Although the strength of the Lakers lies in leaving the opponent with a deadly choice question, OK which bottle of these two bottles of poison to take. But the Lakers suddenly replaced Kobe Bryant and played around O'Neal in all directions.

In the era of joint defense, O'Neal could not attack as freely as he did in the past, and even if the defender was Gazuric, there were many restrictions on where he wanted to go deepest.

Because of his BUG-like physique, O'Neal has a reverse star whistle. In order to praise the outside star, the league will tell the referee to take care of the body hair whistle, but O'Neal is worried that his power is too excessive and has been restrictive for many years.

Therefore, it is unrealistic to play every ball, but O'Neal is a threat in itself when he stands under the basket, and his every move will affect the Bucks' defense.

No matter how Yu Fei was named on the offensive end, the whole quarter of the game was only injured but not moved.

In the second quarter, the Lakers traded back for Kobe.

Kobe Bryant, who had been holding back half a quarter of the game, came out of the cage like a tiger after coming on the court, and the offense was so great that Devin George was overwhelmed.

"Man, take it easy!" George hopes that Bryant will stop thinking of himself as one of the angry youths in Eagle County who wave "You're a criminal."

Just relax? Kobe Bryant's game doesn't exist as a word.

"DG, you don't look like you're growing at all."

Bryant sneered, then ripped through the Bucks' baseline defense in the off-ball run and caught the ball for a layup.

The powerful Kobe Bryant gave the Lakers an 11-point lead over the Bucks at home.

Yu Fei watched Kobe's performance and had a question in his heart.

04Why didn't the Lakers win a championship in history?

To be honest, as a post-zero crosser, he can't even remember which team won the championship in 2004 at once.

I had to think hard to vaguely remember that it was the Pistons who won the championship.

But the Pistons won the championship a year before he was born, so it didn't mean anything to him in his previous life.

He's played a few games with both the F4 Lakers and the Pistons now — though he hasn't played the Pistons since the big trade — but it's hard to believe that Pistons can beat the Lakers.

Regardless of the reinforcements that Rasheed Wallace brings to the Pistons, is there a style restraint between the Lakers and the Pistons?

Big Ben is currently the only center who can put up against O'Neill head-on.

Rasheed Wallace is a star power forward with a well-rounded offense and defense but an unstable personality.

The rest of the people...... Yu Fei's mind flashed the Pistons' defensive style.

Advocates of oppressive man-to-man defense, but deprives players who don't shoot well, and then clogs up space around the opposition's star players and forces them to play the hardest one-on-one offense.

This set of defense is simply tailor-made for Kobe, but what about O'Neal? Even though he has a super-high individual offensive efficiency, the Pistons have many ways to limit his receiving.

Coupled with the contradiction of OK, there is almost no linkage between Kobe and O'Neal...

Yu Fei was so engrossed that he didn't hear Carl call him to play.

"Fry?"

"Are you uncomfortable?"

Yu Fei said: "What is the Lakers' outside shooting percentage tonight? ”

Karl replied dryly: "Except for Karim Rush, all of them are below the league average." ”

Whether the Pistons' defense can work against OK is not how OK is, but whether the players who are released can respond.

If they can't help OK decompress, of course, OK who fights separately can't break the Pistons' bucket formation.

The Lakers have historically proven that they can't be beaten, and Yu Fei is concerned about whether the Bucks can adopt the same strategy.

Because if they pursue to defend their title, the F4 Lakers are an inevitable opponent.

Yu Fei made a suggestion to Carl.

Karl believes they don't have the defensive toughness and chemistry of the Pistons, after all, the Bucks are an offensive team.

"You can try, but you have to wait until the second half." "I'm going to take care of it, now what we're going to do is make it harder for them to defend and find a way to chase more points before the end of the first half!" ”

Subsequently, Yu Fei returned to the game.

OK has worked hard to help the Lakers take a double-digit lead, but the 11-point gap is not a stressful point difference in front of the Bucks, who play small-ball.

In the first round of Yu Fei's play, the basketball went through the hands of all five people on the bucks court, and finally returned to Yu Fei's hands.

Rick Fox saw Yu Fei standing one and a half meters outside the three-point line at the top of the arc, and his vigilance decreased.

