According to Liu Ren's outside shooting statistics given by the Knicks coaching staff, among the five major shooting positions outside the three-point line, Liu Ren has the highest shooting rate at a 45-degree angle on both sides, reaching 41 percent, and the shooting rate of the two bottom corners is a little lower, reaching 37 percent, while the top arc is only 31 percent, and it is the position with the least shots. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"Feel free to take action when the situation is necessary."

"Is now the time necessary?"

"I think so."

After Liu Ren asked and answered himself in his heart, he decisively made a jump shot outside the three-point line in the top arc!

Shambaugh was agile and reacted quickly, and immediately pounced on it for perfect interference, and Liu Ren was indeed disturbed and was forced to adjust in the air.

"Bang"

The ball bounces off the hoop.

Liu Ren didn't make a shot, but Green grabbed the offensive rebound!

Anyone who watches a basketball game or plays basketball knows that the success rate of the second offense after grabbing an offensive rebound is much higher than the first offense.

At this time, because most of the Knicks players went to grab rebounds, Kobe Bryant was empty! Green's biggest strength is his good vision and excellent passing accuracy, and when Stoudemire and Anthony were caught between them, he passed to Kobe Bryant through the gap, and Bryant hit the ball in the middle of the range.

teammates grabbed the offensive rebound and scored, and Liu Ren's mental burden of losing the ball disappeared instantly.

We are the first in the league in rebounding, what are we doing with such a big advantage? Isn't it just for wiping the butts of the iron-striker?

Liu Ren's mentality is so "shameless"......

"Adjust it again, and the speed of the shot will not be disturbed if you are fast......" Liu Ren is now thinking sideways, and if he doesn't let him get an easy one-on-one opportunity in his favorite position according to his tactics, then forcibly hit him!

Knicks offense.

The Knicks have taken off again in recent games and already have the same feel as they did last year's playoffs, with the feeling of a true championship-caliber team.

Before, they were great, but there was always something missing on the inside.

Without Chandler, although the Knicks are also a first-class team, there is a very important tactic that cannot be played, that is, the blocking and cutting of scoring points.

Without Chandler, Anthony has strangely become the strongest player in the Knicks' frontcourt, and he blocks and picks and dismantles for others, such as blocking and dismantling for Bagnani and letting the latter shoot three-pointers, blocking and dismantling for Stoudemire and letting the latter go to the basket or work in the middle and long range, or blocking and dismantling for the point guard......

It's been a long time since Anthony has been an endpoint for pick-and-roll tactics.

The Knicks continued to have Jason Smith to block for Anthony, and Anthony cut inside after handing the ball to Calderon, and on the other side, the Knicks players also started to work with various off-ball pick-and-rolls.

The Knicks used the mid-range ability of Jason Smith and Stoudemire to attract some of the Lakers' defense and not dare to miss them, giving Anthony a chance to successfully get inside.

However, this time the Lakers defended Anthony more strictly, and Liu Ren and Gasol finally formed a trap on Anthony on the inside.

But Calderon didn't pass the ball to Anthony this time, but to Stoudemire, who was left vacant near the free throw line.

Stoudemire hits mid-range shot from the free-throw line.

The level of Stoudemire's shooting is getting higher and higher, and he has become a mid-distance bully after using mid-range shooting as his main offensive means.

Now in terms of power forward mid-range shooting, the NBA has begun to have the term West Aldridge and East Stoudemire.

Stoudemire has completely transformed this year, not nostalgic for the basket that once dominated, but came to the outside to shoot, which seems to be a little softer, but compared to the Stoudemire in Liu Ren's memory, the ending is much better, and the career will be a little longer.

Lakers offense.

This time it was Liu Ren who advanced with the ball.

Liu Ren knew that the Knicks would definitely guard him more tightly when he received the ball, so he simply started to push himself and contain the opponent's defense from the source.

Not to mention, Liu Ren's advancement may be the safest one for everyone in the Lakers team, because no one will be stupid to press him to defend, use the guard to press Liu Ren and he will directly hit the acceleration and advance, and use the front court to press Liu Ren to accelerate, and then the person who is pressing can only watch Liu Ren accelerate and break fast.

Watching Liu Ren take the ball on the outside, without the slightest meaning of passing, this scene is both familiar and a little strange to the Lakers players.

