against the front

Chapter 265 Suffocation
After defeating the Lakers, successfully retaining the first home court, and tying the series to 2-1, the king's advantage in this round of the series will be a little bigger, as long as they can make another victory , Win the next home game, and the Kings will be able to touch the gate of the finals.

Of course, although the 3-1 lead is huge, a 3-1 lead does not mean that you will be able to advance to the next round 3%. Not to mention others, the King's current opponent, the Lakers, has a 1-[-] lead , and then overturned the precedent.

After all, basketball is round, and anything can happen before the whistle blows for the end of the game, not to mention that the Kings have not yet achieved a 3-1 lead, so at the beginning of the fourth game of the series Before, the atmosphere in the locker room of the Arco Arena home team was not very relaxed.

"Everyone performed very well in the last game. They successfully kept our home court and let us take another solid step on the way to the finals."

"But the Lakers are a very strong team. They were the best team in the Western Conference during the regular season."

"So, although we beat them in the last game, it doesn't mean we have the capital to relax. In today's game, everyone needs to perform on the court like the last game. Show your best strength and play the aggressiveness you deserve!"

"Try to win two more games and send the Los Angeles people back to go fishing!"

On May 2010, 5, in the locker room of the home team in the Arco Arena, after arranging the starting team lineup and tactics, Reggie Troyce, the head coach, waved the tactical board and used a high Voice, come to cheer up the players under his command, and hope they can be as tenacious and outstanding as they were in the last game.

After trying to replace Tony Allen with Jrue Holiday in the final stages of the previous game, and after receiving very good results, in the fourth game of the series, Reggie Troyce It was decided to arrange for Zhu Holiday to continue to start.

After the outstanding performance in the last game, Phil Jackson will inevitably make a targeted defense against Jrue Holiday in today's game, but Reggie Troyes still resolutely let Jrue Holliday play in the final. Di started the game, allowing a rookie to face things that did not belong to him, not for anything else, but for the team's victory.

Reggie Troyce is not afraid that Phil Jackson will target Jrue Holiday, but he is afraid that the Lakers will ignore Jrue Holiday, because as long as the Lakers strengthen their defense against Jrue Holiday, they must Relaxing the defense against other players on the field. As for whether the young Jrue Holiday will be defeated by the Lakers and even have a shadow in his heart, Reggie Toyce is not worried. If you can't even deal with this small obstacle, how can you entrust him with a heavy responsibility?
After losing the first away game, the Lakers are very aware of their current situation, so the day before the start of the game, when the Lakers were interviewed by reporters, they were already shouting the slogan of victory collectively, because If they can't win an away game in Sacramento, their hope of advancing really only exists in theory, so the fourth game of the series is the last chance for them.

And when the fourth game of the series started, the Lakers were still very determined to deploy the three-inner lineup used in the previous two games, and continued to use basically similar tactics to the previous game. On the defensive end, he pinched Yan Hua and firmly let Ibaka go. Although in the third game of the series, Serge Ibaka made 9 of 6 three-pointers and 17 of 11 from the field. A personal playoff-high 26 points.

But in the fourth game of the series, Phil Jackson still decided to let go of Ibaka, and he was very firm, unlike in the last game, where he took turns to let the king go. of other players.

Phil Jackson's defensive strategy is undoubtedly a very risky gamble, but it is also a helpless move by Phil Jackson. If Ibaka is not released, the defense against Yan Hua will be released, and the Lakers Among them, neither Bynum nor Gasol can pose any threat to Yan Hua in a one-on-one defense, so Phil Jackson can only choose the lesser of two evils.

As for the offensive end, the Lakers still use Gasol as the central axis of the triangle offensive tactic, and let Bynum lead Yan Hua far away, so that Yan Hua can't interfere with Gasol's offense and support. In the last game, Gasol, who was pushed to the fifth position after Bynum left the field, was terribly defended by Yan Hua on the offensive end. He couldn't support him, and he couldn't attack.

On the one hand, there are the Kings who want to make another victory, and on the other hand, the Lakers who are determined to win an away game. Therefore, from the first minute after the start of the game, it has directly entered a white-hot state.

In order to ensure the success rate of each round, the rhythm of this game has also entered into an extremely stalemate positional battle from the beginning of the game. Both the Kings and the Lakers played very patiently.

Even Kobe seldom plays singles with the ball. Basically, he doesn't shoot when he doesn't see a rabbit, and he doesn't shoot when he doesn't have a chance.

In this case, the offenses of both sides are a little bad. First of all, the Kings side. At the beginning of the game, Ibaka can still maintain a good shooting percentage, but as his physical condition declines, Ibaka The shooting percentage began to plummet, and with the Lakers always choking Yan Hua, the King's combination of internal and external tactics could not be played at all.

As for the Lakers, although the triangle offensive tactic itself requires a lot of running and passing the ball, in this game, in order to completely break the King's defense and to run better opportunities, the Lakers' offensive passing and off-ball Running is far superior to the previous game, and there have even been times when an attack took more than 20 seconds to complete the shot.

This kind of game where the two sides are always clenching the score, and no one can lead the opponent by more than 3 points, is definitely a thrilling and frightening game, but this kind of rhythm is extremely slow, and the situation on the court is extremely anxious. A game that cannot control the rhythm of the field is a kind of torture for both the players on the field and the audience on and off the field.

Suffocation, if there is one word to describe Game [-] of the Western Conference Finals, no word is more appropriate than suffocation.

(End of this chapter)