Thanos

Chapter 197
Frank made adjustments to the lineup, but not much.

With the deepening of the playoffs, the rotation of players has become less and less, especially against a strong team like the Suns, there can be no mistakes at all, and it is impossible for the coach to let marginal players go up to practice.

After the adjustment, the Lakers five-man team: Divac, Odom, Ye Heping, Kobe, Butler.

For the Suns, the change is even smaller, just replacing Ah Q with Jim Jackson.

But with D'Antoni's urination, it's normal.

From the first round, he almost played a 7-man rotation: Stoudemire, Marion, singles Joe, Ah Q, Nash, Jim, Barbosa.

Among them, Barbosa's playing time is only about 10 minutes.

The three main players, Stoudemire, Marion, and Nash ran for 45 minutes.

Fortunately, the sun doctor is well-known in the entire alliance, otherwise the sun's main force would have been abolished long ago.

In fact, just this season, Stoudemire had cartilage damage to his knee and underwent surgery during the offseason. As a result, he took almost the entire season off next season and only played three regular-season games.

The game continued, and Ye Heping took the initiative to go to the sideline to catch the ball.

After catching the ball, advance slowly to give your teammates enough time to settle.

With Divac in this lineup, the Lakers have to slow down and attack in familiar positions.

Otherwise, if you run with the Suns, you can kill Divac.

Arriving at the frontcourt, Ye Heping took one look at Nash, the shortest and thinnest player in the game.

And Nash defended Butler.

Ye Heping immediately signaled everyone to pull away, and even Divac pulled Stoudemire out, and then handed the ball to Butler for singles.

Butler took the ball and squeezed directly in.

At this time, Nash's defense was still very active, but it was of no use.

There is a height difference of 10 centimeters and a weight of 10 kilograms between him and Butler, and there is a big difference in size.

Forcibly squeezed to the middle distance, Butler jumped directly against Nash.

Nash tried to interfere, but Butler was too strong, and Nash's confrontation was like scratching an itch.

Swish!
Butler hit a mid-range shot as soon as he came up, stabilizing the Lakers' rhythm.

25: 21.

But in turn, Nash easily got rid of Butler with the help of his teammates' cover, and also hit a mid-range jumper.

25: 23.

The Lakers attack.

Ye Heping continued to hand the ball to Butler.

Veteran Jim Jackson reacted quickly, knowing that Nash couldn't defend, he took the initiative to help defend.

Butler was flanked and immediately passed the ball back to Ye Heping.

Ye Heping didn't stop the ball at all, and sent the ball to Kobe with a shot in the air.

Nash ran over aggressively.

However, Kobe has already soared into the air, and his fadeaway jumper is picturesque, and Nash can't even interfere.

Swish!
27: 23.

Sun attack.

After a screen, Butler was freed by Nash again, but Ye Pingping rushed over, covering Nash, and did not give Nash room to shoot.

But you can guard a top point guard's shot, but you can't guard his pass.

Nash made a magical behind-the-back wrist pass, and the basketball flew high behind him and over Ye Heping.

I don't know when, Stoudemire has already made an air cut, caught the basketball and took only one step, and went straight up.

The so-called one force drops ten games, Divac has rich experience and extremely high golf quotient, but he has nothing to do with Stoudemire's domineering style of play.

Bang!
27: 25.

Another dunk.

Stoudemire roared and jumped excitedly, playing with a top point guard like Nash is really comfortable.

You have 100 points of strength, and Nash can increase your strength to 110, or even 120.

In the last few minutes of the first quarter, the scores of the two sides continued to rise, and no one could prevent the other.

The Lakers focused on Nash and regarded him as a breakthrough, and then Ye Heping controlled the rhythm, and the whole team played very comfortably.

On the side of the sun, it is purely personal ability.

The role players are not in good condition and can only be supported by the joint efforts of Nash and Stoudemire.

However, these two are also really strong, and they did not let the point difference be opened abruptly.

At the end of the first quarter, 31:28, the Lakers still lead by 3 points.

At the beginning of the second quarter, Kobe led the team on the Lakers side, and the other players rotated greatly. Atkins, Cook, Grant Sr. and others replaced the main players and continued to play.

The sun is a little crazy.

Coach D'Antoni also carried out a rotation, allowing Barbosa, Hunter, and McCarty to play.

But these people only played for 2 minutes. After being opened up by Kobe's sudden shots, D'Antoni replaced all these people and replaced all the main players.

It feels that these substitutes of the Suns are not used for rotation at all, they exist to give the main players time to catch their breath.

Fortunately, the Suns swept the Nuggets in the first round and rested for more than a week. Otherwise, who would stand up to play like this?
But although they have sufficient physical strength, their competitive state is really not good, and they still can't make open shots when they come back from the second quarter.

And Nash's personal touch is also declining. During this time, he relied on Stoudemire to hit the basket to increase his points.

Marion was not strong on the offensive end, but he also grabbed a few offensive rebounds to keep the team alive.

Halfway through the second quarter, 45:40, the Lakers led by 5 points.

Kobe took a rest, and Ye Heping and Odom led the team together.

And the first thing Ye Heping did when he came back was to communicate with Odom and Mihm. The three of them divided the work to protect the rebounds and never gave the Suns an easy chance to grab rebounds.

The Lakers' rebounding has been very good this season, ranking among the top three in the entire league.

After all, there are three high players on the court, and most people can't even think about grabbing offensive rebounds.

Jim Jackson received a breakthrough goal, and the open three-pointer missed again.

Marion wanted to rush to the basket for a rebound, but a figure stood in his way.

Purple No. 24 Ye Heping firmly blocked Marion. Marion squeezed twice and remained motionless, so he could only give up.

Stoudemire is also entangled by memes, and Stoudemire is naturally better than explosive power.But compared to the static power, the large tonnage of the meme still has an advantage.

With two teammates to help, Odom easily accepted the backcourt rebound.

The Lakers attack.

The Suns switched offense and defense quite quickly, and quickly retreated to their home half to set up a defensive formation.

Odom had no choice but to fight positional warfare.

Marion's defense is excellent. Although he suffers from height, he just uses his long arms to make up for it, which interferes with Odom's shot.

However, Ye Heping grabbed an offensive rebound and attracted Stoudemire's defense, but a second pass assisted Mihm to score.

47: 40.

The top three of the Lakers cooperated for a season, and then Ye Heping took the lead in doing the dirty and tiring work. Everyone was willing to sacrifice for his teammates, and the effect is quite good now.

Not three players, but a small team, attacking and defending well.

Beep beep!

In the absence of Kobe, the Lakers' top three relied on their rebounding advantage to stop the Suns.

Coach D'Antoni yelled, but there were no actual defensive tactics.

This is also a major characteristic of the German coach. In terms of bombardment tactics alone, he may be the most powerful coach on the planet.

But defensively, he really doesn't know anything.

So from the Suns to the Rockets, D'Antoni's teams have always played well in the regular season, but they have always been poor in the playoffs.

After all, offense wins the regular season and defense wins championships.

If you can't defend well, you'll never win a championship.

The Rockets also considered D'Antoni's poor defense, so they hired a chief assistant, Jeff Bzdelik, who is a very strong defensive coach and came to help D'Antoni guide his defensive tactics.

But now, D'Antoni has no suitable helpers around him.

(End of this chapter)