NBA: Duncan feels uneasy coaching Warriors

Chapter 195 The Gap Between Teams

During the break in the first quarter, Su Chen did not make any tactical changes.

The Timberwolves led by 8 points in the first quarter.

But Su Chen knew that the actual gap was bigger than the score.

Now the Heat basically rely on James. No matter how much James can score, he has to score [-] or [-] points a game.

Because the current Heat role players are too weak to score points.

Wade and Bosh couldn't score too many points against the Spurs, let alone the Timberwolves.

The Spurs have Parker and Manu Ginobili, who are not strong defenses on the outside.

And the Timberwolves have too many defensive resources, and they can take out two or three league-level first-tier defenders casually.

With Wade and Bosh at this level of defense, it is even more difficult to support James.

In fact, there is no real super team this season.

The Spurs are too old. Leonard has grown, but he has not yet grown to the superstar level.

A truly strong team should be one that is obviously better than other teams.

For example, the Nuggets led by two-time MVP Jokic have basically no challenges along the way, and there is a clear gap with other teams.

As the hero of the team's championship, Bruce Brown even said bluntly on the show that the biggest opponent the Nuggets encountered along the way turned out to be the Timberwolves in the first round, not even the Suns who won two games.

But in fact, playing the Timberwolves is also easy. Bruce Brown basically means that there are no decent opponents in the playoffs.

This is a dominant team.

This season's Spurs, in the original timeline, beat every old Maverick to the tiebreaker.

This is obviously not a dominant team.

But even with such a Spurs, it is easy to beat the Heat 4-1.

The Timberwolves can pass the Spurs, as long as the Heat can slightly restrict James, the Heat will actually have nothing to fight.

Su Chen is very clear about this.

There is a clear grade gap between the two teams.

Not to mention that Su Chen still has all kinds of skills and props that can be added to the team. This lineup is brought by a different coach, and it may not necessarily lose to the Heat.

After the start of the second quarter.

Eric Spoelstra played for a while and couldn't help calling a timeout.

However, the gap between the grades of the two teams, Eric Spoelstra is also a little helpless.

Iguodala serves as James' main defense, while Butler and Josh take turns to help Iguodala share.

In addition, even if James goes inside, there are guys like Ibaka and Giannis Antetokounmpo sweeping the inside.

Halftime is over.

Timberwolves 68:51 Heat.

Although James scored 25 points in the half, the Heat's role players frequently lost opportunities, and on the defensive end they were targeted by the Timberwolves' 5out tactics.

Wade is mainly marked by Butler. Butler squatted in the corner on the offensive end a lot of the time today, putting more energy on the defensive end.

Before the game, Butler observed many videos of Wade.

Wade, who played with injuries, faced Butler's marking, and his efficiency was not high.

In the last season, Wade actually played against Butler.

In fact, Wade played a little uncomfortable facing Butler's defense last season.

In one game, he was prevented from shooting 10 of 3 and only scored 6 points.

At the same time, g3 only scored 10 points.

In the entire series against the Bulls, Wade did not score more than 20 points in any game, and it can be said that he played relatively sluggishly.

That was last season. Although Wade's condition was also declining, he did not play with injuries.

Now Wade has slipped again, still playing with injuries.

And Butler has grown for another season, and at the same time has a 10% striker bond bonus. Facing such Butler, Wade's performance is not as good as last season.

Wade's performance naturally did not give James much support.

By the third quarter.

James seemed a little reconciled, and tried his best to prepare for a burst of points and catch up with the score.

But at this time, Su Chen didn't hesitate, and directly flanked James in advance, asking James to throw the ball out for the role player to handle the ball.

For James' defense, although the box-1 tactic is not used, the early flanking ratio of box-1 keeps James from hitting the ball.

Box-1 allows James to pass the ball directly to the open after attracting the defense.

If you pinch in advance, it will not give an open space, or you will not handle the ball for James, and pinch James and others to directly perform defensive rotations.

At this time, Su Chen also replaced Covington.

The 10% bonus of the striker's fetters, as well as top defenders like Covington, and two high-speed insiders.

This makes the Heat even if the role players get the ball, it seems that there are some opportunities, but if they make a decisive shot, they will actually be disturbed by the rotation defense.

If Wade is still in the state of the previous two seasons, then Su Chen would not dare to deal with James like this.

At Wade's current level, it is enough to arrange a single strong defense to rotate around Wade.

Some of the momentum that James had started to fight was held down again.

Chalmers, Lewis and others really do not have that ability.

James himself is also a style of play that needs to be controlled by his teammates. The current level of his teammates makes James feel that he is not as good as his Cavaliers teammates.

(End of this chapter)