Healthy basketball, starting from eating the old Lakers F4

Chapter 106 The finals begin, this is my stage!

On June 6, after six consecutive iron fights, the Pistons still outperformed the Pacers 1-4 and successfully advanced to this year's finals.

Perhaps it's because the Pistons use iron-blooded defense to limit their playoff opponents to less than 80 points per game.

Many media began to build momentum for the Pistons - defense wins the championship, and the Detroit Pistons have a chance to defeat the Los Angeles Lakers and win the championship!
Of course, more media still believe that the Los Angeles Lakers, a super team that focuses on offensive basketball, are the truly unrivaled kings this season!
The Pistons used defense to punish the Pacers, who were No. 4 in the Eastern Conference, but were unable to use defense to restrict the Lakers, who had a luxurious lineup. They swept the defending champion Spurs 1-[-].

Especially the media in Los Angeles has begun to loan championships and FMVPs.

Even the second Lakers dynasty and three consecutive championships are beginning to be imagined.

It is worth mentioning that on June 6, the Lakers officially announced that Payton had returned from injury, and the Lakers' paper strength had returned to its peak state.

Of course, because Payton was injured and was pushed to the waist, although he didn't hurt the spine, he only strained the muscles, but to be on the safe side, Payton still played from the bench and strictly controlled his playing time.

This means that Payton's return will not disrupt the Lakers' rotation, at most it is to get a little playing time from the bench, and it does not affect the overall situation.

Time soon came to June 6, when the Pistons arrived in Los Angeles, and the prelude to the war kicked off.

Many Lakers fans spontaneously came to the hotel where the Pistons players were staying, and began to make noise for the Pistons players, affecting the rest of the Pistons players.

However, it was not as outrageous as when Lakers players were in a San Antonio hotel and listened to gunshots in the middle of the night.

On the afternoon of June 6, Lakers legend Magician, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and James Worthy arrived at the Toyota Center together to cheer up Kobe, Duane, O'Neal and others who were still training.

Because Du En is only a first-year rookie, and he is not yet a black player, the three meritorious players are not very familiar with Du En, so they just give a few words of encouragement.

In the blink of an eye, time came to the night of June 6th, at the Staples Center, the 6-03 season NBA Finals, the Lakers vs. Pistons G04 is about to start.

Because it happened to be Sunday, the Lakers players played in platinum jerseys.

However, the Lakers fans at the scene were wearing platinum, gold, purple and gold jerseys, as well as the previous "Take it Back" special jerseys. In short, there were all kinds of jerseys. They didn't look neat, but rather messy.

"Dune, is it your first time playing in the finals? Don't be nervous, we all believe in you, you can help the Los Angeles Lakers win."

The magician brought two guards, one on the left and the other on the right - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and James Worthy, who specially brought the ball for tonight's game from the technical table and handed it to the referee in the middle circle who was in charge of the jump ball.

By the way, just before the game started, I gave a few words of encouragement to Du En and others.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and James Worthy were not as talkative as Magic. They came up to apologize for a moment and then followed Magic down again.

"Relax bro, if you're nervous, give the ball to Shaq!"

O'Neal patted Dunn on the shoulder, then stood on the middle circle, ready to jump the ball.

Not long after, the referee threw the ball high, and then the whistle sounded.

Dunn scratched his head: "Shaq, didn't you tell me to relax? Why did you violate the jump ball?"

O'Neal spread his hands and ran to the low post.

Because the Lakers have a regular starting lineup, Fisher, Kobe, Dunn, Malone, O'Neal, so they tried to defend normally at first.

Kobe didn't go to guard Billups, but got entangled with Hamilton as soon as he came up, and Dunn followed Prince to the bottom corner to smoke.

Originally O'Neal was supposed to be defending O'Neal, but Ben ran outside the three-point line and played a pick-and-roll with Billups. O'Neal's ability to defend the pick-and-roll was extremely poor, and he had no way to defend in the high post, so he had to switch to Malone to defend.

In the first round, the Pistons played very patiently. First, Billups and Hamilton crossed the screen at the top of the arc. Hamilton failed to get rid of Kobe and could only pass the ball to Billups again.

Immediately afterwards, Billups and Big Ben played a pick-and-roll on the left sideline, and Malone was forced to step forward to delay Billups.

Hamilton made a circle from the right side, and with the help of Prince and Roaring Tianzun, he made an empty cut to the basket.

Duane noticed that Kobe had no time to chase Hamilton and could only immediately make up for it in front of Hamilton.

Kobe had just squeezed through the roaring Tianzun, and found that Duane had switched to Hamilton, so he retreated in front of Prince.

After Roaring Tianzun was squeezed through the screen by Kobe, he immediately broke away and ran to the three-point line at a 45-degree angle on the right side to help the Pistons open up space.

O'Neal couldn't keep up, and Billups passed the ball to Roaring Tianzun.

Seeing this, Fisher could only save for O'Neill, but he still failed to interfere with the three-pointer of Roaring Tianzun.

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Roaring Tianzun scored a three-pointer as soon as he came up. The Staples Center, which was still a little noisy, seemed to stop time suddenly and the sound disappeared instantly.

"Shaq, hurry up and pick up the ball!"

