lakers championship

Chapter 240
The Lakers defeated the Rockets 4-0 and became the first team to advance to the first round of the Western Conference playoffs.Not to be outdone, the Warriors also defeated the Trail Blazers on the second day and also advanced 4-0.Among the other four teams, the Spurs lead the Thunder 3-1, and the Clippers and Jazz are tied 2-2. The situation is slightly anxious.

At 24 am on the 9th, the Lakers training base, video analysis room.

The early promotion allowed the Lakers players to get extra preparation time, and Nick Young could finally watch the Spurs tactical analysis video without restriction.In the previous regular season matches, the Spurs always relied on Green's pick-and-roll to create opportunities for Leonard to single him. This time when they meet the Spurs in the playoffs, he must find a way to solve this problem.

"What did Tianyang say? I'm not trying to uplift others' ambitions and destroy my prestige, but I really can't guard against Leonard alone." Nick Yang spread his hands, eyes drooping, with a slightly helpless expression.

Everyone nodded, and it was understandable that they couldn't defend themselves. After all, Leonard was both offensive and defensive. He made an emergency stop and made a mid-range shot. He was more threatening than Durant. LeBron and Iguodala didn't have any good solutions. Nick Young had to be able to defend against it. Hell.

"It doesn't matter, some people just can't defend. The previous two times we beat the Spurs relied on offense. You try to consume Leonard as much as possible, try to force him into the paint, and leave the rest to Randall and Cousins. What you want What you do is hit those open three-pointers." Walton waved his hand and made decisive arrangements to save Nick Young from worrying.

The role of the coach lies in this. Players, especially role players, should not be full of worries when they go on the court. They must clearly let the players understand what they should do.

"How does Aldridge handle it? He catches the ball in the low post and hits back, and I'm not easy to defend." Randall said with his hand raised.

He is good at big defense and small defense, but when he encounters heavy power forwards with mid-range shots, he is limited by his size and is often beaten. In the previous four regular season matches, Aldridge played against him, one hit and one accurate.

"Depend on the situation!" Wharton operated the mouse and adjusted the video to Aldridge's singles screen. "If he is on the weak side when he catches the ball, the person next to him will double-team you depending on the situation. His pass is easy to be intercepted. He will inevitably fall into hesitation. Even if he can't double-team successfully, he can delay his post-up attack time and reduce his shooting percentage. If he is on the strong side when he catches the ball, you let him go to the basket, Cousins Do the second defense. Of course, even this can't completely limit him, you can make him trouble by attacking!"

When Wharton spoke eloquently, his thinking was extremely clear, and everyone couldn't help but silently nodded in praise.

"After listening to your analysis, I feel that the series is 100% won! Does anyone else have any questions?" Brian Shaw's eyes sparkled and his tone was slightly excited.

The voice fell, everyone looked at each other, and no one continued to speak. Seeing this, Tianyang said, "Leonard and Aldridge are picking and rolling at the elbow, which may be more difficult to deal with."

"What's the matter?" Nick Young waved his hand, "We have defended the Rockets' high-post double block."

"It's completely different." Tianyang shook his head, "Anderson only has one hand for spotting three-pointers, and Capela only has one hand for catching and layups. It's very easy to guard against these two. But Aldridge can make sudden shots and passes. It is very troublesome to defend. Leonard is better than Harden in the mid-range shot, and it is also difficult to deal with."

After Tianyang explained, Nick Yang frowned and thought like everyone else, unable to say a word for a long time.

"The coaching staff has also thought about this problem, but they haven't found any more solutions so far. Do you have any suggestions?" Walton took the topic and asked directly, as if he didn't care whether he would lose his coaching authority.

The power of the Spurs pick-and-roll is particularly terrifying, but it is not just the cooperation between the ball handler and the pick-and-roller. The other players find their own positions, and hitting open shots is also very important, otherwise the defensive double-teaming delay will do.

