Basketball boy, starting to shine from the slam dunk

On October 10, the Lakers came to the Jazz's home court.

This is a series of away games, but fortunately they are not back-to-back. After arriving in Utah, the Lakers rested for a day to recover their strength.

The game is about to start at seven o'clock in the evening.

A group of Lakers players gathered around Coach Scott. Coach Scott spread out the tactical board and said, "First of all, we still have to do a good job of defense. The opponent doesn't have any particularly strong scoring points, but several players have certain scoring abilities. We just need to defend them one-on-one."

"Offensively..."

As he said that, he looked at Holiday and said, "Holiday, play more decisively, control the rhythm, attack when you need to attack, play tactics when you need to play tactics, and play more hand-to-hand passes with Zhuang Yu."

Holiday nodded heavily and answered loudly, "Yes."

Coach Scott had a talk with him yesterday, and Zhuang Yu said that all organizational tasks would be handed over to him from now on, and Zhuang Yu would only be responsible for scoring.

Of course, Zhuang Yu didn't arrange this kind of thing alone. He had discussed it with Coach Scott before saying it to Holiday, and only told Holiday after getting Coach Scott's approval. Coach Scott also had to talk to Holiday and arrange it as a coach.

After gaining the trust and support of Coach Zhuang Yu and Scott, Holiday's mentality is now much better than before.

The whole person looks different.

Coach Scott continued to arrange: "Brooke, you pull to the outside, and do more pick-and-rolls. It's best to pull Gobert out and clear the inside. In addition, we must resolutely shoot three-pointers from the outside, which is our advantage..."

After some careful planning, Coach Scott put away the tactical board, clapped his hands and said, "Go ahead."

Everyone gathered together and shouted in unison: "The Lakers must win!"

"The Lakers must win!"

......

Soon, the game begins.

The Lakers still have their regular starters.

The Jazz's starting five are Ricky Rubio, Rodney Hood, Joe Ingles, Derrick Favors and Rudy Gobert.

The Jazz's lineup has changed a lot this season. Two of last season's starters are gone, including an All-Star player.

The departure of Gordon Hayward and George Hill had a great impact on the Jazz. They signed Spanish golden boy Ricky Rubio in the offseason and promoted Joe Ingles. Together with Hood, Favors and Gobert, they formed the new starting lineup.

This is also their regular starting lineup this season, and this lineup was used in the previous few games.

Both sides came to the field.

First there was a jump ball, Lopez and Gobert jumped the ball, Gobert touched the basketball first and hit the ball to the backcourt, Rubio controlled the ball and started to advance.

After arriving at the frontcourt, Rubio saw Holiday rushing up and blocking in front of him. He didn't care too much and made a gesture to his teammates.

Gobert went forward to screen and Rubio tried to get rid of Holiday, but the next moment he saw Holiday had bypassed Gobert and appeared in front of him again. He frowned slightly and passed the ball to Hood. Hood took a look at the ball and saw that Zhuang Yu was unmoved. He smiled helplessly and did not make any more moves. He directly passed the ball to Ingles.

Ingles played a singles game, dribbled the ball between his legs, took a step forward and changed direction. His speed was not very fast, but his rhythm was very good, and he passed Korver by half a body. However, Anderson of the Lakers quickly made up for the defense, Ingles passed the ball to Favors, Favors made a jump shot, and Lopez had already rushed over.

boom!

There was a muffled sound, iron struck.

The basketball bounced a little far and was caught by Holiday, who quickly launched a counterattack. After taking a few steps forward, he pushed the basketball with both hands and it flew towards the basket.

"what?"

"this......"

The Jazz players were startled and looked up.

I saw a figure that had actually reached the front court and stepped into the three-point line, leaving everyone behind.

It's Zhuang Yu!

Zhuang Yu jumped up, stretched out his hand to pick up the basketball without dribbling anymore. He just jumped up, his body paused in the air for a moment, exerted force with both hands, and dunked towards the basket.

