After the playoffs, everyone will bet on it and not make the opposite side comfortable.
The Celtics pinchEd Durant, the Raptors pinched Embiid, and everyone was in the eyes.
Today, I played the fourth game and there were some weird pinch shots.
Hot by changing defenses and pinching bully Trae Young, not new. Today the two sides were still glued in the second quarter, and Young was almost exhausted; the Eagles got on Hult and shared the ball.
But the heat probably killed the red eye, no matter what, even Helt hit together!
Hult was stunned, Yang did not have the physical strength to run the weak side to meet, hot breath to open the point difference, and never looked back.
On the Bulls' side, the Bucks continued to apply the right-sided defensive approach to DeRozan. DeRozan still scored 23 points on 20 shooting, but only scored nine points in the first two and a half quarters.
The next 14 points were earned after the third quarter point difference widened dramatically.
Of course, lavin on the Bulls side had 13 assists today, but this has to do with the Bucks strategy:
The Bucks' strategy today, in addition to locking DeRozan's right hand, is also to pinch Lavine's ball holding. When LaVine was holding the ball, the Bucks let go of DeRozan (who knew his three-pointers were unreliable) and Caruso (for the same reason).
So the bull attack was awkward.
Vucevic, who made less than five three-pointers per game in the regular season, shot 32 three-pointers in four playoff games and of course only hit 10.
Between these trade-offs, the Bucks' intentions are clear: DeRozan hits dead and has to defend; Lavine's ball holding is also threatening to clamp; Vucevic, you can let him shoot, a few more shots are fine.
But compared to the Pelican's bet, it's all a small thing.
The Suns won the first and third battles against the Pelicans, and it was Paul who saved the game. In the third game, Paul had 12 assists in the first three quarters, the Pelicans did not dare to pinch Paul, and the Suns clipped Ingram, so Paul won with the Suns by 19 points in the fourth quarter.
Today on the Pelicans' side, Coach Green made a fierce move.
Take Paul back and forth.
Positional warfare pressured Paul to force him to hand over the ball, and then relied on his young legs and feet to rotate desperately. For Penn or someone else, make up for the free throw line and then change the defense.
Pinching Paul on the line, of course, means that the inside line is no longer needed. Paul had 11 assists today. The Suns' double interior line Ayton and McGee combined for 18 of 21 shots. The Suns also rushed for 12 frontcourt rebounds. Two bottom-corner three-pointers are 3-of-6.
But the Pelicans' persistence also had good results:
This is bullying Paul has unparalleled organizational skills, but after all, he is 37 years old, and it is not a speed-up play. One by one, they fell into positions, and then forced him to hand over the ball or fall into the mud.
The results are:
Paul shot 2-of-8 and the Suns went on 4-of-21 from the line.
On the Pelicans' side, outside of Ingram and CJ, the focus is on using Valansunas: Varan sent the second-highest playoff career assists: giving CJ a left-high pass and giving Ingram three high-low cuts at the three-point line.
This is to make Valanshenas a Jokic.
Ingram was happy, shuttling through the positions, 30 points in the first three quarters, and no longer had to hang on to the ball every round.
When the Pelicans locked up the score 12-0 in the fourth quarter, Varansunas went back to Ayton's bottom line drill hole and turned over, a three-pointer, an empty touch point. Ayton was a bit stunned: he devoured Paul's pass on the inside line today, but the defensive end was a bit out of valanciunas' pace – how to say it? Seven years ago, in the final of the European Championship, Valanciunas, who was only playing in the box at the time, met the old gangster Gasol, which was also so embarrassing.
The Warriors against the Nuggets here, Klay blasted down 32 points, 7-of-11 from three-point range.
The last time he made seven three-pointers in a single playoff game was three years ago when he eliminated the Rockets. Further on is the sixth game against the Rockets in 2018, and further on is the sixth game of his career legend against the Thunder.
It was Clay's feel that came back.
It is also because the Nuggets gamble a lot.
