Chapter 334: Second Round! (1/3)
If the Lakers say that the loss to the Grizzlies in the regular season is shocking to the outside world, at least it can still be understood. After all, it was the regular season, and after all, the Lakers also had some new faces at that time.
The Grizzlies have regrouped, but no one has said anything. Everyone is paying attention to the Lakers, after all, the attention of this team has never been bottomed! Kobe, Odom and Gasol, they get more exposure!
Needless to say, Kobe Bryant is used to it all. Odom and Gasol were happier...... One of the two is the former main force of the Heat, and the other is the main force of the former Grizzlies, and after arriving at the Lakers, I realized why some players will desperately rush to this after having the opportunity to come to the Lakers!
Playing here, you'll be much more famous in no time! But first of all, you have to be the kind of player who can play, at least it's a second-team.
Players like Zhou Yang and Meme, they got a lot of exposure when they were with the Lakers! Maybe Yao Ming's influence is too great! After Zhou Yang came to the NBA, if there was any relatively big incident, he would be brought in.
The outside world's comments on Zhou Yang have always been two voices. But the Lakers, the top three favorites with the highest demand this season, were eliminated by the Grizzlies......
The team's head coach has been giving interviews lately, and only Odom has been around him once. Then the rest of the players were nowhere to be found.
The Lakers are now quite stimulated and were eliminated in the first round of the West, which will only happen in two seasons when Kobe and Odom have more quarrels. In the first two seasons, the Lakers won the Western Conference finals once and the championship once!
How could such a combat power be eliminated directly this season?
After this battle! The Grizzlies feel different overall. Originally, after the first round, there were seven games, so the players were a little swollen when they came back to training immediately.
Hmph, the Lakers are amazing. Didn't you lose to them? What's so awesome.
Gasol Jr.'s attitude was very different. He just trained there in silence. When a player came over to blow to him, he would praise the Lakers from time to time. Within a morning, the mood of the team had changed.
You swell, and your teammates next to you swell. But Meme, Zhou Yang, Miller, Gay, and Mark are all very low-key players in the team's star-level training. If the manager sees it, will he let you play too much?
Everyone reacted at once, and no one spoke much, just trained there silently. Jafaroni didn't go to the gym to watch his players train.
One is that he has to have a meeting with the coaching staff here to discuss how the Spurs will play next, and the other is to rest. When he returned home, Jafaroni felt like he had gone to another office......
Even the youngest daughter's homework was tutored by his wife. His wife is also a Grizzlies fan. The two of them can sit down and talk about the development of the team or something.
But now his wife knows that her husband may be at a critical stage in his career. She also read the recent reports in the media, and all kinds of exclamations, even on Twitter!
Everyone felt that it was too unbelievable that the Lakers didn't work well together. Their loss to the Spurs is still understandable, and the Lakers and Spurs are competing with each other, and there is no shame in who is eliminated. After all, both teams are perennial favorites to win the championship!
But now the Grizzlies are really raising their eyebrows! Aren't you sarcastic, provocative on the field, and media interviews from time to time sarcastically mocking us grizzlies? Now that the media is looking for you, why don't you squeak?
They don't have the right to judge this season. The first round of the playoffs is over. There are only 8 of the 16 teams now!
The teaching assistants in the conference room had left, and Jafaroni had softened in the room, slowly sliding a little. There was half a cup of coffee on the table that had been cold.
The scattered documents made him feel a little comfortable. It's already dark outside. I heard the Grizzlies staff just now say that the players in the training gym are still training at this time! They're basically starting to do warm-up training.
Looking out of the window, which looked like ink, Jafaroni sat quietly for almost half an hour before getting up, began to simply clean up the table and left the conference room. He didn't do anything tonight, went home to watch TV with his wife and children for a while and went to bed.
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The Grizzlies still lost the first two games. In the third game they won. Now it's the fourth game. In the previous game, Popovich was angry with his players on the sidelines.
The frequent substitutions of four people together also stunned Memphis fans. This old man really dares to change people!
This fourth game is really nothing for the Spurs. If you lose, you will be back on the same starting line as the Grizzlies. But the old man didn't think so!
A long delay means many hitches! Who knows how far a team like the Grizzlies can play?!
These strong teams, as well as the new strong teams that have emerged in recent years, were previously unknown to everyone to be strong teams. That's all hard-hitting. No matter which team, let's take the Knicks, who have not played very well this season, if they rush to the finals all of a sudden, the media's view of them will immediately change!
Then the team actively recruits after playing a good result, and the motivation of the players also comes up, maybe this team will become strong in the future. Isn't this the way the grizzly bears are going down this path?
They've lost to Spurs now and earned it this season! Next season, the media will definitely praise Memphis's side. What's more, they still have to fight with the Spurs now, who can show up!
What makes the media addicted is that this season, whether in the East or the West, the competition in the playoffs is extremely fierce! The Celtics and Cavaliers in the East were still ruthless, and the other teams played more than 5 games to decide the winner!
The Grizzlies basically played the Spurs not long after 7 games. The feeling of frustration was still strong at first. Zhou Yang and Mark also began to comfort their students after the game......
The atmosphere in the team has changed qualitatively again after winning the Lakers! After talking to the head coach, they went out to play once in the evening~ Jafaroni doesn't care much about them now, as long as there are no problems on the field.
With a restructured team and so many young people, it's good enough to be able to play to this point. Jafaroni even thinks that should be their focus this season.
On the management side, they ended up losing to the Spurs, what can they say. Spurs aren't something anyone can win if they want to.
In Game 3, Spurs players narrowly outscored the Grizzlies at the end. Sometimes the game is like that, the more you try to pull away, the more the score between the two teams is dead. You may be a few points behind each other.
