warrior godfather

Chapter 401
May 5, Los Angeles, Staples Center.

After a day of rest, G3 of the Warriors and Lakers series was staged as scheduled.

That night, the Staples Center was packed, and the Lakers fans knew very well that the Lakers were in a desperate situation with a 0:2 deficit. The Warriors fans who cheered and cheered for the Warriors couldn't buy tickets, couldn't enter the stadium to watch the game, and could only return in dismay.

The Lakers players also know that G3 is not for them to lose. There has never been any team in the history of the NBA for more than 0 years that can come back from a 3:[-] deficit. If you play enough games, this record will be broken sooner or later, but no one thinks that the Lakers will be the pioneers.

Therefore, after the start of the game, the Lakers will release all their energy, directly increase the intensity of the game, and play it as a "win or go home" life-and-death battle.

And Mike Brown said that after careful consideration, he finally decided to go all the way to the black and continue to stick to the original two-tower strategy. Outside the line, if Curry initiates a pick-and-roll one or two steps beyond the three-point line, let him do it.

The first priority of Gasol and Bynum on the field is to guard the penalty area. Mike Brown would rather give Curry a little space than see Curry attract the Lakers' defensive attention. 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' first-half points were concentrated on the outside, but as Curry scored more and more three-pointers, Gasol and Bynum couldn't hold back. During the pick-and-roll, it expanded a lot unconsciously, and Mike Brown also acquiesced in this behavior, and then the Warriors increased the frequency of air cuts, and the scoring in the restricted area suddenly increased. At this time, Curry began to make three-pointers again.

Under the Warriors' strategy of avoiding reality and avoiding reality, Gasol and Bynum were at a loss. In the end, they panicked and made frequent mistakes. Brown didn't know how to adjust. He could only watch helplessly as the balance of victory gradually tilted towards the Warriors and eventually lost the game.

In this game, Mike Brown has fully absorbed the lessons of the previous two games, but expansion is not enough, and contraction must be maintained!

Mike Brown is indeed relatively rigid in offense, but he is quite accomplished in defense. After two games, he can see that the Warriors are not a three-point team. On the contrary, the Warriors attack inside and outside. The combination of the inside and outside is balanced, the middle distance is not dropped, and the offensive end is very balanced.

The difference between them and other teams is nothing more than Curry's three-pointer with the ball. If anyone pays too much attention to Curry, he will fall into Coach Z's trap!

After Mike Brown discovered this, he was very excited. He believed that the reason why the Lakers lost G1 and G2 was not because Curry played well, but because the Lakers themselves paid too much attention to Curry's three-pointers and relaxed the protection of the penalty area. The Warriors took advantage of it and eventually lost the game.

As long as you insist on shrinking the frame, you will definitely win. Curry can't beat the Lakers to death alone!
Mike Brown upholds this principle and arranges 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 opened the point difference to more than 15 points.

Seeing this scene, Mike Brown heaved a sigh of relief, and his heart that had been hanging for a moment finally fell back.

It was the last way he could think of, and if it didn't work, there was nothing he could do.

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On the other side of the technical stage, Zhang Yu stood in front of the bench, watching the increasingly unfavorable game situation on the court, with a serious expression on his face.

If he knew what Mike Brown was thinking, he would definitely scoff at him.

It is true that the Warriors have fallen into a disadvantage in this game, but the reason is by no means what Mike Brown thinks.

Gasol and Bynum no longer expanded outside, squatting inside, and indeed guarded the Lakers' restricted area airtight. It was difficult for the Warriors to cut to the basket to score, and Curry and Butler also greatly increased the difficulty of breaking through.

But in this way, there will definitely be loopholes in the Lakers' perimeter defense. Curry's three-point shots have become more calm, and it is easier for Clay and Butler to get three-point opportunities by running with the help of screens.

Zhang Yu did indeed do this. After he found that the Lakers were defending the basket, he immediately called a timeout and arranged a lot of three-point tactics for Curry, Klay and Butler. He first opened the situation from the outside and waited for the Lakers' defense After the expansion, the restricted area will be self-defeating.

However, Zhang Yu miscalculated. There was nothing wrong with his adjustment, but except for Curry's shooting, which was still as accurate as ever, Klay and Butler's three-pointers were extremely poor, and they repeatedly missed shots. It was an opportunity to hold it in hand, and it eventually became a strike again and again.

The Lakers took advantage of this opportunity to continuously expand their lead and widen the point difference to more than 15 points.

broken.

Seeing the performance of the two of them, Zhang Yu's heart skipped a beat, and a bad feeling arose.

He has no way to make adjustments. The Lakers deploy heavy troops inside, and they don’t switch defenses when they cover. They make up their minds to stick to the penalty area and the mid-range, and give the Warriors a chance to shoot a three-pointer. The Warriors must grasp it, otherwise the Lakers are even more impossible to change. Defensive strategy, the Warriors don't want to open the situation.

However, Clay and Butler's inaccurate three-pointers made Zhang Yu's arrangement come to naught. Throughout the first half, the Warriors could barely maintain the situation without being completely beaten by Curry alone.

……

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 Clay, but he still left Butler on the court. Although he has a bad shooting touch, his defense is still there. He can score points through piecemeal breakthroughs, which can relieve Curry's pressure. .

After Danny Green came on the court, he immediately made two three-pointers, which quickly helped the team close the point difference to within 10 points, and Zhang Yu, who had been watching him nervously from the sidelines, was refreshed.

But the good times didn't last long. After he made these two three-pointers, he fell silent. Although he made two more three-pointers intermittently, he failed to gain momentum and was endured by the Lakers.

But his 12 points still made a great contribution to the team. Since then, the point difference between the two teams has never expanded to double digits. The Lakers maintained a lead of about 10 points, but the Warriors also stabilized the situation. .

