From sparring to superstar

Chapter 247 245. The Clippers are aggressive tonight

Little O'Neal's expression was ferocious, his arms were on O'Neal's shoulders, and he was suspended in the air, but he still couldn't stop the opponent from dunking. The scene was quite tragic.

The referee didn't call Jermaine O'Neal's foul, Li Ao turned around to catch up with the retreating Kobe, and said, "Do you pass this kind of ball?"

Kobe: (_)?
"This big shark scored and you didn't get an assist!"

Kobe: (_)
Ignoring Li Ao, he moved to the right to meet Jordan who was running over.

Snake is very alert. Li Ao originally wanted to divert Kobe's attention, let Kobe chase him, and create better singles conditions for Jordan, but Snake was not fooled.

Jordan did not continue to play singles, and led Kobe to the two-point position on the right side. Bibby and O'Neal picked and rolled to attack.

Bibby and Jordan discovered the opponent's weakness in the interior defense. Horry played power forward to contain Jordan and helped O'Neal create a good one-on-one space under the basket, but no one could help O'Neal defend the pick-and-roll!

O'Neal was forced to expand with O'Neal Jr. to cover Bibby's pick-and-roll and COSCO shooting space.

Bibby advanced after the pick-and-roll and easily got the space to pass to the flanks. O'Neal used his size to interfere with the ball-handling player's passing vision when defending the pick-and-roll, but he did a poor job!
O'Neill shrinks his pace surprisingly fast!
Li Ao ran back from the flank and threw away Rick Fox, cut to the left sideline of the three-second zone, caught the ball and flew to the basket, but was slapped out of the baseline by O'Neal!

After O'Neal completed the block, he took the overlord step to celebrate amid boos.

Li Ao sprayed out "Wori".

Just kidding!Is this really a 162 kg fat man?
It's not that he didn't see O'Neal coming in. If someone on the other side cuts in to respond, he will pass, but Odom has no sense of the ball and chose to pull away.

So he chose to catch the ball and take off directly for a quick layup. As a result, a 162-kilogram fat man flew into the basket from the right side of the three-second zone and was able to quickly bounce and block the shot...

Li Ao took a deep breath, adjusted his mentality, and continued to attack.

Odom sent the baseline ball and passed it to Bibby. Bibby was caught by Fisher and wanted to pass to Jordan, but Kobe fought hand-to-hand to defend.

Bibby didn't come by himself, and calmly passed to Li Ao who was running, making a strong shot. This teammate is more suitable.

Li Ao took a step horizontally after receiving the ball, but he failed to get rid of Rick Fox's entanglement, but he didn't dribble, and took off directly after the horizontal pull, facing Rick Fox's interference mid-range strong shot...hit!
4 to 5, the Clippers bite the score.

Zen Master looked at Spider-Man who was giving Bibby a high-five in the retreat, and shook his head.

That's great. In the opening game, Spider-Man showed an improvement in his strong shooting ability. Now after playing 10 games, his sense of the ball has improved significantly, and the rhythm of the emergency stop is much better than in the opening game.

Zen master doesn't want to watch the game anymore. Every time he plays against the Clippers, he can see that Spider-Man has made substantial progress in a certain aspect. This feeling is too uncomfortable.

When the Lakers attacked, O'Neal still looked lazy, leaning against O'Neal in the low post.

But Jermaine O'Neill did not dare to let go, and was forced to be consumed by O'Neill with his body weight.

When people play consumption, they are all fighting, entanglement, and posting... When it comes to the big shark, it is enough to lean "against the wall" lazily, and the other party has to be consumed by him because he has a black mamba!As long as he has a chance to eat cakes, the black mamba will pass it to him if he doesn't get an assist!
It is the finishing touch for Zen Master to start with Horry. If Samaki Walker plays power forward, Jordan can go to the basket early.

A seemingly inconspicuous starting adjustment, but the effect is very critical.

But Jordan was not idle either. Horry stood with his hips in the bottom corner, and Jordan took the initiative to press up to fight.

Horry ignored him and wanted to move away. Jordan reached out and grabbed Horry's arm. Horry raised his hand to push Jordan's hand away...then they got entangled.

