lakers championship

Chapter 155 Fighting alone
For any team to come up with a tactical system that is completely different from the past overnight, the difficulty is equivalent to that of a wild boar climbing a tree.

For example, in the 14 finals, Popovich made Dior defend James. The effect was good, and he successfully limited the connection between James and the rest of the Heat. However, Popovich had already used this trick against the Thunder. once.

In this game, the Spurs' hole card was Leonard's full defense of Tianyang, while the Lakers' hole card was to shrink the inside line, restricting the Spurs' breakthrough colleagues, and letting Tianyang wait for an opportunity.

Both sides received good results, Tianyang and Leonard hated each other.

Now that the two are completely on the line, this time the Spurs attack, Leonard stands at a short corner on the left, and Tianyang stands at 45 degrees to the left. The two are not directly facing each other, but they are both staring at each other.

The smell of gunpowder above the arena is extremely strong!

Parker made a pass from the top of the arc, Leonard received the ball and directly broke through, the Lakers shrank inside, and the paint was crowded into a ball.

The shot hit the iron, Gasol grabbed the offensive rebound, roared, and started again.

Still hitting the iron, but Adelaide grabbed the offensive rebound again and shot directly without saying a word.

With a 'snap', McGee hit the backboard with a big hat, and the basketball hit the backboard and flew upside down.

Tianyang and Leonard turned around at the same time, stooped and kicked their feet, striding to catch up with the flying basketball.

One is like an eagle chasing a rabbit, and the other is like a cheetah chasing an antelope.

SkyOcean had an advantage at the start, but was overtaken by Leonard, who turned smaller near the center line.

Seeing the basketball hit the floor, Leonard jumped to the ground, but Tianyang waited until the basketball rebounded before lowering his center of gravity and stretching out his right hand.In the blink of an eye, Leonard had thrown himself on the floor to catch the ball with both hands, but Tianyang came from behind and stole the ball at low altitude.

The hands of the two almost touched each other, and their judgments on the trajectory of the basketball and their own abilities were very accurate. The results were completely uncontrollable. It can only be said that Tianyang had better luck.

After getting the ball, Tianyang rushed to the three-point line, another emergency stop to throw off the chasing Mills, then adjusted his posture, and took off steadily to make a shot.

Hit, the difference between the two teams is only 2 points.

The Spurs attacked again, Mills missed a three-pointer at the top of the arc, and the first quarter ended.

The sideline commentary seat.

Mike: "The Lakers changed their defensive strategy and used the overall contraction to limit the Spurs' breakthrough. It seems that the effect is very good so far. I don't know how Popovich will respond."

Thompson: "The midfield grabbing the ball just now has announced that this game has officially entered the superstar contest. Popovich probably doesn't plan to continue playing, let alone respond."

"Then what do you mean? Enter superstar singles mode? Leonard and Tianyang start performing?"

"There's another Aldridge."

During the chat between the two, the intermission pause ended and the game continued.

The Lakers attacked first, and Calderon took the ball to the top of the arc, handed it to Tianyang and took advantage of the opportunity to step forward to cover.

Tianyang rushed from the right wing to the top of the arc, walked to 45 degrees, stopped suddenly to pull the ball, and stepped into the inside lane.

Mills is accurate for three-pointers and the confrontation is okay, but the lateral speed is too slow. Tianyang rushed to the short corner on the right like a leisurely stroll, and was about to start a three-step layup when Leonard rushed up.

Considering that in the previous two duels, Leonard's speed was equal to his own, and his strength was stronger than his own. Tianyang decided to give up layups and instead directly pull up mid-range shots.

After jumping into the air, Tianyang was still a little worried, so he simply added a backward movement.

Sure enough, Leonard's right hand almost touched the basketball in his hand.

2 points scored, 32 to 32, the difference between the two teams was evened out.

The Spurs attacked, Mill made a pass from the top of the arc, and Leonard hit back from the right elbow without any technical moves.

The Lakers attacked again, and Tianyang used the pick-and-roll to cover and easily broke through Mills again.

Leonard stepped forward to defend again, Tianyang scored the ball, and Ingram made a mid-range shot.

strike iron.

Gasol got the rebound and passed it straight to Mills. Leonard and Ginobili made a quick move at the same time.

On the Lakers side, Tianyang, Calderon, and Ingram chased and defended.

The two teams rushed to the frontcourt. Mills tricked Calderon to score with a fake move at the top of the arc. Ginobili received the ball from the right wing and made a false pass. Stay, easily get 2 points again.

Some fans at the scene immediately shook their heads. In their opinion, Ingram's performance in this game is either offensive or defensive. It is better to replace Nick Young with a fixed-point three-pointer.

Walton seemed to hear the voice of the fans, and called a timeout in advance, let Ingram take a rest, and replaced Nick Nick Young as a small forward.

The Lakers attacked again, and Calderon directed the running tactics from the right wing, but the Spurs' rotation defense was as accurate and fast as a machine, and they could only give the ball to Tianyang for singles.

Facing Manu Ginobili again, SkyOcean still resorted to personal force.

Entering the free throw line, Leonard stepped forward to help defend, Tianyang made an emergency stop and took off, and shot backwards.

It almost succeeded in blocking the shot again, but fortunately, the basketball hit the board and rebounded into the net.

The Spurs attacked again, Mills lobbed a pass from the right wing, Alder received the ball from the low post on the right side, turned around directly, slipped under the basket and scored a layup, Randall was still in a daze.

The Lakers were attacking, Tianyang asked for the ball in advance in the backcourt and wanted to play fast, but Leonard also stuck to him in advance.

In this way, let alone a fast break, even dribbling is a bit difficult.

'Death Coil' is no joke, after all.

After finally using various ball-protecting moves to bring the ball across the half court, Leonard suddenly exerted force and frequently struck sideways, increasing the intensity of the press.

Tianyang was exhausted, and Calderon stepped forward to cover.

I thought, Mills followed suit, and Tianyang hadn't accelerated his dribble to break through, but Leonard had already bypassed Calderon and caught up.

The situation was precarious, Tianyang gritted his teeth and backed away. The Lakers players all mentioned the outside line to respond, but he knew that he must not pass the ball, because there were still three Spurs players staring at him like prey. As long as they raised their hands, it might be a missed ball. .

He is not worried about the bad data, but that the Spurs must not let the Spurs gain momentum.

All the way back to the center line, Tianyang thought hard about the countermeasures.

Kobe Bryant's 'back on the move' instantly came to mind.

The effect of using it before was not obvious, now should be the best time!

Determined to pay attention, Tianyang straightened his back, kicked the ground with his left foot, took a step forward with his right foot, and rushed towards the right wing like lightning.

When he reached the position, Tianyang stopped suddenly, pulled the ball and turned around to hit it with his back.

He swayed left and right continuously, and Leonard kept blocking him from right to left.

There was not much time left in the attack, Tianyang took a step back, raised his left leg and shot backwards, Leonard watched from the spot.

It's not that he can't defend, but that Tianyang's shooting movements are too difficult, and if he can't block shots, he has no defense.

A three-pointer was hit, and cheers erupted from the Staples Center.

Leonard has no regrets, and Popovich is not panicked at all, as if to say: "If you can always make such difficult shots, I will admit it."

(End of this chapter)