Chapter 448
Maurice Cheeks, the second-year head coach trying to shore up a Trail Blazers that was about to crumble when Sabonis left in the summer of 2001, has done a good job, at least in this bearded, on-court team. When the grim-faced head coach was still there, the Blazers could at least maintain close to 50 wins a year. Once he left, the Portland Trail Blazers would become the Portland Prisons.
Coach Cheeks can always surprise Trail Blazers fans. The former 76ers' five-time All-Defensive Team and four-time All-Defensive First Team star can always come up with strange tricks on the defensive end.
Generally speaking, most teams don't want the opponent to pass the ball on the offensive end, and they don't want the opponent to play a smooth team offense. It is best for the opponent to play singles all the time.
Unless they are as strong as the OK combination, both of them are invincible players in their respective positions, and they can single-handedly beat their opponents to death. The opponent conducts the ball and plays a coordinated attack.
But today, the Blazers really did just that, forcing the Eagles starting lineup to pass the ball continuously, not giving Raheem, who has an absolute advantage in singles, a chance to succeed in singles, just defending the basket and quickly rotating defenses from the outside, forcing The Eagles keep passing the ball.
This shows Coach Cheeks' excellent defensive awareness as the player who used to be the league's number one defensive player at the point guard position, and judged the weakness of the Eagles' starting lineup without a player who can really play the core of the organization.
On the first ball, relying on Muhammad's flash of throwing and receiving the ball, the Eagles played well in the first offense, and the second offense was assigned to Prince. Prince also made a shot, but after all, this is not the team offense that the Eagles' starting lineup is good at. After playing, the shortcomings of the Eagles' starting lineup without core organization points were exposed.
Since the second half of last season, Jason Terry has less need to be responsible for organizing the offense, and this year is even more so, so the organization of offense has degraded a lot.
A team needs different roles. When a player comes to a team, especially a strong team, he also needs to make progress and degeneration for his role. Originally Jason Terry was selected by the Eagles as a core point guard Trained, the second grade also averaged 5 assists per game, and the third grade should have averaged 7+ assists per game, but after Liu Mang came, Jason Terry's scoring talent was more vividly displayed, and the passing aspect At the beginning, there were not so many performance opportunities. To be honest, the organization and offense have declined.
This is not about not giving the ball to him to organize the offense, it is indeed a substantial improvement in one aspect, and the other aspect will inevitably decline.
Just like Bosh, the inside core of the 361 combination, he needs to be transformed into a three-point insider when he cooperates with James, and then he plays very well as a three-point insider. He has made great progress in this aspect in one or two years, but rebounds, rebounds, etc. The defense became extremely poor, and after James left, he couldn't restore the original Raptors' style of play.
This is a technical choice. When it is selected and developed in a new direction, some original technologies will not be used for a long time, and will decline and degenerate over time.
Jason Terry scored an average of 20+ points per game last season, which he hadn't achieved in 20 years of his career, and his role in organizing offenses has diminished, and his organizational skills have begun to weaken. At the peak of his organizational ability, he should have 7.0 assists, but this season has basically stabilized at 4.0 assists.
Of course, because Jason Terry is still in the growth stage, let him focus on developing his scoring ability, it is very likely that his scoring performance will reach a height that he could not achieve under the original comprehensive development.
In fact, there is Jason Terry, who averages 4.0 assists per game, and Raheem, who averages 3 assists per game. The organizational ability of the starting lineup is enough most of the time. Usually there is no big problem. The Eagles He averaged 17 assists per game, which is almost half of the total of these two, which is completely enough.
But the Trail Blazers lineup defense is good enough, specifically for the Hawks' offense, forcing the strong side and the weak side that the Eagles had originally cut together. This is the biggest problem for the Eagles. Two of the starting lineup are not very good. An insider who can pass the ball, a rookie who can’t pass the ball very much, let them have a flash of inspiration occasionally, it’s okay to make a good pass, DeAndre Jordan can also hit a mid-range turnaround jumper, but let them treat it as a routine Tactics come to play, and problems soon arise.
Of course, this is based on the fact that the Blazers have a comprehensive defensive master like Rasheed Wallace and an experienced veteran like Pippen.
After more than 7 minutes in the first quarter, it seems that the Eagles did make a lot of running positions and passes, but the ball always passed to positions that players are not good at, such as Muhammad's mid-range, Ratliff's The bottom line is short-range, and Jason Terry is often blocked to the basket. It seems that the Eagles can pass the ball well, but it is difficult to score in the end.
Conversely, the Eagles' defense against the Blazers was well prepared to defend against the Blazers' offense, but today the Blazers played very simply. Rasheed Wallace's close-range singles, Wells' breakthrough scoring and He played in a low position and played in a style that was completely beyond the Eagles' expectations. The efficiency was extremely high. Wells' skills have improved this year. In the first year of just getting a big contract, he must perform better. Don't get the impression of a contract year player, it's not too late to be lazy in the second year...
By the time of the official timeout of the first quarter, the Eagles trailed 9-16 by 7 points.
Seeing that the Blazers had such a strange move, Liu Mang secretly sighed that it is indeed a team that can not be left behind among the western powerhouses, and its strength is really strong!
The reason why Coach Kruger didn't make the substitution in advance, but waited until the official timeout, was to study the Blazers' offensive and defensive strategies carefully. A few minutes behind is not a big problem, and the game time is still long .
"Ace, Tyshawn, Sherif, Carlos, Theo, you go on the field, Theo pays attention to the top defense inside, Carlos pays attention to blocking the opponent who cuts, Sharif, the help defense in the two bottom line areas and the basket under the basket I'll leave the defense to you, and Ace and Tyshawn will do a good job of single defense on the perimeter..." Coach Kruger didn't arrange too many offensive tactics, and at this time the offense is left to Liu Mang, a guy who is always so unexpected. Focus on deploying defensive tactics.
Liu Mang who played was a little confused, isn't the opponent mainly playing singles today? Why is it arranged to prevent the opponent's team from attacking?