The Nuggets didn't deliberately tie someone to Clay today — unlike the Celtics, who always had someone on Durant's chest anyway — but instead hollowed out the weak side and tried to pinch the Warriors' ball carrier as much as possible.
Four of Clay's last five three-pointers were long-range shots from the open after the shift on the strong side. The last two are the slots that the Nuggets clipped Curry left for him.
Poole hasn't hit a shot in a positional battle three minutes after the second quarter. Every time he burst into the basket, Gordon, Jokic or Rivers would interfere with him.
The Nuggets' thinking is very clear:
After making up for The Game, his ball-holding attack power was greatly reduced; the Nuggets did not hesitate to empty the weak side of Clay, but also to strangle the ball carrier; who can the Warriors finally solve with the ball?
Jokic's opening today is a dragon back to shake looney to the basket, the Warriors did not actively make up for the position, probably a little unexpected - after all, the opening of a dragon directly go, put aside the general player is simply a bit of a ball hegemonic tumor weather, but with Jokic has always loved to pass the posture, this ball is a signal: I want to attack!
Sure enough, Jokic scored 18 points in 10 minutes and got on. In turn, the Nuggets' pinch worked, and by the second quarter, after the Nuggets pushed forward and Hyland scored from a distance, the Nuggets were already leading 40-23.
Then Curry began to attack with the ball, and the Warriors chased half a point first — that was Cuminga time.
Cumminga scored nine points in 11 minutes, crafted three fouls and forced Jokic to make a turnover. Suddenly Jokic came to a dunk. No fouls, no mistakes.
It may be premature to say that, but if Iguodala's moves haven't recovered well — he's 38 — maybe the Warriors should consider letting Cuminghado prop up Iguodala's rotation time.
In the second half, the Warriors first found Klay to chase after the continuous long-range shots, and then Curry began to single out the Nuggets' pinch:
Chasing three points, facing Cousins' pinch to hit four points, and so on.
The Warriors' own defensive communication wasn't very good, so Curry scored points, but Jokic never let them catch up.
After the final moment of chasing dreams, it was the duel between Curry and Jokic.
When Curry singled out Jokic to break through to 119 draws, and then retreated to lead to 121 to 119, the Nuggets were about to be eliminated.
But Jokic's bloodshot eyes —and, of course, because of his eyes chasing dreams—he lowered his hand to the basket to tie the knot.
Clay's three-pointer missed a full game — off-topic, it was another Curry gravitational jam, and Clay's weak side was hollowed out — and Morris used Jokic's gravitational throw to win.
Clay didn't take advantage of Curry's gravity, Morris took advantage of Jokic's gravity.
Under the MVP-level confrontation, the Nuggets held up. Coach Malone said, "We survived, one more day of fighting." ”
Sixth-man Curry made 23 shots today, as well as a third-highest playoff career 14 free throws, 33 points, and a team-high second-high 8 assists.
Opposite Jokic had 37 points, 8 rebounds and 6 assists.
How tired is Jokic? He shot 12-of-17 in the first three quarters; he shot 2-of-4 in the fourth quarter, including a dream chaser with his back to his back and a low hand that chased the tie.
Curry is still said to be in the playing time limit period, and today he scored 33 points in 36 minutes — the last time he played for so long was in March. Coincidentally, he was also at home in Denver, where he scored 34 points that day. Curry conceded four free throws today – the most in a single game of his career.
Of course, pinching is easier said than done, and it ends up being legs-consuming. The Pelicans ran wild with Paul's pass, and the Nuggets ran wild to fill Clay's gap; just like the Celtics ran non-stop yesterday, making all but Bruce Brown uncomfortable.
Making up your mind is easier said than done, but in the end it still depends on blood and execution.
What no one would ever mention:
The combined salaries of the Nuggets' no. 234 scorers Gordon, Morris and Hyland are not as much as their missing players, Murray or Porter.
In the end, Curry was able to force out with the ball breaking the clip, which had the feeling of "Xiangyang Team Fujima finally appeared".