Chapter 1207 Huge Lethality

Li Ba looked at his teammates. Even Carter and Hill were full of energy and wanted to throw away their crutches to play, but the two fakes looked indifferent, which made him completely lose hope in these two guys.

Fortunately, there was no shortage of people in the interior. These two guys were just making up the numbers and had no chance to play at all.

"Don't let them come up, it will affect my mood." He reminded Payton before going on the court.

If you are not strong enough, you can have fighting spirit. If you don't even have fighting spirit, and you don't work hard when you have the opportunity, then your talent is useless.

Payton nodded. He knew that Li Ba didn't like these two guys who had no fighting spirit.

Li Ba won the jump ball and the Suns attacked.

The Suns still opened up the one-star four-shooting tactics, and Li Ba ran to the basket.

The Lakers still double-teamed Li Ba in advance. Duncan and Gasol followed Li Ba to the basket, leaving Xi Xi empty, and Artest switched to defend Yi Jianlian.

Xi received the ball on the left wing three-point line, then took a step forward, shot a long two-pointer, and hit it.

Looking back, the Lakers' offense was still a human-sea tactic.

The Lakers' tactical intention was very clear, which was to stir up the paint area into a mess, so as to achieve the purpose of limiting Li Ba's defense, and then fish in the mess.

Five people, except Parker, even Kobe entered the paint area.

This tactic, like a quagmire, made Li Ba unable to move.

The Suns also launched a corresponding defensive tactic, with Ray Allen to double-team the ball-handler Parker.

Such a tactic was very useful in previous seasons, but this time, it was not, because Nash's defense was too poor.

Parker turned around twice in a row, and then dazed Nash, thus breaking the double-team and directly making a three-point long shot.

With a bang, the ball missed and hit the basket.

Kobe and Artest immediately stuck to Li Ba, preventing him from jumping to grab rebounds and moving.

Then Duncan and Gasol dealt with Yi Lian and Hedo, desperately rebounding.

This is the Lakers' tactical arrangement.

Finally, Gasol grabbed the rebound, jumped twice, and sent a small floater.

The two teams were tied, and the Suns attacked.

Hedo shot again in an open position, but this time he missed.

The Lakers tried their best to grab the rebound. Gasol and Duncan trapped Li Ba tightly, and the others quickly returned to defense. Finally, Artest grabbed the rebound, and then Kobe made a fast break.

Without Ginobili, only Nash and Ray Allen on the Suns' outside line could return to defense in time, but their speed was not as fast as Kobe and Parker. The Lakers' fast break was successful this time, and Kobe dunked a ball.

4:2, the Lakers led.

"Steve, give me the ball." Li Ba reminded Nash when he passed by.

Nash nodded, without asking why.

The reason is very simple. No matter how much Hedo shot at this point, he couldn't kill the Lakers. This must be to cause damage. Only in this way can the Suns really gain an advantage.

Li Ba turned around under the basket. He wanted to cause damage. He couldn't just play under the basket today because his outside shooting ability was weakened. The Lakers would probably have more people come in to double-team him, so he had to beat the slow with the fast one.

Using his mobility advantage, he ran to the basket first, then suddenly took two steps back. At this time, Nash passed the ball in.

Li Ba received the ball, and while Duncan and Gasol were still in the reasonable collision zone under the basket, he immediately turned around and rushed up with the ball.

Gasol was closest to Li Ba. He wanted to hold Li Ba back and prevent him from turning around, but he was half a beat late. One foot was outside and the other foot was still on the line of the reasonable collision zone. At this time, Li Ba rushed up to meet him.

With a bang, Li Ba hit Gasol's body, pressed his left hand on Gasol's face, and held the ball with his right hand, which was a dunk.

Behind Gasol was Duncan, who slapped Li Ba's hand. With a bang, Li Ba hit the basket, and the ball jumped up and flew away.

But then the whistle sounded and the referee ran over.

Duncan raised his right hand to indicate that the foul was mine.

Gasol was in a mess. Li Ba's hand was like a steel hook, scratching his face and hurting him, but he didn't care about the pain and quickly raised his right hand to indicate that the foul was mine.

The referee gave Gasol the blocking foul.

Li Ba made two free throws and hit them all. The two teams tied and the Lakers attacked.

This time Parker passed the ball to Kobe and went to the basket to protect Li Ba.

Kobe faced the double-team defense of Ray Allen and Nash and made a three-pointer. With a swish, it went into the basket.

7:4, the Lakers took the lead.

Next, the two sides maintained the original tactics and played their own games.

Li Ba still used the old method, going in first, then withdrawing to receive the ball, and then hitting hard, making full use of his mobile advantage and beating Gasol and Duncan with blood all over their heads.

In this link, the Suns had the advantage. After one quarter, Duncan had one foul, Gasol had three fouls, Artest had two fouls, and even Kobe had a foul on Li Ba.

Li Ba made 6 of 10 shots and 7 of 11 free throws in a single quarter, scoring 19 points.

Although the hit rate was not high, with free throws, the efficiency was still as high, which could be called a full hit.

Moreover, he caused seven fouls of the Lakers in the interior, which was very lethal.

The Lakers still attacked from the outside, and then others fought for offensive rebounds and tried to play a second offense.

In this link, Li Ba and Alian teamed up to barely maintain a tie.

At the end of the first quarter, the game was tied at 28.

Li Ba scored 19 points, 5 rebounds, 2 assists, 1 steal, 3 blocks, 1 turnover, and 1 foul, and his performance was average.

Barkley said during the break: "Before the three veterans of the Suns were not injured, the Lakers' bench lineup was better than the Suns. Now it is much stronger. If the Suns' main lineup cannot beat the Lakers' main lineup, Then it will be difficult for the Suns to win this game, and this series will be dangerous.”

At this time, both sides began to deploy substitute lineups.

The Lakers sent out the outside combination of Kobe Bryant and Tony Allen + Fisher, and the inside team was Odom + Gasol.

The loss of Bynum has also greatly affected the Lakers' substitute strength in the interior. Duncan and Gasol must play more time.

For the Suns, the outside line is the combination of Li Ba + Ginobili + Dudley, and the inside line is Haslem + the Polish Hammer.

Lakers offense.

Gasol is under the basket and Haslem is defending.

Odom pulled to the outside and took away the Polish Hammer.

Dudley faced Tony Allen, Ginobili switched to guard Fisher, and Li Ba personally dealt with Kobe.

Zhang Lili said: "In the substitute lineup, the Lakers did not use the crowd tactics on the offensive end. This should be because they have the advantage inside. The Lakers should focus on the inside in the second quarter."

Xu Jicheng said: "Haslem is good at blocking rebounds, but his height is too low. He is only 203 centimeters in shoes. There is too much difference between Gasol and he will definitely not be able to guard Gasol."

"Kobe, if you want to beat me, you must beat me in this time period, otherwise you will never be able to cross the mountain of the sun. Come, I will give you a chance to ask for the ball."

Li Ba let Kobe take three steps, and then used trash talk to provoke him.

"Huh, I'm going to beat you this time." Kobe shot back.