Chapter 145: The Opening
In the away dressing room, Phil Jackson was saying something.
How to play the Grizzlies, Phil Jackson said a day ago, it's very simple, AC Green starts, pulls to the outside to guard Brad Miller, O'Neal sits in the restricted area, Scott Pippen sweeps the mid-range, and Kobe Bryant stares at Maddy.
The above is the style of play on the defensive end, and Phil Jackson subconsciously ignored Sharif Abdulahim, and it is clear that this neglect will cost Phil Jackson.
On the offensive end, it is still the same style of play that Joe Hai played last season, Scott Pippen controlled the rhythm and distributed the ball, O'Neal was the main attacker, and Kobe Bryant was the auxiliary attacker.
Find opportunities to play one-on-one singles with a triangle attack.
So, in terms of tactics, Phil Jackson really has nothing to say, he is now emphasizing that he can't underestimate the enemy, he said: "Although the Grizzlies are weak, you can't treat it as a bad team, they just beat the Trail Blazers, although it was an upset, but it means that the Grizzlies beat us, and there is a chance to cause an upset, so we can't underestimate the enemy......"
Phil Jackson emphasized that he could not be underestimated, but the Lakers players on the floor had different mentalities.
Kobe Bryant agrees with Phil Jackson's statement, Shaquille O'Neal is the same, and the Lakers' veteran players all agree with Phil Jackson's statement, because of Qiao Hai, they feel that Qiao Hai's team, even if it is bad, is not far behind, so if the Lakers want to win this game, they must not underestimate the enemy.
The new players don't think so, AC Green doesn't think so, he doesn't think that playing a team like the Grizzlies, he still has to be careful, AC Green is the starter in this game, his task is to defend Brad Miller, AC Green has long made a promise that he will prevent Brad Miller.
However, AC Green doesn't think killing Brad Miller is a tough task.
Therefore, when the game started, AC Green's sentiment of underestimating the enemy slowly spread.
The game started on time at seven o'clock, before the game began, Qiao Hai also hugged Kobe Bryant, Kobe Bryant ushered in a huge improvement in Qiao Hai's hands last season, Qiao Hai threw the scout system on Kobe, and found that now Kobe's total rating has come to 91 points.
And Kobe's potential value is as high as 98, which means that there is still 7 points left to reach the total score, and Kobe Bryant will reach his peak, and now Kobe Bryant is close to his peak.
Qiao Hai glanced at Scott Pippen's total rating again, last season, Scott Pippen returned to the top, but the twilight effect of a season of gods has ended, Qiao Hai took a look, and sure enough, Scott Pippen's total rating has dropped significantly, and there are only 73 points left.
Seeing it this way, Qiao Hai had an idea again.
On the field, the game has begun.
Brad Miller and O'Neal jumped the ball, and the Grizzlies won the opening ball.
In this game, the Grizzlies started the same game as in the previous game, point guard Mike Bibby, scoring guard Maddy, small forward Sammark, power forward Raheem and center Brad Miller.
Brad Miller responded high, Maddy cut to the ball, Scott Pippen rushed directly to the pinch, although Pippen's total rating fell quickly, but the experience on the defensive end is still there, so his supplementary defense is very timely, and he locked the mid-range position at the beginning.
Off the court, Phil Jackson is satisfied, but the problem is that the Grizzlies' main offense has changed!
Maddie cut into the air, attracted the defense, directly distributed the ball to the low post, and accelerated around himself, taking the defense away by the way.
Raheem on the inside line directly singled O'Neal, relying on his range advantage and footsteps, Rahim turned around and hit the basket with a big hook!
Ball in! Two points in hand!
Raheem scored, Maddie picked up an assist.
At the beginning, the Grizzlies' offense was successful, but Phil Jackson hadn't reacted yet, he only felt that the Grizzlies' offense still relied on Maddy's air cut, and as for Maddy's ball, Phil Jackson didn't care at all.
The Lakers' offense, Kobe Bryant singled out Maddy, and under the full defense, Maddy's defense was still very good, and it happened that Maddy didn't have too many offensive tasks in this game, so he put all his attention on the defensive end.
As a result, Kobe Bryant's single shot failed to break through Maddy's defense at all, and in desperation, Kobe Bryant could only pass the ball.
O'Neal received the ball, hit it hard inside, turned around, squeezed Brad Miller, and scored a dunk.
2:2, the Grizzlies and Lakers opened to a draw.
Immediately after, the Grizzlies attacked.
