Basketball myth

Chapter 181 The Jazz's Trap
On May 5, the third game between the Lakers and the Jazz!Home of the Jazz!

Thomas roared loudly on the sidelines, telling the players on the field to pay attention to the rhythm and the opponent's defense!But the noise from the sidelines that was several times louder than his voice kept hitting the players on the field!No matter how loud Thomas's voice is!How effective the voice of tactics is, it is not even the slightest use!

In the 7th minute of the fourth quarter, with the Lakers trailing by 5 points, the players on the field, led by Hill, sprinted for the final possible victory!

Now there are 5 minutes before the end of the game, the players on the field include Kevin, Hill, Horry, Barkley and Ratliff!The players on the Jazz include Stockton, Malone, Hornacek, Shanton Anderson, Chris Morris!

The ratings of this game created the lowest point since the game between the Lakers and the Jazz!Now the score is 67 to 73!The Jazz lead!

At the beginning of this game, the Jazz started from the inside offense!
Ma Long received a pass from his teammate and started to attack inside!And the other players have already pulled the players they defended to the outside, giving Malone the greatest support!

The whole Jazz team seems to have forgotten their previous defeats, and began to return to their usual state, and started their own master tactics-the cooperation of pick-and-roll tactics!

In the last game against the Lakers, the Jazz completely fell into the trap of the Lakers and did not use their greatest advantage. The whole team was thinking about how to defeat the Lakers quickly and wanted to be more relaxed. Way to win!

In other words, the Jazz's carelessness led to their direct failure!So in this game, Sloan made a big change to his team. He no longer regarded the Lakers as the Lakers that he defeated twice in a row!Instead, they regard the Lakers as a strange team, a team that the Jazz have to rack their brains to win!
Of course, everyone will say, what about the first game?The first game cannot be counted according to common sense!Whoever encounters such a match is unlucky!

In the third game, in terms of offense, the Jazz didn't care what the Lakers did this time, they just relied on their own pick-and-roll offense and started a three-man rotation!Well, especially with the addition of other players to the rotation!Of course, the success rate of such an attack is not necessarily high, it depends on the tacit understanding of the three veteran players of the Jazz over the years!

This is a tacit understanding that the Lakers don't have at all!It can be said that such an approach is to give up everything, just want to win the game!Because this can also be said to be the last card of the Jazz!The pick-and-roll tactics have been fighting for these years, but there are many problems, and the Lakers can't win with just a few measures!The word tacit understanding is even more crucial in basketball!Especially the chemistry!

Of course, these are still under Thomas' control, and the Jazz's offense can still find a certain way, and they may not necessarily lose!But the Jazz's defensive style!Let the Lakers' offense be completely helpless!
The Jazz implemented a double-teaming tactic against Hill, a thorough double-teaming tactic, that is, from the beginning, Hill was not allowed to catch the basketball properly, and when Hill got the ball with difficulty, two people immediately stepped forward to double-team. folder!Completely agree with Hill's status!For the Jazz, it is equivalent to Jordan's status!
Faced with such a situation, Hill is not helpless at all, but the subsequent methods of the Jazz make Hill unable to use his strength!
In this game, of the 10% of the Jazz's strength, 3% was used on offense, and 7% was used on defense!And this 7% defensive ratio was used by more than 3% on Hill!Hill's offensive efficiency can be imagined!Hill is not the point where the triangle offense ends, but the point where the team's offense is organized!Once Hill's organization is completely locked, the Lakers will not play a triangle offense!

The Jazz's defense can be said to be at the forefront of the league, not to mention the shooting guards and big centers who are completely invested in defense!Although there are a lot of fouls, it doesn't hurt the Jazz's muscles!Because the Jazz's strongest backup is the center and the scoring position!
Of course, after double-teaming Hill and making Hill unable to organize, it just made the Lakers a little flustered!Thomas still has many ways to get Hill out of this situation!It is impossible for the Lakers to score about 3 points in more than 70 quarters of offense!
The real trouble is that O'Neill has fallen into the opponent's trap!
At the beginning, Malone challenged O'Neal inside. When O'Neal was careless, he received his own 3 fouls at the beginning of the game!
Because Malone didn't even join the pick-and-roll tactics!Instead, the Jazz's big center Greg Foster stepped forward and launched an attack with Stockton's pick-and-roll!Stockton cooperated with Hornacek's single line on the outside, and Malone stirred inside, or waited for the ball!This is the tactic that the Jazz used at the beginning of the first quarter, which surprised Thomas very much, and he even wanted to see the follow-up effect of this!
This also made the Lakers very passive from the beginning!The players are still following Thomas' arrangements before the game. Of course, the winning team will not make special adjustments. This is a common law in the NBA.It's not Thomas' fault either.But a particularly critical point for Thomas is that the Jazz did not give Thomas time to make adjustments!In the first quarter, the effect the Jazz wanted was achieved!
The Lakers were still the same as before. Barkley stepped forward to defend the pick-and-roll, and O'Neal defended the inside, so Malone singled out O'Neal in the inside!
It can be said that the protective umbrellas given to O'Neal by the previous Lakers, layers of protective umbrellas, are completely useless under an offensive formation like the Jazz and under a superstar like Malone!Even after the game, Thomas thought about it, such a tactic, there is no third person that can be used!
Duncan is younger than O'Neal, and it is too difficult for Duncan to use experience to cause O'Neal's inside fouls!It will be possible in a few years!The third candidate is Olajuwon, inside, eh!It can also cause O'Neal to foul, but among the players O'Neal admires, there must be Olajuwon, and O'Neal may not be careless!The more important point is that the Rockets do not have the collective defense of the Jazz!

In the 6th minute of the first quarter, O'Neal received his third foul. Of course, this also has something to do with the referee's scale in this game!This is a commonly used method in the league!

It can be said that O'Neal has completely fallen into the trap of Malone's heads-up under the basket. O'Neal can step into the stage of a superstar, but he must have a certain amount of arrogance. Face-to-face heads-up under the basket like Malone, one-on-one The duel is the pride of superstars. Once someone double-teams Malone, or lets O'Neal attack the outside line, it will be a shame for O'Neal himself!

Fear of the shame of others!

Therefore, the Jazz seized this opportunity. In the first 7 minutes of the first quarter, Malone singled out O'Neal inside!The referee is also staring at this kind of duel, O'Neill's arm is raised a little bit, if there is even the slightest suspicion of a thug, he will be fouled!
Of course, the same also applies to the Jazz. When Foster defended the outside line, he also got such a whistle, but the comparison between O'Neal and Foster?Are they comparable?

O'Neal can be said to be the backbone of the Lakers!Big Mac characters inside!The player at the end of the triangle offense, although in the offense required by Thomas, the time to attack directly with the ball has become very rare!

However, only when O'Neal is at the basket is the guarantee for the rest of the Lakers to attack boldly!If Hill's organization is double-teamed, the best way is to pass the ball to the most threatening point and attack!

However, when O'Neal was troubled by a foul, Ratliff, who was still in his rookie period, played and was completely out of the Jazz's defensive range. Received the ball in the zone, and the hit rate of less than 4% is pitiful enough!
(End of this chapter)