Gasol is indeed an excellent inside player.

You should know that when the Grizzlies were at the Grizzlies, they relied on Gasol, the inside pillar, to make the Grizzlies a playoff-level team in the Western Conference.

This is also the reason why the Lakers used some of the "cracked" deals in their hands to get the Grizzlies' "robbery" transactions, which caused a stir in the league.

In that era when it was almost one person and one city, there were really too few such unequal transactions, which made people feel puzzled and jealous...

The combination of Kobe and Gasol also brought Kobe as he wished, without another NBA championship after O'Neal!

As an inside player from Europe, Gasol is essentially a technical inside player with excellent basic skills and steps, and an excellent jump shot shooting percentage. However, after years of training in the NBA, Gasol is actually not weak in physical confrontation.

The defense can be switched at the 4th and 5th positions, and when facing any inside line in the league, defense can be restricted. That is, now this is just the regular season. After all, Gasol is "old" and has to play health basketball regularly to avoid injuries and physical energy consumption. If it really comes to the anxious moment in the playoffs, I believe Gasol will lead the defense directly to Aldridge.

This big insider who has faced head-on with Duncan, Garnett, and the outstanding power forward and center in the previous era, and is not too disadvantaged, is definitely an international player at the NBA's historical level.

In the first defensive round when Zhang Feng was replaced, Gasol taught Zhang Feng, a rookie. If you want to survive in the NBA, you must continue to strengthen your physical confrontation.

Gasol, who rarely plays singles on his back, is directly in the deep position when facing Zhang Feng's rookie.

As the second-ranked player of the Lakers, Kobe's leader when he was not here, who dares not give the ball that can be passed when Gasol wants it?

Gasol took advantage of his arm length and leaned against Zhang Feng's body, then grew his arms and caught Black's pass with one hand, and then made a move to play back and forth.

This time, Xiao Mo actively retreated back to the defense and came over to double-team, but Gasol was very alert and directly threw the ball to the outside line. Black had a three-pointer open chance, and Xiao Mo saved it again to defend.

After passing the ball, Gasol immediately took a step in the three-second zone, and then squeezed in again and continued to take the position.

Black understood it and directly hung the ball to the inside.

This time, no one can help Zhang Feng assist in defense nearby.

Gasol stood at the bottom line on the right side of the three-second zone. After receiving the ball, he directly exerted force from his back, leaned against Zhang Feng, and then used his left foot as the axis, turned around and dribbled the ball with one and a half, and attacked from the front.

The power is very strong, this is Zhang Feng’s first feeling.

"It turns out that he is the top inside player in the NBA ranks. Even though he is older, his ability to fight is still not weak."

Unlike second-year rookies like Thackeray, Thackeray may simply rely on his superficial strength, while Gasol uses his power skills to maximize his power release.

To put it in fantasy novels, Thackeray, a rookie, can only use the existing superficial power of his body, and his ability to control his strength is too low. While a master-level figure like Gasol has developed his body to the extreme, and can even reach more than 90% of his ability to control his strength.

Although it doesn't look as strong as Thackeray and doesn't weigh as much as Thackeray, the intensity of the confrontation given is definitely not weaker than Thackeray.

Faced with Gasol's attack, Zhang Feng could only move forward physically and use his all to give his greatest physical interference.

You should know that Gasol is tall and has a long arms. He can accelerate to the other side of the basket while walking and try to find the board with one hand with his right hand.

But Zhang Feng thought too much, Gasol had better and simpler moves.

When Zhang Feng had to completely lean forward to block Gasol in order to enhance his body's strength to fight against him, Gasol continued to exert force during the dribble, which caused Zhang Feng to still exert force forward to block. Gasol turned his back and returned to his previous position. He scored on the board, but Zhang Feng could not react at all...

This ball is indeed a demonstration of Gasol's skills and footsteps, but in the final analysis, this ball is actually an absolute advantage given to Gasol by physical confrontation.

If it weren't for the huge pressure from Gasol's physical confrontation that forced Zhang Feng to tilt forward with all his strength, Zhang Feng wouldn't have completely lost his position when Gasol turned around.

This may be a rookie, who is behind such a superstar who has been in the NBA for many years in all aspects.

However, isn’t the biggest advantage of young people?

Not only young people but also the future, Zhang Feng’s biggest advantage at this stage is that he has more physical fitness and better attention to the game.

Although Gasol directly formed one, this would not interfere with Zhang Feng’s own rhythm at all. Anyway, physical exercise will take a long time to go through. At this stage, I am just a rookie, and I just need to do a good job on the offensive end of the coach and let me do well!

Zhang Feng and Lillard's pick-and-roll tactics are a little faster this time and Paul Gasol, who has stronger defensive ability, defends on the court, so the Lakers did not attack Lillard at the beginning. After all, they directly attacked from the outside, and the pressure on the rest of the people to defend 3 and 4 is still a bit high.

Zhang Feng directly blocked Meeks with high-quality cover as always, but the Lakers directly chose to switch defenses, taking advantage of Paul Gasol's movement speed and the advantages of height and length of arms to interfere with Lillard's defense, while Meeks directly replaced Zhang Feng.

Lillard's height is that when facing Gasol's forward defense, he still suffers a lot if he wants to shoot, so Lillard directly beats the big one with a small shot, chooses to use his speed to break through to the basket.

Because it was necessary to interfere with Lillard's shooting, Gasol's position was still a bit ahead, leaving Lillard with enough space at the basket. However, Gasol, who had a few minutes of rest in the middle of the third quarter, had significantly recovered a lot of physical strength, and his foot speed was definitely not slow.

Although Lillard still had an advantage in his position, Gasol could still make Lillard's breakthrough by relying on his height and arm length, causing enough air interference.

Lillard was unable to completely throw away under Gasol's defense, so he came to the basket. In order to prevent being attacked, Lillard could not directly attack the basket, so he could only jump outward to avoid Gasol's aerial interception, and chose a difficult board throw.

The ball popped out, and Gasol showed his indispensable role in the Lakers' inside line on both ends of the offense and defense.

Turning around, under Gasol's restraint, the Blazers' defense line had to shrink even further to help Zhang Feng complete the assisting defense. With Meeks' three-point shooting, the Lakers, who scored 5 points in a row, narrowed the score gap to 1 point, and the Stamps Arena was in full swing!

Stotts on the sidelines stared at the court, but still did not choose to call a timeout. He had to wait for a round to see if Lillard could solve the problem on the offensive end.
Chapter completed!