NBA: Duncan feels uneasy coaching Warriors

Chapter 128 It Turned Out to Be the Thunder Coach's Problem
"I didn't expect Giannis to play in such a good way with Jokic."

Su Chen watched this scene and laughed.

Of course, he didn't completely copy the offensive routines of Jokic and Murray.

After all, Giannis Antetokounmpo is not the real Jokic. His three-pointers and back-up ability cannot really compare to Jokic.

Jokic's tonnage and technology, Giannis Antetokounmpo is simply not easy to replicate.

At the same time, Giannis Antetokounmpo's historical height, wingspan and athletic ability, running to replicate Jokic's style of play, is itself a waste.

Butler is not Murray, and the three-pointer is not stable enough.

This is just a solution occasionally used to crack the opponent's defensive strategy, not a permanent one.

But that's for the Mavericks.

The defensive strategy just arranged is useless all of a sudden, and the defensive plan has to be rearranged again.

This made Carlisle frown.

But he didn't call a timeout. He didn't want to be forced to stop by Su Chen's timeout.

At least the Mavericks still have an offensive plan to catch Ibaka.

So Carlisle decided to take a look.

After Calderon dribbled the ball, he immediately saw Marion coming to ask for the ball.

Calderon also knew that this was a tactic for Nowitzki to play Ibaka, and immediately handed the ball to Marion.

At this time, Nowitzki is also ready to exchange matchups through screens.

But Marion just got the ball, and before he dribbled two steps, Giannis Antetokounmpo and Ibaka stepped forward and clamped Marion.

In this era, it is rare to go directly to the strong double-team without starting the pick-and-roll.

But for the small ball era, this kind of early double-teaming is quite normal, especially the excellent defensive resources of the Timberwolves themselves. It is a waste to use general defensive strategies.

This difficult defensive strategy can fully mobilize the Timberwolves' defensive resources.

Although Marion was a little confused by the sudden flank attack, he immediately had an idea and wanted to pass the ball to Nowitzki.

But Giannis Antetokounmpo's sudden top made his center of gravity a little unstable.

At the same time, Ibaka and Giannis-Antetokounmpo raised their long arms high, directly blocking the space for the ball to Nowitzki. Even if Marion is experienced, he cannot pass the blockade of these two people. Give the ball to Nowitzki.

Marion put his body against the two, protecting the ball.

Calderon immediately came to catch the ball from behind, but Butler kept squeezing Calderon, just in front of Calderon.

Butler is much stronger than Calderon, and Calderon's physical talent is not that outstanding, facing Butler's entanglement, he has always been unable to get around the open space.

Marion's ball can only be passed from that place. As long as Butler gets stuck in that direction, Marion can't pass it at all.

The attack time passed for several seconds, and still no one came to respond.

Giannis Antetokounmpo is already gradually approaching Marion's ball protector at this time, ready to copy it immediately.

At this time, Marion also felt Giannis Antetokounmpo's approaching step by step. In that case, even if he was not intercepted, it would be easy to form a scrimmage.

At this moment, Ellis finally ran out of position.

His speed has always been the top small guard in the league, and Luol Deng, who was in charge of defending him, still missed a step.

After taking the ball, Ellis glanced at Nowitzki's position, and then rushed directly into it.

Ellis' organizational ability can only be said to be barely qualified, and does not match his offensive ability. If his organizational ability can be promoted to the first echelon.

Then Ellis will not be traded.

Nowitzki actually has a vacancy at this time, but the route is a bit far away, and he is not sure to pass it in.

So Ellis intends to use himself to break through to attract the defense, and then give it to Nowitzki.

However, the attack time was running out, and Ellis didn't dare to make more moves, and directly used his speed to rush in.

Lol Deng lost a step when he intercepted the pass, and now he is even more far behind.

But when Luol Deng saw that Covington had passed the defense, Luol Deng stopped chasing Ellis, and went directly to Vince Carter, who was defended by Covington.

Ellis' passing awareness and level are still poor. If he was a point guard like Paul just now, he would be able to seize such an open opportunity.

Once the opportunity to pass the ball has passed, there is no pass.

Covington has come to help defend Ellis, and Ibaka is also moving rapidly towards the inside.

