By this time, the top playoff teams should be safe and relieved. After all, they are still fighting to the death for playoff tickets, and those are all teams hovering around the top eight. The front
It's no longer necessary. But this year, if you look at the Western Conference, it's not the case at all. The Warriors still won 72 games, tying the Bulls' invincible record that seemed unattainable back then. All of a sudden, everyone
It was boiling, and the entire page opened, all about the Warriors' 72 wins. Almost everyone on the Warriors became big stars and began to accept a lot of interviews and questions.
Now the Warriors still have one game left. If they can beat the Grizzlies on April 13, then they can truly complete a first. Break the 72-win mark in one fell swoop and stand at the highest peak in the history of the NBA regular season. They have won 72 consecutive games.
The Bulls also had to give them a hard fight. During this period, the main members of the 72-win Bulls team began to be interviewed frequently. Even Jordan couldn't get around this topic. And Mr. Joe's answer this time was also quite domineering.
, without any further official announcement, he directly told the Warriors boss personally at a gathering of six bosses that 73 wins without a championship means nothing.
Pippen also followed in Joe's footsteps, saying that 73 wins without a championship is meaningless.
Rodman also said that he doesn't pay attention to who is the winner of 73 wins at all, he only knows who is the championship.
"Zen Master" expressed it more tactfully. He thinks this Warriors team is very talented and has shown enough dominance in the regular season. However, the playoffs are different from the regular season, so he can't predict anything in advance.
As the invincible Bulls and the only team with the best offensive and defensive efficiency in the league, of course they have their own arrogance. They don't think from the bottom of their hearts that this Warriors team can beat the Bulls. It's just that one
It’s just that the Bulls didn’t play so hard in 2016. Otherwise, 75 wins would have been possible. The Warriors’ approach was actually a bit excessive. Van Gundy pointed out that too much pursuit of data and records is likely to increase the team’s consumption.
, which is not good for entering the playoffs.
But now Curry has made up his mind to achieve this regular season record, and the whole team has no objection, because Curry's character is admired by everyone in the Warriors. No one will make things difficult for him. Including this big-mouthed Green
, are all loyal Curry fans. He will criticize anyone, but he will never speak to Curry easily. Therefore, if Curry wants to be the regular season MVP, everyone on the Warriors is willing to help.
A little blood is nothing, Curry is also a rich man, and for him, being the MVP means a lot.
Besides, you can also overpower that annoying Oriental center, right?
Must! Must! Must! Must!
Curry withstood the pressure and took the lead in shouting, "We want to create new history." This actually means it is very obvious. The Warriors are not prepared to tie the record with the Bulls. What they want to do is to break history.
.Become the best in history.
No one wants their record to be broken and taken away, so there are many people who want to see the Warriors laugh now.
On April 12, the NBA officially announced the Best of the Week rankings for the last week of the 2015-16 season. The Best of the Week in the Eastern Conference belongs to Paul Millsap of the Atlanta Hawks. He scored 20+15.7+4.3+4.3+ last week.
2 super data, and his three-point shooting percentage exceeded 46.2% last week. The Eagles, who had a complete victory, gave him a very reasonable score. Even many star players will find this data very unusual when they see it.
Absolute integration of offense and defense.
If Millsap can maintain this efficiency, then he will definitely have a chance to compete with anyone.
Unfortunately this is not possible.
The Western Conference's Best of the Week belongs to the competition between Tang Qian and Towns. In the end, Tang Qian won and won the 25th Best of the Week honor in his career. This season, he is the player who has won the most Best of the Week in the league.
, there is no one. It is the best of the month, always due to various reasons and unlucky events, and has never been involved once. This made Tang Qian feel very unbalanced.
You feel unhappy, don't you?
So on April 13th, ESPN decided on its own broadcast order. Because the Warriors and Lakers game times conflict, they can only be broadcast separately. In this way, it will show who ESPN personally cares about more.
I have a preference. Is it the Golden State Warriors? Or the Los Angeles Lakers? Well, the broadcast on Channel 1 was still given to the Golden State Warriors, which is consistent with the historical trend. The Lakers were arranged to be broadcast on Channel 2.
.
It seems like ESPN thinks people all over the world should prefer the appearance of 73 wins.
However, I want to spoil the situation! Even if we win, it will be 70 wins, right? What if the Grizzlies work harder and kill the Warriors? This is not good. Then there is still a chance. The Jazz are also fighting for the playoffs.
If he wins the game, there is hope. This point has changed a bit. But it doesn't matter, let alone the Jazz in this game, even if it is the Warriors, Tang Qian will win!
