On June 10, the third game of the NBA Finals between the Lakers and the Bulls was held in Chicago. The home court shared by the Ice Hockey League's Chicago Blackhawks and the NBA's Chicago Bulls was filled with 20,000 spectators.
The Chicago Bulls are definitely the most famous NBA team in the world.
Because "Flying Man" Michael Jordan - the greatest player in NBA history - has long been fixed in every fan's mind with his nimble and domineering figure wearing the Bulls' No. 23 jersey.
Now, Lu Yu has become a symbol of Chicago. Every fan likes Lu Yu, and Lu Yu gradually begins to like the city of Chicago.
Young fans all want to be Lu Yu.
Many people bought Lu Yu’s equipment, Lu Yu’s basketball shoes, and Lu Yu’s jersey.
In this city, Chinese people have gradually begun to be respected by local white and black Americans. Even local gangs rarely "patronize" shops run by local Chinese.
This Chinese kid who just entered the league has become a hero in this city. Although the Bulls have lost two games, for Chicagoans, if they can play until now, even if they lose four games in a row, the Bulls will be the best this season.
They were also very satisfied with the results.
However, the entire Chicago fans still hope that the Bulls can protect their home court as Lu Yu said. They all hope that Lu Yu can lead the Iron-blooded Bulls in the next game and extinguish the arrogance of the Zijin team in Chicago.
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The entire Bulls team has been practicing tactics these two days.
After listening to the points Lu Yu summarized, Cartwright felt greatly inspired. In fact, these do not seem to be any secrets in the NBA coaching circle. Every coach seems to know a few points, but no one has summarized all the points.
At the same time, no one has tried these methods to see how effective they would be if used at the same time.
Because many teams do not meet the conditions.
For example, lineup depth. If many teams in the league had lineup depth, they would have reached the finals long ago. Why bother working so hard for the No. 1 pick?
Is it necessary for this kind of team to study tactics for O'Neal?
In other words, the imaginary enemy of many teams is not the Lakers at all, and their goal is not the championship or even the finals. As long as they can enter the playoffs, many teams are already satisfied.
Even the Bulls, at the beginning of the season, didn't expect to reach the finals.
Even before the start of the playoffs, they did not regard a certain Western Conference team as their imaginary enemy. It was not until the Bulls confirmed that they could advance to the finals that Cartwright temporarily studied the Kings' tactics.
It turned out that the research was wrong, and it was the Lakers who entered the finals.
Under this circumstance, the Bulls' ability to reach overtime in G2 with the Lakers was beyond the imagination of many people.
For another example, the run-and-gun tactic is always dominated by big men in the league. There are 29 teams in the entire league. How many teams use run-and-gun tactics?
If you try to tire out O'Neal by increasing the speed, you may collapse first before O'Neal does.
What's more, this is a temporary tactic that the team has not run into in the regular season.
So Cartwright's idea is to speed up as much as possible without running and gunning, but he can't let O'Neal idle either.
Cartwright's greatest hope is Lu Yu.
Lu Yu is different from other players. Like Iverson last year, after he knew that the team could not beat the Lakers, he took crazy action and exposed his image of a lone hero to the fans.
Even if he lost, he still won applause.
Lu Yu doesn't. No matter what his style of play is, he will play reasonably regardless of the direction of the game.
Lu Hei said that he can only shoot mid-range shots, never hit the basket, and can't take three-point shots. That's because the Lakers' defensive strategy is to block these two places. Lu Yu shoots from these two places, and his shooting percentage is
It will just plummet.
Therefore, Lu Yu will always play the game in the right way.
Whether he is passing the ball to organize teammates or scoring goals himself, he will always choose the best plan. This is something that many NBA stars do not have. Cartwright has only seen it in two people in so many years.
One is Jordan and the other is Olajuwon.
But in the past two years, in order to promote stars, the league has launched many players who "even if there are thousands of people, I will go", such as Allen Iverson who crazily attacked the inside, such as Kobe who had to shoot more as his shooting percentage dropped, such as the white horse and silver gun.
Tracy McGrady, another example... Garnett, who doesn't feel comfortable without beating his chest.
According to Garnett's hard-on-the-outside, soft-on-the-back style of play, Cartwright felt that he would never win a championship in his life.
