The Legend of the Hungry Wolf in Basketball

Chapter 162 [Victory is close at hand]

Jeff Van Gundy knows Thibodeau best.He had the greatest influence on Thibodeau, and he was the leader who made Thibodeau stronger. The two spent a long and difficult time together.

Thibodeau not only learned Van Gundy's iron-blooded defense, but also has an advantage that Van Gundy does not have-no doubts about employing people.

If Thibodeau was the head coach of the Rockets back then, maybe the Greek Spanoulis would not have returned to Europe so soon.The guard who shined in the EuroBasket and led Greece to victory over the Dream Team could only sit on the bench for the Rockets.

Now, Thibodeau dares to use the newcomers of the Clippers and is familiar with everyone's skills and characteristics. In just half a season, he has built the Clippers into a strong team. surprise.

Thibodeau's point is that as long as a team has weaknesses, they can be exploited.The biggest disadvantage of the Cavaliers is that they rely too much on LeBron James.LeBron has to shoulder the three major tasks of scoring, rebounding and assisting.West and Williams can help him, but as long as the two guards play together, the defensive end will be much weaker.

In the second half, Thibodeau decided to let Barea and Love pick and roll the offense, and sent Dorell Wright.As long as he is facing a guard with a height of about 190cm, he will take a very firm shot, and he will shoot three-pointers without grabbing the ball.Ye Feng and Smith only need to attract the defense, and put more energy on LeBron.On the defensive end, the two teamed up to limit James. As long as the Cavaliers dare to replace Ben Wallace, everything will be easy to handle, and continue to use the "shark-cutting tactic".

Thibodeau has arranged all the tactics. No matter what the possibility is, the Clippers can find a way to deal with it.

The Cavaliers did not arrange corresponding tactics. Except for a few sets of anti-running tactics by the guards, the rest depends on LeBron's performance. They play the same way every game.Brown lacks the ability to adapt on the spot, and the actual coach of the team can be said to be LeBron.

The second half of the game started, the Clippers made substitutions, and Love, Smith, Wright, Ye Feng, and Barea played.The Cavaliers returned to the starting lineup for the opening game, and Ben Wallace still played.Before the Clippers fouled four times in a single quarter, Brown thought he could stay on the court and strengthen his defense.

The Cavaliers attacked first, Ye Feng followed up with LeBron, and entangled him on the outside. Smith immediately defended after the screen, and Ye Feng bypassed the defense and double-teamed.

Love went to the high position to fight against Ilgauskas. Compared with Big Z, his speed is fast, and he emptied Wallace.This is the biggest shortcoming of the Cavaliers today.Ye Feng and Smith compressed the space, and it was still difficult for LeBron to pass the ball directly to Wallace.He passed to the responding Mo Williams, who dribbled the ball through the singles Barea, and made a basketball in the middle. 56 to 57.

The Clippers' next offense surprised the Cavaliers.

Ye Feng went to the low post on the left to ask for the ball, and Wallace stepped up.Smith went to the low post on the other side, and LeBron defended.On the periphery, Love gave Barea a cover, and the Cavaliers could only be defended by Ilgauskas.

If one of LeBron and Wallace went out to switch defenses, Ye Feng and Smith would have a clear advantage in the low post, and they could easily play the big Z by relying on their speed.

It is also very easy for Barea to pass the big Z. There is no need for fake moves, and he breaks through with one acceleration, and hits a jumper with an emergency stop on the left.Ilgauskas simply couldn't stop him. 58 to 57.

LeBron was still guarded against, this time he went left after the cover, made an emergency stop and made a jumper, 58 to 59.Although the goal was scored, Smith also defended in place.

The Clippers pick and roll for Barea again.Barea's role is like Nelson of the Magic. He is faster than Nelson. As long as he can guarantee his shooting percentage, most teams in the league will have a headache for him.

Wallace made up the defense, LeBron resisted Ye Feng, and Ilgauskas defended Smith alone.Seeing Barea's breakthrough, Smith immediately ran back to the outside line and evacuated the inside line.

Barea returns the ball to the high post Love.Love made a high mid-range shot, ignoring Williams' defense, and made a steady hit. 60 to 59.

The Cavaliers attacked, LeBron failed to break through, passed to the high post, and Ilgauskas passed to Wallace.

Wallace caught the ball and wanted to dunk, Wright arrived in time, stopped Wallace with a foul, and sent him to the free throw line.Wallace's free throws are very frustrating.Another two free throws.Love protects the rebound.

The Clippers attacked, Ye Feng still attracted the defense in the low post, and Smith pulled out the outside line.In the frontcourt, Barea broke through, and the Cavaliers were very uncomfortable with just such a move.

As soon as Wallace came up, Barea passed back to the high position Love, and West came up to defend Love's shot. This switch was also very reluctant, and Love didn't force the shot. Against Williams, a three-point jumper made a handball! 60 to 63.

Brown yelled and had a headache, and the Clippers found a way to deal with the Cavaliers.Ye Feng just attracted James, who was the strongest defender, so that he could only play in the low post and could not make up the defense. Outside Wright, Barea and Love formed a new attacking line and started a triangle attack.

At this time, Love's power on the offensive end was brought into play, and his high position support was great.

Putting aside defense and only looking at offense, Love is the seedling of a superstar.In Ye Feng's previous life, Love was suppressed by Jefferson in the first two seasons of the Timberwolves, so he didn't play star statistics.As soon as Jefferson was gone, he immediately became an offensive killer.

