When a team is careless on the defensive end, it only shows that the opponent does not really value the opponent in their hearts.

Fisher's two defenses illustrate some problems, and in the CCTV broadcast room of the Heavenly Empire, Xu Jicheng also said:

"Li Ze's ball is very beautiful from getting rid of it to passing, but the Lakers' defense is not tight, especially against Westbrook's defense, Fisher should pay attention to his defensive attitude."

Turtle stood at the free throw line, took a deep breath, and hit both free throws steadily.

Fisher played a hand-to-hand with Odom after halftime, pulled out Jeff Green on the inside, Kobe Bryant received the ball after going around the screen, and Li Ze followed up very well.

But Kobe Bryant didn't attack directly, but gave the ball to Bynum on the inside, who received the ball and hit it twice, directly near the basket, and turned over and threw it.

The Lakers have opened up the offensive space very well, and these people on the outside have projection, they can all hold the ball, as long as they are clamped, they will throw the ball out immediately.

Coach Brooks saw that there was nothing too good to do in this situation, so he could only go as planned, first defend alone, and then wrap up if it didn't work, as long as the offensive end could continue to respond, the game would be played.

After the turtle dribbled quickly across the half, Kostic stepped up to catch the ball, and Li Ze played a hand-to-hand pass with Kostic through Jeff Green's off-ball screen.

At this time, Kobe Bryant had already defended up, and Li Ze broke through to the inside while protecting the ball, while paying attention to the movement of his teammates, and saw Durant use the cover to shake off Artest.

A behind-the-back pass was made between the moves, and Durant, who cut in, received the ball near the free throw line and jumped straight to the shot.

"Whew...", an easy goal from the middle distance.

Durant patted his chest immediately after scoring to signal that the ball was passed beautifully, Artest's defense was not tense, and the Lakers' defensive rotation was a beat slower.

"Li Ze's two passes are very freehand, and the Lakers' opening defense without the ball is too poor." The host Yu Jia couldn't admit it and complained.

Li Ze on the court also felt that the rotation speed of the Lakers had not risen, but he could also understand it, after all, did the championship team play the belly team with full court?

Maybe the Lakers want to take the game away in the third quarter, what an arrogant team...

Kobe Bryant directly held the ball across the half court, faced Li Ze's defense, quickly changed direction in front of his body after dribbling under his crotch, trying to jam his position, but Li Ze did not shake and still maintained a favorable defensive position.

As soon as Kobe Bryant saw this situation, he turned his back directly, relied on his strength advantage, crushed to the low position, and then quickly closed the ball, shook his shoulders, and leaned over in a fake move.

This directly lit Li Ze up, after all, he had been beaten backwards before, and his body reacted to stress.

After Kobe Bryant picked up the defense, he didn't touch the porcelain foul, but used a beautiful up and down step to completely shake off Li Ze and easily score the ball.

After scoring the goal, Kobe Bryant glanced at Li Ze and didn't speak, after all, the big guy didn't bother to talk trash with the rookie...

Li Ze raised his hand to signal that this was his own problem, good guy, this back-to-back footsteps did teach him a lesson, mainly if he didn't guard against it, he could really throw the other party backwards!

"Kobe Bryant's ball is a bit Jordan's style, and he directly used his back footsteps to shake off Li Ze, and he played really beautifully!"

Xu Jicheng is a fan of Jordan, and basically when he talks about it, he will inadvertently mention Jordan and the Bulls...

"Shhh

The City fans at Ford Center booed Bryant because they didn't like the Lakers.

The Thunder's offense was fast-paced, and after halftime, he began to pass the ball in a row, and Bynum was a little uncomfortable, and he was frequently pulled to the high post, which made him very uncomfortable defensively.

At this point, the turtle took advantage of this, Kostic made a fake cover and took Bynum down, and as soon as Fisher arrived, the turtle took a step and suddenly came with a stop-and-go jumper.

"Uhhhhh

After the goal, the turtle was very excited, and he jumped back to the defense quickly, Li Ze knew that this was emotional, and Fisher's game was difficult.

The Lakers' offense is a combination of inside and outside, with strong points inside and outside, and the offense is tied and stable, and the Thunder really can't defend it.

But after more than 6 minutes in the first quarter, the two sides were tied, 16-16, and the Lakers couldn't prevent the Thunder's offense, and Li Ze continued to connect the team.

