In the first quarter, McMillan and the Trail Blazers players saw the power of the Lakers' version of the small lineup, and the biggest threat to the opponent's team was Odom. www.biquge.info In fact, the inside line of both sides is very empty now, there is only one pseudo-center active in the interior for a long time, and the others are cruising outside the three-second zone, but Aldridge is taller, but he can't suppress Odom at all, and he is disgraced.

But he can't be blamed for this, it's really a big difference in the technical characteristics of the two sides. Aldridge is a regular power forward, strong in attack and weak in defense, but also a pure interior player, and he has not played guard like some players who have skyrocketed in height since then, which makes him always use pure interior skills to deal with the task of both offensive and defensive ends. But Odom is different, when he first entered the league, he was known for his versatility, although he did not hit a quadruple-double, but both ball control skills and long-range shooting crosshairs are above the general wing, but this guy generally plays power forward on the court.

Of course, this time he played as a center, but Aldridge had no height advantage, and the three-centimeter gap was close to none in a basketball game, and any player with a slightly better bounce would not take such a difference in his eyes. And when the Trail Blazers didn't let Camby play, Odom was like a "rebounding vacuum cleaner", desperately grabbing one rebound after another, and Aldridge, who was not as agile and bounced as him, couldn't grab it at all. Originally, Batum also planned to go to the interior to help defend, but Wharton Jr.'s consecutive shots made him dare not act rashly anymore, and he could only watch Aldridge being bullied on the inside.

It's a terrible thing to get down inside in basketball, and the closer you get to the basket, the less chance you have to take it in stride, which makes it several notches more difficult to score. Some people will ask, isn't there still a three-point shot? Come on, how is it possible for a team to shoot a three-pointer and a two-pointer in a game? It may be possible to do it in a while, but if you want to make three-point shots and shots reach the level of two-point shots, you are either crazy or the world is crazy. It's good to have a few three-point shooters on each team, and more is a luxury, and there is no doubt that the three-point shooting rate is lower than the two-point shot, which also means that there will be a lot of rebounding, and the loss of the interior means that the rebounding is at a disadvantage, so what to fight with the opponent?

Of course, Ye Feng and the others still thought of a way, but the effect was not very good. In fact, in the final analysis, their solution is very simple, that is, to strengthen the breakthrough, after all, the space on the inside is quite large, deliberately let them gallop vertically, if they are deliberate, they can also cause Odom's defensive fouls, and he will throw a mouse bogey a few more times, and may even be replaced by Phil early because of too many fouls. However, Odom is usually average defensively, but he is very self-aware, and only uses his movement speed to closely follow the Trail Blazers' attackers and cause interference when they shoot.

Odom is also a veteran, having played in the league for 11 seasons since joining the NBA in 1999, and knows all too well about his strengths and weaknesses, as well as how to play to his strengths and weaknesses. Although his personality is also a little lazy, he is present at the same time as Kobe, and secondly, he is the only one on the inside, and if he continues to maintain a lazy attitude, the pressure will be very great, and he can't help but cheer up. Odom, who stayed focused, was terrifying, single-handedly choking the Trail Blazers' interior offense, forcing them to shoot frequently from mid-to-long range.

And the other Lakers players are not vegetarians, especially Kobe Bryant and Artest, two defensive titans, Roy and Ye Feng are also a little restrained under their full entanglement. In fact, Ye Feng is better, after all, Artest is still far from his peak, but Roy completely fell into the clutches of Kobe, and was under a lot of pressure after the shooting was continuously interfered with, and even the empty shots had lost their crosshairs later. Bayless certainly has an advantage in the face of Fisher, but his shooting is not very reliable, and McMillan also lets him take on the task of breaking through, but he has not reached a high level of experience or skill, and the biggest possibility after hitting the basket is to be blocked by Odom, which has happened twice in the first half of the first quarter.

In desperation, the Trail Blazers can only pin their hopes on Batum, after all, Wharton Jr. who is opposite him should be good, but he is not very good at defense. However, in this game, Wharton Jr. was like a chicken blood, and he looked gentle on the defensive end like a beast that wanted to eat people, and would rather foul than give Batum a chance to shoot easily, which made the French very depressed. Fortunately, Batum changed his strategy in time and fell to the low post to single Wharton Jr., which intermittently helped the team increase the score, but this was a drop in the bucket for the Trail Blazers, and they fell behind by 12 points in a single quarter.

By the time both sides began to field bench lineups in the second quarter, McMillan could only smile wryly. The consequence of the Lakers starting with a small lineup is that their bench lineup has a super twin tower composed of Gasol and Bynum, even if the Trail Blazers still have Camby and Uncle Huo, but for the Lakers' interior line, the two of them are not even dishes, and only Camby can cause some small trouble. These two people are simply on the inside, scoring rebounds and grabbing, Camby has been directly squeezed out of the basket several times, he is a little angry, but there is no way, the so-called boxing is afraid of being less strong!

Thanks to the unusually high shooting percentage of the backcourt composed of Miller and Fernandez, the Trail Blazers kept the score gap at about 10 points and did not be further stretched by the Lakers. If the shooting of the bench lineup is also inaccurate, then this game will not need to be played, and the point difference can quickly go to two or thirty points. It can also be seen how important the interior advantage is for professional basketball, the Lakers relied on Gasol and Bynum to turn the interior upside down, while the Trail Blazers can only rely on feel and luck.

But now the Trail Blazers can't close the score, and if they can't close the score, it will be difficult to win the game, which requires McMillan to come up with something different. But with so many players on the player list, how can you make a dish?