The world of basketball

Chapter 61, Training newcomers and performing badly
This ball is very critical for the Spurs, because it marks that the Spurs are no longer rigidly playing slowly, but have also begun to join the counterattack.

The Spurs' defense is pretty good, and their defensive efficiency ranks sixth in the league, so they can find good opportunities for defensive counterattacks, especially Kuzmar, Lonny Walker, and Jeremy Lin's counterattacks are all good players.

George Hill was a little bit embarrassed. He enjoyed playing in the Spurs and under Popovich. After that, he played in the Pacers, Kings, and Jazz one after another. Can contribute very good organization, shooting and defense.

The same is true in the Cavaliers. He should be regarded as the most stable point next to the Cavaliers James last season, whether it is offensive or defensive.

This season, due to the team's desire for Sexton's growth, George Hill's average playing time has dropped to 22 minutes per game, which is almost the same as Jeremy Lin's playing time, but Jeremy Lin is providing firepower in the Spurs as a sixth man.

George Hill was very fast when he was young, and he passed by in a swish. Now he is a little older and focuses on stability. It is rare to see him swish past defenders.

Hood received the ball, and he was traded to the Cavaliers because he was not slow in his position in the Jazz. However, in the Cavaliers, a master of chaos, the left hand with a strong scoring ability will not perform well.

In fact, Hood's style of play is more traditional. He likes to score points piecemeal and through dislocations.

This time he planned to use his back to teach the rookie a lesson.

Tyronn Lue, who had put him on the bench in the playoffs for a while, stepped down. The new coach valued him a young player, and he performed well. Although the team's record was not good, his performance was still better than when the Jazz He's better.

He is [-] meters tall but plays the [-]nd position. He is not at a disadvantage against most of the [-]nd positions without losing speed. The long arm interfered with him.

Duang——

Hood made a shot, and Mu Xiaobei received the rebound and passed it to Mudiay.

This time Mu Xiaobei was stuck with his back, and it was Love who was stuck behind him. Seeing this, Mudiay passed the ball to Mu Xiaobei.

Love's defense is not good. Firstly, it is slow. Whether it is big defense or small defense speed or pick-and-roll defense, it is very slow. Second, it does not like confrontation. Look at how Horford beat Love in the playoffs last season. You can see it when you see your brother.

Mu Xiaobei hit his back twice, then turned back, slid to the bottom line to throw off Love, and then accelerated to see the shrinking defense that attracted two people.

Then Mu Xiaobei hit the ground and passed the ball, Kuzma received the ball in an air cut from the center line, and scored with a hook layup.

"The cooperation between Kuzma and Mu Xiaobei for strikes, we can always see Kuzma's air cuts in Mu Xiaobei's low-post singles. The internal and external cooperation of the two has become a regular weapon for the Spurs." Wang Meng said.

Love picks and rolls for George Hill at the top of the arc and cuts to the top of the arc. George Hill, who went to the basket, faced Mu Xiaobei's supplementary defense, and the ball went out.

But the strength was a little short, and it may also be because he saw Mu Xiaobei's supplementary defense, which meant that Love was undefended, but he didn't see the old Gasol who was about to arrive after the defensive rotation.

If the Warriors' defense is strong because each of them has a strong defensive ability, coupled with Cousins ​​and Green's quick defense, they can become a very strong defensive team.

The Spurs players are not considered defensive leaders, but their defensive efficiency can be ranked sixth in the league. The most important thing is that their defensive rotation is in place, and they spare no effort to make every defense in place. They are all talking. We're all communicating, we're all communicating.

So it's a pity that the scene of Love receiving the pass from the anti-aircraft gun outside the three-point line that George Hill expected did not appear. Instead, Gasol grabbed the ball and handed it to Lonnie Walker.

Walker ran away, Kuzma and Mudiay followed up.

Mudiay lands in the corner, and Kuzma follows Walker along the halfway line.

Walker took three steps against Hood and divided the ball beyond the three-point line. Mudiay made a three-pointer from outside the three-point line. The ball spun and drew a beautiful arc.

shhhhh--

Mudiay hit a three-pointer, and the Spurs' defensive counterattack was completed again.

The Cavaliers requested a timeout.

"Good boys, just play like this, defend well, counterattack if you have the opportunity, but there can only be three people when counterattacking, if the defender is in place to defend and counterattack, play position, try to fight inside as much as possible in positional warfare, Their inside line is very weak, not only do they play in the low post, but you can cut more to the basket." Popovich didn't waste the opponent's timeout.

"If we fight like this, we have a great chance of winning."

Back from the timeout, the Cavaliers replaced Osman, Clarkson, Nance, Hood, Tristan Thompson and George Hill.

Clarkson seemed lost when he came to the Cavaliers last season. He missed all kinds of shots, layups, three-pointers, many good opportunities, and many scoring methods that he is very good at.

But when he served as the sixth man this season, he seemed to have regained the feeling of playing for the Lakers. Well, xjb played, but his average of 16 points per game and 50.00% shooting rate were his career highs, but the corresponding three-pointers The shooting rate of 20.00% of the ball is another career low.

It can be seen from the data that this season he is more inclined to score from mid-range and rush to the basket to score.

After Clarkson announced to join the Philippine national team, Asia has added a strong team, but it is not that strong. The culture of a team cannot be changed by adding a superstar, and Clarkson is not a superstar. Not to mention a superstar who can bring qualitative changes to a team.

Mu Xiaobei and Mudiay set up a pick-and-roll at the top of the arc, and Mu Xiaobei, who cut outside to the top of the arc, received the ball, facing Nance Jr. who was defending, and had a three-pointer.

Nance has passion, speed, bounce, and fighting ability, but his height and wingspan are a little short.

And this pick-and-roll Nance chose the defensive method of shooting. After Mudiay bypassed the pick-and-roll and took away the defender Clarkson, he also attracted most of Nance's attraction. Mu Xiaobei had enough space for his shot. The posture is very comfortable.

shhhhh--

Mu Xiaobei hit the net with a three-pointer. It's only been 4 minutes into the second quarter. The Spurs have already scored 50 points, while the Cavaliers have only scored 34 points.

I have to say that the Cavaliers' defense is really not good.

However, the Cavaliers have gone far on the road to poor performance. This season, their more task is to train new players such as Osman, Sexton and even Clarkson and Decker.

But sometimes the management of the Cavaliers is also a little confused. Last time James left, they chose Irving as the core of the team. This time James Irving has left. Who can they use as the core of the team?

The Cavaliers' draft picks for next year are protected in the top ten, which is the most important reason why the management put pressure on Lu to guide more new players.

Regarding the Cavaliers' top ten protected picks, that is to say, the Cavaliers' pick from the Hawks is that if the draft picks in both 2019 and 2020 are in the top ten, then the Cavaliers can get themselves in these two years. The draft pick, which the Eagles will not get until 2021.If in any of the previous two years (2019 and 2020), the Cavaliers' draft pick was not within the protection range (top ten) of that year, the pick would go to the Eagles.

I hope that next year's draft pick can select outstanding young people, especially next year is a superstar with Zion Williams, Barrett and other future stars.

Good luck to Cleveland.

(End of this chapter)