One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety-Four. Find Advantages in Any Situation

The reason for such a long time of preparation is actually the first game. There will definitely be changes after the first game. The general preparation before the series may not be a problem, but the preparation in details is actually for the first game.

Most of the preparations before the series are based on the Lakers' second round of games.

When the Grizzlies fell behind at the beginning, the preparations did not show any effect.

But after the Grizzlies began to bite the score and catch up, the effect was obvious.

In addition, Kobe played against the Grizzlies many times in the playoffs, but he felt very different this time.

The Grizzlies have always been a very tenacious team, but this time, the Grizzlies' resilience has become extremely incredible! Too tough.

He couldn't even feel a trace of uneasiness on the faces of the Grizzlies players! Even when they widened the gap to 9 points, the Grizzlies still stubbornly continued to go all out in the next round.

Fortunately, the Lakers' lineup depth this season is far greater than any season in the past 19 years, and they can play as hard as the Grizzlies.

After the start of the second quarter, the Lakers showed with practical actions why they could reverse the Spurs after falling behind 1 to 3.

Being stimulated by Sun Ce is only one aspect. More importantly, their positional warfare offense in the second quarter was more fierce than that in the first quarter!

Facing the lineup of Sun Ce, Tony Allen, Klay Thompson, Larry Sanders, and Randolph, the Lakers scored 13 to 7 in the first half of the second quarter. After the official timeout, the Lakers successfully relied on James to counterattack and Kobe followed up with a three-pointer, leading the Grizzlies by 11 points at most with 44 to 33, successfully widening the gap.

But the situation that made the Lakers' scalp tingle appeared. Even if they were leading by 11 points, the Grizzlies were impatient, but the tenacious fighting spirit was still there!

Finally, the Grizzlies seized the opportunity of the Lakers' short-term slack mood after they led by 11 points. Coach Hollins' rotation after the timeout was also very important. Sun Ce, Yi Jianlian, Klay Thompson, Carter, and Richard Jefferson led the team to a 12-6 wave. At 9 minutes and 52 seconds in the second quarter, the Grizzlies narrowed the gap to 5 points and stopped the Lakers!

But the Lakers did not improve after the timeout, but fell into a scoring drought!

In fact, the lack of offense was a big problem on the defensive end at the beginning. After the timeout, Paul George, who replaced Carter, cut in continuously, relying on the counterattack threats of Klay Thompson, Yi Jianlian, and Richard Jefferson, and relying on Sun Ce's pass, scored 7 points in the last 2 minutes and 8 seconds of the first quarter!

At the same time, the Grizzlies relied on their enthusiasm, blocked three-pointers, and closed the basket. They used this average defensive lineup to make the Lakers score no field goals in the last 2 minutes and 8 seconds. Only Leonard was fouled on a three-pointer and only made 1 of 3 free throws.

At the end of the half, the Grizzlies relied on Paul George's 7-1 wave to overtake the Lakers by 1 point with 52-51 and entered the halftime break!

In the first half, Sun Ce played for 22 minutes, 11 shots, 2 of 4 three-pointers, and 3 of 3 free throws to get 15 points, 6 rebounds, 6 assists, and 2 blocks. The opponent did a good job of protecting the ball and made few mistakes. Sun Ce did not steal the ball, but he adjusted his playing style. When Paul George's offense was blocked, he took on the role of connecting the team's offense again. In addition, his singles were quite efficient, especially the two important three-pointers before the break in the first quarter, which were the key to the Grizzlies' tenacious temperament from the beginning!

The buff effect of "King of the Western Conference Finals" can strengthen the positive emotions that are beneficial to the Grizzlies, but that kind of emotion must appear.

When the score was about to be pulled apart, Sun Ce stepped up to narrow the gap, allowing his teammates to feel that they didn't have to be afraid of him again, and then the emotion appeared, which could be amplified.

And the positive effect brought by this emotion,

In the second quarter, when Sun Ce's shooting performance was not so good, he was still able to give his teammates confidence when he stood on the court, so that he could play a wave of 19 to 7 in more than 6 minutes after falling behind by 11 points!

Although people often say that there may be hope if you can't give up, there are not many people who can persist in unfavorable situations, because it doesn't mean that persistence will definitely have hope, especially in the case of a game. When the strength gap is not big, if the side with slightly inferior strength plays too well, the side with slightly superior strength may not have a chance to counterattack.

But the Grizzlies stubbornly chased points and actively seized every opportunity, and there were opportunities, they seized them and did it!

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After the second half, Sun Ce did not start in the second half, and Coach Hollins continued to implement his rotation plan.

Coach Hollins was waiting! Waiting for the advantage that he expected to appear with a high probability. As for the Lakers taking advantage of their advantage in the first half, Coach Hollins chose to wait patiently. Away teams always want to seize the home court, and Coach Hollins refused to fight them hard. He wanted to use the simplest method.