Because it was a home game, the Staples Center also created some atmosphere. Jenny Buss and "Magic" jointly announced that if they can win this game, if the Lakers can set a new record in team history, it will be a success.
It's a big event. Everyone in the audience can get a commemorative T-shirt. This seems to be very popular in the NBA.
Americans don't have much history, so everything has a sense of history.
If you can participate, you will be able to talk about it with future generations.
In the locker room, Tang Qian had only one sentence: Win!
WIN!!!
On the field, the Lakers' starting lineup was the same as before, Tang Qian + Randle + Ariza + Butler + Rondo. On the opposite side, Trey Lyles + Gordon Hayward + Shelvin Mark + Jeff.
Vesey + Rodney Hood. I won’t introduce the team lineup. There are no famous and powerful figures in the team. Hayward, the strongest player, has not yet entered the All-Stars. But this ball is still the same.
In other words, it is very tough and not easily affected by the external environment. There is no difference in playing style between being far behind and being far ahead.
Besides, if they win this game, they may get on the last train to the playoffs, so the Jazz are also ready for a big battle tonight. They want to overthrow the Lakers on the road.
The one the Jazz came up to compete for the ball was Jeff Vesey. He was 213cm tall, but weighed only 222 pounds. How can I say this tonnage? It was too light. He was as skinny as a stick. When Tang Qian saw him, he was worried that he would
They won't let their opponents fall down as soon as they exert their strength. The Jazz paid great attention to protecting the basket tonight and shrinking the penalty area. The Lakers didn't feel online in the first quarter. They had opportunities from the outside, but they didn't get a few. This made the Jazz
The team thought they had seized the opportunity and played a two-back tactic, picking and rolling and then shooting.
It seems that the head coach of the Jazz also knows that if you want to overthrow the Lakers, it is almost impossible to win if you don't have mid-range shots. The Jazz don't have such good players at the basket. So they might as well start from the outside from the beginning.
Play, wait for the outside touch to open up, and then think about the other changes. Don't tell me, the Jazz Princeton passed and cut very smoothly tonight, and Shelvin Mark has a good touch. Such a simple play can also work.
It has a temporary effect.
However, Larry Brown was not in a hurry. He sat firmly off the court and had no intention of pausing. Because this extremely simple style of play seems to be effective now and is not easy to defend. However, how can these people play like this?
How long can we fight? Can we beat people to death? Can we shoot so hard that the Lakers can't parry? Isn't that bullshit? These people are not star players. They will continue to hit the iron when they feel better. At that time, the Lakers can seize the opportunity to take the lead.
.Moreover, the simpler your Jazz team plays, the easier it will be to defend, without consuming too much overall defensive energy. In the live broadcast room of ESPN 2, Jay Williams is naturally boasting, depending on how he feels,
It seems as if the Jazz are so strong and the Lakers are so weak. But in fact, it didn't take long for the Lakers to start a comeback and take the lead.
The Jazz wanted to use a top-curve pick-and-roll, and the Lakers quickly adopted a weak defensive tactic, directly forcing the opponent to go in the direction of their non-dominant hand. Shelvin Mark is a very ordinary NBA player. If he were not with the Jazz, he would actually be a pick-and-roll.
Not level. And his overall view is not good. In fact, it would be better to use it as a scoring point on the bench. The Jazz don't have many people now, so they can only use this person to top it. Rondo feels that he can't deal with the person in front of him.
Weak defensive tactics, one defense and one accurate one. This person wants to play a pick-and-roll in front of him, which is too childish. It cannot break the essence of weak defensive tactics.
Because to break through weak defensive tactics, you need a good understanding between the ball carrier and the pick-and-roll player. Once broken, the center will be wide open. Unfortunately, Shelvin Mark cannot do this. The Jazz want
They wanted to put on a mixed lineup to grab points, but this was simply a stupid move, with insufficient tacit understanding, and they were repeatedly intercepted by the Lakers. Fortunately, the defense here was also very timely, so that the score difference was not widened faster. The Jazz could only use
Hayward played a few singles, and Hayward was quite competitive tonight. He made several difficult shots, which made Butler very depressed.
But everyone has scored, and you can't do anything else. You can only admit defeat, strengthen your defense, and destroy the opponent's next offensive success rate. The Jazz were also very rogue tonight, completely gambling with the Lakers.
, knowing that it is impossible to just beat the Lakers by covering everything, so their head coach Quinn Schneider decisively cut off most of the team's complex movements. Just keep it simple and simple. Let's play like this, in case the players feel bad.
If it's not good, then they will definitely lose and there will be no chance of counterattack. But, does the Jazz have any other chances now?
