Chapter 16: Change in Stalemate

"You ......" Barbossa looked at Li Du, who was still in a stepping posture after the pass, and his eyes were full of incredulity!

"What a strange way of locomotion, almost against the laws of kinematics! How did you do that? This time, Nash did not immediately go back, but came to Li Du's side and spoke to Li Du for the first time. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Li Du smiled, "This is a way of exerting force in our Chinese martial arts, you don't know kung fu, so naturally you don't know." ”

After speaking, Li Du walked back to the Lakers bench and clapped his hands with Kobe and others one by one to celebrate.

"Chinese Kung Fu? It's amazing! Nash muttered as he walked back to his side's bench.

D'Antoni asked everyone to come around and said encouragingly: "Don't be disrupted by the Lakers, continue to speed up the offensive tempo!" Steve, don't get tangled up with that rookie, use double cover, go through the half, or even attack without half time! ”

"Amare and Dio, the two of you cover each other off the ball on the inside, the Lakers' interior defense is not strong, we can use this as a breakthrough!"

After a few brief explanations, D'Antoni shouted encouragement to the players: "Come on, let's repeat last season's bombardment frenzy!" sevenorless!”

β€œsevenorless!”

With a loud roar, the Sun regrouped and began to fight back with momentum under the leadership of Nashdi.

This is one of the principles of the artillery attack proposed by D'Antoni. This means that it takes as little as 7 seconds, or even less, to end an attack! Last season, the Suns relied on bombardment, with a continuous and unstoppable offensive speed, to get the best record in the league. Nash was also voted the MVP of the regular season. It can be said that this kind of offensive method is the Suns' housekeeping skill.

The Suns once again accelerated the offensive tempo, and everyone strictly followed the sevenorless offensive principle, once there was an opportunity, they didn't wait at all and shot directly. This change of rhythm, not to mention Kwame Brown's slow interior line, even Fisher and Kobe Bryant can't keep up!

Although Li Du can keep up with such a rhythm, he can only defend one person after all, and Nash does not give him a chance to defend close at all now, after the ball is in his hand, he almost does not stop, and passes directly to other vacant positions or the person who runs in front.

Li Du couldn't do anything for a while, and he didn't get more passes, so he had to watch the score gap widen again.

By the end of the first half, the score had become 56-49, and the Suns went into the second half with a seven-point lead.

At halftime, Barkley analyzed to Smith: "The Suns have started their bombardment tactics again, comprehensively improving the pace of offense and defense, and it can already be seen that the Lakers are a little unable to keep up." If the Lakers can't think of a good way to suppress the Suns' offensive rhythm, this game will be decided in the third quarter! ”

Smith shook his head, clearly disagreeing: "The Lakers kept their rhythm and the Suns' bombardment didn't affect their own rhythm, which is a good sign." If the Lakers also increase their tempo and compete with the Suns for speed, it will be a loss! Compared to the rhythm of offense and defense, no team in the entire league can win against the Suns! ”

After a pause, Smith continued: "Through statistics, we can see that Nash is still being suppressed by the Lakers' magical rookie, he only scored 2 points and 3 assists in the half, and there were three turnovers. The play is completely out of order! And the Lakers' rookie Li Du, he has scored 5 points, 1 steal, 2 blocks, on the defensive end, he curbed Nash to directly lead the whole team with assists, forcing Nash to only let the whole team attack through multiple quick guides, in terms of defending Nash, can no longer do better! And he also has a good three-point shot and running ability, I believe that as long as the Lakers take advantage of this, this game is very likely to be returned! ”

Smith only dared to say that it was "possible" as long as it was "used well", after all, it was extremely risky for two strong teams to clash and put the key to victory or defeat on a rookie.

Barkley and Smith's worries were also the questions that the Zen master was considering. In the player's locker room, he loudly arranged the tactics for the second half, but he was thinking in his heart that if he continued to play like this, he would not reach the fourth quarter, and the score gap would be stretched to the point of no pursuit, unless Kobe broke out in the second half!

But Kobe Bryant is not a god, and he doesn't explode when he says it explodes in every game. And judging by Kobe's performance now, he has done his best. With 22 points and 5 rebounds at halftime, this game is likely to score more than 40 points!

But seeing Kobe's shots, he smiled bitterly again, Kobe Bryant scored a high score, but the price was that he shot 21 times, accounting for most of the team's total shots! But Phil also knows that Kobe Bryant is not a snatcher, and now the whole team can take the initiative to attack, except for him, only Odom is alone.

