Chapter 1143 [Winners in Life, There Are Traces to Follow]
Experts are unanimously optimistic about the Lakers sweeping the Suns, and there are many Suns fans online who are dissatisfied with their regular season performance.
After Guo Xu left, the Suns never showed dominance again, becoming an ordinary playoff team, and they have struggled to make the playoffs this year. Fans are used to watching them win, and the psychological gap is too big.
One of the best fans used 5 different Twitter accounts to criticize the Suns players, and also revealed some private information, which gained a lot of followers. The players were very upset and suspected that it was the revelations of the internal staff.
After reading the news, Guo Xu guessed that this was not a staff member, but the boss Brian Colangelo built a trumpet...... The good news is that no one will investigate him this time, because it is up to him to decide whether to check or not.
During the warm-up, Guo Xu and his old teammates all greeted him, especially the hardcore junior Udonis Haslem.
Haslem is a life winner among role players, and the Suns will not trade him, and are willing to keep him on the team as a spiritual leader until he is re-signed. He is currently the captain of the Suns and has been with the Suns since he entered the league in 2002, now in his 14th season. He averages about 10 minutes per game and can help the team on the defensive end.
Even the current Haslem is better than Bennett, a high-pick rookie selected by the Suns in 2013, who has said goodbye to the NBA and failed to find his position in the end.
When the Suns' home players played, the announcer would shout "U" when he mentioned Haslem, which sounded like a boo but was actually the exclusive code name of the Haslem team. In addition to the Spurs GDP combination, the Harbin team is a representative of one person and one city, and it is very popular.
Lakers starters: Guo Xu, Devin Booker, Vince Carter, Al Horford, Nurkic.
The Suns fielded their usual lineup for the regular season, and the two big men could cover Guo Xu to create singles opportunities.
Suns starters: Jeremy Lin, Klay Thompson, Allen Crabbe, Ibaka, Whiteside.
D'Antoni has always been the head coach of the Suns, and he turned Roy into a sixth man to develop a young Crabbe. Crabbe, who entered the league in 2013, is active defensively, can shoot three-pointers, and has a lot of athleticism.
Whiteside jumped the ball and the game began.
Jeremy Lin organized on the periphery, and Guo Xu chose to defend closely. Kobayashi has three-point ability, can shoot 1.2 goals per game in the regular season, and has a shooting rate of 36.2%.
Guo Xu should treat the first round as a workout, lead his teammates to cheer up, and improve the defensive intensity. The Spurs and Warriors have the ability to PK with the Lakers, and if he is still very relaxed, there is a possibility of capsizing in the gutter.
Jeremy Lin knows that he is two pounds, and he is afraid that if he is close, his shooting percentage will decrease. So he didn't think about singles, but with his back to watch his teammates run, and passed to Thompson.
Eibakra went beyond the three-point line to attract Horford's defense, Whiteside blocked Booker, Nurkic was slow to switch, and Thompson caught the ball and hit a three-pointer. 0 to 3.
The Lakers attacked, as soon as the half of the court Horford and Guo Xu played blocking and dismantling, he held the ball and moved horizontally to the left side, Ibaka changed the defense and dismantled the three-point line, keeping a two-step distance to prevent breakthroughs and interfere with shooting. Jeremy Lin went all out to bypass the cover and form a trap.
In the second half, all teams defended Guo Xu like this, and when they encountered a covering big man, they had to go out, not too close and not too far, and then form a bag as soon as possible. The defender is slow to chase the defense, and Guo Xu's success rate of forcibly breaking through the big man is very high, and then he will have to flank the defense.
Guo Xu passed the ball to Horford, ran to the left corner, and then ran to the right.
Ibaka couldn't run with Guo Xu, and returned to the middle to keep an eye on Horford, who didn't shoot when he had an outside shot, and passed to Guo Xu, who ran to the bottom right corner.
Jeremy Lin is a heavy defender, and he is slower than Guo Xu, and it would take a second to delay when blocked by a meat shield like Nurkic. It is difficult for him to chase and defend in place, and as soon as Guo Xu runs in the regular season, everyone will have a big head.
