Chapter 1131 [When the Opponent Attacks, You Know...]

Guo Xu continued to go behind Schroeder, leaving the opponent wide open to shoot or break through. This was a kind of mental torture.

Fortunately, Guo Xu is now the No. 1 player in the league. If Schroeder was despised by his opponents in college and still fell behind, he would definitely lose his confidence and affect his entire career.

Now his mentality has also been affected. He took a step inside the three-point line and made a mid-range shot. At this distance, the inside players could not switch defenses. Guo Xu behind him did not attack and block the shots, but he made a hit.

How bad is Schroeder's shooting? His large two-pointers accounted for 18.2% of the offense, hitting 0.7 goals in 1.8 shots, with a hit rate of 41.5%; mid-range accounted for 6.3%, hitting 0.2 goals in 0.6 shots, and a hit rate of 38.8%.

This shooting percentage is the result of two years of hard training. In the first two seasons, he could hardly shoot and could only break through.

Schroeder works hard and understands the importance of offensive efficiency. He has been practicing three-pointers. This season, he averaged one three-pointer per game and shot 32.2% from the field. Obviously, if he takes a lot of shots, he will probably become a cancer.

Thackeray grabbed the rebound and passed it to Booker. Booker brought it to the frontcourt and passed the ball. Guo Xu rushed to the front, relied on Schroeder to catch the basketball, and started to hit the basket.

When Schroeder saw that he couldn't keep up, he quickly pulled someone for a foul. However, without holding the ball with one hand, Guo Xu rushed out with the ball in both hands, jumped up and dunked with both hands.

The referee blew the whistle 2+1. He saw an obvious pulling action and couldn't stop blowing the whistle just because Schroeder's upper body strength was poor.

Guo Xu stood on the free throw line, and the home fans uniformly shouted MVP. After he hit the extra free throw, it was 45-30, his 36th point.

Grizzlies coach Lionel Hollins finally requested a timeout, not to win, but to limit Guo Xu's performance. In this way, he might score more than 50 points in the first half.

Hollins, 62, has coached the Grizzlies three times before and is the coach with the most wins in Grizzlies history. However, his on-the-spot adaptability was really poor, and the timeout was called a bit too late.

When a good coach sees Guo Xu come on the field and lead the bench, he will probably stand on the sidelines and shout "double team" to the players. In these rounds, the Eagles almost always defended alone, allowing Guo Xu to calmly score a lot of points in isolation, but Hollins did not react at all on the sidelines.

Hollins also did a poor job in training newcomers. He never relied on newcomers when the Grizzlies had a good record, and he would not reuse newcomers. If he was just trying to achieve results, that would be fine, but now the Hawks are a bad team. He asked Randolph to take more shots, and Gordon and Porter were role players, which is a bit difficult to understand.

After this season ends,

Other teams will definitely not look for Hollins to be their head coach again. If he doesn't want to retire, he will have no choice but to become an assistant coach again.

The adjustment Hollins made was to replace Teague and Porter, allowing Gordon to take the fourth position, while Humphries and Bazemore took a rest.

Porter is 203cm tall and weighs only 90kg. He moves very fast. Because of his strong defensive ability, he became the top pick in 2013. Hollins brought him up to strengthen defense. He and Gordon are both very mobile and will definitely be better at defending pick-and-rolls than Humphries, who is declining.

Teague also played for defense. Hollins arranged for two defenders to double-team Guo Xu and leave the player at position 2 open. If Guo Xu breaks through, the forwards must defend and assist at any time, leaving Split alone to protect the frame near the penalty area.

This is an all-round double-teaming of Guo Xu. The goal is to limit his personal scoring. If Guo Xu distributes the ball and others can score, the Eagles will admit it.

Many teams adopt this defensive strategy and don't want Guo Xu to score super high scores. Although his teammates always get easy shooting opportunities after he distributes the ball, his shooting percentage is very high. Previously, the Lakers' tactics were very smooth, and their lineup was weak but they still maintained a super high winning rate. They relied on this to win.

