Chapter 18: Interesting Propositions

What would happen if Kobe Bryant, the Lakers' current boss, saw such a situation? Are you still clamoring for a team trade? As a highly competitive player, he is perhaps the most unacceptable of such a fiasco.

If Lin Fei saw the current Warriors, how would he feel? Isn't it a pleasure? Not necessarily.

In fact, Lin Fei is now very clear about his position in such a "new" team, and Lin Fei already has a feeling when he usually connects with the team. Today's Warriors do look gorgeous and powerful. However, this still seems to be a bit estranged from Lin Fei.

The talent of the Warriors' players is now well known. Almost all of these men have shown their strongest side under Nielsen. Even with some players, people haven't seen them at their strongest, but people know that the whole Warriors team is at its best. But now it seems to have changed. During the Nielsen period, he emphasized speed and Lin Fei, so Lin Fei could give full play to his offensive talent to the extreme, and at the same time, the team's offense could play 8 points, so they couldn't live in the one. And now the new coach's emphasis on offense seems to be able to bring the Warriors' team and team's ability to 10 points, and Lin Fei estimates himself at this moment, if he integrates into such a lineup, the most conservative estimate, he may still be able to play 7 levels of skills. In fact, this is not to separate Lin Fei from the Warriors, but players like Lin Fei seem to be born to be able to stay out of tactics and do not rely on any tactical system, which is determined by his style of play, he has always been quite unreasonable and relies on personal ability, in the Nielsen period, he could, but now it seems that he can't.

Lin Fei has also made a public statement. For him now, personal data and accolades are nothing. The scoring champion and MVP are already things at hand. He wants a championship, and as long as the Warriors are strong enough, it doesn't matter what he does.

In the second game between the Warriors and the Lakers, Lin Fei and Kobe Bryant both arrived on the scene, but they both appeared as injury benches. Obviously, they won't play. The coach's arrangement may be to let his ace experience the feeling on the field, and also see the combat effectiveness of the current team.

There is an interesting phenomenon, that is, when the two head coaches guide their main players, Lin Fei and Kobe Bryant are also next to them, as if they are the assistants of a coach. Seeing such a situation, many people may be able to breathe a sigh of relief, because it seems that Lin Fei and Kobe Bryant still have an understanding of the team's new tactical system.

The second game begins. Because of the loss in the last game, this time the Lakers played particularly ferociously. The main line of the attack fell entirely on the inner twin towers. Almost all of the first ten shots were inside. This kind of behavior is really rare, after all, the Lakers also rely on extroversion a lot of the time, so it seems to be going to one extreme, that is, only attacking the inside. The Lakers may also see the weakness of the Warriors.

Stop! It really worked! The Lakers fought a positional battle to the death. Steady suppression of rhythm, this is definitely Nash's strong point! On the other hand, the Warriors seem to be running completely, and several fast-break balls have lost opportunities under the Lakers' quick return defense, and in the positional battle, although the Warriors have no shortage of good players who attack the basket, they don't seem to be in shape today, Keynes and Aix were blocked by Bynum in a row. However, apparently Keynes is a little unconvinced, Keynes has always been the most unconvinced is the kind of stunned young man who only relies on physical fitness to play, in the eyes of Keynes, Bynum may be that type, and it is a great shame for him to be blocked by such a player. …,

In the first quarter of the game, the Warriors trailed by six points, which was the first time that the Warriors had fallen behind in the preseason. In fact, D'Antoni knew what the problem was at this time. The Lakers slammed the interior, and the Warriors' defense was vulnerable, and in order to compress the offensive space of the Lakers' twin towers, almost all the defenders compressed the interior. But at this time, the Lakers are in charge of the outside line, the Warriors' defensive space is shrinking, and Nash's interspersing makes the Warriors at a loss, so the Warriors only have to be beaten. At the same time, due to the compression of personnel, most of them shrank to the backcourt, and their strongest fast attack could not be carried out at all. If it weren't for the Warriors' long-range shooting on the offensive end, they might have lost even more.

In the last game, the entire Lakers team played with the fast pace of the Warriors, and a group of old players of the Lakers couldn't be left behind at all, and no matter how strong the players were, they were in vain. And in this game, the Warriors followed the rhythm of the Lakers, so they were very passive.

So all of a sudden, we fell into a predicament. This dilemma is also something that Nelson has repeatedly emphasized at the beginning, and that is the pace of the team's offense. Nielsen's solution is that no matter what the opponent is, you just run like crazy and be unscrupulous on the offensive end, and the opponent's defense will naturally weaken, so that the opponent will eventually be led by you. The premise of this method is that the Warriors' offensive ability can be infinitely expanded, and the speed can far exceed the speed of the opponent's defense, and the Warriors are obviously able to do it, because at that time the Warriors emphasized speed, no matter who it is, as long as you can quickly get the basketball into the basket, then this is the tactic.

However, D'Antoni now emphasises the role of playmaking defender. Speed is secondary. Is there a way to fight the Lakers in this way? This is perhaps the first serious problem facing D'Antoni. You know, the Lakers can't do it with such a lineup, and the championship may be a more distant topic.

D'Antoni is, after all, not a stubborn man. He emphasized that the role of the playmaker is good, but he did not emphasize who the playmaker is. When he was in the Suns, he had Nash under him, of course, only a playmaker like Nash was worthy of his trust, but now, D'Antoni's subordinates are not only Curry who can be qualified as a playmaker, don't forget, the Warriors have another trump card, that is, Keynes.

In the first three games, because of Curry's excellent play, the role of the playmaker was quite good. So Keynes's organizational brilliance was suppressed. Now, in the face of such a Lakers lineup, can we try to let Keynes play the role of playmaking guard? After all, whether it is offensive or defensive, Keynes's dominance has already begun to take shape.

Lakers Brown seemed to be happy with his team's performance, so he didn't field the main lineup at the beginning of the second quarter. But at this time, seeing that the Warriors had changed formations, their competitiveness couldn't help but increase, and they were determined to compete with the Warriors again.

Keynes versus Nash may be an interesting proposition in itself.