Odom was pushed to the power forward position in this game, and it was difficult for his offensive ability to play in the face of Xiao Si and Dio on the Sun's interior line. Odom was also focused in this game, with 8 points, 9 rebounds and 3 assists at halftime.

When the Zen master was silent, Kobe Bryant looked around, and finally his eyes fell on Li Du. After thinking for a while, Kobe Bryant said to the Zen master: "Phil, why don't we focus on Lee in the second half?" ”

"What?" Not only the Zen master, but even the other team members couldn't help but exclaim. Some people are because in the Lakers, Kobe Bryant can let other people go to the main offense, which is really incredible. There are some things that everyone knows but can't say, Kobe Bryant is indeed strong, but his high score is achieved with a large number of shots. These people don't say anything, and they inevitably have some slander in their hearts. And they are also self-aware, give them the same number of shots, I'm afraid they won't even get half of Kobe's points!

Li Du was also shocked, and then figured out that Kobe Bryant is indeed a paranoid person, but he is paranoid about victory! It is an almost fanatical obsession with victory! He doesn't mind passing the ball if someone is more sure than he is, and he's bold enough to take the initiative to find a trap to help others get an open shot!

The Zen master looked at Kobe Bryant, then at the others, and saw that everyone was silent, and finally asked, "Li, what do you think?" This is a very big task, can you accomplish it? ”

Li Du bit his lip and thought for a while, raised his head to meet the eyes of the Zen master and Kobe, and said loudly: "Coach, boss, don't worry!" ”

Kobe and the Zen master looked at each other and laughed.

"Coach, I still have a little bit of an opinion, I don't know if it's okay?" Li Du then said to the Zen master.

The Zen master smiled and said, "Say, tonight, we will focus on you!" ”

Li Du scratched his head shyly, stood up and hugged his fists to the players first, everyone knows that this is Chinese etiquette, and they are looking forward to what he is going to say next.

Li Du said: "Coach, boss, seniors, thank you for trusting me so much. But I think we can't give up our strengths, especially the boss and Lamar, while we create opportunities for me to shoot. In our Chinese war books, we have mentioned such a point of view, using one's own strengths and attacking the other's shortcomings, which means that we should use what we are good at to attack the worst parts of the other side. ”

Seeing that others continued to listen to him, Li Du raised his voice and said: "The boss is the absolute offensive and defensive core of our team, and the Suns must focus on the boss in defense." But Nash was so smart that he only needed two balls for him to know what we were going to do, so he gave up on the pack and switched to keeping a close eye on me. But in this way, one-on-one defense against the boss, as long as Lamar goes to block the boss, how can the sun defend it? As soon as they mess up, our chance has come! ”

After saying this, the Zen master, Kobe and the others looked at each other, and then laughed, and Odom laughed and said, "You kid, where do you look like a rookie!" What a coach! ”

Fisher also smiled: "It's not just like a coach, it's also the kind of old fritter that has been working for many years!" ”

Kobe Bryant and the Zen master spoke at the same time: "Okay, let's do as you say!" ”

However, the Zen master still made some changes, using Andrew? Bynum replaces the unfinished Kwame Brown!

Since Bynum was drafted by the Lakers in 2005, he has been cultivated as the main center in the future, and his performance last year was okay, but as a center who was given high expectations, the Zen master carefully cultivated him, generally letting him be used as a backup center, gradually adapting to the rhythm and confrontation of the NBA.

And for Kwame Brown, the Zen master has completely lost confidence. His self-confidence can never be regained, and he will no longer be the inside monster of that high school period. The Zen master is even thinking about trading this unlucky guy.

Kwame Brown didn't even say anything when he heard the news, but walked silently towards the players' tunnel. Some loneliness, some sadness, but this is the NBA, this is competitive sports, when you don't perform well, no one will sympathize with you, and you can only walk away.

Li Du looked at Kwame Brown, and sighed in his heart, will he be like this one day, no longer trusted by his teammates and coaches, and even booed by fans at his home stadium?

In the second half, seeing the Lakers' starting lineup, D'Antoni and Nash frowned, it seemed that the Lakers just replaced the center with Bynum, but in fact, this also means that the Lakers have set up tactics for the Suns. Replacing Bynum, in addition to strengthening the interior defense, he is always much better at protecting the rim and offense than Kwame Brown.

"Steve, don't think about it and keep up our bombardment!" D'Antoni whispered to Nash that he believed that as long as he was in a fast rhythm of attack and defense, Nash would definitely be a master at controlling the whole game.

Nash nodded and led his teammates onto the court.