One Thousand Three Hundred and Ninety. Strategy Is Restricted

Attack at the beginning, this is a kind of confidence, in fact, it is also a bet on the feel.

The Lakers won this bet, and Leonard's offensive rebound is also very important. It can be said that Kobe was very lucky to score 8 points in a row, but this is luck based on strength and status. Without strength, good luck cannot be grasped.

After a discussion, Coach Hollins decided not to rush to make lineup adjustments. The play they wanted at the beginning has just begun to be implemented, and it is not time to verify it. It's just that there was an accident at the beginning. The main purpose of calling a timeout is to interrupt Kobe's consecutive scoring.

After the timeout, neither team made a substitution, and the Grizzlies attacked.

In fact, the Grizzlies played very well in the beginning. They scored two goals in three offensive rounds, and both were scored by Randolph. After Sun Ce passed the ball to Randolph, he immediately cut in. Randolph attracted Jordan Hill's shrinking defense and passed it to Gasol, who was one step outside the free throw line.

At this time, Sun Ce just cut in with Leonard. Leonard saw Gasol receiving the ball in an open position and immediately made up for it. Sun Ce took the opportunity to rush to the basket!

When Sun Ce was about to enter the three-second zone from the right low position of the three-second zone, Gasol seized the opportunity to pass to Sun Ce, and Randolph ran away directly.

Josh Smith followed him out, and Jordan Hill did not block him, avoiding fouls. Sun Ce easily scored two points with a layup.

Sun Ce's deterrence is getting stronger and stronger!

The so-called deterrence is not only to attract double-teaming, but sometimes it will make the opponent give up blocking in certain circumstances, so that you can easily score.

For example, James or Kobe and Wade in their youth, if they did not encounter any obstruction on the outside line and directly broke through, and the defensive inside line did not move to the defensive position in advance, they would usually not stick to it like Duncan when they could not defend, avoiding fouls or being a background.

This season, Sun Ce has gradually played such deterrence!

Very smooth tactical cooperation, this lineup does not play fast, and it is difficult to get a high score of 30 points in a quarter without an explosive outside touch.

But the victory is stability! Every point can pass and shoot, and there is defense, which can limit the Lakers to a certain extent.

The Grizzlies were mainly team-oriented. When the Lakers attacked, Kobe wanted to continue playing, but he only shot 4 times. It was rare for him to play like this at the beginning of the game, and he was not satisfied yet.

But Klay Thompson started to defend in front, and Sun Ce also retreated to the mid-range to prepare for double-teaming.

Paul took advantage of this and waved to Leonard to the high position, allowing Sun Ce to move from the mid-range of the baseline to the close distance of the three-second zone. Josh Smith took the opportunity to run back and cut in to receive Paul's pass, and pulled up for a layup when Sun Ce retreated...

The opportunity was good, but Josh Smith was too afraid of Sun Ce's block, so he deliberately missed the layup, and Sun Ce defended the defensive rebound.

After grabbing the rebound, Sun Ce slowly advanced. Fortunately, it was Josh Smith's extra pull-up. If this guy dunked directly, he really had no way to defend it.

If Kobe is to be blocked, the other Lakers players will have more scoring opportunities.

But the Lakers used this move at the beginning of the game really well. If they knew it in advance, it would not be a big deal. The key is that this is in the game and it has already worked. The Lakers have taken the initiative, and Sun Ce is quite passive.

Continuing the previous style of play, Leonard did not go to help Gasol this time, and Sun Ce cut in closely. Gasol received a pass from Randolph and missed the mid-range shot.

The Grizzlies immediately retreated to defend.

Obviously, Klay Thompson replaced Tony Allen in the starting lineup, and the Grizzlies' offensive coordination has become much smoother, and the shooting opportunities have become better, mainly depending on the ability to seize opportunities.

Moreover, this lineup has good defense. Although it is slightly inferior to the defense when Tony Allen was there, it can still limit the Lakers. It just encountered Kobe, who was in a rage at the beginning, and encountered some troubles.

Such adjustments were made based on the difficulties encountered in the first and third games and the first two regular season encounters in the first quarter, as well as the experience accumulated from the failure of the third regular season encounter.

There aren't many other teams that can compete with Nash's Sun Ce, Klay Thompson, Paul George, and Yi Jianlian in terms of offense, but there are some.

And by some miracle, the Grizzlies played against two of them in the playoffs.

The Grizzlies' strongest offensive lineup may not be better than the Lakers... and there is even a high probability that they can't beat the Lakers with Paul and Josh Smith as the core combination + Kobe; and in terms of defense, they lost 8 points in the first quarter of the last game. With Paul and Josh Smith in excellent form, they must strengthen their offense, but at the same time they cannot ignore their defense, so they sent out this lineup.

But good things come with hard work. They fell behind by 5 points at the start, and the Lakers showed their momentum. The Grizzlies can only try to catch up, and they have to try to adjust their mentality, not rush, and grind slowly.

Fortunately, grinding rhythm is the characteristic of the Grizzlies. They are steady and steady, and at least they didn't let the Lakers further widen the gap.

At 9 minutes and 11 seconds into the first quarter, the Lakers, who were leading by 7 points at 26-19, called a timeout.

Kobe was substituted, and Paul, JR Smith, Metta World Peace, Jamison, and Josh Smith were substituted.

On the Grizzlies side, Nash took the lineup of Jimmy Butler, Sun Ce, Yi Jianlian, and Lopez Jr. to the court.

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The timeout was about to end, and Sun Ce was forced to start running and gunning again. It was too difficult!

In more than 9 minutes, the Grizzlies scored 19 points. Compared with the last game, their offense was obviously very stable this time. In addition, in the 7 minutes after the first two minutes of the first quarter, the Lakers scored 16 points and the Grizzlies scored 15 points, which was a state of even strength.

But the Lakers scored 10 points in the first two minutes, and the Grizzlies only scored 4 points.

In the one and a half minutes when Kobe broke out, the Grizzlies fell into a passive state at the beginning.

The Lakers played out their feelings with Kobe's threat.

Looking at the poor version of Kobe + Metta World Peace's forward and guard combination on the opposite side, and Jamison, who is at the level of the best sixth man.

Keep fighting!

Now they can only hold on to the score. The game has only been played for less than a quarter. They need to wait patiently, play hard, and look for opportunities to counterattack.

After the timeout, Jamison missed his first two-point shot from the baseline. Lopez Jr. got the defensive rebound and passed it to Nash. In the counterattack, Yi Jianlian took advantage of Sun Ce's threat to cut in, received Sun Ce's pass, and scored two points.

5 points difference!

But looking back, JR Smith made a fadeaway three-pointer against Jimmy Butler's defense!

Kobe at least considered the touch problem, but JR Smith just went for it!

Fortunately, Sun Ce made a three-pointer right after that, narrowing the gap to 5 points again.