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

Chapter 268: A more suitable partner than this cauliflower snake!
Adelman certainly has more options.

There are too many superstars in the Western Conference, and each one can turn the tide in his own team.

But when it came to a critical moment, Adelman still trusted his disciples.

No matter how flawed Lu Yuanzhi's skills are, he never gives up when fighting tough battles and becomes the key player at critical moments every time.

This point also made Adelman choose to replace Lu Yuanzhi without hesitation.

After Lu Yuanzhi was replaced, the Western team's lineup was O'Neal, Garnett, Lu Yuanzhi, Kobe and Payton. This should be the Western team's strongest defensive lineup.

Facing the Eastern team's crazy pursuit of points, Adelman's choice was to play it safe and start with defense.

This is very different from Adelman's approach in the Kings, but it is also easy to understand. The Kings are strong in offense and weak in defense. No matter how hard you strengthen the defense, you cannot really lock down the opponent's offense. Then you might as well choose to strengthen the offense and use counterattack to defeat the opponent. .

Choose the most suitable lineup based on the players at hand.

The Eastern team's players on the court are Ben Wallace, Tracy McGrady, Jordan, Carter and Iverson. To put it bluntly, the senior and four juniors may have exaggerated Ben's height!

However, in this lineup, except for Ben, everyone's offensive power is ridiculously strong, and there is no need for any point guard. Whoever gets the ball will play in isolation. Wait until the isolation creates space before considering whether to pass the ball or not. .

Really - Xia Ji eight dozen!

But this kind of unreasonable lineup feels good, and chasing points is really fast!

But the East's good days are coming to an end.

Iverson dribbled to the frontcourt, and Payton quickly pounced on him, constantly confronting Iverson with his strong body, trying to break the basketball from Iverson's hand.

Payton's defensive skills have become more adept as he grows older, but time has restricted his legs. As a 68-year-old veteran born in 35, Payton's speed inevitably began to decline.

After Iverson fought hard against Payton, he accelerated and left the old Payton behind, but a tall figure immediately appeared in front of him.

Garnett!
Garnett opened his long arms to block Iverson's path, and Payton, who had just passed behind, also adjusted his center of gravity to catch up.

You can't hesitate any longer, you will be double-teamed the next moment!
As a last resort, Iverson had no choice but to pass the ball to McGrady, who was missed by Garnett, but Lu Yuanzhi immediately appeared in front of McGrady to defend.

McGrady was not willing to gnaw on what he considered the hardest bone with the eyes of the whole world, so he quickly gave the ball to his cousin Carter, whom Lu Yuanzhi missed.

Carter was about to take a shot from outside the three-point line, but Kobe quickly came over to defend.

Carter was reasonable in his game. Seeing that his opportunity was not good, he was about to pass to Jordan, who was free, but found that Garnett had made up the defense again.

Looking up again, his own players were being targeted one-on-one again.

What a set of rotations!
Top defender, top defensive awareness!

The entire field was emptied, leaving only Ben with no offensive ability.

On the other hand, O'Neal, Ben's defender, stayed at the basket and did not run around with Ben, who had no offensive power.

Carter returned the ball to Iverson. Now it seems that only Iverson has a greater matchup advantage. He can use his speed advantage to quickly break through Payton.

Big Ben also came up to provide a screen for Iverson. The quality of the screen was very good, but the experienced Payton had already read the Eastern team's offense and used his strong body to forcefully grab it in front of Big Ben.

Iverson didn't care about Payton's defense at all, forced his speed, shook off Payton's defense in one step, and rushed directly to the basket.

But entering the penalty area, he found that it was still difficult to attack the basket.

There was a ferocious beast standing under the basket. Shark O'Neal opened his arms and intercepted Iverson.

The memory of the lost Finals began to attack Iverson.

That's it, every time you rush in, you will encounter O'Neal's interception.On the other side, Lu Yuanzhi is also watching eagerly, ready to come over at any time and give Iverson a nail-biting hat.

Can you still have fun!
Fortunately, the current teammates are no longer the 76ers' stretch teammates who can't even shoot three-pointers. Iverson passes the ball to the outside.

The ball was back in McGrady's hands again.

But there is not much time left to attack.

McGrady had no choice but to jump up and pull up.

Ganba is praised by many people as being magical, as if it has a magical power that can pin the opponent to the spot.

In fact, this is because McGrady's breakthrough threat is too great and the first step is too quick, which makes the defender throw a trap. When McGrady makes the fall step, the first defensive choice he makes is to prevent breakthroughs and focus on the back, so when he sees After McGrady took off quickly, he had no time to adjust his center of gravity to block the shot.

But now, facing McGrady who could only shoot, Garnett jumped up and blocked the shot without hesitation.

McGrady had no choice but to raise the angle and arc of his shot to avoid Garnett's defense.

The ball left McGrady's hand and flew towards the basket in an arc that was obviously more beautiful than McGrady's usual cannonball shots, but it hit the neck of the basket with a clang.

I was disturbed!
McGrady cursed secretly and retreated quickly.

Although the Western team has a big man like O'Neal and an old man like Payton, Kobe, Lu Yuanzhi and Garnett are still very fast in counterattacking.

Especially Garnett and Lu Yuanzhi, two tall men who can run, jump and shoot, are far more threatening in counterattacks than most players.

However, after Payton received O'Neal's pass, he took the ball and pushed it forward.

We can play fast, but there is no need to play as fast as the Eastern team.

We have O'Neal, a powerful weapon in positional warfare, so playing steadily is the right way to go.

O'Neal sat down to the basket, and Ben felt great pressure.

It is said that Big Ben is good at defense, and he defended O'Neal in the 03-04 Finals.

Bullshit!

He averaged 26.6 points per game, took 16.8 shots, made 10.6 hits, and hit 63.1%. If his free throw shooting rate of 49.1% hadn't been a hindrance, O'Neal would have averaged at least 30+ per game.

Is this called guarding?

The 76ers and Nets, who failed to guard O'Neal, both "limited" O'Neal's shooting percentages to 57.3% and 59.5%.

Billups himself said that in the finals, they just caught Kobe without FMVP and were eager to perform in the finals. They let O'Neal play in singles and double-teamed Kobe, so that Kobe, who shot only 38.1% from the field, wasted 22.6 points per game. opportunities to take action.

Perhaps, this is why Black Mamba Kobe knows to double-team players in contract years and let go of other players, because he is the biggest victim of this tactic!

Therefore, there was nothing that Ben could do against O'Neal. He could only helplessly support O'Neal and wait for the support of his teammates.

The Eastern team had no choice but to double-team O'Neal, but O'Neal did not make a strong move at this time and threw the ball to Lu Yuanzhi outside the three-point line.

"brush!"

Lu Yuanzhi made a move and hit his sixth three-pointer of the game.

O'Neal looked at Lu Yuanzhi thoughtfully. This Kings player with excellent defense and accurate perimeter defense seemed to be a good partner with me.

I heard he is in a contract year?
O'Neal glanced at Kobe, who had been wandering half a distance from the basket. Hey, it seems that he is more suitable to partner with me than this cauliflower snake!
(End of this chapter)