Whiteside hurriedly changed the defense, Guo Xu took the ball in the bottom corner and took a step to the left, and passed the ball to Nurkic with a hanging back.
In the regular season, Guo Xu would throw this kind of ball by himself, the flank Crabbe had already let go of Carter and was ready to block, and Jeremy Lin also chased out to form a bag, and both of them pounced.
Nurkic easily received the ball and turned around and scored with a one-handed smash. 2 to 3.
The Suns attacked, Jeremy Lin was pressed by Guo Xu in the backcourt and almost made a mistake, passed the ball to his teammates, and Thompson dribbled the ball through the half.
Knowledgeable people can see at a glance how big the gap between the two is, Jeremy Lin, as a heavy point guard, can't squeeze Guo Xu, and his speed is a lot worse, so he can't break through at all, so he can only rely on his body to protect the basketball.
Thompson has little power to block and dismantle with his interior teammates, he does not get rid of the explosiveness of defense in an instant, even if he has learned techniques with Guo Xu, his breakthrough ability is very average.
So Thompson always plays very simply, a one-step pull-up jump shot after blocking and dismantling, and under Nurkic's interference, Horford grabbed the rebound and launched a counterattack with a pass on the ground.
Jeremy Lin knew that Guo Xu was very difficult to defend after receiving the ball, so he chose a gambling steal, wanting to use his height advantage to jump up and cut off this long pass. As a result, Guo Xu also jumped up, jumping higher than Jeremy Lin, his right hand touched the basketball first and flicked it to the front court, and half turned to the ground and rushed to the front court.
The gap in Jeremy Lin's flexibility was revealed, and he didn't turn around as fast as Guo Xu when he landed, and he was completely thrown away. No one in the Suns could keep up with Guo Xu's speed, he went to the basket on the left side, turned 360 degrees in reverse, and dunked the basketball. 4 to 3.
CCTV5's Yu Jia shouted: "Good ball! The opening is Guo Xu's performance time, and the difference in strength between the two teams in the No. 1 position is very large, and it is almost impossible for the Sun to win. ”
Zhang said: "The Suns will never find a core like Guo Xu again, he can change a team by himself." ”
Yu Jia said: "If the Lakers win the championship this year, the gold content of this championship will be higher than the one led by Guo Xu in 2006. The Lakers are a rebuilding team, and interior star Bosh is reimbursed, and the Suns have been running in for several seasons and have won two consecutive championships. ”
The Suns were still covering tactics, and Jeremy Lin couldn't break through and passed to Crabbe, who couldn't get rid of the running position, and couldn't play alone with the ball, and passed it to Ibaka.
Ibaka didn't have a direct chance to shoot, and then looked for teammates to protect the ball. His physique is not inferior to Xiao Si back then, and his skills are far from good.
Nearly 24 seconds were running out, Thompson forced Booker's probe and hit a mid-range shot that missed under interference, and Nurkic grabbed the rebound.
The Suns' offense was too simple, and most of Thompson's scoring came from running, catching, shooting, and there were traces. As long as the Lakers make targeted defense, be more active when changing defenses, and let others shoot, it is not difficult to limit him.
In the Lakers positional battle, Guo Xu drew the ball after the bag was drawn from the outside, and he ran to the bottom right corner to receive the pass, and Whiteside switched defenses again. He can't change his defense, they were all scared by Guo Xu in the regular season, and when Guo Xu personally cut fifty or sixty points, the game was almost certain to lose, unless Thompson also had a convulsion.
Guo Xu took a sideways move and passed to Nurkic in a key position under the basket, who made another easy one-handed dunk. 6 to 3.
Jeremy Lin wanted to chase Guo Xu, but when he saw that he passed and hurriedly turned around, the gap between his and the center's stature was too big, there was no way at all, and the foul may not be able to be pulled.
D'Antoni shook his head on the sidelines, he and Guo Xu have worked together for 11 years and know each other too well.
As long as Guo Xu attracts a big man to change the defense and pass the restricted area, the Suns can't prevent Nurkic from this type of inside, even if Ibaka and Whiteside stay under the basket, they will suffer......