super small forward

Chapter 567. Chapter 567. The Warrior's Time Bomb

After the opening game, the Warriors took advantage of the mobility of the small lineup and the defensive flexibility of the small lineup to catch the Lakers by surprise. D'Antoni wanted to know how the Warriors would play with this lineup, but he didn't respond. Or to put it another way... I can't think of a way to deal with it in a while!
14比6，勇士队开局打出14比6领先湖人8分。

Liu Ren's 4 points were obtained by Kobe in one-on-one singles.

Half of Yang Yi's face was swollen in an instant, and he was helpless too!He is really desperate!
I just said that the lineup of the Warriors has no effect on the Lakers at all, but who knows that it is the turn of the Warriors to give him a big ear, and he made a pretty good start. He beat the Lakers with this unprecedented lineup. The team was caught by surprise.

"Ahaha, I really didn't expect it," Yang Yi smiled dryly to hide his embarrassment, "I originally guessed that the Warriors' lineup might produce good results, but the overall strength of the Lakers is too strong, so I think the Warriors will It may be that the pressure is too high to show their true strength. Now it seems that the Warriors have indeed withstood the pressure and played out their advantages. D'Antoni is not a master of on-the-spot command. I think the Warriors won this game There's a good chance..."

Weeds!Yang Yi decisively changed his tone...

Kobe started with 3 of 4 shots and scored [-] points. This year he is fully recovered. No need to worry about knee, ankle, and shoulder problems. Kobe is in the same state as last year, and even because he doesn’t have to worry too much, he is even stronger in one-on-one singles than last year. , quite powerful when physically fit.

After D'Antoni saw Kobe showing his excellent state, he replaced him and replaced him with McCollum.

The current Lakers lineup is Clarkson, McCollum, Liu Ren, Green, Gasol.

The Warriors did not make a rotation and continued to play with five small lineups.

The Lakers attack.

After Liu Ren arrived in the frontcourt, he suddenly found that Gasol ran to the bottom corner and squatted outside the three-point line.

Gasol wondered if he couldn't afford to provoke or hide...

Liu Ren thought of the new skills developed by Gasol during training, and immediately got concerned, and then ran to the low post.

Clarkson's pass came immediately, and Liu Ren singled Thompson in the low position!

Insider Jason Thompson did not go after Gasol, but squatted inside, ready to block Liu Ren's strong inside play.

Liu Ren's inside attack barely entered the focus of the Warriors' defense. The key is that the strength is really too strong. He can force almost any outside line. Most of the inside lines cannot be blocked. If you don't send someone to help defend , might be forcibly detained.

However, after Liu Ren received the ball and attracted the attention of the two, he quickly threw it to the bottom corner. After receiving the ball and adjusting it, Gasol made a three-point shot!
Yes, stand-up shooting, Gasol's shooting is actually just a foot pad most of the time, and he basically doesn't jump.

"Swish"

Gasol hit a three-pointer!
Gasol unlocks a new scoring stance - the three-pointer!

Originally, Gasol had a good shot in the long range, and he had been practicing three-pointers last season, but his accuracy was mediocre, and he occasionally shot well, but he has not given up on this. In order to keep himself competitive after his age, he has always After practicing hard for three-pointers, I finally got a certain amount of accuracy at the beginning of the new season!This kind of big open decisive hit.

The offensive end found a way, but the Lakers still couldn't defend the Warriors on the defensive end. Thompson got another open opportunity and made another three-pointer.

17 to 9, the Warriors continued to maintain an 8-point advantage.

It's the Lakers' offense again, and this time the profit is still low.

The two Thompsons made eye contact and decided that Jason Thompson would block Liu Ren in the paint, and Klay Thompson would defend Gasol's three-pointer.

I have to say that some talented players have good flexibility when they become big fat guys. Jason Thompson can really block opponents by squatting on the edge of the reasonable collision zone in this one-acre three-point area.

It is really difficult to deal with this kind of fat man, just like Dior, he is fat, heavy and flexible. If he really wants to defend the opponent as a center forward, the opponent really doesn't have much to do.

If Liu Ren wants to withdraw a mid-range shot, the other Thompson is already ready to block it, and Randall, who is defending Green near the free throw line, is also ready to come to help defend at any time.

Liu Ren fell to the low post, and the Warriors took advantage of the situation to force him to attack in the low post.

This defense is much stronger than last season!

D'Antoni looked at Walton again, and Walton continued to pretend to cough and pretend not to notice D'Antoni looking at him.

But D'Antoni smiled immediately. Did Liu Ren really think that Liu Ren was a rookie with two low-post plays except for the inside dunk and the crappy turn around and throw?

So, under Jason Thompson's astonished eyes, Liu Ren blocked Jason Thompson's movement to interfere with him with one hand, and turned around on the spot following the arc of the reasonable collision zone. Shaking, the ball fell into the basket lightly.

Little sky hook!
It turned out to be a small sky hook!

The fans instantly boiled over!

This style of play is really not very enjoyable to watch, and it looks soft, so it is not favored by the current players with strong physical fitness, and it has gradually disappeared in the league.

Only the Lakers fans who have the most powerful skyhook in history will never forget this offensive method. Although fans of other teams think the skyhook is powerful, they don't like their players to use this trick very much.

But the effect is really good!
No interference at all, as long as the hook is accurate, you can enter!
Moreover, the small hook learned by Liu Ren and O'Neill is close to the basket. As long as no one is caught from the side or behind the bread, it is really difficult not to make it!
As long as the Warriors double-team Liu Ren, they will pass the ball, which is simple and rude.

