NBA: I just want to play soy sauce, you let me win the championship

Chapter 338 The "Magic Ball" caused by a strange combination of circumstances (two-in-one)

What do you want to do?
Of course I want to cause trouble outside!

O'Neal is back on the court. You can't be stubborn and let Webb continue to attack under the basket!
The Lakers have stabilized the situation with the help of O'Neal, played the internal and external cooperation they wanted, and their scores have steadily increased.

But it doesn't matter, this was expected.

Turkoglu and Stojakovic started their performances in the two half-space positions.

The first to take action was Turkoglu.

Facing Walker's defense, Turkoglu can't push all the way like a small guard.

Walker has enough strength and height. After being stuck in position, it is difficult for Turkoglu to get close to the basket.

However, Turkoglu is not helpless against such a defender.

I saw Turkoglu confronting Walker with his back, and after realizing that he was not taking advantage, he quickly started his turn and footwork performance.

Walker has always defended the inside and has no way to deal with those big and powerful post-up singles. However, against a striker like Turkoglu who can flexibly move up to the power forward position, the defensive effect is not good.

Turkoglu turned twice, causing Walker to lose his center of gravity and stagger, but he still stuck in position and prevented Turkoglu from going inside.

But where does Turkoglu want to go inside?

Turkoglu turned around again, and Walker didn't dare to follow him, fearing that Turkoglu would knock him back and break through.

Seeing that Walker had given up his close defense, Turkoglu completed a complete turn on the ground, facing the basket, took another step back, leaned back, raised his right leg, and blocked Walker's possible block, and then A pressure-free jump shot.

Go in!

Who said big men can guard against the Golden Rooster?
Nowitzki developed the Golden Rooster Independence at that time, not only to deal with the Heat in the Eastern Conference, but also to deal with all the big men.

Bullying small men with height and strength, and stunning big men with footsteps and turns have always been the core of Jinji's independent skill package.

Here Turkoglu began to show his strength, and the Lakers began to shrink the defense line, putting pressure on Turkoglu to double-team, and then the Kings' ball came to Stojakovic on the other side of the ribs.

Stojakovic's offense is simply a mirror image of Turkoglu, but unlike the defense Turkoglu faces, the defense he faces is Battier.

Battier also has excellent defensive skills, but Stojakovic doesn't care about Battier's defense at all. His offense is very autistic. As long as he makes corresponding technical moves and reaches the golden rooster independent stage, Battier's defense will also Doesn't work at all.

Shane was still very smart and chose to seal his eyes.

What's the use of sealing your eyes for a shooter like Stojakovic, who takes thousands of shots every practice?

As long as he knows where he is, even without looking at the basket, his body's instinctive reaction will tell him which direction to shoot, how hard to use, and what arc to shoot.

Eye seal?

I can shoot with my eyes closed!

The ball went into the basket with the same accuracy.

After the ball was scored, Stojakovic also went to the referee on duty to argue that although the NBA does not have corresponding regulations for this kind of eye-sealing behavior, it is a proper foul under FIBA ​​rules.

The Yugoslav tried to get an extra penalty, but the referee ignored him.

Damn it, these garbage referees don’t understand basketball at all!
Stojakovic cursed and returned to the defensive position.

The Lakers were caught off guard by this sudden mid-range firepower. Although the golden rooster is not as handsome as the fadeaway jumper, the shooting space it can get is exactly the same.

If you allow two shooters to get such a large shooting space so close to the basket, what is the difference between that and suicide?
"Shrink, double team!"

"Don't give them easy shots!"

Phil Jackson blew his whistle handsomely on the sidelines, then called to the Lakers players and issued his new defensive strategy instructions.

On the next defense, Billups and Kobe began to shrink, not giving Turkoglu and Stojakovic a chance to easily take off and shoot.

But this kind of defensive strategy is still expected by the Kings.

Do you think Lu Yuanzhi and Bibby are just decorations?
When Billups and Kobe shrank, Stojakovic, who was holding the ball, quickly passed the ball and found Bibby behind him. At the same time, Lu Yuanzhi started running around the court.

He is not one of those traditional 3D players who stay in place waiting to pass the ball. His off-ball offense is closer to Miller and Ray Allen. He not only finds shooting opportunities for himself through movement, but also creates better opportunities for his teammates. Offensive opportunity.

