Chapter 193: This is the rhythm of withdrawing from the group
SuperSonics starters: Gary Payton 92 (-1), Jose Hawkins 82 (-2), Schramf 82 (-2), Sean Camp 89 (+2), Elvin Johnson 72 (-1). Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Lakers starters: Van Exels 84 (+0), Cebaros 86 (+1), Zhang Mao 89 (+2), Magic 84 (+0), Eldon Campbell 82 (+0)
Zhang Mao specially checked the ability values of the players on both sides today, and found that in the comparison of the main lineup, the Lakers have to occupy some advantages, at least their starting five are more balanced in ability, and it doesn't seem to have much shortcoming.
However, he also knows that such a comprehensive ability does not fully reflect the level of a player, for example, although the Magician's ability value is as high as 84, but this number is pulled up by the values of ball control, ball sense, and ball quotient, if you only look at the defense, and the attributes of athleticism, they are actually very low, these defects make the role of the Magic in the game may not be as big as on paper, and it is easier to be restricted.
Zhang also took a look at the attributes of the main bench players of the two teams - on the Lakers side: Finley 79 (+0), Bison Dele 79 (+0), Malik Healy 76 (+0), Derrick Strong 72 (+1); Supersonic: Sam Perkins 83 (+0), McMillan 78 (+0), Brickkowski 75 (+1), Vincent 72 (+0).
If you only look at the ability value of the main players of the two teams, the Lakers are not inferior to the supersonics, especially the attributes of the main lineup are very good-looking, even the most vegetable Campbell has an ability value of 82, plus most of the supersonic players are not in shape, even if they are away, the Lakers should be able to kill the supersonics.
Zhang Yu also thinks so, he is in a burst of state now, and his ability value of up to 91 is a full 11 points higher than Schramf's, and the difference between the two is two levels, and this time he won't be completely exploded?!
However, the first offensive power has nothing to do with the Lakers, Campbell's bouncing arm span is not bad, but there are too many interior lines with outstanding athleticism in this era, especially the strong teams basically have high-quality interior longs, Campbell can only be regarded as an interior line used by strong teams in this era.
The first attack of the SuperSonics gave the Lakers a dismount, George Karl did not let the team test first, he asked the team to go all out from the first second before the game, this is to bully the Lakers to rest for many days, and the SuperSonics are still in the excitement of grabbing the seven battles the day before yesterday, they can find a way to turn the disadvantage into an advantage.
The Lakers are originally a slow-heating team, and Kemp easily passed the Magic with bad legs and feet on his first offense, and when he hit the basket, it was a powerful dunk!
Although there were two or three thousand yellow faces mixed in today, for a large arena that can accommodate 17,000 spectators, these Asians and Chinese Americans can at most hear a little cheer after a wonderful performance.
Camp slammed the Magician on the chest after the violent dunk to provoke, he felt that he could beat the Magician, this fat and old guy could not defend himself, even if he was replaced by Campbell to defend it, he felt that he was full of power today, and he could definitely blow up the Lakers' interior line.
There are people on both teams who feel like they can blow up their opponents, and it seems that Kemp is feeling a little more accurate at the moment, he is the only player in the SuperSonics team who showed an uptick in form today, and after the last round of frustrating games full of foul threats, Kemp seems to have found a way to avoid getting himself into too many fouls in the frustration, and finally has a bit of energy to open up.
The SuperSonics opened with the main attack on Kemp, and the Lakers used Campbell to defend and let the two Elvin Johnsons go to the opposite position, but they still couldn't stop the confidence of Kemp.
After Kemp got his hands on the ground, he not only missed the Lakers' first three offenses on the defensive end, but also scored points in three different ways on the offensive end in a row - the first was a dunk after the frame break, the second was a turnaround jumper, and the third was a mid-range two-point jumper.
This guy who is just a blue-collar interior in the eyes of the Lakers actually played the feeling of David Robinson on them?!
"That's a bit too much!"
Zhang Fu has not been able to recover from the pre-game pretense after the opening, and in the blink of an eye, he found that the team was 0:6 behind, which made him a little calm, and the team's fourth offense he had to come by himself, and the Lakers had to score a point first.
