Chapter 136: The Tieza of the Peak Showdown Appears
() On the defensive end, the Lakers chose to shrink their defense according to Phil Jackson's arrangement. Looking at the height of the Lakers players, the shortest Kobe Bryant is 198 centimeters. In addition to Kobe, Adrian is 203 centimeters tall.
Centimeters, Lamar Odom is 208 centimeters tall, Ronny Turiaf is 208 centimeters tall, and Andrew Bynum is 213 centimeters tall. A seven-foot tall man plus two tall men close to seven feet will instantly make the Lakers taller.
The penalty area is crowded. Anyone who dares to break through in such a situation is simply making himself uncomfortable.
However, while the inside defense is solid, the Lakers' outside defense has problems. Three big men who are seven feet or close to seven feet are definitely not as flexible as small people in terms of footwork. This leaves the Lakers with more space for outside shooting for the Suns.
It becomes even more so. Only Adrian and Kobe Bryant are left guarding the perimeter, which will leave a lot of open three-point opportunities for the Suns.
Adrian can no longer maintain man-to-man defense against a certain person. If there is an opportunity for a three-pointer on the outside, Adrian will immediately pounce on it and interfere with it with all his strength.
Kobe Bryant was still guarding Steve Nash. When Steve Nash suddenly passed the ball to Marion, although he knew that James Jones also had a strong three-point ability, he could only choose to pass to Marion.
Pounced. But after all, he hesitated. This hesitation left Marion with enough space to shoot.
Marion's shooting posture was very weird and ugly. When he jumped up, his feet were inward and his hands shook in front of his chest. The basketball flew out. This shooting posture looks very easy to be defeated because of its low starting point.
Cover. But in fact, because the shot is very sudden, it is difficult for people to catch the shooting rhythm. Even whether there is a shooting rhythm is a question. Therefore, there are very few opportunities to block Marion, and Adrian because
Hesitating and taking a step too late, naturally there was no way to interfere with Marion's shooting.
Marion shook the basketball weirdly. Although the arc of the basketball was flat and straight, coupled with his weird movements, it looked ugly. But the ugly movements would become beautiful because of the results. At least, Marion's
The ugly action will not change how pleasant the crisp squeaking sound is to the ears of Suns fans and how harsh it is to Adrian's ears.
"What were you hesitating just now!" Kobe roared at Adrian when the Suns were retreating, with anger brewing in his eyes that everyone could see: "What are you hesitating about, what are you worried about? If he passes the ball
I will cover up James Jones for you, do you think I will not be able to cover up enough? You just need to guard against him, do you understand?".
A surge of anger rose in Adrian's heart, but he quickly suppressed his anger. Kobe was not wrong. He did have to bear a large part of the responsibility for the ball just now, and it was precisely because of his compensation.
The lack of timely defense gave Marion the chance to take action calmly. Kobe's accusation was not wrong.
What was wrong was his hesitation just now.
So he nodded, indicating that he understood, and then ran to the baseline to catch the baseline ball from Turiaf. But although he didn't say it, Adrian was inevitably a little angry in his heart.
D'Antoni gently waved his arm on the sidelines. He thought that the Lakers would use compressed defense to deal with his two-point guard lineup. But so what? The biggest disadvantage of contracted defense is the strength of defense against three-pointers.
It will inevitably decline. Once the team's three-pointers are able to shoot away, then the shrinking defense will not be broken. Even if the coach strictly orders it, those players will involuntarily defend it. As long as the team's defense is out, the shrinking defense will be broken.
, it was time for the dual point guards to show off their power again.
At this time, he happened to see Kobe roaring loudly at Adrian again, and he suddenly smiled in his heart.
"Sure enough, with two outsiders on the same court, especially two All-Stars, how could there not be conflicts over ball rights? Especially one of them is a guy like Kobe. Their previous cooperation was seamless, but the conflicts did not break out, there was no
People just noticed." D'Antoni's heart moved, and he suddenly felt that this could make a big fuss. He immediately asked the assistant coach to arrange it, and when Steve Nash walked to the sidelines, he asked the assistant coach to tell Steve-
Nash, ask him to attack the side of Adrian's defense more often. At the same time, instruct the assistant coach to ask Nash to tell James Jones.
After doing all this, D'Antoni returned to his position proudly, staring at the court with a smile: "Since you have already had a conflict, let me make your conflict more intense.
