Chapter 296 Perfect Defense

The rebound was caught by O'Neal, and Li Ba was not under the basket. Facing the pair of super insiders O'Neal and Malone, Marion and Voskull did not have much competitiveness in rebounding.

In the frontcourt of the Lakers, Payton handed the ball to Kobe on the left-wing three-point line, and he sank into the left bottom corner by himself, taking away Marbury.

O'Neill was low on the left wing.

According to the triangle offensive tactic, now Payton, Kobe and O'Neal are on the left wing, forming a triangle offensive mode, and the channel for the ball to enter the inside O'Neal is completely open.

After this triangular battle line is formed, Li Ba must stay between O'Neal and the basket, unable to move, because the ball may be passed to O'Neal at any time, passed by Kobe or Payton.

He can't even take the defense around the front, because once the lob is successful, there is no one behind O'Neal to defend.

According to the tactical requirements, Kobe has two choices. One is to pass the ball to O'Neal, the offensive axis. Take cover and get a chance to attack yourself.

If Kobe chooses to pass the ball to O'Neal, he has two choices afterwards. One is to immediately do a pick-and-roll for Payton, and then Payton is ready to receive the ball returned by O'Neal to reorganize the offense; Malone gets the chance to get rid of the opposing player, and then cooperates with O'Neal to attack.

The triangle offense is through continuous pick-and-roll, running and passing, and finally forms opportunities for super giant singles, or even open opportunities.

Of course, if there is no vacancy in the end, then hand it over to Chaoju, and he will solve the problem.

For example, Jordan and Kobe, once the tactics are not played out, they can often be seen 1v2 or 1v3 in the last few seconds of offensive time.

Now the Lakers F4 team can be said to have four super giants. Except for Payton's weaker offense, the other three have too many opportunities to form singles, because each of these three is worthy of the Suns players to double-team.

But this time Kobe didn't pass after taking the ball, so the triangle offense couldn't start, and Kobe singled out the Suns.

As soon as the ball stopped in Kobe's hands, the double-team came up immediately. Except for Posey who was facing up, Marion rushed over.

Bryant shot against the double-team, turned and retreated, avoided the double-team, and threw a picture-perfect fadeaway jumper.

"boom!"

First shot.

Li Ba had already moved to the left wing with a shot ahead of time. He predicted that the ball would hit the basket and bounce back to the left wing.

Right now, his ability is still a bit weak, and there is a half chance of misjudgment, so he doesn't actually use it much.

There is only one case, when he is about to hit the basket at the end, if he can judge that the ball is short, he will follow his prediction and move a little earlier.

This time it was right, the basketball bounced back and was easily caught by Li Ba.

O'Neill and Malone were still under the basket, looking back at Li Ba who was three meters away, feeling that this frankly was another Rodman.

Marion was almost down, when Li Ba moved to the left flank.

His opponent, Devin George, didn't react, and when he turned around, he was thrown three meters away.

Because Marbury followed Payton and defended to the left corner, the position was deeper than Li Ba, so he didn't have a chance to play quickly.

Kobe and Devin George frantically returned to defense, but it was useless. Marion received a pass from Li Ba across the center line, went straight to the basket, and after two steps, he exploded and made a one-armed tomahawk dunk.

"boom!"

The Lakers trembled at the basket, and the Suns made another goal.

6:2, the Suns lead away by 4 points.

"Oh, this is our Suns' signature fast play! In terms of fast play speed, I'm not talking about any team, I mean all league teams, in front of our Suns, are all scum!"

The Suns on-site commentator yelled very wildly.

"Crazy fast play, I have to call this fast play of Sean Marion. When he turned around, the hammer just started to move, and he was so confident. Will the hammer grab the rebound?" Lakers live commentary The member explained in a Tucao style.

"Hey, sir, do you know how many rebounds the Hammers averaged in the last series?" The Suns commentator shut up the Lakers commentator with just one sentence.

In the CCTV live broadcast seat, Zhang Lili said at this time: "Less than two minutes into the game, the Hammer got 5 rebounds, including 2 defensive rebounds and 3 offensive rebounds, and then made 2 of 4 shots and 0 of 1 free throw. Fouled once, blocked once, this performance is as good as last series!"

"It's worth explaining that a total of 6 rebounds were produced. The Hammers grabbed 5 by themselves, and O'Neal grabbed 1 backcourt rebound. The difference is too much. If the Lakers don't strengthen rebound control tonight, they may not be able to win the Suns."

Yu added.

The Lakers attack.

"Kobe, you should trust your teammates." When Kobe passed by, Phil Jackson reminded him patiently.

Kobe nodded to show he heard it.

In the frontcourt of the Lakers, Payton, Kobe, and O'Neal formed a triangle front on the left wing, which is the strong side.

Malone and Devin George are active on the right wing, leading the defenders to move constantly, looking for openings, which is the weak side.

Like the previous ball, Bryant received Payton's ball.

But Li Ba didn't hold back, but took the line defense method, defending on the left side of O'Neal, which gave him the opportunity to go up the line and cut off the passing route, if Kobe chose to pass the ball.

If it's a reverse hang, does he think Kobe can't pass the ball?

But this time Kobe passed.

Kobe lobped the ball directly to O'Neal's right hand on the baseline.

Li Ba started to move at the moment of Kobe's lob, turned to the left, turned around against O'Neal, reached the right side of O'Neal, and immediately forced O'Neal.

How dare O'Neill move, when the ball came, he immediately threw it in front of him with all his strength, and at the same time raised his right arm high, ready to catch the ball.

In terms of absolute strength, that is, basic strength, O'Neill is slightly inferior to Li Ba in terms of bench press. Of course, this refers to the fact that his physical strength has not formed kinetic energy.

But now, because he was passively carrying the ball on the spot, not only did he not form kinetic energy, but he also had to be distracted to catch the ball, and his lower body was a little unstable, so under Li Ba's full force, he was pushed forward, and he didn't have any chance. stop.

With this move, he lost his position to catch the ball.

"Snapped!"

O'Neill moved forward, and Li Ba immediately retracted his strength, jumped up and caught the ball.

When Kobe saw the pass was intercepted, he turned around and ran, and he returned to defense.

Almost at the same time, Marion on the right wing (the frontcourt of the Lakers) also turned around and went down.

Marbury followed Payton deep into the bottom corner again, and lost the opportunity to go down quickly.

"Oh, a perfect defense! This is the crystallization of strength and wisdom!" The Sun's on-site commentator excitedly blew for Li Ba.

"It's beautiful! The hammer didn't die, but dug a hole for O'Neal and Kobe, let Kobe hang behind, and then used his absolute strength to push O'Neal, thus stealing the pass. He really used his brain Play ball!"

Zhang Lili shouted excitedly.