The regular season is impressive, the playoffs are falling

The Lakers suffered a 1:4 sweep from the Timberwolves gentleman, announcing the end of the Lakers' season; it also ended the coaching debut of the Lakers' new coach Redick.

This rookie coach was well received during the regular season.

To be honest, I am also his persistent supporter. He lived up to the third place in the Western Conference, and his score was much better than Ham.

However, in the cruel playoffs, he seemed at a loss and showed his true nature as a rookie.

Why did a coach with 80 points in the regular season actually fall to negative points in the playoffs? This is a question I have been thinking about for a long time.

Of course, the Lakers have factors such as the franchise and the players' performance, but Redick also made an unforgivable mistake:

Let's talk about the "five small" problem first. Redick is almost obsessed with the five small, and the five small represents Redick's standard answer.

When the Lakers encounter difficulties, he will be on the "five small".

During the regular season, since the Lakers only had Hayes, a pure center, his strategic significance was very important. He played half of the regular season, one, four, and half of the regular season.

One big and four small is to reduce the time of five small, so that the five small can be consumed, and maintain physical fitness at critical moments. Good steel is used on the blade.

So one, one, four, and four are extremely important. Even the warriors of the dynasty, which are known for their five small minorities, need Bogut and Zaza to fill in the regular time.

Redick's obsession with five small children is even more extreme, and he gives up on one, one, four small children at any time.

Heis met Gobert in the playoffs and could not compete, could not score, and could not grab the rebound, while Redick directly DNPed him, completely abandoning his height, giving up the regular season arrangement, and five small teams in the entire line.

No adjustments are made here on Redick, such as Hayes being substituted and Hayes being connected to the connection section. His height can barely come in handy. The five small points in the entire line put the Lakers at an absolute disadvantage in the Timberwolves and their offense and defense were suppressed.

On the offensive end, too many people use small to make big big, making the team's offense difficult. Due to the lack of big center cover, the offensive consumption of Doncic and Reeves has increased, and Reeves' performance has declined even more seriously. Although Doncic can still punish Gobert, when the Timberwolves use Reed, he seems to be difficult.

On the defensive end, the Lakers have two innate defensive loopholes, Doncic and Reeves, and they are targeted by the opponent, and it is difficult to hide them.

James showed a good defensive level in the playoffs, fighting against the Timberwolves in the interior, but it also consumed physical fitness and affected the offensive lethality, so he could not punish Gobert.

The defensive mode of small profits and big profits is destined to be unable to defend against large sizes, which further amplifies the defensive defects. The Timberwolves suppressed the Lakers with their size, and took advantage of the Lakers' preference for unlimited defense replacements, constantly misplaced against Reeves, Randall even played his masterpiece in the playoffs. Gobert also scored a terrifying 27 points and 24 rebounds in G5.

When five small problems were constantly exposed, he briefly got on Kleber in G5, but unfortunately he was dropping to the bucket.

This involves Redick's "paradox" of using five smalls:

The five smalls have obvious disadvantages in size, relying on mobility to achieve rapid offense and defense, but when facing large centers, defense is easy to be incompatible.

Therefore, the five small players need top offensive firepower to make up for their defensive weaknesses (even Warriors with historical defenders like Mengmeng Green are still the same when they play for five).

In short, offense is the bottom-up logic of the five smalls. Then, Knector, who has strong offensive firepower and strongest running ability, should have been an important part of the Lakers' Five Primary School.

But Redick doesn't like Kneckett for two reasons:

1. Kneckett has poor defense;

2. Kneckett once did not run as Redick requires, and was scolded by Redick in public.

Here, Redick's basketball logic is extremely strange, and he prefers defense.

His five small points are defense-oriented, playing fast breaks and three-pointers.

So in the choice between Kneckett and Goodwin, he gave up Kneckett and chose Goodwin, who had strong defense but poor spatial attributes.

The absurdity is that you have a clear disadvantage in body shape and you have no effect in fighting against the Timberwolves. Goodwin also dragged down the Lake's offense and was eventually abandoned by Wuwu.

But even though Goodwin was DNP, Redick still couldn't match Kneckett.

When you are doomed to be unable to defend against the Timberwolves' large size, Knector's offensive firepower may become another solution, but because of Redick's stubbornness and prejudice, we can no longer witness it.

With Kneckett, Hayes and Redick successively DNP, the Lakers ushered in a more serious problem: short rotation.

Redick's regular season reputation turned from the last ten games, and he decided to compress the rotation to meet the short rotation requirements of the playoffs.

And the first one to be operated was "Old Show" Kneckett.

This kind of reduction rotation is very deliberate and even arbitrary. Goodwin + Vanderbilt + Vincent's connection performance was poor but he had always gained trust.

Generally speaking, coaches will prepare several plans for the playoffs and will not deliberately suppress certain players to maintain the competitive spirit of players and achieve "full use of everything".

And Redick really only has one plan. He finalized the nine-player rotation (James, Doncic, Reeves, Haymura Less, Finney Sarz, and Vincent, Goodwin, Hayes, Vanderbilt), played the regular moments of the first and fourth smalls, and the five smalls were connected to the critical moments. When the first and fourth smalls were frustrated, he defeated the short rotation and the five smalls in the entire line.

The Lakers will not have surprises (it is important to know that Ham used the surprises Lonnie Walker to help the team eliminate the Warriors in the 23rd season).

Once the five small numbers are frustrated, they will continue to reduce their rotation..

So everyone saw that the five players played in the second half against the Timberwolves G4, which even created an NBA historical record, which was even more extreme than Thibodeau and Nash (I remembered that I mocked Thibodeau for many years, and now I found that the Joker is myself!)

G4's second half was just an extreme performance. If we don't regard people with playing time less than 10 minutes as normal rotation, the Lakers have actually been a six-player rotation since G2.

It was not until G5 that it barely returned to the normal seven-player rotation. Although shortening rotation in the NBA playoffs is the general trend, the rotation of seven players is already the lower limit.

The Knights were wounded in the 2015 finals and they all had to form the Seven Jedi Warriors. The Lakers are better. G2 starts early on "Jedi Six Warriors", and G4 is even more "Jedi Five Warriors" in the second half.

In history, the playoff rotation was so short that I also thought that Thunder coach Donovan had done this in a specific game in the 2016 season!

The consequence of the short rotation is that the physical fitness is severely overdrawn, and the physical fitness is bottoming out at the end of the fourth quarter, so the Timberwolves were taken away by the Timberwolves due to their lack of physical fitness.

The most ironic thing is that the G5 Lakers changed to a seven-player rotation, but found that there was no need for five players to play in the second half of the G4.

Someone available to the Lakers, who could have extended the rotation.

But why did Redick dare not use it? I can only say that he might be panicked and didn't know how to deal with it (some people also explained that he was very gambled, and G4 wanted to take a gamble).

In short, obsessed with five small and short rotation, Redick's performance in the entire playoffs was "negative points", which was completely incomparable to Hamm last season.

I have been against calling Ham for a season, but Redick's performance in this playoffs is outrageous.

Ham's platoon was quite good at the other side. He fought wits and courage with Jenkins and Cole in 23 years. Of course, his details on the spot were poor.

And Redick has a poor foundation, so bad that he can no longer talk about the details.

Compared to him being at ease in the regular season, he is mediocre and incompetent in the playoffs that are highly targeted.

So after the playoffs, Redick's reputation fell off like the Leifeng Tower in history.

Although Redickard does not match the position, after the end of the season, James, Doncic and Pelinka all supported him. It is estimated that he will remain in the coach position for a while, so the Lakers can only pray for him to make progress!