When Li Ze was on the court, Durant was more about finishing, throwing off the defense by covering, and jumping directly after receiving the ball, which made Artest very depressed.

Because Durant is too tall and the defense is not in place, he will pull it out directly, and if you defend it in place, he may directly attack you after receiving the ball...

Coupled with the fact that the turtle and turtle also felt good, these two kept attacking, and Li Ze fed Jeff Green and Kostic cakes from time to time, the score was bitten.

Kobe Bryant, as a thigh at both ends of the offense and defense, has to go on his own if he has a problem, and when he saw that his old brother Fisher couldn't stand it, he directly changed the defense, and he came to defend against the turtle.

This made Fisher a little moved, look at this boss, he is really on something...

After Kobe Bryant's offensive end hit the iron for the first time under Li Ze's interference, the rhythm on the court changed, because Fisher began to be frequently targeted by Li Ze.

In the offensive round, Li Ze found that Fisher came to defend himself after handing over his hand, and he almost laughed out loud in his heart.

Don't block and dismantle, quickly change direction in advance after dribbling under the crotch, directly take a large step back, and shoot a jumper outside the 3-point line.

The 3-pointer was easily scored, and Fisher was shaken and could only watch Li Ze shoot.

The Lakers attacked, Kobe Bryant also wanted to respond to the ball, received the ball after covering without the ball, and accelerated the breakthrough with his right hand, Li Ze's defense was not out of position, but Kobe Bryant directly came to a drift shot.

The shooting action was very beautiful, but unfortunately it couldn't be shot, ah, three backs turned into two irons, and Kobe's shooting percentage dropped.

The rebounding ball was protected by the turtle, and he rushed directly with the ball, and Kobe Bryant immediately strode to follow the meteor to delay, and after halftime, the turtle found that the Lakers had retreated, so they had to play tactics again.

After the blocking, the turtle is still stuck to Kobe Bryant, this is not the previous Fisher, the defense is particularly oppressive, and the height can cover him.

There was no chance to give it to Durant on the outside, who was held up by Artest after receiving the ball, and Durant did not release the ball easily, but signaled Li Ze to come over and play a hand.

After Li Ze received the ball, Durant quickly ran away, and at the same time signaled his teammates to open up space for Li Ze.

Fisher rolled up his pants and stared at Li Ze, it did look like that on the surface, but Li Ze just dribbled under his crotch continuously, and suddenly took a horizontal step, and shot again outside the 3-point line.

"Hmph..."hit steadily, for the slow and short guard, Li Ze pulled it out directly, not too many bells and whistles.

"Ahh Yes!! ”

The audience shouted loudly, and with Li Ze's two three-pointers, the Thunder led by 6 points.

Lakers head coach Phil Jackson called a timeout, and with three minutes left in the first quarter, he had to make a rotation and just in time to replace Fisher.

On the Thunder bench, Coach Brooks was very happy.

"Well done, Kayce, take a break and get ready for the second quarter."

Li Ze smiled and signaled that he understood, although he still wanted to fight for a while, after all, the feeling of Fisher's heavy punch was really cool!

"Russell, Kevin, add some aggression in the last few minutes, attack the basket more, and speed up the offensive tempo!"

Coach Brooks brought on Sofrosa and Nick Collison to keep the offensive space.

After the timeout, Shannon Brown and Josh Powell came on on the Lakers' side, and Odom and Fisher were replaced.

After all, in the second quarter, Odom had to bring the bench lineup, and the other water cooler players basically couldn't count on it, and the Lakers' bench was not very good...

In the final three minutes of the first quarter, the two sides were still deadlocked, Artest made consecutive kills to stand at the free throw line, and Jeff Green could respond with a corner shot.

Shannon Brown's physical fitness is very good, and he can keep up with the turtles, and the Lakers' defensive rotation has become faster, and the Thunder's offense is a little blocked.

Phil Jackson naturally noticed this, and he began to signal his players to execute the established defensive strategy, and Durant was targeted again.

Fortunately, there was not much time left in the first quarter, and the Thunder struggled to hold on, 28-25, maintaining a three-point lead.

Taking advantage of the break, in the CCTV studio of the Celestial Empire, the host Yu Jia routinely threw out the topic:

"The first quarter of the game was very exciting, Director Xu, what do you think of the play of both sides?"

"I think the Lakers were careless, this team is not the team that won 23 games last season, and in the first few minutes, the Lakers had problems defensively."

