basketball court controller

Chapter 204

After the Warriors resolutely pinched Duncan, the Spurs' strongest firepower was Parker. Basically, neither he nor Arenas could guard the other.

After Zhang Chen made two attacks in the opening game, he also reduced his personal offense. Instead, he let Larry Hughes break through, hit the basket or give the ball to Jamison or Arenas to shoot.

This style of play is very difficult for the Spurs to prevent death, but their overall defense is better than the Warriors imagined. The players on the outside run tirelessly and do not give the Warriors an easy shot. Duncan sits on the inside. Attacking the rim and drawing fouls on him isn't easy either.

After the Spurs Duncan attracted the defense, it was mainly Parker who made a breakthrough, and Steve Smith, Bowen and others waited for a shot from the outside. In fact, the situation is similar to the current situation of the Warriors. Both teams started off scoring poorly.

But the biggest difference between the Warriors and the Spurs is that Zhang Chen hasn't exerted his strength yet, while Duncan is inconvenient to exert strength. Trouble, and it is very difficult for the Spurs to make Zhang Chen have the same trouble.

This is the more flexible advantage of outside players, and it is also the Warriors who have this strength to play like this.

The scores of the two sides are slowly rising like this. The Warriors or Zhang Chen's ability in the last quarter, the Spurs are very clear, but they can't improve the efficiency of offense at all. Intensive defense to the end of the game.

The Spurs are deliberately lowering the tempo, and the Warriors are not in a hurry. Zhang Chen is confident, and when the time comes, the momentum will be like a rainbow. The tempo problem will not have a big impact on their shooting percentage.

"Zhang Chen's style of play is still very cautious. I don't know if the injury still affects him, but the current Spurs can't force him to go all out."

"Duncan feels that he is alone. Under the attack of the Warriors, he still has a double-double, but the Spurs are not optimistic about the score."

"Steve Smith's performance once again proves that the Spurs have a problem with the selection of perimeter players. If it weren't for rookie Tony Parker's performance, then their perimeter would be even more confused."

"Jamison hit the shot again. After Zhang Chen returned, he got more opportunities to shoot easily. Compared with carrying this team, the second leader is a good choice for him."

At the last moment, Duncan almost forcibly fouled the Warriors inside. His free throws were also superb, but he still couldn't lead the Spurs to victory.

86:80, it seems that the score is not much different, but the Spurs didn't get a chance during the whole process.

This time, the voices from the outside world almost felt that the Warriors were stronger. When the Twin Towers were there, the Spurs were not the Warriors' opponents, let alone their lineup is not complete now.

But in the second game, the Warriors allowed the opponent to pull back a game 85:88.

Sometimes even double-teaming is useless for powerful players. Duncan went crazy and dominated the inside. When the Warriors can only be a shooting team, the success rate of success will not be guaranteed.

If David Robinson is not injured and can maintain his level this season, the Warriors are really in trouble. The most difficult thing for them to defend is the kind of insider who can play hard at the basket and have the ability to shoot mid-range. The Spurs have two. It's not because of the weakness of the outside line. It's very difficult for the Warriors to pass the Spurs. Now that Tony Parker is playing very well, the Warriors still have to lament their luck.

After losing the second game, the Warriors also found that there were still some problems with Duncan's defense. Duncan's shooting range was relatively long, and Dampier's movement was too slow. No, so the Warriors decided to make a change and let the more flexible Murphy start. Even if they couldn't see Duncan, at least Duncan didn't dare to follow out during the offense, and Murphy could shoot outside.

After using Murphy in the third game, the offensive efficiency of the Warriors has indeed improved, but when it comes to defense, they are flanking anyway. There is no big difference between Murphy and Dampier. After all, Duncan is not O'Neal, and his strength is not so terrifying. .

Another thing that is very beneficial to the Warriors is that because Duncan's big man fights so hard under the double attack, it consumes a lot of his physical strength.

At the last moment, the opponent's physical strength was obviously affected, and judging from the situation, this problem will always trouble Duncan, and the Warriors at the fifth position, Dampier, Murphy, and Foyle, there is no problem with taking turns to consume him.

At 99:89, the Warriors took the lead.

The difference between the Warriors and last season's playoffs is that they did not use Zhang Chen's ability to win, but relied on defense to prevent the Spurs from scoring easily.

The poor Spurs made many adjustments this season to deal with Zhang Chen. In the end, they found that Zhang Chen didn't need to carry the team on his shoulders to win the Warriors. This feeling was broken.

