Jim Bass Ambition

Chapter 245 Raiders
The so-called victory by surprise is to use unexpected methods to disrupt the opponent's deployment. Before the opponent reacts, it is not a good thing to solve the battle in one go. It is not a good thing to delay for a long time, and Popovich is not ignorant. The coach of the Lakers, so the plan of the Lakers is to finish all their efforts in one battle and solve their opponents in the sixth game. If they are dragged into the tiebreaker, then everything will be difficult to say.

It is definitely unrealistic for Artest to defend Duncan for the entire game, but compared to replacing Nene with slow suicide, Zen Master hopes that the Lakers will blow up the Spurs' backcourt before Artest can't hold on. He and Billups took turns sinking to the low post to attack, including Artest. Once the defender in front of him was replaced by the Spurs' small man, he would rush into the Spurs' three-second zone without hesitation holding the bomb.

The series has reached the sixth game, and the tickets are almost sold out. Even if David Stern doesn't want the Lakers to reach the finals in a row, he has to admit that compared to the iron-blooded defense of the Spurs, the immovable For example, fans still prefer to watch the purple and gold with their gorgeous style and smooth offense, the picturesque Peter Pan, the passionate Garnett and Wade; To put it bluntly, fans prefer to watch flying dunks, dazzling fast breaks and Joe-style fadeaways.

Of course, the commercial value of San Antonio is even more incomparable with that of Los Angeles. Seeing that the Eastern Pacers have also won the match point, the rematch between the Lakers and the Pacers can also be used as a highlight.

So the referee restrained himself a lot, basically gave all the whistles that should have been given, and there were no similar tragedies in the third and fourth games.

Prince is okay. Although he is thin, he is tall and has long arms. When the Lakers attack the basket, he can interfere to a certain extent while avoiding fouls as much as possible. But Parker is more miserable. Tester and even Billups couldn't keep up with his weight, strength and defensive skills. He was called out continuously. Duncan had to help him a lot in defense, thus continuously missing the outside line. Garnett and Battier each Hitting a three-pointer put the Spurs in a dilemma.

On the offensive end, although Artest can't prevent Duncan's offense, he is also very good at taking advantage of his flexibility to defend and catch the ball. In addition, his strong body is worthy of confrontation. It took a lot of trouble.

Parker was exhausted on the defensive end, and his shooting touch was lost to France. The first three shots were all to the front basket, which did not bring much help to Duncan. Except for Rasheed Wallace who scored 5 points, the rest of the Spurs were in the first place. Without scoring in one quarter, Duncan scored 9 points on 5 of 6 shots and 3 of 13 free throws.

For the Lakers, Kobe Bryant and Artest scored 7 points each, Billups and Garnett each scored 5 points, and Battier scored 3 points. At the end of the first quarter, the Lakers led 27-18.

In the second quarter, Artest was temporarily replaced. In the first quarter, he performed bravely and became a surprise soldier. He made the first contribution to the Lakers' advantage. Billups was also replaced.Wade and Campbell came off the bench to make up for the firepower on the offensive end and the top defense on the defensive end.

And Popovich took Rasheed Wallace, replaced Malik Rose, and replaced Parker with Ginobili at the same time, in order to match the Lakers' first and fourth juniors.

The advantage of the Lakers' small lineup is that the players who mainly play inside have shooting ability, while the defenders are good at making a fuss in the low post, which can often form some natural dislocations, which makes the Spurs' defense very uncomfortable.

Malik Rose is only two meters tall. Although he is strong and has excellent defensive ability, his huge disadvantages in height and lateral movement prevent him from defending Garnett at all. This means that the current candidate for defending Garnett can only be It's Duncan.

Just as Zen Master didn't want Garnett to defend Duncan, Popovich also didn't want the two to face each other head-on. Garnett's attack range is very large, and he has excellent coping ability. With Garnett's height, vision and offensive style, it is easy to find open teammates.

Kobe attacked for a whole quarter, and the Lakers usually had Wade's offensive time in the second quarter. As for Garnett, he scored five or six points in each quarter, and only about 20 points in a game.

"Triangle offense" requires players to adapt to the situation on the court, read the opponent's defense and choose the appropriate offensive method at the same time. Every link can be the end point, and they can make moves at any time. Back then, Bird wrote a whole article in order to limit the Lakers' offense. Blackboard's defensive tactics, but it was useless on the field, and the defense was still riddled with holes.

But the triangle offense also has high requirements for players. For a player with low IQ, if you let him play freely, he will only play nonsense. But if you have defined the offensive line for him, you can’t play the triangle offense to adapt to the situation and flow smoothly. essence.Artest played for the Lakers for two years before he got a little touch of the door, but it only took half a season for Battier and Wade to master a seven-seven-eight-eight-eight.

Wade passed the ball to Battier, ran to the weak side corner on a Campbell screen, and Kobe came to the middle to receive the ball, at which point Campbell moved from the weak side to the opposite side, driving away Malik Rose Kobe Bryant made a breakthrough with the ball.

Both Duncan and Rose were pulled to one side, and the Spurs' basket was very empty. Kobe passed Prince with a cross step and forced the basket.While Garnett moved to the top of the arc, Wade mentioned 45 degrees.

Duncan returned to the protective basket, Kobe distributed the ball to the outside in the air, Wade received the ball, feinted and broke through, continued to compress the Spurs' defense line, and then distributed the ball to Garnett, who had been waiting for a long time at the top of the arc, with a radius of three meters beside him There was no one inside, Garnett took a glance, and calmly made a three-pointer.

This season, he averaged 3.6 three-pointers per game, and his shooting percentage reached 37%. Three-pointers have become his regular scoring method.

Ginobili attacked with the ball and got two fouls as soon as the first quarter came up. The depressed Yaodao held back his energy and played a pick-and-roll with Duncan. Campbell's pace was a little slow and he didn't keep up.

Duncan returned to defense, Campbell picked up the basketball, and casually passed it to Wade, but Ginobili started ahead of time, made a steal, ran to the bottom corner for a three-pointer, and made a precise hit.

Wade spread out his hands to make a helpless gesture to Campbell.

This time, Campbell's serve was much more cautious. Under Ginobili's personal harassment, Wade took control of the ball for half court and handed it to Kobe.

Campbell came up to cover, Malik Rose and Prince directly double-teamed Kobe, Fei Xia barely passed the ball, almost made a mistake, Wade saved the ball back, seeing that time was running out, he forced a breakthrough, but Duncan, who was defended, blocked out of bounds.

With 2.3 seconds left in the attacking time, Zen Master called a timeout, arranged tactics, and replaced Campbell, who was not effective, with Nene.

(End of this chapter)