In the previous life, the Lakers defeated the Rockets 4-1 to advance, and this time the Lakers have one more Sun Zhuo, and there will be no suspense in defeating the Rockets.

Although the little giant Yao Ming is one year earlier than Sun Zhuo, like Sun Zhuo, today is the first time to play the playoffs, and the first game is to face the big shark O'Neal who makes anyone helpless, which is definitely not a good start.

For Sun Zhuo, the first opponent in the playoffs is Yao Ming and Francis' rockets, which is still good, they will not only make Sun Zhuo feel the difference in the playoffs, but will not cause too much pressure on Sun Zhuo.

In the first game of the playoffs, the Staples Center Arena was almost full, although the fans were not uniformly dressed, and there were not too many well-known stars to watch the game, except for the thunderous actor Nicholson, Luke Wharton's father Bill Wharton, who was in charge of commenting on the sidelines, has been praising Sun Zhuo's rookie performance and constantly belittling his son, and also predicted that Sun Zhuo in the playoffs will complete the evolution again, which shocked everyone.

Sun Zhuo started this game with O'Neal, Kobe, Gary Payton, and Karl Malone, which he also won by his dunk performance when he played the Cavaliers, otherwise in the playoffs, Phil Jackson may not give Sun Zhuo too much playing time.

It turns out that anyone who comes to the playoffs for the first time can be nervous.

Yao Ming has a few beautiful passes, but he will still hesitate on offense, and he will stop when he receives the ball in the high post, and then choose whether to shoot, unlike the later Yao Ming who once he has the opportunity to shoot immediately, and he will still be afraid of defending O'Neal, and he was left with two fouls by O'Neal in the first quarter.

As soon as the Lakers came up, they unswervingly played O'Neal's point, all the running positions, all the dribbling and passing, the ultimate goal was to hand over the ball smoothly to O'Neal in the low post, Sun Zhuo is also one of the auxiliary roles, when the position is attacking, it is basically to keep running, passing, constantly feeding the ball to O'Neal, and then see if O'Neal scores, when playing defensive counterattacks or when the opponent makes mistakes, Sun Zhuo has the opportunity to play, however, Sun Zhuo only has the share of empty shooting, all the power to hold the ball and break quickly, It must all be given to Kobe Bryant, and Kobe will distribute it.

Phil naturally won't completely forget to train Sun Zhuo, he will let Sun Zhuo also get some opportunities to attack with the ball, but in his playoff debut, Sun Zhuo's performance was not good, and there is one thing that he can't adapt to, that is: too many hands.

Sun Zhuo every time he holds the ball and dribbles to break through, there will always be a hand to reach the basketball in his hand, Sun Zhuo's current ability to control the ball is not good, and the speed is not fast enough, he will be stealed in the regular season, and in the playoffs, it is easier to be stealed, often Sun Zhuo just dribbles to break through the first step, and then he hears a snap, and the ball in Sun Zhuo's hand is cut away by the opponent.

The physical confrontation in the playoffs is more intense, the defenders are more frequent, and they don't even give you a chance to get up at all, and the referee blows the penalty scale is not so strict, like this time Sun Zhuo was stealed, even if the whole person almost fell to the ground in the end, the referee still didn't blow, this is still the Lakers' home court.

Phil Jackson cut his hair short and looked indifferent, but he was also a little worried in his heart: "Sun's bouncing talent is good, but the ball control and physical confrontation are still a little worse, and now he can't adapt to the playoff-level confrontation in a short period of time, it seems that he needs to arrange more off-ball offense, Rick, I remember that Sun's open three-point is not bad, right?" ”

Phil Jackson likes to listen to Rick Fox, he thinks the latter can always say what satisfies him, and in private training, Sun Zhuo and Rick Fox communicate more, mainly because Sun Zhuo is curious why the star finally chose to do a film? Sun Zhuo wanted to know his views and understanding of this business.

Rick Fox said: "yes, Sun's open threes are not bad, I remember a few threes against him once, and he beat me. ”

As soon as Rick Fox finished speaking, the assistant coach had already checked the data and reported to Fair: "Son only shot 31 percent from three-point range in the regular season, but he shot 70 percent from three-point range in the bottom corners on both sides. ”

Phil Jackson nodded, he knew that Sun Zhuo shot very few three-pointers in the regular season, and the shooting percentage actually didn't show anything, Phil said: "When you are fast attacking, put him outside to shoot three points, what do you think?" ”

Rick Fox said: "Sun's bounce is so good, it's a pity not to attack the basket directly and put him outside, right?" ”

As he was talking, the Lakers launched a fast attack, Kobe Bryant quickly attacked the Rockets basket with the ball, and finally missed the layup, Sun Zhuo, who did not jump too high, grabbed the rebound in the back, and was about to attack twice, but was quickly cut off by Francis.

If it was the regular season, Sun Zhuo would have successfully made up the basket this time, but in the playoffs, there is no compromise, every defensive player must fight, not to mention a rookie like Sun Zhuo, even if it is a veteran like Karl Malone, this game has been knocked out by the opponent several times, and in the end it is also a situation where people turn their backs.

When Phil saw it, he said, "Just let him try, now he is not used to working under the basket, there is too fierce." ”

As a result, Sun Zhuo was gradually placed away from the basket, and Phil told him: "You can try to shoot more open threes, especially if you have a good shooting percentage of threes from the bottom corner." ”

Sun Zhuo could only smile bitterly, he is a 30-level SF, how high can his three-point shooting value be?

In this "NBA World" game, SG (scoring guard) is the highest three-point value, SF's strong point lies in rebounding and dunking, as for Phil telling Sun Zhuo that his bottom corner three-point shooting rate is good, Sun Zhuo didn't take it to heart, because he didn't shoot a few bottom corner three-point shots throughout the regular season, and the shooting rate doesn't say anything, and Sun Zhuo has tried his three-point shooting rate in various positions, which is actually not very good.

The most important thing is that when Sun Zhuo was placed outside the three-point line, his teammates did not dare to pass the ball to Sun Zhuo, because Sun Zhuo did not prove that he had an excellent three-point shot, so unless it was a last resort, or there was a complete big vacancy, whether it was Kobe Bryant or Payton, they would not think about letting Sun Zhuo complete the long shot.

At the beginning of this game, the Lakers can still suppress the Rockets, O'Neal receives the ball and dribbles to the low post with his back, once he gets to that position, he will turn his back and dunk strongly, the method is simple and effective, and once the opponent wraps O'Neal, O'Neal will choose to share the ball out, and teammates will have an easy chance to shoot.

But as the game deepened, the Rockets' defense of O'Neal became more powerful, forcing O'Neal to divide the ball every time, and other people's defense was also very fast, often falling into the situation of Kobe Bryant's strong shot.

Karl Malone was also iron-clad today, 3 of 14, but Gary Payton became the team's third scorer, occupying the position that Sun Zhuo should have occupied.

In the first game of the playoffs, both sides played more nervously, the more inaccurate the shot, the more they would focus on defense, and in the end, the two teams combined for 143 points in this game, and the Lakers finally won the final game with Kobe's shooting three without touching the dunk after O'Neal received the ball.

After the game, Bill Wharton commented: "The Lakers and the Rockets didn't play at their level today, but this is the playoff game, in the playoffs, it's good that you can do half the level of the regular season, Eric Sun fully explained this to us, he averaged 17 points per game in the regular season, he only scored 8 points today, and there were 6 turnovers. ”