In Tianyang's view, when a certain offensive tactic has reached the extreme, and defense with conventional thinking cannot achieve the desired effect, perhaps it should be done in the opposite direction.After organizing his words, he said: "Let Ade cut the inside and score, and let Randall and SwaggP double-team Leonard."

As soon as this remark came out, everyone immediately began to think, and after a while, they frowned.

Randall asked how to defend Adrian before, and Wharton also spent a lot of time explaining the countermeasures. As a result, when he came to Tianyang, he denied it with one sentence, and Nick Young also had to worry about defense again.

It is equivalent to saying that the previous things have been done in vain.

Brian Shaw couldn't help laughing.Wharton was okay, and asked again: "Why do you want to do this?"

"I was at home last night. Through big data analysis, I found a video of the Thunder beating the Spurs in 16. In the first game of the series, the Thunder lost by a big margin because of their poor pick-and-roll defense against the Spurs. In the second game, the Thunder used The wing players go around the screen to delay the jump shot of Leonard or Mills, and instead let Aldridge, Duncan, and Diaw make an air cut, dragging down the Spurs through extremely fast offensive and defensive transitions." Tianyang explained.

"What do you mean? After the big Spurs made an air cut layup, it was difficult to return to the defense quickly. We used high mobility to play a time difference and dislocation?" Walton tried to ask.

"Yes!" Tianyang nodded, "The Spurs at that time, Duncan and Diaw were both old and slow, and they couldn't afford it at all. When it was their turn to attack, they had to slow down their tempo to get a chance to breathe. The Spurs didn't have Duncan this year. But with one more Gasol, we can also take advantage of this." Tianyang continued to explain.

"Your trick, that is, the one that Andrew Han said at the ESPN roundtable meeting a few days ago. In your Chinese words, beat the master to death with random punches?" Wharton asked with a smile.

"Oh? Someone has the same opinion as me?" Tianyang smiled.

"I don't agree." Wharton's tone was calm, but it seemed that he could not refuse.

When Wharton said this, everyone except Tianyang was stunned.

This was the first time in their memory that Tianyang and Wharton had different opinions.

In the video analysis room, there was an instant of silence to the point where one's breathing seemed a little heavy, until the sound of Nick Yang swallowing saliva sounded, and the embarrassment was broken.

"Why?" Tianyang asked curiously.

"With your tactics, Randall will be under great pressure from public opinion, because Aldridge will inevitably explode every game. If he can guarantee to win, we can come forward to explain, but you can't guarantee that you will win, right? I have also watched the video of the Thunder playoffs. The Spurs lost because they gave up the pick-and-roll. The reason was that they missed several open shots at the beginning of the second game. explained.

"But the reason why the Spurs missed in the opening game was that they couldn't bear the Thunder's oppressive double-team. Adelaide, Waiteng, and Dior received the ball and had to release the ball very quickly. Otherwise, the defender came back and the pick-and-roll was useless. It's a waste." Tianyang explained the cause and effect patiently.

"What if we adopt the Thunder's approach and Adelaide and Gasol make consecutive hits at the beginning?" Wharton asked, spreading his hands.

"It's not the key to the hit of the two of them, the key is to take advantage of their inability to return to the defense in time to play fast break..."

Tianyang was about to continue explaining, but Wharton interrupted with a wave of his hand: "It's too risky! Except for the last game in the Thunder series, the point difference did not exceed 10 points. The conventional method is more sure. We are not inferior to the Spurs, no need to take risks."

Wharton had already made a decision, so Tianyang stopped talking about it.

Brian Shaw asked again, but no one had any other questions, and the video-watching meeting was immediately disbanded.

That once thought, until 12 o'clock, news of Wharton and Tianyang began to appear frequently on the social network.

"The Lakers generals are at odds, and they may fall into a crisis of insufficient cohesion!"

"Wharton interrupted Tianyang, no other tactics can be discussed!"

"Tianyang continuously questioned the tactics of the coaching staff, and Wharton lost all prestige!"

(End of this chapter)