The Rest, Only Noise

Game1's easy victory gave the Lakers an illusion.

Don't worry too much about the Knicks' 3-pointer.

Because Pat Riley decided to learn from Louie - pockets are an important part of Louie's defensive system, and he treats most of the team's defenses with pockets.

When a reporter asked him why he was so obsessed with pocket play, Louie said confidently: "Because no team can win games with three-pointers."

Riley took the best of it, and when he played against the Knicks, he also thought that the three-pointer would not win the game.

Game1's victory seems to prove this point.

They willfully missed the Knicks' three-pointer. In the first half, KJ and the Tragic division showed their power one after another. The difference between the two teams' offensive upper limit is not yet obvious. .

In the second half, the Lakers still didn't wake up from the idea of ​​giving up the Knicks' open 3-pointer at will, even though their opponents had already shot 40%+ 3-pointers in the first half-the Lakers' pocket formation had an obvious problem. They can't control the Knicks shooter. As long as they run a little, the Lakers defense can't take care of it.

Rather than taking care of shooters, Riley prefers to strictly guard against Ewing's basket offense and Wilson's and others' offense with the ball, which led to the phenomenon of excessive help defense in Pippen and David Robinson's help defense. They invested in the basket. Too many troops - The Knicks have seen through the Bucks' thinking, and they're increasingly paying attention to finding teammates on the perimeter when they encounter help.

Miller started to score three points.

When his perimeter 3-pointer gave the Knicks a 10-point advantage, Riley got nervous.

He replaced players with poor defensive performance, abandoned Divac, who was not as good as Robinson in protecting the rim, and rotated the defense with insufficient speed, and maintained a tall lineup with four forwards and a center.

Tall is the characteristic of the ShowTime3.0 Lakers.

Big plus, the Lakers have been eating the perks of being generally taller than their opponents on average all season—better rim protection, better rebound protection, better anti-jamming shots—but the Knicks aren't like the West's Like other teams, they were overwhelmed by the Lakers' tall lineup.

Louie immediately saw the problem with the Lakers' large-scale lineup: they had poor mobility against pick-and-rolls, and they couldn't switch defenses, or, if they switched defenses, they would be targeted.

In order to punish the Lakers' tall lineup, Louis played to his advantage as a traverser, let Wilson hold the ball, and linked the inside line with a large number of "Spanish pick-and-roll" to launch A offense.

The Spanish pick-and-roll usually only occurs near the middle of 45° above the left and right corners. The left and right corners are ambush shooters. At the same time, they stand on the passing line of the ball carrier as a backup. If the tactical failure is forced to pass, you can immediately dribble to Hands over the line with the dismantled player.

The personnel configuration is similar to the high-post double screen, a big man who is used to making a pass + a shooter + the ball handler, the ball handler is the commander of this tactic, the big player goes down after the first screen, the shooter is the pass The next player does the second screen, because the space is already small and the distance to the basket is closer, so the defender often cannot communicate the defensive changes in time.

Louis came to the Knicks in his second season that year and began to formally build the A system. For this reason, he introduced 19 types of screens to the players in the team.

A large portion of these screens are beyond the player's understanding.

The Spanish pick-and-roll is one of them. This pick-and-roll is not called the Spanish pick-and-roll in the Knicks.

Because there are not a lot of pick-and-roll tactics around the 45-degree angle on the left and right sides of the middle, many professional coaches do not understand the tactical value of doing so.

Ewing had the best understanding of this pick-and-roll, so Louie named it the Jamaican pick-and-roll.

Wilson dominated with the ball, Ewing picked and rolled, and then put Miller on the side of the pick-and-roll, using his deadly shooting threat, waiting for the Lakers defense to fail.

Robinson has the ability to switch to the Knicks' free agent, and Pippen is also an incredible defensive gate, but Miller on the weak side has created the deepest fear of the Lakers.

The Lakers need to prevent Ewing from cutting in, and to avoid Wilson using the pick-and-roll to go straight to the basket.

Players guarding Miller had to distract themselves, and that was Miller's chance.

In the first round, Miller made a three-pointer from the corner.

Afterwards, Wilson faced Robinson's switch and saw the opponent pull away from his defensive position to prevent him from breaking through, and he made a dry pull-up from the outside.

When the Lakers wanted to guard Wilson without giving Miller a shot, Ewing's pass created new offensive opportunities.

Miller, who received the ball in the bottom corner, threw an alley pass.

The gorilla immediately abused the basket.

Can't win with a three-pointer?

If you have four shooting-threat 3-pointers at the same time, that doesn't hold true.

Louie found that the Jamaican pick-and-roll was like an allergen that made the Lakers uncomfortable. He replaced others, placing only Ewing as a center on the inside, with Wilson, Ainge, Reggie Williams, and Miller on the outside.

