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Chapter 441 The Strongest Substitute Has Trouble With You

Offensive and defensive transitions on the court, the Blazers BOX formation settled.

Lillard ran to the top of the arc with the ball, and Matthews in the left elbow area used Lopez's screen to lift up, which can be described as a standard procedure.

But who would have thought that between the two staggered, Lopez suddenly turned around and ran towards the top of the arc, while Matthews turned around and moved across the paint and went straight to the right sideline. The typical RIP suddenly parted ways, making the Kings The reaction suffers, and the catch-up speed slows down.

Lopez received the basketball at the top of the arc, immediately passed back to Lillard, then turned around and ran to his right elbow, clearly covering for Alder.

Alder got rid of Millsap and ran to Lillard, and he also made it clear that he had to do a positioning screen, which is a typical RAM routine.

Su Yang watched and clapped.

In general, the Blazers split the half court, the strong side takes the ball, and the weak side looks for shooting positions. It is not as good as the Heat's elbow to connect with the ladder screen, and it is not as good as the Spurs' figure-of-eight conduction + Iverson crosscut, but it is quite good. It is suitable for the Trail Blazers, because the Trail Blazers center Lopez is not as good as Duncan and cannot save the process, and Matthews is not as good as Wade, and also cannot save the process, so it must be done that way.

Coach Terry Stotts can be called an offensive master, and he can tailor tactics for the Blazers players, not rote.

In the blink of an eye, a 45-degree three-point line screen on the left was formed, and Lillard used Alder to help him get rid of Thomas Jr.

In that situation, if Thomas Jr. is allowed to catch up, time will definitely suffer a lot. After all, Lillard breaks through so fast with the ball.

According to Su Yang's arrangement, Millsap and Thomas Jr. decisively went up to double-team, not only blocking Lillard's breakthrough, but also delaying the opportunity for Matthews and Lopez on the right to run out with the help of a split, making Lillard forced Pulling the ball back and retreating is futile.

Matthews still took the ball at the 45-degree three-point line on the right, made a shot to point Thornton, and then leaned forward to make a foul.

However, Thornton was already prepared and jumped almost straight up and down. The referee didn't call a foul, and Matthews quickly passed the ball back.

With only 2.1 seconds left in the attack time, Lillard caught the ball and slid it straight to the left waist. Alder stepped forward and turned around after receiving the ball.

The 24-second violating whistle sounded simultaneously, the basketball slammed and rebounded, and cheers suddenly sounded in the Sleep Train arena.

At that time, Batum slipped quietly to the basket, facing the three of the kings who gave each other backs, they took the ball and easily made tip-ups.

The cheers immediately turned into exclamations, Alphabet stood there in a daze, slapped his thigh after halftime, and raised his hand to signal that he had made a mistake.

The previous strong and durable defense fell short.

Su Yang raised his hands and clapped his hands to encourage him, thinking that this group of young men are very talented and have high execution ability, but unfortunately they are seriously inexperienced, a bit like the 10-year Thunder, anyone can win, anyone can lose, I guess they will be careless , leading to losing some games.

It was almost the same situation when Cousins ​​missed a rebound before, so I quickly reminded the assistant to write it down and focus on research later.

Between you and me, the game reached 3 minutes and 06 seconds from the bottom of the first quarter, the Kings led by 6 points, and the Blazers routinely requested a timeout.

Su Yang adjusted the lineup at will, Jason Thompson came on to replace Millsap, Rudy Gay came on to replace Antetokounmpo, and the two plus you came and went to replace Xavier Henry of Thornton, and Cousins ​​​​who continued to fight Team up with Thomas Jr.

"According to the previous experience of playing against the Trail Blazers, after Lillard is off, Mo Williams, Will Barton, and Joel Flandreed will appear, which will lead to their overall offensive level weakening, and they can double-team. And advance defense..."

According to Su Yang's analysis and prediction, all the generals of the king nodded in response, followed by the sound of the whistle at the end of the timeout, and the game continued.

The announcer announced the rotation situation loudly at the same time. Su Yang waited for Gay's name to be read, and immediately took the lead in cheering, leading the audience to applaud. After all, Gay ranked 14th in the salary ranking of the league, and if he was willing to be a substitute, it was tantamount to giving up the opportunity of the All-Star.

"For Guy!" the audience shouted in unison.

Gay put his hands on his hips and took the lead, which was quite useful in that situation, and then ran towards Batum, full of defensive posture.

The Trail Blazers followed suit and rotated as Su Yang expected. Mo + Barton + Batum in the backcourt, Aldridge + Joel Flandreid in the frontcourt. CJ McCollum was supposed to be the backup shooting guard. But he honorably inherited the tradition of the Blazers' rookies being injured first, because he suffered a fracture in the training camp and needs to rest until January next year before he can participate in the war.

The referee whistles the ball and the Blazers serve in the backcourt.

Elbow's tactical formation was established at the same time. Xiao Mo took the ball across the center line and passed it to Joel with his left elbow. He went straight to the bottom corner.

