NBA: Duncan feels uneasy coaching Warriors

Chapter 133 The Correct Way to Defend Durant
In fact, Scott Brooks also felt a little confused about Su Chen.

After all, Su Chen was last year's champion coach, and at the same time, he had a record of [-] consecutive victories at the beginning of the season. Putting aside the public's prejudice against Su Chen, Su Chen really has some skills.

Whether it was Su Chen in the Warriors or Su Chen in the Timberwolves now, Scott Brooks found that he didn't like to use the inside to attack.

In the Warriors, the inside line was basically pure blue-collar.

The offensive insider has no tactical status in his hands at all. Last season, David Lee was the only All-Star in the Warriors, but he was directly pushed to start. Even if he is on the bench, he is doing some blue-collar work.

If Su Chen had such a system, then he didn't have much to think about.

But Su Chen changed the system when he went to the Timberwolves.

But after changing the system, Su Chen still didn't like the inside line very much.

The first thing in the offseason was to trade the original core of the team, the All-Star offensive inside player Love.

At the same time, let Gobert and Muscala play inside.

Muscala is purely a tool to open up the space, so there is nothing to say.

Although Gobert seemed to have a lot of offense a while ago, in essence, Gobert is still a pie-eating blue-collar.

And through the recent use of Gobert by Scott Brooks, I also realized that Su Chen seems to be giving Gobert data to make a good deal.

Because in Su Chen's eyes, an all-around and fast insider like Ibaka is his goal.

Scott Brooks has also coached Ibaka for so long, and he still knows quite well about Ibaka, so his inside offense is quite satisfactory.

But if you let him be a pure blue-collar, except for the pick-and-roll quality and rebounding, Ibaka is top-notch.

Although Giannis Antetokounmpo plays the power forward position, he actually plays with the ball, a small forward who doesn't shoot.

Scott Brooks is very clear that in Su Chen's system, the inside line is not considered as the core at all.

Therefore, apart from Gobert, he doesn't want to go to other insiders.

At this time, the two sides jumped the ball.

Gobert jumped to possession for the Thunder.

After Sefolosha got the ball, he dialed it directly to Durant.

Durant is now the boss of the Thunder. Although Westbrook's share of the ball is not small, at least the first boss should be handed over to Durant.

Durant gestured to pull away.

This is to start the stick singles mode.

It was Iguodala who defended Durant.

"Why didn't Giannis Antetokounmpo go to guard Durant? Is there a communication error?"

Kenny Smith said at this time.

Durant's singles mainly rely on mid-range pull-ups. Due to his very long arms and the distance of his retreat, Durant's shooting looks like it cannot be interfered.

And Giannis Antetokounmpo, who is also tall and long, seems to be able to match up with Durant.

During the analysis and discussion before the game, the members of the gold medal commentary team all agreed that Giannis Antetokounmpo would defend Durant alone.

"Su Chen on the sidelines is very calm, it seems that this is arranged."

Johnson discovered the situation on the sidelines at this time.

Generally speaking, if there is a situation such as a matchup error, the coach will shout a reminder from the sidelines.

This has nothing to do with the personality of the coach. This is a very basic job of the coach, because players constantly secrete hormones when they are playing on the court. Even some players with high IQs cannot calmly think of a solution in the first place.

At this time, the coach on the sidelines must remind the players.

Su Chen's composure is either an amateur, or it was arranged in advance.

"Giannis Antetokounmpo is guarding Sefolosha on the perimeter, and he's very focused."

Barkley said with a smile.

From this point of view, the Timberwolves' strategy is really to let Iguodala defend Durant.

"It's crazy."

O'Neill also shook his head.

Durant is now at the peak of his career and has won the scoring title, especially this season's MVP is also far ahead.

There is no need to question Durant's firepower at all.

Even in the face of the defense of players of similar stature, Durant can still take a dry pull that ignores the defense, and makes mid-range shots one by one.

Durant's official height is 2 meters, but in fact Durant is more than 08 meters.

Durant is not alone in lying about his height. Many people in the league will report a false height in order to play their favorite positions, but these people usually report a little more and underreport.

It is really rare that Durant lied so much.

In the group photo of Durant and some centers in the same frame, the height does not seem to suffer at all, and even when facing Cousins, it is obviously much taller.

Although there are reasons for the angle of taking pictures, Durant doesn't suffer from taking pictures with so many inside players, so it can't be because of the angle of the camera every time.

Giannis Antetokounmpo is 2 meters tall, but when he met Durant just now, there was no difference in height between the two.

And Iguodala is only 1 meters.

When Durant, whose actual height is comparable to that of an inside player, faces Iguodala, who is 1 meters, there is a big gap visually.

It's almost like a joke.

People seem to have seen that Durant scored wantonly on Iguodala's head.

At this time, Durant obviously didn't regard Iguodala as a human being.

He didn't even dribble, and after making a three-threat, he planned to pull Iguodala directly.

When he got up, Iguodala couldn't even seal his palm, and the difference in height and wingspan between the two was really big.

But Durant felt something was wrong when he was together.

Because at the beginning, Iguodala confronted him, which prevented Durant from finding a comfortable position.

When he shot, his movements were slightly deformed.

clang!
Durant's mid-range shot hit the iron.

"Does it feel bad?"

"That shot didn't go in."

"Iguodala didn't bother him a little bit."

In the commentary seat, almost simultaneously exclaimed.

When Durant got up just now, it was obvious that Iguodala didn't interfere, because Iguodala couldn't touch the ball in Durant's hand at all.

If you want to interfere with Durant, you can only hit Durant's arm.

But just now Iguodala just made a simple cover to block Durant's sight, such a simple defense.

The defensive action of covering the face is useless even for ordinary shooters.

As professional players, they all have a good sense of the ball, especially as Durant, this trick is useless.

If it was so simple to defend Durant, Durant would not be the scoring champion again.

So the commentators feel that it's just a matter of Durant's bad touch.

However, Su Chen, who was on the sidelines, smiled indistinctly.

For Durant's defense, as a traverser, he knows exactly what it takes to defend Durant.

It is not a feasible path to rely on height and wingspan to defend Durant.

Even the peak Giannis Antetokounmpo, defending Durant after the Achilles tendon injury, does not have much effect.

In the 21st playoffs, the Bucks didn't believe this at first, and asked Giannis Antetokounmpo to defend Durant alone in the first two games.

But Durant averaged 30.5 points per game while shooting 55.8% from the field, which is no different from ordinary players defending Durant.

It basically depends on Durant's own touch.

The person who really played a defensive role against Durant was Tucker.

What is needed to defend Durant has never been height and wingspan, but strength, to be precise, lower body strength.

When Durant played, there was no room for Durant to play.

Durant's lower body strength is relatively weak, and the kick was squeezed away, and his entire shooting rhythm will go into an unfamiliar rhythm.

At this time, it is only necessary to cover Durant's face and block Durant's sight, and then Durant can be truly restricted.

With an unfamiliar rhythm of shots and being blocked for defense, Durant's touch will be abnormal.

Of course, to really limit Durant from the whole audience, Iguodala still can't do it alone.

At least one other guy, like Iguodala, is needed to bite Durant all over the court.

As far as the effect of the first round was concerned, Su Chen's request was met.

Although Iguodala is only 1 meters, it seems that he is very suitable for defending Durant.

After all, it is not a big deal for someone who can carry Durant even if James can carry it.

The Thunder didn't care too much, they immediately returned to defense.

They also felt that Durant simply didn't feel good and didn't make the shot.

(End of this chapter)