I’m Really Playing Basketball

On June 3, 2010, Charlotte Bobcats Arena, the first game of the finals between the Bobcats and the Los Angeles Lakers.

This evening, all spectators in the United States are staring at the four key players in this game.

Chen Xiao, O'Neal, Kidd and Kobe.

"The four of them were the four protagonists of the 2003 NBA Finals. Seven years have passed. The four of them once again stood on the same venue in the Finals at the same time. Time, at this moment, is on them, as if they have completed a reincarnation. !"

The Bobcats and the Lakers' finals G1 game is still going on, but as the live commentator of this game, Barkley and Kenny Smith rarely mentioned the content of the game, except for Kobe, Kidd, Chen Xiao, O'Neal and other four. When players are facing each other, they will say that apart from that, at other times, they are basically looking back at their past feelings.

The game was very exciting, but since the 2003 NBA Finals, these four people got together again. There are too many words, too many grievances, and too many things to say.

Compared with these things, no matter how exciting the game is, it can't hide this.

Of course, not all audiences are looking back on the feelings of the four. The four gathered in the 2003 finals. Chen Xiao, the youngest at the time, is now almost 28 years old. These seven years can be said to be an era in the NBA. .

For the audience in the United States, this is indeed the case.

But for the Chinese audience, I'm sorry. Their youth is Chen Xiao and Yao Ming. The Bobcats played the Heat in the Eastern Finals. This match is when they feel the most.

As for the Bobcats playing the Lakers, they now care about the outcome of this game, the outcome of this series and Chen Xiao's performance.

Of course, the ten players on the court think so too.

Back to this game.

In this game, the starters of the Bobcats are O'Neal, Aldridge, Chen Xiao, Roy and Kidd.

The starters of the opposite Lakers are Gasol, Gasol, Artest, Kobe and Billups.

It can be seen that the Lakers did not change their starting lineups in this game, because there is nothing to change.

As for the Bobcats, it is obvious that Jordan has made adjustments to the Lakers' starting lineup.

Did not continue to use the Bobcats in the Eastern Finals, Chen Xiao played the power forward tactics.

There is a reason for this, because Little Gasol and Big Gasol cannot pull out as far as Yao Ming and Bosh, the two brothers' attacking areas are still relatively close.

In this case, this position that does not need a power forward can help defend too much. Aldridge is by O'Neal's side and guards the basket, which is enough.

On the contrary, putting Chen Xiao in the position of small forward can make Chen Xiao's influence more on the outside.

In the game against the Lakers, Chen Xiao does not need to worry about the inside line. What needs Chen Xiao to worry about is the outside line of the Lakers.

I have to say that Jordan's judgment in this game is still very accurate.

In this finals between the Bobcats and the Lakers, the Bobcats did not plan to double-team Kobe, but regardless of Kidd or Roy, it is a bit difficult to defend Kobe alone. In this case, Chen Xiao's help defense is very important.

This is Jordan borrowed the Timberwolves' defensive strategy against Kobe.

Pierce defended alone, McGrady assisted, then let go of Artest's three-pointer and long-range shot.

The end result is that Artest shot only 36% of the Timberwolves in the last round, and Zees made 34% of his three-pointers, averaging just over 10 points per game.

With Artest’s offensive performance, it’s hard for the Bobcats to change their defense against the Lakers.

Artest's performance against the Timberwolves is not even his poor state. He has always been in this offensive state in the playoffs of his career.

He has played in the playoffs for so many years in his career, shooting an average of less than 39% from the field and less than 31% of his three-pointers.

His defense is very good, and his offensive methods are also very rich. If you really want to defend against him, you may really not be able to prevent it. After all, he can do everything and it is not easy to defend, but if you don’t care about him, focus on defensive power. Defending his teammates will surprise you instead.

I have to say that McHale's defensive strategy for the Lakers and Artest really inspired Jordan and the Bobcats.

Even if Billups is here, the Lakers' three-point stability problem is still too poor to solve.

In this case, as long as the Timberwolves use a player with excellent single defense to stare at Kobe, and then use a player with an excellent outside defense to help defend Kobe, then the Lakers' outside offense cannot be separated from the three points. Under the circumstances, Kobe is also restricted, which is equivalent to paralyzed by half.

