I was determined to be bad, but I went straight to the Basketball Hall of Fame

Chapter 206 God's fine-tuning (third change)

After the first half, Min Congda returned to the locker room with the players.

At the last moment, Lao Yu made a three-pointer, which led to the end of the first half, which hurt morale.

The Clippers players really tried their best in the first half. They fell behind by a big score at the beginning and did not panic all the way.

Under the passionate leadership of PJ Tucker, everyone went all out to recover the score one by one.

Once overtook, once thought that the point difference could be widened, but the three-pointers of Kobe and Lao Yu extinguished the morale of the Clippers time and time again.

This is how championship-level teams play on the court, and the playoffs will not be so easy to lose the chain.

As Min Congda's lifelong enemy, Fisher Fisher, Min Congda's evaluation of him also changed tonight.

"This dead bald man, why do you still fight against me?"

The content of Enemy of Life has been further increased.

Min Congda rarely entered the team locker room in midfield.

This time he could see that everyone was still a little frustrated.

Playing a game sometimes depends on one breath.

Once the morale of the team slackens, everyone's concentration will decline.

Concentration declines, defense slackens, and offensive turnovers increase.

Therefore, the psychological factor of morale must not be underestimated.

It often has a decisive impact on the game.

After all, sports games are sometimes wars.

Min Congda watched Lao Deng work hard to encourage the players.

Let everyone cheer up and continue to fight for victory.

But the effect can only be said to be average.

If it works, the Clippers won't fall behind 0:3.

Min Congda called Lao Deng aside and told him to stop pouring chicken soup.

He said, "Mike, make a tactical adjustment."

Deng Lewei feels that he is more like an assistant coach now, and Min Congda is the head coach.

However, Min Congda's adjustments were indeed useful. Today's first half was their best half of the series.

"There is no problem with what we do defensively, and we will continue to maintain it. We have to change offensively. We have to give up the low-post offense. Zach and Xiaojia are all transferred to the high post. More pick-and-roll, more mid-range and three-point shooting. Attack from the outside as much as possible. Initiate, let Zach and Xiaojia more be the end point."

Min Congda gave instructions, which made Deng Lewei stunned.

Give up the low position?Didn't the Clippers' offense collapse by more than half?

Zach Randolph's low-post offense has always been the Clippers' core tactic.

Relying on Randolph's low-post offense in the regular season, the Clippers survived many tough battles.

As a result, in the playoffs, can you suddenly say no?

However, Deng Lewei felt that Min Congda's suggestion actually made sense.

The first few games, Randolph did not play the regular season power.

The scoring average dropped from 20 points in the regular season to 14 points.

It's not that Randolph's condition is not good, but that the Lakers' three insiders plus Artest are really too fierce.

Randolph couldn't do it on his own.

And Gasol is still too young to give Randolph enough support.

Don't talk about Randolph, just talk about Howard in the finals of last season.

Howard averaged 25 points and 13 rebounds per game against the Cavaliers in the Eastern Conference playoffs.

It can be said that he broke the Cavaliers' inside line by himself.

In the finals, facing the Lakers' top three, the scoring average dropped to 15 points per game.

He dropped a notch directly, from a super center to a blue-collar insider.

Howard has not changed, he is still the rough offensive guy, what has changed is the defense he faces.

Bynum, Gasol, Odom, Howard can't play the low position at all.

Although Randolph has better skills, he does not have Howard's physical fitness.

Moreover, the Lakers' interior defense is not only high, but the outside line is also very fierce.

It is basically impossible to comfortably launch an attack in the low position, and you will inevitably encounter a fierce rush.

This kind of defense greatly undermined Randolph's low-post offensive rhythm, causing the entire Clippers to play a bit chaotic.

In this case, Randolph played hard and still scored 15 points per game, which is not easy.

But in this way, the team's offensive efficiency is really not high, and it just hit the Lakers' defensive steel plate.

Min Congda added: "We must learn from Howard's lesson. Also, Zach has a mid-range shot, let him move around, and he can still make scoring contributions."

Randolph is different from Howard. He has more delicate skills, abandons the low post, and his face basket can work just as well as the high post.

Perhaps with fewer shots, he can score similar points, which is a good thing for the Clippers.

It's just that whether such a strategy will work or not will only be known after playing.

Dunleavy thought for a while, agreed to Min Congda's proposal, and then seized the last 5 minutes to rearrange the tactics for the players.

Fortunately, the Clippers practiced a lot of tactics and routines in the regular season, not a tactical routine to the end.

Otherwise, it will be difficult for you to make adjustments in the playoffs, so you can only bite the bullet and keep doing it.

The Clippers are small and easy to turn around. Everyone has practiced various routines. Let's change our thinking in the second half.

Min Congda thought to himself, according to this line of thinking, the Clippers' offense will be smoother.

The focused and tough confrontation in the first half was naturally very exciting.

But after all, it still fell into the game rhythm and method familiar to the Lakers.

Using a lighter style of play might be able to turn the situation around better.

But Min Congda never expected that this adjustment would not only change the situation in the second half.

The halftime break ends and the third quarter begins.

For the Clippers' first offense, Baron Davis played a high pick-and-roll with Zach Randolph.

Randolph didn't go in after the pick-and-roll, or sink to the low post and poke his ass for the ball as before.

Instead, he went to the top of the arc, and Baron accelerated and broke through.

Bynum followed up, and Baron Davis turned back and gave Randolph the ball.

Randolph made a mid-range jumper from the top of the arc and scored two points.

At 48:49, the Clippers took the lead.

An understatement for a pick-and-roll mid-range shot.

But it heralds a major shift for the Clippers on the offensive end.

In fact, this kind of offensive routine is not unprecedented in the first three games.

It's just that the Clippers don't use much.

Randolph's mid-range can only be said to have, but not to the point where it can kill.

Occasionally hit a ball or two, steal one is okay, this is the case, Randolph is not so accurate.

Therefore, Min Congda did not expect Randolph to kill the Lakers by making such an adjustment.

Instead, open up space as much as possible to give the Clippers more opportunities to hit the basket from the outside.

The Clippers then blocked the Lakers' inside offense with a tough move forward.

In the end, the ball was given to Kobe, who broke through the basket and missed a throw.

The Clippers counterattacked, and Baron Davis broke through the basket with the ball.

The Lakers retreated quickly, and Davis had no chance to keep up with Gasol Jr.

Gasol Jr. also caught the ball at the top of the arc and made a direct mid-range shot, also hit!

The two Clippers insiders didn't take a mid-range shot in the first half.

In the second half, he hit two goals in a row and overtook the score.

Phil Jackson has felt that the Clippers have made changes and adjustments.

I just don't know what this fine-tuning will bring in the future.

(End of this chapter)