Chapter 143: Stabilizing the Situation
The last two minutes also seem to be very important, because whether it is for our Lakers or the Magic, although the last two minutes may not seem long, they can actually do a lot of things, and for our Lakers how to further expand the score in the last two minutes, then we are likely to enter the second half with a difference of nearly 20 points, so that the second half will seem quite easy.
The same is true for the Magic, if they can close the gap to within 10 points in the final two minutes, then they can do better things, and the most important point is to continue to play against the Lakers.
Although this is our Lakers' home court, the Magic team is not particularly ashamed of losing, their strength this season is obviously not our Lakers' opponent, and this game is actually not a national live game, so in this case, the Magic team can actually accept the fact that their team lost, but they may not be able to accept what kind of state they are actually going to lose.
Losing is also divided into many situations, and in some cases losing is a very unacceptable thing for the whole team now, or this season, or even many seasons, and it is for this reason that the Magic team must fight hard, because this is not only a matter of the team's face, but more importantly, this kind of loss will also cause a lot of damage to the team as a whole, and such damage is sometimes very far-reaching. It is likely that there will be no way to undo this effect for a long time.
But what should the Magic team do to avoid such an embarrassing situation for their team, anyway, in fact, in my opinion, it is difficult for the Magic team to avoid being crazy by our Lakers today, because I can see that Shaq today is very eager to prove himself in front of the Magic team and the world, this desire is so strong, in Shaq's usual games to be honest, it is not so common.
In the next two minutes, the Magic team changed their previous tactical system, even if their players' tactical execution was not strong enough, but they still decided to use some relatively complex tactics, the reason is simple, because they lack a player in the Magic team who can open the situation through their strong individual ability, even their strongest single player Hardaway can not do this, as long as he can't do this, then the next situation will be different.
Hardaway is the player I'm going to play against, and I'm obviously a very good one-on-one defender, because my physical talent is actually above Hardaway, and my defensive motivation is also very good, and more importantly, I've really improved my defensive strategy and defensive habits now, and that improvement has made sure I'm able to do that.
Hardaway is difficult to score directly in a one-on-one situation, so their Magic team began to change the strategy of attacking, the most important point is to make Hardaway an off-ball offensive point, their idea is very good, but there are still certain problems in the implementation, which is very important.
Although Hardaway's projection ability is okay, his projection range is actually not far enough, and another point is that his projection stability is insufficient, and another problem is that the Magic team lacks a strong enough organization point, this organization point does not necessarily have to be an outside player, but this player must have a better passing vision, he needs to know the position of his teammates on the court, and then use his passing skills to guide his teammates to run, because the Magic team lacks such a player, As a result, the Magic team has no way to completely play out their tactical intentions, which has a very huge impact on their offense.
We say that in a team, there is no need for every player to do anything, but the players in the team must have their own characteristics, which is very important is that these players must be able to perform their duties, and then do a good job in the aspect they are good at, as long as they can do this, then the player and the team can form a relatively good balance, so that the player and the team constitute a benign cooperation.
So you will find that sometimes the players of some teams may not be so strong if they are taken out alone, but sometimes if you put these players together with each other, you can find that they are really very powerful.
The reason for this situation is that the team is a whole, in fact, it is not necessary for every player to grab rebounds, shoot, pass, steal, and defend, but we must let the players have their own strong projects, such as there must be those who can shoot, some who can grab rebounds, some who can organize passes, and some who can defend, and then let these players with strengths be able to give full play to their strengths within the scope of their strengths, which is the most important thing. It's also something that a good coach should do.
Of course, sometimes the formation of such a team is not only a matter of the coach, but more importantly, it may be in the process of forming the team, the general manager of the team must be very clear-headed, must know what kind of players he needs, only after this will the team become stronger, if this can not be done, then these teams to be honest are not able to really play their overall power.
The biggest problem of the Magic team at this time is that they lack some players who can do these things well, for example, their team lacks rebounding and shooting, shooting, defense, and organization.
In this case, you can expect such a group of players to achieve a good record, which is obviously a pretty ridiculous thing, and because it is a pretty ridiculous thing, so we have to take advantage of this flaw of the Magic team, the so-called taking advantage of his illness to kill him, in fact, it is also like this on the basketball court, no one will say that when the opponent enters a really bad situation, you will be merciful.
Basketball itself is an unbalanced sport, and it is actually a sport that bullies the opponent's inferior items through its own strengths, and in the NBA, this characteristic seems to be more obvious, if you are not strong enough, then you are destined to become the target of bullying.
However, the Magic team seems to have some gains in the first two rounds after changing their tactics, probably because our Lakers have a bit of a big lead at this time, so they will respond to relax some of the concentration of the game or something, of course, it is quite normal for us to have such a situation in a game, after all, everyone is mortal, in fact, it is difficult to say that there will not be such a situation where the attention will dissipate in a short period of time.
What we need to do is to sort out and correct some problems in a timely manner after we find ourselves in such a situation, and then not let ourselves give our opponents too strong a chance to take advantage of the problems on the top of our attention.
Of course, in fact, we really don't need to think about it so much today, after all, it is really difficult to find many players in this Magic team who can really grasp the opportunity, even if our Lakers give them a chance, they may not be able to grasp it!
In the last two minutes, Shaq and I didn't give the Magic any chance, but we didn't take the opportunity to widen the difference to more than 20 points, and the difference between our two teams was still 15 points at the end of the final half, which is actually okay, because we know that the second half will still be when our Lakers will be powerful, after all, the Magic's tactics or team configuration have been placed there, and basically there is not much room for improvement. In this case, we the Lakers are not going to lose the game anyway, and the question now is when we drag this game into garbage time.
