39. Crushing defeat to Spurs

What the hell!

Liu Ren was about to curse, and after he made a three-pointer in the opening game, the Spurs immediately changed formations, Leonard pressed to defend him, and the other four shrank inside. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

is so decisive and crisp, as if he didn't consider the Lakers' other outside shots at all, and decisively changed the formation.

In this way, the Lakers were locked on the inside, and Liu Ren on the outside was played ******** by Leonard's dogskin plaster-like defense.

It was the first time Liu Ren encountered this level of defense, and his mood was a little frizzy, and after getting the ball, he didn't care about the defensive waves.

didn't have as much luck as the first ball, and Liu Ren made several difficult shots in the back.

In this way, the Lakers happened to fall for Popovich's plan, and Liu Ren was throwing on the outside, not only did he suffer personally, but the entire offensive system of the Lakers collapsed.

The reason why the Lakers' starting lineup was able to press the Clippers Warriors in the first two games was because of their offensive rebounding guarantee, Liu Ren, Gasol, and Green dominated the rebounding ball, and Bazemore and Wesley Johnson in the backcourt were all outside lines with excellent height and arm span, and this five-man group can be described as a rebounding team.

And in this rebounding five-person group, the strongest rebounding ability is Liu Ren! Liu Ren himself didn't notice this, he was the team's No. 2 rebounder, and the first was naturally Bai Bian, who accepted the mysterious power of the East.

When Liu Ren pulled to the outside to shoot, it was not enough for Green to rush and grab rebounds alone, Liu Ren has always been very suspicious that Green said that he himself has two meters and six, and he thinks that this guy is two meters at most.

Although Green has a lot of potential, he is only a second-year player, and he does not please the Spurs in front of a group of old ball ruffians.

In turn, the Spurs' offense was called a fluid, as if everyone except Split was a sharpshooter, and the Nets were shooting from the outside, and soon beat the Lakers to a timeout.

This can be called a dark five minutes, the Lakers only relied on Gasol to force a foul on the inside to score two points, and the rest of the shots were all iron!

In 5 minutes, the Lakers were beaten 19-2 by the Spurs, and the Lakers fell behind 5-19 in the opening game!

During the timeout, D'Antoni stressed not to force his shots, but to play more and keep paddling his running lines on the tactical board.

But after the pause, the Lakers' offense still did not improve, this tactic is not something you can run if you want to, D'Antoni is more than a little worse than Popovich in the overall layout, D'Antoni's offensive routines were eaten to death by the opponent, the Lakers' lineup and the Spurs have no advantage, but it exposes that there is a problem with their starting structure.

The Spurs are stubbornly guarding the interior, not letting Green and Gasol's ability to respond to the game, Liu Ren let Leonard go to the stalk, although this consumes a lot of Leonard's physical strength, so that he can't free up his hands on the offensive end, but the Spurs are now the most scorer, they always give people the illusion that Matt Bonner, who guards the water cooler at the end of their bench, can score 20 or 30 points on the court.

But that's what it says about the Spurs' balance, and they've pretty much taken the idea of balance to the extreme.

The tactics couldn't run, D'Antoni's seven-second forced fast-break strategy could not be launched, and in the end it could only be Liu Ren or Gasol's personal singles.

In desperation, D'Antoni could only start the rotation early, with Gasol and Whiteside partnering on the inside, and Liu Ren, Nick Young, and Famar forming the outside.

In the Lakers' post-game evaluation, the biggest failure was this substitution.

Although Gasol and Whiteside are both agile centers, no matter how agile he is, he is still a center, compared to the current power forward, it is called a slow!

The Spurs switched to a five-man lineup of Dio, Leonard, Danny Green, Joseph, and Mills and began to switch back to the run.

It's not that D'Antoni shouldn't replace Whiteside to protect the interior line, one more inside strong point to play, but he shouldn't replace Green, if it is Gasol and Green, the mobility of this lineup will be greatly improved, after the Spurs deliberately speed up, only to see Gasol and Whiteside continue to turn back and run, and the Spurs just don't let the game fall into a positional battle, and don't let Gasol and Whiteside's height advantage come into play.

It's like Popovich is a fast-break nerd, and D'Antoni is a conservative old-school coach!

Another wave of black time, the Lakers were stretched to 30 points by the Spurs in just three minutes!

At halftime, the Lakers were 42-75, trailing by 33 points!

In the third quarter, the Lakers finally broke out, Liu Ren continued to attack the basket after coming on the court, playing a wave of 13-2, he scored 11 points alone, but the score was too far behind, the Spurs came back to their senses to stabilize their position, and the point difference remained stable at about 20 points.

This margin was maintained until the end of the game, and the Lakers lost to the Spurs 97-120.

After the game, the media reported that they thought that in this game, the loss was lost by the coach!

It is said that D'Antoni is the coach who brought a new concept to the NBA, but his newness has been stuck in 9 years ago and has not improved.

Popovich used to be seen as an old-fashioned coach, but now people know that he is a chef who takes what ingredients and cooks! Before '08, Duncan was still the all-time No. 1 forward who could play the league's interior line, so Popovich fought hard to defend.

08-10 In recent years, the Spurs have collectively aged, so Popovich began to build a new system, and in the 10-11 season, he began to use light offense and strong mobility to cooperate, and after giving up the old-fashioned defensive style of pressing the rhythm, the Spurs regained their life and became the most powerful contender for the championship for several consecutive years.

As for the '11 playoffs, it was when Randolph found them to play, and they were stunned, which was purely an accident.

And D'Antoni, after playing his career masterpiece in the two seasons of 04-06, has been holding fast breaks, and now 9 years have passed, it is still the same set, and it is still the same set in the Lakers, thanks to the fact that there are several players with excellent defensive awareness in the Lakers' lineup, otherwise the defense is really enough.

The average player who has been abused for more than 20 points, or when the opponent is rested for more than 20 points, will definitely doubt life.

Fortunately, Liu Ren knew that the other party was ridiculously strong, and if the Spurs only talked about the regular season this year, they could almost be compared with the Bulls with 72 wins.

"Hey, guys, why are you so downcast!" Liu Ren saw that his teammates were not speaking and bowed their heads one by one, so he naturally knew what kind of mentality they were in now.

Just beat the Clippers Warriors in a row, thinking that they were a strong team, and then being beaten by the Spurs, they began to wonder if the first two games were **** luck, how could the playoff teams be so bad?