Bang!

This is an explosive dunk.

"It was turned into a fast break from the beginning..."

"Be careful."

The Jazz fans were upset and shouted at the court, asking the Jazz players to defend better.

Several Jazz players looked at each other and then launched an attack.

After coming to the frontcourt, Rubio still called for a pick-and-roll, but failed again. He couldn't help but feel a little annoyed and decided to do it himself. He swung his shoulders and lowered his left shoulder, pretending to break through to the left, but at the moment of starting, he suddenly changed direction and broke through to the right.

This is very deceptive, the whole movement is very smooth, and an ordinary person would probably be passed by half a body length.

But then he ran into Holiday.

Holiday was seen retreating back and forth, blocking the position first, blocking Rubio's breakthrough route, and Rubio collided with him.

A huge force hit Rubio, and he staggered. He quickly lowered the height of his dribble, turned sideways, and pressed his body tightly against Holiday, with his ball-protecting hand placed across his body.

Sure enough, Holiday reached out with one hand and almost cut the ball away.

"Almost..."

Rubio's heart sank.

Just now, Holiday actually judged his intention in advance, and he was obviously not as good as Holiday in physical confrontation. If it weren't for his excellent dribbling skills, he might have been intercepted.

Rubio immediately took a step back, created a little distance, and then passed the ball. There was no chance for a one-on-one play.

But when he looked at Holiday again, Rubio couldn't help but frown. He felt that Holiday was a little different today.

That look was exceptionally bright and sharp.

After several more passes, the ball finally reached Joe Ingles, who made a quick stop and jump shot.

The ball was scored and the score was 2:2.

"nice shot."

"Come on Jazz!"

In the audience, the home fans cheered loudly.

As soon as they turned around, the Lakers immediately retaliated.

This time it was Holiday who got rid of the pick-and-roll and then passed the ball back to Lopez. Lopez and Zhuang Yu passed the ball to each other. After receiving the ball, Zhuang Yu dribbled forward one step, and seeing that the Jazz's switch defense was a beat slow, he simply took a three-pointer.

Swish!

The ball was scored and the score was 5:2.

The Jazz head coach Quin Snyder was somewhat dissatisfied with the fact that Zhuang Yu made a three-pointer at the beginning. He yelled at the players on the court to defend better.

How can you let Zhuang Yu shoot three-pointers at will? Doesn’t he know how accurate his three-pointers are?

Just knowing is one thing, defending seriously is another, but can the Jazz really defend it?

......

boom!

With a dull thud, the Jazz missed the shot.

Anderson grabbed the rebound and passed the ball to Holiday. The Lakers launched a counterattack. After reaching the frontcourt, Holiday was not in a hurry to find Zhuang Yu, nor was he in a hurry to pass the ball to Zhuang Yu. Instead, he called a tactic, used the pick-and-roll to get rid of it, and then moved to the right. Zhuang Yu moved to the left, and the two moved crosswise, looking like they were going to pass the ball to Zhuang Yu hand-to-hand, but in fact they did not.

When the Jazz players were attracted by Zhuang Yu, Holiday took the opportunity to break through.

"not good."

"Reinforce the defense, quickly reinforce the defense..."

someone shouted.

Gobert sneered and stepped forward quickly. He was the block leader last season and was confident that he could block Holiday.

However, Holiday did not shoot himself, but slowed down slightly and then passed the ball out.

"what?"

"Oops!"

When the ball was passed and fell into Zhuang Yu's hands, the Jazz players reacted. They didn't expect that the ball would be given to Zhuang Yu in the end. At that moment, they didn't have time to think about it. Their attention was focused on Holiday, and they ignored Zhuang Yu.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Zhuang Yu quickly moved and appeared outside the three-point line at a 30-degree angle on the right, while Holiday slowed down and waited for Zhuang Yu to arrive.

At this time, the ball was passed to him, and Zhuang Yu caught it and shot calmly.