Chapter 237: Why is it good to defend?

The Zen master said that he would make mistakes, and in the first quarter he replaced Randy Brown, who was not very well coordinated with the main lineup, in order to defend Kidd, which was obviously a bad decision. Although Kerr can't dribble, doesn't know how to pass the ball, and doesn't even look like a point guard, his erratic movement and league-leading three-point shooting percentage are the best pairs for Jordan and Skin.www.biquge.info And he replaced a point guard who could dribble, but couldn't shoot threes, and the result was what fans saw in the first quarter.

Rodman's presence today is not very strong, he is not without contributions in defense, at least he managed to let Kidd break in but not score points, but Kidd's ability to share the ball made Rodman eat a lot. Don't forget, if he wants to make up for it, he has to let go of Mason, a self-proclaimed interior player who is the best at passing the ball in the league, and doesn't take Kukoc seriously at all.

Mason did help the Lakers open up the game in the first quarter, and he now likes Kidd a little bit, who has better timing than Zhang Yi because he will give you plenty of room to play and won't pass the ball when you have a direct scoring opportunity, which allows Mason to use his ability to take the ball after receiving the ball, satisfying his desire to perform.

"He's pretty good, too."

This is how Mason felt after playing the first quarter, Kidd helped him lure away the haunted Rodman, so that he had enough space to play when receiving the ball, at this time, even if Rodman could catch back, he could only be bullied by his sideways, I believe that the green-haired monster should not feel very good now.

At this time, the camera was not given to Rodman, otherwise fans would have seen that the "big bug" classmate was always rubbing his muscles, and then grinning his teeth from time to time.

Mason is not only physically strong, but also the small movements of his body are extremely damaging, the key is that Rodman does not dare to be too arrogant in front of Mason, and he is not afraid to play small movements, but in the face of a real black and hard, Rodman's defense seems to be too low.

Rodman is sure that that guy has also eaten a lot of his plots, but the defense of the two determines that after receiving similar damage, he must have suffered a big loss!

What, you say the black hand?

Rodman really didn't dare to play like this, he didn't coax small moves, but against a villain like Mason, if you dare to hack him, you must first be prepared to be killed if you don't succeed.

Everyone knows that Mason is not just some evil guy who just talks about it, he really dares to abolish his opponent.

Rodman played too much, not only easy to burn, but also easy to hurt the pond fish, which is why he didn't dare to go too far.

In this kind of game, once someone is too out of line, both teams will start to play black, in case Jordan and Pippen have some accidents, the Bulls' dynasty can't afford to lose, and ten Rodmans can't afford to take this responsibility.

In fact, whether it is Mason or Rodman, they are like nuclear weapons, mainly acting as a deterrent, and basically will not take the initiative to use them, because they are afraid that the other party will retaliate against their own stars.

The beginning of the second quarter was the default rotation period, and the Lakers continued to put Kidd on the plate, and Harris said, "I'm just going to kill you with the No. 1 spot that you guys don't like!" ”

Lakers lineup: Kidd, Starks, Finley, Mason, Big Ben.

Starks was still resistant to playing with Kidd, and he always thought the other party had robbed him of his start.

Kidd is obviously a bit higher in terms of emotional intelligence, and although he knows that Starks is unhappy with him, he will still pass the ball to the opponent with a businesslike attitude. That's what he learned from the Maverick 3J, and through this, Kidd has grown a lot.

After all, the NBA is the top league on the planet, and it is rare to not pass the ball to each other on the court, and Starks has a step down, and he will not have to fight to the death with Kidd for the main identity, at most he will not talk off the court.

This kind of competition is there for every strong team, as long as there is competition, there will definitely be friction, and the competition within the NBA team is not small, but most of it is healthy competition, and if there is really no competition, it will suffer.

Kidd has been training very actively since coming to the Lakers, Starks wants to compete for the main team, and the training attitude is not bad, the competition between the two will only benefit the Lakers, because the core of the team is not them, no matter how much trouble the two have, they are always under the control of Zhang Mao and the coaching staff.

