Chapter 252: High salary and low ability
Coming back from halftime, the Lakers are still on a small lineup, while the Spurs are the twin towers of Leonard, Green and Thunderwater.
The Lakers still continue to play fast-paced, the first offense is fully prepared on both sides, so they can only play position, the Lakers missed, and the Spurs took advantage of the height advantage of the inner twin towers, and coordinated with the inside pass, and Ade assisted Gasol to play high and score easily.
In order to raise the speed, the Lakers hurriedly served, Yang took the ball all the way to the bottom line and shot directly against Leonard's defense, and sent the block to the door, which was slapped out of the bottom line by Leonard, Wharton hurriedly signaled to Young, speed up and speed up, but 3 can't be played blindly!
The Lakers sent the baseline ball, Randle received the ball and broke through Gasol's throw, Lei Shui grabbed the rebound and went quickly, this time it was Deng who defended Ade, and Ade didn't like confrontation anymore, and if he didn't fight when he met Deng who was nearly 20 kilograms lighter than himself, it really couldn't be said.
Ade decisively pressed Deng behind him, Lei Shui passed the ball over the top, Ade sat in the three-second zone in two clicks, and half-turned to hit Deng's hook hand.
Wharton saw that the height of the interior line was too bad, so he hurriedly replaced Mozgov, in fact, Wharton didn't like to use Mozgov, because Mozgov was not very suitable for his system, and he didn't give Mozgov a minute in the second quarter, but now in the form of the court, only Mozgov can stand on the inside.
After Mozgov came on the court, he first tried to attack, knocked away Gasol and hooked his hand to shoot, but the action rate was too slow, and he was caught by Lei Shui's side with a palm to the cap, and the ball was capped out, just when the hat went to Yang's hand, Yang received the ball very comfortably, and hit a three-point shot with his open hand.
Lei Shui saw that one of his hats had turned into an 'assist', and he knew that it would be better to let Mozgov shoot.
Lei Shui handed over the ball in the half, and then stood in the middle again, the ball returned to his hand, Lei Shui first turned his back to the defense to observe his teammates' runs, Ade helped Leonard cover the vacancy, Lei Shui quickly gave the ball, and Leonard received the ball and hit a three-point shot.
The Lakers couldn't score for 2 minutes in a row after a lucky three-pointer from Young, and Leonard strengthened the offense at the request of the old man Bobo, Thunder Water organized with the ball, Leonard played without the ball, and the efficiency was very high, and he also caused a foul on 2 of 2 shots, scoring 7 points in a row.
Now the Lakers are on the court who holds the ball and shoots, so after losing his touch, there was some chaos, and Wharton realized that he needed a playmaker to stabilize the situation at this time, so he replaced the veteran Calderon on the court.
Calderon finally made a difference as soon as he came on the court, revitalizing the team's offense, using Randle to play fast and slow, and finally scored.
The two sides have scored each other, so they have been playing step by step, anyway, the Spurs are ahead, Bobo is not in a hurry, but Wharton is constantly observing below, what he needs to do is to find a way to prevent the Spurs' offense, although the team is now moving closer to the offensive team, but in terms of offensive type, it is not necessary to rely on a few outside scorers' crazy singles, defensive counterattack is Wharton's ultimate requirement, but the Spurs' tactical system is very rigorous, which is so easy to crack, What's more, the abilities of the players on both sides are there, and Spurs are superior.
Just before the Lakers' coaching staff could figure out a corresponding solution, the Lakers' offense had problems, with the decline in physical strength, the player's shooting rate began to decline, and the desire to attack also declined, and began to hand over the ball to the inside Mozgov to play, after all, he didn't have much playing time, and he must have enough physical strength.
Mozgov has height and tonnage, but the offense is not smart, the two offenses are not hit, the offense is not good, the defense is not good, so that Gasol can easily shake off the layup with his feet to score, which caused the dissatisfaction of some teammates, Yang after Mozgov's defense failed, he pointed at Mozkov and questioned his defense, in fact, it is no wonder that Mozgov successfully squeezed out the UAE in the competition within the team, and also signed a big contract, and now he has the second highest salary in the team, and his contribution to the team is indeed not as good as the water cooler administrator, The water cooler administrator can still send an average of 20 glasses of water + 10 towel wielding 20 + 10 double-double data per game in a game, Mozgov has played so far except for 4 rebounds, and the rest are still hanging 0, of course, in addition to mistakes and fouls, just like this starting center, how can other Lakers players balance, especially Young, a salary of more than 5 million, less than one-third of Mozgov's, but as a guard, he has no fewer rebounds than him, scores more than him, and can also send assists, seeing that Mozgov doesn't live with money, There must be anger in my heart.
When Wharton saw this scene, he had to call a timeout, the players were not united on the field, and the ball would definitely not be able to be played.
Back on the bench, Wharton first calmed the players' emotions and then made adjustments to the personnel, and the result must have been Mozgov, who could not be counted on in such a time when he needed to score.
The Spurs are more stable, and the old man Bobo said: "Just like this, they are out of shape, our chance is here, continue to shoot decisively, and open the score..."
At this time, Leonard approached Lei Shui, he had scored 9 points in the half of the quarter, almost all of them were opportunities to run out without the ball, and Lei Shui passed the ball again: "Lei, I haven't played without the ball for a long time, which is much less effort than playing with the ball." ”
Lei Shui said: "You save effort and I save effort, this is good for you, and I am good." After Lei Shui finished speaking, he felt weird, fortunately, the United States Emperor did not broadcast XX Kidney Treasure advertisements here, or Leonard would not have thought about it more.
After the timeout, after the Lakers changed formations, they used double strength on the inside, did not play height with the Spurs, began to play confrontation and speed, and paid attention to interfering with the connection between Thunderwater and Leonard.
The effect was not bad at first, there will always be interference in Lei Shui's passing route, and even if the ball is passed, the shot is relatively hasty.
Lei Shui understood the Lakers' defensive intentions in two rounds, anti-passing, the defense in front of him is the weakest place, once he breaks through here, there is a big vacuum under the basket, Lei Shui glanced at the old man Bobo on the sidelines at this time, the old man Bobo nodded and signaled that Lei Shui can attack, Lei Shui first passed the ball on the outside several times to disperse the Lakers' defense, and then waited for the ball to return to his hand, Lei Shui looked up at the defense, the Lakers actually left a big empty space for themselves, Lei Shui was not polite, and took a step back from the dribble, An open hand is a three-pointer.