() Of course, it is impossible to succeed every time when making a foul, but as long as it is successful once every three or five times, or even consecutive successes within a short period of time, it is enough.
Fouls can cause huge damage to a player. After all, the NBA only allows six fouls per game. In order to ensure the team's competitiveness, especially in the last quarter, the head coach is even less likely to let players who commit too many fouls stay on the court.
. Therefore, players who are good at causing fouls are said to be full of lethality.
Adrian failed several times, but also succeeded twice. He succeeded in getting Nene and Camby to commit a foul each, forcing George Karl to take them off the court to rest. The two of them immediately
On the court, the Lakers suddenly became much more relaxed inside and outside. Once the Lakers played easily, the Nuggets naturally fell into dire straits again, and George Karl had to replace Carmelo Anthony again.
Fortunately, Carmelo Anthony is not a stubborn person. After sitting and resting for a while, he calmed down and realized that he had been provoked by Adrian and lost his calm.
Carmelo Anthony, who played again, also played much calmer and more rationally. He began to try to distribute the ball more like Adrian, but he quickly gave up.
His efficiency in distributing the ball is not comparable to that of Adrian. Although in terms of passing skills, Carmelo Anthony is no worse than many people, but this is a gap in passing awareness. What you are born with is difficult to make up for the day after tomorrow.
Derian may not have such awareness, but he has more than 30 years of studying basketball tactics and more than 20 years of experience as an assistant coach. Even if he does not have any innate passing awareness, he should pass the ball to whom at what time.
.Adrian has also known this for a long time.
Carmelo Anthony found that he was completely unable to organize a team's offense as clearly and smoothly as Adrian. He immediately began to play to his strengths.
Yes, Carmelo Anthony's strength is of course his skillful and powerful singles ability. He can attract the Lakers' defensive attention by scoring in singles, and distribute the ball to the point guard when he may be double-teamed or assisted in defense.
Defender Steve Blake. Even if Carmelo Anthony has no passing awareness and his passing vision is very narrow, but he always hands the ball to someone to organize, this little thing certainly won't trouble Anthony.
Thanks to Anthony's destruction of the Lakers' defense, Blake's pressure to organize the team was reduced to a very low level, and his organizational talents began to show. The Nuggets' offense suddenly took off greatly.
But because both Nene and Camby had three fouls, George Karl did not dare to substitute them. The Nuggets' defense was also full of mistakes, which reduced the offensive pressure on the Lakers.
By the end of the second quarter, the Lakers had led the Nuggets by 11 points, 58:47.
In the third quarter, the Lakers' offensive efficiency began to decline. In the second quarter, Camby and Nene, who had sat off the court due to foul issues, returned to the court. When these two were on the court, the Nuggets' defensive ability in the penalty area increased.
The Nuggets took advantage of the situation and launched a wave of counterattacks, but in terms of defense, the combination of Turiaf and Kwame Brown was not bad at all. Under the premise of the same strict defense, the shooting percentage of both sides could not be improved.
The shooting percentages of both sides began to drop. The iron started banging.
In the last thirty-five seconds of the fourth quarter, George Karl called a long timeout. He wanted to lay out the team's tactics at the last minute. The atmosphere on the Lakers' bench was relatively relaxed, because although today's game was tense,
, but the Lakers still maintained a five-point gap in the final seconds.
Five points, three if you shoot two-pointers, two if you shoot three-pointers. With only thirty-five seconds left in the game, five points is considered a relatively safe score.
After the timeout, because it was the Nuggets' possession of the ball, the Nuggets took the inbounds kick. Although their mentality was relatively relaxed, the Lakers players were very serious about defense this time. In the last minute of the game
Here, this attack will be extremely important. As long as this goal is defended, the Nuggets' only option is to directly adopt foul tactics and send the Lakers to the free throw line. As long as the free throws are made, even if only one is hit, the Nuggets will
There is no hope anymore.
The Lakers tried their best to block the serve. It was almost when the five-second serve time was about to expire that Camby found the opportunity to serve the basketball. The basketball was sent to Blake's hands. Carmelo Anthony immediately ran back and the basketball was
It was handed over to Carmelo Anthony, but Adrian forced him to be at the top of the three-point line to catch the basketball.
After receiving the basketball, Carmelo Anthony turned around and faced Adrian. As time passed by, his eyes were in a trance. Just when Adrian was wondering what Carmelo was going to do.
