In Dallas' fifth game against Utah, the Jazz lost a total of 25 points.
Mitchell -38, Bojan -37, O'Neal -29.
Gobert shot 6-of-7 in 27 minutes with 17 points and 11 rebounds, and he was on the court -8.
Conley -7 – Of his five assists, three were for Gobert.
The Jazz's first shot was: Gobert copied Luca's ball, followed up with Conley as a cover blocker, and Conley made a layup.
The jazz's second shot: Brunson broke through and was forced to stop when Gobert stopped, turned around and lost, Mitchell grabbed a rebound, and the free throw line singled out an electric fan jumper halfway up his head - at this time Gobert Neche basket, defending him was Brunson, who only reached his chest.
The defense is Gobert's defense, the block is Gobert's block, the ball is nothing to do with him.
Dallas led 33-28 in the second quarter, with Whiteside and Mitchell replacing Conley and Gobert.
Brunson broke through the free throw, Luca broke through the break, Brunson comfortably 2+1, Luca played the board.
By the time Gobert returned, the Jazz were 32-45 behind.
The next wave pulled away, not to mention.
Jazz wasn't like that before.
When Favors was still alive, they played twin towers and played by blocking.
After being bullied by Dantony's Rockets and Harden single-handedly gobert enough, he swung a three-point line. Gobert held the penalty area, and the others soared for three points.
Mitchell has the best playoff scoring explosiveness in NBA history, but he's not a natural organizer.
The advantage is the flexible attack power of the 1st position and the attack power of the 2nd position, and the disadvantage is the body of the 1st position and the field of vision of the 2nd position.
The team used to rely on Ingles to feed Gobert the ball. Now Ingles is no longer jazz.
Today, the Jazz shot 30 from 30 from three-point range, and I wonder if anyone has reminded anyone of some of the stories of one-point shots and 27 consecutive misses?
Mitchell shot 4-of-15 today with 1 assist, and the only assist was a three-pointer for O'Neal.
In the first four games of the playoffs, Mitchell gave Bojan 15 passes per game, Clarkson seven, O'Neal seven, Conley nine and Gobert four times.
Gobert had just 16 passes per game in the playoffs, including five for Mitchell.
From another perspective:
Gobert gives 32% of his passes to Mitchell per game.
Mitchell gives 9% of his passes to Gobert every game.
Look at Dallas in reverse.
Luka Doncic had five assists today, the last three assists for defensive strikers Fan and Bullock aside — two of Bullock's three goals today were fed by Luca — and luca fed two assists before today's opening.
The three forwards disrupted the ball six times today, interfering with the Jazz's 19 shots, half of the Dallas team.
Luca scored 19 points in the third quarter and only had one assist in the second half, but watching the game, probably no one would say he played alone.
Because the first half of the four assists straightened out the rhythm, did not hinder Brunson's ball holding:
Brunson shot nine goals today, two with Luca's strength and weakness, one with Luca's second assist when he pushed back, and the last ball was simply Luca and the duo.
The reason is actually very simple, in 2001 the shark said it thoroughly:
"If you have a big dog and don't feed him, how can you expect him to show you the house?"
Coach Nas said a bold statement before the game today: "(0-3) is indeed a big challenge, but after a big reversal after 0-3, someone has to do it." It's 1 to 3 now, it's not 0 to 3. And the big reversal of 1-3 behind has happened before! ”
Coach Rivers: 1-3? The Great Reversal? belch........................
Harden made 11 shots today. So far he has shot 67 free throws and 31 free throws in five games.
Three years ago in the Western Conference semifinals against the Warriors, he shot 149 free throws in six games and 61 free throws.
Of course, the roles are different, and it is not surprising that he shoots less; the strange thing is that so far in this series, his three-point rate is higher than that of two-pointers.
This was the second time in his career.
The reason is also very clear.
His retreating three-pointers were fine, and the feel of shooting and passing was still there. But the low center of gravity required for the breakthrough and the explosive force required for the layup are all discounted.
In the regular season this season, his career shooting percentage from the basket was below 60 percent. In the first four games, he ate 10 hats – in the 2020 playoffs, he ate 11 hats in 12 games.
He knew it himself, so he played cautiously; the Raptors actually knew it.
Deng's moves are interlocking - the other party is afraid of his breakthrough, so he will empty three points; the other party is afraid of his breakthrough and three points, so he must pinch; the other party is afraid of his pass, afraid of his withdrawal of three points, and does not want him to break through the layup, so he has to invent the "side hip defense method", stick his side of the ass and wait for him to get on the basket and then try to interfere.
