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Chapter 304 304. Strategy
When the two coaches faced ordinary opponents, they let the players play on their own. If they encountered trouble, the players could find a way to deal with it by relying on their usual tactical training.

When encountering a really strong team, tactics or strategies are useless. At that time, it depends on the performance of the players themselves, and it depends on who plays well.

At this time, the difference between Popovich and Zen Master and ordinary coaches is reflected. They will calculate their opponents psychologically.

For example, when the Spurs played against the Warriors in the 12-13 season, Curry hit consecutive three-pointers, and Popovich called a timeout every time Curry hit a three-pointer, and kept calling until the timeout was exhausted.

In this way, Curry seemed a little irritable, and had a blind trust in his scoring ability, thinking that he had scared his opponent, so he kept shooting.

But Curry couldn't win the game by shooting alone. He kept shooting until the third quarter, and then he couldn't make consecutive shots because of his physical decline. In the fourth quarter, he even made three non-stick shots. Win that series.

In fact, in that game, the Spurs just played again according to conventional tactics, and it was the Warriors who collapsed.

When Popovich faced James in the finals of the past two years, he always used a strategy to put James in the mid-range shot. Except for this point, the Spurs played as usual.

James saw that even his opponent didn't care about his mid-range shot, and he didn't dare to shoot even if he had no confidence in his own mid-range shot.

The pass couldn't be passed, and the shot didn't dare to shoot. The Heat's offense was dragged down by James' hesitation.

At this time, the Heat coach has no choice but to prevent James from continuing to hold the ball?
That's even more impossible. James, who doesn't hold the ball, has seen it in the 11 Finals, and he played so badly.

The Heat were played by Popovich in the finals for two consecutive years. If it weren't for Leonard's two free throws in the summer of 13 and Ray Allen's three-pointer worth a championship ring, Popovich Povich's Finals coaching career was perfect.

Bickerstaff has been the old coach for so many years, and he has also figured out some things in this regard. If he wants to break the stalemate between the two sides in this game, he must start with Crawford.

There are many things related to the game against the Clippers. First of all, the new owner of the Clippers, Ballmer, began clamoring to let them change the title of the King of Los Angeles after he took office.

The second is that the Clippers are likely to be one of the biggest opponents of the Lakers in the playoffs this year.

After studying the games before and after the rise of the Clippers, Bickerstaff and D'Antoni found that the Clippers could change drastically. In addition to Paul, Griffin, and Jordan's Big Three playing better, Crawford led the No. It is equally important for the second team to open the score!

However, although Crawford has good statistics, he has won the best sixth man and even scored 50+ points in a single game, but his efficiency has always been very low, and the win-loss score is very low. At most, he can prevent the substitute from being pulled away score.

It wasn't until the Clippers introduced Kim Terry late last season that Crawford's new style of play made the Clippers' most expensive bench lineup a real combat effectiveness.

So Bickerstaff asked the media related to the team to contact the major media before the Lakers started their away trip, and began to expand on Crawford from Twitter or small sections of the website and small sections of newspapers that were not headlines. The language is not fierce, but it is very targeted criticism and irony. While talking about his previous style of play, he also said that he is old and can't score anymore. The position of singles king belongs to another Los Angeles player.

In the game, Nick Young was used to deliberately provocate single-handedly. A street player like Crawford was already easy to be ignited. Nick Young successfully irritated Crawford.

Apparently, it worked!

All Crawford thinks about now is to prove that he is better than Nick Young, and he wants to attack the basket with the ball.

Bickerstaff blew his whistle and made a gesture for Whiteside and Antetokounmpo to shrink the defense.

Whiteside and Antetokounmpo nodded, Antetokounmpo came to the elbow, and Whiteside began to direct his teammates' defensive positions.

This gesture, a fairly simple tactic, is to defend the line and force Crawford to go to the bottom line.

Bickerstaff's strategy succeeded, and Crawford fell into the trap!
If Liu Ren is desperately trying to prevent Crawford from breaking through, then Davis just needs to block him, but Liu Ren is like letting Crawford break into the inside, and Davis doesn't know what to do. In the past, blocking people might also block your own teammates.

Liu Ren's defense like this made Davis's pick-and-roll useless. Liu Ren just stuck to the top line and put down the bottom line.The pick-and-roll is to stop the defender on the forward route of the attacker. It is useless if Davis blocks the upper line. Liu Ren directly goes around and blocks the middle. With such a long distance, even if Liu Ren is blocked by Davis, Adetto Kumbo can also come out of the elbow.

If Davis wants to stop Liu Ren from the bottom line and let Crawford break through the bottom line smoothly, this is exactly what Liu Ren wants. Antetokounmpo and Whiteside are waiting!
Crawford was successfully suppressed to the bottom line, and immediately faced Antetokounmpo and Whiteside to intercept, followed by Liu Ren who was chasing after him. Crawford forced a mid-range shot and missed. Liu Ren The chase came in just to grab a defensive rebound.

Fight back!

Liu Ren himself defended the rebound and counterattacked with the ball!

No one can catch up to him. Farmar is the best runner in the Clippers lineup, but he can run only because of his physical strength. His speed is top-notch, but it is not enough compared to top-speed players like Liu Ren, Rondo, and James. look.

Liu Ren ended the attack with a simple gliding one-handed dunk. There was nothing fancy about the movement, just one word-stretch!
Crawford was a little paranoid and stubbornly wanted to go up by himself. He fell into the trap set by Bickerstaff, and the Lakers scored consecutively in defensive counterattacks.

If the Clippers return to defense in time, it will be handed over to Nick Young to beat Crawford one-on-one to arouse Crawford's competitive spirit.

Sometimes competitiveness can be harmful. The better Nick Young plays and the more points he gets, Crawford wants to play better and score more points than Nick Young.

What can the Clippers do?

Crawford is the leader of this bench lineup. Crawford's lack of cooperation caused the Clippers to fall into the quagmire of offense and defense. The Lakers used this to hit a 14-2 scoring shock wave. Rivers quickly called a timeout .

50 to 32, the Lakers widened the point difference to more than 15 points in just a few minutes!
The Lakers take the lead!

It is very important to determine the leading position first in the battle of the strong!
This scoring blast that exploited Crawford's weakness turned the Clippers into a catch-up team from the start of the game, and the Lakers took the lead.

The side with successful tactical execution will never take the lead in changing the strategy. This is an unchanging truth on the basketball court.

(End of this chapter)