Basketball starts with breathing

Haslem won a contract with the Suns and jumped to become the Suns' main starter.

This is an incredible thing in his opinion, because there has never been a player who could not even play in the NBA before, who can come to the NBA and become a starter directly. There are two reasons. Yu, the team was almost sold out, so the competition became much smaller after he arrived. Second, because he was recommended by Lu Yu, the team still attached great importance to him.

In short, he can become the starter, thanks to Lu Yu.

So when he got the prepaid salary, the first thing he wanted to do was to invite Lu Yu to dinner, but Lu Yu refused directly: "In the future, whether you can stay in the Suns depends on your performance, until you really stay. Come down, let's talk about dinner."

On October 10, the regular season officially started.

The first battle was the two teams in the finals last year. The Bulls played against the Lakers. The Lakers lost to the Bulls in an upset, and they got the opening black.

How should I put it, these two teams are no longer the original finals teams. No one could have imagined that after one summer, these two teams have undergone earth-shaking changes.

The Lakers' F4 disintegrated, leaving Kobe Bryant alone.

O'Neal traveled east to the Heat, Malone was unemployed at home, and Payton went to Green Kai.

The Bulls have changed even more. There are not many old players left in the championship lineup. However, Wang Zhizhi's performance made the Bulls fans shine. In the whole game, Wang Zhizhi scored 19 points, 14 rebounds and 6 assists. The key is high efficiency. Let many Bulls fans directly say that the Chinese men's basketball team must be a high-quality product.

No wonder Bulls fans say that.

Now the league knows that among the Chinese players, except for Battelle, the other four Lu Yu, Yao Ming, Wang Zhizhi, and even Yi Jianlian are all outstanding players.

You must know that a few of them just overturned the US men's basketball team this summer.

If it weren't for Marbury's kick, the Chinese men's basketball team might have won the Olympic championship again.

Of course, there are not so many ifs in competitive sports, but the rise of Chinese basketball is an indisputable fact.

After the game between the two teams started, Kobe began to score continuously. The Bulls had a good overall defense, and Wang Zhizhi's awareness of assisting defense was also very good, so Kobe finally found the feeling of a little blacksmith.

When Kobe Bryant is hitting the iron, it becomes difficult for the Lakers to win.

This was also the time of Lu Yu's previous life. The Lakers were the norm in the past few years. Kobe's blacksmith name also started at that time.

Kobe wanted to win the game, but it was difficult to win alone. He could only single out opponents at the mid-to-long distance. When he entered the inside line, he was pinched. The efficiency was a mess. The best way for him to win is to watch more Lu Yu's videos.

These are the words of Zen master Phil Jackson.

If Kobe can't play like Lu Yu, many of Jackson's tactics can't be played, and it will be very difficult for the Lakers to win.

In fact, Jackson prefers O'Neal to stay with the Lakers.

Everyone knows that before Jackson came to the Lakers, the Lakers could not win the championship.

The Lakers already had O'Neal and Kobe by then.

At the beginning, the Lakers did treat O'Neal as the cornerstone of the team. The team's tactics revolved around him, and he was also the team's first choice for offense. All of this, with Kobe's growth, slowly changed until 98- In the second round of the playoffs in the 99 season, when they met the Spurs, the team's atmosphere suddenly changed.

The playoffs started in 99. Facing the Rockets in the first round, Olajuwon and Barkley had reached the end of their careers. O'Neal turned upside down in the Rockets, contributing 29.5 points and 10.3 rebounds;

In the second round against the Spurs, O'Neal's scoring average dropped to 23.7 points and rebounds rose to 13.

There are two reasons for this change. First, O'Neal was isolated by Kobe Bryant and could not receive the ball inside; second, the coach's tactics changed, which limited O'Neal's playing time and reduced the tactics around him.

O'Neal was isolated, all because the first game hit rate is too low.In the first game with the Spurs, O'Neal's shooting percentage was only 31.6%. As an inside player, in the 98-99 season, O'Neal's regular-season shooting percentage was as high as 57.6%. With such a half-cut shooting percentage, the Lakers did not give O'Neal in the second game. To prove his chance, the number of his shots dropped from 19 in the first game to 11 in the second game, while the shooting percentage has reached 63.6%. O'Neal adapted to the game, but he was not recognized by his teammates. Kobe Bryant has repeatedly Looking at O'Neal, who had already settled on the inside, opened his hand for the ball, and then passed the ball to No. 41 Rice.

