NBA: I just want to play soy sauce, you let me win the championship

Chapter 126 I fell asleep and someone handed me a pillow

In this offense, there are only Kobe and O'Neal on the strong side, Horry is standing outside the three-point line at the top of the arc, and Hunter and Brian Shaw are on the weak side.

Seeing this position, the entire Kings team became highly nervous.

This is the Lakers' favorite setup for the triangle offense.

On the strong side, O'Neal and Kobe have extremely strong one-on-one abilities, maximizing local attack power.

"Chris, back up!" Lu Yuanzhi didn't want to see O'Neal's singles chance, so he quickly called Weber to back up and provide Divac with assistance.

After shouting, Lu Yuanzhi stood between Horry and Brian Shaw. On the other side, Bibby also stood between Brian Shaw and Hunter.

If Kobe chooses to pass the ball to Horry, Lu Yuanzhi can quickly defend, and Bibby will rotate to Brian Shaw. When the ball finds Hunter in the corner, Webb can also make up for it in time. Be on guard.

This set of defensive rotations, the Kings have practiced many times before, just to ensure that O'Neal cannot be given a single chance.

Kobe easily passed the ball to O'Neal, and Webb immediately double-teamed him.

But O'Neal is not in any hurry to attack. What is he doing?
O'Neal is waiting!
He is waiting for "defense for 3 seconds"!
Yes, the NBA's unique rules. A simple description is that the defender cannot leave the player he is guarding and enter the paint area for more than three seconds.

It is precisely because of this rule that many insiders who are dominant in FIBA ​​no longer have such a strong dominance in the NBA, because they can no longer "squat" inside.

Two seconds later, Webber had to leave the inside, leave O'Neal, and return to the free throw line, and O'Neal also moved at this time.

O'Neal slammed into Divac with a heavy back impact, and then took advantage of Divac's rebound and quickly returned to the defense, turned one and a half into the basket, and dunked directly.

Concise and clear, no sloppiness at all!
Weber on the outside was just about to come back to help defend, but saw that O'Neal had already taken a dominant step and retreated to his backcourt.

The first quarter lasted more than 7 minutes, and O'Neal once again wreaked havoc in the paint.

Is this the third stage of the BOSS battle?

Contrary to everyone's expectations of the Kings, the Lakers actually opened up the situation from the inside.

The Kings thought that after the Lakers were double-teamed on the inside, Kobe Bryant on the outside would open the situation, so they specially replaced Lu Yuanzhi in advance to form a combination of Lu Yuanzhi + Christie, hoping to strangle Kobe on the outside.

But never expected that the Lakers would open up the situation from the inside.

Things are developing in an uncontrollable direction.

After the Lakers defended the next Kings attack, they once again fell into the same triangle offensive position. Kobe continued to cooperate with O'Neal from a 45-degree angle on the strong side.

This time, Webber double-teamed more resolutely, and O'Neal returned the ball to Kobe.

Kobe sped up and took Christie to the middle.

Originally, when Kobe Bryant broke through, Lu Yuanzhi was going to step forward to help defend, but the current situation is that O'Neal is holding down Divac and Webber alone, Christie is defending Kobe, and the remaining Kings Lu Yuanzhi and Bibby are defending the Lakers. The team's three outsiders.

If Lu Yuanzhi helps defend Kobe at this time, all the rotations of the Kings will not be executed, and there will inevitably be huge vacancies for the Lakers' role players.

Even if the Kings let a certain Laker take an outside shot before, it was actually within a controllable range. Although I let you take a shot, if you want to slowly adjust and aim slowly, you will definitely be targeted by the defender again.

Therefore, no matter whether it is the previous Fisher or Fox, their shots seem to be open, but in fact they all need to make quick shots.

But now, if Lu Yuanzhi lets go of Horry, who he is marking, then Bibby will have to guard three of them by himself!

No matter what, there will be a Laker player who shoots as easily as in practice.

That is to send points!

Lu Yuanzhi only took one step towards Kobe, interfered for a while, and then stepped back.

But Kobe didn't care about Lu Yuanzhi's interference at all. After bringing Christie to the front, he made a fake shot and swayed Christie, then took a step up and down, and easily scored the ball.

The Lakers scored 4 points in a row!
15: 18.

The Kings still led the score, but everyone felt that the situation took a turn for the worse and was a little out of control.

Adelman called a timeout and adjusted his three-and-two defense position.

The Kings have many international players and everyone is very familiar with zone defense. After Adelman came up with the idea of ​​zone defense to restrict O'Neal during the regular season, he often practiced with the team.

Divac and Webber are offline, while Lu Yuanzhi, Bibby and Christie are online.

Back from the timeout, the Lakers continued to play the old routine, but the Kings' defense has undergone tremendous changes.

Lu Yuanzhi became the double-teamer.

Lu Yuanzhi's double-teaming is of course better than Weber's double-teaming.

Lu Yuanzhi is more flexible and moves faster. Not only can he double-team O'Neal, but he can also defend Christie on the same side.

The Kings put Christie and Lu Yuanzhi, the strongest defenders, on the strong side in order to limit the strong-side offensive cooperation between O'Neal and Kobe.

Lu Yuanzhi's defensive experience is still slightly lacking, but for things like defense, momentum can sometimes make up for technical shortcomings.

Lu Yuanzhi raised his long arms and rushed towards O'Neal who was holding the ball.

His assist defense was different from Weber's, choosing to double-team O'Neal from the outside. O'Neal looked at the situation in front of him and quickly handed the ball back to Kobe.

After Kobe tried to break through and attracted Lu Yuanzhi to help defend, he quickly passed the ball to Horry. After one pass from the outside, it came to Brian Shaw.

Brian Shaw made a three-pointer under the interference of Bibby.

18: 18!

The Lakers played a 7:0 spurt to tie the score.

On the coaching bench of the Kings, Adelman nodded in satisfaction when he saw that the role players of the Lakers started to shoot again.

It's okay, even if role players occasionally score a few three-pointers, what does it matter?

Their scoring is always unreliable.

As long as O'Neal and Kobe are not allowed to play consecutive singles, this game will be controllable.

Where Adelman didn't notice, Phil Jackson also nodded with satisfaction.

very good!
The Kings invested a lot of force to prevent O'Neal and Kobe from taking shots, and let the Lakers' role players shoot, which is exactly what Phil Jackson wanted.

What he has been worried about before is that if the Lakers rely on O'Neal and Kobe to open up the situation from the beginning, how much energy will the "OK" combination have to continue to attack in the final stage?
It's very good now. The Kings limit the "OK" combination to take shots, allowing role players to have more chances to take shots. As long as the score is not widened, O'Neal and Kobe, who are full of energy, will take over the game at the critical moment.

Adelman directly sent me the effect I was pursuing so hard?

And this good thing?
Phil Jackson even suspected that Adelman had lost his mind and formulated such a defensive strategy!
I was really dozed off and someone gave me a pillow, so comfortable!

(End of this chapter)