As long as he supports at a high position, Ye Feng and Smith can attract the defense without worrying about the offense. This kind of tactic is the first time for the Clippers.

Love often played like this in college, giving Ye Feng opportunities in the low post, and he was also convinced that Ye Feng was indeed more powerful in the low post than him.

Love's shooting percentage this season is 47%. As an insider, it's not very high, but most of his shots are mid-range shots, which is a very impressive shooting percentage.

Some people say that Love is very similar to Pacers center Troy Murphy. This year, Murphy hit the best data of his career with 34 points, 14.3 rebounds and 11.8 assists in 2.4 minutes.The shooting percentage was 47.5%, and the three-point shooting percentage was 45%.Love's three-pointers are not good, only 20%, but he is better at rebounding than Murphy.

In Ye Feng's previous life, Le Fu was often compared with Nowitzki. In the 2011 season, Love became the core of the Timberwolves' offense and got super data, not inferior to Nowitzki.

From a comparison, we can see that the defensive end of the two is not fast, and their single-defense and auxiliary defense capabilities are limited. People who say that Nowitzki and Love are "brush" mainly focus on three points, the team's record and defensive ability. , Hit rate.Nowitzki didn't turn around until he won the championship in 2011, and Love couldn't even make the playoffs in the Timberwolves.

All the mouths make gold, and the accumulation destroys the bones.Later, many people who had never watched the Timberwolves game began to swear that Love would not defend, let people shoot, and stood directly under the basket to grab rebounds, which seemed to be true.Not to mention that the NBA can't play like this, anyone who dares to do this in college will be directly pinned on the bench by the coach and cannot move.Love just moves slowly, just like Yao Ming, the whole world knows that Yao Ming can't defend, he can only go inside.

Compared with the offensive end, Love's shooting ability is not worse than Nowitzki.The biggest gap between the two is that Nowitzki has a strong offense with the ball, while Love relies on his teammates to pass the ball and lacks lethality.Love averaged 2011 points per game in the 2012-26 season, while Nowitzki, who is known for scoring, only scored more than this figure in two seasons from 2004 to 2006 (26.1 points and 26.6 points).In terms of shooting percentage, Nowitzki's career three-point shooting percentage is 37.9%, the highest in the first season is 42.1%, and Love's three-point ability has been outstanding in two seasons, 2012% in 38.2, and the highest season is 41.7%.In terms of overall shooting percentage, Nowitzki's career is 47.5%, and Love's career is 46%.

It is not difficult to see that Love, who is the "Wolf King" in the Timberwolves, is almost the same as Nowitzki in terms of scoring and shooting percentage per game.In terms of rebounds, Nowitzki has never averaged double figures in his career, and Love has 15.2 and 13.3 rebounds for two consecutive seasons.

Aside from the honors the two have won, Love is not much inferior to Nowitzki in terms of statistics and on-court style of play.The only gap is the ability to attack with the ball. Nowitzki is a bug that can shoot from the outside and play from the inside.Love doesn't have many means of singles inside, and the breakthrough with the ball is even worse.It can be said that after two seasons of training, Love will at least become a weakened version of Nowitzki on the offensive end, with much stronger rebounding.

Therefore, Ye Feng is not fighting alone. In addition to Smith, the Clippers also have Love, the future "big killer". He and Barea's pick-and-roll is also very sharp. LeBron is the real helpless Depend on.

In the 2010-2011 season, after the Cavaliers lost LeBron, they were at the bottom of the league immediately. Later, they selected Irving as the No. [-] pick, which is surprising.

Now that the Clippers have adjusted their tactics and started to double-team James, the problem of the Cavaliers' weak offense in other positions has begun to appear. They can only rely on Mo Williams to attack and beat Barea.

Once Barea is passed, he also adopts foul tactics.In less than 4 minutes, the Clippers fouled 4 times in the third quarter.

With one to four fouls, the Cavaliers were in big trouble. Before James moved to catch the ball, the referee's whistle sounded.Wallace was sent to the free throw line.

Wallace is already afraid of free throws today. He averaged only 3 points per game this season, which shows how rubbish the offense is, and he rarely makes free throws. The 40% shooting rate is due to the lack of free throws. The Cavaliers dare not let him play for too long, only 25 minutes.After today's game, his free throw percentage is only 30.00%...

Wallace made two free throws and Love grabbed the backcourt rebound.The scale of victory began to tilt towards the Clippers.The Cavaliers can't defend against Barea's breakthrough, and Wright has a height advantage.

After the ball was dead, the Cavaliers quickly replaced Wallace, replaced Varejao inside, and Pavlovich, who was 201CM outside, restricted Wright.The Clippers also changed their tactics. Barnes played, and after Barea and Love picked and rolled, the ball was given to Smith who was pulled to the periphery, allowing him to play Ilgauskas one-on-one.Big Z was too slow to keep up with Smith.

LeBron encountered the same problem as the Bulls' Luol Deng. He could only guard against one of Smith and Ye Feng.Neither of them can be guarded by tall insiders.

84 to 77, the Clippers led by 7 points and entered the fourth quarter, taking the lead.LeBron and Ye Feng competed and did not defend Smith. Smith succeeded in jumping from the outside and even made a dunk after breaking through.

Ye Feng put more energy into defense, entangled LeBron, and hindered his offense.When Williams also started to hit the iron, Ye Feng was delighted to see that the 10-game winning streak was close at hand!

(End of this chapter)