Last season, Liu Ren and his teammates cooperated relatively less, most of the time they were alone or empty, and everyone else was serving Liu Ren, this year Liu Ren has integrated more into the team, and has also begun to serve his teammates in blocking and dismantling, and this kind of singles scene is becoming less and less common.

"How do you prevent this? Direct single defense or bag clip? ”

The Knicks players were a little at a loss.

During the two-day break in Los Angeles, it was said to be a break, but in fact, there were two afternoons of training, as well as watching the video of the Lakers' game after the All-Star Weekend, focusing on the video of other teams' defense of Liu Ren, and then curbing the Lakers' overall offense.

The Knicks coaching staff arranged training for the players was also how to separate Liu Ren from the rest of the Lakers and crack the Lakers' team offense.

But after the start of this year's game, Knicks players found that those things in simulated training were not useful! There is a feeling of punching the cotton after trying to accumulate strength, and I can't find the focus at all......

The Lakers didn't play tactics at all today!

Liu Ren held the ball from the beginning, which is completely different from the tactics of the Lakers who played three-quarters of a season!

What else can I do?

Shambaught immediately defended in front of Liu Ren, the Lakers now have a certain shooting ability on the other four people on the court, and they saw Liu Ren holding the ball and each went to the shooting area that he was good at, opening up the space, and the Knicks could only choose to defend alone.

Liu Ren moves outside the three-point line with the ball.

"It's not like this, it's not here, it's looking for it......" Liu Ren just stuck to the ball like that, didn't care about the passage of time, and just wandered outside the three-point line like that.

Finally, Liu Ren felt that the rhythm was right, and quickly pulled to a 45-degree angle on the left side, and Clarkson, who was waiting in the bottom corner of the left, also tacitly cut into the basket at this time, giving the Knicks the illusion that the Lakers were going to run back, and they didn't dare to go to Liu Renbao.

At this time, Liu Ren just reached the left 45-degree angle and rose directly from the ground, facing the Shambaught defense and tilting his body to shoot a three-point shot!

Green and Gasol on the inside immediately began to grab rebounds, and Clarkson, who rushed into the interior, also changed from a reverse running posture to a rebounding action.

"Huh"

This time Liu Ren entered!

That's how it feels!

Liu Ren began to get excited, this feeling has not been passed for a year!

This year, Liu Ren's data, shooting percentage, and efficiency are much stronger than last season, but he has lost a very special feeling, especially after being targeted by opponents in the last few games, this feeling of losing something is getting deeper and deeper, and now he has finally found it!

It's sharp!

No matter how the opponent defends, no matter who the opponent is, just do it!

This year, Liu Ren has become relatively mature and steady, and his playing has begun to become reasonable.

Even if he was forced by the Warriors to slash 70+ and score 40 points in a single quarter, it was because the team couldn't play and was going to lose, and he was forced to play like this according to the situation, which actually belonged to the reasonable category, because the Warriors played too well at that time, and the opponent was too strong, and he needed to behave like that, but it was actually reasonable.

Of course, due to the Lakers' great progress in young players this year, Whiteside and Green have become the league's first-line players, Clarkson, a rookie, makes the Lakers' point guard line no longer a weakness, and Nick Young, Korver, McCollum, Antetokounmpo, these excellent substitutes, as long as the Lakers play steadily and reasonably, they can continue to win.

But because of this, Liu Ren's sharpness gradually disappeared in this reasonable atmosphere, and he himself felt that it was right to fight like this, and of course it was indeed right to fight like this.

But basketball is not a thing where right or wrong is everything!

No matter how reasonable the game is, there are teammates who have a bad hand, which leads to the situation that the Lakers cannot function when Liu Ren is targeted by the opponent, just like playing the Cavaliers.

There was also a crisis when playing the Hawks, but the Lakers had too much depth of players, and the Hawks did not have the strength of the Cavaliers, so the Lakers could win the game steadily by relying on the rotation lineup.

But what about the best-of-7 playoff and Finals? What about when the opponents are Warriors and Knights? Or is it like that? But just in the playoffs, the whole series of teammates didn't feel good? Or is it steady?

This season, Liu Ren has been steady and steady, and he has been stable for too long, and he has played reasonably for too long, he has become accustomed to it, and he has forgotten the previous feeling of not being afraid of heaven and earth, and he has begun to be a little afraid of losing, afraid of not being able to shoot.

Other Kobe, McCollum, Green and others who relied on Liu Ren's ability to play reasonably were also affected because of Liu Ren's targeting.

