God's hand behind the scenes

Chapter 287 The Consequences of Hesitation

Most of the time, Brown is a vigorous and decisive person. Even if he needs signings, he will make a decision to make a request to the team immediately after making a decision, but this time he hesitated.Snow's defense is indeed very good, Iverson and Reid's defense can only be regarded as the middle-level, and their simultaneous play will definitely make the 76ers' overall defense drop a notch.

This is not Brown's style at all. Before that, every team he coached was known for its defense.The 76ers this season can be regarded as the result of his compromise, but no matter what, the starting set he used for a long time before was only two offensive players, Iverson and Lewis, and Reed did not start much in the regular season. The shooting guard played, and he has completely entered the starting lineup and has reached the playoff stage.

But it is very difficult to let him go further. In Brown's view, Bell and Mutombo are already under great pressure on the defensive end. Wouldn't it be a direct explosion to replace Snow?If Snow replaced Lewis instead of Bell, it would be even worse. The average height of the team would drop to an unacceptable level, and that would also be the result of being blown up.

Brown was still hesitating on the bench. The Lakers had already begun to exert their strength. Zen Master was much more courageous than him. He quickly replaced Grant with Horry in order to strengthen the team's outside firepower.Of course, this also has something to do with the positions of the two teams. If the Lakers lead by a big score, Zen Master may not dare to give it a go at this time. After all, Grant is not only an inside transfer station, but also his defense. Stronger than Horry, Zen Master obviously hopes to compete with the 76ers on the offensive end. For this reason, he can completely give up defense. Anyway, O'Neal's deterrence at the basket is far higher than that of Mutombo.

After Horry came on the court, although the Lakers' defense has declined, their outside firepower has improved a lot. Of course, Horry is not the kind of player who scores like cutting melons and vegetables, but he provides his teammates with perimeter containment. Second, he is not afraid to take the blame at the last moment of each offensive round. After all, he is a famous big-hearted player in the league.He and Kobe became the last guarantee for the Lakers. Even if they couldn't find a mobile phone in the first 23 seconds, as long as they successfully gave the ball to these two people in the last second, they might not be able to do so in this offensive round. Will return in vain.

With the help of Horry, the Lakers quickly played a 6-0 spurt, widening the point difference to 8 points.This point difference may seem acceptable in the first three quarters, but with more than a minute left in the game, it can easily become the last straw that breaks the camel's back. Maybe the Lakers can rely on this small climax decide the final outcome of the game.

Seeing that the Lakers are about to widen the point difference to double digits again, Brown is in a hurry. Obviously, the current lineup of the 76ers is not only not good at defense, but also lost offense.While the Lakers had a wave of scoring, the 76ers missed consecutive shots. Even Reid, who had been very smooth before, returned without success from beyond the three-point line.The reason is very simple. These few shots were all forced shots against the defense. At such a critical moment, they were still shooting under interference, and the hit rate can be imagined.

Such a dilemma made Brown determined to replace Bell with Snow, let him go up to sort out the offense, and let Iverson, Reid and Lewis let go of the offense with all their strength.The only good thing for the 76ers is that Reid moved to the third position. He doesn't need to face Kobe when he is on the offensive. Fox's defensive strength can't be compared with Kobe at all. Sex is obviously not as good as Reid, a player at the second position, which undoubtedly gave the latter a great shooting space.

But it also needs to allow the ball to be passed out. Reed himself was relaxed, but Snow, who was in charge of organizing the offense, fell into Kobe's individual defense.Originally, Iverson's pass only needs to be given to Reed, and there is no need to worry about being intercepted during the pass. How to get Kobe to complete the shot depends on Reed himself.But now Snow has to dodge Kobe's interception before he can seize the opportunity to give the ball to Reed, which makes the quality of the pass drop significantly.

That is to say, fortunately, Reid received special training from Chang Wei before, and has some experience in all kinds of weird passes. As long as he stays focused, he will never make mistakes.But Kobe's defense against Snow still caused the 76ers' game rhythm to drop again. When a team's organization points are restricted, it is very difficult to run smoothly.

Although Reid and Iverson were able to free their hands to attack, the effect was not very good. There was less than 1 minute left before the end of the game, and they didn't have much time to adjust.However, with Brown's professional vision, it can still be seen that this combination does have a lot of potential to be tapped on the offensive end. Unfortunately, he has never thought about it before. Unconventional, he has never practiced without using such a lineup.

Yes, Brown has never used a three-guard lineup even in training. Iverson, Snow and Reid have never played for 1 minute at the same time this season. They are often used in games. That doesn't meet Brown's requirements on the defensive end.And now that Brown hastily replaced the three guards, they don't have much time to get used to it. Even if they have potential, they can't convert it into immediate combat power in such a short period of time, so it doesn't help much in this game. of.

Although Iverson's breakthrough and Reid's shooting caused some troubles for the Lakers, thanks to their 6-0 spurt, they always maintained a certain advantage. The leading score gave the Lakers players more Emboldened.In contrast, the 76ers players seem a little impetuous. Sometimes they don't have the patience to run through a tactic seriously, and the ball-handler will choose to shoot at any chance, and the final result can only be watched. O'Neal took another rebound inside.Although the Lakers' scoring efficiency is not high, they still continue to maintain their advantage after piecemeal efforts.

And this advantage was successfully maintained by them until the last second. The Lakers won 103 to 97 at home, tenaciously tied the big score of the series to 3 to 3, and successfully dragged into the tiebreaker. They believe that In the last game, he was able to complete the reversal in the away game and defend the O'Brien Cup again.

(End of this chapter)