"Let's wait for the ball in our hands to start moving. Don't force the ball inside. Give it again when we have the opportunity. The opponent will be very tight on our outside passes inside. We must pay attention to this. Don't force it." Larry.
Brown quickly said below: "Short pass + cut from the wing. The opponent's overall defense is not particularly good. We only need to overturn the score difference to touch the corner of the goddess of victory again." As he said,
Then he said to Tang Qian: "You can strengthen the offensive rebounds later. The opponent is a weak point. A mobile lineup with one large and four small players is a flaw when it comes to your rebounding. This place can be fully utilized."
"Then just defend well and wait to win."
"We are the championship team. Do you remember everything? If you remember, then go on the field."
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The Trail Blazers are also arranging something. Their head coach Terry Stotts quickly drew on the tactical board, and then kept pointing at the Trail Blazers players one by one. For the Lakers,
They don’t want to lose this game. For the Trail Blazers, why not? They may even be the team that doesn’t want to lose the most. Because if they lose, the morale behind them will basically not be able to get up.
Compared with the Lakers' foundation, they are indeed far behind and must get off to a good start.
And now, they also see such an opportunity.
After a timeout, the Lakers attack, Butler suddenly cuts inside, and Tang Qian picks and rolls in the low post. He quickly passes by, which directly prevents the defender who was attracted by Tang Qian from following up. At this time, Rondo immediately released the ball.
Yes, he deserves to be the assist king this year. This pass was very timely and of a high standard! In order to save time, it was just a pass through the basket.
In other words, this is an...alley-oop.
Butler made a free pass to the basket, and the Lakers caught up by 2 points, with 3 points left.
At this point in the opponent's fight, everyone knows who they should be guarding, and it's just their two-shot backcourt. For the rest of the players, to put it bluntly, unless they are given a chance to feed them, you will give them singles.
, do they dare to fight on their own? Or do they want to fight alone against a historically strong defensive team like the Lakers? No, so basically they just need to keep an eye on the two opponents.
The Trail Blazers have always played key shots in this way.
This is actually not easy to defend. If both of them are open, they will still be unable to defend. Look at the Warriors, but to be honest, the two of them are still incomparable to the "Tsunami Brothers" in terms of stability and scoring ability.
, are too far behind. The "Tsunami Brothers" on the opposite side are all real, super scorers and scoring champions. Their scoring ability alone is far ahead of this team. So the Lakers believe that the problem
It shouldn't be big.
However, sometimes, this kind of star player can also have a big breakout. Once a big breakout occurs, the situation will be different.
Tonight, regardless of whether it was the original time and space or the current time and space, these two people broke out. Their condition and feel cannot be measured by ordinary standards. The Trail Blazers played a V-shaped pick-and-roll strategy with a top arc.
Ladd held the ball and asked for a pick-and-roll first. After discovering that the Lakers quickly changed defense, he immediately passed the ball to McCrum at a 45-degree angle on the right. At the same time, he quickly cut through the air to separate the defender and the offense.
In space, McCrum also raised his hand to pick and roll, and then forced a breakthrough, but the Lakers defender was not just waiting for a look. Butler's ball directly passed through Evan Turner's screen wall and stuck to it again.
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Butler's physical advantage is still very obvious, McCrum is a bit tough.
Although his ball-holding ability is pretty good, he doesn't have the ability to easily break Butler's defense in the playoffs. The ball was moved back again, and Lillard pulled it back here. It turned out that he was just pretending just now.
It's just a flick, it's not really about cutting into the penalty area. He suddenly stopped and ran back, and then he got the ball and was ready to attack. Rondo was of course very fast, but the ball was blocked by the opponent.
Rondo immediately shouted, switch defense!!!
Ariza of the Lakers quickly moved over to cover the defense, and it was very timely. It can be seen that the defensive system and defensive quality of the Lakers were really well trained by Larry Brown. This ball was basically followed.
There was no loss of position. But... who knows, this No. 0 of the Trail Blazers... just took a top shot???
Three point shot!
Lillard's height is only 191cm. In fact, many people even say that this is the height after wearing shoes. His real height does not reach the 190cm level. However, Lillard's wingspan is very strong, and his bare feet are less than 190cm.
