The Basketball Court Swordsman

After the opening 7-0, the Grizzlies gradually began to score and narrowed the point difference. After all, the opponent is a team that has reached the Western Conference finals. It is impossible to be scared by a wave of 7-0.

But throughout the first quarter, under the control of Becky Harmon and Vogel, the Pacers somewhat stabilized the situation. After the 12-minute battle in the first quarter, the score on the court became 23-16. The Pacers limited the Grizzlies' scoring, and their scoring performance is not bad.

During the break, the Grizzlies' 12th coach Dave Jorge criticized the team's defense. Of course, he knows very well that criticism alone is useless, and he must also find solutions for the players.

Jogel, like his predecessor Leonard Hollins, is a defensive and defensive head coach. Although this man only has an annual salary of $1.5 million this season, he will play six games in the new season. Afterwards, Georgel's level was recognized by everyone.

Compared to Hollins, Georgel will have more changes on the defensive end. He will prescribe the medicine very well and change different defensive strategies according to different offenses.

A coach who has climbed up from the Development League has seen countless strange styles of play, so he also knows how to deploy defenses against these styles. During the rest period, Georgel became the busiest person on the court. And his arrangement was quickly reflected in the game.

The first point is that Georgel asked the players to try not to give the Pacers too smooth offensive opportunities. The method is to strictly defend one-on-one, put pressure on the ball and cut off the passing route. The two most important points are that he let Tony Allen start in the second quarter and meet George! Then Randolph and Gasol switched matchups.

Now, Randolph defends Horford, who likes to float outside. Gasol Jr. is with David West, staying close to the basket.

Dave Georgel's layout effect was immediate, and the Pacers slumped for the first goal of the second quarter.

Paul's breakthrough after Horford's pick and roll did not attract Randolph's pursuit, so Horford's three-pointer could not be used.

After a deeper breakthrough, Paul still did not find a pass. Because he found that the Grizzlies' defense began to not shrink, and they all focused on cutting off the passing route instead of preventing Paul from scoring.

Who will stop Paul from attacking? "Big White Bear" Marc Gasol who stayed in the penalty area!

As the winner of last season's best defensive player, Gasol has a good set of defenses both in assist and low one-on-one defense. He crossed right in front of Paul, and the timing was neither too early nor too late.

Paul now has only two options, one is to find a way to score on Gasol, and the other is to pass the ball to West, who is temporarily emptied.

The calm Paul chose the latter, but Mike Conley was behind, he had anticipated Paul's intentions, so he prepared in advance. At the moment Paul passed the ball to West, he stretched out his arm to steal the ball!

"Paul made a mistake!?" Reggie Miller stood up in surprise, you know, Paul rarely makes mistakes on the offensive end. This kind of mistakes in which oneself is intercepted by the opponent is even more rare.

But also don't forget that Mike Conley averaged 2.2 steals per game last season, second only to the stealing champion Paul and "Spain Golden Boy" Rubio, ranking third in the league. In other words, Conley is also one of the most stealth guards in the league.

Henson still didn't stand up, but frowned. Dave Jorge used to be Leonard Hollins' assistant, but his changes seem to be more flexible than Hollins. That’s it, taught the apprentice to starve to death the master?

Steals and turnovers mean that there will be a counterattack. Last season, Hollins's team mainly attacked in a slow pace. It can even be said that the Grizzlies have no offense at all.

But this season, Georgel tried to enrich the Grizzlies offense. Among them, the conversion offense is one of his key reform goals.

Tony Allen, a purely defensive player, may not have much effect in the offensive position, but it is indeed a good player to switch offense.

Mike Conley had a clear mind, he quickly hit the ball and gave Tony Allen a chance, who was running in the front. Seeing Tony Allen rushing to the basket, George was ready to take off at any time to block his opponent.

However, Tony Allen is very smart. He didn't directly take off and dunk, but deliberately slowed down and pushed George with his ass! Use physical confrontation to gain space for yourself, this has almost become a skill that all outside players must know!

After kicking George off, Tony Allen jumped up in two strides and staged a two-handed dunk! I have to say that Tony Allen's athletic ability is still very good.

18 to 23, the Grizzlies sounded the horn of counterattack.

"Now that the Grizzlies have defensive counterattacks?" Henson mumbled to himself, continuing to observe the situation.

In the subsequent defense, the Grizzlies' strategy was exactly the same. Resolute one-on-one, resolutely lock the pass route. Paul did not break through the ball, but gave the ball to George early and directed his teammates to pull it away.

Unfortunately, George failed to win the singles with Tony Allen this time. As a perimeter player named to the All-Defensive Team for three consecutive years, Tony Allen relies on this to survive in the NBA. People like him exist to contain the opponent's top scorer. So even Paul George and Tony Allen will not lose easily.

Afterwards, Zach Randolph played inside, his large tonnage made West a little unbearable. Leonard saw this situation and went up to double-team, he forgot Henson's instructions.

Randolph smiled slightly and raised his hand to pass the ball. "Little Prince" Taishaun Pulis made a three-pointer with an open bottom corner, and the basketball went past the net.

"A three-pointer, great! 21 to 23, the Pacers are in big trouble. In the second quarter, the Grizzlies counterattacked extremely hard."

Seeing Pulis hit a three-pointer, Henson's **** was a little unstoppable. Don't look at him doing nothing and nothing in the first quarter. In fact, he pays close attention to the situation on the court all the time. He originally wanted to stand up, but soon, Paul's mid-range jumper relieved him.

As everyone knows, this still failed to withstand the Grizzlies counterattack craze.

After Paul's mid-range shot, the Pacers experienced three failed rounds.

The first is that Paul failed to attract double-teams by abrupt points, and as a result, he threw a shot when facing Gasol. Subsequently, Leonard made a pass error because Tony Allen has been entwined with George and there is no room for George to catch the ball. In the end, West's middle distance was blocked by Gasol.

At first, people thought that West had cast a three-pointer. After replaying the scene on the big screen, people discovered that Gasol's fingertips had touched the ball thrown by West.

At this point, the field score became 27-25, and the Memphis Grizzlies surpassed the score in less than half of the game. Becky Harmon and Frank Vogel looked at each other, and then at the same time looked at their coach.

At this time, Henson, whose **** seemed to be nailed to the bench, finally stood up. He walked near the technical table and made a time-out gesture towards the referee. ?

? Henson finally took the initiative to call a timeout, which made Reggie Miller and Chris Webber on the commentary stage amused.

"Count it up, buddy, this is the first time Coach Henson has stood up in this game!" Webber joked.

The players ended up frustrated and thought they would be scolded by Henson. But Henson was calm and not angry. Just find the problem and solve it. It's not a little girl, and I will talk about it again and again.

He knows where the team's problem lies. Becky Harmon and Frank Vogel are both good players in their respective fields. But their weaknesses are just too "partial".

Now that the team is in trouble, it's hard to say whether there is a problem with the offense or the defense, because there may be some problems at both ends of the offense and defense. Therefore, Harmon and Vogel did not know how to adjust. At this time, it's time for Henson, who is in control of the overall situation, to play.

"I'm going to rearrange the offense. Everyone listened carefully, because our next play was not trained in advance yesterday. I hope you don't have to remind me all the time. Becky, give me a tactical board."

Henson held the tactical board in one hand and the marker pen in one hand, and then, as always, opened the cap of the marker pen with his mouth. ?

The teaching of Buddhism and the shopkeeper are two concepts. Henson never said that he would just leave it alone in this game.