NBA: I am the god of basketball

Chapter 170 42 Magic's Second Crown!
As one of the few traditional inside centers with good talent and high hopes in the future, Bynum was even put together with Howard for a certain period of time and regarded as one of the two future centers in the league.

It was the 11-12 season. Bynum averaged 18.7 points, 11.8 rebounds and 1.9 blocks per game in the regular season.

But Bynum's rise was short-lived. After that season, the Lakers used him as a bargaining chip in exchange for Howard and sent him to the Philadelphia 76ers.

Subsequent events proved that Bynum's so-called talent was not worth mentioning at all, especially after leaving the Lakers without Kobe's supervision, his poor professional attitude and self-discipline were fully exposed.

Many people say that Kobe has a stubborn and paranoid personality, often pressures his teammates, and has no friends.

But it must be admitted that many players are forced to improve and become stronger when playing next to Kobe. Once they leave Kobe's supervision, they will immediately reveal their true colors.

Bynum is not the same as Howard. Although Howard has an optimistic personality and likes happy basketball and refuses PUA, his attitude during training is relatively correct. He likes to stay in his comfort zone and is unwilling to make more efforts to become stronger. But basic physical training has never been lazy. In order to adapt to the small ball era, Howard will lose weight and improve his mobility in the future. It proves that at least Howard has a good professional attitude. Not to mention outstanding, but at least as a team A professional player is qualified. Of course, in the future, he will not be able to gain a foothold in the NBA and go to Wanwan to spend time with Taiwanese girls.

Bynum was completely different. Without Kobe’s pressure on him, Bynum, who became the biggest star in the 76ers, let himself go without training at all. During his injury, he went to Australia to play extreme sports, and his injury was aggravated by bowling.

Of course, even putting aside these things, Bynum has practiced hard for many years in the Lakers inside skills.

Just like now, facing Channing Frye's defense, Bynum failed to score the first goal, which is surprising.

While the Lakers home fans were still annoyed about missing this opportunity, Wang Chao had already caught Gasol's position one step ahead, pocketed the basketball, and then turned around and rushed towards the Lakers' frontcourt the next moment.

Fast attack!So fast!
At this moment, the Magic's four positions on the court are all outside players, and they ran toward the Lakers' backcourt almost at the same time. The Lakers, who mainly play positional battles, were unable to react in time, and only three outside players were able to return to defense in time.

Playing 4 on 3 in the front court, watching Wang Chao who was holding the ball all the way, without thinking, Kobe immediately stepped forward to block Wang Chao. He knew very well that even if he missed other players, he must not give Wang Chao an open shot.

Wang Chao, who quickly advanced beyond the three-point line, raised his hand and threw the basketball to a 45-degree angle outside the three-point line on one side.

Crawford just arrived at this time, and Wang Chao passed the ball at the right time, neither rushing for a second nor slowing down.

After receiving the pass, Crawford immediately raised his hand to shoot. At this time, Odom, who was closely following Ariza on the other side, gave up following the defense and ran over to make up the defense. Naturally, it was too late.

"brush!"

With a completely open space, Crawford hit the three-pointer steadily.

This season in the Magic, Crawford's three-point shooting rate is a little higher than when he should have been in the Hawks. During the regular season, the three-point shooting rate can reach 39.4%, which is infinitely close to 40%. He even has a 41% three-point shooting rate and feels very good. He can naturally grasp the opportunity for such a completely open shot.

"A fast-break attack from the Magic! The Lakers couldn't react at all. More importantly, the return speed of the Lakers' inside twin towers is too slow, and they can't catch up with the mobility of the Magic's pure outside lineup!"

This is also the main reason why Wang Chao will consider small ball tactics.

As a traditional heavy center, Bynum is horribly slow, not much different from Dayao.

Although Gasol has always been known for his flexible footwork as a power forward, he often plays the role of fast-down in the Lakers' counterattack and fast break, but that is only limited to when he is facing up with other teams' inside players. He is facing Wang Chaoshi who is at the top of the power forward position. In Wang Chao's eyes, the so-called agility and mobility are not much different from other big insiders.

Of course, the Magic's current small-ball lineup is only a temporary prototype and not perfect, especially in the interior. Although Channing Frye has a three-point shooting rate of over 40%, his defensive ability is insufficient.

