There was no suspense in the first round of the Suns, and they easily swept the Grizzlies.

The Grizzlies' wing defense is too poor, and Guo Xu doesn't exert much force. They pass the ball after halftime to help their teammates find confidence. This is a preseason-style play.

After Guo Xu reduced his shots, he needed someone to stand up and hold the ball. In the second game, Roy exploded and scored a career-high of 43 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists, with a shooting percentage of more than 70%, and 7 of 14 three-pointers were made.

The Grizzlies' starting shooting guard was Ronnie Brewer, who was 201cm tall and weighed 100 kilograms, and was beaten hard by Roy.

Brewer plays very hard. He has two seasons as a starting player at the Jazz. He slides down and slows down when he leaves the Jazz. One of his fatal weaknesses is his shooting posture. When he was a child, he broke his arm in a terrible car accident. Now his right elbow still cannot fully stretch, so his shooting posture is very weird.

Roy has an absolute advantage at No. 2, with 27 points per game in the series. Brewer cannot adapt to his rhythm, and James Percy, who is substitute, has a worse defense effect.

Paul Gasol is the only player who performed well, averaging 19.5 points, 11 rebounds and 4 assists per game. Randolph was greatly reduced by Mark Gasol's defense efficiency, with a shooting percentage of only 41.7%.

When the last game was over, Randolph wanted to hold a watermelon knife around Gasol's neck and shout to the opposite side: "If you guard against me, I will kill your brother with one knife."

Randolph's main scoring method is to play hard at low posts, while mid-range shots are just average, while Gasol Jr. is best at defending low posts.

He did not need to jump when defending Randolph, and he had the advantage in the confrontation and kept using his long arms to interfere with his shooting, which gave Randolph more headache than blocking.

By defending the important attack points in the inside, Guo Xu locked Mike Conley's breakthrough again, and the Grizzlies' tactics were only left with Gasol's inside support. Gasol beat Ibaka but was unable to lead the team to win, and lost 22 points per game.

After the end of this season, the Grizzlies are ready to rebuild. The "Two Bears" cannot lead the team to win the championship. As they get older, their condition will gradually decline. It is better to take advantage of their trading value to exchange for young and potential players to train.

After a few days of rest, the Suns waited for the opponent in the second round.

What is surprising is that it is not the Warriors who have better record in the regular season and have a home advantage, but the Lakers.

Judging from the player's fame, the Warriors won the best. Kobe and Bynum were selected as the Western Conference All-Star starter this year. However, the Warriors did not cooperate well in the match. Many players overlapped positions, and only Curry could contribute three-point firepower stably.

The Lakers use man-to-man defense, determined to defend alone, Ellis entangled Curry in the periphery and interfered with his three-point shooting, Battier dealt with Kobe, Joe Johnson defended Roll Deng, and Bosh faced Brand.

Bogut is recognized as an excellent meat shield. He dare not say that he is a man in the penalty area and is not able to play ten thousand men. 90% of the center is not easy to play him alone.

Bynum has good data in the Lakers this year, which is directly related to his teammates attracting defense. He usually faces single defense, and he relies on his physical fitness and back-to-body skills to play beautiful data. It is difficult to play against Bogut Bynum, and he cannot easily squeeze into the penalty area and attack with his strength. When his position is relatively outside, his teammates rarely pass the ball to him.

Bynum is not good, substitute center Greg Monroe can't play even stronger. He lacks strength and experience. He averages 16 minutes per game, scoring 6.8 points, 5 rebounds and 1 assist.

The Warriors are also single-defense tactics. "Little General" Johnson will play singles and single-defense, and the game becomes a competition between the two sides to score scoring efficiency.

Kobe averaged 39 minutes per game in the series, shooting percentage of 44.6%, three-point shooting percentage of 28.3%, and averaged 25 shots, scoring 30 points, 4.8 rebounds, 4.3 assists and 1.4 steals, leading the Warriors to eliminate the first round 2-4.

Although Kobe's mid-range shooting percentage is good, his three-point shooting rate lowered and he averaged only 1.4 goals per game.

