(This chapter has been revised, you can continue reading, it will be good as soon as possible, and I will add a few more to apologize in the next few days.) ）

In the new season, the Lakers' starting lineup has not changed from last season, and it is still the starting five of Wang Feng, Butler, Ingram, Kuzma and Lopez.

The Pelicans have undergone a major offseason reshuffle, and the starting lineup has changed dramatically, and the starting point guard has become Chris. Paul, shooting guard JJ Redick, small forward Jordan Clarkson, power forward Zion Williams, center Bushy Davis.

The Pelicans' lineup is a small lineup, from 1.83 meters point guard Paul to 1.98 meters power forward Zion, except for the 2.08 meter center thick eyebrows, none of them are more than 2 meters tall.

On the other hand, on the Lakers' side, none of the starting five tigers are less than 2 meters tall, and Wang Feng and Butler, who serve as point guards and point guards, are both 2.01 meters tall, not to mention Ingram and Kuzma.

The difference in height is especially noticeable when the starters on both sides stand on the field.

While height doesn't necessarily equal strength, the advantage of height is real for the sport of basketball.

Thick eyebrows Davis won the jump ball, Paul dribbled the ball over half court, immediately instructed his teammates to open up space, and then hoisted the ball to Davis, who was standing in a position on the inside.

Brother Thick Mei received the ball and singled Lopez with his back, which was the only dominant position in the Pelicans' position on the line, and Lopez, who was not good at defense, was half a beat slower in the face of the nimble Davis, and was turned by the opponent to wipe the basket and score a layup.

Offense and defense switched, and it was the Lakers' turn to attack.

Wang Feng looked at Paul, who was only 1.83 meters in front of him, and didn't even bother to do a feint, so he directly pulled out and jumped out on the spot.

At this point, his position is outside the three-point line at a 45-degree angle on the left, which is the area where the Gold Badge Hot Zone Hunter is in effect.

The Hot Zone Hunter badge is activated, as are the two gold badges of the Remote Turret and the Fast Hunter.

The bounce of up to 91 made Wang Feng's jump height very high, and Paul, who was already much different from Wang Feng's height, jumped up and tried to block it, but the highest height of his arm was only to Wang Feng's chin.

With such a defensive interference, even the Marksman Badge that Wang Feng used to resist the interference could not be activated.

The basketball hits the basket with precision and should go into the net.

"No...... Can't let Chris defend Wang Feng, his height is too short to effectively interfere with Wang Feng at all! ”

It only took one round for the Pelicans head coach to realize this serious problem.

He could only shout from the sidelines and direct the players to change their defenses.

In the Pelicans' offensive round, the basketball was once again handed to the thick eyebrows.

is still playing Lopez with his back, Brother Thick Eyebrows is back and back jumper and shoots again, the Lakers' interior defense is indeed a weakness, which is also the reason why Horford can get close to 30 million annual salary, but Lopez is only worth 10 million.

In terms of frame protection ability, Horford is not a little stronger than Lopez, even in the face of opponents such as Davis and Antetokounmpo, Horford can also limit their play well with his defense.

The Lakers want to limit the play of the thick eyebrows, there are only two ways, one is to replace Lopez and replace Howard, who is stronger defensively.

But Howard's role on the court is only to protect the frame, he does not have the ability to shoot from mid-to-long distance, cannot help the team pull space, and because of his age, his pace is much slower, and he can't do a blue-collar player like Capela to block and eat the ball efficiently.

Therefore, Lakers head coach Walton can only choose the second option.

……

The Lakers attacked, and at this time the players who defended Wang Feng had been changed from Paul to Clarkson.

Paul was tasked with defending Butler, while Redick was on track with Ingram.

As Wang Feng's teammate for three seasons, Clarkson knows Wang Feng well, but understanding is understandable, and whether he can defend is another matter.

Clarkson, who is 1.96 meters tall, is not much worse than Wang Feng, at least compared to Paul, the defensive dry pull-up jumper is much better.

"Don't let Zion defend me?" Wang Feng stood still outside the three-point line, looked at Zion, who had been staring at Kuzma, and shook his head slightly.

Last season's matchup seemed to have scared Zion.

