I just play ball

Chapter 350 It's Not That Simple

Timeout, Lakers bench.

All the players stood in a circle around D'Antoni, you looked at me, I looked at you, wide-eyed.

Since entering the playoffs, whether the opponent is the Warriors or the Rockets, or the Spurs in the previous two games, the Lakers have never been beaten like this. The key defense is also very hard, not intentionally relaxed or not in place.

But the embarrassment of falling behind by 11 points is like a pustule growing on the gums, and it is impossible to lie to myself.

"Don't be nervous, everyone. They have the home court advantage, and their offensive efficiency has naturally improved." D'Antoni waved his hand, "The so-called taking Leonard as the core of offense and defense is actually just another person's shot. They are essentially the same set of pick-and-rolls. For the offensive tactical system, we will reduce the number of pincers and make changes depending on the situation."

Li Yue turned his head to think when he heard the words, and after a little recollection, he agreed with this statement. The Spurs' offense was indeed initiated by Parker finding someone to pick and roll, but Leonard participated in a larger proportion. In fact, many points were open shots. Leonard really There are only two hits with the ball, one is the breakthrough gliding dunk in the opening game, and the other is to use Duncan to cover the emergency stop jumper.

The reason for the vacancy is indeed because there are too many pincers, and Parker is worried that he can easily score through the mid-range shot. But in this situation, between Parker's mid-range shot and the Spurs' full-scale fire, it is natural to choose the former that is less lethal to the Lakers.

"In addition, we still need to slow down the offensive rhythm. We are a little anxious to make several shots. There is no need to be so flustered." D'Antoni continued, "When Gobert comes on the field, replace Gasol, play slowly and chase, we can reverse."

The players nodded in response. Since it is necessary to reduce the number of pincers, it is the best choice to arrange for Gobert, who has a better frame protection effect, to appear on the field. Gasol can also reappear after a period of rest to lead the second team to play. The rotation is very reasonable.

"I suggest increasing the number of singles with the ball. To be precise, increase the number of singles with the ball by Li Yue," Kobe said suddenly. "The Spurs have made a very successful change. If we can't respond in the future, we may become very passive."

Li Yue was thinking carefully about whether what Kobe said made sense, but D'Antoni immediately shook his head and waved his hands, "I understand what you mean, but it's only five minutes into the first quarter, so there's no need to be so nervous, we can't make it like the Heat."

The boss of the team disagreed with the head coach, and the atmosphere suddenly became a little awkward. Nick Young and other players looked surprised, and turned to look at Li Yue for a while, as if hoping that the other leader of the team would stand up and say a few words to change the atmosphere .

Li Yue naturally paid attention, his brain and eyes turned rapidly at the same time, trying to find a statement that could give face to both sides at the same time. After thinking about it, he finally came up with a clever plan, and immediately said with a 'cough cough': "The situation on the field has changed. Soon, let's try to slow down the attacking rhythm first, and then I will deal with it according to the trend of the game."

"That's fine." D'Antoni nodded, raised his right hand, "Lets go!"

Li Yue then raised his hand, and all the players responded one after another. The whole team counted down to 321 and shouted loudly.

The whistle sounded immediately, the timeout was about to end, the players of the two teams returned to the field, and the Spurs did not make personnel adjustments.

The Lakers attacked, and the audience, led by the announcer, shouted for defense, and Kobe dribbled the ball forward slowly.

The team's V-shaped formation fell, Kobe came to the top of the arc, suddenly accelerated his sprint, and broke through to the left with the help of Landry's cover.

Green dodges through the screen to catch up, Splitter grabs the delay from the free throw line, but Kobe is like a wolf in a herd of sheep, rampaging unscrupulously, rushing to the left waist in the blink of an eye, and whoever throws off the Spurs to pinch two group of people.

Parker, who was in the left corner, quickly moved laterally to intercept, and Duncan also went to the basket to shrink early. For a while, the four of the Spurs stared at Kobe. Hit the ground ball.

The basketball hit the board and bounced to the left bottom corner. The unguarded Iguodala caught it in his hand, took advantage of the situation and raised his head to aim at the basket. Facing Parker back to defend himself, he jumped up steadily and shot a three-pointer. Seeing this, Li Yue went straight to the basket Circle away.

when!The basketball hit the basket and rebounded. Li Yue and Leonard jumped up and stretched out their hands at the same time, and touched the dial at the same time.

The basketball was forced to fly to the free throw line. Gobert jumped high and caught it in his hand. He landed and threw it to the top of the arc.Landry received the ball with his hands raised high and waited. Li Yue hurriedly circled to the right at 45 degrees, took the basketball and moved to the middle circle.

Leonard almost chased him close to him, Landry took advantage of the opportunity to set up a wall as a cover, Li Yue sank his shoulders and accelerated to break through to the left, Splitter came up to double-team without hesitation, Green also stood on the sideline ahead of time, blocking all way forward.

In the blink of an eye, Li Yue wanted to change hands with his back and crotch, and pass the ball from the gap between the pincers.

