basketball god

Chapter 108 Challenge the Kings

Yang Zhan got up early in the morning, prepared breakfast for his sister as always, and then ran to the FedEx Arena.

Half an hour later, Yang Zhan entered the arena and practiced dribbling mid-range shots for about an hour. After the trainer arrived, Yang Zhan began to practice catch-and-shoot three-pointers.

This is what Yang Zhan needs most at present, because for now, Yang Zhan's tactical role in the team's starting lineup is more like an end point.

If Yang Zhan has learned this move, his tactical status will not be limited to inside cuts and corner three-pointers. Apart from this reason, it is because Yang Zhan has too few offensive methods.

As a result, many people are now able to defend Yang Zhan. If it weren't for Yang Zhan's cheating, which made him have many uncertain factors, he would have been advertised by the media as hitting the rookie wall.

After training in the afternoon, Nelson took the Grizzlies on a flight to Sacramento and embarked on a road trip again.

At 3 o'clock in the afternoon the next day, the Grizzlies entered the Golden One arena, and when they were interviewed, they learned that the Dallas Mavericks beat the Warriors away.

In other words, the Grizzlies lost to the Kings in this game and will return to third place in the Western Conference, which aroused the Grizzlies' competitiveness.

If it is said that they deliberately lost the game for the sake of the playoffs, that's fine, but what they are fighting for now is this tone. Who would want to say that they are weaker than others?
After the last short warm-up before the game, players from both sides came on stage one after another!
Kings starting lineup, point guard: Mike Bibby, shooting guard: Kevin Martin, small forward: Artest, power forward: Raheem, center: Brad Miller.

To say that the lineup of the Kings has something to do with the Grizzlies, because Bibby the White Devil and Raheem both came from the Grizzlies.

The Grizzlies played their usual starting lineup, Brad Miller jumped the ball and the Kings got the first chance.

The core of the king's tactics has always been Princeton. This style of play focuses on passing the ball inside and commanding the inside. Therefore, if you want to implement this tactic, you must have an organization center.

Bibby controlled the ball and advanced to the frontcourt, then gave the ball to Brad Miller, a high-post organization, and began to run without the ball.

However, Yang Zhan's clinging skill is not what it used to be. Ever since he mastered Hamilton's magical skill "I can't run to death", he has never been in vain in facing this kind of strolling Yang Zhan.

Princeton's tactics pay great attention to space and selflessness, and cannot stick to the ball, but Artest, who was traded by the Kings in January, has not been able to integrate.

Because he doesn't like to run around, if his current personal ability is to be said to be among the top five small forwards in the league, he is definitely one of them.

So this little rage lost his temper. No, halfway through the execution of the tactics, the ball stopped in his hands again.

Facing Battier's defense, Artest dribbled the ball around his shoulders and crotch in a fancy way, but Battier didn't move, it was really clumsy.

Artest found that Battier was unmoved by his fake action, so he gave him a high-level look. This defense is really good.

Then Artest didn't fix those useless ones, forced a breakthrough with his strength, and rushed into the inside line with crab steps.

Although this action is very "picturesque", but the effect is so good, entering the three-second zone and jumping high, so scared that White dared not block it, boom, the dunk was successful.

The tactic failed, but the result was successful. Adelman didn't know what to say, to scold or not to scold?Later, he thought about the Palace of Auburn Hills and forget it. He is a coach, so he can't afford to risk his life.

When it was the turn of the Grizzlies to attack, Yang Zhan also gave the ball to Gasol, who demanded in the low post, all to the inside. However, Gasol faced this kind of inside, and the solution was very simple. He used his footsteps and turned around to wipe Brad Miller. He also succeeded in dunking.

No one can stop the offense on both sides. In the first quarter, the two sides played evenly. In the second quarter, the Grizzlies sent Yang Zhan + Ellis + Atkins + Posey + White's running and bombing lineup.

The Kings sent Bibby + John Salmons + Kenny Thomas + Garcia + Raheem to fight.

In the second quarter, the Kings couldn't stop the Grizzlies' offense, but today the Kings' outside touch is really good.

The second team they sent out, everyone scored three points, and the score was tied at 54-54 at the end of the first half.

During the halftime break, Nelson's instructions in the Grizzlies locker room were to defend the outside line, give them more physical confrontation, and try to cut off their receiving routes as much as possible, while letting Yang Zhan strengthen his personal offense.

At the beginning of the third quarter, the two sides once again dispatched the starting lineup, and this one Adelman obviously made preparations before the game.

Because Yang Zhan took the ball to the frontcourt and found that the person on the opposite side was actually Artest. The head coach of the Kings knew that in the situation of the Grizzlies, as long as the uncertain factor of Yang Zhan was settled, the game would be stable.

In the team's situation, Yang Zhan still had to play. Yang Zhan bent over and kept dribbling the ball in small steps to get within the three-pointer.

Suddenly Yang Zhan exploded to the right, and just as Yang Zhan was about to pull back, Artest directly confronted him violently, causing Yang Zhan to stagger, and then Artest quickly broke Yang Zhan's ball and completed a quick one-handed dunk.

The fans cheered enthusiastically!

(End of this chapter)