"I believe everyone understands the purpose of calling this timeout. Look at your defense, it's just like paper. I don't want to see this kind of defense again. If anyone still has this attitude, then he will be off the field. Our team
There's no shortage of people here." Doc Reeves angrily yelled at the Clippers players.
The most successful aspect of Reeves' transformation of the Clippers is the defense, especially his training with DeAndre Jordan, which has raised the Clippers' defensive intensity by more than one level.
After the timeout, the Spurs' Chen Feng came off the court to rest.
From the beginning of the game until now, Chen Feng was just thinking that maybe Doc Reeves' reprimand had an effect. The Clippers really strengthened their defense in the next game. This made the Spurs' offense at a loss.
Chris Paul easily carried the ball across half court and passed the ball with a hit. The ball quickly bounced into the hands of Blake Griffin, who turned around and hit a jumper.
Kawhi Leonard's three-point shot missed, Derrick Favors grabbed the offensive rebound and handed it to Tony Parker. Tony Parker tried to make a pull-up jumper in isolation, but failed to make it. DeAndre -
After Jordan picked off the defensive rebound, he quickly stuffed it into the hands of Chris Paul. But in the following time, Chris Paul launched a fierce counterattack.
After halftime, Chris Paul threw the ball high. Blake Griffin cut from the wing to the basket and jumped high to dunk with both hands.
In the city of alley-oops, in a short period of time, you can show off your physical talents to the fullest!
The timeout only lasted a minute and a half. Chris Paul scored 3 points and 2 assists. His performance was so exciting that the fans in the audience screamed.
With four minutes left in the first half, Chen Feng appeared again, but in the duel with Chris Paul, Chen Feng did not take advantage.
Chen Feng quickly brought the ball across the half court, watching Favors keep getting stuck in the paint for the ball. With a lob, the ball was quickly handed over to Derrick Favors.
The ball was passed very cleverly, and it happened to be in Derrick Favors' hands when he turned around and shouldered it hard. His shoulders suddenly exerted force, pushing Blake Griffin out, and gained a little bit of ground under the basket.
Jumping space. In NBA courts, the basket is a semicircle with the center of the basket as the center and a radius of 4 feet. This area is called the reasonable collision zone.
Standing within the arc line, as long as the defensive player has physical contact with the offensive player, a defensive foul may be assessed. Outside the line, the defensive player can stand in advance. If the offensive player physically contacts the defensive player, an offensive foul will be assessed.
A player commits an offensive foul. In the reasonable collision area, when the opponent is attacking, if the defensive player jumps up, he will not be whistled for a foul. If he does not jump, he will be whistled for a defensive foul.
Derrick Favors made the first free throw, but the second one bounced out of the basket.
The extremely ferocious Derrick Favors grabbed the offensive rebound and then passed the ball to Chen Feng from the outside.
After Chen Feng received the ball, he quickly broke through, but as soon as he took the first step, the ball disappeared in his hand.
Chen Feng looked up at his watch. The ball was intercepted by Chris Paul.
"Whoa". Chris Paul's breakthrough layup completed the fast break counterattack.
This was Chris Paul's 21st point in the first half. And Chen Feng's mistake just now was also his third mistake of the game.
Doc Reeves is very satisfied with the current situation of the Clippers. He is sitting on the coaching bench with a smile on his face, discussing something with his assistant coach.
And Spurs coach *Vicci is not in the mood to sit around at the moment. He is standing on the sidelines, anxiously reminding the players to defend well, pass the ball more, and cooperate.
The Clippers' outside line is very crazy. The Clippers' outside line, led by Chris Paul, has brought a great impact to the Spurs.
*Vicci quickly called a timeout and prepared to arrange the defense for the last two minutes of the first half. He found the right opportunity to narrow the point difference to single digits.
Now, the Spurs are 13 points behind the Clippers. This is a very big test for the Spurs. If they cannot reduce the point difference to single digits before the end of the first half, then the second half will be
The game is not easy to play.
*Vicci also understood that the consecutive back-to-back games had exhausted the players physically and mentally. So during the timeout, he did not criticize the players' performance with a straight face, but encouraged them earnestly.
