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Game 1's too easy victory gave the Lakers an illusion.

Don't pay too much attention to the Knicks' three-pointer.

Because Pat Riley decided to learn from Louis that the pocket formation was an important part of Louis' defensive system, he treated most teams' defenses mainly with the pocket formation.

A reporter once asked him why he was so obsessed with pocket formations. Louis said confidently: "Because no team can win the game with three-pointers."

Riley took the best of it and when playing against the Knicks, he also believed that three-pointers could not win the game.

The victory of Game1 seems to prove this point.

They willfully missed the Knicks' three-pointer. In the first half, KJ and Tragedy Master showed off their power one after another, and the difference in the offensive ceiling between the two teams was not obvious.

In the second half, the Lakers still haven't woken up from the idea of ​​giving up the Knicks' open three-pointers at will, even though their opponents have shot 40%+ three-pointers in the first half. The Lakers' pocket formation has an obvious problem.

I can't care about the Knicks' shooters... as long as they make a little run, the Lakers' defense won't be able to take care of them.

Rather than looking after shooters, Riley hopes to guard against Ewing's offense at the basket and Wilson and others' offense with the ball. As a result, Pippen and David Robinson's help defense also has the phenomenon of excessive help defense. They invest in the basket.

Too many troops. The Knicks have seen through the Bucks' thinking. They are paying more and more attention to finding teammates on the outside when encountering help defense.

Miller started to score three points in a row.

When his outside three-pointer helped the Knicks build a 10-point advantage, Riley became nervous.

He replaced players with poor defensive performance, discarded Divac, who was not as good at protecting the rim as Robinson and was not quick enough to rotate defensively, and maintained a tall lineup with four forwards and one center.

Tallness is the characteristic of the ShowTime 3.0 Lakers.

There are big benefits. The Lakers have been benefiting from players whose average size is generally higher than that of their opponents all season. They can better protect the basket, better protect rebounds, and have better anti-interference shooting. But the Knicks are not like other teams in the Western Conference.

Like the team, they were overwhelmed by the Lakers' tall lineup.

Louis could see at a glance the problems with the Lakers' taller lineup: poor mobility in pick-and-roll defense, and they couldn't switch defenses, or in other words, they would be targeted if they switched defenses.

In order to punish the Lakers' tall lineup, Louis took advantage of his advantage as a passer, letting Wilson hold the ball, and linked up with the inside to use a large number of "Spanish pick-and-rolls" to launch N.UCLA's offense.

Spanish pick-and-rolls usually only occur near the center with an angle of more than 45° to the left and right (except for special defensive situations), with shooters ambushing in the left and right corners (there may also be a shooter on the weak side), and at the same time, it serves as a backup to receive the pass from the ball holder.

On the ball line, if the tactic fails and is forced to pass, you can immediately dribble to the upper line and exchange hands with the separated players.

The personnel configuration is similar to the high double screen. A big man who is used to rolling down + a shooter + ball handler. The ball handler serves as the commander of this tactic. The big player blocks the first screen and then rolls down. The shooter should follow the roll.

The next player makes a second screen (usually a back screen). Because the space is smaller and closer to the basket at this time, the defender often cannot communicate the defensive changes in time.

It was only in his second season with the Knicks that Louis began to formally build the N.UCLA system. To this end, he introduced 19 types of screening methods to the players on the team.

A lot of these screens are incomprehensible to players.

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 yet a large number of pick-and-roll tactics around 45-degree angles on the left and right sides of the center, many professional coaches do not understand the tactical value of doing so.

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

Wilson dominates with the ball, Ewing picks and rolls, and then puts Miller on the side of the pick and roll, using his deadly shooting threat to wait for the Lakers' defense to make mistakes.

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

The Lakers need to prevent Ewing from cutting inside and Wilson using pick-and-rolls to attack the basket.

The player guarding Miller has to distract himself, and that's Miller's chance.

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

Afterwards, Wilson faced Robinson's defensive change and saw the opponent's defensive position to prevent him from breaking through. He made a desperate pull-up from the outside.

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

Miller received the ball in the corner and threw an alley-oop pass.

The gorilla immediately raped the basket.

Can’t win with three-pointers?

This statement doesn't hold true if you have four three-pointers who are shooting threats at the same time.

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

Suddenly, except for Ewing, the other four Knicks players on the court are players who cannot be left open.

