NBA: Trading Westbrook at the beginning shocked Lao Zhan

The Lakers in the first quarter perfectly completed Vogel's strategy, frantically flanking Booker on the defensive end, reducing Booker's offensive efficiency and limiting his shots.

And if Booker wants to pass the ball, his ability to play the ball is not very good, and Ayton's efficiency in playing big and small inside is not very high. The most important thing is that the Suns' striker group, Crowder, Bridges and others are also relatively poor in singles!
This forces the Suns to hand the ball over to Paul.

So for the first time ever, Paul started to work hard in the first quarter, scoring crazy points and competing with James, which is exactly in the hands of the Lakers!

Even though the Suns are still leading by two points, the Suns have lost their rhythm now. In the fourth quarter, Paul, whose physical strength has bottomed out, can no longer stabilize the army at critical moments. The fuller Lakers will open the score.

Thinking of this, Vogel couldn't help feeling secretly proud in his heart. After a pause, Vogel turned his head to look at the Lakers, coughed lightly, and continued to arrange his tactics for the second quarter.

"Hey, guys, for a while Norman Powell, Covington, Brogdon, Boucher and Howard, you five go to play, Howard, you play the fifth position."

"Continue to continue the strategy just now on the offensive end for a while. Norman Powell and Brogdon will find Paul to play on the outside. If Paul doesn't play for a while, you will go to their Payne to play!"

"If Payne doesn't play, then look at my tactical gestures!"

"Boucher and Howard, you guys will come on the court in a while, attack their inside line hard for me, grab the offensive rebound, and bring up the intensity for me!"

In Vogel's view, there is a high probability that the head coach of the Suns will not let Paul continue to play at the beginning of the second quarter, so it is very likely that Payne will replace Paul, and Payne's defense is average. Grab this point and hurt the Suns, and you can force Paul to the court!

Hearing Vogel's words, everyone quickly nodded and agreed. Covington, Norman Powell and Boucher are gearing up and preparing to play to complete their debut battle!

At the same time, the atmosphere on the bench of the Suns was a bit dull, and the head coach Monty sat on the bench with a frown, thinking hard about the coping strategy.

According to Monty, he is also the best head coach appointed by the league this season. He is very capable. After the first quarter, Monty immediately saw Vogel's strategy.

But facing Vogel's conspiracy, Monty couldn't think of any way to deal with it.

No way, the current style of the Lakers is really restrained by the Suns. First of all, it is because the core of the team, Booker and Paul, are not particularly tall, especially Paul, when facing tall, athletic strikers, Their performance is not so good, and it just so happens that the Lakers have a bunch of such strikers!

James, thick eyebrows, Boucher, Covington, Johnson, Dyke and so on.

This made the Suns very uncomfortable. Coupled with Vogel's double-teaming strategy, it was difficult for Monty to have a very good coping strategy!

After a while, the intermission was about to end, and Monty had to make adjustments. Paul couldn't continue to play in the second quarter and Vogel continued to target him.

Afterwards, Monty gritted his teeth fiercely, and said to everyone in the Suns: "Guys, Paul will be off the court in a while, er, Payne, you go on the court, remember to pay attention to your defense!"

"In the second quarter in a while, you guys bring up the offensive firepower for me. By the way, Ayton, when the inside is big and small, give me firmness, toughness, and play closer to the basket!"

Monty had just finished speaking, and the intermission time had just ended. Seeing this, Monty waved his hand, gesturing for the Suns players to enter the field.

In this way, the second quarter of the game begins!
After Vogel saw the lineup of the Suns, he was slightly relieved. It seems that Monty really took Payne up.

Next, as long as the Lakers make good use of Payne's defensive weakness, it will be fine to play hard!

And the Lakers players lived up to Vogel's expectations. As soon as they got the ball, Brogdon and Norman Powell started to attack Payne violently as soon as they got the ball.

And Payne's original defense is not very good, coupled with being targeted by Brogdon and Norman Powell, naturally he loses points frequently!
In addition, it is also difficult for the Suns insider Ayton to resist the impact of the Lakers' Boucher and Howard on the defensive end. He frequently lost rebounds and was launched a second attack by the Lakers.

However, although the performance on the defensive end is a disaster, the offensive end of the Suns is still good. Payne's three-pointer feels very good. At the beginning, he faced Norman Powell with sudden shots and scored a lot. score.

On the other hand, Booker, the core core of the team, is still struggling to play. Under the double-teaming of Brogdon and Covington, he often has no choice but to hand the ball to the inside line Ayton.

But what the Suns coach Monty said during the break seemed to have no effect on Ayton. After Ayton got the ball, he still used his usual throws and hooks as always!
But today Ayton's offensive touch is really limited. Facing Boucher, who is shorter than himself, he didn't perform well!

This made Monty's nose crooked in anger, and after a low voice, he patted the shoulder of Biyombo who was sitting next to him, and said in a deep voice, "Biyombo, get ready to go on stage, wait a while." Remember to protect that damn rebound for me!!"

After finishing speaking, Monty sighed softly, stood up and signaled a substitution to the technical table, and then, after Penn won a foul, Biyombo came on and replaced Ayton while taking advantage of the free throw gap.

Ayton was replaced, sat on the seat and took a towel and began to wipe his sweat.

To be honest, it is not easy for Ayton. He is often regarded as a blue-collar on the offensive end. He often does dirty work such as pick-and-rolls, which is really tiring!

Looking at the panting person sitting on the bench, Monty couldn't bear it, but in the end he gritted his teeth, looked at Ayton, and said in a deep voice.

: "Ayton, Ayton, can you be tougher!!"

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