full court guidance

Chapter 154
"The timeout is over. Let's take a look. The Spurs chose to make a substitution, replacing center Francisco Elson with Brent Barry, who made nearly 45% of his three-pointers in the regular season this year. It seems The Spurs are planning to change their strategy, are they going to give up double-teaming late and turn to offense?"

Van Gundy looked at the Spurs' lineup and immediately analyzed it sensitively.

"I think Tony Parker alone is enough to deal with being late. Coach Popovich's previous tactical choice is indeed a bit puzzling. He seems to be too afraid of being late, and he can't win a championship with three-pointers." Pippen continued At the beginning, Xiao Hei was late for a while, and I felt really comfortable.

But he seems to have forgotten that it was because of the late three-pointer that the Rockets easily swept their opponents in the finals in the first two seasons and won the championship.

Popovich will not immediately change the defensive strategy he has formulated, but now that other Warriors players are playing, they must make a slight adjustment to interrupt the Warriors' offensive rhythm.

In fact, Popovich still insisted that only by double-teaming to limit the number of late shots, it is possible for the Spurs to win.

It is a last resort to fight small ball tactics with the Warriors for the time being.

The first time the two sides played against each other, the reason why the Spurs were able to win was because the strength gap between the two sides at the basket was too obvious.

The combination of Francisco Elson and Tim Duncan, at least not too easy when facing the Warriors, they can easily grab rebounds.

Today Duncan himself admitted that when Milicic broke out, Popovich must pay attention to it.

Once the Warriors are allowed to combine inside and outside to achieve results, it will not be so easy for the Spurs to win.

Popovich's tactical arrangement has never been stubborn and rigid. He will fine-tune the team's lineup at the right time to achieve better game results.

Of course, this may also make him make mistakes and cause the team to lose, but at least Popovich is obviously more flexible than those head coaches who lack on-the-spot responses.

His adjustment this time has a clear purpose and has strengthened the peripheral defensive strength. It is not so easy for Al Harrington to get opportunities on the outside.

Duncan's defense against Milicic on the inside was not as difficult as expected.

Milicic played very resolutely today, but he is not a powerful post-up singles master. When facing Duncan's super long wingspan, he was still greatly restricted.

The Warriors passed the ball from outside many times, and the Spurs' perimeter defensive formation fit perfectly, leaving no opportunities for the Warriors.

When the ball was passed to Roy, it was late to ask for the ball.

Roy obediently passed the pass, Ginobili hesitated for a moment, and chose to continue marking Roy instead of immediately double-teaming the late arrivals as before.

Late used his strength advantage to hold down Parker to catch the ball, leaned his back, and immediately turned around and chose to break through.

Parker immediately chose to step back and observe the late footsteps.

But the late breakthrough was just a fake move. The left foot that stepped out was immediately retracted, and he stepped back to outside the three-point line, and made a signature tiptoe shot.

His shot is so fast, even if Parker is concentrating, he can't immediately adjust his center of gravity and pounce back when he retreats. He can hardly give effective interference. first ball.

Seeing the expressionless behind the late goal, Parker was really frustrated.

Then he suddenly came to his senses: Oops, the coach’s arrangement was to let go of the rush and not to let go of the shot. I instinctively chose to retreat and defend just now, and gave the late caller a chance. No, I have to pay attention in the future.

"Late, step back three points, the ball is scored, is he going to turn on the offensive switch?" Van Gundy explained excitedly.

Pippen looked contemptuous: "No, I think this ball is late to walk, this ball should not be counted."

Pippen has the final say on whether this three-pointer counts. The referee on duty held up three fingers and swung down vigorously. The three-pointer is valid.

The Spurs players immediately looked over to the bench, as if confirming with Popovich.

Popovich didn't respond, and the Spurs continued to attack according to the tactics arranged during the timeout.

The Warriors' defensive ability is really not very good. Duncan pulled out and played a pick-and-roll with Ginobili, and immediately cut to the inside.

Ginobili gave the ball to Finley, who played as a guest power forward. Finley is also an outside shooter who cannot relax, but Harrington shrank near the free throw line and did not move.

Veteran Hill has a better defensive attitude and richer experience, so he chose to come over to defend at the first time.

But Harrington also did not switch to defend the Spurs veteran Brent Barry, which caused the veteran to be completely emptied.

Finley was a super scorer in the Mavericks, but his passing ability was also underestimated. Finley saw his teammates who were emptied, faked Hill, and passed the ball.

Barry catches the ball and throws it immediately.

Barry Sr. is the third son of the famous NBA star Rick Barry (the most famous superstar player for throwing potty free throws), and he is also the best one among his brothers.

He joined the NBA in 95 and was a super spring guy when he was young.

