For Warriors coach Cole, what he needs to do at this time is to completely break the Trail Blazers' offensive tactics during the game.

The so-called breaking of the situation actually refers to two aspects.

Either start from the defensive end, reset the defensive tactics to limit the offensive performance of some people, stay in the game, and then look for better counterattack opportunities to regain the lead.

Or just take advantage of your own offense and don't care about the Blazers' offense. As long as your offense is better than the Blazers, then that's fine.

Taking advantage of the team's advantageous offensive points during the game can make the team's offense simple, and can also reserve more energy for the team in subsequent games, allowing the team to be more efficient throughout the game.

Keep enough threats.

After all, with such an intense level of competition, this game will be fought to the last moment as expected.

Therefore, which team's players can maintain a good state throughout the game will be very critical for the final stage and the fourth quarter of the game.

Aldridge's point became an important offensive point for the team in the early stages of the third quarter.

By playing this point, you can have the greatest advantage in the main lineup matchup, and you can play more easily.

Dream Green's defensive ability is indeed very good. When he defended Aldridge in the first half, his performance was pretty good.

However, in the first half, Aldridge's offense was not carried out so frequently. It was more of a team offense, shooting, or two individual offenses intermittently.

At this time, with Stotts' tactical support during the halftime break, Aldridge can also fully display his personal offensive talents.

Facing Aldridge's singles, if you don't use your strength to withstand Aldridge, then Aldridge can directly force his way inside to create offensive opportunities.

And when you use your strength to restrict Aldridge, Aldridge will use your strength to directly complete a turn-over jump shot, go outside and use shooting to complete this attack, which will make you a little angry.

nothing.

It's one inside and one outside, two ways of attack.

But Aldridge can use these two simple and unsophisticated offensive methods to make all power forward players in the NBA very afraid of his own offense.

Sometimes, a player's offensive ability may not be so comprehensive, but if he really reaches specialization and is the best in the world, then there really will be nothing others can do.

It is precisely by relying on Aldridge as the team's absolute offensive core that Lillard has become a "tool man" on the court, dribbling and waiting for open attacks. The Blazers not only performed well on the offensive end, but also on the defensive end.

, and because the other players on the team will not be too deep in position, they will be able to quickly return to defense and neutralize the Golden State Warriors' offense.

The point difference between the two teams was closed to 2 points by the Trail Blazers 3 minutes into the third quarter.

55 to 57, Aldridge successfully relied on his offensive ability to beat out all Stotts' tactics, and completed the task of chasing points in this small stage during the game.

When Aldridge consumes a lot of physical energy due to continuous offense and needs to repair, the other four players of the Trail Blazers can also use team offense to continue to maintain the team's offensive firepower.

And Aldridge's outstanding performance on the offensive end was basically pressing Dream Green to the ground and rubbing him.

Therefore, Dream Chaser Green, who is unwilling to admit defeat, naturally wants to find opportunities to prove himself.

In the Golden State Warriors' offensive system, Green, who doesn't take many shots, doesn't have many opportunities to beat Aldridge alone.

This time I finally found the opportunity.

The Trail Blazers, playing at home, at the beginning of the second half, not only focused on developing Aldridge's offense on the offensive end, but also continued to maintain the same tough defensive attitude before the end of the first half on the defensive end.

Curry and Thompson did a great job in their defensive entanglement.

This time, both Curry and Klay Thompson were tightly defended by the Trail Blazers players and did not have a good offensive opportunity to take action.

When the ball was continuously transferred to the hands of Dream Chaser Green, there were 7 seconds left in the game.

Logically speaking, Curry, Klay Thompson, and even Iguodala can all have the opportunity to force shots from the outside.

Handing it over to Dream Chaser Green is just a transition of ball ownership.

But seeing that there wasn't much attack time, Dream Green held the ball for another 2 seconds. When the ball "couldn't be passed", naturally it was forced to play alone by Dream Green himself.

Faced with Aldridge who was constantly "bullying" him on the offensive end, Dream Green wanted to take revenge this time and hit Aldridge head-on.

Play from the back, lean on your body, and seek opportunities to get inside.

Without pushing Aldridge, Dream Green also dribbled backwards, directly opening up the space, trying to complete a fadeaway jumper from the side.

However, the offensive operation of this ball is completely under Aldridge's control.

Immediately jump forward to block.

Although it did not form a big block, Aldridge's finger still touched Dream Green's shot.

Three non-sticks.

Lillard received the ball directly under the basket and immediately dribbled forward quickly, trying to push back and attack.

But Curry reacted very quickly. He fouled Lillard first and used an insignificant number of fouls to destroy the Blazers' possible counterattack tactics.

