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Chapter 389 Poposang's New Trick

Beep!The referee whistled to stop the game.

The Lakers came to stand next to Su Yang one after another, and the audience followed the DJ and shouted Lets go LA.

"There is no problem with our offensive strategy..."

Su Yang actually has nothing to say. The two teams scored 2-10 in the opening game. Except for Kobe’s lob pass error, the Lakers also had another problem: they failed to hit an open shot. The inside tightening strategy was the same as that of the Spurs, except that the Spurs hit two threes. point.

The request for this timeout is more to interrupt the Spurs' extremely smooth rhythm and avoid Green's superb three-point performance in the first quarter.

In the past, Kobe and Curry took turns to take charge of work similar to opening the game. Now that Curry has just returned from injury, he has not been used as the main offensive force of the Lakers for the time being. Kobe has been targeted by the Spurs. .

The Lakers shot twice in a row, probably because the game had just started, and Gasol and Hill hadn't found their best form yet.

"We adjust our thinking. We no longer give priority to passing outside when encountering siege, but hit the basket more. This is our home court, so we can be tougher..." Between Su Yang's words, he arranged several offenses with Artest as the core Tactics, try to attack the Spurs.

The whistle sounded at the end of the timeout, and the game continued. The two teams returned to the game without making any personnel adjustments.

The Lakers kicked off the ball from the backcourt and the audience cheered and shouted. Curry dribbled the ball to the top of the arc and asked Gasol to play a pick-and-roll.

The Spurs defender of Gasol became Splitter. He did not hesitate to switch defenses to intercept Curry, intending to empty Gasol.

Curry made an emergency stop and turned around to distribute the ball. Gasol received the ball at the top of the arc. He also turned and faced the left side. Parked in the paint, waiting for Artest to break through and go in.

But Su Yang had already made arrangements. Artest took the opportunity to use the cover to get rid of Leonard, stopped abruptly, and raised his hand to throw a three-pointer.

The basketball went into the net hollow, 5 to 10.

The Lakers regained momentum in an instant, and the audience cheered and shouted. Artest ran back calmly, seeming more confident.

In the 12-13 season, Artest came to the end of his career, but his mid-range, three-point and free throw percentage, as well as average rebounds, steals and blocks, were unexpectedly better than the previous two seasons. The feeling of returning to the light can still be eaten.

Offensive and defensive transitions on the court, the Spurs conduct as usual + Iverson cross-cuts, Parker takes the ball on the left wing, Duncan then continuously uses Leonard and Splitter to cover, from the short corner on the right, a wide-range transfer bypasses , Set up a wall to block Curry as a cover.

The Spurs' tactics are subtle but subtle.

But for two consecutive screens, Duncan and Splitter were slow as big men, making the tactical goal very obvious.

Seeing this, the Lakers resorted to delaying the switch defense + reserving the cover space in advance, and they just didn't give Parker room to break through and shoot.

Parker fiddled for a while and found that there was no way, so he hurriedly passed the ball to Duncan who disassembled the outer shell, and Duncan took the ball and pretended to shoot.

Gasol is not as stunned as Griffin, nor can he jump as Griffin, so he completely ignored the fake action.

Duncan had no choice but to start a strong charge, carrying Gasol in the paint to take off and shoot, the basketball clattered, rebounded and fell.

Mike Brown said with a smile: "Guess, Gasol didn't take a fake move just now. He didn't want to jump, or he saw it in advance?"

Su Yang ignored it, but McMillan jumped out of the options and said, "Maybe it's because I'm sure Duncan's three-point shooting rate is too low..."

During the conversation, Artest stood still with knees and hips on his right waist, stuck Leonard with his back, and raised his hand towards Kobe to signal a pass.

A few spectators on the sidelines were dumbfounded.

Why is Artest playing singles with the ball on his right waist? Shouldn't that be Kobe's job?Two people are playing a role-swapping game?
Su Yang was not surprised when he saw this. That was the tactic arranged during the timeout. With Artest as the center, he played more inside. Anyway, Leonard, a rookie in the second year, has not yet grown to the point where he is a squat machine. A low defense is almost meaningless.

Amidst the cheers of the audience, Artest bent down to catch Kobe's ground pass, turned around and rushed to the basket without any fancy.

With that kind of brute force, Leonard was hard to stop, and he hurriedly cut the ball with instinct, and the bottom line referee whistled simultaneously.

Leonard was fouled, and Artest got two free throw opportunities to stand on the free throw line. Amidst the cheers of the audience, Artest made two free throws.

The Lakers caught up to 7-10. On the TNT commentary table, the host Marvin Abbott sighed: "I have more than ten years of commentary experience, and I have never seen that coach. The effect of on-the-spot suspension and adjustment can be as good as that of Coach Su Yang." Excellent, like watching a movie."

