Jim Bass Ambition

Chapter 312 No Attack vs No Match

"Ron! Watch your own man! Don't focus on the ball! You are no rookie!" Jim was very dissatisfied with Artest's defense. This kind of distraction should not appear in Artest, who is known for his active defense Tai, he immediately got up and yelled at Artai.

The Lakers' offense is still given to West to play singles. The team urgently needs him to grow up. The power forward position is temporarily empty on the top. West also has a sense of urgency. Another young insider, Nei Nei, has also made great progress. Hurry up, under the guidance of Garnett and Divac, Nene is no longer the rough guy who only knows how to dunk two years ago. He can occasionally send a wonderful pass in the high position, and the cooperation with Wade has become more and more tacit. When two people play at the same time, they can often hit a wave of offensive climax.

West needs to play a convincing performance in order to secure a starting position.

Facing Jefferson's defense, West continued to push forward with the ball behind him. This time Carter let go of Artest on the weak side and came to help defend.

West was double-teamed and tried to pass across the court to the open Artest, but Kidd saw it all, moved into the passing lane early, and made the steal.

The Nets' quick counterattack is really good at it. After Kidd steals the ball, he is flying all the way, pushing the speed forcefully. After surpassing Billups, he attracts Kobe's defense and makes a wonderful pass to Buford. The latter scores an easy layup.

Jim was a little depressed. Such a cross pass is a big taboo on the court, and West, who was eager to prove himself, was obviously a bit over the top.

The 1-meter Buford marked Billups, and Kidd personally marked Kobe. Although the Nets played one big and four small, the height and weight of the four outsiders did not suffer.

This time the Lakers were led by Kobe, and Kidd lowered his center of gravity, stretched his arms, and focused on defense.

Billups pulls to the weakside corner, West sinks to the weakside baseline to clear the upper lane, and Garnett comes up for a back screen, but Kidd forces his way through the screen, trying to hold off Bryant's shot. breakthrough.

Over there, Garnett pretended to be outside, and after deceiving Krstic's center of gravity, he suddenly accelerated, relying on explosive power to get rid of Krstic in an instant. Kobe passed the ball from behind to Garnett, who followed up with both hands. Slam dunk vigorously, full of tacit understanding.

The Nets tried to repeat the same trick, Carter cut to the basket, but this time Artest focused and started early, and the big foot cleared Kidd's ground pass and kicked it out of the sideline.

Reorganizing the offense, Kidd gave the ball to Jefferson.

Compared with Carter's hard and soft, picturesque style of play, Jefferson's style of play is more straightforward, with fewer changes in breakthroughs, mainly relying on physical fitness to forcibly attack.Shooting is not as stable as Carter's, especially the frontal shots, the hit rate is less than 30%, and the hot spot is a vast ocean.

David West's instruction is to prevent sudden release.

Jefferson's mid-range shot lived up to the expectations of the Lakers. Garnett grabbed the backcourt rebound and passed directly to Kobe who was about to play.

Although Kidd had started to steal the ball, he was still half a beat too late. The basketball passed through his fingertips and fell into Kobe's hands. Carter, who came back to serve, took a look.

Carter caught this look and exchanged a few words with Kidd.

The Nets attacked and Kidd held the ball in a high position. Carter first used Krstic's cover to delay Artest, ran out to catch the ball, and made a three-pointer.

Artest flew out to defend, but Carter made a fake move. After flying Artest, he went straight to the basket.

Garnett immediately went over to help defend.One was deducted by Carter at the beginning of the game, and he could not be deducted a second.

Carter attracted Garnett's defense. After taking off, just like Kobe just now, he passed the ball from behind to Kostic who followed up. The Serb easily scored a layup.

The arrival of Carter gave Kidd a reliable end point and a second support point. The previous Kenyon Martin, including Jefferson, did not have the ability to continue handling the ball after receiving the ball and could only eat bread, you cannot make cakes.

"Kidd's pass is indeed exquisite. The average guard may wait for Carter to run out and then pass the ball, so that Artest has enough time to return to the defensive position, and Kidd's pass is expected Carter was sentenced to the position where Carter is about to appear, and this few tenths of a second is enough to catch the defenders by surprise." The commentator on the sidelines is retired point guard Mark Jackson, an expert in doorway, and has contributed more than 1 assists in his career. Of course Jackson knew that Kidd's mediocre pass was more skillful.

Garnett picked up the basketball, hit the hoop, and handed it to Billups.

As a good friend of Garnett, Billups certainly knew what Garnett was thinking. How could he not get him back after being teased like this?

Buford's ability to defend against pick-and-rolls was worse than Kidd's. He failed to bypass Garnett's screen, and Krstic could only dislocate and defend in front of Billups.

Over there, Garnett had already carried Buford down, Billups threw the ball into the air, Garnett took off, grabbed the ball with one hand, and directly dunked the alley-oop.

Both sides come and go, not giving in to each other, wonderful shots emerge in endlessly.

"The Lakers' defense is a little lax, probably because of back-to-back reasons, and the distance from the west coast to the east coast is too far. But their offense is very targeted. Although the Nets played very lively on the scene, the guards If the basket problem is not resolved, it is still very difficult to win this game. Most of the Lakers' points come from the inside. If this continues, once the Nets fail to maintain their shooting percentage, it will be dangerous." Mark Jackson commented.

After the first quarter, the Lakers led 28 to 26. Among them, they scored 20 points in the paint area, and the other 5 points were free throws. Whether it is Krstic, Scalabrine or Jason Collins, none of them can prevent the Lakers from endlessly attacking the inside of the Nets. This is also Jim's strategy. The Nets have a tough defense outside, so I will find a way to avoid it and attack directly. your weakness.

For the Nets, Kidd made 3 of 0 shots, scored 3 rebounds, 5 assists and 2 steals. Carter scored 11 points and performed well.

In the second quarter, the situation changed suddenly. Nets backup guard Travis Best suddenly went crazy. , Billy Thomas, signed from the Development League, also contributed three-pointers.

The Nets went 9-0 and overtook the score. Wade, who was the core of the bench, missed 2 shots during this period, contributed a turnover, and was in poor condition.

Jim called a timeout. This kind of fast and chaotic battle is obviously what the Nets want to see. Blindly pushing the rhythm is not the best choice for the tired Lakers.

(End of this chapter)