Under the instigation of Liu Ren, the Lakers have no problem on the offensive end, but they still have a little trouble on the defensive end. The Warriors' five-small lineup is indeed a headache.

The two sides began to confront each other. In the 8th minute of the first quarter, the Warriors led the Lakers by 24 points 19 to 5. Both sides scored very efficiently.

In the preseason, D'Antoni went up and down the Lakers in the rotation lineup. LaVine, Nick Young, Metta World Peace, Monroe, and Biyombo played.

The Warriors sent Livingston, Iguodala, Barnes, McAdoo, Bogut.

In this lineup of the Warriors, Barnes is the main scorer.

The weakest part of the Warriors' starting lineup is Barnes. Barnes is actually better at playing with the ball, but the Warriors can't let him have too many opportunities to hold the ball, so they can only give him more playing time. Work out without the ball.

However, after so many years, the effect has been mediocre, especially this year, Barnes seems to have little interest in staying in the Warriors in the contract year, and his shots have become casual.

It stands to reason that the Warriors' rotation should not suffer a loss against the Lakers' rotation without Kobe, Liu Ren, Green, Whiteside, and Gasol, the five strongest players. Yes, but the very weird Barnes began to make crazy shots and hit the iron continuously...

When Liu Ren saw Barnes, he instantly remembered that in his previous life, Barnes played very poorly in the 2015-2016 season!The field goal percentage has reached a career low, not to mention three-pointers. There are often situations where 8 of 1 and 9 of 1 in a single game continue to shoot.

At that time, some people analyzed that Barnes' rookie contract was about to expire, and he wanted to use data to get a big contract, but he really couldn't shoot without the ball. The scoring has not increased much, but the three-point shooting rate has dropped from 14% in the 15-40.00 season to 30.00%.

Now Barnes actually made 4 of 5 shots in the last 1 minutes of the first quarter, which made Liu Ren even more sure of this point. To defeat the Warriors, Barnes must start!

Thinking of this, Liu Ren came to the side of D'Antoni and Bickerstaff.

"Coach, I think there is a way to deal with the five small lineups of the Warriors."

"Huh?" D'Antoni was worried about what he could do, and Bickerstaff, an old bird, had that expression of nothing to do with him. D'Antoni had no excuse and was really embarrassed to beg someone in a preseason game.

D'Antoni is still very interested in Liu Ren's little cleverness that pops up from time to time.

"Barnes!" Liu Ren pointed to Barnes, who continued to catch the ball on the field, "We definitely have the advantage in the bench lineup, even if they put Bogut on the bench, we also have the advantage, mainly because of theirs." Starters, and I think there's a ticking time bomb in their starters!"

"How to say?" Hearing this, Bickerstaff was very curious, and he didn't think of any particularly good solution. This Warriors team is really good, especially their starting lineup is almost invincible. The starting lineup of the Blazers is even stronger, mainly because the defensive end is stronger than that of the Blazers.

In the 15-16 season, the Warriors started really well. Liu Ren also admitted that although Green became Randall, Liu Ren remembered that the Warriors had almost no opponents in the regular season this season. No one could think of a way to deal with them. Otherwise, you won't get more than 70 victories.

If there is really a way to deal with their starters, it would have been spread long ago, so when we did see the Warriors' new lineup and new style of play, both D'Antoni and Bickerstaff looked anxious, and they didn't even know how to deal with it. No entry point could be found.

From Bickerstaff's point of view, Barnes did have some problems today, but it was just a bad touch. The Warriors are a team that shoots when they get a chance. It's normal to have a bad touch occasionally.

"Bernie, you may not have noticed that Barnes is a contract year..."

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Steve Kerr could tell from the completely different performance of Barnes in the previous preseason games. Barnes was worried about his future, so he started to play regardless.

But Barnes is an indispensable part of the Warriors. Without him, the Warriors would not have a qualified starter at the small forward position.

Andre Iguodala?

Iguodala pretended to be dead in the regular season, and his height was only 1.9 meters eight. He was already a small lineup. If he was put on top of a small forward, the rebounds would be completely gone, and if the second team did not With Iguodala leading the team, Steve Kerr is not at ease.

After the start of the second quarter, the Lakers continued to rotate, replacing the lineup of Antetokounmpo, McCollum, Korver, Monroe, and Black.

The Warriors replaced Barnes with Brandon Rush, a swingman with three-pointers and defense.

Steve Kerr became jealous again when he saw the wanton rotation of the Lakers. There were only a few people on his side who could fight, and the Lakers' ups and downs made him jealous.

After Barnes made a 5-for-1, the Lakers quickly overtook the score. In the middle of the second quarter, the Lakers overtook the score to 46-41, which in turn led by five points.

When the Warriors started in the first quarter, they kept firmly suppressing the Lakers, which gave Yang Yi great confidence.

So Yang Yi started messing around again, and said sourly: "The Lakers can take the lead thanks to the second team. They stepped on shit luck and signed Monroe and Biyombo without paying any price in the summer. Their lineup was strong enough. , This is simply cheating, look, the Warriors can recover the score immediately after starting the game."

As Yang Yi wished, both the Lakers and Warriors returned their main players in the second half of the second quarter.

The Warriors continued to die five minors, with Curry, Thompson, Barnes, Jason Thompson, and Randall playing.

There are some changes on the Lakers side. Kobe continues to rest, and Clarkson, Antetokounmpo, Liu Ren, Green, and Whiteside play.

"The Lakers haven't changed to a small lineup yet? I think they are finished. Although Baibian has outstanding agility, he is such a big man after all..." The more Yang Yi said, the more energetic he became...

(End of this chapter)