Chapter 160: Victory over Sir Again
Even if Sloan wanted to break his head, he wouldn't understand that Li Du's sudden step was a swallow copying water in Xingyi Fist, imitating a swallow to rub sideways against the water, and the speed was extremely fast!
Sloan couldn't think of a way, so he had to adjust his defensive style and use regional defense to disrupt Li Du's movement. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
After the timeout ended, as soon as Li Du came up, he saw that the Jazz had actually defended the joint defense, so he turned his head to look at Kobe Bryant and asked what to do.
When Kobe Bryant saw the Jazz using a 2-3 joint defense, he knew that the Jazz had no choice but to try to stop Li Du's three-point shot in this way, or with his back. It's a pity that the 2-3 joint defense has one of the biggest weaknesses, that is, as long as there is a tall interior line with stable mid-range shooting and good passing skills standing up and down the free throw line, this kind of joint defense is no different from a sieve!
It just so happens that the Lakers have a big man with mid-range shooting and passing skills comparable to that of a good guard, Gasol!
So Kobe Bryant made a look, Gasol rose from the baseline to the free throw line to stand and catch the ball, and then Li Du and Odom began to cross the run, and the Jazz's formation was chaotic!
Boozer was originally defending Gasol, and when he was hesitating to go up to defend, Gasol had already made a shot and hit a solid shot.
"Defend it, guard it off!" Sloan shouted loudly to Boozer off the court, Gasol's mid-range shooting is very stable, if Boozer doesn't guard up, it is equivalent to practicing Gasol's mid-range shot, and the Jazz will lose ugly!
However, in the next round, when Boozer chose to defend, Gasol passed the ball to Odom, who ran to the basket, and the unguarded Odom scored easily under the basket.
After four rounds of joint defense, Sloan found that the joint defense could indeed prevent Li Du from shooting three points, but there was no way to deal with the Lakers' full team scoring, and when he was hesitating to switch back to man-marking, Li Du gave him another big blow.
Kobe Bryant passed the ball to Li Du when he was more than two meters away from the three-point line this time, and at the same time signaled him to shoot! Li Du didn't think much about it, shooting three-pointers in this position can only be an option for others when there is no way, but for Li Du, this distance is no different from the three-point line.
With a "brush", Li Du scored a three-point shot at a distance of two meters from the three-point line! This completely shattered the Jazz's plan to defend the team.
The exact term of joint defense is regional joint defense, everyone sticks to their own defensive area, and there is a connection between each area, but the joint defense area cannot be extended to two meters outside the three-point line, otherwise the connection between the areas will be torn off, and an effective joint defense will not be formed! So when Li Du shot, there was no one on the Jazz side to defend at all, and Li Du, who had no one to defend, shot a three-point shot, basically a hundred shots!
With Li Du's ultra-long-range range, the Jazz can only switch back to man-to-man defense. But this is back to the opening stage of the third quarter, as long as Li Du runs inside, the Jazz's interior defense is bound to be chaotic, at this time, whether it is Kobe, or Gasol, or Bynum, or Odom can easily break through the Jazz's defense!
The point difference is getting bigger and bigger, and by the second half of the third quarter, when the Zen master began to adjust the rotation lineup, the Lakers were already 15 points ahead of the Jazz!
Back on the court to rest, Kobe Bryant smiled and said to Li Du: "Li, you have to perform well today, you have already scored a lot of points!" ā
Li Du waved his hand absently and said with a smile: "Boss, today is you lazy!" It's only 25 points now, which doesn't look like you! ā
The two looked at each other and laughed. Kobe Bryant and Li Du both know that they only need to win now, as long as they can win the game, they don't care about the data! Kobe Bryant, in particular, doesn't need to prove himself with scoring now.
The Jazz are incredibly resilient, and even though they are already trailing by 15 points, they still haven't given up on the game and are still trying to catch up and try to close the gap.
With 7 minutes left in the fourth quarter, the Zen master once again replaced Kobe Bryant and Li Du on the court. While waiting on the sidelines to stop the ball and make substitutions, Kobe Bryant said to Li Du impatiently: "These guys are really difficult, Li, after you go up, completely defeat them!" ā
Li Du nodded and said, "Okay." It was as easy to say as if defeating the Jazz was as simple as eating and drinking.
In fact, Li Du did exactly that! He told Kobe Bryant at the beginning of the second half that he wanted to make the Jazz feel another kind of despair!
I have to admit that the Jazz are very tenacious, and when Li Du played, they had narrowed the gap to 9 points! The difference is within 10 points, and there is still most of the game left, so there is definitely a chance to recover the score!
It's a pity that the Jazz faced Li Du who had already figured out a lot of things this time, and after three consecutive Yan copying water, Li Du steadily scored three three-pointers, expanding the difference to 18 points!
It's not that the Jazz didn't think about counterattacking, and when Li Du made the first three-pointer, Delon began to organize the Jazz to counterattack. But it didn't work, Li Du began to take an aggressive defense against him, although there was still no physical contact, but Li Du was ready to break his ball anytime and anywhere, and it disrupted Delong's rhythm at once!
When the guard was forced by others to dribble and protect the ball with his head down, he was in a hurry, for fear that Li Du would cut off the ball by accident, and the Jazz's offense would come to a standstill!
When Li Du made a third three-pointer to extend the margin to 18 points, Sloan sighed and replaced the main players, which was considered to be a concedent.
Seeing that the other party admitted defeat, the Zen master was not too pressing, and replaced Kobe Bryant and other main forces.
In the end, the Lakers made another game at home, leading the Jazz 2-0! And judging from the first two games, if the Jazz can't find a way to restrain Li Du, they will still lose the next games!
The losing Jazz flew back that night, and Los Angeles was a sad place for them. Especially Delong and Boozer, although they were much better in this game and played normally, they still consciously avoided Li Du, and they both had the same idea: they would rather lose than go head-to-head with Li Du!
The core players are all thinking like this, and it's no wonder that the Jazz will win!
Sloan apparently understood this, and immediately after returning to his home stadium, he began to work on the psychological counseling of Delon and Boozer. It's a pity that he didn't know that Li Du broke out with murderous aura in his strategy of "hitting people first and fighting guts"! DeLong and Boozer are determined players in their own right, and the usual approach doesn't work for them at all.
In desperation, Sloan had to find a way to adjust the Jazz's starting lineup on other players.