basketball scientist

In the second quarter of the game, both sides made adjustments to their lineups. For the Suns, Barbosa, James Jones, and Outlaw replaced Nash, Richardson, and Marion respectively. The Lakers also won.

Replaced Kobe Odom and Anderson, replaced Vujacic, Luke Walton and Brian Cook.

The core players rested off the court. The one who organized the team's offense for the Suns was Joe Johnson. Last season, the Suns always lacked a suitable organizer. Joe Johnson was appointed at the critical moment and took on quite heavy organizational tasks. Although the team's record was poor,

But Joe Johnson has developed quite good organizational skills, and he is more than enough to serve as the organizer of the substitute lineup.

Facing the Lakers' bench, Joe Johnson frequently scored, whether it was personal offense or assisting teammates. Among the Suns' bench players, there is also a "singles king" type Outlaw, whose style of play is similar to that of later players.

Nick Young is somewhat similar. He has no passing button and just takes the ball. His impact is quite fierce, which makes the Lakers' relatively weak interior defense miserable.

Fortunately, although the Lakers substitutes were tight on the scene, the score was not opened by the Suns. Cook and Vujacic found good opportunities to hit three-pointers by going around the screen outside the three-point line. Butler was strong in the low post.

With Outlaw alone, the Lakers relied on more efficient scoring and a little luck to maintain a 6-point difference before the main lineup returned.

Being able to allow the Lakers' bench to score so many points also shows that the Suns now focus on offense and light defense. To be honest, this is somewhat different from Ke Yan's original idea for the Suns.

D'Antoni is still a little too aggressive in pursuing offense.

The main lineup returned, and the Suns began to exert their strength. Joe Johnson hit two three-pointers from the outside, and then Nash assisted Stoudemire twice. On the other hand, the Lakers' main players had not yet found their touch when they came on the court.

The Suns opened the point difference to 14 points.

Nash is the well-deserved brains of the Suns this season, but the abilities of other players are also very balanced. Joe Johnson's singles on the outside are quite powerful, which also makes the Lakers' defensive end a little distracted.

Tomjanovich called a timeout and wanted to limit the Suns' offense by using Atkins to defend Nash alone and the others trying to strangle other scoring points. Ke Yan moved his mouth, but finally withdrew his words of dissuasion.
Nash is better at organizing offense, but if you really want him to play in isolation, his shooting is also scary. But as an assistant coach, anyone can ask questions. The key is to solve the problem! With the current defensive resources of the Lakers, it is really difficult to do that.

This.

Back on the court, the Lakers attacked. Kobe shook off Marion's defense by running without the ball. He did not stubbornly choose to take the ball when he received the ball in the corner. Instead, he attracted the defense and distributed the ball to the pick-and-roll player.

Odom, who scored a layup to stop the team's bleeding.

The Suns attacked, Nash and Stoudemire played pick-and-roll, Atkins actively went around the screen, but still failed to keep up with Nash. Anderson's brain shut down for a moment, and he did not retreat to protect the frame, and watched Nash layup.

Score.

Kobe was very dissatisfied with the team's easy loss of points. Peter Pan even shook his hands. This action exuded very bad emotions.

Atkins dribbled the ball past half court and handed the ball to Kobe. The latter directly singled out Marion. He used his skillful dribbling skills to find a breakthrough space and forced a cut from the right, forcing Marion to take a step back and get stuck.

, followed by a sharp dribble, pulled the ball back, and hit the ball backwards.

Kobe's handling of this goal was really unique, but he was also really good at scoring it~

The Suns once again tried to launch a fast break, but Atkins, who had a single-threaded thinking, stared at Nash and blocked Nash's advancement, forcing the Suns to fight. Nash handed the ball to Stoudemire, and then

The player turned around with the ball and hit Anderson in a single against the frame. The overlord made a strong bow and put the ball into the basket.

The overlord's face-up offense can almost compete with the first one in history at the power forward position. Anderson can carry it as much as possible, and can also dunk two back on the offensive end from time to time, which is already good.

The Lakers served from the bottom line, and the Suns pressed hard, almost causing Atkins to make a mistake. The ball was destroyed by Marion and went out of the sideline. Ke Yan also loudly reminded Odom on the sidelines to help with the response.

So far in the season, Odom's technical skills have been developed as much as possible by Ke Yan. He can also feel the improvement of his performance on the court. He is more convinced of Ke Yan and honestly returns to the midline position to help

The team completed the ball.

In the ensuing offense, Odom received a pass from Atkins at the free throw line and missed the shot from mid-range. Marion protected the rebound and handed it to Nash, who dribbled behind his back and passed the onrusher neatly.

Atkins immediately launched a third-line fast break. Kobe's defense ignored one thing and watched Joe Johnson score a layup.

During the offensive battle, the Lakers' offense maintained a good efficiency, but they really couldn't prevent the Suns' offense, allowing the Suns to shoot 64% from the field and end the first half with a score of 72:55.

Competition.

This kind of attack also made Ke Yan sigh, the strong men of Douzong are so terrifying~

At halftime, the atmosphere in the locker room was not very good. As a leader, Kobe's character was really not very good. He was too paranoid and too persistent in winning. Under heavy pressure, the nerves of his teammates were in a state of tension.

,This is not a good phenomenon.

"In my opinion, the Suns' tactical system is too extreme. Its essence is to use high-speed rhythm to disrupt the opponent's regular layout, or to use stronger offense to cover up weak defense. This biased style of play magnifies the advantages of the players.

We need to adapt to their game rhythm, so in the second half of the game, Lamar, Chriss, we have to completely give up the fight for offensive rebounds, and all players return to defense as soon as possible!" After much consideration, Ke Yan put forward his own proposal

Imagine, "Facing Nash on the defensive end, we need to switch defenses more resolutely. We would rather allow Stoudemire and Marion to have misplaced singles opportunities than allow Nash to easily complete the offense or even directly attack the frame."

If it were more despicable, he could use more physical confrontation to target Nash's weaknesses, but Ke Yan didn't say this. As a basketball coach, he doesn't like to do this kind of thing.

Trailing by 17 points at halftime, the momentum of the game was also in the opponent's hands. For the Lakers, the adjustment plan proposed by Ke Yan was just a "dead horse serving as a live doctor". However, after the start of the second half, this adjustment had obvious effects.

The Suns, who were unfavorable in their half-court offense, only had one shot from Nash in the first three minutes, and the Lakers went on a 9:2 spurt, narrowing the point difference to 10 points.

The Lakers are like a new team, completely giving up offensive rebounds and secondary attacks. Every time they take a shot, other players return to defense immediately and do not tangle with the Suns players in the frontcourt. The advantage of this is

It completely curbed the Suns' fast breaks and transitions between offense and defense, and turned the game into a positional battle.

D'Antoni called a timeout in time and made adjustments to the team's positional warfare offense.

The horror of the Suns' offense is not only the speed of the offense. Except for Quentin Richardson, who is weak in offensive ability with the ball, the other four players in the lineup can attack with the ball. As the top commander in the league, Nash is very good against the Suns.

The offensive resources were reasonably allocated, allowing the Lakers' defense to focus on one thing and not the other.

"To deal with this Suns team, we need to have a top help defender inside, otherwise it will be too difficult!" The team was gradually defeated by the Suns, and Ke Yan was also a little helpless.

Even if a time traveler has extraordinary insights, it does not mean that he can be better than the top coaches in the league in terms of coaching level, let alone turn corruption into magic. He can make the Lakers as good as possible.

You have to be stable and bring out the best of all players, but as an assistant coach, you can only do so much.