The warrior's drawing style is mutated, and the trailblazer repeats the plot

Lillard just scored 71 points, making fans remember the Knicks as more than just a team, but a player. In fact, 71 points is just a slightly larger note of Lillard's brutal season, since entering 2023, Lillard has averaged 36.5 points per game, while also 7.4 assists to provide, the ferocity of firepower, no one in the same period. This explains why the Warriors' pinch hits start in the first round.

Another reason Cole dared to start pinching Lillard was the names of several names on the Blazers' flanks. Seibre's containment is familiar, Reddish occasionally comes with a shot, more often than not, especially the follow-up processing of the fixed-point catch, the whole life is inevitable. At the executive level, Kerr will not worry too much, the Warriors have rich experience in pinching Lillard, Chase Dream and Looney are there, how to do it, Menqing. The effect is nothing more than an open response on the Blazers' flanks, and even if they score a three-pointer, the Warriors have the confidence to persevere.

It's not that simple. The Warriors should not forget how frustrated they lost the last time the two teams met. The Warriors pinched Lillard, who shot 16 of 16 free throws and scored 33 points while also having 11 assists. The team shot 31 of 32 free throws, beat the Warriors for 66 points in the paint area, and scored 20 points on the second offense. Eubanks and Watford are sound, Sharp and Little are energetic, Grant is stable in various means, and Peyton Jr. at that time is still on the Portland side.

Over the past year, the Blazers have figured out how to break through the pincer. In other words, the most important goal of Billups is to stop Lillard from getting caught in the trap, so he will let the latter increase the number of no-balls and build a more diversified attack system by dispersing the ball. Billups obviously failed, otherwise Lillard would not have slammed on the gas pedal, rushed all the way, and relied on his personal ability to save the life of Bishuai every night.

However, the Blazers still have some areas for evolution, such as the forward line has Grant, who can dribble and play a dozen scoring points, and the team's overall athleticism is also solid, which allowed them to break the Warriors' pinch defense in that three-point game.

That's not all.

The warrior is not that warrior either. This season's Warriors, going to the road defense has become the norm, in the game with a slightly tighter whistle, the disadvantage of small size and multiple guards is infinitely magnified, and it is impossible to press the opponent with strong impact. If you want to pinch Lillard, the problem of defense has to be amplified, because pinch means less local defense and more, the original size is not much, and no matter how inferior the number is, the basket protection is more difficult.

So, pinching Lillard isn't a strategy to take for granted, at least for the current Warriors. The Warriors also did a great job, chasing dreams against Seibre, fiercely closing the edge of the paint area, giving the other party a blank shooting vision, the meaning is clear - the plot of the last dry explosion paint area is not allowed to be copied. Now, the best player on our side to defend is the least effective point for your attack, and if he has the ability, let him kill me.

In the first quarter, Seibl quickly scored three points with two big open positions in the bottom corner. All-in-one. Reddish also struggled.

It's not grotesque luck. According to the new law of character protection, Seibl was going for a while, and in the first game of the Blazers, he also scored four three-pointers. Of course, today's 5 of 6 still equals his career record. Congratulations to the Warriors for the Grand Prix.

That's not all the Blazers lead by 23 points. Look at these few on the Blazers' flanks, Seibre, Reddish, Grant, and Eubanks, who has played well this season, at least this starting lineup, the theoretical defense should not be bad, and the Warriors' opening offensive constipation is also the norm. Look at the five-man group of the Warriors' transition - Jerome, Klay, Lamb, Kuminga, Jaggreen - this lineup, Klay can't feel it, and the offense can be imagined. Without chasing Lu, you can imagine what the defense was like, and Leigh played nearly 10 minutes in the first quarter.

Thus, the plot becomes:

The Warriors couldn't play constipation, and the Blazers' athletic boys, led by Leigh, fought back, and the game rushed in the direction of the Warriors hitting the GG, and couldn't stop the car.

How did the Warriors turn over?

are all big scores behind, are big reversals, the Warriors flip the Blazers and the Lakers turn the Lone Ranger, there is still a slight difference. The Blazers are fierce in firepower, relying on Lillard, unreliable shooters to respond and counterattack, and the Lone Ranger relies on the shooter's difficult shooting, which has the possibility of downward adjustment as the game progresses. The difference is that the Lakers can wait for the Lone Rangers to cool themselves, their defense and basket protection are not in the first place, and they have a misplaced advantage on the offensive end. And the warriors have to do something. Not to mention that it is not easy to pinch and force Lillard, who has excellent drilling ability, to play the ball, the key is that the Warriors have no counterpoint advantage on the offensive end, Seibre has excellent defensive ability, Tang Shen plays hard, and Poole has a "three-point callback?" It is impossible to call back, it is impossible in this life". If these two points are not opened, why will the warriors fill such a big hole?

