Watching the first game of the Series between the Bucks and the Celtics, there are two feelings.
1, Alphabet Brother and his team are really good.
2, the Nets swept by the Greenshirts in the first round are real... (You can fill in the blanks at will).
The Celtics' defense of Durant and Irving's collapse was still on the line, and Uduka came up with a targeted defensive set-up and went all out to make Alphabet Brother uncomfortable.
For example, in the opening goal, the alphabet brother singled out Horford on the flank, Horford held the next set very steadily, there was no room for the bottom line, Tatum participated in the pinch after the letter brother broke through the blockage, and together with Horford, he threw the "Greek monster" to the ground, causing him a mistake.
At this moment, if Durant is watching TV, he may be very relieved, you see it is not my confrontation, the alphabet touches the Green Army, these big men can't do it.
The strategy of the Celtic people's defense alphabet brother is to focus on the flank single defense and assist in the defense of the pinch according to the situation. If the alphabet brother takes the middle road, he will directly close the door and block, two people are not enough to go to three, four people to surround the circle, that is, do not give him the opportunity to drive straight in, challenge the other skills of the finals MVP.
Alphabet brother shot 9 of 25, the first time in his playoff career, he shot 25+ and did not score more than 9 goals. While the projection efficiency is not high, the alphabet brother also has 5 turnovers, and his offensive efficiency in this game is 104.8 (100 rounds of points), which is 113 when playing the Bulls in the first round.
Being able to prevent the alphabet from being like this, the Celtics did a good job. If you put the alphabet brother from two years ago in this game, the Bucks may lose, but two years for a hard-working talent monster, you can achieve metamorphosis level improvement, after the upgrade can play you have a good plan, I have a wall ladder of playoff breakers.
If you don't let me break, then I will shoot, defend what I give, I will eat, this is an important skill pack that Alphabet Brother has supplemented for himself in these two years. When a player with such a burst of physical talent, giving a dribble to kill the emergency stop mid-range is very challenging to the opponent's defensive layout.
When the alphabet brother shot in, the camera was given to Middleton, who was still recuperating, and this broadcast language was also absolute, and the two bosses who were best at the middle distance were not there, to see how the big boss beat his opponents with his brother's killer skills.
Mi Shen, team ann, please rest assured.
Objectively speaking, if the alphabet brother only relies on the middle shot to attack the attack, the Celtics are not afraid, such a score will be given, belongs to the Uduka defensive concept of the piecemeal loss of points, not enough to break through the Green Army's defense line.
What really hit the Celtics was his pass, or more accurately, his pass after compressing the line. The Celtics' defensive tendencies are very strong, as long as the alphabet brother protrudes, it will shrink the middle road, which is a kind of gambling defense, you pile the defensive force to the near basket area, it is bound to give some outside opportunities, if the alphabet brother calmly handles the ball, while the teammates give the response ball, the Celtics will feel pain.
For example, this ball, alphabet brother launched an attack on the left, at this time Connaughton in the top of the arc position has posed to receive the ball and shoot the move, he knows that the Celtics must be defending the alphabet, and the green army's defensive movement is also as expected. Brother Alphabet waited for Jaylen Brown to come over and interfere as he traveled, and as soon as Brown's footsteps moved, Alphabet shot out, successfully connecting with Connaughton, who was already in a state of waiting to be fired.
When the other side has a superstar with excellent physical talent, the defense is to "choose poison", and it is definitely necessary to put the bottle with small "toxicity" and seal the "toxicity", so the Strategy of the Celtics shrinking the defensive line to encircle the letter is correct, but the specific implementation is a bit problematic, some over-assisted defense, the free throw line to the three-point line area is blank, you really don't take the Bucks, who have experienced the vicious battle of winning the championship, take it seriously, this is to pay the price.
It can also be understood that the offensive deterrent of the alphabet brother is too large, and the absolute crushing of the body makes the Celtics have to risk missing the outside line, but even so, the Green Army has become the background board for the letter to release the talent, which is self-attributed to the kind of smell of murderous curses, and the alphabet brother is playing the All-Star Game here?
You are strictly defensive, he can still show, you crazy bag clip, he salutes you a triple-double, talent to suppress this kind of thing in the game is the most insoluble.
"It's pure talent, pure instinct," Bucks coach Budenholzer said of Alphabet Brother's performance, "He's a very good player, the game contribution is extraordinary, unique, and lucky he's our player." ”
It was a game in which the Bucks proved why they were defending champions, and when the team's strongest point was constrained by the decline in defensive offensive efficiency, the teammates came up with a strong firepower to fight back. Before the start of the series, the Bucks were the side that was looked down upon, mainly because Middleton's return date was undecided, and Mi shen was a player with strong solution ability, especially suitable for playing the Green Army, Holliday, as the Third Star of the Bucks, could organize and defend, but the shooting was often paddling, not so reliable.