As for the Lakers’ internal offense, the Gasol brothers are not good at playing Rashid and Garnett. As long as the defense is reduced, the Gasol brothers are difficult to explode. Gasol can get good data, but it is definitely not. The extent to which people were killed.

And than shrinking defense, O'Neal Kobe Garnett and Rashid are much easier to use.

And this is why many experts before the Finals believed that the Lakers did not have any possibility of defeating the Bobcats.

Because the Bobcats only need to reproduce the Timberwolves play, the Lakers really don't have any chance.

Because the Bobcats only need to replicate the Timberwolves' style of play, the staffing of the Bobcats is even better than that of the Timberwolves, and the Lakers are more restrained.

Therefore, seeing that Jordan did not faint to show off his own operations in this game, but honestly to reproduce McHale's play against the Lakers, Barkley lost interest in the outcome of this game. Began to play with emotions and feelings.

According to Barkley's idea, this game, this series, there is no suspense.

Even if Kobe wants to win very much, Kobe has a strong offensive desire, but it is difficult for him to create miracles in this series.

Just like Barkley's judgment of this game, after the first half, the Bobcats had a 14-point lead 60-46 at home.

After halftime of the game, not to mention completely lost suspense, but basically there is no other possibility.

Although at the end of the first quarter, the Lakers led 22 to 21 by one point, it was because in this quarter, the Bobcats shot only 39%, while the Lakers had 53%.

You hit 53% and scored 22 points in a whole quarter. This is not an advantage. This is a huge disadvantage for you. In a whole quarter, you missed a three-pointer or a free throw. This means that you There is basically no threat to the outside line, and the basket can basically not kill.

So at the end of the fierce game in the first quarter, the Lakers seem to be leading, but many people have already sentenced the Lakers to death by this time.

It is indeed impossible to beat.

In the second quarter, after the Bobcats players recovered their offense, they hit the Lakers with a 39-24 backhand.

In the face of the Bobcats, the Lakers' offense has no explosive power at all. If the Bobcats' scoring cannot be suppressed, it will be impossible to win.

The only hope for the Lakers to win is to drag the Bobcats into the defensive quagmire and play a defensive series like the Timberwolves.

But is the lynx a Timberwolf?

This is a team with O'Neal at the basket and Chen Xiao outside the free throw line!

The game fell behind by 14 points at half time. This is definitely unacceptable to the boss of science who wants to win.

With his ‘inspiration’, the Lakers players became more hard-working in the second half.

Gasol even grabbed 4 offensive rebounds in a single quarter in the third quarter, Aldridge really can't grab Gasol.

After little Gasol desperately stuck O'Neal, Big Gasol suppressed Aldridge to death.

However, Gasol, who grabbed four offensive rebounds in a single quarter, only shot 2 of 6 in this quarter, which is completely different from the behemoth's performance against the Timberwolves.

Because the offensive rebounds that Gasol won against the Bobcats were not offensive rebounds under the basket, not directly from O'Neal, O'Neal did not lose position, still nailed to the basket, and Gasol grabbed it. It was Aldridge. After grabbing the offensive rebound, he wanted to dunk, layup, and still faced O'Neal's defense at the basket.

Go to the basket to challenge O'Neal?

This is not a good decision. In the end, Gasol can only choose to throw and jump shots from a little longer distance. Under the interference of Aldridge, he can play such a completely different efficiency.

The Lakers players really played very hard in this game, but facing the Bobcats, their offensive flaws are too big.

Therefore, in the four quarters of this game, when their hand feeling did not explode and there was no ordinary state of God's possession, their each quarter was almost 22 points.

22 points in the first quarter, 24 points in the second quarter, 21 points in the third quarter, 23 points in the fourth quarter, 90 points in the game.

To say that the Lakers' shooting percentage in this game is actually not low. The shooting percentage is 44% and the three-point shooting percentage is 44%. They are both higher than their average for playing the Timberwolves, and much higher.

It can be seen from this that the Lakers are really playing hard. It stands to reason that they should play worse against the enhanced Timberwolves.