He once won the slam dunk contest championship with a free throw line dunk in the 96 slam dunk contest. He was also the first white player in the league to complete a free throw line dunk.

When he was young, his style of playing was elegant and explosive, which attracted fans very much.

However, as he got older, his style of play changed a lot. After all, he is the son of a super shooter. Under his father's training, Barry also inherited his father's precise shooting skills.

It's a pity that due to the decline in athletic ability, his ability in one-on-one defense is declining day by day, which is also an important reason for his reduced playing time in the Spurs lineup.

But his scoring ability is still very strong. In the regular season this year, he averaged 1.7 three-pointers per game, and his shooting percentage was as high as 44.6%.

The Warriors should have ignored such a deadly three-point shooter.

But Barry missed the goal with almost no interference!
After all, after changing to a center, the Spurs' inside advantage is gone. Seeing Milicic's position, Duncan directly gave up the opportunity to compete for this offensive rebound.

Hill retreated to grab a defensive rebound and passed the ball to the late player immediately.

Although the Spurs' current lineup is not young, their athletic ability is not too bad, and they have already set up a defensive formation.

The Warriors probed the Spurs' defensive intentions, and this time the offense was more direct.

He was late and dribbled the ball across half court, and immediately played a pick-and-roll with Al Harrington.

Parker didn't dare to be careless, and directly gave up the defense against Harrington, and went around to late.

But the late arrival has already gained a breakthrough space, and the ball started to speed up.

His rhythm changes very strangely. He takes a step to the left first, and Parker thinks from his experience that his second step may change direction, so he immediately adjusts his center of gravity.

Unexpectedly, the late arrival seemed to pause on the ground, and then stepped out with his right foot to the left again.

The distance between him and Parker widened.

Late got a huge open shot and made a half-shot.

What kind of breakthrough style is this shit?
Why don't you rush to the basket to increase your shooting percentage, but deliberately widen the distance?
Probably the only breakthrough in the entire league is late.

But then again, the late play style was totally unreasonable, but Parker felt that he could use one word to describe his breakthrough—Sao!

The Spurs also have a master of European breakthroughs. Ginobili's weird snake-shaped breakthrough is also one of the sharpest tricks in the league.

But the late breakthrough is very different from Ginobili. His rhythm changes are really extreme, and he often thinks what people can't think, and makes some unreasonable actions.

Being late did not waste this opportunity, and the open shot was easily hit.

Parker immediately protested to the referee and walked away with the ball late!
Yes, Parker felt that the late breakthrough was full of anger, but this did not affect him to put pressure on the referee.

The most basic rule of basketball, the three-step layup must be consistent!
When the late breakthrough, there seemed to be a slow pause between the first step and the second step. Parker believed that the late layup lacked continuity and should be counted as a walk.

The referee on the side saw clearly that being late was not a pause, but a slowing down in the transition between the first and second steps.

At that time, Parker only noticed the movement direction and hand movements of the late, but ignored the foot of the late, so he had the illusion that the late stopped when he broke through.

The late two-point goal is valid, and Popovich's adjustment strategy does not seem to have a good effect.

Fortunately, the Spurs are finally on the offensive end. After Ginobili and Duncan cooperated in the pick-and-roll, they made a snake-shaped breakthrough and scored a layup on the inside, finally gaining something for the Spurs.

The Warriors still play late. Parker remembers Popovich's teachings and would rather make a late breakthrough than give him an easy three-point shot.

But is Parker just not giving it a chance?

Of course not.

It is now recognized throughout the league that to limit late three-point shots, unless you have a super defensive player with exceptional athletic ability who can limit late catches, or take off and block shots immediately when he shoots, otherwise you want to limit him Scoring is very difficult.

Parker obviously does not have these two characteristics. He chose to give up space for late breakthroughs, but simply grasped the big and let go of the small-although the lethality of late breakthroughs is not bad, but compared to his terrifyingly stable scoring efficiency of three-pointers , obviously much worse.

Don't be late to realize this?

Of course he is very aware of the advantage of the three-pointer. Breakthroughs are just a means for him to get more three-pointers and shots, not his main scoring skills.

Late again chose to break through from Parker's right side, relying on rhythm changes to dribble the ball.

Parker immediately followed closely, but unexpectedly changed hands suddenly when he was late, and retreated with his right foot.

"Oops, feint! He's going to shoot a three!"

Parker immediately judged the intention of being late, and hurriedly adjusted his center of gravity and threw himself forward.

But he was already at an extreme disadvantage, and the hasty body adjustments made it impossible for him to make other moves.

Late got out of the way and shot again with his signature tiptoe.

Ginobili rushed out from the side at the first time, jumping and interfering.

(End of this chapter)