Jim Bass Ambition

Chapter 315 Korver's Promised Land
As the season progressed, Jim discovered that his roll calls were not always successful.

In the last game against the Trail Blazers, Cheeks made a clear response to the Lakers' pick-and-roll misplacement play. When Ruben Patterson was defending Kobe, he tried to let him call the pick-and-roll from a position far away from the three-point line. , so that when the Lakers players come out to cover, he has enough time to switch back to the original matchup.Avoiding the slow-moving insiders like Ratliff or Prizbilla, or the short colander backcourt like Damon Stoudemire being directly exposed to Kobe's gunfire, when the team does not have unlimited defenses Under certain conditions, this may be the best way to deal with it. At the moment of bypassing the pick-and-roll, the Lakers players will get a three-point opportunity, but compared to the high success rate singles after the dislocation, this three-point opportunity is more difficult for the defense. It seems acceptable.

However, the Lakers coaching staff is not too worried about this. Holding the ball in a high position is called a cover and misplaced, which is just one of the various key ball routines. Having Kobe's offensive kaleidoscope means that there are many possibilities.

Of course, the kaleidoscope also has misfires. The Lakers returned to Los Angeles after the expedition. When they played the "away game" against the Clippers in the same city, everyone was indifferent. They shot 36% of the shots, and Kobe even took the lead. Made 18 shots and scored only 4 points.

The team as a whole was very tired. After 5 minutes of the game, Jim knew that the game might not be won. There were various unforced errors, wide open strikes, and the defense was also unable to cheer up.

In a long season, when everyone is in a bad state, when several main players come together at a low ebb, there will be this kind of game that feeds the fans. When Billups was still defending, he stumbled Suan, sprained his ankle, although it is not serious, but to be conservative in the next game, he may not be able to play.

87 to 102, the Lakers robbed the rich and helped the poor, gave the Clippers a warmth, and the winning streak was also ended.

"It seems that our loss has become big news? No team can go on a winning streak, and the Lakers are no exception. The great Michael Jordan also played poorly. We have to look forward and prepare Next game."

With the trade deadline approaching, many teams have a clear understanding of their own positioning after summarizing the results of the first half of the season. Those who try to win the championship need to strengthen, and those who try to compete for the top pick in the coming year need to clear space. Tun draft picks.

Under Jim's behest, Kupchak stayed put in the trading market and has already rejected the trading proposals of many teams. For example, the Cavaliers once contacted the Lakers to trade Nene with Drew Gooden as a bargaining chip. Both of them did not perform satisfactorily in their own teams, so it is better to move and start again in another place.

Although the statistics of the two are similar, it is true that Gooden's performance is not satisfactory. The defense is stabbed by tens of thousands of people, and the offense is not to the extent of killing people. No one in the Cavaliers can keep up with LeBron James.As for Nene, he was completely dragged down by the suspension, and played fairly efficiently in the limited time.

As for another trade proposal, the rebuilding New Orleans Hornets are planning to send away power forward P.J. Brown after sending guard Baron Davis to the Warriors. The target is the Lakers' second-year forward. David West.

The Hornets, which were supposed to be a playoff team, have 3 All-Star players: Baron Davis, Jamal Mashburn and Magloire, potential rookie J.R. Smith, and powerful player P J. Brown, it turned out that after moving to New Orleans, there seemed to be a problem with Feng Shui. Both Mashburn and Magloire were reimbursed, Davis was also on and off, and David Wesley was sent The Rockets, in exchange for Jim Jackson, did not come to the team to report at all. Persijan Nachba was useless except for his appearance. The team's scoring leader was actually Lee Nairon, who averaged 8 points and 3 rebounds per game in his career.

Although the Hornets are full of sincerity and P.J. Brown is indeed a high-quality blue-collar power forward, Jim did not intend to let him block the team's operating space with a contract of 5 million in five years and just reached the second year. It is the first year of the big contracts of Kobe and Garnett, and the starting salary is only about 4000 million U.S. dollars. The Lakers have enough room to eat another tens of millions of players in the free market next year.

So, after thinking twice, Jim rejected the deal proposal.

Billups will miss two games, and the Lakers only have him as a pure point guard. Many experts speculate that the Lakers will start Dwyane Wade, who has been trained as a combo guard, in the away game against the Eagles.

But instead of doing that, Jim put Kyle Korver into the starting lineup.

When you're on the court with Kobe, Garnett, Wade, a lot of times, the thing to do is hit those damn open threes.

In the Phillips Arena, Korver's touch seems to have been added. The first two three-point shots were all pleasing to the eye and hollowed into the net. The 1-meter point guard Kenny Anderson had difficulty effectively interfering with his shots.

Hawks coach Mike Woodson had no choice but to replace Josh Smith and move Childress to the point guard position.

So among the 10 people on the field, Kobe became the shortest one.

The eagle's lineup is quite postmodern, Childress, Boris Diaw, Antoine Walker, Josh Smith, Obina Aikeqi, the shortest Childress 2 meters 03 , the tallest Walker is 2 meters 08, a small forward figure of water.

It's a pity that under the leadership of Walker, they couldn't form a whole at all. Although they were full of talents, they still played with instinct most of the time, playing tricks needlessly, blindly attacking the opponent's inside line, and taking the rhythm randomly... especially Josh Smith, after getting the ball, his whole idea seems to be to throw a tomahawk dunk on Garnett's head, but with his poor breakthrough skills, it is as difficult as ever to rush into the Lakers' interior.

Such an environment is undoubtedly extremely unfavorable to the growth of rookies, and barbaric growth is likely to destroy a good seedling.

If it weren't for the sudden outbreak of the 53-point distraction player Tony Delk on the bench, the Eagles might have completed their bad plan in just two quarters.

Delk once confronted Wade and scored 25 points, second only to Antoine Walker in the team.

As for the Lakers, Korver made 7 of 4 three-pointers and scored 14 points, filling Billups' vacancy in scoring.

"Kyle is working on his [-] every day, and every trainer likes to have Kyle as a sparring partner, which means you just stand under the basket and pick up the ball and pass it back to him. We have a lot of ability. Players who play, when one goes down, someone else steps up and says 'I'm ready!'"

(End of this chapter)