The Celtics are facing 76 people at home today, which is the fourth last game of the former before the All-Star.
First of all, pay attention to the opponent’s situation. From December 6 last year to today’s loss, 76 people achieved a record of 22 wins and 6 losses in this period, it is the best one among all teams in the same period of time-if it were not for the five or five games against the Knicks that led to the reversal, the result of 76 people would be better.
Since December, the conduction ball of the 76-member team has improved significantly. They have sent out an average of 26 + assists for three consecutive months-23.4 previous games. What this brings is the improvement of the overall average score of the team. They have scored more than 113 points in the game for three consecutive months. Last month, they even scored 121 points in the game, and the fire broke out.
The trio of James Harden, Melton and enbede are the strongest combinations in Philadelphia playing together for more than 500 minutes. They win 11.8 points per hundred rounds, today, these three players started.
It can be seen from above that Philadelphia in this state is definitely a big challenge for Celts.
However, the Celtics still relied on the overall performance of the team when they missed two internal defense generals and missed a total of four starters (including Brown who was absent in the second half), defeated the recent aggressive opponent.
In terms of attack, throughout the game, the Celtics insisted on their own tactical system in this year’s regular season, their three points on the outside line “only” 35 shots-this is the least shot in the team’s nearly five games, but they hit 19 of them, this is the key for the team to gain an advantage and win after being beaten 7-0 at the beginning.
On the defensive end, the Celtics have a very good execution.
In terms of protecting rebounds, considering that there were only three players in the team, namely geway, Conet and Griffin, the team grabbed 44 rebounds, and the total number of defensive rebound was 10 more than that of 76 people, this is especially valuable.
The key point of the Celtics game is to limit enbide’s low attack. As long as enbide is present, Gewei must be present. It is purely the default package, both of them played for the longest 39 minutes and 22 seconds of their respective teams. Gewei undertook most of the single-defense tasks in this game. When other Celtics players came to attack when enbid was preparing to take the ball off his back, from Derek White to Peyton Pritchard, from Jayron to Griffin, they all took on this task, forcing enbide to play the ball or make mistakes, while when enbide faced the frame, the team is more defended by Gewei.
On the outside defense, the Celtics adopted more rounds of relieve a garrison, and more personal challenges for Harden to perform 1V1. After enbide and Harden covered, the striker on the weak side will take the initiative to go forward and grab the passing route, and release the opponent players on the bottom corner or the weak side.
The executive power of the team is not the same as what was shown in the last game against the sun. I seriously doubt that mazula and the team have a bad habit of “watching people cooking vegetables.
In this game, 6 people in the Celtics team scored double, and they were:
White and Brogden’s two-guard combination scored 19 points each; The strike line group gvey and Griffin scored 15 points each; Hauser, who played the first game, continued his feel, and scored 14 points from 4 to 4 points; only one of the team’s starting players, Tatum, scored 12 points.
In terms of players, talk separately about the team’s All-Star starter Tatum this season.
If you know the defensive habits of the Celtics, insider of the Celtics belong to their own duties. Gewei and Horford are plaster for single defense, while Lowe is responsible for “The slap when putting plaster”. The overall defense is the front top and rear cap/interference.
In this game, due to the absence of Rowell and Horford, gvey became the only “plaster”, and the “slap” part was undertaken by Tatum again.
Looking at the GIF chart of the last two rounds, you will find that Tatum stands in the position of both rebounding and defensive passing routes-this is the position that Lowe often appears.
Through his height and arm length, Tatum performed well in protecting rebounds and coordinating defense. At the same time, because Tatum is the only front line left by the team that can undertake the sweeping task, therefore, Tatum is also very smart in controlling his own foul, and does not blindly steal some basket shots or try to seal them in unfavorable positions.
For example, in this shot, Tatum keenly grabbed enbide’s high position of receive the ball, but when he found that he could not erase the ball, Tatum did not try to pick the ball from enbide’s head in a hurry, instead, it made a step to fight and avoided fouls. If it wasn’t for the player who broogden didn’t find the bottom line, it might have become a successful defensive round.
In this round, Tatum noticed that the weak side was saibull, whose three points were not very bright, so he directly chose to go forward to help white block Harden, which almost caused Harden’s violation of walking-but after YBOR, there was an empty three-point ball, A small punishment for this defense.
But this time the three-point goal could not cover up the bad shooting rate of others in the whole game in Philadelphia.
On the offensive side, in the second half after Jay left, Tatum held the ball almost every time. Tatum was in front of PJ-Tucker, and the weak side was either a tall defender like Sabre, or Melton, who grabbed the thief quickly.
Considering that Tatum’s hand feeling is not good, Tatum continued to stick to the strategy of taking himself as an introduction and making opportunities for his teammates.
In the whole game, Tatum sent out the team’s highest 9 assists, while according to statistics, Tatum passed the game effectively (that is, from the player’s first pass, teammates and others continued to play the ball to complete assists or kill receive the ball) the number of times is 18, which is enough to mean that when 76 people continue to insist on giving Tatum bag clip after completing the cover or taking a stronger grab, Tatum still has a clear idea of playing. Basically, you can find the route of other teammates every time, opening up space for subsequent shooters and laying the foundation for completing the hit.
Therefore, if you don’t consider the tossing feel and kill of Tatum, I personally think that Tatum is far better than the 34 points, 19 rebounds and 6 assists in the previous home victory against Warriors.
Finally, let’s talk about the current hidden dangers of the team. Although the Celtics have shown enough squad thickness, considering the basic style of the team’s off-line play this season, I didn’t expect that many main rotating players in the team still suffered serious injuries of different degrees, and these injuries were more accidents than hard injuries after physical contact.
In this competition, Celtics missed four starts, including a DPOY last season and an all-star The Replacements this season, but in fact, in the final stage, there was also a nearly serious foot loss after the collision with enbide in the process of Gewei’s defense back.
However, after the above situation, we have not considered what is the situation of Tatum’s thicker and thicker left wrist. If you pay attention to Tatum’s recent game body movements, you will soon find that Tatum has a lot of behaviors to actively avoid his left hand, such as not using his left hand receive the ball or throwing a basket without his left hand, which has never existed before. But even so, Tatum still played for nearly 40 minutes… if the Celtics have not found a player who can share the time for Tatum on the replacement line, then the team’s consumption of Tatum in the regular season this season may be a hidden danger.
Fortunately, Hauser’s status has recovered recently, and the All-Star weekend is coming. I hope the team can take advantage of this time to save energy and prepare for the bigger playoff stage two months later.