But until then, the ball is in the hands of the supersonics, and they have to defend it once before attacking.
The Lakers' defense focused on Camp this time, and unaware that Hawkins sneaked to the restricted area, received Schramf's quick pass, and easily scored the ball under the basket, which made the score 8:0.
Harris finally stood up and asked for a timeout, the Lakers players were too slow to get into the state, this time the defense was thinking that they were all standing on the pile, and they didn't react when they were touched in the hinterland, so it was not only an 8:0 problem to play like this.
"I know you've had too much rest, but this is the Western Conference Finals, you have to get yourself up right away, and you have to focus on the game, and we don't have the capital to let the opponent lead by more than a dozen points before catching up."
Harris has no tactical issues to adjust, and the Lakers' opening problem is that they are physically out of game, as long as they get them into the game as soon as possible. But this time can't be too long, they really don't have the capital to catch up by more than a dozen points, and the opponent is not an ordinary team, the SuperSonics have been pressing them in the regular season, and today is still the opponent's home field, if they fall too far behind in the opening stage, it will be difficult to catch up later.
After the game restarted, the SuperSonics showed their strong defensive ability again, and the Lakers became very difficult in the transfer of basketball, Zhang Yu finally received the basketball, and the offensive time was only 13 seconds, which was still the result of their serve in the front court, which shows the pressure of the SuperSonics in defense.
The supersonic defense has some similarities with the Bulls, but they rely more on the interior defense, because they have such a monster-like existence as Kemp on the inside, and the outside players can be more comfortable and bold to carry out close pressing, even if they leak people, Kemp will wipe their butts for them.
The Lakers players all pulled outside the three-point line in this round, trying to clear the defense under the basket for Zhang and give him plenty of space to play alone.
But Kemp stepped on the free throw line and didn't go out, a position that could have been judged "illegal defense" in previous seasons, but this year the referee will not blow a penalty for this level of violation, as long as he doesn't shrink his body all the way to the free throw line, and move half of his body outside the free throw line.
But don't underestimate the difference between this step and a half, for an inside line like Kemp, who is mobile against the sky, this step can increase the difficulty of Zhang Fu's breakthrough by more than three percent.
Schramf still can't hold Zhang Zhu, but unlike if he can't prevent it in the regular season, the Germans in the playoffs will do their best to make trouble for him even if they can't prevent Zhang Zhu, even if they can only make Zhang Qiu slow down by a few tenths of a second, maybe they can make Camper come back and interfere with the shooting.
Yes, the word "interference" should be emphasized, and Kemp's defense is not for blocking, but for "interference". From the beginning, he wasn't going to block Zhang's shots, and today all his defenses will be for interference, as are the other SuperSonics, who just need to make Zhang's scoring efficiency less efficient.
This is actually the tactics of the Spurs in the first game of the last round, but the Spurs do not have a defensive interior like Kemp, although Slamf can't prevent Zhang Mao, but he is at least better than Elliott and Harvey Grant in the first two rounds, it is these two small differences that make Zhang Mao get rid of Schramf and encounter Kemp's block, forcing him to use a lever under the basket to dodge, and the result is that today's first shot missed due to the increased difficulty of shooting.
Johnson got the rebound, Payton received the pass, and immediately accelerated to launch a fast break, which was still bullying the Lakers for slow heat.
Zhang Qi was still clapping his hands and regretting his layup, he felt that this ball should be able to go up, but even he was tense after the opening, and his shot was a little bit less meaningful.
The supersonic fast break has reached the front court at this time, and by the time the Lakers players reacted, the two supersonic guards had already entered the attack position first, and Hawkins, who was only 191cm tall, gave full play to his speed advantage, and scored a layup again after receiving Payton's ball, and the stronger Cebaros behind him could not keep up with the pace of this small man.
"Oh no, we seem to have made our opponent an advantage!"
