NBA Please Answer 2007

Chapter 153 O'Neill's Second Spring (Part [-])
On the court, Nelson was forced to call a timeout. The Warriors' offense failed. In a certain sense, the defensive strength did not keep up. Milicic was a big loophole.

Li Zhi frowned. Facing Kobe in this game, he failed to break through, which made him very depressed. But if Kobe's breakthrough skills failed to face Kobe, wouldn't it mean that the next time he faced Ray Allen, the three-pointer would also fail?This is not good news.

If Li Zhi can't open, the Warriors' advantage in outside singles is gone. In addition, the shooting has no feel, and no one can provide space for O'Neal.

The crux of the Warriors was once again taken advantage of by the Lakers, who replaced Milicic and replaced Jordan. The situation did not improve, but worsened.

Jordan is now a good rebounder, but he is not a good defender yet, and he does not have Milicic's shooting ability, which makes the interior space tighter. Gasol can calmly let go of Jordan to double-team O'Neal.

Fortunately, O'Neal found his inside touch, so when the Lakers scored, the Warriors also scored. At the end of the first quarter, the Warriors temporarily trailed the Lakers by 22:33.

In the second quarter, both sides replaced the substitutes. In the past, the Warriors' strong substitute group did not take advantage of the Lakers' substitutes, but instead made the score bigger and bigger.

On the Lakers' bench, Odom was left on the court, and Milicic was placed at the small forward position. He did not lose the wind, but because he did not have Kobe and Gasol as the pivot, he had the ball in his hands and played extremely well.

And the Lakers are all shooters on the outside, Farmar, Walton, Vujacic, Ariza, except for Farmar's shooting rate of 39%, the other players' shooting rate is above 40%.

Especially the new aid of the Lakers Ariza, not only brought great trouble to the Warriors on offense, but also made Corey Maggette suffer a lot on defense.

Ariza's physical fitness is super good. His main advantages are his height, arm length, first-class jumping and explosive power.

The Lakers' substitutes can not only shoot offensively, but also are tough defensively. On the other hand, the Warriors' second team is excellent offensively, but they are not good enough defensively. Therefore, the Warriors can be said to have been completely abused in the contest between the substitute group.

When Nelson requested a timeout, the point difference had reached 24 points.

After the timeout, the Warriors' approach was to make Li Zhi and O'Neal appear earlier, and the Lakers also put Gasol and Kobe on the court.

The Warriors played well in this half of the quarter. O'Neal's strength and skills are stronger than Gasol's, so O'Neal's success rate against Gasol is very high.

And without the restriction of Milicic, Matt Barnes, who has excellent defense, was replaced at the power forward position.O'Neill was relieved of his worries and devoted himself to the offense. The Warriors finally stopped the bleeding.

Li Zhi also opened up on the perimeter. Compared with Lowry, Li Zhi actually prefers to partner with Crawford. The two have a better understanding and cooperate more easily. Moreover, Crawford's projection threat forces the Lakers not to let him go.

The Warriors took advantage of this repeatedly on offense. Li Zhi, O'Neal, and Crawford frequently used pick-and-rolls, which resulted in a singles situation where Li Zhi played against Farmer or Li Zhi played against Vujacic. Kobe did not dare to let Crawford go.

With Li Zhi hitting a three-pointer again, the first half was over, and the Lakers fans were unbelievable. The Warriors chased another 10 points in this half, and the halftime score became 35:49.
Mayfair Jackson watched the replay of the second quarter, frowned deeply, and then looked at Nelson.

"This guy, is he studying my triangle tactics now?"

Li Zhi, Crawford, and O'Neal just formed a Warriors triangle in the second quarter.

The triangle offense is not a difficult tactic, on the contrary it is very simple, but many teams cannot find the three corners and cannot play the triangle tactic.

The triangular tactic is to use the restraining power of the three players to create a dislocation singles situation. Li Zhi's performance in the first half is very similar to Kobe in 01-03, and Crawford played the role of a restrainer.

Also, O'Neal.

Jackson looked at O'Neal standing next to the Warriors' bench, lost in thought, and turned his head only after the Warriors players returned to the locker room.

Kobe also had the same question as Jackson. He felt that the Warriors' tactics in the second quarter were very similar to the triangle offense. He can be said to be the most direct beneficiary of Phil Jackson's triangle tactics. He will never forget this feeling.

What makes him feel incredible is O'Neal, this guy doesn't look like a 36-year-old veteran at all.

Back in the third quarter, the Warriors continued to let Crawford cooperate with Li Zhi to start, and replaced Jackson at the shooting guard, and the inside line was a combination of O'Neal and Barnes.

In the third quarter, the two teams still played vigorously, but at the end of the third quarter, the Warriors were still 8 points behind, but even so, Zen Master still could not accept it.

Because that means the Lakers lost to the Warriors by 2 points in the third quarter.

So, in the fourth quarter, the Lakers began to strengthen their defense, and defense is the magic weapon for this Lakers team to win.

So at the beginning of the fourth quarter, some of the Warriors' weaknesses were used by the Lakers to make a fuss.

Fisher defended Crawford, saving Kobe from the trouble of assisting defense, while Kobe switched to defending Li Zhi, which made Li Zhi's breakthrough fail again.Although Kobe also faced Li Zhi again and again, Gasol broke out.

With 2 minutes left in the fourth quarter, the Zen master gave the Lakers an order, "cut the shark"!
As a result, the Warriors fell into an extremely passive situation. Looking at the situation on the field, Zen Master finally smiled with relief. What he cannot get, others cannot get. This is a very strange psychology.

He was chasing points throughout the game, but in the end he still lost the game 94:105. Li Zhi was very depressed. He felt the importance of skills more and more now. Using Kobe's things to deal with Kobe obviously didn't work. But now the system doesn't have any tasks, and he can't get other breakthrough skills. He can only take one step at a time.

O'Neill was also depressed. O'Neill was tough for the whole game, but was cut at the critical moment, which made him very aggrieved. Free throws are an eternal pain in O'Neill's heart.

Li Zhi scored 21 points in the whole process, but he took a lot of shots, which is relatively strong, but even so, no one underestimated Li Zhi. After all, he was facing Kobe, a superstar who often entered the defensive line.

However, the media has changed from the original disdain for O'Neal. Before, the media thought that O'Neal was only in a good state for a while, but facing the Lakers' top three insiders and scored 28 points, this cannot be regarded as a good state. O'Neal has already rejuvenated his second spring this season.

(End of this chapter)