The flame of revenge has been ignited, but Qiao Hai does not know.

In Vancouver, after the tiebreaker, they celebrated one night when the team's owner, John McCaw, who was far away in Seattle, called and announced: he was treated, and all the coaches, players and team staff could go to the Den Smay Bar in downtown Vancouver for a night as a reward for reaching the Western Conference finals.

Qiao Hai did not refuse, and followed the large army to this Dunsmay bar.

After a night of madness, the next day, Qiao Hai got serious......

"Yesterday everyone was over, today we have to get serious, we just played the Western Conference semifinals, and then we have the Western Conference finals to face, and the playoffs are not over yet! We have to make persistent efforts to create more brilliance! ”

The next opponent is the Lakers, and Qiao Hai must also be serious.

Playing the Spurs, seven big battles, Qiao Hai's hole cards have been used up, and he has to think of some other ways to play the Lakers next.

Fortunately, playing the Spurs is completely different from playing the Lakers, so the Grizzlies will also offer different playing styles, and everything will have to start all over again.

In the infield of the stadium, the players started training again.

After the tie-break in the Western Conference semifinals, the Grizzlies didn't have much time to rest, and it was the first game of the Western Finals two days later, so time was pressing, Qiao Hai didn't give the players time to rest, and started training on the first day after the game.

Of course, it's also restorative training, as long as you can maintain your condition.

After arranging the training, the coaching staff gathered in the conference room and had a meeting.

There was no digression in this coaching staff meeting, and Qiao Hai directly prepared six video recordings, that is, the videos of the first six games of the Lakers and the Trail Blazers.

It took half a day to watch the videos of the two games, because Qiao Hai paused while watching, and if there was anything important, Qiao Hai stopped and discussed.

I raised my hand and glanced at my watch, and it was already 12 o'clock.

"Okay, let's go eat first, and continue after eating."

At lunchtime, the team restaurant provided two meat dishes, steak and chicken, as well as vegetable salad, this kind of Western food Qiao Hai was a little unaccustomed to when he first came to the United States, but now he is used to it.

While eating and chatting, Lawrence Frank first asked: "Now, the point we need to discuss is very simple, how to lock up Kobe Bryant?" ”

In fact, after watching the two games, Qiao Hai and his coaching staff already had a general idea.

The Lakers' style of play is very simple, focusing on OK combinations, OK connections, and driving benches.

The games won by the Lakers were basically games in which all the OK combinations broke out.

Therefore, the Grizzlies' initial strategy is to lock Kobe Bryant, because O'Neal can't be locked up at all, and in the second game the Lakers lost, Kobe Bryant was caught and the Trail Blazers won.

"Infinite pinch......" Byron Scott suggests a very broad one.

Defensive coach Lionel Hollins thought for a moment: "We can play two-to-three defense and limit Kobe Bryant's singles. ”

The two-three defense is an idea, which can prevent Kobe's breakthrough, and at the same time is suitable for the Grizzlies to speed up, because the two-three defense focuses on the protection of rebounds, as long as they grab the rebounds, the Grizzlies can counterattack the fast attack.

Qiao Hai knocked on the table at this time, thought about it, and said: "The problem of two and three joint defense is not small, don't forget, Kobe Bryant is a master of mid-range shooting, playing two or three joint defense, and the middle distance is a dead end, as long as Kobe Bryant stares at this point, our defense will soon collapse." ”

In a word, this idea of Hollins is rejected.

Qiao Hai continued: "Don't be busy thinking about a way yet, let's finish the remaining four games in the afternoon, and we'll summarize it later." ”

"Also, I might have to work overtime tonight to have the restaurant prepare dinner for the coaching staff."

After speaking, Qiao Hai swallowed the steak, hurriedly finished eating, and went to the infield of the stadium first, after lunch, the players would rest for an hour, Qiao Hai first went to arrange the afternoon training, and then returned to the conference room to continue to watch the remaining four videos.

In the first two games, the Lakers and the Trail Blazers drew 1:1, and in the next third and fourth games, the Lakers won two games in a row, expanding the total score to 3:1.

After watching these two games, Qiao Hai knew that everything they discussed in the morning had to be overturned.

Flanking Kobe? If you have the ability, you can clamp it, if you dare to clamp it, I will let Kobe pass the ball, as long as Kobe Bryant passes, the Lakers' overall offense will rise, so Phil Jackson is here waiting for all opponents who dare to pinch Kobe.

This change was immediately a two-game winning streak.

So, the Grizzlies obviously can't flank Kobe.

Looking at it again, in the fifth and sixth games, the Trail Blazers won two games in a row.

In these two games, the Trail Blazers adopted the defensive tactics of pinching O'Neal before and after and putting Kobe Bryant alone to play alone, winning two consecutive games.

In the final tie-break, Qiao Hai and they have all watched the live broadcast, the Trail Blazers adhered to the defensive strategy of two consecutive wins, and finally the Lakers won the game by relying on the outburst of Kobe Bryant and role players.

After watching the six games, it was already late at night.

Because everyone watched it very seriously, they forgot about dinner, and after watching all six games, Qiao Hai beckoned everyone to go to supper.

This time, we were still chatting while eating.

"In fact, the Trail Blazers played well, with two wins and one loss in the last three games, and the game they lost ended up losing by 5 points, so we can learn from the Trail Blazers, hit the big sharks back and forth, and let Kobe Bryant play."

That's Lawrence Frank's advice.

Qiao Hai was still hesitating.

The Lakers are strong here, a strong point on the inside, and the single defense will definitely not be able to prevent it, even if it is a front and back attack, it can only be limited. There is another strong point on the outside, and the single defense must not be able to prevent it, and in the same way, even if it is a pinch attack, it can only be limited.

The two strong points, even if it is a grizzly bear, can only limit one, and the other can only be single-handed.

After hesitating for a while, Qiao Hai made a decision: "Then let's do it, tomorrow I will start practicing the front and back pinch defense, so that Tracy can maintain his condition, this series, he is the key ......"

Qiao Hai already had a preliminary idea, and flanked O'Neill back and forth to restrain O'Neal.

The big shark is unpreventable, but there is nothing wrong with the restrictions, in the previous life, when the OK combination wreaked havoc on the American professional basketball, O'Neal in the finals was invincible, because the teams in the East generally did not have a strong interior line, and they could not effectively limit O'Neal.

It's a different story in the West, with the Spurs having twin towers, the Trail Blazers having Sabonis and Rasheed Wallace, the Kings who came close to beating the Lakers in the playoffs, and a blue-collar Pollard off the bench who can stand up to O'Neal.

The Grizzlies don't have any players who can kill O'Neal, but the Grizzlies have more than enough meat shields on the inside.

Brad Miller, Rasian Nestrovich, roughly, and Lloyott on the bench, four inside lines came in turns, enough for O'Neal to eat a pot.

As for Kobe, Qiao Hai's idea is to let Maddie and Kobe Bryant fight against each other...... It's kind of a different exchange.