The convulsion superstar of basketball

Chapter 321 320.G2, the trade-offs and changes of the Lakers

February 5.

As the NBA Finals kicked off, on this day, God seemed to have made a joke with all the fans.

Because just after the first game of the NBA Finals officially started, the Magic finally defeated the league's top seed Los Angeles Lakers in an away game.

With a pre-match winning rate of only 26.7%, he abruptly won the finals at the Staples Arena.

It can be said that after the first game of the finals, some people were happy and some were worried. For Magic fans, this is definitely a day worth celebrating.

After all, looking at the entire history of the NBA, the team that won the first game in the finals has a final winning percentage of 78.6%.

Although this data can only be called a big data, it can definitely be called a hope for the Magic fans who basically had no hope before.

Because just when local fans in Orlando began to discuss the team's ability to survive a few games under the Lakers, the Magic abruptly used a game victory to tell people that Orlando's "bombing city" cannot be ignored! !

Among them, after the first game of the NBA Finals, the bookmaker immediately changed the market for the second game.

After all, with the Magic taking the lead in winning the Finals, more and more fans are buying the Magic to win in the second game.

Therefore, the gaming company that smelled a breath made adjustments to the handicap immediately.

However, at this moment, the gossip news from the outside world is unknown to everyone in the Magic team, because as the team took the lead in defeating the Lakers in the away game, the pressure facing the Magic team will definitely increase in the future.

In addition to carrying the hopes of Orlando fans, these pressures come more from the Lakers fans and the heavy pressure from the outside media.

Moreover, Su Jiu is completely ignorant of these news at this moment, otherwise he will frown, feeling that something is wrong.

Because at this moment, everyone in the Magic team is engaged in endless tactical drills. Although the away game will be subject to many restrictions in team training, this will not affect Van Gundy's instilling some conceptual arrangements in the players.

As for why they felt that something was wrong, because based on the experience of Su Jiu and the Second King, once the gaming company made too large adjustments to the handicap of a game, it would inevitably enter the league's field of vision.

And this situation will obviously be very detrimental to the Magic, which has a slight upper hand at the moment. After all, the NBA is a commercial league. Although the slogan is fair, just and open, if someone really believes it, they are a real fool."

February 6.

Under the eyes of all fans, the second game of the NBA Finals was officially played at the Staples Arena.

Because in the current entire NBA league, except for the two teams of the Magic and the Lakers, all other teams are sitting on the Diaoyutai and going home to fish.

So this also leads to whether the remaining fans are fans of the Lakers or Magic, they will turn their attention to the stage of the NBA Finals at this moment.

And standing under the spotlight that can basically be called the national basketball world, there is definitely a very big requirement for the players' ability to resist pressure on the court.

Among them, after the first game of the finals, although Su Jiu was very excited after the game, it was quite natural.

After all, Su Jiu has never seen any big scenes in two lifetimes, so Su Jiu will not be too happy before the end of the series.

But the team's first big victory in the finals made Courtney Lee, who entered the league for the first time, feel extremely excited.

Even during this period of rest, the whole person was restless, unable to fall asleep at night, nagging in Su Jiu's ear all the time.

If in the end Van Gundy hadn't forcefully opened a room for Xiao Lizi because he was afraid of disturbing the rest of the other players, then Su Jiu might be tortured to death tonight.

After all, Su Jiu is too clear about Xiao Lizi's nagging face. Once this guy holds on to something, the effect on your ears is no less than that of Tang Seng's magic spell...

Before the game started, players on both sides were warming up for shooting in their respective halfs.

Before the game, the expressions on the Lakers' side were quite grim. After all, they are temporarily behind with a big score of 0:1.

But even if the team wins first in the finals, before the game starts, the atmosphere on the Magic side is also not at all relaxed.

Even Iverson, who has always been defiant, was concentrating on shooting warm-ups before the game, and he could not see the joy and ease after winning the game on his face.

As the game is about to start, the two sides announced the starting list of the game.

Lakers:

Fisher, Kobe, Ariza, Gasol, and Bynum.

Magic:

Su Jiu, Iverson, Pietrus, Lewis, and Howard.

In this game, the two sides still continued the starting lineup of the previous game. Regarding this point, they have a very tacit understanding with each other, and there is no lineup adjustment.

