Chapter 60: Fighting the Piston Again, Melon's Hospitality

On November 18, at the Auburn Hills Palace Arena in Detroit, the Lakers and Pistons immediately began their second regular season meeting this season.

With the experience of losing in Los Angeles, Larry Brown adjusted the Pistons' offensive tactics in time.

Because the Pistons lacked superstar-level stars on the offensive end, Larry Brown had no choice but to rebuild the Pistons with the Princeton system.

However, the Princeton system requires every player to have a certain passing ability, and the Pistons do not have the flashy configuration of the Kings, so they can only rely on Billups to sort out the offense.

Once Billups was killed by Kobe, the Pistons' offense couldn't work.

Therefore, in the face of the Lakers' blind play to the Princeton system, they will only be beaten by the Lakers.

In order to strengthen the team's offensive ability, but also to crack the triangle offense, Larry Brown began to practice the Pistons players with quick defensive counterattack tactics a few days before the game.

To put it bluntly, the triangle offense, as the king of positional warfare, also relies on the stability of the superstar on the offensive end when defending at high intensity.

The Pistons strengthened their defense and took the initiative to speed up on the offensive end, which is to further strengthen the physical consumption of the superstar.

Superstars are hard to prevent, but they can be consumed!

Many stars were as fierce as tigers in the first three quarters, but in the fourth quarter, they often became unsatisfactory due to physical exhaustion, and even disappointed fans.

Although Kobe Bryant and Malone are famous physical monsters, Zen masters often like to fight to the death when they fight tough battles.

Because of physical exhaustion, Kobe Bryant will miss key shots, and Karl Malone will also miss two free throws at critical moments in the finals.

Larry Brown feels that even if he can't win in the regular season, it is still possible to gain some advantages against the Lakers in the Finals.

That's right, Larry Brown has already researched his opponents for the finals in advance.

Larry Brown left the 76ers for the Pistons to challenge for another championship.

The Pistons were the Eastern Conference finalists last season, and Larry Brown feels that under his leadership, the Pistons have a good chance of reaching the Finals.

And the Lakers started with 8 wins and 2 losses in O'Neal's absence, second in the West, with the luxury configuration of the Lakers F4, plus super newcomer Doon, it is difficult for this Lakers team not to come out of the West.

In order to test their thoughts, the Pistons soon started a big battle with the Lakers under the command of Larry Brown.

The Lakers didn't expect the Pistons' offense to be so fast-paced, and they did suffer a little at the beginning and fell into the disadvantage.

But soon Payton reacted, the Pistons can play fast, and the Lakers can play fast.

Although after taking the initiative to pause, the Zen master emphasized that it doesn't matter how the Pistons play, the Lakers should play their own, and they must continue to insist on lowering the pace of the game and playing a triangle offense.

However, the Lakers' starting configuration made Payton decide to play the way he wanted.

also plays defensive counterattacks, Payton holds the ball and pushes speed, Kobe and Malone are two mud trucks who stop and who die!

In addition, Doon's speed of fast attack is not slow at all, and he has the ability to chase down three-pointers.

As a result, the two sides faced each other, and under Payton's leadership, the Lakers turned defeat into victory early in the first quarter and took the lead in scoring.

Are the Lakers a fast-break powerhouse? The Zen master on the sidelines was also a little dumbfounded, it was really an unimagined path......

However, as soon as he thought that O'Neal would eventually return, the Zen master did not call a timeout to prevent Peyton and the others from continuing to play fast attack.

You look at his fat appearance, and ask O'Neill to play a fast attack, isn't that unloading the mill and killing the pig?

O'Neal is the Lakers' strongest point on the offensive end and the league's most dominant player, and the more he gets to the playoffs, the more defensive intensity games he gets, the more valuable O'Neal becomes.

The triangle offense mobilizes the role player's sense of involvement, but ultimately serves the superstar.

Moreover, Kobe Bryant has also played the triangle offense for so many years.

When it comes to key games, I don't want to know that Kobe Bryant will also support playing a triangle offense.

As long as the OK combination is okay, the Lakers are still in his control.

