"Tim, catch the ball"

After the start of this game, the first wave of possession was won by the Spurs, and Duncan beat Webb to get the ball when he jumped the ball, which was actually not an unexpected result, because almost all Lakers players had to estimate before the game started, so Webb's provocation loss this time also made the Lakers' defense prepare in advance.

In fact, the style of the current Spurs game is very different from the previous Spurs, if in 1999, the Spurs that were also at the peak played completely defensive basketball, and every offense was slowly played with an inside line, and every round did not seek to score but not to make mistakes, then the current Spurs are definitely one of the fastest offensive teams in the league, in fact, in the current starting lineup of the Spurs, whether it is Duncan and Scola on the inside or Parkkidd and Ragabel on the outside, These people are not slow, and they can even be said to move quickly.

This team has been reforming its offense since losing to the Boston Celtics in the 2003 Finals, and smashing this season is slowly moving towards the peak, in this case, the team's offensive rhythm is also very fast, of course, because of the acceleration of the offense, although the team's organizational guard Kidd, but there are also a lot of mistakes, so before the game Zhuang Fei also specially reminded his players to let them pay attention to the Spurs' counterattack.

However, the Spurs' first offense did not let the Lakers and Zhuang Fei see the opportunity to seize the fast break, and when the Spurs who got the ball poured into the Lakers half like a tide, although the Lakers' players basically retreated in place, but in the face of Webber's follow-up defense, Duncan, who almost sprinted all the way to the Lakers' basket after jumping the ball, just crossed the free throw line. Kidd's pass also leaped to Duncan's head. And the Spurs man has barely made any adjustments. Directly using his superhuman arm span and height to lean on Webb on the left side, he grabbed the basketball from Kidd with one hand with his right hand, and scored the first two points of the game with an easy one-handed split.

Duncan's offense still doesn't have any flashy colors, it is still extremely unpretentious, almost making people unable to find a little superfluous action, and after the Spurs' center dunk was completed, he also turned around and left expressionlessly, and Webb, who had just defended Duncan, was a little unpleasant at this time. He was squeezed by Duncan just now, and he couldn't jump at all, and he couldn't make any movements.

"Beautiful fast break, the current Spurs are a bit like the former Timberwolves and the current Lakers, any fast break opportunity will not be given up, Popovich's offense is now more and more like Coach Z" Kenny Smith on the commentary bench also said with a smile after Duncan scored the first goal, but Zhuang Fei on the sidelines at this time did not have such a mood as him.

As far as the Spurs' first offense is concerned, it is difficult for the Lakers' interior to resist Duncan in a one-on-one situation, of course, the game has just begun, and Zhuang Fei is not ready to attack. In fact, even a flanking attack. In the face of an inside line like Duncan, who has a strong passing ability, it can't be said that it is a pinch, and some strategy is still needed.

The first wave of the Spurs' offense played beautifully, whether it was coordination, speed or the way of the final score, so after the Spurs scored the first goal, the Spurs fans on the scene also raised their emotions, and when it was the Lakers' turn to attack, the audience also booed violently.

For Zhuang Fei and the Lakers in this game, the Spurs' offense is relatively secondary no matter what, the important thing is the impact of this team's defense on the Lakers' offense, in this game, it is obvious that the Lakers' offensive tactics in the past few games, such as the No. 5 tactic, will definitely be suppressed, and the No. 5 tactic needs strong running space.

When Kobe Bryant and Hardaway or Hill are difficult to cut into the basket area, the No. 5 tactic can actually move very little area, coupled with the Spurs' defensive speed on the outside, it can be said that this set of tactics is extremely difficult to be effective.

In this case, the Lakers' offense at the beginning of this game is not the No. 5 tactic of the Lakers' regular time in the past, Zhuang Fei now has no intention of using the No. 5 tactic to play one-on-one with Duncan, in fact, the first offense of the Los Angeles Lakers is handed over to Hardaway to deal with, for the Lakers, the best thing to do in this game is like when Arenas frantically suppressed Parker to play 1-4 tactics when they were in the Boston Celtics, as far as the Spurs' starting lineup is concerned, in fact, Parker is also the only defensive hole.

As for Scola, although his interior defense is not good, but because there is a Duncan, even if his defense is not good, Duncan can help him defend, unless the Spurs encounter a mid-to-long-distance hook maniac like Wang Zhizhi like last season and directly hook Scola to death or shoot to death, the reason why the Timberwolves defeated the Spurs in the playoffs last season was because Wang Zhizhi almost broke Scola on the offensive end, and Duncan didn't even give Scola a chance to help defend. Wang Zhizhi's offense didn't enter the inside line at all, and he flew a kite on the outside line to hit Scola like a kite.

After all, the height gap between Scola and Wang Zhizhi is still obvious, but although the Lakers can find a large number of players who have completed Scola with athletic ability, there is no way to find a player who can throw Scola to death, and the Lakers' damage to Scola is actually extremely limited in this regard, so the Lakers can only catch one of the two holes in the Spurs starting lineup, and they can only catch Parker. This is also a little different from last season of the Timberwolves.

Of course, Arenas can brush Parker like Wang Zhizhi brushed Scola up, but Hardaway may not be able to do this, in fact, as far as the current Lakers are concerned, because the team has three strong offensive points on the outside, Kidd and Ragabel can only manage two of them, in this case there will inevitably be a vacant one, and the one that the Spurs choose to vacate is Hardaway, in the Spurs' opinion, Hardaway's offensive threat is actually the least, at least compared to Hill and Kobe, in this case, According to Zhuang Fei's arrangement before the game, Parker's strategy of attacking whoever defends, the main offensive player in this game will be Hardaway.