"
This is already considered an off-the-table move. If they face only ordinary teams, even if the game is difficult, D'Antoni will not have such thoughts. But the Lakers... Los Angeles has vaguely shown signs of rising this year.
The Lakers are the third largest enemy of the Phoenix Suns in the West, after the Spurs and Mavericks. The reason for this situation is, in the final analysis, that Adrian came to the Lakers.
Adrian was holding the ball in the top arc and observing the audience. James Jones got entangled as always, but this time, James Jones, who had received D'Antoni's instruction, was no longer silent, but said: "Hey kid,
How long do you have to wait? Do you dare..."
Before James Jones finished speaking, Adrian suddenly moved and with a flick of his hand, the basketball passed through James Jones's defense and fell into the hands of Turiaf. Turiaf turned around and hit the ball straight like a bow.
He rushed to the basket, pressed Marion hard and stuffed the basketball into the basket.
After clapped his hands with Turiaf who was running back, Adrian slowly backed away and asked James Jones who was choked: "I'm sorry, what did you just say to me?"
James Jones opened his mouth, but in the end he said nothing and ran toward the frontcourt dully.
Looking back again, Adrian's defense this time seems much more decisive. No matter who receives the ball, Adrian will pounce on it immediately. If the opponent passes the ball, Kobe will immediately cover it up. The two take turns.
Under the change of positions, the two of them even passed the ball back and forth between several Suns players on guard, but they could never find a suitable shot. In the end, Steve Nash saw that there was not much time, so he passed the ball back and forth.
Being defended for 24 seconds, he could only choose to force a breakthrough and throw. The basketball, which was still rising, was slapped off the court by Lamar Odom, and Steve Nash was also slapped by Lamar.
When he landed, he staggered and fell directly to the ground.
However, as a thin point guard, Nash has long been accustomed to this kind of thing. He did enough self-protection when he fell, but he did not suffer any damage.
D'Antoni is still sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai. Although the Suns were almost blocked for 24 seconds, D'Antoni believes that this kind of intensity of defense cannot last long, because such intensity of defense is difficult for two players responsible for defending the perimeter.
The physical strength of Derian and Kobe will be a huge test. He does not believe that the Lakers will continue like this unless the Lakers hope that the two men will completely lose their combat effectiveness in the second half.
Sure enough, after a while, the Lakers chose to make a substitution. Adrian was replaced, but the person he replaced was... Trevor Ariza.
After the All-Star Game, the Lakers conducted a minor repair trade, using Chris Mihm, an inside player who had almost no playing time, and Smarsh Parker to trade Trevor Ariza with the Magic. This
Adrian's UCLA alumnus and senior just passed the Lakers' physical examination one day ago. This game will be his first game with the Lakers.
Ariza himself has no intention of resisting coming to the Los Angeles Lakers. After all, Los Angeles is a big city, and he also went to college in Los Angeles. And there are also his alumni here. In the United States, being in the same school is also a very close relationship.
Just like fellow villagers in ancient China, two people meet somewhere. When they introduce each other, they find that they are from the same place, so they naturally feel closer than ordinary people. They talk about all kinds of interesting stories and topics in school, especially other people.
It is a topic that can only be understood by each other.
Ariza left the Los Angeles campus two years before Adrian entered the academy, but the two came from the same school after all, and Adrian was still the main point guard of the Lakers... Various conditions made him feel that he could get better results with the Lakers.
development.
After the deal was concluded, Ariza rushed to Los Angeles early. However, due to some problems with the local hospital, Ariza's physical examination was delayed until the day before the game.
After coming on the stage, Ariza quickly entered the state. While others were still wondering why Phil Jackson was replacing a new player at this time, he used a head-to-head dunk to announce his victory with Marion as the background.
arrival!
However, his rough performance on the defensive end later earned him a foul.
Shortly after Adrian left the field, Kobe was replaced by Phil Jackson, and the first quarter officially entered substitute time. The Suns' Mike D'Antoni also chose to replace the main players during this period, allowing
The substitute players came on to support for a period of time. The Suns kept the infinitely energetic Leandro Barbosa on the court to ensure the offensive power of the substitute lineup, while the Lakers' choice was Odom, who was of course not allowed.
Compared with his performance in the main lineup, after entering the substitute lineup, Odom will be treated as the core of the substitute lineup. With full control of the ball, his performance will be better than when he was in the starting lineup! (To be continued
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