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Chapter 659 Big Data Analysis



Chapter 659 Big Data Analysis

Less than 48 hours after a hasty rest, the Kings and Spurs played the fourth game of the Western Conference Semifinals at the ATT Center.

Parker continued to miss out due to an ankle injury, and Dejounte Murray was still the starting point guard.As a rookie, he was visibly nervous and frequently overreacted on the defensive end, while Curry, who was facing up, made clever use of it and succeeded in three consecutive reverse runs and air cuts.

In such a situation, the Murray people are stupid.

You must know that in the first game against the Kings, David Lee missed someone defensively, but Popovich called a timeout for criticism in 80 seconds.

But he thought too much.

Popovich didn't call a timeout to blame him, but smiled encouragingly, even smiling at Ginobili's mistakes.

Only for Leonard's two pass errors due to double-teaming, Popovich gave a stern reminder, which looked fierce.

Probably because Leonard can't start the situation, the Spurs' offense will also be unable to start, which will lead to defensive chaos.

After the first quarter of the game, the Kings led 34 to 22. Curry and George got a total of 8 assists, a real team basketball.

With 12 points behind, the Spurs did not give up.

Popovich once again sent five small lineups, but the King's five small lineups were even stronger, and all the data were blown out again.

Su Yang didn't pretend at all, mainly because he had seen too many examples of big players leading the way and ended up being overturned. He was unwilling to take such a risk, let alone become such a case himself. It would damage his reputation as a god-level coach. Same name as Rivers.

After halftime, the Kings led by 23 points.

During the halftime break, the major media began to review Popovich’s coaching career, a bit tacitly acquiescing that it would be Popovich’s last coaching game, so the Spurs officially released a news to clarify: “Popovich has not yet decided whether to will retire..."

The third quarter was uneventful.

Although Leonard made 7 of 5 shots in a single quarter and scored 0 points with 11 free throws, which fully demonstrated the art of mid-range shooting, it was only the same as LaVine's 11 points in a single quarter, causing the Kings to further expand their lead and enter the fourth with a 29-point advantage. Festival game, snuff out hope.

Popovich switched to the third team early, Bryn Forbes, Davis Beilstein, and Dejounte Murray, who was too nervous before, suddenly became calm and calm, and continued to direct the team how to play, vaguely Boss style.

During the game, Mike Brown asked casually: "This Murray, do you think it will be the future of the Spurs?"

Su Yang replied: "The defense is at the same position as the upper-middle level, and the offense is at the same position as the lower-middle level. The future of the Spurs needs to thank me. Leonard is not injured. They can slowly build a team around him. At least before the end of the contract, they will still be Western powerhouse."

"Thank u?"

Mike Brown was dumbfounded, and Su Yang didn't bother to explain. The game ended quickly, and the Kings won 125 to 104.

Seven members of the team scored in double figures, and Curry scored the highest 30 points, 12 assists and 5 rebounds, and his performance was full.

Su Yang got up and walked to the technical stage, and shook hands with Popovich. The two talked in a low voice for about ten seconds. It is the moment of the relay of the times.

At the press conference after the game, various reporters asked Popovich what he had said. Su Yang said with a smile: "He said the future is mine, but he still wants to try to see if he can cause me a little trouble." , I like his persistent personality..."

The reporter asked who the Rockets and the Warriors wanted to play more.

Su Yang pretended to think for two seconds, and said seriously: "I personally want to play the Warriors more, because Oakland is very close to Sacramento, we don't have to leave overnight, and we don't have to worry about getting used to the food, and we don't have to think about how to avoid Harden's fouls." ..."

The content of the interview was compiled into a news release, which quickly sparked heated discussions.

Su Yang didn't care what he said, and led the team to fly back to Sacheng overnight. He woke up at noon the next day, and only took out his mobile phone to check.

Not many fans are willing to discuss his bad memes like "close to home, good food".

Fan discussions mainly focused on topics related to Harden's fouls. Some thought that Harden had a lot of offenses. He had already broken through the defenders, and the difficulty of scoring was very low, but he still took the initiative to create physical contact and use fouls to kill, forcing opponents to lower their defenses.

Some also think that since it is a rule, it can be used, and it is easy to worry about too many fouls, and defend in another way.

