Chapter 342: Bright Flowers

With Eddie Curry's height of two meters and one three meters and a decent arm span, he can be a good defensive player. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

In fact, he is a bit like Yao Ming, with a natural advantage on the offensive end, but a bit slow on the defensive end.

The difference is that Yao Ming is very serious on the court, and although his physical strength is not good, he still spares his physical strength on the defensive end.

But Eddie Curry put his mind on offense, on the defensive end, it doesn't matter, when the basket is one-on-one, he can still defend, a little farther, he is completely useless.

So, the impact of the two is also very different.

In the Rocket's game, Yao Ming also suffered a loss when he changed the outside line, but he was the last barrier under the Rockets' basket, and when the opponent hit the inside of the Rockets, he had to consider Yao Ming's deterrence, offensive choices and shooting actions, and when facing Yao Ming, he had to change. Yao Ming's average of nearly two blocks per game is not enough to reflect his role on the defensive end.

Eddie Curry has become a hole in the Bulls' defense, whether it is outside the three-second zone or under the basket, Eddie Curry's defense is useless.

It can be seen from his stats - a 7-foot-tall center with an average playing time of nearly 30 minutes per game, less than 1 block, and less than 4 defensive rebounds, this defense simply cannot be described as "rotten", but "very bad".

Therefore, despite Eddie Curry's offense, no one in the Lakers team was able to defend him one-on-one, but Lu Xiaofeng didn't take him seriously at all.

As long as Eddie Curry is on the court, the Lakers' offense is easy, and a simple combination is full of opportunities.

In Lu Xiaofeng's eyes, he is a "chicken rib", don't use him, his offensive ability looks quite tempting, use him, the team's defense, don't count on it.

If his offense is as good as O'Neal's, everyone thinks about how to defend him, and of course they don't care about his defensive disadvantages, but unfortunately, his offense is only a little better than the average center.

In this way, Eddie Curry's defensive disadvantages are magnified, and his weaknesses are exposed when encountering an offensive powerhouse like the Lakers.

Lu Xiaofeng is very glad that his teammates don't have this kind of person, otherwise, when he plays, he will be angry to death.

The Bulls' players are very calm, and with Eddie Curry's status on the team, I'm afraid no one dares to blame him, or the Bulls players are used to this kind of helplessness.

Eddie Curry didn't have a single foul, Roldden did, and Skels had no intention of taking any chances, swapping Kobe Bryant with Nocioni before he made a free throw.

Also on the field was Tyson Chandler, but instead of Eddie Curry, he replaced veteran Antonio Davis.

Skels didn't want to replace Eddie Curry, an "offensive strongman", and replaced Chandler, probably because he wanted to control the rebounding ball and bully the Lakers for not being tall enough.

Therefore, NBA coaches are not stupid.

Tang Shuai's side, as soon as he saw that the inside line was not good, he made a strange lineup of five people who could shoot three points, and gave full play to his outside advantages to the extreme.

Skyles was not led by the nose, but continued to strengthen his inside advantage.

The comparison of the lineups of the two teams on the field looks a bit polarizing.

On the guard line, on the Lakers' side, Kobe Bryant is 1.98 meters, Lu Xiaofeng is 1.95 meters, while the Bulls' Hinrich is only 1.93 meters, and Du Hong is even shorter, only 1.85 meters. The Lakers are a head taller than the Bulls.

On the inside, the Lakers are all pocket-sized, Odom is two meters and eight meters to play the power forward, but it is reluctant, Cook is only two meters and six, but he plays the center, against the Bulls' side of the two meters and three Eddie Curry and two meters and six meters of Chandler. The Lakers are a head shorter than the Bulls.

The small forwards of both teams are about the same.

Not to mention anything else, just looking at the height comparison of the players of the two teams, those who don't understand basketball know that the Lakers' advantage is on the outside, while the Bulls' advantage is on the inside.

After Bryant hit both free throws, the score came to 16-6, and the Lakers' lead reached double digits.

The Bulls attacked, Du Hong still didn't control the ball, Lu Xiaofeng ran forward with him, raised his eyes and looked at the lineups of the two sides, and couldn't help laughing.

The lineups of the two teams that go to their own extremes may be regarded as a wonder in the NBA now.

Chandler has no individual offensive ability, which is probably why he has been with the Bulls for several years, but has not been able to reuse.

In the era of the interior line, Chandler's thin and tall defensive interior line is certainly not as popular as Eddie Curry, who has individual offensive ability.

Eddie Curry still couldn't catch the ball, and as soon as Hinrich played the code, Chandler ran out.

