lakers championship

Chapter 419
Nuggets coach Mike Malone was walking back and forth on the sidelines. He looked depressed and shook his head slightly from time to time. The fact that Tianyang single-handedly defended Jokic twice made him very puzzled. How did he do it?
After thinking about it, he overturned all the possibilities. He can only attribute Tianyang's performance to his luck. He just hit Jokic by surprise, and it is impossible to keep it going!

When he came back to his senses, Murray had already dribbled the ball to the top of the arc again, and lobbed the ball to the three-second zone.

Jokic caught the ball with his right hand, took advantage of the opportunity to hit it back, turned around directly, hit it high, and shot with a hook.

boom!The basketball hit the backboard on the back edge of the rim, the force was a bit strong, and it rebounded and fell.

Tianyang took off, but the difference in height and wingspan was too large, allowing Jokic to grab an offensive rebound, but just as Jokic took a step forward to lay up, the referee blew his whistle and whistled to grab the rebound and push him away.

Jokic put down the basketball, shrugged his shoulders immediately, and expressed his innocence to the referee. Malone also hurriedly hugged his head and jumped on the sidelines, but the referee waved his hands and ignored them, and continued to signal the Lakers to the baseline.

Tianyang received the pass from McGee and slowly led it forward, and began to count in his heart.

"It's all luck this time, and it may be the home whistle, but it must be used. The opponent has not scored three times in a row, and the mentality is very likely to change. You can try to continue to play this point, disrupt the opponent's deployment, disturb the opponent's mentality, It’s best if you can dunk one, you can come by yourself or McGee.”

After making up his mind, just after halftime, Tianyang gave Mai Jiji his eyes, and the latter nodded silently.Walking to the top of the arc, McGee stepped forward to make a pick-and-roll, and Tianyang instantly cut into the inside lane.The speed is average, and when Jokic catches up, he directly starts a three-step layup.

One step, two steps, the two of them jumped at the same time!

Jokic's body was straight and his hands were raised high, completely locking the shot space.

Tianyang instantly realized that it was difficult to win, and decisively threw the ball back.

bang!McGee, who followed behind, violently dunked with both hands, and Jokic took two steps back and staggered into the ball frame.

With the Lakers leading 6-0, Mike Malone called a timeout and the Staples Center erupted.

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Lakers bench.

Wharton held the tactical board in his hand and said: "Next, they may focus on the outside to find a rhythm. Tianyang will not care about Jokic for the time being. We must be more aggressive in defense. Don't give them any chance to breathe, and strive to be quick. Break their fighting spirit and establish an absolute advantage for the following games."

The Lakers generals heard the words, realized that Wharton was very angry, and made up their minds.

In the TNT live broadcast room.

Kenny looked surprised: "You look at the Lakers players, their eyes are full of murderous looks, as if they are about to go to the battlefield."

O'Neal's face was calm: "Normal, before the Lakers played away, Murray's performance was too much."

Barkley looked puzzled: "Then you should hate Murray, how can you target Jokic?"

...

The timeout ended in a blink of an eye, and the Nuggets served from the bottom line.

Just after Murray passed the center line, Tianyang stepped forward to interfere, Harris left the screen, and Hart switched defenses.Jokic stepped forward to cover again, McGee switched defenses again, Murray accelerated his sprint, and sprinted to the basket from 45 degrees from the left.Tianyang had already retreated to the three-point line. Seeing that McGee was hard to catch up, he decisively moved laterally to intercept.

Murray glanced slightly to the right, took off in two steps inside the free throw line, and raised the basketball butt with his right hand.

Tianyang's knees were slightly bent, and he took off straight in the reasonable collision zone. He didn't even think about blocking the shot, but simply intercepted it.

boom!The basketball hit the rim, McGee stepped forward to grab the rebound, turned around and handed it to Hart, and the Lakers went on a fast break.