"This is the relationship between Li Ze who didn't notice before the game, before Li Ze left the court, the Thunder offense was very smooth, and he could always efficiently attack the weaknesses of the Lakers' defense."

"But in the last few minutes, the Thunder's offense seems to be back to last season, of course, Durant and Westbrook are strong individuals and still score the ball, but the Lakers are not afraid of this."

"The one who can respond the most is Kobe, the stalemate, Kobe Bryant will close the game in the end, so the second quarter is also critical, the Lakers' bench lineup is too thin, see if Li Ze can seize the opportunity."

Although Xu Jicheng is not optimistic about the Thunder team, the poisonous milk that should be given to Li Ze is still indispensable.

"Indeed, as Director Xu said, after the bench lineup comes up, it depends on whether Li Ze's offense can be opened, okay, the second quarter will start immediately, and we will turn the picture back to the Ford Center Arena."

......

The Thunder's second-quarter bench lineup was Lee Ze and Sofrosa in the backcourt, and Itang Thomas, Nick Collison and Ibaka up front.

This lineup is basically a front-line player, sometimes rebounding is prone to problems, Ibaka has a large area of defense, but he is still a rookie after all, and his performance is inconsistent.

The Lakers also have a tall lineup, with Sasha Vujacic and Shannon Brown playing in the backcourt, and Luke Walton, Odom, and Josh Powell up front.

Phil Jackson wants to let the bench top first, and he doesn't want to let the main lineup be consumed too much.

Vujacic defended Li Ze, and the two were similar in size, and Shannon Brown was a little shorter.

After Li Ze slowly dribbled through the half, he gestured to his teammates, handed the ball to Collison, who was lifting up to cover, and then quickly moved to the low post.

Collison hoisted the ball directly to Li Ze, and his teammates opened up space on one side for him, facing Vujasic's defense, quickly released the ball after three threats, and accelerated directly with his left hand dribbling.

With an excellent first step, Li Ze directly stuck half of his body, and then ran his back to his shooting hot zone, and directly turned over and threw a back-to-back jumper.

"Huh..."The back is picturesque, and it is steady and steady.

"Haha, Li Ze's ball is the same as Kobe's offense in the first quarter, attacking with his back, this technique is really good, young people are amazing!"

Xu Jicheng was amused, this kind of attack really amazed him.

After the goal, the audience gave him a huge cheer, and Li Ze returned to the defense with a calm face, the opponent's tool man was not worth his too much effort.

Vujacic felt bitter in his heart, he had a premonition before, and he might not be able to prevent Li Ze after coming up, so he quietly glanced at the team boss and found that the other party had nothing to say, and he was immediately relieved.

The Lakers' bench offense mainly relies on Odom to organize the tandem, and he can shoot suddenly, which is the first firepower point on the bench.

Odom and Josh Powell played a block and went straight inside, Ibaka had some problems with his defensive positioning, and Odom seized the opportunity and made a mid-range jumper.

"Sergi, it's okay, remember to rush online!" Li Ze saw that Ibaka was a little nervous, and immediately came over to comfort him loudly.

In the offensive round, Li Ze motioned for Ibaka to come up to block and dismantle, and Vujacic squeezed directly through the cover and constantly gave Li Ze a physical confrontation.

At the same time, Josh Powell also went up the front and wanted to delay Li Ze's shot, but unfortunately he focused on Li Ze, and Ibaka had already gone down.

Li Ze flicked his wrist while traveling, and the ball quickly passed through the crotch, and Ibaka received the ball and directly dunked it.

"Wow!!"

The crowd cheered loudly for this beautiful attack, and the ball was really showy!

Josh Powell was a little hung up behind the crotch, especially Li Ze's breezy expression, which almost made him angry, what kind of big guy are you pretending to be a rookie!

The dunk also encouraged Ibaka, who made the most of his defensive ability on the defensive end, was ubiquitous, and gave Josh Powell another big hit.

Li Ze successfully controlled the ball and launched a conversion attack, Vujacic hurriedly went up to delay Li Ze, but Li Ze came to share the ball, which directly stunned him.

The ball slid past Vujacic, Li Ze accelerated directly near the sideline, shook off the defense, touched the ball again without stopping, and with a precise long pass, Sofrosa received the ball in the air and pressed the ball into the basket.

"Roar!!" After the dunk, Soflosa thumped his chest and roared.

