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Chapter 247 How to Restrict O'Neal 【Subscription】

"The Bulls lost two games in a row. It seems that the Bulls still can't beat the Lakers..."

"Yeah, Cartwright still doesn't seem to be able to find a solution to the Lakers. Instead, the Lakers strangled the bull to death."

"Can't say the same, at least the G2 Bulls played well."

"G2 Lu Yu started to play without the ball from the very beginning and scored 47 points, but he still couldn't change the team's losing situation."

"It can only be said that this game is Lu Yu's best effort."

"Is it his teammates who are not doing well?"

"No, it's mainly because the Lakers played so well. Kobe and O'Neal scored 30+ points at the same time. How can you let a Lu Yu handle it?"

The Bulls lost two games in a row at home with the Lakers, and the final score came to 2-0.

Although he lost the first two away games, Lu Yu fell to the ground again and again and threw the ball into the basket. He used precise shots again and again, and quickly changed directions, so that the fans at the scene stood up and encouraged him. .

Many Lakers fans saw the shadow of Iverson last year from Lu Yu.

When Lu Yu left the Staples Center, many fans gathered around to look for Lu Yu's autograph, because in the eyes of most Lakers fans, it would be years if they left... The Bulls can't come back!

4-0, the series will end at the Bulls' United Center.

Lu Yu will not return to Los Angeles, at least the Bulls have no chance this season!
In the G2 game, Lu Yu made 22 of 16 shots, 8 of 7 free throws, and scored 47 points, 6 assists, 6 rebounds and 4 steals. The Zen master did not give Lu Yu a three-point chance. Most of Lu Yu's points came from Changliang. point.

Artest scored 16 points and 7 rebounds, Richardson 18 points and 6 rebounds, Miller 12 points and 17 rebounds, the Bulls team scored in double figures, and Miller scored 17 rebounds in front of O'Neal .

The number of rebounds for the Bulls is actually 10 higher than that of the Lakers.

But this time, the Bulls, who mastered the rebound, still failed to cross the mountain of the Lakers. In the end, they were only one step away, losing the game by four points, 117-121.

In the final moments of regular time, the Bulls were only three points behind.

Cartwright resorted to slashing shark tactics, O'Neal missed two free throws from the free throw line, and Lu Yu dragged the game into overtime from a distance of one meter from the three-point line.

It's a pity that in the overtime, the Zen master was more sophisticated. After leading by three points again in the overtime, a timeout replaced O'Neal.

It made Cartwright want to play the shark hacking tactics again, but as soon as he came on the court, he found that the shark was gone.

Zhang Weiping commented: "From the perspective of coaching, Cartwright is obviously worse than Jackson. Of course, this is not Cartwright's fault. After all, he has only been in the coaching position for a few months, and Jackson has been in the position for several years. Ten years of coaching."

Sun Yiping also said during the live broadcast: "Lu Yu is really invincible with both fists and four hands. If the Bulls want to wrestle with the Lakers next year, they must take action in the free market this summer."

Lu Yu scored 47 points by himself, but O'Neal and Kobe scored 31 and the other scored 30. They really couldn't hold it.

After the game, no one among basketball experts was optimistic about the Bulls, and Lu Hei, who had been silent for a long time before, also quarreled with Lu Mi.

Lu Hei said: "Lu Yu is a rookie, and he can't be the boss at all. So what if he scored 47 points? It's not empty hacking. Basketball is for five people. What's the use of scoring so many points alone?"

Lu Mi said: "If Lu Yu hadn't scored so many points, then the Bulls would not have been able to last until overtime, and they would have lost like a mountain in the first game. Only Lu Yu could save the Bulls."

Lu Hei said: "Lu Yu is a cancer. If he really has the ability, he will rush into the inside and take O'Neal for a layup. Whatever he shoots near the three-point line, it's still two points, as long as he shoots a few more three-pointers. If you don't win, his shooting selection is a problem, you see last year's Iverson, rushed into the restricted area again and again, fell to the ground again and again, that is the real hero."

Lu Mi: "Are you blind? Did the Lakers give him a three-pointer opportunity? Only one step inside the three-point line on the entire court leaves some defensive space. If you don't shoot there, where should you shoot? Besides, your rush to the inside line, Ivor. Sen rushed last year, did he win?"

Lu Hei: "Can't we create opportunities if we don't give them opportunities?"

Lu Mi: "Could it be that Lu Yu didn't make two points? The layup is two points, and the shooting is also two points. What's wrong with his choice!"

