Chapter 161: How to Break the Dilemma?
The gap in strength is the most frustrating because it's hard to close the gap tactically, at best weakening, and that's it. The best help for a professional team www.biquge.info is to look for reinforcements, but it's not time yet. The Trail Blazers didn't make any big moves before the trade deadline, and they had to wait for the offseason to make reinforcements. In other words, McMillan must play the playoffs well with this deck of cards in his hand, whether he wins or loses.
It's a tough thing for him.
Whether it is using the original starting lineup or choosing to change the lineup under huge pressure, McMillan can use so many players, Ye Feng's comeback has relieved the pressure on him, but it is only relieved, the Lakers have much more available soldiers than the Trail Blazers. There is no one available on the bench except for Oterlo, Batum is not bad, but he is just a low-profile version of Ye Feng, and the others are ...... McMillan shook his head irritably.
The small lineup of the Lakers in the last game gave him a big shock, and it turned out that Phil was also such a deviant old man, oh, it is said that he was a hippie when he was younger, and that's right. McMillan didn't think he needed such a crazy lineup, but now he can't think of it, and the only way to do it is to stun his opponent with a swift attack at the beginning of the game, and it is best for them to wake up in the second half. In this kind of fighting for speed and assault ability, you can only use a small lineup, which is a no-brainer.
But there are also unavoidable problems. It's okay to play fast and slow, but the Lakers can also play big and small, and the big one may feel a little reluctant when defending the small one, but it can be hung up and played on the offensive end. What about defending on the inside? Directly hoist the ball behind him, and the opponent receives the ball and turns around. The Trail Blazers don't have an all-round interior like Odom, they only have an all-round outside line, which doesn't work, at least half of Ye Feng's 8 rebounds in the last game were long rebounds that popped up, which is nothing to brag about, although the 1.98-meter Sir Barkley has also been under the basket, but after all, people have a big ass that can let him crush the defense with his back like a bulldozer, and these few people in the Trail Blazers do not have such a magic weapon.
McMillan couldn't help but think about a trade, but this little bit of caution was quickly strangled by himself after he took the lead, and now is not the time to think about trading, which will only make him feel comfortable with the loss of this series. Although it is almost a dream for the Trail Blazers to beat the Lakers and advance to the Western Conference Finals, McMillan has no intention of giving up, and it is not too late to think about the trade until the offseason. The most important thing for him now is how to set up the starting lineup for Game 4, which is nerve-wracking because the Lakers can switch styles almost instantaneously, and their manpower can withstand such a change.
The Trail Blazers are different, McMillan went through the list of players in his mind, Blake, Roy, Ye Feng, Ade, Oden, Fernandez, Batum, Outlaw, Purzbilla, basically these nine people divided the playing time of each game, and the others could only play for a few minutes in an inconsequential time, and it would be good to be able to make their stats not all zero. Such a lineup can't be changed, Fernandez and Blake are different types of point guards, but Batum and Ye Feng have similar roles, Potzbilla and Oden are similar, Oterlo is purely a scoring arrow, and it is a little difficult to play some new tricks.
Maybe you can play a more pure small lineup like Phil?
As soon as this thought came out, it lingered in his mind, and McMillan knew very well that the Lakers had no problem using this trick, and the Trail Blazers used the trick of killing 1,000 enemies and losing 800, and maybe more than 800. Strictly speaking, Ade, Oden and Purzbilla are all the same interior players, and they can't juggle ball control, scoring, rebounding, and so on at the same time, which is something that a player like Odom can do. So why not think about attacking for attacking? Since you can't prevent it, let's hit him vigorously, as Payton's teammate, McMillan is not a good-tempered person.
This is the choice that the underdog must make when facing a strong opponent, either hold the fence and defend solidly, or attack with all his might. There are not a few people who choose the former on the football field, after all, it is possible to prevent the opponent's attack on such a large green field, but the latter has always been chosen on the basketball court, because you can't let the opponent not score a point, as long as you can score, you can't stop it, it's better to play happily, it doesn't matter if you lose, anyway, you can't easily snatch the victory from me, even if you want to win, you have to use twelve points of strength, what is the reason for winning casually?
Once you've decided on the idea, the rest of the staffing is pretty straightforward. Blake is steady, but not fast enough, and his three-point shot is not so accurate, so it is good to use Fernandez as the starting point guard, even if he relieves the responsibility of organization, he can still be an outside musketeer; The second position is undoubtedly Roy's, and it will be a death to let him swing up, he is a player who plays by his brain, not by his body; Batum in the third position, this kid has performed well after polishing, and his defense has improved, but he still needs to continue to practice the passing, but there is no more suitable candidate for the third position now.
The No. 4 position continues to play Ye Feng, he has done a good job of combining inside and outside, and he can also share the responsibility of the organization for Roy, and the Lakers' interior line basically has no one who wants to rely on speed to prevent him; The last is the No. 5 position, ruthlessly not on the pure inside line, put on Oterlo, this guy is not tall, but he is strong and strong, and it is still okay to top a top in the low post, and the defensive end will let Ye Feng assist in defense, and if you want to break the boat, you don't pay so much attention.
In fact, it's still a bit early to say that the Lakers are only leading 2-1, but McMillan firmly believes that now is the best time to gamble everything, in case this game is lost, the opponent will get the match point of this series, and the fifth game is still their home court, and the Trail Blazers are likely to not even have the power to fight back. The fourth game is much better than the fifth, and if you win, it will be a 2-2 draw, so that you will have some confidence to return to the Staples Center; If you lose, then it doesn't matter, it's the worst possible outcome.