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Chapter 94 Superstar Basketball vs. Civilian Basketball, Zen Master vs. Adelman! (Third update, please subscribe)

The Kings advanced to the Western Conference semifinals a little earlier than the Lakers, but they did not show any symptoms of rest.

As soon as the game started, Divac showed off his power and pushed the ball back to the backcourt before O'Neal jumped to the highest point.

Bibby dribbled the ball forward quickly, but Payton was unable to form an effective obstacle.

As soon as the Lakers settled down, Bibby passed the ball to Webber at the basket.

Weber swung the ball to trick Malone into flying, but Malone controlled his body well and did not lean forward against Weber.

Seeing that there was no chance to make a foul, Weber turned around and slid to the baseline to attack the basket. O'Neal had to let Divac go to defend the basket.

Seeing a behemoth like O'Neal, Weber naturally did not choose to attack, but played strictly according to the Princeton system, passing the ball to Divac who was in the open.

After Divac took the ball, he made a mid-range shot, and Malone threw himself in front of Divac, obviously a bit slower.

Seeing that the basketball fell steadily into the net, the King made a layup with exquisite coordination and easily scored a mid-range.

As the saying goes, you have a good plan, and I have a wall ladder!
It's different from the Kings having four All-Stars but playing team basketball.As a super team, the Lakers specialize in playing around superstars and focus on superstar basketball!
Dunn cooperated with Payton in the pick-and-roll, intending to switch to Bibby.

However, the Kings were well prepared. Peja followed Duane to squeeze into the screen. Bibby stepped forward to delay the double attack. Divac took a step inside the free throw line to prevent Payton from catching the ball and rushing to the basket.

Thanks to Bibby not being tall enough, Duane's vision can always pay attention to the positions of Divac and O'Neal under the basket.

Duan jumped up and passed the ball to O'Neal under the basket.

Divac took off to intercept, but failed to destroy Duane's pass.

At the same time, after receiving the ball from the basket, O'Neal turned around and hit a layup, helping the Lakers to even out the point difference.

The two teams played their core tactics for the first offense, which looked simple and pleasing to the eye.

However, as the game time passed, the game style quickly changed from offensive basketball to defensive battles.

Just like the Warriors' passing and cutting system, the Kings' Princeton system worked very well in the first two seasons.

But now that they have played for six seasons, and the Kings have always been a championship team in the Western Conference, how can the Lakers be unfamiliar with the Kings' Princeton system?
Under normal circumstances, the Lakers can basically defend against the King's offense. The King relies on the personal strength of Webber, Peja and others to score.

The Kings, on the other hand, focused on protecting rebounds, playing defensive counterattacks and pushing speed, playing fast and slow, and bullying O'Neal was too heavy, so he couldn't keep running in the seven-game series.

In order to make up for O'Neal's speed and physical problems, the Lakers can only retreat faster from the outside line, trying to limit the advancement speed of the King's ball holder, and minimize the King's conversion offense.

As for the offensive end, the Lakers actually have no problem.

Under Duane's series, it is a simple pick-and-roll to attract the defense, pass the ball to O'Neal and Kobe, let them use their personal abilities one-on-one, and help the Lakers take the lead.

They all rely on personal ability to score, and the Lakers must have an advantage.

After more than 7 minutes in the first quarter, the score on the court came to 14 to 18, and the Lakers temporarily led by 4 points.

The king made a substitution first, replacing Divac with Brad Miller, and continued to top O'Neal.

Fortunately, tonight is only G1 of the Western Conference semifinals, and O'Neal still has plenty of energy.

Relying on Duan's lob to the basket, O'Neal caught the ball and singled out Brad Miller, and the Lakers continued to widen the point difference.

It wasn't until more than 10 minutes into the first quarter that Zen Master saw that O'Neill was panting heavily and his head was full of sweat, so he replaced O'Neill off the court.

