Los Angeles Lakers training facility.
"Steve, get on top!"
With Du Kang's shout, Nash, who had been staring at the pass and making a grab, finally moved this time!
Snap!
Nash intercepted Artest's pass to Yi Jianlian.
This decision can definitely be called a sure and ruthless one.
Artest, who was a little loose when passing the ball, was stunned.
As the former best defensive player, he can certainly tell how good Nash's timing was in the steal just now.
Could it be an accident?
It must be an accident!
It was the coach who judged the timing and called it out, so Nash could steal it!
In fact, as a 39-year-old veteran, not many people really think Nash can improve defense.
Even if you can practice it, it won't be so fast.
As for Nash's level of passing the ball just now, let's put it this way, ordinary first-defense defenders can't do it.
In fact, Nash's upward move just now was just eye-catching and did not attract attention.
They are all NBA stars, who doesn’t have time to eat dumplings?
"Okay, Steve, today's training is over. Have a good rest and spend more time with your children. We have a game tonight. Today is your birthday, and your family and children are watching. Don't be embarrassed by the game."
"I know, thank you coach."
After Nash expressed his heartfelt thanks, looking at Du Kang's leaving figure, he still felt as if he was in a dream.
Looking down at his hands, Nash clenched his fists in excitement.
I'm not dreaming!
Nash breathed a sigh of relief, looking forward to tonight's game with the Thunder.
When it comes to who is the point guard who bullies him the most in the entire league, Westbrook is now ranked higher and higher.
Nash was looking forward to tonight's game, and so was Howard next to him.
"Steve, please help me think about it, what can I do to borrow that golden wristband from the coach?"
Kobe Bryant's superb performance against the Heat in the last game made Howard cry.
"How about just saying no?"
"I'm afraid that the coach won't give it to me. It would be so shameless. Do you think I should be embarrassed like Kobe for a few games, so that the coach would take pity on me and lend me the wristband to play with?"
"..."
For a moment, Nash actually found that he couldn't keep up with Howard's thinking.
"Haha, I'm kidding. I'm not as useless as Kobe. I'm the boss of the Lakers. I want the coach to give me that wristband instead of lending it to me!"
Looking at the confident Howard, Nash was silent for a moment and finally nodded.
"Well, come on."
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"Ding, your player Steve Nash has completed the training to activate the golden 'Interceptor' skill, activate the skill, Interceptor (gold), please pay attention to check."
Du Kang, who returned to his office, smiled and nodded.
Activating Nash's golden skill was easy and was done on the same day.
Now, he can also start simulating a night game against the Thunder.
With Nash's golden defensive skills, games at night will definitely be much safer, right?
It can only be said that Westbrook of the Thunder is indeed very restrained by Nash.
Even if Nash has this skill, Du Kang is not sure whether this skill can really protect Nash from being abused by Westbrook.
Simulation match selection parameters.
Yesterday I discussed with Clifford what kind of team the Thunder are.
This is a defensive team whose offense relies purely on talent.
According to Clifford.
This is a goblin team with two big goblins in it.
If you can choke one of the goblins on the defensive end, you may win.
If you can't stop any monster on the defensive end and Durant and Westbrook are open, then Jordan will probably kneel down when he comes.
If you can strangle two goblins to death on the defensive end, then congratulations, you will definitely win.
"What a pure team."
This is not a derogatory term, or even a complimentary one.
In the NBA, sometimes the more simple and direct teams are the nemesis of the experienced NBA teams.
In the past few years, the Spurs and Lakers have had a very difficult time encountering the Thunder.
Thunder is simply a veteran killer.
Because the Thunder didn't have a system, Du Kang didn't know which system to choose for a while. He chose running and gunning because he was afraid that the Lakers wouldn't be able to outrun the Thunder's two young men.
In positional battles, the Thunder's Perkins and Ibaka are still very threatening to Howard and Yi Jianlian.
Perkins can beat Howard, and the effect is okay. Perkins has strength but lacks height. Howard needs to move to play better.
As for Yi Jianlian and Ibaka, if Yi Jianlian really has Nowitzki's golf savvy, Du Kang won't worry about him facing Ibaka.
Nowitzki can constantly switch between back and frontal attacks, and can switch Ibaka to death.
But Yi Jianlian currently does not have such game reading ability, which is the so-called football intelligence.
And Ibaka's height, wingspan, athletic ability and defensive ability really restrict Yi Jianlian.
In fact, when you think about it, it is indeed very difficult for the Lakers to beat the Thunder. The Thunder can match the Lakers at every point.
During the match between the two teams last month, Du Kang was sitting on the coaching bench.
Durant and Westbrook combined for 69 points in that game.
Durant scored 42 and Westbrook scored 27.
Facing the one-on-one duels between Durant and Westbrook, Corvo was really clumsy, appearing to be a late hero.
He made 8 of 23 in the game and it was very uncomfortable.
The Thunder's three outside players, Westbrook, Sefolosha, Durant, and Corvo, are all difficult to play.
