The break was over quickly, and I was back in the real world from my meditative state, and now the third quarter of our game between the Lakers and the Timberwolves was about to begin, and for us, having a lead of more than 10 points at halftime was able to help us gain some psychological advantage, but the fact that our Lakers advantage over the Timberwolves was far from a psychological advantage.

Or you can think of it this way, the strength of our Lakers team is much stronger than the Timberwolves, so we can maintain enough psychological advantage when facing the Timberwolves, and sometimes this psychological advantage can quickly be converted into a field advantage, and if we can get this kind of field advantage, what follows is to roll the snowball and gradually increase our team's hope of winning.

After the third quarter, the Timberwolves took the lead in attacking, and they began to use more tactics to increase some of the weight of their game after the start of the second half, of course, this is actually an inevitable change for the Timberwolves, because if they still rely on the current set of tactics, there will definitely be no way to play with our Lakers, so the game will soon lose suspense.

With this in mind, our Lakers team has also made some more targeted adjustments on the defensive end, and the most important part of these adjustments is actually to make our Lakers players follow the players more on the defensive end, not just the ball, because if your attention is on the ball, not the person you are defending, there is actually a bigger problem on the court.

Any experienced player or coach will understand this truth, that is, the defensive end must be fixed on the player you are defending, and only then can you make the whole team defend.

After the start of the second half, the Timberwolves mainly focused the ball on Marbury's hands, and then let Marbury and Garnett carry out high pick-and-roll, the high-post pick-and-roll effect of these two people is actually okay, especially considering that it is still difficult for our Lakers to really find a way to defend their pick-and-roll.

As for how our Lakers team should defend Marbury and Garnett's pick-and-roll offense, our Lakers head coach does not have a particularly good way to do it now, but I believe that we can still find some opportunities in the coming period.

The competition is like this, it is between continuous competition and learning, no one can understand their own state or game strength after coming up, and they are all through continuous competition and continuous thinking process, to gradually improve their game level.

In the following period of time, our Lakers' on-court situation began to maintain a relatively stable state with the Timberwolves, and after they changed their offensive methods, they did perform much better than before, and it is for this reason that our Lakers must change their defensive strategy.

However, in fact, we did not change the defensive strategy at the beginning to have much effect, after all, our Lakers players still have a certain lack of tactical execution, if our Lakers players really have such a strong tactical execution, then in many games we will gain more dominance on the court, this is undoubtedly a thing.

The game soon began to enter the phase of stalemate, and the combination of me and Shaq can actually use the pick-and-roll to find opportunities, but what should I say, there will still be a certain difference between the pick-and-roll between me and Shaq and the two players of the Timberwolves, but this difference will sometimes behave differently.

A lot of the time I and Shaq's blocking and pick-and-roll naturally require Shaq to cut inside, or I break through and pass him to the air, or I pass him directly to cut inside, or I use the block to shoot directly outside, of course, the basic tactics at the beginning are like this, but with the gradual increase in our Lakers games, now there are many more tactical changes that can be produced after blocking and picking between me and Shaq.

In this case, it is not only the offensive end of the game between me and Shaq, but more often it can also lead other players of the Lakers team to join the whole process of the game, and in this process, as long as our Lakers players can play a relatively large individual strength, then it is quite good.

Of course, the main offensive core is still me and Shaq, so the cooperation between me and Shaq and the performance of me and Shaq largely determine the quality of our Lakers game.

In the next game, Shaq and I continued to rely on the strong dominance between us to constantly impact the Timberwolves' interior on the offensive end, in fact, although Garnett's defensive ability is still good, whether it is a single defense or a help defense, but when he encounters a guy like Shaq, he seems a little uncomfortable.

Because of the fact that Shaq's individual offense is too strong, it is impossible for Garnett to use a single defense to defend Shaq, in this case, what Shaq needs to do is to constantly impact the Timberwolves' interior line and put pressure on the Timberwolves.

It can be seen that the wolf king Garnett is very reluctant to defend or to align with Shaq, whether it is on the offensive end or the defensive end, as long as Shaq is on the wolf king Garnett, it can make the wolf king Garnett feel very uncomfortable, and there is no way to hide this discomfort, from the expression of the wolf king Garnett to some of the body movements he made, he has no way to hide all this.

However, just letting Shaq open it alone is not over, after all, after entering the second half, Shaq's physical strength will have some problems, and in fact, what to say, the other players of the Timberwolves team may have some impact on Shaq on the offensive end, maybe they want to consume some of Shaq's physical energy.

However, when Shaq enters a state of more excitement, their consumption is not of much significance, because Shaq may explode directly, and then produce a huge and terrifying power, and his power is sometimes really not something that ordinary people can bear.

Garnett will also look for more opportunities to fight against Shaq on the outside in the process of opposing Shaq, of course, he can see that Shaq actually has a big problem or weakness on the defensive end, Garnett's body weight is too light, and he is inferior to Shaq when defending on the inside, but Garnett's footstep speed has been defended in a larger area than Shak.

This is Garnett's strengths, and in the first half, the Timberwolves were actually not able to fully play these advantages of Garnett, and if he could have played these advantages, then the situation on the court at this time may not be the situation at all.

In the face of this situation, our Lakers team has gradually begun to consider making some adjustments on the defensive end, mainly to make some exchanges on defensive personnel, this era is actually not as advanced as the rotation of people's thinking in the later small-ball era, but some coaches have actually begun some innovations in defensive tactics.

