Chapter 813. Chapter 813. The fierceness in the first section is just the ferocity of the warden
Bosh suddenly shuddered: What did I challenge?
Veteran Anthony Parker on the side quickly said: "Don't be influenced by the warden. He deliberately wants to disrupt our game strategy. We must be firm!"
As a standard mob, Bosh had a strong teammate, and he immediately stood up: "Yes, he wants to score, I... let's compete with him! Let's see if he is good or we are good!"
What he said... Anyway, my teammates felt that momentum.
However, in the eyes of Raptors players, Liu Xiu is more imposing.
He said he wanted to compete with the whole team, but this guy really did this! He really did it!
In the next three rounds, Liu Xiu first made a breakthrough layup, then made an anti-aircraft gun turn and jump shot from the left side of the three-second zone. Then Liu Xiu's wing and Millsap were picked and rolled without the ball and then followed Kwame Brown's long two-pointer hit by the pass from the bottom line.
Liu Xiu scored 7 goals in a row at the beginning, including a three-pointer, scoring 15 points alone!
However, the Raptors were not afraid during this period. Anthony Parker made a second three-pointer, Bosh made a two-pointer, and Milicic made a tip-in.
The Raptors have been 12-15 at the moment.
It was the Raptors' offense again. Felton was shorted and hit a three-pointer from the top arc. The Raptors tied the score and withstood Liu Xiu's impact!
Although the score was tied, the warden and the entire team competed in the first few minutes, and the fans on the scene were extremely excited.
They originally thought that they would eventually become the warden and assist, but they didn't expect that they would actually start to rush!
It was the Trail Blazers' turn to attack, and Liu Xiu responded with a three-pointer to Felton... Unfortunately, the ball hit the basket with a "clang".
The fans at the scene sighed regretfully, and the warden made 7 consecutive shots. Fortunately, the opponent failed to continue after scoring 4 goals in a row. Felton took advantage of Bosh to throw a three-pointer and threw it directly.
Kwame Brown protects the defensive rebound, and Morris Chicks calls for a timeout!
The purpose of calling this pause is to give Liu Xiu some time to slow down. He attacked for 8 rounds in a row and needed to slow down.
As for whether this will interrupt Liu Xiu's outstanding condition... Morris Chicks knows that it won't.
More than one-third of the regular season games have been played, and he has long understood Liu Xiu's characteristics in this regard.
Morris Chicks is not worried about why he has such characteristics. He uses the benefits well and avoids the disadvantages well. That's all. The Trail Blazers can go from scoring difficulties in the first quarter of last season to the current first quarter of the sprint team, which is inseparable from his use of Liu Xiu's characteristic.
What surprised him now was that Liu Xiu was so good that the opponent could tie the score!
From being so afraid of the warden before, to being a warden who dares to face hard steel now and faces the "invincible" state, the performance of the Raptors made Morris Chicks think of a Chinese idiom he thought it was very interesting - everything will turn against the extreme.
However, the game was a bit difficult. The warden started like this and did not gain the lead at the beginning. For them, the Trail Blazers, it would be uncomfortable next...
Morris Chicks was in a bad mood, while Sam Mitchell on the opposite side was extremely excited!
As expected by the two coaches, after returning from the timeout, they used their regular playing style to fight against Liu Xiu's most fierce stage in the start of the Raptors and began to gain the upper hand.
The Trail Blazers' "fierce first quarter" this season is actually Liu Xiu's average of 13.7 points in the first quarter of the first 30 games.
The Raptors' normal defense is actually very strong. The Nets' ranking in the East is not for nothing. Milicic's top franchise protection, Bosh's backup defense and assisting defense are at an excellent level, and the two can swap defensive roles in a short time. How could the defense created around these two people be bad?
The Raptors' defense on the back line is actually not bad, but Liu Xiu was too restrained. In the next 8 minutes of the first quarter, Liu Xiu mainly worked at high positions. The area from the three-point line to the free throw line is the Raptors' defensive weakness. Liu Xiu made 3 of 5 shots and 2 of 2 free throws to score 8 points. In the first quarter, Liu Xiu made 10 of 13 shots, including 1 of 2 three-pointers, plus 2 of 2 free throws to score 23 points in a single quarter.
However, his teammates were defensively scored 2 of 9 shots and scored only 6 points!
After Liu Xiu scored 15 points in the first three minutes, the Trail Blazers only scored 14 points in the last eight minutes!
As for the Raptors, although the next eight minutes failed to continue the crazy offensive performance of 15 points with more than 3 minutes, the overall offensive performance was still very popular.
Relying on Milicic's 6 points, 2 rebounds and 3 assists, Bosh's 11 points and 1 assist, Anthony Parker's 6 points, Ford's 4 points, and Felton's 5 points... The Raptors scored 36 points in the first quarter.
36 to 29, the Raptors led the Trail Blazers 7 points to enter the break!
…
Strength gap!
The Trail Blazers smelled the 'smell' of the 'strength gap'.
This made them very upset and angry.
Morris Chicks knew that their biggest disadvantage at present was not their strength, but their ‘information gap’.
The other party knows them very well and knows them very well. Maybe they know all their playing styles.
However, they don’t know much about the Raptors, which have improved their strength again with great strength in the Twin Towers. Their understanding is limited to watching videos and scout reports, and they don’t have any practical knowledge.
This is true not only for the Raptors, but also for those teams with larger lineups or style of play.
The key is that they still had no experience in fighting with the Raptors last time. The Raptors' style of playing was exactly the same as when they met them last season after being hit by Kobe.
Morris Chicks feels quite unsolvable in the current situation.
However, since there is no solution, he will not solve it. He will rotate normally and adjust the tactics normally according to the actual situation.
In the second quarter, the Trail Blazers focused on defense as before, using the depth of the lineup to consume unlimited opponents on the defensive end.
The effect was very good. Bu Shuai successfully pulled down the Raptors' scoring performance through reasonable strategies and lineup adjustments. The Raptors only scored 27 points in the second quarter, one-quarter less than the first quarter.
This is definitely a good defensive performance when the Raptors are playing very hard on offense and their tactical cooperation is still in place.
However, the Trail Blazers' own offense has started the daily "high opening and low closing" mode. Liu Xiu made 4 of 7 shots in a single quarter, including 1 of 1 three-pointers, plus 2 of 2 free throws and scored 11 points in a single quarter, but the Trail Blazers' team only scored 20 points in a single quarter!
In fact, the Trail Blazers' offense was better than Liu Xiu's score at the beginning of the first quarter, but the Raptors' defense was too good!
In the whole first half, except for Liu Xiu, the Trail Blazers scored the highest score, Ray Allen, who scored 7 points from 3 of 9 shots.
Chapter completed!