Westbrook's defense is full of momentum. Although his skills are not good, Corvo lacks explosive power. Even if he has the skills to play with him, he cannot tear him apart. Even if he loses his position, he can make up for it immediately, and he is full of strength. Corvo plays from behind. It’s not easy to fight either.
As for Sefolosha, he is a defensive player above the league level, with good physical fitness and solid defensive skills.
Durant, on the other hand, is tall, fast, and can cover people. His skills are not that good, but his defensive talent is really full. If he takes defense seriously and does not lose focus, he is definitely a first-class or even top defender.
It is precisely because of such excellent overall defense that the Thunder can become the league's top team without an offensive tactical system.
The Thunder, now 36 wins and 12 losses, ranks second in the league and second in the Western Conference, second only to the Spurs, who have 39 wins and 11 losses.
In the triangle offense, Kobe can't attract double teams, and his singles efficiency won't be too high.
In a run-and-gun fight, you might not be able to outrun the two goblins.
Howard may not be able to beat Perkins if he plays one inside and four outside. The Thunder's outside defense is fast, and Ibaka's inside defense is strong, making it difficult to score and open up space.
"No wonder Clifford said that playing against the Thunder is a headache for all coaches in the league."
This is a team full of talent, and perhaps only talent can cure them.
Therefore, in the past two years, the Lakers and Spurs have always suffered when encountering the Thunder.
The Lakers and Spurs are the most experienced teams in the NBA.
But if the talent can’t keep up, it’s still useless.
"Since the system is of little use, let's just fight Xia Ji eight times and see whose Xia Ji is beautiful and whose eight attacks are powerful!"
This game with the Thunder is also extremely important to the Lakers and cannot be lost.
The Heat, Thunder, and Spurs, if they want to completely inspire the championship aspirations of the Lakers veterans, these three teams must win once, even once!
In the first simulation, Du Kang did not choose a tactical system.
The team's first attacker is Kobe Bryant, the second attacker is Yi Jianlian, and the third attacker is Howard.
The other two starters are Artest and Nash.
As for the Thunder, the starters for this game are Westbrook, Sefolosha, Durant, Ibaka and Perkins.
This is the Thunder’s regular lineup.
In defensive matchup, Howard defends Perkins, Yi Jianlian defends Ibaka, Artest defends Durant, Kobe Bryant defends Westbrook, and Nash defends Sefolosha.
Adjust all simulation parameters.
Du Kang chose to start the simulation.
The scene turned, time and space changed, and Du Kang came to the Staples scene as if he was personally there.
The game started. As the nearest spectator, Du Kang watched the game at close range according to the simulation parameters he set.
"Beautiful escape, Westbrook was shaken away, Kobe Bryant! Westbrook rushed over again, be careful, Westbrook flew up!"
"Meta! Meta! Meta! Meta's power was in the air, Kevin Durant pulled the ball past him, made a pull-up jumper, and hit!"
"Oh my god, I finally made it. Against Ibaka's defense, Yi leaned back and hit a difficult mid-range shot. It was so difficult!"
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In the excited voice of the on-site Dj, the game keeps going.
"Too difficult" is too appropriate to describe the game between the Lakers and Thunder.
It's also Xia Ji's eight games. Although not everyone on the Thunder team has offense, they all have defense, and they are all top-notch defenses.
The Lakers can't break down the opponent's defense.
On the contrary, Durant has too great an advantage over the Lakers!
Durant needs speed and speed, height and height, shooting and shooting, three-pointers and three-pointers, and breakthroughs and breakthroughs.
No Lakers player can match him one-on-one. He is almost like a taller version of Wade who can shoot three-pointers.
There is also Westbrook's impact, allowing Kobe to face him, and Kobe's defense is also very uncomfortable.
If Howard hadn't worked very hard at the basket, the Lakers basket would have become a flying performance area for Ibaka and the young people from the Thunder.
"These two goblins are so cruel!"
What an ultimate talent!
This is it!
Rout!
The simulation of this game can be described as a defeat for the Lakers!
It's not that these Lakers veterans don't work hard, except for Howard, others really can't keep up with the Thunder's rhythm.
The Thunder and Heat are different.
The Heat are also very talented, but not as restless as the Thunder!
Thunder's talent is that of a thunderbolt!
Fortunately, Du Kang has a simulator. If he doesn't simulate it, just this game, just this game, the Thunder can directly defeat the Lakers' ambition to compete for the championship.
This is definitely no joke.
If the Lakers want to win the championship, they have to break out of the West.
In this game, the Thunder's advantage over the Lakers made it impossible for the Lakers to defeat the Thunder.
If there is no hope of a championship, then much of the atmosphere he created with the Lakers will be destroyed.
Then his control over the team will be directly cut in half.
If he cannot win the championship this season, Jim will not be able to fulfill his promise.
Will the Lakers still have a championship window in the next two seasons?
