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Stephen just said a few words to him on the phone. As for the request for a meeting between the two, Stephen has not agreed to it for the time being. On the one hand, he is still playing away games, and on the other hand, he is going to meet with the person who intends to buy the team It's really not suitable, there is no impenetrable wall in this world. []

However, on the phone, Stephen also vaguely expressed his support for Chris Hans' acquisition of the team. After all, Chris Hans stated from the beginning that in addition to acquiring the team, he would also prepare funds to build a team for the team. new arena.

As for what Chris Hans said about the possibility of persuading Steve Ballmer to join the acquisition team, Stephen is more interested in this news. Steve Ballmer is the CEO of Microsoft. The founder, but in the development of Microsoft, he played a far greater role than Paul Allen.

While making great contributions to the company, he has also received generous returns on his shares, and he has assets worth tens of billions of dollars. Although it is impossible for him to devote all his energy to the ball like Mark Cuban did. On the team, as a shrewd businessman, he will not take out money at will for people to squander.

But with such a financially strong owner behind him, the team's operations naturally don't need to be cautious, but it's not yet the time to look forward to. The most important thing now is the game against the Los Angeles Lakers. Because of the team's relocation problem, Already created unrest within the team.

As soon as the news came out, Carlesimo issued a ban on the team, prohibiting any players from discussing this issue. Wilcox did not take this ban seriously, and still talked loudly in front of several people, but was blocked. Lessimo was caught on the spot.

I have already issued a ban order, and Wilcox dares to discuss it so clearly. Isn't this provoking the authority of his own head coach? Carlesimo mercilessly put Wilcox on the injury activation list , and Wilcox did not show any weakness by himself and returned to Seattle by plane. [~]

Carlesimo was very angry with Wilcox's departure, but there was nothing he could do. Who told him to put him on the injured list.

Like Stephen, he also followed the confrontation between the Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers, because it was the most temperless game the Los Angeles Lakers lost in recent games.

The Boston Celtics won the victory relying on strength and game strategy. This is the main point of his attention. From that game, he needs to analyze the weaknesses of the Lakers and the chances of winning the Sonics. Because everyone He has a different perspective and a different understanding of the game, and what he sees is also different from what Stephen sees.

What Stephen saw was the resilience and iron-blooded defense of the Celtics, but what he saw was more on the tactical level. In his opinion, the key to the Celtics' victory lies in two aspects.

One aspect is that the Celtics blocked Pau Gasol with Garnett. After Pau Gasol joined the Lakers, he has been the center support point of the Lakers, which is the most important part of the triangle offensive tactics. Another point of the triangle offense, Kobe Bryant, was unable to exert his strongest strength under the restrictions of Ray Allen.

The triangle offensive tactic is limited to the two strongest corners, and the triangle offense will naturally be impossible. Of course, this restriction is not completely restricted, but relatively restricted, but even so, it is enough to defeat the Lakers.

And another key point is the Celtics' offense. He played the role of Paul Pierce very well, because in the position of the Lakers, the small forward position is the weakest, and this point happens to be the Celtics. Human's strongest point.

This makes the Celtics' offense get twice the result with half the effort. Although Paul Pierce's score is not too high on the surface, his offense has effectively driven the team. Although his assists are not many on the surface, but after careful analysis, It can be seen that most of the Celtics' offensive starting points are with him, and most of them have turned into effective offenses. 【leaf*】【*】

From these two points of view, the Sonics are not without a chance to win. Although the Sonics do not have a player with top defensive ability like Garnett, the lack of quality can be supplemented by quantity. There is no shortage of manpower.

Wilcox, Kurt Thomas, Nick Collinson, and Robert Horry are all serious power forwards. This position is the most manned. Although Wilcox is missing, there are certain troubles. However, Wilcox's defensive characteristics are tonnage, hard body, fierce style of play but lack of skills, and it is not suitable for defending players like Pau Gasol.

Seriously, Kurt Thomas and Nick Collinson are more suitable. Although they lack height and strength, they move quickly and defend aggressively. They are suitable for fighting with Pau Gasol. As for Robert Horry, he is a surprise player. Not commonly used.

