If you watch the match between Celtic and Lone Ranger, you will definitely be impressed by this scene:

This is the game between the two MVP candidates we have always dreamed of. Dong qich’s determination in dealing with the game and the judgment of Tatum’s defensive position are all vividly reflected in this scene.

Dong Qiqi saw the defensive position error of Gewei relieve a garrison and chose to break through with the ball;

However, Tatum took a good look at the route, and the steps of defense were big enough. Finally, the cap dropped the ball.

After the ball, Jay Brown finished the counterattack three points and made the final conclusion of this wonderful match.

This is also the scene. I want to start from here and show some differences between the tactics and players’ executive power for our fans.

Celts:

Because of the lack of insider Lowe, they put Horford on the 5th position. Tatum and Brown occupied the flanks. Smart and White often took the post-court first, and all five people could project outside, they can also play the ball with each other, and in the substitute, they also have outside scoring points such as Brogden, gowei and Hauser who stands out at present. This set of lineup has played the best role in the team’s sense of space.

At present, this Celtics is a team that plays the three-point ball to the largest level. Their three-point shots are 42.9 times, ranking second in the league, and the three-point hits are 16.4 times in the league, the three-point hit rate also reached 39 percent of the league’s third, and 50% of the team’s inner-line Horford’s shots accounted for the three-point goal and the efficiency was not low, which was attributed to the sense of space created by the team.

The following figure shows that the Celtics have left the entire stadium restricted area empty:

With such a large stadium space, what the Celtics team did was not just “open, Singles”, but a series of ball-free movements, so as to have easy outside space and empty cutting opportunities.

We went on to this scene to see that Smart was going to Brock’s defense, and he chose to compress his route to the forbidden area for one-on-one back.

But at the same time, please focus on the other four teammates:

First of all, Horford cut into the middle route to find opportunities, and then took Powell, who had the opportunity to obstruct smart, to the bottom corner;

Derek White, he is on the weak side 45 ° along the arch top to make Flare cover for Tatum;

Jay Brown, he cut from the bottom corner to freethrow line and intended to make another cover with Tatum. The original intention should be to let Tatum go to the bottom corner, but then Smart had already taken action.

You can see the whole Celtics team’s offensive execution.

Players play defensive loopholes from the bottom corner to the penalty area, and cooperate with other players to Interspersed and cut cover at any time to seek a second chance:

The last Bottom angle from arch top; The weak side covers the hand to the other side; The strong side hands to the other side to go to the bottom angle; The weak side bottom angle players mentioned arch top ready to accept.

Similarly, for this ball, the flare cover point goes to the bottom corner after the Gewei cover, and the player who holds the ball sees that Dong Qiqi chooses to break through. He starts with the weak side cut and Hauser sees that after Josh Green shrinks, he goes down to make a wall for the player who is vacant in the bottom corner, arch top white inherited the weak side position of Hauser, and then everything became clear:

Brown chose to continue to carry the ball after seeing donchic, and finally found that Brogden passed the ball after the bottom corner, and Brogden scored three points.

You can see the use of Celtics in the whole stadium space. They always ensure that every point is received and that the people in these points are different all the time.

They completely confirmed the sentence of manager Ma Zula: “All seemingly meaningless movements are prepared for the last man’s action.”

Next, let’s take a look at how the Celtics used space cover to take the defensive players for Tatum:

Dallas people’s idea of limiting Tatum is:

Finney Smith was used as the main restriction point, while others bag clip from the weak side to force Tatum to take out the ball.

Therefore, how to replace the people in front of Tatum with players who are slightly inferior in defense, such as Ding Weidi, Bullock and Dong cheqi, has become the top priority of the team.

For example, this group of Tatum successfully completed the shot of the China projection near freethrow line:

This is the most common way for Celtics to find dislocation this season-strong cover.

When the double flower exploration went online for the first time, we could see that Jay Lun used a very high-quality cover to force the defender of Tatum to change from Smith to Brock successfully.

But if you think that this ball Tatum is going for Brock, it is totally wrong. You can see that smart slowly comes from the weak side to the arch top, however, Ding Weidi, who was fighting against Smart, also gathered to the position of freethrow line with smart-so the main purpose of the team was to let Tatum face Ding Weidi.

However, we can see that Ding Weidi and Brock resolved this dislocation through communication. However, the most threatening thing for strong to cover is that Tatum is not the only player involved in the cover who has the ability to eat short stature.

After Tatum did not change to dingwedi, Jay Brown and SMAT had another cover, and then successfully brought dingwedi to Tatum.

So at this moment, smart actually has two choices:

Beat Bullock for Tatum & Ding Weidi for Brown.

The Celtics successfully mobilized the whole defensive opponent. Tatum finally hit the middle distance on Brock’s head. At this time, Finney Smith watched Tatum finish his actions in front of smart.

The same is cover. The rules of taking in Dallas are completely different from those of Celts.

Dallas’s cover is basically served by East chedge, such as this lens:

Dong cheqi took the initiative to call little Hadaway as a cover, in order to change the defender from brown to white.

However, when Dong cheqi succeeded in getting to White’s dislocation, we noticed that there were the remaining four people in Dallas, and there was basically no follow-up action-Wood was the only player who knew to succeed, however, this untimely smooth down caused Dong Qiqi to be forced to turn the action into a back turn, which severely compressed the operation space of Dong Qiqi, because originally, there was no one in the paint area to protect the frame, dong Qiqi can attack rim directly from the front.

Next, let’s return to the match between MVP candidates at the beginning.

When picking up the ball in East cheqi, Kidd had already shouted out the instruction to also play a flare cover in the field:

My understanding is that Kidd does not want East cheqi to take the current route. He wants to take smart away from East cheqi, while Brock immediately made a cover action, that is to say, Brock may think that Kidd called a flare-3 tactic, that is, the tactic that dongqiqi used to run every time he killed was left to dongqiqi 1V1 at the same time, brock took a cover to the outside line to prepare receive the ball three points.

We look at the following solo player’s move. Wood did make a cover for Brock, and Brock has already taken the ball.

However, this set of walking couldn’t impress the Celtics’s defense. At this time, Horford had already targeted Bullock and released Smith directly, while Smith was at a loss when he looked at Ding Weidi who didn’t slip away from the bottom corner. As a result, this set of tactics finally turned into East cheqi’s strong grip and was successfully sealed by Tatum.

Combined with the above comparison, we obviously found that although both the Lone Ranger and the Celtics had the same 5-out lineup, Dallas did not make any subsequent use of the space for his creation, as a result, many opportunities are often wasted or even disrupted, which seems to be a major problem for the Lone Ranger team at present.

In contrast, Boston, with their dazzling conduction ball and cover, they proved their best offensive efficiency in history this season again and again, which was not a false name. At present, the problem of Celtics, it seems that only after the return of Robert Williams, how to integrate the collective attack.

(Kebei, Edogawa)