Lakers starters: Daniel Gibson, Kobe, Iguodala, Millsap, Yao Ming.

During the injuries of Odom and Yao Ming last season, Millsap played very well, once becoming a double-double machine, hitting 20 10 many times, averaging 13.8 points, 8.6 rebounds, 1.8 assists, 1 steal and 1 block per game in the regular season, shooting 53.4% from the field.

Yang Rui started Millsap this season. Yao Ming's role in the middle and Odom's role overlapped, and the two went on together, and Odom could only move on the side and wait for opportunities to shoot, which was a bit wasteful. Millsap, on the other hand, is short and very mobile at the No. 4 position, and has better pick-and-roll resistance.

Odom has no problem with that, and he has been used to playing as a substitute for four years.

Trail Blazers five: Steve Blake, Roy, Travis Outlaw, Aldridge, Noah.

Noah jumped to win, Blake picked up the basketball and passed it to Roy, who played with Aldridge to block and dismantle, the Lakers were in a joint defensive formation, Millsap followed Roy, Iguodala stood without marking, and the middle was close to defend Ade.

Roy broke through with the ball, was caught by Yao Ming and Millsap, he distributed the ball to the left side, Noah received the ball in the empty position and took a step to the basket, Yao Ming turned back to the defense, raised his arms to interfere, the defense covered a large area, covered the basket, and Noah could only pass the ball out again.

On the left side, Outlaw received the ball and was entangled by Kobe, and it was difficult to turn around, so he gave the ball to Blake for reorganization. After a few passes, Aldridge made a high jumper and missed under Iguodala's interference, and Yao Ming easily won the rebound.

One round can see the current defensive intensity of the Lakers, even Gibson can interfere with shooting, and Trail Blazers center Noah is not good at shooting and has weaknesses.

The Lakers attacked, Millsap went to the bottom line on the right side, took a step inside the three-point line to attract the defense, Iguodala pulled away 70 degrees on the right side, Kobe and Yao Ming played blocking and dismantling in the middle, and Noah changed the defense in time to block Kobe's breakthrough route.

The Trail Blazers are a balanced team on offense and defense, and after Noah joined, they did a very good job of defending the pick-and-roll, but their defense of the restricted area was average, and the two big men were both lightweight and mobile types.

Yao Mingkong cut to the left low post and received Kobe's pass, Noah returned to defend quickly, and Yao Ming, who was 124 kilograms, was obviously struggling. Yao Ming turned around in the middle and hit with Noah's hook hand. 2 to 0.

The Trail Blazers attacked, Roy forced a breakthrough, and forced a pull-up layup between Millsap and Yao Ming, he dodged Yao Ming's block, but he missed under the interference, Yao Ming turned around and didn't need to jump, and easily won the rebound by relying on his height advantage, handed it over to Gibson to organize, and the Lakers fell into battle.

Not only do the players play rhythmically, but the coach arranges tactics in a rhythmic manner.

Yang Rui has been a head coach since 1998, which is already in his 10th year, and he has accumulated a wealth of basketball experience, not only to help players play their strengths, but also to value the combination of each other. Kobe Bryant and Yao Ming were present, and they were always positional battles.

Kobe and Yao Ming played blocking and dismantling again, Roy caught up, Kobe Bryant protected the basketball on the left side without hurry, and waited for Yao Ming to cut in the air and passed the ball to the low post again.

Yao Ming leaned on Noah with his back, shook his right shoulder slightly, and turned to the bottom line.

He didn't get rid of it completely, he pulled the ball up with his back stuck in the position, wiped the basket with small jumps, relied on Noah to get up, and used his height advantage to play the board and shoot, and easily scored two points. 4 to 0.

NOAH is 211CM tall and weighs only 104 kg, he is too thin, has no bounce power, and is squeezed by Yao Ming and can't jump.

In Yang Rui's previous life, Noah won the best defensive player once in 2014, as well as two best defensive teams and one best team team. Just looking at these accolades, some people will mistakenly think that Noah is better than Yao, but in fact, before the 2012-13 season, Noah did not do well on the defensive end, but was fully committed when defending.

