Chapter 752

"Combination: Good at checking and balancing the contradictions between superstars, using the available resources and current situation, unite superstars, and let them play the strongest strength to fight together."

This damn chicken soup coach!

Sloan, Pat Riley, and Liu Mang have only seen these two head coaches with coaching abilities that can be embodied by the system as skills, that is, they have their own specialties in certain aspects, so that the system can judge For the specialty of the skill.

Sloan is his connection with Shuangsha, and Pat Riley is the deterrent force of the iron-blooded head coach he played in the 1990s. These two are undoubtedly very powerful coaches. The play has become the focus of each team's tactics, ending the situation that before the 1980s, the game was always singles.

Pat Riley created several eras.

As for the Zen master, just a bowl of chicken soup to go to the end of the world...

Liu Mang was already ready to go up and try to widen the point difference, and his mentality became more relaxed, at least the first half was safe, but he didn't expect such a sudden thing.

Glancing at the opponent's bench, he found that the little blacksmith and the Chicken Soup Man were not there. Liu Mang cursed secretly and ran to Mike Woodson who was setting up defense.

"Mike, that guy Kobe may not be alone for a while, you have to rearrange your tactics." After Liu Mang finished speaking, he subconsciously looked at the other party, and the other party actually called a long timeout, and then put the Lakers The players shouted together.

Mike Woodson followed Liu Mang's line of sight, saw this scene, and then saw the Lakers call a long timeout, and understood it all at once.

"How did Phil convince Kobe? It's a headache." Mike Woodson said helplessly.

"Oh? Mike, do you know about this?" Coach Kruger next to him was a little confused about what happened to Liu Mang's words, but when he heard that Kobe was persuaded, he knew that Liu Mang and Mike Woodson used to The defensive and verbal attacks against Kobe seemed to be resolved by the opposing coach.

"Yeah, at this time three years ago, I was still in the 76ers. I helped the 76ers win the first game. Kobe was already in the second game. Phil convinced me with some words." Mike Woodson obviously had a headache for Phil Jackson, "Don't talk about it, Lang, let's adjust our tactics, they called a timeout..."

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The official timeout was followed by another long timeout. This timeout was long enough that the referee was about to vomit blood.

The timeout ended, and the Eagles, which happened to be the last four minutes of halftime, replaced all the starters, including Liu Mang, Prince, Raheem, Rasheed Wallace, and Ratliff.

On the Lakers side, the starting lineup was also replaced, Fisher, Kobe, Devin George, Malone, O'Neal.

51 to 39, Kobe looked at the score on the big screen, gritted his teeth, picked up his jersey and ran to the frontcourt.

Seeing Kobe's appearance, Liu Mang, who was standing outside the three-point line, did not dare to relax a bit.

Seeing Fisher advancing, Liu Mang went straight to the center line.

When Fisher saw Liu Mang coming, he immediately passed the ball to Kobe, and then ran to the bottom corner on the right. Together, Lins defended a zone defense against Fisher and Devin George on the strong side.

Rasheed Wallace on the left side of the basket followed Malone, who was on the weak side and was ready to respond. The Lakers made a solid long-range shot today. Except for Kobe, it was Malone. It’s just that Kobe didn’t pass the ball to him before, so it’s hard to say now Mike Woodson, who has seen Kobe, who was ignored by Iverson in 2001, was given chicken soup by the Zen master, did not dare to let go of Malone, who was most likely to have a defensive loophole.

Kobe thought that the opponent would definitely let Malone out, but he didn't expect that the opponent would also focus on Malone's point. Although there was room for O'Neal inside, O'Neal couldn't move for a while. In the first half, it was only him and O'Neal. The two scored, the others barely scored, and O'Neal was already tired.

No way, Kobe still wants to show a wave of passes, but he can only play singles!

"Ding...Talent skill: Black Mamba bite level 4 trigger, comprehensive ability evaluation +4, from Kobe Bryant."

here we go again! The blacksmith!

Liu Mang immediately moved towards the upper line, and when he saw Kobe rushing to the right, Liu Mang immediately flanked him.

Kobe Bryant had expected this situation a long time ago. During the march, he swung the ball with his right hand behind his back, moved laterally to the left, dribbled behind his back to get rid of Prince, and at the same time used Prince to block Liu Mang's pincer attack.

