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Chapter 843 Restricted Everywhere

The next day, reports of the Lakers' defeat were everywhere.

fiasco!The Lakers finally showed their fatigue? —Los Angeles Times.

Offense 90, defense 111, D'Antoni meets his nemesis again? — the bleachers.

We are the kings of the west! --San Antonio Express-News.

In the post-match press conference, Mike D'Antoni only briefly said that the team did not perform as it should, and the rest was perfunctory.But some people are excited, they are some media mainly ESPN.

Unlike the previous round of the Lakers' sweep, "I couldn't hold a fart for a long time", this time it seemed that the carrion ants had finally arrived, and ESPN collectively broke out.Full firepower.What the Lakers failed miserably, they are just a pseudo-strong team?What this is a result that has long been expected, the Lakers are not as good as the Spurs at all.What Kobe Bryant is a cancer, the Lakers inside the twin towers collapsed and so on.Most of them are "eye-catching fast food titles" with little nutrition.Do you think this is the first domestic portal website?No, no, these "unscrupulous editors" in China are all learning the routines of foreign "unscrupulous editors".This set was not a rise in China at the beginning, but the Internet penetration rate has long been higher than that of Europe and the United States in China.

Title party, they are king.

Moreover, they also have a set of routines dedicated to "headline parties", which have not been popularized in this country, so I won't go into details.In particular, their "well-known expert" Henry Abbott wrote a column:

Kobe's illusion, he is not very strong in singles!Without Nash, he is still the same!The efficiency is generally low!
Then the custom took it out of context and cited several data to prove his own point of view.

First of all, this big expert completely ignored the excellent defensive performance of the No. 2 third-year Spurs. The defense he showed last night has actually reached the upper reaches of the first defense!It is no longer the strength of the second defense in the regular season!This started when the Spurs eliminated the Thunder. He allowed Durant to score only 25 points in the Western Conference semifinals, and his shooting percentage dropped a lot from the regular season.Of course, a professional basketball game cannot be dedicated to one-on-one offense and defense, and there are many misplacements, pick-and-rolls, and off-the-ball attacks. However, Popovich asked him to mark Durant at critical moments, and let Durant It is also true that the single-kill ability of the special key has dropped sharply.The most important thing is the iron barrel of the Spurs on the perimeter. This season, Tang Qian has seen the team with the strongest perimeter defense ability and none of them.

From individual defense to tactical system defense, Leonard + Danny Green + Parker, this defensive line, the general perimeter, is really a headache to fight.You said Durant's shooting percentage is okay?First of all, it is an indisputable fact that it has declined compared to the regular season, and...you, as a super scorer who can average 32+ points per game in the regular season, can only average 25 points per game in the series, and the drop has reached a full 7+ , This is already several grades of decline!One more citation has to be made here, score!It is the highest level of data in basketball!Because basketball is a game of scoring.

Durant can't provide scoring when the team needs it most. What kind of super scorer is he?The Thunder didn't arrange him as a bait for the team, and decided to focus on offense inside, right?Essentially, Durant failed to the extent that the team really needed to attack.At this time, it is not the time to look at the hit rate, the key is to be able to score.

不然你场均25+分就算是50%的命中率，最后却输了，难道不比场均30+得分35%的命中率，最后赢了要好？况且杜兰特除了11-12赛季的季后赛，再也没有在雷霆队交出过季后赛超过46%的投篮命中率。最高就是46%了。说什么高效？完全扯淡。

It's useless not to believe it. In the original time and space, Durant and the Spurs fought 6 games, except for the second big defeat and the fourth quarter.4 of 1 in the fourth quarter of Game 25 and 5% of the field goal, 2 of 40 in the fourth quarter of Game 4 and 0% of the field goal, 0 of 2 in Game 1 and 50% of the field goal, and 4 of 3 in the fifth game 75%, and a 3% shooting rate of 4 of 4 in the last game.And you thought it was to say that Durant's shooting percentage in the fourth quarter was inconsistent, not good?No, no, this is not the key point, the hit rate is not the point at all.The point is that Durant's scores in the fourth quarter were blinding 2 points, 11 points, 11 points, 3 points, and 0 points. Score in the fourth quarter, can't watch at all.Even this 0 points is actually a bit watery, because that game was played in overtime in the original time and space, and Durant was sluggish again in overtime, making [-] of [-] shots and scoring [-] points.From this point of view, Durant's key score is... not as good as his "third brother" Harden.

