The world's best combo guard

Chapter 159 156 [Isosceles Triangle]

"Oh, haha, maybe this is the Spurs team we are most familiar with all the time. It's a long-lost feeling."

With less than three minutes to go in the third quarter, Kenny Smith laughed.

Because he saw a familiar shadow from the Spurs at the moment.

Defense!

That kind of ensemble, that kind of team basketball that makes people think about it.

When the game came back in the third quarter, the Spurs were uncharacteristically, and they suddenly began to invest a lot of troops on the defensive end, even reaching the level of national defense.

Not surprisingly, Gregg Popovich adjusted the team's style of play.

They are not deliberately targeting a certain point of the Lakers, but have set up an iron barrel formation. In this iron barrel formation, every Spurs player can contribute on the defensive end.

And this style of play is the real San Antonio Spurs that people are familiar with in the past few seasons.

Thinking back to last season, they won the championship all the way by relying on this tactic. For this, the ok combination has a deep understanding of the horror of this tactic.

I have to admit that when the Lakers players, who did not expect the Spurs to change their lineup at all, continued their first-half style of play in the third quarter, they immediately suffered a lot.

He didn't score in 5 consecutive offensive rounds, and two of the offensive rounds were forced by the Spurs' unlimited defenses to make a 24-second offense without any achievements.

The Spurs scored 6 points in a row by virtue of their mature defensive counterattacks, leading the score for the first time in this game.

Phil Jackson immediately asked for a timeout. He had deeply experienced the power of Popovich's tactics. To a certain extent, this is the tactics Popovich is most proud of.

The regular season includes the first few games of this series, and the Spurs have never thoroughly implemented this style of play, so Li Hao doesn't know much about it.

But he can analyze the horror of Popovich's tactics from the team's sudden predicament just now and the faces of Kobe, Fisher and others.

"Unlimited switching, double-teaming, listen, not the kind of double-teaming that is put together in a hurry, but the kind that is as uniform as a machine, and it's not just horizontal double-teaming, combining inside and outside, combining left and right, combining high and low."

Li Hao did not play during this period of time, he has been resting on the bench, so the offensive coach Judy Brucher took the initiative to find him, and introduced to him the essence and essence of Popovich's defensive tactics. scary place.

"oh, lee was tackled, counter from tony parker"

Soon, Li Hao experienced the horror of the Spurs' overall defense on the court.

Even though Blucher explained a lot to him just now, he couldn't react right away.

"We can't deny that Popovich's tactic is very good, especially for a team like the Lakers. Judging from the results of the third quarter, they succeeded, 26:15! They beat the Lakers in a single quarter The team has 11 points, and with an 11-point lead, it is enough for them to come to the tiebreaker with more confidence than the Lakers."

"Indeed, Gregg Popovich is worthy of being a champion coach. He has the right timing. Obviously, the Lakers are stunned."

"Of course, from another perspective, Gregg Popovich is also a desperate choice. Compared with the Lakers, it is obviously not a wise choice, so he chose to strike first"

"But there is also a hidden danger here. If the Lakers continue to find no solution in the fourth quarter, Popovich can lead the team to the finals with a total score of 4:1. Once the Lakers find If there is no way to crack it, on the contrary, the Spurs will be in danger. After all, no matter how powerful the defensive system is, it is based on the constant consumption of the defensive players' physical strength."

"As we all know, the Spurs cannot be on par with the Lakers in terms of physical strength. If it goes wrong, not only will they lose this game, but they will even be slumped in subsequent games because of this hidden danger."

After the end of the third quarter, unlike the comments from various commentators on the scene, the atmosphere on the Lakers bench was a bit dignified, because they spent a quarter of the game and still haven't cracked the Spurs' defensive system, even if this defensive system among them Most players have experienced it.

"Boss, why don't you try the triangle offense?"

Li Hao couldn't help but speak, suddenly an idea came to his mind.

"Triangle offense? Lee, tell me what you think."

Phil Jackson raised his head to look at Li Hao in an instant, and his intuition told him that Li Hao's choice to speak at this time was definitely not aimless, even though he knew that Li Hao didn't like triangle offense very much.

"Isosceles triangle, yes, isosceles triangle, boss, what I want to talk about is not a traditional triangle offense, we have Shaq on the inside, Kobe on the outside and me, Shaq can stand in the penalty area, me and Kobe can be separated on the left and right sides of the top of the arc, and the other two stand at the left and right bottom corners. In this way, we can form three isosceles triangles around the vertex of Shaq... Remember, building an isosceles triangle is not our final goal. Purpose, Shaq is too obvious and isolated, destined not to be the end point, but the real end point is me and Kobe. Don’t opponents like zone defense and double-teaming? Then Kobe and I will break through. Use the speed to tear through the opponent's box, they will have nothing to do about it..."

Phil Jackson's eyes gradually glowed with Li Hao's explanation. In the end, he directly caged the players together and told everyone in a low voice to follow what Li Hao said.

Therefore, after the start of the fourth quarter, the situation on the field changed again in an instant.

When Li Hao, who was on the left side of the top of the arc, scored 6 points from the Spurs penalty area by virtue of his speed and personal ability, all the fans who followed the game once again showed incredible expressions.

What happened?
The Lakers, who were defended in the third quarter and had no game experience, suddenly broke through the Spurs' defense?

"It's here, it's finally here, the collision of superstar basketball and team basketball is finally here"

Those professional commentators have seen through the mystery.

To be clear, the Los Angeles Lakers use the offensive involvement of the triangle offense to help the superstars in the team complete the final shot.

I have to admit that this tactic has caused huge damage to Popovich's defensive system.

After all, Popovich's defensive system cannot take care of several superstars at once, especially superstars with strong breakthrough ability like Li Hao and Kobe, they can only watch Li Hao and the others send the ball into the basket.

The Staples Center erupted into violent cheers. This time, the fans mainly gave their applause to Phil Jackson. To be honest, this is the first time the fans have recognized Phil Jackson so much in this series. They I thought it was Phil Jackson who came up with all this.

(End of this chapter)