The Lakers' offense has rarely been directly initiated by Hardaway in previous games, after all, the Lakers have not played the Terminator tactic so far, and the initiator of the regular No. 5 tactic is Webb. The 1-4 tactic was Paul. Breakaway Split Ball and Hill. Of course, although there is no focus on the team's offense this season, Hardaway's playmaking ability is unquestionable, and at least he is not much worse than Hill and Paul in terms of breaking points or 1-4 tactics.

In the first wave of the Lakers' offense, Hardaway successfully played the attack that Zhuang Fei wanted for the crusher Parker, and after forcing a breakthrough through Parker, the Lakers veteran quickly handed the ball to Hill who was cruising from the left side to the free-throw line when facing a slightly shrunken Spurs defense. At this time, Weber brought Duncan to the basket, this time the attack Hill was the virtual No. 4 position, and the other side of Szczebiak was quickly close to the baseline, and in the face of the defense that was somewhat shrunk by Hardaway's breakthrough, another Lakers player Kobe Bryant quickly moved out.

Almost the moment Hill received Hardaway's pass, Kobe Bryant had already stepped on the three-point line, and at this time, Hill pushed the ball from Hardaway to Kobe Bryant almost without stopping the ball, and at this time Ragabel was already two steps away from Kobe, and at this time it was almost an absolute vacancy. At this time, Kobe Bryant, who stepped on the 45-degree three-point line on the right side, also made a two-point shot without a trace of adjustment, and Hill's pass was indeed timely. Similarly, Kobe's shot was also very decisive.

In fact, if it is slower by half a beat, Ragabel's defense can be quickly expanded, of course, if his defense is expanded again, the ball will still return to Hill's hand, when Hill goes outside the free throw line, Hardaway goes inside the free throw line, and this time the attack will be Hardaway in the middle distance. Of course, this kind of cooperation is originally between electric and flint, and the difference between 1-4 tactics and ordinary breakthrough and sharing tactics is that the offensive options between this kind of electric and flint are more abundant, and the same opportunities are also better.

For this almost absolutely empty ball, Kobe Bryant did not miss, this season's Lakers' leading player shooting rate is quite good, which has a lot to do with the opportunities created by other Lakers players to him, and he doesn't need to force the attack with the ball himself, because he is now the Lakers' first offensive point, which is completely different from his previous role in the Lakers, in the past, if he didn't get the ball, then the Lakers' first offensive opportunity will always be O'Neal, unless O'Neal can't play, he will lead the attack.

"The Lakers returned a goal to the Spurs, both teams scored at the beginning of the offense, and they are their biggest strengths, just like when the two teams met in the past, these two teams don't have too many secrets, or there are not too many secrets between these two head coaches, they are too familiar with each other, so this is likely to be the winner of this game, it depends on whether the two teams can have any secret weapons" Kenny Smith said with some thought in the commentary seat in the fan stands.

From the first offense of the two teams, these two teams do not have too much redundant offensive cooperation or offensive testing, almost at the beginning they took their own advantages to bombard each other's weaknesses directly, in fact, everyone in the United States who pays attention to the NBA knows that Zhuang Fei and Popovich do not deal with each other, and the ability of these two people is definitely in the top three in the entire NBA, in this case it is difficult for both of them to make too many stupid choices, in this case, At the beginning of the game, both sides grasped each other's weaknesses can be absolutely expected, but now the only suspense is who can better grasp each other's weaknesses on both sides and who can better protect their weaknesses, in fact, the advantages of both sides are the kind of extremely absolute advantage, and the most important thing about this absolute advantage is to be stronger than whose killing.

"Kenny, you said that this is the characteristic of the game between Coach Z and Popovich, but I think that this time it is precisely they who are testing their opponents" After Kenny Smith finished speaking, Barkley on the side shook his head and said with a smile, which also made Kenny Smith stunned, and finally the commentator seemed to understand something.

"You're saying they want to test how the other party is different from before? Is it worth coming up with a killer feature yourself? Kenny Smith wasn't a fool either, and he understood immediately after Barkley reminded him, and while he didn't fully agree with Barkley's words, it was a guess.

It's just that in the next game in the first quarter, I don't know if it's against Barkley's speculation, neither the Lakers nor the Spurs have any tactical changes, the Spurs' offense is all launched from the inside, and the Lakers' offense is all launched from the outside, the contrast between the routines of one inside and one outside is quite clear, and at this time, the scores of the two teams are all tightly bitten

"fvck" looked at the player in front of him who almost stepped on the free throw line to hit the middle distance, at this time the Spurs' small forward Parker was a little depressed and scolded a national curse of the United States, every time he played with that Chinese is his most depressed time, that Chinese will always catch him, if it were not for his offensive performance to help the Spurs a lot, he would even wonder if he would be directly pressed by Popovich on the bench or directly into the cold palace, He also really sighed a little how the Chinese could find so many players who could crush him, the previous Arenas was the player he feared the most, although the current Hardaway did not cause him as much damage as Arenas, but it was also extremely difficult to deal with, in this case he was almost about to be played by the Lakers to cry, too bullying, and at this time when he subconsciously looked at the Lakers bench, it seemed that he saw that the Chinese was smiling at him, which also made him bitter.

Of course, in terms of the first quarter of this game, Webber is as bitter as Parker, who was beaten by Duncan two years ago because of injury, and the team also lost the opportunity to win the championship. But it's not that there is no chance of beating Duncan, but in this game, this level is definitely more than level one, and even gives him a feeling that it will be difficult to beat.

It is in this situation that the much-anticipated Lakers vs. Spurs game, at the end of the first quarter, the two teams tied 30, both teams were quite good offensively, and after the end of the first quarter, the TV broadcast camera was also extremely meaningful and swept to Zhuang Fei and Popovich at the same time.

Clearly, a storm may be coming. (To be continued.) )