In addition to giving suggestions on the defensive end, Lu Yu also expressed some thoughts on the offensive end after these two games.
"The Lakers' defense is to expand outward and move inward. Expanding outward prevents us from shooting three-pointers, and moving inward means that we can't hit their inside line. It can also help O'Neal save energy."
"Then in the next game, we will play a pick-and-roll. The purpose of the pick-and-roll is not to allow me to miss Kobe's defense, but to allow me to attack the inside more easily."
After Lu Yu finished speaking, he suddenly remembered that Lu Hei on the Internet said that he never attacked the inside.
Let me show you the g3 game.
"Of course, the purpose of my attack on the inside was not to get O'Neal to give me a hot pot."
Lu Yu glanced at the teammates around him, and they all laughed: "Our team has no shortage of shooters. Ron, Quentin, you should be ready to catch the ball. As long as they shrink, you can make bold shots outside."
, if the shot goes in, it’s up to you, if it doesn’t, it’s up to you.”
Cartwright also said this in the last game.
"What if they don't shrink?" Cartwright asked.
"Then it all depends on Brad's high-post shots. As long as Brad makes a few high-post shots, O'Neal won't dare to stay in the paint. He's not in the penalty area. I'll keep attacking the basket until he can't.
Dare to go out and other people have to recycle Brad to go to the rotation."
Cartwright gets it.
This tactic is actually very simple, so simple that many teams can copy it.
But sometimes I think it's complicated, but in fact simpler tactics are more effective.
Of course, we won’t know until we get to the court whether it has any effect.
At least, everyone has an idea.
In the past, the team's style of play was that Lu Yu was the core of the offense, and he broke through and distributed the ball through singles, or other players' zip tactics, various reverse cuts, and pick-and-rolls were also useful, which was just one of their tactics.
But Lu Yu simplified these. The team specializes in pick-and-rolls, and other tactics are executed after the pick-and-roll.
Whether it's a reverse cut or a zipper, they are all a continuation of the pick-and-roll tactics.
The purpose of the pick-and-roll is also very simple. One is to break the opponent's flanking attack, and the other is to make it easier for Lu Yu to cut in.
Different from the Jazz's pick-and-roll for the sake of pick-and-roll, Lu Yu's pick-and-roll is just to pave the way for other tactics.
This tactic is not advanced. The only difficulty lies in the processing ability of the ball-holding core. If Lu Yu does not handle it well enough, or other players are not in good condition, the ball that should be made cannot be made, and it will be useless.
No matter how clear the tactical layout is, when it comes to the court, the player's state is the key to determining victory or defeat.
During training in the morning, everyone was in good condition, especially Richardson. He could shoot no matter how hard he shot. Lu Yu wanted to advise him to stop shooting and not finish all the shots for the night.
Richardson did not perform well in the first two games, and he was also very depressed. Logically speaking, he is the one who should stand up when the team is in trouble. He is so much higher than Fisher, but... the first game
I was really fooled. I can only say that I lost the second game due to luck.
Richardson decided that he must help Lu Yu win this game.
Nowadays, so many people on the Internet are slandering Lu Yu, and he blames himself because sometimes the opportunity clearly comes up, but he doesn't make the shot, but the fans will only blame Lu Yu for passing the ball blindly.
Artest also feels that he should be tougher. He believes that as long as he shows up, Lu Yu will definitely pass the ball to him. He has been teammates with Lu Yu for a long time, and he trusts Lu Yu unconditionally.
Miller is more willing to help Lu Yu pick and roll. When he is defending, he has to fight with O'Neal in the paint. When he is attacking, he has to compete with O'Neal. Now his task is much lighter. He only needs to shoot the ball passed by Lu Yu
Just go forward, score points, and help the team, so why not do it.
When the players came on the field, Lu Yu received cheers from the fans. This is Lu Yu's home court and he is the master of this city.
As CCTV broadcast the game, Zhang Weiping said: "To be honest, the fan atmosphere in Chicago is really good. Lu Yu is really popular here. He went from a rookie to a team leader in just one season.
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Sun Yiping said: "It can only be said that Lu Yu conquered the Chicago fans with his performance in one season. It is true that Lu Yu is a rookie, but at the same time, he is also one of the best players in the league."