Once the breakout threat was discounted, plus he didn't shoot too hard, he was left with only three points and the threat of passing.
Today the Raptors used the signature BOX-1.
Harden's first mistake: the Raptors directly on the defense, forcing him to pass the ball, Anunoby predicted, directly copied the ball to the basket.
The second time: low to dribble, the center of gravity did not come down, was copied.
The third or fourth time was not his responsibility, the fifth time was the signature tearing clamp breakthrough, which was directly copied by Yang.
At the end of the day: the explosive force of the injury came down, a chain reaction.
In the past, when Harden didn't play well in the playoffs, he would at best shoot iron, but if he didn't shoot at all and became a purely posing player, it wouldn't be good.
Today, the Raptors gained the initiative, but also because of bullying Sable's attack, Harden did not dare to attack that part of the matter.
It should be aware of this, and embiid said of Harden's 11 shots after the game today:
"I kept saying after he came that he needed to be more aggressive and play more like himself. That's not my business, maybe it's the coach who let him shoot more. Especially when the Raptors were so defensive of me. But that's not my business.
Our whole team offense got better, we threw a bunch of empty baskets, sometimes it was like inviting the Raptors to pinch me, we didn't attack fiercely enough, just passed the ball back and forth, gave the Raptors time to rotate the position, so we couldn't get anything... I defended badly today and I had to do better. ”
Embiid has always been big mouthed, at this time still ahead, he took the lead in blaming himself for poor defense, and then directly pointed at Coach Rivers and Harden, which was very sharp, but it was not a bad thing to think about it.
The words "I want him to play more like himself" were also said by Wade to LeBron, albeit much more euphemistically.
If Coach Rivers listens, he should think with Harden about how to adjust.
After all, it is not too late to adjust at this time, after all, 3-2 lead, and the Raptors' defensive routines are also on the surface.
After all, it really dragged on to the seventh game, and all the laws of history were ineffective against Coach Rivers...
Trailing 3-0 for the first time in his career, Durant finally exploded, scoring 39 points.
Nash also finally gave up on Chuang Shen and played for 3 minutes to let him down. Clarkston and Griffin stood on the inside line.
The net finally gave up the brainless change of defense, and also began to give Durant a strong side to pull away the fall, no longer let him play forty minutes away with only 11 shots; also played chase, but also let Dragic and Seth attack themselves.
Unfortunately it was too late.
And it's not enough.
The season's Celtics got off to a bad start, with the big problem being that there was no organizer after Kemba Walker left. Tatum played iron like crazy at the beginning of the season, all for this reason.
But Coach Uduka's iron fist made the team survive.
Ponies cross the river and learn by doing.
The opening of the net also let Zhuang Shen start, put the air distance? Jaylen Brown twice used Theth's cover to shoot, and Zhuang Shen could not prevent it, directly knocking him down.
Who gave those two passes?
Defensive Player of the Year Smart.
Chuang Shen went up to make up for the fast attack of Tatum, and Tatum saw at a glance that it was Seth defending Horford. Mitchell threw it himself (his first ball today was like that) and Tatum hung a pass to Horford for a layup.
The second assist, after his own breakthrough, looked at the net to supplement the defense, Horford went to the weak side, Tes blocked Durant, so the left hand passed to Horford long-range shot.
That's the weak side rotation that hits the net.
The Net's defense today can't be described as hard work, but the Celtics passed too fast.
Tatum's last three assists were all looking for a net to empty the weak side Grant Williams.
Tatum's rookie averaged 1.6 assists a year and 2.7 assists in the playoffs. He was a pure striker at the time.
He averaged 4.4 assists per game this season and 7 assists per game in the playoffs. Career highest.
Smart averaged 5.9 assists per game this season and seven in the playoffs. Career highest.
The Celts lack instigators.
These two people forced the pass to instigate and practiced it.
On the other side of the net, a thing I have never figured out:
It is well known that the mesh lacks wingside thickness. James Johnson is the best three-four swing, although nothing is fine, but everything is capable, and occasionally can stand on the inside line of the small ball.
For a team like the net that lacks height and space, this road player is quite lacking. But before the playoffs arrived, the net cut him.
I would have guessed that it would have been mostly about reusing the young Kessler Edwards, who had a three-pointer — but Kessler played seven minutes in the playoffs.
