• Thu. Jan 23rd, 2025

If the bottom of the Lakers is self-seeking, but 76 ambitious people in the offseason now fall to the lottery area, what’s going on?

The keen Stadium observer may have noticed that the running mode of this team has changed.

The data will not lie. It is almost different from the distribution of dual-core ball rights last season. Harden has completely replaced enbide this season and became the first big core for 76 people.

As shown in the above figure, last season (after the All-Star Game), the average number of hits (88.5-79.2) between Harden and enbide was not much different. Considering that Harden had less hits (32.8-53.5) in the front court, therefore, in fact, enbide will have a larger proportion in the attack.

And this season, Harden’s number of touching balls has already hit enbide (92.7-65.2), and even marksey has come to the second place, the number of balls touched in the front court has been closer to each other (36.1-47.0)

Of course, if this group of data is switched to a proportion, the comparison will be more obvious. Last season, Harden held 19.3 percent of the ball rights and enbide accounted for 18.1 percent. But this season, this number has become 23.9 percent of Harden and 14.4 percent of enbide.

Obviously, Rivers is trying to let Harden control more offensive dominance, just like the Rockets set up a stage for Harden, let him control and let him play singles, let him drive the block and remove… which is commonly known as the big core playing method of holding the ball.

But the problem is, you let Harden master control, let him play singles, let him drive the block and tear down, and the ball is in his hand. What is enbede going to do?

This is the embarrassment that will be encountered between the big ball holding core and the attack core internal line-if 76 people intend to maximize Harden’s output, 76 people must give Harden enough ball power, at the same time, clean up enough arch top of space for him to use.

But enbide is obviously a player who needs to hold the ball face frame to attack and adjust the feeling, so you will see that enbide’s number of balls in the front court this season has decreased, however, the number of balls held in the elbow area + low position did not drop much (13.9-13.0), which meant that enbide gave more power to harden to attack from the middle distance of arch top.

The proportion of near-basket attacks within 10 feet has already accounted for half of enbide this season, and the hit rate of 3-10 feet is extremely low.

Last season, more than 60% of the attacks came from 10 feet away and there was no obvious ice zone.

Obviously, enbide did not adapt to this kind of play. Although the two were beaten more by rivers, the effect was very poor, just like an arranged marriage, the great’s resistance and obedience were just a formality, and Harden’s offensive end was not comfortable enough, and feeding enbide was often a little deliberate.

In the face of the stag’s contraction, enbide’s low hit rate of 3-10 feet was forced to block the split ball.

Another awkward block was removed and cut out, and the mistake was counterattacked.

At present, the main responsibility for the poor removal effect of the two people may lie in enbid. As can be seen from the above figure, the cover given by enbid to Harden is often not solid, moreover, no matter the rate of internal cutting and external cutting is not very fast. In this way, Harden has no other way out except being forced to hold the ball into the pocket of the forbidden zone filled with people, which often leads to a narrow space for handling the ball.

Compared with enbide, Harden prefers to cover solid Tucker and other players with faster and faster foot length (even defenders like Melton)

Harden needs someone to help him hang the defender firmly, but enbide usually can’t do it.

Melton block and remove, the internal cutting is fast enough, although it didn’t enter, it meant to be in place

This makes the attack easy.

Obviously, Rivers thought the cooperation between Harden and enbede was too simple. He even wanted to leave this matter to the parties to find a solution. At present, 76 people have not found the standard answer to the problem. There are still too many details to be debugged slowly in the training, but the time and patience left to them are constantly consuming.

Especially enbide, which is focused on all the problems.

There is an obvious phenomenon in the 76-player game this season: Although the end efficiency of enbide’s attack seems to have improved, in fact, when he is present, the team’s attack tends to fall into lag, far less fluent than when Harden led the team with a single core.

The data also supports this point. Since the season, when Harden was present, the team had a negative value of Hezheng +2.7 every hundred times, and after the end-3.0. When enbide was present, the team-2.7 became +6.8……

After all, enbide’s basic offensive routine is to play singles at freethrow line or at a parallel angle of 45 degrees. At this time, if enbide’s task is simply reduced to scoring, then he seemed to have no other way to deal with it except to bump into the sigh Wall arranged by his opponent.

