Before the fourth game of the regular season, the Lakers train within the team.
"Rookie" D'Angelo Russell began to deliberately let off steam in training, and even failed to work in the game. Of course, all this was seen by Larry Brown. Larry Brown is not a young master.
The coach is experienced. He doesn’t know what Russell wants to express. But...
You said you wanted it for you. Do you have a bigger face or a bigger butt?
Just ignore it and drag a rookie who is in the teens to the sky.
Seeing that his actions were not working, Russell intensified his efforts and began to hope to create public opinion through the local media in Los Angeles. No, before he even started playing, he heard someone tell Tang Qian that there is a "rookie" in your Lakers team who is causing trouble.
Tang Qian asked briefly and was immediately speechless. This was only the first game. He was in a hurry for a goal. Who hasn't gone through the process yet?
Do you think you are Jordan James?
When Larry Brown saw this, he was even more displeased with the No. 16 pick. If you have some ability, forget it. The problem is, you don't have it at all. That's nonsense. You have also learned to use the media to tell it.
Putting pressure on yourself? Funny, do you think this is still your team? Where do you think this is?
Since you are so impatient, I will temper your temper and see if you can learn a lesson.
Larry Brown decided to teach him a lesson. To put it simply, in tonight's game, he should not even think about going up for a second.
Hey, don’t really think that Larry Brown can’t do it. It can be said that he is the best person in the entire NBA who can do this kind of thing. What was Milicic’s pick back then? Didn’t he just give it up if he thought it was not good?
"Wasted"? What's more, in this time and space, Russell is only a No. 16 first-round pick. What can you do if you are not allowed to play?
Don't underestimate the power of a head coach. If you really get aggressive, all the star players will be put on the bench for you.
For example, the Rockets Tracy McGrady ended up irritating the head coach, so no matter how he told the media that he had fully recovered, they would use the injury as an excuse to not let you play, hide you, and reduce your playing time.
I know that at that time, Tracy McGrady was already a well-known star and very popular, but... it was still useless. I had to press the button.
However, this will also damage the head coach's own reputation, because few players like this kind of head coach.
If things go on like this, it's easy to lose your reputation.
But there are also some people who don't care much, such as Larry Brown.
For him, those who are disobedient must either be capable, or if they are incompetent and still disobedient, plus they are still rookies, they must be directly "frozen" and not make false claims. D'Angelo Russell is making a mistake by doing this.
It's probably going to be counterproductive.
On November 3, 2015, U.S. time, the Lakers played against the Denver Nuggets at home. The Nuggets became a messy team after George Karl left. They played in a mess in the 13-14 and 14-15 seasons.
The offense is acceptable, but the defense is a mess. Such a team looks like it will be difficult to recover in the next few years. However, they still maintain the style of an impactful track and field team. Anyway, they play better on the field, which can also allow them to compete.
Lots of balls coming.
However, Tang Qian has lost his "foreseeing period" and it is difficult for him to judge the prospects of any team this season.
In terms of "predictability of information", he is now the same as the rest of the entire alliance.
The Nuggets are led by Italian forward Danilo Gallinari this season. After a long period of recovery, he has hit a career high this season. He scored 21, 22, and 26 points in the previous games.
In terms of scoring, it seems that it should be possible to lead such a transitional team. After Ty Lawson went to the Rockets this season, Gallinari just took the opportunity to take over, and he also experienced the addiction of being the core of the team. In addition to
He, the Nuggets still have the same few people, "Orc" Kenneth Faried, Gary Harris, Nikola Jokic, Emmanuel Mudiay, etc. They play at a very fast pace.
Come on, whenever a team with an unstable system met the Nuggets last season, they would have to drink a pot of water. It is easiest to play against this kind of team if the team is uniform and has good chemical reactions. Because you only have to
You need to strike later, wait and see what happens, and wait for the other party to get excited and make a mistake on their own initiative.
The previous Lakers were not necessarily easy to say, but this season's Lakers have completely changed. When playing against a team with immature rules, every hit is accurate. After the referee started throwing the ball, because Tang Qian was not there, the fight for the ball was almost impossible.
They have never won. If you ask Sacre to be as invincible as Tang Qian, it would be too difficult for him. So from the beginning, the Lakers directly switched to a defensive posture.
