The Green Army and the Nets' G1, the whole game form is similar to expectations. The Nets are not in shape in many positions, and Curry Jr.'s confrontation to prevent Theis is magical enough, but in this showdown, it is only part of many magic. A list of the last appearance times of this game can give you a glimpse of how big the difference in size between the two sides is:
On the Nets side, the center position is 17 minutes, and the fourth brother is 30 and a half minutes, basically full. But the big forward position, Durant + Edwards totaled 45 minutes, did not eat full, the Nets appeared in the 4-guard lineup, 1 to 3 positions are all guard time;
On the Green Army's side, the center position Horford and Theiss are full, in addition, because Horford played 41 and a half points, even if Theis only 20 minutes, the Green Army still has a considerable amount of time in the swing of the twin towers, and it is also the time period of the twin towers, the Green Army established a lead, during which time they won 11 points. The rest of the big forward position is eaten by Gwe and Tatum, who in turn eat up all the time of the small forwards. At the same time, Jaylen Brown will eat up nearly half of the shooting guard time, with the rest of the backcourt time allocated by Smart, White and Pritchard.
For a long time, the Green Army has an absolute size advantage of the 2nd, 3rd or 4th position, and this advantage will continue to be maintained.
Is there a way for the Nets to solve this problem?
Before Simmons returned, of course not. When Simmons returned, he couldn't solve it completely.
But the Nets have the right way to increase their size. Let's not think about the No. 2 and No. 3 positions, because the Nets have many important players who are guards, it is impossible to significantly cut their time, except for Simmons, the nets and the potential of the manpower are in the No. 4 position. This man is also clear to everyone, that is, Aldridge, who performed well when the two teams played each other in the regular season.
Ade played 23 and a half points in the green army's most official regular season showdown with 14 points and five rebounds, and his advantage was the size of the press. The Green Army will not fill the number four in 48 minutes, and there will be a large number of misalignments in the two teams when they meet, and punishing these misalignments is the strategic value of Ade to the Nets.
Ade will be targeted on the defensive end, but for the Nets' current situation of being full of misplaced defenses, this becomes a lot of lice, it is difficult to be worse defensive than the small guard misalignment, and it can also strengthen the size of the rebounding card.
One of the biggest advantages of the Green Army G1 is the rebounding in the frontcourt, and Horford's 6 fronts are particularly deadly. But the last time the two sides met, the rebounding advantage was on the Nets side. Due to the serendipitous nature of rebounding numbers in a single game, neither the last time nor this time can be used as rebounding capabilities for both sides. But it is undeniable that this gap is difficult to skew sharply towards the Nets, in addition to the difference in body size, there are also strategic differences. In this game, the Green Army is more conservative than the Nets' defensive demolition strategy, Lowe is not there, the Thesis anti-demolition option is closer to the squat pit, and there is a certain period of joint defense. On the Nets side, when the fourth brother is on the floor, he often has to defend Tatum, and he may be accompanied by a four-guard, which of course cannot protect the rebound. If the Nets had Ade at this time — which was also the Green Army's single-tower period — there would be a body-sized countermeasure.
As a normal coach, G1 uses Ade, or rather, does not abandon Ade at all at the end of the season, which is a matter of course. But Nash is not a normal coach, the Nets are not a normal team, and their logic is completely in a different frequency band. When Duo just played together, Nash put Dinwiddie with them, you can see his preference for defenders to control the game, light lineup, and sacrifice defense for this, which is like a basketball truth rooted in his soul. These veterans who defected to the Nets, in the end, only Dragic was reused, and players who did not fit Nash's spleen and stomach, or even players with strategic value on the counterpoint letters, Nash could abandon them like grass.
Nash can't use Ade for G1, so after being beaten, will G2 use it?
This is probably the biggest suspense of G2, and I'm not optimistic that he will change his philosophy, but I don't rule out this possibility.
If it is an ordinary team, in the case of such a loss, in fact, the game does not have to be played. It is precisely because this team is the Nets, Andu has the top hard solution ability of the same era, which can make it possible for the Nets to stay in the game in the showdown with the Green Army.
This Du played badly, Irving exploded, in fact, the Nets are close to doing their "miracle" basketball winning logic. This "miracle" is not all based on Duo's personal ability, but is still based on these two things:
Ability to respond to the outside of supporting roles;
End and rebound threats.
These two projects are the guarantee of Duou's offensive environment, one to make room on the three-point line, and the other to make the Green Army jealous of the back, dare not pile more troops on the line.