After the opening, Howard was the first to get the ball, and once again won the first wave of offense for the Magic after the opening.

Facing Fisher with the ball, Su Jiu no longer felt the pressure of playing this time.

Because facing the old fish Fisher, Su Jiu was very sure that he couldn't defend himself at all, because he was much slower than himself in terms of speed.

However, when Su Jiu held the ball and faced Fisher again, Su Jiu found that Fisher's position when defending himself in this game has changed significantly from the previous game.

The biggest change is that when Fisher was defending himself in the last game, his body was always standing in a position that was neither far nor close to him.

While ensuring that he can interfere with Su Jiu's shooting at the first time, he can also retreat as much as possible to defend Su Jiu's breakthrough.

But the facts have proved that this kind of defensive method that wants to catch three-point breakthroughs makes the old fisher Fisher's game really shabby.

So after the game started, Fisher took the initiative to retreat half a step back, it seemed that he mainly wanted to defend Su Jiu's breakthrough after using the pick-and-roll.

Thus, to a certain extent, Su Jiu's threat outside the three-point line was relaxed.

After all, as a traditional coach in the NBA, Zen master Jackson has always believed that the closer to the basket, the higher the shooting rate will be. The problems that can be solved by stars should not rely on others.

So while Fisher was basically beaten by Su Jiusheng in the last game, Zen Master Jackson made a decisive decision and immediately made some choices between breakthroughs and three-pointers.

And this choice is actually not difficult for a head coach to make, because when Su Jiu breaks through, he can not only have the opportunity to directly attack the basket, but also find the position of his teammates while on the move, so as to send a wonderful breakthrough.

But if Su Jiu is only allowed to make some shots from outside the three-point line, then Su Jiu can only become a lone hero, leading the team forward with his own strength.

From this point, it can be clearly seen that Zen Master Jackson's loss in the last game was classified as the Magic's more flowering.

So in this game, it was planned to cut off the connection between Su Jiu and other teammates from the very beginning.

Facing the defensive style of the Lakers, Su Jiu didn't act recklessly as soon as he came up.

Instead, he played a pick-and-roll with Howard at a high position as usual. With the help of Howard's pick-and-roll, Su Jiu could obviously find that Fisher was standing a little behind at this time.

Seeing this situation, Su Jiu was also not polite at all. With the help of Howard's body, he made a three-point shot directly behind Howard! !

"boom!"

As the sound of iron striking came out, Su Jiu pursed his lips and shook his head as if dissatisfied.

And because Howard went to the high post to set up a pick-and-roll with Su Jiu, so when Su Jiu made the shot, Howard had no position to compete for the rebound at all.

In the end, he could only watch this rebound was easily accepted by Bynum.

After receiving Bynum's pass, Fisher held the ball slowly through the half court, and then after all the players completed their positions according to the tactics, he directly lobbed the ball to Kobe at the bull's corner.

Sure enough, in this game, the Lakers still continued their regular triangle offense on the offensive end, which really did not exceed Su Jiu's expectations.

Because of Su Jiu's experience, he knew very well that Zen Master Jackson had become obsessed with the triangle offense.

As the saying goes, success is a triangle, and failure is a triangle. At his peak, Jackson used the triangle to attack, which abruptly fulfilled the consecutive championships of Jordan and Kobe.

But in his later years, Zen master Jackson's coaching experience during the Knicks period made him almost ruined.

It made people question the tactic of the triangle offense again.

Similarly, after Zen Master Jackson announced that he would no longer coach the NBA team, the triangle offense has completely disappeared from the NBA.

From this point, it is not difficult to see that although the triangle offense has an inexplicable bonus ability for stars, its shortcomings are also very obvious.

That is, while infinitely magnifying the personal abilities of stars, it will also greatly reduce the contribution of role players on the court.

But no matter what, Zen master Jackson is more fond of this tactic, so no matter how he changes his whole person, the point of playing triangle offense on the offensive end is absolutely impossible to change.

Otherwise, as long as Jackson can complete the change on the offensive end, he will not be so stiff with the little melon Anthony in the later Knicks.

Not to mention ruining himself at the end of his career, even though he is the coach with the highest winning percentage among all coaches in the league, this still cannot conceal the fans' doubts about him.

