lakers championship

Chapter 386 Exchanging Mentors
The fans talked about it. As a professional player and commentator, Worthy naturally noticed the Celtics' tactical changes.He showed admiration on his face, and said solemnly: "Stevens is really good. He actually came up with such a trick to deal with the Lakers."

Jamison nodded again and again, "After a simple pick-and-roll, quickly shoot, to avoid mistakes in the Lakers' extremely efficient infinite defense, to maximize the use of the player's personal ability, to simplify the complex, interesting!"

What the two said was true. In the last yellow-green game, Stevens deliberately held a meeting with the assistant coaches to discuss tactics, and arranged players to perform various complicated moves on the court. The result was that the shooting percentage was too low, and there were also various mistakes.After losing the game, many fans thought that he was in vain, and there were a lot of criticisms of him on the social network, so he learned from the pain and had been thinking hard about how to break the Lakers' infinite defense, and finally let him come up with such a trick'simplify it '.

In Stevens' view, with the three All-Stars of Irving, Hayward, and Horford in hand, why should they automatically reduce their lethality?If you continue to run complex tactics, wouldn't you be like Cole, who has two MVPs in Curry and Durant, but insists on letting Green hold the ball at the top of the arc, making yourself unhappy?

In this battle, just 3 minutes into the match, they easily lead the Lakers by 10 points. Although part of the reason is that the Lakers feel too bad, at least in terms of offense, it is enough to prove that this tactic is feasible, and the players are still very happy!

Thinking of this, Stevens couldn't help but put down his hands that were clasped around his chest because of nervousness, and turned to stand with his hands on his hips with ease, while smiling confidently, like a successful person.

On the other hand, Wharton is standing next to the technical table, with his mouth slightly open to express surprise, and his eyes showing a look of bewilderment. He missed three shots in a row, and the Lakers are already very passive!
But Walton paced back and forth, thought over and over again, and thought that the team was playing well, and then made a difficult decision-continue to play without pausing, and even if there was time for the first official timeout, he did not adjust the team's offensive tactics .

In this way, the game reached the last 3 minutes of the first quarter in a blink of an eye. The Lakers felt terrible. Tianyang made 6 of 2 shots, and the others made 10 of 3 shots in total. They didn't have a three-pointer or free throw, and only scored a poor 12 points. , while the Celtics scored 30 points, making the fans look stupid.

In a strong duel, they were 18 points behind before the end of the first quarter. What kind of beautiful offense will they have to play in order to move back?
Timeout, Lakers bench.

Wharton held the technical stat sheet in his hand, grinning and frowning, "It's strange today, why do you feel worse than the other? If it weren't for seeing that you have no problems with running positions and defense, and you are full of energy, I would definitely Thought you guys were hanging out at nightclubs until four in the morning."

Tianyang five people heard the words, you can only look at me, I look at you, some showed embarrassment, some scratched their heads to cover up, they didn't know why, maybe the previous game's hit rate was too high, their character Conservation!
Hart whispered: "Yes, the Celtics' defense is not strong..."

Before the words fell, Walton looked at Hart, "You go up to play shooting guard, Rose plays point guard, Tatum, Kuzma, McGee, you three also go up, change a group of people to go up and see, if such a low hit rate, that would be really strange."

Hart was very happy to get the chance to play by accident and still play such an important game.

In a blink of an eye, the timeout ended, and the players of the two teams re-entered the field. Everyone who watched the game felt strange.

Worthy said with a smile: "The matchup between Walton and Stevens is very interesting. In a normal game, it is amazing enough for a coaching team to play 5-on-5-down. Now the two teams are actually playing 5-on-5 at the same time."

Jamison also smiled and said: "Have you noticed? The Lakers have three rookies Hart, Tatum, and Kuzma as their main players, and the Celtics have three rookies: Ball, Roach, and Smart. , the two teams do not know whether it was intentional or a coincidence, the battle between yellow and green is bound to be full of dramatic elements."

On the field, Rose took the ball from the baseline to the frontcourt, went to the right wing, and was intercepted by Ball.

Although he is a rookie, Ball has an advantage in height, arm length and strength, and Rose is a little uncomfortable to defend.

Tatum stepped forward to make a pick-and-roll, and Rose took the opportunity to get rid of it and go inside.

But Smart switched defenses fast enough and quickly blocked the way. Rose gave the ball to Tatum under balance.

In this way, Ball and Tatum, two rookies with similar picks, automatically form a heads-up.

Tatum didn't hesitate, and took a decisive step to the right. When Ball moved laterally to intercept, he immediately turned around and pulled the ball to the left.

It was very beautiful, but Ball stopped suddenly and reached out, and directly completed the steal!
The fans at the scene exclaimed, Ball took the ball and went off!
"Stick him, he can't shoot like me!" Rondo shouted to remind him from the sidelines.

Tatum seemed to hear it and quickly posted it, but Ball sideways protected the ball and walked all the way to the basket.

The two entered the free throw line with their heels and feet. Ball took two steps and took off directly. He grabbed the ball with one hand and smashed the basket.

With a bang, Ball dunks!

Almost at the same time, the referee whistled and called Tatum for a foul, and the fans at the scene sighed again.

Five seconds later, the fans turned their sighs into boos, which really worked. Ballga missed the free throw, but even so, the Lakers were still 20 points behind, and the boos turned into sighs again.

When the Lakers attacked, Tatum seemed quite excited. He changed his habit of actively running for cover or squatting in the bottom corner to wait for the pass, and took the initiative to go around the top of the arc and reach out for the ball.Rose immediately gave the ball, and ran up to do a pick-and-roll by the way, creating a chance for him to single Ball.

Tatum held the ball in his left hand, accelerated sideways, and rushed into the inside in the blink of an eye. Ball raised his right hand to follow closely, but Tatum rushed to the bottom and stood under the basket. Bottom line!
The fans at the scene were hooked!

While the Celtics were attacking, Ball was waiting with the ball at the top of the arc, and Marcus stepped forward to make a pick-and-roll, but Kuzma listened to Tianyang and Rondo's instructions, regardless of whether Ball shot a three-pointer, and stood at the free throw line and waited. .

Ball hesitated for half a second, as if after struggling hard in his heart, he threw a sniper shot at the ring!
With a bang, the hearts of the fans at the scene were half cold, and it was a hollow ball again, so it was too accurate!

But after a closer look, the referee did not signal for extra points, and the fans hurriedly looked up at the big screen.

It’s okay if you don’t watch it, but you can’t help laughing when you see it!
It turned out that Ball almost made a three-point shot, and the "bass" just now was just the basketball hitting the ring from the outside.

Turning around, the Lakers attacked, Rose passed the ball from the right wing; Kuzma received the ball at the top of the arc, dribbled two steps to the left, and handed the ball to Tatum, who rushed to the free throw line with the help of a screen, and made a sudden stop to make a shot Score.

Seeing this, Kobe nodded in satisfaction, turned around and smiled at Carter: "Tianyang said yesterday that our three-pointer is still too bad. Let's change the mentor. Tatum is more like me. I will teach him."

Carter shrugged, "Okay, as long as you don't teach him 'don't pass the ball until you have to'..."

Everyone on the bench laughed out loud after hearing this.

……

In a blink of an eye, after the first quarter, the three Lakers rookies played very well and scored 3 points in 10 minutes, but the Celtics still went smoothly under Ball's leadership and also scored 10 points.As a result, the Lakers failed to narrow the point difference, Wharton thought about it, and decided to directly take the strongest lineup.

(End of this chapter)