Chandler did a good job of covering, he stepped forward to block, Kobe Bryant was blocked, and Hinrich faced Odom's defense.

Lu Xiaofeng guarded Du Hong on the bottom line, half of his attention was on the ball, looking at Chandler and Hinrich's blocking, he remembered the blocking and dismantling of Chandler and Paul in his memory, he couldn't help but take it back, standing on the edge of the three-second zone, ready to destroy Chandler's air connection.

"Huh?"

However, to his surprise, Chandler didn't rush inside, maybe he was delayed by Kobe, or maybe the Bulls didn't design that kind of tactic for him at all.

In the face of Odom's reinforcement, Hinrich burst in, and on the other side, Cook was also blocked by Eddie Curry because he went around.

In an instant, Hinrich had a direct path to the basket in front of him.

Hinrich didn't hesitate, used his speed, got rid of Odom, got into the Lakers' basket, and came to a left-handed layup.

But Odom didn't give up, and after being passed by Hinrich, he chased him and rushed in, and when he saw Hinrich making a layup, he jumped up from behind to block.

"Rebound!"

Odom yelled.

Hinrich's speed and explosiveness were not outstanding, the ball was actually covered by Odom, although it was only a fingertip touching the skin, but it also made the basketball change its trajectory, and after hitting the rebound, it rebounded back, and did not fall into the net, but smashed on the basket and bounced out.

In an instant, a group of people gathered under the basket jumped up almost simultaneously.

On the left are the entangled Eddie Curry and Cook.

Below the basket was Odom, who landed after the block, and he took off a second time, a little slower.

On the right is Lu Xiaofeng, who is shrinking the basket and preparing to protect the rebound, this ball, his position is not good, the basketball is a little farther away from him, seeing so many people grabbing the board, he is not sure to grab it, the idea is to get the ball out and let Kobe and Butler grab it.

"Bang!"

"Ahh

"Oh! Oh! Oh! ”

"Smack! Syllable! Syllable! ”

There was a crisp sound, and a tall figure hung from the basket with a loud roar.

Cheers and applause rang out in the audience.

That's Chandler!

In the midst of a group of players, he was like a giraffe, with his long arms raised high, a lot taller than the others, and he grabbed the basketball first and slammed it into the basket.

Eddie Curry, Cook, and Lu Xiaofeng's hands were all one step slower.

Chandler's rebounding ability is really not blown, outstanding height + excellent arm span + good explosiveness, under the same conditions, few people can really grab him.

Even if Lu Xiaofeng thinks that his reaction speed and bounce height are superhuman, he can't compare to Chandler's innate advantages.

Fuck, such a fierce Chandler, in the bulls, is actually a substitute!

Tyrannical creatures!

Lu Xiaofeng couldn't help but blush again.

"Well done! Defend yourself! ”

Skyles also clapped his hands on the sidelines to cheer for Chandler, and did not forget to remind his disciples to return to defense quickly.

In fact, the Lakers simply don't have a chance to attack quickly.

Because Odom had just jumped, he was overwhelmed by Chandler, although it was not a riding buckle, but it was not much worse.

Odom was knocked over and had time to put his hand on his head to avoid the fate of the basketball hitting his bald head.

The basketball smashed on Odom's arm and flew far away, and the Lakers certainly couldn't serve the baseline ball quickly, so they didn't have the opportunity to attack quickly.

Skyles' substitution seems to have paid off.

After waiting for a while, the referee handed Odom the basketball that flew to the audience, Lu Xiaofeng took Odom's serve, slowly walked to the frontcourt, and had to play a positional battle again.

Rohr Deng went down, and the defense of Kobe Bryant was replaced by Hinrich.

Facing Hinrich, who was a head shorter and one size smaller, Kobe Bryant was decisive in the position, and Lu Xiaofeng hoisted the ball in it from a distance.

Catch, turn, accelerate, layup.

Kobe Bryant didn't even make a feint, and rushed directly past Hinrich.

The physical gap between the two is too obvious. With such a big physical advantage, he can directly crush the past, who has the patience to waste physical strength and use technology to pass people?

Kobe Bryant played Hinrich really simply, however, he ignored Chandler.

The price was Kobe's layup, which was blocked by Chandler.

Chandler's defensive awareness really doesn't have to be said, he was standing at the free throw line, keeping an eye on Odom and Kobe Bryant.

As soon as Kobe Bryant turned around and accelerated, he turned around and rushed to the basket.