Thinking of Leonard's long arms and big hands, he decisively chose to give up, stopped the brakes suddenly, hit the ground and passed the ball in the middle, and Landry, who made an air cut and slid down, received it. With no defense two meters around him, he calmly raised his head and aimed at the basket. Steady jump mid-range shot.

when!The basketball hit the basket and rebounded. Duncan jumped up and caught it in his hand. He landed and made a long pass directly to the center line.

Leonard, who retreated early, caught the ball and ran wildly. Li Yue chased after him, but was delayed by Splitter who followed up at the same time. The ball took two steps in a row, gliding for a layup and scored.

19 to 6, bursts of cheers broke out at the ATT Center, and David Robinson, the famous Spurs star on the sidelines, applauded wildly.

Li Yue ran forward, recalling the attack just now.

First of all, there is no problem with the team's positioning, and the V-shaped formation has long been familiarized; Kobe has no problem choosing to break through. At that time, the left half was relatively empty, and taking the opportunity to attack was the basic idea; Iguodala's three-pointer was [-]% accurate. He even grabbed an offensive rebound and chose to use the screen to break through. It also made sense to choose to pass the ball in the face of flanking. The only regret was that he could not make the ball. Next You have to fight in this way.

If you have to look for a problem, it is that you didn't expect Duncan to play too easily. In the past, the Spurs mostly played this kind of ball slowly, but tonight's Spurs seem to have changed to another team. Unexpectedly.

While thinking about it, Li Yue came to the bottom corner on the right. Seeing that Kobe was holding the ball at the top of the arc and waiting, he immediately raised his hand and called for a screen.

Gobert mentioned that he stood at the free throw line, Landry stood at the right elbow, Li Yue kicked off the ground and started running, ready to move along the paint to the left half, but he just took two steps, behind him There was a huge pulling force, and the whole person staggered and almost fell, and collided with Split, who was stuck in advance, and the referee's whistle sounded immediately.

Turning his head to look, Leonard spread his hands to express helplessness, and then looked at the referee's gestures, it turned out that he was whistling and pulling people.

The Lakers got the right to the front court sideline, and Landry stood to pass the ball out of bounds.After the referee whistled, Kobe used Gobert's cover to go around the right wing, took the basketball and brought it to the top of the arc.

Kobe twisted his hips and went in, joined the ball at the free throw line, and started a three-step layup against Duncan.

boom!The basketball hit the board and fell, and the audience cheered and shouted, but Gobert followed up and jumped into the air and made a dunk with one hand.

8 to 19, after being hit by the Spurs to a 13-2 offensive climax, the Lakers struggled to score again.

"To be honest, I thought the Lakers would arrange for Li Yue to start the singles mode." Van Gundy said, "I didn't expect them to continue to stick to the previous offensive method. It seems that they are very confident in this, and they are not afraid of the Spurs expanding their lead."

"I think it's okay to stick to the previous style of play." Mark Jackson said, "They were behind because they missed the shot and a little bit of luck, but Kobe didn't seem to be in the same rhythm as everyone else."

The Spurs attacked, Parker was ready to catch the ball from the bottom line, and Kobe defended close to him, forming a leading defense alone.

Split hesitated for a while, and vigorously threw the ball to the right sideline. Leonard caught the ball and slowly brought it across the center line.

Li Yue retreated half a step ahead of time, and quickly turned his head to observe his position on the field, just in time to witness Duncan approaching him.

As soon as the human wall was erected, Leonard immediately lowered his shoulders and accelerated his breakthrough, Li Yue dodged to chase after him.Because he had been prepared for a long time, Leonard failed to completely shake off, braked quickly, turned around and gave the ball to Duncan, and went straight to the baseline.

Duncan took the ball and turned to the left, handed it to Parker who rushed over, and set up a wall as a cover by the way.

Kobe retreated decisively, ready to bypass the screen to intercept, but Parker jumped out of the hand without hesitation.

Boom!The basketball crashed into the net, and the Spurs led 21 to 8, cheers came and went.

"The home court bonus is so big?" Li Yue muttered in his heart, "Split has become extremely flexible, Popovich does not make random changes, and the Spurs players are all extremely determined without hesitation. How did he solve it?"

The Lakers attacked, Kobe brought the ball to the top of the arc, and the team settled in a V formation.

Landry lifted the screen from the left elbow area, and immediately disassembled and moved laterally after blocking, while Kobe took the opportunity to walk and break through, Gobert strode to the basket, and the three moved at the same time, instantly tearing apart the Spurs defense formation.

But Green and Splitter resolutely executed double-teaming, and Parker also stomped a step from the left side to interfere. Kobe chose to stop and brake suddenly, facing the double-team attack, twisting his body, and passing the ball towards the top of the arc.

Landry received the ball, with no one around three meters away, he calmly flew towards Split, and made a steady mid-range shot.

when!Basketball hits the basket and hits the iron.

Li Yue frowned slightly, and hurriedly turned around to return to defense. The referee blew his whistle and called Duncan for a rebound foul.

Seeing Gobert fell to the ground, Li Yue rushed over to pull him up, and joined forces with Iguodala to pull him up.

