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Chapter 81 Playoff Game [-]

In the previous life, the Lakers defeated the Rockets 4-1 to advance, and this time the Lakers have an extra Sun Zhuo, and there will be no suspense in beating the Rockets.

Although the little giant Yao Ming is one term earlier than Sun Zhuo, like Sun Zhuo, today is his first playoff game. The first game is against Shaquille O'Neal, who makes no one helpless. This is definitely not a good game the beginning of

For Sun Zhuo, the first opponent in the playoffs is the Rockets of Yao Ming and Francis, which is not bad. They will let Sun Zhuo feel the difference in the playoffs without causing too much pressure on Sun Zhuo.

In the first game of the playoffs, the Staples Center Arena was almost full. Although the fans were not uniformly dressed, there were not many well-known stars to watch the game, except for the unstoppable actor Nicholson, who was in charge of commentary Luke Wharton's father, Bill Wharton, has been praising Sun Zhuo's rookie performance and constantly belittling his son. He also predicted that Sun Zhuo in the playoffs will complete his evolution again, which surprised everyone.

Sun Zhuo started this game with O'Neal, Kobe, Gary Payton, and Karl Malone. This is what he won by dunking when he was playing against the Cavaliers. Otherwise, Phil Jackson may not give Sun Zhuo too much in the playoffs. playing time.

Facts have proved that anyone who comes to the playoffs for the first time will be nervous.

Yao Ming made a few beautiful passes, but he still hesitated on offense. He would stop for a while when he received the ball at a high position, and then choose whether to shoot. Unlike the later Yao Ming who shot immediately when he had a chance, he would still be defensive when defending O'Neal. Frightened, the two fouls beaten by O'Neal in the first quarter left the field.

The Lakers will unswervingly play O'Neal as soon as they come up. The ultimate goal of all running positions, dribbling and passing is to pass the ball to O'Neal in the low post. Sun Zhuo is also one of the supporting roles. When he was playing, he basically kept running, passing the ball, feeding the ball to O'Neal, and then seeing if O'Neal scored a goal. Only when he was playing a defensive counterattack or the opponent made a mistake, Sun Zhuo had a chance to play. However, Sun Zhuo can only The share of open shots and all the fast break power with the ball must be handed over to Kobe, who will be assigned by Kobe.

Naturally, Phil will not completely forget to train Sun Zhuo, he will allow Sun Zhuo to get some opportunities to attack with the ball, but in his debut in the playoffs, Sun Zhuo's performance was not good, and there was one thing that made him unable to adapt. That is: too many hands.

Every time Sun Zhuo holds the ball or dribbles for a breakthrough, there will always be one hand to reach the basketball in his hand. Sun Zhuo's current ball-handling ability is not good, and his speed is not fast enough. He will be intercepted in the regular season. In the playoffs , it is easier to be intercepted. It is often Sun Zhuo's first dribble breakthrough, and then he hears a slap, and the ball in Sun Zhuo's hand is cut away by the opponent.

The physical confrontation in the playoffs is more intense, and the defensive players attack more frequently. They don’t even give you a chance to speed up, and the referee’s penalty scale is not so strict. In the end, they almost fell to the ground, but the referee still didn't blow it. This is still the Lakers' home court.

Phil Jackson cut his hair short and looked indifferent, but he was also slightly worried: "Sun's jumping talent is good, but his ball control and physical confrontation are still a bit weak. Now he can't adapt to the playoff level in a short time. Confrontation, it seems that he needs to arrange more offenses without the ball, Rick, I remember Sun's open three-pointer is not bad, right?"

Phil Jackson likes to listen to Rick Fox, he thinks the latter can always speak words that satisfy him, and in private training, Sun Zhuo and Rick Fox communicate more, mainly because Sun Zhuo is very curious about this Why did the star finally choose to go to the sea to make a film?Sun-joo wants to know what he thinks and knows about the line.

Rick Fox said: "Yes, Sun's open three-pointers are not bad. I remember a few three-pointers against him once, and he beat me."

As soon as Rick Fox finished speaking, the assistant coach checked the data and reported to Phil: "Sun's three-point shooting percentage in the regular season is only 30.00%, but his three-point shooting percentage from the corners on both sides is relatively high. Seventy percent."

Phil Jackson nodded. He knew that Sun Zhuo shot very few three-pointers in the regular season, and his shooting percentage didn't really matter. What do you think?"

Rick Fox said: "Sun's bounce is so good, it's a pity not to directly attack the basket and put him outside?"

While talking, the Lakers launched a fast break, Kobe quickly attacked the Rockets basket with the ball, and finally missed a layup, Sun Zhuo, who did not jump too high, grabbed the rebound from behind, and was about to make a second attack, but was quickly given by Francis broken.

If it was the regular season, Sun Zhuo would have successfully tipped the basket this time, but in the playoffs, there will be no conceding. Every defensive player must fight for the ball. Let alone a rookie like Sun Zhuo, even Karl A veteran player like Ma Long has been beaten by his opponents several times in this game, and in the end it was a situation where people turned their backs on their backs.

After Phil saw it, he said, "Let him try it. He's not used to working under the basket right now. He's fighting too hard there."

As a result, Sun Zhuo was gradually placed far away from the basket. Phil told him: "You can try to shoot more open three-pointers, especially your corner three-pointers are not bad."

Sun Zhuo could only smile wryly. With a level 30 SF, how high is his three-point shooting value?
In this "NBA World" game, SG (shooting guard) has the highest three-point value. SF's strength lies in rebounds and dunks. As for Phil telling Sun Zhuo that his corner three-point shooting rate is good, Sun Zhuo didn't take it seriously, because he didn't shoot a few three-pointers from the corner during the entire regular season, and his shooting percentage didn't explain anything. Moreover, Sun Zhuo tried his three-point shooting percentage in various positions, but it was actually not very good. .

The most important thing is that when Sun Zhuo was placed outside the three-point line, his teammates did not dare to pass the ball to Sun Zhuo, because Sun Zhuo has not proved that he has an excellent three-pointer, so it is not a last resort, or there will be Completely wide open, neither Kobe nor Payton would think about letting Sun Zhuo complete long shots.

At the beginning of this game, the Lakers could still suppress the Rockets. After receiving the ball, O'Neal dribbled the ball with his back to the low position. Once he reached that position, he would turn around and dunk. The method is simple and effective. Once the opponent double-teams O'Neal, O'Neal You will choose to split the ball, and your teammates will have an easy shot.

But as the game progressed, the Rockets' defense against O'Neal became stronger, forcing O'Neal to take the ball every time, and the others' defenses were also very fast, often falling into the situation where Kobe made a strong shot at the end. At this time, Kobe, He has not yet learned low-post offensive skills from Olajuwon, and the effect of strong shots is not ideal.

Karl Malone is also very strong today, 14 of 3, but Gary Payton became the team's third scorer, occupying the position that Sun Zhuo should have occupied.

In the first game of the playoffs, both sides played tensely. The more inaccurate the shooting, the more they would focus on defense. In the end, the two teams combined to score 143 points in this game. The Lakers finally relied on Kobe's Three non-stick shots and O'Neal's dunk after receiving the ball achieved a key two-point advantage and won the final game.

After the game, Bill Walton commented: "Neither the Lakers nor the Rockets played at their level today, but this is a playoff game. In the playoffs, it is very good if you can achieve half the level of the regular season." , Eric Sun fully explained this point to us, he averaged 17 points per game in the regular season, but today he only scored 8 points and made 6 turnovers."

(End of this chapter)