At this low, something will happen.

Yu Fei raised his hand and hit a super long arc top three points, and the hollow hit!

The Lakers battled in a positional battle, Yu Fei grabbed the rebound, and passed it to Ray Allen, who chased the three-pointer and scored again.

In less than a minute, the difference was reduced to 5 points.

Phil Jackson had to be replaced by O'Neal early, and then he was named by the Bucks.

Yu Fei is now more and more experienced in blocking and dismantling the inside line of military training, especially against the lack of mobility of O'Neill.

The most important thing is not to fight his defense, but the most important thing is to fight the opponent's will to resist.

O'Neal always sees Yu Fei throwing up, jumpers and even straight arm pushes from close range.

Every time he scores this kind of goal in front of him, Yu Fei's comments on his defense will follow.

O'Neal responded on the offensive end tonight, not as miserable as he had been with the Bucks before.

However, if you continue to fight like this, it will also be a test of O'Neal's physical fitness.

In order to save O'Neal's stamina, Jackson switched back to Kobe Bryant just as the lead was about to be leveled.

The Staples Center greeted their return with the most enthusiastic cheers for their return of No. 8.

The Lakers' No. 8 then took over the offense.

Although Yu Fei doesn't believe in the BUFF of rushing to the field, today's Kobe Bryant is really like those players in Japanese sports anime whose strength suddenly increased after a memory kill.

Before Kobe Bryant came on the court, the Bucks had already chased 1 point.

In the next half quarter of the game, the one-point gap was not caught up.

Although the OK connection is disconnected, the presence of two dominant singles on the inside and outside will bring a strong sense of security to teammates.

Yu Fei decided to test the Pistons' bucket formation in advance, deliberately letting go of the Lakers' role players.

As a result, they had a good grasp of the vacancy.

At the end of the first half, the Lakers' lead was back to five points.

58 to 53

The Lakers still have the initiative.

One of the main lessons that the experiment gave Yu Fei in the second quarter was that the core of the bucket formation was to block the space to reduce the shooting percentage of the core players, and then convey this negative feedback to his teammates through their sluggish touch, resulting in a decrease in their overall shooting percentage (1).

The more this game is fought, the more it gives Yu Fei a feeling of clearing the clouds.

He now wonders what kind of lineup Carl is going to arrange to mimic the Pistons' bucket formation.

He also knows why Jan can end the Pistons' domination in the East.

Essentially, he and James are the same type of players, and they are both the most senior players represented in the small-ball era – the ball-handling nucleus.

Although James is more nervous in shooting, he has unborn physical talent and delicate under-the-basket feel, and his strong physical condition makes up for his shortcomings in shooting.

Yu Fei watched the highlights of James' first championship game - in 2007, he scored 48 points against the Pistons, and finally scored 25 points in a row - in this game, James not only broke through and couldn't solve it, but even the shot came with his hands open, and on that night, he seemed to be a player born to restrain the Pistons.

This is the reason why Yu Fei is not worried about the Pistons, because his third-year self is far stronger than Yu Zhan in terms of technical reserves for cracking the iron bucket array, and he also has the blessing of the five-foreign lineup. As a result, he is confident that he can beat the Pistons.

His concern is that if they beat the Pistons, but can't lock up the F4 Lakers like the Pistons due to style issues, and let the Universe team, which locked the championship before the first season of the new century even begins, it will have several consequences: being slapped in the face by O'Neal, he will become Duncan's other self, last season's success will be considered a blessing, and F4 may not disintegrate.

No matter how you look at it, these things together give Yu Fei an indescribable stench.

He didn't want to face any of these consequences.

Therefore, the Lakers must be targeted in conjunction with the Pistons' successful experience.

George Carr has been walking with the wind lately, and since Reed was traded, the Bucks' internal atmosphere has eased, and Ray Allen is no longer suspicious.

Now, he's got a good suggestion from Yu Fei here.

Yu Fei suggested that he refer to the Pistons on the defensive end, which could work wonders for the Lakers.

He didn't think about it at first, but then thought about it carefully, isn't the Pistons' iron bucket formation specially designed for core superstars a magic weapon to restrain the OK Lakers?

