The Rest, Only Noise

The Lakers were able to end the regular season with a 64-win record.

Although Louie is back, and Benjamin Wilson at his peak, the Lakers are still a team of "old, weak and sick" as a whole.

Kevin Garnett is so talented that the sky may not be his limit, but it's unrealistic to expect him to shine in his rookie season.

However, Garnett's first season of his career, if not stunning, is enough to convince people that he has the opportunity to become a generational talent in Generation X.

In the Lakers, Garnett averaged 12.6 points, 7.4 rebounds, 3.2 assists, 1.2 steals, 1.9 blocks, and 2.8 turnovers.

He's versatile enough to fill up the stats column, but he's not that well-suited to the professional game, as can be seen from the number of turnovers.

The tragic teacher should be strong, and he has been away from the professional game for four years. After his comeback, he still averaged 15 points, 8 rebounds and 7 assists per game as a substitute.

But the Lakers have changed their minds.

Their leader is Wilson.

This season, Wilson played the best individual performance of his career, averaging 34.4 points, 9.2 rebounds, 8.1 assists, 1.4 steals and 1.5 blocks per game in 82 games with only 2.2 turnovers per game.

It can be said that he is the main reason why the Lakers can win 64 wins.

Without Wilson, the Lakers' winning percentage is at best 50 percent, barely making the playoffs.

It is obviously satisfying to meet Leader Lu's first season after his comeback with such a record.

64 wins is not a record for Louie to write about, but it is meaningful for the accumulation of data in his coaching career.

After this season, Louie's career regular-season wins totaled 697 games, and next season, he will usher in the milestone of his 700th career win.

In the first round of the playoffs, the Lakers faced the Phoenix Suns.

The Suns have been a powerhouse in the West since the late '80s.

Only now, Brad Doherty has retired, and the Suns have come to Chinese center Yu Tiancan.

Yu Tiancan also lived up to the trust of Yangguan. He averaged 18 points, 11 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 blocks per game in the two seasons of the Suns. Compared with Doherty, his offense was one grade weaker and his defense was two grades stronger.

However, there was a lack of spark between him and Kevin Johnson.

KJ prefers Doherty's kind of inside line that can be pulled out and shot and can move and attack, while Yu Tiancan is a very old-fashioned inside line. Although he has excellent athletic ability at the same height, his playing habits are too traditional. More traditional.

Therefore, although Yu Tiancan played well, the internal and external cores of the Suns are not compatible, and the team's record is also unstable. He has always been the inferior horse in the playoff team.

Now challenging the Lakers, who are No. 7 in the West, as the No. 7 in the West, the expectation from the outside world is to win at least one game, right?

Louie doesn't want to open the door, so he attaches great importance to the game of the sun.

The Lakers' starting lineup is Derek Harper, Ellis, Wilson, Garnett, and Ostertag.

This lineup combines both offense and defense, with no shortcomings.

For the Suns, they started with KJ, Eddie Jones, Hornacek, Sam Perkins and Yu Tiancan.

Likewise, the Suns' starters are both offensive and defensive.

Louie's defensive focus on the Suns is mainly three shots from the outside - KJ, Hornacek and Eddie Jones.

The positioning of Yu Tiancan and Perkins in the sun is actually a bit functional.

Against KJ, Louie let Harper lead the defense all the way, make a decisive move, and don't be afraid of fouling.

For Hornacek, it is a targeted infinite switch. Whenever he calls a screen, he switches defenses decisively without procrastinating.

There isn't much defensive design for Jones, just letting Benj down one-on-one.

As the game went on, KJ proved himself and Harper struggled to guard him, so Louie adjusted his defense again.

Get Garnett from the left and right of the paint to the high post, using his length and athleticism to radiate inside and out.

As long as KJ rushes in, he blocks the opponent's breakthrough line in time.

The main defense is to block, let KJ shoot.

The Suns' solution to this was Perkins' shot.

But Louie completely ignored him. Of course Perkins can shoot, but not everyone can shoot dead.

Even giving him 30 points, Louie can accept it, but it is absolutely unacceptable to let KJ penetrate a line of defense alone.