Lu Hei: "The closer you get to the basket, the higher your hit rate. You don't understand such a simple truth. You Lu Mi are a bunch of ball-blind people. You only know that you like Lu Yu's appearance."

Lu Mi: "Please don't forget, Lu Yu's hit rate is 70% today. You know the ball so well, don't you know what this hit rate means?"

This is a record, and no player in the NBA has managed to score 45+ points while still shooting more than 70 percent from the field.

There has been a lot of noise on the Internet, but the magazines and websites on Snoopy's side have become the main force to brag about Lu Yu, and they have temporarily overwhelmed Lu Hei.

At this time, Lu Yu's advantage of mastering the media came out.

Others want to discredit Lu Yu and quarrel with Lu Yu, but they can't do it.

Lu Yu didn't bother to worry about this kind of thing, but he still said a few words in the news interview after returning to Chicago.

"Everyone thinks we lose two games, it's the end of the world, and some people think we should lose because we're not as good as the Lakers."

"I don't know if anyone has thought about it. It's Los Angeles, the home of the Lakers. Isn't it right for them to win? If we can win a game, we'll make a profit."

"Of course, I don't mean to put the blame for the loss on the home and away grounds."

"I mean, they can defend their home court, and we can defend our home court, come on, Lakers, in Chicago, you're not going to take a win."

The best thing about the Finals is winning on the road.

The hardest part of the finals is winning the game away.

Otherwise, there would be no team fighting for home advantage!

At home, it's always easier to win.

It's just that everyone is used to sweeping the finals or 4-1, sometimes ending 4-2, and rarely playing all seven games. In the NBA's nearly 60-year history, so far this season, there have only been 12 finals. Game [-].

Why so few?

Because the power of the east and west is not balanced, there will always be a situation of one-sidedness. In the early years, the east was strong, and the west was strong later. This is also related to the economic development policy of the United States.

Only when the team has money can they recruit.

So when the Bulls lose, fans and the media will directly think that the Lakers must have won. In NBA history, the team with a 2-0 lead has a 78% chance of winning the championship.

Until Lu Yu stood up and said, the Bulls will also defend their home court.

Everyone was awakened one after another. This year, the Bulls' home winning percentage is not low, and even the team with the highest home winning percentage in the league.

Who will kill the deer, I don't know yet.

Lu Yu got up from Charlize Theron's bed in the morning and came to the arena to start a day of training.

Cartwright came in.

While Lu Yu was resting, he asked, "Lu, will you be depressed if you lose the first two games?"

"meeting!"

Lu Yu answered honestly: "If we can win the next game, the pressure will be much less now, especially for a young team like us, sometimes pressure may not become motivation, but obviously, we still underestimate Opponents, that's the biggest reason we failed."

Cartwright didn't expect Lu Yu to think so far, and when he carefully observed Lu Yu's expression, it didn't seem like he was lying: "What do you think about the G3 game, what should we do?"

"Restrict O'Neal!"

Lu Yu sighed: "Although I know it's difficult, but restricting O'Neal, we will win half of the battle. The key lies in restricting O'Neal's method."

"But the problem is that O'Neal can't be restrained!" Cartwright sighed.

Cartwright's frustrating hair has been falling out these days.

Lu Yu seldom interfered with the coach's coaching tactics before, because he was just a player, a player, a coach, and the management. There are three dimensions, and they are not involved in each other. Too much interference will only provoke others to dislike it.

But now it's the finals, and it's the most critical juncture after a season.

And Cartwright really had no choice.

Lu Yu decided to give it a try. He doesn't have any ideas now, but he remembers that in his previous life, the peak OK combination lost to the Spurs and the Pistons for two consecutive years in the 2002-2003 and 2003-2004 seasons.

Both rounds of the series have certain reference significance.

After the Spurs won the championship in 1999, they fell to the Lakers in 01 and 02.

And they were all swept out, but the Spurs defeated the nemesis Lakers in 03. Why did the Spurs not defeat the Lakers until 03?
Because the Spurs added depth to the bench that season.

The Spurs have always been the poorest team in the league, and the owner's assets are not worth the players' worth.

This made it difficult for the Spurs to reinforce. Similarly, although the Spurs won the championship in the 1999 season, most of the players were very old.Of course, with the exception of Duncan, and the 01 and 02 seasons are older than in 1999, it can be said that the Spurs are completely Duncan dragging a group of "old, weak and sick" to compete with the peak OK.

