unfinished glory

Chapter 127 Another Year of Regular Season

Chapter 127 Another Year of Regular Season

In the first two days of the regular season, there were no Spurs games. It was not until the third day that the league arranged a "horse battle" in Dallas.

In the Spurs' schedule, last year was the opening match of the "China Derby". This year, the "Journey of Revenge" will catch up. The league can always easily find various gimmicks to increase the attention of the game.

Li Chongxiao originally thought that he would encounter cynicism again, but Cuban and the Dallas media seemed listless, making his preparations useless.

Last season, he finally overcame the Spurs in the playoffs and made it to the finals for a historic moment. However, he became a stepping stone for "The Flash" Wade and made the other side famous. This traumatized the Mavericks It's not healed yet.

Although the "black whistle" argument has been noisy all summer, the smoke of the finals has long since subsided, and the result cannot be changed.

It's a done deal, right and wrong can only be left to the people behind to comment.

Maybe more than ten years later, fans will only see rows of cold data when they look through history.

In such an atmosphere, the game was a little dull. The Mavericks were a little listless and didn't slow down. The Spurs were experimenting with new tactics and were more cautious.

The players of the two teams are more serious, but they are not as tense as they were in the previous playoffs.

The most active player on the Spurs side is Duncan, and the new tactics are mainly formulated based on his current physical characteristics.

After Duncan lost weight, instead of sticking to the three-second zone, he lifted it up.During the offense, he rarely plays singles, but cuts inside when he finds the right opportunity after the block is completed.

The passes of several teammates are very good, and they can always send the ball in time to complete an attack.

Duncan's change was indeed beyond Avery Johnson's expectations. Before the start of the regular season, he had been busy appeasing the players' mentality, formulating plans and tactics for the new season, and did not study the Spurs' preseason video.

Seeing Duncan's change, he probably understood the current state of this former teammate, and couldn't help but feel a sigh of relief.But when it's time to do something, he will not be soft, and soon Diop will play to defend Duncan.

The offense was somewhat limited, Duncan did not choose to continue playing singles, and began to show his basketball IQ in support.

As the axis of the team's transition in the interior, he continues to create various opportunities for his teammates.

After Duncan gave way to the inside and took away the defender, Parker's breakthrough ability was demonstrated, and he reached the penalty area again and again to score throws.

As for Li Chongxiao, he played a supporting role during this period of time, and his role was to open up space for his teammates and hit the ball passed by his teammates.

After halftime, the point difference on the court was not too big. Although the Spurs' new tactics caught the Mavericks by surprise, the latter is also a team that has experienced the baptism of the finals. Naturally, it is not paper.

After several responses and adjustments by the head coach, the Mavericks gradually got over some panic in the first quarter and adapted to the rhythm of the Spurs, and the scene began to come and go.

With a 9-point lead, the Spurs started the second half of the game. In the third quarter, neither side took advantage of the tug-of-war. The strengths of the two teams were very close. The bench lineups led by them are also evenly matched.

In the critical fourth quarter, the Mavericks took advantage of Duncan's weakened offensive ability and strengthened the inside defense in an attempt to contain the Spurs' offensive.

After the Mavericks changed, the Spurs then shifted the focus of their offense to Li Chongxiao. In the rounds from the line, he took the ball and hit Josh Howard in singles consecutively. He made 5 hits in 4 rounds, all of which were after dribbling. CIC.

He made strong shots from the front, stepped back, and broke through the emergency stop jump shot. He showed the skills he practiced hard in the summer one by one, and soon helped the team to open the point difference to 13 points.

The Mavericks started double-teaming Li Chongxiao just like last season.

In the first two rounds, Li Chongxiao did not follow Popovich's order to pass the ball when he was double-teamed. Instead, he tried his singles skills.

The time difference, this is the key point he came up with to deal with double-teams by analyzing the video.

Teams and tactics are a whole, but players are individuals.

Players' physical fitness, defensive habits, and defensive experience are all different. When dealing with the same player, not only the defensive actions will be different, but the choice of defensive timing will also be different.

For example, when dealing with Kobe, Bowen used more experience to predict, and the defense also focused on fighting, highlighting the word "sticky".

And Li Chongxiao has an advantage in height and wingspan, and his physical fitness is stronger than the opponent. In addition to inheriting Bowen's dogfighting defensive style, he focuses more on physical confrontation, using reaction and speed to block the opponent's attack, just like It is on the hard "top".

And when two top defenders unite a player, it may not necessarily have the effect of 1+1=2, and may interfere with each other.

Different defensive actions and different judgments will affect teammates.For example, grab the ball and grab a piece, or move laterally to block your teammates, leaving a breakthrough route for the opponent.

So a good single-defense player is not necessarily a good help defender.

This kind of mutual influence in the defense will lead to some disharmony in the defense. Experienced offensive players can catch such a defensive loophole and play a time difference.Taking advantage of the opponent's defense not keeping up, complete the next move.

For example, in this game, the short Terry came to double-team, and after Li Chongxiao swayed, he chose to shoot from his head, which happened to be used to block Josh Howard's block.

Of course, it is not ruled out that there is a combination of tacit cooperation, and continuous defensive cooperation.

However, the league has a history of many years, and an excellent combination like the Pistons' double Wallace, which can cooperate with single defense and defense, is also rare.

In this case, unless you pass the ball, you can only make a strong shot.

Li Chongxiao is not Kobe Bryant, if there is no difficulty, even if there is difficulty.

After the Mavericks obviously turned their defensive focus, under Popovich's black face, he began to change his style of play and no longer pursued difficult offensive methods.

He frequently performs pick-and-rolls with Duncan, using Duncan's solid body to block people and empty the three-second zone, and then break through to the inside for layups or points.

Not only did Duncan get two offensive opportunities in the back, but Bowen, Ginobili and Parker on the outside also made achievements, with three-pointers and two-pointers in succession.

After three tricks, the Mavericks were indeed beaten, and the point difference was widened step by step.

When there were only more than three points left in the game, the Mavericks, who were 20 points behind, surrendered and replaced all the main players.

Li Chongxiao scored 24 points and 15 points and 4 assists in the fourth quarter, helping the Spurs get off to a good start in the away game.

(End of this chapter)