Chapter 250: Already Losing
The current Lakers can basically rely on two points, one is Kobe's personal offensive ability, and the other is the interior twin towers composed of Gasol and Bydam, in addition, the entire Lakers have nothing worth mentioning.
The triangle tactics that Phil Jackson brought to the Lakers have been broken down with the departure of Odom, and the current Lakers have no shadow of Phil Jackson at all.
Whether it is Kobe, Gasol and Bydam, they all have a weakness, and that is physical problems.
Kobe Bryant is in his 30s, and his physical function has begun to inevitably decline, and his physical fitness is naturally among them, although Kobe has been maintaining it very well, and he has a very strict control over the Lakers' playing time, but after all, he is over 30 years old, and anyone will encounter such a thing.
Gasol is in the same situation as Kobe, and as for Bydam, his large body also makes him quite passive in things like running back and forth.
As a result, the Lakers can effectively deal with the only players on the bench in the athletic battle.
This is completely different from the Clippers, Wang Cannon, Paul, Griffin are all in their playing years, and the athleticism of these three people is that kind of strong and scary, among the other players, Matthews is also a well-known physical strongman, although Foye is a little worse, but there are still many people in the Clippers who can replace him, such as Paul's substitute Bledsoe and so on.
In this way, when the Clippers engage in a run-and-gun tactic, the Lakers will be caught up in an endless run back and forth, consuming the main body.
Of course, the run-and-gun is not unstoppable, if the Lakers can stabilize their offensive position, and at the same time try to limit the Clippers' offense. Then it's not hard to win, just like the many meetings between the Spurs and the Suns in 0506.
The Lakers don't have a player like Duncan, no matter which one Gasol and Bydam are, they can't be the defensive gate on the inside like Duncan of the Spurs, maybe Bydam, who sent 10 blocks in the game against the Nuggets, has some potential to do this, but in the game with the Clippers, I haven't seen such a Bydam stand up.
So when it comes to this strategy, Negro looks confident, and in his opinion, as long as the Clippers' players can maintain the basic level. Then the Lakers can't be a match for the Clippers.
The truth is similar to what Negro thought, in the Clippers' home court, in the fifth game between the Clippers and the Lakers, the Lakers were stunned by the Clippers' sudden change of starting lineup at the beginning of the game.
They didn't expect the Clippers to give up Jordan Jr., who has good interior defense, and let Griffin, who was slightly worse defensively, go to the center position.
"One big with four small tactics. Is the Clippers going to play a run-and-shoot tactic? Seeing this scene, the first thought in Barkley's mind was the run-and-bomb tactic, and the starting list of a large belt and four small was the most basic lineup configuration of the run-and-bomb.
The Suns at the peak of that year continued to use such a starting lineup. Let Stoudemire, who plays power forward himself, in the center position.
With the speed of a sports car in the sun and Stoudemire's excellent round-trip run. Stoudemire will always use his speed to shake off the opposition's interior center in the game, and easily play the wrong player.
"It's really possible!" O'Neal touched his chin and carefully observed the Clippers' lineup, "Then again, Griffin and Stoudemire have similar technical characteristics when they were young, they are both the kind of players who use their physical strength to hit the basket with instantaneous explosiveness. And their ability to handle and catch the ball is decent among the big guys, and since Stoudemire is good for run-and-gun tactics, there's no reason why Griffin shouldn't. ”
"It's just that we've never seen the Clippers use any run-and-gun tactics before. Isn't there a problem with a sudden and improvised change of tactics now? As long as the Lakers respond in a timely manner, I believe that the Clippers with little experience in this area should not be difficult to deal with. Smith said.
Smith was right, but Lakers head coach Mike Brown was blindsided the moment he saw the Clippers lineup on the court, and he didn't even react to what the Clippers wanted to do in the first place.
So he could only shout from the sidelines: "Steady the rhythm and do a good defense!" Hit it slowly! ”
This kind of thing, does shouting twice work? Obviously it doesn't work.
So the Lakers were blinded by the Clippers from the beginning.
The Clippers' offense is too fast, although it does not strictly abide by the 7-second offensive law of running and bombing at the peak of the Suns, but on average, the Clippers' each offense only takes about 13 seconds, 3 seconds to dribble the ball from the backcourt to the frontcourt, and 10 seconds to organize the offense and offensive time, which is too fast for the 24-second offensive time.