Kobe's defense was very active, but after seeing Lu Yuanzhi start running around the court, he had to give up the double-team and follow Lu Yuanzhi to the bottom corner on the other side.

Bibby saw Billups returning to defense very quickly, and did not force a shot. Instead, he gave the ball to Turkoglu on the other side, and at the same time he started running to take Billups away.

Although the Lakers knew they had to double-team Stojakovic and Turkoglu, Lu Yuanzhi and Bibby posed too great a threat from beyond the three-point line. They did not dare to leave the ball open and waited for the ball to reach Turkoglu. When it was in hand, the familiar one-on-one session came again.

The Lakers have no one to help defend.

Turkoglu did it again with two, two, three, four, but this time he was unlucky. The ball bounced out of the frame and the rebound was taken by O'Neal.

Cato came to O'Neal immediately and jumped up to intercept a possible pass from O'Neal, preventing the Lakers from counterattacking.

The other four players of the Kings retreated quickly without giving the Lakers any chance.

On the offensive end, Lu Yuanzhi played as an attacking guard, but in the transition stage of offense and defense, Lu Yuanzhi took the lead in running to the inside. Before Cato retreated from defense, he was the Kings' rim protector.

Turkoglu and Stojakovic guarded both sides.

Although the two of them have average athletic ability, cannot jump high, and are not particularly strong, their heights of 206 cm and 208 cm are more than enough as the first line of defense.

If a small guard wants to break into the Kings basket and attack, this first line of defense will slow them down and lose their biggest threat. Then when facing Lu Yuanzhi's basket defense, there will be almost no offensive threat.

Although the center did not complete the retreat, the Kings' interior defense was impregnable during the offensive and defensive transition phase.

O'Neal scanned the court and found that his teammates had no intention of starting a fast break. He had to take the ball back, then handed the ball to Billups, and slowly came to the frontcourt to position.

Another opportunity for a fast break counterattack was missed.

O'Neal actually liked to play counterattacks. On the one hand, his first pass was very accurate. He was the best center in the league at that time at launching counterattacks and first passes.

At this point, even Dayao is not as good as O'Neal.

On the other hand, although we have been saying that O'Neal is a fat guy, he is the most flexible fat guy on the planet. If it really gives the Lakers a chance, O'Neal doesn't mind following up on the fast break and dunking directly into the basket.

But facing a pocket formation like the Kings', which got into position early, O'Neal was not interested in using his speed to start a fast break.

Wouldn't it be better to save your energy for positional warfare?
The Kings still couldn't guard against the positional battle led by O'Neal. The ball was passed inside and outside a few times, which messed up the Kings' defense.

After all, they are not a professional defensive team. In terms of the corresponding overall defensive strategy, the Kings have many flaws.

This is not a problem that one or two defensive elites can solve.

The defensive elite can prevent the opponent's attackers and improve the entire team's defensive upper limit, but the team's overall defensive ability and the team's lower defensive limit are determined by the team's defensive tactics.

At this point, the Kings are definitely not as good as traditional defensive teams, such as the Spurs and the Knicks.O'Neal used the "inside-out" style of play to mobilize the Kings' defense. Then he found an opportunity that the Kings could not double-team. He pushed away the defending Cato and slammed the ball into the basket.

Yes, just play like this, the Kings can't defend it!
The Kings really can't defend, but it doesn't matter, the Kings have their own solution.

Since you can't defend yourself, I'll attack you!

As long as my opponent can't score faster than me, then I'm on guard!

Returning to the offensive end, the Kings once again used the threats of Turkoglu and Stojakovic in the ribs to attract double-teams from the Lakers.

O'Neal is completely a decoration at this time. The Kings will not enter the paint at all to attack the basket guarded by him personally.

On this defense, Kobe was once again attracted by Stojakovic, and Lu Yuanzhi once again came to the weak side corner when he wasn't paying attention.

The Yugoslavian did not pass the ball directly, but passed the ball to Cato who was on the free throw line area.

To Cato?
What attack power does he have?

Just when the Lakers players came up with this idea, Cato passed the ball to the unmarked Lu Yuanzhi in the corner.

Cato: Even if I no longer have any offensive power, you shouldn't treat me like a transparent person!
Don't you know how to pass the ball without any pressure?
Lu Yuanzhi received the ball, and Billups from far away was running over with all his strength, trying to interfere with his shooting.

How could this possibly interfere?
It's several meters away!

