Chapter 272: Crisis
"Huh!"
Three-pointer hit and the Trail Blazers scored another goal. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
"It's still Portland's offense! So fast?"
Lamar sighed in his heart, just now he was ready to fight Sabonis on the inside, but he didn't expect Rashid Wallace to make a sudden move.
Off the court, Phil Jackson also yelled for the players to be faster when they stepped back, and the game was completely out of his imagination, and Portland, who was supposed to be dull and slow, unusually played a similar run-and-gun tactic.
He didn't expect his team to be suppressed at the beginning of the game.
Dunleavy, on the other hand, had a successful smile, and he ordered the team to do so when he saw that the Lakers lacked the usual speed advantage after Kobe Bryant's absence, and the Portland starting five were significantly more physically advantageous.
Although the fastest player on the court is not the Trail Blazers player, but Lamar, he is only one person after all, and no matter how good he is, it is impossible to defend the Portland Five Tigers in any case.
Just minutes into the game, the Lakers were in crisis.
Faced with the team's disadvantage, Phil could only call a timeout, hoping to disrupt the rhythm of the Trail Blazers, cool their hands, and rearrange the Lakers' next strategy.
"Lamar, what's wrong with you today? It's not like you at all!" Phil Jackson didn't get angry, he hoped Lamar could find the reason for his misperformance.
Lamar is his own family affairs, he just thought that he could save his physical strength, and he didn't want to use up his physical strength as soon as he started, but now it seems that it really can't work, but what if he falls down due to physical problems, what will happen to the game?
"Lamar, pass me the ball!" said Chauncey, who has always been very low-key in the team.
Since Billups came to the team, he has always been the younger brother next to Lamar, and the data obtained in each game is not very much, and the key is that there are not many shots, but it is unusually stable.
But he didn't complain about all this, quietly doing his job, and his biggest achievement this season was to make the third team of the All-Defensive team.
In this game, he was ordered to take on the responsibility of Kobe's outside core when he was on the court, and he felt that there was a lot of pressure on him, and he had been doing three-point practice before the game. Hopefully I can warm up my hand and help the team get this victory.
Chauncey also knows what his good brother Lamar is worried about, and he hopes that someone can help him with the burden, but he is worried that his teammates will not be able to take on the responsibility.
Chauncy also knew that someone had to stand up and support Lamar at this time, so he did not hesitate to take over Kobe's burden.
"Chauncey!" Phil Jackson looked at Billups with some hesitation, not that he didn't trust the other party, but he still felt that Lamar should stand up and take the initiative to take responsibility at this time, which is a quality that the absolute core of the team must have in the future.
Chauncy smiled: "Coach, although I can't do much, I can still find opportunities on the outside, as long as I attract the attention of the Trail Blazers to the outside, I think Lamar will have a chance!"
Phil Jackson thought about it, but nodded in agreement.
The game restarted with Lamar facing Scott Pippen's defence before the two sides made physical contact. He used a turn to pull the ball to successfully shift Scott Pippen's center of gravity, and then he quickly turned around to break through the opponent's defense, and before Rasheed Wallace came to the pack, he suddenly jumped up and made a shooting motion, which attracted Steve Smith's attention again.
Chauncy took advantage of this opportunity to wait outside the three-point line in the bottom corner, and Lamar also saw Chauncy in the open position, and threw the ball in the direction of Chauncy with both hands in the air.
Chauncy did not pause after receiving the ball, and after drawing a semicircle in front of him, he jumped out without hesitation.
"Huh!"
The basketball hollowed into the net, and after the goal, Chaunsibilups also waved his arm hard, and then gave Lamar a thumbs up to signal that he passed well.
Lamar looked at Chauncy Billups as if he was coughing up stimulants at the moment, and suddenly remembered that Chauncy was a famous big heart in later generations, one of the Pistons Five Tigers, and an absolute brain on the outside!
In the next game, Lamar had a strong helper around him, so he put the assist first! After assisting Chauncey Billups to hit two three-pointers in a row, he used a breakaway jump to attract the trio of Rasheed Wallace, Sabonis and Stoudemire!
And this time, Lamar still didn't attack on his own, and he didn't pass to Chauncey Billups, who was stuck to Steve Smith next to him. Instead, he put the ball in the hands of Shaq under the basket with an accurate assist, and the latter did not hesitate to dunk a heavy dunk with both hands.
