Guoshu basketball

Chapter 17 Changes in the Stalemate
"You..." Barbosa looked at Li Du who was still kicking after passing the ball, his eyes were full of disbelief!

"What a strange way of moving, almost against the law of kinematics! How did you do it?" This time Nash didn't go back immediately, but came to Li Du's side, talking to Li Du for the first time.

Li Du smiled, "This is a way of exerting strength in our Chinese martial arts. If you don't know kung fu, you naturally don't know."

After speaking, Li Du walked back to the Lakers bench and clapped hands with Kobe and others to celebrate.

"Chinese Kung Fu? It's amazing!" Nash muttered as he walked back to his bench.

D'Antoni asked everyone to gather around and encouraged them: "Everyone, don't be disturbed by the Lakers, continue to speed up the offensive rhythm! Steve, don't get entangled with that rookie, use double screens, pass halftime, or even launch an offense without crossing halftime !"

"Amare and Dior, the two of you provide off-ball screens for each other inside. The Lakers' inside defense is not strong. We can use this as a breakthrough!"

After D'Antoni briefly explained a few words, he loudly encouraged the players: "Come on, let us reproduce the bombardment frenzy of last season! SEVENORLESS!"

"SEVENORLESS!"

With a roar, the sun regrouped, and under the leadership of Nash, began to counterattack with great momentum.

SEVENORLESS! This is one of D'Antoni's bombardment offensive principles.It means trying to end an attack in only 7 seconds, or even less time!Last season, the Suns achieved the best record in the league by relying on bombardment and using a continuous and unstoppable offensive speed.Nash was also elected as the regular season MVP.It can be said that this offensive method is the housekeeping skill of the Suns.

The Suns speeded up their offensive rhythm again. Everyone strictly followed the offensive principle of SEVENORLESS. Once there was an opportunity, they didn't wait at all and shot directly.With this change of rhythm, not to mention Kwame Brown, who moves slowly inside, even Fisher and Kobe can't keep up!

Although Li Du can keep up with this rhythm, he can only defend one person after all, and Nash does not give him a chance to defend close at all. After the ball is in his hands, he hardly stays, and directly passes to other open positions or runs in the front. hands of people.

Li Du couldn't help it for a while, and he didn't get more passes, so he had to watch helplessly as the score gap widened again.

By the end of the first half, the score had become 56 to 49, and the Suns entered the second half with a 7-point lead.

During the halftime break, Barkley analyzed Smith: "The Suns have started their bombardment tactics again, improving the offensive and defensive rhythm in an all-round way. It can already be seen that the Lakers can't keep up. If the Lakers can't think of a good way to suppress With the Suns' offensive rhythm, this game will be decided in the third quarter!"

Smith shook his head, apparently disagreeing with this statement: "The Lakers have maintained their own rhythm, and the sun's bombardment has not affected their own rhythm, which is a good sign. If the Lakers also improve their rhythm and compete with the Suns for speed , That’s a lost game! Compared with the offensive and defensive rhythm, no team in the entire league can beat the Suns!”

After a pause, Smith went on to analyze: "Through statistics, we can see that Nash is still being suppressed by the amazing rookie of the Lakers. He only scored 2 points and 3 assists in the half, and he also made three turnovers. His performance was completely abnormal! And Lakers rookie Li Du, he has scored 5 points, 1 steal, and 2 blocks. On the defensive end, he restrained Nash from directly driving the team with assists, forcing Nash to let the team pass the ball many times quickly. Offensively, in terms of defending Nash, he can't do better! And he also has a good three-pointer and running ability. I believe that as long as the Lakers make good use of this, this game is very likely to be brought back!"

Smith also dared to say that it is "possible" only if it is used well. After all, two strong teams confront each other, and putting the key to victory on a rookie is an extremely risky thing in itself.

Barkley and Smith's concerns are exactly what Zen Master is considering.In the players' locker room, he loudly arranged the tactics for the second half, but he was thinking in his heart that if the game continues as it is now, the score gap will be widened to the point where it cannot be chased until the fourth quarter, unless Kobe breaks out in the second half!
But Kobe is not a god. He doesn't explode every game he says.And judging from Kobe's performance now, he has done his best.Scored 22 points and 5 rebounds in the half, and this game is likely to score 40 again!

But when he saw the number of shots taken by Kobe, he smiled wryly again. It is true that Kobe scored a high score, but the price was that he took 21 shots, accounting for more than half of the team's total shots!But Phil also knew that Kobe didn't rush to shoot. Now the whole team can take the initiative to attack, except for him, only Odom is alone.

