Chapter three hundred and ninety-ninth walk the way for the sky
Staples Center, Los Angeles, May 19.
After a day off, the Warriors and Lakers Series G3 was staged as scheduled.
That night, the Staples Center was full, and Lakers fans knew very well that the Lakers were in a desperate situation of 0:2 behind, and it was already a time for life and death. They grabbed most of the tickets, and many of them rushed from the Bay Area to Los Angeles.
The Warriors fans who cheered for help could not buy tickets and could not enter the game to watch the game, so they could only return in disappointment.
Lakers players also know that G3 is not allowed to lose money for them. NBA has never had any team in its 70-year history that can turn around when it falls behind 0:3, although in terms of probability, as long as it is
If there are enough games, this record will be broken sooner or later, but no one will think that the Lakers will be the pioneer.
So after the game begins, the Lakers will release all their energy, directly fill the intensity of the game, and fight as a life-and-death battle of "win
After Mike Brown had thought carefully, he finally decided to go all the way and continue to stick to the original double tower strategy. He even went further and told Gasol and Bynum not to expand the three when defending Curry.
Outside the line, if Curry starts a pick-and-roll at one step outside the three-point line and two steps, then he will go.
Gasol and Bynum's first priority on the court is to defend the penalty area. Mike Browne would rather give Curry some space than see Curry attracting the Lakers' defensive attention again. Green, Butler, Ke
Lai and others took the opportunity to cut to the inside and scored easily in the penalty area.
He carefully watched the videos of G1 and G2. Most of the Warriors' scores in the first half were concentrated on the outside, but as Curry made more and more three-pointers, Gasol and Bynum could not hold back and defended.
During the pick-and-roll, it expanded a lot, and Mike Brown also accused of this behavior. Then the Warriors increased the frequency of empty cuts, and the score in the penalty area suddenly increased. When the Lakers saw the two towers, they quickly changed the retraction and contracted.
At this time, Curry began to make three points again.
Under the Warriors' strategy of avoiding the real and turning to the virtual, Gasol and Bynum were at a loss, and finally panicked, and mistakes were frequently missed. They neither had the frame protection nor could they prevent Curry. The defense line gradually collapsed. Mike
Brown didn't know how to adjust, so he could only watch the victory balance gradually tilt towards the Warriors and eventually lost the game.
In this game, Mike Brown fully learned the lessons from the first two games. However, it is not enough to expand outside, and it must keep shrinking!
Mike Brown is indeed rigid in offense, but he has a lot of attainments in defense. After two games, he realized that the Warriors are not a three-point team. On the contrary, the Warriors make the inside and outside attack very well.
The combination of both the inside and the outside is balanced, and the middle distance is not abandoned, and the offensive end is very balanced.
What makes them different from other teams is nothing more than Curry's three-pointer holding the ball. If anyone focuses too much on Curry, he will fall into Coach Z's trap!
After Mike Brown made this discovery, he was very excited. He believed that the Lakers lost G1 and G2 because Curry performed well, but because the Lakers themselves attached too much importance to Curry's three-pointers, relaxed their protection of the penalty area, and let
The Warriors took advantage of the situation and finally lost the game.
As long as you insist on shrinking the frame protection, you will definitely win. Curry can't beat the Lakers alone!
Mike Brown adhered to this principle and arranged the plan for this game.
As he expected, the game changed the trend of the first two games. Under the leadership of Kobe and Gasol, the Lakers quickly gained an advantage and quickly widened the gap to more than 15 points.
Seeing this scene, Mike Brown breathed a sigh of relief, and his heart that had been hanging for a moment finally fell back.
This is the last solution he can think of. If it still doesn't work, then he will be powerless.
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On the other side of the technical table, Zhang Yu stood in front of the bench, looking at the increasingly unfair game situation on the court, with a solemn expression on his face.
If he knew what Mike Brown was thinking, he would definitely sneer.
It is true that the Warriors were at a disadvantage in this game, but the reason is definitely not what Mike Brown thinks.
Gasol and Bynum no longer expand outside and stay in the inside, which really protects the Lakers' penalty area tightly. It is difficult for the Warriors to cut to the basket and score, and the difficulty of the breakthrough of Curry and Butler has also greatly increased.
But in this way, the Lakers' outside defense will definitely have loopholes, Curry's three-point shooting becomes more relaxed, and Clay and Butler can also get three-point opportunities with the help of cover.
