Chapter 381: exchange

Chapter 384
After Kobe's crazy personal performances in 2005 and 2006, his personal ability has reached the peak of his career. In this summer, although Kobe is deeply involved in trading rumors, including the beginning of the season, he still has not gotten rid of trading rumors, including he himself has not asserted that he will stay with the Lakers, but these have not affected Kobe's maintenance and improvement of his state, and His professional attitude on the court.
It can be said that this year is the best year for Kobe's competitive status. In the summer, he chose to lose weight, further improve his agility, and continue to strengthen his jump shots, thinking about it to keep improving. In terms of experience, he is about to turn thirty years old this year, coming to the most mature and balanced age of a guard in all aspects. Whether it is mental state or physical condition, Kobe is fully prepared. Once there is a chance, he will give All those who despised him slapped loudly.
Of course, not everyone can realize this, especially people's doubts about the current Lakers lineup. In the summer, they only got two guards. Where are their inside lines? How do they fight Duncan, Garnett and O'Neal? The Lakers have not yet given an answer.
Today they have to face Amare Stoudemire. Only Kwame Brown can be used by the Lakers in the paint. Odom is absent. Chris Mihm is also not on the squad. Turiaf has Was sent to the opposite side, and the one remaining was the rookie Bynum, who was just 20 years old this year. Fortunately, the Suns are not particularly tall inside, but Stoudemire's impact makes the Lakers a little unbearable.
After being hit 4-0 by the Lakers in the opening game, the ball was handed over to Stoudemire. He received the ball from the left horn. The sun pulled away in all directions and Stoudemire took the ball over his head. Face to the basket, when he saw the Lakers' inside hole wide open, he directly dribbled the ball and drove the ball into the three-second zone from the middle. Wharton on the wing wanted to come and help defend, but he was not fast enough. Stoudemire directly Go through the layup between the two.
After suffering a major injury in 2006, Stoudemire has recovered very well, his explosiveness and speed are still very good, and his offense feels better. Before the game, Leon told him that if you have a chance to play singles, you can attack boldly, don't have scruples, and don't think about going to the pick and roll to cover, and treat yourself as an all-out attacker.
This is not the same as D'Antoni’s past arrangements. In the past, Nash was the real core of the team. Stoudemire is a very good finisher, but more often he has to revolve around Nash. After scoring the goal, Stoudemire still went forward and high-five Nash, although this attack has nothing to do with Nash, the pass is passed by Dior, but he is used to this.
Back to defense, the Lakers still played their familiar triangle offense. Fisher, Kobe and Wharton formed a triangle on the strong side. Kobe caught the ball at the waist, and after a test of his back, he passed back to the weak. With the horn on the side, Brown hesitated for a while with the ball. He went around thinking about how to play. Should it be for Evans on the bottom line or Fisher on the three-point line?
"Offensive!" Kobe yelled at him. Brown should have played the ball by himself. The center has been pulled away, so Brown, like Stoudemire just now, dribbled the ball from the center to the basket. However, his layup was interfered by Stoudemire and missed. He scored an offensive rebound and swayed Stoudemire in continuous footsteps under the basket, but he still missed the layup! The ball was spotted, Kobe lowered to grab the ball, then turned around with the ball, and hit a jumper near the free throw line.
After scoring, Kobe was not satisfied. Instead, he said something to Brown. The goal just now was a waste of opportunity for Brown. The Suns' defense is not tight. The most important thing in the triangle offense is that every player is always on the move. Attention to the chances of himself and his teammates every moment, it was a good singles opportunity, and able to fight back Stoudemire, but Brown messed up.
Brown has no expression on his face. This champion has long been accustomed to such reprimands. Since entering the NBA, in the Wizards, he is facing the No. 23, and now he is facing the No. 24.
Brown didn't have much time to recall Kobe's words. Stoudemire posted it again. This time he asked for the ball in the right low post. Dior still held the ball. He directly gave the ball to Stoudemire. Stoudemire caught the ball with his back and turned to the basket. Brown blocked in front of him and lowered his weight. Brown has the advantage in weight. Stoudemire's weapon is his explosive power and speed, but this time he did not choose to break through. Instead, after testing twice, he took a 10-foot jumper!
"Huh!" A two-pointer hit, Stoudemire relied on his precise jumper to add two more points.
Leon looked at Stoudemire's jumper, thinking that this kid's offensive touch is really good, and it would be too wasteful to use him as a pure offensive end point. Leon’s idea is to make Stoudemire a core ball-holding point on the offensive end. Perhaps he will not have the excellent passing ability of Duncan or Garnett, but as long as his finishing ability is strong enough, he can be a teammate. Create opportunities.