When enbide makes a strong attack, others tend to accumulate on the flanks, and there is no effective space to unfold.

This position is actually prepared for Harden’s attack on arch top, but if it is changed to enbide, you can only say that everyone is confused.

Finally, enbide picked three and stood out

This is probably one of the reasons why enbide’s error rate has remained high this season. He is still more used to being a point where he can immediately pose a threat by holding the ball and making him attack against the whole defense line of the other side, it is still too difficult-every ball goes to enbide means the end of an offensive round, and then there will be no empty cut from the players, there will be no hand-handed shooting… this makes the conduction ball of 76 people seriously stuck.

One round ran almost 2 out of 3, just for hanging ball to enbide

Giving the ball to the most efficient person is indeed a reasonable choice in mathematical sense. But sometimes playing basketball is like writing poems. You should not leave the end early, but leave some gaps and wait for new possibilities of thinking collision.

Similarly, enbide should not be the only end point for 76 people to attack. He also needs to be the starting point and turning point of tactics, and cultivate new possibilities by sharing the chemical reactions brought by the ball.

But now enbide seems dull and thirsty-and the “feeling” on the court is just like this. Enbide is the first player to attack does not mean that he can’t pass the ball, but to activate his feeling of passing the ball, you must feed him first. So you find that enbide passed 46.2 times last season, forming 4.2 assists. Now there are only 38.6 passes and 3.2 assists……

Enbide’s playing speed is too slow

In other words, enbide is a player who needs a long “hot car” link. His too slow offensive tempo often suppress the creativity of the team (which is a bit similar to Yao Ming in Van Gandy’s era), so he and Harden became two choices, either one of them suppressed one played well, or both played awkward.

In the match of 76 people fighting the Raptors, the commentary on duty put forward a view that might lead to criticism: “I like enbide, but once we discuss speed up, if your team has him, it is impossible to transfer the ball quickly and create different possibilities.”

And in that game, enbide was absent due to injury. 76 people successfully avenged the Raptors, but they still won the big score. Compared with enbide when he was present, 76 people played a completely different basketball. In Maxi’s words, “we broke into the basket and then divided the ball. There were many attacks in transition.”

“When you get a seat, the game is much easier, because we can all burst, transmit the ball, and create shooting opportunities for everyone. That’s why Melton has three points, I also have three chances, which is great.”

So after all, 76 people should find a tactical way to make decisions quickly for both cores as soon as possible. Perhaps it would be an easier choice to change the playing time of two people and make each other travel at the wrong peak?

This attack is a bit of random basketball, but at least everyone does not hesitate to deal with the ball.

Without Harden and enbide, 76 people played a beautiful conduction ball burst score. And Seble, who was poor, also participated in the attack.

Harden also got space to attract defensive breakthroughs and points to complete the “second assist”

Sudden points, passing, attack dynamic

After talking about attack, let’s talk about defense.

76 people have always been a good team in defense. In the 20-21 season, they only lost 107 points per hundred rounds, the second in the league. In the 21-22 season, in the absence of Simmons, you can still lose only 110.2 points in 100 rounds, which is the 12th efficiency of the league.

But now, they want to lose 112.9 points, which is only the 19th of the league, and their defensive efficiency once fell to the 26th position……

All this is probably a problem of adjusting the 76-person lineup.

Last season, Rivers will use Sabre to start first, substitute and Danny Green. Both of them are good peripheral defenders, and Danny Green left the team this season, sabre was completely abandoned in the first few games, which led to the opening of 76 people’s defense.

Enbide is still the last line of defense with a deterrent force, but in the case of everyone playing fast, enbide’s deterrent force in the basket was significantly weakened (cap has fallen to 1.2), on the contrary, the tons of block demolition in each game made 76 people tired to deal with it-because they did not have a reliable first line of defense, and enbide could not complete high-quality block removal and defense alone.

This is how the opener Celtics beat 76 people to those who have no temper. Horford (or Grant Williams and Feng Lai) hung people with only one cover, leave two bottles of poison for enbide to choose-if you don’t jump, you will leak out a big vacancy, and when you encounter a ball-holding superstar like Tatum, you will be trained by the military. When I fell under the basket, it became a vacuum and was washed down by the second attack.

It is obvious that Harris can’t keep up with the cover to replace Seble.

