NBA: I really just want to be a second-in-command

Chapter 221
Lu Yusheng didn't know the unhappiness that happened to the management in order to trade him.

He felt happy that he was about to play against the Denver Nuggets.

It makes him happy to face his idol Allen Iverson head-on.

The game between the Lakers and the Denver Nuggets was held at the home court of the Lakers. At 19:30 pm local time in Los Angeles, the game officially started!
In the admission ceremony, the Denver Nuggets entered the arena with Iverson as the finale, which won the cheers of the audience.

It seems that Iverson still has a certain weight in the hearts of Staples Center fans.

Of course, among the players in this game, the one who received the biggest cheers was Lu Yusheng.

His momentum even surpassed Kobe's.

Indeed, Lu Yusheng is the most popular player recently.

In today's game, in fact, Phil Jackson didn't take it seriously. He was basically not afraid of teams like the Denver Nuggets.

The tactical characteristic of the Denver Nuggets is that there is no overall tactic, and they rely purely on golden double guns.

Relying on their personal ability to play, it's not that their head coach George Karl has no tactics, mainly because the lineup given to him by the Denver Nuggets management does not conform to George Karl's coaching style at all.

George Karl's teaching style is that there must be a powerful point guard on the field, and all powers should be given to this point guard, so that everyone can play around him, so that George Karl's tactics can be brought into play.

But unfortunately, Allen Iverson is obviously not the type of point guard he wants.

When the Nuggets management negotiated the deal with the 76ers, George Karl had already expressed his attitude. If Allen Iverson was allowed to play the second position, he would completely agree with it.

But if Allen Iverson is allowed to play the No. [-] position, he is absolutely against it.

It's a pity that the Denver Nuggets still believe that the omnipotent Allen Iverson will bring them magic.

So, it made George Karl hard.

Now that the Denver Nuggets have settled the deal and got him Allen Iverson, he has no other choice but to use what he can.

Many times, NBA head coaches are like cooks. Although they have unique skills, many times, the management cannot bring them the raw materials of the cuisines they are good at according to their ideas, which leads them to have no way to bring out their true strengths.

Many coaches are very screwy, but there is no good way. If you are not a coach at the level of Phil Jackson or Popovich, in many cases, you really do not have your own choice in employing people.

George Karl's current situation is like this. When the team has bought you the great Allen Iverson, you don't know how to cook this dish, and you have to bite the bullet and do it.

But they played really screwy at the beginning, especially the first few games when Allen Iverson joined the team. The Denver Nuggets played really chaotically. Coach George Karl tried to convince Allen Ivers Sen to make changes, let him organize tactics and connect the whole team's offense.

And Allen Iverson did the same. He was ruthlessly abandoned by his home team, the 76ers, which was hard for him to accept. After all, since he entered the league, he was the king of that team.

Everything about that team is for him, the lineup is built for his style of play, and the tactics of the coaches are also for his style of play. Coach Brown is such a defensive coach, but in order to adapt to Allen Allen Ferson's style finally made a compromise, no longer put too much emphasis on defense, and let him attack.

All his glory, glory, everything is in Philadelphia, and he thought he would stay there, play until he retired, and become the king there.

But he did not expect that the 76ers have long been tired of his personal performance and no record in recent years. It has been a full ten years since he entered the league until the 2006-2007 season. A finals experience, Allen Iverson did not bring them what they want, so they really want to rebuild.

They basically put Allen Iverson on the shelf very easily, and then quickly completed the deal with the Denver Nuggets.

Allen Iverson didn't even have time to react, and he was kicked into the Denver plateau, the desolation.

This is completely unacceptable to Allen Iverson, who was once so brilliant. He really wants to prove to the management of the 76ers and the world that this deal is definitely a stupid deal. The team completely regretted it.

So, when he came to the Denver Nuggets, he decided to bid farewell to the past, be a brand new self, and start over!
So when Coach George Karl tried to make him make changes, he was really willing and proactive to change his style of play and adjust his rhythm, just to adapt to the Nuggets' tactics.

But there are some things, he has played for ten years, on the surface he is a point guard, but in fact, he has always been a shooting guard.

In the past ten years, he has already unleashed his offensive nature infinitely in the 76ers. The offensive rhythm of all his teammates around his offense has already been integrated into his bone marrow. It is really difficult for him to adapt to the role of playing and passing the ball to his teammates everywhere.

He really tried to do it, but he really couldn't do it. When those opportunities came up, when the blood was hot, he would reflexively forget the tactics explained by the coach at the beginning, and then go crazy to attack.

He didn't react until he felt something was wrong, but it was too late. At this time, the tactics of the Nuggets had already been messed up, and everything that coach George Karl had arranged before the game was completely disrupted to the rhythm.

Allen Iverson was also very annoyed about this, but he had nothing to do, it was his nature, and he couldn't quickly restrain himself and bid farewell to the style of play that had been formed for ten years.

Coach George Karl certainly understands this truth. He can see that Allen Iverson really wants to play for him and really wants to make changes.

But he also knows very well that it is really difficult for you to change the style of play you have played for ten years, and let you switch from an offensive genius to an organizer.

George Karl is so smart. He knows that it will not work to ask Iverson to make changes, but if he continues to screw up like this, his record will be ugly. At that time, he may be the first to dismiss get out of class.

Therefore, he simply changed his tactics and saved his record.

His tactical adjustment is to let Allen Iverson and Anthony attack, and then let other players wipe their ass and defend.

As far as offense is concerned, if you are only pursuing the record in the regular season, George Karl knows very well that you don't need too many tactics at all. With the offensive talents of Allen Iverson and Anthony, the firepower is definitely enough.

