Versatile Point Forward

Chapter 341
The Blazers' bench is really good, which fully reflects the team's management's ability to shop for treasures in the free agent market.In the first 5 minutes of the second quarter, they did bring back the disadvantage, but this was also because the Lakers' substitute players were fighting against them, and both sides did not defend much.

However, when the five starting players went into battle again, the feeling that had just improved at the end of the first quarter seemed to be all left on the bench. Nor was it spared.The Blazers generals off the field looked at each other in blank dismay. No one knew why such things would continue to happen in the second quarter, and when they were helpless, the score on the field tended to be pulled apart again.

The Lakers took the opportunity to shrink their defense in and piled up heavy troops on the inside, completely in the posture of preventing you from scoring at the basket.This kind of response is also the most appropriate. After all, no matter how hard you fight, it is still possible to dunk a basket under the basket, but once the defense line recovers, it will really kill this possibility.

Of course Ye Feng wanted to bring the rhythm of the whole team, but even if he scored like cutting melons and cutting vegetables before, he was at a loss in this game.For him and the rest of the Blazers, the rim was covered, and no matter how hard they tried, they couldn't get the ball in.

So the team's offensive focus naturally shifted to the inside, and Aldridge became the team's main attack point. Although his shooting percentage was not very high, and the Lakers' defense on the inside was very active, it was better than others on the outside. The wave shot came well.

The Blazers relied on Aldridge to stop the team from bleeding, but obviously they stopped the bleeding as fast as they lost the blood. The Lakers scored crazy points under the leadership of Kobe. Aldridge's scoring was useless at all. The speed of falling into hell has slowed down a little bit.The game has been overwhelmed so far. The Blazers are not only behind by a large score, but there is no chance of a comeback at all. After all, they don't even have a usable comeback point now.

At the end of the first half, the Blazers had fallen behind by nearly [-] points, a huge disadvantage they had never encountered this season.From the eyes of each player, it can be seen that their hearts have been beaten, and such a weird touch makes them completely unable to arouse any fighting spirit.

Looking at the numb faces of the starting players, McMillan was furious, and he shouted: "I didn't want to criticize you, but look at the dejected looks of all of you now, it's not much different from quails, Do you still have the face to say that you are the team that is going to enter the finals and win the championship? I am ashamed of my bold words before! In the second half, you sit on the bench for me and see how your teammates are. How do you play ball!"

McMillan has always given the players the impression that he is a very gentle and even honest head coach. He seldom yells during games, and even less so when he utters such heavy words.But today he already hates iron for being weak. Indeed, it is really weird to keep hitting iron when shooting, but this is not the reason for his lack of fighting spirit.Thinking about the time when McMillan and Payton were teammates, that guy's tenacious fighting spirit also infected him to a certain extent, so he couldn't understand the way the players gave up the game in despair. It makes sense.

Sure enough, after the start of the second half, the starting lineup headed by Ye Feng and Aldridge was all put on the bench by him, replaced by Fernandez, Mills, Batum, Ailes and Przybilla.With their strength, it is obvious that they can't make up the Lakers' starting lineup, but they showed the spirit of daring to fight and fight hard on the court, which made many Lakers fans turn their backs and cheer for them.

Especially Mills, who formed a double point guard with Fernandez, this guy was crazy alone. After hearing the fans cheering for his team, he actually showed off in front of Kobe.Facing Kobe's close defense, the little Australian point guard accelerated, and then played a 360-degree turn with the ball on the move, leaving Kobe behind, and then scored a layup with physical confrontation.

Of course, his two points did not help the situation of the whole game at all, not to mention that Kobe then responded with a mid-range jumper. Leading by more than ten points.

However, I have to say that Mills passing Kobe can still boost morale. The team followed this momentum and beat the opponent to a wave of 8-2 spurts, which will narrow the point difference to 20 points.But the Lakers are not soft persimmons. After a short period of astonishment, they quickly stabilized their position. Although they did not widen the point difference again, they did not allow the Blazers to further narrow the point difference, basically maintaining 20 points. Advantages of left and right.

Obviously, the Blazers have been beaten by their opponents in this game. Although it seems to outsiders that McMillan's refusal to let the starting lineup appear is to give them time to recharge their batteries, but in fact it is against the starting five. punish.This makes people sincerely admire his courage. After all, not every head coach dares to send a group of substitutes to wrestle with the opponent's starter in a crucial game like the Western Conference semifinals...

Ye Feng and the others still played for a while in the fourth quarter, but this time was only three or four minutes, and it had no effect on the outcome of the game.And after they felt that they had just warmed up, McMillan quickly replaced them and continued to press firmly on the bench.

In the end, the Lakers won a 25-point victory at home without any suspense. The score of 113 to 88 made countless onlookers dumbfounded. It seems that the Blazers, known for their sharp offense, have not played for a long time. The match was over, and the opponent got a high score of 90+.At the press conference after the game, McMillan's incomprehensible substitution was also besieged by many reporters. You can make a report like "The atmosphere in the Trail Blazers is bad, close to infighting".

But McMillan dispelled all their offensives with one sentence. He said calmly: "In the team I coach, there can be weak people, but there cannot be cowards."

(End of this chapter)