However, after O'Neal is off the court, Duane can continuously call Malone and Grant to pick and roll with him in high positions. The Kings will either defend Duane heavily, or use a large delay to attack.

The king's strategy for defending Duane is to delay. Fortunately, Duane not only has excellent passing skills, but also has a good passing vision.

Therefore, Dunn didn't have to expend much effort on his own, just passed the ball to Malone or Grant, allowing them to get open mid-range opportunities.

You can easily get one or two assists to help the Lakers continue to stabilize their advantage.

Ma Long, who has not yet had a recurrence of injury since his comeback in the regular season, is quite reliable in the middle distance.

Relying on Malone's two mid-range shots at the end of the first quarter, the Lakers further widened the point difference.

After the first quarter, the two sides were 19 to 26, and the Lakers led by as much as 7 points.

However, Rick Adelman is a little more ruthless than Zen Master in terms of deadly manipulation.

At the beginning of the second quarter, the Zen master just let the two young men, Duane and Kobe, take the bench and persist for a while.

When O'Neal regains his physical strength, he will naturally send O'Neal to the field to support Dunn and Kobe.

Unexpectedly, the king still sent the entire main lineup, Bibby, Doug Christie, Peja, Brad Miller, Divac, only Webber was still resting on the bench for a while.

In fact, the Kings relied on this lineup to win in the first half of the regular season.

Without Weber, the king's cooperation seems to be more tacit.

After all, the Lakers have substitute players, and their defense is not as good as the main force. It is inevitable that they will miss people, be cut and steal by the King, or be converted into a conversion attack.

Just over 3 minutes into the second quarter, the point difference was narrowed to 2 points, and O'Neal and Malone had to return to the court.

Relying on O'Neal's inside advantage, the Lakers quickly stabilized the score.

Rick Adelman noticed that the Lakers focused on O'Neal, so he replaced Doug Christie and Peja first to rest for a few minutes, allowing them to catch their breath.

But sometimes being smart isn't the way to go.

Before the Zen master reminded Duane to hand the ball to Kobe, Duane signaled O'Neal to attract the defense in the low post, and Malone came up to support and cleared the left side for Kobe.

The pick-and-roll cooperation between Dunn and Malone still attracted a certain amount of defensive attention from the Kings.

At this time, Dunn gave the ball to Kobe again, and let Kobe singles out a small guard like Anthony Peeler who was just in his early 1 meters.

With Kobe's ability, whether it is a shot or a sudden, it is as easy as drinking water.

In other words, Kobe has a strong desire to attack. When Kobe played the Jazz in the first round, he often complained to Duane why he didn't pass the ball to him.

Just before the first quarter, Kobe also reached out to Duane for the ball from time to time.

Duane only gave it once or twice, and at the break, Bryant began to complain again: "They only sent Doug Christie to guard me!
You should pass the ball to me, not to Shaq.

My shot is good and the shot has a lot of room! "

Now Dunn has created better offensive opportunities for Kobe. After Kobe got the ball, he naturally didn't hesitate and immediately took the ball and shot a jumper.

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The goal was scored, Kobe got two points, and Duane got an assist!
What is a superstar!This is called a superstar!

The so-called superstar means that the playoffs are similar to the regular season, and the state and statistics do not have any obvious ups and downs, but they are very stable and reassuring!

Speaking off the court, Kobe's career shooting percentage in the regular season was 44.7%, but in the playoffs it was a little higher at 44.8%.

Although there is no way to compare with Jordan, it is still second to none among the four major shooting guards.

And Kobe's hit rate was still shot in the double-team of two, three or four people. Now it's no problem to play one-on-one singles.

To use Thompson's words to describe it-the team owner spends money to let him do this!
As Duan continued to pass the ball to Kobe, Kobe also rewarded Duan with 4 of 3 shots and 6 points in a row.

Before the first half was over, Duane was about to hit double figures in assists by constantly passing the ball to O'Neal and Kobe.