Zhang Yu did this. After he found out that the Lakers were defending the basket, he immediately called a timeout and arranged a lot of three-point tactics for Curry, Clay and Butler, first opened the situation from the outside and waited for the Lakers to defend outside.
After the expansion, the penalty area was broken without attacking.
However, Zhang Yu miscalculated. There was no problem with his adjustment. But except for Curry's shooting, he was still as accurate as ever. The three-pointers of Clay and Butler were extremely different. He missed the shots repeatedly, and they used to do so.
It was an opportunity to hold it in hand, and it eventually turned into a blacksmith again and again.
The Lakers took this opportunity to continuously expand their lead and widen the gap to more than 15 points.
broken.
Seeing the two of them performing like this, Zhang Yu felt a sudden slap in his heart, and a bad feeling arose.
He has no way to make adjustments. The Lakers have laid heavy troops in the inside and do not change defenses whenever they cover. They make up their minds to defend the penalty area and mid-range, and give the Warriors a chance to shoot three-pointers. The Warriors must seize it, otherwise the Lakers will be even more unlikely to change.
Defensive strategy, the Warriors don't want to open up the situation.
However, Clay and Butler's three-pointers were not accurate, which made Zhang Yu's arrangement vague. In the whole first half, the Warriors could only rely on Curry to support it alone, so they could barely maintain the situation and not be completely beaten.
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In the second half, Clay's touch was still very strong, and Zhang Yu had no choice but to make adjustments.
He replaced Danny Green and replaced Clay, but still left Butler on the court. Although he didn't feel good at shooting, his defense was still there. He could score points through a piecemeal breakthrough, which could relieve Curry's pressure.
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After Danny Green came on the court, he immediately made two three-pointers, quickly helping the team close the gap to within 10 points, and Zhang Yu, who had been watching him nervously on the sidelines, was greatly energetic.
But the good times didn't last long. After he made these two three-pointers, he became silent. Although he made two three-pointers intermittently, he failed to achieve momentum and was gritted by the Lakers.
But his 12 points still made great contributions to the team. Since then, the gap between the two teams has never expanded to double digits. The Lakers maintained a lead of about 10 points, but the Warriors have also stabilized the situation.
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However, what made Zhang Yu feel very helpless was that the Warriors seemed to have only Curry and Danny Green. The touch of the others was extremely scattered. After Leonard came on the court, he also scored three-pointers in a row, let alone Green, he
The three-point shooting posture is already very clumsy, and now it is still impossible to make a shot. Every time it makes a move, it will arouse ridicule and ridicule from Lakers fans.
In the end, the Warriors could only rely on Curry's stable output alone, as well as the inefficient scores after stacking a large number of other people, and tried hard to grasp the score and dealt with the Lakers throughout the game.
But when the outside world is still unable to open, the Lakers can indeed withstand Curry's score alone. After all, the Lakers have Kobe.
The tone of this round of series is the competition between Kobe and Curry. The Lakers cannot defend Curry, and the Warriors cannot defend Kobe. The two can score 30 points in each game, it depends on who is more efficient and stable.
, whose teammate is stronger?
In the first two games, Curry scored more than 30 consecutively, and at the same time involved the Lakers' defense, driving the Warriors' overall offense, while Kobe just fought alone and scored a lot of individual points, but did not change the Warriors' defense, so the Warriors finally
Win the Lakers.
In this game, Kobe was also invincible. Butler, Leonard, Clay, and even Tony Allen could not defend Kobe's attack, and could only reduce his efficiency.
Kobe also did not change the Warriors' defense. The offensive efficiency of other Lakers players did not soar, but the Warriors' own offense had problems, and the change of direction made the Lakers' offense much more efficient.
Although Kobe's offensive efficiency declined again in the fourth quarter, the Warriors also launched a fierce attack on the Lakers under Curry's leadership. Curry scored 8 points in the last 3 minutes, while Kobe scored only 2 points with 1 of 5 shots.
But the Lakers still defended the Warriors' counterattack in the last moment with the lead accumulated in the first three quarters.
In the end, the Lakers defeated the Warriors 99:92 and recovered one game, and were also spared from falling behind by 0:3.
After the whole game, Kobe scored 28 points, 5 assists and 7 rebounds, and Curry scored 37 points, 4 assists and 5 rebounds. The two were not much different, and Curry was even better.
