lakers championship

Chapter 356 Paying the price (three more)
At 29 pm on the 7th, at the Staples Center, the battle between the Lakers and the Warriors is imminent.

As usual, the 2 seats in the Staples Center are still full, the fans are still wearing various Lakers logos, and there are still many Hollywood stars sitting on the sidelines, but the absolute protagonists tonight are 100% Lakers players.

This is a battle of revenge, because the Lakers were eliminated by the Warriors last season; this is also a battle of strength, losing Cousins, but how far can the Lakers, who have upgraded their bench lineup, compete with the Warriors?
This is still a game that attracts worldwide attention. In addition to ESPN and Time Warner, the two major TV stations will broadcast live across the United States, and there will be simultaneous live broadcasts on multiple online platforms such as Facebook, Twitch, and Tencent Video.

According to various statistics, the game has not yet started, and the number of individuals watching the two teams' games around the world has reached more than 4 million, which is the same as the average number of viewers per game watching the NBA Finals last season.

Obviously, basketball fans all over the world have regarded this game as a preview of the finals.

At 7:40, the pre-match ceremony began. Amidst the cheers and applause of the fans, Tianyang led the team and ran out from the player tunnel.

Judging from the big screen at the scene, the Lakers' starters are: point guard Rondo, shooting guard Tianyang, small forward Ingram, power forward Kuzma, and center Randall.Such a starting lineup is exactly the same as fans and media speculation. The Lakers need high mobility and try to ensure that every position can play with the ball.

The national anthem was sung by the Los Angeles North Elementary School team. After the leading little girl sang, she raised her hands and shouted: "Los Angeles Lakers, must win!"

With a clear and immature voice, full of power, 2 fans stood up and shouted: "Los Angeles Lakers, must win!"

Soon, the pre-match ceremony ended, and the big screen at the scene showed the starting lineup of the Warriors, namely: point guard Curry, shooting guard Thompson, small forward Durant, power forward Green, and center point Rooney.

In the sideline commentary booth, Worthy and Jamison were ready to go, and both of them had a large stack of materials at hand.

Worthy: "Our lineup tonight has been tested a few times. It has excellent offense and defense. It can often play a wave of offense, or force the opponent to score. How do you think the Warriors will adjust?"

Jamison: "This is a high-level, high-intensity game. Players from both teams need to pay attention to every detail. Any mistake may lead to loss. We have more young people, and this may be a problem."

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On the court, Cole walked across the technical table to Walton, stretched out his hand, and asked with a smile: "Are you ready? We will present a lot of things you have never seen tonight, are you interested?" ?”

Wharton also smiled, shook hands with Cole and said, "We have many things you haven't seen every night, and Tianyang will show them to you, just in case you won't like them later."

Cole smiled again: "I look forward to it."

After speaking, he turned around and left, making people look like he was overwhelming Wharton, but Wharton didn't care.

At 8 o'clock, the game officially started, and Durant and Randall stepped into the middle circle.

The referee walked up to the two of them, gestured to remind them, and then lightly threw the ball into the air.

Durant touched the ball first by virtue of his bouncing speed, and took advantage of the trend to flick back. Curry got the ball and the Warriors attacked first.

Curry rushed the ball to the right wing and passed it to Rooney who was raised from the free throw line to the top of the arc.

Rooney received the ball and turned around to give it to Thompson on the left wing, and rushed forward to block Tianyang.

Randle switched defenses, but Thompson did not attack, but passed the ball back to Curry.

At the same time, Green ran to the left wing from the low position on the right, covering Rooney to run back to the right wing, but Kuzma did not pursue.

Rooney rushed to the right wing and set up a pick-and-roll for Curry. Rondo moved laterally ahead of time. Curry could only dribble the ball to the top of the arc, give the ball to Thompson, and then run to the short corner on the left to make an off-ball screen for Durant. .

At this time, Thompson was defended by Randall. The Warriors' three players were concentrated in the short corner on the left. The Lakers only had Kuzma in the interior. Seeing this, Thompson broke through from the right to the interior without hesitation.

Randall raised his left hand to catch up, but Thompson changed direction and went inside from the left instead.

Kuzma moved laterally to defend, Randall also caught up, Thompson stopped the ball at the free throw line, turned around to find someone.