If Dunn hadn't been ambitious, it would be cool to be Pippen next to the OK team.

However, after having the system, Du En would obviously not be so stupid and waste his unique talent.

In other words, more than 7 minutes into the second quarter, Rick Adelman had to pay for the previous mistakes, and called a timeout to re-take Doug Christie and Peja.

At the same time, Webber also returned to the court, Divac went down to rest again, and then Brad Miller continued to carry O'Neal.

It has to be said that as one of the four power forwards, Weber's personal strength is still strong enough.

Right from the start, he relied on his personal strength and succeeded in a single against Malone, helping the Kings recover 2 points.

It can only be said that because of the lack of a championship, he and the Shifo Wolf King driver fell behind.

"pause!"

Zen Master saw that Webber was in good condition, and considering that O'Neill was already sweating profusely, he immediately called a timeout after Fisher dribbled the ball for halftime.

Zen master said that this timeout is not a waste, because he needs to use this game to experiment.

If the experiment is successful, then in this round of the series, the chances of the Lakers winning will undoubtedly become higher.

In fact, it was Du En who reminded him!
At the end of the first quarter, when O'Neal was not on the court, Duan led the team to play very well.

On the defensive end, the effect of retreating is good. On the offensive end, Duane can also create easier scoring opportunities for Malone and Grant, successfully helping the Lakers open the score.

Thinking of the decrease in scoring efficiency of O'Neal, who was too physically exhausted, and slowing down the team's defense speed, Zen master decided to withdraw O'Neal to the sidelines again.

O'Neill was already exhausted and sweating profusely, so naturally he would not refuse the Zen Master's kindness.

After replacing Grant on the field again, Zen Master also signaled Dunn to continue playing as he did in the last 2 minutes of the first quarter, focusing on high pick-and-rolls.

As for Kobe, he was placed in the low post, like O'Neal before, to attract defense in the low post.

If there is a chance, Duan should naturally pass the ball to Kobe. Jackson believes in Duan's court insight and game reading ability.

As a master tactician, Rick Adelman built a team system very well, but his on-the-spot ability is still a lot worse than that of Zen Master.

The Kings' defensive counterattack was unable to be effective due to the increased speed of the Lakers' defense.

The Lakers relied on high pick-and-rolls and continued to punish the Kings who couldn't guard from mid-range, slowly widening the point difference again.

Until the end of the first half, Rick Adelman had no other way to deal with it except to beat the main force.

41 to 52, halftime.

In the locker room at home, with the Lakers leading by 11 points, the main players are meditating under the leadership of Zen Master, in a posture of recharging their energy.

Rick Adelman yelled loudly in the away locker room: "Doug, you will defend Dunn in the second half, and you can't let him pass the ball easily.

In the first half alone, he had 9 assists. If this continues, we will be destroyed by his passing.

Chris, Karl Malone is old, I need you to take a tougher attitude and help the team catch up!
I know you can do it, you are our king, you must believe that you can do it!

Peja, you have to keep running, Verratti and Brad will help you get rid of the followers behind you.

You need to shoot the ball, give those guys a little color in the Los Angeles Lakers lol!
Mike, you should attack more, whether it's Gary Payton or Derek Fisher, they can't guard you! "

"I know everyone is tired, but it's all worth it!
As long as we can beat the Los Angeles Lakers, we can rush out of the West and win the championship that belongs to us!
Have you noticed?The Sharks of the Los Angeles Lakers can no longer run!
Let's persevere for a while, and persevere, victory must belong to us! "

After eating the bowl of chicken soup painstakingly prepared by Rick Adelman, the exhausted main force of the Kings regained their morale, became high-spirited, and soon returned to the court.

Correspondingly, there are energetic and energetic Lakers players.

I saw that O'Neal at this time still had extra physical strength, dancing and amusing the Lakers players on the sidelines.

"Didn't the coach say that O'Neal couldn't run?"

(End of this chapter)