The Bulls' bench lineup is not bad, Kukchi is a player who can make Brother Pi jealous, the grievances between the two are now the template of Kidd and Starks, the difference is that the ability value of Kukoc has reached 86, and the ability value of Brother Pi 93 is basically supergiant, Kidd and Starks are not so strong at this stage.

Today, Kidd had to prove that he only had 83 stats, and Randy Brown was still defending him during this rotation, and as a result, Kidd scored 4 points in a row, forcing the Zen master to sit still.

Kukoc said "I'm not easy to mess with" and also used his European style on the offensive end to return the favor.

There is an interesting thing about this Bulls team, that is, as soon as Pippen goes, Kukoc's play can always make Chicago fans cheer, so when Kidd scored four points in a row to make the Zen master about to show a chicken hunting expression, Kukoc's three-pointer, plus a wonderful 2+1 play, allowed the Zen master to maintain his image.

Mason has been in charge of defending Kukoc during this time, and everyone admits that he is strong in the low post, but he has little to do in the face of Kukoc's kind of outside-biased play.

Of course, Harris has a way, and he goes straight to Kukoc.

The Zen master also adjusted his approach to Kidd, and he asked the leader to defend Kidd and Harper to defend Finley after Jordan came on the court.

The lineups of both teams have a characteristic - "all-round", if this characteristic is reflected in the defensive end, that is, Jordan and Zhang Qi have both defended Iverson's big misalignment shots in some rounds, so when the regular lineup can't handle it, then come to an "unconventional" situation.

At 8 minutes and 59 seconds in the second quarter, the two teams began to change their main players one after another, although their positions did not change, but there were a bunch of misplaced defenses on both sides of the defensive end.

Kidd faced Jordan's defense, obviously unable to break through easily, and don't forget that Jordan can also have a good defensive effect against Iverson.

It's true that someone's old gangster has declined in athleticism, but this decline will not make him an old cold leg, at most from the peak of V12 to V8, and Kidd is now at the level of a V6, maybe it's not as fast as Jordan now.

But you can't just black Kidd, although speed is not his specialty, but Kidd's center of gravity on the dribble is very stable, and he can shake the opponent to score by using a sense of rhythm, changing direction, shaking shoulders, and feints, but if this object is Jordan, it is useless, you can refer to Iverson's video of not being able to shake Jordan with feints at all, and you can know what the defensive ability of the helper is.

In this way, the Zen master seems to have taken care of Kidd.

Harris doesn't see it that way, the 34-year-old Jordan is no longer physically strong enough to play at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, and if this can also be said to be "done", it would be a big joke. Instead, he felt that the Lakers took advantage of this alignment, as they managed to make Jordan drain on the defensive end.

The Lakers used Big Ben to defend Kukoc, instead of choosing the more suitable Zhang Qi to defend, because they didn't want the koala baby to use their physical strength on defense. Although he is younger than Jordan and in better physical condition, the Lakers are still unwilling to do unnecessary exertion.

Today, the Lakers' opening strategy was to attack Kidd and Mason first and then see how it goes, as well as the Bulls' reaction.

Now the Zen master has no choice but to use Jordan to defend Kidd and Kukoc to deal with Mason.

In such a matchup, the Lakers must have taken advantage, and then they are not in a hurry to let Zhang Yu go to singles, you can first see what Mason can do on the offensive end?

Kukoc VS Mason, it should be a set of mutual explosion scenes, but the Lakers did not use Mason to defend Kukoc on the defensive end, and the Bulls did not use Kukoc to defend Mason - on the Bulls' side, Longley defended Mason, and Kukoc defended Daben; The same goes for the Lakers, Mason is defending Longley, and the big base is defending Kukoc.

It sounds a bit chaotic, the two teams can only be so misaligned on the defensive end, especially since the Bulls are now able to use Kukoc and Langley to score, and the Zen master even replaced Rodman.

Rodman helped the Bulls more on the defensive end and rebounding than the two combined, but now that they're trailing by a dozen points, they have to use the offense of both to chase down points.

The result was that Mason was constantly playing the clumsy Langley on the offensive end, and his seemingly rough offense was always effective in getting the ball to the basket.

