rpbooks Chapter 376 Strategic Depth
Chapter 376 Strategic Depth
Chapter 376 Strategic Depth
Spoelstra severely criticized his players during the intermission. He believed that everyone did not play energetic in the first half. Except for the Big Three, everyone else was almost muddled on the court. This is also true. The root cause of their double-digit half-time deficit.
In order to enhance the team's three-point shooting, he removed Bibby and Haslem, and turned to Jones and Chalmers as the starters in the second half, and James swung to the four position.Judging from the players' three-point shooting percentage alone, this is already the most capable three-point shooting lineup for the Heat.
Obviously, the Heat's defense outside the three-point line was extremely unsuccessful in the first half. They were stunned by the Blazers' combination of inside and outside. The outside players were at a loss when facing the opponent's three-pointer. Still holding on to his position, he hesitated and gave the opponent a chance to shoot a three-pointer.
Spoelstra wasn't sure whether the Blazers' players would continue to feel that way in the second half, but he was still subconsciously planning for the worst.The purpose of replacing Jones and Chalmers is to strengthen the three-point shooting, but let James play the [-]th position to connect the inside and outside defense.He believes that with James' movement speed, he can quickly switch between the inside and outside, so that he can form a local defense with more defenses.
Sure enough, at the beginning of the second half, the Blazers' three-pointers had a tendency to misfire. Except for Ye Feng who was able to make strong shots in front of the defenders, everyone else's shots were more or less affected.James keeps his position in the elbow area at all times. As long as the Blazers' outside players are ready to shoot, he will quickly move to the high position and form a double-team with his teammates. Once the ball is passed to the inside, he can quickly return from the high position and carry Live in Aldridge.
This defensive system is based on James' super personal ability. His offense is top in the league, but in fact his defense is also not bad. His historical physical fitness gives him better defensive conditions. Can be transformed into a top defender in the league, and he can take both inside and outside.
With James attacking at any time, the only player who can maintain the three-point firepower of the Blazers is Ye Feng. This is largely due to the fact that the defense he encounters is the weakest among all perimeter players. Also barely able to cope with it.
Faced with the Heat's sudden change in defensive tactics, Ye Feng decisively took over the organization of the team's offense from Miller. Now is no longer the time to shoot three-pointers from the outside in the first half. He must suppress the rhythm and play positional warfare , looking for the opponent's weaknesses in positional warfare.
James' crazy defense is a great threat to the Blazers. Whether it is against a small man or a big man, he has performed with ease. A big hole was torn open.
After the Heat scored another goal, Ye Feng took the opportunity to ask Matthews and Aldridge to give him some advice. This is one of the privileges McMillan gave him. The coach would call a timeout for any situation on the court. At this time, a team brain like Ye Feng needs to take the initiative to stand up and deal with the opponent's tactics.After hearing Ye Feng's words, the two nodded and quickly ran to the frontcourt, while Ye Feng slowly dribbled the ball behind Camby for half the court.
Spoelstra wanted to call attention to the players, but it seemed that Matthews and Aldridge were in the same position as before. The former fell to the corner of the weak side and the latter hovered one step inside the free throw line. .He intends to take a good look first to see what the opponent is up to.
Ye Feng looked around and asked Camby to come up to set a screen. After bypassing the screen, he raised his hand and was about to shoot a three-pointer.At this time, Jones was blocked behind, and in front of him was Bosh who followed Camby, but James didn't believe that Bosh could handle Ye Feng, he still quickly moved to a high position to wait for an opportunity to steal.
Ye Feng withdrew the basketball he had raised above his head, and passed the ball through the gap to Aldridge with a slam. James sneered. Isn't this the same tactic?Thought it would be enough to add a high screen?James thought while returning to defend Aldridge.
But what makes him wonder is why doesn't Aldridge catch and shoot directly?Could it be that he was frightened and stupid?
But soon he was surprised to find that he had been tricked, and Aldridge was trying to attract his attention.When James was less than half a meter away from Aldridge, the latter suddenly passed the ball, and the position was right under the basket. At this time, a guy wearing a Trail Blazers jersey appeared strangely on the baseline and easily caught the ball Layup, look at the number on the back, it was Matthews who was ambushing in the corner before and was considered a catch-and-shoot shooter from the corner.
Chalmers followed behind him with a resentful expression on his face. It wasn't that he didn't want to defend, but Matthews' physical fitness could directly crush him. Coupled with Miller's off-ball screen for him, Chalmers It became a tragedy. Matthews rushed to the inside against him, and then caught the ball to complete a layup.
James did not expect that the Blazers could play such a tactic that attracts the defense to slip to the bottom line, but this is exactly where Ye Feng is brilliant. He continued to subdivide the two layers of inside and outside in the traditional sense, and played against the Heat from three levels at the same time. The defensive system launches an offense.
He himself and Camby are outside the three-point line, Aldridge is in the middle distance, and Matthews cuts along the baseline with the help of Miller. James can defend the three-point line and the middle distance. Does he still have the strength? Move to the baseline to defend Matthews?At this time, the Heat's other lines of defense were also torn apart.
This is the so-called strategic depth. As a Chinese, Ye Feng successfully applied this idea to the court.He can see very clearly that James is the core of the Heat's defensive system. Even Wade, who can also be used as an outside gate, is not as high as him in priority. He created more objects to defend, and Ye Feng's whispers to Matthews and Aldridge were explaining this matter.
Spoelstra thought that the positions of the two had not changed compared to before, but in fact Aldridge's position was further outside than in previous offensive rounds. It was his small change that made Spoelstra make a wrong judgment, so the Blazers easily penetrated the Heat's defense.
(End of this chapter)