Chapter 398: The Great War (6)
"Wow, that's great, another great pass, the Runners guard played with everyone on the Lakers, and when everyone thought the ball was going to be passed to the basket, he passed the ball to the bottom corner in such a weird way."
On North American Sports News Network's daily live broadcast, host Sals is praising the Runners for an attack just before the end of the second quarter.
Turgun was re-sent by Wang Lei at the end of the second quarter, and it was Ervin Butler who played with Turgun at this time.
Compared to John Claes, Elvin Butler is not as physically as good as his opponent, but he gives Turgun more passing options on the field.
After a period of hard work, Erwin's high-shot shooting has achieved good results, and although it is not stable, it can already be regarded as his regular weapon.
So with Ervin Butler, Turgun has more options, and with the fact that the Runners have pitchers such as Salish and Stephen Chambers on the court at this time, it can be said that Turgun has a lot of passing lines to choose from even if he is pressed by the opponent to defend.
The attack just now was that Turgun used Erwin's cover to get rid of it, and then first faked to make a pass to Erwin who was going down the inside, and then Turgun took back the ball that looked like it was going to pass during the march, and then stabbed it lightly with his left hand, and the ball was passed to Salish in the bottom right corner, and in the face of an empty defense, Salehi easily hit a three-pointer, and the difference between the two sides returned to eight points.
In the second half of the second quarter, the two sides played evenly matched, but from the perspective of the court, it was undoubtedly the Runners who played more fluently, and the Lakers' offense was more of a secondary offense under the basket or the individual play of the star.
It's not that there's a problem with the Lakers' style of play, it's that they're confined to the thinking of the entire era.
Compared with the earth's time and space, the authority of this time and space is really the authority, and many NBA team coaches and managers are old stars who played in the league back then, and these old stars always miss their own scenery back then, instilling their own style of play to young people, emphasizing that a team needs tough guys to be called a strong team.
So the result now is that the whole league is playing a kind of basketball that doesn't please most of the audience, and of course there may be some people who like iron-blooded defense and tough confrontation, but if you like both, then it's better to go straight to the UFC.
And a considerable part of the general audience is willing to watch the wonderful goals and excellent coordination, as for the result of the game, probably only the fans in the location of the team will pay attention.
Like Sals Olowokandi, the host of the North American Sports News Network, he can be regarded as a basketball practitioner, but in his eyes, the Runners and Lakers play is undoubtedly the former that he likes more.
Fluency is actually a very abstract concept, but people of all races and civilizations are generally attracted to things with this concept.
What Wang Lei is doing now is to make the Runners have this kind of fluid characteristics, whether it is a fast attack or a slow down positional battle, the Runners are making changes that are different from the current teams in the league.
Next, the Lakers' offense is still more difficult, as soon as Stelle Carter catches the ball inside, the Runners will immediately take the pack, Jack Williams is directly empty, this strong rough man as long as the shooting rate is more than three meters, the shooting rate will not exceed 40%, so the Runners can arbitrarily pack Sterry.
Sterry had to get the ball to the perimeter in the face of the bag, and he didn't want to continue to walk to the free throw line, and although he was barely getting through the free-throw percentage right now, he was still a little shadowy.
Outside Charles Mobley received the ball and attacked Turgon, intending to take advantage of Turgon's physical deficiencies that had not yet recovered.
However, Turgun was very smart and made a steal directly, forcing Mobley to change direction, and at this time Salish's supplementary defense was in place, and the role of joint defense was played.
The Lakers' final attack of the second quarter finally relied on Sterry's individual ability, and Mobley barely made a shot at 24 seconds, and Sterry dunked Mobley's missed shot directly into the basket.
The next offense of the Runners, the Lakers seemed to have succeeded in defending, and Turgon's pass was unexpectedly blocked by the Lakers players.
Originally, Turgun was going to pass the ball to Salehi, who slipped into the interior from the baseline, but he didn't expect that Jack Williams, the Lakers center who defended Ervin as a cover for Turgon, actually mixed garlic at his feet, and then Turgon's ball passed directly to Jack Williams who fell to the ground.
Jack Williams, who had no time to get up, was going to use the last few seconds to help his team launch a fast break, so he lay on the ground and tried his best to throw the ball forward.
However, what everyone present did not expect was that no one in the Lakers thought of running a fast attack, so the ball thrown by Jack Williams actually returned to the hands of Turgon, who had already run back to his own half.
With less than two seconds left, Turgun didn't have time to continue dribbling and threw the ball straight to the front court with both hands.
The red light was already on when the ball flew in the air, and in the exclamation of the Los Angeles audience, Turgon's seemingly random ball actually drilled into the basket accurately, and the Runners led the Lakers by nine points at halftime.
At half-time, the Lakers went from having the advantage at the beginning to falling behind by nine points now, which is not only something they didn't expect, but also something that many professionals didn't expect.
Looking at the lineups of the two teams, whether it is from the depth of the bench or the individual ability of the players, there is no doubt that the Lakers have an advantage, but the reality is that the Runners withstood the Lakers' offense, and at the same time played their own flexible characteristics.
In fact, these professionals, as well as the players and even coaches of the Lakers, have actually fallen into a deep misunderstanding, and they still treat the Runners as many previous league teams.
In fact, the Runners are different from all the teams in the league in the past, and they have a very different tactical ideology.
Wang Lei brought a new basketball concept to the Runners, and also brought players with different styles to the Runners, these players may not be able to compare with many players in the league alone, but under Wang Lei's system, these players can play their biggest characteristics and biggest advantages, which is the main reason why the Runners can become the first team in the league now.