The Whip of the God of Basketball

Phil Jackson has spent most of his energy this season on coordinating player relationships and balancing the ball rights of big players.

If there is anyone in this league who can lead four Hall of Fame players on the field, then this person must be Phil Jackson, the most legendary coach of the NBA with nine rings, three consecutive championships. The founder has the most unique coaching method and coaching system in the entire league.

For him, tactics are not the first, how to make the players willingly work for the championship is the most important. According to reason, he shouldn't have been broken by this incident. The disastrous defeat in the Western Conference semifinals last season gave O'Neal and Kobe a strong aggressive this season*. At least so far, O'Neal has maintained full attendance in the first 24 games.

You must know that O'Neal missed almost all games in November due to a big toe injury last season. It was from that time that the Lakers began to criticize O'Neal for not being diligent.

Jackson still remembers that when the Lakers went to Boston to participate in an away game, O'Neal was absent, Kobe played 47 irons and finally lost the game.

As for Malone and Payton, both came for the championship, especially Karl Malone. In the summer, he carried out a full range of recovery and intensive training for his body. Just last season, Malone was still able to average 21 points per game, even if he was close to 40 years old, he was still an efficient scorer. And the self-discipline, diligence, and restraint he showed in his body brought a refreshing breeze to the impetuous Lakers before.

The only thing that dissatisfied Jackson is Payton. Payton, who is obviously used to playing under the supersonic George Carr, is difficult to adapt to Jackson's system. Jackson's system requires point guards to be like a blue-collar, defensively, and make vacancies. Three points, do the basic transfer ball.

As for Payton, defense is his specialty, but if his aggressive defense is not supported by the striker, it often becomes full of loopholes. It just so happens that the Lakers' forward is not the type that is good at catching up. On the offensive end, Payton is accustomed to counterattacks, loves chaos, and is good at back-to-back in the second fast break. Long-range shooting under open conditions is not his characteristic.

Moreover, as the team's tactical brain for a long time, now it is like a blue-collar to become the least important part of the tactics, Payton is difficult to adapt to the moment.

Of course, the bigger trouble still comes from Kobe. The Eagle County incident not only caused Kobe to lose face and image, but also brought a more direct impact that he could not seriously hone his skills and body in the summer, and after the start of the season. Affected by the lawsuit, I had to rush between the two places, between lawyers and coaches, between the court and the arena.

The stubborn young man with a big smile, who originally had an explosive head, began to look gloomy and solemn. He was exhausted by the strong pressure from the media and the cumbersome and complicated legal procedures in the United States. Even so, he was still able to participate in training on time, and even rush to the game to give a wonderful performance. Dominate the evil monarch, unscrupulous concubine

But Jackson knows that this is not a long-term solution. For this season of failure to win the championship, such a waste is too fatal. The core players do not have a stable and relaxed attitude, and there is no regular training or game arrangement. The impact will not only affect his state alone, but may also affect the entire team.

From the beginning of last season, Jackson knew that Kobe was striving to win, like another Jordan's kid, who was never reconciled to just being the No. 2 of the Lakers in his heart. He would be safe and secure like Pippen for his life beside O'Neal. Last year he successfully surpassed O'Neal to become the team's scoring leader, Jackson knew that this gave him confidence.

Now the record of the Lakers is soaring, and the limelight is in full swing. Jackson is trying his best to coordinate the relationship between all parties, take care of veterans, and train new players. The Lakers are still in harmony, and everyone is fighting for the ultimate goal.

In the game against the Celtics on the night of the 21st, Jackson had a trace of worry. He didn't know how the Celtics were doing, but he knew that first, the Celtics are quite strong now; second. , He does not want tonight's game to affect the morale of the Lakers.

The same is losing, losing to a strong enemy in a much-anticipated battle is completely different from the impact of losing to the underdog in the gutter, especially at home. Before the game, Jackson tried his best to keep a low profile, and did not have any rhetoric with Celtics coach Leon, in order to prevent internal disturbances in the team.

At the beginning of the first quarter, the Celtics succeeded in stealing the ball, relying on Arenas' layup to score a point first, which made Jackson shook his head. Payton’s position on this ball has obvious problems. The triangle offense requires the players’ stance distance to ensure that the pass between players is not easy to make mistakes, and the player who receives the ball is not easy to be double-teamed.

But Payton didn't realize this. This kind of thinking didn't fit into his bones, so O'Neal's catch was double-teamed and cut off.

Being counter-attacked by opponents is the last thing Jackson would like to see. This old team with a heavy center as its core does not want to be caught in a fast battle.

Looking back, the Lakers still insisted on playing O'Neal. Let O'Neal find an offensive feeling in the opening game, which is an important secret for the Lakers to win. If such a big killer is not used at the beginning, but reserved for the last moments of foul tactics and pressing, it would be a waste of superman's energy.

This time, O'Neal changed one side to receive the ball. Fox handed the ball to O'Neal at 45 degrees. A deployment line was formed between him and O'Neal. The appropriate distance and the free bottom line allowed the Celtics players. Not dare to double-team easily. The author belongs to a high-risk occupation

After receiving the ball, O'Neal turned and raised his elbow to open Pj-Brown, and then a one-handed heavy dunk sent the ball into the basket!

"It's really a monster..." Leon watched O'Neal easily from the sidelines to open up Brown, and completed the offense with a dunk. He couldn't help but sigh that even in the NBA where the monsters are everywhere, O'Neal is a monster among all monsters.

But Leon knew in his heart that this monster is also 31 years old this year, on the tail of a center peak. A super center at the peak of the tail, his offensive state can often be maintained for two to three years, longer or even four to five years, slowly declining in a smooth curve.

But his state on the defensive end will most likely end in a certain year. O'Neal can still easily get more than 10 rebounds in the game and send more than 2.5 blocks per game, which is not much different from the peak five years ago. But Leon, who is proficient in observation and data analysis, knows that this overweight shark, who misses part of the game every year, can no longer block opponents like a bison on the defensive end like when he was 27 years old. He is more like an elephant, unless someone rushes to the basket, he will do his best, otherwise he will only fling his nose to brighten the ivory as a warning.

So before the start of the game, like Phil Jackson, Leon wants the Celtics to start from the inside, but not a low post, but a pick and roll.

Arenas and Pj-Brown rarely completed a pick-and-roll ~www.readwn.com~Brown cut outside and shot a jumper at a distance of 12 feet from the basket at 45 degrees. It's not a long distance, but O'Neal didn't want to pull it out either, just watching the ball go into the net with a straight curve and hollow.

This is a problem the Lakers have faced for a long time-how does O'Neal guard against pick-and-rolls. But the facts have proved that even if O'Neal can't come out to defend the pick-and-roll, no team except the Utah Jazz can kill the Lakers with a pick-and-roll.

So Phil Jackson is not in a hurry. He feels that the Celtics are not the first to deal with O'Neal this way, nor will they be the last. If their tricks only reach this point, Jackson is not worried.

Next, O'Neal scored again, he turned around and left Pj-Brown, and then Payton made a long lob, and O'Neal succeeded in the air relay! This is what O'Neill is good at, and Payton is good at 4:4.

The reason Jackson didn't worry about O'Neal's defense of pick-and-rolls was because his opponents could not prevent O'Neal.

In the opening game, O'Neal scored four points with two dunks. But Jackson did not expect that, with the exception of O'Neal, the entire Lakers scored no more than four points in the first quarter. (To be continued.)