1372. Kobe Bryant is strong in the West! (1st Update)
Superstars are quite sensitive to the emotional changes of their teammates, such as Duncan, the superstar of the Spurs that the Grizzlies met in the last round, he often desperately wants to play a good shot at certain moments, just because he feels that his teammates' emotions fluctuate in a bad direction, so he wants to use his performance to drive his teammates, and he has successfully done it.
Paul, one of the four best performers in the regular season this season, is also very keen in this regard, advancing to the front court and Josh Smith to block and break into the middle distance to play big, and in the face of Yi Jianlian's change of defense and retreat, he hit a two-point shot!
The superstar only needs to use one ball to make his teammates feel his awesomeness, Leonard is a player with strong psychological quality, and immediately reinvigorated himself and devoted himself to the defense of Sun Ce, he knows very well that his current strength is not enough to compete with Sun Ce, but he has two big brothers who are too strong to be good!
Paul's ability to play small and big is really good, but the Lakers don't score, it makes no difference to the current Grizzlies, Sun Ce, who retracted it to the basket when Paul shot, immediately picked up the ball and exited the baseline to send the ball to Nash, who immediately instigated his teammates to counterattack.
In the eyes of the whole team on the Nash or Grizzlies side, the Lakers are no worse than the Spurs, so the Lakers are not losing to the Spurs, Klay Thompson, Yi Jianlian, and Jimmy Butler are working hard to find scoring opportunities in the fast break, and Sun Ce's side is mainly contained, and he is a huge threat when he just scored 5 points in a row to increase his personal single-quarter score to 10 points.
Klay Thompson got a chance to catch and shoot, and after receiving Nash's ball through Yi Jianlian's cover, Klay Thompson's three-point shot on the right sideline hit!
, the Grizzlies are 6 points ahead!
The Lakers also immediately counterattacked, but the Lakers had just been pressed by the Grizzlies for half a quarter, and the duo of Paul and Josh Smith were a little uncomfortable with the sudden speed, and in the counterattack, Josh Smith actually dunked the ball in the air, and in turn was dunked by Yi Jianlian to score two points.
The Lakers called a timeout, and the Grizzlies hit 4 shots in a row to create a wave of 10-2!
This made the Lakers a little confused, they didn't do anything, the Grizzlies were so irritable that they couldn't do it, they didn't care about the offensive posture, and they didn't care about what to do with the defense after the offense, for example, if Klay Thompson's three-point score didn't score, because Sun Ce was pinned down in the top arc area, Yi Jianlian went to Klay Thompson's off-ball block, and the Grizzlies had no offensive rebounds and could not affect their Lakers counterattack, it was completely a gambler's desperate posture.
But Klay Thompson made a shot, but Josh Smith on their side didn't make an empty shot.
The Lakers trailed the Grizzlies by 8 points, which was a very bad situation, and the old Bickerstaff did not immediately replace Kobe, but called a timeout to rearrange the tactics and adjust the rhythm of the players from the tactical aspect.
Fighting offense, their Lakers averaged the first scoring per game in the regular season, and they were tied 2-2 in the competition with the Spurs, and they were not afraid.
On the Grizzlies' side, Coach Hollins made a judgment that the opponent would definitely not start from the defensive end, and the overall defense of the opposite court was similar to that of the Spurs, and even the defense at critical moments was not as good as the Spurs with Duncan, all of which were one defense, and the difference between the point guard and the center was very big.
Next, the opponent will definitely choose to attack, and their side will have to continue the form that they played for a minute and a half.
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As Coach Hollins expected, after the timeout, the Lakers launched a ferocious counterattack, but the Grizzlies also fought back with all their might.
The Lakers' offense is really fierce, and it's stronger than the Grizzlies' side when they fall into positional battles, after all, there is a duo of Paul and Josh Smith, which is one of the league's strongest pick-and-roll duos in positional warfare.
Relying on two consecutive three-pointers from Sun Ce and Klay Thompson in the last minute of the first quarter, the Grizzlies maintained a five-point lead and entered the intermission with a five-point lead over the Lakers.
He scored 21 points in the first quarter...... This is a little stronger for the Grizzlies, even if it is a run-and-gun lineup.
The main thing is that the Grizzlies played the Lakers as the Spurs in this quarter, and the offensive lineup and defensive lineup did their best, who made the Lakers' side play so well in the first half of the quarter, they tried their best to defend, and the offensive end relied on the excellent performance of Sun Ce and Randolph, and they were still tied by the Lakers.
This made Sun Ce and his teammates seem to see the opponent Spurs in the previous round, so they ran and bombed the lineup to play hard.
Mainly by scoring 4 goals in a row that was 10-2, the next 4 minutes scored 11 points, and played very well, with the Lakers' efforts to fight back, the Grizzlies held a 5-point lead.
The point is that the Lakers' performance in the first quarter was not as strong as the Spurs, and even if the Lakers fought back with all their might, they could not play an invincible offense in the first quarter like the Spurs.
But in the second quarter, the Lakers were better than the Spurs.
After the break, the Lakers fielded a lineup of Blake, Meeks, Kobe, Jamison, and Earl Clark.
Kobe Bryant showed his hidden fangs in the first half of the first quarter, and in Blake's steady organizational offense, he led Meeks and Jamison, the two major pitchers, and the poor version of Odom's Earl Clark continued the offensive firepower of the first quarter!
Compared to the Spurs' second-quarter offense, the Lakers were significantly better.
Sun Ce was replaced after a two-minute break, and in terms of Grizzlies' outside containment, no one on the team is stronger than Sun Ce, and with Sun Ce, a teammate who can play multiple positions, Nash can organize the offense better.
Relying on Kobe Bryant to score 9 points in the first quarter, the Lakers scored in the second quarter before the official timeout, and the Lakers narrowed the gap to 1 point!
The official timeout came back, and the Grizzlies sidelined up with Sun Ce, Jimmy Butler, Paul George, Randolph, and Larry Sanders.
On the Lakers' side, Paul and Josh Smith are back, re-appearing with the lineup of Kobe, Tzu Shiping, and Jordan Hill.
In this half quarter, he had to rely on Randolph's singles or containment, and Sun Ce had done his best.
Fortunately, Randolph has a big advantage, Sun Ce got a chance to cut into a close-range hook, Jimmy Butler and Paul George also scored 5 points, and at halftime, the Grizzlies trailed the Lakers, although they were overtaken by 1 point, but they were not pulled away too much by the Lakers, who had 4 players scoring double-doubles at halftime.
Kobe Bryant is really strong when he arrives in the West!
Only scored two points in the first quarter, 18 points at halftime, and 16 points in the second quarter, and the containment played helped the Lakers score 34 points in the second quarter!
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