0353 Lakers Championship
With timeout, the Lakers will return to the bench.
Su Yang put down the tactical board handed over by Mike Brown, put his hands on his hips and smiled: "I must say that the Jazz is a very traditional team, and Tyrone Corbin is a very traditional coach, so I bet they will have these adjustments next..."
I didn't want to publicly evaluate other coaches, which seemed a bit unauthentic, but Su Yang thought of it again: Phil Jackson once, in order to encourage Lakers players to keep a distraction-chasing mentality, he specifically said that Rivers' team is good at being reversed...
Since Phil Jackson said, I'm saying it.
In the Jazz's previous games, Su Yang and his coaching staff did a lot of analysis. He is very sure that his head coach Taylon Corbin is the kind of average-level type of "the opponent makes a fist, I just put on a cloth, the opponent uses scissors to fight back, and I will press it with stones."
Su Yang is different. If the opponent launches a stone to attack, he may take out a hammer and smash it directly.
Specifically, Curry's three consecutive three-pointers, Tyrone Corbin will definitely let the Jazz big man go up and delay Curry's attack.
When Curry is out of the ball, he will most likely increase his defensive attention, maybe he is a dedicated person to guard the ball, or he may change it whenever he covers it.
But Jazz probably thought Curry was lucky, but he didn't realize how fast Curry was taking action.
Of course, Curry was really lucky, so he suddenly stole Harris' ball, and the timing was almost impossible.
If the Jazz were not shot that three-pointer and the Jazz were only 17 points behind, the situation of the game between the two teams would be very different from now.
After much consideration, Su Yang decided to match several players suitable for Curry to be double-teamed, push fast attacks and cut in the air.
"Barnes replaces Kobe, Dior replaces Artest, Hill replaces Gasol, we speed up and try to seek opportunities for advance offensive opportunities. The defensive end uses two-three defenses to limit them to paint the paint area, and don't worry about three-pointers, because their three-point shooting percentage throughout the season is 31.6%, and only 20% of the first three games of this round of series, while they only make 0 of 4 shots at the moment..."
Within words, Su Yang completed tactical arrangements and replacement personnel rotation, and the Lakers nodded to show that they understood.
The whistle that ended the pause was followed by a sound.
The game continued, and the Jazz also challenged personnel. The five were Al Jefferson, Derek Favors, Gordon Hayward, Josh Howard, and Jamal Tinsley. The offensive end seemed to focus on the high and low post linkage routine.
Beep! The referee whistle kicks off.
There were bursts of cheers and cheers in the stadium, point guard Jamal dribbled the ball and pushed forward, and the other Jazz players were each in their place.
Seeing that the Lakers were posing in a two-three-way defense formation, it might be because the pressure was too high to fall behind by 20 points. Although Jamal is a veteran, he was a little panicked. He subconsciously slowed down in the middle line and turned to look at the Jazz sidelines, hoping that head coach Tyrone would give advice.
But for some reason, Jazz head coach Tyron did not respond, so Jamal had to turn around and call for high cover in the elbow area.
The purpose of making high-level cover is to strive to get space at 45 degrees, because 45 degrees is a weak area for two and three joint defenses.
Generally speaking, the center is responsible for similar covers.
But Al Jefferson does not have long shot ability, and his empty cut level is considered third-rate. It can be said that it is not threatening to cover at a high position.
The task of breaking the joint defense fell on power forward Derek Ferworth, who, as a sophomore rookie, bit the bullet and raise it.
First, he carried the cover with his back, and then cooperated with Hayward to use the chin cover. After a panic operation, Favors finally helped Jamal slip to the 45 three-point line on the right. However, the Lakers will follow Su Yang's arrangement, ignore the potential three-point threat and defend against Hayward.
Facing Curry and Dior's attack, and Hill, who was eyeing her, Hayward jumped up and threw it at Jamal.
As a 33-year-old veteran with only 27% of three-point shooting percentage throughout the season and averaging 1.0 shots per game, Jamal was a little dazed after receiving Hayward's pass, but there was little offensive time left and there was a rare opportunity to open the spot, so he still gritted his teeth and took action.
When! Three points smash the basket and hit the iron.
McRoberts jumped up and grabbed the rebound, landed and turned around and handed it to Dior nearest, and then started to start the quick use.
Booing in the stadium, the Lakers were about to go down the third line, Roberts took the right, Dior, who dribbled the ball, walked on the middle, and Curry took the right.
But apart from Jamal, who should have been guarding Curry, Dior's defender Hayward is also distracted from paying attention to Curry's movements.