During the half-time break, to be honest, I felt like I had a really special feeling at this time, and I felt like I was playing a completely different game than I had when I was playing before, and the reason why I felt that way was mainly because of some of the things I had experienced during this time.
But I won't talk too much about it here, but I'll talk about it after the game, but I went into a meditative state for a while at halftime and then talked to Kobe Bryant for a while, and he seemed quite surprised at some of the things I was able to do in the game right now.
I asked Kobe if he could also feel some of the sensations I felt when I was playing basketball on the court in my subconscious, and Kobe Bryant also told me that when I was playing basketball on the court, he could also feel my every move on the court, so in fact, when I was controlling my body to play, if he wanted to feel the passion of this kind of sport, he could also feel it.
I don't know what to say, but it's actually good, or I'm curious about what Kobe's soul has in this state, and of course I don't want to experience it.
The second half started quickly, and the Magic's starters made some adjustments in the second half, mainly a player on the inside who was not very athletic, but tall enough, but he looked quite bulky, although his height seemed to be about the same height as Shaq, but the fluency of his movements on the court was completely compared to Shaq, and I knew that Shaq could still easily beat this guy.
Sure enough, within a few minutes of the start of the third quarter of the game, Shaq had already proved his determination in this game with his performance, the interior player who was given high hopes by the Magic team lost his power after encountering Shaq's inside attack, Shaq's strength was too strong.
When the Magic team was ready to let this center go to defend one-on-one against Shaq on the defensive end, I felt that the coach of the Magic team had a bit of a problem with his brain, couldn't they see such a big gap, maybe they would just look at this gap from the appearance of the players, but this gap is really not only the difference in height and weight, but also the overall lead in strength, athleticism, and explosiveness.
Shaq directly knocked the big man on the opposite side to the ground with a shark-like turn that he liked to use, it seems that this big man's confrontation ability is much worse than the Magic's previous interior line, or it may be because Shaq came up and saw that his size was a little big, so he was ruthless as soon as he came up, and he turned around and knocked this interior player out of the air for a long distance, which is really a bit surprising.
Because in fact, in my opinion, this inside line still has height and weight after all, how to say that there will not be such a situation, but the reality is like this, this inside player was really knocked down without resistance in front of Shaq, and the referee didn't seem to say that Shaq was fouled, because in fact, Shak's action was not very big, and I don't know if the inside player of the Magic team faked a fall, anyway, Shaq completed the offense with a powerful dunk.
Shaq's dunk this time was extremely violent, and I was a little worried that the basket or the hoop would not be able to stop Shaq's power explosion, and he would be pulled down by Shaq all of a sudden, so what should I do?
It is for this reason that I now find that Shaq actually has reservations when he dunks many times, although the league has strengthened the basket and basketball hoop, but Shaq has repeatedly pulled the basket and even the basketball hoop down many times in his past experience, such dominance makes Shaq have an incredible part of his own strength deep down, and he actually doesn't want to be a saboteur.
Of course, it's hard to say, maybe Shaq was obsessed with being that kind of saboteur, but now it seems that he is a little more obedient, or a little more mature than before, and not so obsessed with the crazy destruction of the basket.
Of course, that's actually a good thing, because as Shaq gains weight, if he's still obsessed with crazy hoop pulling, I don't think the league's basketball hoops are good enough.
The Magic's new center is a complete waste, not only a waste on the defensive end, but also a waste on the offensive end, first of all, his footsteps move extremely slowly, he can't block and dismantle when he is on the court, he can't run, he can't shoot, he can't play singles, he can't cooperate, he is completely a superfluous existence on the court, it's a pity that his height and weight don't seem to have any meaning on the court.
The head coach of the Magic team naturally showed a very headache when he saw the performance of this center off the court, obviously this center had not performed very well before, so he was put on the bench, and he may not even have any playing time, the reason why he would start in the second half is nothing more than that the Magic team wants to use the dead horse as a live horse doctor, just give it a try, but the reality is still cruel after all, and such a player is obviously still not competent for these things. Of course, people themselves don't have this strength.
What's more, he has to face a terrifying player like Shaq, not to mention him, even if three of the other four centers come to play against Shaq, it is inevitable that he will not be bullied enough by Shaq on the inside.
In fact, even if it is Dameng Olajuwon, there is no way to completely restrict Shak, especially when defending one-on-one, Dameng Olajuwon is easy to be forcibly deducted by Shak, after all, the difference in height and strength is still obvious.
Therefore, many teams will choose another path when facing Shaq, that is, similar to the later small-ball era, let the spatial interior with projection ability to align with Shaq, and then find a way to find an opportunity to play Shaq in the wrong position on the outside.
In many of our games this season, this trick has been very effective against Shaq, but the problem is that not all teams can find such an interior that can have good shooting ability on the outside, and those average teams really can't solve Shaq's point, which is a very fatal problem.
And even those outside players with strong shooting ability may not necessarily be able to completely deflate Shaq, after all, Shaq's power on the offensive end can still overshadow the points he concedes after being targeted on the defensive end most of the time.
After all, basketball is a game that scores more points than anyone, and the scoring stability on the inside is obviously higher than that on the outside, so most of the time, even if you let go of the opponent's strong projection ability, the opposing team may not be able to beat our Lakers.
Now our Lakers team has become more and more like a real strong team, because on the one hand, our player configuration is very strong, if you add the tacit understanding between some players, there are basically only a few teams in this league that can be stronger than our Lakers.