From today on is the king

Chapter 1349 1348. If we switch roles
Seeing McGrady and Marion talking and laughing back to the defense, Josh Smith felt miserable. He and McGrady humiliated their opponents together, but this time he became the background.

O'Neal has worked very hard, but Kwame Brown didn't run as fast as he tried to retreat.

Although O'Neal didn't work hard in training, he never let the game go. In the regular season of the Lakers, there was a situation of supporting the game, mainly because of Kobe's support. When there was no Kobe, O'Neal always worked hard during the game.

Josh Smith miserably picked up the ball and sent it to Nash, who controlled the rhythm and moved forward.

With O'Neal around, running and bombing and pick-and-roll fast offense is impossible. Fortunately, Nash is not only good at fast break, he is also an All-Star in the Mavericks, and he was not the core of the Mavericks.

After Nash advanced to the frontcourt, O'Neal had already settled in the interior.

O'Neal, who weighed 150 kilograms, was even tougher on the inside. One defense and one defense couldn't stop him. Nash passed the ball to O'Neal who was in a good position on the right side of the three-second zone.

However, O'Neal's position became stronger, and his explosive power declined severely. Kwame Brown was behind him. O'Neal wanted to crash in and dunk like he did last season.

However, although Kwame Brown has small hands, his wingspan is excellent, and his defensive judgment is very good, limiting the space for O'Neal to turn into the basket behind the backboard!

At the same time, Dior came up to help Nash block Liu Mang, Nash cut into the interior, and Prince switched over.

O'Neal was indeed blocked by Kwame Brown, but it also made Kwame Brown face the high player!O'Neal gave the ball to Nash head-on, and Nash received the ball and made a layup...

hit!

Prince's defense was in place, but Nash and Liu Mang's layup on the move was too difficult to defend, and the speed was fast. Nash, Prince, and Dior cooperated to score two points!

O'Neal's height of [-] meters brings great vision, just like Yao Ming's poor organizational skills but he has two to three assists per game for the Lakers.

Everything can be learned, but height cannot be learned.

"Use O'Neal as the axis! This guy can figure it out!" Liu Mang glanced at Gentry on the sidelines.

Maybe it's because he hasn't won the fourth championship yet. Not having one more championship than Kobe has become O'Neal's knot. Some things he didn't want to do before are doing well now, such as being a supporting role to help teammates pass the ball and let teammates score.

Except for Raja Bell, the other four players in the Suns starting lineup can pass the ball!

Liu Mang became excited and advanced quickly after receiving a pass from Kwame Brown.

speed up!
Liu Mang advanced to the frontcourt, and the Suns retreated quickly. O'Neal dragged his big butt and ran back to the basket. Just as Liu Mang was beyond the three-point line, Raja Bell immediately posted it.

Raja Bell reached his peak this season, with a 79 ability rating and a 94 defensive rating.

Faced with Raja Bell's rough defensive action, Liu Mang originally wanted to pass the ball to McGrady, but the defensive player McGrady encountered was Josh Smith...

Now he is still a tall and thin Dior to defend Marion, and the Suns can switch defenses seamlessly from the 1st to the 4th positions!
Nash's defense is not good, but his enthusiasm is enough to catch and shoot Prince.

That being the case, Liu Mang beckoned to Kwame Brown for a pick-and-roll.

Kwame Brown came out to help Liu Mang block Raja Bell. After Liu Mang made a pick and roll, before O'Neal defended him, he shot a three-pointer from the right side of the top arc...

Miss!

But a cutting Marion made an easy tip-in for two points after a cutting McGrady helped block Diaw.

This is a style of play that the Suns can't play. The Suns liked to play like this before, but at that time their center was Diaw or Stoudemire. Now it has become O'Neal, and they can only watch the Eagles play like this.

In his peak period, O'Neal helped Kobe block people and let Kobe shoot key shots. This was an important tactic for the Lakers during the OK combination period, but now O'Neal is really running.

When it came time for the Suns to attack, it was still O'Neal who received the ball from the basket and played singles. This time Marion shrunk in early. Nash received a pass from O'Neal and passed it to Dior. Dior's three-pointer from the bottom corner... missed!
O'Neal couldn't grab a rebound in this position, and was stuck in the basket by Kwame Brown. Liu Mang bypassed Josh Smith's pick-and-roll and rushed to the basket, grabbed a defensive rebound, and immediately counterattacked!
Liu Mang passed the ball to McGrady who was one step ahead. After following up to the frontcourt, McGrady, who was being chased by Josh Smith and Raja Bell, passed the ball back to Liu Mang who was following up.

hit!

