Chapter 498 Intense Playoff Card Battle!

On March 1, the first day that the league announced the best player of the month in the East and West, the Lakers ushered in another home opponent, the Portland Trail Blazers!

As the focus of this round of battles, Staples has long been overcrowded.

This game is the last game of this round. At this time, no game is unimportant, and any game that seems to be irrelevant determines the final ownership of the playoff seat.

March is a very important month for the entire American basketball world. The NCAA March Madness is coming, and this month will determine the final champion.

For the NBA, every game this month is a playoff card battle, so it is also the most intense month of the regular season throughout the season.

For the Lakers, they have accumulated enough advantages in the previous 4 months of games. As long as the Lakers do not suddenly lose their minds, the advantage of those 6 games is basically enough to get the first place in the league. How many wins can you get.

However, the Lakers still did not dare to be careless. From Zen Master practicing three times a day on the rest day, you will understand that the Lakers are also on the way to sprint.

As for the Blazers, they are currently ranked tenth in the West, two and a half games away from the ninth-ranked Warriors, and only three and a half games away from the eighth-place Nuggets in the West.

If nothing else, the eighth position in the West will come from these three teams. The Nuggets naturally take the initiative, but the Blazers are not without a chance. A wave of winning streaks or losing streaks will change the pattern of the West.

So you can understand why the Lakers attach great importance to this game. This is one of the potential opponents in the first round of the playoffs. Therefore, before the game started, the Lakers watched the video recorder for a long time. Less tactics, Zen Master will focus on practicing in this game.

On the Portland Trail Blazers side, of course they want to win, they haven't made the playoffs for a long time, and the Trail Blazers have been playing the role of the western belly since the departure of 'Glider' Drexler , and at one point became the worst team in the league.

The Blazers formed by Rasheed Wallace and Randolph at the beginning were full of five poisons, and the players of the league ran after hearing the sound. It is no exaggeration.

Otherwise, Roy, Aldridge and this year's Oden will not be selected in a row.

However, the selection of Roy and Aldridge may be the most correct draft the Blazers team has ever done. Roy has successfully exploded this season, and his data has grown exponentially. He was also selected as an All-Star in his second year. The name of Huang Mamba The number has spread like wildfire, and he has quietly become another successor to Kobe...

But Roy deserves this compliment, he is really not bad, or the Blazers are still cold.

In the visiting team's locker room before the game, Blazers coach McMillan bit his nose and frowned at the tactical board. The Lakers' starting lineup and the Blazers lineup were drawn on the tactical board one by one.

"It's not easy to win." McMillan muttered to himself after thinking for a long time. He had to say that with the current staffing of the Trail Blazers, it is difficult to fight against the current King Lakers.

Originally, the Blazers didn't need to think about the playoff card battle, because they have been cold for more than ten years, and they should book vacation tickets every month.

This year was originally different, because the past few seasons were so bad that God couldn't stand it, so the Blazers have been signed very well for several years in a row.

Roy and Aldridge were selected to the team one after another, and this year they were lucky enough to select the legendary once-in-a-lifetime Oden, which made the Blazers uniform almost woke up with laughter, plus the previous players Being cleaned, the Blazers were ready to go big.

However, the loss of Oden's season forced the Blazers' front office to change their strategy. They were prepared to continue to play dead, train new recruits, and then wait for Oden to return.

However, Roy surprised everyone this season. He led the team to the last record in the past ten years, with a winning rate of almost 50%. This is a record that has not been seen in many years. It can be ranked seventh in the East. !

This made McMillan, who had just taken over the team, suddenly realized that they were not far from the playoffs!

Tenth in the West, two steps away, and these two steps are not too big, there is still a chance!

Looks like they could give it a try!

Originally, in the previous two games against the Lakers, they all played with less losses than winning, and they basically let it go. After all, the Lakers are ferocious, and the world can see it!

This time, though, McMillan will definitely give Portland's Young Guard a go.

As the saying goes, give it a go, a bicycle becomes a motorcycle!

And before this game started, the Warriors and Nuggets had just lost to their respective opponents, which undoubtedly gave Portland an excellent opportunity to close the gap.

However, this ambition has come up, but McMillan found that the Lakers are too difficult to play. How can this team be solved with two non-human beings!

There is only one Roy, and it is hard to carry one, let alone JK.

McMillan is not arrogant enough to think that Roy can kill the Lakers. This is impossible, and it is difficult for James.

So he thought about it day and night these days, frantically studying the technical characteristics and tactical play of everyone in the Lakers, and thinking about countermeasures.

McMillan felt that his hair had turned gray, and he had aged more than a little recently.

It's not without gain these days, he found that in today's Lakers, Ji Feng is the metronome and defensive lever, Gasol is the rhythm point and inner fulcrum, and Kobe is the terminator.

The role played by Ji Feng has a great impact on the Lakers. If Ji Feng is removed, the Lakers’ offensive efficiency and defensive ability will undoubtedly be greatly reduced, and the rhythm will be chaotic, because Vujacic is more than a little worse than Ji Feng.

Therefore, if Ji Feng is resolved, he will have a chance to defeat the Lakers!

OK, McMillan knows it's a bit of crap because everyone already knows about it, and it's not 2007...

The question is, what do you do to solve Ji Feng, do you dream...

Ji Feng's data is there. If you can solve it, it will be solved sooner.

McMillan studied all the videos of Ji Feng, as well as the data that looked exaggerated and fake, let alone, and finally found something.

In addition to Ji Feng's inaccurate three-pointers, his free throw ability has also been overlooked!

McMillan found that although Ji Feng's free throw rate was reasonable, it was very unstable. In one game, the hit rate was even less than 50%, and in several games, it was around 60%.

You must know that Ji Feng is on the outside, not O'Neal. It stands to reason that the free throw should be very accurate.

After all, Ji Feng's mid-range shooting rate is terrifying, but Ji Feng standing on the free throw line is not as exaggerated as his performance inside the three-point line.

"It stands to reason that the free throw line should be more accurate." McMillan looked at Ye Ji Feng's data and said that Nash's free throw rate was 92%.

But this is not something McMillan wants to think about. He wants to try it, whether what he found is useful!