Almighty Coach - Chapter 590
Chapter 572 Do not call a timeout
In the first quarter, the game entered the first official timeout. The score on the field was 10 to 9. The Blazers temporarily led by one point.
From the statistical point of view, the Clippers did not play well. The shooting percentage of three shots in nine shots, including three-pointers made one of four shots. In addition, the free throws were only 2 of 4 free throws. It’s really awful. In addition to that, the Clippers made another mistake.
For the Blazers, they are not bad. When defending, they limited the Clippers’ shooting rate to 33%, and they also had a beautiful steal. On the offensive side, the Blazers also played. In addition to his own tactical cooperation, there were several open spaces that were very suitable for shooting.
It’s just that the Trail Blazers feel bad today, and their own basket seems to be against the Trail Blazers. The shooting is always a little bit worse.
Looking at this score, the Trail Blazers coach Tris was completely dissatisfied. His idea was to beat the Clippers at the beginning of the game, such as a 10-0 or 20-0, which was enough in the first quarter. Many advantages. However, although the Trail Blazers also have an advantage, this one point lead is only optional.
However, Tris could not criticize his players. The players did not perform badly. They were very serious in the execution of the tactics that Tris arranged before the game, playing the style characteristics of the Trail Blazers. It’s just that it didn’t throw the ball at the end.
“The game has just started, the players’ touch hasn’t come yet, and when they get used to it, the shooting percentage will naturally come up. It’s just a wave, and the Clippers can be taken away.” Tris thought of this, toward fast The fleet’s bench looked around.
I saw that Li Dai was holding a drinking glass and handed it to the players with a smile. There was no plan to arrange tactics. Players also sit on chairs, drinking water or wiping sweat, and do not have to follow the coach’s guidance.
“This Li Dai, a rare official suspension, does not say anything to athletes? Instead, he acts as a water dispenser administrator. But think about it too, this layman, who has no dry goods in his stomach, will not be useful to athletes Guidance. “Tris pouted.
After the first official suspension ended, the players returned to the arena, and neither side adjusted the lineup, but continued to leave five starters on the field.
The Trail Blazers started to pick up, and scored goals one after another. The Clippers faced the Blazers’ sharp offense, and there was no way out. On the defensive end, the Blazers forced the Clippers to make another mistake.
But the score was still not pulled away, the Clippers nerve knife Naismith consecutively made a three-pointer, and then the ball breakthrough caused the Trail Blazers to foul, using the free throw to help the Clippers stabilize the situation.
“If it weren’t for Naismith’s nerve knife, we had already led by double digits.” Tris thought angrily, looking at the scoreboard.
In fact, Tris also knows that this kind of nerve knife player feels like a tiger, not feeling like a dog. They “spontaneously start” and score unreasonably. Obviously it is not a reasonable offensive opportunity, and they will be converted into scores.
In the blink of an eye, the first quarter of the game entered the last three minutes, using a dead ball opportunity, the referee gave the second official suspension of the first quarter.
Tris is not satisfied with the performance of the five starters, because they have not achieved enough lead, or that the current Trailblazers ’lead cannot be regarded as an advantage. The first quarter game played more than 9 minutes, but the Blazers did There is no backwardness, but the leading advantage has never exceeded five points, and most of them are hovering two or three points ahead.
This was not the result that Tris wanted, he wanted a big win. Not only because the Clippers themselves are a weak team, but also because the Clippers coach is an amateur. Facing a team led by an amateur, if he only wins three or five points, Tris feels too faceless.
“It’s time to replace the bench. Our bench is better than the Clippers, and now the Clippers are still suffering from a lot of injuries. If both sides are on the bench, it’s a trade-off. We must be more powerful. What the starting player fails to do depends on the substitute player. ”
Tries thought of this and started to replace the bench players. He looked forward to the bench can bring the Blazers more than double-digit score advantage.
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With the chance of a free throw, Tris changed two people in a row, and finally returned to the full starting lineup.
