Guoshu basketball

Chapter 253

This time, after Li Du took the basketball from Curry, he waved everyone away, not even Yao Ming's pick-and-roll.Facing Manu Ginobili with the ball in both hands, then suddenly took a step.

The distance of this step is far beyond everyone's imagination, directly passing Ginobili and rushing into the inside of the Spurs.When Li Du threw Ginobili away, he didn't react at all. The speed of Li Du's explosion in this instant has exceeded the time of human reaction!
When Ginobili reacted, Li Du had already rushed in front of Duncan who was sitting on the inside of the Spurs.Ginobili took three steps in parallel and made two steps towards Li Du to make up the defense.

Facing Duncan, Li Du didn't have the slightest intention of dodging. He jumped up to face Duncan, and he was about to slam Duncan!
Duncan is known as the Stone Buddha, and he is definitely a master on the field. He can't provoke anyone.He had just been dunked by Yao Ming once, and seeing that Li Du wanted to do it again, he was really angry. He stretched out his arms straight, and jumped up to block Li Du without giving an inch.

Li Du raised his right hand high, and seeing Duncan jumping up with him, he showed a tricky smile. The posture of catching the ball with his right hand remained unchanged, and his wrist flicked slightly to the left. The basketball rubbed Duncan's fingertips and passed it to Yao Ming. .

Yao Ming received the pass under the basket, did not put his hands down, and dunked the ball into the basket with a light tap of his toes.

The advantage of a center is that they are tall and strong, and smaller players cannot reach the basketball in their hands. Therefore, a center with solid basic skills will not easily put down the ball in basketball, and keeps holding it high. Duncan is an expert in this area, and Yao Ming's basic skills are not good Difference.When Manu Ginobili defended, he wanted to take advantage of Yao Ming's bending and jumping to cut the ball, but Yao Ming's basic skills were solid, so he didn't have any chance to cut the ball.

As Li Du also started to attack, the Warriors' style of play finally returned to normal.But in their eyes, it is a normal tactic, but in the eyes of others, it is a crazy tactic!The Warriors almost gave up mid-range shots, and there are only two shooting options, either the basket or a three-pointer.

In fact, on the basketball court, mid-range shooting is the shooting method that defense has the least impact on offense. Many NBA superstars have a beautiful mid-range shooting ability.There used to be an unwritten rule in the professional basketball world: CIC is the safest way to score!
Indeed, compared to the more people at the basket, the defense is tight, the three-pointer is far away from the basket, and the shot will be missed if it is slightly affected, the mid-range shot is indeed a more cautious shooting choice.But this law is now broken by the Warriors. They have Yao Ming who has become stronger after a serious injury at the basket. There are three three-point shooters on the outside, Li Du, Curry, and Crawford. Expand the offensive space even more!
"It turns out that this is the essence of the Warriors' tactics!" Popovich stood on the sidelines and watched for a while, and then he understood what the Warriors' tactics were. He is a famous coach who trains a player with his own tactical system, so the old Nelson's tactical system can't hide it from him.

To put it bluntly, the old Nelson's tactics are actually taking advantage of the super shooting ability of Li Du, Curry and others to maximize the offensive space and shot opportunities, and the main focus is on the outside. The center, in addition to sitting on the inside in defense, is to ensure rebounds and pass the ball for other smaller players in offense.

This kind of tactic belongs to the extreme type, and it is not difficult to break it. As long as someone can contain Li Du from the outside and Yao Ming from the inside, when the Warriors pick and roll, everyone except the center will switch defenses, and they will not be given shots from the outside. Chances are there.

It is not difficult to switch defenses in the pick and roll. For every professional player, these are the most basic defensive skills.Containing Yao Ming can also consider letting Duncan and Mike Dyce cover the front and back. Even if they can't cover Yao Ming's shot, it can still seriously affect his shots.The question now is how to contain Li Du?

In the eyes of Popovich, Li Du is a nearly perfect player. Needless to say, his physical talent, Kobe even said that he envied Li Du's talent. What's more difficult is that this kid is improving very fast. He just entered the league. At that time, he was just a defensive player. After half a season, he will be able to share the worries of Kobe and the Lakers with his excellent shooting ability.By the second season, Li Du was already an important part of the Lakers' championship.

If Li Du hadn't been injured in the third season, Popovich estimated that he might be able to win the regular season MVP in that season, and even in the consideration of the Lakers management, he would be compared with Kobe. He is the head of the future!

Now that Li Du has come to the Warriors, half a season ago he could only be regarded as a strong player, and he led the Warriors forward with his own strength. Since Yao Ming came back and the Warriors had a complete lineup, Li Du has grown even more For a mature, strong team leader.Popovich even felt that the future NBA will be dominated by the Warriors and Li Du.

To contain Li Du, two double-teams may prevent him from shooting, but in this way, Li Du's pass will be accurately and timely passed to other open players.You know, in addition to Li Du in the Warriors, Curry and Crawford's three-pointers are also very good!

After thinking for a long time, in the second half of the second quarter, when the Warriors and the Spurs were about to send out the main lineup again, Popovich gritted his teeth secretly, called everyone to his side, and began to deploy tactics against the Warriors .

As soon as Li Du and other Warriors' main players came on the field, they found that the Spurs had made a major change in their defensive strategy.First of all, in the interior, when Duncan was entangled with Yao Ming, McDyess was walking around, ready to double-team Yao Ming at any time; the other point was that as soon as Li Du got the ball, Ginobili and Jefferson stepped forward to double-team him , Trying to make him have no room to dribble!
As soon as the Warriors came up, they were caught off guard by the Spurs' double-team defense. They missed three shots in a row.

At such a critical moment, old Nelson did not call a timeout, but gestured to Li Du, and then returned to his seat and sat down safely.

After he didn't understand the Spurs' defensive intentions at first, resulting in two consecutive near pass errors, Li Du understood the Spurs' intentions in the old Nelson's gesture.In fact, the Spurs are not so unpredictable, and Popovich is not really Zhuge Kongming alive. His strategy of double-teaming inside and outside is nothing more than the harm of two phases, and he chooses the lesser.

Man-to-man defense, the Spurs couldn't find anyone who could stop Li Du, and the Warriors had excellent three-pointers. Center Yao Ming also had a beautiful and stable mid-range shot. It was impossible to play zone defense, so Popovich only Being able to defend like this and let the rest of the Warriors attack is at least much better than both Li Du and Yao Ming.

(End of this chapter)