On the top arc, Li Ao stepped on the three-point line to prevent Kobe from making long shots.

Kobe changed direction and broke through, with a good rhythm and a sharp first step. He passed Li Ao and rushed into the inside line, but failed to get rid of Li Ao's interference, and he rushed all the way into the inside line.

Jermaine O'Neal grasped the timing of his move very well, did not move ahead of time, and completely trusted Li Ao's mid-range and long-range defensive ability, and did not let O'Neal block until Kobe came to the low position on the right side of the three-second zone.

O'Neal immediately turned around and followed O'Neal into the basket. Kobe took off facing O'Neal, leaned over in the air and stretched his upper body out of bounds, got the passing space, and pushed the ball to the basket.

OK to connect!Cooperate tacitly to the extreme!

But Li Ao and O'Neal's defensive cooperation is also very tacit. Li Ao ignored Kobe as soon as O'Neal moved, and changed direction to the left. When O'Neal received a pass from Kobe, Li Ao blocked behind O'Neal. Taking off, O'Neal lifted the ball and smashed it towards the basket, Li Ao stretched out his hand to block the shot...

The big shark bounces too fast!

Li Ao, who jumped up, had no choice but to slap O'Neill's forearm...

"Crack" "Ah..."

"bang"

"beep"

The sound of thugs, screams, smashing frames, and the referee's whistle sounded continuously. The referee signaled Li Ao to foul the thugs, and O'Neal got two free throws.

After landing, O'Neill staggered and almost fell, clutching his right forearm and glaring at the little spider.

As a result, I only heard the little spider muttering "jump so fast".

O'Neill snorted and walked to the free throw line with a sullen face, not scaring the little spider.

O'Neill took the first free throw. He dawdled for a while, his hand was numb from the little spider.

The referee started to urge him to throw the ball. He didn't have any hope at all, and couldn't feel it at all...

"Swish"

Hollow hit!

O'Neal: (_)
Li Ao: (_)
At this time, the Clippers made personnel adjustments, and Matt Harperin replaced Odom.

O'Neal executes the second free throw and hits the ball on the basket with a "bang", and O'Neal Jr. protects the defensive rebound.

Both Li Ao and O'Neill breathed a sigh of relief, that's right, they can't be hit by a free throw and get enlightened.

The score was 6 to 4, and the Lakers led by two points.

When it came to the Clippers' offense, Bibby continued to launch an offense with Jermaine O'Neal's pick-and-roll.
Li Ao and Matt Halprin ran back and cut in, Rick Fox and Horry couldn't stop it at all, O'Neal shrank quickly and blocked Li Ao, Matt Halprin received the score and made a layup!

Zen master used Horry to play power forward to contain Jordan. Gentry can guess that Zen master used this trick in the opening game. He prepared a strategy to deal with it. There is no good way on the defensive end. Let Jordan defend against Kobe. Defending against Rick Fox's running position is tantamount to being wasted, and they don't have another defensive front line guard. Big Q's defense against Kobe is almost equivalent to free, so start from the offensive end, but he didn't expect Zen Master to let Huo Bryant directly. Li played the starter, and now put Matt Harprin on, the offensive end is worthy of the Lakers.

The two teams entered an offensive tug-of-war.

After the Clippers resorted to Li Ao and Matt Happlin's two-wing cut-in style of play, the Lakers, who did not have pick-and-roll power forwards, could not defend them. However, the role behind this tactic was not Li Ao and Matt Happ. Lin has more scoring opportunities, but more outside shooting opportunities. Facing this situation that makes O'Neal exhausted, Kobe directed his teammates to shrink and reduce O'Neal's defensive consumption. Bibby's mid-range shots and O'Neal's short-range shots There are more opportunities.

The Lakers showed their basic qualities as a two-peat championship team, avoiding the main trouble, and letting O'Neal consume too much on the defensive end is the main trouble.

But the Lakers' offense, the Clippers can't prevent it.

Compared with the opening game, the Clippers have a more complete defensive system, more tacit cooperation, and better targeted tactical preparations, but the OK combination is also in better shape than at that time.