Today the net used for a while Zhuang Shen, not to fight. The players who play after that are:
Seven-foot-long Durant and Clarkston, 206 cm Griffin – 193 cm Bruce Brown, 188 cm Seth, 191 cm Dragic, 188 cm Owen, 185 cm Mills.
On the Celtic side, no one is taller than 206 centimeters, (except for Pritchard, who played 9 minutes) is not lower than 191 centimeters.
When Jaylen and Tatum, one by one, made strong shots over the heads of the players on the perimeter of the net, the collective whip on the perimeter of the net was out of reach:
The opposite side is all swinging, and I am either short or tall.
The lineup is inherently out of tune, and that's what to do.
Durant had nine assists today and in the third quarter he fed Clarkston, who had been playing the ball in the third quarter, using the Celtics' pinch and weak side cuts — a set that could have been used in the second game, but the net put the inside line high and the Celtics clamped down.
So why did you go earlier?
In the fourth quarter of today, Irving played two consecutive "Irving low Griffin right-wing Durant/Seth" routines, very smooth. Today Griffin had 4 assists + 10 in 17 minutes. In fact, down the four games, Johnson scored -23 points per 100 rounds and Griffin scored +13 points per 100 rounds.
However, Griffin was not activated until the end of the second game, and the Chuang Shen field was the first.
So why did you go earlier?
Of course, Griffin didn't put everything in order. Tatum faced Durant in the fourth quarter, asked Theth to block high, and he made a three-pointer of his own — the defense the Net adopted at that time was: Durant squeezed through the cover to chase Tatum, who had scored 23 points, and Griffin withdrew to block Theis who had no basket on the periphery.
- The second pinch, so a brain even Smart hit, not hesitate to empty Tatum; the fourth game finally changed defenses, so let go of Tatum, to make up for Theth.
Then Gervay flew to Durant, Griffin made up the basket to see Jaylen back to Irving, and Jaylen shot a key jumper above Bruce's head once again proved that he was the better Brown, all like this.
Durant played a heroic role, but in the end, the arc of consecutive long shots was flat, including the misalignment of the free throw, not to mention.
Tatum was punished by Foster, the net could not grasp it, all in similar details leaked points
So looking at the series, probably no one will feel that it is a pity that the net has lost: the Celtics play more diligently, more team, more seriously, more meticulously, more accurately, and harder.
The highlight of the net is Durant's high-shot jump shot today, which is Irving's personal explosion in the first fourth quarter.
This is a full series in which Durant has played, with the second lowest shooting percentage (the lowest was playing the Lakers in 2010, which was his first series), and the fourth lowest average of points per game. Subtlely, it's also Durant's third-highest career assist in the series.
Nash was configured to let him pass the ball, and the Celtics actually wanted him to pass more, and it turned out that this was the case when Durant was not a scorer but a passer.
Or the old saying:
Since 2017, perhaps healthy Durant (and perhaps Leonard) has been the league's most efficient and non-ball-sharing single offensive and defensive monster killer, but it is not suitable and does not fit in as a mastermind of power - commonly known as no system.
At this point last year, the Celtics were eliminated 4-1 by the net. Although Tatum averaged 31 points per game in the series, to no avail.
A year later, Tatum took the Celtics across Durant and Irving, and across the Brooklyn Nets. His scoring explosiveness was already there last season, and this season's extra is better passing (too is Smart), better defense, and more variations of mid-range processing (as does Jaylen Brown).
Durant lost to Bryant's Lakers in his first series in 2010, and two years later, at the age of 23 and a half, Durant took revenge 4-1.
In 2021, Tatum was killed by Durant's net, and a year later, at the age of 24 and 2 months, Tatum passed 4-0.
That's how times change.
In the 2018 playoffs, rookie Tatum was appointed — Irving was injured — the Celtics' leading scorer, averaging 19 points per game. He was young at the time, and his best skills were a mid-range shot from a distance flower arrangement and a Kobe-style low-handed basket.
Since 2020, Tatum's series averages are 27, 24, 27, 31, 30.
Or to put it this way: It's Tatum, 24, in his fourth series averaging more than 26 points per game.
Why mention this stubble?
Paul Pierce, who has been carrying the Celtics for a lifetime, has averaged more than 26 points per game in a career series of two.
— Of course, Bird and Hafrichsek's similar series add up to 21.
So Tatum, take your time.