Chapter 865 Psychological Contest
Phil Jackson is the coach who has won the most championships and has two tricks. When he has no choice, he suddenly thought of a wrong move. Since the opponent is waiting for him to replace Kobe Bryant first, he will let Kobe Bryant rest on the court to see who takes the initiative first.
As for the lineup on the court, Phil Jackson does not think it is much worse than the Supersonics. Kobe Bryant's overall proportion in the team's overall tactics is definitely not as high as Stephen. Relatively speaking, the Supersonics rely more on Stephen's passing and defense, while the Lakers are not that serious.
Of course, the Supersonics may take the initiative to replace Stephen, but then the Lakers will be able to have a psychological advantage in the situation, and it is natural to replace Kobe Bryant on the court. At the same time, he also believes that if there is no matchable opponent, Stephen's condition will not be able to play for the moment.
Sure enough, seeing that the Lakers did not replace Kobe Bryant, and the Supersonics did not replace Stephen, the core players of both teams sat off the court, and seeing their teammates fighting on the court, there was nothing unusual on their faces. For the two, only the opponent's team deserves attention.
After gradually passing through a brief period of discomfort, the Lakers' offense began to return to normal. After all, the triangular offense they usually play does not require Kobe Bryant to be on the court. In tactics, Paul Gasol is the most important. As long as he is, the Lakers' offense can operate, but there is no one of the most threatening points. The starting beast basketball 865
Kevin Durant originally performed well, but after Sashav Jasic went up, Durant's performance began to worsen. Vujasic was originally a young man with a lot of spiritual playing. When he first entered the league, he looked very potential, both offense, defense and passing, but gradually he was discovered. Although his voting movements were beautiful and his posture was very standard, his shooting percentage was extremely unstable. In defense, the team's defensive awareness was good, but his ability to deal with round conversion positions was insufficient, his lateral movement ability was weak, and his confrontation was not strong, and his passing was even more fancy than practical.
However, when he came to the Los Angeles Lakers, it happened to be the time when the Lakers began to decline, so despite his various shortcomings, he was still kept. Over the years, he has gradually learned his own way of survival, which is to try his best to complete the work that no one is willing to do.
If you don’t have your own position in the offense, you don’t attack or stand at the corner with peace of mind, and then shoot after you wait for the ball. If you don’t have enough confrontation in defense, that is to make up for it by unconventional means. In this way, he gained a foothold in this team, and his playing time has increased year by year, relying on his ability to disrupt the situation on the court.
His defensive skills and athletic ability are not as good as Trevo Ariza, but when Ariza has problems with defense, he always gets results when he plays again. This is very strange. Now that's it, Trevo Ariza can't even defend Durant, but he gets results when he changes.
Every player has his own way of survival, and the problem with the SuperSonics is that there are really insufficient personnel available on the forward guard line. In the past, Stephen and Durant basically didn't need any substitutes. It would be enough to have one Damien Wilkins, and occasionally play a double-point guard lineup.
But today, once Stephen doesn't play, the Supersonics will expose problems in this position. Except for Durant, others have more or less lack of abilities and cannot cope with more complex and difficult situations. Once Stephen is lost, not only will no one be able to send the ball in the best and fastest way, but the inside needs to provide them with restraint.
At this time, it was obvious that Phil Jackson's old arrival made people's minds very cold. The Supersonics did not send Stephen up, and the situation on the field began to tilt towards the Lakers as he expected.
Carlesimo hesitated several times and wanted to replace Stephen in advance, but seeing that there was no movement on Phil Jackson, he could only bear it. Stephen naturally couldn't sit still off the court. The team was behind, so why didn't he send himself on the court? But he knew to respect the authority of head coach Carlesimo, and Robert Horry was back in the team now, and he also knew Phil Jackson better, because he had played under Phil Jackson, and he told Stephen about this psychological contest in Stephen's ear. Only then did Stephen know what was going on.
At this time, Calesimo made another adjustment and replaced Damien Wilkins with Du Fei. To be honest, although Du Fei was not on the injury list, there was basically no difference between him and it was difficult to get a chance to play. However, when the head coach wanted to make changes to the lineup on the forward guard line, Du Fei could play, and Feng Weaver, who stayed on the injury list, could not play.
Du Fei almost made a three-pointer when he touched the ball on the court. It was difficult for ordinary people to keep up with his three-point shooting speed. Although the ball did not make it, it hit the ring and jumped up, landed next to the basket frame. Yao Ming grabbed the ball with one hand, then jumped up again, and sent the ball into the basket frame with one hand.
After coming back, Du Fei was easily passed by Sashavu Jasic, but Kot Thomas quickly made up and forced Sashavu Jasic to pass the ball to others. After Paul Gasol received the pass, he easily dropped the ball to Andrew Bynum. After Andrew Bynum got the ball, he failed to make the first move, but he jumped up and grabbed the rebound, then took another move, and finally made a shot.
Both sides have advantages and it is difficult to play. Du Fei got another chance to take action in the second round, and the ball had already taken action. Trevor Ariza only realized that the Lakers' assistant coach immediately found Du Fei's information and told Trevor Ariza that he should be careful of the opponent's three-pointers, and there is no need to worry about anything else except three-pointers.
However, even though he improved his attention, Du Fei still got the chance to take the shot for the third time. The ball had already taken the shot. Trevo Ariza hit Du Fei's forearm. Although the ball did not make the shot, Du Fei had three free throws. Unfortunately, he only scored one of the three free throws.
If the game ends here or Du Fei has no chance of free throws, then as a punishment, Du Fei must practice free throws for half an hour. This is also a regulation that the Supersonics team has not officially included in the rules and regulations. Anyone who hits the free throws in the game with less than 50% of the free throws in the game must practice free throws after the game.
After all, it would be a bit of a pity if he didn't score the free throw, but at this time Du Fei couldn't think of this and was still immersed in the joy of being able to play.
Chapter completed!