Healthy basketball, starting from eating the old Lakers F4

Chapter 56: Take the initiative to switch defenses and fight with iron!
The Pistons started with 5 wins and 3 losses. In terms of record alone, it is a little worse than the Lakers with 6 wins and 2 losses.

However, the Pistons and the Western Devils have recently played four consecutive games, and now they are in their third game. The players' condition is obviously worse than that of the Lakers.

However, after the game officially started, Billups took the lead to stand up and beat Payton into a defensive loophole in two or three hits.

And on the defensive end, Billups can not only defend Payton alone, but also has the power to help defend Kobe.

It is also thanks to the recent soreness of Kobe's right shoulder, coupled with the fact that he blamed himself for two consecutive losses, he changed his style of play and did not insist on singles too much.

Otherwise, the Lakers will not be able to withstand the offensive firepower of Billups and Hamilton if they continue to send defensive rebounds to Big Ben.

"Kobe, leave Hamilton to me!

You go lock Billups up, we can't let him score easily anymore!
Gary, I leave this rookie Tayshaun Prince to you! "

Halfway through the first quarter, Duane saw that the score was 13 to 9. The situation was a bit unfavorable for the Lakers, so he took the initiative to find Kobe and Payton and asked them to adjust their defensive goals.

You can use talent, but you can't live without it!Billups was known as a parallel importer in his early years, but now he is slowly showing why he can become a talent show.

Although Payton is the second pick, he is old after all and his body is a little immobile.Now being crushed by Billups' talent, he has no temper at all.

After these few games this season, Payton also realized that he is no longer as prosperous as the data shows.

Considering that his good brother Dunn, who brought a substitute together, asked him to switch to a personal defense, and Payton quickly accepted it.

After all, Prince is only in the second grade, and Payton has never put rookies in his eyes.

If Prince is good at shooting and Payton goes up to guard him, then it's basically a gift.Fortunately, Prince's shooting is unstable and his style of play is mainly breakthroughs. Payton can still defend a little bit.

Of course, thinking about it from another angle, as long as Billups and Hamilton don't take the ball to attack, even if Prince is misplaced to play Payton, the Lakers can accept it.

How many shots did Prince take in a game?With Prince's attack power, he couldn't kill anyone at all.

What the Lakers really need to pay attention to are Billups and Hamilton.

Payton can't guard Billups, but Kobe can.

It's just that Kobe and Hamilton are good friends, and they didn't know each other as early as high school.

Kobe had some obsession with defending against Hamilton, and Hamilton worked harder in defense against Kobe.

Dunn was willing to defend Hamilton not because he was confident that he could defend Hamilton, but mainly because he wanted to free Kobe so that Kobe could restrict the Pistons' real brains - Billups.

As the creator of the 58 tragedy, Billups has always been a player whose strength far outweighs his fame.

"He was never the No. [-] point guard, only responsible for sending the No. [-] point guard home!"

This sentence was originally used to describe Parker, but it is actually very appropriate to describe Billups.

In Dunn's view, although the 04 Pistons are very strong, it is not difficult for the Lakers to win the Pistons with F4.

The key is that Kobe wants to score too much. If Kobe can spend his energy on defending Billups instead of defending O'Neal, the outcome of the finals will be very different.

Of course, Kobe also tried to prevent the death of Billups, but it is a pity that Hamilton happened to explode again.

The Lakers in Duane's memory have only one Kobe, and there is no way to press Billups and Hamilton to death at the same time, but now Duane has come to this Lakers team.

Now Duane wants to see if he can help the Lakers limit Hamilton's offense.

There is still a semi-regular season trial and error time for Dunn before the finals. It is not a bad thing to accumulate more experience in defending Hamilton.

"Don't worry, I won't let other people run wild on my territory!"

Kobe also accepted Dunn's suggestion to switch defenses, willing to lock Billups, the piston engine.

Under Kobe's full court defense, it was difficult for Billups to find a mobile phone opportunity, so he could only pass the ball to Prince and Hamilton.

Hamilton will not always take the ball in the top arc, usually running to help the team tear apart the opponent's defense.

As a result, Prince, who was only in his second year, was severely tested with the ball.

After Prince got the ball, Payton made small moves on Prince holding the ball to his heart's content, interfering with Prince's dribbling.

Prince is too tall and has a relatively high center of gravity when dribbling. Facing Payton's defense, it is easy to lose the ball if he keeps rushing to the basket.

In this case, you can only protect the ball with your back and wait for your teammates to respond.