The Clippers made two free throws and the score gap became another four points, giving Tris a sense of powerlessness.
During the bench-to-backup period, the Blazers did not complete Tris’s goal, and the score did not open to double digits. Instead, he continued to hover within five minutes.
A feeling of anger gradually germinated in Tris’s heart, facing the weak Clippers, facing a layman head coach for the first time in the NBA, the Blazers could not always pull the score.
Tris couldn’t help but look up from the Clippers bench, and it happened that Li Dai was very relaxed, talking and laughing with assistant coach Kassel.
Now Li Dai is really easy. When he uses the title of “evenly matched”, the outcome of the game cannot be decided by him, so Li Dai simply puts on a play mentality and listens to Kassel from time to time. Explaining the tactics can be regarded as a grind.
The Clippers assistant coach Kassel felt more and more confused. From the perspective of his professional basketball coach, the Clippers are not playing well today, and the Trail Blazers are not bad, but the scores of the two sides have not been opened, he is constantly watching the sidelines The latest technical statistics, want to find some clues above.
Finally, the first half of the game was over, and Neil Smith made a two-pointer with a quasi-pressure buzzer in the final, allowing the Clippers to trail the Blazers by two points 49-52.
The opponent is the Blazers of the Western Powers. The Clippers lost only two points in the half, which is a very satisfactory answer.
For the Blazers, the lead in the first half of the game has always been maintained, and has never been surpassed by opponents. This seems to be an acceptable result.
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The Trail Blazers player locker room, head coach Tris looked at his players and roared angrily.
“What the **** are you doing? The opponent is the penultimate Clippers of the West, but you played like this. Are you a sleepwalker?”
The Blazers looked at each other, and they didn’t understand why the head coach was so angry.
“Coach, we have been carefully implementing the tactics you arranged, and the score has always been ahead. Overall, we have been suppressing the Clippers in the first half of the game.” A player said in defense.
“Why do we only lead by three points?” Tris sneered, and then said: “There are several balls. Obviously, the open shooting opportunities can be replaced by middle school students, but you can not shoot. There are some Low-level mistakes, there is no need to appear, such as stepping on the line at the beginning of the second quarter! ”
Tris began to count the performance of the Trail Blazers in the first half. Almost every ball he was not satisfied with would say the last paragraph. At this time, he is like a stingy businessman.
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Perhaps it was during the halftime that Tris played against the players in the locker room. At the beginning of the second half, the Trail Blazers played a small 11-2 climax, widening the score gap to two. number.
“Coach, we should call a timeout.” Assistant coach Kassel suggested.
Under normal circumstances, when an opponent hits an offensive climax, the head coach of the losing side will immediately call a timeout. The first is to adjust the tactics, the second is to stabilize their players’ mentality, and the third is to interrupt the opponent’s good feel.
So when the Clippers were beaten 11-2 by the Blazers, Kassel immediately suggested that Li Dai call a timeout.
Li Dai looked at the timer and then shook his head: “It’s almost time for the official suspension. Hold on again.”
In Li Dai’s view, it doesn’t really matter whether or not to call a timeout. Anyway, the two sides of the game are now under the title of “evenly matched”. As long as the game is not over, the lagging points can always be recovered.
Cassell was anxious: “Coach, I’m afraid they can’t support the official timeout. The Trail Blazers players already have a feel. If we don’t call the timeout in time, maybe the difference will be quickly pulled away. ”
“No, you can rest assured that our players will catch up with the score.” Li Dai said with a smile.
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“The Blazers played an 11-2 climax, and now they have a 12-point lead. The Clippers should call a timeout.” The commentator said, and then looked at the referee with expectation.
The referee also subconsciously looked at the Clippers bench, looked at Li Dai, but found that Li Dai had no intention of calling a timeout.
The Clippers players also looked to their bench and saw that Li Dai did not call a timeout, so he sent the ball out. The defender looked at Li Dai while dribbling through the half, as if asking him if he wanted to suspend.