Of course, in Leon's view, Stoudemire still has a lot to improve. If he wants to grow into a super power forward, fortunately they still have Dior inside. As for Nash, this may be his easiest first quarter in the past few years. At present, Nash only touches the ball once, and all stats are zero except for turnovers, and his teammates on the defensive end have to wipe Nash's ass.
Derek Fisher can dribble the ball and use his strength to leave Nash aside. Bale guards Kobe dare not come to help defend, but Marion can only come, Fisher hit the ground and passed the ball, Wharton slipped the bottom line to catch the ball to the basket. The layup succeeded! Stoudemire's defense at the basket is basically no.
In the subsequent attacks, the Suns were very efficient. Stoudemire, Marion and Bell all scored and Nash only had one assist. This made the audience feel very uncomfortable. What happened to their former son of the wind today? At the same time, the Suns' defense did not seem to be improving, which is not much different from the past, so the game went very smoothly, there were basically no fouls and dead balls, and soon entered the official timeout. The Lakers were 15:12, leading the Suns by 3 points. .
"How do you feel? The offense is pretty good, and the defense is a mess. Did Mike teach you defense like this before?"
Leon said to the players half jokingly, but everyone didn’t laugh. In fact, they have worked the defensive end, but today the Lakers’ offense feels really good, especially the Kobe team’s play style, let the Suns look on the defensive end. Not the point, which makes people feel very uncomfortable.
Leon didn't say much, but squatted in front of Nash and asked: "Can you still adapt to your current role? You can start offensively. The feel needs to be cultivated and maintained. The second half will be over. "
Nash wiped his sweat with a towel-in fact, he didn't sweat much, and nodded to Leon: "No problem, but everyone did a good job, of course I mean offensively."
Leon said: "Yes, so you can rest assured to be yourself, they are all good, I will slowly adjust defensively."
The two have been together for only a few months, and only played one regular season, but the tacit understanding between them is terrible. In a few simple words, Nash knew Leon's intentions, and at the same time he was full of confidence.
The official timeout came to an end soon. Leon made a fine-tuning of his personnel. He replaced the hot Stoudemire with Turiaf, and the Suns' offensive power returned to Nash.
On the Lakers side, Jackson did not adjust the lineup. The players on the court are in a very good state. They are in good agreement and cooperate very smoothly. These players have been immersed in the triangle offense for many years, especially the return of Fisher, which stabilized the team. The dressing room also played an unexpectedly prominent effect on the court.
The strong Fisher held the ball steadily for half the time. Luke Wharton stepped forward and took the ball at 45 degrees on the right. Fisher went to the weak side, and Kobe was also on the weak side. With Vince and Brown, the Suns' defense had to press against the weak and the space was stretched very wide. Brown got another good chance on the inside. He squeezed to the basket. In the three-second zone, Wharton passed the ball in time. After receiving the ball, Brown turned and turned and made a small throw, a close shot. The result was not known. Turiaf was too hard or Brown turned around too anxiously, the ball did not bounce into the basket but hit the edge of the basket.
Marion grabbed the backcourt and immediately passed the ball to Nash. This time Nash did not pause or divide the ball, but quickly dribbled through the half court. Seeing that there was no good chance in the middle, he went straight to the bottom line. A close-range jump shot from a degree angle, hit!
A 10-foot backward jumper is a light-hearted shot for Nash ~EbookFREE.me~ a point gap.
For Brown wasting such a good scoring opportunity, Jackson on the sideline also shook his head. He looked at Bynum sitting on the bench and thought it was time to consider letting this kid go. At least he would not waste such a goal.
At this time, the Lakers' counterattack was still orderly. Bryant took the ball and Brown finished the pick and roll and went straight to the basket. Bell and Marion doubled, Bryant made a pause in the air to catch up with Evans, and Evans cut in. The basket was slapped off by Turiaf. Nash got the ball, he still pushed forward quickly, Fisher followed closely, but he did not dare to get too close for fear of Nash passing the ball.
But Nash didn’t pass the ball. He stopped. The Lakers had returned to the defense. Turiaf followed and made a pick-and-roll screen for Fisher. Nash used the screen to get rid of Fisher, while Brown shrank. Nothing came out inside, Nash did not hesitate to shoot outside the three-point line!
"Huh!" Three-pointers like an arrow passed through the heart. The score came to 17:15 and the Suns overtook it.
Jackson had to call a timeout. He couldn't help but wonder who was Kobe and who was Nash.
(End of this chapter)