However, what makes Zhang Yu feel very helpless is that the Warriors seem to only have Curry and Danny Green who feel online. The posture of shooting three-pointers is already very clumsy, and now I can't make it. Every shot will cause ridicule and ridicule from Lakers fans.

In the end, the Warriors could only rely on Curry's stable output alone, and the inefficient scoring of others after stacking a large number of shots, trying to bite the score, and dealt with the Lakers for the entire game.

But when the outside line is still unable to open the situation, the Lakers can indeed bear Curry's scoring alone. After all, the Lakers have Kobe.

The keynote of this round of the series is the contest between Kobe and Curry. The Lakers can't guard Curry, and the Warriors can't guard Kobe. Both of them can score about 30 points in each game. It depends on who is more efficient and stable. , whose teammates are stronger.

In the first two games, Curry not only scored 30+ points in a row, but also involved the defense of the Lakers and drove the overall offense of the Warriors, while Kobe played alone and scored a lot of personal points, but did not change the defense of the Warriors, so the Warriors Finally won the Lakers.

In this game, Kobe was also single-handedly invincible. Butler, Leonard, Clay, and even Tony Allen couldn't prevent Kobe's offense and could only reduce his efficiency.

Kobe also did not change the Warriors' defense. The offensive efficiency of other Lakers players did not skyrocket, but the Warriors' own offense had problems. The change of direction showed that the Lakers' offense was 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 the leadership of Curry. Curry scored 3 points in the last 8 minutes, while Kobe only scored 5 points on 1 of 2 shots. But the Lakers, relying on the leading advantages accumulated in the first three quarters, still defended the Warriors' counterattack at the last moment.

In the end, the Lakers defeated the Warriors 99:92, recovered a game, and avoided falling behind 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.

But apart from the two, the performances of teammates are very different. Gasol has 21 points and 8 rebounds, Bynum has 18 points and 12 rebounds, while Butler has only 14 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists, and Clay has 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 home court advantage. As long as they win G4 again, they will be able to return to Oakland to fight the Warriors at Tianwangshan. The outcome is still unknown.

Zhang Yu is very dissatisfied with this result. If they can win G3 and rewrite the big score to 3:0, the Warriors will advance to the Western Conference Finals with one foot. Now, the Lakers have been pulled back from the cliff, and their fighting spirit will become very strong. tenacious.

However, he is not worried that the Warriors will lose this round of the series. The Lakers, like the Mavericks, have a very aging lineup. It is already lucky for them to win a game with a gambling defense, and it is impossible to keep winning.

He remembers very clearly that the Lakers were swept by the Thunder Gentleman with a score of 2012:1 in the 4 playoffs and were eliminated in the Western Conference semifinals.

Now, the Warriors and the Lakers also meet in the Western Conference semifinals. The Warriors' offense is not weaker than the Thunder, and their defense is better than the Thunder. There is no reason to lose to the Lakers.

The reason why the Warriors will lose tonight is entirely because of the fluctuations in the Warriors' own offense. Rong, but the scoring stability is not good enough. It takes time to grow and temper. In the high-intensity playoffs, the touch will definitely fluctuate.

And Zhang Yu can be sure that this phenomenon will not be a flash in the pan. Even after they became famous, Clay and Butler were never known for their offensive stability, let alone when they are still immature?
And Leonard is still very immature, and he can't even talk about scoring ability; Needless to say, Green, Zhang Yu never expected his scoring ability.

Zhang Yu is mentally prepared. In this playoffs, the Warriors will definitely have a lot of offensive power outages, but this situation of almost the entire team's power outages still makes him a little bit broken. He can only pray that such occurrences will be as rare as possible in the future. situation.

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After the game, the Warriors boarded the bus back to the hotel. Everyone had recovered from the failure and frustration after the loss, talking and laughing.

Zhang Yu sat with Silas. Hearing the chatter and laughter from the back of the carriage, he became in a better mood, and chatted with Silas.

"Stephen, it's really not easy to win the championship." Zhang Yu said with emotion.

Silas gave him a surprised look and said:

"Ronan, did I hear you right? You are so confident in the championship, yet you still find it difficult?"

"Of course, taking today's game as an example, we formulated a perfect game plan, the players executed it well, and the Lakers' tactics were completely in line with our expectations, but because of the bad collective feeling, we lost in the end. After the game... who can guarantee that this situation will not happen in the future? If you lose a game because the hand feels bad, and the opponent explodes again, then it will be a tiebreaker? At that time, you will really be resigned to fate." Zhang Yu He snapped his fingers and said.

Silas shook his head and said with a smile:

"Ronan, it's not your calculation. If I ask you to say that, the championship is purely based on luck."

Zhang Yu also shook his head and laughed:

"I'm just expressing my feelings, but today's game really made me think a lot. Of course, the championship must be based on strength, but luck is also very important. Look at the Heat, they beat the Celtics in the first round. Seventh, 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 in the second round, which was also a tough bone. I'm hurt, hey, yes, let me see..."

Zhang Yu seemed to suddenly remember something, took out his phone, swipe his finger on the screen, handed the phone to Silas, and said with a little gloating:

"Hehe, let's see, the Heat lost to the Pacers again today, trailing 1:2, James and Wade scored 28 and 24 points respectively, neither of which could win the game, while the Pacers won by a total of 3 points, If Bosh is here, they will definitely not lose this game, and it will be difficult for the Heat..."

Silas took the phone, looked at it for a while, handed it back to Zhang Yu, and said:

"Are you 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 have played seven games in the first round , Bosh may not be injured, the culprit is still you, Ronan."

Zhang Yu took the phone and said seriously:

"Don't talk nonsense, can you call it a cushion for stepping up for Stephen? That's called doing justice for the sky!"

(End of this chapter)