Denver Nuggets Twirl action: Revolving door tricks are full of details

Let's talk about a trick of the Denver Nuggets: twril action, which can be translated as "revolving door" tactic:

The schematic diagram of this set of tactics is as follows:

The revolving door tactics are defined as: a stagger screen is set on the side without the ball, a player (2 in the figure) bypasses the first of the two stagger covers (4 in the figure) and cuts into the basket, and then the first coverr (4 in the figure) turns around and bypasses the second coverr (5 in the figure).

This is a variant of staging cover (sequential cover is 2 that continuously uses 4 and 5 cover). This is actually a kind of "screen the screener".

has a very close running position with the revolving door called "Bilbao Action". It was famous for its invention for the Spanish Bilbao basketball club. It is reported that it was introduced to the NBA by coach Snyder. The schematic diagram is as follows:

The slight difference between him and the "revolving door" is:

Bilbao's tactical position uses a "reject pick-and-roll" running position, that is, the running position is carried out from the 4th position to cover the opposite direction. The beauty of the

Revolving door tactics is that the first player's cutting (No. 2) can attract the opponent's full attention. If there is a problem with the opponent's defensive communication, the first player can catch the ball and score.

If the opponent has been fully guarded against the first cutter, but the defensive formation is destroyed; the second cutter (No. 4) and the second screener (No. 5) can play subsequent tactics in the space torn by the first cutter, such as hand-handed hand, pick-and-roll, etc.

This tactic can also be used simultaneously with split cut, such as someone on the strong side to do low posts, while the weak side to do twirl and receive passes on the strong side (the first cover here is a split).

Most people who use motion strong will use Twirl and use Bilbao in the "split cut" type tactics.

PS: The following is the split cut twirl of the Golden State Warriors. This tactic has accumulated strong sides in a short period of time (4 people). Wiggins also uses reject running position.

This tactic is very suitable for inside players with high ball holding ability (such as Jokic, Sabonis, Adebayo, Mengmeng Green, Shin Kyung), as well as outside players who are good at shooting without the ball or cutting quickly. The tactics require high space requirements and need to leave enough space on the weak side, otherwise the rotation and cutting will easily be blocked.

The high-level ball holder can personally participate in screening or secondary attacks. He is not only a passer, but also a downshot score and even uses misplaced singles.

In Twirl, the high-level ball holder can directly set the first cover and become the receiver for the second wave of cover.

Teams like Nuggets, Warriors, Kings, and Heat that emphasize high-level axial passes will use Twirl as a strange trick.

The high-position ball-holding inside line is a three-in-one "Commander + Screener + Terminator" in Twirl. The superposition of these three abilities makes the tactical threat the greatest.

Okay, let's talk about the Denver Nuggets.

The Denver Nuggets have Jokic, the ball holder, who can be a commander, coverr and terminator.

The following example is a typical revolving door tactic (motion strong twirl), with Jokic as a coverr and terminator.

Potter Jr. used Jokic to cover the gap and cut. After that, Jokic used Murray to cover the three-point line, received the pass from Jeff Green and hit a three-pointer.

For the following ball, Murray first made a flip with his teammate Harris to get the ball back, and Jokic also acted as a screener (covering Grant's empty cut) and a finisher, and made a mid-range shot.

The picture below is Bilbao tactics. Jokic intends to cover Porter. Porter Jr. uses the rejection to run (reject) method, and cuts the basket with the backdoor. Jokic then uses Braun to cover the three-point line and makes an external three-pointer.

Jokic can also be the ball holder and commander of the motion strong twirl, while Murray and Kroger do flex cut screens, and in addition, they use Millsap to cover the cover and receive Jokic's pass and shoot.

The following is more complicated. Porter, Chandra and Brown cooperated with the revolving door. Porter used Brown's cover to make the first cut. Chandra was again cover for Brown. After Brown came out, he received the pass from Jokic and passed it to Porter. Porter then cooperated with Jokic with cross cover and made a three-pointer.

The bottom line ball below is even more simplified. Jokic first covers Gordon, and Gordon covers Jokic, and Jokic gets Westbrook's pass and shoots. This swing cover is also a shrinking and variant version of the revolving door tactic.