Chapter 598 Potential Crisis
The score difference cannot be widened, and both sides have entered the state. In fact, the situation at this time can be seen clearly by each other.
This game may not end soon.
Longguo currently has a slight advantage in hard power. Lin Dong's connection has made this Longguo national team impeccable, but it is not yet to the extent that it can kill the US team in one breath.
The US team has an advantage in bench depth and individual strength.
High-level confrontation will inevitably bring high-intensity consumption. With sufficient depth of substitute bench, the US team can use the full-court pressing tactics of man-to-man from the first quarter to the last second of the fourth quarter!
Full-court pressing, man-to-man, is the best consumption tactic!
And as long as the first half can be consumed in this way...
When Yao Ming's physical strength is no longer sufficient, Longguo can no longer guarantee the efficiency of their double tower tactics, nor can Lin Dong and Yao Ming form an invincible pick-and-roll combination.
When Chen Jianghua's physical strength is no longer sufficient, Longguo can no longer easily launch a counterattack fast break when Lin Dong is double-teamed, nor can it seize the opportunity of the US team to score quickly.
The same is true for Yi Jianlian, Zhu Fangyu, Wang Zhizhi and others!
Every time someone falls down due to fatigue, Longguo's tactics will lose one, and their strength will fade by one point.
Then in the second half, even if the US team is still far behind in points, there will still be enough opportunities to turn the tables!
Old K quickly deployed troops on the sidelines.
Full-court pressing and man-to-man defense do not mean simply putting on the five fastest and most confrontational players.
Longguo's speed is strong in the overall rather than the individual, so you have to adapt your defensive lineup, as long as the overall speed of the team can keep up with the opponent.
When facing big men like Wang Zhizhi and Yi Jianlian, the defensive consumption effect of small players is obviously not as good as that of equally flexible big men.
At the same time, you have to take care of your offense while defending.
Consumption is just a strategy. The specific execution and distribution of tactics still depend on Lao K's response.
In response to the Dragon Country team, which is known for its speed and defense, and the current low success rate of the US team, Lao K replaced Durant, who has little defensive experience and whose defense system is not very compatible with the US team. He also withdrew Anthony, who focused on offense and not defense, and replaced Duncan, who was already a little tired and slightly weak in speed.
Replaced Kevin Garnett and Chris Bosh to form a flexible and fast double tower inside lineup, and then replaced Chris Paul to organize the offense.
Needless to say, Garnett and Bosh were already super giant inside players when Lin Dong was still in the NBA, and they were also representatives of the flexibility of Sakuragi Hanamichi. Not only did they have integrated offense and defense, but they also had first-class control over the inside, which was enough to guarantee the success rate of the US team's offense and even protect rebounds to a large extent. At the same time, they also had the speed that was fully adapted to the Dragon Country's counterattack.
Paul, who has entered the NBA first team this season, has become the new generation of NBA pass masters after Nash. His passing vision is unique, enough to connect the American team.
More importantly, Paul is young and fast enough, and his basketball IQ is extremely high and he keeps making small moves. Although he is slightly less confrontational, it is the most appropriate matchup to use him to deal with and consume Chen Jianghua and Xu Yong, who are even less confrontational.
The completely targeted matchup tactics, as well as the sudden strengthening of the full-court pressing man-to-man defense by the American team at the beginning of the second quarter, did cause a lot of trouble for Longguo.
The power of the two historical-level inside players under the basket is obviously not weaker than Duncan. Not to mention Yi Jianlian, even if Yao Ming came up, he might not be able to withstand it. While allowing the American team to steadily score 6 points and a 2+1, they also took two backcourt rebounds, curbing Longguo's offense, and playing a 9:2 small climax of chasing points, pulling the difference between the two sides back to single digits, 40:32!
But then Long Guo replaced Xu Yong with Yao Ming, and used the three inside mobile Great Wall combination of Yao Ming + Yi Jianlian + Wang Zhizhi.
Long Guo's inside power was immediately improved.
On the defensive end, Yao Ming faced Garnett and grabbed a crucial backcourt rebound, curbing the US team's offense.
On the offensive end, the three towers of the mobile Great Wall not only attracted the US team to close the defense to the middle, creating better open opportunities for Long Guo's outside line, but also guaranteed offensive rebounds for the second offense.
Lin Dong made 2 of 2 shots and two 3-pointers, Sun Yue made 2 of 4 shots and 2 3-pointers. In just four rounds, relying on two second offenses guaranteed by offensive rebounds, the score difference was widened again with 4 3-pointers.
52:38, the score difference returned to 14 points again.
