Chapter 231: We Want to Win
In the Lakers, a team with a slightly aging lineup, Nash and Kobe are the regulators, and Li Liang is the doping.
When the team needed to score to hold the advantage at critical moments, Kobe Bryant was able to step up most of the time, and so was Nash.
And when the team needs to get up and turn the situation around, it is often Li Liang who stands up to provide key three-point and passionate defense.
Li Liang is the catfish in the Lakers, and with him, the Lakers are full of vitality.
If Li Liang has no passion, then the Lakers will be dead.
At the end of the first quarter, the Lakers trailed the Bobcats by six points at 22-28.
In the second quarter, the team still didn't play with any passion, and the outside line missed consecutive shots.
They still have a good chance, but what can they do if they can't score.
One Kobe is enough for you, and a team of Kobe Bryant is really fatal.
Mike Brown could see that the players were tired tonight, and when the chances came out, they just couldn't shoot.
Needless to say, there is also defense, I don't know how many chase balls I was hit by the Bobcats.
Of the 28 points lost in the first quarter, at least half of the points were scored by the Bobcats' fast attack.
There is no special tactical discipline for the Bobcat fast attack, what V-shaped attack, three-line fast attack or what kind of double cooperation.
It's a simple solo ball and a quick rush.
Especially at Kemba Walker, it was effortless to rush Nash.
At halftime, the Lakers trailed the Bobcats by 10 points, 43-53.
If you want to blame Kobe, you really don't blame him.
Kobe Bryant still maintained a reasonable style of play in the first few games, but unfortunately the passes were unsuccessful, and tonight's sending off Guanyin was not very effective.
It can only be said that the state is up and down, and there is no way.
After the start of the second half, the Lakers' offensive state was still at a loss, and the three-point shot was not available.
Li Liang's three-point shot is rare with 4 shots and 0 shots.
After four minutes of play, the difference not only did not narrow, but also widened.
Mike Brown decided to rest Leung, Nash, and Kobe.
Replaced with Meeks, Jamison and O'Neal Jr.
The Lakers' defensive alignment needs to be adjusted, and in addition to dying in the first half to the fast break, another point that was not contained was Mulens.
Mullens literally played the first quarter, hitting back-to-back jumpers on Ci Seping's head.
It feels so good, there's really no way.
Howard remained on the court, forming a twin tower with O'Neal Jr.
The Bobcats replaced Ben Gordon and wanted to continue to charge the Lakers inside.
As a result, O'Neal Jr.'s interference defense caused Taylor's turnaround layup to miss.
Howard won the rebound, handed the ball to Meeks, Meeks controlled the ball, and the Lakers had to hold it down.
Howard is in a low position, and when Li Liang is not present, he still dares to play a dozen low positions.
However, Howard didn't hit hard, and after two back-to-back hits, he gave the ball to O'Neal Jr., who cut into the basket in the air.
O'Neal Jr. catches the ball and dunks with both hands!
It was a very beautiful play, an inside pass.
The tacit understanding between Howard and Xiao Ao is slightly better than that with Gasol.
Because Howard and Gasol are very different in terms of playing style, they are a bit far apart.
There are more similarities with Xiao Ao.
But the twin towers didn't solve the Lakers' perimeter defense problems.
Ben Gordon made a wide range of shifts from beyond the three-point line, received the ball at 45 degrees on the right side, turned around from beyond the three-point line and made a jumper.
Hit!
A beautiful three-pointer, Ben Gordon.
The shooting guard, who once excelled with the Bulls, is now about to disappear from view.
He now plays as a backup point guard for the Bobcats, and he still shows off occasionally.
Li Liang felt very uncomfortable watching Meeks and Jamison's defense off the court.
A simple cover block, the defense of the flanks is not clear, misplaced and missed.
Although there is only a little gap, but it is just such a little bit that is caught by a shooter like Gordon, so I will give you a bit.
? At 49:65, the difference widened to 16 points.
Now Mike Brown is worried about the team's lack of dynamism and the Bobcats are worried about the Bobcats throwing their hands away.
Once you get some players to play with feeling, it doesn't matter what defensive strategy you use later.
Ci Shiping then ate alone under the basket, turned around, stepped up and down, and hit a basket with his left hand.
At 51:65, the Lakers were slightly closer to the score.
Since the tactics can't be opened, then don't play the tactics and let the players solve the problem with their own personal ability.
Then there was one mistake on each side of the offensive end, and the ball was still in the hands of the Bobcats.
Jeff Taylor dribbled to the basket, drawing the defensive attention of both Howard and O's, before jumping up and passing to Biyombo who was plugged in.
Biyombo caught the ball and put it to the basket to score two points.
This Bobcat player is playing more and more relaxed, such a ball in this game has been three.
After the simplest break, the ball is easily laid under the basket.
Li Liang stomped his foot when he saw it, with a breakthrough like Jeff Taylor, can he die if he is allowed to break through to the basket?
Pinching, pinching you big-headed ghost?
After the pinch shot, Jamison didn't change the top guard, allowing Biyombo to jump easily after receiving the ball.