Zhang Fu also found out that something was wrong, the supersonic wanted to fight quickly, using the home advantage and the advantage of the fighting state to take the lead, as long as they were blinded at the beginning, the state of the Lakers would be more difficult to excite, but the supersonic would be loud, and the first half would end the battle.
This kind of critical moment, of course, is when he, the star of the house, stands up to save the team, but unfortunately Schramf's entanglement coupled with Kemp's supplementary defense, as well as his own hand problems, the next three consecutive strong attacks did not succeed, the Lakers are equivalent to missing 6 shots in the opening game, but the SuperSonics are 6 shots in the opening game, and the score quickly came to 12:0.
Harris had to call another short timeout, replacing the Magic who was treated as air on the defensive end with Bisson, and then brought on the two-time leaky Sebaros for the nimble Malik, in an attempt to limit two-way defender Jose Hawkins.
The SuperSonics played too much after the opening of the game, and the 12 points on the scoreboard were all scored by these two people, one scored 8 points, and the other scored 4 points, and the SuperSonics used these two points to blow up the Lakers.
As for the embarrassment of not scoring points on the offensive end, Harris can't solve it.
It's not that the Lakers can't create offensive opportunities, but they can't shoot after the opportunity comes out, Zhang Fu has already brushed the basket twice, which is not a problem that he can solve as a coach, their top priority is to guard against the supersonic for a few rounds first, otherwise they will really be taken away by a wave.
But this timeout was useless, the Lakers only hit 1 of the first 9 shots, or Zhang Yu walked shit luck to pick up the frontcourt rebound and score a goal, and the Lakers basically failed to shoot the ball into the basket in the sports war and positional battle.
At 6:02 in the first quarter, the Lakers scored two more points through free throws, and the score had reached 17:4, and the Lakers trailed by 13 points.
Fortunately, the SuperSonics were also somewhat hampered on the offensive end after the Lakers called two timeouts in a row, otherwise the difference would not have been more than 13 points.
George Carr did not wait for the situation to be bad before he changed, today he has always had a strong sense of crisis in his heart, don't look at the supersonic start advantage, but their physical disadvantage has always existed, once the first half can not crush the Lakers' fighting spirit, a dozen points of lead is not safe.
The Lakers are not good at stubble, they have been trying to find ways to consolidate their defense, the purpose is to hold on to this period of headwinds, even if they fall behind by a big score, they can't be beaten to collapse, as long as they are not stretched by the supersonic to more than 20 points, they have a chance to turn around, and now it is a period of patience for the Lakers that must be stabilized.
The SuperSonics replaced the all-around interior Sam Perkins with Johnson, who could only defend, and continued to attack the Lakers in the hope of extending the lead.
Sam Perkins has been effective this season, hitting a three-pointer on the court, which hurts the Lakers, and an interior player like this who can shoot three-pointers is really an outlier, and there were very few such guys in the 90s.
The Lakers still couldn't find a good way to score, and under the strong defense of the SuperSonics, they couldn't organize a smooth offense, which was something the Lakers hardly encountered in the second half of the season.
Although Van Exel does not have real all-star strength, he is definitely capable of being the main point guard of the top team, but today he is rarely even stable with the ball.
The Lakers point guard himself is also embarrassed, this is the first time he wants to take the initiative to hand the ball to Zhang Qian as quickly as possible, because the pressure brought to him by Payton in front of him is too much, today he was firmly locked by the newly released DPOY, and he can't even turn a wave, from here you can see how rare it is for Stockton to break out in the last two games of the last round against Payton.
Some commentators began to discuss, why didn't the Lakers use Magic to change the dilemma on the offensive end?
Van Exel's defense was unable to organize an effective offense under Payton's defense, and the Lakers' offense was basically organized by Zhang Mao alone, but his teammates were separated by the supersonics, and he passed to no one who had the ability to continue to attack with the ball, so he could only take the ball and charge.
Zhang Qiu's strong burst can still divide the ball, but his teammates can't shoot it without a good chance, and he can't throw it himself, which falls into an unsolvable dilemma, and now only by changing the magic can he help Zhang Qian share the organizational tasks, so that he can concentrate more on the offense and take the opportunity to revitalize the offense of the Lakers.