Duncan had an unbelievable expression on his face, and he asked the referee to explain a little excitedly, but he didn't get any attention.

The Lakers won the right sideline of the frontcourt, Kobe stood outside the boundary to serve, Landry and Gobert responded from the free throw line, Iguodala squatted in the left corner, Li Yue stood on the right waist and waited, the whole team swayed Come up with a classic line-ball stance.

The referee blew the whistle, Li Yue kicked off the ground, and just reached the elbow area and was about to use the cover to cut outside, but the basketball had already flown into the court, and the speed was too fast to catch up, so he had to give up, and immediately turned to look at Kobe, showing "What's the matter?" ' question expression.

Kobe smiled awkwardly, raised his right hand high, "I was a little anxious, my fault, my fault..."

Walton yelled from the sidelines: "Hey, stay tuned, our ass is getting whacked..."

The Spurs attack, and the crowd eerily chants 'Kobe' in unison, as if to encourage him to keep doing it.

Parker took the ball to the top of the arc, patted and waited on the spot, and the Spurs settled in a 1-high and 4-low formation.Split raised up to cover, Parker went to the right to rush forward, Kobe squeezed through the screen and chased frantically, and Gobert intercepted in front.

Seeing that there was no way out, Parker made a sudden stop, turned around, and passed the ball towards the top of the arc.Split received the ball and raised it high. Landry didn't hesitate, so he had to pass it back and then do a pick-and-roll.

Parker got rid of it in one step, reached the inside and still did not slow down. Facing the encirclement of the three Lakers players, he forcibly took off and made a mid-range shot.

when!The basketball hit the basket and bounced to the left. Li Yue took off with one foot to catch the rebound, landed and turned around and rushed forward.

Seeing that the Spurs' retreating players chose to shrink inside, Li Yue decisively stopped the long pass 45 degrees to the right. Landry received it and immediately put it in the right corner. Take the shot.

Green hurried forward to defend, the opportunity suddenly disappeared, Iguodala had to pass the ball back, Landry received the ball and then split the top of the arc.Kobe got it in his hand, bent his knees and patted it lightly. Duncan stood in front of him, obviously having a dislocation advantage.

Li Yue took the lead to run down the line, and Landry and Gobert followed suit, leaving space for singles in a blink of an eye.

The audience booed and interfered, and Kobe bent his knees, swayed in front of his body frequently, and walked slowly inside.

Going to the free throw line in a blink of an eye, Kobe pulled the ball sharply to the right, supported the basketball with one hand, took a big step towards the paint, flew towards Split, and made a difficult backward mid-range shot.

when!The basketball hit the hoop and fell.

Gobert jumped up and grabbed the rebound, and after landing, he carried Splitter and Duncan to pinch, and forced the basket.

Snapped!Duncan got a big hat behind him, the basketball flew off the court, the referee whistled, and the Lakers got the frontcourt baseline ball.

D'Antoni yelled a foul and emphasized to the referee that Splitter had a pulling action, but the referee ignored it.

With only five seconds left in the shot clock, Kobe called the whole team to make arrangements quickly, and Landry stood out of bounds to serve.

The referee whistled, Gobert caught the ball from the basket, turned around and threw it to the right 45-degree three-point line facing the encirclement.Li Yue received the ball and moved towards the top of the arc, using Iguodala's cover to throw off Leonard, and facing Parker who switched defenses, he stopped suddenly and took off to shoot.

when!The basketball bounced off the hoop.

Green grabbed the rebound and pushed forward. He single-handedly took it to the right wing. With the help of Splitter's cover, he pretended to go up the line, but actually went to the bottom line.

Split received the ball, got rid of it with the help of Duncan's cover, rushed to the free throw line, faced the defending Gobert, stopped suddenly and raised his hand to pretend to shoot.After Gobert took off, he realized that he had been cheated, and quickly dodged sideways. The Spurs bench rushed to shout fouls.

Splitter slammed his whole body upwards, only hitting the air, and awkwardly used his left hand to throw, with his body forming a 45-degree angle with the floor. Such a difficult movement attracted the wide-eyed attention of the audience.

"How can he get into me and eat shit!" Li Yue was determined in his heart, turned around and retreated without hesitation.

As expected, the basketball smashed the basket and hit the iron, Gobert grabbed the rebound, and immediately landed a long pass to the center line.

Li Yue caught the ball and ran wildly, single-handedly rushed to the 45-degree three-point line on the right, and resorted to a "Ross" style without slowing down + a "Durant" style super large frontal change, instantly shaking off Lun who was trying to intercept. Nader, successfully reached the paint area.

Unblocked, one-handed gliding and dunking scored, the Lakers chased 10 to 21.

The referee whistled and the Spurs requested a timeout, with 5 minutes and 11 seconds left before the end of the first quarter.

"The Lakers finally found their hand," Mark Jackson said, "The horn of counterattack officially sounded."

"It's not that simple." Van Gundy shook his head, "Look at how cautious Bobo is, I guess all of this is within his expectations."

PS: Let me tell you in advance, I will write this game in great detail, I hope everyone will like it.

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