Perkins played fairly well, most of the chance **** were scored.

This is not enough.

Because the Lakers are not a team known for their defense, their focus is on offense.

Louie has yet to let the team play the "shooting star" tactics, so far, everything is normal play.

When Ellis scored a series of three-pointers, Wilson took the ball and singled to lay an advantage when the tactics were killed, boosting the team's morale, suppressing the Sun's counterattack, and the end of the game was determined.

113 to 99

The Lakers defeated the Suns by 14 points, defending their home court, and also won their first playoff game since Louis came back.

"Coach Lu, does it feel different to lead the team to the playoffs again after two years?"

Louis smiled and replied, "It feels good, nothing seems to have changed."

"Do you think the Lakers have a chance to win this year?"

"We're a 64-win team, and for me, getting to the conference finals is the bottom line."

"Do you think Kevin Garnett's first playoff game was good?"

Louie has always been very demanding of Garnett: "Kevin? That's it, nothing to say."

Please note that Coach Lu is evaluating Garnett, who scored 19 points, 10 rebounds, 5 assists and 5 blocks in the first game of the playoffs.

Unlike Louie, the Los Angeles media couldn't wait to compare Garnett to Sampson, who made the playoffs for the first time 15 years ago.

They were pleasantly surprised to find that, compared to the great one and only Mr. Garnett, not to mention a complete victory, at least he has a clear advantage.

"I just play! Really! I don't want anything, I just play!" Garnett said in simple words, "It's over!"

Later, the sun finally realized that it would be suicide to let Yu Tiancan's advantage point not to hit, and to focus on the outside line.

So Yu Tiancan became the core of the attack.

Ostertag's physique and reach are enough to make him a high-quality meat shield and a top-notch rim protector, but Yu Tiancan is not a tough traditional insider.

It can be said that he is very similar to Wake Forest's junior Duncan on the offensive end, but he does not have the agility of the latter.

After all, with a height of 2.2 meters, the attack speed is average, but the technology is comprehensive.

In front of Ostertag, Yu Tiancan attacked in the first 6 times tonight, and each time the finishing method was different, a big hook with the right hand, a small hook with the left hand, a straight hook with a step, turned inside to put a basket, turned around and shot, With a slam dunk that dashed to the basket, he blew Ostertag, and the continuity of 100% shooting was not interrupted until Garnett came over to help and blocked his seventh shot.

Ostertag has been blown up, but Louis can't make a substitution.

Because looking at the Lakers' bench ~www.novelmt.com~ There are very few people who can replace Ostertag, and there is no one who can do better than Ostertag.

Ostertag is already the best meat-shield blue-collar five on the Lakers.

To relieve the offensive pressure brought by Yu Tiancan, the best way is to attack him on the offensive end.

Louis was about to call a timeout to let Wilson name Yu Tiancan for military training. As a result, the Suns somehow stopped passing the ball inside.

KJ's anencephaly has a quilt;

Jones waves toss a miss;

Hornacek has a brain, but he himself is the position of an off-ball shooter in the Suns. He needs others to feed him, and he will not feed the inside unless necessary.

Then this happened.

Yu Tiancan, who is currently in a hot state, can't catch the ball, and his teammates on the outside have turned into blind monks, which not only blinds his good state, but also wastes the score advantage he has built up.

The Lakers played very happily by counterattack fast break, less than a quarter and a half, the Suns trailed by 9 points.

This irritated their head coach Paul Westphal, the famous Confucian coach called a timeout to replace KJ and Jones, let Hornacek play the No. 1 position, and then replace the famous son Brent. · Barry increased outside shooting.

The Suns have the determination to play inside, but the Lakers' roll call tactics will uproot their inside advantage.

(1) In reality, KG's rookie stats are 10.4+6.3+1.8+1.1+1.6, considering he played small forward in his first season with the Wolves and a power forward with the Lakers—and sometimes center— Considering that there is a significant difference between the chaotic play of the Wolves and the "beautiful basketball" of the Lakers, the former relies more on the individual ability of the players, while the latter has a systematic system to allow the players to play better, I think the improvement in data to a certain extent is reasonable.