Kobe seemed a little dissatisfied with O'Neal for not guarding the ball just now. Kobe was obviously near the baseline, but he did not pick up the ball and slip out of the baseline to serve.

O'Neal didn't say much after hearing this. He took the ball and sent it to Duan who was also near the baseline, but turned a blind eye to Kobe.

It is worth mentioning that the Pistons directly pressed the whole court and used defense to put pressure on the Lakers players.

Prince directly interfered with Duan's dribbling, and even Kobe Bryant on the side was physically contacted by Hamilton.

"Derek!"

While dribbling, Dunn relied on Caprins with his upper body strength, and at the same time signaled the dribbling guard Fisher to come over quickly and help him share the pressure of dribbling.

Before the finals kicked off, Du En had already planned in private, to try boldly and win the finals MVP!

Facing a strong defensive team like the Pistons, if you want to score high points, you will definitely consume more energy on the offensive end than in the previous playoffs.

Therefore, in terms of physical strength, save as much as possible.

As the most famous dribbling guard in the league, Fisher, the Lakers signed him, didn't they just let him do this?

Fisher is also self-aware, and soon came to meet Dunn.

However, not long after Duan passed the ball to Fisher, Fisher passed the ball to Duan.

In terms of disrupting dribbling, Billups's defensive pressure is greater than that of Prince.

Fisher also wanted to turn around and pass Billups like Duane did, but Billups can not only give physical confrontation, but also continue to exert defensive intensity, and can also ensure that he does not lose his position.

In order to prevent dribbling errors, Fisher could only pass the ball to Dunn in advance.

Fortunately, Duan's ability to get rid of the ball and catch the ball have already reached the All-Star level. Otherwise, he might not even be able to catch the ball if he was interfered by Prince's long arms!

After dribbling the ball past half court, Duan immediately called O'Neal to step forward and play a high pick-and-roll.

Before the game, Zen Master carefully analyzed the Pistons' defensive system for the Lakers players, mainly including full-court pressing and mixed defense.

Many people have never heard of the technical term "mixed defense", so what about the quadruple defense?Maybe just heard it a little bit.

One-mark quadruple is a type of mixed defense that combines man-to-man and zone defense.

In today's era, there is another word that can be used to describe mixed defense, and that is illegal defense.

However, with the legalization of joint defense, the famous illegal defense in the 90s has now become an old calendar.

The Pistons' mixed defense, in addition to man-marking and zone defense, also incorporates unlimited defense changes.

It is also because of unlimited defense changes. The Pistons will switch defenses whenever they are screened. Then, relying on the defensive help of Ben, they can attack the ball holder in the high position. The Pistons' defense can be as good as an iron barrel.

Of course, the Pistons' mixed defense is not without weaknesses.

Just like zone defense, as long as the space is wide enough, three-pointers and two-pointers can be shot from the high post, and there are people in the low post who can make air cuts, the mixed defense can be easily solved.

Why did Zen Master insist on starting Fisher?
It's not because Fisher can shoot three-pointers!At the same time, his dribbling ability is also very good, one of the best in the Lakers team, and he can share the dribbling pressure for Duan and Kobe under the tight defense of the whole court.

The Lakers played the Pistons. In the starting lineup, Fisher, Kobe, Dunn, and Malone could all shoot.

As long as the high pick-and-roll is used to solve the problem of O'Neal squatting at the basket, unable to catch the ball and unable to shoot, all troubles will be solved.

But if Malone is injured, the Lakers start with Payton, and O'Neal squats under the basket again, then if you want to break the Pistons' mixed defense, you can only take a stupid way-that is to rely on the star to play singles.

Illegal defense was extremely popular in the 90s, but as long as you are as accurate as Jordan, you can still kill everyone even without three-pointers.

Dunn doesn't have Jordan's shooting ability, but with O'Neal's screen, it's okay to shoot a few more three-pointers.

As long as you use the screen to shoot fast enough and shoot accurately enough, unlimited defense changes are for nothing!
"This is my stage!"

Du En knew very well that in this series, he definitely had a chance to shine!

Duan is different from Kobe!At least Duane wouldn't say to O'Neal and Malone - put away your damn pick-and-roll!

In fact, Dunn, like his good brother Wade, is a pick-and-roll man. The more pick-and-rolls, the better. How can anyone take the initiative to let his teammates go?
This time, Duan also relied on O'Neal's solid cover to leave Prince behind.

At the same time, Big Ben just rushed out of the free throw line, and Duane made a three-pointer without hesitation.

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With the knife in his hand, Du En responded with a three-pointer to the roaring Tianzun's three-pointer just now.

"Shaq, your pick-and-roll is so good, [-]% of my shots are due to you! Let's kick their ass hard together!"

In order to prevent O'Neal from becoming suspicious, Du En only used O'Neal as a cover tool, but he went crazy to brush up the data. Du En immediately pulled O'Neal.

O'Neal didn't get the ball and didn't think much about it. After all, Prince had switched defenses, and Roaring Tianzun took another step up in the low post.

Once he is delayed by Prince, and Big Ben and Roaring Tianzun come over again, then he will fall into the trap set by the Pistons and cannot break free.

Only Kobe, who ran to the low post, seemed to have already understood everything. Even when Du En returned to defense, his attention was still on Du En.

(End of this chapter)