: 1871. Challenger Bulls

Latest website: As the opposing sides of last season's finals, the two teams retained their strength or reinforcements as much as possible last summer. When formulating the schedule, the game between the Grizzlies and the Bulls was arranged For the last game before the All-Star weekend.
When the two teams were preparing for the final game, the penultimate game between the Lakers and the Heat before the All-Star Weekend was over. After double overtime, the Heat beat the Lakers 132 to 127.
The middle of the season is about to pass. Both the fans and the players of each team are gradually getting out of the mental fatigue period. The physical fatigue of the players is no way, but the psychological aspect has gradually adjusted. It only needs to go through the All-Star Weekend. Take a break and there will be more vigorous fighting spirit later in the season.
The enthusiasm of the fans has gradually increased, especially after the Super Bowl a few days ago, the popularity of the NBA has soared, driving the attention of fans who may have not watched the game for a month. In the last game, the enthusiasm of the fans reached its highest point in more than a month.
When the game between the Lakers and the Heat was over, the fans' attention naturally focused on the established focus of the Grizzlies and Bulls battle.
At 7:58 in the evening, the live broadcast was switched to the Chicago United Center. The fans saw the familiar scene for many years-Sun Ce wearing a small "o" to the camera, tied hand strap... if not Putting insoles on site has a sense of smell across the screen. Sun Ce even wanted to put insoles on site.
After putting on the equipment, Sun Ce came to the court. The Grizzlies did not have a rotation in this game. Klay Thompson, Paul George, Aldridge and Gobert made their debut together.
On the Bulls side, the starting lineups of Rose, Yitowan Moore, Ariza, Griffin, and Lopez Jr. appeared.
With a center that was about to be squeezed out of the starting position by Trevor Booker, in exchange for two new starting players, Sun Ce felt that the Bulls' trade robbery was not enough to describe the Bulls' blood profit.
But at this stage, many people feel that the Bulls are at a loss, because Noah's performance this season was affected by injuries.
Gobert and Lopez Jr. came to the middle circle. At 8pm, the referee blew the whistle at the beginning of the game and threw the ball into the air. The former Grizzlies center easily defeated the current Grizzlies center to win the jump ball. The Bulls attacked first. !
The Bulls moved forward as a whole. Gobert was ready when he jumped the ball and retreated decisively. Seeing his teammates, especially the three major outside lines, have accumulated years of experience in retreating defenses, I feel at ease.
Rose advanced to the frontcourt. He knew it was not easy to play a fast break against the Grizzlies, but did not stop. Lopez Jr., who reached the three-point line first, immediately went up to block Paul George. Accelerate the breakthrough, from the quick start after receiving the ball to the one step into the three-point line without stopping.
Sun Ce quickly let go of Moore and contracted to the right of the free throw line to block Rose’s emergency stop jumper. At the same time, he and Gobert, who did not expand, blocked Lopez’s cut-in and receiving opportunity. Rose immediately divided the ball to Moore, but Paul -George went to defend Moore as soon as he encountered the pick and roll, and his defensive tacit understanding with Sun Ce is unparalleled! As soon as Moore received the ball, he was covered by Paul George.
But Moore didn't stop the ball and immediately divided the bottom line. Griffin made a shot from the bottom line...hit!
Very beautiful fast offense, the Bulls come up to speed up the pace! This Aldridge is really difficult. Griffin's speed is like an outside line. He slipped around the bottom line and shot the ball. Aldridge went around the basket, and Gobert couldn't expand that far. .
This season, the Bulls have found ways to improve rhythm in the major teams and developed them in depth. Gradually, they have their own fast-paced offensive methods. The rhythm was previously used in the rotation of Trevor Booker. It's time to play, now there is no need to wait. Lopez was very good at fast-paced offense.
Together with Ariza, who shoots better and defends better than Snell, the two joined the Bulls, quickly integrated into the Bulls, and accelerated the pace of fast-paced offensive and defensive adjustments.
Sun Ce had to sigh that Sloan was still a top coach for three years, and it was not for nothing. His ability to adapt to new rules and new rhythms is super! Just met Jordan, Kobe... and his grandson?
There is also 3D Moore, a short defender who can guard the 1-3 position. It is said that a team is planning to sign it with a short contract of 10 million or a long contract of 7 or 8 million after the salary cap skyrocketed this summer. The rebounding ability is bad, the ball holding ability is bad, but the passing is very good. This season, averaging 10.2 points, 1.8 rebounds and 2.8 assists per game, giving the Bulls a headache for the foreseeable brain drain this summer.
In the offensive and defensive transition, the Grizzlies are naturally going to play a positional battle. When it comes to the frontcourt, the triangle offense begins to move.