Liu Mang thought of the lines of a little mage in a game in later generations...

If our roles were reversed...

Now the Eagles and the Suns are like a role swap. The Eagles are speeding up to counterattack and throwing three-pointers, while the Suns are playing positional warfare.

However, although Nash is also good at attacking in positional warfare, Josh Smith is not too much of a problem. He does a good job of cutting and blocking people.

The Eagles discovered this, actively contracted, did not give Josh Smith and Nash a chance to score, and emptied Diaw and Raja Bell's open catch and shoot. The rhythm of the two is really impossible to score.

For the Eagles, Liu Mang, McGrady, and Marion scored a counterattack. Liu Mang and McGrady each made a three-pointer, and Marion had a counterattack dunk.

The Eagles played a wave of 10 to 4 at the beginning of the game!

In addition to Nash scoring a throw, Josh Smith grabbed an offensive rebound and gave O'Neal the ball to allow O'Neal to score two points. The Suns made all three three-pointers!
At the third minute and 17 seconds of the first quarter, the Suns called a timeout!

……

The offense was good at the start, and the purposeful defense was also very good, but the Eagles did not dare to be careless. The start was expected. Raja Bell averaged 2.6 three-pointers per game this season and ranked sixth in the league.

Next is the point!
During the timeout, the Eagles were making tactical arrangements for the sudden change of rhythm that the Suns would most likely have.

Sure enough, after the timeout came back, the Suns replaced O'Neal with Kurt Thomas, a [-]-meter forward nicknamed "Crazy Eyes". Nash, Raja Bell, Josh Smith, Kurt Thomas, and Dior played.

The Eagles also made a substitution here, replacing Prince with a lineup of Liu Mang, Jason Terry, McGrady, Marion, and Kwame Brown.

The Suns, who immediately switched to the rhythm of running and bombing, immediately started a hurricane after returning from the timeout.

The Eagles didn't even think about pressing the tempo. The start was good and the offensive efficiency was good. Of course, they had to continue to shoot. The two teams started a crazy confrontation.

Liu Mang threw a three-pointer around the pick-and-roll, and Nash scored two points in a horse-riding archery in a counterattack; Liu Mang gave the ball to McGrady, McGrady passed the second pass to Marion for an air cut layup, Nash gave the ball to the running Raja Bell, and Raja Bell made a three-pointer...

With the current lineup of the Suns, the opponents can't contain their counterattacks at all. Although Josh Smith does not have the mid-range shooting ability and basket attack ability that Stoudemire showed in the Heat this season, he runs faster than Stoudemire!And the passing is much better than Stoudemire. The scoring ability Josh Smith and Stoudemire... may not be able to catch up in their lifetime, but Josh Smith's passing and speed, Stoudemire also can't catch up in a lifetime, and although Josh Smith's independent scoring ability is not as good as Stoudemire, but the pie-eating ability of Josh Smith is not worse than Stoudemire.

The six-point difference is nothing after running and playing. Liu Mang led Nash by two assists at the beginning, and when the official timeout came, it was wiped out!The two three-pointers leading by the Eagles were chased by the Suns to 2 to 3 when the official timeout came!

By the end of the first quarter, the Eagles only led the Suns by two points 31 to 29!
In just over eight minutes, the Suns scored 25 points!
Liu Mang scored 8 points and 3 assists in the first quarter, making two three-pointers and a second offensive tip-up.

The Suns have Raja Bell and Kurt Thomas, who defend very well from mid-range shots. Liu Mang’s mid-range performance is not good, especially their reinforcement Kurt Thomas this season. He can carry Kwame Brown under the basket.

After the first quarter, Liu Mang looked at the data on the big screen, and Nash actually got 8 assists in more than 4 minutes!
And the Suns made 3 three-pointers in the first quarter, only one less than the Hawks' 4 three-pointers!
The score was almost tied!

……

After playing the first quarter, Liu Mang was replaced by Rondo in the second quarter, Tracy McGrady and Jason Terry were also removed, replaced by Korver, Battier, Granger's front and guard trio, and the center position was replaced by Rasheed Wallace.

Playing the Suns, one big and four small are must-have lineups.

Sure enough, the Suns also had one big and four small, with a lineup of Calderon, Barbosa, Jaylen Rose, Josh Smith, and O'Neal playing.

After the start of the second quarter, the rhythm of the Suns changed suddenly again and entered an extremely slow rhythm. Calderon and O'Neal... There is a feeling of an old man's perfect fit!

From the first attack of the Suns in the second quarter, Liu Mang could see that Gentry was learning his rhythm-changing style of play!

(End of this chapter)