As the weather warms up in late May, the Sacramento area enters summer.

In the East, the Magic held on to their two home courts, and the situation was the same as that of the Kings, who also led 3-1.

The league conceived a season of No. 23 vs. No. 24, but by the playoffs, things took a turn for the worse and changed dramatically.

The NBA's script was originally tailor-made for Kobe Bryant and James, and the MVP battle lasted for a season, as if to set off the rehearsal of the Finals, but no one expected that both teams would suffer Waterloo.

The Dark Horse King, who defeated strong opponents all the way, and even the Lakers are now in danger.

Only with ability can there be a script, only then can there be a clue that every ups and downs of the Lakers will shock the world, with the Cavaliers to strengthen the expectations of the public, and the big Z back to Cleveland is also respected as great wisdom, Kobe and James, who have great winning ability, will have more chances and greater confidence to win and kill. If the Cavaliers and Lakers win, James and Kobe Bryant shoot and meet in history on the Finals stage, then even Donagie will proudly boast to those around him: You see, I said earlier that who is taken care of is what it means.

But now, the script is reversed, the Magic and the Kings have come out, especially the Kings, the Lakers, who are running for the championship, did not expect to fall under the team that was still the bottom of the league last year.

Another thing to say is that the Magic and Kings meet in the finals, the stars are dim, and the appeal is low, which is definitely not the picture that the league wants to see.

Coincidentally, in the G5 game, the two teams encountered extremely difficult encounters, and the Cavaliers and Lakers, who were fighting against each other, seemed to have been added at home.

In the end, both teams also held their home stadium and tied the series at 2-3.

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Entering the playoffs, Chris Bosh's offensive proportion in the team has decreased a lot, and the Kings are more of a soldier, especially Cosby and Gortat on the bench, with an average score of nearly 10 points per game, often behind the big wins, there are 6 or even 7 players in the team scoring double-doubles.

The execution of the King's blocking and pick-and-roll tactics has the style of the 76ers that Wang Tomorrow coached, but compared with the 76ers, the Kings pay more attention to the running, air cutting and shooting of the wing players.

There are simple high-post blocking, flanking tactics, as well as complex elbow area covers, baseline covers, cross screens, and various running positions.

The players are highly tactically literate and led by Jason Kidd, and the team's attacking and defensive tempo is outstanding.

"Chris Bosh is averaging 19.8 points per game, 12.9 rebounds per game, and 1.9 blocks per game, and in addition to scoring, rebounding and blocks are up from the regular season, and he is really focusing more on defense and helping the team in other ways."

In a basketball show in Sacramento, the host talked about the current Kings, and everyone saw and reached a consensus on Chris Bosh's sacrifice.

"Chris Bosh became the strongest frontcourt rebounder for the Kings, and even the best frontcourt rebounder in the league, which is very different from his style of play with the Raptors."

"Except for Jason Kidd, basically all the players under Wang Mingming will undergo a transformation, after the transformation, maybe there is not much deviation in the data, but the state of the whole person is completely different, and the contribution to the victory value of the game is also completely different, it can be said that the players who play under Wang Mingming, no one has data for the sake of data, they are all for victory."

"If the Kings make it to the Finals and even win the championship at the end, then I think the MVP of the Finals will be Chris Bosh."

"Inevitably, Chris Bosh sacrificed a lot, but he helped the team a lot, and the Kings couldn't have gone that far without him."

The hosts then talked about the other two "giants" of the Kings.

"Jason Kidd averaged 13.5 points, 8.7 assists and 5.3 rebounds per game, shooting 45.8 percent from three-point range, and Ron Artest averaged 17.4 points, 6.5 rebounds, 4.2 assists and 2.4 steals per game.

"The two veterans can be said to have repeatedly saved the team at critical moments, especially in the G3 game, and at the critical moment in the final fourth quarter, Artest assisted Jason Kidd to hit a key three points, and everyone couldn't help but praise the performance of the two veterans."

Kidd's tandem, Artest's strong offense and strategy, and the defensive front of the two can be said to form the King's current super lineup, and at the beginning of the season, no one expected such a team, so that now, they are even dark horses, all the way to the Western Conference finals, and even to eliminate the Lakers.

