Brother Kazi stabilized the army's heart, but Thunder still tried out a lot of content

In the first quarter, 7 of 7 in the clip. CIC, CIC, also see CIC. Unexplained to be true, three big words were written on the face: No problem!

Starting with full firepower, it is natural to have an attitude. The Clippers, which have been twisting and turning over the years, finally got a little on the right track, George had an accident again, even the most staunch Clippers believers, after being repeatedly played by fate, couldn't help but ask, is there really a problem with the feng shui of this team. After 4 years together, he can no longer produce some results, and George's injury is afraid that it is not the last wave to overturn the small sampan. Not to mention the panic, inside and outside the team, countless pairs of eyes waiting to see their response, this is certain.

Therefore, the card came up and said, don't tear your own mother-in-law, don't smile when you look at the lively, in the end, this team is still surnamed Lun, brother has not fallen, everyone panic?

It didn't take long for Leonard to make Thunder realize that they didn't have enough single defense resources to deal with this mecha warrior, Dort was a horizontal training top, after all, the size owed the model, and others didn't need to talk about it. So the Thunder quickly entered the rhythm of pinch shooting, they did not shy away from this defensive strategy, pinching the ball carrier is a regular part of the Thunder's defensive system, and the price is that the Clippers will get some outside opportunities.

Under the fierce offensive of Kazigo, the Clippers did not break the Thunder in the first time for two reasons:

First, the Thunder have stars whose firepower can match. In the first half, Kazigo scored 15 points on 7-of-7 shooting, with 2 assists and 1 turnover. SGA scored 19 points on 7-of-12 shooting, with 3 assists and 2 turnovers. Just as the Thunder are not worthy of the forward line of the Clip, and the Clippers are not worthy of the SGA player, speed, size, flexibility, defensive experience, and multi-faceted comprehensive conditions, George who is relatively suitable for defending SGA is injured;

Second, after the Thunder began to pinch Leonard, the Clippers did not respond well in the second quarter. Although there is a certain randomness in the three-point feeling, Wei Shao does have to add a passing process when cashing in on the opponent's Leonard dividend, and the Thunder's rotation is fast, and the delay of the fighter often means a failure. The night when Morris can't shoot threes, playing is pointless. Most of the Clippers' 6 mistakes in the second quarter were also ununderstood.

Wei Shao is not very useful in some situations in some games. This is not a new conclusion, Lu to be flexible with Wei Shao, which was originally a problem that the Clippers must face in this year's playoffs. As for why Morris is still able to secure the starter, whether Lu is in the next big game, it is not something that can be clearly explained at the technical and tactical level.

How did the Clippers defeat the Thunder?

The Hyland deal worked wonders at this time. I'm sure Hyland wouldn't have been in that form, but he contributed a lot to the wave at the end of the third quarter and the beginning of the fourth quarter.

Highland did two things, one was to use Leonard to attract a pinch shot and shoot a set pointer, and the other was to block the break point to find an empty teammate to assist a three-pointer. Seventy of Hyland + Batum's eight three-pointers erupted in this convergence, playing the game directly.

The Clippers' winning lineup is not a five-way all-space, but a four-shooter lineup with a center (Plumlee). But there is enough space, because the Clippers fully changed the defensive formation, gathered enough Thunder defenders on the strong side, and then found the weak side shooter with 1~2 passes.

What we want to talk about here is actually the defense of the Thunder.

When I wrote about the Lone Rangers the other day, I mentioned that there are two small-ball teams this season that haven't collapsed defensively, one is the Heat and the other is the Thunder. The Thunder's defensive efficiency ranks 11th in the league, in fact, in absolute terms of defensive efficiency, they are not too much ahead of the mid-range teams behind them, but the young people can do this level is commendable.

Compared with the Warriors and Lone Ranger, the conservative and "restrained" small-ball defense, the Thunder, which has better physical fitness and more athleticism, is more aggressive, more aggressive towards the ball, has larger holes behind him and the three-point line, and relies more on rotation to win the opponent's space and transfer the ball. Don't consider the injured weird inside, the Thunder's current starting center Jaelin Williams, whose blood is full of genes to make people with the ball, has three points, has a strategy, and is a modern interior with a high ball intelligence, but after all, the height is not prominent, so the Thunder also belongs to the team that needs to pile up the number of people in the paint area. There are two routines that make Thunder well:

The first is to change the precise transfer of the ball after the defense, with high-quality finishing and fixed-point response. For example, the Clippers of this one;

The second is fancy bursting board. The Thunder are not tall or strong, and they are a team that is aggressive on the ball defense and will expand the formation, which weakens the rebounding protection.

