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

Chapter 320 The soldiers walked out of the fortress automatically

Of course, the league does not allow this ugly way of playing to affect the ratings of the game, so the Kings also received a private note from the league.

The reason why it is private is because, whether it is the Kings or the Mavericks, they are doing things within the scope of basketball rules.

Yes, I committed a foul, but you also gave a free throw. Isn't this within the rules?
However, as a commercial league, the NBA must first consider money, ratings, and exciting games!
So, what are the rules of basketball?
As long as you influence us to make money, what you do is wrong.

The Kings were almost unaffected. Even if they couldn't "cut the Buddha", they just gave up a dispensable tactic with 4 match points.

They still hold many trump cards in their hands!
Therefore, the Kings happily replied to the league office that they will not deliberately engage in foul tactics in this series.

Yes, this series.

The Kings' management is not stupid. Since the Lakers have exposed an obvious loophole, why should I promise not to attack this loophole?

Now that I am leading by a big score, I will probably win this series easily, so I can naturally pretend to be more generous, and I will not incur any criticism from the league's top brass.

But if we encounter the Lakers in the next series and the Kings are in dire straits, why don't we use foul tactics?
Everyone in the Kings team has not forgotten how the league forced the Lakers to win G6 last year for the sake of ratings.

That ugly behavior is unprecedented in the history of the NBA, and I'm afraid it will be difficult for anyone to do it again.

As for the Mavericks, Lu Yuanzhi's reply to them is unknown.

As for what the league can do to punish disobedient teams, Lu Yuanzhi guessed that those disobedient teams may have a little trouble when encountering referee penalties.

For example, fouls that can be called or not will always be called to the advantage of the opponent.

For example, the average number of free throws per game will be more than ten fewer than the opponent, just like all teams now face the Lakers where the king is.

However, whether the Mavericks give up foul tactics or choose to hard-top, it has nothing to do with Lu Yuanzhi and the Kings.

What they have to do is win the fourth game of the series as soon as possible, and then wait quietly for the winner of the Lakers and Mavericks to join them in the finals.

Even in order to win quickly, Adelman took out the two trump cards he had hidden before and wanted to win in one fell swoop.

The first hole card was when Weber mentioned dealing cards from a high position.

When playing against the Lakers last year, Divac dealt cards from a high position, which made O'Neal very uncomfortable when he was squatting under the basket and unwilling to come out.

Adelman felt that this tactic was very powerful, and Duncan was the core of the Spurs' offense and defense, so this time he replaced Webb to deal the cards in a high position.

Webb's passing ability is no less than that of Divac, and his mid-to-long-range shooting is also very stable. Adelman believes that this will leave a huge hole in the Spurs' defensive system.

But Duncan is not O'Neal, he is willing to follow out, and as long as David Robinson makes a small interception on the inside, Duncan can be given enough time to return to defense and re-form their solid inside defense.

The Kings were beaten to death on this defensive line.

Adelman had to play his second trump card, replacing Divac and replacing Turkoglu, and together with Lu Yuanzhi, Stojakovic and Webber, they formed a high-mobility four.

Although this lineup was very aggressive and put a lot of pressure on the Spurs, Adelman chose the wrong direction of attack.

The Kings' more option is to play inside, but the Spurs have twin towers under the basket!

When they played against the Lakers last year, because Horry was not strong defensively, the Kings, to a certain extent, had four people surrounding O'Neal alone. Of course, O'Neal was unable to defeat eight people with two fists.

But the Spurs use a twin-tower tactic. The core of the twin-tower is not that the defender changes from one to two, but that the two can help defend very well. While one person is rushing to defend, the other person can also defend. Guard the basket and protect the basket.

At the same time, the space under the basket is almost filled by the twin towers. Although the Kings have four big men, only two or three people can enter the basket and attack at the same time. This level of impact cannot threaten the twin towers at all.

Immediately afterwards, Adelman took another mid-range shot.

Yes, this is another "valuable experience" gained from playing the Lakers last year.

But Duncan defended at this time, and cooperated with Stephen Jackson's defense to cover the shooting area around the 3-second zone, allowing the Kings to return without success again.Perhaps Adelman felt that in the previous victories, the offensive tactics of relying on three-pointers from the outside were too floating and not solid enough. In this game, the Kings tried their best to play more steadily and closer to the basket, and then they ran into the Spurs. On the "Maginot Line" carefully prepared by the team.

Popovich also didn't expect that the Kings, who had already played in Belgium for the first three games, would come back to compete with his strongest defense.

The game was quickly dragged into the Spurs' rhythm, which was a slow-paced quagmire of fighting.

The Spurs relied on their richer experience in fighting each other in the quagmire to suppress the Kings throughout the game. However, Adelman changed and failed to break through the Spurs' defense.

At 82:88, the Spurs pulled back a game at home, with the total score reaching 3:1.

Although the Kings lost this game, they still held three match points.

On the plane back to Sacramento, everyone was in a bad mood.

In the first three games, Xia Ji played eight games without using any trump cards. She easily won the game with just indiscriminate bombing from the outside.

In the fourth game, I used tactics honestly and revealed three trump cards, but I was suppressed by the Spurs.

Anyone who encounters such a situation will feel a little unwilling and confused.

What's wrong with this world?
"Boys, first of all, I have to apologize to you." The plane was all by itself, and it was more private than the locker room. Adelman also had a heart-to-heart talk with the players, "Several tactics failed today, and our coaching staff has something that cannot be denied. responsibility."

"To be honest, I'm a little confused as to why our carefully prepared tactics didn't work!"

"Last year, we used the same tactics to beat the incredible Lakers."

"So, I want to hear your truest feelings on the court."

The Kings players looked at each other, and they also had this question.

Weber was the first to speak, "Their defense inside is very good. I feel like as soon as I enter the inside, I will be flanked by David and Tim."

"In other words, no matter how many people we entered, we all felt the pinch. The defense of the two of them is a whole, and we cannot separate them." Turkoglu expressed his feelings.

This speech was recognized by Divac, Stojakovic and Lu Yuanzhi.

"I feel that our defensive maneuvers against them in the interior and mid-range were very ineffective, and actually not as good as the first three games."

"But we didn't even think about mobilizing their interior defense in the first three games."

"Yes, because they wanted to defend our outside attack, they had to go out of the paint."

"Like soldiers walking out of the fortress on their own initiative?"

"This metaphor is great! That's right! When we attack the inside, they are like soldiers in a fortress. They are not harmed at all until the fortress is destroyed."

"And if we launch an attack on the outside, in order to defend effectively, they have to step out of their carefully prepared fortress and fight us face to face!"

Kings players expressed their opinions at all times, which made Adelman's eyes light up.

Walk out of the fortress on your own?

Therefore, the Spurs have already set up fortresses in the interior and mid-range, waiting for us to hit them.

And the reason why we were able to win the first three games easily was because we didn't care about their fortress at all?

So, the offense in the next game must be launched from the outside?

(End of this chapter)