The genius of the basketball madman is on the left

"Without the ball..."

When Zuo Li stated his plan, D'Antoni fell silent, thinking about the possibility of this tactic in his mind.

Centers can be divided into three types in terms of offense:

The first one is offensive with the ball.This type of player has comprehensive skills, strong singles ability, and has high efficiency as long as he goes to the low position.As long as the situation is passive, teammates will choose to give him the ball, like this year's rookie Cousins ​​​​is this type.

The second type is offensive without the ball.This type of player is physically strong, and can use his excellent physical fitness to squeeze the opponent away and score the ball after receiving the ball in the low post. Representatives include Howard, Chandler and other pie-eating centers.

The third type, which is relatively rare in this era, is the support type. They can connect teammates like point guards, but only inside.Through support, you can revitalize your teammates, and you can also create better shot space for yourself. The representative is Gasol Jr., who has a very good vision when he stands at the free throw line. A three-point shooter who can pass to the outside, although he is inferior to his brother, he is still very good at the center position.

Most of the league's centers fall into these three categories.

And between these three types, there is another subtype, that is, among off-ball offensive centers, in addition to eating cakes inside, there is another type that catches and shoots outside the penalty area. They generally have strong shooting ability. Like Okur!

However, in this era, centers like Okur are not very popular. All teams prefer the first and third types of centers. The second type is also good, but generally needs to be paired with an excellent point guard to exert its power. , such as Stoudemire who met Nash, Martin who met Kidd, and Chandler who met Paul.

Although the traditional center is withered now, it is still the protagonist of the league, and the future center is two concepts.

And D'Antoni also knows that Zuo Li is completely different from the centers that have appeared before. His characteristics are more like a combination of one, two, three, and three types of centers, and he also has characteristics that most centers do not have. Which characteristic, Zuo Li is very top-notch.

This is also the fundamental reason why Zuo Li set off a storm in the league.

But one thing is, Zuo Li hardly played off the ball before, even if he was off the ball, he was still in the penalty area, and it was very rare to catch the ball and throw it on Zuo Li.

So at this critical moment, even D'Antoni knew that Zuo Li's proposal was the best and most appropriate way. With the current defensive strength of Zuo Li and the determination of the Lakers to lock Zuo Li, in addition to catching and shooting, No other way is good.

but……

The German coach is not worried about losing. He is worried that Zuo Li is not good at this kind of attack. team to imitate.

By that time, the Knicks' tactics are bound to be affected, and maybe it will also affect the Knicks' journey to the playoffs this season.

Move the whole body with one hair.

Zuo Li naturally knew D'Antoni's concerns, and in fact he also understood the risks involved, but he had to do this today, in addition to not wanting to give away the close record so easily in front of the Lakers and Kobe, what's more, he had to show It shows that he has the ability to crack such a dense defense in the area!

So Zuo Li said: "Don't worry, coach, I'm sure I can do it, we can play a few times first, if not, then give up."

Zuo Li is not aimless, no one understands the importance of projection to Zhongfeng better than him.

A few years later, the new era is no longer the era of the traditional center. The concept of the center has become so vague that it cannot be blurred anymore.

In the small-ball lineup that emphasizes moving without the ball and widening the space for three-point shooting, countless players like Chasing Dream Green were placed in the center position, and countless tall centers were pulled to the outside for "education" "No matter how good the back-to-the-basket skills of many centers are, he will still appear out of place in the team's small-ball lineup. This is why Howard is marginalized and Hibbert simply does not play.

Although Zuo Li is not worried about not having the ball to play, and is confident that he can stand tall in the basketball world in the future with his current ability, he will never relax his demands on himself. Moreover, a center with shooting is the most invincible in any era. the existence of a solution.

In addition to basic shooting, Zuo Li has also been committed to developing his other shooting abilities, such as catching and shooting.

Curry is his training partner and partner. Zuo Li also used it sporadically in previous games, but it was not too conspicuous and not many times.

After all, this method is not as efficient as Zuo Li's other methods of scoring, so Zuo Li generally doesn't use it. I didn't expect to be forced out by the Lakers today!

"Okay, if that's the case, let's try!" Since Zuo Li said so, D'Antoni naturally agreed, and he still believed in Zuo Li's strength.

Curry and Dragic were replaced at the same time after a timeout. The Zen master smiled slightly after seeing it. He thought it was the Knicks' last fight.

"Stop Zuo Li, don't worry about the breakthrough of the two defenders, just don't let them pass to Zuo Li." Zen master said while pulling Kobe.

Kobe nodded, defending Curry or Dragic, Kobe has absolute confidence.

However, in the first round, the way the Knicks attacked surprised Kobe, because Zuo Li let Randolph pick and roll near the baseline, pulled out and handed Curry, and before the double-team was in place, Zuo Li Directly shoot a three-pointer!

brush!

scored!

"Wow, Zuo Li's three-pointer has scored 14 points so far." Yu Jia praised: "Although Zuo Li doesn't shoot many three-pointers, he is still very stable, and he is indeed the first center three-pointer king in history. "

"Hey! The Lakers are cornered by Zuo Li. Usually Zuo Li wouldn't fight like this... It's not reasonable to fight like this, but now, you come up without double-teaming. So it's reasonable to fight like this."

Ye Qingjie!

Director Zhang actually felt that Zuo Li's fight was reasonable!

But it's reasonable and reasonable. No one thinks that Zuo Li will play like this. After all, the defenders can't guarantee that every one of them can score this kind of ball.

"Go, lock him on the left." Kobe said to Gasol. He didn't care about the ball, and he didn't think Zuo Li could score the second, so he asked his teammates to lock Zuo Li's breakthrough route.

However, in the second round, Zuo Li threw another three-pointer in the exact same position, directly reducing the point difference to 4 points!

"No way..." Kobe was speechless, this guy was lucky, he could score two in a row.

However, the Lakers remained indifferent, and Zuo Li also missed the third shot as they expected, and the point difference returned to 6 points.

But just when the Lakers breathed a sigh of relief and decided to continue to implement the defense, Zuo Li made a comeback!

This time, after receiving the ball in the low post after the pick-and-roll, Gasol stepped up quickly, ready to pinch the left stand to prevent him from turning forward!

However, after taking a tentative step on the left, he turned around to catch the ball and then fell back to make a jumper!

Although the movement is a bit rusty, the backward range is not big enough, even in Kobe's opinion, this thing is very ordinary, but...

it's in!

"WHAT!!!"