With more and more pick-and-roll cooperation between Kobe and Rice, O'Neal became a one-man role, completely isolated.

In the series between O'Neal and the Spurs, the average number of shots per game was 16.7. In the first round of the Rockets, the average number of shots per game was 22. It seems that the number of shots is quite a lot, but it includes the offensive rebounds that O'Neal himself made. O'Neal averaged 13 of his 6.5 rebounds per game from the front plate.

There's also O'Neal's scoring, which has dropped overall, but free throws, which have risen from 6.5 points per game in the first round to 7.3 points per game.

Without Kobe feeding the ball, O'Neal continued to fight for himself to get more offensive opportunities. Duncan and Robinson couldn't restrain O'Neal at all. O'Neal's turnovers did not increase, and the shooting percentage in the next three games was also 3%. Above, the first thing that really limited O'Neal was Kobe Bryant.

At the time, the head coach Kurt Rambis was still inexperienced, unable to control the players, and made random changes.

Initially, the Lakers did a good job in defense, O'Neal was able to attract Robinson's attention, and Duncan came over from time to time to help defend, which gave Rice a chance to play on the Lakers' frontline. Rice scored 21 points in the first game, allowing Lan to play. Bees mistakenly thought he could provoke the team's offensive firepower.

As a result, in the following games, Rice and Kobe continued to play the role of the main offense, drying O'Neal, mainly responsible for defense, and even shortened O'Neal's playing time. O'Neal played 2 minutes in the second game and 34 minutes in the third game. Since the first round against the Rockets, the playing time has been reduced by more than 3 minutes.

On the offensive end, Rice made 2 more shots than O'Neal in games 3 and 7, and scored only 2 more points. The offensive efficiency was completely inferior to that of O'Neal.

After being behind 0-3, Rambis decided to reuse O'Neal and return the main attacking position to him. It was useless to fall behind by a large score. Moreover, after righting O'Neal, Kobe and Rice did not buy Rambis's account.

In the last game, Kobe and Rice made a total of 26 shots and scored 27 points, while O'Neal made 23 shots and scored 36 points. The negative game between the two caused the Lakers to lose again and were swept out.

After three consecutive seasons without a breakthrough in the playoffs, the Lakers changed their head coach again, this time they hired the champion coach Phil Jackson.It was also the arrival of Phil Jackson that changed the fate of the Lakers and O'Neal.

The first thing Jackson did when he took office was to straighten O'Neal and suppress Kobe Bryant

In the summer after the 1999 loss to the Spurs, O'Neal didn't practice, but was still thinking about how to win a championship.After hearing that Phil Jackson was in charge of the Lakers, O'Neal took the initiative to visit the head coach. After the two exchanged, Phil Jackson made two requests to O'Neal, one was to lose 15 pounds, and the other was to have a good talk with Kobe.

Although O'Neal has repeatedly claimed that there is no contradiction between him and Kobe, anyone with a discerning eye can see from the series that their relationship is not very good. To win, team leaders must be united.To reduce O'Neal's weight is to make his body lighter and more impactful on the court. Phil Jackson hopes to see O'Neal score 40 points on the court.

Led by Phil Jackson, the conversation between O'Neal and Kobe was actually just a notification by Phil Jackson to straighten O'Neal and let Kobe feel at ease as the second-in-command.

Therefore, it was O'Neal who was righted by Jackson at the beginning, and this time Kobe was in the position, and he was not in the mood to coach.

He also doesn't believe that with Kobe's style of play, he can lead the team to win.

So even when interviewed by the media, Lu Yu was used to ridicule Kobe Bryant directly.

Phil Jackson, who supported O'Neal for 5 years, tolerated his laziness, respected his talent, and gave him enough support to be the team leader.

On the 30th, the Suns played away to Seattle and started the season opener.

Experts predicted before the game that many people are optimistic about the SuperSonics. First, because the Suns performed poorly in the preseason, and secondly, because the SuperSonics are really strong this year. Jin star Yi Jianlian shines even more on the pitch.

This game is also the NBA's first China Derby this year.

The match was broadcast live on five sets of CCTV. Just yesterday, Wang Zhizhi's match was broadcast. The commentators were full of praise for Wang Zhizhi's performance. Today, they are even more looking forward to the showdown between Lu Yu and Yi Jianlian.

