707. This Bird Just Looks Ferocious

The Nuggets fell into a passive position!

After more than 4 minutes of play, only Lowry scored in the running game, 3 of 4 shots, 3 of 3 free throws, and scored 9 points alone. The only player left on the Nuggets was Chris Anderson, who rushed to grab an offensive rebound and caused Randolph to foul and made one of two free throws. No one else scored!

Gallinari's three-pointer was blocked by Battier, and he was double-teamed when he cut to the basket. He cut into the shot and made 0 of 2 shots. He was also blocked by Sun Ce. After being blocked, he dared not cut in.

And Gallinari has almost no mid-range shooting ability. He has the ability to run outside the three-point line to receive the ball, but he does not have the ability to run out of the three-point line and shoot directly after receiving the ball. After he received the ball and ran out of the three-point line to adjust, the Grizzlies could switch defense in place, but he had no chance to receive the ball directly outside the three-point line...

Nene's low-post singles were not effective against Gasol. Gasol had beaten him in the early season. The Nuggets directly gave up this offensive option. Courtney Lee was eliminated, and Ariza had more defense than offense.

Only Lowry exploded today, scoring 9 points at the start, helping the Nuggets get 10 points in less than 5 minutes.

But on the other hand, Sun Ce scored 7 points with 1 of 2 shots! 5 of 6 free throws!

Adding Randolph's 4 points and Battier's three-pointer from the bottom corner, the Grizzlies scored 14 points in less than 5 minutes!

This opening was hard to describe. In short, Sun Ce kept going to the free throw line. After the defensive player was replaced by Ariza, Ariza controlled the foul very well, but in order to avoid being fouled by Sun Ce, there was a gap in the defense, and Sun Ce broke into the inside, causing Nene to take a foul.

Such a game is really not good to watch, but as long as the Grizzlies play at their best defense, the game is usually not good to watch, and the fans at the scene are used to it. It's just that the way it was not good this time was more alternative.

Seeing that the score difference was about to be widened, Nuggets head coach George Karl called a timeout.

Lowry played well, but his teammates were not strong! George Karl was also very annoyed, mainly because Courtney Lee, who was suitable for Lowry and theoretically very good at defending Sun Ce, was in a foul crisis.

George Karl replaced Lowry and Nene with Lawson, Afflalo, Ariza, Gallinari, and Chris Anderson to play a defensive counterattack!

This lineup has 4 to 1 on the defensive end, and all can run on the offensive end!

Before going on the court, George Karl called Chris Anderson, who was about to continue to play, aside: "Chris, if that No. 3 continues to foul... do you understand what I mean?"

Birdman was thinking about how to avoid being fouled by Sun Ce. He has no other ability on the offensive end except for the second offense and eating cakes. His single defense is not very good, but his assist defense is very good. He is thinking about this aspect.

Originally, Birdman thought that the head coach was going to teach him how to defend, but he didn't expect the head coach to say this!

Is this what the head coach should say? Also, he looks fierce, so he should do such fierce things?

"Coach, I don't understand, can you explain it in more detail?" Birdman asked with a puzzled look.

Sometimes it's not that I don't understand, but that I don't want to understand. This is not the era of the past. Doing such things will make me feel guilty, and I will not play basketball anymore?

George Karl's face sank, and he didn't say anything else. He waved his hand to let Birdman prepare to play.

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The Grizzlies also made rotations, and the combination of Sun Ce, Tony Allen, Paul George, Battier, and Jordan was replaced.

Coach Hollins could have expected that the opponent would call a timeout before the official timeout time of more than a minute, and must have changed to a light lineup.

But he didn't expect the opponent to have such a radical substitution method of replacing Lowry with Lawson.

Sun Ce continued to play. He didn't know that he encountered the situation of his elementary school brother and was almost tricked by the opponent's head coach.

However, after this timeout, he didn't have the idea of ​​continuing to commit fouls for the time being. His 6 free throws were twice as many as Lowry's 3 free throws, and his 5 free throws were two more than Lowry, and his lead in events was huge.

Lowry didn't have the idea of ​​committing a foul.

It was just that committing a foul was his way of creating better singles or organizing offensive opportunities. The two sides were completely different in the dead end. Sun Ce easily surpassed a large distance when the referee gave him face.

However, when Nene fouled for the last time, Nene was obviously unable to hold back his anger, and Sun Ce decisively prepared to stop.

And that kind of play had a great impact on the Grizzlies' positional warfare tactics, which were not particularly good to begin with. After nearly 5 minutes of play, Randolph scored a normal low-post single and Battier made a three-pointer. The other scores were not considered regular scores.

After the timeout, the Nuggets attacked first.

Different from the methodical and tactical play when there were Lowry and Nene, after Lawson came up, the Nuggets ran at full speed!

Serve the ball in the frontcourt and start a positional warfare fast break directly!

Lawson received the serve and immediately accelerated to sprint. Tony Allen couldn't catch up at first. After Lawson attracted Sun Ce's help defense, he passed the ball to whoever he saw had a chance. Afflalo was free, so Lawson passed the ball to Afflalo immediately.

Fortunately, the Grizzlies also had a combination of four inside players. Paul George switched from Ariza to Afflalo, and Afflalo passed the ball to Ariza. Ariza rushed forward, attracted the attention of the inside players, and passed the ball to Gallinari who cut in against Battier. Gallinari took advantage of Jordan's unpreparedness and made a layup at the baseline!

In addition to Birdman, who plays as the center, the four players on the outside of the Nuggets lineup all have the ability to hold the ball, including Ariza. As long as Ariza is not allowed to be a fixed-point shooter, he still plays very well.

To say that Ariza is the core, he does not have that kind of strength, but as a role player with an annual salary of about 6 million US dollars, he can do very well. His performance of averaging 11 points, 6 rebounds, 1.8 assists and 1.8 steals per game is completely worthy of his salary.

After Lawson was replaced as the starting point of the offense, the Nuggets' play style changed suddenly!

As a second-year player and a backup point guard, Lawson did not have as many concerns as Lowry. He showed completely different characteristics from Lowry and organized the offense in a completely different way.

Lowry's playing style is still traditional and has the pursuit of the playoffs. Lawson doesn't care and just does it.

After Gallinari scored, Jordan immediately picked up the ball and passed it to Sun Ce. When Sun Ce launched a fast break, the opponent retreated very quickly!

The Grizzlies' one big and four small fast break was caught up!

And the defense was very targeted. Ariza continued to defend Sun Ce, Afflalo defended rookie Paul George, and Lawson chased teacher Tony who had no offensive ability!