At this time, Curry, relying on the continuous cover of Durant and Green, slipped back to the top of the arc from the short corner on the left, received a pass from Thompson, pulled out decisively, and Ingram flew to block.

With a bang, the shot hit the iron, and the fans on the scene exclaimed, it was too thrilling!

Rooney and Kuzma jumped to grab the rebound at the same time, and the two pushed the basketball out of bounds.

The referee blew his whistle, signaled the backcourt ball, and called Rooney for a rebound foul.

On the Lakers bench, Kobe looked serious, because the Warriors showed amazing tactical qualities in the first round. When Thompson made a breakthrough, they were already creating shooting space for Curry. They had both Plan A and Plan B. And every Warriors player on the field knows what they should do, unlike Kuzma who directly missed Green.

Fortunately, Kuzma was a blessing in disguise, using supplementary defense to limit Thompson's breakthrough.

The Lakers attacked, Kuzma served from the sideline, Curry defended Rondo in the backcourt, and the basketball flew directly into Tianyang's hands.

Tianyang dribbled the ball across the center line and took two steps forward. All the Lakers players followed the tactical requirements and pulled down the outside line. The basket was in an open state. Thompson was still communicating with Curry. He resolutely accelerated and sprinted past Thompson.

Thompson was already slower than Tianyang, and he was distracted beforehand, so there was no possibility of catching up.

Seeing this situation, Durant and Rooney shrunk to the basket to defend, but Durant let Ingram block it, and only Rooney and Thompson double-teamed Tianyang.

Tianyang didn't pass the ball and forced a layup. Thompson swooped from behind to block the shot.

'beep'!The referee blew his whistle and called Thompson a thug foul.

Tianyang got two free throws, the goal was achieved, and it was agreed before the game to make a foul.

Amid the shouts of MVP in the audience, Tianyang stepped to the free throw line and made two free throws.

Green stepped back to the baseline and passed the ball to Curry, who dribbled to the center line and passed to Looney on the left sideline.

Rooney waited with the ball, Curry ran over, took over and passed back to throw away Rondo, but Randall blocked the left sideline in advance, not giving Curry a chance to break through, Curry had no choice but to pass the ball long into the arc top.

Green catches the ball with both hands and pauses to look around.

I saw that Durant and Thompson made off-ball screens for each other on the right wing, Rooney led Rondo to the basket, Curry led Randall to the left baseline, and the four were in the free throw line area, making a complex circle go around.

Such a scene is a typical warrior's pass-and-cut tactic.

But the Lakers' defense switching logic was clear and orderly, and the Warriors failed to run out of space.

In desperation, Green dribbled the ball with his left hand and rushed to the left, handing the ball to Thompson who got rid of Tianyang.

I once thought that Randall made a lightning-fast steal and passed it to Tianyang in the middle, and the Lakers launched a fast break!
Tianyang rushed to the top of the arc, faced Durant's defense, faked the shot to shake the opponent, but actually gave the ball to Rondo who followed up.

Rondo started at 45 degrees on the left, stepped over Rooney and entered the inside line, and quickly started a three-step layup.

Tianyang's Thompson, who was supposed to be defending, took off and blocked the block. Ron was overjoyed and gave up the layup to find a foul.

Sure enough, the hard work paid off, and the referee blew his whistle, calling a foul on Thompson's thug.

As the main scorer of the Warriors, Thompson made two consecutive fouls in less than one minute of the opening, instantly putting the Warriors into a passive position. Walton deliberately smiled at Cole, who was so depressed that he bit his lip to vent.

On the sidelines, Worthy laughed and said, "Now the Warriors are in trouble. If Kerr doesn't replace Thompson, Yang can do whatever he wants, and the overall defensive quality of the Warriors will also decline."

Jamison nodded: "I feel that these two fouls will make the Warriors suffer continuously."

On the court, Cole did not make a substitution. Rondo stepped to the free throw line and hit the first free throw. Cole still did not make a substitution. When Rondo made the second free throw, Cole did not call a timeout.

As a result, Cole chose to continue to put Thompson on the court very sternly.

Tianyang made up his mind to make Cole pay for this choice.

　Add a new update for the three veterans of Crescent Moon, Qingfeng, Benevolence, and Cang Qiongzi.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)