, Anthony suddenly took control of the ball and moved to the left. Adrian immediately followed suit, but suddenly...
"Bang!"
"No, it's a pick-and-roll!" Adrian understood the moment the impact arrived, but it was useless. He could only count on Turiaf's defense to arrive in time.
Turiaf was delayed, yes, he was delayed. When Turiaf intended to change defense, the experienced Camby pulled his jersey forcefully behind Turiaf in a very subtle way. This action
It's done very quickly and very covertly, so it's hard for the referee to spot it and they may not make a ruling if they spot it.
This action can only delay Turiaf for a moment, but this moment of space is too much for the top scorer!
"Whoa!"
The basketball went straight to the basket, got into the hoop without even stopping, three-pointer, no doubt three-pointer!
Turiaf put pressure on the referee Steve, but Steve just shook his head, and then waved Adrian away. When Turiaf wanted to say something else, Adrian gave him
Pulled back.
"That bastard just pulled my jersey!" Turiaf said angrily to Adrian.
"I know, but that's useless." Adrian frowned: "At the last moment of the game, the referee usually won't blow the whistle for this kind of action. But don't worry, as long as we throw the basketball in
, the initiative is still on our side.”
Yes, the Nuggets will definitely choose to foul and send people to the free throw line. Because of Anthony's delay just now, the remaining game time is less than 24 seconds. If the Lakers want to, they can run out the time.
In the final moments of the game, time stood on the side of the leading Lakers.
Phil Jackson wanted to call a timeout to stabilize the team's atmosphere, but he hesitated and finally endured it. The Nuggets, not the Lakers, needed the timeout most at this time.
Sure enough, Adrian had just received Kwame Brown's serve, and Stephen Blake had already slapped Adrian on the arm. This time the foul was so hard that the sound was extremely loud.
Obviously, the purpose of this foul is not only to send Adrian to the free throw line and give the Nuggets time to attack, but also to
For the Nuggets fans, Anthony's golden three-pointer gave them hope of turning defeat into victory. They clamored loudly, shouted slogans hard, and used boos all over the sky to interfere with Adrian's performance.
penalty.
Amid the boos, Adrian gently touched his left arm, which had five red marks, and then threw the basketball in his hand with a calm expression.
"Bang!"
When the sound of blacksmithing sounded, Phil Jackson held his chin tightly with both hands. This proved that his mood was far from as relaxed as it appeared on his face.
Adrian's expression also changed, and he rubbed his left arm that was still numb. When he just made a free throw, the sudden pain in his left arm caused him to lose his accuracy.
Adrian's second ball, after adjustments, finally managed to hit the basket, which also made Phil Jackson and the Lakers feel a little more relaxed.
After debugging, the remaining time in the game was 19 seconds, and the Lakers still led by three points, which meant that even if the Nuggets scored the next goal, it would only be overtime at most.
George Karl called a second long timeout. He put all the players who could shoot three-pointers on the court. He was obviously preparing for a three-pointer, but it was not without the Nuggets shooting a quick two-pointer and then fouling.
possible. But in that case, after all, the initiative is still in the hands of the Lakers.
So Phil Jackson arranged to expand the defensive scope and adopt a strategy of pressing from the outside, forcing the Nuggets to break inside, but never allowed them to shoot three-pointers.
The Nuggets still wanted to go for three-pointers, but the Lakers were very resolute in defending three-pointers from the outside. They wasted nearly ten seconds on the outside. In the end, Stephen Blake had no choice but to get inside. When he got inside
After that, although Vujacic followed him, he was very careful and refused to give Blake any chance to cause a foul.
Finally, Blake hit a two-pointer.
And there is only 10 seconds left.
Five seconds, even including the delay, was enough for the Nuggets to launch an attack. Phil Jackson finally stood up and called a timeout!
"Adrian, how does your arm feel now?" As soon as he walked to the bench, Phil Jackson eagerly asked about the condition of Adrian's arm.
"There's no problem." Adrian nodded and said, "It was a little sore and numb at first, but it's much better now."
"That's good." Phil Jackson took a deep breath, then looked around the crowd and said: "Next, they will definitely foul and let Adrian take the penalty. If Adrian doesn't make a free throw, you guys
Just foul immediately and let them go to the free throw line. If Adrian makes a free throw, don't think about anything else and just defend with all your strength, understand?" (To be continued.)