In the end, he and Jim Sham had to get out.
This is too terrible.
Fortunately, he can simulate and start over.
"Keep coming!"
In the first simulation, the reason was that the Lakers simply couldn't keep up with the Thunder's talent and rhythm.
These young people in the Thunder are too violent.
In the second simulation, Du Kang still didn't use the system and was still Xia Ji's eight dozen.
But the starting lineup has changed, with Earl Clark and Jordan Hill starting.
The starting lineup became Howard, Gasol, Jordan Hill, Earl Clark, and Kobe Bryant.
This is a lineup of one small and four large.
It's very messy, but Du Kang hopes that Gasol can suppress Ibaka with a back attack, and hopes that Jordan Hill and Clark can fill the Lakers' penalty area with their height and wingspan, compressing the space of Westbrook and Durant.
By the way, Yi Jianlian and Nash can decide the victory in the rotation lineup.
Then this time, the Lakers were even worse.
The Lakers' starting lineup is too big. Westbrook doesn't care about these tall defensive players. As long as you can't keep up with him, he will attack in. No matter how many people there are, he will attack in.
What's even more frightening is that the Thunder have a backup point guard named Reggie Jackson on the bench. He's like a little Westbrook, staring at Nash and the Lakers' rotation.
Reggie Jackson and Kevin Martin blew up the Lakers rotation.
Damn it!
"Too fierce!"
The Thunder are a fierce team.
Westbrook is also fierce and scary.
Du Kang's tall lineup is scary, and it has a very good effect on scaring James.
But Westbrook is really not afraid and is not intimidated at all.
You dare to dunk on Howard while riding, can you believe it?
James would be dumbfounded when he saw it. This is Howard, how dare you!
"This guy is a point guard?!"
Originally, Du Kang thought that Durant would be the hardest to guard against against the Thunder.
He really didn't expect that the most energetic person in the game was Westbrook, and the one who gave him the most headache was also Westbrook.
He didn't have the energy to think about defending Durant at all, and Westbrook was a little unbearable for him.
And Durant...
Well, after Du Kang's game ended, I looked at Durant's technical statistics and found 12 of 20, 36 points.
Damn it, how did you get this 36?
Why don't I have any impression?
Why did Durant reach 30+ without realizing it?
On the contrary, why did Westbrook only hit 10 of 24 and only 30 points?
Du Kang recalled the scenes of the game and looked at the Thunder's technical statistics after the game. The more he looked at it, the more amazing it became.
Judging from his first impression of watching the game, Westbrook is very threatening and too lethal.
It can be said that the Lakers were killed with corpses everywhere, from the outside to the inside, and from the inside to the outside again, as fierce as a mythical beast.
What should we do now?
Facing this fierce Westbrook, Du Kang felt that he had used up all the defensive players the Lakers could use.
Only Nash didn't go up.
If Kobe comes up, he can't stop him, and if a big man comes up and scares people, he can't stop him either.
Facing such a fierce Westbrook, Du Kang was too scared to let Nash start.
How dare you let Nash face Westbrook directly.
He is really afraid that Nash will be defeated by Westbrook, so who will he make cry?
What should we do now?
Du Kang gritted his teeth!
"Continue not to use the system, continue Xia Ji's eight fights!"
"Starting Howard, Yi Jianlian, Artest, Kobe, Nash!"
"Kobe defends Durant!"
"Nash, Nash defend Westbrook!"
"The first point of attack is Nash!"
Since the defense can't stop it, then I won't defend it!
Even if you get hit 58, the worst thing you can do is start over!
Fight!
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Miami.
"LeBron, is your groin okay?"
"Just put some ice on it and it'll be fine."
After James finished speaking, Wade breathed a sigh of relief.
LeBron strained his groin, but he actually played in this game against the Celtics and performed so well.
What is professionalism? This is it!
Wade looked at James with admiration.
Thinking of the scene where James couldn't help but cover himself in a towel after the game against the Lakers.
Wade comforted.
"LeBron, the game against the Lakers was an accident. Kobe and Yi can't always be so accurate. You didn't lose to anyone. It was an accident, and it was also because of your injury. It won't be long before no one will remember that game. , will only remember that we defeated the Thunder and won the championship again!"
After Wade finished speaking, James nodded.
The Thunder are still the Heat's first imaginary enemy.
Yes, soon no one will remember it!
As long as the Lakers lose, as long as Coach D loses, all the aura around him will disappear. Without the aura, no one will believe what he says.
And I am still the LeBron James!
The LeBron James who will surpass Jordan and become the GOAT of basketball in the future!
Thinking of this, James had a smile on his face.
"Dwyane, wait a minute and let's watch the game between the Thunder and the Lakers."
He wants to see Coach D and the old Lakers crushed by the two goblins from the Thunder!
Those two goblins almost crushed the heat!
"LeBron, they have no chance of winning."
James nodded, and this time, a smile appeared on his face.
And looking at the smile on James' face, Wade felt relieved.
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