I just play ball

Chapter 413 Regaining Skills

Three o'clock in the afternoon on the [-]th, Staples Center.

In the Lakers locker room, the players and the coaching staff sat or stood, chatting and joking.

"Everyone, please be quiet for a moment!" D'Antoni suddenly clapped his hands and shouted, and everyone gradually stopped talking.

He raised his mobile phone and said with a smile: "Mitch just sent a message that Kobe led the team to three consecutive victories last week, averaging 28 points, 5.2 assists, 4.7 rebounds and 1.3 steals per game. He was successfully elected as the best player in the Western Conference last week. I suggest everyone congratulate him!"

"Yeah!" Nick Yang raised his hands and cheered, Li Yue clapped his hands, and everyone responded.

With a smile on his face, Kobe gave high fives to his teammates one by one, and finally bumped shoulders and backs with Li Yuelai.

"We performed well in the past week, especially the game against the Eagles. This award is also due to you, thank you!" Kobe clasped his fists and turned to look at Li Yue. "Is that so? The right hand is up and the left is down?"

Li Yue was stunned for a moment. This is the highest etiquette in the world. Wang Zhizhi had staged it in the game. O'Neal and Wade imitated it on the spot, but Kobe reversed the relationship between the upper and lower right now and made a provocative action.

"You are going to single out all of us. The left hand should be on the top and the right hand should be on the bottom." Li Yue clasped his fists after explaining.

Everyone laughed, Kobe nodded, exchanged his left and right hands, and said solemnly: "Thank you!"

Nick Yang raised his hand to imitate, and looked at the others specifically, the right hand was still on the top, and the left hand was on the bottom.

"OK, let's talk about how to play against the Warriors tonight." D'Antoni took the topic and waited with his hands on his hips. Wharton picked up the remote control and turned on the TV, which showed the prepared tactical analysis presentation.

"First of all, let's analyze why the Warriors' performance in the new season is so amazing." D'Antoni said, "Our conclusion is that Steve Kerr has injected new momentum into the Warriors. He has greatly improved Stephen Curry's lethality. And then drive the Warriors to upgrade in an all-round way, we can start from last week, when Curry won the best player in the Western Conference..."

Walton pressed the remote control, and the TV screen switched, showing Curry's statistics of being the best player of the week in the Western Conference last week: averaging 30 points, 7.3 assists and 5.7 rebounds per game, shooting 56.1% from the field, including 9 three-pointers. In 4.7, free throws were made every time, there were 3.3 steals, and only 4.7 turnovers.

Compared with such scoring assist efficiency and turnover rate, it is said that he is the league's number one point guard, and no one can make any refutation.

"Let's look at the average turnover per game, 4.7 times, an astonishing number." D'Antoni said, "Probably compared to the strong Mark Jackson, the normal-sized Steve Cole can formulate tactics for Curry more reasonably. .

Judging from the ball possession rate and the average running distance per game, Curry has a lot of running off the ball and catching and shooting. In other words, as the team's starting point guard and offensive core, Curry voluntarily gave up a lot of possessions But the performance got better instead.

At the same time, Thompson and Green have been greatly improved, and the Warriors have completed a comprehensive upgrade. "

Highlights of the Warriors' offense were played on the TV screen. Curry was running all over the field, his movements and whereabouts were unpredictable. There were several times when defensive players followed and lost. The scary thing was that there were not many screens. Find Curry.

Cole's tactical system was born out of the Spurs just like the Hawks, and he also borrowed some triangle offensive tactics, but Curry is much better than Parker, not only in three-pointers, but also in the probability of successful layups. The key organization is not bad. It's hard to do.

Of course, the premise of all this is that Curry always assumes the central task of tactics, not the kind of point guard who is only responsible for dribbling the ball across the half court and opening up space in the traditional triangle offense, who can give full play to his personal abilities.

At the beginning of the season, when the Lakers were a guest at Oracle, the changes in the Warriors were not so obvious.

Now, after more than half a month of running-in, the Warriors are about to turn into butterflies like a chrysalis.

"The Warriors have also improved their offensive speed across the board." D'Antoni continued, "From the high-level statistics provided by ESPN, the average running speed of the Warriors in transition and the points they get are also ranked first in the league.

Even the traditional center Bogut, often as the core of the fast break, easily scores through sneak attacks. "

The TV screens showed Bogut participating in the fast break, and many teams did not notice that he followed up from the middle.

It is understandable after thinking about it, a fat man who looks very obvious, subconsciously gives people the idea of ​​running slowly.

"In addition, the Warriors have another bold move, which is to put the All-Star player Luol Deng on the bench and re-let Harrison Barnes as the starter, so as to ensure the vitality of the team on both ends of the offense and defense."

Beasley and others clicked their tongues, dared to sign an off-season All-Star on the bench, and it was the beginning of the season, the team did not encounter a major crisis, the Warriors and Cole Bold enough.

You know, when Iverson was traded to the Pistons, it was because Dumars wanted to arrange him to be a substitute for Stuckey, and the trouble was very unpleasant. Although Luol Deng is not as famous as Iverson, he is still a All-Star.

This series of things just shows that the Warriors dare to think and do, and they are more difficult to figure out and deal with than the Eagles' team that runs tactics one by one. Even if they lead by 15 points, they must concentrate on maintaining defensive pressure.

"Of course, the Warriors also have weaknesses." D'Antoni smiled, "High-intensity physical confrontation can greatly consume Curry. As long as we use unlimited defenses on the outside and use weak-side flanking when encountering breakthroughs, we should be able to do well. Be limited."

Unlimited defensive switching is not a new concept. As early as the 90s, Supersonics head coach George Karl liked to use it. This defensive tactic required at least two strong perimeter defensive players. At that time, the Supersonics happened to have Payton and Kendall Gill. .

Payton’s defensive ability is very good. Kendall Gill once had a miracle of 11 steals in a single game. Although it was not achieved during the Supersonic period, Kendall Gill averaged 1.9 steals per game when he was playing for the Sonics. , only 2.5 fouls.

"So, I will arrange Kobe, Andre, and Li Yue to start together on the outside, and Landry and Davis on the inside." D'Antoni said, "While achieving unlimited defenses, they can also be on offense. Maintain the strongest firepower at the end."

All the players nodded, and Kobe raised his hand and said, "I'm here to deal with Stephen Curry. It's time to pick up the defensive skills we had when we were young. Let Li Yue play the main attack in this game. We strive to win 11 consecutive victories."

"OK! That's the decision." Li Yue got up and clapped his hands, "Ready to go."

The whole team formed a circle, raised their hands together, loudly counted down to 321, and shouted LETSGO in unison.

After the voice fell, everyone set off in a mighty manner, and Li Yue walked at the end of the team.

Clarkson approached him and whispered, "When Boss Ke was young, did he have any special defensive skills?"

"Hey!" Li Yue chuckled, "He won the best defensive first team at the age of 21. At that time, it was still selected by the coach. You should watch it carefully and study hard."

(End of this chapter)