The Pistons started with 5 wins and 3 losses, and their record alone was a little worse than the 6-2 Lakers.

However, the recent Pistons Western Devils have played their third game in a row, and the player's condition is obviously worse than that of the Lakers.

However, after the game officially began, Billups stepped up first, and made Payton a defensive hole in three or two clicks.

And on the defensive end, Billups can not only defend Payton alone, but also have the spare strength to help defend Kobe.

Thanks to the recent soreness in his right shoulder and the fact that he has lost two games in a row, Kobe Bryant has somewhat blamed himself, so he changed his style of play and did not insist too much on singles.

Otherwise, the Lakers will not be able to withstand the offensive firepower of Billups and Hamilton by constantly sending defensive rebounds to Big Ben.

"Kobe, Hamilton leave it to me!

You go and lock Billups to death, we can't let him score easily!

Gary, Tyshawn Prince is up to you! ”

Halfway through the first quarter, Doon saw that the score was 13-9 and the situation was a little unfavorable for the Lakers, so he took the initiative to find Kobe and Payton and asked them to adjust their defensive goals.

Talent can be without, but not without! Billups was known as a parallel scout in his early years, but now he is slowly showing why he is a flower scout.

Although Peyton is a top show, he is old after all, and his body is a little unable to move. Now he is crushed by Billups' talent, and he has no temper at all.

After these games this season, Payton also realized that he was not as glamorous as the stats suggested.

Considering that his good brother Doane, who was with a substitute, asked him to switch to a defensive man, Payton quickly accepted it.

After all, Prince is only a sophomore, and Payton has never looked at rookies.

If Prince is good at shooting and Payton goes up to defend him, then it's a gift at all. Fortunately, Prince's shooting is inconsistent, and his style of play is mainly based on breakthroughs, and Payton can still defend a little.

Of course, thinking about it from another angle, as long as Billups and Hamilton don't attack with the ball, even if Prince is misplaced to play Payton, the Lakers can accept it.

How many shots did Prince take in a game? With Prince's attack power, he couldn't kill anyone at all.

What the Lakers really need to pay attention to is Billups and Hamilton.

Payton can't guard Billups, but Kobe Bryant can.

It's just that Kobe Bryant and Hamilton are good friends, and they didn't know each other as early as high school.

Kobe Bryant has some obsession with preventing Hamilton, and Hamilton is also more strenuous against Kobe Bryant when defending.

Doon is willing to defend Hamilton, not because he is confident that he can defend Hamilton, but mainly to free Kobe Bryant so that Kobe can limit the Pistons' real brain, Billups.

As the creator of the 58 tragedy, Billups has always been a player whose strength is far greater than his fame.

"He was never the first point guard, he was only responsible for sending the first point guard home!"

This phrase was originally used to describe Parker, but it is actually very apt to describe Billups.

In Doon's view, although the strength of the 04 Pistons Five Tigers is very strong, it is not difficult for the Lakers to win the Piston Five Tigers in F4.

The point is that Bryant wants to score too much, and if Bryant could spend his energy on defending Billups instead of defending O'Neal, the outcome of the Finals would be very different.

Of course, Kobe Bryant also tried to prevent Billups, but unfortunately Hamilton happened to explode again.

The Lakers in Doon's memory only had one Kobe Bryant, and he couldn't kill both Billups and Hamilton at the same time, but now Doon has come to this Lakers.

Now Doon wants to see if he can help the Lakers limit Hamilton's offense.

With a half-regular season of trial and error to go until the Finals, it's not a bad thing to gain some more experience defending Hamilton.

"Don't worry, I won't let anyone else go wild on my turf!"

Bryant also accepted Doon's suggestion to change the guard and was willing to lock up Billups' piston engine.

With Bryant's full-court defense, Billups struggled to find a shot and could only pass the ball to Prince and Hamilton.

Hamilton doesn't keep the ball on the ball, usually running to tear apart the opposition's defence.

As a result, Prince, who was only in the second year, was severely tested with the ball.

After Payton got the ball with Prince, he made small moves to Prince with the ball and interfered with Prince's dribble.

Prince is too tall and has a high center of gravity on the dribble, and in the face of Payton's defense, it is easy to lose the ball under a strong basket.

In this case, you can only protect the ball with your back and wait for your teammates to pick it up.

It is worth mentioning that after Larry Brown came to the Pistons, he especially liked Big Ben, the only All-Star player on the team, so he increased the tactical proportion of Big Ben in the offense.