However, Li Liang thought about himself, his performance in the first half was actually not good, the inside line missed twice, and the outside line didn't keep up with the defense once.
Mike Brown sat next to Li Liang and said: "We have a problem defensively, you can see it, we don't concentrate enough, and the rotation is always half a beat slow. ”
Li Liang nodded, and the two often exchanged defenses on the bench.
After all, there is a head coach and a deputy head coach.
At this point, Howard was about to go deep under the basket, and Ci Shiping hung a pass to Howard, who forced a layup and caused a foul on Biyombo.
Unfortunately, he missed the free throw, 53:67, or 14 points.
Next, let's look at the Lakers' defense, which has strengthened the defensive intensity of the outside ball-carriers.
Walker was pressed by Howard's defense and split the ball into the hands of McGee on the bottom left wing.
McGee dribbled to the basket and got up, but the ball was cut off by Ci Shiping in the back.
The ball is out of bounds, or the Bobcat's possession.
The Bobcats serve the baseline ball and misses the offensive outside shot.
The Lakers still gave Howard a chance to fight back.
Howard was in good shape tonight, so I'll give him a chance to play singles.
Howard turned his back and hit Biyombo hard, hitting a right hand throw to hit the board, causing Biyombo to foul again.
Biyombo really can't guard against Howard tonight, his figure is a lap worse, how to prevent it.
Added free throws, 56-67, 11 points, and the Bobcats called a timeout.
It can be seen that Mike Brown's adjustment is working.
Increase singles, play more inside, and no longer challenge the feel of the outside.
Slow down the tempo and don't give the Bobcats a chance to counter quickly, and they will still make mistakes in defense, but the Bobcats are also making mistakes.
These things, Mike Brown commanded the arrangement, and at the same time told Li Liang.
Although Li Liang knows a lot about tactics, compared with the real team coach, his understanding and adaptability are still much worse.
Mike Brown is the best coach by all accounts, and he's a good guy defensively.
Li Liang listened very carefully, looked at the time again, and after the timeout, there were more than 5 minutes left in the third quarter of the game.
Brown didn't replace Li Liang on the court and continued to let him sit on the bench again.
If he didn't play well, he calmly observed off the field for a while, and Li Liang's mind slowly became active.
Maybe Charlotte's snow had frozen his state before, or maybe the look at Jordan had affected his brain, but now he felt like he could and knew what to do.
"Mike, it's time for me to play." Li Liang stabbed Brown Dao.
Brown shook his head, got up from the bench, and said, "Wait a minute, we're in good shape with this lineup, wait a minute." “
With that, Brown walked to the sidelines and ignored Li Liang.
Li conscience said, okay, you Mike Brown, and you have learned to indulge in the old thing?
That's right, Brown just wants Li Liang to sit off the court for a while, adjust his condition, have the desire to play, and then go up to play his passion.
At the earliest beginning of the season, Li Liang played as a substitute, and before the game started, he began to talk about playing.
Later, it was easy to send this goods to the first launch, and I no longer had to suffer from buzzing.
Mike Brown feels ...... I miss it so much......
Li Liang sat on the bench with his chest crossed, feeling restless.
He wanted to talk to Mike Brown, but Brown was so bad that he ran to stand far away near the technical desk, and Li Liang couldn't shout at him.
Seeing Brown standing by the sideline, pouting his big ass back, Li Liang really wanted to rush up and give him a thousand years of killing.
The timeout ended, and the game on the field was intensely played at this time.
On the Bobcats' side, Brandon Haywood missed a shot, and the Lakers grabbed the rebound and looked for O'Neal Jr. in the low post.
O'Neal Jr. tried to eat in the low post, only to turn and the basket was cut off by Taylor.
The Bobcats counterattacked, and Ben Gordon forced a basket and missed the shot with Howard's interference.
Meeks then missed a three-pointer on a counter and Gordon's assault layup was fanned off by Howard's big hat.
Out of bounds, dead ball.
Howard was having a lot of fun this time, and he was in good shape.
The low-post offense played a good game, and the defensive end was also repeatedly blocked.
While the Bobcats have a psychological advantage over the Lakers, Howard also has a psychological advantage over the Bobcats.
That year with the Magic, Howard entered the league with the Bobcats for the 2004-2005 season.
From that year to last year, the Bobcats and the Magic played 31 games, and the Magic won 22-9, which can be said to be an absolute advantage.
In the '10 playoffs, the Magic played against the Bobcats, and Howard didn't sweat a sweat in that series.
scored 10 points per game, and by the way, gave the opponent an average of 5 blocks per game, and swept the Bobcats.
Warcraft is worthy of being Warcraft, and it is still dominant to deal with spicy chicken animals like Bobcats.
But it's time for Howard to take a break.
Mike Brown only decided to let Li Liang appear at this time.
Li Liang immediately jumped up from the bench, took off his sports jacket, and returned to the game.
"Oh boy, we still want to win." Mike Brown to Lee Liang Dao.
Although when it comes time for an away trip, Mike Brown's biggest wish is for his players not to get injured.
But who wouldn't want to win.
The Lakers trailed by 11 points and had to close the score before the start of the fourth quarter.