Kwame Brown's Freshman

Chapter 163 The Finals Kick Off
"Okay, let's watch the game." Rudy was obviously changing the subject, and Barkley had the upper hand in this debate.Barkley didn't push his nose to his face either, and began to explain the game.

Looking back to Kwame, just now Hilary made him laugh out loud, and he really had the urge to find a way to get in.

Looking around the stadium, [-] seats are full, uniform purple and gold two-color shirts, densely packed with Kwame's No. [-], Kobe's No. [-], Kidd's No. [-], Finley's No. [-], and Miller's No. [-] , Oddo's No. [-]... This is the first time to see so many fans wearing Lakers jerseys gathered in one arena.Kwame is filled with the urge to pick up the ball and play.

"Why, go up to warm up with the ball, what are you doing stupidly. Could it be that you are nervous?" Kobe picked up the ball and made a beautiful hollow hit.

"Kobe, what was it like the first time you played in the Finals?" Kwame asked.

"Me, it's my first time to play in the Finals. I'm very excited. My opponent is next to the No. [-] three-pointer in history, but I know I'm stronger than him." Kobe thought for a while and said.

"It turned out to be like this. The best defensive player on the opposite side seems to be quite strong. Let me beat you!" Kwame secretly cheered himself up.

The Lakers' starting lineup today is a tall lineup of Kidd, Kobe, Radmanovich, Kwame, and Mihm.

The starting lineup of the Pistons has not changed as usual, and the five tigers led by last year's championship mvp Billups.

Rudy’s strategy is to give full play to the team’s height advantage. The Pistons’ starting lineup is much taller than the Lakers. Kidd is six feet four.Except for Kwame's defense against Rasheed Wallace, a [-]-foot-[-]-inch big man who suffers a bit, the others are all perfect heights.

Although the Lakers lineup has an advantage in height, it doesn't suffer in terms of speed. The Pistons are short in stature, but they don't have the advantage in speed, so Rudy is relieved to replace them with three big men on the court. The suppression is because Malone's pitiful six-foot-eight height is holding him back.Malone, who was old and lost his explosive power, was blasted by Rasheed Wallace on both offense and defense in the finals. Kwame's power forward also made up for Radmanovich's lack of mobility.

Facing Ben Wallace with a jump ball in the middle circle, Kwame was not only two centimeters taller, but his bounce was not comparable to the opponent. The referee threw the ball. When the ball reached the highest point, Kwame exploded suddenly. -Wallace's hand has just been stretched out, and before he has fully taken off, Kwame has picked the ball to Kidd.

The Lakers' first attack gave the ball to Kwame on the right side of the free throw line as usual. Kobe bypassed Kwame and cut inside. The moment after Kwame passed, Kwame handed the ball to Kobe, and Kobe went inside. Going in, Prince Prince, who was defending Kobe, was blocked by Kwame, and Ben Wallace turned around to block Kobe.Kwame was waiting for this opportunity. When it started instantly, Prince didn't dare to stop him. He strode into the inside line and leaped high. Kobe tossed the ball very tacitly. The first goal of the game was also the first two points of his career finals.

"Beautiful, great coordination, look, the Pistons simply can't help it." Barkley has become a fan of Kwame.

"Kenny, this is just the first goal!"

"Go, go, you're jealous. You don't want someone better than you to win the championship. Miller will definitely win the championship this year!"

"..." Smith remained silent every time he said this, "Let's watch the Pistons attack..." Smith could only change the subject.

Kwame guards Rasheed Wallace, and Ben Wallace is no threat at all, just let the meme block him.Tianzun's nimble footsteps in front of Kwame are like playing a big knife in front of Guan Gong. Kwame followed closely and did not let Tianzun get a chance to make a move. Tianzun could only hand the ball to Billups. Although Billups was last year's The most valuable player of the championship, but obviously not as good as Kidd. Everyone knows that the mvp is to select the taller one from the shorter ones. There is really no way to choose him from only one of the five players. After all, in the finals last year, Among the five tigers of the Pistons, except for Prince, who was a little less efficient because he was playing against Kobe, the contributions of the other four were similar.