Lu Yuanzhi took the shot from the bottom corner without any pressure, "Swipe!" Hit!
Another three points!

Lu Yuanzhi's scoring efficiency today is very high. If you want to calculate the true shooting percentage, he is estimated to be able to reach 70%.

This is hopelessly efficient.

But Lu Yuanzhi is not without problems. Although his scoring efficiency is high, his number of shots is relatively low.

There is no problem in the Kings, a team with excess offensive firepower, but if you become the boss of a weak team and the production is not enough, there will be a big problem.

Contrary to what most people think, as the boss of a team, efficiency is not the most important statistic.

Look at Iverson, Kobe, and Westbrook. When they are the core of the team, their efficiency values ​​are not very high, but they can carry the team forward.

Because they can provide a lot of points while maintaining a middling level of efficiency.

Their yields are very high.

Reflected in the data, their ball possession rate is very high. For example, during the reconstruction period of the Thunder, Westbrook's ball possession rate can be as high as 35%.

The star player must be able to withstand the ball and provide stable output, and then add a few role players with high efficiency and low production to the team. This team will have the strength to enter the playoffs.

Lu Yuanzhi's current style of play is not the style of core players.

His scoring is very magic ball, either outside the three-point line or in the paint.

This is no problem, after all, when Lillard was with the Trail Blazers, his playing style became more and more magical year by year.

But a big problem is that Lu Yuanzhi's output cannot keep up.

There are many reasons for this.

On the one hand, after Lu Yuanzhi missed many shots, will Adelman take back his right to fire, or will he choose a very conservative and traditional mid-range shot?

For example, now, although Stojakovic and Turkoglu are playing well, their scoring efficiency is actually not high, and their true shooting rate is just over 5%.

Lu Yuanzhi, who has a higher scoring efficiency, is providing green leaves for the two of them to help them open up offensive space.

There's no way to solve this, because if you don't become the boss, you won't get unlimited firing rights. This is the iron law of the NBA during this period.

On the other hand, Lu Yuanzhi's offense is relatively monotonous. After entering the middle distance, his offensive threat is almost zero.

The Lakers and other NBA teams are not stupid, they also look at statistics.

As a rising star, Lu Yuanzhi has been thoroughly studied for a long time.

Apart from his astonishingly destructive inside attack and his ever-improving outside abilities, Lu Yuanzhi has no other means of scoring.

Lu Yuanzhi almost never shoots from mid-range. This is a fact that everyone knows.

Although what most people don’t know is that Lu Yuanzhi doesn’t want to vote, he just doesn’t know how to vote!
Who would have thought that all of Lu Yuanzhi's abilities come from the system. That weird system gave him the ability to accurately shoot three-pointers, but it did not help him hit the ball in the mid-range.

But that doesn't affect their defensive decisions.

As long as Lu Yuanzhi enters the mid-range and short range, all his defender needs to do is block the way to the inside. At this time, Lu Yuanzhi is no threat.

Therefore, there is an unavoidable disadvantage of being too magical, that is, all of Lu Yuanzhi's offensive routines are clearly exposed to everyone.

Either outside the three-point line or at the basket.

As for the mid-range, there is no need to guard at all!
This greatly reduced Lu Yuanzhi's scoring output.

But this is not something that can be solved in a short while. At least it will be completely solved until next season, when Lu Yuanzhi leads the team alone and can use the free attribute points he keeps getting.

Of course, as for how to add points, Lu Yuanzhi already has a preliminary plan, and will not take the traditional guard/small forward path.

That's so inefficient!

Back on the court, the Kings still chose inefficient offense as the main direction of attack, and Lu Yuanzhi's efficient offensive method served as a supplement.

This slowed down the Kings' points increase.

The Lakers are different. Although they play "inside and out", using O'Neal to attract double teams and create shooting opportunities for outside players, their scoring coincides with the magic ball theory.

Either it's a high-percentage basket attack, or it's a three-pointer from outside the three-point line.

As soon as they entered and exited, the Lakers slowly caught up with the score.

58: 52!

At the end of the first half, the Lakers trailed by only 6 points.

There are still two quarters left in the game, and they still hope to stage a big comeback at home, catch up with the score, and finally win.

But, are the Kings willing?

Will the Kings, who have come up with five sets of offensive tactics, let the Lakers get what they want?

Wait, aren't there only 4 sets of tactics so far?

Where did the fifth set of tactics come from?
(End of this chapter)