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Chapter 21 Kobe's off-ball skills!
On the left wing, Kobe is the same sharp knife, straight into the belly of the Jazz.

Bowen sprints to the right wing. As a forward and guard swingman, it is not a problem to counterattack and hit the basket to score points.

The Lakers counterattacked quickly, with both wings flying.

Billups took the ball and dribbled one step. His steady style of play and lack of running-in made his advancement interrupted.

Stockton copied the Lakers' pressing homework.

As the league's assist leader, his consciousness and anticipation ability are extraordinary, as if waiting for Billups to get into the net he wove, entangled Billups.

Immediately afterwards, with a small movement in his hand, he secretly greeted Billups.

At the same time, Hornacek caught up and immediately rushed to defend.

With his strong physique and superb ball handling, Billups didn't lose the basketball, but he couldn't continue to push, run and counterattack.

John Stockton entered the defensive second team five times. Judging from the white man with a height of 185 and a weight of 77 kg, his defensive strength must have water in it, but the small movements in his hands are real skills.

Think about it, 58 Cannon knows that their defensive styles are similar, the same fierce, the same dirty, and Stockton does not have the physical talent of Chris Paul.

However, as the 9th assists leader, the most assists leader in the league, and the 2-time steals leader, this ability to predict in advance and keen observation skills are still quite good, although he is indeed old and cannot show his strength Ten percent.

Besides, Billups is still just a junior, not Billy, and he still has the ability to interrupt the offense.

The defensive counterattack failed, and the Lakers attacked and fell into a positional battle.

The Sharks arrived in the penalty area, guarded by the big pyrenes, and were not in a hurry to get the ball to play.

O'Neill knew in his heart that in front of Ostertag, he could hit three with one.

In the four games of the Western Conference finals last season, O'Neal averaged 30 points, 10 rebounds and 5 assists per game.

It doesn't make any sense to beat the big white bear, but it doesn't make sense. He tried it last season, and he also broke it.

The results of it?
He won the personal data, but the Lakers lost the entire series, or the kind of sweep.

Therefore, the key to solving the Jazz is really not with him.

He needs help, and wants to try the tactics of head coach Li Mu, is it really effective?

This is a battle of rhythm. If O'Neill hits a few times, scores, and exchanges the ball, it will be very fatal for rhythm control.

In other words, when is being strong a mistake?
If that's the case, O'Neill hopes to repeat the same mistakes.

At this time, the Jazz's defense line has been set up, and the tortoise formation that has been laid out is retracted, waiting for the Lakers to break through.

For the defense outside the three-point line, the Jazz don't care at all. The Lakers' three-point shooting space is called an empty sea.

However, the Lakers really dare not vote anymore.

Afraid of collapse!

In the Western Conference Finals last season, the Lakers had lost all their three-pointers.

In the first game, the Lakers shot 23 three-pointers alone, a god-like back number. As a result, the three-pointers felt very awkward. They only made 4 of them, and they collapsed themselves.

Kobe was 5 for 0.

Nick is 5 for 0.

Jones is 4 for 1.

Horry is 3 for 1.

In the second game, the Lakers only took 16 shots, which proved to be correct, and only hit 4 times.

In the third game, I returned to the home court, thinking that my luck would change, but in the end, I scored 19 of 5.

In the fourth game, 16 of 6.

Therefore, when the Jazz play the Lakers, the defensive tactic is to block the two-point inside line, and then wait for the Lakers to shoot a three-pointer before blowing up.

It's no wonder that the Jazz don't regard the Lakers as "alive", because the Lakers can't live up to their expectations, and they can't help it!

"The Lakers sent away star guard Nick and fired former head coach Dell because the Lakers' three-point shooting ability is too bad, and outside shooting is the team's flaw."

"O'Neal needs space to attack in the penalty area, and the outside shooting group is not sure. The road will naturally become narrower and narrower, and the upper limit of his performance is not high."

"The problem is that the average team has no way to force out the Lakers' flaws, and they are overwhelmed and defeated.

The Jazz have such strength, allowing the Lakers to show their original shape.

Now, facing the Jazz Chiguoguo's defensive tactics.

How should the Lakers conduct the Raiders? "

"what?

Billups did not lob the ball to O'Neal on the inside, and was dribbling to observe the situation on the court. The Jazz were defending man-to-man tactics.

Kobe didn't stand and wait for the ball, he ran..."

On the field, outside the three-point line on the left, Kobe ran back and started off-ball tactics.