It doesn't matter if the shooting percentage is low, it's okay if "Pengci" gets the points.

So this year's Spurs, even if they are super scorers, their outside line has enough ability to resist.

This kind of group confidence, group belief, has gone beyond the ranks of general strong teams.Therefore, the Spurs in the 13-14 season are recognized as one of the historical strong teams. They will be called "one of the legendary teams" by many experts and reporters in the future.

The finals can be called slinging the Heat, no kidding, not only offensive, but also super defensive.

Secondly, Henry Abbott is simply leading indiscriminately, comparing the shooting percentage by different positions. Are you sure you are not joking?Even if he is as strong as Jordan, he will shoot 48%+ in the playoffs. The hit rate of 45% is in the sub-position, which belongs to the level of excellent files!Otherwise, do you look at other points?Look at Harden later?You know how difficult it is to maintain this hit rate on a large number of shots.Why don't you use insiders to compare hit rates?But there is a sentence in it that makes Kobe angry, that is, Henry Abbott thinks that the third-year Leonard has defended No. 3 in Los Angeles.

This irritated Kobe a little bit.

Kobe was angry, and he decided to beat his opponent in the next game.

He wants to fight back.

After a day off on May 5, the Lakers continued their home game against the San Antonio Spurs on May 20. D'Antoni emphasized before the game that they must speed up, fight, and not fight against the Spurs.This remark also made Kobe a little unhappy, because he is the king of positional battles and outside lines, and he is best at attacking positions. However, due to the face of coach D'Antoni, the Lakers did not have an attack on the 21th.

But after the first quarter, D'Antoni finally got a little annoyed, looked at the score and said loudly: "Tell me, what are you playing? What are you playing??? I said speed up, speed up, don't slow down, don't play Positional battle, didn’t you hear???” Actually, this is a bit too much, because this round of the series is no longer the Lakers can speed up if they want to speed up. The backcourt engine is blocked, and the Lakers team is weak. It was exposed immediately.

In this situation, still want to play fast?How to play fast? ? ?

Popovich's calculations were accurate and he hit the nail on the head. Without Steve Nash controlling the scene, it was impossible for the Lakers to play the exquisite team offense of the last round of the series.Average 120+ per game?That's even more delusional.

Right now, the San Antonio Spurs are extremely experienced in defensive pick-and-roll attacks from the outside, which fully exposes Nash's aging and declining personal abilities.Without a pick-and-roll, the 40-year-old Zonda had difficulty breaking through the defense of his opponent Tony Parker one-on-one.As for the control of the field and the connection of positions, I'm sorry, that is Jason Kidd's strong point, not his.

And a very important point, when the attack stagnates, the Canadian's defensive black hole attribute will completely explode, and he will be constantly grabbed and beaten by the Spurs.

Without the offensive bonus, Nash on the defensive end is a cash machine, and Tony Parker will not show mercy at all.

Popovich also gave him unlimited firepower against Steve Nash.

In this case, Nash's situation is a bit embarrassing. When he is on the court, the side effects begin to outweigh the positive effects.

At least before he came up with a proper solution, Nash was in a bad situation.

But D'Antoni just doesn't give up, because replacing Nash means that his system and tactics will collapse in the Lakers.As the head coach of the Lakers, how could he not know what the Lakers would be if it wasn't for Nash's forced connection.The result is probably that it is fragmented, not to mention running and bombing and small balls, it is difficult to play a whole body well.

He imagined that the situation could turn around, but his tactics were completely seen through by the Spurs, fully expected and targeted, and he didn't have the corresponding tactics to crack it. How could there be any turnaround so easily?Towards the end of the half, the Lakers had trailed the Spurs by as much as 18 points.Another 20 minutes to go.40-60 in the half, Parker actually scored 23 points in the half!For him, this is already exaggerated and amazing!

The Lakers are either double-teaming or substituting. D'Antoni is not a defensive coach, and he doesn't have any defensive tricks and contingencies.This is also the biggest reason that restricts him from going further, the limp is too severe.The playoffs are not the regular season. With the penalty scale and the opponent's targeted research arrangement, his method is a bit monotonous.

The regular season is a marathon, and few people waste energy and energy to go shopping with you 100%, but the playoffs are different, 100%?Sometimes 150% is light!The situation here is completely different from the regular season!
D'Antoni bit the bullet and came up with a few outside double-team tactics, but what kind of team is the Spurs?Especially this Spurs team, they are a super team team of "all people are soldiers".Do you think they are afraid of being double-teamed?Double-teaming is what they want most.Because as long as you double-team, you can always open the gap. The Spurs' ability to catch such mistakes and gaps has always been the best in the league, and there are few opponents.

