Healthy basketball, starting from eating the old Lakers F4

Chapter 100 The pick-and-roll is cool for a while, and the pick-and-roll is always cool!Swept to advance to the Western Conference Finals! (third change)

"Tuk Tuk Tuk-"

"Tuk Tuk Tuk-"

Hearing someone knocking on the door early in the morning, although Du En was a little upset, he still got up and came to the door.

The hotel was arranged by the Lakers, and at the same time there are official NBA people staying there, and there may even be the FBI.

The upper and lower floors are full of Lakers players and staff, and ordinary people have no chance to knock on Duane's door.

Of course, it is necessary to be on guard against others. Du En only opened the door a crack and asked through the door: "Who is it?"

"Dune, it's me! You played so well last night, Shaq wanted to reward you, and specially invited you down for breakfast."

Hearing O'Neill's low, hoarse voice, Dunn opened the door.

"Shaq, why do you get up so early? You probably didn't come to treat me to dinner, did you? Just tell me if you have anything to do!"

bother you for something!O'Neal knocked on the door early in the morning, saying he was here to invite him to dinner, but in fact he must have something else to say.

Du En didn't have time to delay with O'Neill. He wanted to go back to bed to catch up on his sleep early in the morning, so he smoothed his hair and immediately asked O'Neill's purpose.

"Hey, brother, what you said before is right!

We should cooperate more closely, and we will completely kill the Sacramento Kings in the next game!

Gary is my good brother, he came to join me, but he was hurt!

As the boss of the team, I must stand up for him!Oh yes, the Los Angeles Lakers are your team now.

Shaq just wants to help you and avenge Gary!Dunn, as the boss of the team, you shouldn't sit idly by, right? "

Although O'Neill was still beating around the bush and making jokes, Dunn had already understood.

The Kings' style of play made O'Neal uncomfortable. Whether it was because he really wanted to avenge Payton or to regain the field, O'Neal was determined to play a pick-and-roll with Duan in the next game and must win the game.

Obviously, when O'Neal really wants to give up the team's boss position, O'Neal will inevitably have duplicity, and he is not very willing to see Kobe come ahead of him.

As for chatting with Du En and letting Du En take advantage of him verbally, O'Neal seemed to be indifferent.

After all, in O'Neal's view, Duane is the center of the triangle offense, a passer, at most an enhanced version of Pippen, to assist him.

Kobe is different. He also serves as the end point. In the two rounds of playoffs this year, he played even better than him...

Although O'Neal has been renewed by the Lakers, he is still at his peak, and he doesn't want to hand over the ball so quickly and hand over his low offensive area.

In fact, in O'Neal's plan, after beating the King, he will not continue to come to Duen for pick-and-roll unless absolutely necessary!
What he is best at doing is to be himself and continue to turn the tide in the low position!

It was also because the playing time in the last few games was less and less, but Kobe's points were more and more. This made O'Neal's mentality a little unbalanced and difficult to accept for a while.

After weighing the pros and cons, O'Neal chose to cooperate with Duen. After all, Duen could also assist him and create easier opportunities for him to score.

By the way, although Du En didn't know what kind of plan O'Neill had in mind, he could probably guess some of it.

Regarding O'Neal's idea of ​​​​taking the initiative to practice pick-and-rolls, Duen not only did not refuse, but was extremely happy.

From Duan's point of view, it's not a bad thing after all that O'Neal is willing to cover for him.

No matter what thoughts O'Neal has, in the game, as long as Duane disagrees with this tactic, O'Neal will be busy.

To put it bluntly, when O'Neal eats cake, it doesn't depend on what O'Neal ordered, but on what fillings Du En puts for him!

"The ball is in my hands, even if Jordan comes, he has to listen to me!"

Considering O'Neal's screen quality and pie-eating ability, this will also be of great help to Dunn in the next playoffs and next season's regular season.

If you look at Stockton and Malone, then Nash and Stoudemire, you will know that practicing pick-and-roll with O'Neill will definitely only have benefits and no harm.