Carlesimo does not require the two of them together to be able to defend with the same effect as Garnett. It is enough to achieve 70.00%. However, Carlesimo believes that Stephen's defense against Kobe Bryant must be better than Ray Allen defense, and Stephen's offense is stronger than Paul Pierce.

Of course, this is only a theoretical possibility. As for whether this can win the Lakers, no one can say, but at least this game strategy sounds relatively correct. When Stephen participated in the tactical seminar, he felt that he also learned it. a lot of things.

Carlesimo's original design was to let Wilkins start with Stephen on the perimeter. Stephen was a shooting guard when defending, and Stephen played small forward when attacking. But the effect of Durant coming off the bench was not very good. After thinking about it again and again, Carlesimo still decided to let Durant start, and continue to implement the offensive and defensive rotation.

At the small forward position of the Lakers, whether it is Radmanovich or Luke Walton, they are all offensive players, and their defense is not good. In fact, according to their lineup, this position puts a defensive player. It's better, if this player has a good three-pointer, it will be even better.

It's a pity that almost every team needs such a player. If their team has players like "Little King" Prince, Sean Marion or Bruce Bowen, then Kobe Bryant can be relieved from the heavy responsibility of defense liberated.

Otherwise, for the current Lakers team, Kobe is the first line of defense on the outside. Facing a team with excellent swingmen, Kobe needs to entangle with these people who are getting stronger and stronger, which is too exhausting for Kobe. It's a pity that the trade deadline has passed, and even if the Lakers want to make a trade, it's too late.

After playing two targeted intra-team confrontation games, it was time for the game. Both sides played very cautiously at the beginning. The Lakers also attached great importance to this game. Kobe and Stephen compete for the most valuable player in the regular season.

The starting lineup of the Sonics in this game has a new change. Due to the departure of Wilcox, Kurt Thomas entered the starting lineup, and the Lakers also changed. Turiaf replaced Odo Tom entered the starting lineup.

This is a change made by Phil Jackson to make up for the strength of the bench lineup. In fact, Bynum should be the most suitable for the starting lineup. Unfortunately, Bynum was unable to play due to a knee injury.

The two teams have changed, so they naturally play very carefully, and they always have to find out the reality. However, not long after the game started, Phil Jackson could see that the main purpose of Kurt Thomas' playing was to entangle him. Live with Pau Gasol.

Kurt Thomas is only [-] meters tall, and his confrontation ability is not very strong, but why he can not lose the wind when facing many different types of inside players? It is because of his excellent defensive awareness that he can Choose different defensive methods and strategies according to the opponent's players.

He can even defend against Yao Ming, who is much taller than him, and O'Neal, who is extremely powerful. He has no problem facing Garnett, Duncan, Brand and others. Carlesimo specially arranged for him to defend Pau Gasol before the game. This kind of prepared defense made Pau Gasol very uncomfortable.

At the beginning of the game, Stephen even gave up possession of the ball and handed it over to Watson to be responsible for the distribution of the ball. He focused on dealing with Kobe Bryant on the defensive end.

Kobe really didn't expect that Stephen, who had been fighting with him to score, would return to his old job this time and use defense to deal with him, but facing Stephen's strong defense, he had no good way. Stephen's defensive ability He didn't decline because of his rise to fame, but became even better.

On the offensive end, Stephen still mainly runs without the ball and does not change positions. He is still facing Kobe. However, Stephen did not focus on the offensive end and gave more opportunities to his teammates to shoot. Today's In the game, his teammates also did not let him down.

At 32 minutes and [-] seconds into the game, with Durant's long-range three-pointer, the Sonics widened the point difference to five points. Phil Jackson quickly called a timeout, and then when the Lakers returned to the court After getting on, Carlesimo immediately noticed the difference.

As mentioned earlier, the triangle offensive tactic is a tactic with a lot of changes. In the new tactic, Kobe becomes the support point in the center, and Pau Gasol becomes the attack point from the flank. Kurt Thomas really had no choice but to make a shot from his own head. After all, the opponent's height plus wingspan advantage is not so easy to make up for.