So, Cole fine-tuned his offensive and defensive strategy.

The original plan was to pinch Lillard, catch the big and eat the small and beat Lillard, and rub this point at both ends of the attack and defense;

The second half was changed to 1 and 4 League, Poole Townshen, Looney Dreams down to guard the basket and bottom corner, and DiVincenzo led Lillard. And, the noodle basket called Lillard by name.

1 to 4 is the most critical move for the Warriors to reverse, and the last game against the Timberwolves, the Warriors also relied on this move to break the game. At a time when the resources of the front line are not enough, 1 target 4 is better than pinch strike, because pinch is easier to cause more local less defense, and the idea of joint defense is to prevent more local and less defense. Compared to the pinch of two random shots that leak a large gap in the bottom corner, the Warriors' set of joint defenses has more flaws in the top 45° of the arc, which is more difficult for Blazers puzzle players than the bottom corner.

What's more, the Blazers didn't seem to be prepared to break the defense, and Billups didn't offer any effective countermeasures in the third quarter. The last time the two teams met, the Blazers had a surprise soldier who hurt the Warriors at one point, he was a bit of a throwing Watford, but he had a limited presence on the offensive end, and the Blazers didn't want to break the game from him. The Blazers' choice to break the joint defense is Lillard playing without the ball, the problem is, no better than in the past when Simmons, Nurkic, Winslow and Hart were there, now this configuration, Lillard plays without the ball, who can handle the ball?

So, a mess.

The Blazers didn't get the Warriors defense, which can be attributed to the fact that the Warriors' move is an important legacy of the championship season, and there is indeed something. Then being named by Poole Lillard is somewhat embarrassing - the last time Poole played roll call frequently, the picture of being sanctioned by Randale seemed to be yesterday. Although the Warriors have Tang Shen and Di Vincenzo two three-point response points are extremely strong, but because the frontcourt projection is not good, the space is not small, and it is not friendly to a dozen and one.

With Kerr's stubbornness and the objective conditions of the Warriors, it is not a last resort, and the main attacker from the outside finds a single defensive weakness on the outside to break the game, which is unlikely to happen, but it is indeed the key to the Warriors turning the tide and erasing the point difference in the third quarter. Poole is averaging 36 points against the Trail Blazers this season, one of his favorite opponents, even beating the Spurs.

As for the further widening of the point difference behind, it is basically the result of the total collapse of the Blazers, so that the Warriors' passes are alive.

The meaning of this game for the Warriors is the execution of defensive strategy. The Warriors have played two straight games and turned things around in the third quarter by changing their defensive strategy. Defending at home is also an important reason why they can survive or even improve their record in Curry's absence. But the ability to bring defensive performance to the road is still unknown, and it will also be key to the Warriors' upcoming schedule and how they can deliver in the playoffs.

For the Trailblazers, it's more like a repetition of countless familiar plots from the past. Billups failed, dispersing the ball and handling more points to avoid Lillard's dysfunctional reforms, which ended in no one being able to handle the ball. Ironically, Hart, who refused to shoot three-pointers when the Blazers were used as a playmaker, scored almost three-pointers on the Knicks' game, shooting 12-of-19 from three-point range in six games, finishing the hedge with Seibre, who was bursting with the Blazers. It can be seen that Hart is not unable to vote, but in the Blazers cannot.

Even more unsuccessful is defense. The Blazers are currently 27th in the league in defensive efficiency, and with a team that has Hart, Winslow, Payton, Seibre, Nurkic, and Grant, it's incomprehensible that the defense is so bad. Billups can be explained by the fact that the names that appear above, several of them are added together, and Simmons Jr. himself does not have more total playing time, injuries are the key to destroying the Blazers' defense, and some bench players are even worse defensively. It is a fact that management has not built a lineup with sufficient depth.

So far, at least, the result of the Blazers' semi-rebuild has only been to make them more capable of holding on to Lillard's big contract — and all operations are almost always directed toward being cheaper and younger — rather than actually stepping out of the playoffs and returning to mid-Western Conference playoff contention. It's not surprising, they have similar ideas to other teams that have old stars and can't send them away, except that people have championships and they don't have a luxury tax.

Then, as long as the stars themselves have no opinion, and the fans are happy to see the stars, what the team is playing is actually not so bad.