against the front

Chapter 254

"How are you feeling now, Tony?"

In the locker room of the visiting team at the Staples Center, Tony Allen, who had just walked into the locker room and hadn't had time to sit down, was stopped by head coach Reggie Troyce. As the king's outside defensive pioneer, Tony - Allen chased Kobe Bryant tirelessly and frantically throughout the first half, limiting Kobe Bryant's offensive performance to the maximum.

At the same time, as the No. 13 scorer in the king's main lineup, Tony Allen, who basically doesn't score much, scored [-] points very rarely in the first half of the game. It is no exaggeration to say that Tony - Allen played at a super level on both ends of the offense and defense today. Therefore, after the first half of the game, the head coach Reggie Toyce, who was very satisfied with Tony Allen's performance, was very concerned about Tony Allen. Physical condition and physical exertion.

"Coach, I'm fine. I think I can do better." Although in the first half of the game, under the defense of Tony Allen, Kobe Bryant made 13 of 6 shots and only scored 14 points. Even Kenny Smith and Charles Barkley on the sidelines have been praising Tony Allen for his defense against Kobe, but Tony Allen is still not satisfied with his defense. Think about it, if you let a player score 30+ in a single game on his head, it would be a complete failure for Tony Allen, and Kobe is very likely to score 30 points today.

"That's good. I won't say anything extra. You just need to maintain the concentration and defensive aggression you had in the first half in the second half." Nodding towards Tony Allen very satisfied After that, Reggie Toyce walked towards Yan Hua who was already seated.

"Yan, they will definitely continue to strengthen their defense against you in the second half, so I hope you can pass the ball more and attract the Lakers' defensive attention. Don't be impulsive or impatient."

After finishing his instructions to Tony Allen, Reggie Toyce came to Yan Hua's side. With an excited look, he looked at Yan Hua, the core player of the king, who was also the player he relied on the most. Yan Hua is currently in the The deterrence at both ends of offense and defense, according to Reggie Toyes, is no weaker than the four major centers. The offensive end is basically unsolvable. There is no player in the entire league who can restrain Yan Hua in one-on-one situations. At the end, Yan Hua goes to the basket, which is a solid barrier. Whether it is single defense, assist defense, or even misplaced defense ability, it is the top existence, and Yan Hua's existence is also Reggie- Toyce's greatest reliance and confidence.

At a young age, he already possessed unrivaled abilities. Reggie Troyce, who came from a professional player, knows very well what this type of player looks like. They are rebellious, rebellious, and impulsive. They believe in themselves Can defeat all opponents, can defeat all enemies, so they are easy to get ahead in the game, want to destroy the opponent with their own strength, after all, in the eyes of this type of players, as long as they have the ball in their hands, they are excellent However, Yan Hua has always had this tendency, not to mention the double-teaming of two people, even when facing the double-teaming of three people, Yan Hua often enjoys fighting.

Staples Center, Hollywood, Kareem-Jabbar, today's game has received an extraordinary amount of attention, so Reggie Toyes hopes that Yan Hua can be a little calmer in the game and not fight with Xiao The Bulls were as capricious in that round of the series, because the Lakers are a stronger and more difficult opponent than the Mavericks.

You can play the regular season as you like, but now it's the Western Conference finals. As long as you pass this hurdle, you can see the O'Brien Cup.

"Don't worry, coach, I know how to measure." Looking at the "distrustful" expression on the head coach Reggie Troyce's face, Yan Hua's heart was also sweating, maybe it was the series with the Mavericks. In the second game, Yan Hua retaliated against what the Mavericks did in the third game of the series. In the next two games, he made more than 30 crazy shots every game, which made the head coach Reggie Tho Iss felt uneasy, and was afraid that he would play like that in the Western Conference Finals, so he wanted to remind Yan Hua.

It has to be said that after the round of the series against the Mavericks, Yan Hua's desire to score became more and more intense. The kind of fast GAN who chops melons and vegetables on the court and scores crazy points is like XX, which makes Yan Hua Hua can never forget.

