super small forward

Chapter 322 322. Fighting the Grizzlies

Watching Carter casually shoot a three-pointer and hit it directly, Liu Ren's eyes are so hot!
Compared with the three-pointer, Liu Ren himself is worthy of Carter. He is very confident in his shooting ability, but his own substitute players are a bit miserable. Except for Nick Young, who is good at three-pointers, everyone else is average.

"Vince, if you accept my invitation to come to the Lakers this year, you will be able to win the championship, what a pity." Liu Ren said regretfully.

In addition to dunking, Carter is equally powerful in other scoring methods, and three-pointers are the most powerful one among them. His career three-point shooting rate is as high as 30.00%.Multiple seasons with over 40.00% winning percentage.

In the past two years, after Carter got old, three-pointers have become the main offensive method, and he has a big heart. He does not hesitate at critical moments, and can open up space. When the team is really unable to play, he can make a strong breakthrough.

Carter's current state can be said to be the perfect championship puzzle!
Liu Ren invited Carter to the Lakers in the second half of last season, but was rejected.

"That's right, if I didn't go to the Lakers, you definitely wouldn't be able to win the championship, because this year's champion will be the Grizzlies!" Carter said confidently.

Liu Ren shrugged: "Dreams are beautiful, but the door of the Lakers is always open for you. I really want to see the best dunk in history retire on the best team in history."

If it was three years ago, Carter and coach Joerger went to the Grizzlies together, Liu Ren still believed that they might really win the championship.

In the second half of last season, the Grizzlies speeded up and played a pretty good offense, but the defense couldn't stand it. The reason is not that the players are not suitable for this system. Instead, Joerger has built the best system for the players, which is very suitable for the Grizzlies. human system.

It's just that the system is good, and the players can't stand it!

As the key to the rise of the Grizzlies in the 10-11 season, Randolph is 33 years old, and his state has been getting worse year by year in the past two years. There is no way for Hollins to reduce the rhythm to the extreme. The players really can't run. , The defense will drop a lot after running.

At five o'clock in the afternoon on the 12th, the Lakers' away game against the Grizzlies was about to begin.

The Lakers started Jeremy Lin, Kobe Bryant, Liu Ren, Gasol, and Green.

Nash has already gone to New Orleans, where the next opponent, the Pelicans, is. D'Antoni, who is a tough opponent to play against the Grizzlies, dare not let Nash play.

The Grizzlies started with Conley, Tony Allen, Jeff Green, Randolph, and Gasol Jr.

The Gasol brothers came to the center of the arena and hugged. The focus of today's starting matchup between the two teams is not Kobe and Liu Ren, but the duel between the Gasol brothers!

jump ball!

Gasol Jr. beat his older brother Gasol by one game first, and with a slight advantage in height and wingspan, he overwhelmed Gasol to win the jump ball.

Conley grabbed the ball and advanced to the frontcourt.

The Grizzlies run well under the new coach who came last year, but this coach came late!I missed the peak time of everyone in this team, and now I am old and want to leave, and those who stay are very confused.

The one who is confused is Conley who is holding the ball. He observes his teammates' running positions, and his brain is running fast.

Conley will always be so old-fashioned and simple, otherwise he would not be liked by the fans and not valued by the coaches, even the coaches of other teams ignored his existence.

Conley passed the ball more decisively this year than before, but he encountered the Lakers with a new defensive system, and Joerger's team offensive play was not so easy to operate.

No matter what the tactic is, the purpose is nothing more than one, to create an easy scoring opportunity for a specific person, or a random person. The singles opportunity is best to score directly.

The advantage of the all-soldier style of play is that it is difficult for the opponent to target defense, but the disadvantage is that all scorers' personal scoring ability is not very strong.

The all-people's style of play is the same as playing against teams that do not have a complete defensive system, but it is a bit troublesome to deal with the current Lakers.

The Lakers' defensive system is most afraid of the Warriors' team with one or two outsiders who swing wildly and play simple and rough, but it is very easy to deal with offensive teams that mainly run pick-and-rolls.

The Lakers' defense is very good. Green blocked Randolph firmly. Blocking Randolph was not an easy task, but Green was willing to do the dirty work silently.

Randolph now has more than enough energy but not enough energy. In the Knicks back then, he would play whenever he liked, and he would not play if he didn't want to. Most of the time, he didn't want to play with money.After arriving in the Grizzlies, he has completely changed. He loves to play very much, but here comes the problem. He played very well in the past few years, but this year he wants to be unable to play, which is really embarrassing!
Tony Allen can't play the fast break anymore. Jeff Green's ability to catch and shoot after the pick-and-roll is crippled because Randolph doesn't want to move this year. He is good in singles, but he is being squeezed by Liu Ren The ball is hard to do.

Singles by yourself?Conley is confident that he can single-handedly beat Kobe, but he doesn't. For him, single-playing is the worst choice. Although Kobe is slow, he still has height, wingspan and awareness. It is not so easy to really fight.

Conley dribbled the ball to Gasol Jr. with 12 seconds left, and then made an empty cut inside.

Sure enough, Kobe couldn't catch up to Conley, who was cutting without the ball, but the Lakers rotated quickly. Jeremy Lin followed up immediately. Kobe immediately switched to defend Tony Allen, and Gasol shrank inside to help Jeremy Lin defend Conley.

Conley's small thinking was directly disintegrated by the Lakers' excellent defense.

The Lakers' defense is much stronger than last season, which confuses the Grizzlies. Is this still the Lakers?

Bickerstaff laughed and said nothing on the sidelines. It is true that the Grizzlies speed up their team and their offense has become stronger, but they only have these players, and there are only a few routines they can play. It is all in the usual training of the Lakers. Simulated in , it's too easy to deal with them.

At the beginning of the game, the Lakers' defense was very good, and they resolutely implemented the coach's arrangement.

The Lakers each have their own defensive missions. Gasol guards the interior, Kobe defends spot-up offenses, for example, Tony Allen and Conley who dribble the ball are left with spot-up three-pointers and catch-and-shoots. Conley has an emergency stop jumper. , but Kobe has a huge advantage in height and wingspan, and Conley dare not face him to play like this.

Liu Ren defends Jeff Green.

Jeff Green is almost 30 years old, and this year he averaged 14+6 per game, which has begun to decline. Liu Ren only needs to mark him.

Green has no big problem defending against Randolph. Randolph's strength is no longer as good as Green's. Although Randolph has good skills, his body can't keep up. His style of play relies too much on physical talent.

Defending Conley is the top priority of the Lakers' defense. Kobe defends from the outside, Gasol and Jeremy Lin follow up on the inside, and Liu Ren's ubiquitous defense.

Conley enjoys the highest level of treatment on the Lakers defense.

Gasol, on the other hand, was selectively ignored.

(End of this chapter)