One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-Eight. The King of Low-Post Back-to-the-Basket!

The second half of the game started, and the Warriors attacked first.

The Warriors started right away!

For the Warriors, at this point in time, they were furious and wanted to launch a wave of offensives to catch up with the score. After all, they were a super strong team with 29 wins and 2 losses. They believed that they should defeat all opponents. They didn't come back to their senses in the first half because they were really stunned by Sun Ce, but they made clear tactical and psychological adjustments during the halftime break.

On the Grizzlies side, Sun Ce is also very motivated now, but for the whole team, after a burst of energy, it is now in a stage of declining momentum. Coach Hollins sent out the current lineup to ensure effective offense while the real purpose is to use the small lineup to keep up with this and try to suppress the rhythm.

Restricting the Warriors' offense... Coach Hollins never expected this. What he wanted to do was to consume the opponent's momentum to chase points and reduce the offensive and defensive rounds. The tactics were also simple. Randolph and Sun Ce took turns to play low-post singles!

Randolph is indeed gifted. At his age, he is still very strong in low-post singles when he has enough energy. If there is anything that has become weaker, it is his offensive rebounds, which is not as good as before, but correspondingly, his skills seem to be better than before. He can't grab offensive rebounds, but his offensive stability has increased, which makes up for this.

The Warriors have no way to deal with Sun Ce. Compared with the last time they played, Sun Ce's ability to adjust his playing style in an instant has become stronger, and Sun Ce's physical strength has caused headaches for the Warriors.

Faced with such a situation, the Warriors are full of momentum, but they are not out of order. They respond very calmly. The 29-2 team is not given for nothing.

When Sun Ce plays singles, Iguodala or Harrison Barnes will be used to consume him. When Randolph plays singles, Speights and Jared Salinger will be used to consume him. Don't double-team casually, and use strong wing defense to prevent the Grizzlies from shooting when they are in a positional battle.

There is no way to defend. Their lineup cannot withstand a low-post beast like Randolph. It is also difficult to defend against Sun Ce, a player with the most comprehensive back-to-back skills after Kobe, so the Warriors chose to compete with the Grizzlies in terms of rhythm and rush when they should.

Steve Kerr was caught off guard in the first half, and it seemed that he was not as good as Luke Walton. However, except that he was not as talented as Luke Walton in playing at the full level, Steve Kerr was better than Luke Walton in coaching details, tactical literacy, and overall analysis. Steve Kerr now relies on offense to survive until Randolph's physical strength declines, and then the Warriors' advantage will come.

Sun Ce and Randolph, who can play low and mid-range shots, are both difficult for the Warriors to defend, but the Warriors, who have a five-small lineup with strong defensive expansion and contraction capabilities, only defend a player who can play low and mid-range shots, which is much easier to defend. After all, these two are not big centers, and they can always find ways to limit them.

The Warriors did not have the luxury of exhausting Sun Ce's stamina until he had to rest off the court, but just tried their best to defend him. Randolph, on the other hand, was in good condition for a little over 20 minutes per game. Although Randolph, who is 34 years old, is gifted, he became fat every summer before the season and lost weight during the season, which actually consumed his body a lot. Even though he is so gifted, at this age, he will show a very obvious decline every year.

If the Grizzlies replaced Yi Jianlian to run and gun after Randolph was tired and rested, the Warriors, who had recovered, would not be afraid, but would be very happy. They wanted to retaliate!

Their offensive rush in the first half of the second quarter was only a few points less than the Grizzlies, and it was when the Grizzlies were led by Sun Ce that the Warriors only had a few points less.

In this half of the game, the Grizzlies were really struggling to hold on. JaMychal Green's containment was too weak, and Sun Ce and Randolph were repeatedly double-teamed. Fortunately, JaMychal Green made 1 of 3 three-pointers during this period. There was another time when Sun Ce stepped back and missed a close-range jump shot, and JaMychal Green rushed in to tip in and scored two points.

4 shots... to be precise, 3 shots and 5 points, for a hard-working blue-collar forward swingman who can't be called a 3D player, he has done very well.

At 6 minutes and 11 seconds in the third quarter, the Grizzlies led the Warriors by 12 points, 92 to 80, and the score difference was reduced by 4 points in half a quarter. Seeing that as long as the Warriors missed the next round of shots, they would have a chance to reduce the score difference to within 10 points with three-pointers, Coach Hollins called a timeout!

The Warriors' strategy was obvious, to wear down Randolph, but Coach Hollins was not in a hurry. He replaced Randolph and Paul George with Aldridge and Carter. In terms of three-pointers, especially open three-pointers, Carter is stronger than Paul George.

After the timeout, the Warriors sent out a combination of Curry, Harden, Iguodala, Gerald Wallace, and Sullinger.

