From 2016 to 2020, the Celtics once had a variety of attacking-type backcourt players:
“The strongest 175” little Thomas, “Assassin-type” Terry rozil and Carey Owen, “Little fast spirit” kenba Walker
This kind of backcourt players have the same disadvantage on the offensive end:
When holding the ball, it is easy to lose the ball/dead ball after being robbed by the opponent in advance.
Of course, these backcourt players have similar advantages:
With super offensive attraction
Brad Stevens, the Celtics head coach from 2013 to 2020, is famous for teaching students in accordance with their aptitude and excellent ATO tactics-according to the statistics of Second sports in the United States on the Spectrum website, stevens is one of the coaches with the highest score in ATO. After suspension, the net efficiency of tactics arranged at both ends of attack and defense is as high as 33.4 points in 100 rounds, ranked fourth among 59 coaches in the league since the 17th season.
Stevens has a high basketball IQ, so on the offensive side, Stevens is good at hiding the disadvantages of such players in the team, thus creating a series of offensive tactics.
Spurs coach Gregg-Popovich baby once commented on Stevens’s tactical creativity: “I often secretly learn his tactics.”
There are two frequently used Stevens tactics in Popovich baby:
1. dunk lop for insider aerial work”
2. Today’s article mainly introduces the tactics “Indy Rip” that uses the attraction of attacking-type defenders”
Introduction to the Indy Rip position:
Indi is a creative word, which you can understand as what we often call “Flex”, that is, there is a fixed running route, but it is accompanied by the flexibility of players who move without balls (for example: anti-running and rolling and cutting behaviors when no ball cover occurs)
Rip is better understood, that is, “penetrating and tearing”, destroying the opponent’s defense line.
(Fixed road map) the fourth position holds the ball on the strong side, and the defender moves to the symmetrical side;
The No. 5 free throws are raised online to make no-ball cover for the defender players;
The defender Rip, cut into the penalty area, and the number four player quickly scored.
Actual situation:
In the 2016 regular season, he challenged the piston on the road. Ollinick went online to receive the ball. Horford stepped forward freethrow line and made a ball-free cover with Rozier. After Rozier took cover, he made an impromptu speed change, after throwing off the opponent’s defense, ollinick bounce pass was in place and rozil finished the basket attack.
Considering that the four or five players of the Celtics have a certain range, it is easy for the two insider to attract the opponent’s insider to the top line, and the penalty area will be cleared to facilitate the compliance of the defender.
Of course, the fixed “Ind Rip” has certain limitations-the most obvious is that the end point of this tactic is the small defender, it is easy to get stuck in the route by opponents or be protected by teams with strong mobility.
Therefore, Stevens added the hierarchy of tactics, and “Indi Rip fist” was born.
Introduction to the Indy Rip fist:
The guard player failed to run out of the chance to pass on the line insider;
The defender continues to move the bottom corner, and makes no-ball cover with the third player, and the third player completes Rip;
Go online insider pass the ball to the third place to complete the attack.
Actual situation:
In the 16-17 regular season, Thomas Rip was blocked by frontal line player at home against Pacers. Then Thomas and Claude took cover. Claude continued to Rip to the inside to complete the attack.
In the 17-18 season against the Warriors, Carey Owen became the arrow character of the team after the attack, and the Celtics played the team’s exclusive five small lineup (unfortunately Hayward was reimbursed due to injury at that time), owen moved without a ball to make a cover for Jay without a ball. Owen attracted the attention of Curry and Durant. Jay finished “Rip” and won the dunk under the basket.
The layered Indy Rip Fist takes advantage of the outstanding offensive appeal of attacking-type defenders, creating many opportunities for players falling at the bottom corner to cut into the penalty area.
In addition, the defender can still carry out the “Fist” step and observe the previous two actual combat steps. No matter Thomas or Carey Owen, after completing the cover with the bottom corner players, the weak side line/insider will continue to make ball-free cover with the defender to create a projection opportunity.
In these seasons, because the Celtics have such a type of defender, the “Lady Rip” series of tactics are commonly used under Stevens, whether it is Thomas Junior, carey Owen or kenba Walker in the last period of time-including the less successful “5-out” formation in the 18-19 season, often used this tactic as a starting point.
This set of tactics gave full play to the advantages of this kind of guard players. Xiao Tuo, Owen and kenba all experienced several years of high efficiency in their career, and they became the best players in the League One after another.
This set of offensive routines is also quite classic, especially this set of tactical models is relatively fixed, and it is also very suitable for the current school or training camp players to learn, which is a mature tactical system.