62. Barnes's fear
The Lakers, who had a four-day break, continued their season journey with five games left in their first month, two straight home games and three consecutive road trips in the East. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Both home games will be played against opponents in the same division, the Pacific Division.
Once upon a time, the Pacific Division could be called the Western Kings Division, in the 05-07 season, the Pacific Division occupied four playoff spots, that is, half of the teams in the Western Conference in those two years were Pacific Division, until the 14-15 season, the five brutal teams in the Southwest Division all entered the playoffs, surpassing the highest number of playoff spots in the Pacific Division that year.
But after that, the Pacific Division was not there, and it slowly became two teams, the Lakers and the Suns, and then the Suns also sank, leaving the Lakers, according to Liu Ren's memory, the Lakers also sank, the Warriors rose, and the poor Warriors in the Pacific Division only had one team in the playoffs, but fortunately, the Warriors were fierce enough and even broke the Bulls' record of 72 wins.
The Lakers' first opponent after a four-day break was the Warriors.
The Warriors in the 13-14 season have the strength to impact the top four in the West, although the Lakers abducted the future interior core Green, but their strength is not worse than Liu Ren's memory of this season, Green was not taken seriously before Kerr came to the Warriors, and even often sat on the bench for the whole game.
In the last game between the Warriors and the Rockets, Curry was absent due to injury, Blake started in place of Curry, facing Harden's god-level wheel-eye defense, he was complained by Lakers fans that he was slow and couldn't jump, he actually dunked, he was as fast as Wade in front of Harden's defense, and was nicknamed the Flash, with 30 points, 7 rebounds and 7 assists in 12 of 19 games, leading the Warriors to beat the Rockets in the case of Curry's occasional inaccuracy.
Mark Jackson is a coach who has his strengths, he is very good at kneading the team's defense, and he is not very good at other aspects, such as being too egoistic, he decides things that no one can change, stubbornness, etc., etc., etc.
For the team members, his approach is: either you agree with me, or you leave, and to the boss: either listen to me or you fire me.
Blake was traded by his boss, and it didn't cost much to get such a quality substitute, he was very happy, and today Curry was in the injury observation phase, he continued to start Blake, and encouraged Blake to play at his own pace.
It doesn't matter what Curry and Thompson do on the offensive end of the court, but if he doesn't designate someone on the court to do what he didn't arrange, he will let people sit on the cold bench.
For example, Iguodala was deprived of his starting position today because he "grabbed power" to organize the offense in the last game, but Mark Jackson positioned him as a defensive and open three-pointer, that is, a 3D player, a 3D player with an annual salary of 11 million, very good and strong.
Starting in place of Iguodala is Harris Barnes, a first-round pick selected by the Warriors last year, a very talented small forward, a little thinner, but tall and long-armed, fast, and very good except for a little bit of confrontation, and was selected to the first team of the All-Rookie team last season.
However, in Liu Ren's memory, this potential man was still a potential man until the 15-16 season, and his current strength is far from Iguodala.
This gap is reflected in the defensive end, Iguodala can't prevent Liu Ren from rampage, but he can make up for it with defensive experience and awareness, Barnes to defend Liu Ren is really a disaster for the Warriors!
But for Liu Ren, it doesn't take any effort to break into the Warriors' interior line, and he can rush to the basket with Barnes on his body.
At the beginning, the Lakers took the lead in gaining the right to attack, and Liu Ren saw Barnes's bamboo-like figure, so he decisively chose to bully the opponent and directly asked for the ball to play and gesture to pull away the singles.
Gasol took the lead and took a step inside the bottom corner three-point line, and the others saw that the oldest players on the Lakers court were now pulling away, and then pulled away, Green went to the other side of the three-point line two steps within his range, and Wesley Johnson and Bazemore stood at two 45-degree angles.
Liu Ren can have so much freedom on the field, in addition to the coach's arrangement, Gasol's support is inseparable, for which Liu Ren has always been grateful.
After playing more than ten games, Liu Ren has played against many players who will be very powerful in the next few years, and he also understands that most of those people are still growing up now, and they are not so terrible, such as Thompson, who scored 37 points in a single quarter, this ultimate 3D player, is not so accurate now, and his defense is not so powerful.
And James, the guy who pretended to be dead in the regular season in Liu Ren's impression, at the beginning of this season, although Wade was out for several games due to injury, he averaged 29 points, 9.2 rebounds and 8.8 assists per game, leading the Heat to dominate the East.
After pulling away, Liu Ren faced Barnes, he was a little confused, why did the Warriors use Barnes to defend him, did they look down on him?
Thinking of this, Liu Ren was furious, and took a step to break through to the right, and Barnes hurriedly defended to the left.
But Liu Ren's first step was at the Wade level, and the super-fast first step passed by Barnes, who had just defended, and Barnes hit Liu Ren directly, Barnes's small body, Liu Ren was not affected at all and rushed into the inner line.
To make up the defense, or not to make up the defense? Of course, it's not David Lee who is thinking, his defense is funny, don't you see that the first thing Kerr did after he came to power was to abandon him, David Lee has been willing to be in the league since he entered the league, and he will never become Duncan...... With such a background, he clinged to Green, who was a few meters away from the basket.
Thinking about the wise man Bogut from Australia, whether he will go to help defend or not, the help defense can basically be used as a background except for fouls.
Just when the wise man Bogut was thinking, Liu Ren had already rushed into the three-second zone and was ready to take off.
"Huh?" Just as Liu Ren was about to take off, his arm was grabbed.
It turned out to be Barnes, he had never been in the opposite position with Liu Ren, and he didn't expect the other party to pass him as easily as walking on the road in the early morning, so he directly grabbed Liu Ren in a hurry.
Then, Barnes felt the fear that the man gave him again in his rookie season.
It was a cold winter, and in the far east of Miami, although the climate in Miami was warm, Barnes was feeling cold.
It was a single after he changed to the court, and was counterattacked by the man with a frontal steal, he struggled to catch up, and finally caught up, he wanted to hold the man, and would rather foul than let the opponent counterattack succeed.
However, he almost hung on the man, and the man still took three steps, playfully dragging the ball into the basket with one hand to make it 2+1.
This scene was repeated today, he grabbed Liu Ren's right hand, but Liu Ren picked up the ball with his left hand, took three steps with the referee's whistle, dragged him out two steps, and threw the ball into the basket from the third step.
The goal is valid, and the penalty must be added!