"Beautiful assist, Li Ze's goal is so imaginative, the ball is divided, just right!"

Xu Jicheng also said directly with appreciation, this ball control ability is indeed too good!

Phil Jackson shouted out his players from the sidelines, and it was clear that he was very unhappy with the defense of the bench.

However, the Lakers' offense also kept up, Shannon Brown used his excellent explosiveness to break through the ball after the pick-and-roll, and Odom followed up with a layup.

Li Ze also began to speed up the offensive rhythm of the Thunder team, and after halftime, he continued to change direction in front of the body, directly broke through Vujasic's defense, and successfully fed Etang Thomas in the face of Odom's assisted defense.

Then the two sides went back and forth, although the Lakers bench was not good, but the Thunder's defense did not resist.

Ibaka has a large defensive area, but in the face of old fritters like Odom, he still suffered a loss of experience, and the Lakers continued to attack the interior successfully.

Li Ze was full of firepower, Vujacic couldn't limit it at all, and began to attack the basket continuously, Odom could only help defend, and finally Collison ate cakes continuously.

After more than 3 minutes in the second quarter, Phil Jackson called a timeout, and it seemed that he couldn't stand Vujasic's defense.

After the timeout, Kobe Bryant went straight on, and Artest also replaced Luke Wharton, who had little effect.

In the offensive round, Artest came up against the defense and threw a three-pointer directly, and after the goal, there were words in his mouth:

"Rookie, don't be too arrogant!"

“？？？”

Li Ze had a question mark on his face, why did he have to say two sentences to make it seem that he was at a high level?

After dribbling past half court, Artest took the initiative to defend Li Ze, which was to give the rookie a confrontation...

Li Ze looked at Artest, who was defending in front of him, directly dribbled the ball with a cross step, and then quickly pulled back, Artest's defensive center of gravity was maintained very well, and at the same time quickly stepped forward to give Li Ze a physical confrontation.

But this kind of defense is of little use to Li Ze, the moment he pulls back, his right hand quickly dribbles under his crotch, accelerates directly, and makes a quick stop to shake off Artest.

In the face of the inside defense, the left hand covertly hit the ground and passed to Ibaka, who received the ball and dunked with both hands.

"Ahh After the dunk, Ibaka also flexed his muscles.

Li Ze looked at Artest and shrugged, didn't say anything, and went back to the defense directly, this bland appearance made Artest feel very unhappy, and he was slapped in the face just after he said cruel words in the previous round.

"Fack! Arrogant bastard! "The old guy himself is in a hurry...

After Kobe Bryant dribbled past half court, Li Ze began to step forward to defend, preventing him from easily entering the offensive rhythm, and at the same time, Sofrosa also came up to interfere from time to time.

After seeing Kobe Bryant close the ball, Ibaka on the inside went directly to the package, and then Odom suddenly cut in, Kobe passed the ball directly, and the latter easily layup to score the ball.

"No problem, I'm single-handed!" Li Ze motioned for no need to wrap the bag and gestured to his teammates.

On the defensive end, Kobe Bryant came to defend Li Ze again, there is no way, there is a problem, find the boss, this is the solution to the problem faced by the Lakers.

Li Ze was the only ball-handler in the bench lineup, and in the face of Kobe's defense, there was no good chance to cover without the ball, and there were 10 seconds left in the offensive time, Li Ze directly signaled his teammates to pull away.

It is not easy to shake off Kobe's defensive focus, after all, the opponent is very experienced, and Li Ze's two consecutive changes of direction have failed to produce results.

Seeing that time was running out, a large body change in front of the body changed backwards, and the right hand dribbled to accelerate the breakthrough.

After approaching the basket, he suddenly made a half-turn feint, shaking Kobe Bryant, and the shooting feint after pulling back flew Kobe, and then quickly took a step up and down to pick the ball into the basket.

"Wow!!" The audience exclaimed, the footsteps of this ball are too beautiful!

'Nice footwork, but then you don't score again.' Kobe Bryant looked at Li Ze coldly and said in a calm whisper.

"Dude, you can't stop me! I'm still going to score. Li Ze was a little surprised when he heard Kobe's voice, but at this time, he had to blow and nag, and the momentum couldn't be lost.

When Kobe Bryant heard this, he chuckled lightly and didn't say much, after all, it wasn't interesting to talk about it.

In the next 3 minutes, Li Ze felt what a group of defenders was.