A wide screen was formed, and Barton took the opportunity to get rid of Xavier Henry and go up, rushed all the way to the left 45 degrees, received a hand-to-hand pass from Joel, and went straight to the top of the arc. The speed was super fast, and then Aldridge continued to cover , to force a large space,

However, Jason Thompson's early grab was delayed, Xavier caught up with Button again, and there was only one step left in the large space.

Perhaps it was due to excessive self-confidence, or perhaps due to tactical arrangements, Barton swayed his crotch, took a quick step, and made a quick shot.

In order to avoid Xavier's interference, Barton deliberately jumped high and shot the arc, the basketball was almost vertically lifted into the air, and finally hit the iron with a bang.

Cousins ​​got stuck with his back, jumped up to grab the rebound, landed and turned around and passed it to Thomas Jr., the King launched a fast-break counterattack.

During the march, Thomas Jr. raised his hand and shouted for command, the King's floppy formation fell into place, and Gay took the screen and went around to catch the ball.

Compared with players like Ray Allen and Redick, who used floppy to make an emergency stop to catch and shoot the ball, Gay caught the ball at 45 degrees on the left side and started to break through. Seeing the Blazers shrinking and enclosing, he immediately pulled the ball sideways and retreated, and then hesitated to catch it The step shakes, and the stem pulls up two points.

The basketball went into the net hollow, 25 to 17.

Su Yang applauded along with the audience, but he thought in his heart: This kind of one-step position inside the three-point line will increase two points. If it is a bang, it will be very blood pressure. Not in vain.

The offense and defense on the court switched, Xiao Mo played the ball to the left, and Adelaide went down synchronously to cover for Batum, and took the opportunity to get stuck with his back.

That action was so obvious that Jason Thompson took advantage of the situation and interfered, forcing Adelaide to the left sideline to catch the ball.

Ade caught the ball and paused for a moment to stabilize his figure, then crossed and rushed.In a trance, Jason Thompson couldn't resist, Cousins ​​hurriedly followed Su Yang's arrangement, let go of Joel decisively, shrank and stood under the basket in advance, ready to take off and interfere.

Ade had no head shot, and hurriedly threw the ball to Joel with his low hand, but Gay had already taken turns to make up for it, and instantly grabbed into a ball.

In the chaos, the referee blew his whistle and called for an out-of-bounds violation.

In the commentary, Mickey Richmond sighed: "Cousins ​​is very active in defense now, and will actively think..."

Grant Napier answered: "It's all thanks to Boss Su Yang. Before that, he specially chartered a flight to invite Cousins ​​to travel with him to Las Vegas. We had an in-depth conversation on the plane and helped Cousins ​​establish a sense of leadership. It can be called a super transformation...”

The two teams switched offense and defense, and the king was in the bull's corner.

Thomas Jr. ran to the top of the arc with the ball, raised his hand and passed the ball to Cousins ​​at the right elbow, turned around and went straight to the right corner.

That kind of movement is the same as the Blazers before the start.

Gay took the opportunity to use the cover of Thomas Jr. to get rid of Batum's pursuit, but pretended to lift the right wing, but actually stopped and ran back to the basket.

Seeing this, Cousins ​​hit the ball straight to the basket, and Gay, who was running at high speed, caught it, took off and glided, and reversed for a dunk.

The basketball went into the net, 27 to 17.

Seeing that he was 10 points behind, Stotts was a little irritable. Thinking that he had stabilized the situation without calling a timeout before, he decided not to call it.

Su Yang yelled at Cousins: "NICE PASS! Keep it up, you did a great job and kept them guessing."

Cousins ​​turned back to the defense with a proud face. He felt flattered by Su Yang's public praise, and he needed to work harder on defense.

The Blazers launched an attack in a hurry, and Xiao Mo rushed to the right wing of the frontcourt with the ball, and without calling for tactics, he directly hit the ground and passed to the waist.

Patton caught the ball with his back and raised his hand to make a shot. He realized that Xavier ignored it, so he immediately sat up hard and hit the ball three times in a row.

However, Xavier is a tall and strong wing player. Button didn't take advantage of it at all. Under the pressure of his back for five seconds, he hurriedly stepped forward and turned around, performing the famous stunt of Master Lai's "falling jumper". .

The basketball slammed, Jason Thompson grabbed the rebound and handed it to Thomas Jr., and the Kings launched a counterattack again.

Cheers erupted in the arena, the king's frontcourt BOX formation was settled, and Gay received the ball with his back to the left elbow and turned to face the basket.

Cousins ​​​​simultaneously used Jason Thompson to cover across the paint area, trying to connect with Gay on the left waist.

On the Trail Blazers side, Joel and Alder communicated early, but they didn't give a chance to connect, but Cousins ​​suddenly stopped and ran back.

Gay saw the position and passed the ball through, while Cousins ​​caught the ball with his left hand and jumped up, pushing and pushing against Joel to hit the rebound.

boom!The basketball rebounded into the net, 29 to 17.

Beep!The referee whistled at the same time and whistled for a foul, and there was an additional penalty!

There were cheers in the arena, and Grant Napier sighed in the commentary: "Gay has a very good chance to pass the ball!"

Mitch Richmond laughed and said: "For a substitute player with an annual salary of 700 million, only the Kings dare to be so bold..."

(End of this chapter)