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Chapter 262 Leveraging the Lakers' Defense

"The king changed?" After the intermission ended and the starting players of both sides reappeared, Kenny Smith showed a puzzled expression when he saw the Kings players walking on the court, even though Tony Allen was always on the court. He was emptied, but his defense against Kobe Bryant is still irreplaceable. In addition, the King is now in the lead, so Kenny Smith is really a little confused. Reggie Toyes replaced What is the purpose of Tony Allen? Is it to relax his defense against Kobe?Just thinking of this, Kenny Smith shook his head, what's the difference between releasing Kobe and committing suicide?
Although Tony Allen's defense against Kobe is very good, but because Tony Allen basically does not have a huge shortcoming in mid-range and long-range shooting, the Lakers have been emptying him on the offensive end. To the high position, let Tony Allen break through with the ball to break the Lakers' empty tactics, but this strategy is far from meeting the requirements of Reggie Troyce. After all, Tony Allen is a guard, it is impossible to always Let him go to the basket, and frequently pull Yan Hua to a high position. While accelerating the consumption of Yan Hua's physical strength, it also greatly reduces Yan Hua's offensive deterrence, especially in the offensive rebounds. Letting Yan Hua leave the basket is undoubtedly giving up the fight for offensive rebounds.

Therefore, Reggie Toyes wants to take advantage of the opportunity when the team is leading, and adjust the lineup and tactics on the field a little, to see if Zhu Holiday can liberate Yan Hua after playing. , Reggie Troyce is going to let Jrue Holiday try to defend Kobe. Jrue Holiday's defensive ability is far from Tony Allen's, and he is even a little frizzy on the defensive end, but compared to the powerless Kevin - Martin is still much better.

After seeing the changes in the Kings' starting lineup, Phil Jackson, who had already sat on the sideline bench, frowned, and gestured towards Lamar Odom who was closest to him , to pass on his latest arrangement to him. Although he is only a rookie, Zhu Holiday's offensive ability and organizational ability are more than one dimension stronger than Tony Allen, so he used it to deal with Tony Allen. That set of rules can never be used on Zhu Holiday.

"Is this rookie's defense so good?" At the beginning of the third quarter, when the Lakers took the lead in attacking, Kobe Bryant, who arrived in the frontcourt, found himself entangled by a rookie.

"Stick tight, stick tight, don't be afraid of fouls, hold him, hold him!" Tony Allen, who had already sat on the court, looked at Jrue Holiday who was entangled with Kobe without the ball , while clenching his fists, he kept muttering plausibly.

Since Jrue Holiday joined the Kings, the head coach Reggie Toyce, who valued the rookie very much, arranged for Jrue Holiday to follow Tony Allen to learn defense and Kevin Martin to learn shooting, so Come to think of it, Jrue Holiday can be regarded as Tony Allen's apprentice, so when Jrue Holiday replaced him and went to play against Kobe Bryant, Tony Allen not only didn't feel unhappy at all, but instead Still on the bench, secretly cheering Zhu Holiday up.

Although Kobe Bryant finally got rid of Zhu Holiday's entanglement, received a pass from his teammate and hit a jumper, but Zhu Holiday's performance in this defense is still remarkable, so Head coach Reggie Toyce, who has been standing on the sidelines to observe Jrue Holiday's performance, clapped his hands towards Jrue Holiday just after the defense in this round, which is not only his appreciation for his outstanding performance , is also an encouragement to him.

Zhu Holiday, who was still a little apprehensive about his performance just now, was relieved after seeing the head coach applauding him. Challenged.

After receiving the baseline ball from Yan Hua, Zhu Holiday quickly dribbled the ball to the frontcourt. At the same time, in the previous game, Sergi, who had been looking for a mobile phone opportunity from the corners on both sides of the offensive end -Ibaka, in this offense, stopped directly at the bottom of the arc, and it seemed that he was going to cover Jrue Holiday's pick-and-roll.

After all the Kings players on the field arrived in the frontcourt and finished their scattered positions, the Lakers on the defensive end were obviously a little uncomfortable.

Derek Fisher, who was supposed to guard Kevin Martin, defended Jrue Holiday at the direction of head coach Phil Jackson after Jrue Holiday replaced Tony Allen. Now, Kevin Martin and John Salmons are on the left and right sides of the three-point line, and Kobe Bryant and Lamar Odom are responsible for defending them.

As for Andrew Bynum and Pau Gasol, they still followed Yan Hua, entangled with Yan Hua in the low post, so Serge Ibaka, who stood a little lower at the top of the arc, It was unguarded again.

Although Serge Ibaka is now in the open wide open, Jrue Holiday strictly followed the coach's instructions, calling Serge Ibaka and his pick-and-roll, after getting rid of Derry After Ke Fisher's defense, he went down to a position slightly lower than the free throw line, and then made a sudden stop to shoot a jumper.

"Beautiful!" After Jrue Holiday hit a mid-range jumper after the pick-and-roll, Reggie Troyce, who was standing on the sidelines, and Tony Allen, who was sitting on the bench, waved their arms high at the same time. shouted.

Tony Allen was happy for his apprentice's outstanding performance, and Reggie Troyce was happy because he saw the opportunity to leverage the Lakers' defense.

"Where did this kid come from?" Even before the start of this round, Phil Jackson had done a lot of work on the Kings, and he knew everything about the Kings' main lineup and several major rotation players. It's very thorough, but looking at Zhu Holiday who quickly retreated after making a shot on the field, Phil Jackson felt a headache.

In Phil Jackson's eyes, whether it's Tony Allen or Kevin Martin, players who specialize in one aspect and have equally prominent weaknesses and strengths are not terrible. The ant nest in Dike, but players who have no obvious shortcomings on both ends of the offense and defense are more difficult to deal with, such as Yan Hua, Serge Ibaka, John Salmons, and The rookie who just replaced Tony Allen, one or two players of this type may not be obvious, but when there are a group of such players on the field, it will be very troublesome.

(End of this chapter)