Some people say that a large number of foul calls are to weaken the defense, which is part of the league's driving rhythm of the game. They want to turn the game into a performance, break more previous records, create more topics, and drive more attention and attention. tidy.

Everyone has their own opinions, and Su Yang didn't care.

Someone tweeted that many stars in today's league were hard to become famous in the 90s when they were strong defensively. It made him suddenly think of Harden, Lillard, Doncic, Tre Young and other players who struggled after their defensive standards improved. Performance…

There are also fans who retort that Rivers Jr. played in the 90s and [-]s, at least at the All-Star level.

Anyway, a bunch of basketball evolution theory.

Those fans thought that the eight 90s had a so-called tough defense, but there were more malicious fouls, mainly because they did not understand the principles of illegal defense.

In the evening, Su Yang watched the game between the Rockets and the Warriors together with the king's generals, and the result was a 2-2 tie.

But the whole team agreed that the Rockets had a higher probability of advancing, because the referee blew the whistle, and the Warriors narrowly won, and the Warriors center Pachulia was defending Harden's three-pointer, and the stepping action failed, but was crushed by Harden's jump. Knee, playing doubtful.

The next day, the coaching staff and the scouting department met at the training base.

"Judging from the past four games, the Rockets' unlimited defense strategy has made the Warriors very uncomfortable, and we have started to practice strategies such as short pick-and-rolls after the All-Star break. The next main task is to study how to better target Harden..."

Su Yang directly raised the core issue of the meeting, because as long as Harden's scoring average is controlled below 25, it will be easy to play, and Harden has averaged 10.8 free throws per game so far in this playoffs. Average 3.7 fouls.

In short, Harden's fouls are very lethal.

"Harden's ability to quickly shoot three-pointers is mediocre. Considering that he likes to play pick-and-rolls very much, when we face pick-and-rolls, it is best to use the method of bypassing screens and interceptions to prevent him from breaking through and tearing up defensive formations. It also cuts off his cooperation with pick-and-rollers. the possibility of..."

As the chief assistant coach who is good at defense, Mike Brown first gave him his suggestion, and Su Yang nodded in agreement.

"We need to remind players to resist the temptation, especially when Harden makes an action that exposes the basketball, and he is not [-]% sure not to try to cut the ball, because Harden's upper body and core strength are very terrifying, and it is easy to reverse traction and cause real damage. foul…"

Assistant coach Di Brown also gave advice, and Su Yang agreed with a smile, the basketball in Harden's hands is really not that easy to cut.

"In addition to layups and three-pointers, Harden's other main way to score in sports games is to stop and throw shots. It's not very easy to defend. We can't take the risk of arranging too many help defenses, thus missing the Rockets' other shooters. Cousins ​​​​must be promoted. Defensive mobility..."

Assistant coach David West then gave a suggestion, and Su Yang also nodded in agreement. Harden's throw is indeed not bad.

Everyone spoke one after another.

Su Yang finally tapped the keyboard, and screenshots of data analysis and some codes were displayed on the big screen of the meeting.

"In the past few seasons, we have played against the Rockets led by Harden a lot, and we have gained a lot of experience...

Last night, I had a whim and planned to seek answers from other angles, so I used the recent hot big data analysis. I first compiled the games where the Rockets won as 1, and the games where the Rockets lost as -1, and extracted the past games of the Rockets. The total score of each game in the four seasons also converts Harden's points, assists, rebounds and other data in each game into the ratio of each data to the Rockets' data, and then imports it for calculation, and then returns it. One process, and the use of machine learning algorithms to classify various data, mainly using the kmeans algorithm, the final result is that cutting off Harden's pass will make it easier to win.

And this result is very close to the cutting off of Harden and the pick-and-roll man mentioned by Mike Brown just now! "

After the voice fell, the meeting room was silent for a while, and then there was warm and excited applause, and there were several cheers.

"I didn't expect you to know how to write code!"

"Su, you are amazing! Will our scouts and video analysts be laid off? Our jobs will be replaced!"

"I have a question, what about Chris Paul? The Rockets also have an All-Star player Chris Paul."

"Paul is also more lethal in passing. If you go to see the games where he scored high points, he basically lost all of them!"

(End of this chapter)


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