Chapter 174: Outwitting Wharton
The largest margin of victory in NBA history was 34 points on November 27, 1996, when the Salt Lake City Jazz played against the Denver Nuggets. The last 30-point reversal has to be traced back to the Lakers vs. Mavericks in 02, if Zhang Feng can lead the Kings to win this game, then their reversal record is second, just thinking about it is exciting.
But there is no team or player who wants to be nailed to the pillar of shame in history, and the Lakers have also had a 24-lead lead in the 08 Finals and were overturned, and they can't add another "record" that was overturned.
At this time, the Lakers will be around Walton, they have not had time to accept, although they are still 16 points ahead, but their momentum has been completely broken, and they all have solemn faces, as if they have lost.
"Take it easy, although they are very aggressive, but we are still ahead, don't keep a straight face, grow others' morale, and extinguish your own breeze" Wharton continued to clap vigorously and shout to cheer up the Lakers, and then took out the tactical board and continued: "In the NBA game, the key to winning the reversal is to score continuously, and the opponent has made many mistakes or misses, what we need to do now is to reduce the speed, stabilize the position, don't get into their rhythm, score our improved ball, prevent it, don't be frustrated if you can't prevent it, Got it? โใ
The Lakers have a lot of young players, and emotions come and go quickly, and as soon as Wharton said this, they all quickly understood that basketball is a scoring game after all, as long as they can score, it will not be so easy to lose the game.
In the TNT live broadcast room, O'Neal, who was extremely excited, was twisting his body left and right with the music, and kept snapping his fingers, chanting words in his mouth: "It's overturned, it's definitely overturned, I've already thought about the five embarrassments of the week, just intercept the blank eyes of the Lakers after losing the game later."
"It's too early to talk about victory, as long as the Lakers breathe this breath, the Kings will be difficult to play, and 16 points is still a big gap" Barkley has not been affected by O'Neal, and is still rationally analyzing the format of the game.
"Do you know the root cause of my and your different views on Zhang Feng's future achievements?" O'Neill said coldly.
Barkley didn't know why, and asked tentatively, "Then what do you say?" โใ
O'Neal stopped swaying, sat upright, and said seriously: "You always think that playing basketball needs to be reasonable, just like you think that the Warriors can't win the championship by shooting from the outside, but many times basketball games are unreasonable, is it reasonable for Kobe Bryant to always play 1 to 3?" Is it reasonable for James to have a chance and still pass the ball? Is it reasonable for Curry to shoot threes from afar? Of course, not only you, but many other people feel that their playing style is unreasonable, but they have all achieved great results, and Zhang Feng is the same, he is not a reasonable person, he will try as long as he thinks it is possible, so I boldly predict that in the next game, Zhang Feng will shoot three points crazily, and 16 points is not a problem."
Barkley was choked by this call, Kenny quickly said: "I think you all think too much, basketball is about scoring, as long as you can score, it is justice, there is nothing reasonable and unreasonable, Curry has won the championship by relying on ultra-long three-pointers, and he has lost the championship because of the pass from behind, many things have no law to be found, let's watch the game seriously!" โ
When the game resumes and the Lakers are on the court, it will be significantly easier. Caruso was unhurried with the ball and waited for Kuzma to walk up to him before he chose to hand it over. What's even more bizarre is that after Kuzma got the ball, he deliberately lowered his speed and slowly swayed on the outside, waiting for his teammates to run and pull out space, and he tried to make this attack as easy as possible.
Kuzma had possession of the ball for at least 10 seconds, and the Lakers players didn't throw a good position, so he had to signal for Lopez to step forward and block the pick-and-roll.
Lopez is tall, which has a great impact on Justin, in order to prevent Kuzma from shooting, Papa hurriedly made up for it, so that a large piece of the inside line was directly vacated, and Caruso immediately accelerated to cut the inside line.
Zhang Feng knew this tactic well, and Caruso obviously wanted to bring Zhang Feng inside, so Kuzma had two ways to deal with the attack. First, Zhang Feng follows up the inside, Kuzma directly finds a place to shoot, but if Zhang Feng does not follow up the inside, Kuzma directly passes the ball to Caruso who runs to the inside.
This situation is like chocolate-flavored stool and stool-flavored chocolate, no matter which one you choose, it is like eating stool.
But Zhang Feng didn't choose either, he gave up following the defense and Caruso, and instead pounced on Kuzma, and at the same time signaled Justin to kill the inside line and Papa to stick to the defense of Lopez.
The situation turned abruptly, Kuzma went from multiple options to none, and with only five seconds left on the offensive time, he anxiously gave the ball to Lopes and ran inside, hoping to play an inside and outside combination.
Unexpectedly, nearby Bogdan chose to help defend Lรณpez, and Lopes hastily fed the ball to Van der Bruo, who made a hasty shot and hit the final three points.
"It's okay, this offensive handling is not bad, keep it up" Wharton clapped his hands on the sidelines, he didn't want the morale of the newly boosted players to drop because of the lack of offensive achievements, and his implication was to let the team continue to slow down and look for opportunities.
In order to ensure that everything went well, Zhang Feng went directly to the sideline to receive Bogdan's pass, and then shook off Caruso, who was close to him, and flew to the front court.
With a good pressing tactic, it was so easily broken, and Wharton could only rely on continuous deep breaths to suppress his anger and shout to return to defense.
Time is money, even if there were Kuzma and Randle standing in front of Zhang Feng at this time, he still chose to force a jump shot, Randle's head was hot, and he naturally reacted to pounce, but the ball did not go in, the referee signaled Randle to foul, and Zhang Feng made three free throws.
If you say that you can prevent it, you can prevent it, but if you can't prevent it, forget it? Wharton had a big headache, what happened to Zhang Feng to shoot at such a distance? Why did Randall have to cover it with his hands.?
With a smile, Zhang Feng walked to the free throw line, hit the first free throw easily, blew the whistle, and still hit the second free throw, just when the referee signaled that the third free throw was available, Zhang Feng beckoned to David to pause, David did not hesitate, and directly signaled the referee to suspend the game.
When he got off the court, Wharton still said a few words of encouragement, and then began to talk about tactical analysis, "The king's timeout may be to play a full-court press immediately, and leave a few more people in the backcourt later." Also, if Zhang Feng doesn't make a free throw, we grab the rebound, and still slow down to play a positional point battle, but if they grab the rebound and stare at Zhang Feng first, don't care about the others, and can't let him shoot three points", the Lakers will nod their heads to show understanding.
On the king's side, Zhang Feng pulled his teammates together and said in a low voice: "Have you seen the video of Yao Ming deliberately missing a free throw, throwing himself and grabbing himself, and then passing to Port Als to shoot three points?" โใ
"You want to do that? That requires a high level of technology," Randolph was slightly shocked.
Zhang Feng nodded silently, and Bogdan said confidently: "I'll cooperate with you, as long as you can take back the basketball, I can shoot three points."