A new season of sports
The Lakers challenged the Celtics away, without James and without thick eyebrows, but they played a rare intensity game in the season, some pictures of crazy rushing to grab rebounds in the frontcourt, and even dreamed back to the 2020 championship season. The Lakers, who played with a size advantage, relied on their muscles to open the way, tearing apart the Celtics' defense, and giving Boston's home fans a heart-wrenching night.
The remnants of the Lakers have a lot of problems. For example, in the first round of the opening game, Prince, Vanderbilt and Hayes were three muscular hunks, and they were dizzy when they were bypassed by the Celtics' low-post tactics. At 10 minutes and 14 seconds in the first quarter, Vanderbilt and Hayes, as muscular hunks, rushed to the front line of the fast break, and the two grabbed three frontcourt rebounds in a round.
The muscular hunk has an owe IQ, and the technical work is too rough, which is completely inconsistent with the aesthetics of modern basketball about "playing beautifully" and "playing reasonably". But the Lakers' game showed the essence of competitive sports: physical and confrontation must be the first thing in actual games, and no other pursuit should go beyond physical confrontation.
There is no problem that cannot be solved by muscles and height. 6 minutes and 30 seconds in the first quarter, in the first round after the timeout, the Lakers' muscular hunks were stunned by the Celtics' tactics again, Vanderbilt lost Tatum, but he immediately made up for his mistake, like a tank, "whoosh" towards Tatum. Tatum was stunned and pinned down, and at the same time, Hayes, as another tall, muscular hunk, quickly surrounded and suppressed. The chances created by the Celtics through tactics were blocked by the muscular hunks, and at the end of the round, Jaylen Brown made a strong three-point shot.
The muscular hunks in the Lakers' frontcourt are rough, but what does it matter if they are rough? At 10 minutes and 58 seconds in the third quarter, Hayes went down in the middle of the block, received Russell's high-altitude pass, took off directly, suppressed Porzingis with strength in the air, and smashed the ball into the basket. When the physical talent is good enough, you don't need to rely on technique, you can still score points by fighting your body. There are two other ways to score purely on physical talent.
The first type is frontcourt rebounding. At 7 minutes and 27 seconds in the first quarter, Russell broke through and was attacked by Porzingis, but Vanderbilt and Hayes, two muscular hunks, rushed to the front court to rebound and snatched the ball by talent. After grabbing the ball, Hayes passed the ball to Rivers on the outside, Rivers got up and down in the open position, and Hayes was ready to make a slam on the inside the moment Rivers shot. When the tall muscular hunks rush to the ball again and again, the final three-point shot is almost inevitable. Shooting is like opening a blind box, opening it once may be disappointing, but if you have the capital to open it a few more times, there will always be a time to win the lottery.
The second is a quick counterattack. When the muscular hunks can defend against the opponent's attacks again and again, they are like "attacking giants" when they turn around, revealing the "cannibalistic" aspect one by one, rushing to the front line of the fast attack. In a fast-attacking environment where there is no time to assemble a tight defensive line, it is difficult for normal humans to withstand the onslaught of giants in turn. Throughout the game, the Lakers scored 21 points in the fast break, all thanks to these muscular hunks.
It's an atypical Lakers game this season, because in a normal game, the Lakers don't have that many muscular hunks. Brother Thick Eyebrows used to be a muscular hunk, but now he can't be "fierce". In terms of personal skills and basketball understanding, Brother Thick Eyebrows is far stronger than Hayes, but the young Hayes can pounce on the defensive end, delay or even change defenses, and give muscle confrontation to outside players. Most of the time, Bushy Eyebrows crouched in the three-second zone, allowing enemy shooters to fire casually from the outside.
James used to be a muscular hunk in the past, but James's current fierceness only appears on the Internet**, not on the court. Offensive jumpers dodge confrontations, defensive stakes do not exert strength, and distraction is the norm, only in the fast break, he will run on the front line of the Lakers. James can't get up to the intensity at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, so someone is bound to help him get the intensity. The Lakers' offense relies on Russell and Rivers in the backcourt, and the defense has to be muscular hunks. The problem is that the muscular hunk and the development of the position attack, the two can not be both, the upper muscle hunk to protect the defense, it is necessary to the next backcourt, affecting the development of the position attack. Russell and Rivers were sent out in the backcourt, and four of the five starters couldn't play hard and couldn't defend, how could this be a good result?
This game is good, when James and Brother Thick Eyebrows are not playing, the Lakers' game logic is very smooth. The two backcourts use technology to mobilize the talent of muscular hunks, and the muscular hunks use confrontation and intensity to become the defensive backing of the two backcourts.
Russell had a lot of water, but he met all the requirements of an offensive point guard for a playoff team. Russell has a good brain, first-class passing skills and vision, and he can not only connect Docs with a long throw to the outside shooter in the "Spanish Blocking" tactic, but also send wonderful air cuts to the muscular hunks to help them show their talent. Russell also has some projection ability, he can train Quetta in the pit in the pick-and-roll, and he can also use the projection threat in the middle range to attract two people to help defend and create an open cut path for the muscular hunks. As a backcourt supporter, as a defender who mobilizes muscular hunks to play their talents, Russell is actually impeccable.
But in terms of stadium value, Rivers isn't as big as Russell. Rivers didn't handle the ball as well as Russell, and the straight plug in the tight space, limited by his stiff body, didn't always get the ball into the muscular hunk's hand in time. Rivers isn't a point guard, he's not good at mobilizing the muscular guys in the frontcourt, and he's not as important as Russell in terms of court value. But Rivers won because he was the Lakers' most accurate shooter. The shooter and the muscular hunk play together, the shooter can not only help the muscular hunk open the way, but the muscular hunk can use the confrontation to feed the shooter and create an empty opportunity for the shooter. Rivers is accurate enough to throw these empty spots in, and if he can't, he can also rely on the strange posture of "getting down eighteen clothes" to cause fouls and convert opportunities into points with free throws.
Technique and projection, in competitive sports, are all at the service of muscle confrontation. The remnants of the Lakers were able to crush the Celtics on the road, first through the output of the muscular hunks to play an advantage, Vanderbilt even retired with an injury, and then the Lakers turned the advantage into a victory through a series of incredible three-pointers from the outside. As for the return of James and Brother Thick Eyebrows, will the Lakers still be able to play at the corresponding level of confrontation? The laws of nature are irreversible, and when you should be old, you should be old.
Rumor has it that the Lakers want to trade Russell for Murray. Murray is far less good than Russell in terms of point guard responsibilities and skills in mobilizing muscular hunks, but Murray is strong in his own right, and he can play defensive confrontations, which can further reduce the intensity and pressure of James' confrontation. As for this guard deal, will it improve the Lakers' performance? Where is the ceiling of the Lakers' results, it should be clear in today's game.