Below, his wingspan reaches 203CM. Therefore, his data can give him an advantage in shooting. However, Ariza is not a coward. Ariza is more than 2 meters tall, and his wingspan is terrifying.
...218.4cm! This is one of the reasons why Ariza's defensive talent is so outstanding. There are really not many people in the active league who can have a wingspan longer than his. So for this ball, he still
There is a high chance of interference.
But the problem is, this ball Lillard... still got him in!
This is a bit speechless!!! Can this go in??? What is he really doing???
No problem, Lillard is such a player. Once the touch comes, he is a super god and a cold-blooded killer. When he becomes iron, he is really iron. Unfortunately, tonight, he was...hot in the touch. He became...
A 6-pointer.
The Lakers cut the ball in a pick-and-roll... and was cut off by Lillard. The Trail Blazers made a fast break, but Butler chased and interfered with the ball. The Lakers did not let the score difference be further widened. The Lakers thought here
It was necessary to give the opportunity to the inside, but the opportunity was not good. In addition, Larry Brown just said that it was not an opportunity and should not be forced, so he did not continue to test it and instead gave it to Butler on the outside to attack.
Butler made a breakthrough with this ball and made 2 of 2 free throws. He was not afraid.
But until now, you can still feel that the overall performance of the Lakers is very disharmonious and lacks the tacit understanding last year. It seems that the Lakers also paid a lot for Tang Qian to be the regular season MVP.
The cost. The biggest cost is that just as the playoffs are approaching, we still haven't entered the playoffs as a whole. This is a very disadvantageous thing.
The Lakers are 4 points away.
The Trail Blazers wanted to continue the pick-and-roll, but this time they were defended by the Lakers. Not to mention wasting time, they did not get out of any particularly good position. The ball was shot, but it was a long rebound.
The Lakers continued to get the ball. This ball made Larry Brown very angry, because the Lakers were still in the regular season, and their mental preparations were obviously not as good as their opponents.
And this is something Larry Brown cannot accept.
He shouted loudly off the court: "Pay attention to me! Cheer up! Can't you protect the rebound? Protect it for me!!! Long rebound, can't throw it away easily now!!!" Yes
Yes, in this situation, long rebounds should not be thrown away easily, otherwise it will give the opponent another opportunity to attack. It is still a pick-and-roll. Turner tried his best to pick-and-roll, but there was still no particularly good opportunity. At this time,
No. 3 of the Trail Blazers, McCrum ran out to get the ball. After getting the ball, he tried to break through, but it didn't work. He simply bent his knees slightly and made a strong shot.
It's another forced shot. Butler hates this offensive method the most. It will completely expose his "wingspan flaw".
But this was still a physical problem and he had no way to solve it.
We can only pray that the opponent will not score. McCrum has made more than 42% of his three-pointers this season and is a marksman. However, Butler still interfered very hard with this shot. Although his hands were a little short, he could not cover it.
That's it. But the interference is still there.
And as fierce as ever.
This ball...swiped~goed in???
Just when Bill McDonald was still praising Butler for his good defense, the basketball went in.
It was basically a strong shot, but if it went in... it means the defense failed.
His performance tonight was as explosive as ever, and his touch was excellent.
It’s a 7-point score. The performance of these two tonight was beyond everyone’s expectations.
Are they going to lose in the first game? Tang Qian definitely didn't agree. Although the Lakers didn't hit the net from long range on the next ball, the rebound was grabbed by the Lakers' No. 29, and then there was a basket. This
The Blazers players were all prepared. After all, they were hit several times by No. 29 of the Lakers. There was no way there would be no reaction.
Two people came up immediately. They were very fast and took action in a timely manner.
This ball is about to be stopped.
At this time, Tang Qian's strength and personal ability came into play. He stood up and threw the basketball against two people.
Pa~swipe~beep~
The basketball hit the board and hit the net, and at the same time, I got an AND.ONE opportunity.
Tang Qian stepped to the free throw line, made the extra penalty, and made a hit.
2+1 was successful, and the Lakers are still 4 points behind.