All of a sudden, aside from Ewing, the other four players on the Knicks floor are players who can't be released.

The Lakers, with a fluke, tried to open Ainge and Williams for defense.

They either catch the ball, or pass the ball through and out, pressing the Lakers defense again and again.

The most desperate time for the Lakers was that after Ewing performed a Jamaican pick-and-roll, the Knicks rotated the ball gorgeously, and the Lakers also performed a lot of defensive rotations in order to keep up with the ball.

Eventually, they rotated Ewing's personnel from David Robinson to Tragic.

Ewing got the ball under the basket, and it was a dunk across the tragic division's body.

"Coach Lu, is there a solution to this attack?"

Zhao Yuanzheng also knows the Knicks' offensive system very well. He never thought that a change in pick-and-roll tactics would bring such terrifying offensive energy.

"There are two solutions." Louie said a word of nonsense first, "If we can't make a three-pointer, it will be self-defeating."

"Then, what about another solution?" Zhao Yuanzheng asked.

Louis pointed to the Knicks' ongoing positional battle, "Watch Ruth."

The key to Jamaica's integration into the A system is not the pick-and-roll itself.

In fact, what really matters is Reggie Williams' secondary screen after Ewing's pick-and-roll.

The timing of his cover is very important, so that the opponent cannot detect the existence of the cover prematurely. Williams' cover is mainly to provide protection for Ewing's cut inside. Ewing cuts in. He is responsible for delaying the defender chasing Ewing. When the screen starts, he must wait until Ewing is completely behind him before opening to receive the ball, and his opening route must always remain in the direction of the ball handler. on the passing line and within controllable range.

This time, it's up to Wilson.

For him, he must make good use of the free throw line, which is the last area to make offensive choices; do not break through too deep, which will lead to losing the passing line, losing the speed of moving the ball, and losing room for manipulation. Too deep will be faced with a dilemma of no ball line and no space to shoot. Even if the ball is barely sent out, the speed of the ball will be too slow due to space and angle problems, resulting in mistakes or insufficient space for the shooter.

Wilson did exactly what Louis had assigned him.

Zhao Yuanzheng has the heart of an apprentice. He always thinks that he has not mastered enough, so for a long time, whenever other teams invited him to be the chief scout, he always refused.

These things, he never let Louis know.

Today, he is reassured that staying with Louie will be more helpful for his future.

Not everyone is in charge of a championship team at such a young age as Louie, in fact, Louie is the only exception in basketball history,

Suddenly, the Lakers didn't seem to know how to defend.

Their first game was a big success because of the correct pit defense and the Knicks' matching touch.

Now the Knicks are actively looking for 3-pointers with their tactics. After the shooters feel warmer, the Lakers are a little bit less able to defend. After all, the teams they met before could not have this kind of power on the 3-point line anyway. of.

With Riley down by 16 points, he made a desperate attempt to get David Robinson out of the paint to interfere with the Knicks' perimeter shooter.

The end of the Lakers is doomed.

After the big man was pulled out of the restricted area ~www.novelmt.com~ The Lakers' basket protection collapsed on the spot, and the Knicks penetrated the restricted area.

Then, the habit of caring too much about protecting the basket so far this season has led them to habitually miss three-pointers, even if Riley strongly urged players to block the Knicks' three-pointers, and the Knicks' perimeter space is under the guidance of the A system, It's still popping up one by one.

This may be the root problem of the Lakers, but they have rarely been shot like this before, so they didn't find it - after all, their offense is good enough. In the two games against the Knicks, Riley performed his ancestral skills again. Let them miss the opportunity to detect their own shortcomings in the regular season.

The defense collapsed and the offense collapsed.

They were fighting, and their confidence was gone.

Basketball is frequently sent to the tragic player, there are few dynamic offensive tactics, and there are too many rounds for one person to play four people to watch - the problem of poor shooting except for the tragic player cannot be solved at the moment, no matter how strong the tragic player's personal ability is , In the face of the Knicks' offensive firepower from both inside and outside, it is also powerless.

If the Lakers saved the situation with a giant star in the first half.

Then in the second half, even if their superstars are full of firepower, they cannot change the ending of being blown up by the Knicks on both ends of the offense and defense.

"Happily, the Knicks are back."

"Sadly, the Lakers have gone too far," said Hubie Brown vividly. "Even if they stole the Knicks' home-court advantage at MSG, I can't imagine what they would have to do to get the Knicks out of it again. Got a win."

⑴ Reggie Williams' nickname is also RUSS, the same as Russell's "Russell". To avoid overlap, Russell's Russell is distinguished by Ruth.