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positionless basketball

After Rudy Tomjanovich saw the Celtics' starting lineup, he frowned and felt that things were not simple.

Lu Wuxia, Ginobili, Dunleavy, Kirilenko, (David) Lee.

In the Green Army's starting lineup, there are no players taller than 206 centimeters, but there are also no players shorter than 196 centimeters.

The average height is very high, but the absolute height is not high.

Rudy has worked with Louis for so many years, and he knows that his old partner often does amazing things, and his actions that he has encountered often turn out to be correct afterwards.

Positionless basketball is not a completely unknown concept to professional basketball.

Ever since Louis asked Wilson to use roll call tactics to defeat the Trail Blazers in the 1993 Finals, a Pandora's box was opened. The beautiful basketball played by the Lakers in 2000 intensified the changes in techniques and tactics.

However, for now, positionless basketball has too high requirements on the all-round attributes of role players.

Under normal circumstances, a team will not have so many all-around fighters.

This is a great test of the management's drafting ability.

However, Louis is just a draft pick.

With Yao Yueban injured, the Celtics' changes made Tomjanovich attach great importance to them.

Because the Celtics are most likely the Knicks' biggest opponent to break out of the Eastern Conference Finals.

Unlike the Celtics, the Knicks' starting lineup looks very serious.

They are McGrady, Hill, Posey, Randolph, and Dalembert.

This season, McGrady has officially returned. He has recovered from a devastating ACL tear. Although he has lost his previous peak strength, he is still an all-around wing averaging 24 points, 6 rebounds and 6 assists per game.

Tracy McGrady's return brings the Knicks back into contention.

In tonight's game, the Knicks fully displayed the style of their former kings, seizing on David Lee's lack of interior defensive power to attack fiercely at the beginning.

The Celtics' five-man team had never started a game together before, and they were in a hurry at the moment. They were beaten 12-4 at the beginning, and Louis requested a timeout.

It's obvious that this positionless starting lineup won't work for the Knicks.

Of course, there is also a possibility that their tacit understanding is not enough, like Xiao Li who asked to be removed from the starting lineup before the game because of lack of self-confidence.

Under normal circumstances, Louis should have asked Gasol to replace Lee.

However, the fact that the inside line was destroyed only made Louis confirm one thing - you can't choose a short inside line in order to find an inside line without position.

To play positionless basketball, you have to really make the five-man group on the court positionless.

So Louis replaced Xiao Li.

He was the only player with a clear position on the field, and then he was replaced by Wally Szczerbiak.

As a result, the Celtics' five players on the court do not have a single inside man in the traditional sense.

When Lu Wuxia directed this lineup to play "S.S.O.L" (7 seconds or less), the flow of tactics was like rivers flowing into the sea, birds and cicadas.

Bull horn tactics, high pass and cut, three-point shooting range without blind spots.

At that moment, Lu Wuxia realized that this was a subversive game mode.

Originally, only Randolph was considered a defensive vulnerability on the Knicks. However, under the offensive of this lineup, even Dalembert would be regarded as a weakness because he could not switch defenses like a forward, and McGrady and Hill were unable to perform accurately.

Defense changes and rotations resulted in one flaw after another.

The Knicks' seemingly invincible starting lineup, but only Posey can defend correctly.

Lu Wuxia discovered that under this system, they did not need T.S.O.M (20 seconds or more) attack at all.

Relying on the rhythm, dynamic space, speed, and three-point threat of S.S.O.L's offense, they can defeat all teams that cannot reduce their lineup height and limit them through unlimited defense changes.

Considering the average height of the Celtics' current lineup, there may not be another NBA team that can come up with a similar positionless lineup to match.

A 4-12 start ended with a 39-24 finish.

After the first quarter, the Knicks trailed by 15 points.

Tomjanovich was horrified.

If he guessed correctly, this is the first time the Celtics have started a positionless basketball game.

They still have some way to go before they mature and become a system.

It is immature and unsystematic, but it is already so powerful.

How terrible would it be if we gave them some time to adjust and wait for them to figure out a style of play that suits them?

Tomjanovich didn't think about it because starting from the second quarter, Louis never played "positionless basketball" again.

But it was enough for Tomjanovich to try to build the Knicks' positionless basketball lineup.

Tomjanovich's attempt is destined to fail. When he personally infiltrates it, he will find that the basis of this system is that there are at least three players with high golf quotient in the five-man group. The core of the five-man group must have excellent

The ability to run without the ball, and the second core (Ginobili) who is responsible for taking over the ball when the first core (Lu Wuxia) is running without the ball, also needs a super high golf IQ to maintain the operation of the system.

The Knicks' embarrassment is that they have someone who can play Ginobili's role, but no one can play Lu Wuxia's role.

Moreover, it was not possible to design his own offensive system based on the Celtics' S.S.O.L offense for a while.

In the next three quarters, the Celtics always maintained the lead thanks to Lu Wuxia's outstanding performance.

Louis is very concerned about flawless performance.

Just like most games this season, as long as he is in form, Wu Xia is one of the best players in the league.

Louis is sure that he has passed the rookie protection period, and everyone will view his performance in every game according to the standards of a superstar.

Louis can give tonight's flawless 90 points.

He can go faster or slower.

The S.S.O.L offense of positionless lineups and the S.S.O.L offense of traditional lineups are two completely different systems because the rhythm gap is too big.

If the S.S.O.L offense of the positionless lineup and the traditional position lineup are regarded as two systems, and the T.S.O.M offense is included, all three systems in the field performed flawlessly.

He is most comfortable in the S.S.O.L offense with positionless lineups.

That's an offensive system that can make the most of his talents.

It can be seen that he not only plays vigorously under that system, but is also very happy.

In addition, Ginobili's performance basically met Louis' expectations. As a player who can also switch back and forth between the three systems without distinction, his performance can be called perfect.

The main reason is that he didn't burn the CPU tonight and didn't make any mistakes due to the flower work.

Szczerbiak is getting better and better as he plays, and is a completely different person than he was at the beginning of the season.

Dunleavy was a huge surprise.

Louis originally only hoped that he would serve as a smart passer and accurate shooter in the system. Unexpectedly, this second-generation ball player who resented his father made Louis see the shadow of Dream Chaser Green.

He belongs to the dream-chasing Green who does not serve as the core of defense. He has more three-point shooting range than Green.

As for Kirilenko, he plays the role Green played on the defensive end - the defensive core - and he is also versatile on the offensive end.

It can be said that these five people all gave Louis surprises to varying degrees.

However, Louis felt that he could also try other people into this system.

Such as Korver, Barea, Spanoulis.

There are still dozens of games in the regular season, and he has enough time to test and find the best positionless five-man lineup.

Wait until the playoffs, maybe they will become a surprise team.

At the end, 121 to 111, the away Celtics defeated the Knicks with a 10-point advantage. While continuing their winning streak, it also made a good start for future games.

This is the first game that Yao Yueban has missed due to injury. Different from previous rest breaks, this time Louis has prepared the players for the possibility that Yao Yueban will be reimbursed for the regular season.

Winning this game will have a significant boost to the morale within the team. The players will believe that victory is due to collective dedication. No matter who is absent from the game, the remaining people will fight for him.