Chapter 292: Bullying the Weak and Fearing the Hard (Fourth Update)
When the overall quality of a team is very strong, it is not particularly important what tactics the team plays.
Although the Lakers during the two-game championship period continued to use the triangle offense, it wasn't just the triangle offense that really made them successful.
It's a very tenacious player's will, tacit team cooperation, and a close to perfect game details.
The triangle offense is not a panacea, and changing teams and players and changing league tactical environments may be nothing.
In the regular season, the Lakers did not always rely on the distribution of the triangle offense to grind their positions, and they would also use small cooperation such as counter-running, high-post blocking, pick-and-roll and inward cutting to create better scoring opportunities for outside players.
These small tactics can take the pressure off Kobe Bryant's singles.
Last summer, Bryant's training was sporadic and his regular season performance was down slightly from his '09 season.
And after winning the championship this summer, Kobe Bryant was completely unable to train and watched from the sidelines in slippers.
It's not that he doesn't want to train, with Kobe's right hand fractured, he also has to practice left-handed shooting, but wherever there is a place on his body that can be practiced, he will not let go of himself.
It's a pity that I really can't practice anymore, so I can only keep it.
After raising it for a whole summer, it is impossible to completely heal the injury, and it can only be said that it is so-so.
In the regular season, Kobe Bryant can still contribute high scoring and lead the team to victory.
It's just that his offensive dominance in the game has obviously decreased.
For example, in the first quarter of this game, Kobe Bryant barely had a low single.
Instead, he relied on Gasol and Bynum's pick-and-roll screens twice, and hit mid-range jumpers after holding the ball.
Kobe Bryant used to be a non-pick-and-roll because pick-and-roll was a side-effect tactic for him.
If you don't block and dismantle, there will be a person on the other side to defend it, and he will fight casually.
If you block and dismantle, bring one more defender to cover the clip, one hit two, but it is more difficult.
But now, Kobe Bryant has also blocked and dismantled more, because of the effort.
The Clippers didn't pick up Kobe Bryant after blocking tonight, so let him play.
Kobe Bryant scored six points in a row in the first quarter, but the Lakers felt unaccustomed to it.
Because blocking and pick-and-roll is not a common tactic used by the Lakers, there are too few backs.
Neither Bynum nor Gasol are the kind of players who can handle the ball after blocking and dismantling.
Whether it's down or outside the middle distance, there is this ability, but it is not strong.
One of the main tactical points after the pick-and-roll was Fisher's three-pointer in the bottom corner.
As a result, Fisher hit a mid-range shot at the start.
The next two corner shots were blown away by Ricky Davis.
As a result, the Lakers quickly adjusted their offensive strategy and returned to their familiar triangle offense.
Artey, Bynum, and Gasol take turns holding the ball in the horn position to form a triangle to distribute the ball.
The Clippers' offense in the opening game was much simpler and rougher, and they had experience against the Lakers.
The Lakers opened with a shrink defense, Phil Jackson's old routine.
As a result, the Clippers insisted on a shallow position strategy, opened the four corners, and shot three points when they had the opportunity on the outside.
Barang Davis hit two three-pointers in the first quarter, and Ricky Davis and Bledsoe each hit a three-pointer.
Waiting until midway through the first quarter, Harden came on the court to replace Bledsoe, and hit a three-point shot on the fast break.
The Lakers originally led the Clippers by about 5 points, but under the Clippers' accurate three-point bombardment, the difference became smaller and smaller.
At the end of the first quarter, the Clippers had already outscored the Lakers by 2 points at 27:25.
After the game, the feeling to the fans is that the Lakers played decently, combined inside and outside, and cooperated very well.
Gasol was 3-of-3 in the high 3, and Fisher had a gain in the bottom corner and 45 degrees.
Kobe Bryant can stand up and finish with his personal ability when the team can't open, and he is good at back and breaking.
Artest misses shots as always, but can help the team in other areas and has a breakthrough hand.
Bynum already has a bit of a super center shadow, and the success rate of single eating in the low post is very high.
And what about the Clippers? One three points on the left, one three points on the right, one three points for you, one three points for me.
Except for a couple of Randolph offenses in the low post, the rest were outside shots, which felt unlayered.
But looking at the score, the Clippers led by 2 points.
Jackson's shrinking defense doesn't work well against the Clippers' outside shooting.
This is still Curry's absence due to injury, and if Curry is on the court, it may be even more ugly.
Seeing that the Clippers' three-point shooting was so rapid tonight, Jackson came off the bench in the second quarter, and immediately gave up the shrinking defense and switched to man-marking.
In terms of man-to-man defense, the Lakers have done a pretty good job in detail, with fewer out-of-position and fewer leaks, testing the individual ability and game concentration of Clippers players.
Sure enough, after the start of the second quarter, Harden made a pass error and was counterattacked by the Lakers, and Shannon Brown scored a fast-break dunk.
However, Harden immediately used a lightning-fast break to the basket, and made up for his mistake with a left-handed layup.
Then the two sides started a war of iron, clanging, I won't enter if I don't enter, and if I don't enter, you won't want to succeed.
The Lakers have done a good job of detailing their defense, forcing the Clippers players to be more focused and try not to make mistakes in defense.
As goals become tougher, defensive moves on both sides inevitably grow and the intensity of the game rises.
Artest held the ball in the low post on offense, forced Harden with his back, and wanted to make a layup after turning.
Harden was quick and stabbed the ball out of Artest's hand from behind.
Artest danced in the air and tried to get a foul, but the referee didn't give the whistle.
On the way back to defense, Atai complained to the referee and pushed and shoved Harden.
In the frontcourt, Hinrich passed the ball to Harden in the 45-degree area, allowing Harden to eat Artai one-on-one.
If it's a young Atay, you won't have a problem defending any outside line one-on-one.
But after winning the championship, Atai is a year older, and he has already had some broken steps of an old lady with small feet, but this year it has become slower and more broken.
Harden tentatively stepped with the ball in front of the basket, and suddenly accelerated, passing Artest from the right side and heading straight to the basket.
One ball was defended, one ball was passed, how could Artai endure it now, and followed by a slap from behind to knock the ball off Harden's hand.
But the ball wasn't going for the ball, it was for someone, and it hit Harden the arm.
Harden yelled, and there was also an element of acting, but the referee gave the whistle and blew Artest for a foul.
Artest was not aggrieved when he was blown for a foul, and he had to go up and push Harden and push Harden to the ground.
Now the Clippers players were unhappy, and Artest was still playing tricks on Harden, standing in front of Harden and looking down at the little fat man.
Suddenly, a huge force came, and he was pushed in the chest, and he took several steps backwards in a row.
What a familiar feeling, the deep memory in Artest's mind was awakened again.
How many years ago was that? At the Auburn Hills Palace Arena, someone pushed me like that.
The force was so great that I could barely stand on my feet and fell to the ground, only to look up and see that it was Big Ben Wallace!
I didn't dare to fight him, I couldn't beat him, I couldn't control my temper and had to sit on the technical table, and then a water bottle smashed down and detonated me, and everything that happened afterwards happened.
Someone pushed me again, and it was so much power, who was it!
Artest looked up and saw that he was still a Piston, a member of the palace in Auburn Hills.
Forget it, it seems that you can't beat it, forget it.
The fifth is to wait a while, and it will be changed.
(End of chapter)