Chapter 784: Dark Tradition
More than this game, a lot of people watched. The official website of T also made a special game preview video broadcast before the live broadcast in the United States.
The Lakers are probably the four people who appeared one by one, namely Kobe Bryant + Tang Qian + Gasol + Nash, who intend to be the new four kings. What about the Spurs? It is the first in the league and the first in the West, firmly sitting at the top of the regular season standings, and appearing as a challenger. This video is very well done, but the Spurs are not an era of GDP combination at all. Now San Antonio has already entered the era of comprehensive teamwork, which is also the peak of San Antonio's chemistry for more than ten years.
Unlike the "Double-German Era" in a few more years, this time period, especially this season's Spurs, will be a team of the league's history. But they're usually too low-key, and with no particularly good star in charge this season, it's not unusual to be overlooked. Only when you look at the league record table will you be surprised to find that the San Antonions,. D is the number one !!
One of the pinnacles of true team basketball, representing the team, is the Spurs in the 13-14 season.
Plus the ambition to take revenge on the Heat! This year, this team is the king of low-key.
The regular season is currently about 8+ points per game, which is a bit of a person.
And there is no one who is the so-called best point of attack!! This is crucial!! This Spurs team is a team where everyone has the ability to score and the confidence to score!! The level of the conduction ball has reached the level of explosion!!
It does not rely on the interspersing and conduction of point guards, but the overall operation, and all five people have tandem hand work......
Without Nash's comeback, it would be difficult for the Lakers to beat the Spurs in this game.
The depth of the lineup, the tacit understanding of the team, and the chemistry are several grades worse at all!
But the Lakers still have their own strengths, the most critical point, the ace core Kobe Bryant. Bryant, in his heyday, was known as the "Spurs nemesis". Playing the Spurs, he is very experienced and experienced.
This has something to do with the overall defensive habits of the Spurs. Any team has its own offensive habits and defensive habits, and if you say you're versatile, versatile, and executing, that doesn't change that. There is no team that is completely free of dead corners, completely devoid of general offensive habits and defensive habits. San Antonio's overall defensive habits have been as consistent as their record for almost 20 years. That is, to put the shot without breaking through, and to subdivide it is to compress the inside shot, and the middle and high positions basically rarely use the bag defense, whether it is against a star of Kobe Bryant or James, it is almost the same, and then it is extremely good at setting defensive traps!!
This is especially crucial!!
The Spurs are none of the teams with the highest overall defensive quality and the best continuity in the league since the hand-checking was canceled.
It's all about good defensive traps.
Without Hand-checking, the defensive power of the defensive trap is infinitely magnified, because the power of single defense is greatly reduced due to the restriction of rules. If you want to improve your overall defense, man-to-man is almost the dumbest way to do it.
So the breakthrough type of star, basically playing the Spurs, is just very difficult to play comfortably.
It's not that you can't play the data, it's just awkward, which makes you play on the court out of touch with your usual habits and rhythm.
This will play a fatal role in the playoff competition.
Especially after the 21st century, the league abolished illegal defense and allowed joint defense, so it began to be possible to stand in the position of no ball bag and no ball bag clip. This is also a natural favorable message for a team like the Spurs, which has high team attributes. In short, a stable team, in the NBA, is far more important than you think.
If the team is unstable, Duncan simply can't play for so many years, and being traded and exiled after a decline is more likely.
However, if the team is stable, Popovich can play to his strengths and avoid weaknesses, take advantage of Duncan's experience, and reduce the display of individual ability.
It's easier said than done, but it's even harder to do, at least the Lakers, who don't have this tradition and luck.
Superstar basketball, no, it should be said to be superstar basketball, is the team tradition in Los Angeles. Without a particularly prominent supergiant on the team, the Lakers can't win the championship.
Players from both sides entered the stadium, facing the Spurs with a neat lineup, and the Lakers were in the first place this season.
The starting lineup for the Spurs is Parker + Leonard + Green + Duncan + Split.
The Lakers are Kobe Bryant + Nash + Gasol + Tang Submarine + Wesley. Johnson.
It seems that the star level, of course, is the latter advantage, but the record proves that the Spurs are better than the Lakers, and this is still their record of often rotating and often incomplete lineups. At this point, the Lakers, no, should be the whole league except for the Spurs, no team can do it.
The stability of 20 years can be reflected in this detail.
The lineup is complete, naturally it is strong and strong, and if the lineup is not even, it will not be too weak, and it still has good league competitiveness.
It is not unreasonable to say that Popovich is the best godfather of the league.
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The Lakers were in the locker room, and had a secret meeting. It's better to say that it's a meeting, but it's something akin to some kind of ritual. The lights in the entire locker room were turned off, and only everyone's voices could be heard.
This set was often played by the "Zen masters" back then, and the Bulls started it, and the Lakers made it amazing. Otherwise, with the personnel structure of the Zijin Army back then, do you think you can handle it by changing people? It's not a tactical problem, it's just a mental one. Jackson, he's the strongest in the league at this point, there is no second man.
When he first joined the Bulls, Jackson played forward in the locker room for the first time, playing a video clip called "Mystic Warriors." Then on the home court of the Bulls, a small room was built where a variety of clan totems were placed, and the players often came to meditate. Honestly, none of this is directly related on the basketball court, but ...... This set of Kobe Bryant and Jordan both agree with it very much, and even admire it very much.
Because you know that what Jackson wants is not this kind of rigid formalism, what he wants is just for the players to establish a spiritual connection. And NBA players, who have a lot of mobility and a lot of money in their pockets, it's hard to get them to have a mental connection, and a lot of them don't even have a connection to their teammates off the court.
Rodman said back then that he and Jordan and Pippen were not good off the court, and Jordan and Pippen were not good friends off the court. How to create an "iron triangle" in this relationship? Quite simply, Jackson's approach is to force, artificially, create or induce this spiritual connection. "Zen Master" believes that as long as the spiritual connection between the players is strengthened, then the so-called team tacit understanding and chemical reaction will blow out in a short period of time.
In the end, it turned out that he was right, and Kerr used this set in the future with the Warriors.
Cole didn't learn about the triangle offense, but Phil. Jackson really has something with "mystical powers".
Basketball is played by players, so as long as you activate the players on the court, then you can achieve the maximum probability of success.
In the Lakers locker room, everyone formed a circle, and No. 24, as the leader, put his shoulder to shoulder with Don Gasol and said: "I know everyone is full of doubts about our goals this season. ”
"I know everybody is skeptical about where we're going to end up this season."
"I know a lot of people on this team are going to leave in the future."
"But remember."
"At least this season we're one."
"And we have only one goal for this season."
"I can tell you very clearly, it's to win the championship, to capture Larry. O'Brien Cup! ”
"If we did."
"This season's Lakers will be a memory you will never forget."
"Remember."
"If you don't win, you lose."
"Our hearts, from this moment on, need to dance together."
"Tell me what our goal is???"
Bryant yelled loudly in the dark.
"Win the championship!"
"Tell me what our goal is???"
"Win the championship!!"
"Tell me what our goal is???"
"Winning !!"
"What are we ???"
"Lakers !!"
“ok!!! Everybody plays!! Defeat the San Antonio people!! ”
In the dark locker room, a regular tradition for the Lakers this season will begin to form.
Until the end.
PS: Strive to break out tomorrow~~~
Xiao Zi will work hard~~~