basketball never sleeps

Chapter 100 Christmas War (2)

The Lakers' start behind was expected by everyone.

The Heat's well-structured offensive lineup has become the most troublesome problem for coaches of other teams this season.

The previous game between the Heat and the Pistons had proved that even the highest level zone defense in the league could not perfectly restrict the Heat.

However, the experienced Tang Shuai still found the only small weakness of the Heat.

Physical fitness.

Dafan hid the physical problems of Mo Wen and O'Neal through reasonable rotation.

Mo Wen and Ao Pang are also very mature players. Even if they lack physical fitness, they rarely show obvious fatigue, and even grit their teeth and burst out.

But Tang Shuai, who has watched the Heat for a long time, can still observe the physical problems between the two from some small details.

Therefore, in the middle of the first quarter, when he saw that the Heat were still firmly suppressing the Lakers, Tang Shuai, after much thought, made a decision that went against his ancestors.

"Increase the speed, abandon those cumbersome tactics, use your talents, and try to find physical confrontation with their core players. Do you understand what I mean?"

"Especially you, Kobe, if you still want to win, use all your strength. You have unlimited fire rights in this game, but I have one request: You must show your toughness and attitude!"

To sum up, we gave up conventional tactics and engaged in chaotic battles of counterattacks and quick counterattacks, and instead looked for more confrontations with the Heat's trident, draining their physical energy or causing fouls.

Abandoning conventional tactics, do you think Tang Shuai is breaking an arm and breaking a can?

No, Tang Shuai is betting his hope on the new world...the fourth quarter.

Famous coaches also have to pay attention to the basics. He took over the Lakers for only about 20 games. The Lakers changed players and cores. The offensive tactics that were developed in more than 20 games did not run as smoothly as he imagined.

Moreover, Kobe was unable to recover from Jackson's triangle offense, and still subconsciously preferred to play in singles with the ball.

Giving up tactics and disrupting the game sounds unreasonable, but it really suits the needs of the Lakers.

Moreover, in order to maintain the suspense of the Christmas game, Stern invited the bald whistler No. 17 to be the referee of this game.

At this time, the league has not strengthened the power of referees, and Crawford did not blow the two whistles on Deng that made him "famous forever", but he is now a quite prestigious referee in the league.

What he is best at is interrupting the game with constant whistles.

As the Lakers gradually fell behind, the bald head also began to exert his strength.

After realizing that the home whistle was getting louder today, Kobe and other Lakers players did not waste the opportunity.

In the last minute of the first quarter, Kobe held the ball on the edge of the high post in a triple-threat posture. He pretended to observe the movement of his teammates to distract Wade.

He leaned forward and lunged towards Wade's right side.

Wade came back to his senses to fight, but Kobe, who was about to enter the paint area, suddenly braked, turned his back to Wade and quickly twisted to one side, holding the ball with both hands and making a shooting motion.

After seeing Wade being called up, Kobe also decisively leaned forward. Wade, who had been trained by Mo Wen, subconsciously moved his hand back to avoid someone's touch, but the ball went in and Crawford also made a sound.

Whistle, indicating that additional penalties will be imposed.

"Hell, I didn't touch his arm, you shouldn't have made the penalty like this." Wade complained loudly, but the bald man still insisted on his penalty.

After Wade said a few more words, a frowning Mo Wen pulled Wade away who wanted to continue arguing.

He knew that Crawford was not fighting alone at this moment. If it were placed in an anime, there would be a CEO shadow behind this bald head watching the game.

In the Heat's round, after Mo Wen dribbled the ball past half court, Wade started asking him for the ball.

Mo Wen thought for a second and finally agreed with this energetic young man.

But both he and Wade overestimated Kobe's integrity, or underestimated Kobe's desire to win.

After a drastic change of direction, Wade seemed to have shaken Kobe away and was able to repeat the opening dunk. However, Kobe, who had not had a manly life recently, just twisted his flexible waist and turned to block it.

Wade originally wanted to get rid of Kobe and continue to break through to the bottom line.

Unexpectedly, the arm he swung was just a little bit forceful, and Kobe, who had been so strong against his muscles just now, directly covered his chest and fell down.

For a moment, Wade thought he had acquired some incredible superpower.

The bald man blew the whistle as promised, and Wade felt like he was going to split apart on the spot, so he quickly hugged his head.

Tang Shuai smiled happily when he saw this.

Beautiful, Kobe really knows how to be tough.

After receiving such a heavy blow on the arm, he just fell down. Isn't this tough enough?

As expected, the bald man blew the whistle, indicating that Wade was fouled by hitting someone with the ball, and the linesman also gave the same penalty.

Seeing the referee's penalty, Wade and other Heat players had not yet reacted, and Fan's blood pressure was first raised.

"Are you going to brag? Kobe hasn't established a defensive position yet. He obviously fell to the ground on purpose!"

