NBA: I just want to play soy sauce, you let me win the championship

Chapter 249: Go back to the bench and have a good rest!
The Kings players were naturally extremely happy when they heard that the Lakers' ok combination was being used as a stumbling block!
This is not the time when everyone in the alliance is a brother!
"Are you going to double-team Kobe? Take advantage of his illness to kill him?"

"Of course not!" Lu Yuanzhi didn't think that simply. "Didn't you notice that since last year, Kobe's statistics have been very close to O'Neal's!"

"You were complaining to me just now that that damn fat guy didn't train at all during the offseason and even ate donuts secretly!"

"So, if Doug and I put more energy into defending O'Neal and limiting O'Neal's performance, do you think Kobe will have any ideas?"

"If Kobe Bryant plays well and wins the game, will he think that it's all thanks to me, but that fat guy can't help at all?"

"If Kobe doesn't perform well and loses the game, will he think again that if I don't perform well even a little bit, the team will lose? What's the use of that damn fat guy!"

As soon as Lu Yuanzhi finished speaking, the entire locker room was silent. It took a while before Bobby Jackson complained, "I'll go! He's so dirty when it comes to tactics!"

The Kings players were also talking a lot, and no one thought that besides the OK combination, someone else would step forward to save the team.

Who else?
Didn’t we fight them all last year?
Horry doesn't have that ability at all!
As for this year's new additions Shane Battier and Billups?

Stop talking nonsense, okay!

A second-year rookie who can only be rated as having a high basketball IQ, and a point guard who has proven to be nothing more than that in the Timberwolves, are at most two pretty good role players.

Unlike his teammates, Lu Yuanzhi doesn't know the details of Battier and Billups, but if Battier and Billups save the Lakers instead of O'Neal, wouldn't it make Kobe feel more like that? Are lazy fat people useless?

You won’t lose anything anyway!

"Hey guys, did you forget something?" Adelman reminded at this time, "It's not easy to prevent O'Neal from dying!"

"All our plans are based on preventing O'Neal from dying!"

The locker room was silent, but then erupted into even louder laughter.

"Isn't it just to lock O'Neal? We are familiar with this!"

"Double-team, resolutely double-team, don't let him feel comfortable attacking!"

"Run away, let him run back and forth, and help him burn off the calories from the donuts!"

"In pick-and-roll situations, he won't leave the three-second zone!"

The Kings players were all talking and giving suggestions one after another.

When it comes to how to deal with the Lakers and O'Neal, they have much more experience than others, and last season's playoffs were not in vain!
Adelman nodded, agreeing with his players.

"Go out and overthrow the Lakers!"

The Lakers' starters for this game are O'Neal, Horry, Battier, Kobe and Billups.

After two months of running in, they were pleasantly surprised to find that Battier and Billups were very suitable for this Lakers team. Moreover, the two had very high basketball IQs. They quickly learned the triangle offense and immediately integrated into the ball. Team.

The starters for the Kings are Divac, Weber, Stojakovic, Lu Yuanzhi and Bibby.

Although Lu Yuanzhi shouted in the locker room that he had no energy and would sit on the bench, Adelman still put him in the starting lineup.

There is no other intention, just to provoke Kobe.

Why, our Max is still full of energy to start in the starting lineup after playing one-on-one with you. Isn't it possible that you, Kobe, can't do it?
Physical strength is too bad!
If you don’t take action 30 times this time, you’re the only one who’s cowardly!

Another good news for the Kings is that Bibby, who has been out for several games due to injury, has returned to the team, and after coming off the bench in the first few games to adapt to the rhythm of the game, he can now return to the starting position.

However, as soon as Bibby came on the stage today, he received two sap blows.

On the Lakers' first attack, after Billups controlled the ball to the frontcourt, the Lakers collectively opened up the space and allowed Billups to post up Bibby.

Billups relied on his strong body to roll over Bibby to the outside of the three-second area, and then made an easy turn-over jumper to score the ball.

Phil Jackson nodded as he watched from the audience.

Yes, that's the taste!

Last season, Kidd was able to defeat Bibby alone with his physical advantages. There is no reason why Billups, the point guard who is also physically strong, can't do it!
On the offensive end of the Kings, Billups was also using his body to give Bibby strength. He even forced his way through Divac's pick-and-roll and caught up with Bibby holding the ball.

twice!At this time, Lakers fans, both those who knew the game and those who didn't, gave out huge cheers.

The Kings' offensive engine last season, Mike Bibby, was locked up by their newly joined point guard. This is absolutely great news for the Lakers.

In the playoffs last season, after the Kings couldn't get started with the Princeton system alone, they developed a pick-and-roll style of play in which Bibby cooperated with inside players. They took advantage of O'Neal's reluctance to leave the penalty area and beat the Lakers. Caught off guard.

Fisher's defense was a complete mess, causing the Lakers to lose the series.

Unexpectedly, the little-known Billups restrained Bibby on both offense and defense. It seems that this game is stable.

stable?

In the last 7 seconds, after Divac's pick-and-roll was squeezed out again, he did not set up a pick-and-roll for Bibby again. Instead, he took a step outside the penalty area at a 45-degree angle and raised his hand to signal for the ball.

Bibby quickly gave the ball to Divac. Seeing that O'Neal was still standing under the basket, Divac shot from close range without hesitation.

"brush!"

The ball crashes into the net!
Kobe frowned slightly.

This defense almost succeeded, but Divac scored two points in such an easy way.

What is this fat guy O'Neal doing?
Why can't we prevent it!

The series has been beaten so many times and you still don’t know the Kings’ routine?

Or is it that this damn fat guy is just too lazy to move and keep up with his defender!

When the Lakers attacked, Billups wanted to beat Bibby again, but the Kings players also consciously strengthened their protection of Bibby. During Billups' post-up, the Kings players on both sides continued to come up to help prevent interference. .

What a joke. They played 4 finals games with Kidd last season. The Kings have long found a way to deal with Bibby being beaten.

Billups had no choice but to hand the ball to Battier, who then passed the ball inside to find O'Neal.

As soon as O'Neal caught the ball, the Kings' formation quickly shrank. Lu Yuanzhi was the most aggressive in shrinking, trying to get the ball from O'Neal. O'Neal quickly passed the ball to Kobe.

At this time, the Kings are full of people inside, so rushing in is definitely not a good option.

Stojakovic, who was guarding Battier, wanted to help defend Kobe, but Lu Yuanzhi shouted at this time, "Kobe has no energy left, leave him alone!"

Kobe's eyelids twitched. He had no energy?
See if I don’t surrender to you!

Kobe pulled up a jumper directly near the free throw line.

"Dangdang!"

The ball hit the neck of the basket, bounced out, and was taken by Lu Yuanzhi.

Lu Yuanzhi quickly gave the ball to the activated Bibby, and then followed up, came to the Lakers penalty area, used his body to push away Kobe, and steadily scored the ball.

On the way back to defense, Lu Yuanzhi deliberately loudly conspired, "I told you, Kobe has no energy left. He was knocked down by me in a duel!"

"Let him shoot in this game, he won't make it!"

"Why are you staring, little blacksmith from Los Angeles, was your defense effective just now?"

"Did you have meal?"

"Oh, I forgot, you collapsed during the duel!"

"Go back to the bench and have a good rest!"

　Does the style of play between Bunyama and Holmgren look familiar?

　　There's nothing wrong with it, that's how Lu Yuanzhi fights, hahahaha!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)