In addition, because the leader is a mound, the Thunder are also more afraid of dry bukkake scorers.

In this way, the Sun and the Clippers have the means to deal with the Thunder. However, the Thunder have beaten both teams separately in the past week. The Suns have Ayton's absence, and the Clippers' outrageous three-point game is a good reason to lose, but some of the content of these two games can give us a better understanding of the Thunder, Suns and Clippers, and evoke some unpleasant memories of the two losing teams - pay attention, the young people on the opposite side, like the energetic version of the Lone Ranger?

You can find countless differences between the Thunder and the Lone Ranger, and the talent and shooter base of the players of the two teams determine the difference in their respective offensive and defensive systems. However, they are very close in two things:

All have a five-way lineup;

There is an unsolved singles.

With uneven shooter quality, the Thunder's five-way roster isn't as lethal as the playoff version of the Lone Ranger. But the Thunder brothers are not only squatting in the bottom corner of PJ Tucker, they have some sudden ability, Giddy, Dort, Jaylen brothers, three-point shooting percentages are 32.3%, 33.9% and 35.1%, respectively, but they are also the team's 2nd, 3rd, and 4th scorers, catch up with the state, maybe give you a blast.

Some nights of Thunder are a headache and they can pull you into their rhythm and go to their best areas. If you don't want to be led by the nose, you have to play the size advantage of a center when the Thunder Five are playing well, but this is not an easy task.

The Clippers have this hope, and in the battle between the two sides on the 22nd, Zubac played well offensively and defensively. But Lu did not end with Zubac, but with five small against the Thunder and five outside. There are Morris and Wilson in these five small, which means that the defense and space are not full, and George's injury disrupts the plan and mentality, so in the area where the Thunder are better at, it makes sense that the Clippers can't play.

The Suns had no hope of playing back with a center, because they didn't have Ayton on the 20th and couldn't threaten Biyombo and Randale. Therefore, Sun, who was not good at playing small, was forced to play small with Thunder. After the game, Monty expressed his displeasure with the blowing of the free throws, believing that the Thunder received too many free throws and the Suns received too little. Monty's constant vocalization may have improved the situation after the Suns. However, Monty must also think about whether the Paul + Booker + Shamet + Craig + Wayne Wright he posed, or Paul + Lee Ge + Ross + Okogie + Beazley, is it too small?

Without Ayton's help, the Suns' blocking could not play a midfield threat at all, and it would not be able to fully change the Thunder's defensive formation. The puzzle attack points are all shooter types, so that the Suns only have Booker Dry Pull. In this game, Booker cut 46 points and only 1 assist, the Thunder ate these 46 points, and Shamet and Rose's catch-and-jump shots after a few runs, and his own more painful basket defense, relatively safe.

The five little ones of the sun are not powerful. The main attacker is not a sudden point play, especially Paul has almost no breakthrough threat, making their five-way play attack ceiling insufficient. Defensively, Paul + Booker are already two guards, want to keep five small defenses, and the other three positions must be forwards. However, the Suns can't make up three forwards now, Monti tried for a long time, and finally selected Shamet + Craig + Waynewright to finish, and after being repeatedly named and rubbed, finally relied on joint defense to limit SGA's offensive, or because Waynewright missed a key bottom corner three-point loss - another case of defense and space being dissatisfied.

The Thunder are not yet an opponent for the Suns and Clippers, and the Suns and Clippers have reason to believe that the problems exposed in those two games will not be fatal in most cases. The sun also has Durant's card to play, which is a character that is enough to change the underlying logic of attack and defense, and now the tricks that can't be played, with Durant, you may be able to play.

However, the Suns still can't forget that they suffered the losses suffered by the five-way lineup, and after Durant's return, what will be the specific means of using this point to counteract?

The Clippers want to think more. George's injury made them empty another card in the final lineup selection, Morris seems to be a tumor that cannot be cut, Wei Shao is also good and evil, whether to use a center is also a technical problem. The Clippers have almost everything, but they don't have a one-size-fits-all solution, and Lu's mind needs to be clear.

If they meet in the first round, today's content should be useful.