Harris certainly knows that switching to Magic will allow the team to create more scoring opportunities, but the problem is that Magic's defense will also allow the SuperSonics to score more.
The Lakers have not been taken away by the supersonic wave for a while, because they have stabilized their defense, so they can survive for a while.
The most important thing is that the Lakers can't shoot even if they create offensive opportunities, their problem lies in the feel, otherwise Zhang Zhu's sudden score can have some effect, at this time, weighing the pros and cons, of course, he must first ensure that he is not blown up.
Now what he expects in his heart is that Zhang Fu will recover his hand as soon as possible, and the predicament at the moment can only be broken by the personal ability of the superstar, as long as Zhang Fu can continue to score by his personal ability, everything will be easy as soon as the team's morale rises.
The Lakers just don't have anyone to step up and lead the team, they need someone to take the lead in breaking the deadlock, they need a savior.
Of course, Zhang Yu knew what his responsibility was, and this savior could only be his own, so he no longer bothered about his hit rate and began to strengthen his personal shots.
Before this, Zhang Wei was most concerned about how many points he could get from an average shot, but the current situation forced him to use a large number of shots to get points, and he couldn't pay attention to efficiency anymore, as long as he could score.
At 4:09 in the first quarter, Zhang finally broke through Kemp's defense with a slightly ugly throw after handing over a pit dad shooting percentage of 1 of 6 shots and scored two valuable points for the Lakers.
But to the frustration of the Lakers players, Camp turned his head and actually pressed Campbell with a hook to complete the goal.
"Is there any mistake, this thing actually hooks hands?"
Lakers players said it was incredible, today's camp really looks like a "general" possessed, as if any offensive weapon can be used, and it can be used to enter.
The "Key Arena" was boiling again, with SuperSonics fans shouting Kemp's nickname, a hook that was his 10th in the first quarter, and Kemp's contribution on the defensive end was evident, with Zhang taking at least half of the credit for shooting 2-of-7 from the field.
"How can this bastard be so strong?"
Zhang Qi is also a little incomprehensible, isn't this a superb blue-collar worker? When did even blue-collar workers have such versatility on the offensive end?
This is what he doesn't know about Kemp, in addition to the explosion of physical talent, this guy's ball sense and technique are definitely outstanding among interior players, but he is too lazy and lustful, and there is no system to help him train in his sleep, and the ball quotient is not high enough, so that he has a skill but can't use it, followed by a lack of training that leads to insufficient skills, and he is always ineffective.
To put it bluntly, Kemp is a player with great talent but not hard work, so it took him six years to stabilize his attack. In fact, with his talent, as long as he can have an average of upper to average effort, it is not difficult to become a top power forward with an average of 25+12 per game.
Although Zhang Fu regained some touch at the end of the first quarter, it was still too far from the momentum that Harris expected, because the supersonic camp was also constantly scoring, and the Lakers couldn't play the scoring tide at all.
At the same time, because of the explosion of Kemp's state, the Lakers did not dare to use Magic, otherwise the exploding Kemp was afraid that he would go to heaven, which made it difficult for the Lakers to play the smooth offense of the past on the offensive end, and they could only rely on Zhang Yu to attack alone, which was extremely inefficient.
Zhang Zhu played the first quarter and finally found some form in the last 1 minute and 30 seconds, and it can also be said that he had saved enough character, using a three-pointer and a lucky stepback two points to help the Lakers freeze the score at 15:32, but the 17-point deficit was only one step away from being broken.
The Lakers relied on Zhang Fu, who was not in good shape, to score in the first quarter, and 9 of the 15 points they scored were contributed by Zhang Fu, but these 9 points took a full 10 shots, which is not only inefficient, but also seems to be inefficient at all.
Zhang Qi also felt that it was not good to continue to fight like this, and if he continued to develop at this pace, wouldn't he have to make 40 shots in the whole game? And with so many shots, he may not get 40 points in the end, and he is afraid that he will have to withdraw from the group after the game, O'Neal has to laugh and pee!