On April 20, the NBA playoff world continued to play the first round of G2 competition, from the Timberwolves who won one win on the road in the first game to face the Grizzlies who are eager to save the decline. As widely regarded by the outside world as the most intense and wonderful competition in the first round of the West, the scene of the two youth troops and their burst of physical fitness and athletic ability did add a lot of excitement to the field.
In this game, Jenkins, who tried to defend the glory of the home stadium, made frequent moves, changed a number of problems in the first game, and finally suppressed the Timberwolves from both ends of the offensive and defensive ends from the tactical level, and won a big victory.
The following will analyze the Grizzlies' tactical strategy changes at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends and what changes they have made:
(1) A False Shot: Adams' fake starter
From the opening first defense, the Grizzlies made a more shocking move. In the last game, Adams was targeted by the whole people, showing absolute weakness at both ends of the attack and defense, Jenkins not only chose to let Adams start, but also maintained all the original alignments in the previous game in the first defense of the opening game.
With Adams still facing Downs, the Timberwolves decisively chose to let Towns go up the arc and pass the ball to Russell. At the same time, as a cover, the 1/5 block was played against Adams, and Russell used adams to prevent the demolition problem to cause a foul.
But from the content of the subsequent game, we can know that Adams only played the opening two and a half minutes. There may be two interpretations of Jenkins' move:
(1) Confuse the Timberwolves in the opening phase, thus disrupting their subsequent overall tactical arrangements.
(2) For the last insistence of their habitual debut, the effect once again reflects the complete abandonment after the poor.
By the way, how the Grizzlies attacked in the Opening Adams phase:
The Grizzlies generally have two lines of thinking:
The core idea of both lines of thought is to talk about Adams mentioning that the position left and right of the free throw line is used as a wall for cover, so as to test Downs's ability to prevent and dismantle and choose.
Let's look at the ball above: After Adams responded, Morant ran without the ball and borrowed the ball, which is actually the same offensive way of playing as the previous Russell.
After pulling Downs to a high position, Downs did a very good job of defending the line, and the Russell duo closed the goal through a strong delay in the line.
Then the Grizzlies' line of thinking we can see morant to the top of the line to take the ball at the same time and Jr. Jarren had a crossover on the bottom line, the purpose of which is to break through the line once encountered a high clamp or close after looking for two corner three-point shooting opportunities.
At the same time, cultivate your big man's outside touch at the beginning.
The second idea is to use Morant's personal ball-holding singles to look for Russell's relatively weak ring of single defense or the inside shock of the Downs squat pit frame to create a foul.
At the same time, the Grizzlies eagerly opened Up Bayne and Jallen Jr.'s three-pointers at the same time in the opening game, and arranged a Bane's exclusive three-point tactic in Adams' short playing time:
There are two layers of tactics: the first layer of Morant on the line to hold the ball, Adams positioned up, pretending to attack the 1/5 position to block the demolition, but in fact, Bane weak side out and Morant played a fake hand to block the demolition. When making a fake hand pass, the opponent's defensive substitution is generated, so that the substitution time difference is used to hang the defender against adams as a wall, creating a three-point opportunity.
We can see that after the first layer of tactics is not completed, we can use Adams as a wall and use the physical advantage to play another hand to create three-point space.
(2) Real starting lineup: Put Jalen Jr. in the fifth position, while at the same time on the more mobile Clark
At the same time, the Grizzlies have stepped up their capture of defensive alignments and the impact of the interior line.
The absolute offensive advantage point of Russell's single defense of Morant, the main point, is blocked by Clark, who moves faster in the lateral direction, thus forcing Downs to be unable to move to the upper line in time to pack the clip, and can only be forced to lean down to defend. Therefore, after Morant breaks through the first line of defense, he obtains a direct face-to-face confrontation with Downs, creating a physical confrontation, so as to make Downs back foul trouble.
Downs also had a foul hazard that affected the whole field.
So, in the meantime, let's take a look at what kind of defensive alignment and system the Grizzlies want to build when this real starting lineup comes on:
Three main points:
(1) From the perspective of defensive style, let Clark go to the main defense of Downs, leaving Jarren Jr. against Vanderbilt.