The stats show that in the first three seasons of his career, the Bulls were more efficient defensively when Noah wasn't on the floor, and when Noah was rested or absent from the court, the Bulls dropped opponents by 4.4 points per game. The league's big man interior players have an average efficiency of 16.8 when they play against Noah, while the league's overall average efficiency is only 15.

In other words, when Noah defends the center alone, the center of other teams can play at a higher level. In the Bulls, Noah is good at relying on mobility to prevent blocking and dismantling, and to assist in defense. In charge of the penalty area are Tygibson and Boozer. Obviously, Aldridge can't resist either, and the two of them are not suitable to be partners.

In the 07 NCAA finals, Oden had 25 points and 12 rebounds, and Noah had 8 points and 3 rebounds. Noah has to practice good strategy and passing ability like Yang Rui in his previous life, and the Trailblazers can be regarded as earning, but now he is too tender.

The Trail Blazers attacked, Roy mismatched Millsap and was blocked and passed to Otlo, who pulled to the right to receive the ball, who scored a three-pointer in the face of Gibson. 4 to 3.

The weakness of the joint defense is that the point guard sometimes has to guard against the big man, Yang Rui never cares about this kind of misalignment, Yao Mingfang is really a weakness, the guard is easy to pass him, and he can also break through and make fouls. Once Yao Ming is troubled by fouls and rests, there will be one less offensive strongman.

Yang Rui firmly believes that it is impossible for the Trail Blazers to prevent the Lakers' pick-and-roll offense, and "only blocking but not demolition" is not necessarily.

In the next round, Kobe Bryant didn't pass the ball to Yao Ming again, and chose to go heads-up after blocking and dismantling, and the emergency stop jump shot was missed under Roy's interference, and Noah grabbed the rebound.

The Trail Blazers fought back, Blake missed a three-point shot, and Iguodala grabbed the rebound.

The Lakers attacked the position, Kobe Bryant blocked and dismantled to attract Noah to change the defense, Yao Mingkong cut to the basket, squeezed Roy's key position, Kobe Bryant didn't pass again, and the step-back jumper was deflected under Noah's interference, and the rebound was grabbed by Aldridge.

Kobe Bryant thinks that Yao Ming has a height advantage, and he can "help the board" if he can't throw, but the ball will not bounce to Yao Ming's side every time.

In the next round, Kobe Bryant still attacked by himself, changed direction to pass Noah after blocking and dismantling, and made a layup to avoid Roy's chasing block and scored his first goal.

Kobe Bryant finally opened, and it was much more difficult for him to score goals than Yao's list of Noahs, and he was still happy to do it.

After that, the Trail Blazers' formation began to shrink, stabilizing the defense of the penalty area, Kobe Bryant continued to play single, the Trail Blazers did not wrap up, he did not pass the ball, although a few balls were close, but it violated Yang Rui's tactical arrangement.

Yang Rui asked Yao Ming to attack with Yao Ming as the core in the first quarter, attacking the weakness of the opponent's poor interior confrontation, Yao Ming's opening feeling was very good, but he couldn't receive the pass after throwing two goals, and ran back again and again, only grabbed a frontcourt rebound, and scored a dunk.

The tactics were not smooth, Kobe Bryant pushed towards Roy's defensive strength, and the Lakers' offense was not so strong.

Last season, Bryant took more individual shots and was reluctant to pass the ball to Landry and Millsap. After three consecutive championships, his confidence swelled greatly, thinking that he was the first person in the NBA, and the tactics should revolve around him, but his shooting percentage did not rank in the top five in the team.

The Lakers led 25-18 in the first quarter.

The Lakers' overall offensive efficiency is not high, Kobe Bryant scored 10 points, Yao Ming scored 6 points and 6 rebounds, and he can already suppress the Trail Blazers by relying on defense.

The Trail Blazers' offense mainly relied on Roy and Aldridge's high-post pick-and-roll, the two three-pointers running to look for opportunities, and Noah rushing to grab the rebound in the frontcourt, and cutting to the basket to pick up leaks, all of which were inferior in all positions.

With the score ahead, Yang Rui didn't say anything, he didn't care about the regular season this season, as long as he could play well in the playoffs, because even if the Lakers won the best record in the regular season, it would be difficult for him to win the best coach award.