Tianyang accelerated to follow up in the backcourt, received a pass from the left wing of the frontcourt, dribbled the ball behind Harris, passed Millsap with another European step, and then took off in front of Jokic, pretending to throw the ball to deceive He picked up the opponent, but actually handed the ball low to Randall, who had already slipped behind Jokic.

Bang, Randall took off on the spot, dunked with a backhand, and the Lakers led 8-0.

Jokic hurriedly retreated to the bottom line, Millsap received the ball and advanced, and the midfielder was handed over to Harris, but the Lakers retreated like a large army, methodically, and the Nuggets did not get a fast break opportunity.

Harry could only stop, pass the ball to Murray at the top of the arc, and ran to the right corner, facing Chandler in the left corner; at the same time, Milsam and Jokic separated Left and right elbow areas.

In this way, the basket is all clear, and Murray passes the ball to Millsap, who runs sideways to the left.

This is a typical pick-and-roll and anti-run tactic commonly used by the Nuggets!

In the pre-game meeting, Walton has explained to the Lakers players at least five times!
Tianyang saw it through in an instant, but the problem was that it was not clear whether McGee could see it too!

In the blink of an eye, Tianyang could only turn his back on McGee and shout: "Inside! Inside!"

As soon as the voice fell, he had been caught by Jokic. Although he quickly circled back, Murray had already run back to the free throw line. After receiving a pass from Millsap, he rushed to the hoop like a mouse seeing lard.

McGee woke up like a dream, took three steps in a row, stretched out his right hand and leaped high, flying towards the hoop like a dark cloud.

Snapped!McGee nailed the big cap and grabbed a defensive rebound by the way. When he landed and turned around, he found that Tianyang had already crossed the center line and directly swung his arm for a long pass!
Maybe it was too excited, and the strength was a bit strong. The basketball completely leapt over Tianyang. Fortunately, Tianyang ran fast enough and judged the landing point accurately enough. He successfully picked up the basketball outside the three-point line in the front court, and then turned around to avoid Harris, stand at 45 degrees on the right and shoot a three-pointer!
Swish!The basketball went into the net, and the Lakers led 11-0. The fans cheered, and an old man even started dancing. It was played on the big screen at the scene, and the entire Staples Center was completely boiling.

Murray dribbled the ball to the front court with a solemn face, walked to the top of the arc and passed it to Jokic, and hit with his back.

According to the instructions given by Tianyang during the warm-up, McGee used all his strength to defend outside the reasonable collision zone but did not try to steal.

Sure enough, Jokic hit the top three times in a row, and he might feel strenuous, so he forcibly turned around and made a mid-range shot without opening up the space.

Dang, the shot hit the iron, Randall grabbed the rebound, and went down quickly, and the three of Tianyang Hart and Tatum followed up at the same time.

Jokic and Millsap ran slowly. The Lakers played four-on-three in the frontcourt. The basketball started at 45 degrees from the right, passed through the top of the arc, 45 degrees to the left, and finally stopped at the left bottom corner. Hart threw it to the basket lock up.

Dang, the shot hit the iron, and the fans on the scene shouted greedily.

But in the next second, Tatum rushed to the basket, took off the mechanic's rebound above Chandler's head, and did not shoot the ball to relay after landing. !

Tatum landed, clenched his fists and roared to the sky!

13 to 0, plus penalty hit is 14 to 0, now not only the old man dances, even the wife starts to dance!
In the TNT live broadcast room.

O'Neal pouted: "Tsk tsk tsk, all the Lakers players look fierce, I like it!"

Kenny nodded: "Hart dunked twice in a row, Tianyang blocked twice, Randall dunked once with a backhand, McGee nailed a big cap once, and Tatum, a good boy, also dunked solo, it's too cruel !"

Barkley: "Tianyang drove the defense of the entire Lakers team, and the Nuggets have already been beaten. If they can't recover in the first quarter, then this game will be completely explained."

(End of this chapter)