"The Lakers have also improved, in the regular season, they did not do well in retreat, but in this round against the Kings, it is obvious that they have specifically strengthened their defense in this regard, and the retreat is very timely, and they did not give the Kings too many offensive and defensive transitions and opportunities for fast breaking." The host commented: "But unfortunately, the Lakers began to pay attention to the wings, and were blocked and dismantled by the Kings in the middle, and after turning back to guard the middle, they gave the Kings too many opportunities to shoot on the wings. ”

"There's no problem with Phil Jackson's triangle offense, and the Lakers need an assistant coach who focuses on defense, otherwise, with the current defensive system, it's hard to compete with a team like the Kings."

It's really a moment in time, before the Western Finals, the probability of the Lakers advancing is as high as more than 6 percent, and now it is said that the Lakers' strength is not as good as the king.

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G6 battle, the two sides will return to Sacramento to fight.

The Lakers are facing a match point, and it is difficult to get one back in the last game, and it is more difficult to beat the Kings in a row in this game.

Kings fans seem to be able to foresee the Kings reaching the Finals.

It's so exciting, the Kings were the first veteran team to join the league, but only won the NBA championship as the Rochester Royals in the 1950-1951 season, and the Kings failed to break through again.

Until entering the 21st century, the Kings became the most enjoyable team in the NBA under the Princeton tactical system of head coach Rick Adelman, with players such as Chris Webber, Peja Stojakovic, Mike Bibby, and Vlad Divac as the core, and with Bobby Jackson and Siddo Turkglou as the main "bench bandits".

But the Kings led by Adelman also fell under the iron hooves of the Lakers and failed to break out of the West, let alone win the championship.

Now that feng shui is turning, under the leadership of Wang Mingming, the Kings team will fight against the Lakers and force the Lakers to the edge of the cliff 3-2.

The more the time came to eliminate the Lakers, the more excited everyone became, and Sacramento fans remembered the grievances of ten years ago, as if they were reappearing in front of them.

After G3, "Beat LA" became the slogan of the whole city, carrying the sense of competition and anger of the land.

Before the game, Kobe Bryant said in an interview that the series is far from over, and the Lakers are the best team in the league, and they still have the strength to fight, and they can still recover such an unfavorable situation and drag the series into a "tie-break".

Wang didn't make any personnel adjustments tomorrow, but in terms of tactics, he asked the players to pay more attention to blocking and dismantling offenses, and at the same time firmly shot from the outside, and when there was an opportunity, everyone in the team could shoot.

The players have been through a match-point game, this time at home, and the mentality is a little more relaxed.

And the mentality of the Lakers is slightly worse, after all, if this game is lost, the Lakers will end the 09-10 season and can only go home to fish.

In the last game, Kobe Bryant scored 35 points in Stamps, and both the young DeRozan and the experienced Artest were blown up by Kobe.

In the defensive adjustment of this game, Wang first arranged for Jason Kidd to defend Kobe Bryant.

DeRozan also defended as a defender and swapped defenders for Derrick Fisher.

"The small ones can't come to the old ones?"

Kobe Bryant felt that he was being underestimated again, moving in Kidd's footsteps, and could keep up with himself?

But what Kobe didn't expect was that the Kings team was not the only one to defend Kidd, in fact, it was the bag defense, not only Kidd alone, including DeRozan, Artest and others are Kobe Bryant's defenders, and there are also Chris Bosh and Tyson Chandler's frame protectors on the inside, and the Kings have built layers of defense just to prevent Kobe from playing.

Wang Mingming thought very clearly, the king can play a lot of people, and the rotation consumes a lot of physical strength, but as long as the players always maintain their fighting spirit, this will be the best way to limit Kobe.

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Kobe Bryant played very hard, as soon as he got the ball, he was a variety of bags, in the process of passing, the Kings rotated defense, the Lakers players had average three-point ability, Derrick Fisher and Ariza, neither of them were the top three-point shooters, and the two were very hesitant, and after missing two shots from outside the three-point line, they didn't dare to shoot.

At this time, Suns coach Alvin Gentryrie, who was far away in Phoenix.

Seeing Wang Mingming's defensive arrangement, he couldn't help but pat his thigh.

"Book that, how come I didn't think of this!"

The so-called authorities are fans, bystanders are clear, the Lakers seem to be very strong offensively, but in fact, there are problems, the most important thing is that the Lakers' outside three-point ability is average.

