Chapter 724: The Lakers' Peripheral Breakthrough Has Been Stopped

"Come on, can it be good to rush in? The hammer is rusted in the paint area, just waiting for Kobe and Marbury to go in."

Kenny Smith laughed.

"Haha..." The two laughed loudly after speaking.

In the 6th minute, Phil Jackson called a timeout.

"Kobe, Stephen, we can't solve the problem of rebounding, so we can't waste the ball anymore, we need to improve efficiency."

He said to the two with a serious expression.

Kobe and Marbury nodded. Up to now, their touch has not exploded, so it is time to fight.

"One of you breaks through, the other responds outside, and the one who rushes in attracts double-teams and then divides the ball in time, but don't go directly to the hammer, and you can shoot close to the paint area."

Jackson exhorted.

Kobe and Marbury nodded again without rebuttal.

Suspended knot speed, the Lakers attack.

Li Bashang mentioned a step below the left elbow area and emptied Dayao by three meters.

At this time Marbury advanced to the top of the arc.

At this time, Kobe suddenly started from the right-wing three-point line and cut to the flank.

Marbury passed the ball suddenly, Kobe received the ball, accelerated, threw away Tony Allen half a step, and rushed to the paint with the ball.

At this time, Dayao took a step to the left and further controlled Li Ba, making it impossible for Li Ba to defend against Kobe.

But Dayao was disappointed, because Li Ba suddenly moved, left himself and rushed towards Kobe.

He immediately moved to the basket, trying to pull Li Ba back.

Li Ba rushed forward at full speed, and he wanted to stop Kobe before passing the ball to Dayao.

When he started, he chose the moment when Kobe's racket hit the floor.

Kobe took two steps and one dribble, that is to say, he only had two steps.

After two steps, he made an emergency stop, successfully stood on the right line of the paint area, and cut Kobe down.

The moment he was in place, he squatted slightly, like a ferocious beast that was about to pounce on food, violently rising at any time.

Surprised in his heart, Kobe also made an emergency stop and jumped up.

At this time, Marbury moved urgently from the top of the arc to the right wing, ready to receive Kobe's return pass.

At this time, Dayao, who was behind, was moving towards the basket and extended his hand to Kobe.

At this moment, Phil Jackson got up from his seat, because he actually saw Li Ba leave Yao behind to defend Kobe, how dare he?

The moment Kobe took off, Li Ba jumped up too. Regardless of whether the former was passing or shooting, he stretched out his right arm and grabbed the basketball with his right hand.

Kobe didn't make a pass, he wanted to hit Li Ba, and he was falling back.

"What?"

But at the moment when he was about to look up, Li Ba grabbed his ball first.

"yeah!"

The Sun team commentator suddenly let out a strange cry, which revealed the boiling of the American West Arena.

"Fast attack!"

On the sidelines, Frank pointed at the Lakers' basket and roared excitedly.

Except for Li Ba, the Suns did not participate in the fast break, and all the other four players went off quickly.

As for the Lakers, only Marbury and Luke Walton returned to defense, and Walton still couldn't keep up, and the two big insiders and Kobe were even too late.

"boom!"

Four on two, Marion received a pass from Barbosa, went to the basket, and dunked successfully.

65:71, the Suns led by 6 points.

Phil Jackson discovered another problem. After adopting the breakthrough tactic, once the ball is exchanged, the Lakers' defense force is not enough to cope with the Suns' defensive counterattack.

"The speed of the lineup is still too slow!" He thought to himself.

The Lakers attack.

Marbury advanced to the frontcourt this time, slowed down a bit, and suddenly accelerated in a change of direction, breaking through Barbosa and heading towards the right elbow.

But when he broke through Barbosa, Marion, who was in the low position on the right wing, lost Bynum and stepped up to defend.

So when Marbury just broke into the right elbow area, he encountered Marion and Barbosa's front and back double-teaming.

At the same time, Li Ba, who was below the left elbow, suddenly took a step forward to the right elbow.

But after this step, he immediately retracted again.

It turned out that this was just his act of forcing Marbury to pass the ball to Dayao.

Sure enough, when he took back this step, Marbury shook his hand and passed the ball to Dayao.

Li Ba took a step back, turned around immediately, and rushed to the low position.

Dayao has been locked by him, and he "sees" that Dayao is moving towards the basket. He lowers his head and takes a wild step forward, and makes another small adjustment. Without looking at Dayao, he suddenly gets violent and grabs him with one hand.

Dayao saw Li Ba back on defense, when the ball arrived, he jumped up to catch it, and directly made a small throw.

However, at the next moment of the shot, his ball was caught.

"Beautiful!" Yu Jia shouted excitedly.

"yeah!"

The audience cheered, and countless palms were shaking.

On the sidelines, Phil Jackson was shaking his head.

This kind of defensive ability in the paint area is definitely a great damage to the inside offense of other teams. What should I do?

The Suns' defensive counterattack began, and the Lakers' defense also began.

In the right elbow area, Marion and Barbosa turned around at the same time and rushed to the frontcourt.

With them, Marbury completed the turn faster, but he returned to the defense.

Outside the right-wing three-point line, Kobe was the first to return to the defense.

Li Ba gave the ball to Barbosa, and immediately accelerated down.

Dayao tried his best to catch up, but was soon left behind by Li Ba.

To the center line, Bynum was thrown off again.

Bynum wanted to hold Li Ba, but the latter threw his arm away.

The Suns' frontcourt formed a five-on-three.

Li Ba hit the Lakers' paint zone from the middle.

His strong impact forced Wharton and Kobe to risk their lives and join forces to close the door.

Li Ba's road was blocked, so he stopped.

But other Suns players are almost all open, and this is his important role in the fast break, attracting the opponent's double-teams and creating open positions for teammates.

Marion took the opportunity to cut to the basket from behind Kobe, soared up, caught a pass from Barbosa in the air, and slammed the ball into the basket.

65:73, the Suns led by 8 points.

The Lakers attack.

Kobe took the ball on the right wing and broke through.

This time he only broke through two steps into the three-point line, and before Marion's double-team came up, he stopped and hit a jumper.

Zhang Lili analyzed the ball, and he said: "With Dayao's restraint, the Hammers really can't help defend Kobe's mid-range two-pointer, but it should be noted that even if Kobe and Marbury hit each other Can break through successfully and make mid-range shots every time, but how high is the shooting rate? Is there a high success rate in fast breaks like the Suns? No, how can the Lakers win?"

Yu Jia said, "That's right, if you can't get close to the paint and make close shots, the efficiency of the Lakers' outside line can't be completely improved."

On the TNT live broadcast, Barkley said: "Through two perfect defenses, the Hammers pushed the Lakers' outside breakthrough offense out of the paint, and even drove their offense to the mid-range area.

The Lakers' breakthrough tactics failed. They completely lost the offense in the paint and close range, leaving only mid-range and long-range shots. "