Guest commentator Reggie Miller chuckled: "I didn't expect that Artest would be so boldly centered."

During the conversation, the Spurs passed the frontcourt, turned around to get the ball and tried to play singles, but Artest's defense was aggressive, Leonard did not dare to try, and turned to Duncan to get the ball on the right side, but maybe he didn't score before, Duncan Continue to find Parker hand in hand.

The Spurs tossed a lot. In the end, Parker took the ball without a screen and forced him to hit Curry. He stopped in the paint and turned around for a layup. Splitter fouled again while grabbing a rebound. Too convinced, he turned around and retreated and kept chanting.

The Spurs were restricted for two consecutive rounds, and Splitter was fouled by a rebounder and pusher, which probably broke the defense a bit. Su Yang imitated Jerry Mouse in "Tom and Jerry" with his mouth wide open and his thumbs up in reverse. emoticon package, shouted: urgent!

After doing this, assistant coach Mike Brown and the team members of Chasing Dream Green also imitated and shouted, which was quite joyful.

Offensive and defensive transitions on the field, the same tactics started, Curry took the ball from the right wing to observe, and Kobe used Gasol to cover and lift up.

The tactic Su Yang arranged was completely born out of last season's UCLA FIST FLEX. It mainly didn't look for a front screen to cut in, and Kobe directly created a threat from the waist. Instead, he cooperated with Gasol's high post support and after Curry handed over the ball. threat.

In the blink of an eye, Kobe took the ball at the top of the arc and made a three-threat movement to observe, while Curry simultaneously used Gasol to cover and cut inside.

Parker hurriedly got up and went around the screen to chase, but Curry stopped suddenly without warning, turned and ran back, and got an open three-pointer.

In a hurry, Parker was unable to stick to Curry again, so Splitter had to step up and grab, helping to delay Curry's shot.

But Kobe passed the ball to the right waist in the second half, and Gasol caught the ball in a misplaced match against Parker, turned around and made a layup easily.

The scores of the two teams suddenly became 9 to 10. The Lakers successfully played a wave of 7 to 0 offensive, and the Staples Center resounded with cheers.

Mike Brown sighed earnestly: "The league should add a few more points to Curry every game. His ability to control the ball just now, in terms of statistics, except for those nonsense W/L values, the whole team has more points per 100 rounds. Offensive scoring, etc., will not be reflected in any intuitive way, and because the off-ball ratio is too large, let the referee reduce some of the free throws he should have gotten..."

Su Yang nodded when he heard the words. Regarding the value provided by Curry and the rewards, it is really what Mike Brown said.

After thinking about it, the Spurs started with a zipper tactic. Parker caught the ball from right to left, and then played a pick-and-roll with Duncan, forcing his way to the free throw line.

According to Su Yang's arrangement during the timeout, Kobe still shrinks and intercepts the inside line. Seeing that Parker stops to pass the ball, he turns back to defend.

Green, who received the ball, flew towards Kobe and made a three-pointer. However, his luck was no longer as good as before, and the basketball slammed like iron.

Hill got a defensive rebound, Curry caught the ball and led the team to push a fast break, stopped at 45 degrees in the frontcourt, and passed it to Kobe on the right sideline.

Hill took advantage of the situation and pretended to run over to the close-fitting pick-and-roll, but in fact, the fake pick-and-roll threw off Duncan, strode towards the basket, and Kobe passed the ball synchronously.

Boom!
Hill leaped high and dunked alley-oops with both hands. The Lakers overtook the Spurs 11-10, and cheers burst from the Staples Center.

The Spurs didn't call a timeout, Su Yang couldn't understand Popovich's choice, and wondered if there was any new routine to play?
But before he guessed the reason, Gasol slapped Parker, who was sprinting at high speed, with a cold arrow, and the basketball fell to the ground.

Curry took the ball nearby, ran forward in the face of cheers, single-handedly carried Duncan and Green to defend, took off and put the basket.

Then the referee blew his whistle, whistled for a foul by Duncan and gave Curry two free throws, and there was another round of cheers in the arena.

Curry hit the first free throw, followed by a short whistle, and the Spurs adjusted personnel: Diaw came on the field to replace Duncan.

"Hey? What kind of operation is this?"

Seeing that Dior made his debut, Su Yang couldn't understand Popovich's routine for a while, and actually replaced Duncan so early. It doesn't make sense to say that foul protection is unreasonable. Duncan only fouled once and only scored three points in the game. How many minutes, certainly not tired ah.

After thinking about it, Curry also made a hollow second free throw. The Lakers led the Spurs 13-10 and 11-0.

"It's really not called a timeout, is it? I want to see what new tricks you Popovich can give me..."

(End of this chapter)