The opposite Blazers players also thought this way. They thought the Clippers would definitely call a timeout, so they dragged back to their own half and waited for the referee to blow the suspended whistle.
The Blazers’ coaching staff even picked up the tactical board and waited for the timeout to lay out the tactics for the players.
It wasn’t until the Clippers’ guard dribble the ball past halftime that he still didn’t hear the timeout. At this time, he confirmed that Li Dai would not call the timeout.
The expected suspension did not come, which made the Clippers players look a bit out of luck, and this time, they were defended by the Trail Blazers for 24 seconds, which hurt morale.
“Why don’t the Clippers call a timeout? They should still have enough timeouts now. Or maybe they want to play a ball and try to feel it?” Trail Blazers coach Tris frowned.
Next, in the offensive round of the Trail Blazers, they made another three-pointer and increased the score to 15 points.
“The 15-point difference is so bad that you should call a timeout this time!” Tris looked at Li Dai.
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“Coach, let’s call a timeout! Now in this case, if we wait for the official timeout, we may be more than 20 points behind.” Kassel said anxiously.
“A little restless, this is only the third quarter, the game is still long.” Li Dai waved his hand, he still firmly believes that the “evenly matched” effect can reduce the difference between the two teams as soon as possible.
At this time, whether it is the player or the referee, he turned his attention to Li Dai, waiting for Li Dai to call a timeout.
However, Li Dai is still indifferent.
As long as the Clippers put the ball in the hands of the team’s core Ronnie, he will organize the attack.
Ronnie and his teammates made a block break, then stopped the jumper and hit two points, the point difference narrowed to 13 points. This ball was a loophole in the Clippers’ defense. The players who made up the defense were not in place in time, giving the Clippers space for mid-range shooting.
Obviously, a 14-2 scoring climax was played before, which also made the Trail Blazers players lax.
In the next attacking round of the Trail Blazers, the player relied on his own hand feeling, dribbling the ball near the three-point line and directly throwing a three-pointer, the result of the basketball out of the basket.
The Clippers grabbed rebounds, quickly started the offensive and defensive transition, and used the Trail Blazers’ defensive players to become unstable, playing a two plus one. The difference between the two sides has become 10 points.
Immediately after the Trail Blazers broke through, they were judged to move, and the ball returned to the Clippers. The Clippers failed to make a 3-pointer, but the inside player grabbed an offensive rebound and was fouled by the opponent when making up the basket. After two points, the gap narrowed to 8 points.
In the next two rounds, neither side scored. Until the third round, the Trail Blazers layup was disturbed by the Clippers. The Clippers used the offensive and defensive conversion to get two free throws again, reducing the score to 6 Minute.
Immediately afterwards, the Blazers finally used the color to throw a two-pointer on the three-point line, and turned the point difference into 8 points, and the Clippers immediately returned a real three-pointer and reduced the score to 5 points.
“Beep beep …” The referee’s whistle sounded, it was the Trail Blazers coach Tris called the timeout.
The 15-point lead was chased by 5 points, and the opponent ’s coach did not call a timeout at all, and did not make any substitutions or tactical adjustments. This only shows that the Blazers ’own players have problems. Teres finally couldn’t help it, he signaled the referee a timeout.
The Trail Blazers players walked to the bench, looking frustrated. The Clippers players were very excited. They recovered the 10-point difference, but they didn’t even know it. In a few rounds, how did they recover the 10-point difference?
Kassel looked at Li Dai and whispered in his heart: “There was no timeout, no player change, no tactical adjustments. Just let the player play and even chase the score back. Coach Lee’s luck is really good! ”
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The game came to the last quarter, and the score became the same as the previous two quarters. The Blazers always led, but the lead was always only three or four points.
As the game neared the end, the Trail Blazers players also felt the pressure.
The difference between three and four points is not an insurance advantage. Fortunately, the opponent needs two rounds to catch up. With three points, the opponent only needs one three-pointer to equalize the score.
Trail Blazers coach Tris’s complexion is also getting ugly, he did not expect the Clippers to be so troublesome.