Sure enough, it is the "Track and Field Team" that is "chaotically rushing" the Denver Nuggets. Now they are trying to muddy the situation and then fish in troubled waters. Yes, this is the way they have played in recent seasons. In the past few seasons, if you asked them to play the triangle offense, then
Are you kidding? Now that we have replaced Mike Malone, it’s hard to say. Because he was originally supposed to be a defensive assistant coach, but after he came to the Nuggets, he didn’t see any effect at all. If the Nuggets were not rebuilding anyway,
I guess he won't be able to stay too long.
And when it comes to defense, no matter how much better he is, he still won't be a match for defensive master Larry Brown.
The ball was played very messily. Sophomore Gary Harris got the ball and kicked it down quickly. He graduated from Michigan, a famous basketball school. In college, he was also a comprehensive offensive and defensive player on the All-NBA Team and the All-Defensive Team. Unfortunately, he came to the Nuggets.
Due to the environment of the team, his admirable defensive skills in college seemed to have been lost, and he was slowly assimilated into one of the "Denver team's nerve swords".
This time Harris got the ball and suddenly hit it directly into the Lakers' inside pocket. The basketball almost missed the rebound. Turning around, the Lakers didn't score, and the Nuggets came again, N.N.D~ after halftime
Not long after, their backcourt was thrown away again.
Three-point shot~swipe~hit~
Gary Harris was indeed poor at three-point shooting last season and has not yet adapted to this league. However, through hard training in the offseason, he has now fully adapted. In the first few games, his three-point shooting rate exceeded 35%.
This season, the original time and space has also reached 35.4%. For people who are not pure shooters, it is enough and can be called good.
Sure enough, as soon as the goal was scored, I heard Larry Brown yelling: "What are you doing? Please be serious! If I see my opponent taking action without a defender in front of me, he will
My opponent just made me turn around and run fifty times after the game!!! Please be serious!!!!!!!!!!!”
Every time he saw this place, Tang Qian would be surprised at Larry Brown's energy. He was obviously over seventy years old, but he could still shout like this?
He didn't know that ten years ago, when he was in Philadelphia and Detroit, he would have shouted even more than this. The scene was quite hot. And facts have proved that this effect still exists, the Lakers
The team's defense began to tighten up, allowing the Nuggets to score 4 consecutive goals. At the same time, they relied on passing and patience to slowly find opportunities. Unless it was an absolute matchup advantage, they would reduce the number of one-on-ones. In that game
The Timberwolves' Butler plays a lot of isolations simply because Wiggins' defense is so bad. That's a special case, but it's something Larry Brown knows how to adapt to.
Facing the Nuggets, although their defense cannot be said to be good, it is not extremely bad either. Besides, the atmosphere of the team here is "heated in the head" and "fighting with fighting spirit." In such a situation, such a team, you and him
In fact, single-point blasting is not worth it. Of course, if the team now has a peak Kobe Bryant or O'Neal, that is another matter. So Larry Brown made his most original offensive method, sharing the ball more and passing more
The ball will be played again if there is a chance.
No matter how you do it, if you pass the ball more, run more, and cover more, you will definitely have a chance.
Besides, the Nuggets as a whole are full of "nerve knives", which can explode at a moment's notice. On the contrary, patience is easier to disintegrate than ordinary force. Look at how the Spurs have beaten the Nuggets in the past few seasons, which is the best example. And
This kind of team's run-and-gun tactics will completely activate them. If these people are all activated, it will be difficult to deal with them.
The first quarter was really not good enough. Neither side scored more than 20 points. During the bench time, the Nuggets were originally relatively fierce, with a bunch of bench players with good scoring ability. But let's put it this way, the same goes for the Lakers.
Not bad, the defense is very tough. If Farmar hadn't often "stalled", the regular substitute time from the end of the first quarter to the middle of the second quarter would have only allowed the Nuggets to score fewer points. 45- at halftime
39, the Lakers entered the locker room with a 6-point lead.
There were only 30 or 40 points in the half, but in this era when a single quarter often scores more than 30 points, it is completely worth mentioning.
But for now, except for the Kings game, almost all Lakers games are like this. The pace is frighteningly slow.
It doesn't matter whether the opponent is used to it or not, they themselves must start to get used to it thoroughly and stabilize it.
In the third quarter, the Nuggets wanted to play a pick-and-roll breakthrough from the left corner, and then distribute the ball to allow outside players to take three-pointers, opening up the current "quagmire stalemate" for the entire team. But this shot Jameer Nelson just broke through.
