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Warriors continue to be doubly befuddled by the Rockets’ double-big zone
defense
Warriors get trampled in Game 5 with the series shifting back to the Bay.
By Joe Viray@JoeVirayNBA Apr 30, 2025, 9:04pm PDT 17 Comments / 17 New
When Gary Payton II was interviewed by TNT’s Dennis Scott just before the
start of the second quarter of the Houston Rockets’ Game 5 shellacking of the
Golden State Warriors, Payton was asked of the Warriors’ process against the
Rockets’ vaunted double-big zone — the two bigs being Steven Adams and
Alperen Sengun — and how they could get more open looks against it.
在休士顿火箭队第5战痛击金州勇士队的比赛中，Gary Payton II在第二节开始前接受TNT
的Dennis Scott采访，被问到勇士队面对火箭队强大的双塔区域防守（这两位大个子是
Steven Adams与Alperen Sengun）时的应对方式，以及他们如何创造更多空档出手机会。
“Hit the middle and spray out of there,” Payton said. “Once it hits the
middle, (the defense) collapses, hit to our spot-up shooters and just make
shots.”
Payton表示：“打进中路然后把球传出去。一旦球进入中路，防守就会收缩，我们就能把
球分给埋伏的射手，然后命中投篮就行了。”
That interview came not long after Payton himself practiced what he preached,
on a first quarter possession where the Rockets dared the Curry-less five-man
grouping to beat their somewhat funky zone — funky in terms of both personnel
and alignment.
这段访问不久前，Payton刚好自己实践了他所说的方式。在第一节的一次进攻中，火箭队
挑战这个没有Curry在场的五人组，用他们人员组成与站位都有些奇特的区域防守逼对手
破解。
https://i.imgur.com/IKNQArU.gif
After the Warriors go to their “55” set (double drag screens), the ball
finds its way to Payton at the free throw line, Quinten Post gets multiple
bodies thrown his way, leaving Gui Santos open on the wing. Sengun gets caught
between having to cover Brandin Podziemski cutting toward the dunker spot and
having to keep tabs on Santos. Payton promptly dishes to Santos, who makes
the open look.
勇士跑出他们的“55”战术（双拖曳掩护）后，球来到了罚球线的Payton手中，Quinten
Post吸引了多名防守者，结果Gui Santos在侧翼获得空档。Sengun一时间卡在要兼顾切入
禁区的Brandin Podziemski和观察Santos的情况之间。Payton立刻将球传给Santos，后者
命中这记空档投篮。
The possession above turned out to be not only the Warriors’ best process
against the Rockets’ double-big zone — it was their best process against the
zone all series long. But it’s also valid to question whether the scoring
possession above was a function of good process or the Rockets willing to live
with a Santos three. As with most things, the answer lies somewhere in the
middle.
这一回合不只是勇士对火箭双塔区域防守最好的进攻处理，更是整个系列赛中他们对区域
防守处理得最好的一次。不过，也有合理的质疑：这次得分究竟是因为执行到位，还是火
箭愿意赌Santos的三分球？如同大多数情况，答案可能介于两者之间。
The evidence for it being good process lies in the fact that the Warriors
proceeded to be confused by the zone the rest of the way, as they have been
for most of this series. Take note of the difference between the instance
above and the one below:
认为这是执行到位的理由在于，之后的比赛中，勇士队对这套区域防守再次感到困惑，就
像这个系列赛大部分时间一样。请注意以下这个与上面不同的例子：
https://youtu.be/0Sy7rxiqNBE
While there was some semblance of intention — screening, moving, cutting, etc
. — the ball didn’t move around with the force and oomph one would expect
when busting a zone, nor did the players themselves move with a similar amount
of urgency. Everyone seemed highly hesitant, which plays into the hands of
the defenders in a zone, who are more than content to both move around and
match up accordingly and stay out of the need to distort the shape of their
alignment.
尽管有一些战术意图──掩护、跑动、切入等──但球的传导缺乏对付区域防守时应有的
速度与果决，球员本身的动作也缺乏应有的积极性。整体看来大家都犹豫不决，这正中区
域防守下怀，让防守球员既能自由调整对位，又不用破坏自己的防守站位形状。
While credit must be given to the Rockets’ defense — one that has the size
and length to make any sort of ball and player movement more difficult to
execute than it would be against conventional personnel — there were too many
instances of the Warriors either settling for a shot the Rockets would gladly
allow:
虽然火箭队的防守确实值得称赞──他们的身材与臂展足以让传球与跑位的执行变得更加
困难──但勇士队太多次选择投那些火箭乐意给的出手机会：
https://i.imgur.com/hMDabZl.gif
Or managing to get behind the lines of a zone and garnering an opportunity to
bust it, but overthinking and relinquishing the small window they created:
又或者他们成功撕裂区域防守并创造得分机会，却因为犹豫不决而错过稍纵即逝的空档：
https://i.imgur.com/wj9nb5z.gif
Perhaps the most understated stat — but one that has informed how this series
has turned out in terms of these two teams trying to one up each other with
their respective zone alignments (the Warriors’ being their “tandem” 2-3
zone) — is how the Rockets were 29th in zone offense during the regular
season. The only team that’s fared poorly than them in terms of attacking a
zone? The Warriors, who were the worst zone offense in the regular season in
terms of points per possession, per Synergy tracking.
或许最容易被忽略，却在这个系列赛两队相互较量各自区域防守的策略上产生重大影响的
数据，是火箭在例行赛对区域防守的进攻效率排名第29。而比他们更糟的唯一一支球队？
正是勇士队，他们根据Synergy的追踪数据，在例行赛中面对区域防守时每回合得分最少
，排名垫底。
While it wasn’t the main reason that they quickly crumbled in Game 5, it
remains a key point of contention they’ll have to solve in order to close
this series out. Ime Udoka will be more than happy to keep sending out the
Adams-Sengun anchored zone. Along those lines, lineups with the Adams-Sengun
tandem have outscored the Warriors by a total of 31 points in 54 minutes,
while keeping the Warriors’ offense to scoring a paltry 0.85 points per
possession.
虽然这不是他们在第5战迅速溃败的主因，但这依然是他们若想终结系列赛必须解决的关
键问题。Ime Udoka乐于继续派出以Adams与Sengun为核心的区域防守。根据统计，这对搭
档上场的54分钟内，火箭队净胜勇士31分，并将勇士的进攻效率压制到每回合仅0.85分的
惨澹表现。
The main adjustment the Warriors can make for them to get out of this highly
contentious and bruising series may be to just push the play better button,
especially for the likes of Steph Curry, Jimmy Butler, and Draymond Green. But
playing better starts with concocting a better process offensively — and a
process that finds much better consistency against the Rockets’ double-big
lineups.
勇士若想摆脱这个激烈且充满肢体碰撞的系列赛，最重要的调整可能就是“打得更好”，
尤其是对于像Steph Curry、Jimmy Butler与Draymond Green这些核心球员而言。但要打
得更好，首先要从建立更好的进攻流程开始──一种能够在面对火箭双塔阵容时展现更好
稳定性的进攻方式。