This transaction is actually quite worthwhile.

Curry must be careful about the number of fouls he commits. This kind of foul that blocks the opponent's counterattack opportunity is very common for Curry. Sometimes subconscious fouls will make Curry, as a perimeter player, also have a foul crisis.

The Blazers fans at the scene responded with loud boos to Curry's foul, but within the limits allowed by the rules, it can only be said that Curry's foul choice was all for the sake of the team.

Stotts prepared many new tactics during the team's halftime break, which are often used in team training.

You know, as the head coach of an NBA team, Stotts' tactical skills must be very outstanding.

Although when watching the game, a team seems to be using several sets of tactics in turn, without much new ideas.

However, that is only because this tactic is used skillfully and can create a greater threat on the court, or even because the opponent's defense cannot prevent it, so why not use it?

Sometimes it's not a bad thing to have a trick that works all over the place.

That proves that your skill is really NB.

For the Trail Blazers, Zhang Feng and Lillard's pick-and-roll tactics are indeed the team's most commonly used offensive routine, but after the team has been put under a lot of targeted defensive pressure by their opponents.

It is also possible to use other tactics temporarily.

A team's offensive tactical reserves should be quite abundant. For the Trail Blazers, these tactical reserves are used in daily training and will also be used for key training. However, in games, they may be used throughout the game.

It won't be used too many times, it just serves as a supplement to the team's offensive tactics under specific circumstances.

However, facing the Warriors today, especially considering the Warriors' same excellent defensive level at the end of the second quarter, Stotts is ready to use new offensive tactics to try to see if he can have a better offensive effect.

After Aldridge indicated that he would not launch individual attacks, the Trail Blazers began to cooperate as a team.

Lillard dribbled over and handed the ball directly to Batum, who was outside the three-point line at a 45-degree angle on the left. After passing the ball, he went directly to the right to open up space for the team's offense.

Follow the usual tactics.

The Trail Blazers' personnel allocation is actually that Zhang Feng and Lillard play pick-and-roll, and then Batum and Aldridge play pick-and-roll.

But this time the new offensive tactic is for Zhang Feng to come over and provide Batum with a pick-and-roll.

However, this time the pick-and-roll cooperation did not take place immediately.

Zhang Feng came up for the pick-and-roll and stood on Batum's right-hand side. However, Batum took advantage of his height and wingspan to protect the dribble first, and then immediately made no further offensive moves.

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The two groups of offensive and defensive players almost stood still.

Batum made no offensive moves, and Zhang Feng was there to provide cover. For a while, the Warriors players did not attack, but were waiting for Batum's further moves.

Batum did not make an offensive move immediately because the tactics this time were not just those of Batum and Zhang Feng.

Matthews, who was on the left baseline, also suddenly started and came over from Batum's left side.

In an instant, six players from both teams were huddled together.

Matthews directly used his physical advantage and squeezed through the crowd at full speed, but Klay Thompson was blocked by Zhang Feng and his teammates, forcing the Golden State Warriors to exchange defenders.

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And this kind of temporary substitution and defense will inevitably cause some problems that the defender cannot explain clearly.

For example, between Bogut and Iguodala, who will guard Matthews, who has quickly rushed out to the center, and who will guard Batum and Zhang Feng among the rest.

These are all defensive choices that require split-second decisions.

This is not a situation where you can directly switch positions when defending the opponent 2-2. This also involves a defensive exchange of defensive players.

Faced with such a situation, if the defensive explanation is not clear, the Blazers' offense will seize the opportunity.

This series of pick-and-roll cooperation between the three players is a tactic used by the Blazers to forcefully increase defensive options to create offensive opportunities as much as possible.

Although such a tactic itself will cause some trouble for the offensive side in terms of offensive choices, it is still possible as long as it poses a sufficient threat to the opponent.

And it was Batum who was holding the ball.

For Batum, his passing organization ability may be the player with the best organization ability in the Trail Blazers lineup except Blake on the bench.

At least in the Blazers' starting lineup, basically, when the ball needs to be organized, the ball is basically placed in Batum's hands.

Matthews moved laterally to the center.

Batum also accelerated directly and started to break through with his left hand.

After Zhang Feng provided a real screen for Matthews and a fake screen for Batum, he also "opened it up" and quickly inserted it into the basket area.

The Golden State Warriors' defense still made mistakes.

Originally, when Bogut and Iguodala exchanged defenses against Matthews, both of them had the intention of defending, but Iguodala's defensive speed was fast enough and passed first, leaving Bogut to have no choice but to come back and fight.
To be continued...