Legend of Tomorrow

The Kings attacked, Rondo and Hibbert played a pick-and-roll, broke through with the ball, went around in a circle and passed out.

Harden can't shoot endlessly. If he shoots against Carter, he will be seriously disturbed and his shooting rate will not be very high.

But the Kings' pick-and-roll offense poses no threat. The Lakers only need to shrink their formation and block the penalty area. They leave the inside players open and double-team to defend the breakthrough of the two defenders. Even if he doesn't shrink, Hibbert is not a threat because his cut speed is too slow. When he reaches the basket, the opponent's inside is already waiting there.

Hibbert lacks explosive power, so he can only rely on his height when holding the ball in singles. He can only bully an insider with the size of Bosh, and a strong man can resist him. Except for shooting into the basket, Hibbert is not accurate in other positions. As an insider, his true shooting percentage was less than 50% in three seasons, which was so bad that it was refreshing and refined.

Such a softie is praised by many people in the parallel world because of the Pacers' good record. The media said that he was a hacker of Yao Ming, which was definitely the worst time for Yao Ming to be hacked.

The Kings players passed the ball back and forth several times, and finally Solomon, who was left open on the outside, missed a three-point jumper from the bottom corner.

The Kings' lineup this year is definitely geared towards the No. 1 pick, and Guo Xu has a headache. If it doesn't work, he can only take the initiative to guard Harden and let Carter guard others.

Only the Sharingan can fight against the Sharingan. Guo Xu's defensive level is higher than Harden's. He has already opened the kaleidoscope.

When the Lakers attacked, Guo Xu still played without the ball. After catching the ball on the weak side baseline, he feinted and hit Rondo's hand and threw the ball. The referee called a foul.

Guo Xu also knows how to commit fouls. He takes few free throws because he shoots too accurately and doesn't bother to average 10 free throws per game like Harden. That will make the game intermittent. If the game is consistent, Guo Xu, who finds the rhythm, will score more efficiently.

Guo Xu made two free throws, 23-16.

In the next three rounds, the double-teaming of the Kings players finally worked, because coach Karl finally replaced Hibbert.

He realized that Hibbert was a scumbag in pick-and-roll defense and couldn't open up the offensive end, so he sent Omi Casspi, who was good at shooting three-pointers, as a guest power forward, and rookie Stann took over the center position.

Guo Xu made two shots, and once assisted Nurkic for a dunk with an air cut. He was not easy to make a shot, and his teammates had opportunities.

Stann is a high-ranking rookie that the Kings acquired from the Hawks in exchange for Landry, Koufers and others. His performance in the preseason was disappointing. This rookie's athletic ability is indeed very strong, but he is disadvantaged when playing center with a weight of 109 kilograms.

He plays power forward and has no shooting range.

After strengthening the mobility of the inside, the Kings can better prevent Guo Xu's shots, but they have nothing to do with a 127-kg strong man like Nurkic making air cuts. Not to mention the big man being lured away, even if Nurkic plays directly in singles, it will be difficult for the Kings to defend inside.

In the next round, Stein's layup was interfered with and missed. Guo Xu received the ball and quickly advanced. Rondo fouled Rondo on a single fast break and made two free throws. 27 to 16.

This time the Kings couldn't hit the basket, Harden also missed two shots, and the point difference widened.

Karl replaced Rondo, who committed two fouls, and replaced him with point guard Darren Collison, who was also very fast and had strong offense and weak defense.

When Collison saw Guo Xu, he would bring back bad memories. When he was playing for the Knicks, he met Guo Xu in the finals and was beaten to the point where he was unable to fight back.

what to do? Rondo can't guard him, and I can't guard him even more.

Guo Xu had no worries about defense. He didn't guard against Collison, and stood back very far, as if I want to rebound and let my teammates get stuck. Collison got an easy shot and scored 7 points in a row. In turn, the Lakers' offense was also easy.

Zhang Lili commented: Guo Xu must be thinking, thank God, Rondo finally went down and someone came up who dared to shoot in an open position, otherwise the score would have been wide open just now.

