Life always has ups and downs. The show is wonderful only when the peak turns around.

In the sixth game of the Western semi-final, the Lakers won the Warriors 122-101 at home. When the final conclusion of the competition was reached, LeBlanc James and Anthony Davis hugged tightly.

In the Western finals, the Lakers came back.

After the Lakers won the Championship in 2020, the Lakers experienced numerous twists and turns. The invasion of injuries, the adjustment of the lineup, and the changes of the coaching staff interspersed with the lakers in the three years, once they entered the first round of the playoffs through a play-off game, and once they missed the playoffs, the Lakers went all the way to the Western finals with the furious tide after the trading deadline.

We will sigh with emotion that Davis played the offensive and defensive dominance in the playoffs this year. We will also sigh with emotion that 38-year-old James is really an immortal god of war. We will also sigh with emotion why the Lakers always have different Raiders emerging.

Behind the Lakers counterattack, the set of people divided into three teams shone a gleam of intelligence., which was also impressive.

Coach ham and the think tank around him are one set. They are responsible for adjusting the match and between the two matches. As a coach on the court, James is responsible for the execution of tactics, especially the defensive end. The Lakers teaching assistants, video analysts and scouts are one set, and they are responsible for training in preparation.

When Ham began to understand

This season, Hamm is one of the most controversial Coaches. Hamm was nicknamed “cefda” by fans during the regular season, but he became “sporozoic” in the playoffs “. Whether it is the adjustment in the game or the adjustment between the two games, Ham is not mature like a Cainiao coach. If compared with his teacher Budenholzer, you can’t even imagine that he is the fruit of Budenholzer coach tree.

At the beginning of the season, Hamm’s tactics of three defenders and even four defenders were speechless. At that time Hamm could also use the excuse that “The lineup is defective and the people are too hard to use. However, after the end of the transaction, Hamm made another mistake of abandoning the eight villages, and was sprayed with hot search. Later Hamm also voluntarily admitted that the eight villages should not be abandoned.

In the playoffs, Ham completely changed. It is not that Hamm performed perfectly. In the first round of the playoffs, Hamm had strategic problems in both Game 2 and Game 5, but Hamm’s victory was correct in time.

In the second game, Morant didn’t fight due to injury. After Vanderbilt lost the value of defending Morant, the problem of blocking the attacking space of the Lakers was obvious. Ham didn’t make too many adjustments. On the defensive end, Hamm somehow changed the counterposition and let Davis, the first owner of defense Tilman, go to the counterposition of little Jaron Jackson. As a result, Davis was greatly removed from the basket and the Lakers lost their inner line. Then in the third game, Ham changed back to the opposite position, helping Davis play the defensive power of the ruling level again.

If the operation of Hamm in the third game is only a routine operation, then the adjustment of Hamm in the sixth game is its representative work. In the fifth game, the Lakers were played smackdown twice, both of which were lost when James played the fifth position to support the small-sized lineup. After the game, Ham promised to help James get easier scoring opportunities in the sixth game, and the second was to modify the rotation mode.

In the 6th match, Hamm corrected the error perfectly. James was crazy about playing without a ball. He got many chances to attack the basket easily by taking advantage of the receive the ball attack with air cut and blocking. During the connection period, Ham asked Russell and Davis to play the first quarter. James played for 8 minutes. In the second quarter, James took Gabriel and the eight Village forward to the scene, and the Lakers who gave up the small-sized lineup pulled the score. In this battle, ham cut off the playing time of Troy Brown and Malik Beasley, shortening the rotation, decisive and timely.

In the series of matches with warriors, ham and Cole won’t fall down, and see the coaching aesthetics of recruiting and dismantling.

In the second session, Cole changed the array and took out the library to chase and remove it. In the third game, Ham changed his counterposition, Vanderbilt pursued his dream, Reeves counterposition Library, first removed the library chase block, and then called the library crazily. In Game 4 and Game 5, Cole started with Peyton, with the aim of crazy targeting Davis to remove him from the basket, especially in Game 5, davis lost 1.3 points per round before the injury and retreat. But in the sixth game, Ham first changed the counterposition to prevent Davis from defending Wikins as much as possible, and then quickly took out relieve a garrison of the killing tactics. In the lineup, he chose to adjust the starting lineup and let Schroder replace Vanderbilt, which blocked the space.