But at least for now, Yan Hua remains calm, because Yan Hua cares more about winning than scoring and statistics, because after being influenced by the gangsters in the system space, Yan Hua has always maintained his composure. Firmly believe in a truth, only the data after victory is effective data, and the data that cannot bring victory is a zero.

After reminding Yan Hua, Reggie Toyce walked up to Kevin Martin, and then John Salmons. After telling all the main players, Reggie Toyce Only then did I walk to the center of the locker room, took the tactical board from assistant coach Tyrone Corbin, and began to arrange the tactics for the second half and the arrangement of the players.

When Reggie Toyes took advantage of the halftime break to arrange the team's lineup and tactics, not far away in the home team's locker room, Phil Jackson was also holding a tactical board and berating Fang Qiu, but because of Unlike Reggie Toyce, who was ahead and looked relaxed, the expression on Phil Jackson's face is not very good now.

Throughout the first half, the Lakers were suppressed by the Kings, without even a chance to stand up, so Phil Jackson was quite dissatisfied with the performance of the players on the field, especially the Lakers' insiders, Andrew Byner Tom, Pau Gasol, Lamar Odom, the three of them took turns to play, and they couldn't do anything about Yan Hua, and it was fine if they couldn't guard Yan Hua. On the offensive end, the Lakers couldn't open the situation inside. Even though Pau Gasol scored well over Serge Ibaka and Kobe Bryant hit a couple of shots in the closing minutes of the first half, playing outside all the time One thing, the shooting percentage away from the basket is always unreliable.

"Guys, it's time to strengthen our offense." After arranging the lineup for the second half and looking around at the players in the locker room for a week, Phil Jackson took the tactical board and walked over to Kobe and Paul. -In front of Gasol, when there is no way to improve the defensive end, if you want to reverse the situation on the court, you can only find a way on the offensive end, and on the offensive end, Phil Jackson can Count on Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol.

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"The first half of the game between the Kings and the Lakers, overall, was very exciting, whether it was the hand-to-hand fight between Yan Hua and the Lakers' insiders, or the fight between Tony Allen and Kobe Bryant, it was very exciting. It makes people's blood spurt." When the intermission was about to end and the players of both sides began to walk out of the player tunnel, Kenny Smith, who was on the sidelines in the commentary, also had a smile on his face.

"It's true, especially Tony Allen's defense against Kobe Bryant. I can't describe it in words. If I were to choose the best perimeter player in this league, I would definitely vote for Tony Allen. Len votes." It is completely different from Kenny Smith's focus, the duel between Kobe Bryant and Tony Allen is the focus of Charles Barkley, although Tony Allen was selected The best defensive team this season, but Charles Barkley still feels that he underestimated Tony Allen's defense before.

With Andrew Bynum ineffective on both ends of the floor in the first half, Phil Jackson replaced Lamar Odom at the start of the second half Andrew Bynum pushed Pau Gasol to the fifth position, trying to consume Yan Hua.

On the first offense after the start of the second half, there was nothing special about the Lakers' positioning. Pau Gasol and Lamar O'Dole divided the two sides of the paint, Ron Artest and Kobe Bryant respectively Standing beyond the three-point line on both sides of the court, Derek Fisher, who advanced with the ball, stopped after reaching the top of the arc.

After a little stability at the top of the arc, Derek Fisher passed the basketball in his hand to Kobe, who was already leaning against Tony Allen. After completing the pass, Derek Fisher quickly Cut to the corner along the outer edge of the three-point line, and Kobe, who had just received the pass, handed the basketball to Derek Fisher as Derek Fisher drove to the corner. Scheer, as for Kevin Martin, who was following Derek Fisher, was blocked by Kobe.