In this offense, if tactically speaking, the most outstanding thing is not Lamar, who attracted three people, but Chauncey Billups, who stood motionless outside the three-point line, Mr. Flounder hit three three-pointers in succession, so that Steve Smith, who was defending him, no longer dared to have any carelessness, and always kept an eye on him, and it was in this way that after being attracted by Lamar to three people, Portland's defense seemed even more empty.
The first quarter of the game ended in the back and forth of offense between the two sides, and at the end of the first quarter, the Trail Blazers still had a slight advantage with a 26:25 one-point advantage, and both sides did not score a lot, and more often the two sides were still killing each other in defense.
In the first quarter, Stoudemire and Lamar each delivered five assists!
If it is normal for Stoudemire to have 5 assists in a quarter, then Lamar's side is a bit strange, although his average assists in the regular season this season is only second behind assist king Jason Kidd, but everyone knows that the Lakers' hope of winning depends on Lamar's performance on the outside.
Wharton felt that Lamar should be desperately scoring at the moment in order to allow the team to establish a lead as soon as possible, but now Lamar has strong support from his teammates! And he himself chose to save his strength and let his teammates play, if it weren't for Chauncey Billups' good hand, the Lakers may have fallen behind a lot now.
Of course, he was just Hus's nonsense after he didn't know anything about the Lakers' tactical arrangements.
The second quarter of the game began quickly, with Chauncey Billups being transferred to the off-court break due to physical reasons, and the Trail Blazers also replaced Stoudemire with Bunch Wells, the team's best sixth man.
If the Portland team is a high-performance, high-protection computer, then today's flying squirrel Stoudemire is definitely a dual-core processor in a computer!
Wells may not be much worse than Stoudemire offensively, and even a little better than Goolups in terms of breakthroughs, or a little more powerful, but in terms of passing and control of the game, he is obviously weaker than more than a notch.
Especially defensively, he doesn't have the little fast hand of Stoudemire, and it is already good to be able to keep up with the rhythm of the opponent.
Taking advantage of the fact that the quality of the Portland team's offense is obviously not as good as in the first quarter, the Lakers have started a counterattack.
Lamar and Shaq and others frequently wreak havoc over the Trail Blazers, which is the role of a team's organizational core, and when this core is not on the court, even the players who can usually show off their might and majesty will become a level lower.
Seeing this phenomenon, McDonleavy couldn't sit still, and shook his head frequently, he knew the importance of Stoudemire to the team, but he didn't expect Stoudemire to play as soon as he got off the court, and the players didn't know how to play!
After a dead ball, Dunleavy had to be replaced by Stoudemire, who had not yet rested.
Sure enough, as soon as Stoudemire came on the court, the Trail Blazers were like being reborn, and both offense and defense became methodical.
"A player can do this to the point where he should have no regrets even if he doesn't win the championship, right?"
After being deceived by Stoudemire's pass again, Lamar thought helplessly, now that Chauncey Billups is not on the field, the pressure on Lamar's outside line is back!
The task of defending the opponent's core was pressed by Phil Jackson to Ron Haber.
Shaq also sighed and gave the baseline ball to Lamar!
"It's really a pity for such a team member to stay in the prisoner concentration camp of the Pioneers!"
Lamar didn't respond, just took the ball forward, and after breaking through Scott Pippen's defense, passed to Shaq, who was stuck on the inside, and Shaq once again forced an inside dunk to score.
Chauncy Billups said that the results became a reality, after the Lakers hit three minutes in a row from the outside, the Trail Blazers strengthened the Lakers' outside defense, and even Brian Shaw, who has not had a chance to perform in this game, has received special care from Bunch Wells, who knows if this guy will suddenly stage a small outburst like Chauncey Billups.
As a result, the Trail Blazers have fewer people paying attention to Lamar, in other words, there are basically no players to help defend Lamar, which gives Lamar a lot of opportunities to make easy shots, and soon his scoring in this game also broke through double digits.
But at the defensive end, Lamar also met the opponent, roaring at the strength of Rashid Wallace, in addition to being able to keep up with the opponent's speed, in fact, he couldn't do anything, he could only watch Rashid throw threatening balls one by one in front of him. (To be continued.) )