Old K changed the lineup in time, replacing Duncan to deal with Yao Ming, and replacing Paul to strengthen the defense. After all, facing Long Guo's mobile Great Wall lineup at this time, Paul was too short, and there was no place for him to play inside or outside.
The US team also played a three-tower positional battle.
But just as they changed players, the Dragons also changed players. Yao Ming, Wang Zhizhi, and Yi Jianlian all went down to rest, and Chen Jianghua, Xu Yong, and Zhu Fangyu, along with Lin Dong and Sun Yue, started playing the death five.
It was a positional battle just now, but in a flash it changed to a running and gunning fast attack and an extreme rotation defense rhythm.
Although they gave up the position under the basket, the mobility and rhythm changes of the guerrillas obviously made it difficult for the US team to adapt.
After all, Duncan had just come on the court and had not yet fully adapted to the rhythm of the game. Although he scored in both positional battles, Longguo's 'speed 3-point' tactics of counterattack by speed widened the gap by 2 points again.
58:42, the score difference returned to 16 points.
Old K knew that he had to change the formation.
Don't think that Longguo relied on 3 points to chase 2 points and think that there is a possibility of mistakes. In fact, Longguo's two 3-pointers are all about speed. The three big men of the US team can hardly return to the defense and grab rebounds in time.
Don't think that Garnett and Bosh are not slow. That means that among the inside players, they are very fast, but compared with the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd positions, the speed of these two is really not enough.
On the other hand, on the Longguo side, Lin Dong can rely on his speed to quickly get close to the basket, which makes Longguo's counterattack often form 3 vs. 2, 4 vs. 3, or even extreme 5 vs. 3.
Without rebounding masters like Duncan and Garnett, there is probably no No. 3 position on this planet who can compete with the God of Basketball for rebounds. You know, when he was in the Supersonics, this guy had the most triple-doubles per game, and rebounds were always an indispensable part of his triple-doubles, and most of them were offensive rebounds!
Relying on the speed of the small lineup to counterattack, even if they miss the 3-pointer from the outside, they still have Lin Dong to grab it back for them or even directly tip it in.
If the speed can't match this Dragon Country, then even if your success rate on the offensive end is high, you will be eaten away by their equal counterattacks with 3 points!
Frankly speaking... Lao K knows that changing the lineup at this time is equivalent to falling into the rhythm of Dragon Country, which is equivalent to being led by the nose by Dragon Country.
The advantage of Dragon Country lies in Lin Dong. As long as he is there, Dragon Country can restrain a certain tactic of the US team to a certain extent, whether it is a big lineup or a small lineup. On the contrary, the US team cannot control this initiative to attack the opponent.
The initiative is always firmly in Lin Dong's hands. You have no choice. If you insist on not changing your formation, you will be killed!
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Old K replaced the three centers that had been thoroughly understood by the opponent, and also replaced Kobe, who was exhausted from defending Lin Dong alone, and changed back to a fast break formation based on flexibility and speed.
Tracy McGrady, Dwyane Wade, Chris Paul, Chris Bosh and Kevin Durant.
This is almost the fastest lineup in the US team at present. Each position is relatively balanced, and it is the best combination to match the five small lineups of the Dragon Country.
Sure enough, the fast attack of both sides started in an instant.
Both sides are fast attack streams with more offense than defense, and the overall game rhythm instantly improved by more than one level than before.
While the rapid offense and defense conversion brings a faster game rhythm, it will inevitably be accompanied by some personal mistakes, and this kind of mistakes will be made by both sides.
Chen Jianghua was intercepted once in a fast break, and the US team counterattacked and scored, recovering two points.
But in the second round, Paul hit the rebound on the American team's three-pointer, and Lin Dong grabbed the rebound over Bosh's head, recovering the two points that the American team had just pulled back.
The offensives of both sides were unyielding, and the fight lasted until the end of the second quarter.
72:57, after a few minutes of fast break, the score difference was still 15 points.
During the short halftime break, both sides made some adjustments, and the tense atmosphere was constantly rising, and the fighting spirit of each other was getting stronger and stronger.
The Dragon Country has its own advantages. After all, the 15-point lead is visible to the naked eye, and more importantly, Lin Dong did not let go of his hands and feet to play offense throughout the first half. He scored 11 points, 12 assists, 6 rebounds, 5 steals, and 3 blocks. The assists were more than the points, and the defensive data was eye-catching.
If it were another player, the performance of the data in this half would be enough to make everyone feel his terribleness.
But this is Lin Dong. People all over the world know that his strongest point is scoring. If his score is very low, it only means one thing, that is, Lin Dong has not really exerted his strength.
Frankly speaking, for the US team and Lao K, the biggest pressure in their hearts at this time is not the 15 points that Longguo leads, but the "reduced strength" state that Lin Dong is showing now.