Steve Kerr guessed that the Grizzlies would send Aldridge, replacing Gerald Wallace and Sullinger, who had defended Aldridge to death in the playoffs last season, to deal with Aldridge!

Aldridge, who was the top mid-range shooter and mid-range back-up in the league last season but was mediocre in low-post back-up, suffered a great loss from these two. If Randolph had not been at a quasi-top level last season, it would be possible to lose one or two games to the Warriors, and the best playoff performance in history would have nothing to do with the Grizzlies.

This time, Aldridge is ready to retaliate!

As for the first match against the Warriors this season, Aldridge's latest developed technique did not have a chance to be used. He had to slowly dig in the low post. In this era, slowly digging in the interior does not work well because they are not as easy to adjust their playing style as outside players. For example, Jahlil Okafor began to be sold in the Celtics, and this rookie season is less than halfway through!

For interior players to dig in the low post, it is best to have an advantage when they want to slow down the rhythm. The second best situation is the attacking moment.

So Aldridge has not had many opportunities to show his low post ability this season. He is not trying to hide his weakness, but it is unnecessary. When attacking, it is usually Sun Ce or Randolph. The last time he played against the Warriors, there was no advantage and no attacking moment. The score was behind for a long time. Not to mention Aldridge, Sun Ce and Randolph did not have the opportunity to play back in the low post.

These days, chasing points by backing in the low post is outdated. It is not that the low post is useless, but compared with the simple and crude back then, the current game is more divided.

Back on the court, the Grizzlies serve in the frontcourt.

After receiving the ball, Sun Ce directed Klay Thompson, Carter, and JaMychal Green to take their positions. He knew what Aldridge was thinking, and after Aldridge got close to Salinger and was about to get into position, he hoisted the ball in.

Facing Aldridge, Salinger was full of confidence. He defended the low post, Gerald Wallace defended the high post, and they were both capable of defending JaMychal Green. The two of them were full of confidence! The reason... was because of the successful defense against Aldridge last season.

But Salinger's confidence was soon crushed by Aldridge. Aldridge made a beautiful fake shot and then turned and hooked the ball with his foot still!

211cm tall, 225cm wingspan, 279cm reach, superb post-up talent... Aldridge was born for post-ups, but he had no one to guide him in the Trail Blazers before. The only star in their team history who was willing to be associated with them was Rasheed Wallace, who taught him mid-range post-ups for a while. He has already practiced mid-range post-ups to the level second only to Nowitzki and Garnett in the league's interior. With the foundation of high-post post-ups, Aldridge learned from Pierce, Randolph, and Olajuwon this past summer, and his low-post post-ups have undergone a transformation!

Unlike Randolph's unparalleled might and Sun Ce's incredible explosive ability, Aldridge's low-post post-ups are exactly the same as his mid-range post-ups. One word to describe it - stable!

Genius is genius. Aldridge has few low-post post-ups this season because it is unnecessary, but when Sun Ce saw Aldridge's post-ups, he couldn't help but praise him in his heart - the king of post-ups in the current league!

For three consecutive rounds, Aldridge found an opening to score the ball even when Gerald Wallace came up to double-team him, and made three consecutive low-post back-to-back shots!

The closer to the basket, the better the size advantage. Last year, he was not good at using his size advantage in the low post, and his size advantage in the high post was severely limited, especially when facing Gerald Wallace and Salinger. But this time, Aldridge fully exerted the advantage he should have.

This made the Warriors' confidence shaken. According to Steve Kerr's arrangement during the halftime break and official timeout, they should be able to bully the Grizzlies after consuming Randolph. The Grizzlies only had Sun Ce, a low-post back-to-back expert. Without Pierce from last season, they were no longer able to suppress the rhythm.

It was going smoothly. They narrowed the score and consumed Randolph little by little. It seemed that it was time to reap the fruits of success. As a result, Aldridge scored 3 goals in a row and scored 6 points, while the Warriors made 2 of 4 shots, one of which was a three-pointer, but only scored 5 points.

Two minutes later, the Warriors not only failed to catch up quickly, but also fell behind by 1 point!

85 to 98, seeing that the Grizzlies were about to score over 100 points quickly, the Warriors called a timeout!

After the timeout, Curry couldn't help it anymore, he received the ball and dribbled outside the three-point line, facing Klay Thompson to find his touch, and directly hit a three-pointer!

But looking back, Sun Ce used Carter and Klay Thompson's containment and JaMychal Green's off-ball pick-and-roll. After Aldridge passed the ball to Carter, Carter found Sun Ce in the first time, and Sun Ce took the ball and shot a three-pointer... and it went in!

Aldridge and Sun Ce's inside and outside line connection opened up!