One Thousand One Hundred and Fifty-Two: Super Defense Expert

Evan Turner was humiliated by Link's dunk as soon as he came up.

Indeed, in most people's minds, Link is a very skilled player.

However, his physical fitness is also ridiculously strong.

Even if James and Link go head-to-head, they may not be able to take advantage, let alone a mere Evan Turner.

Turner defended very actively, but the gap between the two sides was too big.

In the first round, Link gave the Trail Blazers a disastrous start.

Sure enough, with the strength of the Trail Blazers, defense cannot pose any threat to the Grizzlies.

The result of this game depends on Lillard and McCollum's offense!

Portland's backcourt double guns pressed forward again. This time, Lillard called Meyers Leonard to set up a screen for himself.

Leonard can stretch beyond the three-point line after covering the screen, which just creates space for Lillard to break through.

Lillard is very fast and starts "shifting gears and accelerating" the moment he bypasses the screen.

Although Conley works very hard, it is indeed very difficult to catch up with Lillard when there is screen interference.

The No. 0 guard wearing a black jersey drove straight into the three-second zone, and he was as calm as ever.

If he were playing against other teams, Lillard would definitely choose to attack the frame directly. But facing a grizzly bear...he knew it couldn't be that simple.

After entering the penalty area, Lillard looked at his side warily. Sure enough, Link had already rushed towards him!

Like a fighter plane approaching at high speed, Link stepped beside Lillard in two or three steps.

"Damn it!" Lillard knew Link too well. After all, he himself was a frequent visitor to Link's training camp.

He knew that Link wouldn't sit idly by. Therefore, even if you successfully break through against the Grizzlies, don't think that everything will be fine.

Lillard did not choose to challenge Link. He did not want to be eaten by Link's spicy hotpot.

This always unyielding No. 0 defender was shocked by Link, who also wore No. 0!

Lillard finally chose to pass the ball,

The passing target was naturally Evan Turner, who was let go by Link.

Turner was standing outside the three-point line at this time. He hesitated for a moment, still thinking about whether to step in and score two points. After all, Turner still has a good idea of ​​his three-point ability.

But seeing Link turning the gun and approaching quickly, Turner didn't dare to hesitate anymore.

If you hesitate any longer, your chance will be gone! Link's intimidation on the defensive end is really frightening!

So, before Link pounced, Evan Turner made a three-pointer.

However, Turner's three-point shooting percentage of less than 30% is indeed very stable.

Even though Link didn't interfere with the shot in time, Evan Turner's three-pointer still missed the frame!

"No goal, the Blazers' offense failed again! Evan Turner got an excellent three-point opportunity, but unfortunately, he failed to grasp it."

To Turner's chagrin, as expected, the playoffs are a completely merciless stage!

In the playoffs, any shortcomings you have will be caught by the opponent and magnified infinitely.

Turner believes that he will get many open three-point opportunities in the future. However, he was not happy at all about this...

"Fuck!" Lillard gritted his teeth, very unwilling to do so.

Link's coverage on the defensive end is almost the entire half!

No matter where you are, he can appear unnoticed and prevent you from scoring.

This sense of oppression reminded Lillard of the 2015 playoffs.

That was the last year when the Grizzlies created a three-peat dynasty. In the second round of the series, the Trail Blazers, who had just completed a comeback from a 1-3 deficit, met the invincible Grizzlies.

Everyone thought that the tenacious Trail Blazers would cause trouble for the Grizzlies. As a result, in that series, Lillard was restricted by Link and Conley and was completely unable to perform.

His shooting percentage has been below 30% for several consecutive games, and his score has not exceeded 20.

Lillard thought that now that he had become more mature, he would no longer feel desperate because of the Grizzlies' defense. After all, he didn't feel that way last season.

But at this moment he realized that he was wrong.

Two years have passed, but he still can't break through Link's defense!

The Blazers' offense failed again, but the Grizzlies did not miss the opportunity to open the score.

