Find out the 8th player Strauser in desperate situation! He is a substitute but has a G7 in two rounds. How to evaluate this Nuggets?

We are all aware of the characteristics of this year's Nuggets, starting with heavy blows, and substitutes are bullied.

The reason is simple. Since the Nuggets started this year's playoffs, they have basically invited seven people, including Teacher + Gordon + Porter Jr. + Braun + Murray + Westbrook + Watson. Strauser only played in G3, G5 and G7 in the series against the Clippers, and averaged 5.3 minutes per game, not among the Nuggets' regular main body rotation.

If there is a player on the bench who can eat 20 minutes of rotation time and score 3 three-pointers and contribute 15 points, the teacher may wake up in a dream. This means that the dual problems of bench firepower and starting physical fitness that plagued the Nuggets were solved in a certain game, and the rotation lineup finally had a reliable eighth card.

If you ask you the key gentleman in the Nuggets G6 win, I believe everyone will give a unified standard answer: Julian Strauser, a 23-year-old and 28-day young player, scored 15 points in the second half, and scored a new high in his career playoffs, playing the most critical surprise role of the Nuggets to be dragged into tiebreak.

Not only Strauser in the second half, Braun in the first half was also indelible. The Thunder led by up to 12 points. Braun scored two three-pointers before the end of the half - Braun in the third grade cleared the gap in the first half, Strauser in the second half established a lead, and the Nuggets dragged into the G7 in the most surprising way.

Essentially, the Nuggets learned the lessons of the collapse of the fourth quarter of the past two games, resulting in the loss.

G4's Nuggets scored only 18 points in the fourth quarter, and G5's Nuggets scored 19 points in the fourth quarter. The two games only scored 37 points in the fourth quarter. The Nuggets scored 29 points in the fourth quarter of this game. Physical fitness is undoubtedly the key to whether the Nuggets can withstand the pressure in the fourth quarter. G5 played the fourth quarter. After reflecting on the G6 Nuggets adopted a standard eight-player rotation, allowing Teacher Yo and Murray to take a break in the fourth quarter and then come back to collect the game.

Strauser not only set a record high in his career playoff score in this game, but it is more noteworthy that his playing time of 19 minutes and 31 seconds also set a record of his playoff time.

Strauser won the trust of the head coach with his performance, and the Nuggets dug out the eighth card in the playoff rotation on the brink of G6 in the second round! The offensive and defensive ideas of the two teams are basically a continuation of G3. Whether they can make a three-pointer will shake the opponent's defense.

G2 Nuggets' defeat at the Thunder 106-149 was a watershed in this round of series. Since then, the Nuggets have begun to use large numbers of joint defense and BOX-1 tactics to limit Alexander.

means that Alexander will not be allowed to one-on-one, 2-3 players will assist in the defense and surround him, and block Alexander as much as possible above the free throw line. The price will inevitably give the other Thunder an open space. The Nuggets will firmly test the Thunder's long-range shot efficiency of breaking the joint defense.

G5, I believe everyone remembers that Dortmund made three consecutive three-pointers to help the Thunder seize the Ten King Mountain to win the match point; G6, the Nuggets continued to firmly use BOX-1 tactics to control Alexander on the defensive end. The Thunder made 11 of 40 three-pointers in this game, and the three-point shooting percentage was only 27.5%. Jaylen Williams, Wiggins, Dortmund and Homgren made a total of 4 of 22 three-pointers, which also invisibly helped the Nuggets increase the proportion of rounds using joint defense.

The Nuggets' defensive strategy switches between joint defense and man-to-man. Even if a person-to-man is used, he will hit Alexander on the strong side and release a three-pointer in the weak side. Whether the Thunder can make three-pointers in a row is the fundamental reason for shaking the Nuggets' joint defense and helping Alexander crack the attack.

Alexander scored 32 points efficiently in this game. Careful friends will find that many of his sports battles are forced to solve the free throw line by one and forcefully. On the one hand, the Thunder's overall three-point shooting percentage is less than 30% (27.5%), and the Nuggets can play joint defense for a long time and stare at four-way teams to limit Alexander; on the other hand, the second instructor Jaylen Williams scored only 6 points in 3 of 16 shots, which performed seriously, which in turn increased Alexander's output task.

Alexander obviously scored more easily in singles, conversions and half-conversion one-to-one attack environment. The Thunder needed to hit three-pointers on the outside to shake the Nuggets' joint defense. The man-to-man defense environment is obviously more beneficial to Alexander and the Thunder.

Nuggets actually face the same problem as the Thunder, and the key is the response of the puzzle player.

In this game, I scored 9 of 14 shots and scored 29 points, 14 rebounds, 8 assists, 2 breaking and 1 hat. One-on-one easily beat the Thunder's 1-5 defense switch. Whether it is the little Dort/Caruso switch to the defense, or Harten/Homegren/Jerlin Williams top defense - as long as I checked the teacher's personal touch online (G1, G5, G6), one-on-one is basically in a state of no solution.

The Thunder's defensive issue is to prevent Teacher Yo from easily crushing into the penalty area to score points, and assisting in defense in large quantities. Therefore, whether Porter Jr., Gordon, Braun, Murray, Strauser, Watson, and Westbrook can score goals determines whether Teacher Yo Messenger's singles space is sufficient and comfortable. The Thunder focused on shorting Braun, Westbrook, Watson and Strauser asked the Nuggets to answer questions on the opening paper. The Nuggets' three-pointer made 12-of-32 shots at home in this game is undoubtedly the key to dragging into the tiebreak.

Nuggets are more difficult than the Thunder. They not only have to hit three-pointers, but also play well in the connection section to gain enough rest time for the main force.

Braun scored 15 points in the first half, Strauser scored 15 points in the second half, and the two brothers scored 6 three-pointers in total; Strauser's outstanding performance won him playing time, and in fact he became the eighth player in the Nuggets' playoff rotation (7 players) this year.

Strauser, who can hit three-pointers, is undoubtedly the biggest X-factor in this game. This is basically not within the plan of the two teams and is a great benefit to the G7 Nuggets.

series meet in G7, and neither team has any secrets.

The underlying logic of the two teams is actually the same: each has a MVP-level superstar guaranteed (Jokic/Alexander), and the performance of the role player G7 is crucial..

Why do you need to look at the role players?

Because the defensive resources of both teams cannot solve each other's MVP one-on-one, Braun was trained by Alexander one-on-one in this round of series. He asked the teacher's body shape and skills to control the three Thunder's three inside players Harten/Homegren/Jerlin Williams - both teams' head coaches attacked the ace and defended the joint defense. G6 is actually the game where both teams use the highest proportion of joint defense.

Joint defense protects the penalty area to the greatest extent, takes away the long boards of Alexander (single mid-range shots and breakthroughs) and Teacher Joe (small singles/ends close to the basket), encourages two people to shoot long shots and tests the role players to crack the efficiency of three-pointers in the joint defense. Both teams actually answer questions on the open book.

Taking this year's Nuggets and Clippers' first round tiebreak as a case, the Clippers made only 8 of 27 three-pointers, and the role players collectively failed, while the Nuggets Westbrook contributed 16 points as a substitute, Gordon, Braun and Porter Jr. scored in double digits, and the balance of victory and loss was tilted to the Nuggets early.

The essence of the Thunder VS Nuggets' series has reached this time: whoever has a more accurate shooting can shake the defense first, especially forcing the joint defense to turn into a man-marking person, and first helping himself unsolved one-on-one MVP.