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Chapter 234 Desperate

But Phil Jackson didn't know that Adelman looked down on him so much in his heart, otherwise he would be unconvinced. What do you mean I won't cook chicken soup for the players? Kobe, Bynum and Odom are a bowl of chicken soup. Is it settled?I'm afraid it's useless to pour them a bucket of chicken soup.

At the beginning of the second quarter, the Lakers came up and down. Gasol led Shannon Brown, Vujacic, Walton Jr., Odom and a group of second teams to compete with the Rockets. Godala, Harris, David Lee and Gasol Jr. competed against each other, and Staples Center staged a showdown between brothers and sisters.

But Adelman obviously miscalculated. Gasol Jr. is not the big white bear who beat his brother after eating and drinking three years later. Pau Gasol has long been a famous superstar in the league, and he is still at his peak. It is a rookie who has just entered the league and has not yet graduated from the first year. How can the two matchups be comparable?
35:25, the Lakers only had 2 minutes to pull the point difference to 10 points. The sister-in-law didn't show any mercy to her younger brother. Two back hooks + 3 assists directly stopped the Rockets. Lowry breaks fiercely, but there seems to be no good way to face Shannon Brown, who is better than him in physical fitness. Iguodala should have an overall advantage against Vujacic, but the first brother is not a player who is good at scoring. , Harris just rushed to foreign aid from the CBA. David Lee seemed to be completely suppressed in the face of Odom.

Ashuai immediately brought Totoro to the field. He knew that now was not the time to be concerned about the physical strength of the players. Anyway, Totoro is a durable kid, so it should be enough to let him rest for 4 minutes in a game?

However, after the timeout ended, even if the Totoro were brought on the court, the Rockets did not recover many points. Even if Kobe and Bynum were not on the court, Gasol showed the NBA team with a few big white players on the court. , why their dream team is always deflated frequently in the World Championships and the Olympics, and they always fail to beat certain European giants? Deducting the team to the extreme can really fight against a strong individual.

When Kobe was on the court, the Rockets played like a team basketball, and the Lakers played like a star player. On the contrary, when Kobe was not there, the Rockets looked like a star player, and the Lakers became a team basketball.

Don't look at Gasol's usual soft appearance, but in terms of deploying players to control the overall situation, Duncan is probably no better than his sister-in-law in this respect, and his sister-in-law is actually not soft at all. People think he is soft only because he was called There are too many dunks, but being dunked by others is also the result of his hard work defending. Otherwise, like the little shark in the first quarter, he will hide when he sees people coming, and he will never be dunked. Why did the team buy you back?Being a photographer under the basket?

Totoro still maintains the feel of the first quarter. It is omnipotent in shooting from inside and outside. In the circle, those players on the Lakers field can still spontaneously run around him. Often there is an open space under three passes and two leads, and a three-pointer after the open space. This is not seen when the boss is playing scene.

"MMP, why do you think that Gasol is more difficult to deal with than Kobe? Kobe is really a super giant and he is an All-Star? Could it be that his identity is reversed?"

Just like this until the end of the second quarter, Totoro didn't help the team to close the score, but fell behind by 56 points at 45:11, but his own statistics improved, 19 points tied with Peter Pan on the field The highest, but others did it in one game, but he did it in two games.

"We played zone defense in the second half. We can't let the Spaniard continue to be aggressive. He is just a little-known European guy. Let him see how good we are."

During the halftime break, Adelman, who has never liked zone defense, changed his mind. In fact, zone defense is not a defensive formation that can reflect a player's personal defensive ability. Everyone manages their own space, and whoever gets in front of them Who to defend, this is a defensive formation that tests the enthusiasm of a collective defense, so it is not very popular with Yankees who advocate individual heroism.

Zone defense first appeared in the international arena. At the beginning of the 20th century, zone defense was banned by the league. All teams using zone defense would be called illegal defense. After 2001, the league kept up with the pace of the times and allowed ball defense. The team uses zone defense, but even if the rules allow it, it is rare to see coaches in NBA teams who will arrange it. Zone defense does not have the excitement of man-to-man defense. It will be ugly if everyone uses zone defense to fight each other, so This is also the main reason why the Spurs and Pistons games always attract little attention from the audience.

It’s just that now is no longer the time to care about whether basketball is good or not. A victory in the Western Conference Finals is worth a thousand dollars. As long as he can win, Adelman will do anything shameless. There are champions every year, but there is only one every year. Every year, 30 teams and more than 400 NBA players have to go through a lot of battles and cross the first and second rounds of the playoffs. There is only one team in the baptism of the Western Conference Finals. 15 people can win the championship. And know what everyone will pay for it.

However, even Adelman himself did not expect that when the Rockets followed his instructions to play zone defense in the third quarter, Phil Jackson on the opposite side took Gasol down again and instead put him on the bench. A whole quarter of the volute was brought up, and he was equipped with a group of blue-collar players who grabbed rebounds, and the Rockets' zone defense was blown up.

How did Peter Pan tell you so much cooperation? It doesn’t matter whether you are zone defense or man-to-man, labor and management have to go it alone when they get the ball. Does your defensive tactic make any difference to me?

And the most important thing is, I don’t know if the boss who watched others play on the bench is suffocated. As soon as he enters the court, he fires up, turning over jump shots, pull-up jump shots, fadeaway jump shots, and breakthrough layups, as if this game In the reappearance of the first quarter, Volute used all his offensive skills again. The Rockets suddenly couldn't stand up to the boss with such fierce firepower. They were beaten 16:6, and the point difference came to 21 points in an instant.

