Bishop: since 1998

Chapter 107 The tricky pioneer!
January 12, Los Angeles, Staples Center Arena.

The Lakers played against the Trail Blazers at home.

At this time, the Trail Blazers ranked No. 15 in the league with a record of 3 wins and 2 losses.

This is a full of focus, and it is an out-and-out battle for the top spot.

The Trail Blazers are tricky. Just looking at the starting lineup makes Li Mu gasp.

Point guard Damon Stoudemire.

Shooting back Steve Smith.

Small forward Pippen.

Power forward Rasheed Wallace.

Center Arvidas Sabonis.

The only weakness is Stoudemire at 1 meters!

You call the little flying mouse who scored 20 points and 9 assists a weakness?

Not bad.

The weak point is Momonga.

From this we can see the strength of the Trail Blazers lineup.

And this is just the starting lineup, the strength of the bench players is also very solid.

Bunch Wells, O'Neal Jr., Detlef Schrempf, Brian Grant and more.

Compared with the lineup, no one is stronger than the Lakers lineup. This is true, but that refers to the Lakers with Kobe. Now Kobe is absent. Li Mu is in Ginobili, Brad Miller, Lewis, Billup Si and so on, when he hadn't grown to the All-Star level, he didn't have that tone.

The Lakers started with 5 players, still Billups, Rice, Bowen, Big Ben and O'Neal.

The game started with a scrimmage, and O'Neal beat Rasheed to give the Lakers the first possession of the ball.

In the frontcourt, Billups found that the Trail Blazers directly surrounded O'Neal.

Billups also followed Li Mu's instructions and tried to blow up Stoudemire's point.

Stoudemire, who defended the sky, could only stare blankly.

Boom-!
Billups played normally, playing the power of "Tie Lu".

At the basket, Rasheed blocked Big Ben, and Sabonis blocked O'Neal.

Pippen went in and took off the rebound.

Offensive and defensive transition, the Trail Blazers attack, Li Mu is also playing a shrinking lineup, just keep an eye on Steve Smith's three-pointer.

Rashidra went to the high position and played a pick-and-roll tactic with Little Momonga.

Stoudemire breaks into the penalty area, hits the big with the small, and makes a quick small toss shot...

Swish-!
Off the court, Li Mu shook his head, the pick-and-roll defense was still a headache for the Lakers.

The Lakers attacked, and Billups singled out the frontcourt, arching his butt, step by step, and arching the little flying mouse to the shooting sweet spot.

When Rasheed's defense was not in place, Billups turned around and shot a jump shot——

Swish-!
Billups hit two points steadily.

To be honest, Stoudemire's body is so bad that he is really not suitable to be the starting point guard of any championship team.

The Trail Blazers let Stoudemire play for seven years.

The head coach Mike Dunleavy did not use the "four guarantees and one" tactic, and it was inevitable that the flying mouse would be beaten.

The Trail Blazers didn't look for the reason from the lineup. The point guard of the bench lineup also found Greg Anthony, who is 1 meters tall.

Li Mu couldn't figure out what kind of medicine was sold in this gourd.

You said the Trail Blazers are not willing to spend money, right?

The team's total salary is as high as 7353 million U.S. dollars, which is about 5800 million U.S. dollars higher than the Lakers' total salary of 1500 million U.S. dollars.

This may be called money not being used wisely!

It's not possible, but it definitely is.

Stoudemire dribbled the ball to the frontcourt. At this time, Sabonis pulled out a high post and called O'Neal out of the penalty area.

Then, hand the basketball over to Rasheed.

For the Lakers lineup, the weak points come from point guards and power forwards?

This is the Trail Blazers' fixed impression of the Lakers.

Even if Big Ben and Billups join the Lakers and the strength of the two positions is enhanced, they are still regarded as weaknesses.

The Trail Blazers with Rasheed, on the power forward, is an out-and-out strength.

Don't you see that O'Neal was suppressed for four years?

Catching the ball with his back turned, Rasheed walked towards the baseline, suddenly turned over and shot a jump shot...

Daben suffers from his height.

Regardless of Rasheed's height and long arms, he still has straight arms and a backward shot.

No one can guard against this signature trick.

Swish-!
"Roaring Tianzun" came out of the cage, scored a goal, and just like Garnett, roared and beat his chest outside the court.

Next, Billups tried to break through and eat the little flying mouse.

The effect is obvious. Billups is taller than Stoudemire and stronger than Stoudemire. Taking advantage of his height, he is simply one-to-one.

After trying to single out Stoudemire with confidence, Billups then tried outside pick-and-roll tactics.

Let Rice and Bowen.

That's right, Bowen also tried to eat the little flying mouse and continued to play dislocation offense.

After experiencing a defense of 1 meters, Billups tried to hang the basketball to O'Neal to attack.

This is the strength of the Lakers, and naturally they want to find a feeling.

The Trail Blazers continued to flank O'Neal.

Bowen, who was on the outside, received a lot of passes from O'Neal, and he was a little panicked when he shot a three-pointer.

It's spread too much.

At this time, Bowen is not ready to use the offense to carry the Lakers' offense.

Boom-!
Boom-!
Blacksmithing is inevitable.

The Trail Blazers attacked. After trying the pick-and-roll tactics, they also tried to let the stars single out to break the game.

After Rasheed singled out Big Ben in a row, Stoudemire handed over the basketball to Pippen to attack.

Then, Bowen had bad luck.

Pippen used a bison-like body to force himself with his back.

Bowen's face-to-basket defense has no temper at all on Pippen's back attack.

On the commentary stage, Mike Breen shook his head and said bluntly, "This is not a match between the No. [-] team in the league and the No. [-] team in the league.

Both sides fought in a targeted manner, without going all out.

Obviously, they all regard each other as the biggest opponent for the championship, so they want to retain their strength.

The game was played like this, it shouldn't be. "

"Kobe's absence has had a huge impact on this game.

After all, it is understandable for the Trail Blazers to keep attacking against an incomplete Lakers team.

Play your hole cards now, and when Kobe comes back, the Blazers will be dumbfounded. "

"Of course, now it's just a test in the first quarter. In the second quarter, the competition for home court advantage, the two sides will definitely not back down, and then will be the real battle."

After the first quarter, the two sides played an unremarkable game and an unremarkable score.

23 to 24, the Lakers lead by 1 point at home.

In the second quarter of the game, Li Mu made a complete rotation, sending Fisher, Ginobili, Lewis, Horry and Brad Miller.

Dunleavy saw that none of the same starting 5 players were on the team, and Greg Anthony, Bunch Wells, Bryan Grant, DeTref Brigade Ramoff and Jermaine O'Neal were replaced.

It's called 'rotation-for-rotation' and nobody can take advantage of it.

The game started in the second quarter, and Fisher forced Greg Anthony to attack the Trail Blazers' point guard line like he beat Little Flying Squirrel in the first quarter.

Then, the Blazers broke through the defense.

After Fisher's breakthrough, it was replaced by Ginobili.

The sharp European step broke Greg Anthony into a sieve.

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(End of this chapter)