The Rest, Only Noise

The pre-match meeting was bigger than Louie had imagined.

Although the head coach Zhao Yuanzheng was the protagonist of the meeting, he was the one who spoke the least.

Two young assistants, Rick Carlisle and Mike Budenholzer, both offered their insights.

Carlisle believes that after Robinson fell due to injury, the six-man rotation is no longer suitable for the Lakers.

Budenholzer proposed to use the athletic ability of the flanks to improve the pace of the game, and fight for Mutombo and Barkley to run away from the Clippers.

Inside coach Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was silent.

Although he is part of the coaching staff, the Lakers currently don't have many interior players who deserve serious development.

Abdul-Jabbar doesn't have much insight about the game either.

Jerry West and others watched on the sidelines and did not have any opinions.

In the end, Zhao Yuanzheng looked at Louis with the intention of asking for help.

"Would you like to hear my advice?" Louie stood up.

It felt like he was the head coach of this team.

The atmosphere of the pre-match meeting suddenly changed.

"I can't ask for it." Zhao Yuanzheng wisely gave up the middle position.

Although Zhao Yuanzheng only gave Louis two hours, his research on the Clippers began long before that.

First look at the Clippers' roster, whose eight-man playoff rotation is Poole Richardson.

Richardson

PG), Perives Ellison, Barkley, Mutombo, Sprewell, Horry, Du Shuai, Eric Piakowski

Piatkowski

SG/SF).

Aside from Mutombo and Sprewell, none of those eight have a playoff-average defense.

But it is also the existence of Mu and Sri Lanka that makes the Clippers' defense come out on top.

That made Louie think of another team—the Rudy Gobert-era Utah Jazz.

Gobert is undoubtedly the greatest regular-season defender of his generation.

With him on the floor, the Jazz ranked 4th in the league in defense, and when he wasn't on the floor, the Jazz ranked 28th in the league.

But going into the playoffs, Gobert's defense doesn't seem so scary.

In those years, the Jazz were beaten by the Warriors, Rockets, Clippers, Nuggets and other teams successively.

Gobert looked particularly clunky on the court, unable to defend against roll calls and pick-and-rolls, just like Mutombo on Shaquille O'Neal.

When a defensively strong team crumbles in the playoffs, their defensive core deserves to be blamed.

However, that's not the whole truth about the Jazz's collapse in the playoffs.

Remember, when Gobert wasn't on the floor, the Jazz ranked 28th in the league in defense. This means that apart from him, there are not many good defensive players in the team.

If his teammates can't guard the pick-and-roll, if his teammates are easily thrown off by a screen, if his teammates can't keep anyone with the ball in front of him in the playoffs, you can count on Gobert to continue Hold the team?

It's the playoffs, and you're going to be caught and beaten if you have any flaws.

Gobert obviously can't do one-five, and no one can do one-five. His real sin, perhaps as a great defender and a traditional big man rarely seen in the small-ball era, is his inability to bring enough threat on offense.

Therefore, Louie clearly pointed out that whether the roll call strategy with Benjamin Wilson as the main body can point everyone in the Clippers so that they don't know how to defend Benj will determine the success or failure of the game.

On the basis that Benj can point to the entire Clippers team, Pippen is also capable of holding the Clippers on both ends of the offense and defense, as long as he can show an average touch.

Divac's long shots and counters must be put to good use.

As Louie's favorite protégé, Van Gundy will hold the pockets to the end, so Dale Ellis' corner threes will be the key to penetrating the pockets.

Once Wilson or Pippen's roll call threatens the paint from the perimeter, whether or not Mutombo will be pulled out of military training, the Clippers' pockets will be impacted.

At that time, if they insist on maintaining the integrity of the pocket formation, Wilson and Pippen can play small and large at will. If they want to help defend, then Ellis in the bottom corner will definitely be empty.

Meanwhile, Steve Kerr's shooting accuracy as an open shooter is guaranteed.

From the lineup, the Lakers already have the ability to play 5

OUT condition.

As long as the shot is accurate, even if Mutombo becomes the first basket protector in history, he will encounter a Gobert-like embarrassment.

"Betting on the 3-point line?" Kupchak asked. "Would it be too risky?"

Louie laughed: "Considering our situation, I think it's worth trying, and the results won't be worse anyway."

West didn't like the arrangement, but he was someone who could force himself to accept adversity.

When he thought that the Lakers' inside line had no advantage in front of the Clippers, Louie's plan became feasible in his mind.

Robinson's absence is destined for the Lakers not to use conventional routines to play G6, otherwise they will be torn apart by the Clippers.

Except for Kupchak, the others have no objection.

That's how G6's game strategy was set.

Although Louie played the Clippers as Gobert's Jazz, the Clippers had better conditions than that Jazz.

The first is that they have players like Sprewell on their flanks.

And at the power forward position, there is Barkley, a superstar who can blow up anyone.

It's all that the Jazz don't have, 5

The OUT lineup and roll call can reduce the strategic value of Mutombo, but as long as the game is in-depth, the winner or loser will ultimately depend on strength.

On May 18, 1995, the sixth game of the semifinals between the Lakers and the Clippers arrived as scheduled.

Zhao Yuanzheng has seen how strong Wilson is under the roll call system.

In Game 7 of the 1993 Finals, the god-possessed 66 points in a single game was Portland's lingering nightmare.