When he went in, he found that he was "beating the dog behind closed doors". The Lakers' contraction was very fast and timely. Although he struggled to get past the first line of defense, the contraction behind the basket was the key. Bosh and Ariza were about the same
After being surrounded, Nelson, who was only 183cm tall, immediately lost his vision and sight. He was not Paul, and he did not have the ability to accurately hit the ball in the crowd.
Otherwise, he wouldn't be so ordinary.
Besides, the main reason is that he is older now and has passed his peak. Otherwise, he would still be the same player on the Magic team, so he might still have a chance.
Forcing opponents to make mistakes is also a major feature of Larry Brown's system. They do an excellent job of interfering with and cutting off the passing line of the ball player, which allowed Nelson to hit the target immediately. The Nuggets made a mistake and the Lakers
The team attacked, but it was a pity that the three-pointer missed. Otherwise, it would have been an offensive and defensive round that was extremely demoralizing.
Without Tang Qian, offensive rebounds have also lost their former advantage. Larry Brown knows this very well, so his requirement is to retreat immediately if he does not score a goal. If he can grab the offensive rebounds, he can grab them. If he can't, it doesn't matter. But
...must contain the opponent's fast break.
Randy Foye of the Nuggets made a cut and cut inside to steal one. However, the moment he took the shot, he was interfered by the Lakers and the basketball slipped out of the basket. In fact, it is not that there is no chance for this ball. Pierce reacted very quickly.
After all, he is still old, and his hands and feet are a little slow. Many times, his body cannot keep up with his brain. But fortunately, Randy Foye is also a "blacksmith". Starting from the 2010-2011 season, except for the 13-14 season, he
The average shooting percentage per game this season has not exceeded 40%. So far this season, it is only about 35%. In addition, the three-point shooting rate is not as good as each season. A person who has been close to 37% of the three-pointers in his career has reached this season.
, even less than 3 Chengdu, he is also a "wonder" among them.
The basketball slipped out of the basket, but the Nuggets got the rebound. This kind of team has a strong spirit of daring to play and fight, and sometimes they can often use this to grab offensive rebounds. The person who grabbed the rebound was "half
Orc "Kenneth Farid". Even though he and Tang Qian were rookies in the same year, Tang Qian competed with him on the court at first, but as time went by, he and Tang Qian were no longer in the same league.
On a horizontal level, his performance has been stable over the years, but it is almost the same as his rookie season's increase. If he does not advance, he will retreat. His final prospects in the league are almost certain.
Farid took a shot from the basket and hit the rebound into the basket.
This system now lacks a role as a rim warrior similar to Ben Wallace of the 2004 Pistons, so being stolen from the rim for a long time has become a problem that has been exposed in recent games. Although everyone knows that Tang Qian is back
It would be different, but Larry Brown is still yelling on the sidelines, as if Don Lam doesn't exist in the team at all.
Try to motivate the players on the field to complete the task as much as possible.
In the third quarter, substitute players came on the field again, and the score still did not exceed 60 points. This kind of game is really "out of touch" with modern basketball. But since it is this kind of score, it illustrates a problem. The rhythm of the game is completely different.
Falling into the Lakers' rhythm. Because the Nuggets do not play at such a rhythm, their points per game have never been lower.
As Bosh hit a three-pointer, the game basically gave the Nuggets no hope of overtaking. Even if the Nuggets head coach arranged for the team to attack a lot in the fourth quarter, there was still not much.
The effect. It's because they play faster and faster and make more and more mistakes, allowing the Lakers to take advantage of a lot of defensive counterattacks. This is the effect Larry Brown wants. Defensive counterattacks are not unnecessary, but they must use the opponent's
When you make mistakes, you won't just get a defensive rebound and start taking action.
The Lakers' style of play in this game made the Nuggets very uncomfortable. They were basically not teased by them. They couldn't pick up the speed, and they were basically doomed. This team is not the same Nuggets team it once was.
Without George Karl taking control of the overall situation, it has completely become a transitional team that messes around. Entering the playoffs in the Western Conference is problematic anyway.
The Lakers won the game 93-87, with 7 points. There was no popular trend in modern times. They often won by more than ten points and lost by more than ten points. A single-digit victory was very similar to the NBA before 2010.
Winning points.
The Lakers started with 3 wins and 1 loss, and it didn't look as bad as the outside world predicted.
PS: It's late today. Sorry, I went out to do errands very early in the day, so I can't update in the morning~
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