Although Kobe does not have Liu Mang's ability to ignore the difference in handedness, his left hand has also developed some basic skills in dribbling and shooting!

However, Prince has defended this kind of breakthrough many times in the past few days, and he is too familiar with it. Kobe's behind-the-back dribble is too obvious, and Kobe was blocked by Prince's pre-anticipated defense. ! Kobe Bryant's change of direction to the left is not as fast as the change of direction to the right.

Kobe wanted to change direction again, but Liu Mang had already pressed him up. Strong shots were not advisable. Before the consecutive timeouts, he had been defended several times by the Eagles. Suddenly he saw a teammate make an air cut, and Kobe immediately uploaded past.

Fisher knew that he was not good at long-range shooting today, and now his mind is very clear, he did not act recklessly, but rushed inside with the ball, Raheem immediately prepared to go up to block Fisher, at this time, Kobe shot from the left side of the basket The weak side cuts in, Malone comes up to help Kobe block the chasing Prince, Fisher passes the ball to Kobe, Kobe takes off before Liu Mang pounces, and makes a mid-range shot from the baseline...

Hit!

It is too easy for Kobe to catch the ball and shoot directly, especially for Kobe who is trying to prove his ability now!

So accurate in the mid-range shot? What if you can't make a shot without defense? Liu Mang felt that he had met a fake little blacksmith! This product's off-the-ball running position selection is also great! I don't know how to give him a point guard who can pass the ball.

The Lakers retreated quickly after scoring a goal. Liu Mang received the serve and advanced to the frontcourt. Kobe stayed firmly outside the three-point line and did not expand to defend.

After halftime, Liu Mang slowed down his advancing speed and observed the Lakers' defense. Surprisingly, the Lakers actually started to defend the zone!

Counterpoint defense!

Different from the 3-2 zone defense commonly used by the Eagles and the 2-2-1 zone defense against the Lakers, the zone defense used by the Eagles is called a positional zone defense, which is a defense that specifically blocks inside or outside lines. The 2-3 zone defense mainly defends the inside line, the 3-2 zone defense mainly defends the outside line, and the 2-2-1 zone defense is also used by the Eagles to consume O'Neal.

Counterpoint defense is rare in the current NBA. As far as Liu Mang knows about this defense, it is mainly used by international basketball. In the NBA, few teams use it now. The Kings are one of them. The future NBA rules will be After the change, more than ten years later, three teams have used similar defenses, the Rockets in the D'Antoni era, the Lakers led by Luke Walton with Ball, and the Warriors led by Steve Kerr. Think of this defense as a common defensive strategy.

To be straightforward, it is a defense with infinite rotation and active oppression!

When Liu Mang didn't reach the three-point line, Kobe stayed inside. As soon as Liu Mang reached the area where he could shoot one step outside the three-point line, Kobe immediately posted it.

Sure enough, after Liu Mang and Kobe made contact, they immediately took a step back, and Kobe immediately retreated to the three-point line.

Calmness, composure, and not rushing are the keys to matchup defense. The Rockets in the future will belong to the defense that did not expect D'Antoni to be able to play defense at all. Super defensive, and the Lakers, more like the Warriors, are confident and strong, with the composure and calmness brought by their strength!

Liu Mang beckoned Rasheed Wallace to pick and roll, brought Malone over, and used Rasheed Wallace to block Kobe. Sure enough, the Lakers immediately switched defenses, and Rasheed Wallace cut inside. , Kobe insisted not to give Rasheed Wallace a chance to open up, and would rather be succeeded in singles by the Eagles than be torn apart by the defense.

The defensive execution of the Lakers suddenly became very strong, and Liu Mang secretly sighed that they deserved to be a three-peat champion team.

Liu Mang watched the muscular Ma Long stand in front of him with a ferocious expression, and knew that this old man's ferocity was not just pretending to be scary, he was really that ferocious!

However, Liu Mang is even more excited, the previous revenge has not yet been repaid!

It is Liu Mang's personality that he must retaliate!

Fuck him!

Liu Mang raised his foot backwards, Ma Long thought that Liu Mang was going to take a long shot across the space, so he immediately stepped up, Liu Mang raised his foot back and kicked the ground, and accelerated towards the right front!