After everyone pulled away, Kobe faced Pietrus who was still defending himself closely, but he didn't directly complete the pass like in the previous game.

Instead, he used his back to withstand Pietrus behind him, and then used his body to resist and hit some shooting space, and at the same time, he directly took a fadeaway jumper that turned to the left.

Although Pietrus had given Kobe enough physical confrontation on the defensive end, but on the shooting point at this point, it was Kobe's most accustomed existence on the offensive end.

"Shu~"

2:0

As the sound of the basketball hitting the net came out, this difficult fadeaway jumper was steadily hit by Kobe, and the Lakers took the lead in scoring the first goal of the game.

Following Kobe's goal, the entire Staples Arena erupted into a super high wave of celebration in an instant.

At this moment, all the fans seemed to be on a stimulant and began to shout crazily.

Obviously, the team's loss in the last game has been converted by Lakers fans into the motivation for celebrating this game.

After all, if the Lakers lose one game first, it is not a catastrophe for the Lakers, but if the Lakers face another loss at home in this game, then the Lakers will really be pushed into the abyss.

So when Kobe took the lead in scoring for the team on the field, the fans at the scene felt so excited.

In the next few minutes, the two sides launched a battle of iron on the court. Most of the Lakers' offensive offense was initiated by Kobe.

The Magic's defensive strategy is also very obvious. No matter how big the threat of Kobe on the offensive end is, Van Gundy is determined not to double-team Kobe.

Once Kobe throws off Pietrus' defense and goes inside, Howard, who is sitting at the basket, will become an insurmountable mountain.

As for the Magic, because Iverson's offensive efficiency will be greatly reduced when facing Ariza's personal defense, so throughout the first quarter, the Magic's main offensive points are concentrated on Su Jiu, Lewis and Howard.

And among them, when Howard faced the energetic Bynum, his offensive completion rate at the basket was not very high, so most of the Magic's offensive shots in the first quarter were concentrated on Su Jiu and Lewis.

On the offensive end, Su Jiu and Lewis tried their best to find offensive space through teammates' pick-and-roll methods.

After all, in the starting lineup, the players responsible for defending Su Jiu and Lewis are Fisher and Gasol respectively.

These two players can be said to have big and small problems on the defensive end. Among them, Fisher's movement speed is slow, and Gasol's center of gravity is too high.

So when Su Jiu and Lewis used off-the-ball pick-and-rolls, they could always get some space for large and small shots.

Especially in this game, Fisher took a step further from Su Jiu's defense, which caused Su Jiu to frequently attack from outside the three-point line.

Although Su Jiu was hit with iron in the previous few three-point shots, this did not affect Su Jiu's confidence in the offensive end at all.

Instead, he became more determined in the next three-point shot.

Finally, after the end of the first quarter, the Lakers played at home with:

22:18

Leading the Magic by 4 points, it ended the contest between the two sides in the first quarter.

With the end of the first quarter, the entire Staples Arena has fallen into a cheerful atmosphere.

Because the current situation on the court can be said to be very favorable for the Lakers, it even gave the fans at home the hope of winning the game.

The main reason why the Magic fell behind at the end of the first quarter was that the Lakers cut off the connection between Su Jiu and his teammates.

It forced Su Jiu to complete more individual singles, and resolutely prevented Su Jiu from passing the ball to drive the offense of other teammates.

To put it simply, the Lakers' defense in this game is to resolutely prevent Su Jiu from having a chemical reaction with other teammates.

Even in this process, the Lakers had to pay the price of allowing Su Jiu to shoot from outside the three-point line more easily, but in order to cut off the overall smooth offense of the Magic, Jackson Jackson still made a decision without hesitation.

In the last game, the Magic contributed 8 assists in a single quarter at the end of the first quarter, but in the first quarter of this game, the Magic finally sent out only 3 assists.

And at the same time, Su Jiu's shooting from beyond the three-point line has not been able to find the touch for a long time.

Therefore, when the team's overall offense is not smooth, and Su Jiu's personal touch is quite poor, the Magic team, which has been blooming more points this season, was directly choked.

In the end, while the team only scored 18 points in the first quarter, it also fell behind the Los Angeles Lakers by 4 points...

(End of this chapter)