And our Lakers head coach Silver Fox Harris has actually begun to make some adjustments and reforms in this regard, but it seems that it is not easy to say whether his adjustments and reforms will really work.

But anyway, I think our Lakers team has improved on the defensive end, which is reflected in the situation at the beginning of the season and the current situation of our Lakers team, and such changes are actually very difficult, if it is difficult to cultivate a team, I think the most difficult part is that each player in the team will have their own personality, and the personality of these players will sometimes have a certain impact on the whole team.

Marbury is actually in a sense really not suitable for playing in the Timberwolves, and his style of play dictates that he needs a blue-collar interior lineman around him, not an all-around interior player like Garnett, because an interior player like Garnett can have some pretty bad consequences when paired with Marbury, one of which is that there is really no way to form a particularly good chemistry between them.

And this chemistry means that both of them can fully exert their true strength, if there is no such situation, the two of them do not have this chemistry, which means that they will become the problem point that affects each other's strength, this is the biggest problem, if there is no way to solve this problem, then in the next situation, even if the Timberwolves can play some good shots through the player's personal ability in a short period of time, But there's no way to stay that way for a longer period of time.

The most important thing is that if there is no chemistry in this way, there is no way to expect them to play basketball with this effect, which is not simply to say that the chemistry can be played, in fact, many times our players rely on instinct and conditioning when they are on the court.

Because the process of our real brain operation during the game is relatively simple, this time can reflect how important it is to usually train in training, if our training is not able to reach a certain level, then your strength in the game is definitely not able to play, this is not to say that your talent is particularly high, you can ignore this objective situation, to be honest there are many highly talented players in this world.

In this league, there is no shortage of talented players, but there are not too many players who can really realize their talents on the field, and there are very, very many reasons for this, but when it comes to saying that, the reason why these people can't fully realize their talents is that in addition to some objective reasons on the field, more often the root cause is actually their own.

Of course, it may not seem so fair in a sense, after all, there is only so much room for players to play in the league, and some players perform particularly well, then there will be other players who do not play so well, and there is no way to change this, if you can find a way to change the situation, then you will definitely be able to find something different.

Marbury's position on the Timberwolves is actually a little awkward, because as an outside core, his passing ability and playmaking ability are quite limited, so he actually plays more like a shooting guard.

However, his height and style of play make it impossible for him to play a completely efficient game at the position of shooting guard, so although his scoring ability is very strong, it is based on a large number of individual singles and some inefficient offense, so to be honest, there is really no way to drive the overall offensive state of the entire Timberwolves team.

Once Marbury gets a lot of the ball, then in fact, the entire Timberwolves offense is in a state of stagnation, because he can't pass the ball to his teammates who should get the ball in the first place, and he seems to be a little bit distrustful of his teammates, so his nickname as a lone wolf is quite correct, because a lot of the things he shows are indeed like this, he is so lonely that he wants the whole team to play around him, but obviously this is also very difficult to do.

Because after all, if you only take him as the core, he is not good enough in many aspects, and if you don't take him as the core, some of his specialties can't be played, so although a player like Marbury is very talented, he is not necessarily particularly popular in the league, at least the upper limit of his ability to lead the team must be very limited, because many rules of basketball cannot be changed, not that you can play other teams all over the ground if you are particularly strong in personal ability.

In fact, even Michael Jordan would not have won a championship without the support of his teammates, so in this league, you need to manage the relationship between you and your teammates, of course, it may not be that simple.

In the subsequent game, Marbury actually had some good performances on the offensive end, at least compared to the first half, his changes on the offensive end were mainly to become a little more resolute, he may also think that he is not so good at organizing, so instead of acting in the not so powerful aspects, it is better to play his most advantageous aspects, in fact, his approach is correct, because if he doesn't do it, Then there is really no way for him to do better, and only by bringing out some of his own characteristics can he potentially help the Timberwolves.

Of course, for our Lakers, it is impossible for Marbury to play alone to defeat us, so in fact, our Lakers players don't feel too uncomfortable, but I will not be so aggressive when defending Marbury, in fact, I am ready to let him play more, so that it can destroy the chemistry of their Timberwolves team more.

In fact, this is a bit like the previous game between our Lakers and the 76ers, just like the confrontation between me and Iverson, although Iverson scored a full 50 points, but their 76ers still lost the game in the end, so in a sense, it really doesn't mean how the player's personal strength is, but his personal strength must adapt to the whole team, if he has strong strength, but there is no way to convert this strength into the key to leading the team to win, Then his strength is actually not of much value.

To a certain extent, this can indeed be established, our Lakers team is still in control of the situation on the court at this time, and I have a very tacit understanding with Shaq on the offensive end, and we don't even need to run any tactics in many cases, because once this kind of tacit understanding is established, then it can play a certain role for a long time, and it is for this reason that our Lakers team is actually quite successful.

At least Shaq and I don't need to develop some special tactics for each other now, and many times we can pose a big threat to the opponent just by relying on the tacit understanding itself, which is really not something that other players can easily do.

The game is still going on, as our Lakers expected before, when Marbury took control of the ball, the tacit understanding and chemistry of the entire Timberwolves began to have some big problems, and the emergence of such problems allowed the Lakers to further seize the opportunity to expand the score.

In fact, the more impatient the Timberwolves, the fewer opportunities they have, which is a mistake that many people are prone to make, but we often like to make some mistakes repeatedly, which is actually shown in everyone, and many times it does not mean that we will not make mistakes if we want not to make mistakes, because everyone makes mistakes.