The regular season enters the final sprint, and teams in the playoff seat competition circle, any game will directly affect the ranking. "Coin Chat Basketball" restores the winning and losing elements of important games in the way of "pictures and truth", interprets the focus topic, looks at the excitement, and also looks at the doorway.
The Lakers beat the Jazz 135-133 in overtime in a crucial game to storm the playoffs, and the game was turbulent, and the Lakers squandered a 10-point lead in the final 1:43 of the fourth quarter, and they seized the opportunity in overtime to overcome the Jazz's blockade of the box to take the victory.
How did the Lakers lose their 10-point advantage and how did they correct mistakes in overtime to win? In this issue of "There is a picture and there is a truth", let's talk about this matter, gossip less, directly on the picture.
This is the Lakers' goal to take a 10-point lead with 1 minute and 43 seconds left in the fourth quarter, the Lakers are still using James' cooperation as an offensive starting style, the Jazz fought to this point in time, the thick eyebrow bag has reached the level of "madness", testing the Lakers' outside response, Reeves withstood this test.
If the Lakers prevent the Jazz's next offense, the game will most likely be solved in regular time, but the Lakers forced themselves to work overtime, starting with a defensive leak by Schroder, who retreated completely without staring at Abajie, who ran to the bottom corner.
James then committed an offensive foul and Dunn broke through to score to bring the difference to five points. The Lakers still tried to find thick eyebrows to break the game, but the thick eyebrows physical groove was somewhat insufficient, and the Jazz went up to assist the defense's fighting defense at the free throw line, so that the thick eyebrows did not cut into the space, he chose to be forced to shoot under interference, but did not score.
After the thick eyebrows did not score, the Jazz counterattacked, and the Lakers retreated very quickly, but they did not do one by one, and directly missed Olynyk who held the ball, and hit a rebound three-point shot.
The Lakers still have a two-point lead at this time, and if this attack is scored, the initiative is still in their hands. James gave this ball no problem, thick eyebrows misplaced to play Dunn also has a height advantage, but the moment the ball is released is still a millimeter. There are accidents in this, but the high load of recent matches is indeed emptying his stamina.
Jones made a foul to tie the free throw, which began with his and Dunne's blocking. The main mode of the Lakers' defensive dismantling this season is that the big man sinks, and the blocked players chase around the cover, which is Hamm transplanting the Bucks' defensive method to the Lakers, but Schroder is not Holloday after all, this ball he did not catch up with Dunn, the result is that the thick eyebrows have to follow Dunn to take the position, unable to take care of the empty Jones, the old Jen retreated to the basket is too late to only foul.
James had regular time to seal the chance to win, and the old Jen's pass cut also played, but the Jazz's defense contracted extremely strongly, almost giving up the outside defense, and the whole basket was blocked.
This is the test that the Lakers will face in the last three regular season games, as well as the playoffs or playoffs, opponents know that the Lakers have the ability to rush to the basket, they will focus their defense on the basket, the more critical moments shrink the harder, how will the Lakers respond?
The Lakers, who missed out on solving the battle in the fourth quarter, were able to make it through overtime, and the key point was James' handling of the ball on both ends of the offensive and defensive ends.
In the face of the Jazz's contraction defense, the elder Jen did not have a hard rigidity, he did some no-ball tactics, first pass, then cut, then take the ball, attack the basket, game experience to support the legs that are no longer young.
James's quasi-kill, a modified version of the final minute of the fourth quarter, used a turnaround in the breakthrough and passed through the pinch, which is the power of experience.
James' defense in overtime is easy to overlook compared to quasi-kills, but it is his blocking that gives the Lakers the opportunity to win the game with key balls.
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The problem is not that he cannot defend, but that his durability and physical strength have decreased due to age and injury, and it is difficult for him to achieve a balance between attack and defense.
However, in important moments when it comes to fighting defense, James can still give high-quality defensive performances. For example, in this ball, James chased Olynyk who ran without the ball, forming an effective interference after he received the ball. Olynyk passed to Tucker and then gave cover, Tucker and James one-on-one, the old Jen held the defensive position and did not give Tucker room to break through, Tucker could only dry three points, James interfered in place, and the ball bounced out of the basket.
Tucker challenged James many times with this ball, but he is a player with a certain explosiveness but not so fast, and it is not easy to take advantage of the old Jen who singles out the serious defense. James covered Tucker defensively in overtime, another core driver for the Lakers win.
This issue of "There is a picture and there is a truth" conclusion
James played the best game since his comeback, not only scoring the game-killing goal, but also exhilarating defense.
Once again, Jen Sr. proved that he can still play peak form in some games, but the sustainability of this form remains to be seen, and tomorrow's derby against the Clippers will be a "big test".