The strength of the OK Lakers from the beginning to the present stems from singles, especially Kobe's singles.

As long as Kobe Bryant is dumb or O'Neal's space is blocked, the Lakers will recall how painful past games against the Bucks were.

"In the second half, we have to make some adjustments!"

Karl first announced the starters for the second half: Yu Fei, Ray Allen, Sprewell, Mason, Mutombo.

Carl then introduced the specific stations and the purpose of these stations.

Sprewell's sharp eyes immediately saw through where Carl had stolen this set of positions.

"Isn't that the Detroit routine?"

"Whoever it is, we're going to have to give it a try," Carl said. ”

Sprewell glanced at Yu Fei and Ray Allen.

"IMHO, the key to the success of this defense is Frye and Ray."

Ray Allen proudly states: "My defense won't be a problem. ”

"Don't look at me!" Yu Fei hated the feeling of being questioned, "You know, I have proven last season that I can kill opponents as long as I want to, and even give away the most blocks on the team on championship night!" ”

Hearing Yu Fei say this, everyone is fine.

Because they all know that Yu Fei's defense really depends on whether he wants to do it well or not. As long as he's willing to defend, with his physical condition and ball intelligence, it's hard to mess up the defense.

At the start of the second half, the Bucks' starting lineup caused discussion among the ABC commentary team and questions from the Lakers coaching staff.

Seeing the Bucks take Mutombo and Mason as the starting four, Jackson suspected that something was wrong with his eyes.

The Bucks were willing to give up the space interior line, which was very lethal to O'Neal, and replaced it with two defensive interior lines that helped little against the pick-and-roll offense to strengthen the interior defense?

O'Neal and Malone are things you can handle if you strengthen your interior defense?

Crazy, right?

It was only then that this contemptuous surprise turned into a fright.

The Bucks arranged for Mason to stick to Malone, and then, Mutombo defended O'Neal as usual.

However, Yu Fei, who was opposite Fox, kept a distance not close to him, which could not only interfere with the opponent's three-point shot, but also make up for the basket, so that the Lakers' interior space was suppressed.

Sprewell defends Kobe Bryant, and his defensive pressure is as heavy as Mutombo's, but Ray Allen and Yu Fei won't let him fight alone.

Ray Allen gave Payton, who couldn't shoot from the outside, a big open spot, ready to pinch Kobe Bryant.

Although Yu Fei is out of reach, he uses his athleticism and arm length to squeeze O'Neal's interior space, interfere with Fox, limit Kobe's passes, and jam space.

Karl rarely admires his players, but Yu Fei is a man who surprises him the longer he stays in charge.

Although they had never specifically trained the Pistons' bucket formation, Yu Fei naturally found his role in the Bucks' version of the bucket formation - he was the Bucks' Tyshawn Prince.

Normally, the Pistons would have put Prince to defend Kobe, but Carl didn't do that because Yu Fei hadn't proven his defense against top perimeter superstars.

Looking at it now, at least in terms of thinking and game awareness, Yu Fei has a lot to do on the defensive end.

The Lakers' first offensive round of the second half showed the side the Bucks wanted to see.

There was a disconnect between the core and the role players, and after Kobe Bryant forced a breakthrough, he found himself deep in the crowd and could only pass the ball out.

Payton tried to shoot a three-pointer and missed.

The Lakers' game is starting to go wrong.

Because while the Bucks make you the defensive end, they don't often find the right way to attack like the main Pistons.

Although the interior has no shooting ability and can't play his favorite pick-and-roll tactic at the No. 4 or fifth position to torture O'Neal, Ray Allen and Sprewell are still there.

As long as Yu Fei temporarily puts aside the idea of targeting O'Neal, the named attack can still be played, and it is more effective.

Payton missed on the offensive end, so he naturally wanted to make up for it on the defensive end.

But he is no longer the self he once was, and even if he still is, the physical gap with Yu Fei will make him feel inadequate in defense.

Because Yu Fei is not the kind of misplaced play that rudely runs over directly with his body, he likes to show off his skills very much.

Against O'Neal, he made all kinds of face-to-face throws and half-volleys, and he did everything he could to disgust.