Since there are no reliable stars to implement singles tactics, this is the only way to do it.
It's too complicated. They are not a strong tactical team, but they are easily defended by the Lakers.
Gambling is something that works wonders in the NBA. God favored the Jazz tonight. After they switched to simple cut-out jump shots, their shooting percentage was still acceptable, which left the Lakers with nothing to do.
It went over in one breath. After the Lakers set up a corner pick-and-roll, Randall went down the middle to kill. He didn't score but caused damage. He made 2 of 2 free throws from the free throw line. The Jazz came over and the high-post pick-and-roll player handed over and then cut out.
Hayward turned around and took a shot. The defender pounced on him very quickly, but he took the ball directly and then used the screen to turn around and shoot a pull-up jumper. What can you do?
Easy block? Come on. This kind of ball is very difficult to block, okay. All you can do is interfere.
Brush~Hit~
The Lakers' Tang Qian went down the pick-and-roll, and the opponent shrank to cover. Tang Qian hit the ball from the weak side, and Ariza missed the basket. Our starting center Rudy Gobert was unable to play in this game due to injury, so
Relatively speaking, the inside line has declined a lot, but it still relied on the strong contraction of the inside line to block the Lakers' attack. Then it reversed and made a direct lateral shot.
It's really simple. Playing like this feels like playing basketball. It doesn't feel like playing in the NBA professional league.
But they just came in tonight.
Tang Qian held the ball inside, and the Jazz resolutely tightened their defense. Tang Qian passed the ball, and Rondo missed a three-pointer from the corner.
The Jazz's layup was defended, and the Lakers caused damage inside and made 1 of 2 free throws. The Jazz still haven't changed. An ordinary pick-and-roll can no longer make an ordinary pick-and-roll without the ball, and can shoot reflexively after receiving the ball. This can still
Go in?
Entered.
It seems that the Jazz's offense tonight is mainly focused on the outside. They have always implemented this and have not wavered easily. To sum up, the Jazz's section is just like these, a variety of simple pick-and-roll, screen and shooting.
.That’s why the Lakers were unable to defend well. Many people with a slightly impatient temper couldn’t help cursing in their hearts: What a good luck! Damn it!
It is true that luck plays a part. What if the hand feels bad when playing like this? Basically, you will be pressed and rubbed away in the first quarter.
So this is one of the reasons why the Lakers have a lot of resentment.
The Jazz's contraction was also executed very well. Tang Qian had many opportunities to pass out. However, the touch was a little cold on the outside, and the sound of iron sounded like it was free, which made the fans at the scene feel heart palpitations. In fact, there is no real one on the Lakers side.
A pure shooter. The most accurate three-point shooter in the starting lineup is Ariza. This season, 37% of the three-pointers are. Most of them are fixed-point shooting, which is a pretty good level. The current league is different from before. Three-pointers
His ability has improved too much. Secondly, there are more Rondos. Rondo takes fewer shots, but it is still 35%. Butler is the worst three-pointer this season, less than 30%.
Compared with last season, it has dropped by eighty or nine percentage points. Xia Tian was too focused on training the ball and shooting at fixed points, but he was a bit negligent. He is not a shooter system, so the decline is normal. Didn't you see that James in the East did not have Xia Tian?
How to practice three-pointers? This season is also a bit miserable. People like them need a lot of three-point practice to maintain it.
It's not about talent, it's about muscle memory.
The more you practice, the more accurate you will be. The less you practice, the easier it will be for you to fall off.
Butler made 4 outside three-pointers in this game, but none of them went in. This is also very worrying.
However, the Lakers also have another way, that is, Tang Qian takes advantage of the absence of the opposing center and begins to invest a lot of energy in fighting for offensive rebounds. When he gets the ball, he passes it out as much as possible and then plays. Tang Qian's defense here is too much.
Tight, the contraction is too severe. If he really can't open the outside line, then he has no way to fight. If you are like O'Neal, if you can't open the outside line, do you think he can really fight one against five in the whole game? So Tang Qian didn't
Put pressure on the outside line and try to help them take more shots to find their touch.
Gradually, the feel has improved a bit, and if I miss a three-point shot, I can change it to a 2-point shot.
The score difference between the two sides increased anxiously, and the Lakers entered the locker room with a 3-point lead. However, many times, the first half does not mean anything. If the game is stalemate, the game may be wasted. Therefore, it is only the first half, and the Lakers themselves
None of them are in a hurry. Winning is a sure thing, but you have to improve your touch and help Tang Qian open up space.
At this moment, they suddenly noticed that No. 29's expression changed.
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