NBA Building Cardinals

Chapter 198

The team has just suffered a wave of three-game losing streak. After Mo Williams came to the team, the team has not won yet.

Obviously, the players are still in a running-in stage for the tactical system.

And this season, the situation of the Jazz is not very good.

Since the team has not had a suitable candidate for the point guard position, Arroyo, the wonder boy, is currently being used, but his personal ability is really average.

Even though the team still has Kirilenko, Boozer and Okur, but even the most basic pick-and-roll is not a threat, which makes the Jazz's record this season very bad, failing to play people's expectations.

When will the Jazz in the post-Malone and Stockton eras be able to rise? This is also a question that people have been paying attention to.

Regarding this issue, Liu Rui knows better than anyone else, because there will be a person named Deron Williams in next year's draft.

Another point in this game is that the Bobcats' new aid Mo Williams can be regarded as facing the Jazz against his old club.

After all, at the very beginning, Mo Williams was given up by the Jazz before being traded to the Bucks, and then Liu Rui got him to the Bobcats.

So facing the Jazz, Mo Williams conducted crazy shooting practice before the game, vowing to prove to the Jazz in this game that it was an unwise decision to give up himself.

After the opening, the two sides announced their starting lineups.

Bobcats: Okafor, Wallace, Ariza, Kevin Martin, Mo Williams.

Jazz:
Okur, Boozer, Kirilenko, Lagabel, Arroyo.

The Jazz has a player with excellent defensive ability Lagabel on the back line, so this game is also an extremely big test for Martin's personal offense.

In the matchup with Boozer, Wallace's body will indeed be at a disadvantage, but most of Boozer's shots come from mid-range jumpers after the pick-and-roll.

The proportion of actually hitting the basket is less than 30% in each game.

What's more, the comparability of the two in mobility is indescribable.

At present, Wallace's personal defensive ability is very outstanding. If you have to name one of the biggest weaknesses on the defensive end, it may be tonnage.

Although under Liu Rui's training, Wallace's defensive ability has been greatly improved compared with his previous life, but in terms of body, he has not yet reached the explosive feeling of his peak period.

After all, these all take time to settle.

The tactic used by the Jazz this season is to pull center Okur outside the three-point line and try to sway the inside line as much as possible, thus giving Arroyo and Boozer a chance to play a pick-and-roll.

After the pick-and-roll Arroyo rolls down, Boozer comes up high, receives the ball back for a mid-range shot.

If Arroyo, who is going down, has a better chance, he can also choose to make a layup by himself, or distribute it to teammates ambushing in the corners on the left and right sides.

But it just so happens that the Bobcats have been using Brezek's high-post tactics at the beginning of the season, so the Bobcats have plenty of experience in dealing with this kind of attack from the center out of the three-point line.

What's more, Okafor's footwork in the interior is very good, facing Okur, no matter in terms of footwork or tonnage, he is not inferior.

So after the opening, familiarized with the Jazz's style of play for two rounds, the Bobcats began to counterattack.

Mo Williams, in particular, looked very motivated in this game.

Facing the opportunity without any hesitation, he made a bold move to vote.

And all of this seemed to be destined. In this game, Mo Williams' touch was overwhelming, so Liu Rui let him play for more than ten minutes in the first quarter before replacing him.

莫威廉姆斯第一节单节7投4中，三分球3中1，拿到了9分1篮板1助攻的数据。

It also played the best game since being traded. In the team's previous three-game losing streak, Mo Williams' shooting percentage was not higher than 40%, and his state can be described as very bad.

On the contrary, they ushered in a counterattack in this game, and they must have held back their energy and wanted to prove something to the Jazz.

It wasn't just Mo Williams who performed well. It may be because of the nomination among the All-Stars that Wallace played very excitedly in this game.

Facing Boozer's defense on the offensive end, he used his speed to complete individual singles in one-on-one several times.

The desire to attack appears to be very strong, which in previous games, Wallace seldom played this way.

Under Liu Rui's hands, Wallace has always been relatively selfless on the offensive end. He personally prefers defense to offense.

Even though Liu Rui has emphasized many times, asking him to increase his shots, Wallace still has relatively few individual singles.

Currently, as the team's head star, Wallace's personal singles ball possession rate is only ranked fifth on the team.

This ratio is not low for a star.

But in this game, Wallace made 5 of 4 shots in the first quarter and 1 of 0 from outside the three-point line. Facing Boozer's defense, he scored 8 points, 4 rebounds and 2 assists.

It seems to be telling the fans that being able to be nominated in the All-Star voting depends on the absolute strength of the individual.

It was also the excellent performance of Mo Williams and Wallace in the first quarter that helped the Bobcats to:
37:26
At the end of a single quarter, they led the Jazz by as many as 11 points.

37 points is also a new high for the Bobcats in a single quarter in recent games.

The Jazz's 26 points have already scored the team's average level this season, and the performance of the players can be said to be remarkable and very stable.

But he had no choice but to face the bobcats who felt hot.

In the second quarter, the two sides sent substitute lineups to continue the contest.

In the Jazz's bench lineup, there is also an inside and outside combination of Kirisek and Jalen Collins.

It can make the Jazz's second team also have a certain degree of competitiveness.

As soon as the second team came up, Al Jefferson, as the absolute main attack point of the Bobcats' second team, had a direct matchup with Collins of the Jazz.

The defensive ability of the two is average, and the offensive performance is not bad.

But it is clear that Jefferson is superior. Facing Collins, although he failed to hit the explosive data.

But in the more than seven minutes of playing in the second quarter, he still made 5 of 3 shots and scored 6 points and 3 rebounds.

Playing 7 minutes in a single quarter is also a new high for Jefferson since he came to the Bobcats.

For Jefferson's load management, Liu Rui also increased his playing time little by little.

Let him find more of his own state in the game.

In the match between the two teams in the second team, it can be said that you are playing against each other.

Both Liu Rui and Sloan were relatively calm and did not take the risk of changing their starting lineup in advance.

After all, a game is divided into four quarters. If the playing time of the main players cannot be allocated well, then a collapse in the final quarter will definitely be inevitable...

(End of this chapter)