Playing Payton, Yu Fei omitted other unnecessary steps, called the block to break to the free throw line, and made another pull-up jump shot that Payton was difficult to interfere with.

The difficulty of the shot was similar to that of training, and Payton's defense was largely influential.

"You can ask Kobe to help you."

Yu Fei's friendly suggestion sounded even more humiliating to Peyton.

When does he need teammates to help on the defensive end?

Coming to the Lakers' offensive round again, they found the Bucks four sunk near the free-throw line.

This created a good opportunity for Payton from beyond the three-point line to play alone.

Ray Allen has never been seen as a great defender, so Payton Sr. has an idea for him.

This is also to help the last offense and defense.

But Ray Allen does have some racing habits similar to Yu Fei.

Usually treat defense as dirty work, and symbolic defense is considered a difference. After suddenly raising the bar on oneself and putting a lot of effort into the defensive end, the defensive effect has also changed qualitatively.

Payton confidently dribbled under his crotch and tried to shake Ray Allen away, but he didn't give a good focus and almost shook himself down.

For him, the biggest problem of the offense is not to solve Ray Allen, but to deal with Ray Allen.

Sprewell didn't have much respect for Kobe's outside shots.

After all, Kobe Bryant's outside shooting rate is less than 33%, which is definitely a low level that can be put down.

If Sprewell doesn't respect Kobe's outside shooting, then Yu Fei has no reason to respect Fox's shooting.

Fox is shooting just 25 percent from three-point range this season, a level that counts as a defender's turnover on the outside.

But the essence of the bucket formation is to take a loose defense against low-level shooters.

While using their low shots to shrink the defense and compress the space, without completely emptying them.

Payton finally broke through Ray Allen's defense, and faced Yu Fei's assistance.

His only option was to give Fox a pass.

Then Fox hit a three-pointer.

Ray Allen scores on a fast break.

The Bucks chased 1 point again, but this time, on the Lakers' side, OK was on the court, and it was just the beginning of the second half, and everyone's physical strength was abundant, and the Lakers showed strong discomfort in the face of the Bucks' change of formation and the play of this piston bucket formation.

Phil Jackson didn't recognize the Bucks' defensive system as originating from the Detroit Pistons.

Because both of their meetings with the Pistons this season took place in November at the beginning of the season, and they played two games in one week. The Lakers won one and lost one, but the Pistons didn't impress them.

They don't feel that that style of play is inherently off-the-beaten.

Jackson believes that as long as they can grasp the open shots, they can crack the Bucks' defense.

This is the difference between the big ball era and the small ball era.

Even if their own shooting percentage from the outside is a big piece of, the coaches of the big ball era still think they just need to shoot.

The problem is that this inefficient three-point shooting gives the Bucks plenty of margin for error in their bucket defense.

Bryant's way of solving this problem is by not shooting three-pointers.

Since you know that you don't feel good, you give up the empty space, take a few steps inside, and make a pull-up jumper.

Although he refused to shoot, Kobe Bryant's long-range mid-range shot was in.

It's a quench, but it doesn't quench your thirst.

Moreover, the Bucks would love to see Kobe Bryant shoot like that.

The difference returned to three points again, and Yu Fei dribbled over half the court and suddenly called for Mutombo to block the dismantling.

O'Neal came out this time, because Mutombo didn't have the ability to shoot, and the speed of blocking and dismantling was not fast enough, and Malone was still under the basket and could block his downward route at any time.

O'Neal, who was determined to block Yu Fei with Fox, widened his eyes, and the bastard who deserved death in his eyes made a weird reverse step-back jumper.

Both Fox and O'Neill ended up only figuratively reaching out in front of him.

"!!Shh

"I couldn't even find the basket, thank you for showing me the way with a pork knuckle." Yu Fei looked at O'Neill and mocked.

O'Neal was furious and came to the offensive end to be ferocious.

A teammate passed the ball, but Mason on one side did not hide it, brutally hugged O'Neal from behind, and forced the opponent to the free throw line with a foul.

The pace of the game is back in the hands of the Bucks.