Bathil was single-defense on the outside and interfered with Kobe's eye blocking. When Kobe broke through, the Warriors players would double-team near the penalty area, and the person with poor shooting shots took action. Bathil was beaten up, and Kobe mainly scored two points but was not enough to lead the team to win.

Curry actively runs, but he often runs out of position with cover but can't pass the ball. Kobe is confident that he can use mid-range shots to deal with Bathir. If the opponent doesn't come to double-team, he won't pass it.

Online, Komi kept putting psychological pressure on the second-year Curry, saying that he was a defensive black hole, making him almost foolish.

After the Warriors were eliminated, Komi's argument was very simple. It was Curry's fault to lose, he was defensive black hole. Kobe tried his best. He forced his moves under 2 or 3 players and averaged 30 points per game, and his personal ability was not bad.

The 33-year-old Kobe is still very physically strong and can play for a long time, but his performance in the last quarter is always worse than the first three quarters. He makes 1 of 4 shots, 2 of 6 shots, and 3 of 7 shots... When the Lakers need the stars to come forward to score in the last quarter, he basically performs this way.

In Guo Xu's previous life, in the series between Lakers vs. Mavericks, Kobe's singles veteran Kidd had only a 45% shooting percentage and a 53% real shooting percentage, which is similar to now. The Lakers were swept out by the Mavericks.

Only looking at the scoring efficiency and real shooting percentage, Kobe and Ellis are not much different. Ellis averaged 20.3 points and 3 assists per game in the series, with a shooting percentage of 43.6%. His three-point shooting percentage is 32.1% stronger than Kobe, and he averages 1.4 goals per game.

The key to the Lakers' victory is Bosh, the young middle shot prince. He steadily gained the upper hand against Brand, pulled out to cover and took the ball and shot accurately. He has a large defense range and likes to defend against pick-and-roll to force the opponent's guards to the periphery, limiting the Warriors players' breakthroughs.

There are four players on the court who make a low post and mid-range shooting, with only one three-pointer. The lineup flaw is too obvious, and Curry is the most indispensable person. But some Komi can firmly believe that Curry is a useless person. He drags Kobe's back legs and leads the Warriors to lose.

Curry scored 14.7 points and 5 assists in the series, with a shooting percentage of 49%, a three-point shooting percentage of 45.5%, and averaging 2.1 three-pointers, with a real shooting percentage of 60.5%.

However, Komi said that Curry could not help Kobe share the offensive pressure at critical moments. He was invisible most of the time and did not dare to take action. He averaged 11.4 goals per game in the series. What's worse is that Curry, as a defender, almost never held the ball and broke through and passed the ball without breaking through.

Komi, who feels that he knows the ball well, suggested that the Warriors trade Curry in the summer to exchange for Westbrook of the Thunder, so that the team's breakthrough will become very sharp, and they can also fight on the field. All problems are solved, and the Warriors will definitely be able to compete for the championship.

If this is the case, the five starting shooting hot zones are concentrated in the low post and under the basket, which will definitely scare the opponents tremble and shrank in the penalty area and dare not come out.

Komi wants the Warriors to die, and of course the management will not listen to them doing such stupid things.

Even the seriously overrated coach Johnson knew that the Warriors would not be able to do without three points, so he reduced Rollden's playing time and allowed Redick, Curry and Kobe to be on the court at a certain period of time. When the three of them played together, the team's scoring efficiency was the highest.

After Redick entered the playoffs, his playing time increased to 26 minutes, averaging 10 points and 1.7 assists per game, a three-point shooting percentage of 39.7%, and 1.5 goals were made.

The disadvantages of this kind of play are obvious. Redick cannot defend against Joe Johnson. Kobe has to limit Bathir and cannot help Redick with defense. He must focus on the offensive end.

The media generally gave Lakers player and coach Phil Jackson a high evaluation, believing that the "Zen Master" has maximized the strengths of his disciples. Without Kobe, the Lakers can play triangle offenses.
Chapter completed!