Chapter 127: Zen Master Nu She

When the first quarter ended, the Lakers even led the Celtics by 3 points 24:21.
"Drink some water, everyone has a good rest, think about the problems you encountered in the first quarter, and adjust your feelings. Remember, to strengthen the offensive rebounds, continue to rush, no matter what the consequences are. "Leon said to the players between the breaks of the two quarters.
As the head coach, Leon doesn't like shouting encouraging words to the players during breaks or timeouts, but tells them what to stick to in the next game. For example, in this game, he asked several inside players to increase their offensive rebounds.
Leon especially greeted Dalemport and said to him: "I will give you one more quarter and grab more than three offensive rebounds. I will consider keeping you on the court. Come on, boy, this The task is not too difficult. Learn to use your body..."
In the first quarter of the game, Dalembert's starting did not play a role in disrupting the Lakers' interior. As a 6-11 center, his offensive rebounding force was actually not enough. In addition, the Lakers pursued the strategy of shrinking the team and grabbing backcourt rebounds for the team. Dalembert only grabbed a frontcourt rebound by hard work, but after getting the ball, he was a little panicked because of his lack of experience, and was finally caught by opponents. Take the ball away.
But Leon was very patient. He only replaced Dalembert in the eighth minute of the first quarter and replaced him with Tony Batty. The Haitian looked a little depressed, until the end of the first quarter, he looked sullen, just like Wang Zhizhi sitting on the side.
Leon's encouragement gave Dalembert a lot of confidence. But he still didn't understand why he insisted on grabbing the offensive rebounds. In the previous four games, the Celtics were not keen on grabbing offensive rebounds. Lack of height inside, they often choose to return to defense the first time, at the cost of giving up the frontcourt. This is also one of the reasons why there were so many rounds in the previous games and the offensive and defensive transitions were so fast. This is undoubtedly what Leon is happy to see.
But in this game so far, Dalembert will hardly return to defense for the first time, which makes him very uncomfortable. He has to squeeze in the Lakers' three-second zone to fight for the ball. At this time he thought of Dennis Rodman. This guy was there last season, and he always appeared in the right place to grab the ball. Dalemport really wants to ask Rodman how to grab offensive rebounds now.
Don't let him think about it. The second quarter started very quickly. Leon patted him on the shoulder and motioned for him to go straight on.
The lineups on both sides at this time. The Celtics are the second team of Dalem Porter, Chris Anderson, Eric Williams, Steve Kerr and Joe Johnson. The Lakers are Kobe, Brian Shaw, and Robert -Hawley, Devin George and Medvedenko, in comparison, the Celtics play more people, after all, the Lakers injured O'Neal and Fox generals.
The Celtics delivered the baseline and Cole dribbled the ball through halftime. The Jackson's old player is quite familiar with the Lakers' defense. Love to dig traps, gambling to give up some long-range shooting areas, creating psychological barriers to opponents' shooting. So Kerr first handed the ball to Joe Johnson, who was demanding from the right waist position, and then pulled Johnson one-on-one.
Joe Johnson is facing Kobe’s defense. This is currently the best second defender in the league. Although Joe Johnson tried to challenge Kobe, he tried to move around and found it difficult to find a suitable player. , And he was pressed to the bottom line by Kobe. This makes it difficult for Joe Johnson to play the ball.
"We should strengthen the training of the positional attack." Dave Cowens, who was sitting next to Leon, said as he looked at the scene on the court. Throughout the training camp, the Celtics' positional offense has always been a shortcoming, but Leon never seems to have the will to strengthen this one.
"A solution will be found..." Leon just said softly. At this time, Joe Johnson still barely passed the ball to Eric Williams, who came to catch it. Williams shot from a mid-range position at about 45 degrees and 19 feet. The ball hit the right side of the basket. in.
At this time, Dalembert looked like a black King Kong. He pushed aside the two Lakers players, stretched out his hands, and took the ball into his arms without much jump. He listened to Leon's words and began to use his body. After he got the ball, he did not hesitate like last time, but decisively returned the ball to Cole's hands.
At this time, Cole was standing just outside the left three-point line, a position he was very accustomed to shooting, after receiving the ball and shooting a three-pointer. With an extremely standard shooting posture, the ball traversed a high arc in the air, leading the eyes of more than 20,000 people in the audience, then traversed the net and fell into the basket!
The referee made a three-pointer gesture. After the goal, Cole also made a three-pointer gesture to the bench. An important three-pointer equalized the score!
At this time Leon was still a little restless and settled a little, but this is just the beginning, and there is still a long time to survive.
Sure enough, in the second quarter of the game, Dalembert and Chris Anderson's first high and first spring began to exert its power, desperately rushing to grab offensive rebounds, although there are side effects, that is, if you can't grab it, it is likely to be The Lakers fight back, especially when the Lakers have Kobe. Once Kobe has a single-handed chance in the fast break, the two points are basically given away.
