Last season, the Warriors had two lineups at critical moments, one focused on offense and the other focused on defense.
When you want to chase points, go to the offensive lineup, and when you want to defend, go to the defensive lineup!
Every turn is critical until the final moment of the game.
Having multiple combinations is the best option.
The purpose of dividing the Warriors into the first and second teams is for intra-team competition, but in this way the balance of the lineup must be considered.
So Deng Fang has to consider more combinations.
The combination of Lowry, Hayward, Prince, Tucker, and Kirilenko was something Deng Fang had been planning for a long time.
Later generations of warriors had the Five Little Deaths, and Deng Fang also wanted to make one.
The core character of the Death Five is Draymond Green.
Green's characteristic is that he can switch defenses infinitely. He can defend from position one to position five, and he can defend well.
The most important thing is that Green is good in single defense and also great in assist defense.
Deng Fang's choice was to let Tucker play center.
Tucker is not tall enough, but he is very strong! Tucker can also defend outside players. Although not as good as Green, he is still top-notch.
Of course it won't work if there is only one Tucker, but the Warriors still have Kirilenko and Prince.
Tucker has strength, but due to his height, his shot blocking is average.
Green's assist defense and blocking are excellent.
Kirilenko and Prince's shot blocking is quite good!
Even better than Green's!
With his excellent height and wingspan, Kirilenko's greatest strength is assisting in defense and blocking shots!
You know, it is very unimaginable that a perimeter player can overpower many centers and win the league's shot-blocking title!
The same goes for Prince. His shot blocking is slightly weaker than Kirilenko's, but it's still very powerful.
Deng Fang originally wanted Kirilenko to play center, but Kirilenko's disadvantage was lack of strength, making it difficult to defend the center alone.
In the end, Deng Fang chose Tucker as the center!
The combination of these five people is quite terrifying!
Lowry is a little cannon, has power, and is good at drawing offensive fouls.
Hayward has height and strength, is still very young, and is a swingman at the third or fourth position.
The same goes for Prince.
Kirilenko is the top swingman at the third and fourth positions.
Tucker's disadvantages are lack of height and average shot blocking.
But behind him are Kirilenko and Prince!
The best way to block shots is to have someone in front of you and someone behind you to guard you!
As long as Tucker can hold people up in front, Kirilenko and Prince behind can show off their shot-blocking abilities.
Three forward swingmen, a short center, and a powerful guard, this is a pretty powerful defensive lineup.
In addition, the offensive strength of this lineup is also very good.
Lowry, Hayward, Prince, and Tucker's three-pointers are all very good.
Even Kirilenko can shoot three-pointers!
Even if his shooting percentage is not too high, he is still an outside player!
The Spurs were clearly ill-prepared.
They didn't expect that Deng Fang would come up with such a lineup!
We have Duncan!
Plus there’s DeJuan Blair!
Twin Towers!
Although Blair is short in height, he is also an orthodox power forward!
There are five of you, aren't you afraid of us attacking inside?
It turns out the Spurs were wrong!
The Warriors are not afraid of the Spurs playing inside!
The Spurs were very smart. They handed the ball to Duncan immediately and asked Duncan to single out Tucker in the low post.
Tucker has no problem defending against old Duncan!
Duncan is now much weaker on the offensive end than in previous years.
Tucker's task is to prevent Duncan from getting to the basket and at the same time appropriately interfere with Duncan's shooting.
This is what Tucker is best at.
The only way Duncan can shoot is floaters and hooks.
But behind Tucker there are Kirilenko and Prince!
Since the Warriors' five-man defense is very good, each one can cover a large area, so Kirilenko can help defend near the penalty area unscrupulously!
For three consecutive times, Duncan's shots were slapped away by Kirilenko!
Oracle Arena is in full swing!
Three blocks!
It was Duncan who covered it!
This is a very rare sight for Oracle Arena fans!
Curry's three-pointer and Kirilenko's block are the most exciting scenes.
Duncan couldn't play alone, and the Spurs once again returned to the pick-and-roll routine.
Parker and Ginobili kept picking and rolling with Duncan.
If you can't fight while standing still, then move and fight!
The combination of GDP is very harmonious!
As the GDP combination becomes older, the Spurs also begin to share the ball more.
As long as the mismatch attracts a double attack, pass the ball!
Move out of the open position and then attack to increase your hit rate!
This is very difficult for many teams to defend.
But the five Warriors are not afraid because they can switch defenses unlimitedly!
Unlimited defense changes are the best way to break the pick-and-roll cooperation!
No matter how you pick and roll, I'll just switch defense!
Duncan came up to block Lowry, and Tucker immediately switched to Parker!
Kirilenko from behind came up and switched to Duncan at the same time, and Lowry switched to Jefferson in the shortest possible time!
Prince was watching Blair near the penalty area and helping to block shots!
Cover the ball holder immediately, and at the same time block the player who is covering the ball, and there will be people defending in front of others!
If you want to play alone, you can, but if you want to cooperate and score easily?
no way!
The Spurs' pick-and-roll cooperation was immediately dismembered by the Warriors!
Letting Parker play alone against Tucker, or Ginobili playing alone against Kirilenko, are not very good choices.
Both of these two have very strong individual defense abilities!
Of course, the Spurs can still score, after all, the strength of Parker and Ginobili is there!
But the hit rate is low!
It is impossible to completely control the opponent's scoring, just lower the opponent's shooting rate!
Facing the Warriors' upgraded iron-locked lineup, the Spurs had a hard time scoring.
Fortunately, this is the first time that the Warriors' new fifth team has played in actual combat, and their offense is not smooth either.
Relatively speaking, offense requires more tacit understanding.
If there is less cooperation, there will be more mistakes, and it will be difficult to execute tactics.
Of course, part of the reason is that the Spurs' defense is really good!
Popovich's team has always been very disciplined.
The offense can be bad, but the defense cannot be ignored!
The two teams got into a hand-to-hand fight.
Soon, at the end of the third quarter, the score became 89:89, and the two teams returned to the same starting line again.
At the beginning of the fourth quarter, the Spurs put on the bench.
There was no way, the GDP combination played for a long time and they had to take a rest.
Deng Fang took Curry, Belinelli, Azubuike, Hayward and Lopez.
This is a pure offensive lineup!
All five of them are great at three-pointers, and Curry and Belinelli can also run without the ball!
Even Hayward is good at off-the-ball tactics!
The three people kept running around Lopez and McDyess!
Lopez screened Hayward, Hayward screened Curry, Curry screened Belinelli, and then the three of them ran outside the three-point line together!