It is also because Lang has love and concubine intentions, everything is unspoken.

After O'Neill invited Dunn to have breakfast, he quickly proposed to go to the hotel's gym for a little exercise to digest the food.

Two hours later, Dunn and O'Neal naturally came to the basketball court of the hotel and began to perform basic pick-and-roll cooperation.

In the afternoon, O'Neal even called Malone over to teach him and Duane how to effectively run pick-and-rolls in the game.

Malone came to the Lakers to win the championship. Since O'Neal is willing to leave his comfort zone and cooperate with Duan in the pick-and-roll, Malone, as a pick-and-roll expert, has no intention of hiding anything.

Throughout the afternoon, Malone taught O'Neal how to improve his pick-and-roll skills, and even provided some useful suggestions for Duane to use the screen to break through and use the screen to shoot.

Two days passed in a hurry, and in a blink of an eye came the night of May 5th.

The Lakers players want to avenge Payton, and the Kings players don't want to be swept out, so tonight's desperate fight is undoubtedly unavoidable.

In fact, after the end of G3, Zen Master received instructions from the Lakers management.

As for why not prepare to play tacit ball before G3 starts?
That's because the Kings are also very strong. If they hadn't won the match point in advance, the Lakers management would not dare to intervene at will.

However, tonight Zen master is ready to withstand the pressure of the management and hand over the game to the OK team and others.

After all, he was also a player!Zen master knows better than anyone when the coach should intervene to manage the locker room and intervene to control the game.

Sometimes players have their own ideas, and the coach's wanton intervention will only backfire, and everyone will betray their relatives.

People are scattered, and the team is not easy to lead!

Zen Master is also looking forward to leading the current Lakers to win the championship again!

Therefore, even if the management has a task to supervise it, Zen master will sing against the management for his own benefit.

The Lakers were already stronger, and now their morale is particularly strong.

After the Zen master blocked the hind legs from the court, the Lakers quickly played the demeanor that the favorites for the championship should have.

At the beginning, seeing O'Neal go beyond the three-point line and play a pick-and-roll with Dunn, the Kings were a little dumbfounded. Is this O'Neal?

Just when everyone was stunned, Dunn used O'Neal's cover to get rid of Doug Christie's defense.

Then he passed Divac with a change of direction and went directly to the basket to complete the dunk. The Kings had to recover and deal with it calmly.

Although Dunn and O'Neill just completed a pick-and-roll, anyone with a discerning eye can see that this move is extremely lethal to the king's zone defense.

O'Neal pulled outside the three-point line, and Divac had to pull to the high post. Because of O'Neal's screen quality, Doug Christie was almost useless.

At the same time, it is impossible for Peja to let Kobe go anyway.

In this way, as long as Divac fails to delay Duane, the Lakers will form a local three-on-two situation in the area below the elbow.

Dunn, O'Neal and Malone beat Bibby and Webber.

If Fisher cuts to the basket when Bibby lets him go, then the Lakers are 4-on-2.

With the support of Duane's master passing ability, the Lakers' offense should not be too easy.

After talking about offense, let's talk about defense. O'Neal, who runs off the ball, doesn't have so much physical contact, and his physical exertion is not as exaggerated as the first three games of the series.

Moreover, O'Neal discussed the issue of returning to defense with Dunn and Malone beforehand.

As long as Dunn breaks through with the ball and passes Divac or Brad Miller, then O'Neal can turn around and return to defense.

If Bibby's attack comes early and he cooperates with the Kings' center to attack Duan above the free throw line, then Duan will pass the ball to O'Neal, allowing O'Neal to attack the basket and finish.

At this time, it doesn't matter whether O'Neal returns to defense or not.

If the Kings switch offense and play fast enough, Dunn will even make a long pass from the backcourt to the baseline, allowing O'Neal, who stays in the frontcourt, to eat directly at the basket.

He also considered all aspects clearly, and O'Neill worked very hard to cover Duane.

