Here are two conditions for you to guess the team style:
Third, the performance Alliance for making mistakes;
The players have strange bones and are all young.
The scene you will think of may be to put pressure on the limit of the ball and run all over the field, run and jump to sweep the whole field with youth storm, or beat yourself with a lot of brainless beating and leaking people. Of course, this is a stereotype for young teams, but objectively speaking, if you have a big boy who can run and jump, it is difficult not to move closer to this style. After all, following instinct is always the most natural and easy thing.
But Thunder is not exactly. These two conditions I gave them are young, strong mobility, active defense, and willing to advance bravely when switching between attack and defense, but there are still unique aspects in temperament. This may be influenced by Alexander’s personal style, and it is difficult for you to associate a team led by a player who can extend mode of play to 60 with the word “youth. Alexander has a face and limbs similar to Morant, as well as a powerful conversion ability, but he also has a game Soul similar to Dong Qiqi. This means that Thunder is not a simple way to “move forward, move forward, and move forward by any means. Alexander looked back three steps and looked for the opportunity in repeated variations. He could always toss a beautiful little jump shot at a suitable position in the near middle. This kind of hard solution ability should also be ranked in the league, so Thunder does not mind pressing down to fight.
Thunder is quite interesting. When I wrote to them earlier this season, I said that thunder is a team with a three points not strong, but the space is not absolutely bad. The reason for this evaluation is that thunder has basically maintained a 48-minute five-way formation. No matter whether the shooting is accurate or not, players without balls will stand outside first. It is not easy to do this. A minimum requirement is that both the starting line and the replacement line have a range, and Thunder does. In fact, Thunder has already injured three big ones one after another. Even so, moscala and jailin who are rotating at No. 5 can still go to station arch top. It can be seen that this deployment method is no accident, this is the strategy of team building.
Of course, because not every point’s projection ability is excellent, the five aspects of thunder are more ideas than reality, and the team’s overall feel online recently, to some extent, let’s preview the effect after the general concept is formed. Thunder is also relatively complete in a set of logical chains matched by this style of play:
There is a super singles player (Alexander) who can make use of space;
There are several blocker with certain ball holding technology and impact capability (Dort, Jay, Gidi, etc.);
The positioning of big men and the dismantling outside are the majority, and the team does not forcibly pursue the difficult pie connection. In addition, the development ability of the main attack point is strong, more than blocker, and the overall quality of the ball is good, and Thunder mistakes are few;
Because the big man often plays activities in arch top, it is easy to retreat from the defense, cooperate with the team’s fewer mistakes, and the excellent motor power and enthusiasm of young people, the Thunder defense fast attack performance is excellent.
At such a glance, Thunder seems to be a little……
The taste of Lone Ranger?
This is very strange, the rhythm is very different, it is completely impossible to pull the two teams together, there is a certain degree of similarity. In fact, this is the special part of Thunder. As a young team, they have the vitality that young people can run and jump, but they also have a set of “serious” ideas.
The defensive end has a similar situation.
According to data and intuition, Thunder’s defense and Raptors should be a way. They are good at making mistakes, not afraid of missing three points, and win by rotation vitality and body shape advantage. But the actual sense of the game is not the case. A game of raptors, not starting from hitting the star, you must think that Naas took sick leave, and their craziness of pressure on the ball is more like a young team than thunder.
Thunder didn’t make such a big deal. Their strategies were much more flexible. They were relieve a garrison and flexible in defense, and they didn’t rely entirely on talent to fight and grab. The judgment of the defensive players and the overall flexibility of the defensive formation are remarkable, and even some rounds can show you some shadows of the heat.
In fact, Thunder is not a “attack brigade” in the general sense “. I like to use the word “bone Qingqi” to describe thunder because the size of Thunder players is mostly strange. They are not Raptors-style teams, and not every player has a height of 2 meters to 2.08 meters. In fact, Thunder just lacks players in this range. They lean to both ends:
Insider, boku is the shape of hemp Rod, Earl and Kenway are both short as internal lines, moskalaka has an intermediate state of No. 5 height, tonnage and mobility, although they are not very bad, but it is not good either. Jay Lin looks black and rough from a distance, while Chang Weisi looks close. The actual physical quality is very ordinary;
Outside players, Alexander, Dort, Gidi, Jay, Wikins, combined height and weight, are more like the second figure.
The condition of Thunder’s body shape can be called, “there is no absolute difference between the outside line and the inside line.” What really conforms to the ideal front line shape of modern basketball is just bezli and Giang, but the former is one of the worst attacking points of the team, while the latter is too young. The bad rebound of Thunder and the poor limit of the opponent’s free throw number are related to their fact that they are not big but thin teams except for strategic reasons.
Thunder can hand over good defense, which is not as simple as talent blessing. Team efforts and players’ defense can not be ignored. There is no need to talk about Dort’s tenacity. Alexander is certainly a high defender, but obviously not every high defender can hand in the top cover and steal data, which requires a top-level sense of defense. Neither kenwei nor Jerry had excellent physical conditions, but they were the concentrated display of defense business. The number of offensive fouls of the two men was ranked in the top two of the alliance.
So, what kind of team is thunder?
Everyone noticed their temptation on the edge of rise, and subconsciously attributed such rise to the growth of team leaders and the fulfillment of young talents.
Indeed, Alexander is handing over the performance of the top four or top five defenders in the West. It is difficult for you to put him behind Morant again, he didn’t say that he was the top three in the West because the brave and invincible guide came back. Thunder’s young people and the few remaining veterans also have amazing things, including:
Kenway, Yogueta in a traffic team, should be praised close to Caruso and Peyton. He is not amazing, but he can do all kinds of work that supporting roles should do well. In the fourth quarter against the Knight, he killed the match with front panel, three points and defense, which was not unusual for him;
Muskala is a relatively reliable space-type internal line;
This Jay’s ball holding is much better than that Jay’s when he first entered the league, and his breakthrough potential is expected;
Although he was still a stumbled half-hanger, compared with when he first knew him, Dort was gradually worthy of his confidence on the offensive side;
I was worried about how to adapt to the NBA environment when Gidi didn’t shoot well like this and against high defenders who seemed not strong enough. But now, it is really a unique job for Gidi to pick or throw the near-middle distance by body shape. Combined with his passing, the logical closed loop of blocking and dismantling can still be achieved in the future;
Isaiah Joe, at the beginning of the season, when I wrote about the Thunder overturn solo game, I mentioned that his three-point outbreak might be an accident. But the current situation is that Joe is very productive and has a three-point hit rate.
What else is there?
Thunder has indeed established a team building framework. Under this framework, young people win with enthusiasm, but they are not completely dominated by enthusiasm. Their attack and defense system can be followed. General Pu has a bunch of picks in hand, which is really not to satisfy his addiction to collecting exotic animals. Thunder, these monsters, are put together, and the pace of moving forward is far more direction than expected.