Holliday's unreliability, in a sense, there are "big brothers" and "second brothers" in front of the charge, they can occasionally wave a wave, but in the "second brother" hung up the exemption card, and encountered the Celtics such a defensive team, Holliday did not wave, he handed over the game's highest 25 points, three-pointers 5 of 3.
After the championship baptism of the players, the big game experience is full, the play is very calm, the Celtics most hope is to cut the letter and teammates, put the "Greek monster" on the isolated island, this is the game set by Uduka for the Bucks, and the Bucks give a double-core break. Holliday is very patient to find opportunities to cooperate with the alphabet brother, grasp the space given by the letter, such as this ball, after the flanking single block, the Celtics take a change of defense, but also afraid of the letter down to the basket, almost instinctively to the basket to collect, Holliday laughed at the "big gift".
After Holliday joined last season, the Bucks' offense has undergone a new change, and the number of no-ball positions has increased, which is also a change prepared by Budenholzer for the playoffs. Alphabet brother with the ball to cut in, the opponent must be chased and blocked, but if it is changed to no ball empty cut, it can play a defenseless effect, but this no-ball play requires another ball holding core to do the transportation work, Holliday is that person.
For example, this ball, Holliday burst to the basket, the Celtics had to contract, the alphabet brother followed up in the middle, the three-point line outside the start of two big steps to go in, the Green Army has no time to set a card in the middle, the alphabet brother received the ball to bombard the basket.
The Bucks' offense in this game is a trick-and-roll process, and it is qualified to deliver 101 points against the Celtics defense, and their real weapon to kill this game is at the other end of the court.
The Celtics only scored 89 points, and their average score in the first round was 113.5 points per game, and at least one game also had 109 points, 20 more points than this game, which shows that the Nets and bucks are not in the same era defensively.
The Bucks are the most distinctive defensive team in the league, Big Lo crouched pit, letter sweep, Holliday single soldier to take over the cover to bypass the chase, free throw line to the basket is their defensive set of no-fly zone, opponents have the ability to shoot them with three-pointers, otherwise the opponent is dead.
The Bucks' three-high configuration forced opponents to throw wildly from the outside, and the Bulls shot 52 three-pointers in game 5 of the first round before losing to the Bucks by 16 points, a game in which the Celtics shot 50 three-pointers and then lost 12 points. The Green Army scored 18 three-pointers, but the penalty area scored only 20 points, they could not effectively attack the basket, only relying on long-range shots and bucks around is not enough, shooting 18 three-pointers to look back at the overall shooting rate is only 33%.
The Celtics double star is a double iron state, Tatum and Brown combined 31 shots 10, the two totaled 6 points in the box, and in the first round, the double probe flower average in the box to cut 22.5 points, which once again shows how much difference in the quality of the Bucks and the Nets' defense, especially the box defense, one is a copper wall, one is a paper paste clay sculpture.
The Bucks defend brown and Tatum also have a slight difference, for Brown is to encourage him to dribble, first single-handedly with the body to fight, waiting for the opportunity to help prevent the ball, and then play counter-attack. Dribbling is not Brown's absolute strength, under the Bucks' high-pressure defense, dribbling often becomes a drop, the game made 7 mistakes, the Bucks seized the opportunity to play a defensive rebound, the Bucks used the mistake to score 27-6 to crush the Green Army, Brown "indispensable."
Defending Tatum, the Bucks give a higher level of treatment, and even Da luo, who is accustomed to squatting under the basket, will follow out to the three-point line, and the alphabet brother will make up for the defensive position under the basket, not allowing Tatum to dribble smoothly on the way to the basket.
Tatum's three-point shot was 4 of 9, and the possession of the shot was still very good, but if you calculate it, he was inefficient on the low side of 6 of 18 shots, and 4 of the 6 goals he scored were three-pointers, which was not able to play the Bucks defense.
This game is a contest between the stars and the team at two levels, the alphabet brother in the case of personal offensive efficiency is disturbed, with the middle shot, passing and half-time full coverage of the defense to give a comprehensive solution, the tactical value is still the needle of the sea god. The Bucks' teammates follow their core at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, especially Holliday and Dalo, one taking over the offense and the other dominating the defense.
The main attacker, shooter and body-based defense, the Bucks grasped the three elements of the playoffs, and the Celtics no longer have the advantage of physical suppression in this round, especially for the Bucks' defensive intensity.
However, this is only the first game, the Celtics lost, but at least in the restriction of the alphabet brother's personal offense has been effective, Tatum and Brown experienced what is the championship level offensive and defensive power, the Bucks' lineup resources and confrontation intensity are far better than the Nets, even if they let the number two star also grab the lead, now it depends on how the Green Army responds.
The Bucks went down first, but the series had only just begun.