This game did not evolve into a game of hide-and-seek that forced Duou to play the ball and watch Brown's subsequent handling. The auxiliary defense is indeed everywhere, but the auxiliary defense of the Green Army is after Du Ou has gone some distance, there is no excessively aggressive attack, it should be said that the vitality of Zhuang Shen, the fourth brother, Brown, the ability of Curry Jr. and Mills to respond, plus Brown's leakage of military information, have made the Green Army make strategic trade-offs. For Duou, this is already a sense of "burden reduction", but the Nets finally lost a breath.
After G1, the Nets will have a harder time without the good news of using Ade or Simmons' comeback. G1's blowing penalty scale in the first quarter is very strict, on the one hand, let the Nets quickly hang up the foul in the backcourt, which is more unfavorable to defensive misalignment, on the other hand, it also allows the Green Army to hang a foul on the inside line, which also weakens the aggressiveness of the Green Army, and the Green Army only has two inside lines, and if the two have another situation, their strategic advantage over the Nets will be lost. So, although it is the home of the Green Army, the G1 scale is not a bad thing for the Nets.
On the Green Army, although they know that they have a body advantage, they should also emphasize the punching board before the game, but in terms of specific utilization, they also need to find an optimization method in actual combat, such as increasing the high and low positions of Horford and Theis, and further punishing Curry Jr. The Green Army must take advantage of its size to the extreme, and although they have a higher fault tolerance rate, the opposite sign is to ignore the strategic disadvantage.
The Nets have room for improvement in detail. If you don't make stupid mistakes — mistakes on the backcourt, sloppy handling of the ball on multiple quick breaks, outrageous handling of the final offense and defense, two suspensions and so on — the Nets have already stolen a win on the road. The Nets are not playing a normal basketball, but a Duou miracle basketball, everything is also for the miracle service, do not have to solve all the problems, but the miracle can not withstand one mistake after another.
The game created a fork in the historical timeline. Whether the Nets win or the Green Army wins will have a significant impact not only on this series, but perhaps on the outcome of the season:
If the Nets win, it's a "if you believe in miracles, how can you not praise Kyrie Irving" game. The Nets' valuable away wins can reduce the pressure on Simmons' home return and give them a certain fault tolerance;
If the Green Army wins, it will be a "victory for Tatum to start his career, or even the starting point of his legend with the Green Army". As long as you win G2 again, then the Green Army occupies the absolute initiative of the series, because the Nets will not know what kind of butterfly effect Simmons can have on the team when he returns, and there is a time node called G6, if the Nets can't give themselves "one more life" before this, then the Green Army of Lowe will evolve to another level.
For fans of non-championship teams, it's just a wonderful round of dialogue between the top teams, it doesn't matter which side wins, and even many people are waiting to see Durant or Irving jokes.
But for the championship team, we need to understand what is happening. Based on the EPM and playoff G1 rotation time allocation, the "predicted net win score" level of several championship teams (not all championship team) is calculated. Since the Heat won easier and didn't pull the intensity full, the time was the ideal time allocation that I estimated. as follows:
Rowey Green Army: 13.27 No Simmons Nets: 11.75
Current solar intensity: 12.11 (the sun has little potential to continue to be full)
Bucks of current intensity (letters far from full, Hill absent): 9.47 (ideal version no less than 12)
Ideal Heat: 10.97
And the Lowe Green Army, that number is 15.65.
So, who is the real Great Demon King?
What exactly the Simmons Nets are, we haven't seen, but the Lowe Green Army, we've seen.
Maybe they are all big devils, but the Half of the Nets and Green Army is extremely tough, and the intensity of the championship is about the same as playing four rounds of the Finals. The Nets are older and the Green Army younger, which side is more likely to run out of gas on a long playoff trip?
The top teams in the West, they don't like to change the defensive type of opponents, then, you can look at the green army's defense;
Miami can defend the Bucks, the Green Army, and even the Nets, but think about it, which opponent is most likely to break Miami's pass?
Do the Bucks really look at who is the first to insert the bidder? What other team besides Miami has the resources to make the letter uncomfortable?
Anyway, Brooklyn has cleaned up the guys in the territory who might deal with the alphabet.
Perhaps, this is the last few nights before the dragon returns.
The duo that the league was best suited to break through the Green Army's defenses, Durant, Irving, got their chances at the green army's weakest hours. Chances don't get clenched or lost because of a win or loss, but the wins need to accumulate little by little, and Tatum's kill has allowed the Nets to lose that accumulation. Could it be that this is the last thing that is worse?
Perhaps, in a few months, all the guys in this showdown will be the background board for Giannis or some old western guy to exalt glory. But it's also possible that this is the opportunity to change the timeline.
After that, the dragon opened his eyes and announced to the world:
I am the Cataclysm.