113 to 105, the Lakers and the Pistons fought both offense and defense, which made the fans who watched this game very cool.

However, the mood of the Detroit fans at the scene was not so beautiful, and in the end, the Lakers relied on the quality of the stars to defeat the Pistons by 8 points.

is also because of the increase in the number of offensive rounds, and the Lakers' star statistics have increased to varying degrees.

The Lakers scored 20 points on four players tonight, with Malone scoring the most on 11-of-16 shooting and 5-of-6 from the free-throw line for 27 points.

He was followed by Bryant on 8-of-15 shooting, 1-of-3 three-pointers and 7-of-7 free throws, scoring 24 points.

Payton also scored 22 points on 10-of-19 shooting, 1-of-4 from three-point range and 1-of-2 from the free-throw line.

Doon finished with 21 points, 5 rebounds and 7 assists on 8-of-13 shooting, 2-of-5 three-pointers, and 3-of-4 free throws.

In this way, the Lakers marched into New York with a four-game winning streak.

"Melon, I'm already in New York, what show have you prepared for me?"

After getting off the plane, Doon made a phone call to Anthony and began to look forward to the gift that his good brother Melon had prepared for him.

It didn't take long for Anthony to drive to the Lakers' hotel to pick up Doon for a ride.

"Hey, brother, welcome to my turf!"

Anthony came up and gave Doon a big hug, but Doon noticed that Anthony was accompanied by a lot of people.

I haven't seen him for a while, and Anthony has a faint panache of a gang boss.

"Melon, we finally met again, you shouldn't let me down, right?"

"Of course! Hahahaha! ”

Infected by the smile of the melon's sunny and cheerful big boy, Doon got into Anthony's car unsuspectingly.

I thought I would go to a tall place, but I didn't expect to go to Brooklyn, and I came to a small place and walked into a place similar to a bar.

After entering the door, Doon heard music coming from the house, and his heart was faintly looking forward to it.

"Well, well, the most famous gold club in the country, Atlanta, has closed its doors, demolished and rebuilt into a church.

If you want to visit a green, healthy, and good-looking program, you can really only come to such a small place.

The social melon deserves to be the social melon, and it does have connections! ”

However, when I actually got inside, I realized that this was a gathering place for black underground rap.

"Okay, you melon, I entertained Wade, and I even invited him to a seafood dinner!

I came to New York, but you brought me to listen to music?

Well, it's very yellow and violent. ”

Seeing that there were more blacks in the house, Doon was a little weak-hearted, so he could only hold back the complaint in his heart.

"Brother, do you want some?"

Melon's henchman brought some drinks, and Melon seemed to want to have a few bottles with Doon to help the fun.

"No, I drank and made mistakes, and I still have to play ball at night!

You play a lot at Madison Square Garden and probably don't feel much.

But I only come once a year, and it's a basketball mecca! I'm definitely going to behave well.

It's best to drink less melon, I hope to beat you head-on in your heyday! ”

Doon refused directly, who knows if there are some additives that Doon can't accept in the wine?

Melons heard Doon say that he wanted to win a high in tonight's game, and the interest came, so he said: "Then I won't drink it either!"

I've heard you've been playing well lately, but I'd like to see how you've grown.

I'm not going to lose to you! You are my brother and only I can defeat you! ”

Doon was anxious to get out of here, and when he heard that Melon had shifted his attention to basketball, Doon said that it was best to find a gym to practice now and see how everyone came in.

Sure enough, Anthony also wanted to fight Doon alone, so he said goodbye to the owner here and returned to Manhattan with Doon.

"Melon, don't get too complacent, see you tonight!"

Doon and Anthony played two games without winning, but the two games were 18-21 and 17-21, which shows that the two are very close.

If he keeps fighting, Doon may still be able to turn defeat into victory.

That is, because there is still a game tonight, everyone needs to stay in the main game to play, so it did not continue.

"Don't worry, Doon, you can't win me! I'll beat you, beat Kobe, beat the Lakers! This is my territory! ”

Anthony is also high-spirited and ambitious.