After Kobe Bryant was trapped, the only one the Lakers could stand up for was Al Horford.

If the bag is absolutely leaking, then it is leaking the Lakers' outside line, and the Lakers are not good at three points anyway.

It's just that this tactic is too extreme, in case the Lakers open the outside line, then the defensive team will be ironclad, and physical exhaustion is also a problem, and no one on the bench will stand up, and it will still be cold.

Wang tomorrow's bet is that the Lakers players have a bad mentality.

Bryant chose to pass the ball, and sure enough, the entire Lakers team did not adapt to the change in the Kings' defensive strategy.

The only stable thing is Al Horford's play, which burst inside and outside, and cut 5 points in a row to stop the bleeding in time for the Lakers.

But on the whole, the Lakers were suppressed, and in the first quarter of the game, the Lakers trailed the Kings by 7 points 7-14.

During the pause, Phil Jackson arranged for Kobe Bryant to block and dismantle the offense, not to fall into the singles too much, because the singles will also be trapped, it is better to take the initiative to be caught after the block and dismantle, so that the players can move.

This is exactly the opposite of Kobe's idea, Kobe believes that everyone should open up space at this time, so that when he transfers, he can pass more empty positions, and at the same time, Lakers players impact the basket, don't be a fixed-point shooter outside, shooters can't do it, you can still cut empty!

Kobe Bryant didn't say anything, Phil Jackson is still the head coach of the Lakers after all, he is a professional player, and his basic professionalism is to obey the head coach's arrangement.

After the timeout, Kobe Bryant blocked the attack, and the Kings player decisively wrapped Kobe.

After Kobe Bryant pulled away, he either passed to Al Horford, or after the Kings changed defenses, Ariza and Fisher were vacated on the outside.

The Lakers still have no vacant positions unless they shoot directly from the outside, because the Kings change defenses quickly, and DeRozan, as the dunk king, is running all over the court in the joint defense system.

At the end of the first quarter, the Kings led the Lakers 27-20 by seven men.

Kobe Bryant only scored 2 points in a single quarter, and he still relied on free throws to get 2 points, and he didn't score a single goal in the athletic battle.

Wang will be replaced by Afralo, Cosby, Gortat, Udri and others tomorrow, and the number of rotations will reach 9, and Afralo, as DeRozan's first substitute, will become the wonder soldier that King Tomorrow thinks of in this round of the series, and the wonder soldier who defends Kobe.

is still the same sentence, only those who have strength can be miracle soldiers.

Afflalo has always been very good defensively, and the three-point shooting rate is very accurate, the first season in the Pistons three-point shooting rate was only 20.8 percent, the second season soared to 40.2 percent, this season in the 76ers, the three-point shooting rate is still as high as 41.9 percent.

Wang Tomorrow ignored Afflaro a little and used him as the team's third substitute, and his status was even behind Casby and Nocioni, but in this round of the series, Wang Tomorrow suddenly found that Afflaro used it to defend Kobe Bryant's effect was not bad, better than Casby and Nocioni, so Afflaro successfully took the position in this round, squeezed out Nocioni, and became the team's main rotation.

Not only can Afraro defend, but in the second quarter of the game, he hit two three-pointers in a row to help the Kings extend their lead to 10 points at once.

The Lakers called a timeout, and everyone panicked as the fans chanted.

"It's still a mental blow, I told you that I would wrap Kobe, but you can't help it." Wang Ming turned around and said to a few players: "If Kobe Bryant falls to the low post and all the Lakers players open up space, then don't wrap it, not every time you have to wrap it, now we are in the lead, and controlling the rhythm is the most important." ”

Sure enough, after coming off the bench, the Lakers reintroduced Kobe.

At this point, Phil Jackson chose to save the team by letting Kobe Bryant single after opening up space in the low post.

Bryant faced Afflaro one-on-one, missed the first shot, and hit a step-back jumper in the second to get the first goal of his athletic battle.

At this time, the Kings took advantage of the situation to expand the score, leading the Lakers by 12 points at 40-28.

The Kings' dark horse situation is out of control, and all the Lakers players feel like they're going to be cold.

Phil Jackson couldn't come up with any spiritual chicken soup to encourage everyone, and it seemed that in this little bit of hustle, all the fighting spirit was slowly worn out.