Chapter 1236 1235. The Dominance of the Maimang Combination! (8/10 Request for Double Monthly Tickets)

Chapter 1236 1235. The dominance of the Maimang combination! (810 for double monthly votes)

Although the coaching staff of the Hawks did not find a tactical point when studying the Lakers' offensive tactics, they did a very good job of targeting the Lakers' defense with offensive tactics.

The inside line is definitely not playable, at least not when Yao Ming is there, so the Hawks' offensive tactics are mainly divided into two parts.

One part is to keep two of the three Hawks on the court to deal with Kobe's defense.

Compared with the Heat with Payton, Wade, and Posey, the Lakers' perimeter defense is really not good enough.

Of course, this is the view after the Hawks adapted to the perimeter defense of the Heat after playing in the Eastern Conference Finals.

However, it is no longer the same as before the start of the 2008 Finals, when public opinion generally believed that the Lakers had a greater advantage in winning the championship, and it seemed that the Celtics could not break the Lakers' defense. In the finals, it was found that the Lakers with only Kobe could not defend against the impact of Ray Allen and Pierce.

The Hawks are just like the Celtics. They just experienced the brutal defense test in the East. In the finals, they found that except Kobe, the defense of the Lakers' other outside players was as weak as paper.

The Hawks are very confident in the offensive advantage of the outside line, whether it is the players or the coaching staff.

So the outside offensive strategy arranged is very simple, Liu Mang and McGrady's double cooperation!

The second part of the double cooperation is that the two people rush to the inside more, not necessarily to enter the basket to attack, but to get close to the basket, so that Yao Ming must have a defensive action to consume Yao Ming!

Liu Mang and McGrady, who have long adapted to physical confrontation in the series with the Heat, especially McGrady, who has faced physical pressure from Artest, James, Posey, Wade and others, seem to be at ease whether it is physical confrontation with Kobe or Odom.

Although teammates scored more points, McGrady played a big role in containing defense.

No one thought that the Lakers would be so weak in the finals, just like in 2008, when Kobe won the regular season MVP, the Lakers swept the 50-win Nuggets in the first round of the Western Conference playoffs, defeated the new duo in the second round, and slaughtered the defending champion Spurs 4-1 in the Western Conference Finals. People thought the Lakers had a chance to beat the Celtics, but in the finals, the Lakers faced the Celtics who had to play seven games in the first and second rounds, and relied on Ray Allen's two three-pointers at the critical moment to win the Eastern Conference Finals in six games. The Lakers seemed vulnerable.

That Celtics defeated the Lakers not by defense, but by offense! The Celtics had two players who averaged 20+ points in that finals, Pierce and Ray Allen, and Garnett also averaged 18 points. In addition, Rondo, Eddie House, James Posey, Leon Powell, and many other Celtics players averaged five or even eight points per game in the series. The Celtics even scored 131 points in a single game!

The Celtics' defense, in addition to beating Gasol badly, the Lakers' actual average score was about the same as when they played against the Spurs in the Western Conference Finals.

The Lakers lost mainly because they couldn't defend the Celtics at all!

It's the same this time.

In this game, the Hawks suppressed the Lakers from the beginning!

Yao Ming's offensive performance was amazing at the basket, Kobe's singles against Prince also had a hit rate of over 40%, and the overall performance was better than the regular season. Wang Zhizhi and Fisher also grasped the three-point opportunities well, and they could make one of three shots. Odom's mismatch singles were also very powerful. The Lakers' offense had no problem.

But the Lakers' defense couldn't defend the Hawks from the beginning!

After the Hawks adapted to the Heat's defense, they felt that the Lakers' defense was as thin as paper. Although Yao Ming scored less inside when he was at the basket, his outside shots were very accurate!

It's true that the Lakers put pressure on the outside, but the pressure was far from enough!

Compared with the Lakers' first three consecutive championships four years ago, Fisher's defense has degenerated extremely seriously. The Fisher who could dunk with Iverson in the counterattack back then can't keep up with the pace now. Odom is not all-round, and Devin George and Luke Walton who came off the bench did not do well.

After the first quarter, the Lakers scored 26 points, which was very good. Yao Ming made three strong shots, two of which were dunks. Rasheed Wallace and Kwame Brown could not stop him in single defense, and he relied on a tacit double team to defend once. Yao Ming made 2 of 3 strong shots, one layup and two mid-range jump shots, and 1 of 2 free throws. Yao Ming performed well in the first quarter, scoring 9 points with 4 of 6 shots.

The Hawks defended Kobe more strictly. Kobe passed the ball more, 2 of 5 shots, and scored 5 points and 3 assists in the first quarter. The Lakers scored 26 points in a single quarter against the Hawks' strong defense, which was an excellent performance.

But on the Hawks side, Liu Mang scored 15 points and 3 assists in a single quarter, and McGrady scored 6 points and 4 assists in a single quarter. Liu Mang's scoring and passing, as well as McGrady's organization of offense, helped the Hawks score 41 points in a single quarter!

41 to 26!

In the first game of the finals, the Hawks actually led by 15 points in the first quarter!

Maybe the Lakers are used to playing with "civilized defense" when they met the Suns and Mavericks in the Western Conference playoffs. After the Hawks' pitchers experienced the defense baptism led by Artest of the Pacers, the poor version of James and Wade of the Cavaliers, and the three defensive masters of the Heat, they felt that playing against the Lakers was like having no physical contact. They had a hot hand. When Liu Mang encountered a double-team pass, they could shoot the ball in. In the first quarter, the Hawks made 6 of 10 three-pointers!

In addition to Liu Mang and McGrady each making a three-pointer, the Hawks' role players made 4 three-pointers in a single quarter!

This caused the Lakers to have a headache with Liu Mang's defense. It was not a double-team, nor was it not a double-team. It became a mess.

The Lakers must have defended Liu Mang's three-pointer very strictly, so Liu Mang relied on McGrady's pass or his own breakthrough, making 6 of 9 shots and 2 of 3 free throws, scoring 15 points in a single quarter!

Half of them, that is, three shots, were directly assisted by McGrady! Moreover, of Liu Mang's three assists, two were from McGrady's first pass after he attracted some defensive attention, and Liu Mang got the assists from the second pass!

The cooperation between Liu Mang and McGrady crushed the Lakers!

The tacit understanding between Liu Mang and McGrady was further improved in the sixth game against the Heat. Although Liu Mang did not have the kind of play that seemed to be able to pick the stars with his hands like Anfernee Hardaway, the simple sense of cooperation was remembered by Liu Mang.

The Hawks, who were already strong enough to win 73 games or even 74 games if they wanted to, showed their dominance in the first quarter of the first game of the finals!

Even more dominance than the Heat in the original time and space, where the hairy Wade version could "sweep" the Mavericks with Jason Terry in the last four games of the 2006 Finals!