Jim Bass Ambition

Chapter 357

Back from the timeout, the Suns reset Boozer's tactics against the Lakers' strategy of catching the ball in defense. After the cover created a dislocation, Boozer went to the deepest possible position to seek a position, and the dislocation singled Billups.

The ball is in the hands of Boozer, and it will be difficult to return to Nash. This is the effect the Lakers hope to see. Of course, Billups has a heavier defensive task. What he does is to raise his hands and stand up. Position, put Boozer in the mid-range shot.

At the beginning of the game, Boozer felt pretty good and made a mid-range shot.

"Sir, why are you sure you want to do this? What if Boozer scores 40 points today? This is a dangerous gamble." Stevens looked serious after seeing Boozer hit.

"That's right, it's better than letting the Suns score 20 three-pointers. If Boozer kills him here, Tim Duncan won't be able to stop Tim Duncan in the next round anyway." The tone comforted the young man.

Fortunately, Kobe's state is still hot. Although the Suns strengthened their defense against him, he still forced his way into the paint. After attracting double-teams, he split the ball to Garnett who followed up and dunked.

Kobe's ability to break through the inside is extremely strong, and this set of connections has become a repertoire for the Lakers in every game.

Nash was in possession of the ball, Quentin Richardson and Joe Johnson were closely watched from the perimeter, and Marion couldn't easily get out of the open space as he did in the previous games. With Nash's ball quotient, he quickly analyzed Out of the Lakers' defensive intentions, he signaled Marion to come up as a cover this time, hoping to disrupt the Lakers' defensive deployment.

After the pick-and-roll, he switched defenses. Although Battier's footwork was good, his air defense ability was weaker than Garnett's. Nash immediately aimed at the gap and sent a wonderful pass from Battier's head. Marion quickly cut to the basket and made an alley-oop dunk. Score.

D'Antoni's expression is a little more relaxed, and his point guard can see things on the court that ordinary players can't.

On the other side, Garnett pulled over Billups and Battier, and whispered a few words.

The Lakers attacked, and Kobe finally missed, but Garnett grabbed the offensive rebound, scored Billups, and hit a three-pointer.There were thunderous cheers at the Staples Center, and it seemed that luck was also on the Lakers' side. Kobe's long rebound collapsed far away, and it happened to be picked up by Garnett, who was standing near the free throw line.

The Suns attacked, Nash continued to look for Marion to cover, but this time Garnett appeared in front of Marion who slid down, and Billups turned to Boozer.

Boozer's athletic ability is not as good as Marion's, and the passing route is farther. Under Battier's defensive position consciously blocking the center and placing the two wings, Nash can't directly throw an alley-oop to Boozer.

Joe Johnson immediately came up from the bottom corner to respond, and while Nash handed the ball to him, he blocked the chasing Artest with his thin body.

A brute force hit, Nash fell to the ground, and the referee called Artest for a defensive foul.At the same time, Joe Johnson made a three-pointer for the first time.

After reviewing the video, the referee signaled that the three-pointer was valid, and Nash added a free throw.

This aroused the dissatisfaction of the Lakers home fans. Jim also felt that the penalty was completely unwarranted, so he stood up and protested loudly to the referee.

"Please be quiet, Mr. Coach, or I will give you a technical foul."

Jim suppressed his anger and sat down again.Over there, Nash used his set of standard procedures to finish the free throw against the boos of the audience.

"My God, doesn't he think it's disgusting..."

Billups dribbled the ball across half court, and Kobe came out around the double screen. This time, the Suns' defense retreated a little bit, scruples about Billups and Garnett's attacking the basket, but Billups passed the ball to the running back To Bryant on the wing.

Beyond the three-point line, Kobe bowed and shot.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Joe Johnson rushed to try to interfere, but as soon as his feet were off the ground, he found that Kobe put away his fake moves.

"Oops……"

Joe Johnson stretched out his hands, trying to look as harmless as possible, but Bryant jumped up to meet him, using his wrist strength to force a [-]-pointer.

The whistle blows and Joe Johnson fouls.

At the same time, Kobe's three-pointer was accurately pocketed.

Kobe sat on the ground, and his teammates rushed up to pull him up.

The timing of this retaliation was just right, the sun was interrupted just as it was about to rise.

This time it was Jim's turn to relax.

After a brief period of confusion, the Lakers regained stability on both offensive and defensive ends. Nash tried to disrupt the Lakers' defensive formation several times, but under the leadership of Garnett, the Lakers calmly cracked Nash's offense. On the offensive end, Kobe was in a hot state, scoring 22 points in a single quarter, ignoring the Suns' defense.

The Suns can only rely on Boozer's personal offense to score. Although Boozer scored 12 points on 7 of 15 shots, his efficiency and rhythm are obviously not as good as those in the previous few games.

The only thing that didn't go well with the Lakers was that in order to maintain the continuity of the defense, Jim had to shorten the rotation, especially the inside line. Only when Marion was off the court for a few minutes, the Lakers dared to play David West and Nene. Double inside lineup, the rest of the time Battier or Nocioni will play the power forward position on the court.Billups, Kobe Bryant, Artest and Wade have three positions left in the rotation, corresponding to the rotation of the Suns.

Kobe took a 5-minute break in the second quarter, and Wade was in charge of the main attack. The score between the two sides has been seeing-saw between 6 and 8 points. Quentin Richardson was completely frozen. Seizing the few opportunities, he made 7 of 5 shots in the half, including 3 of 2 three-pointers, scored 12 points, and performed well.

At the end of the half, the Lakers led 57 to 50, Kobe scored 29 points, more than half of the team's total points, Wade 11 points, Garnett 10 points, the performance was stable, and the sun, Boozer got a lot of opportunities In the second quarter, Hall's touch also began to decline. He scored 20 points in the half, and Marion scored only 4 points.

"In the second half, the Suns may have some personal offenses from Nash. We need to watch out for his shooting, including Joe Johnson. He also had a good touch today. Ron, pay attention to your fouls. You have fouled three times. If necessary, You and Kobe can switch defenses..."

"No need to switch, coach."

It was not Artest who interrupted Jim, but Kobe.

All eyes are on Kobe.

"Ron can handle this, can't he?"

"That goes without saying!" Artest said confidently.

"Very well, Ron continues to mark Joe Johnson, consume his physical strength, let him shoot as uncomfortable as possible, don't pursue to defend every round, they will definitely try to draw your foul in the opening stage, if you Getting the fourth offender early is going to be a bad situation, understand Ron?"

Artest nodded, indicating that he was clear.

"Great, let's go take them back to Phoenix!"

(End of this chapter)