In this attack, Link broke through and scored, attracted the defense and then assisted Gasol to hit a three-pointer from the bottom corner.

Although the Grizzlies are playing an old twin-tower lineup, their ability to open up space is no worse than that of the Warriors.

Without assistance in defense, Link can suddenly kill the Trailblazer. To help defend, Gasol and Jokic's three-pointers are not blocked.

The game has just begun, and the Trail Blazers seem to be in a deadlock.

On both offense and defense, they were powerless to fight back!

Terry Stotts knows that the Grizzlies are difficult to deal with, and he has made a lot of preparations for this.

But now he discovered that people still underestimated the power of grizzly bears!

This year's first round, which is known as the most intense in history, has nothing to do with the Grizzlies...

After that, the Trail Blazers fell into a strange circle and missed consecutively.

The Grizzlies' defense is watertight. Even if it does leak, Link, a super defense expert, will wipe it out.

The Pioneers didn't get a chance, but every time, they were resolved by Link who arrived in time.

Evan Turner blames himself very much now. If only his scoring threat could be slightly greater, the Blazers would not be so passive.

Time and time again, he was ignored by Link, who again and again let him go to guard others unscrupulously.

Even so, Turner still didn't score.

If he can't score, Link will be more unscrupulous in defending others.

Entering the playoffs, facing the giant Grizzlies, Turner felt very powerless.

This is not a battle that he can control at all!

The Grizzlies beat the Trail Blazers 12-0, forcing Stotts to call a timeout.

After returning from the timeout, Lillard broke through and caused Gasol to foul and got two free throw opportunities, which allowed the Trail Blazers to break their scoring drought.

"The Trail Blazers still don't score in open games. They simply can't adapt to the Grizzlies' playoff-level defense."

Hubie Brown curled his lips. This game, no, it is the ending of this series. It can basically be concluded.

Stotts wants to rely on a double-gun attack in the backcourt to fight the Grizzlies, and this trick may still work in the regular season.

But in the playoffs, defense, which seems to be less important than before, directly determines how far a team can go.

If you defend well and have no obvious shortcomings, you will not be beaten hard by the opponent.

The championships in the past years, if you pick any one, they are basically strong defensive teams.

No matter how fierce the Suns' offense was back then, wouldn't they still be unable to break out of the Western Conference?

Although the Warriors' offense is terrible, their defense has always been among the top five in the league.

The Blazers do not have a good enough defense, which has already determined that their upper limit in the playoffs will not be too high.

It is impossible for this kind of team to cause trouble for the Grizzlies.

Sure enough, Lillard's two free throws didn't change anything. The Grizzlies continued to suppress the Trail Blazers, and the entire game became completely one-sided.

Let a grizzly bear shed a layer of skin? The score difference is within 10 points?

nonexistent.

When the game reached the ninth minute of the third quarter, as Dinwiddie hit a shot from beyond the three-point line, the Grizzlies led the Trail Blazers by 32 points!

The point difference exceeded the 30 mark, which directly caused the Blazers to lose confidence.

The arrival of garbage time is inevitable.

The Grizzlies fans who came to watch the game were cheering. Although garbage time was boring, they were still very excited to see the team win a big victory.

But those neutral fans who were waiting in front of the TV with high expectations were very disappointed. After finally watching the Grizzlies play in the playoffs, it turned out to be garbage time again...

It turns out that everyone overestimated the Blazers.

In other words, it can be said that everyone has not yet figured out how strong the grizzly bear is.

Indeed, the Trail Blazers caused a lot of trouble for the Grizzlies last season. But this season's Grizzlies can't be compared to last season.

After being killed once, the grizzly bear has become stronger.

Before the game was over, Bill Simmons leisurely posted an update on his social media.

"You want to see the Grizzlies get into real trouble? Then turn off the TV. Because the Grizzlies won't get into trouble until the conference finals at the earliest."

In Simmons' view, all the Grizzlies' games in the first two rounds were nothing to look forward to.

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