But Nick Young and Korver, who have always shot when they feel like they come, have not been affected.

After All-Star Weekend, the head coaches of other teams seem to have noticed this and began to use it to target him defensively, put him in a "reasonable" position, and at the same time curb his opportunities to perform, and gradually push the Lakers to a dead end.

The loss is that the Lakers' overall strength is strong enough to stabilize their nine-game winning streak.

But it is precisely because the Lakers are too strong that it is difficult for the Lakers to find this, so the Cavaliers and Warriors are actually snickering, and if the Lakers don't find out about this in the playoffs, they have a better chance of winning.

However, when he played the Hawks in the last game, Liu Ren had a rare desire to express himself urgently, and then the Hawks defended him too much, forcing D'Antoni to replace Liu Ren prematurely, and it happened that Nick Young's performance was too good after he came on the court, and he relied on the unreasonable wave to mess up the Eagles' original defense against Liu Ren, giving Liu Ren an unreal feeling, making Liu Ren feel too incredible, why a player who fights waves can play so well, and can score wantonly under the same defense, The use of his teammates is better than his.

Liu Ren has always been a man of action, and if he thinks it's wrong, he will use practical actions to confirm it.

Among the Lakers' remaining opponents in the regular season, the Knicks, who were the strongest, naturally became the best test subjects.

In this game, Liu Ren felt from the beginning that the Knicks clearly wanted to defend him like those previous teams, and Liu Ren, who was a little angry, simply let go of the game!

Then the Knicks' defensive plan fell through in an instant, and they failed before they could be implemented!

All of a sudden, the Knicks' defense didn't know how to defend at all, and Fisher formulated two sets of defensive tactics for this game before the game, the first is to deal with the "separation" defense when Liu Ren is on the Lakers' side, that is, to cut off Liu Ren's contact with other teammates and cut the Lakers team's offense, and the second is to defend the Lakers' rotation lineup to curb the defense of the interior, that is, to shrink the defense.

But now the first defense is useless at all, Liu Ren doesn't play tactics anymore, the Lakers don't play team offense, just Liu Ren is alone, he can break through if he wants to break through, shoot if he wants to, it's so capricious!

Liu Ren feels pretty good today, he can often throw in after finding the feeling after half a day, and if he can't find the feeling, he will burst out, and after attracting the bag, he will either continue to shoot or pass, in short, he can play how he wants, turning the Knicks' defense upside down.

The Knicks' defense collapsed directly, fell into a state of blind defense, and frantically surrounded Liu Ren.

And after the defense collapses, the offense will also have problems, the Knicks can't defend it, and the mentality on the offensive end will inevitably be affected, and the tactical movement is still so good, but when shooting, the hand feels the impact because of the mentality problem, and the shot begins to miss.

Slowly, by the end of the first quarter, the Lakers gradually pulled away and led by 11 points at 31-20.

In the second quarter, the two sides began to rotate.

However, the two sides are likely to meet in the finals, and this game is the last game before the possible finals meeting between the two sides this season, so it is natural to try their best to win, and the lineup sent by both sides in the second quarter is still mostly the main force.

The Lakers replaced Jeremy Lin, McCollum, Liu Ren, Antetokounmpo, and Whiteside.

The Knicks brought on Sherved, J.R. Smith, Anthony, Bargnani, and Cole Aldridge.

During the intermission, Fisher's side completely overturned the previous defensive arrangement, and simply arranged according to the regular defense, which was packed and clamped, and the single defense was single, and began to emphasize the overall rotation defense.

D'Antoni didn't have any opinions because of Liu Ren's "blind play" in the first quarter, and he still arranged the tactics as he wanted.

D'Antoni is a very romantic person, he is a very romantic person, he is all after the tactics are arranged, he no longer bother, as long as the players play well, and it doesn't matter how the players play in the real game, because he believes that plans can never catch up with changes, and players who have the ability to adapt are good players.

So D'Antoni continued to arrange his tactics according to the style of play that best suited this lineup.

At the beginning of the second quarter of the game, the Knicks began to follow the defensive response strategy arranged by Fisher with Liu Ren as the offensive initiation point.

But after the game restarted, the Knicks players were confused again.

Liu Ren doesn't hold the ball anymore! The Lakers began to play Jeremy Lin and Antetokounmpo's pick-and-roll tactics and began to play the Lakers' regular tactics this season!

"What the hell is this bastard going to do!"