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Chapter 240 Birth of a New Dynasty
During the timeout, everyone on the Lakers bench had a heated discussion: whether it is necessary to adopt an off-ball double-team strategy for Su Yang.

Garnett said: "We have to double-team! Because Su Yang's three-pointers are too high, I would rather let the Clippers get two points with super low difficulty than let Su Yang get three-pointers with super high difficulty. I will be responsible for mopping up the paint. District, you just encircle them."

Kobe said: "No need to double-team! I'll go to defend Su Yang, you just need to provide delay when he has no ball screen, just like the ball that Grant Hill screened for him just now, he can go up to 45 degrees, You can also go to the sideline, I'm always passive, Sam, if you delay him early, I can only consider one option, you don't have to worry about the screener cutting inside, because Kevin will do the sweep inside, even if Kevin doesn't If it can be in place in time, Grant Hill can only get two points at most..."

Head coach Phil Jackson nodded in response, saying that the opinions of the two main players on the team were very different. Garnett wanted off-ball double-teaming, and Kobe Bryant didn't think off-ball double-teaming was necessary. In fact, the thinking was very similar, nothing more than a limit. difference.

In fact, they are all very basic defensive strategies. According to the Lakers' main players, they can be thought of and adjusted without a timeout.

But the Lakers' offense collapsed, and the Clippers made a lot of offensive and defensive transitions. Su Yang shot three-pointers like crazy, suppressing his momentum.

In the blink of an eye after Kobe finished speaking, Phil Jackson made a final decision: Kobe was leading Su Yang, and he had to be delayed in advance when encountering a screen. The priority was to delay the high position, and the secondary delay was to the sideline. Mobile phone opportunity.

All the Lakers players nodded in agreement, and Chris Mim replaced Turiaf at the same time and returned to the game.

The time-out is over and the game continues.

The referee blew the whistle to time the ball. The Lakers kicked off in the backcourt, and it was still a triangle attack. Garnett caught the ball with his left waist to attract double-teams. Even the rebound caused Varejao to foul.

The first penalty went into the net hollowly, and the second penalty hit the iron with a bang.

Hill grabbed the rebound and counterattacked, Su Yang repeated the old trick, but was entangled by Kobe's defense, and it was difficult to get the chance to catch the ball. He turned to Iguodala to cover, and Kassel was delayed in advance, and Hill saw the situation Choose to pass the ball to Iguodala.

Iguodala took the ball to attack the basket, pointed out Garnett who was defending, and assisted Varejao at the basket with a low hand, and dunked and scored.

The Lakers turned to attack, Kobe asked Garnett to play a pick-and-roll, broke through to the right to attract a siege, and passed the hit to Garnett. Varejao blocked and successfully scored the ball.

Easy side Clippers attack again, Su Yang goes around the screen and tries to catch the ball, but finds that Lagabel is delayed in advance, thinking this is it?Decisively follow the plan, running without the ball involves defensive attention, but Hill made an emergency stop and hit the iron in the mid-range shot. Fortunately, the Lakers also hit the iron in their counterattack.

The two teams come and go, Su Yang basically gave up running to catch the ball, all of which is to stretch the space, but the efficiency of the whole team is average, the Lakers are madly playing Garnett and Kobe, Phil Jackson dare not easily show the triangle offense again , and the efficiency is average.

After halftime, the Clippers led by 13 points.

Su Yang scored 31 points in the halftime, and walked into the player tunnel calmly facing the cheers of MVP.That kind of picture, Kim Kardashian took a screenshot and sent it to Twitter, writing: This kind of scene is when you have climaxed several times, but you see that he hasn't gotten up yet.

The Clippers team returned to the locker room and made a brief review, confident that apart from foul troubles, there were no other problems.

The second half of the game started immediately, and Ray Allen, who had three fouls on his back, reappeared, and the Clippers first attacked.

Su Yang advanced with the ball, thinking that Ray Allen had been out of battle for a long time, and he needed to find the touch first, and then called a floppy tactic, and Ray Allen came out to catch the ball continuously around the screen, and made a shot to fly Lagabel, and then jumped and hit the ball. Go up and shoot a three-pointer.

The basketball slammed into the basket with a bang, and the referee blew his whistle at the same time to call Lagabel for a foul and gave Ray Allen three free throws.

Seeing this, Su Yang almost laughed out loud: "Okay, Ray Allen has also learned to cheat fouls! He is really a good doctor after a long illness."

There were cheers everywhere, Ray Allen made three free throws steadily, and the Clippers led the Lakers to a terrifying 16 points.

The two teams switched offense and defense, and Kobe passed the ball from the left waist and hit back, helping Cassel to hit a three-pointer while the Clippers made a mistake in changing defense.

Easy side Clippers attack, Su Yang moves without the ball to attract double-teams, Iguodala takes the opportunity to rush to the basket, but misses slightly.

The Lakers counterattacked with a rebound, and Cassel caused Hill to block the thug for a foul, and accidentally hit two free throws.

Milicic grabs the rebound and makes a long pass, Su Yang catches the ball from the center line and quickly goes down, Bryant changes direction and passes Kobe, forcing Lagabel to make a tactical foul, and at the same time, he scores the ball to form a 2+1, and an extra free throw helps the Clippers lead the Lakers Reached 19 points, almost killing the game.

The two teams went back and forth on offense and defense. The Lakers were still Kobe and Garnett. Bloom, score very easily.

After three quarters, the Clippers led the Lakers 94 to 72.