After playing 8 games, O'Neal is more adapted to his current weight, and the rhythm of the game is better. One second he was still lazily using his weight to consume his opponent, and the next second he entered a state of fierce and quick abuse of the frame, like a tiger. The moment you turn around, it will tear you to shreds.

At the beginning, O'Neal was still thinking about how to respond. After playing a few more rounds, he gave up and concentrated on carrying O'Neal. When the opponent used his weight to consume him, he played with his life, and he tried his best on the offensive end. Offensive rebounds...

This is actually very shocking. It has been a year since I became the main force. What is the situation with O'Neal for the first time, and what is the situation after a year.

But Jermaine O'Neal has not been depressed, and has been teammates with Spider-Man for more than a year. What tragic situation has he not encountered?
Isn't it just being abused again, small things.

When Jermaine O'Neal focused on dealing with O'Neal, Kobe got the opportunity to attack the frame and scored goals at close range for two consecutive rounds, a short-range shot after an emergency stop to worship Li Ao, and a pick basket that broke into the three-second zone, scoring 4 points in a row , Matt Harperin and Jordan could only shrink to defend Kobe when they saw this.

The coping abilities of Rick Fox and Horry began to show, and Fisher, Rick Fox, and Horry had more shooting opportunities.

打到首节6分55秒，靠着毕比半节6分3助攻，快船队以13比14咬住比分，进入官方暂停阶段！
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Although the score was tight, Gentry's pressure did not decrease at all.

The style of play in the first half of the quarter is what the Lakers like and are good at.

He also likes to attack, but defense is what they are good at.

Can't help it!He has already sent Li Ao, Matt Harprin, and Jermaine O'Neal. This is their strongest defensive combination. If they want to continue to strengthen their defense, they have to replace Big Q and Jaron Collins.

But in that lineup, Bibby, Jordan, and Odom are not there, the offense is directly over, and the defensive OK combination is really not necessarily useful.

However, even if he focuses on offense, he is still at a disadvantage... As a fan of a mad scientist, the pressure is so high that he starts to let himself go...

After the official timeout ended, Li Ao looked at the four teammates playing next to him... Bibby, Big Q, Matt Harprin, Odom, and Gentry actually played the fifth!

诶，不对！188公分的毕比、198公分大Q、201公分的马特-哈普林、208公分的奥多姆，加上203公分的他。

Opposite Fisher at 185 cm, Kobe and Brian Shaw at 198 cm, Samaki Walker at 206 cm, and Medvedenko at 208 cm.

The average height of their side actually has an advantage!

It's just that the tonnage of the inside line is a bit worse, and the opposite is the real inside twin towers, and they don't have a serious power forward on their side.

He felt that Gentry was too sloppy and aggressive, but when he came to the court, he thought differently.

In this situation, if you are not aggressive, there is no chance!
Their side has made a lot of preparations, but the opponent's preparations for the game are no worse than theirs, and the opponent also attaches great importance to them.

The game continued and the Clippers attacked.

Bibby receives the serve, passes it to Odom in the top arc, and pulls away.

Li Ao felt sloppy on this side, but the Lakers were in the dark - how would they defend against the center forward going to the arc?
Samaki Walker can only take the initiative to expand to the top arc, and Medvedenko stays on the flank to defend Matt Harprin.

Odom breaks through and points the ball, Li Ao uses the cover to get rid of Kobe, catches the ball and turns around and makes a mid-range shot...Miss, Matt Harperin rushes into the inside and Samaki-Walker, who is defending against the defense, makes a tip-up!

When it came time for the Lakers to attack, Kobe ran back to contain Li Ao, Fisher and Samaki-Walker picked and rolled, and Samaki-Walker cut to catch the ball and scored two points.

Unstoppable is expected. When the Clippers attack, Li Ao takes the lead in the charge!

Bibby is a good point guard, he is so calm, no matter whether he agrees with the arrangement of the coaching staff or not, as long as the head coach tells him, he will do it, do his best, what he has to do now is Distribute the ball well, respond to shots, and deliver shells.

