Jim Bass Ambition

Chapter 358 Stick to the Territory
As Jim expected, the Suns came up to look for Joe Johnson, trying to open up the situation from Artest, who was guilty of the third offense. Obviously, D'Antoni found that the referee's whistle in this game was relatively strict. A strong defender like Tester is not very friendly.

But Artest deeply understood the mission on his shoulders after playing the chicken blood in the midfield.

When defending Joe Johnson, Artest always relied on his footsteps and body to interfere with his opponents, but he explained the movements of his hands very cleanly. No matter how Joe Johnson deliberately showed his flaws and lured him to make a move, he was never reckless.

Although he is concerned about his own fouls and his defensive strength has declined slightly, Joe Johnson's singles is not a routine tactic for the Suns after all. Generally speaking, the Lakers are acceptable to the current situation.

Nash also began to strengthen his personal offense to share the pressure on Carlos Boozer. In the second quarter, Boozer only made 7 of 2 shots. As a short insider, his physical strength cannot be as deep as Kobe's. Compared with monsters, even if the Suns focus on zone defense, the short rotation and long-term matchup with the league's top insider like Garnett still consumes a lot of Boozer.

Garnett sweeps the arc, Kobe dominates the offense and freezes Quentin Richardson, Battier and Artest do everything they can to contain Marion and Joe Johnson, Billup While controlling the offensive tempo, he has to defend Boozer with a lot of misplacement.

The five Tigers of the Lakers perform their duties and defend the Staples Center.

When Battier and Artest hit the long-lost three-pointer to help the Lakers expand their lead, Jim knew the game was a sure thing.

Artest eventually received his fourth foul in the middle of the third quarter, Wade came on early, and Jim still let him mark Joe Johnson.

Compared with Artest's defensive style of strength confrontation and skill, Wade's defense is more reflected in awareness and athletic ability.

Joe Johnson played singles with the ball, skillfully changing direction in front of the body, deceiving Wade's center of gravity, and then pulled to the left hand direction, making an emergency stop jumper.

But he underestimated Wade's explosive power, shot, Wade took off at the same time, touched the ball with his fingertips.

After the miss, Wade accelerated to the opponent's penalty area immediately after landing. He knew that his teammates would be able to grab the rebound.

Garnett received the rebound and sent a cross-court quarterback-style long pass. Wade caught the ball and dunked with one hand.

The point difference came to 15 points.D'Antoni called a timeout.

It's a pity that the timeout didn't help. Nash tried to take over the game, but his three-pointer was just a drop in the bucket in front of the rising Lakers.

Kobe continued to output steadily, and the Suns continued to change their defensive strategies, but it didn't help.

After three quarters, the Lakers lead 88 to 71. Compared with the efficiency of the offensive end, the defensive end is more successful in restricting the Suns.

D'Antoni couldn't do anything when he saw things, and after playing for 3 minutes in the fourth quarter, he sent a rare full bench lineup.

After another 2 minutes, the Lakers widened the point difference to more than 20 points. After a foul, Jim also replaced the lineup of Blake, Korver, Ariza, Haslem and Nene, and the game completely fell into garbage time.

Jim Jackson made a few three-pointers, but under Blake's control, the Lakers didn't mess around and kept their lead of about 15 points until the end.

Kobe played 32 minutes and scored 45 points, which can be called the biggest contributor to the Lakers' victory in this game.

For the Suns, Boozer scored 31 points and 6 rebounds, Joe Johnson 18 points, Nash 14 points and 12 assists, but Marion only scored 9 points, and Quentin Richardson made 8 of 1 shots and only 3 At the same time, the serious abnormality of the two became the main cause of the sun's collapse.

113 to 96, the Lakers won at home and tied the total score to 2 to 2. Since the victory suppressed the opponent's score below 100 points, the home audience was rewarded with double tacos.

"First of all, I would like to congratulate my players. All of them played very well and won this game, but we cannot be complacent. We need two more victories to move on. The next game is going to Phoenix. The Suns will Counterattack, the game will be very difficult, we will be prepared. Then I would like to thank our coaching staff, they have almost no rest in these two days, helping the team to develop excellent offensive and defensive tactics, this game From the looks of the game, our tactics worked." In an interview with Craig Sager, Jim was rarely serious.

Seeing Jim's relieved expression, Sager realized that the guy in front of him must have been under a lot of pressure before this match.

After a brief exchange of greetings, the two sides separated, Jim walked to the sidelines, and Nicholson was still chatting with James Worthy, the commentator.

"Nice job, at least four days later, we can still see you here." Nicholson and Jim clapped their hands together.

"If possible, I really don't want to continue to entangle with them. The head coach is really a high-risk industry."

"I don't remember the Suns last season very well. Why did they change to a point guard and become so powerful all at once? Steve Nash, he has been playing for nearly ten years. I haven't seen him play well before. ?” Nicholson was puzzled.

"Maybe this is called timing. Nash's ability has always been very strong, but he didn't meet the most suitable teammates and the most suitable style of play before, so his ability could not be brought out; and the Suns had many talented players before, but There is a lack of an organizer to link them together, but of course the effect of playing separately is not good, plus D’Antoni, a coach who is good at using point guards, these reasons add up to the Suns this season.” Analysis by Worthy After a while.

"Bingo! James, if you don't come to be a coach, it's a waste to just be a commentator." Jim praised, as expected of a professional, and he saw the essence at a glance.

"Forget it, look at poor Erwin. After being a coach for a few days, he almost smashed his own brand, and Kurt and Byron. Look at Byron's hair, is it getting less and less? I still It's more suitable to talk about it, if you want me to play for real, I'm afraid I can't play it." Worthy hastily refused.

After exchanging a few pleasantries, several people dispersed separately.

The team is about to pack up and go to Arizona to meet the battle of Tianwangshan.

In the other few matchups, the Heat's inside advantage was undoubtedly revealed, leading the Nets 3-1. The Sonics relied on the outbreak of Jerome James to pull back a round at home. The total score was still 1-3 behind the Spurs. The difference in strength is obvious, and the winner will be determined soon. The Pistons and Pacers are evenly matched.

(End of this chapter)