"In the last two minutes, we must defend well. The Clippers' outside touch is too hot, and they can always hit our basket. We must strangle them and then take advantage of our inside advantage.
, posing a threat to the opponent's inside line. So, next, we have to play second and third zone defense." *Vicci took the tactical board and drew it while laying out the tactics for the players in detail.
Zone defense, as the name suggests, means joint defense. It is divided into positional zone defense and counter-position zone defense. If combined with man-to-man marking, it can also be transformed into a mixed defense.
The biggest difference between zone defense and man-marking is that the ultimate goal of zone defense is to prevent the ball.
The second and third zone defense is a deformation of the most basic 212 zone defense. The advantages are similar to 212. They are all aimed at consolidating rebounds and protecting the basket, and strengthen the prevention of the opponent's baseline slip. The outside blind area is similar to 212, but if the basket
If the center moves forward too slowly, the opponent's forward who inserts from 45 degrees may dominate the free throw line and the blind area of the small penalty area.
The advantage of the second and third zone defense is that it strengthens the perimeter defense, which is helpful for defending mid-range shots from the front and both sides of the perimeter, and is also conducive to perimeter interceptions and counterattacks for fast breaks.
Since it has advantages, the second and third zone defense also has disadvantages. Its disadvantage is that the defense in the two bottom corners and the penalty area is weak, and the defender is prone to fouls when grabbing rebounds, which is not conducive to the defensive team rushing to grab rebounds.
*The second and third zone defense deployed by Veach had an effect in the following period. Not only were the Clippers' outside shots blocked by the Spurs, but their firepower to attack the basket was also extinguished by the Spurs.
Moreover, the Spurs used the second and third zone defense to force the Clippers to make mistakes, and used these mistakes to form a fast break counterattack.
As the first half ended, the score between the two sides reached 44:50.
In the last two minutes, the Spurs played an 11:4 deficit and successfully narrowed the point difference to 6 points. It can be said that the tactics deployed by Vic at the last moment of the first half were very successful.
of.
However, Vicky also understands that the second and third zone defenses cannot be used all the time. During the halftime break, the opponent will definitely develop tactics to break the second and third zone defenses.
Chris Paul walked to the dugout as fans at Staples Center chanted his name.
It is also understandable that Chris Paul, as the best player in the first half of the game, deserves such enthusiasm from the home fans.
In the first half of the game, Chris Paul played a total of twenty minutes and only rested for four minutes. In these twenty minutes, he made nine of fifteen shots and scored a crazy 23 points, which was the highest number in the first half.
The player with the most points in a game.
In addition to scoring 23 points, cp3 also sent out 7 assists and forced Chen Feng to make 3 turnovers. This performance can be called the most valuable player in the first half.
As for Chen Feng, in the first half of the game, his playing time was about four minutes less than that of Chris Paul. And he is trying to compete with Chris Paul in this game. Therefore, his score is not as good.
few.
16 points, the highest score of the Spurs team.
"Chen, what do you think of the performance of your opponent today, Chris?" TNT's female reporter handed the microphone to Chen Feng.
Chen Feng wiped the sweat from the corner of his eyes, and then answered bluntly: "CP is a very good player, he is at the top of the league at this position. His performance today is in line with his status, I like this very much
rivals."
"So are you sure you can beat them? I mean, can you help your team take away a victory from Staples Arena?" the female reporter continued to ask.
Chen Feng smiled and shrugged, saying: "Everyone wants to win, and it is very difficult to defeat them. However, we have never been afraid to do such a thing. I believe that as long as we perform normally, we will be able to defeat them."
them."
"Okay, thank you. I wish you and your team a wonderful performance in the second half."
"Thanks."
After the interview, Chen Feng quickly slipped into the dressing room.
It is very difficult to play against an opponent like Chris Paul. The reason why he took such a long rest in the first half is because his physical strength was exhausted too quickly.
Paul's speed was very fast and his rhythm was weird. He had to increase his speed to the fastest to defend him.
But unfortunately, in the first half, he did not effectively defend Chris Paul. He allowed the opponent to score 23 points in the first half, and he also shot 60% from the field.
This is something Chen Feng cannot tolerate.
He admitted that he has a defensive advantage when facing those extremely fast guys, such as Curry!