Billups didn't have a good way to face Kidd. The [-]-second shot clock was about to come, and Billups was about to force a shot. At this moment, Hamilton finally ran out of the open space, and Rasheed-Wallace helped Hamilton blocked Kobe, and Kwame slowed down a bit, leaving Hamilton, the guy who claims to run to death and hit you, in an open position.Billups' pass was sent immediately, and Hamilton made a steady mid-range hit. [-]:[-] flat.

This can be regarded as Kobe was hit, of course Kobe has to return it, "Jason, the ball!" Kidd had just dribbled the ball halfway, Kobe motioned for the ball.Kobe made two dashes, and it was really not easy to break through to the long-armed and fast Prince Kobe.

Seeing that there was no way to break through, Kobe signaled Kwame to come out and catch the ball. Kwame was stuck with Big Ben. Seeing Kobe's call, he came out to catch the ball at the free throw line.Kobe bypassed Kobe just like the previous attack, and Kwame also sent the ball forward when Kobe bypassed. Everyone thought that the two would repeat their tricks, and both Big Ben and Prince blocked Kwame.

Kwame smiled strangely, "I'm here with the ball!" Kwame just sent the ball over, but Kobe didn't catch it. Kwame understood Kobe's thoughts instantly.

Seeing Kwame throwing the ball to the basket, the two people who had just blocked Kwame rushed to the inside. Tianzun was pulled to the outside by Radmanovich, hoping that Hamilton could stop Radmanovich. Can someone the height of a center barely shoot?So the Pistons were empty inside, and Big Ben and Prince could only watch Kobe catch the ball in the air and dunk into the basket.

"Cool!" Kwame stretched out his hand to give Kobe a high-five, "slap" Kobe slapped Kwame's hand viciously, and then quickly returned to the defense. It can be seen that Kobe attaches great importance to this game, and Kobe is determined to repay Last year's revenge.

Kwame also returned to the defense quickly, but while shaking his hands, he murmured: "Damn, what are you doing so hard, it hurts."

Compared with his control on the defensive end, Larry Brown obviously has no talent in offense. The offense is all in the hands of Billups alone. It is very simple to deal with. Or hand it over to Big Ben after attracting the attention of the opponent's center forward. There are only Big Ben and the defenders in the interior, because the opponent's power forward has been pulled to the outside by Tianzun.

Otherwise, the ball is handed over to Tianzun for singles. The most commonly used offensive method is Hamilton's counterattack after desperate defense. The Pistons have no other believable tactics.

So in this attack, Billups still used the old rule to break through alone. They all said that this is a rare tactic for the Pistons. After Larry Brown took over, the Pistons believed in me scoring less and making the opponent score less. That's fine.So the tactics of the Pistons have long been seen through by everyone. Kidd has thoroughly studied Billups' breakthrough habits. He deliberately exposed a gap in Billups' bottom line breakthrough.

Billups dribbles through Kidd. Kidd is one of the best defensive players in the league. It is not easy to deal with. Billups has been looking for Kidd's flaws. Suddenly, there is a gap in Kidd's defense. Billups immediately seized the gap and rushed in to the right. Kidd "hastily" moved laterally, but Billups is known for his physical strength, and squeezed away Kidd from the bottom line to the inside. Lace puts Mim in the back to make room for Billups, unguarded!Billups made an empty shot!

"Be careful!" Tianzun's voice came the moment Billups shot, but it was too late.Kwame has taken off, and Billups only feels a shadow hanging over his head!At the moment when the ball was still rising and was about to fall, Kwame pressed the ball on the backboard and nailed it!The moment the ball was nailed to the backboard, Kwame's head went over the basket!Even the shoulders are even with the backboard!Crazy screams came from the audience immediately.Kwame and Kidd discussed how to deal with Billups before the game. As long as Billups is strangled, the Pistons' poor offense will basically stagnate.Forcing Billups to attack from the baseline is the main means.

