i have a coaching book

Chapter 181 Battle Spurs

Lost to the Dallas Mavericks with strong offensive firepower, next, the Cleveland Cavaliers will still sit at home and face a very tough opponent, the defending champion San Antonio Spurs, also one of the top three in Texas.

The San Antonio Spurs have an unpretentious, cold-blooded and steady style of play, and a very high tactical quality. They are a top team with superstar players, but they play team basketball and have a mature style of play.The only one competing with him for a while is the Lakers team that gathers the Big Four.

Stone Buddha Duncan, Demon Sword Ginobili, French sports car Tony Parker, one of the top ten villains, crippled Chris Bowen, bench gangster, Shirkey's magician Hisitkoglu, the man with a big heart Three-point killer Horry and other various functional players.

However, none of this is scary. The scariest thing is that while they have all kinds of good cards, they also have one of the best head coaches in the league, Po Povich.

In Lin Bai's previous life, the Spurs coached by Bo Povich entered the playoffs for 21 consecutive years. No one would be surprised if they made it to the playoffs for 22 or even 23 consecutive years.

You know, it is in the highly competitive Western theater, especially the core players in their lineup such as "GDP" are getting old and leaving. The core players have changed batch after batch, and their gold content is not low.

Any team will have ups and downs, but as long as a legendary coach is still sitting on the Spurs team, this team can sit back and relax.

The San Antonio Spurs have a good record this season, currently 36 wins and 18 losses, ranking third in the West. If they want to, as long as they don't make any rotations and try their best to win, their record may be much better.

However, the Spurs are a small city team, and the process of carefully calculating, discovering, polishing, and cultivating players is indispensable.

Rotation is a tactical concept for them to maintain long-term combat power.

Recently, the Spurs have been in good shape. They have won a wave of 6 consecutive victories, especially in the last five away games.

Before the game, media reporters were optimistic that the Spurs would have the last laugh. After all, the Spurs are in a hot state, and the Cavaliers have been fluctuating recently. Of course, the Cavaliers have home court advantage. Even if the Spurs win in the end, the process will not be easy.

Lin Bai opened the [Basketball Pope Game] and found that he was going to face the Spurs as the head coach. The only thing he was lucky about was that he was lucky in the lottery draw and actually got the [Rainbow Fruit].

This is a good hole card!

Time flies, at 2004:2 pm on February 20, 9, at the Quicken Loans Arena, the Cleveland Cavaliers will play against the San Antonio Spurs.

After a simple warm-up and shooting, the starting lineups of the two sides came to the middle circle of the basketball court, ready to start the ball.

The starting players lined up by the Cavaliers are, in order, point guard LeBron James, shooting guard Jeff McNigins, small forward Elke Williams, power forward Carlos Boozer Al, center Zajunas - Ilgauskas.

The Spurs' starting five are point guard Tony Parker, shooting guard Hedo Turkoglu, small forward Chris Bowen, power forward Tim Duncan, and center Rasu Nestorov. strange.

"Beep!!"

There was a crisp sound.

The referee tossed the basketball in his hand high, and the scrum officially began!
Duncan and Ilgauskas jumped almost at the same time. However, Duncan, who is 211cm tall, wanted to compete with the outstanding Ilgauskas on the jump ball.

Ilgauskas ran easily, dialed the basketball into James' hands, and got the ball first.

With long legs, James quickly dribbled the ball and advanced to the frontcourt, speeding up and playing fast breaks, trying to beat the Spurs to a weak foothold.

However, the Spurs are a team known for their defense. Chris Bowen has a strong sense and immediately rushed forward to block James' path.

James made a cross step, turned around and dribbled the ball, but Bowen was passed by, but he kept up with James like nougat, and stuck up with his body, entangled and confronted James.

Bowen VS James! !

Off the court, Lin Bai broke into a cold sweat for James. Chris Bowen is known as the hardest thorn in the Spurs. With his "heavenly broken foot", he has a cold-blooded and unhesitating master on his face!

However, what surprised Lin Bai was that James actually won Bowen in the first duel.

In the frontcourt, James directly used the crab step, aggressively rushed into the three-point line, entered the inside line and directly pulled the ball up, drew the bow and set the arrow, and immediately threw the shot quickly before Duncan came over to defend, with a clear and clear net The buzzer sounded, and the basketball hit the net.

However, thinking of a few years later, there was a Bunch Wells nicknamed Bangzi, who could only play with his body, but singled out Bowen in the playoffs, and almost counterattacked the entire series. Of course.

It is undeniable that Chris Bowen is one of the best defensive players in positions 2 and 3. He has been selected to the second team of the best defensive player for the past three consecutive years, and will reach the peak in the next five years. He has been selected as the best defensive player for five consecutive years For a while, Bowen can still afford to call him a perimeter defensive master.

However, Bowen's physical fitness is average. Good defense depends on the toughness of the game. He is good at the candy-style defense, with many small movements, mental concentration, and tough physical confrontation. He moves quickly, physical confrontation, and small movements. Used with great proficiency.

However, facing a guard like James who is tall, physically strong, and moving faster, he is relatively helpless.

In the 06-07 season, in the NBA Finals, James faced Bowen's defense and averaged 33 points per game. It can be said that he specialized in attacking a technical defender like Abalone. At that time, James did not have a strong back like Kobe. Singles ability, however, his physical fitness is unparalleled.

Even in his rookie period, his body hadn't reached its peak yet, James could almost score 30-[-] against Bowen against the Spurs.

After all, when the Spurs dealt with James, they always defended alone, freezing James' support passes, even if they scored high points in every game, but the Spurs always won in the end.

Lin Bai frowned. It seems that the Spurs are very good at dealing with the game led by a single-core star. As long as the star is separated from other players and play one against four or four against one, these tactics can always produce what you want. Effect!
How should I deal with it?
In any case, at the beginning of the game, the Cavaliers scored a goal strongly by James, which was the first to win.

2 to 0! !
The offensive and defensive transition, the Spurs attacked, Tony Parker dribbled the ball slowly across the half court, and after his teammates settled down, he lobbed directly to the low post on the left, Duncan received the ball and singled out Boozer with his back.

Outside the three-point line in the left bottom corner, Bowen stood still and firmly nailed Elke Williams' footsteps, so that the Cavaliers could not double-team Duncan. If Duncan passed the ball to the outside once double-teamed, Bowen The 40% three-point shooting rate is not a display.

If there is no flanking, Duncan singled out Boozer, dribbled the ball and squeezed it deep with his back. After shaking his shoulders, he stepped on his feet nimbly and easily wiped into the basket. With a casual shot, the basketball wiped the board and got into the basket net nest.

Duncan's footsteps are not gorgeous, his shooting is not coquettish, unpretentious, but his scoring is very reliable. He is the most stable part of the Spurs' offensive firepower delivery.

2 to 2! !
The Spurs quickly responded with an eye for an eye. Duncan used a dominant post-up single and hit an easy two-pointer.

(End of this chapter)