new lord of the rings

Chapter 438 Countermeasures!

At the beginning of the fourth quarter, the Thunder attacked first. Westbrook missed a jumper after the pick-and-roll.

Tucker, Hield, and Brogdon settled down respectively. Gasol stepped up to help Zhang Xin pick and roll. Gasol made a block and Zhang Xin passed by. Adams, Durant and nearby Ibaka all Go straight to Zhang Xin.

Zhang Xin smiled and passed the ball to Tucker who was emptied. Tucker adjusted the ball and raised his hand to shoot the ball calmly. Jumping to the elbow, this distance is enough for Tucker to shoot two three-pointers.

Three point hit!

The point difference narrowed to 12 points.

Wang Meng and Yang Yi looked at each other, seeing the smiles in each other's eyes.

"I think Zhang Xin must have found a way to deal with Jordan's Law." Wang Meng laughed.

"I think it should be. The times have changed after all. It may not be possible to copy the old things unchanged. The rules of the Jordan era are the characteristics of the Jordan era. After all, the current era is still unacceptable." Yang Yi said .

"Yeah, the space requirement in Jordan's era is still not as good as it is now. Just now, the Suns put up a variant tactic with one star and four shots. Zhang Xin and Gasol pick and roll at a high position, and the other three are located on the three-point line to open Zhang Xin space.

Under such an extreme space, it is not easy to pinch. The distance between the arc tops of the low positions is not a short distance even for a [-]-meter athlete. This distance is enough for the sun to do many things.

Now the situation is very clear, either the Thunder let Phoenix's shooters to rain three-pointers, or let Zhang Xin play high pick-and-rolls.

Sure enough, the rogue's tactics have to be dealt with by the rogue's tactics! " Wang Meng laughed.

"Your statement is interesting, hahahahaha..." Yang Yi also burst out laughing.

Donovan frowned. The commentator was able to figure out something. As one of the top coaches in the NBA, he naturally saw that the Suns were right in solving the problem. In fact, everyone was doing multiple-choice questions.

Whether the Thunder choose to let Zhang Xin score or let others score, the Suns choose to open up space to deal with Coach Donovan's Jordan Law.

What should I do?
Coach Donovan once again fell into philosophical torture.

The game on the field was still going on. Zhang Xin continued to use high pick-and-rolls to attract pincers and then pass the ball. Tucker, Hilde, and Bro Gordon all got three-pointers, and they were very competitive. The three-point rain was not for anything else. The main reason was that under this kind of space, the Thunder also chose to flank Zhang Xin. Once the rest of the team had space, they would be wide open. Once they were empty, it would be too late to help defend.

However, within 3 minutes, the point difference was forced to close to only 4 points. Coach Donovan hurriedly called a timeout, but he couldn’t do it anymore. His reaction was already slow. If he realized it immediately and made adjustments, The situation didn't stop there, but he still took chances: Maybe they didn't feel good today?
Facts have proved that all behaviors that want to use luck to win the victory are stupid behaviors.

"Coach Donovan's adjustment is a little slower..." Wang Meng said.

The game came back again, Durant found a misplaced opportunity, and Gasol made a mid-range shot in singles.

Zhang Xin dribbled the ball steadily across the half court, observed the lineup, handed the ball to Pau Gasol in the high post, and pressed himself down to block Durant receiving the pass from Gasol.

Zhang Xin leaned against Durant, carefully feeling the direction of Durant's force with his back, Zhang Xin sat back suddenly, Durant couldn't bear the force and backed up again and again, Zhang Xin took the opportunity to turn around in the middle, adjusted his footsteps and directly turned over to shoot a jumper, Faced with Zhang Xin's fadeaway jumper, even Durant couldn't block it, and he made a mid-range jumper!

"Perfect fadeaway jumper! Every time I see Zhang Xin use this trick, I feel a sense of emotion: There is actually a second person in the world who can use the fadeaway jumper so lightly!" Wang Meng said with emotion.

"The key is that Zhang Xin's height and weight are taller and heavier than Michael Jordan's, but this feeling of being out of the world is even better by three points, which is also weird!" Yang Yi also praised him.

Now that the defensive tactics are broken, everyone can only do it hard. Durant and Zhang Xin started to fight each other. It is to find Durant.

The two contributed to an extremely explosive offensive battle!

Except for Zhang Xin, Durant is misplaced against everyone, and the success rate is extremely high, and Zhang Xin is the same, even if he is against Durant, he can still hit it, and the success rate is even higher than Durant Some, with only 4 minutes left, the score was equalized by Zhang Xin.

The Suns made adjustments, replaced Gasol with Tyson Chandler, replaced Broggo with Devin Booker, removed Hilder with Rajon Rondo, so that the firepower seemed Some have declined, but the richness of tactics has become more abundant. With Rondo sorting out the offense, Zhang Xin can run without the ball, allowing more people to participate in the offense.

Zhang Xin has always firmly believed that pick-and-rolls can be part of tactics, but not being able to pick-and-rolls is the team's tactics, so that the team's upper limit will not be limited.

Whether it is in the Warriors or the Suns, what he has been doing is to enrich the team's tactics. The NBA is not a low-level league. The monotonous tactics in the low-level leagues may be eliminated, let alone in the top basketball league of the NBA!
Therefore, after Zhang Xin's one-star four-shot plus pick-and-roll tactics equalized the score, Zhang Xin immediately returned to off-ball, but this off-ball is different from the off-ball at the beginning. Although there are Chandler and Rondo in this off-ball These two people don't have a three-point range, but Tucker, Devin Booker and himself are all three-point shooters, enough to open up the space. Even if the Thunder wants to play the Jordan rule again, they are not afraid.

In tonight's game, the score so far between the two sides is 112:111, with 4 minutes left. For the playoffs, such a score is very high.

Durant has scored 38 points tonight, Westbrook scored 29 points, Ibaka also scored 22 points, and the three scored 89 points together!
The Suns are relatively balanced, except that Zhang Xin scored 45 points, Bro Gordon scored 12 points, Hilde scored 11 points, Devin Booker scored 14 points, and Tucker scored 10 points. Pau Gasol scored 14 points and Rondo scored 10 points. They were all relatively balanced, and they were fully blossomed. Today, the Thunder's pincer attack on Zhang Xin gave others a lot of opportunities.

"The intensity of tonight's game was really beyond people's expectations. I didn't expect the Suns to be able to fight the Thunder to such an extent. It seems that the situation is still not down." Wang Meng said.

"Tonight, the Thunder suppressed the momentum of the Suns for a while, and once opened the point difference to 12 points, but after the Suns adjusted, they immediately pulled the score back, which is amazing!" Yang Yi said.

(End of this chapter)