Jim Bass Ambition

Chapter 360 Fighting with Immortals
In the first quarter, the Lakers did a good job of sharing the ball, with Kobe as the core and Garnett as the axis, attracting the Suns' defense. Kobe's explosive performance in the last game made the Suns quite concerned about his possession of the ball, Artest, Battier, Billups and others got more chances. Although the three-point shots were still not many, the Lakers' strategy of constantly making empty cuts and attacking the basket, coupled with Kobe's selfless sharing The ball made the Sun's weak defense even more flawed.

As for the Suns, except for Joe Johnson who still feels online and scored two fairy three-pointers in the face of Artest's defense, everyone else's feel is relatively average. After the Lakers strengthened their defensive strategy, Marion was restricted. Quentin Richardson lacks the ability to attack independently. His existence is to contain Kobe and form a match with him. After Boozer barely surpassed God in the last game, he rushed to the Super Ghost in this game. The rhythm went, and he missed 4 shots in the opening game and made 2 turnovers.

After half a quarter, the Suns fell behind 11 to 19. Not only could they not attack, they could not defend.The originally fiery atmosphere at home has also tended to cool down.

D'Antoni called a timeout with a bad face.

"Cheer up, everyone. The game has just started. A difference of 8 points is nothing. Don't stop running. Once I have a chance, I will send the ball to you. We can take care of this." He took the towel and wiped it off Khan, Nash suddenly spoke.

No one doubted that their MVP, a frail-looking white guard, had incredible energy in his body.

Seeing that his teammates seem to have regained their fighting spirit, Nash himself added a sentence in his mind.

"I can handle it all."

The Lakers' defense is still tight, Marion puts up the screen, Battier follows closely, pick-and-roll, substitutions, Marion rolls down, the Lakers rotate defense... everything is so similar to the routine of the previous game.

But this time Nash made a new choice. He made a fake move to pass the ball to Boozer with one hand. Blast shot.

Hollow into the net.

The Lakers attacked, and the opportunity came to Billups. He tried to return a three-pointer, but unfortunately failed to hit.

Marion grabbed the rebound, handed it to Nash immediately, and pushed forward at full speed.

Joe Johnson is on the left, Quentin Richardson is on the right, Marion is going straight from the center, the Suns are spread out, and the Lakers players are paying attention to Nash's movements to see where he will pass the ball.

But Nash ran behind Boozer for half the court, using Boozer's cover, suddenly stopped outside the three-point line and made a three-point shot!

The ball drew a high parabola and fell into the basket.

The American West Arena exploded instantly.

In less than 1 minute, the point difference returned to 2 points.

Immediately, Jim asked for a timeout.Nash looked like he was going to take over the game himself.

"Be firm when delaying! Don't give him an easy three-point shot!" After making a choice, Jim still chooses single defense. At this time, once he chooses to double-team Nash, it is likely to cause the Suns with high morale to explode. It is said that letting Nash score alone is better than letting the Suns bloom. The games where Nash scores high scores are usually when the Suns are in desperation.

However, Nash cannot be allowed to score so easily, at least it must be difficult for him.

The Suns are a team that uses offense instead of defense. After the offense opened, the defense also picked up momentum. Artest's forced layup was blocked by Marion's cap, and the Lakers violated the law in 24 seconds.

Nash holds the ball, and Billups presses from the backcourt, intending to consume Nash's energy.

After reading the defense, Nash found helplessly that there were still not many opportunities for his teammates. It seemed that if he wanted to win this game, he could only rely on his own output.

Boozer came up to cover, Nash broke through, and Garnett switched defenses.

This time the sun opened up, allowing Nash to single out Garnett.

Garnett has no problem marking guards for a short period of time, but it is very difficult to guard small guards, especially players like Nash who are good at sudden shots and passes.

After Nash broke through with a feint, he cast his iconic layback jumper, and the basketball arced out of a mortar round, bypassed Garnett's blocking finger, flew high into the air, and then fell into the middle of the basket.

Nash's 8-0 wave helped the Suns tie the score.

Garnett slammed the basketball on the ground, annoyed at his defense.

Kobe came over.

"Let me pay them back next round."

Garnett nodded and gestured to Billups.

The Lakers attacked, Garnett held the ball in a high position, Billups and Battier slipped from the strong side to the weak side in turn, involving the defense, and Kobe went up the line and circled over, receiving a hand-off pass from Garnett, Taking advantage of the situation, he passed Joe Johnson through the screen, rushed to the basket, faced Boozer's defense, jumped and threw, and hit the high board.

When returning to defense, Kobe and Nash passed each other, neither of them looked at each other.

The Suns sent out the baseline ball, and Billups led the defense, but Nash handed the ball to Joe Johnson and ran without the ball.

This change caused the Lakers' defense to stagnate. Marion reacted quickly and made an off-ball screen for Nash, blocking Billups tightly.

Joe Johnson immediately gave the ball to Nash, and Battier flew over in a hurry, but Nash just made a fake move. After flying Battier, he took a step laterally and hit a three-pointer steadily.

The sun overtook the score, Nash and Joe Johnson and Marion high-fived.

Kobe didn't say a word, and motioned Artest to kick off quickly.

After halftime, Kobe began to ask for the ball, and Billups passed the ball to Kobe.

Joe Johnson's defensive position is a bit inward, and he is obviously more concerned about Kobe's breakthrough. Garnett has fallen to a high position and stretched out his hand for the ball.

But Kobe ignored the other nine people on the field, took a step, and directly pulled out two steps outside the three-point line.

"This ball is unreasonable!"

"Hey, don't say it, you can get in!"

Jim showed a bewildered smile. Kobe has been suppressed by the "correct way of playing" for too long. Whether it is Phil Jackson or himself, they are letting Kobe play in the way of Michael Jordan in the last three consecutive years. He is not a person who does things step by step.

Looking at Nash, who is on the opposite side of Lian Biao's fairy ball, maybe any strategy is just a cloud, so it is a better choice to use personal ability to decide the winner.

Nash feels hot. No matter what the coaching staff arranges, the players on the field will unconsciously focus on him, and there will be omissions in the defense of other players. Marion seized the fleeting opportunity and suddenly ran back. Cutting to the basket, Nash sent a soul-piercing through ball to help Marion complete a dunk.

While the Lakers were attacking, Kobe was double-teamed and still missed a strong shot, but Garnett fought the offensive rebound and sent a magical back pass at the moment he was about to fall out of bounds. Kobe caught the ball and faced Quentin. Richardson, Dapeng spread his wings and violently smashed buckles.

Two points scored, but also a penalty.

The game entered a timeout, and the audience was still reminiscing about the wonderful and fierce peak duel in the past few minutes.

(End of this chapter)