It's still the same style of play, Maddie cut in the air, the Lakers blocked, but this time Brad Miller didn't give the ball, but waited for a hand, and after Madilla was in the air, Brad Miller passed the ball directly to the middle distance, Raheem took the ball in the middle distance, O'Neal was still in the penalty area, in the face of such an opportunity, Raheem was not soft, and directly made a jump shot, and scored 2 points.
With four points in a row, Raheem is in good shape.
However, the problem also arose, the Grizzlies couldn't prevent the Lakers' offense, and they were scored by the Lakers again, this time the score was O'Neal, and the inside hook hit a small hook, 4:4 draw.
Then, the two sides took turns to play iron, the Grizzlies attacked and played iron, in fact, they had already run out of the opportunity, Maddy cut the ball in the air, gave Rahim, slipped the baseline and received Rahim's return pass, turned around and made a layup directly, but it was a little shorter and didn't go in directly.
The rebounds were protected by the Lakers, and Scott Pippen was going to push the fast break when he got the ball, which was exactly what the Lakers played last season.
Triangle offense, if there is a fast attack, play a fast attack, this Phil Jackson has not changed at all, and directly uses Qiao Hai's mature tactical system.
Qiao Hai was also a little speechless, he saw Phil Jackson's thoughts, Phil Jackson had just taken over the Lakers, in order to maintain the stability of the results, he chose not to change Qiao Hai's tactics, but in training, Phil Jackson was still changing, and he made many changes to Qiao Hai's triangle offense, making the new triangle offense more Phil Jackson characteristics.
Therefore, the current Lakers are actually still Qiao Hai's Lakers, and Phil Jackson's transformation of the Lakers continues, and no one knows when the transformation will be successful.
The Lakers are fast attacking, but Scott Pippen is obviously not as fast as last season, he passed the ball to Kobe, and the result was a direct pass, Kobe hurriedly took two steps to catch the ball, turned around and shot, at this time there was not much room to shoot, against Maddy's defense, the ball did not score.
The rebound was taken by Sammark, who was close behind, and Mike Bibby regained possession of the ball, and the Grizzlies continued their positional battle.
It's still the same old thing, Brad Miller responded with a high position, Maddy cut in the air, the Lakers also continued to block the mid-range position, Raheem got the ball in the low post again, O'Neal flew over, Raheem did not hesitate, and passed directly to the bottom corner of the other side, and Sammark made a three-point shot.
Bang!
A crisp sound of wiping the net sounded, 7:4, and the grizzly bear took the lead!
In four consecutive offensive rounds, Raheem took the ball, scored twice in singles, passed the ball twice, Rao is Phil Jackson's slow reaction, and at this time, it can also be seen that the Grizzlies' offensive focus has shifted to the interior, and such a change directly caught the Lakers off guard.
At 7:4 in the opening game, if Phil Jackson doesn't make changes, then the Grizzlies' opening offense will be alive.
After a moment's hesitation, Phil Jackson still didn't call a timeout.
Phil Jackson has always been known for not calling timeouts, which is his strength, but more often than not, it is also Phil Jackson's weakness, like now.
Because Phil Jackson didn't call a timeout, and the low-post vacancy was obvious enough, the Lakers players on the court adjusted on their own.
After a few rounds, AC Green, who defended Brad Miller, found that the stupid big man he was defending was a center who liked to avoid confrontations and hide in the high post to direct passes, so he defended and guarded, and AC Green was underestimated.
It just so happened that the Lakers also needed a defensive player to fill the vacancy in the low post, so AC Green took it upon himself to fill the vacancy in the low post.
As a result, in the next wave of Grizzlies offense, Brad Miller got the ball and was just about to pass, but found that there was no defender in front of him.
So, he remembered Qiao Hai's pre-game set-up, as well as another set of Princeton tactics.
Seeing that Maddy cut in without the ball, Brad Miller did not pass, and when the middle was empty, Brad Miller directly dribbled two steps and rushed in.
O'Neal in the restricted area was stunned and found that Brad Miller was unguarded and kept approaching the basket, and he had no choice but to save himself.
As a result, O'Neal pounced, but Brad Miller passed the ball, directly behind O'Neal, and Mike Bibby appeared there, caught the ball on the empty basket, and easily hit the ball!
Then, AC Green suffered, O'Neal turned around and sprayed AC Green a few words, meaning: Guard against your own people, don't fill in the position casually!
Qiao Hai sat on the sidelines and watched happily, at the beginning, his goal had been achieved, the Lakers were indeed caught off guard, and then it was up to Phil Jackson to adjust.