But it wasn't all smooth sailing for the Lakers, and Big Ben also failed to guard against Kukoc, although he has used a near-rogue close defense to interfere with the guy from Europe, but after three years of NBA experience, Kukoc is no longer too afraid of this kind of savage defense.

Of course, this is mainly due to the fact that Big Ben's defensive skills and experience are still a little lacking, and opponents who face technical flow are prone to being teased and fouled, otherwise his style is well suited to defending a technical flow of Kukoc's inside.

However, it was enough to create this situation, Mason cut eight points from Kukoc in the first half of the second quarter, and although it also allowed the opponent to score nine points from the big itself, the two teams almost did not narrow the score, playing to 5 minutes and 14 seconds in the second quarter, still 50:36.

The Zen master is also distressed now, first of all, it is not worth using Jordan to defend Kidd, of course he knows this. Second, Kukoc is in excellent form, but replacing Rodman with him won't keep the Lakers from scoring points. In the end, Pippen and Kukocz were incompatible, and the second brother didn't even score a point in the second quarter.

Many people say that the coach of the championship team is good, but they don't know that every family has a scripture that is difficult to read, and the Bulls' lineup is not perfect, but every opponent is studying them and targeting them, just like today's Lakers, do you really think that his championship is picked up by holding his thighs for nothing?

Now this situation is an example, all the arrangements of the Lakers are aimed at them, but the Bulls can't put so much energy into the Lakers, they need to beat the strong teams in the East first to reach the Finals, and which of the strong teams in the West will come to the Finals, that is not necessarily, of course, the Bulls can't put all their energy on the Lakers.

To put it simply, now all the strong teams know that they want to win the championship, and the last step must be to beat the Bulls.

However, the Bulls don't know which challenger they will face in the Finals, and they can only defend themselves.

The Zen master also has some research on the Lakers, after all, this is an enemy who has the opportunity to threaten his own rule.

But the problem is that there are still many such enemies, and they definitely don't study the Lakers as much as the Lakers study them, which causes the Bulls to be targeted by the Lakers everywhere on the court today, and they are preempted by the Lakers everywhere.

The Zen master is already panicking now, although he can't tell what this guy is thinking from his expression at all, but he already doesn't know how to take the move, and the Lakers' formation today is really very restrained against them.

In the second half of the second quarter, Zen Master decided to bring Rodman back on the court, which also made the team's defense a lot more solid.

But soon, Mutombo on the Lakers' side also returned to his position, and the Lakers were more stable on interior defense.

Kidd was also completely used by Harris to defend Jordan, and in the first half of the second quarter, the Lakers tried to let Kidd defend Jordan, but found that the effect was much better than Finley's defense.

It's no wonder that even when the media is at Kidd, they rarely pay attention to defense. This bastard really deserves to be Payton's successor on the defensive end, and his size is better than Payton when it comes to defending a second-position superstar like Jordan.

The current situation is a bit like the Lakers locking the bull with a golden snake wrapping hand, and the hands and feet that can hurt people on both sides are entangled with each other, so everyone wants to hurt people with other parts, such as the head.

As a result, the Bulls' Kukoc and the Lakers' Mason are about the same in terms of lethality, so there is no need to collide with each other again, after all, to kill people, it is still too childish to hit them with their heads.

Now, no one can move on the field, or dare not move, and the score has been maintained at about 15 points.

However, the Zen master has been worried about whether the koala baby will suddenly burst out and hurt people?

On the bull's side, Pippen has been locking Zhang Zhu, but the current situation is more like Zhang Zhu himself did not have the strength to break free, and the Zen master is not confident that Pippen can always lock Zhang Zhu.

Coincidentally, Harris also has no confidence in whether Kidd can lock Jordan all the time, and he and the Zen master both know that the key to breaking the game now has to be to see who can break free first between Jordan and Zhang Fu?

Jordan struck first!

The Gang Leader first sacrificed his back attack!

Since the frame is not easy to break through Kidd's defense, he can only use this move to kill this bastard in his own way.