Taking chances, the Lakers tried to defend by leaving Ainge and Williams open.

Gu Wei/span>They either caught the ball and shot, or they broke through with the ball and passed it out, pressing the Lakers' defense again and again.

The most despairing time for the Lakers was when Ewing ran a pick-and-roll in Jamaica and the Knicks rotated the ball gorgeously. The Lakers also made a lot of defensive rotations in order to keep up with the ball.

Eventually, they rotated Ewing's personnel from David Robinson to the tragic figure.

Ewing got the ball under the basket and dunked across the tragic body.

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

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

"There are two solutions." Louis said nonsense first, "If we can't make a three-pointer, it will break down."

"Then, what's the other solution?" Zhao Yuanzheng asked.

Louis pointed to the Knicks' ongoing position battle and said, "Pay attention to Russ (Reggie Williams' nickname⑴)."

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

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

The timing of his screen is very important, and the opponent cannot detect the existence of the screen too early. Williams' screen is mainly to provide protection for Ewing's inside cut. When Ewing cuts inside, he is responsible for delaying the defender chasing Ewing.

, when the screen starts, be sure to wait until Ewing is completely behind him before taking the ball out, and his take-out route must always remain on the ball holder's passing route and within the controllable range.

At this point, it's up to Wilson.

For him, he must make good use of the free throw line and above, which is the last area to make offensive choices; he must not break through too deeply, which will result in losing the passing line, losing the speed of transferring the ball, and losing room for operation. If the breakthrough is made,

If the ball is too deep, you will face a dilemma with no path for the ball and no space for the shot. Even if the ball is barely sent out, the ball speed will be too slow due to space and angle problems, which will lead to mistakes or the shooter will not have enough openings.

Wilson perfectly completed the tasks assigned to him by Louis.

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

He never let Louis know about these things.

Today, he was convinced again that staying with Louis would be more helpful for his future.

Not everyone takes charge of a championship team at such a young age like Louis. In fact, Louis is the only exception in the history of basketball.

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

The reason why they were so successful in the first game was because they correctly adopted a squat defense, and the Knicks' touch was also very cooperative.

Now the Knicks are actively looking for three-point shooting opportunities according to their tactics. After the shooters' touch has recovered, the Lakers are a little bit incapable of defending. After all, the teams they encountered before cannot have this kind of power on the three-point line no matter what.

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When Riley trailed by 16 points, he made a desperate move to get David Robinson out of the paint to interfere with the Knicks' outside shooters.

The end of the Lakers was doomed.

After the big man was pulled out of the penalty area, the Lakers' rim protection collapsed on the spot, and the Knicks penetrated the penalty area.

Then, the habit of caring too much about protecting the basket they have developed so far this season has caused them to habitually miss three-pointers. Even if Riley strongly urges players to block the Knicks' three-pointers, the Knicks' perimeter openings are under the guidance of the N.UCLA system.

Next, they still appear one after another.

This may be a problem that exists in the Lakers' roots. It's just that people rarely shot three-pointers like this before, so they didn't notice that after all, their offense was good enough. In the two games against the Knicks, Riley once again performed his ancestral skills (spoiled)

, which cost them the opportunity to detect their own flaws in the regular season.

If the defense collapses, so does the offense.

They kept fighting and their confidence was gone.

Basketball is frequently delivered to the Master, and there are few dynamic offensive tactics. There are too many rounds played by one person and four people watch. The problem of poor shooting except for the Master is not something that can be solved immediately. No matter how strong the personal ability of the Master is,

Facing the offensive firepower of the Knicks both inside and outside, there was nothing they could do.

If the Lakers saved the situation with superstar ball in the first half.

So in the second half, even if their superstars were firing on all cylinders, they couldn't change the outcome of being beaten by the Knicks on both offense and defense.

"The good news is that the Knicks are back."

"It's a pity that the Lakers also walked away." Hubie Brown said vividly, "Even if they stole the home court advantage from the Knicks at MSG, I can't imagine what they would do to steal the Knicks' home-court advantage from the Knicks again.

Get a victory on your body.”

⑴Reggie Williams' nickname is also "Russian", which is the same as Russell's "Russell". To avoid overlap, Russell's Russell is distinguished by "Russ". To provide you with the fastest remaining, only noise updates,

Chapter 731 The Lakers are gone for free.