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Chapter 404. 404. Defense against Curry
Pause back, and the game continues.

Liu Ren advanced to the front court, handed the ball to Green, and then went down.

Although Liu Ren plays point guard, the organizer is actually Green.

"Oh, let me just say that although Liu plays a point guard, he probably won't organize the offense. It's too wasteful to do that. D'Antoni put three players with excellent three-point ability to deal with the Warriors. Three shots from outside the team."

Kenny Smith's words revealed the original purpose of D'Antoni's arrangement.

In terms of firepower, the Lakers will not be far behind the Warriors in this lineup.

Korver deserves to be the super three-pointer who should have been an All-Star in the past two years in Liu Ren's memory. He has an excellent touch and hit an open three-pointer.

"Although the Lakers scored three points, they still couldn't solve the problem on the defensive end. The Warriors had too many shooters. The Lakers only had a few shooters, and they all sent them to the field. There was only one Nick Young left on the bench. Today's game The game is really difficult, and everyone in the Warriors feels great." Barkley, a hardcore Liu Mi, was a little surprised by the strength of the Warriors, but at the same time he recognized it.

"Bickstaff still has his way of dealing with it, using a higher lineup to make up for the height disadvantage between Lin and Barnes after Liu defends Curry, but in this way, the Lakers' defense will actually be even worse. Lin is at least an average defensive player, and Korver has a good defensive attitude and is not easy to lose his position, so he is not a good candidate to defend against shooters, which is very similar to Kobe now.” Kenny Smith analyzed.

"It's not a very important thing, is it? This is just a regular season, just when Curry broke out. The Lakers won the first two games so easily?" O'Neal retorted.

"No, Shaq, you didn't watch the recent Warriors game. Curry has always been so accurate. Since he was defeated by the boss last time, seeing Thompson and the boss score so many points in a single quarter, he seemed to be stimulated. He averaged more than 5 three-pointers per game!" Barkley said.

What Barkley said was amazing. He averaged 5 three-pointers per game. This kind of thing has never happened in NBA history.

But what O'Neal cares about is always so different: "I said Charles, how do you know so much about the Warriors? Don't you like the shooting team?"

"Shaq, don't you know? Cole asked Charles to be Randall's personal trainer and let him train Randall's low-post skills..." Kenny Smith told the truth.

"Ahem, let's watch the game..."

Looking back at the game, Liu Ren was tight-pressing to defend Curry!
As far as the "noble disease" of the Lakers is concerned, they are very disdainful of the full-court press-pressing defensive method. Even the Lakers did not have a full-court press-press during the three-peat and two-peat championships in the new century.

Moreover, although Curry is not a speed-type point guard, he is not satisfied with his speed and has a good sense of rhythm. If he is not paying attention, he will be passed directly.

Thanks to the tightness - Liu Ren was the one pressing the ball, and the defense was so savage that he forced Curry to pass the ball to Randall.

Randall dribbles forward to the frontcourt.

The fans saw Randall, a power forward, dribbling the ball skillfully across the half court, and unconsciously turned their attention to Green.

Green was uncomfortable being seen, and a little annoyed in his heart, and immediately defended Randall after halftime.

The Warriors' first scoring point is of course Curry. Randall doesn't care about Green's defense, dribbling the ball like a point guard and waiting for Curry to catch the ball.

However, Liu Ren frantically circled around Curry like an octopus, not giving Curry a chance to catch the ball!

Around the front point guard?

What kind of defense is this?
Moreover, Liu Ren is the first defensive point of the Lakers' outside line. If he goes around the front Curry, something will happen to the defense of the other two outside lines of the Lakers!
Sure enough, the Warriors saw that Liu Ren only cared about Curry. Barnes stepped forward and gave Randall a pick-and-roll to get an open spot. Randall passed back and Barnes hit an open three-pointer.

There is not much difference between the game and the opening game. The two teams are still facing each other. The two major pitchers of the Warriors, Thompson and Barnes, can always get three-point opportunities, and their shooting percentages are extremely high.

However, Kobe, Liu Ren, and Korver's three-point ability on the Lakers' side is not a vegetarian. With Curry being entangled by Liu Ren's death, the firepower of the two teams is evenly matched.

"The Lakers have no choice. They seem to have no way to defend the Warriors. They can only use counterattacks to fight them. Liu Ren's approach to Curry also interfered with the Warriors' firepower to a certain extent. It’s also a good choice when there is no other way.”

Some Dong Qiudi fans analyzed in the webcast.

This netizen's analysis made many fans nod after reading it. The Lakers have been attacking the Warriors from the middle of the first quarter to the end of the second quarter. Kobe is tired of Nick Young, and Korver is tired of Kobe Going up again, Kobe was tired and Korver went up again, while Liu Ren kept defending Curry. Due to the close score between the two sides, neither of them got a chance to rest and stayed on the court all the time.

The Warriors didn't dare to let Curry down, otherwise Liu Ren's defense would definitely affect other Warriors players, and they couldn't find another point guard who could restrain Liu Ren like Curry did!

On the side of the Lakers, D'Antoni also began to realize that the Warriors might really be the second strongest team in the league as Liu Ren said, and this offensive firepower is too amazing!And the defense is not bad. I can't defend my side because my offense is already very strong. At this time, D'Antoni doesn't care about letting Liu Ren rest or anything. Liu Ren must be on the court when Curry is on the court, at least It can limit Curry's firepower here.

The point that everyone paid attention to was the halftime feast between the Lakers and the Warriors. The score of 75 to 79 at halftime was indeed amazing. The Lakers trailed by 4 points at halftime.

But no one noticed that after Curry scored 4 points in the first 12 minutes, he still only scored 12 points after halftime!
Liu Ren tried his best to prevent Curry from catching the ball.

Just imagine a player who didn't get a shot for nearly half of the court, how would he feel?

The half-time break was an ordeal for the fans, but it was an important break for the players and the 15 minutes felt like it went by so fast.

D'Antoni had a headache the entire rest of the day.

The feeling of not being able to control everything in this game is too uncomfortable.

D'Antoni feels like he's back in the Suns period again. He is fighting against his opponent in every game, and there are often situations where the opponent explodes and they face off with high scores.

D'Antoni used to love the excitement, the feeling that even he couldn't predict how the game would end.

But now he doesn't like that feeling so much. After working with Bickerstaff, D'Antoni has liked the feeling of being in control of the overall situation in the first thirty games of this season.

(End of this chapter)