Ellis rushed halfway and saw Covington coming, and saw that Nowitzki was half a body ahead of Ibaka, so he still gave the ball to Nowitzki.

Although the vacancy was gone at the first time, but for Nowitzki, it can be regarded as Nowitzki playing Ibaka in the tactics.

The ball was given to Nowitzki, and the man also met Ibaka.

But when Nowitzki received the ball, he saw that the attack time was three seconds, which made Nowitzki want to curse.

Seeing Ibaka chasing from behind, Nowitzki clicked first to see if he could make Ibaka a foul.

Ibaka just doesn't have enough lower body strength, and Nowitzki can't beat him at this offensive time.

Being able to defend consecutively before closing, Ibaka's defensive sense and defensive IQ are still very good. Nowitzki didn't jump at all when he wanted to make a foul, but just stretched out his arms to interfere.

Ibaka was not fooled after clicking, and Nowitzki could only be forced to attack.

After all, the attack time was only three seconds, and he was only given time to click, so he didn't have time to do back movements at all.

Ibaka also jumped directly this time. Nowitzki knew that he could no longer make fake moves, and Ibaka also knew that Nowitzki couldn't make fake moves anymore.

If you do a direct timeout, you will not be able to make a foul.

boom!
A clean pegboard cap from the rear directly slapped Nowitzki's layup.

Beep beep.
The buzzer sounds, the attack timed out!
The ball belongs to the Timberwolves.

After Ibaka took off the big hat, he also showed his muscles and roared.

In the past, when he met Duncan Nowitzki, he was bullied by these old guys, and he was educated every time he met.

This made him, the king of one-shot blocks, lose face.

But he had nothing to do with these old guys. He was knocked back a little bit by others.

At the same time, Ibaka admired Su Chen even more.

The previous coaches only knew how to force him to stand up, and blamed him if he couldn't stand up. The media also called him a fake defense.

It's not that he doesn't want to defend, it's that he can't fight these old guys with innate conditions, what can he do?
To run fast and jump high, he was also required to have strong lower limbs.

He has this talent and was selected in the 20s?

With this talent, he will be the No. [-] pick at the beginning, and he is also the kind of super No. [-] pick that many teams deliberately put him down for a season.

Originally, he was puaed by the workplace, but he really felt that it was his own problem that dragged down the team.

Looking at it now, this is definitely a coaching issue.

Why did Su Chen's strategy give him a chance to beat Nowitzki?
Ibaka really growled more and more vigorously, and he was already excited.

Carlisle on the sidelines didn't look very good.

On the one hand, he was angry that Monta Ellis missed the opportunity just now, on the other hand, Su Chen actually blocked Nowitzki with Ibaka.

Moreover, this defensive strategy of the Timberwolves is really difficult to crack.

The Timberwolves' defense rotated too quickly.

It's not completely double-teaming without leaving the open space, but the time to open the open space is very short, and the speed of the ball holder on the field is very high.

The Mavericks lineup does not have a traditional point guard who can shoot the ball quickly. The five players on the court are almost all offensive players.

And Carlisle was still thinking about how to break the Timberwolves' defense.

The Timberwolves on the offensive end have made another achievement.

This time it wasn't Butler and Giannis Antetokounmpo who played together, but everyone pulled apart, and Giannis Antetokounmpo held the ball alone on one side of the free throw line.

Giannis Antetokounmpo is holding the ball face-to-face, and Marion has to guard against breakthroughs, and at the same time guard against throws and left and right hooks that he is very good at.

But this ball Giannis Antetokounmpo just held the ball as a threat, without really intending to attack.

At this time from the outside line, Luol Deng pretended to make a three-point run without the ball, but it was actually a cut inside.

Just caught the Monta Ellis matchup.

Giannis Antetokounmpo passed the ball directly, and Luol Deng faced Monta Ellis, and the size advantage allowed him to easily score the ball.

Mavericks 5:4 Timberwolves.

This ball is played again.

After the timeout, the Timberwolves no longer play the corner position, and the offensive routine of each ball is still different.

Compared with the situation at the beginning of the game, the situation on the field is suddenly different.

(End of this chapter)