Odom was pushed to the power forward position in this game. Facing Stoudemire and Diaw inside the Suns, it was difficult for him to display his offensive ability.Odom is also considered focused in this game. At halftime, he has scored 8 points, 9 rebounds and 3 assists.

When Zen Master was silent, Kobe looked around, and finally his eyes fell on Li Du.After thinking for a while, Kobe said to the Zen master: "Phil, why don't we focus on Lee in the second half?"

"What?" Not only Zen Master, but even the other team members couldn't help exclaiming.Some people are because in the Lakers, Kobe can let other people go to the main attack, which is really incredible.There are some words that everyone knows but can't say. Kobe is indeed strong, but his high scores were achieved with a large number of shots.These people don't say anything, and they inevitably have some slander in their hearts.And they also have self-knowledge, given the same number of shots, they might not even get half of Kobe's points!
Li Du was also surprised, and then he figured it out, Kobe was indeed a paranoid person, but what he was paranoid about was victory!It is an almost fanatical obsession to victory!If someone is more sure of his shot than him, he doesn't mind passing the ball, and he is skilled and bold, and will take the initiative to find double-teamed by the opponent, so as to help others get open shots!
The Zen master looked at Kobe, then at the others, and seeing that no one spoke, he finally asked, "Li, what do you think? This is a very important task, can you complete it?"

Li Du bit his lips and thought for a while, then raised his head to meet Zen Master and Kobe's eyes, and said loudly: "Coach, boss, don't worry!"

Kobe and Zen Master looked at each other and laughed.

"Coach, I still have a little opinion, I don't know if it's okay?" Li Du then said to Zen Master.

The Zen master smiled and said, "Say it, tonight, we will take you as the master!"

Li Du scratched his head shyly, stood up and first hugged the players. Everyone knows that this is a Chinese etiquette, and we are looking forward to what he will say next.

Li Du said: "Coach, boss, seniors, thank you for trusting me so much. But I think that while we create shooting opportunities for me, we must not give up our advantages, especially the boss and Lamar. Our Chinese Such a point of view has been mentioned in my war books, to use one's own strengths to attack the other's weaknesses, which means to use what one is good at to attack the worst part of the opponent."

Seeing that other people continued to listen to him, Li Du raised his voice and said: "The boss is the absolute core of our team's offense and defense. The Suns must focus on the defense. But Nash is so smart, he only needs two balls, and he can Knowing our plan, he gave up double-teaming the boss and followed me closely. But in this way, one-on-one defense against the boss, as long as Lamar goes to pick and roll the boss, how should the Suns defend? If they mess up, our Here comes the opportunity!"

After saying this, Zen Master, Kobe and others looked at each other, and then laughed. Odom said while laughing: "You kid, you don't look like a rookie! You are like a coach!"

Fisher also laughed: "Not only like a coach, but also the old fritters that have been working for many years!"

Kobe and Zen master said at the same time: "Okay, let's do as you say!"

However, the Zen master made some changes, replacing the ineffective Kwame Brown with Andrew Bynum!
Since Bynum was selected by the Lakers in 2005, he has been training him as the main center of the future. His performance last year was not bad, but as a center with high expectations, Zen Master carefully cultivated him. Let him serve as a backup center and gradually adapt to the rhythm and confrontation of the NBA.

As for Kwame Brown, Zen Master has completely lost confidence.His self-confidence can never be regained, and he can no longer be that monster inside in high school.Zen Master has even considered trading this disappointing guy.

Kwame Brown didn't say anything when he heard the news, he just walked towards the player channel silently.A little lonely, a little sad, but this is the NBA, this is competitive sports, when you perform poorly, no one will sympathize with you, and you can only leave sadly.

Li Du looked at Kwame Brown and sighed in his heart. Will he be like this one day, no longer trusted by teammates and coaches, and even booed by fans at his home court?
In the second half, D'Antoni and Nash frowned when they saw the Lakers' starting lineup. It seemed that the Lakers just replaced the center with Bynum, but in fact this also meant that the Lakers arranged tactics for the Suns.Putting on Bynum, in addition to strengthening the inside defense, his protection of the basket and offense are always better than Kwame Brown.

"Steve, don't think too much, continue our bombardment!" D'Antoni said softly to Nash, he believes that as long as he is in a fast offensive and defensive rhythm, Nash is definitely the master who controls the audience.

Nash nodded and took his teammates on the field.

(End of this chapter)