Chapter 442: The Hole Cards of Both Sides!
The Los Angeles Lakers lost the game in the first playoff game with the Spurs in a rather helpless way, for two teams like the Lakers and the Spurs, although everyone is creating all kinds of public opinion before the start of this game, for example, many people say that the Lakers can sweep the Spurs this year, but it is clear that such public opinion is just a joke. It's more of a ridicule that David Robinson, one of the four centers, is not dominant in a direct conversation with Lin Han from the outside, in fact, whether the Lakers can sweep the Spurs is a fairly clear question, and it is impossible.
Not to mention other people, even Lin Han or other Lakers players and coaching staff know that this is impossible as long as they know a little bit in their hearts, so the Lakers' road trip this time, the Lakers will suffer their first playoff defeat, which is a very predictable thing.
It's just that even many people can foresee that the Lakers will encounter some setbacks when they come to San Antonio, but these people definitely didn't think that the Lakers' setbacks were obtained in this way, this third game between the Lakers and the Spurs, it can be said that the game from the beginning to the end, quite helpless, the Lakers lost almost no twists and turns, the whole game seemed to be set, the Lakers looked impossible to beat the Spurs, and the Spurs looked impossible to lose to the Lakers.
Even if Lin Han scored 41 points, 14 rebounds and 5 assists on 14-of-31 shooting in this game, if you just look at the number jù, Lin Han's score in this game is the highest in these three games, but there is no doubt about it. It was definitely the worst game of the Lakers' three games, and it looked like the Lakers couldn't beat the Spurs from start to finish, which was an extremely serious problem.
If this game is just an ordinary defeat. That's nothing, it's just that this game was clearly not an ordinary defeat. Even the loss of this game can almost affect the confidence of the Lakers in some way!
When the Spurs put their three-inside tactics out, in the first two games of this game, the two teams fought defensively, and everyone couldn't play well offensively, and the Lakers could use their rich experience to defeat the Spurs who lacked some luck, and now, when the Spurs found a way to attack, when the Lakers' defense failed, the only thing the Lakers can do now is to fight with the Spurs to attack!
Of course. The Lakers can also not fight offensively, as long as they can block the Spurs' offense again, then the Lakers can still compete with the Spurs in defense and bring the Spurs' offense into the mud, but after all, the Lakers have only one Lin Han, not two Lin Han, and after all, there is only one Rodman, not two Rodman. They can't stop the Spurs' defense in terms of hardware conditions.
Since they can't stop the Spurs' offense, they can only fight with the Spurs to attack, and for one of the strongest offensive teams in the league in the regular season, the Lakers are actually not afraid to fight with other teams in the regular season. As long as Lin Han's hand feels good enough, not to mention the Spurs or even the Rockets, the Lakers are not afraid. But it is clear that without the help of the scorecard. Not to mention whether other people have confidence in Lin Han, Lin Han himself is not so confident in his feel. If he really had so much confidence in his individual offense, he wouldn't have accepted Carell's Princeton offense in the first place, and the team he is on now is the Lakers, not the Jazz, in the Jazz, no matter how low his shooting percentage is, there is no way, because the cornerstone of the team is not him, the cornerstone of the team is Stockton and Malone, these two people can create fifty or sixty points for the team every game in a fixed and efficient manner, and Lin Han can score thirty points as long as he can score thirty points, no matter what the efficiency is, as long as he can score thirty points, The three core players of their game can score at least 80 or 90 points a game, and the other bench or role players only need to score another 20 points for the Jazz to beat the opponent.
And now, in the Lakers, Lin Han is not the player who determines the team's ceiling, but the team that determines the team's lower limit, is the absolute cornerstone of the team, as the cornerstone of the team, the most important thing is to build a solid enough foundation for the team, Lin Han wants to score, with Lin Han's strength, of course he can score, even much stronger than Ma Long, but if Lin Han with a 40% shooting rate to get 50 or even 60 points is meaningless, although in Lin Han led the team to 60 wins with a cancer style of play, did something that even Chamberlain and Jordan didn't do back then, those guys directly shouted that Lin Han surpassed Jordan and surpassed Chamberlain, others don't know, can Lin Han not know? He knows much more about his own strength than these people, these people don't know his strength, and he still knows his own strength very well.
Otherwise, this season, Lin Han's number of zào is not an average of more than eight assists per game but an average of more than 50 points per game, in the regular season, although Lin Han has been criticized by Shui Lingge for too concentrated ball possession, one person occupies more than 40% of the team's ball possession, but Lin Han has a lot of ball possession is used to organize the offense, he really wants to regard himself as the cornerstone of the team, and he must also regard himself as the cornerstone of the team, as a player with tumor attributes, he is very aware of the difficulties, But in the end, Lin Han reluctantly did it.