Adelman also looked stupid on the bench. If he loses this game, he will at least bear half of the blame. The cat is staring at Kobe specifically, maybe the boss will still explode, but it won't be so outrageous. After all, Totoro is also the player with the highest defensive efficiency in the team, but once the area is defended, if Kobe faces Calderon with a pick-and-roll , that picture is so beautiful that I dare not look at it, and it looks the same to the little giant.

Adelman called a timeout. He didn't have time to take the initiative to admit his mistakes. In his eyes, the game was not over yet. Although they were 21 points behind, it was a bit tough, but they still had more than one quarter to save.

"I won't say much else. The current situation is very unfavorable to us, but we haven't reached the point where we have nowhere to go. We need to change our tactics and play desperately."

Ashuai has a serious face. It is not that he has never encountered this kind of experience in his previous teaching experience. In the 1982 playoffs, Adelman, who was coaching the Blazers at that time, fell behind by more than 20 points in the playoffs. The opponent was also the Los Angeles Lakers. Although they eventually lost the series with a big score of 2:4, they finally made a comeback in that 20-point loss.

Rick Adelman even remembers how they came back 27 years ago. The tactics are very simple. They piled up blue-collar players in the interior and let a star score. Whether they can win is a gamble on how the star feels , If the hand feeling can touch God, they still have a first-line chance to come back. If the hand feel is not good, then GG. In other words, this is a game that is going to be cold. Is there a difference between being cold by 20 points and being cold by 40 points?Anyway, in the eyes of this old man who always wears Santa's beard, there is no difference.

At that time, although there was a three-second zone in the league, there was no three-second violation. The penalty area rule was introduced along with the zone defense. Although the NBA had introduced the defensive three-second rule as early as the 1966-67 season, that is, defensive players were not allowed to stay in the three-second zone. Three seconds, but it was canceled after only two seasons. If it weren't for the lockout crisis in the NBA in 2001, there was an urgent need for audiences to improve viewing and set up a three-second zone. It is estimated that the NBA is still playing in the old-fashioned muscle-packed style.

So Adelman can't just copy his method in 82, but it's just a slight change. Except for Totoro, all players focus on defense. In order to ensure the quality of defense, Adelman put a set of Totoro on the court. , Shane Battier, Iguodala, David Lee and Yao Ming's ultimate defensive lineup requires height, height, confrontation, confrontation, vitality, vitality, and brains. The average height of the players on the field is about 2.09 meters. It is estimated that it is a major record in the NBA. He does not believe that the Lakers can break through this without the peak O'Neal.

On the offensive end, Totoro is in charge of doing it alone. Adelman gave Totoro the power forward position on the court, but he is not an easy power forward. He has to dribble from the backcourt all the way to the frontcourt to score. It is a bit similar to the appearance of the Clippers with Griffin as the core after Paul left in the next few years, but the Totoro who traveled through said in his heart that he is not comparable to that short player.

With 3 minutes and 25 seconds left in the third quarter, the Rockets took the lead.

Zen master frowned when he saw the Rockets' strange formation off the court, but he still couldn't understand the opponent's intentions after a few rounds, so he didn't give any instructions on the sidelines.

My Neighbor Totoro kicked the ball and started to dribble across the half court. The old fish Fisher was suddenly forced, WHATFUCK?Are Totoro now playing point guard?Then who should I guard against?Impossible to let myself defend Totoro, right?The difference between the two sides is at least 25 centimeters.

But look at the Rockets' players in other positions. It seems that no one is a point guard except him. Fisher gritted his teeth and stepped forward to try to steal the ball.

However, Totoro just slightly lowered the center of gravity and changed direction. Not only did Fisher not break the ball, but he couldn't retract the center of gravity because of his body leaning forward, so Totoro easily broke through.

The other players of the Rockets had already pulled away, and Totoro Yimapingchuan's starting speed was near the free throw line. Bynum had just rushed back, but his return did not play any role.

The accelerated Totoro and the accelerated James are of the same nature. Have you seen anyone who can stop the tank after the little emperor has run for a certain distance?Not to mention the small shark that appeared in front of Totoro, even the big Shaquille O'Neal, there was nothing he could do about the ball except foul. Of course, Shaq would not be so presumptuous with Totoro, even if he was sure to hit Going into 2+1, but being fouled by O'Neill would be fatal.

Totoro stepped on the free throw line and leaped high. Bynum got up this time and also jumped high to block the shot, but Totoro relied on his physical fitness to play a trick for him.

Obviously holding the basketball with his right hand, the hand that Shark blocked the shot was also going to the right, but during the mid-air confrontation, Totoro completed a behind-the-head switch in a few tenths of a second, moving the basketball from his right hand Switched to the left hand, and dunked the ball into the basket from the left across Bynum's body.

"beep!"

The referee's whistle sounded at the right time, and Bynum still became the background board. What's more unlucky is that the little shark may not have a good brain. He fell down on the floor covering his face with a sound, and also turned a wonderful dunk into a wonderful 2+1 dunk. Although this is a difference of a few words, the nature is completely different.

In the future, when Totoro fans talk about this ball, they can blow it like this, "See, Totoro is hanging. In the Western Conference Finals, it insisted on resisting Bynum's foul and successfully dunked the ball. May I ask who else in this league Can you do it?", and those fans who don't know what it is will definitely feel amazing when they hear this sentence, no matter how stupid the little shark is, he is 2 meters 13 tall and weighs 285 pounds. Completed the dunk under the foul, got it, and instantly turned passers-by into fans.

After winning 2+1, Totoro immediately got up from the floor and roared, like Kobe, he completely forgot that he should lie on the ground and pretend for a while. The fans who watched his game for the first time silently gave him a bad review.

"Hey! This place is my turf. Even if you don't play at the Staples Center, this is my city. It doesn't matter if you don't accept it. From now on, I will beat you one by one until you are convinced!"

(End of this chapter)