But they did play better than the Timberwolves.

But obviously, this is better and not enough.

Just say that they made 44% of their three-pointers and only made 7 three-pointers in a game. They made no sense and could not change the Bobcats' defense at all.

Although you can't change anything, you really can't ignore the players' efforts.

Contrary to the Lakers, the Bobcats made only 41% of their three-pointers without 44%. However, in this game, the Bobcats made 17 three-pointers!

In this game, the Bobcats scored 119 points, which can be said to fragment the Lakers' defense.

The Timberwolves' three-pointers were not so stable under the Lakers' defense, so the two teams in the Western Conference Finals played offense like a rookie.

But the Bobcats are not an equally unstable offensive rookie team like the Timberwolves.

In this game, Chen Xiao, who played the role of McGrady, entangled Artest in the whole scene. He made 11 of 19, 4 of 8 three-pointers, 6 of 6 free throws, and scored 32 points, 8 rebounds, 8 assists and 2 steals. 4 blocks.

This kind of offensive efficiency is actually normal for Chen Xiao, but for Maizi, it is already excellent. At least, Maizi has not played such an efficiency in seven games in the Western Conference finals.

However, this is Chen Xiao. No matter how strong Artest is, he cannot stop Chen Xiao from scoring 30 points in the game. Artest can stop Maizi, but he cannot stop Chen Xiao.

No matter who the defender is, this point is for Chen Xiao, as long as you dare to defend alone.

In addition, Roy also scored 25 points in this game, and Rose, who came off the bench, scored 27 points.

Chen Xiao, Roy and Rose scored 84 points together.

In this game, the offense of the three was really good. Although the others didn't score so many points, they were very efficient.

For example, O'Neal, in this game 3 of 3, 2 of 8 free throws, scored 8 points.

For example, Granger, who played on the bench in this game, scored 3 of 4, 2 of 3 three-pointers, and scored 8 points.

In short, the defensive efforts of the Lakers in this game did not show their defensive strength under the offense of the Bobcats.

Mainly, the offensive talent of the Bobcats is indeed too strong.

Therefore, after the game, the Lakers coach Phil Jackson said helplessly in an interview: "We don't want the Bobcats to score so many points, but there is no way, we can't prevent their ubiquitous offense, the basket, The free throw line, the three-point line, their offense is too three-dimensional."

After the first game of the Bobcats and Lakers finals, American fans did not pay attention to the results of the game.

Most people are paying attention to the interaction between Kobe and O'Neal in this game, the interaction between Kobe and Chen Xiao, the interaction between Kobe and Kidd, or some other moments on the court.

For example, in this game, Chen Xiao's four blocked shots were all given to the Ke boss, and the Ke boss scored a 25-for-8 in this game. Chen Xiao's single defense against the Ke boss was frequently beaten by the Ke boss, but Let Chen Xiao lay hands on Roy and Kidd to help the boss of the defense department, but it has an excellent effect.

For another example, in this game, O'Neal missed 6 free throws in 8 times, and the 6 lost were all fouls by Kobe.

For another example, in this game, the base boss hit 2 three-pointers, and these two three-pointers, Kobe Bryant put him two meters away, the other Lakers players put the base boss three points, the base boss 4 0.

It has to be said that in this game, the interactions between Chen Xiao, O'Neal and Ke boss Ji boss are indeed quite a lot.

On June 6, the G2 of the Bobcats and the Lakers continued to play at the Charlotte Bobcats Arena.

Because of the loss of G1 and the fact that they couldn't win the game with their regular style of play, the Lakers adopted a sword-moving winger's style of play in this game.

Even if they knew that O'Neal was guarding the basket, everyone from Kobe to Gasol rushed towards O'Neal.

I have to say that the Lakers play like this is really useful.

The Lakers are so crazy to kill the inside, so that O'Neal and Roy Hibbert, Lopez and Aldridge, the four Bobcats inside the team, this game got a total of 18 fouls.

Among them, O'Neal 5 times, Hibbert 5 times, Lopez and Aldridge 4 times.

Not only that, the Lakers won 42 free throw opportunities in this game, of which Kobe was 18 of 18.