Big Ben stepped forward to make a cross screen with Prince, hand-to-hand to catch the ball.

Meanwhile, Hamilton, who ran to the basket, took advantage of Elden Campbell's cover and escaped Doon's pursuit and quickly ran outside the three-point line.

Big Ben tactically passed the ball to Hamilton, who faked a real pass to attract the defense, and then stuffed the ball under the basket and passed it to Big Ben, who cut down the air.

The speed of Big Ben's empty cut is not something that ordinary people can keep up with, and Ma Long can't keep up and can't chase the hat, so he can only sit back and watch Big Ben's hands buckle violently.

I have to say, Larry Brown still has two brushes.

Although it started defensively, it can also allow the blue-collar players to participate in the team's offense.

Big Ben's two career-high scoring seasons were Larry Brown's two years at the helm of the Pistons.

Of course, blue-collar workers are blue-collar after all, and they have no independent offensive ability, and it is difficult to score double-doubles just by cutting through the air in a game.

The Lakers didn't care too much about the Pistons' interior offense, and what really needed to be solved was how Doon should limit Hamilton from getting the ball after Kobe Bryant defended Billups.

Hamilton was on the ball and not only a shooting threat but also a passing threat.

Doon was really hard at the beginning against Hamilton, and many times he was thrown off by Hamilton's back-running.

However, thanks to Kobe Bryant's restriction of Billups, there is no way for Billups to pass the ball to Hamilton at any time.

Hamilton sometimes ran out of chances but couldn't convert them into shots, and the rest of the Pistons lacked the ability to attack on their own.

In order to avoid a 24-second violation, the Pistons, who have been playing positional battles and have been following the tactics laid out by Larry Brown, can only let Campbell digest the ball and attack the Lakers' weakest interior on the defensive end.

Due to Campbell's age, many times he has more than enough to do.

The Lakers were defended by the Pistons and couldn't score efficiently, but the Pistons couldn't score efficiently because of their limited ability.

In the first quarter of the game, the starters of both sides played almost the entire quarter of the game, and there is no doubt that this will be another strong conversation between the two head coaches.

It's just that the score between the two sides is only 21-19, the defensive intensity is enough, but the offensive side is not so exciting.

The second quarter of the game started quickly, and the Lakers, led by Doon and Payton, finally began to exert their strength.

In the first quarter, Doon made 1 of 3 shots and scored 2 points only on the fast break.

On the one hand, because Prince is a lot taller than Doon, and he has not suffered in weight, it is not easy for Doon to single Prince, not to mention that Prince's long arms are very restrained from Doon's shooting.

On the other hand, it is also because it is not easy to defend Hamilton, and just running consumes a lot of physical energy.

At the start of the second quarter, Prince wasn't on the court, and Doon finally got the chance to stagger the trip.

The Pistons' Bob Soula and Claris Williams couldn't limit Doon's shooting, nor could they prevent Doon from blocking and hitting Billups in a misplaced position.

Without Prince's close defense, Doon can dribble and block in front of Billups.

In the second quarter, Doon was to trouble Billups on both offensive and defensive ends, and consume Billups' physical strength as much as possible.

Billups defends very well and is quite good against them, but Doon has the advantage of height and weight.

Doon can pass the ball again, and once the Pistons wrap Doon on the outside, Payton can get another opportunity to attack the basket.

By the time the main forces on both sides returned to the court in the second quarter for more than 4 minutes in the second quarter, Doon had already scored 7 points, 2 rebounds and 2 assists in the second quarter.

Doon went down to rest for a while, and was back on the court with just over three minutes left in the second quarter.

Originally, the two sides were still fighting an iron battle, and the Lakers relied on Doane's three-point shot to take the lead in breaking the deadlock.

However, then Doon was glued to Prince again, and he shot two irons, and Kobe Bryant felt that he was not as good as him, so Kobe Bryant also hit two irons.

40-41, relying on Doon's firepower to provide 10 points in the second quarter, the Lakers finally turned defeat into victory, temporarily leading the Pistons by 1 point.

At halftime, the Lakers returned to the locker room, and they were all tired.

"Doon, won't you eat?" Payton grabbed a couple of bananas and approached Doon.

Doon glanced at Kobe, who was also eating bananas on the side, shook his hand and refused: "I'm not hungry, I'll just have a drink." ”

Kobe Bryant told other NBA players that he couldn't eat at halftime to defend Hamilton......