"Hybrid" is what many black players now use to taunt Kidd and Zhang Fu, they ridicule Kidd for wanting to go to the Lakers because this team has a hybrid like him, one of these two is a yellow and white mongrel, the other is a black and white mongrel, and they are really a natural pair.

But unfortunately, if Jordan had said the word himself, it might have stimulated Kidd's small universe.

However, the quick-witted gang leader didn't do this, let alone defend himself, and Kidd's side began to be unable to lock down his opponents......

Zhang Wei is also ready to break free from Pippen's defense, and he has to face more trouble than Jordan, because Pippen is a superstar at his peak, but fortunately, his athleticism at this stage is much stronger than that of the aging Jordan, so it is not a big loss.

"Don't look at it, no one can save you!"

After Zhang Qi took the ball on the offensive end, he saw Pippen take a step back, and his eyes kept paying attention to the surroundings, of course, he wanted to tease the other party.

"It's strange if I don't look at it!"

Pippen said he was working hard, too!

In the past two days, he watched a total of the last five or six games of Zhang Zhu, and found that this guy has a high probability of blocking and dismantling in the game. In the past two games, even if he doesn't block and dismantle, after handing over the ball, he likes to use off-ball cover to run out of space.

Pippen felt that if he couldn't keep an eye on the six ways and be smart, he could easily bump into the Lakers players.

Attentive fans can see from here that Pippen's good defense is by no means all about talent, if you don't do your homework before the game, no matter how good your talent is, you can't bear others to play with you with delicate cooperation.

There are too many players in the NBA who are physically fit, but I don't see many who can be called defensive giants, because it's hard to find someone who is willing to watch at least three videos of their opponents before the game.

However, Jordan, Pippen, Rodman, Kidd, Mason, Mutombo, Finley can all do that, and although Zhang likes to watch more girls, he can do similar homework in the virtual space, which is why their defense has been excellent.

Pippen definitely did his homework, but Mutombo and Mason's pick-and-rolls were too high-quality, and Zhang chose the opposite style of attack to Jordan, and you hardly see him using back-to-back shots, almost all of them using his teammates' pick-and-rolls to create a fleeting gap, and then you can see him dribbling and accelerating to the inside, and of course, sometimes a pull-up jumper.

The Bulls players are not too late to stop Zhang Zhu's breakthrough, Rodman can make up for the defense in time, but Zhang Zhu's impact can make him play a good offensive efficiency in the face of the big worm's defense, what he wants is to use the gap for a moment after the block to start the speed, as long as he rushes up, it is almost impossible to stop him, at most to limit his shooting rate.

This seems to have become a competition between Jordan and Zhang Yu in offensive efficiency, and whoever can shoot more balls and score more points in this kind of "you come and go" offense will be able to help the team take the initiative.

Well, some fans found that after these two teams went around in a big circle, the final win still depends on who has higher core scoring ability and stronger offensive efficiency, to put it bluntly, it depends on who is more awesome Zhang Zhu or Jordan!

Of course, the players of these two teams certainly don't think so, they feel that they also play a big role in the middle, just like Pippen and Kidd have been desperately trying to reduce the efficiency of the leading players of the two teams, and whoever does better can obviously affect the offensive efficiency of the other two; Rodman and Mason and others also said that they have a great role, one of them is desperately interfering with the Lakers' blocking, and the other is desperately helping Zhang Mao clear obstacles; Both coaches feel that their roles are important, and every change in tactics and personnel, even a timeout, can make a difference......

But unexpectedly, before the end of the first half, a point guard who couldn't dribble was that Kerr, who received Jordan and Pippen and hit two consecutive three-point shots, instantly making the two teams from a 15-point gap to 9 points, making a change that none of the ten starters on the court had done.

"Why do I always think this bastard is a little dangerous!"

Zhang Yu himself didn't expect that he worked hard to maintain the lead at 15 points, but he didn't expect that in the last minute of the first half, he was actually destroyed by this little-known guy?

Moreover, he wouldn't tell anyone that every time he saw this Cole, he thought this guy was very dangerous!

It's hard to explain why this little minion without any status in the world would make him feel this way, but Cole's cold-blooded killer-like aura always makes him look more dangerous than the best sixth man like Kukoc.