Today, the Lakers' goal is not to ensure a win or to play a more blossoming offense. They replaced Nurkic and Vince Carter, who had rested for 8 minutes, and asked Carter to be the organizing forward to transfer the ball, and the two big men were responsible for covering Guo Xu inside.

Tai Lung Lu's formation was very much in line with Guo Xu's wishes. Someone would give him a pillow when he wanted to sleep.

If a star wants to break out of a double-team, the best way is always to pass the ball, and the second is to change to playing without the ball and keep running to get rid of the defender. Guo Xu's speed has an obvious advantage. Unless the two defenders double-team without the ball, it is impossible for him to fail to catch the ball.

In terms of scoring, outside players do have an advantage over inside players. If the inside players can't run well, they can only break through double teams. If they play well, it's O'Neal, but if they don't, it's Cousins.

The Warriors coaching staff likes to arrange tactics for Stephen Curry in this way. Curry is much slower than Guo Xu and can break double teams, continue to score points on the court, and play an offensive role.

Tyronn Lue is very weak in both on-the-spot response and defensive tactics, but he is top-notch when it comes to helping the core with statistics.

So he replaced Robertson and Tucker, who were excellent defenders, and when arranging the defense, he said: "When the opponent attacks, you know..."

This is no longer a hint, he just asked other players to release their water appropriately on the defensive end and not let the score difference widen.

Tyronn Lue must do this. Guo Xu's needs are the Lakers' top priority. The management hopes that he can average 50+ per game, comparable to Chamberlain. In this way, two players in NBA history who averaged 50+ per game have played for the Lakers, and the Lakers will become true purple and gold nobles and stay in the annals of history forever.

The game continued, Teague easily broke through against Booker, Nurkic was slow to cover, and Teague easily scored. 45 to 32.

Nurkic has never had it as easy as this season since he entered the league. He does not need to let go, because his slow movement speed, supplementary defense and assist defense have always been his weaknesses. Otherwise, with his performance on the offensive end, it would be impossible to average only 27 minutes per game. If he is given an average of 35 minutes of playing time per game, he will probably score 20+10.

It doesn't matter if he can't guard him now. No one criticized him for being a defensive black hole after the game.

When the Lakers attacked, Guo Xu dribbled the ball across half court and was double-teamed. He passed the ball to Thackeray, who passed it to Carter, who stood high.

Guo Xu moved, but the Eagles still did not double-team without the ball, so Schroeder followed him alone. Guo Xu quickly slipped to the baseline, Nurkic blocked Schroeder, and he received Carter's pass in the right corner.

There was an opportunity on the court, and Hollins' arrangement during the timeout was seriously problematic. After Guo Xu formed a strong-side triangle, the person on the side with him was not Booker, but Carter, who had just come on the court.

Teague, who was asked by the coach to double-team Guo Xu, was led to the other side by Booker. He could only follow Booker's movement. He couldn't just let him go and chase Guo Xu without the ball, right?

In fact, it is right to double-team without the ball. The Eagles will lose, but it will be difficult for Guo Xu to score. It's a pity that the Hawks don't have a good defensive system. Hollins defended well in the Grizzlies because he had a group of defensive experts. Now he is a group of defensive black holes.

Gordon is a second-year rookie with a dull expression and no sense of defense. Guo Xu caught the ball in the bottom corner and took action immediately. Schroeder was a little slow to catch up, but there was only a slight interference, and the ball went hollow into the net.

48 to 32, personal 39th point.

Yu Jia sighed: "The Grizzly Bear didn't double-team. It was an easy shot for Guo Xu."

Zhang Lili said with a smile: "This is an opportunity for teammates to help block it. It makes sense for the Lakers to play like this. If the big man doesn't guard, Guo Xu will shoot, and if the big man switches defense, he will break through."

The Eagles attacked, and Guo Xu let Schroeder take one step, two steps, three steps, and four steps, looking at the sky.

Schroeder's spirit was severely damaged. Perhaps time is an antidote and the poison he is taking now.