NBA peak

Chapter 714 Absolute Advantage
"Shh."

The flying basketball, in the eyes of tens of thousands of fans, fell straight into the net frame.

Teammates ran up to high-five Ge Feng one after another.

At this moment when the two teams are secretly competing, it is so important that the team has a superstar who can throw the ball into the basket!

The playoffs are the stage for superstars.

In many cases, what determines the final direction of a game is not how advanced the team's tactics are, nor how luxurious the lineup is, but whether the players can send the ball into the opponent's basket at critical moments of the game.

As long as the star can send the ball into the opponent's basket at this moment, it is equivalent to stabbing a dagger in the enemy's heart.

Ge Feng scored consecutively, which has dampened the Grizzlies' defensive enthusiasm.

Morant's mentality collapsed a bit.

In this situation, he failed to lead the Grizzlies to score consecutively, but his opponent did it.

The gap between the Grizzlies and the Lakers was immediately apparent.

After Ge Feng increased the proportion of ball possession, the Lakers played more and more disciplined.

Moreover, the organizational skills of Bojan and Gasol Jr. have begun to show, and Davis can also easily eat cakes in the paint and complete scoring.

A festival of flowers!

In the second half of the third quarter, the Lakers played like a fish in water, but the Grizzlies did not support the rhythm of the Lakers.

In the last attack of the third quarter, the Grizzlies completely defended Ge Feng. As a result, Bo Yang, who has never been involved in layups, used a spiritual counterrun, directly caught the ball, rushed to the opponent's basket and dunked one.

The big man's turret dunked inside, which definitely added a handful of salt to the Grizzlies' wounds.

37 is better than 19!

The Lakers scored a wave of 40 points in a single quarter and limited the Grizzlies' scoring to 20 points.

In just one quarter, the Lakers led by 18 points!
Lakers fans are pretty excited.

This is the rhythm that the first hit eighth should have!

The last game was purely an accident. When the Lakers gradually found their sense in the playoffs, the immature Morant was not the Lakers' opponent at all.

Ge Feng alone contributed 16 points in the third quarter.

After the three quarters, Ge Feng's personal score reached 26 points, second only to Anthony Davis who scored 22 points in the first half and also scored 6 points in the third quarter.

The Grizzlies couldn't find a way to limit the Lakers' scoring.

On the outside, whether it is offense, organization or defense, the immature Morant is not as stable as Ge Feng.

On the inside, Davis is currently the best 4 in the league.

Neither Valanciunas nor Anderson could prevent Davis from scoring.

The Grizzlies coach called a timeout and adjusted tactics to no avail.

The gap between the team's superstars is there. The stars can't compete against each other, and even the best tactics can't be played out.

In the last quarter, the Grizzlies still wanted to struggle, and it was Morant, their core, who led the Grizzlies to struggle.

Morant is unwilling to give up the series so hastily.

At least, he also wants to lead the Grizzlies and take away two victories from the Lakers.

Morant scored two consecutive three-pointers, and then used a three-point fake to fly Pope, went inside, and caused a foul by Harrell.

Morant played really hard in the past 3 minutes. He carried the entire Grizzlies offense on his shoulders.

However, at this time, Kobe saw that the Grizzlies were not ready to give up the game, so he let Ge Feng and Davis continue to play, trying to use the shortest time to beat the Grizzlies.

After Ge Feng came on the field, he confronted Morant tit for tat.

The two fought extremely anxiously, but in the end, Ge Feng still had a slight edge over Morant.

In a 1V1 steal, Ge Feng directly cut Morant's ball, and then quickly rushed to the frontcourt to complete a spinning dunk.

This spinning dunk after the steal is quite Kobe's youthful demeanor.

Similarly, this goal completely broke the confidence of the Grizzlies' tenacious resistance.

In the last 5 minutes, the difference between the two sides has been expanded to 25 points!
The Grizzlies coach finally gave up and replaced the main players one after another, letting the substitutes play the remaining garbage time on the court.

Seeing this, Kobe also replaced the Lakers' starting lineup.

The Grizzlies dug too much for themselves in the third quarter, and Ge Feng is known as the king of the last quarter. It is completely difficult for the Grizzlies to steal a victory from the Lakers at home under such circumstances.

In the end, the Lakers still defeated the Grizzlies 133 to 119, rewriting the big score to 2 to 0!

Morant of the Grizzlies scored a game-high 33 points, 8 assists and 5 steals.

Although Morant's data looks luxurious, but in this game, he made 4 turnovers, 3 of which were in the face of Ge Feng.

Moreover, the most important thing is that Morant's shooting percentage in this game is not high. He can get a high score of 30+ only because of the accumulated results of a large number of shots.

Morant made 30 of 12 shots and 9 of 3 three-pointers in the game, and his shooting percentage was less than [-]%.

Among them, when Morant was facing Ge Feng, he made 4 of 0 shots, missed a goal, and was intercepted once.

Ge Feng meant that Morant had been trained in the military.

For the Lakers, Davis scored a team-high 32 points, 15 rebounds and 4 assists. Ge Feng scored a triple-double of 30 points, 5 assists and 10 rebounds. Gasol, who came off the bench, played his organizational skills to the extreme in this game, and finally scored 4 points, 9 rebounds and 10 assists.

Kobe squeezed his chin thoughtfully when he saw Gasol's assist count rising.

The difference between being a coach and being a player is very obvious.

When Kobe was a player, he only wanted to use his personal strength to prove that he could lead the team to victory.

But after becoming the head coach, Kobe began to watch the game with an overall perspective.

At this time, Kobe finally understood why his teacher Jackson had such a headache for him.

In a certain sense, Kobe's paranoia did hurt the Lakers back then.

It is not without reason that Zen Master was so angry with Kobe that he ran away from the Lakers several times.

As a head coach, the most fearful thing is that the players are disobedient.

Jackson coached Michael Jordan, Jordan's two three-peat dynasties, Jackson is one of the most important figures.

Jackson has plenty of experience in winning championships, but the young Kobe just refused to listen to Jackson's speech, and confronted Jackson again and again, which caused the Lakers to once fall from a three-peat championship dynasty to a poor team in the playoffs.

Kobe now knows everything.

The stadium is actually equivalent to a battlefield. The performance of any player is based on the head coach's tactical arrangements.

There are indeed some players who can play some incredible games, but behind these incredible games, is there any game that is not what the head coach wants the players to do?
When Kobe wants other Lakers players to stand up and score, Ge Feng and Davis will lose the ball. Correspondingly, their assists will be much higher than the average level.

When Kobe wants Ge Feng and Davis to score, the assists of Ge Feng and Davis will show a downward trend.

On the contrary, at this time, the assists of other players on the team will rise steadily.

(End of this chapter)