Dominate the basketball world, starting from the skyhook skill

Chapter 229 The Strategies of Both Sides

After the game, angry Lakers fans blew up the Warriors' official website, scolding the Warriors for relying on outside moves to win.

Even Aunt Jenny resisted the soaring blood pressure, stood up with the support of her little boyfriend, and comforted the fans with a big wave of her palm: "Please rest assured, comrades, I have applied for the FBI to intervene. Investigate!"

But as an old Jianghu, how could she not know Xiao Hua's skill in manipulating the game?This so-called investigation is doomed to fail.

And last year, her Lakers won a lot of games by relying on this move. If she really asked her to check, then others would have to overturn the previous plate.

Take free throws, the most obvious indicator. After the third game, the final statistics show that the two teams made 25 to 24 free throws, and the Lakers even had one more.

But when it comes to every foul round on the field, the effect can be very different.

For example, when the two teams were at a stalemate just after playing, the referee suddenly blew thick eyebrows twice for body hair fouls, and directly asked Hamm to put him on the bench to watch the game.

Under this whistleblowing scale, the Lakers players can only reduce the intensity of their defensive actions and play cautiously; on the other hand, the Warriors understand it and fight with their upper body unscrupulously.

When he played again in the second quarter, the Warriors had already led by a big score, and the referee found a few insignificant rounds to compensate the Lakers for a few free throws.

After repeating this several times, the Lakers' game rhythm was cut into pieces, while the Warriors were like a fish in water, and finally won easily.

But after looking at the statistics, the Lakers lead the Warriors in free throws.

If you don't know the ball, look at Excel, don't you Lakers take advantage of it!

However, Li Kaiwen didn't say much about it.
After the game, he faced the interview and was still very calm.

"I don't want to comment on the referee's problem. After all, referees are not machines, and they all have the possibility of making mistakes. It's just that sometimes they make more mistakes, and sometimes they make fewer mistakes."

"I just want to tell my teammates that we must go all out in the next game, and the advantage we finally gained cannot be easily ruined."

"We're going back to Los Angeles with the lead and trying to keep the first round as short as possible."

What he said was impeccable, and the Warriors vassal media who were always ready to find loopholes in his speech in order to apply for a suspension from the league were disappointed.

Game [-] will be played at the Warriors' home court three days later.

The importance of this game is self-evident. For the Lakers, if they return to Los Angeles with a big score of 2 to 2, then their dream start in the first two games will be in vain, and the two sides will return to the same starting line.

And winning first and then losing is also a big blow to the team's momentum. The folks in their hometown are waiting for them to go home with good news.

For the Warriors, the most important thing is to defend the home court and let the game go back to the Bay Area until at least the sixth game to continue, and to ensure their fault tolerance rate at the Lakers' home court.

Both parties understand that it is impossible for the same whistleblowing to occur twice in a row. In the fourth game, the league will definitely take into account the influence of public opinion and return to fair and just whistleblowing.

It's okay to use it once outside the market, but if you use it twice, it will really transform into WWE, and it will become a farce of bringing a script to the match.

Now, the Warriors' focus is entirely on how to limit Kevin Li.

They found that after the thick eyebrows' playing time was cut into pieces in the third game, and finally handed over the worst performance in this round of the series, Li Kaiwen can still lead the team to bite the score with his unparalleled impact on the inside.

How to limit Kevin Lee has become the most important issue at the Golden State player meeting.

After Game [-], Golden State was divided on how to deal with Kevin Lee.

One faction, headed by Green, advocates continuing to short Li Kaiwen for three points.

The reason is still the same sentence, who doesn't eat turkey for Christmas?Li Kaiwen made 9 of 4 three-pointers in the second game, and his shooting percentage was not unacceptably high. In the third game, after a little marking, his three-pointers decisively fell to 6 of 2 three-pointers.

Instead of letting him drive his teammates, it is better to let him fight alone like the third game.

What does this mean?Li Kaiwen is not an elite three-point shooter. Instead of being shot from inside and outside by him, it is better to completely block the inside line, sink back when defending pick-and-rolls, and continue to encourage him to shoot three-pointers.

The other faction, headed by Klay Thompson, advocates double-teaming with weak-side defenders as much as possible, betting that the Warriors' rotation speed can be faster than Li Kevin's passing speed.

The reason is simpler. Clay and Kuminga have finished playing this season, but they are waiting to sign a big contract.

You let me defend alone now, but you also want me to let others three points.

In case Li Kaiwen continued to explode with three-pointers like in the second game, it would not be the dignity of the defender to knock them down.

It's the money in their pockets!
As for rotation, this is the Warriors' strong point. Their five small advantages are not only reflected in the unparalleled mobility of the five players on the offensive end, but also in the flexibility and speed of defense on the defensive end.

The two factions had heated discussions, and finally Cole slapped the table and decided to adopt the handling opinions of Clay and others.

That is, just like the Lakers targeted Curry, they will adjust their tactics next and continue to target Kevin Li.

If you can't defend alone, then double-team, if two people can't defend, then go to three people.

"Guys, we will strangle Li Kevin in the next game. If the Lakers can still defeat us with Duncan Robinson, Rui Hachimura and these little Karamis, then we have nothing to say."

Cole said so.

Cole's prestige is still nothing to say, everyone immediately said that the next game will let Kevin Li know what cruelty is, and Green opened his mouth even more.
"Steve, let me defend Shelby in the next game, and I will defend Kevin Li as the main defense."

"That kid Shelby was stunned, and he was immature as a rookie in the first few games. Looney is taller than me, and he has to grab the rebound and protect the frame."

In this way, a defensive strategy that the Warriors think is perfect to deal with Kevin Li was released.

But they didn't expect that one of the other protagonists of this good show, George Shelby, Hamm didn't even plan to start him in the fourth game!

After the game, the Lakers' replay was still detailed and thorough. After studying the strategy of the Warriors, the league's favorite team to play the five minors,

Hamm also decided to temporarily put Shelby on the bench, and Vanderbilt will start the rest of the games.

Compared with Shelby's advantages in three-pointers and frame protection, Vanderbilt is more flexible, prefers air cuts and counterattacks, and has greater defensive flexibility.

And more importantly, they need thick eyebrows to play well. If he can show the dominance of the 20-year playoffs in the park,

Why can't the Lakers this year go to a showdown with the Nuggets!
At the last moment of the player meeting, Nongmei also stood up, saying that he would do his best to share the pressure of Li Kaiwen on the offensive end.

Unknowingly, he has accepted the reality that Kevin Li is the boss of the Lakers!
(End of this chapter)