The bald man hesitated for half a second, then quickly regained his composure, "Condi (line judge) and I both saw that Dwyane's move was too big. It was indeed him who pushed Bryant down. There is no problem with our penalty. Please

Stay smart, Coach Van Gundy!"

"Shit, this is the players' game. What are you bragging about? Are you going to ruin this game? You bastards!" Da Fan was still dancing excitedly, but Mo Wen and his assistant coach stopped him.

and blocked his mouth.

To be fair, they were also very angry, but they also knew very well that if Da Fan continued to spray like this, Da Neng would be in trouble.

Mo Wen shouldn't see too many black whistles in the dungeon. Generally speaking, it can't be repaired through normal means. Even if one of them fails, he will be jealous and targeted by the referee like Rashid.

Why Rashid has so many technical fouls? On the one hand, it’s because he can’t control his emotions and likes to spray feces at people. He also likes to talk about some league prejudices, and these prejudices will affect the referee’s decisions. Rashid said

The truth is that all the referees broke the defense. On the other hand, Donaghy, the spinach whistleblower who was later released from prison, revealed the reason:

Rasheed was dissatisfied with a penalty during a game and yelled at Donaghy angrily. As a result, he was called a technical foul by the latter. The dissatisfied Rasheed chose to go to the parking lot to block Donaghy's path after the game.

He also raised his fists to threaten and intimidate Donaghy. After the incident, the league severely punished Rasheed with a seven-game suspension. At the same time, Donaghy also carried out his own revenge. He enlisted his colleagues to target Rasheed.

Germany.

Mo Wen only hoped that the bald man could maintain a minimum of restraint and not steal the spotlight.

Otherwise, he couldn't guarantee whether the bald man was celebrating Christmas or Good Friday. After all, the stadium was so small that accidents were normal.

O'Neal did not go to the referee, but ran to Kobe and muttered trash.

If they were on the same team in the past, O'Brien might have sincerely praised Kobe's "spirituality" at this time, but now, he sincerely looks down on Kobe's villainous behavior.

His moral standards are as flexible as his body.

However, Kobe didn't seem to hear what O'Neal said,

With half a minute left in the game, Wade was not replaced.

The Lakers had the ball. Kobe broke through to the mid-range and missed his shot under the double-teaming of Mo Wen and Wade. Damon Jones picked up the missed rebound and gave it to Mo Wen.

There was not much time, Mo Wen took two steps outside the three-point line and made a shot. The light came on and the whistle sounded, entering the rest time.

The Heat outscored the Lakers 31:28 in the first quarter, gaining a 3-point lead.

In the second quarter, the Heat increased their height and replaced Damon Jones and Udonis Haslem with Rasul and Dazhi. Wade became the shortest player on the court for the Heat.

The Lakers replaced Mihm with Brian Grant, who averaged less than 5 points per game but had a salary of 5 "skin", and replaced Atkins with Luke Walton.

The score difference is too tight, and the head coaches on both sides dare not change core players easily.

After the game restarted, Wade did not look back and forth because of two fouls. He approached Kobe with anger and excitement.

Even without the ball, the two were engaged in a high-intensity confrontation. Their arms were criss-crossing as if they were twisting, just to gain half a body position advantage.

Luke Walton held the ball at the top of the arc and swallowed his saliva as he looked at Mo Wen, who was defending in front of him.

No, Mo Wen shouldn't be guarding Peterson. Why did he run in front of him again?

Walton Jr. had the experience of facing off against Mo Wen in last season's finals, so the last person in the entire Heat lineup he didn't want to face was Mo Wen.

The feeling of being crushed as a golf businessman made him, a man who relied on golf businessmen for his livelihood, very insecure.

The first ball he came up with was not passed to Kobe, who was still in a difficult position. Instead, he and Odom played a hand-to-hand coordination with each other.

After Odom received the ball, he wanted to break inside to attract the defense, and then find an opportunity to pass the ball to Kobe. However, he didn't want Zhi to suddenly attack and took advantage of Odom's observation time to fly the ball bucket away.

Unfortunately, the direction of the basketball was exactly the direction of Kobe and Wade. After noticing the movement of the basketball and picking up the basketball first, Kobe strode directly towards the basket.

Just when Kobe was trying to take off for a dunk, O'Fatty, who had been lying in wait on the baseline for a long time, suddenly came out from the side.

He has been staring at this ball for a long time.

In the first quarter, O'Brien could feel Kobe's desire for the inside he was guarding.

It's just that Mim doesn't have much shooting range, so if Mim mentions the high pick-and-roll, he won't be able to attract Ofat's premise.

The Lakers replaced Grant in the space and wanted to pull him out, but they underestimated O's "love" for Kobe.

Snap——

The casserole-sized palm was clean and neat, and the racket flew aside easily.

The fans watching the game on the sidelines let out bursts of exclamations.

The Christmas chapter will be finished tomorrow

(End of chapter)