You must know that in the last game against the Rockets, Kobe scored 23 points and is the outside core and second scorer of the Lakers.

Hornacek didn't dare to let go, so he had to follow.

I saw Kobe bypassing Billups, going straight into the restricted area on the right, and passing the bottom line from O'Neal.

Hornacek was left behind by the tail, and was chasing at full speed, unable to keep up. He could stop the car there, and directly hit O'Neal with a full arms, completely losing Kobe.

Kobe passed through the restricted area, with a fake shake, avoided Malone's interception, turned around beautifully, circled around, and returned to the left side again.

At this time, the defense on the left side is taken away and becomes the weak side of the offense.

Billups saw it, and without waiting for Stockton's reaction, he jumped up immediately. Taking advantage of his height, he swung his hands, and the basketball flew into Kobe's hands with precision.

Under the 45-degree horn area on the left, Kobe catches the ball without making any adjustments, catches the ball, jumps up, stays in the air, raises his hand and shoots a two-point jumper...

Swish-!
Basketball, through the heart and into the net.

Ma Long looked at the ball and sighed, his supplementary defense just moved a step.

Kobe is done.

That's right, Kobe's three-point shooting percentage is in a dark period, but the mid-range shooting percentage has reached the peak level on paper, with a hit rate of 46.5%. In the era when the mid-range shot is king , Kobe, closely following the trend of the times.

pretty! !
On the sidelines, Li Mu burst into applause with a smile on his face.

After just one day of training, Kobe has developed superb off-ball skills, which is simply extraordinary talent.

In other words, if you also had a friend and enemy in high school named Richard Hamilton, it is estimated that you will also have the talent for this off-ball running technique.

Hamilton, who was given the nicknames CIC King and Mask Man, brought his running talent into the NBA in the 1999 draft.

He was born in Philadelphia... weird place, Iverson was born there too.

In a conference semifinal in March 1995, Kobe and Hamilton met.

In that game, Kobe scored 26 points and Hamilton scored 22 points.

Kobe won the personal data, but lost the game.

Later, the two participated in an event held by a club together. The two lived together and became good friends. In exchanging game experience, Kobe successfully copied Hamilton's off-the-ball running skills.

Even, in order to surpass Hamilton, Kobe trained himself into an undead iron man, and he also practiced a lot of catch and jump shots.

In the future, Kobe will become the player who plays most like Jordan, copying Jordan's skills over and over again, so that the fake ones can be confused with the real ones.

Participated in the class taught by Dameng, successfully learned the footsteps of dreams, and even achieved surpassing.

Hong Kong, Kobe's learning talent and hard work are simply terrifying.

His small off-ball skills are really hard for him.

The Jazz trailed by 4 points and were not in a hurry.

Stockton dribbled forward and faced another press from Billups.

He calmly pushed the basketball into the frontcourt.

Next, Utah Shuangsha played a pick-and-roll tactic.

Stockton took advantage of Malone's screen to shake off Billups, ignoring Ben Wallace's switch block, and raised his hand to hit two points steadily.

"It's so easy. With the pick-and-roll and the casual mid-range shot, he can complete the offense with his eyes closed." Mike Breen explained a bit exaggeratedly.

However, this pair has been polished for 85 years from 99 to 14. The offensive power is not enough to describe in words.

2 is better than 4!

The Lakers attacked, Billups dribbled to the frontcourt, and Kobe continued to run tactics.

Running from left to right, Hornacek was too tired to keep up.

In the same way, Kobe ran back from the restricted area to the left, and Malone was taken out of the restricted area.

At this time, Billups hoisted the basketball to O'Neal.

Catch the ball with his back to the basket, take a step, bump into the basket, turn around, and the big white bear is knocked out of the baseline and jumps up.

Boom-!
Slam dunk with both hands, O'Neal's whole body is hanging on the basket.

2 to 6! !
"That's it?
Is that why Kobe played off the ball?

I don't think it's really necessary, even if Kobe doesn't run, just pass the basketball into O'Neal's hands.

The final result is the same.

For the Lakers, the bad thing is not the off-ball running tactics, but the outside shooting. ’ explained Mike Breen.

"Perhaps, Li Mu, the head coach of the Lakers, just wants Hornacek to consume more energy?
After all, from the beginning of the game, the Lakers have been pressing the whole court, don't they just want to use physical fitness to decide the outcome? "The groom Albert explained with a smile, as if he had already grasped Li Mu's tactical purpose clearly.

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(End of this chapter)