Chapter 89: The Lakers' Tactical Core
'The fourth game was an exception and we just need to adjust our emotions now...... I know you didn't get a good night's rest last night, including me...... I can understand your feelings, but no matter how tired you are, no matter how many negative emotions you accumulate right now, you have to train me now, adjust my physical condition, and prepare for tomorrow night's game! ”
These were the first words Collins said when the Wizards began full practice after the noon session after Game 4.
At this time, no one on the Wizards team squeaked, and all the main players seemed to be just coping with things when they were training, and Collins didn't reprimand much about it, he knew that the current Wizards needed time to ease their emotions.
However, Collins believes that his main players will return to their usual form before the game, and Collins is even less convinced that someone from the Lakers can score 52 points for a second time. If such an incident had happened, Collins would have accepted the outcome of the game.
All Collins is doing now is to speed up the return of the main players to the form that the players should have, and to speed up the time in which they should be.
On June 13th, the fifth game of the finals was still held as scheduled, and Wizards fans did not want to give up the home team, and the cheers for the home team after the game began.
The Lakers were no different from the fourth game at the beginning, and Kobe Bryant dribbled to organize the offense.
It's not easy to organize the Lakers' offense, especially when there are two absolute scoring points in this team, and this task has been entrusted to Fisher, who has been doing very well.
It's just that in the fourth game, this task of organizing the offense was suddenly done by Kobe, which was a very big blow to the pre-arrangement of the Wizards' fourth game, which directly led to Kobe Bryant's high score in this game, and also completely released Kobe's own instinct, which is also an important factor for Kobe to win high scores under the Wizards' defense, because the Wizards have to guard against Kobe's organization.
Of course, Collins made a corresponding arrangement for this in the fifth game, Gerrard started to defend Kobe, Hamilton forgot it for the time being, the fourth game gave the young man a very big blow, Collins did not want to add to the dark actual area of the young man's heart.
"Gerrard, as long as you limit Kobe Bryant after you play, it's a big contribution, don't be afraid of fouls, as long as you can limit him for a short time!"
That's what Gerrard told him before he came on the pitch.
Kobe Bryant, who was standing in front of Gerrard, was expressionless, no one knew what he was thinking at this time, suddenly Kobe accelerated once, quickly hit the basket, and Kwame, who assisted in the defense, immediately appeared, but at this time, Kobe Bryant used a pass without looking at people, and immediately handed it to O'Neal in the low post, in the face of Leitner's defense, O'Neal didn't care, and ended the battle with a slam dunk.
When Collins saw this, he looked at Jackson in surprise.
I thought I had done a very good job, but I didn't expect someone to take precautions, if this style of play is not wrong, Kobe Bryant is just a guise for the offensive end, and the absolute main force of the Lakers is O'Neal.
It's just that Collins didn't call a timeout when he found out, and he didn't change the team's tactics at the start...... Kobe Bryant was the starting point of the game, which the Wizards already knew, but how else could the Wizards change?
The Lakers' triangle offensive tactics are originally a tactic for superstars, and finding the biggest offensive space for the Lakers' stars is the original intention of the triangle offensive tactics, and it is also the most incomprehensible place for many teams.
The current Lakers team has changed the original configuration and used Kobe to officially organize the team's offense, that is, from the original O'Neal as the tactical initiation point to Kobe Bryant as the tactical initiation point...... Don't underestimate this change, this change means that the Lakers' triangle offensive system has fundamentally changed.
The Wizards can limit O'Neal to a certain extent, but there is no very good way to limit defensive perimeter players, especially super scorers like Kobe, which is also an important reason why the Wizards were suddenly pulled up by the Magic team in the third game against the Magic team.
Rivers, who saw the game going on so far, slapped his thigh hard, but looked at O'Neal under the basket and smiled bitterly...... The Magic don't have a reliable fulcrum on the inside, Kert? Thomas is also only a blue-collar worker, and Ewing and Grant are already old.
If the Lakers don't have O'Neal, the Wizards can certainly continue to help defend Kobe Bryant without any scruples.
But when the Lakers' interior line is O'Neal, the Wizards don't have many good ways, just like other teams, maybe there are many ways to deal with Kobe, and they have the ability to really defend well, but when O'Neal is the tactical initiator, such a team has no way to really limit Kobe.
This is a successful, Jackson's triangular offensive team, and there are two major factors that must be there, one inside and one outside, complementing each other.
Of course, the Wizards feel helpless about the Lakers' offense, but they don't feel helpless, because basketball itself is more than the final scoring event.
As long as the Wizards' offense can maintain its efficiency, Collins doesn't think he's going to fail.
Kwame stepped forward to block with Gong Feng, and Gerrard went directly to the basket, and after receiving the basket, he responded to the Lakers' attack with a violent dunk.
Jackson also looked at Collins very unexpectedly, and really underestimated Collins' psychological adjustment ability, the Wizards did not have any adverse reactions in this game after a big defeat, and they can quickly recover their own competitive level, which is also a very remarkable ability.
The Lakers and Wizards already know each other very well, and they don't feel any fuss about the Wizards' offense, and Fox can't defend Gerrard's breakaway, and he doesn't have any advantage in the confrontation under the basket, which must be endured.
Just how many knots can Gerrard maintain efficiency by doing so?
Well, Gerrard can't do it, Hamilton, although the two of them are two styles, but the efficiency of scoring is almost the same under the organization of Gong Feng.
The first quarter of the game ended in a back-and-forth battle between the two sides, and although each offense was met by the toughest defense of the opposing team, the Lakers and Wizards were both teams that made the best use of space, and once these two teams met as if the other team was defenseless.
Although the two teams also want to limit each other and defend each other, the most important thing is to do a good job of attacking on their own side under the premise of not being able to defend the opponent.
Of course, the premise of all this is that the key point of the opponent's offense is not discovered, once a team finds the key point of a team, it will definitely not hesitate to attack, for example, the Wizards team in the second game is to find the key point of the Lakers, turn the game into hand-to-hand combat, and finally win.
And in this game, the first thing to change was the Lakers, or the change that occurred at the beginning of the third quarter when the main team came on the court.
The Lakers turned their defense into a three-two.
After seeing the Lakers' defensive changes, Collins was taken aback, this is the defensive tactic used by the Magic team in that victory, but unlike the Magic team, the focus of the Lakers' defense is no longer Jordan, but has become the Wizards' current organizational guard - Gong Feng!
Seeing the Lakers' defense like this, Gong Feng could only transfer the ball on the outside, and then the Wizards players handed it to Hamilton, who was already in the empty position at the bottom foot, and in the face of the defender's defense three meters away, Hamilton took a deep breath and threw the basketball in his hand, at this time even Collins was extremely nervous to see if this ball would hit.
Fortunately, the ball was finally thrown into the arms of the basket, Collins breathed a long sigh of relief after seeing this, and Jackson couldn't help but smile bitterly when he saw this, but he didn't want to change.
Gong Feng couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, once Hamilton's three-point shooting was not opened, the Wizards would have a hard time.