That is to say, no matter what kind of defense the opponent has, with these two, no matter how hard they attack, the basic points will definitely be there. There is absolutely no problem for each of them to score 60 points. After all, the offensive talent is there.

With such a basic score, teammates can add more. If there are players like JR Smith, if they add more than ten or twenty points, there will be no problem in offense.

As for organizing the offense, just leave it to Andre Miller. Although Andre Miller's talent is limited, it is difficult to become the point guard at the level that George Karl most wants, but let It is definitely enough for him to lay the basic organization.

Therefore, he only needs to defend well and let other teammates help them defend, which is enough to win.

Therefore, George Karl put almost all his energy on how to strengthen the team's defense, when your team has players like Nene Hilario and Kenyon Martin and Marcus Camby Sometimes, you want to build a defensive system, which is actually very simple.

Therefore, on the defensive end, George Karl used the super defensive capabilities of these three people to build various defensive tactics.

Then on the offensive end, let Allen Iverson and Anthony let go.

This trick really worked. After Allen Iverson joined the team and lost a few games in a row, when George Karl made this adjustment, they soon ushered in a wave of winning streaks.

This wave of consecutive victories has made the team spring up and down, and all doubts about them have been resolved.

But even in such a smooth situation, Phil Jackson didn't take them seriously.

In Phil Jackson's view, a team like the Denver Nuggets is the best team to play.

You only need to play the offense well, it is enough to destroy their defensive system, as for the defense, you only need to limit their Andre Miller, when this person is limited , The offense of the Denver Nuggets basically has no rules at all, leaving only the singles of Iverson and Anthony.

But this kind of singles, wanting to win the Lakers is obviously unrealistic.

Therefore, Phil Jackson's first tactic in this game was to let Lu Yusheng face Andre Miller.

This made Lu Yusheng feel a little uncomfortable. He hoped that Iverson would be facing him. In this game, he had dreamed several times. He was fighting Allen Iverson on the court, and he fought back and forth.

As soon as he played, okay, let him face Andre Miller directly.

But Lu Yusheng understood Zen Master's tactics very well, so even though he was reluctant, he still followed Zen Master's instructions.

As soon as the two sides kicked off, Lu Yusheng went directly to match Andre Miller.

Lu Yusheng is very good at defending players like Andre Miller. Andre Miller is basically the least talented type at the point guard position.

Karen Mok not only has no physical talent, but also has limited technical talent. When he was young, he was already on the floor.

He plays very oily.

His oil is a headache for some very talented point guards because he is so experienced.

When he faces point guards who can run and jump, those point guards with excellent talent always want to cut him off and block his shots.

In this way, instead of playing the trick of Andre Miller, he always tricked them with all kinds of fake moves and made them uncomfortable.

But Lu Yusheng is really not afraid of this type of player. He knows very well that when dealing with players like Andre Miller, you only need to do one thing well, that is, don't let him break through, and don't let him score easily. This is enough.

He knows very well what Andre Miller's function is on the field. As long as he is not allowed to drive his teammates and play organization, it is the best restriction on him.

Therefore, when Lu Yusheng was substituted, he aimed hard at Andre Miller.

Andre Miller almost used all kinds of fake moves to deceive him, but Lu Yusheng didn't eat at all, and always stayed in front of him, didn't stop him, didn't cover him, just didn't let him break through and shoot easily.

Andre Miller played very hard. He had no way to drive the team, so he could only let Iverson and Anthony play.

But tonight's situation, Iverson was targeted by Kobe as soon as he came on the court. When Kobe used his defensive momentum to defend Iverson, Lu Yusheng found that Iverson was actually not very easy to play.

In Lu Yusheng's impression, in the 2001 Finals between the Lakers and the 76ers, Iverson actually didn't have as much effort to beat Kobe as he does now. He can easily break through in many cases, and then make an emergency stop jump shot.

But now, when Kobe is trying his best to defend Iverson, it seems really difficult for Iverson to attack and score in front of Kobe without resorting to pick-and-rolls.

Obviously, at this time, Iverson has lost the explosive power and speed he is proud of, and it is difficult for him to form a positive breakthrough against Kobe.

When you have no way to make a frontal breakthrough, your shooting fakes are not threatening, but Kobe is in the same year at this time, and his lateral movement ability has not declined. Coupled with his height and wingspan, he far surpasses Iverson , so Iverson played very hard.

He tried to play a few times, but was blocked by Kobe, and finally had no choice but to pass the ball.

Under such circumstances, only Anthony is left for the Nuggets' offense. After all, the Lakers don't have a good candidate to deal with Anthony. Luke Walton's defense is not enough in front of Anthony, who is known as the offensive kaleidoscope. See, it's basically hard to limit him.

But Zen Master did not change Odom or others to deal with Anthony, or adjust any defense tactics to deal with Anthony, and let him play Luke Walton.

This is exactly what he wants.

Even if you are alone, no matter how powerful you are, even if your offensive ability is pulled to the extreme, so what?Can't beat the Lakers at all.

What's more, if you attack like this, do you still have energy in the second half?
On the other hand, for the Lakers, at the beginning of the game, Kobe was uncharacteristically not attacking directly at all. He was always making the ball for his teammates and constantly passing the ball to his teammates.

When Lu Yusheng and Kobe played for teammates on the court, the Lakers' offense became extremely smooth, because the opponent had no way to restrict them, and they had no center of gravity to restrict.

When they focused on Kobe, Lu Yusheng's passing would make them lose sight of one another, and when they focused on Lu Yusheng on defense, Kobe's offense became extremely simple.

(End of this chapter)