I have to admit, I was surprised when the Suns came out and played zone for the majority of Game 4.  I was thinking that it was going to be a one game thing where the Suns used the zone to grab the momentum and get themselves back in the series.  However, it didn’t work that way.  Coming out of halftime, the Lakers made a really nice adjustment on offense to counter the Suns’ zone.  It was up to the Suns to counter that in the fourth, and coach Alvin Gentry stepped up and did.

Third Quarter

In the third quarter, the Lakers would bring the ball up and enter it to the wing opposite of where Kobe Bryant is set up.  The purpose of this was to get the Suns’ basic zone to shift towards the ball and away from Kobe Bryant.

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