Although such a fast-paced offense has affected the offensive efficiency of the Clippers to a certain extent, and even Wang Cannon's initial shooting rate is only a little more than 40 percent, but the Lakers on the other side are even more wolf-like.
Not to mention anything else, Kobe Bryant can barely bear it, but Gasol and Bydam, the two inside lines, have already consumed their bodies because of a large number of round-trip runs. Gasol was scrambled by the cannon of the king who was opposite him, and his physical strength was almost at the bottom because of the non-stop fast back and forth running. As for Bydam, as soon as this guy came on the court, he faced the Clippers' repeated impact baskets.
A large with four small lineups, these four small men, including Wang Cannon, are all players who can dribble and break through, and in a fast-paced tactical system like running and bombing, it is simply too simple to find a chance to break through. So, in a minute, Bydam ate two fouls and sat on the bench to cheer on his teammates.
Mike. Brown did say to stabilize the situation and strengthen the defense, but he didn't tell the players what to do, even if these players have high tactical literacy, it is difficult for them to think independently in the process of the game.
By the end of the first quarter, many Lakers fans were already white.
At 35:21, the Clippers scored 35 points in the first quarter at home, surpassing the Lakers by 14 points, and at the same time, it also made Lakers fans smell defeat.
Kobe Bryant attacked in vain, trying to use his offense to help the team win, but in the face of Wang Cannon, who had been watching him all the way, it was difficult to do much.
Today's Wang Cannon has been a lot lax in defense, because he himself has to join the ranks of the running and bombing team, and naturally he will not have too much energy to focus on Kobe, but even so, Kobe wants to attack is not so simple.
Now it is different from before, in the past, Kobe Bryant could attack unscrupulously because the team's defense was guaranteed, but now, every time Kobe Bryant attacks, he has to estimate the position of the Clippers players and the positions of his teammates, for fear that if he fails to attack once, he will be directly hit by the Clippers with a crisp defensive counterattack.
The current Lakers, no player in a position has an advantage in terms of speed, whether it is Sessions at point guard, or himself at scoring guard, or Ci Shiping at small forward, when facing the fast break of the Clippers players, even if they desperately return to defense, they can't catch up.
With such scruples, Kobe Bryant became hesitant to make a move.
Every time, Kobe Bryant will not make a move until his teammates are in a good position, or if he has a chance to hit.
But in this way, how many more chances can Kobe Bryant get? You know, he's facing the king's cannon. Under the defense of Wang Cannon, even if it is not in a state of full defense, how many opportunities can Kobe Bryant find?
After the first quarter of the game, even the Lakers players were all silent with their heads down.
Their head coach, Brown, is trying in vain to put the situation to rest.
Steady dìng down, steady dìng down! Is there a fart for a single sentence to stabilize dìng?
Of course, Brown also said some useful things, such as the core of the Clippers' run is Paul, and if Paul's speed can be limited, the speed of the Clippers will naturally slow down.
For another example, as long as you can prevent the Clippers' offense, the Clippers' fast-paced offense will sooner or later drag down the physical fitness of their own team members or something.
But these words are actually useless.
Paul, the Lakers can't defend it, and the Clippers' offense, the Lakers can't defend it either.
So, Mike. Brown's words are useless and meaningless.
At the end, Brown himself smiled bitterly, knowing that his departure would be a sure thing soon after this playoffs.
Having said that, many coaches want to coach the Lakers, who have big bosses, top superstars in the league, a long and excellent history, and bustling city metropolises, and this qiē looks so perfect.
But Brown here knows that this qiē is all an illusion, the generous owner hopes that the team can earn more benefits for him, the league's top superstars need to be served and coaxed like grandpa, the long history has become a shackle on you, and the bustling metropolis makes your players linger night and night to guide the level of zhì to decline.
Although he only stayed for one season, Brown himself was about to be unable to stay, and being the head coach of a big club is really not as simple as imagined.
Sighing helplessly, Brown stopped his futile commentary and analysis, he knew that it was useless to say anything now, the Lakers had lost, lost to the Clippers, who had been reborn and upgraded to become the top team in the league. (To be continued......)