So doing this, with the Spurs' ability to conduct and transfer the ball, is to make them play a more beautiful and high-quality offense.It's a bad move!
D'Antoni has this problem, and it was the same with the Suns back then. Once the No. 1 position is stuck, it is tantamount to choking the throat, and suddenly he has changed from a martial arts master to a useless mortal.It is of course an exaggeration to say so, but his "V-shaped offense" turned bloody in the league that year, and the first to break its myth was none other than the San Antonio Spurs.

This year, Nash has changed from his early 30s to 40s. It has been almost ten years, and his personal ability is mainly physical fitness, which has inevitably declined sharply.In this way, his dependence on the pick-and-roll has become more and more invisible.Fortunately, the current No. 5 position of the Lakers is Tang Qian. With his mobility and enthusiasm, Nash's shortcoming is greatly covered up in the front, so it seems that Nash is still brilliant, and the number of assists in the playoffs is not worse than that of his peak.But there are many factors in this. First of all, if it is the peak version of Nash, then joining this Lakers team will only average more assists per game!A block higher than it is now is a must!Secondly, the Lakers' lineup and singles ability are better than the original Suns, and the shooters are basically in place and there is no shortage.However, this cannot fool some people's eyes.

For example, Gregg Popovich, he was not deceived by the performance of the Lakers at all. After careful analysis of a large number of videos and data, he found several major shortcomings of the Lakers.This is why he is full of confidence in this round of the series.

One of the disadvantages is that Steve Nash is aging and needs to rely on a lot of pick-and-rolls to be able to exert his power. It just so happens that the Spurs team in front of him is the best pick-and-roll defense team in the entire league this season.Whether it's low or high, it's all kills.

The second disadvantage is still Steve Nash. Once the attack cannot be opened, his defensive attribute will immediately "black hole", and it is impossible to cover it up.And it just so happens that Tony Parker, the No. 1 position of the Spurs, is a good attacker. It is perfect for him to attack this defensive loophole of the Lakers.

In a word, as long as Nash dares to attack, Popovich dares to attack Tony Parker.

He is not the kind of mediocre head coach, tactics are tactics, but if there is an easier way to win, he will never refuse it foolishly.And many people may have forgotten that the Frenchman's single-game scoring record in the regular season is the highest in the Spurs' lineup.Taller than Duncan.The same goes for the playoffs.So if you underestimate his scoring ability, you will definitely be blown away.

If the Lakers continue to play Steve Nash before they figure out a way, then Parker is estimated to exceed 40+ in a single game tonight.

As for other disadvantages, we will slowly mention them later.

20 points behind!At halftime, the Lakers returned to the home locker room, and the atmosphere was oppressive.

If they lose 2 games in a row at home, then this round of the game is probably going to be bad luck. The Spurs' home court is one of the "devil's home courts" in the league. It is not easy to win the playoffs.And once they lose 2 home games, they are still defeated by a big score, which is a big blow to the morale of the Lakers.

Kobe understood this, and so did Nash, so in the second half Nash took the initiative to ask for a break first, and he had to take the opportunity to calm his mind.After the series started, he was also a little confused by the Spurs' targeting style of play.

D'Antoni saw that Nash himself said so, and he could only nod in agreement, and let the Lakers replace him with Jordan Farmar.

Although Jordan Farmar said that he is inferior to Nash in organizational ability, independent offensive ability, etc., he is young after all. He is only 27 or 40 years old this year, so as long as he is willing to work hard, his defense is much better than the [-]-year-old Nash.Only in this way, D'Antoni's conditions for implementing "seven seconds or less" or "V-shaped offense" in the Lakers are not enough.

To put it simply, it is Jordan Farmar, not Steve Nash, as simple as that.

Therefore, the Lakers had to adjust the focus of attack. This important task naturally fell to No. 24 Kobe Bryant.

Facing the Spurs now, no one's independent offensive ability can break the game.And San Antonio, according to history and tradition, what they are most afraid of is Kobe, a super scorer with strong single-point explosive power and completely unreasonable scoring shots.

