The Whip of the God of Basketball - Chapter 391

Chapter 394

Defense is not something that you can practice overnight. Leon spent three years in the Boston Celtics and spent three years of careful training. He also kept learning to build the Boston wall.

The Suns’ defensive foundation is not as bad as people think. Although they are far from the league’s top level and cannot reach the level of a championship team, their defense is not useless.

There are two defensive champions, Marion and Bell, plus the team’s defensive enthusiasm and unity and cooperation ability. Solar maintains a good defensive intensity, but when the playoffs are targeted, their defense is almost impossible. Create trouble for the strong teams, especially the Spurs.

Leon is not ready to completely transform the Suns’ defense. Unless Nash and Stoudemire are sold and rebuilt, they will only get half the result with half the effort and no results will be achieved.

But as one of the coaches with the most extensive defensive experience in the league, Leon has a lot of defensive skills and strategies in his mind to help the team solve the dilemma on the court, at least don’t let James play Nash in such a wrong position.

He decided to use a weak strategy to force James or Damon Jones to take a breakthrough route that they are not good at, and then allow other players to come over in time to delay and prevent excessive one-to-one misalignment.

The focus of this strategy is not to let the opponent use the non-dominant hand, which is a common defensive method, but to advance. Leon pulled Nash and said to him: “Starting from the midfield, I will follow Damon. Defend, force him to move his left hand, and then don’t change defense. Of course, don’t think too much, follow your experience and instinct, don’t think too much.”

Leon kept reminding Nash not to think too much, because overthinking “letting the opponent go non-dominant” will slow the player’s defensive response, so Leon needs to set an advance amount to let Nash go on line earlier. The advantage is that you don’t have to go to the top of the arc to start thinking about how to stand. The disadvantage is that this is a test for Nash’s defensive footwork.

Then Leon also made a substitution adjustment. He replaced Jaskovicius, replaced Lagabe, and used a combination of two point guards to enhance the flexibility of the team’s offensive end.

This substitution is very risky, because the Suns are already at a disadvantage in the interior. Gooden and Big Z are expected to grab rebounds, but Leon still decided to use offense instead of defense and use firepower to overwhelm the Cavaliers’ advantage.

As for LeBron James, Leon’s strategy is as usual, let him go and let him vote.

The timeout was over. The score on the field was 30:26. The Suns still had a 4 point advantage. The two sides returned to the court. Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith were still talking on TV when they saw Leon. When he was replaced by Jaskovecius, they all expressed their surprise.

“The Suns replaced their backup center, Jaskovicius from Europe, to protect their backcourt rebounds. I think this will definitely work.”

Barkley joked unscrupulously that in the east, Jaskovicius’s insufficiently confrontational body made him suffer, and in the Warriors he also did not get the opportunity to play as he deserved.

After coming to the Suns, Jaskovicius’ performance was unexpectedly good, but he still did not meet people’s expectations. After all, there is a Manu Ginobili in the league.

The game continued. After Jaskovichius came on the field, Nash gave him the right to hold the ball. In this way, there are three points on the sun field that can control the ball, Nash, Jascovicius, and Bao Reese Dior, opponents can no longer stop the Suns by pinching Nash.

Jaskovicius took possession of the ball and Nash began to play without the ball. This is a rare opportunity in his 11-year career, and it is also a challenge, but with Nash’s basketball IQ, this is not difficult.

The Suns made a position to clear the baseline. Jaskovicius and Stoudemire made a pick-and-roll. Nash slipped the baseline to the left corner to take the defense. Jaskovicius took the ball and walked in the middle. His breakthrough was not too great. The big threat did not tear apart the Cavaliers’ defense.

But Stoudemire went down to the left low position, Dior moved to the high position, Jascovicius returned to the high position Dior, Dior tried to drop the ball to the low Stoudemire without success, and instead passed to the left corner. For Nash, Nash directly gave the ball to Stoudemire, Stoudemire took the ball in the low post to top off Gooden, and turned around and made a right-handed throw.

This is a set of low-post singles tactics that are very rare in the Suns in the past. The starting and passing line is a bit of Spurs style. Kenny Smith couldn’t help but marvel: “Is this still the Phoenix Suns? It’s still Nash and Stoude. Meyer?”

This is not a clever tactical routine, but all professional players, from childhood to college to each team all the way to play, this kind of simple tactical coordination is very familiar and can be made with instinct, just depends on the coach Requirements.

On the offensive end, Leon is asking everyone to let go, making the offensive tactics richer and crazier. They have such good offensive talent and talent, there is no reason to suppress them.

Returning to the defensive end, Nash followed Leon’s instructions. Damon Jones stepped forward and pressed just after halftime. When he felt that James was coming to cover behind him, he decisively turned sideways. If James wanted to cover, he had two options: one A front block allows Jones to go to the left; a side block allows Jones to bypass Nash and go to the right, but the side block risks moving the screen.

James chose to block head-on, Jones went down from the left, Marion delayed Jones a bit, gave Nash to squeeze to keep up and buy time, and then immediately returned to defend against James, this time James did not appear to be misplaced to beat Nash. .

Compared with tactics, the tacit understanding of the defensive details and concentration of attention are more important.

As soon as Jones walked on the left and then passed back to James, James still faced Marion’s defensive step. This time the cooperation was in vain.

However, there is still a chance for the Cavaliers inside. Gooden’s card is in the three-second zone of the middle. About one second of passing space, James grabs it. A through ball is passed to Gooden. Gooden receives the ball and turns and licks the basket. But there was no hit under the interference of Stoudemire.

Stoudemire protected the backboard. He did a good job defensively this time. Leon clapped vigorously on the sidelines as encouragement and shouted “Run Fast” to let the team launch a quick counterattack.

The Cavaliers returned to the defense very quickly and did not give the Suns a chance to break fast. This time the Suns were Nash holding the ball. He dribbled the ball out of the opponent’s three-second zone and found that the defender was James. Because of the rapid retreat, the Cavaliers’ defensive formation was chaotic. James came back the fastest and followed Nash.

Nash waved to the other teammates to make them all clear and walk away. He wants to single James on this open ground near 45 degrees on the left!

Whether it is strength, speed, height or explosive power, Nash has no advantage against James. He only has advantages in experience and skills, and of course, his outstanding will.

Nash dribbled the ball to adjust the rhythm, and the fans of the entire American Airlines Center stood up. James lowered the center and focused on it. Defense relies on instinct and will. Instinct does not come from talent, but from muscle memory formed by daily hard work~www .mtlnovel.com~ Will comes from lessons learned from experience.

James has good instincts, but his willpower is still not enough. Nash chose to break through with his dominant hand. He is not fast but has a good rhythm. James followed very closely. Nash rushed to the center in an arc and was about to enter At the three-second zone, he suddenly stopped suddenly, and then his whole body fell backward!

This sudden stop was quite sudden, with almost no sign. James stopped by instinct and reached out to interfere with Nash, but it was too late.

Nash shot with a rather exaggerated backward jumper, the ball drew a high arc in the air, and then steadily fell into the basket, hitting two points!

The American Airlines Center was full of jubilation. Phoenix fans found that the new style of play brought by Fox-Leon was equally exciting. As long as they can score goals, as long as they can win, what can they do? At 34:26, the Suns once again opened the point difference to 8 points, regaining control of the game situation in their own hands, and Leon sat back on the bench.

It seems that Nash’s state is better than he thought. If so, Nash might really be able to do a lot in the field of scoring this season.

(End of this chapter)