Odom continued to break through the offense. This time Medvedenko's shrinking defense hesitated for a while. Odom burst into the inside and put the ball into the basket on the head of Brian Shaw who shrank in!
Kobe yelled at his teammates when he served the ball: "Shrink! Run! Let them shoot! Don't give them an easy chance to score at the basket!"

When it came to the Lakers' offense, they didn't shrink their defense in time, but the Clippers did a very good job of shrinking after being cut by Samaki Walker once.

After the pick-and-roll, Fisher couldn't score the ball, so he came to a close-range throw...and shot a bridge!

Li Ao came back and grabbed the defensive rebound!

The strategy of flanking against attrition worked!
At the beginning of the game, Jordan led his teammates to increase the confrontation consumption against the opponent's flank shooter, and the effect was good. Otherwise, with so many shooting opportunities in the first half of the quarter, Jordan would not only score 14 points. It soared like it did in the opening game.

When it was the Clippers' turn to attack, Odom continued to break through and attack. He played too comfortably in this style of play.

When he broke into the paint, the Lakers shrank in place, and a team with two consecutive championships is a team with two consecutive championships. The execution of defensive adjustments is impeccable.

Li Ao used Matt Harprin to cover the flank, and Kobe circled the pole very fast. As soon as Li Ao received the ball, Kobe rushed forward.

Li Ao sped up his movements, and before Kobe stuck to him, he quickly took off and made a mid-range shot...hit!
19 to 16, the Clippers lead by 3 points!
In fact, Matt Harprin had a better chance with this ball. Odom broke in and he got a big gap.

But instead of running for the ball to shoot, he ran to help Li Ao block someone, and Odom didn't pass it to him, because his shooting touch was exhausted in the first half of the quarter.

The lineup of the Clippers is to play team basketball, but the tactical goal is to concentrate the shots on Li Ao, Odom, and Bibby.

But this does not mean that Big Q and Matt Harprin are decorations. The big Q who just played is still a new force, and Matt Harperin's flank cover is solid and top-notch in the league, all of which played a role in the offense.

In addition, Matt Harprin cut into the rush after the screen, which also provided Li Ao with confidence in shooting.

Taking advantage of O'Neal entering the rotation rest stage, Gentry aggressively set up this lineup and this style of play, opening up the situation!
On the Lakers side, after playing 3 rounds, Kobe asked for the ball and started a singles attack.

Unlike when O'Neal was there, now the Clippers should shrink when they should, and Odom should empty Medvedenko to flank Kobe.

Every time Kobe met Li Ao, he played more calmly than the last time. He passed the ball when he encountered a pinch. Medvedenko and Samaki Walker's response was not bad, but the outside line was really iron.

Both Fisher and Brian Shaw seem to have gone to Milan for further training.

On the last attack of the first quarter, the Clippers had 3 seconds to attack. Li Ao received the ball from the center circle and dribbled one step to the center line for a half-time three-point shot... There was a "clang" and the long whistle sounded at the end of the first quarter.

29比25，快船队首节取得4分领先优势，5分钟时间打出了16比11的比分！
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11投5中，其中三分球3中1，加上3中2的罚球，李敖单节拿到13分2板1助攻1盖帽，表现出色。

The team also took the lead, but when Li Ao returned to the bench to rest, his face was swollen.

The goal he really wanted to achieve - to force Zen master to replace the big shark in advance, failed.

O'Neal not only played easily in the first half of the first quarter, but also rested throughout the second half!

Just like that, the Lakers still scored 25 points in a single quarter!
As in the past two seasons, no matter how hard the game is, no matter how strong the opponent's defense is, the Lakers can score more than 100 points in every game, and they have always been the top three offensive teams in the league, which is outrageous.

In the second quarter, O'Neal was still not replaced, and Kobe continued to play with Lynch Hunter, Rick Fox, Mark Madsen, and Medvedenko.

For the Clippers, Jordan and Odom played dual-core, with Greg Anthony, Big Q, and O'Neal.

With Odom and O'Neal, Jordan has the upper hand in the duel with Kobe!

Kobe scored 9 points and 4 assists in the first quarter. He played very hard. After all, the Sharks didn't have a single in the first quarter, and it was all supported by him.