There has never been such a thing as a false screen and then immediately followed. O'Neal just finished building a wall for Du En before leaving.

Sure enough, Bibby still spontaneously cooperated with Divac to double-team Duane, the ball holder.

Dunn passed the ball down to O'Neal, and before Divac turned around, O'Neal had already stepped into the penalty area.

At the same time, Fisher also followed the empty cut basket.

Faced with a situation where one person is defending three people, Weber can only take a strong breath, hold his breath and rush into the penalty area, blocking O'Neal in front of him.

boom--

The three-hundred-pound O'Neill directly pushed the two-hundred-pound Webb to complete the dunk!
"Have you ever been hit by a truck?"

Seeing that Weber was dunked by him, but he didn't hear the whistle, O'Neill spouted a trash talk, and immediately returned to defense.

Weber didn't show any signs of getting angry when he heard O'Neill's trash talking, but just continued to lie on the floor for a while.

Waiting for his teammates to step forward to pull him up, he got up, and then rubbed his throbbing chest.

It was also because Webber fell to the ground before, and the Kings had no chance to switch immediately.

Waiting for the position to fight, Peja and Doug Christie were restricted by Kobe and Dunn, and O'Neal was under the basket. The Kings could only think of a way at Bibby and Webber.

Fisher's defensive speed can only be fast, and defending Bibby, who is good at pick-and-rolls, can actually squeeze the screen and limit it.

Ever since, the king went around and could only find Weber.

Weber had already scored goals against Malone's defense before, but this time it seemed that because he was hit by O'Neal just now, his muscles were a little tense, and he turned over and hit the iron with a jumper.

When Malone protected the rebound, it was soon time for Weber to suffer again.

Duan and O'Neal repeated their same tricks, and then O'Neal took the ball and hit the basket.

As the leader of the team, Webber is the only one under the basket. It is impossible for Webber to let O'Neal attack the basket.

He took another breath, pushed up again, was knocked into the air again, and lay down on the ground again.

It seemed like the league wanted to keep the series going for an extra game or two, and the whistle blew, and O'Neal was blown off a strike.

But it didn't have much impact. O'Neal seemed to want to scrap Webber before the six offenders left the field, or Brad Miller, the culprit who hurt Payton, was scrapped.

It is said that Mutombo beat O'Neal, who was nearly [-] kilograms, in a series. Bandages were all over his body, and he was admitted to the hospital immediately after the fight.

Now Weber faced O'Neal, who weighed more than 300 kilograms and charged up with a bag of explosives. You can imagine the terrifying impact!

Because of the constant pick-and-roll offense, Webber really couldn't stand it. Although Rick Adelman was very angry, he felt that O'Neal was murdering, not playing.

But in the end, Brad Miller could only be replaced on the court!

At this point, O'Neal has gotten his wish and can directly attack Brad Miller and avenge Payton.

O'Neal and Brad Miller have long had a grudge. Two years ago, O'Neal was pissed off by Brad Miller's tricks and punched Brad Miller directly.

However, Brad Miller has strong boxing skills. Even if O'Neill grabbed Brad Miller's clothes and held on, Brad Miller avoided all of O'Neill's fists.

In other words, if he really entered the octagonal cage, O'Neal might be beaten to death by Brad Miller.

But on the court, Brad Miller had no choice but to withstand O'Neal's brutal attack.

More than 8 minutes into the first quarter, O'Neal received the third offensive foul contentedly, and then went to rest.

However, the King's three insiders were all beaten by O'Neal.

It can only be said that pick-and-roll is fun for a while, and pick-and-roll is always fun.

In the past, O'Neal was focused on low-post singles, but now he has discovered a new world, and he can beat people so much in pick-and-rolls.

Although this style of play consumes a lot of energy, it undoubtedly focused everyone's attention on him.

In the low post, there are also situations where he goes around to block the ball and gets double-teamed after getting the ball.

Playing pick-and-roll makes it easier to get the ball. Most of the time, the opponent is like a sandbag, standing there to accept his impact, and then dunk hard.

