Chapter 425 Sweep the promotion!(2/2)
Before this game, many experts believed that the Warriors would change their teams. As the loser, it was necessary to change their teams. This is the playoffs. If the loss does not change, either the team's strength is like this and there is no possibility of change, or the team is strong enough. There is no need to change because of one or two games. Obviously, the Warriors are neither the kind of team without strength nor the kind of team with strong enough strength, so they will naturally change after the game fails.
Because it was suppressed by the Lakers from the beginning, the Warriors' team changes in this series almost became the theme of this team.
But even so, in this game, the Warriors brought all the two starting inside players Gugliotta and Sekali from the previous two games to the bench. The team's starting lineup became center Gatlin, power forward Chris Mullin, small forward Spreville, shooting guard Ricky Pierce and organizational defender Tim Hardaway, Larry Bird and Collins on the sidelines were still a little surprised.
This is a lineup of one, one, four, and as the only big one among the one, one, one, is also an offensive insider. The whole world knows that Gatlin is a physically flawed player. Although this Iron Man with a steel plate on his head is excellent, his physical fitness is limited. It is impossible for him to show himself both on the offensive and defensive end in a game. In this case, Gatlin focused almost all his energy on the offensive end.
In other words, the Warriors' current lineup almost puts all their goals on the offense of this game. As for defense, this team has been completely abandoned. This is an extremely bold decision. If the Warriors cannot suppress the Lakers on the offensive end in this game, then they will be suppressed by the Lakers and cannot attack their own offense. They cannot defend themselves, then this will be an extremely huge defeat!
"If it were Harris's character in the past, he would not have used this way, but now, he has no choice."
After being shocked by the Warriors' full offensive starter, Larry Bird also said with a smile that Harris had no choice. He needed his team to defeat the Lakers on the offensive end, otherwise what was waiting for him would have to fail, especially the morale of the Warriors players was not high. He would be even more unwilling tolerating the team being suppressed and beaten by the Lakers as soon as he got up.
If the head coach of the Warriors wants to raise the team's fighting spirit, he needs to let his players feel that he can defeat the Lakers from the beginning. Therefore, the Warriors have such tactical arrangements, and Harris really has no choice. Perhaps such tactics and starting will be very likely to be killed directly by the Lakers as soon as they start. In the end, the Lakers scored a big score in this game, but in the same way, such tactical arrangements also have a certain chance to really suppress the Lakers. After all, this is the best tactical lineup for the Warriors to attack and run-in!
So, even if the chance of suppressing the Lakers is slim, what if there is a turnaround?
"Harris is a very outstanding head coach. Although the Warriors played very badly throughout the series, he did nothing wrong. He did a good job in this series."
So, after Larry Bird finished speaking, Collins also smiled and nodded, and from his words he could feel that he still admired Harris very much.
It's not just Collins, the former Bulls head coach, who admires Harris very much. Even Larry Bird is almost the same. In the entire league, any head coach will struggle to face the current situation of the Warriors. Not one of the ten head coaches who can maintain sufficient judgment and ability may be able to have one of them. At least in this round of the series, no one will pick him out what he did wrong.
"So, personally, although this is not a big possibility, I am quite looking forward to Harris winning this game, which is a reward for his performance in this round of the series."
Finally, Larry Bird said with a smile after the game began.
It is very simple to win in this game. It is very difficult for the Warriors and Harris to win. After the game starts, even if they cannot suppress the Lakers, they still have to be evenly matched with the Lakers. Therefore, the final trend of this game is enough to see what the two teams will be in the first quarter or the first half of the first quarter.
When this game started, as the side where the strength was more dominant and the tactical style was more dominant, when the Lakers faced the Warriors, which had completely given up defense, they continued to perform on the offensive end in the first two games. Even though the Warriors changed their team, they still could not overturn Lin Han on the offensive end. When the Warriors' center Gatlin, who started in this game, was working hard to attack Lin Han, but Lin Han was obviously better than Lin Han this season in terms of strength
There has been progress last season. If Gatlin could still pose enough threat to Lin Han last season and evenly match Lin Han on the offensive end, then in this season, when Lin Han was not Malone but Rodman standing next to Lin Han, when Lin Han’s assisted defense ability can be more exerted, even though the Warriors had their strongest offensive lineup, the final result was a bit frustrating for the Warriors’ head coach Harris on the sidelines.
"This game is over"
When the first quarter of the game ended, Harris looked at the Lakers No. 24 player who still had a strong attack on the Warriors, who almost scared him, was killing their attacks. When the first quarter ended, the Warriors, who were all in the attack, were still behind at their home court with a score of 26-33, Harris knew that the Warriors were about to finish this game.
The Warriors, who lost the initiative, do not have much strength to reverse, and not only have no strength, the players do not have the fighting spirit to complete the reversal of the Lakers. Overall, the Warriors can only play with a good match now, and only a good match can raise their fighting spirit. In the end, the Warriors were still trapped in the headwind again and couldn't extricate themselves!
And just as Harris expected, when the Warriors fell behind in the first quarter of this game, and in the second quarter, when the substitutes of both sides were on the bench, due to the increase of Gatling and Pierce, the Warriors were still strong in substitutes due to Gugliotta and Sekali, but the two were affected by the substitute in this game, and their condition was average, which also led to the Warriors, who had the advantage in substitutes, even the advantage of substitutes in this game.
The most direct consequence is that after the first half, the Warriors had been pulled away by the Lakers for more than 10 points.
So, at the end of the half of this game, even the crazy Warriors fans on the scene were a little lost when they saw Lin Han and Lakers players walking down the court, and even forgot about boos!
In the end, when the life-and-death battle between the Warriors and the Lakers ended with the whistle of the referee Bavita on duty, when the Warriors lost 98-122 at home, the Warriors fans even booed their home team at the end!
3-0, the Warriors were swept out by the Lakers at their home court!
And what is even more unacceptable is that from the beginning to the end of this game, the Warriors did not lead at any time!
So, when the whistle blew at the end of the game, many expert reporters on the scene saw a scene they wanted to see at the beginning of the game, these guys almost subconsciously looked at Lin Han on the court who sat on the bench at the beginning of the fourth quarter and did not play, and scored 26 points, 11 rebounds and 8 assists after just three quarters.
Chapter completed!