Guoshu basketball

Chapter 161 Victory over the Jazz Again
No matter how much Sloan thought about it, he would not understand that Li Du's sudden step was the swallow copying the water in Xingyiquan, imitating the swallow's sideways skimming across the water, with extremely fast speed!

Sloan couldn't think of a way, so he had to adjust his defense method and use zone defense to destroy Li Du's running position.

After the timeout ended, as soon as Li Du came up, he saw that the Jazz had defended the zone defense, so he turned to look at Kobe and asked what to do.

When Kobe saw the Jazz adopting a 2-3 zone defense, he knew that the Jazz had no choice but to use this method to try to prevent Li Du's three-pointer or back up.Unfortunately, the 2-3 zone defense has the biggest weakness, that is, as long as there is a tall insider with a stable mid-range shot and good passing skills standing above and below the free throw line, this kind of zone defense is no different from a sieve!
It just so happens that the Lakers have a big man with mid-range shooting and passing skills comparable to an excellent guard, Gasol!

So Kobe winked, Gasol moved from the baseline to the free throw line and stopped to catch the ball, then Li Du and Odom started to cross positions, and the Jazz's formation was messed up!

Boozer was originally defending Gasol. When he was hesitating whether to put it up to defend, Gasol had already made a shot and hit a mid-range shot steadily.

"Defend, defend!" Sloan yelled to Boozer off the court. Gasol's mid-range shots are very stable. If Boozer doesn't defend them, it's tantamount to practicing mid-range shots for Gasol. The Jazz will Losing is ugly!
But in the next round, when Boozer chose to defend, Gasol passed the ball to Odom who ran to the basket, and the unguarded Odom easily hit the basket and scored.

After defending the zone defense for four consecutive rounds, Sloan found that the zone defense could indeed prevent Li Du from shooting three-pointers, but he couldn't deal with the Lakers scoring. When he was hesitating whether to switch back to man-to-man, Li Du gave him another one. Small hit.

This time, Kobe passed the ball to Li Du when he was two meters away from the three-point line, and at the same time signaled him to shoot!Li Du didn't think much about it. For others, shooting a three-pointer at this position can only be a choice when there is no other way, but for Li Du, this distance is no different from the three-point line.

With a "swipe", Li Du made a steady three-pointer two meters away from the three-point line!This completely shattered the Jazz's plan to defend the zone defense.

The exact term for zone defense is zone defense. Everyone sticks to their own defensive area, and each zone is connected. However, the zone of zone defense cannot be extended to two meters beyond the three-point line, otherwise the zones will be torn apart. Without contact, an effective joint defense cannot be formed!So when Li Du made a shot, no one on the Jazz side went up to defend. Li Du, who was unguarded, shot a three-pointer and basically hit every shot!
With Li Du's ultra-long-range shooting range, the Jazz can only switch back to man-to-man defense.But this is back to the opening stage of the third quarter. As long as Li Du runs inside, the Jazz's inside defense is bound to be chaotic. At this time, whether it is Kobe, Gasol, Bynum, or Odo Tom can easily break through the Jazz's defense!
The point difference was getting bigger and bigger. In the second half of the third quarter, when Zen Master began to adjust the rotation lineup, the Lakers had already led the Jazz by as much as 15 points!

After returning to the court to rest, Kobe smiled and said to Li Du: "Li, you have to perform well today, and you have already scored a lot of points!"

Li Du waved his hand indifferently, and said with a smile: "Boss, you are lazy today! You only got 25 points now, it's not like you!"

The two looked at each other and laughed.Both Kobe and Li Du knew that they only needed to win now, as long as they could win the game, they didn't care about the statistics!Especially Kobe, he doesn't need to use scoring to prove himself now.

The tenacity of the Jazz is beyond imagination. Even though they were 15 points behind, they still did not give up the game, and they were still struggling to catch up and narrow the gap.

With 7 minutes left in the fourth quarter, Zen Master replaced Kobe and Li Du again.While waiting for the ball to be replaced on the sidelines, Kobe said impatiently to Li Du: "These guys are really hard to deal with, Li, after you get up, beat them completely!"

Li Du nodded and said, "Okay." This was said with great ease, as if defeating the Jazz was as easy as eating and drinking.

In fact, Li Du did exactly that!He made an agreement with Kobe at the beginning of the second half that he wanted the Jazz to feel another kind of despair!
I have to admit that the Jazz are very tenacious. When Li Du played, they had narrowed the point difference to 9 points!The point difference is within 10 points, and there is still more than half a quarter left in the game. There is definitely a chance to recover the score!

It's a pity that the Jazz faced Li Du this time, who had already figured out a lot of things. After three consecutive swallows, Li Du steadily made three three-pointers, expanding the point difference to 18 points!
It's not that the Jazz didn't think about counterattacking. When Li Du made the first three-pointer, Deron began to organize the Jazz to counterattack.But it didn't work. Li Du started to defend him aggressively. Although there was still no physical contact, Li Du was ready to break his ball anytime and anywhere, disrupting Delong's rhythm!

The guard was forced by others to lower his head and dribble, protect the ball, and was in a hurry, for fear that Li Du would cut the ball off accidentally, and the Jazz's offense came to a standstill!

When Li Du made the third three-pointer and widened the point difference to 18 points, Sloan sighed and replaced all the main players, conceding defeat.

Zen Master saw that the opponent had conceded, but he was not too forceful, and replaced Kobe and other main players.

In the end, the Lakers made another victory at home, leading the Jazz 2-0!And judging from the first two games, if the Jazz can't find a way to restrain Li Du, they will still lose in the next game!
The Jazz who lost the game flew back that night, and Los Angeles was really a sad place for them.Especially Deron and Boozer, although they were much better in this game and they played normally, but they still avoided Li Du consciously. They both had the same idea: they would rather lose than never Confront Li Du head-on!
The core players all think this way, it's no wonder the Jazz will win!

Sloan obviously understood this truth. After returning to the home court, he immediately began to counsel Deron and Boozer.It's a pity that he didn't know that Li Du's murderous aura erupted in his strategy of "beating people first to fight the courage"!Deron and Boozer themselves can be regarded as determined players, the general method is useless to them.

In desperation, Sloan had to find a way on other players and adjust the Jazz's starting lineup.

(End of this chapter)