Although I didn’t enter it, the big space leaked fine light.

Enbide couldn’t keep looking and jumped out. The backboard behind was touched by Horford.

Also throw backboard

Enbide was a little tough, and he was angry and gave three free throws

So far in the season, the defensive backboard of 76 people is only ranked 23rd in the league, which is shocking (once ranked 27th). The efficiency of frame protection is extremely poor, but in fact, it cannot effectively deal with the chain effect caused by block removal……

Enbyde, who was transferred to arch top, was too slow

For at least two seconds, enbide was in a state of being shaken off the defense.

Enbide’s big delay? I can’t catch up with the ball speed

In just one summer, enbide changed from a defensive cornerstone to a loophole in 76 people, which sounded sensational, but it was indeed the case.

The Celtics used blocking and dismantling to target enbide, while the stag used a quick transfer ball to pull enbide away from the basket. Spurs was to fight back and attack quickly, while the Raptors stepped on three point line with a space-type big man, cast enbide to death……

And when 76 people and Raptors fought in the second world war, the defensive scalability of 76 people who withdrew enbide immediately improved to a higher level. Maxi, the King of chaos, could push up the fast attack. Harden, Harrell and Melton’s shield and tear off played a miracle. The first line of defense rejected the tossing of the Raptors, it also cracked the dilemma of blocking and dismantling that has been struggling to deal.

Quick transposition of small lineups does not give offensive players room.

After blocking the travel space, force the opponent to force his hand

Small line-up successful anti-blocking and snatching counterattack

Also, the score of tons lost by the opponent’s defensive counterattack (enbide wants to go deep into the enemy area, and the defense speed is too slow, they quickly attack the sixth in the lost points League), it was also resolved because of the faster pace of the small lineup.

Enbide couldn’t defend back after throwing the basket. He was quickly pushed by Spurs to seize the opportunity.

Small line-up can quickly recover in place

So, is the bad start of 76 people a short labor pains or irreversible damage?

In the absence of enbede, we saw for the first time that 76 people this season burst out with a chemical reaction. But this can’t be the final solution to the problem of 76 people in Philadelphia. You can’t let enbide stand aside. He is like an elephant in the room. Even if you deliberately avoid looking at it, it is always there.

In the match against the bull, enbide’s laggard singles reappeared in the form of the opening first attack, and the other four people could only watch the play in downtown.

Because enbide always has to attack in a deep position, and 76 people are used to leaving one person to take a rebound in the front court, so two people cannot defend back when the other side counterattacks, it is extremely easy to be beaten more and less. (Rivers beat X2: “If everyone can return to defense immediately after throwing the basket, then we will become better.”)

In addition, Harden and enbede’s awkward blocking and dismantling has always been a problem that cannot be solved……

However, if one slap does not make a sound, the problems are all caused by interaction.

Enbide can’t prevent blocking and dismantling-should the first line of defense take the responsibility of being too easily blocked? Should Rivers make up for the flaws of maxi and Harden with more squeeze ability and delay? So enbide can concentrate on guarding RIM? (Seble was removed, more or less because his projection could not keep up with Harden’s rhythm, so the problem of 76 people was a systematic tactical problem)

In this defensive round, Harden also cannot squeeze through

The players in the backcourt were gone at the first stop, and then the rotation was completely messy.

Enbide’s position is too deep and easy to be counterattacked-should rivers make the backcourt players focus more on blocking the fast attack? And don’t let Tucker fight for the rebound in the front court again?

Although enbide has such and such limitations, as one of the best players in the league today, his tactical value is definitely more beneficial than harm, but now there is such an embarrassing situation, is Rivers not doing the corresponding measures to support his own core?

The manager should find the best of both worlds for the players and try his best to downplay the incompatibility between enbide and harden and the influence that he is not suitable for this version. Instead of being lazy and changing another mode to turn enbide into a “sinner”, he baked his core on the stove.

Win with a big score. Who is embarrassed?

After all, shirking responsibility never solves the fundamental problem. Only by strengthening oneself from the root, let everyone integrate into the team, find their own role, and let the chemical reaction sublimate in high-fives, cheers and hugs, that’s what a strong team should do.

It is also what a strong team should look like in the dilemma.

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(Text/brad)

By SHLF

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