Of course, such crazy rushing to the basket is indeed good, but the disadvantages are not without it. You go to the basket to challenge O'Neal, even if O'Neal may foul and kill the Bobcats inside, but the two big centers of the Bobcats, O'Neal and Rowe Ishbert is not short. He is not a small center. It is difficult to guarantee your shooting percentage at the basket.

Therefore, in this game, the boss of Ke got to the basket after the pick-and-roll. Although he got rid of Chen Xiao’s help, his shooting percentage in this game was still only 9 of 25, and he shot 1 three-pointer. This iron was almost all hit. Inside the free throw line.

In addition, although the Gasol brothers and Gasol also scored 16 free throws in this game, their shooting percentage was only 6 of 21.

Trying to beat O'Neal with possible inefficiency to change the situation of the game is an attempt by the Lakers and Phil Jackson.

In the end, it failed because the young center Roy Hibbert, who came up as a substitute for O'Neal, was on the defensive end and successfully blocked a lot of knives for O'Neal, gave the Bobcats a surprise, and gave the Lakers a thunderbolt.

In the end, O'Neal was not beaten. The game still played for 31 minutes, despite five fouls on his back.

In the end, the Bobcats again defeated the Lakers 106-99 at home.

In this game, Chen Xiao made 12 of 23, 2 of 5 three-pointers, 6 of 6 free throws, and again scored 32 points in the game.

It can be seen that Artest's defense is still possible, and Chen Xiao did not explode in this game.

At the same time, the Lakers' self-destructive play is still effective. Although this game was also lost, the loss was much better.

Therefore, on June 8th, the Los Angeles Lakers returning to the home court continued to use this style of play, trying to put O'Neal into a foul crisis.

However, what is regrettable is that this time, O'Neal was indeed almost beaten down, but it was still only a bit close. O'Neal was fouled five times in this game, took 5 blocks, and took 14 in the game. Points, but he just was not beaten down.

By the way, this game's boss, who scored 38 points, scored 17 super-high free throws again.

These free throws are really not the star whistle given by the league to take care of the boss.

These free throws were really made by the Ke boss desperately trying to kill O'Neal, relying on falling down again and again.

In order to beat O'Neal and change the situation inside the team, the boss of Ke really fought.

However, even if this game has been so desperate, since O'Neal is still standing on the court in the end, it naturally means a failure.

The final result was indeed the case. The Bobcats beat the Lakers again 110-103 away, but this time it was at Staples in Los Angeles.

In this game, Chen Xiao made 11 of 20, 3 of 5 three-pointers, 8 of 8 free throws, and scored 31 points.

In the three finals, Chen Xiao got 30+ in all of them.

It can be seen that Chen Xiao was entangled by Artest and did not try to make crazy shots. Instead, he was very restrained in every game. Especially desperate, UU reading www. uukanshu. com Chen Xiao's style of play made Artest tickle, and it also made Phil Jackson desperate.

"The biggest difference between the Bobcats and the Timberwolves is not Shaq, but the Bobcats always have a stable player like Chen who can efficiently score 30 points in every game. He reminds me of Jordan and the beginning of the century. Shaq, players like them are always so desperate, and when they are opponents, they are always so scary."

When everyone is very strong and it is not easy to score, you can always get 30+ with a 50% hit rate. This is indeed very stressful.

Although Kobe is very unwilling to play in the finals, he does not want to admit defeat.

But everyone who knows the Los Angeles Lakers knows that 0 to 3 is no next game for the capital aristocracy.

It is impossible for the Zijin nobles to roll in the mud for the slightest possibility like the lower Liba.

O'Neal knows this point best.

So, after the third game, the Bobcats center is ready for the coronation ceremony at Staples Arena.

Most of the Bobcats players hope to win at home, but for O'Neal, he is probably one of the few, hoping to win his fourth championship in Los Angeles and Staples.

After all, for O'Neal, the reason why he stayed in the league and surrounded Jordan and Chen Xiao so obediently this season was not for anything else, but for the next game, in the Bath family, in Los Angeles, In front of Kobe, get the success they did not get.

"This is their desperate moment!

This is also my time for revenge! "

Before the game started, the fat man was already excited and could not help himself.