The game basically entered garbage time, and the staff prepared to celebrate in advance and moved out the Pacific Division championship flag.

Taking advantage of the timeout between quarters, Su Yang glanced at the statistics and found that the Lakers had a total of 72 points, of which Kobe scored 34 points, Garnett scored 20 points, and the others, including Lagabel, scored a total of 18 points. Strictly speaking, Speaking of normal performance.

Bill Walton on the ESPN live broadcast commented simultaneously: "Actually, the Lakers' performance can't be considered bad, but the Clippers played too well, especially Su Yang made 5 consecutive three-pointers in the second quarter, which completely changed the Lakers' defense. Other players on the ship can easily score, but the current situation where the Lakers are down to 22 points must effectively limit the Clippers' offense and chase points efficiently..."

The timeout between quarters ends in a blink of an eye, and the game continues.

Spoelstra and Su Yang discussed and decided to activate the zone defense. On the one hand, it would not give the Lakers too many opportunities to easily chase points; Make a three-pointer.

The referee whistles the ball to time it.

The Lakers launched the first attack and faced the Clippers' three-two defense. They wanted to pass Garnett with a poor angle, and there was no room for rushing to the basket. Rotate support, pinch the outside line and don't give three points.

The 24-second attack quickly had only 6 seconds left.

The Lakers didn't have a good chance outside, Garnett bit the bullet and forced Varejao and Milicic to double-team, and was blocked.

Iguodala got the rebound, Su Yang stepped forward to take the ball and push the counterattack, Harden immediately took possession of him and played creeping, the stuck eight-second violation time passed the center line, passed to Varejao on the left wing, and turned to Milici The odd back screened down, and the left waist card took the pass back.

Durant-style stick singles followed closely.

On the one hand, the pursuit of success rate, on the other hand, the rhythm.

Su Yang quickly pressed down until there were only 4 or [-] seconds left, he turned around and jumped back with the ball, carrying Kobe to defend himself and take off to make a mid-range shot.

The basketball bounced back with a clatter.

Seeing that situation, the other four Clippers gave up the offensive rebound and immediately returned to the defensive position, not giving the Lakers a chance to break fast.

Su Yang stayed in the backcourt to stare at Cassel, not giving him a chance to quickly bring him to the frontcourt, and forcibly invited them to fight together.

Cassel protected the ball with his back and reached the frontcourt marking position, and faced the Clippers' three-two defense, he was really overwhelmed.It was Garnett who responded from the free throw line, passed from left to right, went up to the screen and down to the pick and roll, tossing a few big circles in a row, and Kobe scored a difficult goal from a short angle.

Turn around and the Clippers attack.

Su Yang continued to scramble, UCLA made an air cut and passed the pass, and the left waist received a pass back to press the rhythm. With three seconds left, he turned and jumped with a small hook. Although he failed to score the ball, he grabbed an offensive rebound and circled the baseline. Come out and press the rhythm again to pursue the success rate.

Another 24 seconds.

Su Yang was not in a hurry, pressed the three threats until there were 5 seconds left, stopped at the start and pulled back under his crotch, made a gesture to shoot Kobe, then hit him head-on, made a hard foul, and then stood on the free throw line, listening With the MVP cheers all over the court, he made two free throws.

The Clippers still lead by 22 points.

But there were 9 minutes and 52 seconds left before the end of the game.

Regarding the Clippers' joint defense and forced rhythm, the Lakers had no good way. Kobe rushed to make two shots and hit the iron.

In the live broadcast, Bill Walton sighed: "Tonight's Clippers have too much execution in order to win! Su Yang could have tried to play another playoff game with 50+ or ​​even 60+ points, but he currently has 42 points, But choose to force the rhythm to waste time."

Stan Van Gundy nodded: "The Clippers have done a very good job of cooperating. Varejao is responsible for receiving the ball from the two wings, and Milicic is responsible for providing back screens. The two work together to help Su Yang stand on the waist easily every time. Dare to target or double-team recklessly in advance, because Milicic moves to the right after finishing the back screen. He can do the cross screen for Ray Allen alone, or he can do the X screen for Iguodala and Ray Allen together. Garnett is double-teaming, but Su Yang can come around and hand-off."

With 4 minutes left in the on-court game, the Lakers, who were still 22 points behind, began to rush for three-pointers. Devin George and Brian Cook both came on the court and made several successful hits, but the defense deteriorated, and the Clippers also relaxed one after another. to score.

With 2 minutes and 08 seconds left, the Lakers were still as many as 15 points behind the Clippers, and Phil Jackson began to play shark-slashing tactics.

However, both Varejao and Milicic hit consecutive free throws, and the Lakers were inefficient in chasing three-pointers, unable to narrow the gap.

In the last 27 seconds, Spoelstra requested a timeout to replace Su Yang alone, and more than 9000 fans shouted MVP in unison.

The whistle sounded at the end of the game, and the Clippers defeated the Lakers 124 to 111, reversing 4 to 3 and advancing to the Western Conference Finals.

Su Yang got up and walked to the field, high-fiving and hugging Kobe, Garnett and others, agreeing to fight again next season.

Bill Walton stared at the live monitoring screen and said: "The Clippers have completed a major reversal after falling behind 1 to 3, and their mentality has been raised to the highest ranking of the Jedi Knights. Pistons or Heat, there is almost no chance of winning against them, and I want to tell you loudly that a new dynasty has been born."

(End of this chapter)