But the 03 season was different for the Spurs. The summer of 02 was the beginning of the Spurs' GDP portfolio.Since then, the depth of the Spurs' lineup has increased, and with the addition of "gangsters" such as captain Stephen Jackson and Bruce Bowen, the Spurs finally passed the Lakers.

The Spurs fell at the feet of the Lakers because of the lack of depth in the lineup, and they also won because of the depth of the lineup.

It's definitely too late to add depth to the lineup, but the Spurs have one thing worth learning from the Bulls. That year, the Spurs strangled everything except O'Neal and Kobe.

Kind of like how the Bulls played against the Nets.

The Bulls locked up the scoring of all role players except Kidd, and the shooting percentage of the role players dropped. Even if Kidd scored 30+ points, the team lost the series.

The Spurs and Lakers series had similarities.

In that year's Lakers, the hit rate of the role players was ridiculously low. Don't say that it was a bad hand. Could it be a bad series?

To put it bluntly, it was the Spurs' targeted defense that worked.

This cuts off the linkage between the role players and the OK group.

Throughout the series, Bryant averaged 3.7 assists per game.

At first glance, words such as "no passing" and "independence" may pop up in your mind, but this time, Kobe is really wronged, with 3.7 assists, which is already the highest in the Lakers team, tied with O'Neal .

The Lakers had 16.4 assists, 4.2 less than the Spurs.

Therefore, the entire series was almost all singles with OK balls. The defensive giants such as Duncan, Robinson, Jackson, and Bowen cut off the connection between "OK" and others. Therefore, although Kobe Bryant averaged 32.3 points per game in the series and O'Neal 25.3 points, but After that is Fisher's 10 points, and then no one on the team in double figures.

Besides Kobe's scoring, although he averaged 32.3 points per game, his shooting percentage was only 43.4%.On the other hand, the Spurs, Ginobili, Parker, and Bowen Clayton have all blossomed, and the Spurs five three-pointers have shot more than 50%.

In other words, people who defend Kobe Bryant alone must limit Kobe's ability.

Besides the Pistons, the Pistons can win the Lakers, to a large extent due to luck.

First, the Lakers took a hit, and they could have won had Karl Malone not been injured.

Second, O'Neal is competing with the Lakers management.

Third, Kobe was troubled by the Eagle County lawsuit.

The young man thought he was going to spend the rest of his life in prison, when he couldn't devote himself to the game of basketball.

Can't blame him for that.

If Lu Yu was him, it would be the same.

Every day he was going to Denver, he felt like he was hopeless, the media, everybody was talking about him losing the case.

He has lost his wife's trust and he needs to regain control of his life.

But people don't understand that his focus is not on basketball.

The Lakers have so many problems.

People forget that when they first started working together, they went 19-2, Malone averaged 19 points, Payton 20, Kobe 17 and O'Neal 18.

But with Malone down, everyone couldn't concentrate on playing.

But they still made it to the finals.

In the Finals, the only thing the Pistons can learn from is their defensive tactics against O'Neal.

The first is to defend the ball from the front. The goal of this defensive strategy is to limit O'Neal's receiving. When O'Neal wants the ball in the low post, he will put pressure on O'Neal to defend around the front, and at the same time limit the passer, so that he cannot Pass the ball with ease and even cause turnovers.

The second is low-post double-teaming. In defending O'Neal, Ben Wallace is used to resist O'Neal in the low post and O'Neal. Big Ben is also one of the few players in the league who can withstand O'Neal. Assisted defense, and Prince harassment on the line. In the 04 finals, the Pistons reduced O'Neal's data to 26.6 points and 10.8 rebounds.

It was a successful defense.

Although Cartwright has used both of these tactics, they are not emphasized.

The difficulty lies in how to lock the role players after the flanking attack, which is a very contradictory problem.

The third is to play fast break to consume O'Neal, which is also a good way. This style of play is suitable for run-and-gun tactics. There are many rounds of offense and defense. Using this style of play can greatly consume O'Neal's physical strength. After a long time, O'Neal will definitely Take more rest.

But for the era where the inside line is king, the run-and-gun strategy is definitely not popular.

Especially this tactic, the Bulls have not played before, cramming, is it too late?
Mutumbo once said that in order to deal with O'Neal, we must do two things well. First, we must ensure that we will not be bumped. Second, we must be careful not to be hit in the head by the dunked basketball. In part for O'Neal, the only way to win is to wait until O'Neal is exhausted.

However, you can give it a try if you speed up properly.

　There should be no more today, don't wait, I have to work overtime at night to make orders...

　　
　
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