Fight back!After Kwame took the ball and threw it to Kidd, he rushed forward quickly. No one could catch up with him!Hamilton, the fastest Piston, stopped chasing after a few steps, and couldn't catch up at all!Just after Kwame took a few strides across the center line, Kidd immediately passed the ball back to Kwame. This is truly unguarded!Kwame completed the offense with a tomahawk dunk.

Billups was obviously affected by the big hat just now, and what he couldn't get rid of was Kwame's calves, which were almost able to hang on his shoulders in the air, and Kwame's terrifying bounce.Billups still broke into the inside line easily, but after he broke in, he was afraid of his hands and feet. He wanted to pass his teammates without a good chance, but he was afraid of being blocked. In fact, Tianzun had already pulled Kwame to the outside line at this time. It takes a little attention to know that Kwame dare not let go of Tianzun and come in to help defend.

But Billups obviously didn't notice this. Seeing that the time was coming, he could only squeeze Kidd away and force a shot, but Billups had already missed the best shot opportunity created by his teammates at this time. At this time, Kwame no longer needs to care about Tianzun on the outside, but decisively rushes into the inside to make up defense. At this time, even if Billups passes the ball to Tianzun, Tianzun has no time to make a move!
"Papa" two consecutive sounds of golfers touching, this time Kwame was even more amazing, his left hand directly fished the ball out of the air, and his right hand slapped the ball on the ball, directly hugging the ball down from the air!Keep fighting back!Kwame gave the ball to Kidd as usual, and then showed his wind-like speed again. With the screams of the fans, Kwame played a reverse dunk this time.

"BI" Larry Brown quickly called a timeout, 2 to [-], just after [-] minutes, the Lakers had scored eight points!This is clearly not Larry Brown's defense.

"Wow! This ball is so beautiful! This is definitely the best block in this year's playoffs!" Kwame's two big blocks were played repeatedly on the big screen, Barkley said loudly, matching Barkley's excited look In stark contrast, Smith snorted, "Isn't it just a block that jumps a little higher? What's the big deal, can a high jump count as a score?" In any case, Smith just couldn't get along with the Lakers.

"Okay, Kwame's dunk, do you want to say that the dunk is not a three-pointer, how easy the layup is. Right? Oh, I forgot that you can't dunk! I'm so sorry, let me tell you about your sadness " Barkley smiled sinisterly, he was avenging Smith for saying he didn't have a ring before!

Sure enough, Smith was choked, and he really couldn't dunk.

Back on the court, neither side made personnel adjustments.Rudy didn't make any tactical changes, but still cooperated with the inside and outside. Kwame's ability as a transfer point became stronger and stronger, and he just passed the ball to Kobe just right.

The offense of the Pistons is still the same. It can be said that Larry Brown’s roar just now did not have any substantial help to the offense of the Pistons. The previous tactics are still implemented. Run, Billups suddenly.This time, Hamilton was smarter, and took the initiative to find Big Ben and Kwame to do an independent pick-and-roll, and get rid of Kobe. Unfortunately, the running time was too long. When he received the ball, the [-]-second attack time was almost over. The ball is held by Mim.But this time the Pistons returned to defense quite quickly. Seeing that Big Ben had no chance to grab a rebound and immediately returned to his own half, Kwame's fast break plan also failed.

The Pistons' defense is actually no problem. Their defensive strategy is like this. It's just that Kwame can pull to the outside to play, which makes Big Ben not very good. So Larry Brown asked Billups to defend Kobe. Puth's defense has always been underestimated. Last year, Prince's round-robin defense against Kobe made Kobe's shooting percentage in the finals a career low, only just [-]%.

Prince followed Radmanovich. Although it was a waste of Prince's defensive ability, it also allowed Prince to save energy and defend Kobe at the last moment.

Hamilton defends Kidd, can't run to death but has no defense. Hamilton defends and defends Kidd, who claims he can't attack. This scene is very happy and harmonious. In fact, it is a waste to use Billups to defend Kidd. For Prince to defend Kobe, it is better to use Billups to consume Kobe's physical strength first.