Kobe Bryant was careless, he chose a quick layup, although he saw Chandler who came to make up for it, but he thought that his movements were fast enough, and Chandler was too late.

If Bryant had been cautious and had chosen a more difficult glider puller for a rebound, Chandler would have made a save.

But there is no "if".

The basketball bounced back from the rebound and was taken by Hinrich, he glanced at Lu Xiaofeng, who had already returned to defense, and Odom, who turned and started, and lost the confidence of fast break.

Except for the Suns, no team dares to play a fast-paced offense with the Lakers.

The Bulls' advantage is on the inside, and of course they choose to be slow-paced.

Hinrich is an excellent playmaker and has a good ability to control the tempo.

He didn't mess around, steadily dribbled the ball to the front court, and waited for the two big men on the inside to settle down.

It's Chandler again, it's blocking again, Odom is a little jealous of Chandler's rebound, and hesitantly, he didn't dare to pounce.

And Kobe Bryant was also worried about Chandler rushing to the basket, and gave up chasing Hinrich, but stuck to Chandler and didn't let him run to the basket easily.

Hinrich dribbled a step forward, and for a moment realized that he was unguarded.

After a moment's hesitation, Hinrich opted for a jumper.

It was a simple jump shot with neither a sudden stop, nor a quick change of direction, or even any defense, but it just didn't go in.

"Rebound!"

As soon as Odom saw Hinrich's shot, he immediately turned around and prepared to grab the rebound.

At that moment, the basket was once again in a fight.

The Bulls' two seven-foot men are in the three-second zone.

The Lakers don't have such tall players, so they can only rely on the enthusiasm of the players, Kobe Bryant and Lu Xiaofeng both rushed into the three-second zone to help Cook and Odom protect the rebound.

Lakers vs. Bulls, 4vs. 2.

At this moment, the side with the largest number of people did not have the upper hand.

The basketball smashed on the basket and bounced high, several figures jumped up at the same time, and several big hands stretched out towards the basketball at the same time.

"Smack!"

With a soft thud, the basketball flew out of the three-point line.

It's Chandler again, under the attack of Odom, Kobe and Lu Xiaofeng, he didn't grab the rebound, maybe he grabbed the basketball, and as soon as he landed, he would be shot off or snatched away by the quick-eyed Lu Xiaofeng and Kobe.

But Chandler was so clever that he got the first touch on the basketball, but instead of grabbing it in his hand, he slapped it out.

The Lakers' players were all inside the three-point line, and the basketball flew outside the three-point line and was caught by Hinrich.

In an instant, Hinrich was empty again.

After taking a look at his teammates' positions, Hinrich chose to shoot himself.

A group of people under the basket were ready to compete for rebounds again, but the basketball "swished" through the net and turned up white waves.

It was a three-pointer and the score came to 16-11.

"Oh! Oh! Oh! ”

"Smack! Syllable! Syllable! ”

Cheers and applause resounded throughout the court, and the Bulls' inside advantage was finally on display.

Lu Xiaofeng shook his head, a little helpless, playing like this, the Lakers will definitely not be able to prevent it, and if they want to win, they can only rely on offense.

Both of the Bulls' guards retreated, but the Lakers had four men under the basket and lost the opportunity to attack quickly.

Lu Xiaofeng had no choice but to slowly dribble the ball to the front court and attack the position.

In the face of challenges, some people choose to avoid them, and some people choose to accept them.

Among those who accept the challenge, some people choose to avoid its edge and "save the country with a curve", and some people choose to face the difficulties and fight-for-tat.

Kobe Bryant is the last kind of person.

Seeing the momentum of the Bulls rising, Kobe's choice was to hit it hard and use a more fierce offensive to suppress it.

Once again, he leaned Hinrich behind him and reached for the ball.

Kobe Bryant's single Hinrich is indeed a good choice, Lu Xiaofeng did not hesitate and immediately passed the ball.

The next moment, Lu Xiaofeng realized that it was not an accident that Chandler had just blocked Kobe.

It turns out that the Bulls' defense has changed.

They chose to flank Kobe.

Kobe Bryant took the ball, didn't make a move immediately, and was ready to hit one steadily, but when he turned around, he found that Chandler was pressing.

Kobe Bryant didn't hit blindly, but immediately passed to Odom, who rushed in from the top of the arc.

Odom was excited, and when he saw that there was no one in front of him, he wanted to make a violent dunk, and as soon as he stepped into the three-second zone, he jumped up, held the basketball high with his left hand, and smashed it at the basket.

"Hah!"

With a loud roar, Odom's dunk was forced down by Chandler.