The Bucket Formation is afraid of the ball-handling core, but the Lakers don't have a ball-handling core, so even this original version of the Iron Bucket with many mistakes and omissions still dragged them into the quagmire.

If the attack doesn't go well, Yu Fei's naming threat will remind one of them of the fear they once had.

Before today, Phil Jackson didn't want to admit that O'Neal had a nemesis anyway.

But after Yu Fei put a roll call package on O'Neal in the third quarter, he admitted that a ball-handler who can launch a pick-and-roll attack in any position, has a huge shooting threat, a lethal throw, a variety of layups, and a variety of near-basket attack methods is O'Neal's nemesis.

What is desperate is that O'Neal could still blow up with Yu Fei on the offensive end.

As a result, the Bucks suddenly used an iron bucket formation, and the good old days of exploding each other were gone, and the first half of the encounter was like a sweet dream, and it was the most dignified moment in front of O'Neal Yu Fei.

In order to save O'Neal from the bucket lineup, Jackson tried to bring on players with higher shooting skills such as Karim Rush and Derrick Fisher.

Unfortunately, apart from Rush, no other player has been able to hit threes consistently.

But one rush alone is not enough.

In the fourth quarter, Kobe's strong desire to be a savior made him not pass the ball to O'Neal from beginning to end, which made O'Neal, who was already in prison for offense and defense, even more isolated.

Kobe Bryant's onslaught made him the all-time scorer of the night, but it was also his inefficient onslaught that cost the Lakers hope of winning early in the fourth quarter.

When Yu Fei used the roll call tactic to assist O'Neal to make O'Neal's sixth foul, the boos in the Staples Center were thunderous, and I didn't know whether he was scolding the referee or scolding Yu Fei.

Everyone who understands the game can clearly feel the obvious discomfort shown by the Lakers on the offensive end against the bucket formation, as well as O'Neal's inability to fly on the defensive end.

Now they have an even bigger problem, and that's why Phil Jackson is nervous.

If we meet the Bucks in the Finals, what are the odds of winning?

Before tonight, the Lakers felt that the odds were very high, but after tonight, they all knew how hard the Bucks could play.

Especially the coaching staff, they even have a cowardly idea.

Let's take out the Bucks with an Eastern Conference team, and it's better to break Frye's legs and feet directly, so that the world will be at peace!

Then, the game was over: 112-99, and the Bucks defeated the Lakers on the road to win the big game.

Post-match interview

"Maybe in the past, when Shaq was out of tune, Bryant felt like he needed to take over the game." Karl Malone had a small resentment with Bryant's fourth-quarter singles, "but now he doesn't have to." ”

When asked if Bryant's crazy singles in the fourth quarter were due to the coaching staff's tactical design or his "self-willingness," Jackson shrugged. "I wouldn't choose either of these two options. It's not designed, I think he just feels like he has to throw the ball into the basket. ”

O'Neill took a resolute stance on the question "Is Yu Fei your nemesis?" ”

On the Bucks' side, it's obviously not as tense as the Lakers' atmosphere.

"I think it's a testament to my worth as a defender." Ray Allen answered how he blocked Payton on the defensive end in the second half.

"Is there anything special about this?" George Carr was numb to the regular-season win over Phil Jack, "It's just a regular season game, there's no need to make such a fuss. ”

When Yu Fei went to the press conference, he met Kobe.

They said hello in a friendly way.

"You played well tonight." Bryant said, "But next time I'll win." ”

Yu Fei responded: "You can keep winning in the score game, I'm not greedy, just win the game." ”

"Hmph," Bryant snorted coldly, "you're confident, but that's just the beginning." ”

It sounded as if he was going to win the next fight.

"You're the one who is overconfident, Kobe." Yu Fei said, "Do you know the difference between self-confidence and conceit? ”

"I don't know." Kobe Bryant answered Yu Fei's question in just two sentences, "I don't care." ”

(1) In the 04 finals, the Lakers' highest shooting percentage was O'Neal, with nearly 27 points per game and a 62% shooting percentage. And then, the Lakers didn't have a second man shooting above 40 percent. Although Bryant's shooting percentage is a staggering 38.1%, it still ranks fourth on the team.

PS: There is only one chapter today, because two chapters are combined.

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