It is worth mentioning that after Larry Brown came to the Pistons, he especially liked Daben, the only All-Star player in the team, so he increased the tactical proportion of Daben in the offense.

Big Ben stepped forward to make a cross screen with Prince, hand to hand to catch the ball.

At the same time, Hamilton, who ran to the basket, used the cover of Eldon Campbell to get rid of Duane's pursuit and quickly ran beyond the three-point line.

Ben passed the ball to Hamilton according to the tactics. The latter made a fake shot and passed the ball to attract the defense. Then he stuffed the ball under the basket and passed it to Ben who was cutting down.

The speed of Daben's air cut is not something that ordinary people can keep up with. If Malone can't keep up, he can't catch up, so he can only sit back and watch Daben dunk with both hands.

I have to say that Larry Brown still has two brushes.

Although it starts with defense, it can also allow blue-collar players to participate in the team's offense.

The two seasons with the highest scoring in Daben's career were the two years when Larry Brown coached the Pistons.

Of course, blue-collars are blue-collars after all, without the ability to attack independently. It is difficult to score in double figures in a game just by cutting.

The Lakers didn't pay too much attention to the Pistons' inside offense. What really needed to be solved was how Dunn could restrict Hamilton from taking the ball after Kobe defended Billups.

Hamilton has the ball, not only a shooting threat but also a passing threat.

It was indeed very difficult for Dunn to meet Hamilton at the beginning. Many times, he was thrown away by Hamilton's back-running push.

But thanks to Kobe who restrained Billups, there was no way for Billups to pass the ball to Hamilton at any time.

Hamilton sometimes ran out of opportunities, but couldn't convert them into shots, and the rest of the Pistons lacked the ability to attack independently.

In order to avoid 24-second violations, the Pistons have been playing positional battles and following the scripted tactics laid out by Larry Brown. They can only let Campbell digest the ball and attack the weakest inside line of the Lakers on the defensive end.

Due to Campbell's age, he often has more energy than energy.

The Lakers were guarded by the Pistons and couldn't score efficiently, but the Pistons couldn't score efficiently because of their limited abilities.

During the first quarter, the starting players of both sides played almost the entire game time. There is no doubt that this will be another strong dialogue between the head coaches of both sides.

However, the score between the two sides is only 21 to 19. The defensive strength is enough, but the offensive aspect is not so exciting.

The game started quickly in the second quarter, and the Lakers finally started to exert their strength under the leadership of Duan and Payton.

In the first quarter, Dunn made 3 of 1 shots and scored 2 points only by fast break.

On the one hand, it is because Prince is much taller than Duane, and he is not at a disadvantage in terms of weight. It is not easy for Duane to single-handedly beat Prince, not to mention that Prince's long arms are very restrained from Duane's shooting.

On the other hand, it is also because it is not easy to defend Hamilton, and just running consumes a lot of energy.

At the beginning of the second quarter, Prince was not on the court, and Duane finally got the opportunity to travel on a staggered peak.

The Pistons' Bob Sura and Collis Williams couldn't limit Duane's shots, and they couldn't prevent Duane from picking and rolling off Billups.

Without Prince's close defense, Dunn can dribble the ball and switch to Billups on his own.

In the second quarter, Duane was looking for Billups' troubles on both offensive and defensive ends, trying to consume Billups' physical strength as much as possible.

Billups' defense is very good, and the confrontation is quite good, but Dunn has the advantage of height and weight after all.

Duane can pass the ball again. Once the Pistons double-team Duane from the outside, Payton can get another chance to attack the basket.

After more than 4 minutes into the second quarter, when the main players on both sides returned to the field, Dunn had already scored 7 points, 2 rebounds and 2 assists in the second quarter.

Dunn went down to rest for a while, and returned to the court when there were more than 3 minutes left in the second quarter.

Originally, the two sides were still fighting, but the Lakers took the lead in breaking the deadlock with Duen's three-pointer.

However, then Duan was stuck by Prince again, and he hit two irons on both throws. Kobe felt that it was better for him to do it, so Kobe also hit two irons.

40 to 41, relying on Dunn's 10-point firepower in the second quarter, the Lakers finally turned the tables and led the Pistons by 1 point.

During the intermission, the Lakers and their team returned to the locker room, all of them exhausted.

"Duen, don't you want to eat?" Payton held a few bananas and approached Duen.

Du En glanced at Kobe who was also eating a banana, shook his hand and refused: "I'm not hungry, I just have a drink."

Kobe used practical actions to tell other NBA players, defending Hamilton, really can't eat during the intermission...

(End of this chapter)