I just play ball

Chapter 229 Learning from the Spurs

After taking a shower in 3 minutes, Li Yue changed into his game uniform, sat on a chair and began to wrap his ankles.

D'Antoni walked into the locker room, stood in the center and clapped his hands gently, "When the coaching staff studied the video just now, they noticed that the Grizzlies had a hot start this season, and it took about half a quarter for their defense to improve to the best level , so after the opening, we can speed up the pace a little and try to disrupt their arrangement as much as possible.

In addition, the Grizzlies rarely take three-pointers. We can shrink inward a little on the defensive end, but special attention should be paid to corner three-pointers. They have a 48.6% hit rate on that item.

At the critical moment, you can give up defending Tony Allen and team up with others to attack, understand? "

"OK!" Li Yue responded with a nod. This time he played directly as the starting point guard. The starting small forward was played by Nick Young. If he speeded up the pace and ignored Gasol's position, he and the other three teammates could play for 8 seconds. One of those offenses.

The whole team was ready in a blink of an eye, and Iguodala led the team to the player channel, and the cheers of the audience were heard from afar.

The usual attendance rate of the FedEx Arena is at the end of the year among the 30 teams in the NBA. It is slightly higher than the poor Eagles and the illegitimate Nets. The arena can accommodate more than 8000 people. Usually only 5000 people are seated, but today the audience was full, thanks to the Lakers being a guest.

Even so, several major TV media such as ESPN did not arrange a live broadcast. Only when the Grizzlies officially broadcasted to local TV stations and radio listeners as usual, Rick and Morty, who were in charge of the commentary, looked excited.

"We have 3 wins and 2 losses since the start of the game. We are currently ranked seventh in the Western Conference. If we can beat the Lakers, the players will gain a lot of confidence. In addition, the upcoming schedule will be relatively easy, which will be very beneficial to the impact of the playoffs and running the lineup."

"The weakness of the Los Angeles people has been found. Gasol has been interfered by his brother and Randolph in the interior. Tony will greatly limit Li Yue's performance. As long as the game enters our rhythm, the balance of victory will tilt towards us."

"Well, the fans at the scene also understand this, let us welcome the game together!"

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After the national anthem was played, a long whistle sounded in the arena, and the starting players of the two teams entered the field one after another.

"BEAT LA..." Before the ball was jumped, the audience shouted in advance, and the fiery atmosphere in the arena heated up sharply.

Dajia and Xiaojia stood in the middle circle to fight for the ball. They looked at each other and smiled, kicking off one after another as the referee threw the ball.

Snapped!The younger brother, Xiaojia, was superior and successfully pushed the ball towards the Grizzlies half court.

Conley picked up the basketball and took it to the left wing area, slowed down slightly and passed it to the top of the arc, and continued to rush inside the three-point line.Xiaojia received the ball and passed it to the right sideline. Tony Allen took it in his hand and patted it on the spot.

Li Yue glanced at it, knowing that it was impossible for the Grizzlies to attack through Tony Allen, so he decisively withdrew his eyes, squeezed through the cover to catch up with Conley who was running out, and completed the interception again in the middle of the top of the arc.

Conley took the ball and moved to the left, and Xiaojia lifted the wall to cover. Li Yue took a sudden step forward and chose to squeeze through to catch up. With the delay of changing defenses, he formed a front and rear double-teaming trend, and directly reached out to press.

Conley suddenly stopped, jumped up and passed the ball to the right, Tony Allen took off at a 45-degree position to catch the ball, and immediately passed it to Xiao Jia who ran to the right waist after the pick-and-roll, and ran to the top of the arc to take away Iguodala.

After the Grizzlies made such a move, Xiaojia was the only one left in the right half, and there was a heads-up showdown between brothers on the spot.

The audience cheered wildly and applauded. Li Yue turned his body to face the backcourt in advance. He had already figured out that no matter whether the goal was scored or not, he would pass a long pass and make a fast break. At this moment, Randolph was also in the three-second zone, and the Lakers When you rush up, you have the advantage of playing more and less.

Even if Randolph Gasol catches up, he can use the screen to score cleverly, which is what the Spurs did when they beat the Grizzlies before.