Kobe has indeed been called a "killer" for the Spurs in history, and his statistics and shooting percentage are much higher than his career shooting percentage in the playoffs.Especially after maturity, after the millennium, Kobe played against the Spurs 5 times, and the worst score was 26+.Playing with the Spurs in that era was frighteningly slow, and 100 points in a playoff game was considered a high score.For example, in the 01-02 playoffs, the highest score of the two teams was 99, the second highest score was 93, and then there was no game with more than 90 points.Most of the two sides scored around 80 points.Calculated in this way, 26+ points accounted for a very high percentage of the team's points. After all, O'Neal only averaged 21.4 points per game in the series that year, and his shooting percentage was less than 45%.

This 26+ is more valuable than the current 30+ points per game.

So if the first round of the series is the finals, then it is likely to be Kobe's FMVP.

Because in the second half and the fourth quarter, his performance was extremely good. For example, he scored 17 points in the second half of the elimination battle, and scored 10 points and 3 assists in the fourth quarter.You have to know that Kobe only scored 26 points in the game, and scored more than half of the points in the second half.For example, in the last game of the knockout game, Kobe also scored 19 points in the second half, 12 points in the fourth quarter, and 5 points in the last 10 minutes, helping the Lakers win by 2 points and taking the game away.15 points in the second half of the third game and 11 points in the fourth quarter, shooting 100%.20 points in the second half of Game 8 and 13 points in the fourth quarter.5 points in the second half of the first game, 120 points in the fourth quarter, and 3 points in the last 13 seconds.Put it all together.The team leader O'Neal scored 7 points, 0 points, 1 points, 4 point, and 9 points in the fourth quarter.In the last three key battles, they were basically invisible, and they were completely gone from the appearance of killing all parties in the finals.Do you think O'Neill didn't make a move?No, after the Spurs adjusted their defensive style and intensity, his shooting percentage plummeted.He made 4 of 3 shots in the fourth quarter of Game 2, 4 of 0 shots in Game 3, 0 of 2 shots in Game 1, 3 of 2 shots in Game 32.22, and 50 of 50 shots in Game 100.That is to say, except that 50 of 57.1 shots in the second game reached his average field goal percentage in the playoffs, all the others were lower than his average field goal percentage in the playoffs.The combined shooting rate in the fourth quarter of the five games is 61.42%, which is about half of the shooting rate in the playoffs of his career.Kobe's shooting percentage in the fourth quarter after five games is [-]%+[-]%+[-]%+[-]%+[-]%, and the combined average shooting percentage is [-]%.

And Kobe's shooting percentage in this series is only 45.5%. The fourth quarter of the playoffs can be called the most intense moment of fighting. It was still the Spurs of that era. You know what is called real high-level data.Just looking at the average data and shooting percentage or the so-called efficiency value can't see the horror of Kobe in his 20s in this round of the series.

In the fourth quarter, high scores, high shots, high hits, and a wave of offensive attacks took the game away. What else can be argued?
你要知道那年砍下了场均接近29+17+5+3+1系列赛超级数据的邓肯，也不过整体42.5%的投篮命中率啊。邓肯还是内线啊。

This is not to say that Kobe was wronged if he didn't get the FMVP. After all, if he didn't get the FMVP, he didn't get it, or his strength was worse, luck?That is also a kind of strength. Who told the Eastern team to let O'Neal abuse their food inside?Even if Jordan came and teamed up with O'Neal in recent years, that wouldn't stop O'Neal from winning the FMVP in those years.Outside and inside ratio hits?Than killing?Or O'Neill?Can Jordan shoot nearly 60% of the field in the finals with an average of 36+12+4+3 per game?Can Jordan shoot 61.1% of the field in the finals with an average of 38+17+2+3+1?No wonder.Qiao Shen is strong, but with this kind of efficiency and statistics, outside players, no matter who they are, will never be able to play in the finals.What's more, the weakened version of Kobe?So here I just want to say that Kobe really has the effect of a killer and a tough hand on the Spurs, that's all.In fact, until 2008, when he played against the Spurs in the last playoffs, this was the case. The statistics were extremely beautiful, and he basically never lost the chain at critical moments.

This can be regarded as the only shot in the arm for Lakers fans and Mike D'Antoni.

However, is it really so smooth?

In this game, Tang Qian, whose competitive state was weakened by 23% by the "heart demon", did not have a good premonition.

PS: The [-]D update is completed tonight, Xiaozi is not lazy at all, she got off the plane and went back to sleep~Thank you for your support~
Xiao Zi goes home on Friday, find time to explode again on weekends~~~ By the way, since it exploded, I beg for a wave~ la la la~~~
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