Zhang Weiping lamented: "Last year, we never thought that such an NBA-level superstar would appear among Chinese players. Now I am looking forward to this summer's World Championships."
In this summer's World Championships, the Chinese men's basketball team includes Lu Yu, Yao Ming, Wang Zhizhi, Battelle, Yi Jianlian, Zhu Fangyu, Wang Shipeng, Du Feng... Such a team can play for at least ten years.
Zhang Weiping doesn't know what position Lu Yu can take the Chinese men's basketball team to.
When Kobe came on the court, he was booed by the fans.
Because it was Kobe's defense in these games that made Lu Yu feel so uncomfortable, but for Kobe, the louder the boos, the more it means that he has done what he should do in these games.
It would be weird if Bulls fans applauded and cheered for Kobe.
Is it possible that when the Bulls won the championship, they had to wait for Kobe to arrive before opening the banquet?
During the warm-up, Lu Yu threw a few balls to test the feel, and the hit rate was good. He knew that if the hit rate was very good that day, it meant that the feel bonus of the Flame Breathing Method played a certain role.
The addition of the Flame Breathing Technique to the feel is not unlimited.
Lu Yu estimated that he had a percentage. If the hand feeling was not good that day, it meant that the base was low. When the base was low, no matter how high the bonus percentage was, it would be useless.
The Lakers' starting lineup remains unchanged: Fisher, Kobe, Fox, Walker and O'Neal.
The Bulls made two adjustments in their first two games.
Oakley was put into the starting lineup for the first time, and Chandler was put into the starting lineup for the second time.
Today is the third game, and it’s Fezer!
The reason why Cartwright made such an adjustment is to increase the offensive speed. Feizer is responsible for helping Miller on the defensive end. On the offensive end, he has a good shot. In addition to Miller, Lu Yu also
There is the choice point Feizer.
The second reason is that Cartwright is planning to kill the shark from the very beginning!
Miller's point is very important. Whether the opponent will shrink the defense depends on Miller's shooting, so there must be no problem. In this way, the task of fouling falls on the power forward.
As long as O'Neal wants to beat Miller, the power forward will just foul wildly.
There are two substitute power forwards off the court, and they are both full of fouls. If you choose from other substitute players, as long as they can step up, all of them will step up.
If O'Neal makes a free throw, he will admit it. If he misses, the Bulls will make a profit. Not only can they keep Miller, but they can also gain an advantage by relying on the shark-cutting tactic.
And this shark-killing operation is not a certain section or a certain period of time, it is an entire event!
Of course, this shark attack is not like Popovich's attack without the ball, which is when the score is close, relying on the shark attack to recover the score or maintain the lead.
Cartwright's shark attack is when O'Neal is in a position where he can force a score, or a position where Miller is prone to fouling, and the power forward commits an early foul.
O'Neal won the ball with a jump ball and the game started.
Kobe attacked with the ball, and immediately rushed Lu Yu. Lu Yu followed and retreated. He originally thought that Kobe would stop at this time and pass to O'Neal in the low post. However, Kobe did not pause at all and went directly to the basket.
Kailu Yu scored a layup.
0 to 2
Lu Yu glanced at Kobe in surprise.
In fact, during this period, not only Lu Yu was criticized by Lu, but Kobe was also criticized by Kobe, saying that he was just a second-rate player who relied on O'Neal to win the championship. The ok combination only had O and K, which was a joke.
Kobe wanted to prove himself.
He wants to tell everyone that he can win the game and that he is the right choice for the Lakers.
But the Lakers are still O'Neal's Lakers. Not only the fans, but also the management, head coach, and teammates all think that O'Neal is the boss of the team.
Kobe can only vent his emotions on the court.
So as long as there is a chance to play hard, he will directly choose to score. Of course, he is not a unclear player. He knows that the game must be won, otherwise everything he does will become the reason for losing.
He won't fight like this all the time. Occasionally showing his fangs to vent his emotions is what he can and wants to do.
Lu Yu didn't pay attention, but was a little bit strange.
The Zen master in the audience frowned inadvertently.
This small episode did not affect the progress of the game. Soon Master's brows frowned even more because he was shocked to find that it only took the Bulls just over 9 seconds from the start of the serve to the end of the attack.
9 seconds!
What are the Bulls going to do?
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