After the last official timeout, the game entered the final decisive moment. At this time, the gap between the two sides was only two points, and each attack was extremely important.
The game has just entered the last two minutes, the Trail Blazers’ core player scored a key three-pointer, and the score was increased to 5 points.
“Coach, call for a timeout?” Kassel then persuaded.
“No!” Li Dai shook his head.
Li Dai’s words just fell, the Clippers nerve knife Naismith once again showed power, and also returned a three-pointer.
With more than a minute left in the game, the Blazers have a two-point lead, and the ball is in their hands.
The Blazers’ point guard started to beat the rhythm. He wanted to exhaust the 24 second offensive time as much as possible.
He didn’t start this attack until there were five seconds left in the timer. As a result, when the player took the shot, the 24 second attack time had expired. It can be said that the Blazers wasted the opportunity of this attack.
However, the Blazers also successfully spent 24 seconds, with more than 50 seconds left in the game.
“Coach, ask to suspend the next round of offense.” Kassel persuaded again.
In more than fifty seconds, the Clippers trailed by two points. In theory, the Clippers still have two opportunities to attack, while the Blazers have one opportunity to attack. If the Clippers score the next goal and prevent the Blazers from attacking again, the Clippers will have the initiative.
Li Dai thought about it, or shook his head: “Let the players play by themselves.”
The ball was in Ronnie’s hands. Ronnie looked at the Blazers’ line of defense and felt that he didn’t have much confidence in his attack. He thought about his score today has reached 23 points, exceeding the usual average data After completing the task, he passed the ball to Naismith.
Naismith’s “nerve knife” can ignore those, take the ball and attack, and directly break through the ball, which is completely an unreasonable play. As a result, even the ball was covered by the Blazers’ inside.
However, Naismith also won two free throws and made two free throws to equalize the score.
The Blazers couldn’t sit still, and Tris immediately called for a timeout.
Tris arranged an offensive tactic and it was successful. After serving in the midfield, the Trail Blazers quickly rushed to the basket and hit a shot. This time, the Trail Blazers only took 7 seconds and 32 seconds left.
In this way, the two teams each have an opportunity to attack, and the final attack will fall on the Blazers.
“Coach, let’s call a timeout. This is our last attack.” Kassel persuaded immediately. In the view of Kassel, the Clippers should call a timeout to arrange this last attack.
“No pause.” Li Dai shook his head.
“Coach, this time it’s really time to call a timeout.” Kassel then persuaded.
“It’s not necessary.” Li Dai shook his head again, looking like he didn’t call a timeout.
The referee looked at Li Dai again, and the players on the court also looked at Li Dai. Even the camera gave Li Dai a close-up shot. He wanted to capture the picture of him calling a timeout. A tactical board came out.
Li Dai still sat there indifferently.
“Why didn’t the Clippers call a timeout?”
“Isn’t there a timeout? No, the Clippers never seemed to call a timeout during the second half?”
“What’s the Clippers’ head coach thinking about? The last attack Isn’t it necessary to arrange the tactics? And if you can’t score, you will also foul immediately, who will foul, how to foul? , These are also the first to be arranged. ”
The audience was full of doubts, and some professional commentators on the spot did not understand what Li Dai was going to do.
The Clippers players did n’t hear the suspended whistle, they could only serve, then dribble the ball through the frontcourt, and then started to run. The ball passed twice and came to Naismith ’s hand. Twenty-one, took the ball for two steps, directly pulled the jumper, the ball really went in.
The score was flat again, leaving the Trail Blazers 13 seconds.
The Trail Blazers used the last timeout and arranged the tactic of the last attack. However, the layup of the last attack, the ball slipped, the Clippers protected the rebound. The game time is also exhausted at this time.
The on-site commentator breathed a breath: “105 to 105. In the regular 48-minute game time, the two sides tied the game and they are going to play overtime. I didn’t expect that the West’s strong team Trail Blazers and the weak Clippers The team actually gave us a close match. “