The ball went through the hands of Paul George, Aldridge in the low post, and Klay Thompson who reached the top arc, and finally came to the hands of Sun Ce who pulled the top arc to the right.
At this time, Sun Ce had taken Lopez out with Gobert's off-the-ball pick and roll by slipping the bottom line. After receiving the ball, he made a two-step breakthrough and dropped Lopez behind him. Sun Ce went straight to the basket! After being attracted by Griffin's expanded defense, Sun Ce went to the basket, and Gobert slammed the ball into the basket in Ariza's helpless eyes. Ariza had no way of doing this.
Ariza, who has played a triangle offense, knows how much this tactical system can add to the stars! This is especially true for Sun Ce, a star who plays everybody out of position.
Other superstars also need to pick their opponents to play misplaced positions, not necessarily the weakest defensive opponent, because theoretically the weakest one may just be able to target the superstar from some aspect, such as body size and athletic ability. And the one who doesn't restrain the superstar may be the one who has the best defense. Not focusing does not mean that he is not well defended. It just means that he doesn't have the characteristics of Tianke, and it may not be dislocation.
But Sun Ce didn't need to care about these, he only needed to avoid the opponent who restrained him most.
The triangle offense is meant to give the main attacking star a chance to score the singles. The role player only needs to be responsible for receiving the ball and throwing it out.
However, the NBA has entered the era of small balls. Compared with the era of slow-paced offense and defense, Sloan has a new solution.
When the Grizzlies played against the Spurs the previous time, Popovich tried to play defensively and ended up playing off. Sloan learned from experience and faced the almost perfect traditional starting lineup of the Grizzlies. In the finals last year, he played a positional battle with the Grizzlies like an eye-opener, but to speed up!
After trying for so long, the opponent Sloan wants to test the results most is the Grizzlies, because they really have no opponents in the East. They swept all the way to the Finals last year. The purpose of his attempt to change is to deal with the Western powers. And the main goal, of course, is the Grizzlies.
The Bulls' fast-paced offense and defense, the imaginary enemy is the Grizzlies.
Therefore, the Grizzlies' starting lineup is really unstoppable! The restrictions on each other are not big!
The starting point for the Bulls’ fast-paced offensive and defensive system to develop tactics is to deal with the defense of the Grizzlies’ starting lineup. For Paul George as the defensive arrow, Klay Thompson’s off-the-ball pursuit, Gobert’s basket defense, Aldrie Sloan really found an excellent coping strategy this time with the combination of odd mid-to-close single defense, Sun Ce's defensive series, and the coaching staff's coordination ability.
Although the trio of Sun Ce, Paul George and Aldridge is too strong, coupled with Klay Thompson's most stable three-pointer in the league, and Gobert's excellent ability to eat pie under the basket, the Bulls really can't help it, but The Bulls have a higher offensive success rate!
And when there is a counterattack opportunity, the Bulls, which can play fast breaks with five people and have a clear coordination method, are more confident than the Grizzlies' fast break of consciousness.
The point is to hold on and hold on. There is no mental explosion due to Sun Ce or Aldridge’s occasional difficult goals. The Bulls did a very good job tonight and ensured a very good tactic in the first half of the first quarter. Execution, the first quarter hit 7 minutes and 22 seconds when the Grizzlies called a timeout to enter the official timeout, the Bulls led the Grizzlies by 4 points 23 to 19!
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Back on the bench, this game gave Sun Ce a very special feeling. That feeling... he felt from the opponent the feeling he often felt during the first two or three years of his career.
And the performance is similar!
As a challenger ~EbookFREE.me~ from the coaching staff to the players, according to their own situation and the imaginary enemy's situation, racked their brains to come up with a strategy to deal with the game and it worked!
That year, Sun Ce tried to kill the Mavericks in the first round of his rookie year, beat the defending Lakers in the second year, and defeated all opponents in the third year to reach the top... In the process, they are all challenging all as young teams and challengers. opponent.
Maybe others can't realize this feeling, but Sun Ce felt a similar thing from the Bulls in tonight's game.
This team is still on the rise!
After Griffin and Rose reached their peaks and had possibly the best inside and outside duo in the league, the Bulls began to reinforce these two men since the summer of 14 and they have become stronger and stronger successfully. The key is It can be seen that they still have room to reinforce, and this summer the salary cap has skyrocketed, the Ross contract has one year and the Griffin contract has two years, the Bulls have already dominated the East... etc., it is bound to There will be many high-quality role players looking at them.
Sun Ce thinks he probably guessed the reason why the Bulls were rushing to trade before Noah's injury has not healed-there is enough space after the new free market opens this summer!