Ma Long came up and grabbed the jersey on Liu Mang's stomach, trying to use the pull to block Liu Mang's breakthrough.

However, why is it difficult for Kobe to defend against Liu Mang's breakthrough? It's not because he can't defend against breakthroughs, but he was selected for the first defense because he relied on oppressing the opponent's breakthroughs, but because he didn't dare to reach out to touch Liu Wei when he was defending against Liu Wei.

Seeing Ma Long's outstretched arm, Liu Mang grabbed the ball with his left hand, made a left-handed run and shot, and hit Ma Long's arm!

"Beep..."

As soon as Liu Mang's arm collided with Ma Long, the referee's whistle sounded immediately!

"Ding... Triggered by Master Pengci at level 5, ambiguous whistleblowing is beneficial to the host."

Who the hell knows how to run and shoot from the three-point line, and still use his non-dominant hand!

However, the referees can't do anything about it, the rules are like this, and Liu Mang does attack with his left hand, and he has scored 51 points in the playoffs and 60 points in the regular season. This incident even surprised the referees in private.

As soon as Liu Mang heard the whistle, he was overjoyed. Suddenly, a huge force came from his pressed arm!

Liu Mang was still in the process of making a shooting posture and shaking upwards, but was directly pressed down by the force from his arm, lost his center of gravity, and fell to the ground.

Another Karl Malone elbow!

Liu Mang raised his head angrily, and saw the smile on the corner of Ma Long's mouth. The effect of the cold-blooded characteristic came, and Liu Mang immediately calmed down.

This guy wants to have a Tian Ji horse race and exchange himself against the pair!

Liu Mang made a push-up posture, exerting force on his elbows and abdomen, jumped up from the ground and said, "Old guy, your little trick is useless to me. Although today is not the weekend, the postman should retire."

Ma Long, who planned to provoke Liu Mang, was ready to be beaten by Liu Mang a few times and then scuffled with Liu Mang, and was ready to be sent off. Seeing Liu Mang's unusually calm appearance, Ma Long felt regretful and relieved, but when he heard Liu Mang What Mang said, especially the last sentence, Ma Long felt his heart was stabbed...

Ma Long couldn't do anything, so he turned his head to grab a rebound, and he would be pissed off talking to this kid.

Malone is no longer the young and energetic Malone. He joined the Lakers and has put down all his dignity.

Liu Mang walked to the free throw line, a bit regretful, only made two of three free throws, and missed the second free throw.

But it also offset Kobe's mid-range shot just now.

It’s the Lakers offense again. Except for O’Neal, the Lakers are more active because they can receive the ball. This time, Malone got the chance to receive the ball when facing the basket from the free throw line, and gave him the ball. Yes, it is Kobe!

Kobe broke through directly to the left this time. He didn’t want to play any tricks. He avoided being pinched and broke through directly from the weak side in an unused direction. Malone came to block Liu Mang who wanted to follow up. Forced to stay down the line to block Kobe, Ratliff was stuck in the basket when O'Neal turned around, and had no chance to help defend.

After Ma Long received the ball, he slapped Liu Mang on the block like a slap in the face, and made a firm shot from the free throw line.

Also hit!

The Lakers' offense became smoother after Kobe started passing the ball! Really integrated the ability of the third giant into the offense!

The Eagles' offense was in some trouble.

The biggest feature of the Lakers' current position and zone defense is to block the opponent outside the three-point line, enter the inside line, and shrink the defense. When the pass is passed, the opponent's defense immediately expands. When the ball is inside the three-point line, the pass is cut off. Expansion without cutting off the pass. Active movement is the key to this defense.

The Lakers have Kobe Bryant, Fisher, and Devin George who are all very defensive outsiders. Although Malone is 41, his defensive efficiency this season is 4.3, and he won the MVP and was selected for the first defense 97-98 In the season, the defensive efficiency is also 4.3, which can force Garnett to take long shots from the outside. The defense can be seen. This state is really exaggerated at the age of 41.

Under such a defense, the Eagles' offense became a bit at a loss!

It is really good to have a chance to play singles, but it is not good to be forced to stay outside the three-point line to play singles. Liu Mang was double-teamed when he broke through. Give it up, and the Lakers immediately expand again.

