Chapter 163: Seven Seconds Attack
Now the appearance on the court can no longer be called the Portland Trail Blazers, but should be called the Portland Suns, McMillan also seems to be possessed by D'Antoni, running and bombing in full swing, not caring about his offensive round not long after the beginning, anyway, he is desperately rushing, desperately shooting, seizing all the gaps that can be used to give the Lakers a few hard shots. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
And in this game, Phil used back the starting lineup of two insiders, just letting Gasol play the No. 5 position and Odom playing the No. 4 position, plus Fisher, Kobe Bryant and Ariza formed the Lakers' starting lineup. The all-round Gasol and Odom naturally play well on the inside, after all, one of them is 2.08 meters tall and the other is 2.13 meters tall, and the two 2.03-meter-tall ones who bully Ye Feng and Outelo are called easy. Ye Feng and they didn't plan to make the interior line solid, the height disadvantage is difficult to make up, and it would be good to be able to cause some trouble to the Lakers' two interior lines.
But according to Ye Feng, the points lost on the defensive end must be made up on the offensive end. That's what he said, and that's what he did, as the team's starting No. 4, Ye Feng didn't use himself as an inside player at all when attacking, and even the more reliable back-to-back singles were firmly locked in the arsenal, playing no different from a wing. Well, he was originally a flanker, and the reason why he was placed in the number four position was McMillan's problem.
The Trail Blazers seem to have followed the Suns' game exactly, with ball-handlers blocking and splitting, bursting inside, and then a bunch of shooters waiting to be fed from beyond the three-point line, which is outrageously simple but works well. The Lakers' players didn't recover from the storm of offense at all, and the score was quickly pulled apart, and they thought in a trance that they were facing the Suns, who are known for their seven-second offense, rather than the young but decent Trail Blazers.
Before the start of the game, McMillan emphasized the two aspects of rebounding and interior defense, the former must be a soldier for all, don't say "grabbing rebounds is the job of interior players" This kind of nonsense, except for leaving one person to guard against the opponent's counterattack, the other four people all have to go to the inside to rush to grab rebounds, and if the height can't fight, use bounce to make up for it. As for the latter, it's better to defend around the front, and if you think you have enough muscles, you can also use a regular top defense, but in any case, just do your best, there's no need to waste all your energy on it.
In this game, the Trailblazers have only one tactical idea, that is, attack, attack, and then attack, if there is a defender in front of him, he will be overwhelmed, and he will not hesitate to shoot when there is a gap around him, and if he can't shoot, he will rush up and bite like a wolf pack, and the outside defense is completely sparing no physical strength. The Lakers are already confused, and the result of the confusion is that the whole team seems to be infected by Kobe, and the iron is clanging, Gasol and Odom have grabbed a lot of rebounds, but it is difficult for them to pass the ball to the front court in the first time, and naturally there will be no counterattack fast attack to seize the opponent's loopholes.
On the contrary, the Trail Blazers have greatly enhanced the team's morale because of their continuous shooting, and the morale has come with everyone shooting more energetically and of course more confidently. A lot of times you have to admit that there are some things that are unreasonable on the basketball court, and when the whole team starts to feel confident in every shot, the shooting percentage is not low nine times out of ten. The Trail Blazers have a lot of outside points, and strictly speaking, this is a three-point team, anyone can pull outside the three-point line, wait for the ball to pass to their hands, and then shoot the ball in the desperate eyes of the opponent.
In fact, they didn't replicate the Suns' tactics, after all, the Suns still put a Stoudemire branch on the inside, which is a top interior line with a height of 2.08 meters and super bounce. What does the Trailblazer have? Ye Feng? Or Outlaw? 2.03m is hard to make a living on the inside, they may have forgotten their position in the team, and they are still playing the same set as they were in the No. 3 position. This makes Gasol very unaccustomed, it is true that he moves quickly, but he is not fast enough to be able to defend the attack of the wing players from time to time, not to mention that Ye Feng is still a breakthrough master.
Odom can still defend these two guys on the inside, but it's useless, the wing players themselves are much more flexible than them, and the cooperation of the high and low positions is not difficult for Ye Feng, he is one of the ball handlers in the team, and it is trivial to want to pass the ball to his teammates who slip on the bottom line in the high position. The Lakers naturally let the interior take over the offensive duties after being blocked from the outside, but they soon found that the Trail Blazers had abandoned their rigid defense on the interior in favor of mid-range and three-point shooting against them.
It stands to reason that the closer you are to the basket, the easier it is to score, and that's true, and normally players have the highest shooting percentage under the basket. But this game is a little different, the Lakers' interior offense does have a crushing advantage, but they must take into account Ye Feng's defense. The small one who defends the big one almost does not get started and blocks directly, generally starting from the lower three ways, and there are a few rounds before Gasol can lift the ball, it has been taken out by Ye Feng, in the playoffs, this action will not let the referee blow a personal foul.
At the pre-game press conference, some reporters thought it was a parody of the Lakers' starting lineup in the last game, but now they have found out that it is not a parody at all, but a blue-out out-of-blue. If the Lakers' small lineup is version 1.0, then the Trail Blazers are definitely version 2.0 or even 3.0, and they play crazier and bolder than the Lakers, just watch them shoot wildly at mid-to-long range.
It's hard to imagine that the Lakers are trailing by 12 points with two minutes left in the first quarter, and it stands to reason that the Trail Blazers should be behind, but such a thing happened so logically, the Lakers' bench just came up to fill in the hole for the main team, presumably they haven't done such a thing for a long time, judging from the Lakers' lineup this season, as long as their bench can keep the advantage of the starter, it is understandable that it is not possible to waste a little.
But the Trail Blazers didn't give the Western boss any face at all in this game, relying on a strange starting lineup to really press the opponent to the ground and beat them up, of course, the Trail Blazers fans on the sidelines don't care so much, they don't even want to think about who wins and who loses at the end of the game, as long as the Trail Blazers are leading the Lakers now, this is their most simple happiness.