Kobe Bryant, who defended with all his might, was very difficult, barely swayed, and squeezed directly through the blocking, constantly inflicting physical confrontation on Ling.

"Kobe Bryant, this is serious, this is going to give the rookie a confrontation intensity!" Xu Jicheng saw Kobe's defensive state and knew that the other party must be serious.

The offensive initiation point of the substitute lineup is Li Ze, once it is restricted, it is difficult for the offense to be effectively organized, but Li Ze does not make mistakes no matter how heavy the defense is, but the rhythm is very slow.

Then Kobe Bryant and Li Ze both entered the Mamba mode, frequently striking iron...

With 5 minutes and 46 seconds left in the second quarter, the Thunder called a timeout, and Li Ze knew he had completed his mission.

"Guys, it was a great fight! Russell, try to speed up the pace of the game after coming on the court, and have the opportunity to switch offenses to shoot resolutely! ”

Coach Brooks was very satisfied with the performance of the bench, Li Ze was able to withstand the pressure without making mistakes, which was a bit unexpected by him, although it was iron, but it didn't hurt.

Li Ze was 1 of 5 in the second quarter, and under Kobe's marking, he did hit the iron, but Kobe Bryant was the same, coming with a 4-of-1, so now the Thunder team is still leading by 3 points.

Li Ze sat on the bench and gasped for breath, and the continuous high-intensity offensive and defensive transitions made him consume a lot, but it was not a big problem, I have to say that if Kobe Bryant defended like this all over the court, it would be really terrifying.

"The players in the All-Defensive Team are amazing!" Li Ze thought silently in his heart.

For the rest of the second quarter, the offensive rhythm was controlled by the Lakers, and Bryant did not shoot more frequently, but kept sending the ball to Bynum and scoring and playing.

This gave the Thunder no chance to switch offense, continuous positional offense, and could only rely on the individual ability of Turtle and Durant to score points, Jeff Green occasionally had chances, but Kostic was suppressed very badly.

At halftime, the score came to 50-47, and the Thunder led by three points into the second half.

At halftime, in the studio of Tianchao CCTV, the hosts Yu Jia and Xu Jicheng were also discussing the game in the first half.

"Coach Xu, Li Ze scored 8 points in the first half, and the overall shooting rate was okay, what do you think the two sides will perform in the second half?"

Yu Jia wittily didn't mention the matter of Li Zebangbang's iron striking in the second section...

"Li Ze actually played quite well in the first half, and the most important thing is that he handed out 8 assists and had no turnovers, but now the game has entered the rhythm of the Lakers."

"The Lakers love this kind of offense, Bynum completely suppressed the opposition's interior in the first half, and if the Thunder want to win, they have to figure out how to do it."

Xu Jicheng told the truth, the inside line is the current shortcoming of the Thunder team, and Gasol didn't play this game...

For the interior problem, Coach Brooks doesn't have a good solution, this is a hard injury, you can't solve it, the Lakers can just hammer you to death on the inside.

In the Thunder locker room, everyone was in a good mood, after all, they were still leading at halftime.

When Coach Brooks came in, he wrote and drew directly on the tactical board, and then said loudly:

"Alright, guys, look here, we're going to take the lead in the second half, Ibaka, you'll start in the second half!"

"Kayce, Russell, Kevin, play to your strengths, show aggression, we're going to completely increase the pace of the attack!"

"As long as you feel good, shoot directly, pay attention, try to grasp the weak points of the opponent's defense, and reduce unnecessary reluctant attacks."

"If we can't score, we will quickly retreat, pay attention to the defensive end, and we have to add some defense around the front!"

"Remember, guys, attack, we're going to attack quickly, destroy them with one-on-one attacks!"

Li Ze couldn't help but be dumbfounded as he listened to Coach Brooks start arranging tactics endlessly, and kept sending chicken soup for the soul to everyone:

"What kind of tactic is this, if it's okay to blow up the opponent, once it feels bad, it will definitely be cold directly..."

But after thinking about it carefully, if it is played normally, the Lakers will definitely blow up the interior again in the second half, and Kobe Bryant should not be iron, this game is really not easy to play.

"It's kind of interesting, it's completely more than the feel, look at the offensive talent? It's so much fun! ”

Li Ze smiled in his heart, and at the same time couldn't help but think:

"Won't the championship team roll over? It's hard to say... After all, basketball is round. ”