O'Neill thought to himself, if he can hit an elbow like Malone to open the way, Malone's elbow will be notorious.

So, in the future, will he be able to rely on this move in the pick-and-roll and score a lot of points more easily?
As for the low?How unfamiliar!

It is said that after O'Neal came off the court, Kobe finally got the ball and was able to play alone.

The Lakers' high double screens and Duane's pass provided Kobe with many opportunities for low post singles.

Kobe also enjoyed it, the feeling of defeating opponents on his own and leading the team to win points.

29 to 25. Although the Lakers' offense in the first quarter of G4 was fierce, O'Neal's three shots were called offensive fouls, so the Lakers' lead in the end was only 4 points.

In the second quarter, O'Neal continued to start with Duan.

The Kings noticed that O'Neal was carrying three fouls, so they called O'Neal on the pick-and-roll as soon as possible, trying to get O'Neal out as early as possible.

The referee's meaning was also clear, O'Neal was not suitable to continue wreaking havoc on the court.

The second quarter only played for more than 2 minutes, and O'Neal made a total of four fouls and went off to rest again.

However, Dunn continued to play pick-and-roll with Malone and Grant, and challenged the King's inside line from the basket.

Relying on the aftermath of O'Neal smashing the King's inside line in the first quarter, Duane scored repeatedly in the middle distance and near the frame, helping the Lakers stabilize the situation.

On the other hand, the Kings, even though the Lakers' interior defense was weak, did not seize the opportunity of O'Neal's absence and continued to score in the low post.

On the contrary, because of the frequent iron strikes, the Lakers seized the opportunity to play a defensive counterattack.

Peja and other Kings outside players were jointly defended by Kobe, Dunn, and Fisher. The Kings, whose scoring efficiency declined in the second quarter, also began to decline in momentum, which was obviously not as good as in the first quarter.

As for the Lakers, if Duane is tired from playing, there will be Kobe. If Kobe is tired from playing, Malone can still hit the top. If it doesn't work, Fisher can also shoot a cold arrow and shoot a three-pointer.

When others could no longer play, Duan regained some strength and began to take over the ball and the game.

Of course, it was mainly Duane and Kobe who were scoring, and it was also because Duane and Kobe scored 21 points in the second quarter that the Lakers further widened the point difference, 57 to 47, which was exactly 10 points.

In the third quarter, O'Neal punched again, but this time he learned to be smart and knew that after the pick-and-roll attracted the defense, he had to pass the ball to Malone.

On the defensive end, he crouched under the basket and couldn't get out, so he didn't get fouled too quickly.

It wasn't until more than 7 minutes into the third quarter that O'Neal was burdened with the fifth foul.

But by this time, the Lakers have further widened the gap.

Even if the referee was on the side of the king, the king was still unable to turn defeat into a victory.

After the third quarter, 83 to 71, the Lakers entered the fourth quarter with a 12-point lead.

Even though O'Neal left the field early with 3 fouls after playing 6 minutes in the fourth quarter, the morale of the Lakers was not damaged, but became more united and tougher.

In the fourth quarter, when everyone was running, Duane took the lead and dunked twice in a row.

Immediately afterwards, Kobe's proficient low post play also helped the Lakers continue to stabilize the point difference.

There are about four to five minutes left in the fourth quarter, and fans in the Golden No. 5 Arena keep leaving early because of disappointment.

The final result, as they had guessed, was that the Lakers took the initiative to lower the tempo of the game, relying on Duane and Kobe's ability to digest the ball, and steadily won the game.

104 to 97, even though O'Neal, the head of the Lakers, left the field with six fouls early, even if the home whistle tonight was a bit obvious.

The Lakers still relied on the effectiveness of the three armies to win G7 in the Western Conference semifinals with a 4-point advantage.

So far, the Lakers have also won the series with 4 consecutive victories, swept the Kings, successfully advanced to the Western Conference Finals, and became the first team to advance to the conference finals this season!

(End of this chapter)