In terms of employment, Ham once again showed the elegant demeanour of a “chicken soup coach”. In the first half of the season, he was able to persuade Wei Shao to accept the substitute role without complaint, which had already demonstrated his skill. In the last three games of the Western semi-finals, Ham activated Lonnie Walker, which once again proved how excellent he was as a “player coach”. When the Lakers hired Ham at the beginning, what they valued was Ham’s ability to accept people’s hearts.

Lao Zhan’s IQ

Turn the clock back to May 19, 2021. the day before the Lakers and Warriors play-off, Cole focused on James’s defensive basketball IQ when talking about James.

“In the past few years, we have played against James about 40 times, maybe even more. He is always a smart player at every level, including his defense. He can see through our offensive tactics and force us to make mistakes. Therefore, we must perform well in the implementation of tactics. We must always pay attention to James’s position to ensure that we have made the right decision.” Cole said at that time.

Cole’s comments on James correspond perfectly in this round of series.

In the regular season, James and Davis had a scene of defensive communication problems. However, the Lakers played the No. 1 defensive efficiency in the playoffs. James’s single defense ability was indeed not as good as the peak, but his basketball IQ is extremely valuable at the critical moment.

At the last moment of the first game, when the Warriors needed a three-point score, James arranged Davis to fall 45 degrees on the right in advance. When warriors performed tactics, this position was originally empty, but suddenly Curry ran to prepare for receive the ball. Due to Davis’s excellent standing position, the Warriors could not pass the ball to Curry, so they had no choice but to throw a receive the ball air ball chasing dreams.

At the last moment of the fourth game, the Warriors fell 3 points behind. They first beat a fake hand in pursuit of dreams and then carried out the “hammer tactics”. In this round, James first arranged Schroeder relieve a garrison to pursue dreams, preventing the dream from directly breaking through the layup. Then Davis was arranged to go to the bottom corner, and the dream-chasing pass was cut off. On one defense, James arranged his teammates to move twice. As a coach on the court, his value was incomparable.

Those behind the scenes

According to the tradition of NBA teams, tactical drill training will not be open to the outside world. Reporters have to wait until the end of the training to enter the interview. Therefore, most of the time, fans do not know how each team conducts preparation training.

Recently, the Lakers openly disclosed their training methods. The development coaches and video editors of Lakers players should not only study the videos of Lakers opponents, but also help coaches make tactical decisions, they also play the role of sparring in training. After all, they are the Lakers who know the opponent’s tactics best.

This set was brought by Ham from the stag. When the stag won the championship in the 2021 finals, the assistants of Budenholzer simulated the sun in the training and helped the stag finish preparing for the battle.

In the series between Lakers and Warriors, drew anserup (Chief video analyst of Lakers) played Clay Thompson in training. He played Desmond Bain in the last round of grizzly bears. Jason Bartley, the assistant video editor of the Lakers, played the role of Andrew Wikins, the assistant teacher limo played the role of chasing dreams, and the senior scout pastoreco played the role of Luni. Two of the Lakers played the role of Curry. They were assistant video editor falacsh on the road and Wheeler, a video editing intern at home.

Before the 1st match with the Warriors, they helped the Lakers rehearse the warrior’s iconic “Split” tactics. They were simulating the ball-holding strategy of chasing dreams, the essence of warrior tactics was simulated when the cover for Thompson without balls was given.

“This training is more efficient. We have studied the videos of opponents for countless hours, so playing to imitate the players we have been observing is equivalent to our instinctive reaction,” anserup said.

This group of behind-the-scenes staff just wanted the lakers to get used to the tactical execution of the warriors in advance and grasp the details and habits of the warriors when executing the tactics. Anserup said, “if you can’t even prevent us, when you defend against the real Thompson, what will you do?”

The Lakers have a special sense of ceremony. In order to simulate the grizzly bear, they bought 15 sets of grizzly colored jerseys and printed each player’s number with Hot Press. In order to simulate warriors, they bought another 15 sets of Warriors colored blue jerseys.

Now, it’s time for the Lakers to buy Nuggets colored jerseys.