Eight Hundred and Ninety-One. Sniper Rose Tactics

But Noah was still disturbed after taking two steps back, and he couldn't push Nash away. The defender didn't take the initiative to contact the offensive player. If he pushed the opponent away, he would most likely be called for a foul.

The only person Rose passed the ball to was Ronnie Brewer.

Seeing that Sun Ce had already taken the lead, Rose quickly passed the ball to Ronnie Brewer who ran in along the left sideline of the three-second zone. Ronnie Brewer flew up for a layup... but was slapped down by Sun Ce who turned around!

The slap was a slap on the head, and the ball was slapped directly onto Ronnie Brewer's head by Sun Ce and bounced out of the baseline!

The referee whistled, out of bounds, the Grizzlies had the ball in the backcourt.

Rose ran back to the backcourt speechlessly. He didn't want to pass the ball to Ronnie Brewer when there was someone under the basket. This guy didn't know what was wrong. At the age of 26, his ability to score under the basket was getting worse and worse.

In the four seasons from 2006 to 2010, Ronnie Brewer was trained as the next Kirilenko in the Jazz. He averaged 13.7 points, 3 rebounds, 2.7 assists and 1.7 steals per game. In the 2008-09 season, he lost to Battier by 5 points and was almost selected as the second defense.

In the summer of 2010, the Bulls snatched Ronnie Brewer with a four-year full middle-class salary. Ronnie Brewer's rebounding, assists and defense have not changed much. In the past two seasons, he has been stable with 3+ rebounds, 2+ assists, 1.5+ steals and 0.7+ blocks, but his scoring has plummeted from 11 points per game in the four years of the Jazz to 6 points per game at present.

In addition to the layup without the ball, there are also the mid-range and long-range shots in the open space that are as unreliable as you can imagine. Ronnie Brewer has lost all his scoring ability.

And he has degenerated inexplicably without any signs, just like the opposite Sean Battier in Rose's impression.

After the first round, the two teams made some preliminary tests and quickly started a fierce positional battle.

The Bulls played the same way as in the past. They had 9 wins and 1 loss in the past 10 games. They fell from the seventh place in the Eastern Conference to the second place in the Eastern Conference and are expected to return to the first place in the Eastern Conference. They did not need any adjustments. They kept winning and could not find any good adjustments.

However, today, the Bulls' offense encountered huge resistance!

Facing the Bulls, who had won six consecutive games in the past six games, the Grizzlies made defensive adjustments today, letting Nash defend Rose. It seemed that they wanted to let Rose shoot, but the effect was surprisingly good!

After playing for more than 4 minutes,

the Grizzlies led by 5 points 8 to 3! And Sun Ce didn't take the free throw. As Sun Ce cut into the inside with Randolph's off-ball pick-and-roll and received Nash's pass, causing Boozer to foul and forced a jump shot, the Bulls called a timeout!

Only 3 points were scored in more than 4 minutes. The Bulls were defended to death!

If it weren't for the Bulls' good defense, the two teams' starting rhythm was suitable for defense, limiting the Grizzlies to 3 of 9 shots. If their defense was not so good, the score difference would be even greater! They only made 1 of 7 shots at the beginning!

The Grizzlies took two more shots because the Grizzlies entered a timeout after the offense and Randolph had an offensive rebound at the beginning.

Sloan no longer had a bad premonition, but it was really bad! He saw the Grizzlies' defensive targeting!

The Grizzlies' offense was OK. Nash was obviously more integrated into the positional battle in some rounds of offense than before. He not only opened up for shooting, but also played pick-and-roll. Just like the pick-and-roll with Gasol, Sun Ce forced Boozer and Ronnie Brewer to switch defense. He played OK, but not enough. There were not many such opportunities. Just now, Paul George was very successful in going around the baseline and took Noah away first. The one who switched out to defend the pick-and-roll was Luol Deng. Noah defended the pick-and-roll with the ball, so Nash's passing opportunities were not so good.

Sloan was not afraid of the Grizzlies' positional attack. He took 9 shots, and even if Sun Ce's free throws after the timeout were counted, he only scored 9 points.

But the Grizzlies' defense made Sloan feel very bad. This seemed to be... the routine of the Zen Master defending them in his last three playoffs with the Jazz!

Let Fisher, who absolutely cannot defend Deron, defend Deron, reduce their use of outside pick-and-roll to create mismatches, use Kobe or Ariza and Artest on the wing to assist in defense, and cooperate with the defense of the top center...

The routine is so similar!

Sloan was shocked, but Coach Hollins was very satisfied.

Coach Hollins actually had this idea after the last game against the Bulls.

The last time we won, it was really thanks to Sun Ce's quadruple-double, and that was when the team was in good shape at the beginning of the season.

If Sun Ce defended Rose at the beginning, he would inevitably encounter pick-and-roll, and in order to avoid Sun Ce relying on the help of his teammates to defend Rose to a hit rate of only 35% like the last time, the opponent would definitely use pick-and-roll more, and use Boozer or Luol Deng, two players who can shoot mid-range and long-range shots and have good cutting ability.