In just a blink of an eye, Dior took the opportunity to accelerate and rush, completely got rid of Hayward and entered the paint area, and easily scored in the sky basket.
The booing at the Energy Solution Center came to an abrupt end, and the audience was stunned. Why did the Jazz players completely let Dior go?
On the Jazz side, head coach Tyrone Corbin stood there, as if he had never seen such a surprising scene before, and was also stunned.
The Lakers bench players were also a little confused. Su Yang smiled and said, "This is curry gravity, Ku has gravity!"
"Do you think I'm willing to give him ten thousand covers?" Ate laughed and turned to look at Kobe, "Brother, after this game, you will be the most frequently double-teamed player in the team if you are not here. They will definitely double-teamed Curry..."
"Aha..." Kobe also smiled, and seemed a little reluctant to be treated by the key defense, and was a little disappointed.
Su Yang thought about it after hearing this. It would be too strong to get Kobe who was not defended by the playoffs.
While thinking, sighs arose in the venue.
The Jazz couldn't break through the Lakers' 23 joint defense, but the cross tactics had been used, but three-pointer iron was useless.
Hill caught the rebound, landed and turned around and threw it to Curry. The Lakers launched a third-line fast break counterattack again, and the audience booed.
The Jazz were prepared and did not give them an opportunity to attack in advance. Seeing this, Curry raised his hand and called Hill to the top of the arc to do a pick-and-roll.
As Su Yang predicted, Al Jefferson dragged his weight and moved horizontally and delayed, while Hill took the opportunity to turn around and cut.
Curry jumped simultaneously and raised his hand to pass the ball. Hill took the ball and started three steps. He was like a big roc spreading his wings and slashing with a clang.
The audience suddenly stopped booing, and the audience was confused again.
Why is the Lakers playing as simple as a training match? The most annoying thing is that the Jazz also cooperates with each other as a training match, and they are tough.
Looking at the dazed eyes of the audience, Su Yang suddenly thought of some keyboard warriors on the Internet. After only a few minutes of Jordan's video highlights, he couldn't wait to speak out, saying that Jordan was very ordinary in the 21st century, because the defenders in the 1990s spent most of their time walking when defending Jordan's offense, so the Pistons' malicious foul was a little more troublesome.
Those keyboard warriors don’t understand what freezing defenders mean, and they don’t even understand why O’Neal is so strong at the low post.
With a buzzer-beating for 24 seconds, the Jazz finally scored two points through Hayward, ending up a scoring drought of up to three minutes.
The two teams changed their offense and defense, and Jazz player Jamal suddenly changed his defensive strategy, gave up running forward, leading Curry in the whole game.
Curry didn't bother him, waved his hand to let Dior get the ball, and instead ran to the frontcourt, heading straight to the bottom corner on the left.
The Lakers started with one inside and four outside formations, Dior dribbled the ball and stopped at the top of the arc, without calling tactics, and planned to find Hill as a cover first.
At the same time, Roberts, who was on the 45-degree three-point line on the left, started and ran towards Curry who was coming towards the bottom corner on the left, and the two made a classic split cooperation. Perhaps it was because Roberts's cover quality was too high, which made it difficult for Jamal to catch up, or it might be because the Jazz had arrangements and needed to first guard Curry. Favors, who was originally responsible for defending Roberts, took the initiative to switch to the delay of Curry.
Favors was very fast, but McRoberts found that there was no defense for the time being and started without hesitation to rush towards the basket.
Seeing this, Dior gave up looking for cover, raised his hand and passed the ball hard, while the Jazz's basket area was empty at this time. McRoberts received the ball and jumped to the ground, and when he approached the basket, he made a powerful and heavy dunk. The Lakers led 35-11.
Compared to Hayward's buzzer-beating score in 24 seconds, the Lakers relied on Curry to restrain this attack and scored easily in 10 seconds.
"Ku has gravity to play a role again!" Su Yang and the Lakers applauded in unison, and the team's momentum was full.
The first quarter game was over and the two teams entered a pure substitute matchup stage. Ku Youyou continued to play a role, and the Lakers' lead further expanded. At the end of the half game, as many as 30 points, while the Jazz had no momentum, and the second half turned into garbage time.
In the end, the Lakers defeated the Jazz 114-83 and advanced to the second round of the Western Conference Finals with a 4-0 zero sweep.
In the whole game, Curry played for 18 minutes on the bench, made 4 of 5 three-pointers, and scored a total of 17 points and 7 assists.
Social platforms such as Twitter and Weibo have sparked heated discussions, and some fans said that Curry’s value is not reflected in that data.
Chapter completed!