In the case of having an advantage in strength, Zion can force the basketball under the basket against Wang Feng's defense, but in order to achieve this goal, he must spend a lot of physical strength to squeeze his back to the basket, and after a few rounds, his physical strength will be seriously overdrawn, and the game behind him will not be able to play at all.

Zion didn't understand why Wang Feng's physical fitness was so exaggerated, and he could still play the whole game energetically under the fierce physical confrontation with him.

But since then, Zion has understood that he can't go head-to-head with Wang Feng, his physical strength is unbearable, whether it is on the offensive end or the defensive end, avoiding one-on-one heads-up with Wang Feng is the most efficient way to play.

Wang Feng held the ball in the top arc, the first step master badge was activated, and he instantly passed his old teammate Clarkson in one step, and rushed towards the basket first.

At the same time that Wang Feng broke through with the ball, Brother Thick Mei and Zion both gave up their defenders and rushed straight towards Wang Feng.

Bag clips? The Pelicans faced Wang Feng, who averaged double-doubles in assists per game last season, and still had to use the bag and clamp tactic?

Wang Feng was not in a hurry, and when he saw the opportunity, the basketball in his hand was instantly sent out, passed under the crotch of Brother Thick Eyebrows, and then sent to Lopez.

Lopez, who was in the open position, immediately jumped and shot from about six feet from the basket and hit the basket.

Wang Feng probably understands the Pelicans' defensive strategy against him.

is a single defense plus a bag clip, and would rather let Wang Feng pass the ball than let Wang Feng score by himself.

Such defensive strategies have proven to be useless last season, but what can the Pelicans do? They couldn't think of a better tactic to curb Wang Feng's play, so they could only use this way, praying that Wang Feng's teammates were not in good shape and played abnormally.

The Pelicans attacked, and after Paul dribbled past half court, the movement was slightly paused.

His eyes looked at the inner line, and the person standing next to Brother Thick Eyebrows was no longer Lopez, but Wang Feng.

"Changing guards?"

After thinking about it, Paul still hoisted the ball to Brother Thick Eyebrows.

Wang Feng's defense is very strong, which is recognized by the league, from the earliest top outside defender to the back inside and outside, and now Wang Feng's interior defense ability is also quite good.

It's just that no matter how good his defense is, Wang Feng is only 2.01 meters tall after all, while Brother Thick Mei is 2.08 meters.

Brother Thick Mei also thought so, so as soon as he received the ball, he immediately began to play with his back to the single.

Leaning back to Wang Feng, Brother Thick Mei tried to squeeze the inner line twice, but found that he didn't move.

Wang Feng 88's power in the face of Zion. Williams was at a disadvantage, but when facing Brother Thick Eyebrows, he would not be too vain, because Brother Thick Eyebrows himself is not a player who relies on his body to play.

Without squeezing Wang Feng, Brother Thick Mei directly jumped with his back and back, Wang Feng jumped with the other party, although there was a significant gap in height and arm span, but relying on excellent bounce and early judgment, he still succeeded in forming an effective interference.

The Defensive Shock badge is activated, and Bushy Eyebrow's shot is interfered with and goes out of the frame.

……

In the next few rounds, when facing Wang Feng, Brother Thick Mei began to consciously reduce the number of shots, and instead let Paul and Zion take the main attack, but it is obvious that the Pelicans' scoring efficiency is much worse than that of the Lakers.

In the first quarter of the game, the scores of the two teams were 36:28, and the Lakers led by 8 points away, and after entering the second quarter, Wang Feng and Butler teamed up to play a wave of 10:0, and expanded the difference to 18 points before halftime.

The Pelicans are in trouble.

Brother Thick Mei was marked by Wang Feng, and his efficiency obviously began to decline, although the shooting rate can still be maintained at about 50%, but every attack takes a lot of effort, time and effort.

As for Paul and Zion, the drawbacks of their height are very obvious, especially Zion. Williams, unlike Paul, who has been in the league for many years and has long been accustomed to playing small and big, Zion, who is 1.98 meters tall, plays mainly as an interior player, and his style is not so much like James, but more like Barkley or O'Neal who is one size smaller.

However, once this style of play encounters a player with a relatively high height, it is easy to be capped.