And in the playoffs, when facing the Spurs, Lin Han and the Lakers encountered the biggest crisis of the season.
Of course, for Lin Han, such a crisis is certainly unlikely to make him feel frustrated, after all, his hole cards have not yet fully come out, although the current Spurs are very strong, and even far beyond the Lakers' estimation in terms of hardware strength, even the magician who also had hole cards before this game was a little shaken after the game.
You know, the magic also thought that the Spurs' tactics of letting Lin Han play the inside line would eventually fail after the Spurs changed the formation, and he had long thought about this, although the Spurs' three-line interior tactics surprised him, but in terms of results, it was not surprising.
Only, even so. Facing the Spurs who played three interior tactics, the Magic was still quite helpless. His two hole cards, Lin Han's cancerous style of play and the team's Princeton system seem to be in danger. After all, these two styles of play did not expect the Spurs to play three inside.
Although the Spurs play three inside, but when Lin Han pulls outside to attack, it does not mean that the Spurs' outside defense will have problems, because David Robinson and Chuck Posen are both all-round players, Posen is an all-round forward, not to mention David Robinson, the league's first center with physical talent, and his defensive ability is no worse than Olajuwon, and even stronger than Olajuwon in terms of movement ability. Don't look at the Spurs as a three-inside tactic, as long as they are willing, the three-inside tactics will soon be able to become one big and four small, this Nima is simply bullying, so after Lin Han pulled out the offense in the last game, the defense he faced was still a bag, and the defensive players were taller, if it wasn't for Lin Han's luck in the game, many difficult shots were thrown. The shooting percentage is even close to 50%, then the Lakers will lose even worse in the last game.
If the Lakers want to beat the Spurs with Lin Han's cancerous play, then Lin Han must be able to shoot more than 60% from the field, and he must not be less than 35 shots. It's quite difficult, at least from the second half of the last game, Lin Han seems to have a hard time doing it.
Then in addition to letting Lin Han play cancer. There is only one other option, and that is to use Princeton to play offensive games against the Spurs. It's just that Princeton faces a three-inside tactic. And is it a very flexible Spurs team that can change from three interior to one big and four small, and with the level of the Lakers' current Princeton tactical system, can beat the Spurs on the offensive end?
Magic Johnson isn't quite sure.
Of course, after a game between the Lakers and the Spurs, the Spurs used their royal strength to deter the Lakers' evil ways, and the media outside who were still frantically touting the Lakers not long ago were also shocked enough by the extremely strong Spurs in the last game, especially those who originally supported the Spurs before the start of the series, and turned to support the Lakers' crazy dark Spurs after the Spurs fell behind 0-2, these media were quite embarrassing. Fools can see that the Spurs face the huge advantage of the Lakers in this game, how can they not know as experts, but it is obvious that it is really embarrassing to change course at this time, at least in the case that the Lakers have Lin Han, and the Lakers may use their Princeton to counter the Spurs, these guys dare not rashly change their position again.
So after the third game between the Lakers and the Spurs, almost everyone in the United States was staring at the fourth game of the two teams, wanting to see if the Lakers could use Lynham's cancer play or Princeton to win the offensive battle with the Spurs.
On May 16, 1995, at eight o'clock in the evening, at Alamo Arena in San Antonio, when the fourth game date between the Spurs and the Lakers started, when the Lakers finally used their own Princeton tactical system when they finally faced the Spurs as the world expected, and when the Lakers used the Princeton tactical system, the Lakers not only did not find opportunities on the offensive end, but were almost directly defeated by the Spurs' three-interior tactics on the defensive end. And in the end, the final score was 88-110 at the end of the game, and when the Lakers lost to the Spurs by 22 points, almost all media experts in the entire Alamo Arena were shocked!
Originally, everyone was expecting the Lakers to use their own Princeton tactical system to counter the Spurs in this game, but in the end, there was such a result, the Princeton tactical system with high hopes was like paper paste in front of the Spurs, not only could not be defended defensively, but also the offense could not be broken, which was simply worse than the Lakers' original inout tactics!
"The Lakers are finished?!"
Therefore, when all the media experts on the scene woke up from the extreme shock, they almost subconsciously thought of this sentence!
Not to mention these media experts on the scene, even as the leading player of the Spurs, David Robinson looked at the rather pleasant score on the sidelines at the end of the game, and then looked at the other Lakers players who were a little depressed on the court, the leading player of the Spurs team was quite happy, and his sacrifice proved to be successful!
"Hmph, boy, can you hide your failures because of your pretended composure right now? There are two more games, and after two games, you just wait and cry! ”
However, what made David Robinson a little unhappy was that the guy who should have been most depressed and desperate was still looking the same at this time! (To be continued......) R1292