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Chapter 58 Peja, Defensive Poor Version of Soup God!
In the second quarter, the game started.

As long as Jason Williams and Webber are on the floor, the framework of the Kings' Princeton system is there.

Webber holds the ball in a high position, Jason Williams cuts to the basket, circles the bottom line, always kills back to the basket, and hits the carbine.

With the basic framework, the Kings' bench offensive firepower, the lower limit is guaranteed, and the upper limit is sometimes very high.

In the rotation lineup competition, the Lakers' offense relies on the star's chaotic ability.

The Kings are organized and play very well as a team.

The Princeton system is working, and players are constantly looking for open offensive opportunities on the baseline and outside.

The Lakers players can't tell who is the starting point of the offense and who is the end point of the offense?
On the field, after the second quarter of the game, Li Mu's eyes fell on Stojakovic involuntarily.

He was too active and his offense was too eye-catching.

On the left wing, he took Kobe to run towards the ball holder, and suddenly ran back and cut into the inside.

Weber flicked his hands, and the ball arrived.

Stojakovic received the ball, twisted his waist, jumped up, shot, and the entire shooting action was clean and neat, without any excess.

Basketball, the arc in the air is very beautiful.

Swish-!
Steadily hit two points.

Next, it was Stojakovic, who ran back again, interspersed into the inside line, made a thud, and suddenly turned back to outside the three-point line.

Catch the ball, face the basket, lift the ball, jump up, shoot...

The standard 2 meters, excellent wingspan, soft touch, even if Kobe's defense is the ultimate, there is still no way to block the shot.

Swish-!
The hand went up and down, and the three-pointer went into the net hollowly.

At this moment, Li Mu could vaguely see Thompson on Stojakovic.

Of course, what surprised Li Mu even more is how come the Kings' bench strength has been so strong since 98?

"Peja, it should be considered as the first generation of Kings gangsters now!"

The future Bobby Jackson, Hido Turkoglu, Gerald Wallace, etc., are not in the Kings. There is only one 97 rookie Scott Pollard, who has not yet played.

However, the offensive firepower of the Kings' bench is even stronger than that of the Lakers.

"This is another phenomenon in the new season of the Kings. Their starting lineup, compared with the opposing team, has no advantage. It is often the bench rotation that opens the situation.

If the Kings' Princeton tactics work out and the main lineup shows a strong offensive power, the future of this Kings team can be said to be limitless.

Of course, if they want to compete for the championship, the offense is not the problem they need to solve the most, but the problem of defense. "Marv Albert commented.

He really saw the offensive potential of the Kings team in front of him. At the same time, he didn't like the Kings' defense because it was really too messy.

On the court, the Lakers attacked, and the offensive firepower was also fully fired.

No way, the Kings are not defensive, and it is difficult for the Lakers to score or not score.

On the defensive end, Kobe was blown away by his rookie Stojakovic of the same year.

This made him very upset. During the offense, facing Stojakovic's defense, he also turned back with color, and the offense frequently succeeded.

You know, even Thompson's defense was slowly developed after Kobe's generation retired.

To put it bluntly, the main reason is that the back-up technique has disappeared.

It mainly defends against the attack of facing the basket. Once the death coil comes out, it will be very destructive to this kind of attack against the basket.

Stojakovic is seen as a defensively poor version of Thompson.

His defensive strength fluctuates up and down the NBA qualifying line, his physical confrontation is too soft, and he has many problems that rookies have.

Facing Kobe's breakthrough, he was completely powerless to parry, and was directly smashed into a sieve.

Going inside, the Kings don't have the ability to protect the basket.

Kobe can naturally attack the basket easily.

On the offensive end, Weber is really talented. In the second quarter, he organized the Kings' offense in an orderly manner, and he can also score with precise mid-range shots.

Occasionally, he can play low post singles, neither Horry nor Miller can stop his offense.

It's just that, on the defensive end, Webber, as the tallest man on the court, has almost zero protection for the Kings' inside basket.

After all, he has to put his physical strength on the offensive end.

Of course, even if the Kings were undefended, the Lakers still lost in the offensive competition.

Li Mu replaced Bradmi and replaced him with Rice, a three-point shooter. Together with Curry, he fought against the Kings' offensive firepower, and then he tightly bit the score.

After the second quarter, the score was 65 to 58. Under the leadership of Stojakovic, who made 6 of 4 shots and 4 of 2 three-pointers in a single quarter, the Kings continued to expand the point difference. The Lakers were already behind in terms of score 7 points.