But outside the two, the teammates' performance was very different. Gasol scored 21 points and 8 rebounds, Bynum scored 18 points and 12 rebounds, Butler scored only 14 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists, Clay scored only 11 points, 2 rebounds and 2 assists,
This is also the most important reason why the Lakers can finally win the game.
In the next game, they will still play at home and have a home advantage. As long as they win the G4, they will be able to return to Auckland to fight the Warriors in the Battle of Heavenly Kings Mountain. The outcome is still unknown.
Zhang Yu was very dissatisfied with this result. If he could win G3 and rewrite the big score to 3:0, the Warriors entered the Western Conference Finals with one foot. Now, the Lakers were pulled back from the edge of the cliff, and their fighting spirit would become very
tenacious.
However, he was not worried that the Warriors would lose this round of the series. Like the Mavericks, the lineup was very aging. It was already a big fortune for them to win with gambling defense, and it was impossible for them to keep winning.
He remembers it very clearly that the Lakers were swept by the Thunder Gentleman in the 2012 playoffs with a score of 1:4 and were eliminated in the Western Conference semi-finals.
Now, the Warriors and the Lakers also met in the Western Conference semi-finals. The Warriors' offense is not weaker than the Thunder, and their defense is better than the Thunder, and there is no reason to lose to the Lakers.
The Warriors will lose tonight, because the Warriors' own offense fluctuated. This is a normal situation. Butler, Clay, Leonard and others are not the stars or even superstars who are later, although they have already revealed their skills. However, the scoring stability is not good enough, and it takes time to grow and temper. In the high-intensity playoffs, the feel will definitely fluctuate.
And Zhang Yu is sure that this phenomenon will not be a flash in the pan. Even after Clay and Butler became famous, they never were known for their offensive stability, let alone when they are immature?
Leonard is still very immature and can't even talk about his scoring ability; Green doesn't need to say much, Zhang Yu has never expected his scoring ability.
Zhang Yu was mentally prepared. In this playoffs, there will definitely be no shortage of power outages in the Warriors offense, but this situation of power outages in almost the entire team still made him a little collapse. He could only pray and try to avoid this in the future. This situation.
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After the game, the Warriors took the bus back to the hotel. Everyone recovered from the failure and frustration after the loss, talking and laughing.
Zhang Yu and Silas sat together. He listened to the laughter coming from behind the carriage and became in a good mood and started chatting with Silas.
"Stephen, it's really not easy to win the championship." Zhang Yu sighed.
Silas looked at him in surprise and said:
"Ronan, I heard it right? You are so confident in the championship, and you will feel difficult?"
"Of course, take today's game for example. We made a perfect game plan, the players executed it very well, and the Lakers' tactics were completely as expected, but because of the collective feeling, they lost in the end. After the game... who can guarantee that this will not happen in the future? If you lose one game because of the poor feel, and the opponent breaks out, then you will be tiebreaker seven? By that time, it will be fate." Zhang Yu He said with his fingers.
Silas shook his head and said with a smile:
"Ronan, it's not what you think. If you say that, it's all about luck to compete for the championship."
Zhang Yu also shook his head and laughed:
"I just felt it, but today's game really made me think a lot. Of course, the championship should be based on strength, but luck is also very important. Look at the Heat, they played against the Celtics in the first round and competed. 7. If it were any other team in the lower half of the Eastern Conference, the Heat should be able to win easily, but they met the Celtics... They met the Pacers again in the second round, which was also a hard bone. Bosh G1 again I'm hurt, hey, by the way, I'll take a look..."
Zhang Yu seemed to remember something suddenly, took out his cell phone, slid his fingers on the screen, and handed the cell phone to Silas, saying with a little gloating:
"Haha, look, the Heat lost to the Pacers again today, and fell behind by 1:2. James and Wade scored 28 and 24 points respectively, but they couldn't win the ball, while the Pacers won a total of 3 points. If Bosh is here, they will definitely not lose this game, and it will be difficult for the Heat to... "
Silas took the phone, looked at it for a while, handed it back to Zhang Yu, and said:
"You're still laughing? If you didn't let Drummond hurt Garnett, would the Celtics fall to seventh? If the Celtics weren't seventh, the Heat wouldn't play seven games in the first round , Bosh may not be injured, you are the culprit, Ronan."
Zhang Yu took the phone and said seriously:
"Don't talk nonsense. Can something that stands out for Stephen be called a mat? That's called doing things for heaven!"
Chapter completed!