The team of another Chinese player, Yao Ming, just won the Pacers 93-81. Yao Ming only played 20 minutes, got 13 points and 7 rebounds and went to rest. There is really nothing to do for him. Warriors The team is also more aware of how to protect a big man like Yao Ming.

In Lu Yu's previous life, Yao Ming was used too much by the Rockets, coupled with the heavy task of the national team, and finally ended his career with a hard fracture.

Before the game, Zhang Lili did not introduce the Suns and SuperSonics lineup, but complained that the Warriors gave Yao Ming too little playing time, so Yao Ming may not be able to make the All-Star due to poor statistics in the future.

Does he really know the ball?
Whether Yao Ming is an All-Star or not has a gross relationship with the data.

It's finally time to introduce the lineup of the two sides.

"The Suns' starting lineup is as expected before the game, but Lu Yu's teammates are obviously weak in scoring this time. Lu Yu needs to make more shots."

Xu Jicheng said: "I think Lu Yu's current position may reduce the number of shots, and he may make contributions on the defensive end. After all, the Suns' defense in the preseason was really bad, and they desperately need Lu Yu's defense. The gate guards the rim."

Zhang Weiping said with a smile: "It makes sense for you to say that. Let's take a look at the game and see how the coaches of both sides arranged it."

The starters of both sides prepare to jump the ball in the middle circle.

Sun Five: Lu Yu, Haslem, Marion, Richardson, Nash.

SuperSonics Five: Ray Allen, Brent Barry, Rashard Lewis, Yi Jianlian, Reggie Evans.

Since Wang Zhizhi's performance, Supersonic coach McMillan's eyes on Yi Jianlian have been wrong. With so many Chinese players playing, Yi Jianlian, a high-ranked player who graduated from Lu Yu's alma mater, can't possibly fail to play.

What's more, Yi Jianlian is so young and has such good physical fitness, why didn't he find this treasure last season.

So decisively arranged Yi Jianlian to start.

However, Yi Jianlian's style of play overlapped with that of Rashad Lewis, and Lu Yu shook his head at such an arrangement.

With such an arrangement, it's definitely fine to play a normal team, but when they encounter a team with strong interior strength, or a team with strong forward line breakthrough ability, they will have a headache.

The striker is strong, and Lewis's footsteps are like a turtle, and he was passed in one step.

With a strong inside line, Yi Jianlian's current physique is still unbearable.

Lu Yu is also very strange. According to reason, Yi Jianlian can hang on to the meat, but after entering the NBA for two years, Yi Jianlian still has no meat on his body.

What he didn't know was that Yi Jianlian did not deliberately increase muscle because of the large amount of training in projection and basic skills.

But strength training has not fallen off, so purely in terms of strength and confrontation, Yi Jianlian just looks thin, but in fact there is meat in the bones.

Lu Yu jumped the ball, facing Yi Jianlian.

Yi Jianlian always thought that his jumping ability would not lose even if he faced the American Jump Boys, but when Lu Yu was standing opposite, he suddenly felt a little guilty.

The referee blows the whistle.

The basketball is thrown into the air.

The two jumped up at the same time, and just when Yi Jianlian thought he would touch the ball first, Lu Yu's hand stretched out from the side and gave the ball directly to Nash.

Yi Jianlian was stunned to find that his bounce was actually one hand lower than Lu Yu's.

You must know that his height is only 2cm shorter than Lu Yu.

The Suns attacked. After Nash dribbled the ball past half court, he passed the ball to Lu Yu. Everyone pulled away. Haslem came up to pick and roll for Lu Yu. Supersonic center Evans complained.

Damn, you, a center, don't fight me on the inside, just run to the outside.

It's actually called a pick-and-roll!
This is Alliance No.1?
I think it's almost the first soft egg in the league!

Evans looked down on Lu Yu, but Yi Jianlian didn't dare to relax his vigilance. After Lu Yu entered the inside line, he shouted a pincer attack at Evans.

Although Evans was reluctant, he still listened to Yi Jianlian's words.

Supersonic coach McMillan nodded secretly, it seems that Yi Jianlian is not only an excellent player, but also has a bit of charisma.

Lu Yu saw the pinch and divided the ball to the middle.

Haslem took a step inside the three-point line and missed the basket with an open jumper, and he was still a little nervous.

Supersonic attack, the rhythm is very slow, Ray Allen, the shortest of the five players on the field, is 196cm, and the other players are more than two meters tall.

This height, comparable to last season's Bulls.