Sun Ce also knew the coaching staff's plan, so his playing style was obviously adjusted tonight. Most of the time, he tried to defend and lead his teammates. He would only go for it when he had to dig alone, such as trying to launch an attack from Aldridge at the beginning.

Sun Ce is also waiting for his time to play! Strategy will play a very important role in the long 48-minute game time, especially for a player like Sun who is well known by all basketball fans. He must make good use of the team's overall strategy.

In the third quarter, the Grizzlies sent Livingston, Tony Allen, Paul George, Pierce, and Larry Sanders to play for more than 3 minutes, and then took advantage of the dead ball to replace Tony Allen, Pierce, and Larry Sanders with Klay Thompson, Carter, and Aldridge, and continued to consume.

During this period, the Lakers successively sent James, Kobe, Leonard, Marion, and Nene; Ellington, Kobe, James, Boozer, and Motiejunas; James, Nick Young, Leonard, Mike Miller, and Boozer.

But this time, the Lakers were unable to take the lead like they did in the first half when Sun Ce was resting in the first half of the third quarter. The Grizzlies gave the Lakers players the feeling that they were consuming them, deliberately looking for confrontation, both on the offensive and defensive ends. The two teams did not get many free throws, and the offensive efficiency was declining!

In more than 6 minutes, the two teams scored 10 to 11. When the official timeout came into the third quarter, the Grizzlies and the Lakers tied 62!

But during this period, the Lakers consumed a lot of defense to deal with the Grizzlies!

In the second half of the third quarter, Sun Ce came on the court and started to attack fiercely. Klay Thompson and Paul George went to contain him. Randolph and Larry Sanders were sent to the inside line, still focusing on defense.

In the last 5 minutes of the third quarter, the Grizzlies played a wave of 14 to 6. After three quarters, the Grizzlies led the Lakers by 8 points 76 to 68 and entered the final quarter!

After consuming so much time, I finally saw the effect in the third quarter!

Watching Sun Ce get 7 points and 3 assists in half a quarter, helping his teammates to widen the gap to more than 5 points, Coach Hollins wiped the sweat from his forehead. When he replaced Sun Ce in the first quarter, he had such a full-court tactic to deal with the Lakers' excellent offensive positional warfare at the beginning, and it finally succeeded!

The reason why Coach Hollins made large-scale rotations in the first half and tried various lineups to fight against the Lakers was to consume the Lakers and expand his advantage of resting for a few more days.

He clearly understood the advantages of both sides. The Lakers had just finished the second round and were still in good shape. This was the advantage of the Lakers, but because the Lakers played to the seventh game in the second round, they had many veterans in their lineup, and there were many veterans in the main force, unlike the Grizzlies, whose core players were all young players. This was the advantage of the Grizzlies.

However, it is not easy to consume the Lakers. The opponent can rotate 13 players, so the Grizzlies must also rotate on a large scale and fight with enthusiasm. Fortunately, the Grizzlies have all these things!

By giving the Lakers a sense of pressure, the Lakers were forced to fight, and the Lakers relied on their excellent form to gain a big advantage twice, but fortunately, the Grizzlies gradually got into shape and caught up with the Lakers' defense.

Finally, in the third quarter, the Grizzlies' advantage was reflected, and the Grizzlies scored 24 to 17 in the third quarter!

Sun Ce scored 22 points, 10 rebounds, 9 assists, 3 blocks and 1 steal!

After gaining an advantage, the Grizzlies started to play rogue, but playing rogue is an adjective given by the media. TV commentators often regard this as the strength of the Grizzlies. This is one of the key tactics for the Grizzlies to get 75 wins and enter the playoffs, and they have not lost a single game in the playoffs so far.

The lineup of Tony Allen, Paul George, Pierce, Larry Sanders and Gobert is to play hard!

On the Lakers side, Kobe, Leonard and James were not substituted at the beginning of the fourth quarter. Bickerstaff boldly replaced Wayne Ellington, JR Smith, Nick Young, Boozer and Motiejunas, a full singles lineup!

But the strange moves are sometimes unexpected, sometimes weird... Bickerstaff's attempt tonight was eye-catching again, but it was just this idea that was surprising, and the result was not good. In the first 4 minutes of the fourth quarter, the Grizzlies played a wave of 14 to 7, and the Grizzlies opened the point difference to 15 points, leading 90 to 75!

Paul George didn't expect that he could get 9 points in half a quarter. He played casually on the outside of the opponent! These three can defend, but Leonard or James must lead the defense, and the three cannot be substituted at the same time, otherwise even gods can't lead their defense. The Lakers' substitution is purely to let the opponent shoot from the outside!