Wang Chao also has to admit that although the small ball tactics selectively give up the inside line, Draymond Green's role is crucial to the reason why the most classic five-death lineup in the Warriors period can be invincible across the league. As a 2 meter forward, Green can withstand many inside centers. His defense is the only guarantee that the inside line will not be completely defeated after the Warriors deploy the death five small lineup.

Although Wang Chao doesn't like Green, this guy also has countless black spots, such as kicking eggs, poking eyes and mouth to break people, and punching his teammates later, but the success of the Warriors is indeed due to this guy.

The Magic are not without players who can replace Green. In fact, Howard can perfectly replace Green's role on the defensive end. Howard's speed at his peak was not slower than Green's at all, and his ability to protect the frame and assist in defense was even better than Green's. Dozens of streets.

But Howard doesn't have Green's ability to handle the ball, nor does he have Green's long-range shooting ability.

Don’t look at the fact that Green’s three-point long-range shooting has reached the point where he is completely emptied by his opponents and dare not take a shot, but Green’s three-point shooting percentage at the beginning can still barely maintain at the early 30% level, especially at the peak. In the 15-16 season, Green's three-point shooting percentage can reach 38.8%, and he hits 3.2 goals in 1.2 shots per game.

But now an incomplete version of the small-ball lineup will appear on the court. What Wang Chao wants is to catch the Lakers by surprise and take advantage of the fact that the opponent's inside twin towers have not reacted. catch up.

The move did work, too.

The Lakers are really a little confused at this time.

After the offensive and defensive transition, the Lakers attacked, and after halftime possession of the ball, Fisher still found Bynum inside and lobbed the ball to the opponent as before.

Although the offense in the previous round was unsuccessful, Bynum's advantage at the basket was clearly visible!
After receiving the pass, Bynum continued to hit Channing Frye with his back, and easily squeezed to the basket again, but just as he was about to make a deep step to knock Channing Frye away, he dunked with a violent two-handed At the end of this attack, Wang Chao suddenly came out from nowhere, flanking Bynum with Channing Frye one after the other, messing with both hands, making Bynum, who was not very skilled himself, flustered , accidentally lost the ball.

"Oops! Here we go again!"

Seeing this scene, Kobe's heart sank, he subconsciously turned his head and ran towards the backcourt.

Sure enough, Wang Chao, who had completed the steal, immediately threw the ball to Nelson not far away, and then threw off his arms and ran towards the backcourt of the Lakers.

It was a fast break again. The Magic played extremely fast, but this time Gasol's return to defense was a bit timely, and he didn't completely lose his defensive position, but it was only limited to not losing his defensive position. In the case of withdrawing defense, the Lakers have no time to organize a systematic defense, and can only do man-to-man defense.

After Wang Chao ran halfway through, Nelson passed the ball back to him. Kobe was still blocking Wang Chao. In this kind of extreme fast offense and defense, only Kobe and Abe could keep an eye on Wang Chao. Tester is two.

In terms of one-on-one defensive ability, Kobe is even stronger than Artest. Kobe is the strongest defensive player at the second position in the league after Jordan, which is recognized by the entire league.

But when the opponent is Wang Chaoshi, who is 2 meters tall, even if he is as strong as Kobe, he is powerless. The height gap between the two is still a bit too big.

Wang Chao, who was already at full speed, stepped on his long legs, passed half of Kobe in front of him in disguise, and then leaned against Kobe and rushed straight to the basket.

Kobe could barely keep up with Wang Chao's speed, and at the same time, he wanted to predict Wang Chao's dribble route and cut off Wang Chao's dribble.

But Bryant's choice was wrong.

Although Wang Chao's ball-handling ability value is only 91, which is not outstanding compared with top defenders, he has a talent called a ball-handler. With the blessing of this talent, Wang Chao's dribbling is not so easy to steal .

Kobe’s failure to steal the chicken was a loss of rice. The gambling steal caused him to completely lose his defensive position. Without Kobe’s entanglement, Wang Chao’s speed became faster. He rushed to the free throw line in two steps, and then took off with the ball. Fully stretched out, a powerful tomahawk dunk dunks the basketball into the hoop.