Before this game, Wang Feng specifically told the Lakers' interior linemen that if they are responsible for defending Zion in the game, don't be obsessed with competing with him under the basket, make a step, wait until Zion jumps, and then block and other defenses.

Now Zion is still a stunned young man, and he feels that he can solve all problems if he has the strength, whether it is a layup or a dunk, there is no feint, and it is easy to judge the trajectory of the action.

In another time and space, the first ten games of Zion's second season were covered with a full 27 hot pots, becoming the player with the most caps in the first ten games of the new season in the past two decades.

Although the timing of the new season is not the same, and the opponents are also different, Wang Feng feels that Zion's mentality and technical style of play will not change because of these off-court factors.

And so it turned out.

Seeing that the player who defended himself was Kuzma, Zion didn't take it seriously at all, Kuzma, who averaged only about 12+5 per game last season, was a nobody in his eyes.

But Zion, who easily squeezed Kuzma's raised hand to make a layup, waited for a head-on.

Keeping in mind Wang Feng's prompt, Kuzma gave full play to the advantage of his height and completed the block.

In the first half, such a scene happened many times, not only Kuzma, Ingram, and Wang Feng also rewarded Zion hats.

Obviously, the opponent was a little anxious, and frequently held the ball and hit the basket, which led to the score suddenly widening to such an extent.

"Zion, you're in too much of a hurry, the other party has obviously figured out your technical characteristics, in this case, you should come up with other ways to deal with it, instead of rushing straight ahead regardless of it!"

At halftime, Chris. Paul said to Zion without hesitation.

In the first half, he was very unhappy with Zion's performance, not because Zion was frequently blocked, but because Paul wanted to control the ball himself to stabilize the situation when he saw that the situation was not good, but Zion did not listen to his command.

Obviously, this proud son who has been praised by the league and Nike does not give Paul, a veteran with a pivotal position on the Pelicans, face.

"Okay, the problem in the first half, we will slowly analyze it after the end of this game, and now what we need to solve is how to chase back the difference in the second half of the game!"

The head coach of the Pelicans saw that the atmosphere in the locker room was a little wrong, and quickly clapped his hands to divert the topic.

At the same time, he sighed in his heart.

The combination of the Big Three is good, but if you don't decide who is the first core, the situation is not as smooth as you imagined.

The Pelicans' Big Three look wonderful, with Paul, a point guard who can control the rhythm of the whole court, Zion, a strong, impactful small forward, and a thick eyebrow on the inside with comprehensive technical characteristics and inside and outside.

But who of these three is the first core of the team, at least for now, the Pelicans have not yet decided.

Brother Thick Eyebrows has been fighting in the Pelicans for many years, and he has always been the core big brother, so it is naturally impossible to give in to Zion, a hairy boy who has just entered the alliance.

Zion thinks that when he comes to the league, he is destined to be shrouded in countless magnesium lights like James, and the thick eyebrows have been with the Pelicans for so many years, and his statistics are beautiful enough, but the team has not played a few playoffs, what qualifications do you have to be the boss?

As for Paul, he considers himself a veteran of the Pelicans, and at the same time, as the league's top point guard, he has led the team for more than ten years and has never missed the playoffs.

The three of them now have a feeling that no one is convinced by anyone, although the tactical execution on the field seems to be quite tacit, but in fact they are at odds with each other.

They all know that if this continues, the Pelicans will definitely not have the potential to win the championship, but fortunately, the regular season has just begun, and in the long season, it will ultimately decide who will be the team's first core and main force, and the other two will cooperate with the other two to support the left object.

……

In the Lakers' locker room, the atmosphere is much more relaxed than the Pelicans.

The players talked and laughed, and the head coach Wharton also said in a calm tone, happily: "As long as we can stabilize the score in the second half, we can win this game safely, the Pelicans' Big Three is much less lethal than I imagined, and before the start of this game, I thought that our interior line was going to be completely attacked." ”

"Thanks to Wang Feng, you are really good at defending Brother Thick Eyebrows, not only effectively containing the opponent's scoring on the offensive end, but also protecting the rebounds, and not giving the opponent too many offensive rebounds in the first half."