Recap of the Thunder Nuggets G3: Targeted and Continued

Targeted

starts with two rounds. What can

be seen?

In the first round, Jokic handed the ball to Gordon. The two of them understood and used the cover for Murray in the bottom corner + hand-handed (zoom) to cooperate. Murray received the ball and created Harten's defense replacement and caused a foul (and also ruined Degenot's challenge opportunity).

In the second round, Jokic signaled Gordon to get the ball, MPJ took the ball at the top of the arc, and the Nuggets decided to run a horn. Pay attention to what Caruso did: he did not easily let MPJ and Jokic hand the ball to Gordon. MPJ decided to take the person away, and Gordon came up to play reverse cover with Jokic.

Nuggets can play the match they want and liberate Murray, and Murray can always make the right decision in this series:

Borrowing stagger double screen to throw Watson on the weak side (Doncic-style pass):

Murray refuses to cover the breakthrough and pays attention to SGA recovery assists MPJ hits a key three-pointer

The starting point for allowing the Nuggets to successfully carry out tactics is the Thunder's passive choice: Hartten stays on the line to defend Jokic, which is their established goal. Unlike the Clippers who created a pass trap for Murray (weak side defense stayed behind Jokic, waiting for Murray to pass the ball before destroying the ball) and put pressure on Murray, under the Thunder's defense, Murray was able to successfully complete a breakthrough and easily choose between personal offense and pass:

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However, except for the mid-range match between Murray when the bottom corner of the bottom corner in this game, most of the other names were completed by outsiders. Back in the two rounds above, SGA's desire to attack was not low, but Braun behind him was always ready to grasp SGA's breakthrough route.

This time Braun took the lead in choosing the position, and was stolen by SGA on the right side

. Compared with this, Jokic, who has more experience in defensive pick-and-roll, has better choices. He can wait for Braun to return to the position and force SGA to launch a more difficult offensive. This time Gordon's position at the free throw line is also more critical.

When SGA cannot use the so-called height and strength advantages to punish MPJ, Murray and even Jokic like Kago, Murray can guarantee relatively stable output even if his playing time is booming.

Back to the second round at the beginning: Caruso is still able to be like G1, the only player on the field who is stable to give his opponents to his attack when the Nuggets attack is launched, rather than passively waiting for the Nuggets to finish all the tactics before taking over.

This round was still initiated by Muyo Gordon. After Murray dribbled to the top of the right arc, when Jerin wanted to return to the position, Gordon made a Flare cover, and Jokic got Chet's match, laying the tone for the smooth development of this back-on attack.

When Murray can make the right decision, the Thunder need to consider whether they should make full use of the outside line to increase their defensive strength against Murray. It will be better to make Murray's decisions than to let Jokic dominate the ball, but at this intensity, Murray's shot and choices may not be bad.

Continuity

, let's look at a few rounds first.

This is the attack of the Thunder in the first quarter when facing the Nuggets' Joint Defense. It has several advantages: 1. After the ball stops, the off-ball player has the awareness of blind spots in the opponent's vision. 2. There is a transfer of strength and weakness to mobilize the opponent to help the opponent create empty spaces, which is also a cut assist that we rarely mention (Figure 2Chet).

And in the fourth quarter, the team's general offensive logic is as follows:

started with Jaylen or SGA holding the ball, and the off-ball player did ghost or screen, but there was no obvious running on both sides. This time MPJ easily returned to Jaylen's turn and interfered:

There is also a commonly used offensive initiator that the real ball player started to borrow Harteng ram without the ball The screen then opens singles in the key position of the elbow area:

The final intention of all settings is to let SGA catch the ball in a more familiar position, but this is a bit easy to predict. Look at the few ball running effects in the fourth quarter:

Pay attention to Jaylen, moving from the right dunker to the left bottom corner, Gordon is the counterattack, which is almost initiated at the same time as Chet's ghost cover. The Nuggets' strategy is that Braun forces SGA to shoot, but Gordon failed to hold the gap after being taken away by Jaylen, so Chet got a very good shot.

is also a ghost cover that was launched. This time Braun turned around in a relatively timely manner, helping to prevent Jaylen's MPJ to hit Dort. The only difference between the two rounds is whether there is a ball end and no ball end moving at the same time.

accuracy is one aspect, but the real increase in the connection between strength and weakness is the other aspect.