It's different to use Nash to defend. Rose doesn't need to use pick-and-roll to deal with Nash at all, which is a waste of the physical strength of the pick-and-roll players.

And Rose has to do so. What Nash has to do is simpler than Fisher. He doesn't even need to defend Rose's mid-range and long-range shots. If Rose can make mid-range and long-range shots, Rose's pick-and-roll will be impossible to defend. He is definitely a weakened version of Stockton on defense but an extremely invincible and enhanced version on offense.

Making Rose a physically enhanced version of Stockton is Sloan's ideal goal, but it is not the ultimate goal. It is unlikely that Rose can shoot at the level of Stockton's 50+40+90. The ultimate goal is to have a shooting physical enhancement version of Stockton. Now we are still three to five years away from the ultimate goal.

Fisher defends Deron and mid-range and long-range shots, and Nash can prepare to be passed in advance...

Then immediately block Noah from receiving the pass and leave Ronnie Brewer free. Ronnie Brewer's offensive awareness is very poor. When no one is defending, he doesn't even know to help Luol Deng with a pick-and-roll.

This makes the Grizzlies' tactical strategy effective. The defense of Sun Ce and Gasol in series just restrains Rose. Although Hamilton is not in good form this season, he still has a 35% hit rate in mid-range shots. If Hamilton is not injured, the Grizzlies will not defend so well.

The Bulls had no choice but to go inside. He saw that the opponent's defensive strategy was targeting him from another angle, so he could only hope that Ronnie Brewer would come to his senses.

He had to pass the ball! No one cared about this guy's cut-in. The opponent was 5-on-4, and the opponent was not a bad defensive team, but the best defensive team in the league in the past two seasons. Now Nash, the toilet paper on the defensive end, had his own role. 4 vs. 5... Just kidding, he is not Kobe.

What made Rose most desperate was the 3 points they scored at the beginning, the only goal, and Ronnie Brewer's cut-in layup. Ronnie Brewer made 1 of 4 shots...

Why sometimes role players and non-ball-holding role players have extremely low hit rates but still have the right to shoot? This is the situation the Bulls are facing now.

Another 1 point was when Boozer received the ball and faced Randolph and missed the mid-range shot, but caused a foul and made 1 of 2 free throws.

Coach Hollins and Dave Joerger thought about the defensive strategy of sniping Rose for nearly a month, and it worked!

The main reason is the successful example of Zen Master dealing with Deron + Boozer. They modified it according to the current situation of the Bulls, and matched it with the defensive combination of Sun Ce + Gasol, which worked successfully!

This tactic is aimed at locking Rose. Rose started with 0 of 2 shots!

Sloan had no choice but to replace Korver in advance, which was a blow to the Bulls on the defensive end.

Korver did a good job of assisting and supplementing defense with his running ability, but he certainly couldn't be compared with Ronnie Brewer, a first-class defensive player.

Otherwise, Ronnie Brewer would not have an average of 25 minutes per game and Korver only 22 minutes per game. This season, the Bulls' main players have increased their rest time, and he has been reused. His role in the Bulls is comparable to Tony Allen of the Grizzlies.

On the Grizzlies side, the advantage came out. Coach Hollins's mind became brighter, and the big bald head seemed to be shining. He decisively replaced the two bears and replaced them with Tony Allen and Yi Jianlian.

The opponent's single defense has loopholes, so we have to start rushing!

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The first attempt at the sniper Rose tactic was very successful. The Grizzlies took the initiative at the beginning. With Sun Ce's free throw, they created a 6-point lead in the first half of the quarter. The Grizzlies played more confidently. After using the lineup of Sun Ce, Nash, Tony Allen, Paul George, and Yi Jianlian, they played very beautifully.

It's not about how high the score is, but they have the confidence and psychological advantage with the lead. The technical movements are very smooth. Nash is the main controller and Sun Ce is the assistant. The two distribute the ball very well and try to pass it to the teammates who should pass it. The teammates are very confident whether they cut in or jump shots from the outside.

The reason for replacing Tony Allen is to force Rose to pass the ball in advance through fierce confrontation and speed up the Bulls' passing rhythm.

The advantage is like a snowball. After the first quarter, the Grizzlies led by 9 points 26 to 17 and entered the second quarter!

In more than 7 minutes of running and gunning, they only scored 17 points. It is hard to say how good the Grizzlies' offense is. They created opportunities by taking advantage of the fact that Korver only had assist defense and no single defense during the running and gunning.

However, the Bulls only scored 3 points in the first 4 and a half minutes. Although the Bulls' offensive efficiency improved later, the Bulls only scored 17 points in a single quarter!

The Bulls' offense was originally average, similar to the Grizzlies last season. As of the first 20 games, they averaged only 97.8 points per game.

In the second quarter, since Sun Ce was ready to use physical potions or star experience cards, Sun Ce played with Neil or Vazquez in rotation, Tony Allen or Paul George in rotation, Battier or Yi Jianlian in rotation, and Jordan in the second quarter, and played until the ninth minute of the second quarter.

But during this period, the Bulls began to hold on!