Chapter 215: Liu Hanxia, who has no solution
The head coach of the SuperSonics called the first timeout just about five minutes into the first quarter, and the Lakers' targeted play made the SuperSonics look chaotic both defensively and offensively.
Although a timeout was called, George Carl didn't know how to deal with the Lakers' style of play, because Liu Han's presence was really painful. No one in the single defense Liu Han supersonic team can defend against it, the speed and strength of enough height can't keep up, and the skill with enough speed and strength can't keep up. But if you don't just defend Liu Han and choose to pinch the shot, Liu Han can pass the threat ball, which is even more lethal for the SuperSonics, once the Lakers' pitchers throw a feeling, the SuperSonics will be directly extinguished by the three-point rain, and many teams will be directly hit by the Lakers' three-point collapse in the regular season.
This is the importance of Liu Han to the Lakers, as long as he is there, the Lakers will be much easier than Liu Han is not playing. Liu Han and Michael Jordan are the only two players in the league team who can be called nuclear-weapon because they both have a very strong deterrent, Jordan may be more unique, and the shooting rate is not so perverted, but Liu Han is different, and Liu Han is a teammate, everyone will have a chance to score, as long as you shoot accurately.
George Carr was left with the only option to arrange for the players to wrap up Liu Han after much deliberation, and now he can only hope that the rest of the Lakers players will not feel well today.
After the timeout, the SuperSonics attacked first, Gary Payton dribbled the ball across the half court, his rhythm with the ball was very strange, fundamentally different from other point guard players, this is actually due to Payton's personality, he has always been a maverick and unruly player, so his way of dribbling the ball is different from the conventional model.
Payton dribbled the ball across the half court and faced Liu Han's defense, he did not dare to break through in front of Liu Han, who was tall and arm-long, and had quick reflexes, but cautiously passed the ball to Jose Hawkins, who came up to respond.
After Jose Hawkins got the ball, SuperSonics center Jim McYlvain mentioned the online cover, O'Neal supplemented Hawkins, and Hawkins gave the ball to Jim McYlvain, who met Ray Allen, who faced Ray Allen, who was a little smaller than himself, did not make a strong breakthrough but shot directly, and the ball went in, and the accurate mid-range shot was probably the main reason why McYlvain could become the starting center of the SuperSonics.
The SuperSonics closed the gap to four points after the ball was shot.
The Lakers attacked, and the tactic that the SuperSonics had previously suspended was to trap Liu Han and let go of Ray Allen, who had not been playing.
Liu Han was caught between the two as soon as he dribbled the ball past half court, and the SuperSonics would rather score than let Liu Han play.
Liu Han did not force the attack, but passed the ball to the empty Lei Allen.
After receiving the ball, Lei Allen did not hesitate at all, and directly shot three points, and the ball drew an arc very similar to Liu Han's shot and drilled into the basket.
Ray Allen has been just an ordinary starting guard swingman since joining the Lakers, but what others don't know is that Ray Allen has been learning three-point shooting from Liu Han.
Since the first time he met Liu Han, Lei Allen has been completely convinced of Liu Han's perverted three-point ability, Lei Allen has been asking Liu Han for advice on how to shoot three-pointers, after a season of training and pondering, Lei Allen's three-point finally has some Liu Han's shadow.
Ray Allen's decisive three-point shot embarrassed the tactics of the SuperSonics, and whether to trap Liu Han now is the biggest question in front of the SuperSonics.
As the game continued, Ray Allen scored on the outside, veteran Dell Curry also scored on the three-point line, and the Lakers rained down on the SuperSonics.
Eight minutes into the first quarter, veteran Dell Curry was replaced and replaced with Kittels. Kittels' three-point shooting may not be as accurate as Dell Curry's, but he's much more mobile and impactful than the veteran, and he has a height advantage. The Lakers began to change their style of play, Liu Han controlled the ball and mastered the rhythm, and the Lakers attacked the SuperSonics from the inside by O'Neal, and in the face of the SuperSonics who had fallen behind by 14 points, the Lakers took the initiative to lower the offensive tempo.
Heading into the playoffs, the Lakers can't continue to attack their opponents with the same full-court speed as they did in the regular season, and George Krent must consider whether the physical condition of the players can make the players who have gone through a season still run around the court like they did in the regular season.
The SuperSonics also took advantage of the Lakers to lower the pace and began to gradually stabilize, Gary Payton is a star who has competed with Jordan after all, his offense may be slightly weaker than his defense, but the ability is still there, under his leadership, the SuperSonics did not let the Lakers continue to widen the score gap.
In the last two minutes of the first quarter, the Lakers gradually replaced the bench players, and the SuperSonics took advantage of the Lakers' bench players to gain a foothold and narrow the score gap to 10 points.
At the end of the first quarter, the Lakers led by 10 points at 32-22.
At the beginning of the second quarter, the SuperSonics also replaced the bench players, but this time the Lakers' bench players began to exert their power, Nash and Robert Horry controlled the entire game in their own hands, and the Lakers gradually widened the gap in the score.
With less than five minutes into the second quarter, the SuperSonics had to make early substitutions for their starters, and their bench was completely wiped out by the Lakers.
The Lakers also began to gradually replace the starters, and Liu Han used a three-pointer and a two-plus-one inside to widen the gap to more than 20 points.
Gary Payton tried his best to follow Liu Han all over the court, and he even spared no effort to start pressing Liu Han all over the court, just hoping to stop this guy from continuing to score, but the effect was not obvious. Liu Han is not a particularly egotistical star, he knows how to use his teammates to create the best opportunities for his own shots, so the Lakers have always maintained the lead, and the players also feel that they are not playing very hard.
At the end of the second quarter, the Lakers maintained a 22-point lead until halftime.
At halftime, SuperSonics head coach George Carr arranged the team's tactics for the second half, the SuperSonics are now too many points behind, and if they want to catch up with the score, they must not only control the Lakers not to score, but also have to score continuously.
Sure enough, the SuperSonics team frequently fired on the outside at the beginning of the second half, Wenbeck, Jose Hawkins and Gary Payton all shot outside the three-point line, but unfortunately their shooting rate was not high, on the contrary, the Lakers' three-point shooting rate was still accurate, Liu Han's perverted shooting rate seemed to be contagious to his teammates today, and by the halfway point of the third quarter, the Lakers had shot more than 16 three-pointers on the whole team, except for O'Neal, other players had scored outside the three-point line.
At the end of the third quarter, the Lakers widened the gap again, and they were already nearly thirty points ahead of the SuperSonics.
SuperSonics head coach George Karl sat on the bench in distress, he couldn't think of a way to solve the Lakers, as long as Liu Han existed, everything in the Lakers seemed to be impeccable.
Less than three minutes into the fourth quarter, the SuperSonics replaced their main players and replaced them with substitutes, and they gave up the game.
In the end, relying on the excellent play of Liu Han and his teammates, the Lakers defeated the SuperSonics by 26 points 119-93, Liu Han played 36 minutes, scored 28 points, 13 assists and 9 rebounds of a quasi-triple-double data, and his performance made the SuperSonics feel completely incomprehensible. (To be continued.) )