As for Mihm, who was ignored before, he was also defended, and he was the best defensive player of the year, Ben Wallace. No points.Kwame is defended by Tianzun and Big Ben. Kwame is defended by Tianzun on the outside and Big Ben defends on the inside.

The Pistons' defense is much better, and the Lakers can no longer easily complete the extremely simple cooperation between Kobe and Kwame just now.

Kobe saw that Big Ben was eyeing the inside lane, so he didn't foolishly send the quilt to the Kidd organization. Anyway, the cooperation just now was just for fun, and the main theme of the game was to hand the ball to the new captain Kidd.

Larry Brown didn't expect that such an adjustment would be self-defeating. Rudy had expected the opponent's defensive arrangement as early as before the game. Kwame pulled out to pick and roll Kidd, and then ran back to attract all the attention. On his side, Kidd also went inside. Just when everyone thought Kidd would pass the ball to Kwame, all the Pistons stepped forward to double-team, but Kidd threw the ball behind him. Kobe didn't know When Kwame and Kidd had already quietly appeared in the pick-and-roll, after receiving Kidd's return pass, Kobe had enough time to adjust and slashed with a three-pointer.

Kwame's threat in the interior is too great. As long as Kwame receives the ball in the interior, there is no other way to prevent Kwame from scoring except for fouls or double-teaming by N people.After Kwame took off, it was useless for several people to double-team, so another superstar was exposed like this. [-] to [-], the Lakers lead by [-] points.

The Pistons also opened the pot again and hit the team's second goal. Hamilton finally ran out of the open space. This time he prepared early and shot immediately after receiving the ball. It felt good and helped the team get two points.The score became [-] to [-].
The Lakers continued the tactics just now. This time it was Radmanovich who benefited. The Pistons looked down on Kobe, Kwame, and Kidd this time, but there was no one within two meters of Radmanovich. , Radmanovic made a decisive shot after receiving the ball and hit the first goal of his career in the finals. [-] to [-], the point difference has reached [-] points.

Billups was a little anxious, and shot directly after dribbling the ball at halftime without making any adjustments. Not only Kidd didn't react at all, but the Pistons didn't expect Billups to be like this. shot.but! With a "swish", the sound of the ball passing through the net was heard by everyone in the audience, and the ball went in so unreasonably! [-] to [-], the point difference returned to single digits.

Billups' shot is very good, but Kidd is already an old man who has played twice in the finals. He will not be hit by such things, and he still organizes the offense steadily.As the Lakers made consecutive outside three-pointers, the Pistons' defense unknowingly tended to defend the Lakers' outside line. After Kwame's pick-and-roll, Tianzun ran to prevent Kobe from receiving the ball. Only Prince, Big Ben didn't dare to let Kidd go to help defend Kwame. Although Kidd is poor offensively, his shooting percentage is not bad!After Kwame received the ball, he easily put it to the basket. [-] to [-] Lakers still lead by [-] points.

Although the tempo has slowed down, the Lakers' cooperation has become more delicate, which Larry Brown did not expect.

Billups' three-pointer just now gave him confidence, and he made another three-pointer, but luck is not always there. This time the ball hit the backboard and bounced to Billups' side .

"Luck is really good. If you can't make a shot, the rebound will fly to you." Billups happily reached out to accept the rebound. Germany!

"Fuck me again! Still want to grab an offensive rebound on the head of a point guard who is going so close to the magician?" The ball was poked forward by Kidd, and Kwame reacted super fast and rushed forward. This time Hamilton followed, but he was the only one to keep up. Kwame grabbed the ball first, strode into the three-point line, ignored Hamilton who followed, held the ball with both hands, and scored a heavy dunk.Hamilton could only get out of the way and dared not foul. There was no defender in front of him. Such a foul was definitely a physical foul, and he could not escape with two free throws and one throw.And even if there is a foul, it may not be able to stop the behemoth from scoring. It will be a sad reminder when two plus one and one throw are added.

(End of this chapter)