After Jordan came on the court in the second quarter, he laughed arrogantly. As long as their side scored a goal, he laughed and tried to stimulate Kobe to attack him.

But Kobe didn't. He gave up competing with Jordan this time, and played very reasonably. He passed the pass when he should, and endured if his teammates couldn't make a shot.

Although the role players of the Lakers shot very hard, they only scored 5 points in more than 8 minutes, while the Clippers scored 13 points!
With Jordan circling the pile and receiving a pass from Odom, the score came to 42 to 33, and the Clippers led by 9 points. Zen Master called a timeout for the first time in this game and entered the official timeout stage.

Leading by 9 points, the Clippers are facing a formidable enemy.

Big Shark took off his training suit!
Gentry carried out a lineup rotation, replacing Bibby, Li Ao, Odom, Matt Harprin, and Geron Collins, and adjusted his tactics as soon as possible.

On the Zen master's side, replace the strongest combination of Fisher, Kobe, Rick Fox, Samaki Walker, and O'Neal.

After a timeout, the Lakers attacked. Fisher received the serve and passed it to Rick Fox. O'Neal came to the low post and asked for the ball with Jaron Collins' rough positioning!
After receiving a pass from Rick Fox, O'Neal knocked Jaron Collins back in one step, turned around and took off in front of Matt Harprin who was pounced on him, and hit the ball into the basket with one hand while Matt Harperin was hanging!
When the Clippers were attacking, Bibby used the cover to break through and pass the ball to Li Ao. Li Ao received the ball and passed it back to Odom.

After Odom received the ball, he kept the ball and swung the ball towards Bibby. After the Lakers switched defenses and supplemented the defense, Bibby, who scored 8 points in the first quarter, was empty!Catch the ball and make a two-point shot!

However, the main reason for this ball is Odom’s good support and pass. In the past quarter, Odom has already played the feeling. Now he finds that it feels good to be the core of the second and third team. The playing time has not decreased but increased. Playing in a more tactical role and earning the coveted max salary...

Odom is in excellent form, Li Ao's 13 points in the first quarter are enough to contain, Bibby does a good job of responding to the shot, Matt Harprin and Jaron Collins as role players have done what they should do. , The Clippers' offensive end continued their performance in the first half of the second quarter.

But the defensive end... collapsed!
There are no complicated factors, it's very simple-O'Neill starts the main attack!
Even Matt Harprin or Li Ao's early movement and contraction could not prevent O'Neal from scoring inside. After two more rounds, the Clippers began to attack early... It's time for the Black Mamba!

In the second half of the second quarter, Kobe got two open shots!Even though they didn’t score, it felt wonderful to be able to hit the iron in an open position.

Last season, he didn't necessarily get two open shots in a game, but this season, as long as O'Neal starts the main attack, he can often get two or three open shots in a quarter or even half a quarter.

在奥尼尔带领下，前5分多钟只拿到8分的湖人队，在6分多钟时间里狂飙19分，打了快船队一个19比12的半节！
半场打完，靠着奥尼尔半节8分2助攻、科比单节6分3助攻、萨马基-沃克单节8分，湖人队将比分追至52比54！

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During the intermission, Li Ao went back to the locker room, slumped on the massage table and twisted around. When Gentry went up to ask "what's the matter", Li Ao muttered "I'm going to die and ignore me".

With a 9-point difference, they were chased by the big sharks to only two points in minutes while they maintained their offensive firepower.

Just outrageous!
Stern, cut the cylinder!
Shark is too strong. When he concentrates his physical output, he not only narrows the point difference, but also tramples on the opponent's confidence!

The same goes for Li Ao's teammates, even the god of basketball, who had the idea of ​​'if I were three years younger...no, two years is enough'.

But seeing Spider-Man acting like a child, the teammates couldn't help laughing out loud, and their frustration and stress dropped a lot.

It's not just their mentality that will explode, Spider-Man is the same!
When Li Aoza finished talking with his teammates to discuss the game, the teammates saw that he had adjusted his mentality, and felt that his own mentality had adjusted accordingly!

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Going to the hospital tomorrow, go to bed early today, only this chapter~
(End of this chapter)