If it is difficult to make a breakthrough on offense, the Spurs put all their energy on defense. I have to say that the Spurs' defense is very good. If it is not reflected in the data, it will make you uncomfortable.

The players of the Warriors were all affected, but in the end, Zhang Chen stood up and settled the game in the last 3 minutes. The Warriors played another game at 89:85.

Duncan averaged almost five blocks per game. He was very desperate, but he was also powerless. By the fifth game, fatigue was already evident on Duncan. The Warriors won 103:87, ending the second round of competition.

On the other hand, the Kings and the Lakers are fighting fiercely. You have one game and you have one game and you have one game and you have one game. The strength of the starting lineups of the two sides is really similar. It should be said that the Kings may be stronger, but Peja It was not until the playoffs were a little sluggish that the main lineups of both sides stood on the same starting line.

As for the substitutes, the Lakers have more players, and the Kings have stronger offensive power, which is about the same.

The key is the key ball ability of the two teams. The Lakers are a little bit better. Kobe, O'Neal, Fisher, and Horry are all big hearts, so the Lakers still won the final victory.

In fact, as far as the Warriors are concerned, they prefer to play the Lakers. For the Kings, accidents are prone to happen.

The Lakers are a team with obvious advantages and disadvantages. O'Neal's dominance on the inside, Kobe's impact on the outside, and the rest are only the occasional flashes of role players. Their rotation is not very strong, so the main lineup should be Play for a longer period of time.

In this way, a team that seems to have a lot of problems can achieve such a record because O'Neal and Kobe are too strong. From offense to defense to organization, the two of them almost did all the work of the team, and the others only need to cooperate with them. Just the rhythm.

In terms of strength on paper, the Lakers are better than the Warriors except for the center position. After they put Robert Horry in the starting lineup, the rotation lineup is not as good as the Warriors.

There may be some so-called playoff experience, but it's not clear whether too much of this is good or bad.

But the Lakers are still the Warriors' most difficult opponent, and this is the second time they meet in the Western Conference Finals.

Many people are very concerned about Zhang Chen's true strength after his comeback. Those opponents before him have no way to test it out. Now facing Kobe, everything will be revealed.

There is also the shark hacking tactic. Before the game even started, O’Neal spoke out, telling the Warriors to hack. In this playoffs, his free throw percentage is a new high in his career. The team that tried to hack him before all failed. , I don’t know if I practiced hard behind my back.

Facing the confident O'Neal, Zhang Chen just responded lightly, "Now O'Neal doesn't need to be cut at all."

The implication is that O'Neal is no longer good, which is actually disgusting the opponent, but if O'Neal really performs poorly in this series, he will definitely confirm this casual remark.

But even without these, O'Neal and Kobe couldn't wait to swallow each other when they met the team led by Zhang Chen.

Due to the mediocre performance of the Lakers in the regular season, the Warriors have the home court advantage. Unexpectedly, they can always get the home court advantage even though they are ranked second this season, which makes Zhang Chen feel like a rainbow appears after the rain.

It is very comfortable to play the game amidst countless cheers.

This also shows the changes in the status of the two teams, which are also affected by injuries. The Warriors' record is better than the opponent's, which shows that the Warriors' growth rate is higher than that of the Lakers.

But the most important thing is the playoff contest. Both sides are fully prepared.

At the beginning of the game, the Warriors didn't even mean to be polite, they just flanked O'Neal, Dampier stood behind the opponent, and Larry Hughes or Jamison took the opportunity to go up and get the ball or close the siege.

Zhang Chen did not participate in the flanking of O'Neal because he wanted to mark Kobe all over the court.

Other teams can't guard Kobe after pinching O'Neal, and they can't look down on O'Neal if they guard Kobe, because neither of them can be solved by one defensive player, but there are exceptions, Zhang Chen is Kobe's exception, keep an eye on Kobe , he can do it alone.

The entire league can do this, and only the Warriors can meet the Lakers in the Western Conference playoffs.

As if Dampier can carry O'Neal a little bit inside, the Warriors can be said to be the nemesis of the Lakers. Last season, they did not have a player at the No. [-] position to keep up with Fisher, but now Arenas is not bad. There is also an advantage, and he also has excellent shooting skills.

In the first round of the Lakers offense, it was Fox who got the shot. Their fourth or fifth point missed the ball. Arenas dribbled the ball and handed it to Zhang Chen after halftime. The Warriors are different from the Lakers. Their ball doesn't need to go through the inside hands.

"Have you fully recovered?"

"I don't know, but there must be no problem with you."

(End of this chapter)