The resulting phenomenon is that Downs often pulls up the line to respond or block in the process of participating in the attacking side, so that Clark with better mobility can solve it.
Vanderbilt, who remained on the inside and lacked three-point ability, put Jarren Jr. in place so that he could defend the basket in place almost at all times.
(2) Especially for the defense on the line, as long as the cover is encountered, the change of defense is adopted, forcing the opponent to carry out a one-on-one head-to-head. As long as the breakthrough comes to the inside line, it will encounter the internal defense of the little Jaron.
(3) All attacks involving the breakthrough path or two bottom corners, the defenders around them carry out a certain degree of assistance to interfere with the first start of the breakthrough.
This is the defensive alignment performance that the Grizzlies really want to play.
Let's take another shot:
In this defense, the above three elements are vividly presented:
The change of defense on the line forced the little Jarron to protect the frame after the breakthrough, the brief delay and assistance of the ball holding point, the rapid defensive rotation, and the interference in the process of breaking through the act.
So, let's take a look at how the offensive end of the lineup is handled:
Note that by this time Downs was already carrying two offenses.
Direct crossovers and cover with Bain and Clark on the line replaced Morant's defender Beverley to create the best breakaway opportunities.
When the defender was replaced, he used Clark to block and pull Downs out. We can find that in the face of the more mobile Clarke, while at the same time carrying two fouls, Downes is obviously depressed about whether to continue to squat defense or promote the delay, and he does not dare to make too many defensive moves.
This has led to the emergence of the center defense that point guard players like to encounter the most: the position is not up and down, both exposing the throwing space and exposing the bottom line ghost area.
We look at Edwards in the bottom corner on the left, who was forced to let go of his defender and come to the inside position to protect the basket, thus exposing Williams' aerial relay space.
The Grizzlies thus played the offensive effect they wanted most.
(3) Tillman's Strange Soldier Descends
Tillman's rotation time is in line with the expectations of most fans and friends, but its ability to show such an excellent effect at both ends of the attack and defense is far beyond the expectations of the family, we still divide its role into three points:
Offensive end processing, change defense effect and but defense effect
(1) Offensive end processing
We can see that as the No. 5 position facing the opposing rotation, Tillman's advantage is that he has a stronger body, a larger weight, but at the same time his feet move very fast and have a certain physical fitness.
Therefore, under the reinforcement of these advantages, the Timberwolves rotation time for Morant's defense is mainly to strangle his breakthrough with but defense and co-defense. This also strengthens Tillman's ability to use his advantages after blocking and using his advantages to create a direct attack on the frame.
Looking at this shot, Tillman used a false cover between him and Morant in the final offensive processing, so that the footsteps moved very quickly down to receive the pass and then directly attacked the frame.
In the meantime, let's note that during this rotation, the Grizzlies chose to have Jones and Morant and Tillman on the same page.
In this shot, we can see that Jones and Morant both have the ability to develop offenses on the line, resulting in the Grizzlies having more offensive options and more development methods on the line, and More objects for Tillman to block.
(2) Single defense in the defensive end
Judging from the previous play-offs, we can see that downs' weakness on the offensive end is that he tends to have offensive disadvantages when facing defenders who move fast and are physically strong while defending on the right.
(3) Change defense
(4) Step by step, the Grizzlies finally came to their favorite offensive and defensive rhythm and way
Looking back at this game, we can see that in terms of the development of the situation, the Grizzlies firmly grasp the progress of the game. With Adams's deprecation and the clear mixing between the 4/5 positions to find an offensive and defensive balance, the Grizzlies gradually regained the kind of game rhythm they aspired to play.
In addition, the reason why the Grizzlies have mastered the rhythm of the game in this game is that their strategies and tactics are unfolded layer by layer, laying the groundwork for each other.
When Downs's foul trouble broke out in full swing, we can see the Grizzlies' use of the depth of the court as shown above: the main catch breaks through Downs, through the continuous and repeated breakthrough of the outside points, and then break through to shift or transfer Downs' defensive center of gravity back and forth. Finally, the follow-up after the sudden attraction of the defense is played.
The Timberwolves' defense also had problems in such a situation, and at one point there was a mistake in defending Morant's upline block.
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