On the commentary stage, Mike Brin shook his head and said with a smile, "The strength of the 'rotation lineup' of the Lakers is notoriously terrifying in the league. I didn't expect that they would be overwhelmed by the Kings who are fully attacking tonight. , is really very strange.

In this way, the second half of the game will not be sleepy, and the confrontation between the two sides is very worth looking forward to. "

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In the second half, the offense of the Lakers was not as good as that of the Kings. Li Mu was a little unconvinced and thought about sending out an offensive lineup to compare.

Billups, Kobe, Rice, Horry and O'Neal played.

For the Kings, Adelman also made adjustments, starting five teams, replacing Collis Williams with Stojakovic, who is in an excellent offensive state, and the lineup is Jason Williams, Wahad , Stojakovic, Weber and Divac.

Speaking of which, Collis Williams is good defensively, but not far off offensively.

Collis Williams averaged 17 points per game last season.

You call this score far away?
It doesn't matter if the score is high or not.

Importantly, this person doesn't have a three-point shot, and his shooting percentage has been zero for three years as a rookie. I wonder if he doesn't shoot three-pointers?
Still made a three-pointer and missed all of them.

Let him shoot three-pointers this season, and his shooting percentage is only 20%, which is not even as good as the four-up three-pointers.

The mid-range shot is also poor, and the main style of play is to hit the basket. This kind of muscular style of play, Adelman doesn't like it at all.

Same goes for future 'Elvis' Gerald Wallace.

In addition, this person can't pass the ball and only has eyes on the basket, so he was naturally pressed to the bench.

The game started in the third quarter, and the defenses of both sides began to increase their intensity.

In the first round, Weber responded from a high position and gave the ball to Wahad, who cut into the inside line. He caught the ball and made a layup, but Kobe used a foul to interrupt the offense.

On free throws, Wahad made two free throws.

67 to 58! !
The Kings lead extended to 9 points.

Looking back, the Lakers' offense was controlled by Rice on the outside.

O'Neal received the basketball comfortably, sat on his back, and didn't use much force when he went to the basket. He turned around and lifted the ball.

When Divac jumped up to block the shot, O'Neal carried the defense and sent the basketball into the basket.

With a beep, the referee's whistle sounded, and O'Neal got a 2+1 chance.

The number of fouls on Divac reached 3 times.

At the free throw line, O'Neal played abnormally and made a free throw.

67 to 61! !
The Lakers are only 6 points behind.

"The Kings were attacking, and Peja was entangled by Rice. He was seen through without the ball in front of Rice, and he couldn't catch the basketball at all.

Big Ben expanded his defense and Webber gave the ball to Jason Williams. Is this going to be singled out?
No, it's still passing, the Kings are playing as a team..."

On the field.

Jason Williams caught the ball and lifted it up, made a three-step layup, turned the basketball from the right to the left with his back, lifted it coquettishly, made a shooting posture, and after deceiving Billups and O'Neal, Suddenly, the basketball was flicked to the back of the head in the air.

With a gorgeous pass, the basketball was passed to Wahad.

At this time, Wahad, who accidentally received the basketball, was panicked.

He originally wanted to get ready to grab the rebound, but he didn't expect... Well, he should have thought that that kid Jason might pass the ball to him.

Boom-!
Wahad missed the shot directly.

The mentality and touch were taken away by Jason Williams.

Outside the stadium, fans and audience regretted their voices, followed by clapping applause.

For Jason Williams, they liked it more and more.

Li Mu smiled. He also likes it very much. An opponent like Jason Williams is equally gorgeous and mistakes.

"As expected of 'white chocolate', it tastes really sweet, and if you don't worry about gaining weight, it's really delicious!"

On the Kings side, Adelman's face was terribly serious.

If it wasn't for the fact that the Kings didn't have a better point guard, he would have wanted to replace the damn Jason Williams and throw him on the bench soberly.

This bastard is too good at it.

In other words, the offensive firepower displayed by the Princeton tactics is only the tip of the iceberg, showing terrifying destructive power.

Fortunately, Princeton's tactics are not perfect, and there are many problems.

The Lakers seized on the Kings' error and slowly closed the score.

Halfway through the third quarter, the Lakers were only 2 points behind in terms of score.

However, Li Mu is still not satisfied, the rhythm on the field is still controlled by the Kings.

Facing the bumpy Princeton tactics, the Lakers with a strong lineup will be suppressed by the Kings on offense.

It doesn't make sense!
Li Mu felt that it was time to play with a different rhythm.

Immediately, taking advantage of the dead ball, a long timeout was called.

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(End of this chapter)