The Celtics finally won the Warriors once after the final G3.
However, apart from Hoford and Rowell, none of the Celtics played their regular performance, which was true and confusing, but in detail, when the Warriors take out their playoff-level posture-after all, the finals opponent, he is the defending champion, where is it so easy for you to find confidence from yourself.
The Celtics player today is “the basket is hard, the pass is loose”-many goals that can be scored in the basket at ordinary times have not been hit today, whether it is Brogden, known for its stability, or dual-core Jay, this happened in Tatum or white.
However, when the normal cover was dislocated, many times the ball was handed over and looked soft. The two men, light smart and Jay Lun, gave clay at least two direct quick attack opportunities. Fortunately, Jay Brown found his feeling at the last moment, and the pursuit of three points greatly improved the morale of the team and laid the foundation for the final win.
However, today I mainly want to talk about Tatum.
Tatum’s performance today belongs to the classic “good and poor” in our mouth “.
You said Tatum didn’t play well. Tatum scored 34 points, 19 rebounds and 6 assists, but you said he played well. He still had 7 mistakes and some inexplicable emotional struggles.
You know, two days ago, Tatum also scored 51 points, and in that game, Tatum showed many of his skills for fans to break through smoothly, which was almost omnipotent, after turning around, the breakthrough or the middle distance were very smooth and silky. Moreover, Tatum played left-hand attack more than once in that game.
It seems to be a drill for today’s battle with Warriors.
So in today’s game, Tatum really made people see the results. His performance in the first quarter was not bad, and both the ball and the action were at least in the ranks of ease.
Yes, there is a pause here, “but” is coming.
Since the fast break at the end of the second quarter was snatched by Curry and dropped in the super far pressure whistle three points, everything became wrong.
After the ball, Tatum suddenly stopped the ball after breaking through at least three times, including his snatching from half-time and turning around directly facing Curry in a low position, then it turned into a sudden dead ball (it is true that Curry defended well at that time), but from the expression of Tatum shaking his head, he designated to trap himself again.
It was also from then on that Tatum seemed indecisive in the promotion of the conversion attack or the passing of the conversion, especially the round in which he was removed from his back by Wikins, tatum took the initiative to choose teammates such as speed reduction, which was completely in the state of the circle. The team also lost some key scores. If broghden had not actively communicated with Tatum during the suspension, it is estimated that Tatum will not be able to return to God until the next game, and everything will be late at that time. After all, indecision is the easiest chance to ruin that hard-won opportunity.
Compared with the dizzy Tatum, let’s take a look at how the normal Tatum deals with the idea of playing basketball-the first quarter and the end of the game (the end of the fourth quarter and overtime)
In the first quarter, Tatum resolutely carried out the overall Extra Pass plan of the team. When it was receive the ball outside, he would actively slow down his pace, wait for the defensive players to play before and after the ball and find the teammates with better opportunities.
Another more representative moment was at the last moment of the fourth quarter, when Tatum went online and completed the Flare cover, he broke through the trend receive the ball, attracting Curry and Green to shrink, and then he finished the ball, assist Horford into key three points.
In overtime, Tatum’s judgment on his own way was clearer.
(It’s hard to say that listening is the time when you have the most clear mind in this game)
When the time came to 2 minutes 27 seconds in the afternoon, Jay Lun faced clay with five criminals.
Tatum took Wikins on Brown’s route and made a ball-free cover for Horford at the bottom, the rest depends on whether Jay herself wants to pass or vote-eventually Jay chooses to attack rim forcibly, and clay is limited by foul and does not do too many defensive actions.
In the next round, a similar tactic turned into a double cover for Tatum and Jay. After that, Brown hung Wikins for Tatum, while Tatum took away Clay in front of Brown, successfully freed up space in the restricted area:
After that, Tatum went to the bottom corner on the left. Jellun receive the ball attack box attracted the attack, divided the bottom corner of the ball, and Horford empty three-point ball blew in.
Does it look familiar? This tactic is the same as changing the defender in front of Tatum to Bullock’s hair against the Lone Ranger at that time, but the difference is that Tatum is the “supporting role” today, taking away the defender for Jay Brown.
Tatum, the defensive end, also completed his own task. The sweeping of the weak side and the arch top position made him show Good Game positivity in the game, in the first quarter, he read the positions of Wikins and clay when he was in the assistant defense position. He stuck on the line of Clay receive the ball and successfully broke the dunking.
And at the end of the game, Tatum, whether defending Wikins at 1V1 or robbing the last three points of Curry’s regular time in the defense position, formed a good interference.
Considering that Tatum played for 48 minutes, it is not easy to maintain such defensive judgment.
In terms of personal attack, Tatum did not become obsessed with three-point projection as usual when he felt bad. After the fourth quarter, he first completed the drama of taking the ball on the left to break through the throwing score. In addition, tatum didn’t beat at all. He also knew that when he was with Curry 1V1, he didn’t want to take advantage of his figure to complete the middle distance.
At the last moment of overtime, Tatum hit the three points to kill the match after being covered by a single block outside the line. The Celtics (Tatum) lifted their heads out of the water and won hard at home, let your current winning streak continue to 8 games.
But more important than winning streak, if you can get a Tatum who dares to do actions and knows the adjustment after today, it will undoubtedly inject another shot of strength into the Celtic game.
As for the latter, it depends on whether Tatum’s mind can wake up all the time.