The two hundred and forty-four chapters continued
There is no referee's restraint. The 76ers' offense is going to be much smoother.
The referees are not helping the Lakers, and that's the best help for the 76ers.
Offense, winning this game, that's what all the 76ers players have on their minds.
Because of Luke's super touch, Larry made the bold decision to replace Allen and let Reed, Luke, and Tony Cookch partner the Wallace brothers. With this lineup, Luke discussed with Larry and boldly used another tactic - elevator tactics.
In the later NBA, each team had its own unique, relatively fixed offensive tactics, and every effective offensive tactic required space, movement, players, and playmakers who could tie all of the above factors together.
For example, the Heat's LeBron James responded by low post; When Tony Parker gets the ball, he gets a chance through a high pick-and-roll; Kevin Durant uses his running to contain and create offensive opportunities for his teammates, and so on and so forth.
And the Golden State Warriors have made a lot of progress through the tutelage of coach Mark Jackson (the same good man player who still plays for the Knicks). In terms of offensive tactical arrangement, it is specially designed for the team's two major scorers, Stephen Curry and Klay? Thompson's "Elevator" tactic became their fixed tactical routine.
The so-called elevator tactic, also known as elevator cover, is to use two tall interior lines to form a human wall, such as C standing on the left side of the free throw line, PF or a guard taking the ball on the right side of the three-point line to attract the defense, and the shooter runs to the three-point line through the running position. At this point, PF and C quickly moved closer together to form a human wall and create an open three-point opportunity for the shooter. However, the only downside of this is the loss of rebounding protection under the basket, which is the best and worst part of him, but as long as there is a shooter who can guarantee a shooting percentage, it is still worth trying. Of course, this concept of the game comes from the outstanding 3-point ability of the two, with Thompson shooting 39.8% from 3-point range this season, while Curry is at an astonishing 45.2%. Successful tactics, successful shooters. It can be easily converted into scores.
And that's exactly what the 76ers are doing right now. The three players on the perimeter all have outside shooting ability and are hitting pretty well:
Tony Cookic, as the "Jordan of Europe", was the chief substitute for the Bulls Joe gang leader that year. The sixth man of the bulls. Three-point ability, that's pretty stable; Michael Reid. Although his ability to break through and impact the basket has improved by leaps and bounds due to the mess of Luke and Allen, he still hasn't forgotten his job - shooting. As a shooter who has been set in the league since he entered the league, he certainly hasn't forgotten his job, and even when he doesn't play a lot of minutes, he can use his outside shooting ability to score. As for Luke, his hand is bursting today, which goes without saying.
As for the 76ers' "elevator door", there is no problem at all, even a heavyweight player like O'Neal can limit the player, what else can't be blocked?
That's how the 76ers began their tactics. Everything went quite smoothly, Luke controlled the ball to the front court and passed to Reid at a 45-degree angle, and then ran to the side, ran inside after two counterruns, and rushed to Big Ben and Rashid in an instant to pass by, and then saw the Wallace brothers "close the door" and directly blocked Kobe, and Reed's pass at this time also arrived, just in Luke's hands, Luke easily threw the ball outside the three-point line. Elevator door tactics succeed!
This is a great encouragement to both the 76ers and Luke, which has a new tactical thinking for the former and an affirmation for the latter, which shows that the tactics of later generations are still useful now, and this tactic is still very good.
But it's a bit of a pity that I didn't bring Aaron with me. However, Aaron is quite unsuitable for this tactic.
This tactic, as mentioned earlier, is to completely abandon the offensive rebounding to be executed, so you have to consider the shooting percentage, especially the three-point shooting percentage, but Allen can't.
As we all know, Allen's offense is based on individual singles ball-holding breakthroughs. But his long-range throw is average, and it belongs to the feel type; The mid-range shooting ability is more than twice as strong as that of three-point shooting, especially the stop-and-go jump shot in the fast breakthrough has a considerable accuracy, and it is quite mature for the pace adjustment and shaking before shooting, as well as the timing of the shot; The layup is definitely the strongest part of Allen's shooting skills, when facing the players who rush up to make up for the defense after the breakthrough, Allen has super judgment, excellent psychological quality and admirable courage, and the rhythm and timing of the basket are very good, often can use the time difference to avoid blocks, and are not afraid of collisions, and often stage a good three-point play. That's what we love about Aaron. But shoot three-pointers...... I shot 3 times today, and none of them hit, so let's forget it for the time being.
The Lakers continue to play, the defense is still like that, Big Ben defends alone, and the 76ers still "abandon the sharks" tactic. Due to the absence of Allen, the 76ers' defense is now closer to the later Pistons Five Tigers, and the defense has been raised by more than one notch, and the Lakers' offense is even more difficult. The physical strength is also a little unbearable, especially since he is not moderate, and he is working in a nightclub every night these days, and he completely treats the game as a vacation. So in the third quarter of the game, O'Neal's number of hits continued to increase, so that the referees couldn't stand it, and blew a few unwarranted fouls from the 76ers, and finally didn't make O'Neal too embarrassed. But O'Neal's free-throw shooting percentage was there, and the shark-cutting tactic that Larry was unwilling to use until his death was used by the referees in a daze.
However, this success angered Luke. Originally, Luke was very dissatisfied with the referee's bias in the first half, and now it is still like this, isn't the lesson enough! However, it is not difficult to understand that this is the territory of the Lakers, and O'Neal is still the league's premier superstar center, and the current O'Neal is still quite out of shape, so it is normal for such help.
But that's not good news for the 76ers. So Luke found his teammates on the field.
"Hey, brothers, we're going to have to speed up!" Luke said.
"Okay, no problem!"
This time the 76ers are still the same. The elevator door tactic, but the speed was fast, and the offensive time was originally 24 seconds, but the 76ers completed the offense in 10 seconds, and they also hit.
And when defending, he completely adopts a forced defense, forcing the Lakers to make mistakes, so that he can break fast again.
In this way, the 76ers played the third quarter, and Luke made eight three-pointers, of course, using 12 shots. But it's not a bad result. Reid shot 4-of-7, Tony Cookic also hit 3 three-pointers, and Big Ben and Rashid completely turned into "elevators", constantly switching on and off, creating opportunities for the rest of the 76ers, and completely failed to score. But that paid off, as the 76ers temporarily led by 23 points, regardless of how many timeouts Phil Jackson called. He had a trick up his sleeve with a tactic he hadn't seen before, at least for now.
In a normal regular season, this score would be enough to turn the fourth quarter into garbage time, but this is the Finals, it's different, at least the Lakers will never give up now! There are many cases where the front game is very good, but the opponent is overturned in the fourth quarter. However, this is not an isolated phenomenon, what happened to the Lakers is a clear example, but it happened next year, the sixth game of the Kings against the Lakers, and the NBA officials instructed the referee to ensure that the Lakers advanced. In that game, the Lakers made 27 free throws in the fourth quarter and ultimately won the game. Do you think this is the fault of the referee?
However, the main referee who officiated the game is now lying in the hospital resting, and may be undergoing surgery, but I don't know what the situation is now, after all, Donaghi is not a good person, Joe Crawford is not bad, but this Stafford Luke is not sure about his pulse. Yes, he is also a famous golden whistle in the NBA. But Luke also knows something secret. (To be continued......)