345. Thompson's ambitions
Kobe Bryant's defense against Thompson, a pitcher, can't be said to be defensible, and can't be said to be unguardable, it depends on how Thompson's strong pitching feels. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Thompson is also not a particularly physical type, similar to Kobe Bryant, who is in his thirties.
Iguodala, it's not that Bickerstaff doesn't look down on him, but he really has no desire to attack, two games a game is okay, since coming to the Warriors, it has been like this for the past two years, except for direct dunks and layups, he rarely shoots when he has the opportunity.
Green was two meters away from Iguodala, but Iguodala didn't choose to shoot, but wanted to pass it to someone else.
The Warriors' offense was grinding and chirping, Iguodala dribbled for about ten seconds, and then threw it to Thompson, who had a really average single-handedness and only one way to play, forcing a shot against the defense.
Under Kobe's defense, Thompson forced a missed shot.
Liu Ren grabbed the defensive rebound, the Warriors returned quickly, Liu Ren handed the ball to Jeremy Lin, and Jeremy Lin advanced.
This year, the Warriors still have a good sense of defense after changing coaches, otherwise they wouldn't have won so many victories just by attacking, just like this time back to defense, which shows their defensive enthusiasm very well.
There was no counterattack, and the Lakers were positional offense this time.
Bogut defended well, but he was slow.
Gasol pulled to the high position, Bogut weighed it, and chose to guard on the inside, Liu Ren's violent dunk that ignored Green just now can easily affect the psychology of the Warriors players, it is about morale, as for Gasol, let him in if he likes to score a few shots.
Bogut's idea is in Liu Ren's arms!
It was still so easy to break through Thompson, Liu Ren burst to the basket, jumped a step, stepped heavily on the floor with both feet, and bent the knee joints of both legs sharply, wanting to dunk violently!
Bogut jumped with all his strength and pounced on Liu Ren, looking at the posture to want to block!
But! Liu Ren didn't jump for the first time! It's an emergency stop! It's a feint!
After Bogut pounced in front of Liu Ren, Liu Ren jumped up, hit Bogut, and threw the ball to the basket with a big hook in his right hand.
Bogut couldn't dodge in the air and collided with Liu Ren, the referee's whistle blew, and the defense fouled!
Although Bogut is slow and his strength is not the strongest in the center, he is very heavy and has a large tonnage, and after Liu Ren was knocked to the ground, he sat on the ground with a few staggers, and his butt hurt to death.
But it doesn't matter, the important thing is that the ball turns around the basket and goes in!
2+1!
This ball is so lucky, Liu Ren can be said to have thrown it to the basket casually, and it really went in.
Bogut had only been playing for a few minutes and had two fouls, and Kerr had no choice but to replace him with substitute power forward Maris Speight.
In the past two years, Speights has often played as a center forward during Bogut's injury, and his height of less than 2.08 meters has suffered a little.
Spects used to be almost unable to hit the ball, but some of his characteristics entered Kerr's eyes, and he was entrusted with important tasks in the Warriors, averaging 12 points and 5 rebounds per game so far, playing the peak of his career.
Previously, when Bogut was on the field, Gasol had to defend him.
Bogut is very large, and he is stronger than Gasol, and only Gawhiteside and Thackeray can carry it on the Lakers' inside, and Gasol is barely defensive.
So knocking Bogut off the court is good for the Lakers both offensively and defensively.
Now that Bogut has been replaced, Gasol is finally able to free himself and return to the inside to squat, Randle doesn't shoot mid-range, he likes to go, and Green goes to defend Speights.
The Warriors' offense played badly under the Lakers' defense, and Randle couldn't defend Gasol, but Gasol could limit Randle very well on the inside, forcing Randle to play only in the high post.
The high-level strategy that can't pull out the inside space is just a paper tiger.
Don't look at Speights's high scores, they all rely on their shots.
The Warriors basically have no role on the inside, and can only rely on Thompson and Curry to make strong shots on the outside, or Randle to throw the ball to the basket against Gasol, who is still a little taller.
On the offensive end of the Lakers' side, Gasol was the response point, and Jeremy Lin blocked the ball in the high post, and the opponent didn't defend it, and Gasol threw it.
If the outside defense of Jeremy Lin's supplementary defense of Gasol, Jeremy Lin will shoot, Liu Ren, an offensive rebounding maniac, will be overturned on the inside, Randle and Speights will be completely ignored, if Bogut can still have some protection on the rebound, but these two are completely decorations.
Once the team's offense can't be played, Liu Ren and Kobe Bryant will play alone.
It's so incomprehensible, this year's Lakers play so strongly!
If Pau is in the high position of Speight, Green, Liu Ren, and Green are actively cutting in the air, and the score is very easy, and the Warriors are missing the barrier of Bogut inside, just like the road at five o'clock in the morning, which is empty.
Crushed all the way, the Lakers were 33-18 in the first quarter, leading the Warriors by 15 points, and after Barnes, Aizeli and other substitutes replaced Iguodala and Speight, the Warriors' offense was better, and the Warriors had more pitchers.
Bogut came back in the second quarter, the Warriors' playing style was enriched, the Warriors' offense and defense have improved, and once played a 12-2 counterattack high-tide, but in the second quarter played less than 5 minutes, Bogut was replaced by Whiteside high to create a foul, and the Warriors returned to the situation in the first quarter, and finally chased the 5-point difference to be opened again, the Warriors scored 17 points in the first half of the quarter, but only scored a total of 25 points at the end of the whole quarter, and the Lakers only scored 7 points in the first half of the quarter, but scored 30 points in the whole quarter, In one fell swoop, the difference was stretched to 20 points, and the Warriors were almost collapsed.
63-43, the Lakers led by 20 points at halftime.
Liu Ren overturned the river in the Warriors' weak interior line, scored 31 points in the half, Whiteside played the rest of the first half after coming on the court in the second half of the first quarter, and picked up 13 boards in the half, Gasol 8 points, 4 boards and 8 assists, quite a passing master, Kobe Bryant 10 points and 2 assists, played very well.
Others are more or less active enough to have easy shots, and the Lakers played a very reasonable and excellent half.
The Warriors' side played a mess, but fortunately, Rush, Barnes, Green and others on the bench felt good after they came on the court, otherwise the Warriors would have fallen behind even more.
At halftime, the atmosphere in the Lakers' locker room was relaxed, and the Warriors' side was Kerr's roar.
Curry had expected Liu Ren to explode, but he didn't expect Liu Ren to explode so fiercely, and his hand felt like he was in an ice cellar.
Curry remembered that he called Liu Ren again in the morning, and Liu Ren cursed him that there would be retribution, could this curse really be fulfilled?
Curry was thinking that he was unhappy that the team was playing so badly against Thompson, the Warriors' other gun in two shots.
Thompson played great in his first year in the league, the Warriors almost made the playoffs, sixth in the West the next year, and still made the playoffs last year, and his goal now is to win the Western Conference Finals or even the Finals!
Although these things are difficult to do, and some superstars who are much stronger than him can't do it in their lifetime, they just want to get it done!