Zhao Yuanzheng also thought about creating a roll call system, but the Lakers at that time were full of problems, and there was no chance to establish a new system at all.

Now it is only possible to replace the ball carrier with Wilson on the original pick-and-roll system.

When Wilson asked the coaching staff's intentions, Zhao Yuanzheng said vividly: "How did you play the night you scored 66 points in Portland, and how do you play now."

So, from the beginning, Wilson has a full sense of presence.

Van Gundy also adjusted the lineup today, letting Du Shuai appear as the starting No. 3 to match Wilson.

However, even in the face of a substitute like Du Shuai, Wilson did not single out, but waved A.C. Green to pick and roll.

If Barkley comes out, Wilson will take him back to G7 in 1993. If Barkley doesn't come out, he will be even more rude, and he will directly punish the opponent's laziness and laziness on the defensive end with a pull-up jumper.

No one can't order.

Including Sprewell, the Clippers' best wing defense.

When the madman came to Wilson, he was directly forcibly eaten by the latter.

The Clippers couldn't stand the point and began to double-team, and Wilson passed the ball to Pippen.

Pippen is also able to hold down the Clippers' wings.

Under the same conditions, Pippen made an outside shot, made a sudden stop and turned over, and even completed a Tarzan-like dunk in the third quarter. The victim was Mutombo.

Faced with such an offense, the Clippers don't know how to deal with it.

Van Gundy's strain was also a hard injury. The Clippers looked chaotic as a whole, and were blasted on the flanks by Wilson and Pippen.

In order to guard against these two, Van Gundy also designed a small pocket on the side.

The end result of this is to activate the long shots of Ellis, Kerr and Divac.

When the Lakers rained three-pointers on the perimeter, the Clippers also lost their chance to win.

118 to 102

The Lakers, who lost David Robinson after shifting and adjusting their strategy, took the game to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum with a big win, and they will play the Clippers in a tiebreaker on the road that looks but is not. decisive battle.

"Benjamin Wilson has been involved in four tie-breaks so far in his career, winning all of them," Sports Illustrated writer Jack McCallum wrote in a tie-break preview of the lake boat battle.

It is probably this poisonous milk that made Wilson "sick".

On the morning of Game7, Wilson walked to Louie's office with a serious face, "Coach, I got bitten."

After all, he showed his right hand, with Bundy wrapped around his index finger.

"It was bitten by your dog?" Louis asked.

Wilson looked embarrassed, "Not a dog..."

Wilson didn't say what he was bitten by. In short, he was bitten. It hurts a bit, but it won't affect tonight's game. As for whether it will affect the shooting feel, I don't know.

Louie thought for a long time to understand how Wilson was bitten. If you have seen "Animal World", you will find that when lions and tigers are in the line of succession, the male always likes to bite the back of the object's neck. They do that for the sake of Prevent the lioness/tigress from being pricked and have a stress response. And since human beings have taken this kind of thing as fun, they have been constantly looking for fun. If they don't explain clearly sometimes and just put their hands in people's mouths, it's normal to be bitten, right?

Louie couldn't help but admire Wilson's XP. Not only did this guy have a different aesthetic, but his XP was one of a kind. Fortunately, his finger injury didn't affect his performance that night.

Wilson's shooting was fine, but Pippen was the one with the bite on his hand.

His shooting is unreliable in a game of this intensity, but Wilson is a **** of war.

Dale Ellis shows killer instinct.

By the end of the third quarter, all clues were that the Lakers would win the Game 7.

But starting in the fourth quarter, after Mutombo hit two zombie hooks in a row, the Clippers staged a big reversal.

Buckley "eats" A.C. Green as the doughnut for the day.

Sprewell scored all sorts of outrageous 2+1s.

Even Du Shuai succeeded in making a pull-up jumper under Wilson's defense.

The real killer was the man named Robert Horry. In the last 3 minutes, the Clippers were still 7 points behind. As a result, he scored 12 points in one minute to help the Clippers overtake.

In the closing moments of the game, Wilson had a chance to save the Lakers' season.

10 seconds before the end, Wilson changed direction and swayed Sprewell away, pulling a three-pointer at the top of the arc.

That's a good opportunity.

But it seems that the bitten finger at the most critical moment had the negative effect it should have.

"boom!"

Barkley grabbed the defensive rebound and immediately threw it to Sprewell. The Lakers fouled and the Clippers got to the free throw line. The scale of victory has completely fallen to the Clippers.

After about half a minute, the game was over.

104 to 101

This world-renowned intra-city derby battle~www.readwn.com~ The Clippers defeated the Lakers 4-3 and advanced to the Western Conference finals.

Wilson stood there for half a minute until Barkley came over and said, "You **** 3-pointer is going to scare me to death, dammit, if it's in, I'm going to kill the Sprewell bastard. !"

Wilson had to accept his first playoff loss since 1988.

He smiled wryly: "Maybe I won't shake him off, I'll throw in.".c0m

For the Lakers, this is the worst possible outcome.

In the playoffs, he lost to the Clippers, whom he usually looked down on, and he couldn't win until Robinson was reimbursed for the season.

The only one who got a new life was Zhao Yuanzheng.

It was a pity to lose, of course, but he was relieved. Remember the website address, www. biquxu. Com, it is convenient to read next time, or you can enter this site by entering "" in Baidu