I saw that Xiaojia took a step backward with his left foot in the direction of the axis, changing from his back to his face frame. After a little tentative step, he suddenly lowered his shoulders and lowered his waist, and stepped forward to force the bottom line. But Dajia seemed to have expected it, and slid sideways with a smile Step lateral movement, easy to complete the interception.

Xiaojia stopped and turned forward when he was blocked. Iguodala, who was chasing Tony to the free throw line before, flew up to grab and formed a left and right pinch with Dajia. Seeing this, Li Yue rushed to the top of the arc and cut Xiaojia and Tony ahead of time. passing lanes between.

Xiaojia hesitated for half a second, then turned around, almost stepping on the bottom line to take off and throw.

The basketball hit the basket and hit the iron. Landry jumped first, but the rebound fell into the hands of Prince.

Prince came back on the spot, put the ball into the basket steadily, and the Grizzlies took the lead 2-0.

Li Yue quickly rushed to the middle circle, turned around and raised his hand to call. Landry swung his arms from the baseline and made a long pass. The basketball flew over like a cannonball.

Li Yue caught the ball and watched it for half a second, then accelerated to the right wing, and passed the ball without looking at anyone hitting the ground while running.

Iguodala, who followed up from the left, received the ball, raised his hand to aim at the basket, and actually hung the ball to the middle. Nick Young, who followed up in parallel, received the ball and took off with the ball in two consecutive strides. He hit the board with his left hand in the air.

boom!The basketball bounces into the net.

The Lakers' attack took a total of 8 seconds, and Xiaojia and Randolph just ran to the three-point line.

The Grizzlies attack, passing the basketball from the left wing to the top of the arc to the right wing as before, but Conley rushed to the three-point line and made a sudden stop. He did not use Randolph to cover, and ran back directly to the top of the arc, received the pass and then divided He mentioned Gasol on the left elbow, then immediately lowered the center, rushed to Gasol's side to take over the pass back, and rushed towards the inside.

Li Yue chased sideways, but was delayed by a small wall, so he squeezed past and continued to chase.

He is very fast, but this time there is no Randolph to occupy the space in the left half. Conley rushed to the edge of the three-second zone and took the lead in jumping and throwing. Hit the circle and enter the net.

The Grizzlies started their offense smoothly, and the audience sitting behind the ball stand stood up and punched and shouted at Li Yue.

Li Yue turned a blind eye, received the pass, turned around and ran wildly, rushed to the right wing at [-] seconds, passed the ball to Landry next to him, and rushed to the top of the arc with the help of cover, shouting: "Hurry up and get inside..."

Out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of Tony struggling to squeeze through the cover. He stopped the brakes and ran back, rushed to the right wing to receive a pass back, and took a big step to completely shake off Tony who was catching up again and Randolph who was trying to interfere head-on. Draw three points.

The basketball went into the net hollow, and the Lakers overtook 5 to 4.

Easy side Grizzlies attack, several consecutive screen passes to the rear, the basketball flew to the left low.

Randolph caught the ball sideways, lowered his center of gravity and slapped it vigorously with a 'bang bang bang', catching Landry. Landry's body was so ravaged that he backed up again and again, leaving a body in the blink of an eye. bit space.

Randolph turned around with the ball and threw a left-handed shot sideways to the basket. The referee then whistled for a foul.

Landry shrugged and asked why the foul was committed, but the referee ignored it, and Li Yue stepped up to remind him to go around and defend later.

Amid the cheers of the fans at the scene, Randolph stood on the free throw line, hit the iron on the back edge of the first ball, and hit the second free throw hollow.

The Lakers attacked, and Li Yue quickly dribbled the ball to the right wing. After a little observation, he continued to walk in, and rushed to the short corner with the help of Iguodala's cover.

Landry moved sideways to block Tony, and Li Yue kicked the ground and rushed to the outside line.

Randolph was unable to catch up, Prince rushed to defend, but was delayed by Iguodala's cover.

Prince chose to bypass the screen to intercept, Li Yue stopped and pulled the ball to contain the sprinting figure, and took off from the spot to shoot a three-pointer.

The basketball crashed into the net, and the Lakers led 8 to 5.

In the commentary seat, Rick frowned slightly: "We haven't had time to learn from the Mavericks' style of play against the Lakers, but the Lakers are the first to learn from the Spurs' style of play against us. Randolph's defensive ability is relatively average, and Coach Joerger needs to make adjustments urgently. "

(End of this chapter)