But Leon knows that Kobe can't kill anyone like this, and the initiative of the game will slowly be in the hands of the Celtics.
At the end of the first half, the Celtics led the Lakers 51:49 by 2 points. Dalembert and Chris Anderson teamed up to grab 5 offensive rebounds in the second quarter, which means the Celtics People suddenly had five more offensive opportunities. It's not an amazing number, but it's based on the continuous shrinking of the Lakers' defense.
"Now, the Lakers' defense has shrunk and can't be shrunk anymore, but our three-point performance is not very good, maybe it is not adapting, or other problems. Solve them! Solve these problems! From the third quarter At the beginning, the three-pointer will be our main theme. In the first five minutes of the third quarter, we will use the three-pointer to lay the foundation for victory." In the Celtics locker room, Leon finally told everyone Revealed the full picture of his tactics in this game.
In preparations last night, how could Leon not watch the Lakers' game and technical statistics. Their backcourt rebounding is quite good, because even without O'Neal, their two main backcourts, Kobe and Fisher, are the defenders who have outstanding rebounding players. Not to mention Kobe, Fisher's strong body It's not a loss to grab a rebound with a power forward.
The Lakers forwards like Devin George and Holly are all capable of shooting three-pointers. An all-around striker who can defend and rebound. Both of them, including the injured Fox, have the shadow of Scott Pippen. Undoubtedly, this is the type of striker Phil Jackson likes, in his past, present and future. In coaching, as always, they are biased towards this striker.
Therefore, the Lakers who rebounded with the team did not lose their rebounds without losing their main center. Moreover, O'Neal is not a super defensive rebounder.
Because of this, Leon didn't even want to use the offensive rebounds to gain an advantage, but he needs offensive rebounds to open the situation. In the second quarter, Leon made Dalembert desperately grab the offensive rebounds, which played a certain role. In order to contain this situation, Phil Jackson kept shrinking the team's defense. By the second half of the second quarter, Kobe and George didn't even go very quickly. Because they wanted to stay to grab rebounds, they were limited by Dalem Porter and Anderson, but the constant offensive rebounds held back them.
As a result, the Lakers' three-point line began to appear gaps. When the players focus on the cards and rebounds on the inside, the rotation and pressure on the outside will be reduced accordingly, and the Celtics will have the opportunity to conduct more transmissions and three-pointers.
Sure enough, after the start of the second half, Paul Pierce took the lead with an adjustment after passing the ball and hit a three-pointer. A very simple two-man cooperation, but opened the prelude to the Celtics' three-pointers bombardment in the third quarter.
A team’s defense in a certain game will produce inertia and continuity, especially in the regular season. Once the team’s defense maintains a certain intensity or strategy from the beginning to the middle of the game, then you want to It is difficult to change and adjust suddenly in the second half of the game. Even if it is adjusted, it cannot be changed in one or two rounds. Some top defensive teams can often do it. This requires the team's defensive system to be very orderly, with a clear division of labor, and the general discipline of the military.
Obviously, the Lakers' defense is great, but they haven't reached such a point. They fell into defensive inertia at the beginning of the third quarter, and they still went to the position with Dalem Porter in the second quarter and grabbed backcourt rebounds. Dalemport, as always, followed Leon's request to grab offensive rebounds, but this time he was no longer obsessed with grabbing, but to point the ball out to give his teammates a chance to shoot from the outside.
Arenas, Reid, Walker, Pierce, four shotguns from the outside, shot in turn, especially Antoine Walker, after holding back several games, he suddenly got Leon’s release order, allowing him to be able to In the case of playing three-pointers on their own.
Thus, one step outside the three-point line and two steps outside the three-point line ~EbookFREE.me~ have become the location for Walker to take a three-pointer. Moreover, his three-pointers are not very cooperative. The opponent's defense shows a little gap, and he shoots when he pulls it up, regardless of whether his teammates have a better chance or whether the rebounder has a better position.
In contrast, Pierce was more cautious, Reid only shot from the right bottom corner, Arenas put his shooting point on the front, and directly pulled out through the pick and roll with Walker. The four of them threw 11 three-pointers in the third quarter! Hit six of them! A three-point bombardment opened the gap between the two sides to 14 points.
When the Celtics made three three-pointers, Jackson was still sitting on the sidelines and squinted as if he was asleep. When Arenas made a three-pointer in the counter, Jackson's eyes were open. opened. When Reid threw a three-pointer from the bottom corner, Jackson couldn't sit still, but still held back and did not call a timeout. When Paul Pierce was in his favorite position at 45 degrees on the left and received the ball from Chris Anderson and hit the sixth three-pointer, the Zen master finally couldn't sit still and he called a timeout.
The Celtics' firepower is beyond his imagination. He doesn't know what magical and effective training this team has experienced in the summer. He only knows that he misses Shaquille O'Neal.
Fortunately, he also has Kobe Bryant. (To be continued.)