Yu Jia said: Guo Xu's two ways to win are: one is to lead the team to blossom more and secure the victory early. The other is to deal with the King. If he wants to stay on the court and experience the fun of playing, he has to make sure the game is not too fast. Going into garbage time and not playing defense.”

Zhang Lili said: No matter which point guard defends Guo Xu alone, he must be mentally prepared to be abused. I think Rondo is overrated.

Rondo, known as the King's second boss, only scored 3 points and 2 assists on 1 of 2 shots. The data was so explosive that it was impossible to see.

Does Rondo have a role that the data cannot reflect? You can't see it at all in this game, and only the weird Rondomi could see his role last season.

Last season, Rubio ranked first in point guard real defensive plus-minus and Rondo ranked 17th. Rubio has never been selected to the All-Defensive Team. With no one behind Rondo to help cover up the defense, and the scorer is not left to Tony Allen to deal with, his defense is just average.

In terms of offense, both of them have no shooting range and will be left open by their opponents. Rondo was also completely beaten by Rubio in free throws.

As long as he is compared with Rondo, Rubio may be whitewashed in the Trail Blazers. After leaving the Celtics, Rondo's breakthrough shots were gone, and his offense felt like constipation. In this way, there are always people on the Internet who say that Rondo is much better than Rubio and disdain to compare with him.

In fact, Rubio's true shooting percentage is ten percentage points higher than Rondo's. Last season, Rondo was a scumbag with a true shooting percentage of 44.8%, completely hopeless!

The King's desperate defense against Guo Xu's shooting is still somewhat useful. Guo Xu is not easy to fight in a positional battle. As soon as he catches the ball, there are two people in front of him, one big and one small. They can prevent breakthroughs and interfere with shooting.

However, the Lakers had trouble counterattacking the Kings. Guo Xu rushed to the front and caught the ball and played directly in singles. Tyronn Lue didn't care whether the pass would be missed or not, he just asked the players to pass the ball quickly to find him.

Guo Xu faced Collison's defense and scored a three-pointer. During the counterattack, he forced a breakthrough and caused Collison to foul, and made two free throws. He played the entire quarter, scored 30 points and 1 assist, leading the Lakers to a 37-28 lead.

The coach asked the role players not to take a shot unless they got an open space. The two inside players each scored two points, and Seth, who was left open, made a three-pointer.

If he hadn't scored this three-pointer, Seth would have felt like a defensive black hole deliberately sent by Tyronn Lue.

In the second quarter, the two sides competed with the substitutes. The Kings quickly caught up with a 12-4 attack wave and were only 1 point away.

The Lakers asked Clarkson to play point guard and Josh Richardson to play shooting guard. The situation was chaotic. Clarkson scored all 4 points in isolation, and the team did not cooperate at all.

The Kings were led by Rondo and Collison, who was in his prime, and played a two-guard game, and the breakthrough was very sharp during the counterattack. Casspi and Belinelli also made three-pointers. Hibbert served as the center, leading the four players.

Tyronn Lue replaced Clarkson 4 minutes later and replaced him with Guo Xu.

Guo Xu immediately counterattacked and scored 4 points and sent two assists to stabilize the situation. Josh hit a three-pointer and Thackeray scored easily with an air cut.

Even if Clarkson doesn't mention leaving the Lakers, the team management has begun to consider trading him. His organizational skills are indeed not good. When Josh 198CM had an absolute physical advantage against Rondo, he didn't even pass the ball once.

In the second half, after Collison came off the court, the Kings' offense failed again, but Rondo could also make Guo Xu uncomfortable. After being left open, he just didn't shoot. Use up in 24 seconds.

Under Rondo's delaying tactics, Guo Xu only scored 9 points in a single quarter and made 1 three-pointer. However, he also sent 3 assists and had 41 points, 4 assists and 2 steals in the half.

Rondo faced no defense and scored 7 points, 6 assists and 1 steal, and also committed three fouls.

The Lakers only led by 6 points 61 to 55...