lakers championship

Chapter 266 What is the strongest

Since February, the Warriors have quietly climbed to the top of the league in defensive efficiency, allowing less than 2 points per 100 possessions.This is far beyond the expectations of experts from all walks of life at the beginning of the season. It is unimaginable that the Warriors have lost the inside gate Bogut this season.

The reason is that Cole built a new defensive system, using Durant's height, wingspan and high mobility, combined with Thompson and Iguodala, which greatly limited the performance of opposing players on the outside and helped the Warriors win three-pointers. The number of blocked shots at the line and mid-range position is the first in the league, with an average of 6.1 shots per game.

However, excellent defense is not enough to block shots and steals alone. Although the Warriors are small but capable, they have an extremely fast rotation defensive ability, and they also limit the opponent's performance very well, making the opponent rush every time. Shooting in the time, greatly reducing its hit rate.

In addition, since the Cavaliers developed the continuous singles against Curry in the 16 Finals, many teams have followed suit against the Warriors. A large part of the defensive hole.

Now, Kerr feels unprecedented pressure, even worse than Game 16 of the [-] Finals.

He decided to adopt the strongest defense against the Lakers in advance, and gave Curry a look directly at the dribbler who was walking up the court, as if to say, "Stop playing, come for real."

Curry nodded and continued to walk forward, walking to the top of the arc, Durant stepped forward to pick and roll.

Cousins ​​switched defenses, and Curry accelerated sideways to the short corner on the right.

Seeing this, Tarek moved laterally to the right to make up the defense, Ingram also adjusted his face to prepare for double-teaming, and with the chasing Cousins, the three Lakers players formed a siege against Curry.

I thought, Curry stopped suddenly, and showed off a showy operation, and made a behind-the-back pass.

Durant received the ball at the top of the arc and broke through to the left without any pause.

Tianyang had it, and Durant had it, so it was difficult to defend, so he had to chase closely. At this time, the only other Lakers players in the left half were Nick Young, who obviously couldn't help.

Durant also carefully chose to make an emergency stop, raised his right leg, and shot back.

Tianyang took off to interfere, but it could only scare him.

The goal was scored, 19 to 19, and the two teams tied again.

Cousins ​​retreated to the bottom line to serve, Tianyang received the ball and went forward, Curry beckoned, and Iguodala ran to Ingram.

Seeing this situation, Tianyang was very puzzled, why did Curry come to defend again?
A team of the Warriors' level is obviously not so casual, and this move has a plan.

But it was difficult to figure it out for a while, Tianyang decided to see what he was doing and rushed to the right wing with the ball at a faster speed.

Looking up and observing the positions on the field, the Warriors players are half a step away from their teammates, and they did not adopt defense around the front.

Tianyang was even more puzzled, and immediately crossed and dribbled the ball, walking sideways against Curry to the inside.

Curry chased two steps in a row, dropped half a body slightly, and made a decisive attack.

Tianyang was not Harden. When he saw someone coming to grab him, he sent him up. Instead, he subconsciously pulled the ball to dodge. But just like that, the speed was a little slower, and Curry chased him up again.

Seeing the smile on the corner of Curry's mouth, Tianyang realized that he had been cheated, and immediately accelerated and sprinted forward, passing Curry in one step and rushing to the short corner on the right.

Durant jumps to cover, while Green runs to Cousins, Iguodala runs to Tarek, Thompson runs to Ingram, and Curry makes a wide circle to Nick Young .

This is no longer a defense change, nor is it a three-man defense change, but a whole team change defense.

Tianyang saw this posture and knew it was useless to talk trash, so he chose to jump up and shoot.

Durant flew to interfere and made a shot.

Green grabbed the rebound, turned around and handed it to Iguodala, and the Warriors made a fast break.

In the last round of the series, the Lakers bullied the Spurs that there were few people who could run, and often made fast breaks unscrupulously. Now that they meet the Warriors, they finally feel the same feeling.

Curry, Thompson, and Durant sprinted together. Without Randall, Tianyang and Ingram could only chase two. Nick Young wanted to delay Iguodala's dribble and had no chance.

Iguodala dribbled the ball to the center line, made an emergency stop and made a long pass to Curry. Tianyang tried his best, but could only force the opponent to pass the ball.

The basketball flew into Durant's hands, and Ingram just stuck it, and then flew to the left corner.

Thompson received the ball from the left corner, adjusted his posture calmly, and made a three-pointer.

After the hit, bursts of cheers erupted from the Oracle Center, and the fans felt that the Warriors had exerted their strength.

Cole showed a smile. In his opinion, apart from blocking shots, stealing and switching defenses, destroying the opponent's confidence with a super abnormal attack and making the opponent believe that he can't win is the strongest defense.

Wharton also felt that there was a problem. Although he was only 3 points behind, he decisively called a timeout.

TNT commentary.

O'Neal looked serious: "The Warriors have changed their strategy and moved the strongest third quarter to the end of the first quarter. I hope the boys of the Lakers can block this wave of strength."

Barkley put away his smile: "I feel that tonight's game is more important than the last one, because the Lakers lost Randall. If they lose, it will be a fatal blow to their confidence."

Kenny: "I hope Walton can think of a way to deal with it, otherwise the game will be one-sided."

Lakers bench.

Walton picked up the tactical board: "The Warriors will now use high-intensity switching to delay our offense. When the game restarts, we will abandon UCLA's air-cut tactics and play our best mobile offense..."

More than 7 minutes before the first quarter, UCLA did not play a few air cuts at all, mainly because Tianyang wanted to take the Warriors into the ditch first, but after a timeout, the Warriors changed their tactics ahead of time, and the Lakers now directly give up UCLA air cuts , all the Lakers generals except Tianyang are a little confused.

Cousins ​​was even more irritable, playing mobile offense, which meant that he had fewer chances to make calls.

Fortunately, Walton added: "But we also have to share the ball and let the ball move. No matter how fast the Warriors rotate, it can't be faster than the speed of a basketball."

The arrangement belongs to the arrangement, but Randall is not there, and the mobile offense is missing an important part. Tianyang can only go to the top of the arc to control the ball, replacing Tarek, Cousins ​​returns to the center, and Calderon plays point guard.

In a blink of an eye, the technique was suspended, and the game between the two teams continued.

Calderon took the ball to the right wing, passed it to Tianyang at the top of the arc, and ran down to the short corner on the right.

This is the initial version of the Lakers' mobile tactics. Although the power is not as powerful as Tianyang's point guard, it is barely enough. As long as Nick Young gets around the three-point line, Tianyang will pass the ball immediately.

Unexpectedly, Curry ignored Calderon, who was going down, and chose to double-team Tianyang with Thompson.

Too embarrassing!

Tianyang pulled the ball back, moved sideways to avoid double-teaming, and then passed the ball vigorously.

Calderon received the ball and made a direct shot without any defense. Unfortunately, the iron struck the iron, and the Oracle Center sneered.

Relying on his height advantage, Durant caught a rebound over Ingram's head, and the Lakers hurried back to defense.

But the Warriors didn't seem to be in a hurry. Durant slowly dribbled the ball to the top of the arc, and with the help of Thompson's pick-and-roll, he singled out Tianyang!

The two faced each other, and Durant rushed to the right elbow, then stopped abruptly and pulled out his hand.

Tianyang jumped up to block the shot, but the basketball still hit the ball hollow.

After Durant landed, he chuckled and said, "In the face of absolute strength, all plots are futile."

Tianyang was very angry, but he had to keep calm.

(End of this chapter)