That is to say, Liu Mang can only choose to play singles from outside the three-point line, and the pick-and-roll is not easy to use when encountering a switch defense. It is better to play Kobe from the outside...

Under the current rules, when a team can defend like this, the power of this defense is greater, because the confrontation is stronger and the suppression of three-pointers is greater!

Faced with such a defense, the best solution in the future is Kevin Durant. With his height and wingspan, he almost ignores this defense. A good way to deal with this kind of defense, and James Harden and Stephen Curry are not tall enough and play offensively with the ball. When encountering this kind of defense, they always play mediocre. A series is at most a matter of touch Hit a good game or two when it breaks out.

Moreover, this kind of defense brings a lot of pressure. It's good to be able to make shots from the outside, but if you can't make shots, the sense of oppression is too strong! Because, if you dare not play one-on-one singles, as a core, it will definitely affect the morale of the team.

Therefore, Liu Mang didn't care so much, just started to shoot wildly at Kobe, and the Eagles were used to this style of play anyway.

There is no good strategy to deal with this kind of defense. The Lakers have Kobe as a defensive player, O'Neal as a behemoth who can block the entire three-second zone at the basket, and Malone as the best defensive team even at the age of 41. The veterans, Fisher and Devin George are also active defensively, with unlimited rotations, which contain the Eagles' offensive.

The offense of the Lakers, after Kobe played reasonably, became smoother. Although the mid-range shooting percentage is not high, but there is a better opportunity, when you can participate in the offense instead of being a pure shooter , the enthusiasm of the Lakers players is also higher,

At halftime, the Lakers managed to narrow the point difference to within 10 points, 57 to 49. The Eagles only scored 6 points in the last four minutes, while the Lakers scored 10 points!

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During the intermission, the Eagles did not think of a good solution. Liu Mang, Mike Woodson, Stockton, Coach Kruger, Ratliff, Raheem and other defensive players or The defensive assistant and the head coach discussed together and discovered a conspiracy on the Lakers side.

At the beginning of the third quarter, the Eagles tried the lineup of Stockton, Liu Mang, Prince, Boozer, Rasheed Wallace, tried Liu Mang, Jason Terry, Lashey Muhammad, Mohammed, and Kwame Brown, and tried a lineup that replaced all the starters, and found that if they changed to a lineup that could better solve the Lakers' matchup defense, that is, they could shoot well and play well. A pick-and-roll lineup that can pass the ball is completely unstoppable on the defensive end. On the Lakers side, O'Neal is physically strong, and when he is tired, he jogs on the court and squats under the basket. He doesn't move much near the three-second zone. Scary, both offensive and defensive ends are scary, and he has to be defended by a big man. When the Eagles sent a not-so-strong defensive lineup, the outside line was flying.

When the Eagles switched to a defensive lineup, the Lakers also firmly defended the zone defense, forcing Liu Mang or Jason Terry who replaced Liu Mang to play singles, using Kobe's defense as much as possible to reduce the scoring efficiency of the two, and then suppress The Eagles' offensive efficiency.

Fortunately, both Liu Mang and Jason Terry felt pretty good today. The scoring time of the two in the third quarter, mainly Jason Terry's scoring time, held back the Lakers' offense. When the third quarter was officially suspended, there was still a 5-point lead, 70 to 65, leading by 5 points, but when the Eagles scored 13 points, the Lakers scored 16 points! This quarter played for six and a half minutes, and was chased by the Lakers for three points!

The attitude of the Lakers following in the footsteps of the Eagles and ready to take a bite at any time gave Liu Mang a terrible feeling!

Kobe became the core of the Lakers team, just like Kobe's personality, like a idiot tailing behind... no, it's a poisonous snake, waiting for the opportunity to bite secretly, slowly injecting the toxin into the Eagles, just It depends on whether the venom of the poisonous snake is used up first, or the Eagles can't hold on to being poisoned first.

Both teams want to win the series for the first time, because the current schedule of the finals is very interesting, it is 2-3-2, that is, the team with a better record will play two home games first, then three away games, and then Playing two home games, this is the finals system many years ago. At first it was to reduce the flight journey, but now it doesn’t seem so reasonable. It reduces the effect of the home court advantage of the team with a good record, and also reduces the record. The odds of a bad team coming back from 2-3 after five games.