After Kevin Martin, who was defending Derek Fisher, was blocked by Kobe Bryant, in order to prevent Derek Fisher who was holding the ball from being wide open, Tony, who was originally defending Kobe behind Kobe Bryant - Allen quickly rushed towards Derek Fisher, but just as Tony Allen was about to jump in front of Fisher, Derek Fisher passed the basketball back kobe.

Although after blocking Kevin Martin, Kobe began to turn around to prepare for the next step of cooperation, but when Derek Fisher passed the basketball back to Kobe, Kobe, who had not adjusted his shooting posture, just Seeing that Yan Hua, who was still entangled with Pau Gasol just now, has already rushed towards him. If Kobe continues to choose to shoot at this time, it is very likely that he will be blocked by Yan Hua who rushed over. After seeing Yan Hua jumping over, Kobe immediately passed the basketball in his hand to Yan Hua's back, because there was Pau Gasol who was already unguarded.

"Great opportunity!" Phil Jackson, who had been sitting on the bench as rock solid, stood up from his seat directly after Kobe passed the basketball to Pau Gasol. Scheer's passing, inside, and passing back to Kobe were all arranged by Phil Jackson in advance, in order to disrupt the King's defense through this series of cooperation, and to get Yan Hua from the inside, from Paul Gareth Sol's side pulls out, creating opportunities for Pau Gasol to score in the paint.

Pau Gasol, who successfully received a pass from Kobe, faced the unguarded basket, and instead of taking a mid-range shot on the spot, he rushed directly towards the basket, preparing to use a dunk to blow the ball away. Sounded the clarion call for the Lakers' counterattack.

"Paul, be careful!" Paul Gasol, who took two consecutive steps and jumped up holding the basketball with one hand, seemed to hear someone calling him from behind in a trance, but Paul Gasol, who had no choice but to shoot, But he ignored the voice that came from nowhere, but kept accumulating energy in the air, preparing to smash the basketball in his hand into the king's basket.

However, just as Pau Gasol's body began to fall, while waving his arms, preparing to smash the basketball in his hand into the basket, Gasol saw a figure in a white jersey from the corner of his eye, and then There was a sharp pain in the wrist.

"Where's the ball? Where's my ball?" When the pain in his wrist spread down his arm to his shoulder, Paul Gasol realized that the basketball in his hand had disappeared: "I was blocked? My dunk It was actually covered by someone?"

After landing, Pau Gasol no longer cared about his numb wrist, and immediately looked around to find traces of the basketball. When Pau Gasol turned around, he finally saw the traces of watching the ball. The guy in the Kings 15 jersey is already grabbing the basketball and going down the fast break.

The somewhat confused Pau Gasol did not retreat immediately, but looked up at the big screen hanging high in the air, ready to see how he was blocked, the dunk was blocked, for For Paul Gasol, who has played ten seasons in the NBA, this is the first time in his career.

"Charles, do you think Yan could have blocked the shot just now if it was Hakeem?" Although John Salmons had already made a fast break, what appeared on the big screen was not The scene where John Salmons plays a fast break is the scene where Yan Hua just blocked Pau Gasol. At the same time, Kenny Smith on the sidelines also began to discuss the King's defense and Yan Hua blocked the shot just now, and also made a series of assumptions.

"Hakeem may be able to do it, but he will definitely not be better than Yan." Charles Barkley answered Kenny Smith's hypothesis while looking up at the big screen hanging in the air, wanting to see more clearly.

In the Lakers' attack just now, Yan Hua first went to defend Kobe who was open and holding the ball, and then after Kobe passed the basketball to Pau Gasol, he quickly turned around and chased Pau Gasol who was rushing towards the basket. Sol, and blocking Pau Gasol's dunk perfectly before Pau Gasol dunked the basketball in the hoop, the movement speed, the reflexes, the coordination, the bounce, the speed, the Charles Barkley couldn’t find any words to describe his aerial confrontation ability except for the word perfect, so after watching the replay completely, Charles Barkley sighed: “This block shot Definitely the best block of the season, bar none!"

(End of this chapter)