In this case, you can only wait until the end with the other party. In the end, the Grizzlies scored 1 more point than the Spurs. On the Spurs' side, Parker didn't have a three-pointer, and the game was over.
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"I'm still saying the same thing, this year's Grizzlies are fierce! You have to do every detail well in the game! Let's win 3 games first, and the rest of the games are still very long! ”
The old man also lost his usual careless energy. He still hopes to win another championship for the Spurs this season!
The Spurs players weren't too nervous at this point...... But they also know it's a playoff game, not a joke. Didn't the Lakers just "play" themselves?
What makes Jafaroni feel the pressure suddenly increases is that the Spurs and Lakers are two completely different teams. The Lakers have young players, and they have great players. But they didn't have much cooperation.
The Spurs have a group of veterans who have played particularly experienced and smooth in the playoffs...... The Spurs don't have many threes, but they can always get a quick lead over you! If you are not careful, the opponent will stretch the difference between 10 and 20 points!
Even the Celtics, a new powerhouse this year, are worried! If the Spurs end up standing with them on the stage of the Finals, will they be able to win against the Spurs and win this year's championship?
"Take every opportunity to score! Three-point is best, and two-point play is more important to focus on offensive efficiency. Defend on the inside, pay more attention to the foul, and be prepared for the later games. Don't clash with any of the opposing players. I think most of the time it's the opponent's players who are faster than you, and there is also a sense of amusing you on the field, which makes you very unhappy. We responded to them with grades, Lowry, remember? ”
Jafaroni said as he glanced at the small note next to his tactical board...... In the first two games against the Spurs, I often forgot to say something very important. Today he wrote down everything he wanted to remind him of on a note, probably because he was nervous or because he didn't sleep well, so Jafaroni has been forgetting things lately.
"Ginobili should be the strongest backup guard for the Spurs right now...... This guy's offense is really powerful. But I've been able to stop him a few times in the last game! I'll take note."
Lowry immediately responded to the manager.
"You have to control the strength of the defense. Don't be too strong, especially in the early stages, it's not worth it to let the referee award you a technical foul."
"Lowry, you should learn the Spurs' defense, as long as you can keep people at bay. If you are not sure, you simply don't guard against it! This saves a lot of time. You still have to defend aggressively sometimes, but if the opponent takes advantage of you, delays your time elsewhere, and then moves the ball quickly to score, you can't do anything with the Spurs."
“...... There's nothing wrong with it, Lowry, you pay attention" Jafaroni and the players around him, and the assistant coaches suddenly fell silent. It seems that only Zhou Yang has noticed this.
In fact, Zhou Yang suddenly said this just now, and only a few players understood it. People are thinking about something else. The head coach Jafaroni and Lowry, who paid attention to what Zhou Yang said, also understood.
In the past few days, Zhou Yang's residence and hotel have been running at both ends...... He also told Linda that his assistant was staying at the hotel. She'll talk to him about some of the things in the playoffs. Zhou Yang still came back to sleep at night.
The Spurs are strong, but they are also very fast in the game. But there will still be flaws in the end.
The Spurs' starters tonight are Duncan, Amy, Ginobili, Parker, and Finley. On the Grizzlies' side are Mark, Darko, Zhou Yang, Fisher and Lowry!
Ginobili starts today! Popovich wanted to keep his team at bay in the early days! Although this team is not too strong, Jafaroni is not too capable of changing the team's style of play. But Zhou Yang on the field is still very good at organizing competitions!
And the Mark on their team, players like Miller, two people who can defend and attack. Not to mention, the competition can really make a big difference!
At the beginning of the game, Duncan took the lead and dribbled a few times, and then passed directly to Ginobili, who had just picked up. Facing Lowry's defense, Ginobili chose to give the ball to Parker this time. The latter hit a direct three-point shot!
The Spurs are still known for their patience, with less than 24 seconds to go, and as long as there is still a chance, they can go and find a good chance to score right away!
Zhou Yang quickly dribbled through the half, Lowry took his ball and passed it to Gasol Jr., played a mismatch with Duncan and scored a layup! The Grizzlies home fans let out some exclamations at this point......
Mark immediately looked up. As if trying to find out who was surprised there. Isn't it normal for me and Duncan's team to score......
The two coaches watched the game quietly at this time. The atmosphere of the scene is great! Grizzlies fans are hoping that their team can advance again to compete for the West Finals!
Although the hope has become not so strong. But they were still looking forward to seeing them at such a time! Parker dribbled past halftime and missed a three-pointer this time. Darko immediately got the rebound and passed the ball to Zhou Yang!
Under the bag of Parker and Demon Knife, Zhou Yang still dodged the defense of the two of them and rushed to the frontcourt! When Finley just caught up, Zhou Yang used his rhythm to shake off Finley and deduct points violently!!
At this time, Zhou Yang is very different from before in the hearts of Grizzlies fans! Although his scoring is not so high every time, there are really two states in the team with him and without him!
There are also attentive fans who have found out in the previous games against the Spurs. The cooperation of the two players, Mark and Zhou Yang, began to tacitly understand! Zhou Yang's 3 attacks actually allowed Gasol Jr. to get 3 assists!
This was hard to imagine before!
Ginobili took Parker's pass and made his own layup when his teammates were too guarded to pass! After the basketball is interfered with by Mark, the basketball comes to Duncan.
The same action as Gasol Jr. just now, but Duncan took advantage of Mark's unstable state to let him directly receive a foul and score 2+1!
6:4! When the Spurs were again in the lead, Popovich asked for a timeout after shaking his head from the sidelines.
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