This kind of competition system makes home court advantage less important. In the past 20 seasons, more than 80% of the teams that won the first finals won the championship. A better team or a worse team, as long as they get their first win, the chances of winning the championship are extremely high! Among these teams, there are many teams with good records who lost the second game after winning the first game, but still won the championship in the end. Because three consecutive away games are not friendly to teams with good records, so It's all about fighting, and the home field advantage is not that important.

Only the Pistons failed in a tiebreaker, the Jazz once collapsed after Tianwangshan was killed by Jordan, and then Iverson's shocking performance in the finals. In the other 17 seasons, the team that won the first victory in the finals all won the championship.

Therefore, the first victory becomes extremely important.

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Liu Mang's side is going to explode on the spot, and I don't know what that Hua Monk KFC coach told the little blacksmith to make him play so honestly. In the case of stars, especially Shaquille O'Neal, a hard-edged star, Kobe's spirit was suppressed, but it made the Lakers more balanced, with the sense of stability of a three-peat championship team.

Moreover, the Lakers' tactical choice was also very correct. They stabilized the situation, slowly eroded the point difference, and played with the safest tactics, which made Liu Mang feel a little bit.

Zen Master, the head coach, has more than just chicken soup! This guy's tactical ability under the cover of chicken soup is very strong! It seems that he has never been too nervous or too active, but he has seen everything through. Even when the Lakers were killed by the Spurs in the second round last season, Liu Mang watched the TV screen of the live broadcast of the game. I understand, but I can't beat it.

And now, the Lakers are playing so well, it shows that Zen Master believes that this round of the series can be played!

Such strength comes from the OK combination!

OK combination...

Thinking of this, Liu Mang saw O'Neal, who had scored 23 points, and Kobe high-five, his eyes lit up.

Kobe's current style of play seems to be the boss' style of play, scoring by himself and creating opportunities for his teammates. After Kobiken passes the ball, his teammates are willing to serve Kobe, even O'Neal.

However, O'Neal doesn't seem to have the idea of ​​giving way, that is, now, O'Neal is because Zen Master used his clever tongue to check and balance the grievances of the stars of this team.

Liu Mang remembered that the relationship between O'Neill and Zen Master seemed to be very good...

Such a good relationship, how about taking advantage of it?

Very interesting!

Liu Mang had always wanted to drive a wedge between O'Neal and Kobe, or Malone and Kobe, but judging from past experience and the judgment of this game, it seemed that it was not easy.

And because this is the only last divorce card, and it is the only stock in the special items of the newcomer period, it will be gone after it is used, and there is no way to try it, so we can only find the best use object at the right time.

Now, Liu Mang found that if Kobe, the source of the contradiction, was put aside, and Malone who put everything aside, the two most important people in the Lakers team were O'Neal and Zen Master...

When such a thought appeared in Liu Mang's mind, he couldn't control it at all...

The official timeout is coming to an end. For the Eagles, due to the Lakers' style of play, O'Neal played relatively easily. Originally, he had more rest because of the good performance of Kobe and Malone in the first three rounds of the series. He was in good physical condition in the finals. It’s okay to play more minutes and maintain combat effectiveness for about 30 minutes, and continue to play for the remaining minutes of the third quarter, so the Eagles need big centers, Liu Mang, Jason Terry, Prince , Rasheed Wallace and Ostertag played.

Seeing the opponent's lineup of Payton, Fisher, Kobe, Wang Zhizhi, and O'Neal, who are also rotating their lineup and preparing to survive these few minutes and prepare for the decisive battle in the fourth quarter, Liu Mang's eyes flickered...

"Boss of the system, use the advanced alienation card to target that fat man and that KFC grandpa!"

"Ding... The host uses advanced alienation cards, targeting Shaquille O'Neal and Phil Jackson. Due to the importance of the finals, the intimacy of the target relationship and other comprehensive reasons, the impact during the finals is average, and the impact after the event cannot be estimated."

This is enough! A little influence is fine, as long as you win the first victory! As for how eloquent the Zen master will be next, Liu Mang can't care about it, this game is the key now!

The game is over in the next chapter.