"boom--!"

Wang Chao's current strength is not small at all. The strength of 86 plus good explosive power makes the visual impact of Wang Chao's tomahawk dunk no less than that of James and others, which perfectly interprets the beauty of violent aesthetics!
"squeak--!"

The referee's whistle sounded and the Lakers called a timeout.

The Magic scored 5 points in a row after only two rounds of small-ball tactics. The Lakers' 6-point advantage in the first quarter was only 1 point in the blink of an eye.

The two offensive problems were caused by Bynum, which made Phil Jackson very angry. Taking advantage of this timeout, he wanted to beat Bynum hard. The opponent obviously couldn't seize the opportunity given to him. If this continues, the team How to win?

It's a pity that Bynum, who came back from the timeout and tried his best to teach the Magic a good lesson, found that he had no chance.

Take advantage and run away. This small ball lineup has serious flaws. There is no reason to suspend the opponent for adjustments and then put it on the court to suffer abuse.

The Magic also made tactical adjustments taking advantage of this timeout.

Channing. Frye rested, Howard re-dressed, and the Magic's lineup became a combination of Nelson, Crawford, Trevor Ariza, Wang Chao and Howard.

Although Channing Frye is missing a stable three-point shooting point, Howard's appearance also means that the advantage of the Lakers' inside twin towers is gone. At the same time, the Magic's lineup still has the same mobility as before. .

……

After experiencing the passive situation after being targeted by the referee in the first quarter, the Magic team successfully changed the formation and exerted force with Wang Chao, tying the point difference and overtaking before the end of the second quarter.

At halftime, the score between the two teams was 57:54, and the Magic led away by 3 points.

Playing at home and with the assistance of the referee's whistle, the Lakers still failed to establish a score advantage. The overall strength gap between the two teams is already quite obvious.

After the start of the second half, Kobe broke out again. In the third quarter, he made 7 of 5 shots and 4 of 4 free throws and scored 14 points. At the end of the three quarters, his personal score reached 36 points, but even so, the Lakers scored in the third quarter. The difference was further widened to 8 points.

In the fourth quarter of the game, Kobe's touch began to turn cold. He only made 6 of 1 shots and could only rely on free throws to score. The Lakers also began to be unable to withstand the indiscriminate bombing of the Magic, especially when they switched to a small ball lineup. The extremely high Magic team's frequent back and forth runs exhausted the Lakers' twin towers, unable to resist at all.

It's not that the Lakers have never played against small ball teams. The run-and-gun tactics played by their opponents in the Western Conference Finals, the Phoenix Suns, are a type of small ball tactics, even more extreme.

But the Suns and the Magic are different after all. They don’t have a super blue-collar Howard who is as fast as a guard and the defensive dominance at the basket ranks first in the history of the league. They don’t have a three-point line that is not inferior to the peak Curry. , and has a height of 2 meters. He can play as a forward with the ball like James and Green.

And even when they played against the Suns in the Western Conference Finals, the Lakers were tossed by the Suns' fast-paced running and bombing tactics. Bynum averaged only 18 minutes per game in six games, and his heavy and slow pace simply couldn't keep up. In most of the running and bombing of the Suns, Gasol was at the center position.

In a sense, the Magic's lineup is indeed more restrained than the Lakers, and the lineup has a clear division of labor. Wang Chao is responsible for offensive scoring and organization, Howard is responsible for defense and rebounding, Crawford is responsible for grabbing points on the bench, and Afford Lalo and Ariza are responsible for limiting Kobe's scoring as much as possible.

科比末节6投1中罚球4中3，得到5分。

The scoring efficiency of the Lakers dropped sharply in the fourth quarter, and only 18 points were recorded in a single quarter. Correspondingly, the Magic’s offensive efficiency was not high in the fourth quarter, scoring 20 points, but the second and third quarters The established score advantage allowed them to defeat the Los Angeles Lakers 108:98.

The moment the whistle sounded for the whole game, there was no sound in the Staples Arena, and the home fans were all disappointed looking at the score displayed on the big screen.

With the loss of this game, the score of the finals was 4:2. The Magic defeated the Lakers for the second consecutive year and successfully won the championship!
(End of this chapter)