If he doesn't exert his strength, Longguo still has a backhand; if he doesn't exert his strength, the US team will never know what level he has reached.
But on the other hand, the US team naturally has its advantages.
Although the two teams have been rotating in the first half, whether it is Yao Ming who played for 12 minutes, Chen Jianghua who played for 14 minutes, or Yi Jianlian who played for 15 minutes, etc., everyone has not shown any physical problems yet, but they are already sweating and panting.
Don't underestimate these ten minutes, this is the ten minutes that the US team played with a full-court super-giant lineup and a full-court defense, using man-to-man confrontation!
No, if you count the scrambles of the players during free throws, and the untimed moments, such as serving, waiting for the referee to blow the whistle, and returning to defense after completing an offensive round, the players of the American team will never miss any opportunity to consume you. If you count the deliberate confrontations during these fragmented moments, the actual physical energy consumed by the players of the Dragon Team will be much more than what the audience sees.
Starting to pant is a bad signal. After all, for these professional athletes, adjusting their breathing rate is something everyone can do. Once they can't adjust, it means that they have reached the edge of physical exhaustion.
After the halftime break, there may not be any problems at the beginning of the third quarter, but when the intense confrontation reaches the second half of the third quarter, these physical problems will come like a mountain avalanche and defeat the entire team in an instant. .
On the other hand, the U.S. team, although they are also experiencing physical exertion while consuming the Dragon Kingdom, NBA players are used to playing endurance matches of 12 minutes in a single quarter, and their physical endurance is already much better than that of the Dragon Kingdom team. They have 12 lineups of the same level that can be rotated at any time, and a large number of rotations are enough to allow them to conserve their energy to the maximum extent.
More importantly, their personal strength is stronger than anyone else on the Dragon Country team except Lin Dong and Yao Ming.
It is difficult for the weak to consume the strong, but the reverse is easy.
After all this, the two teams completed the exchange of physical strength in the first half. The Dragon Country side was panting, but the super giants on the American team were all in their best condition as if they had just finished warming up.
Physical strength and lineup depth are the biggest advantages of the American team now!
"We had a fantastic start, with an exciting first half of suppression! But we also had a physical crisis and a lack of depth in the lineup." CCTV's Sun Zhengping was on the big screen passionately but He said with great concern: "Although we are currently leading by 15 points, from my personal perspective, the game has just begun!"
"Yes, the Dragon Country team must guard against arrogance and impetuosity and play steadily. In the third quarter, the American team must not take advantage of physical opportunities to launch an effective counterattack." Director Ma expressed his professional opinion: "Remember, delay! As long as you can If this 15-point advantage is extended to the fourth quarter, then Lin Dong will definitely be able to take over the game! Even if he is double-teamed by the US team, even if several of the main rotation players of the Dragon Kingdom are replaced, I believe that Lin Dong will be able to rely on his strength. He is the God of basketball after all, holding on to this 15-point advantage!”
"Actually, I think it's okay for Xiaolin to take over the game in the third quarter. I've watched all of Xiaolin's games in the NBA and Champions League. Even if he plays the whole game, there's no problem with his physical strength." Sun Zhengping added, really It was because he was a little concerned that he became confused. On the other hand, it was also because he could see the physical crisis on the Dragon Kingdom side.
"Then you said it wrong this time." Speaking of his major, Director Ma immediately became energetic and commented sharply: "Lin Dong does have the physical strength to play the entire game in high-intensity competition, but the reason why We can’t let him explode in the third quarter, this is based on two points.”
"The first is of course related to physical strength. Once Lin Dong starts the main attack in advance, the US team will most likely not choose to double-team him. Instead, they will choose to continue to lock down Longwai's outside line and then use wheel battles to consume Lin Dong. ”
"No matter how strong Lin Dong is, if every time he is one-on-one, he will face a super giant who is trying his best to defend him and consume him, and every super giant has just rotated when facing him. As a new force, the pressure Lin Dong faces is not just five simple 1V1s. You must know that these super giants who have switched defenses are not only full of physical strength, but more importantly, each of them has different defensive characteristics and defensive rhythms. Similarly, Lin Dong needs to constantly change his ways to deal with each of them, which will consume much more physical and energy than you think."
"Secondly, and more importantly, once Lin Dong starts to attack, it means that we have no other offensive methods. Other players will feel cooler, and the US team will be able to double-team and restrict Lin Dong more unscrupulously. Dong, the one who will be brought down will definitely be the entire Dragon Kingdom team...Do you hope that Lin Dong will face the US team alone in the fourth quarter? Even if he is the God of Basketball, one versus five is impossible? ah……"