutive victories, and another stage after the transaction."

"The third stage is the playoffs, especially the game against the Warriors."

Popovich spoke to the team's analysts one by one.

Popovich actually cares about these things, even though sometimes he looks like he doesn't care much.

He is a very special person.

After the Grizzlies were in the Black Eight Spurs that year, Popovich has been targeting the Grizzlies.

In the future, when encountering a grizzly bear, they will be beaten violently, sweeping as much as possible.

Last season was overturned by Su Chen in such a situation. Although on the surface Popovich has not said anything, he also showed a nonchalant expression when facing Su Chen.

In fact, Popovich has been waiting for an opportunity.

Forget the accounts of last season and Su Chen together in this season!
(End of this chapter)