The Lakers won the first two home games in the second round of this playoffs quite easily, and the Lakers have established a huge advantage when they basically enter the fourth quarter, the reason for this is that the tactics of SuperSonics head coach George Karl are restrained by Lakers head coach George Crent's tactics, and on the other hand, because of the existence of Liu Han, for the current supersonic team, Liu Han itself is an insoluble existence, unless the Lakers make mistakes in the game, otherwise it is difficult for the supersonic team to establish an advantage. And Liu Han is precisely the kind of player who is as stable as a rock, and there are only two players in the current league with this temperament, one is Liu Han, and the other is Tim Duncan, a super rookie of the Spurs.

However, the two big wins are happy for Lakers fans, who feel that their home team will sweep the SuperSonics to advance to the Western Conference Finals again like they did in last year's playoffs.

The Lakers' performance has also led many media and basketball commentators to believe that they will easily beat the SuperSonics.

For the league, the rise of the Lakers last season is commendable, but the impact of the current Lakers on the future development of the league is likely to be negative. With the Bulls being overturned by the Lakers when they established a dynasty for the second time, and a group of Bulls players are also declining with age, then the Bulls will not become the team that dominates the league again, which is good for the development of the league, and now the strength shown by the Lakers team makes the league's top brass worry that they will dominate for a long time, which is a huge harm to the overall competitiveness of the league, so the Lakers must be suppressed in the coming season.

While David Stern was thinking about how to curb the Lakers' play in the coming season, the playoffs were still moving forward.

In the Eastern Conference playoffs on the same day that the Lakers and the SuperSonics face off in Game 2 of the second round of the playoffs, the visiting Charlotte Hornets won a surprising 78-76 victory over the Bulls.

The Hornets played badly in the first three quarters, scoring just 13 points in the first quarter and just 49 points in the first three quarters, and they were like bees who couldn't find the North under the Bulls' tight defense. Although the Bulls didn't play well on offense today, they did a good job defensively, and they still led by eight points in the fourth quarter.

But what no one expected was that the Hornets seemed to be a different team after entering the fourth quarter, Glen Rice only scored 2 points in the first three quarters, but in the fourth quarter, he directly incarnated as a super shooter and played a defensive game against his Pippen.

The Hornets staged a comeback in the fourth quarter, scoring 29 points in the fourth quarter while the Bulls scored only 19 points, and in the end, with Glen Les' last-minute shot, the Hornets won 78-76 away from the Bulls to tie the overall score at 1-1.

On May 7, the Knicks played the Pacers again, and in the face of the fierce defense of the Pacers, although the Knicks played very hard, they finally had no choice but to fail. They lost their second game on the road 77-85.

In the second matchup between the Spurs and the Jazz, the two teams staged an offensive battle, with the Spurs scoring 20 points and rookie Tim Duncan scoring a game-high 26 points and nine rebounds. David Robinson also scored 21 points and 14 rebounds, but the Jazz blossomed as a team, with six players scoring in double figures, Karl Malone and Jeff Hornacek both scoring 20, and in the end, relying on Stockton's key three-pointer with 15 seconds left before the end of the game, the Jazz won 109-106 over the Spurs.

On May 8, the Bulls came to the road to challenge the Hornets, and after an unexpected loss in the last game, the Bulls stepped up their offense in this game, they played 12 players in this game, 11 of them scored, and the Hornets, who had a lot of scoring points, couldn't find a way to defend.

Although the Hornets Glen Les scored 31 points, only Anthony Mason Jr. and Divac scored 10 points outside of him. In the end, the Hornets lost to the Bulls at home, and the overall score came to 2-1, and the Bulls took the lead.

After a day off, the Lakers also started their road trip to Portland to take on the Trail Blazers on the road.

The referee for this game was Steve Jarvey, who was hired in 1986, and the 43-year-old referee is a new and well-known referee in the NBA, and his original partner was "Bald" Crawford.

Jarvi had been given hints from the league before the start of this game, and after being a referee for more than a dozen seasons, Jarvi knew exactly what he was supposed to do in this game.

After the SuperSonics experienced the first two defeats, head coach George Carr made a "big move" in this game, since the Lakers' offense is so strong, then try every means to interrupt the Lakers' offensive rhythm, so that the Lakers have no way to play a smooth offensive coordination, so that the SuperSonics have a chance to fight with the Lakers.

What makes the SuperSonics happier is that at the beginning of this game, they felt that the referee's scale was more lenient today, and many actions that would have been judged to be fouls before were let go in this game.

The Lakers did not change the starting lineup again in this game, and George Krent felt that the current Lakers team could be regarded as completely growing, and the players could cope with the situation on the court.

However, what the Lakers didn't expect was that they felt that it was difficult to play at the beginning of this game.

When jumping the ball in the middle circle, O'Neal still won, but the ball he dialed out was obtained by the SuperSonics, Gary Payton grabbed Nash's clothes with a hidden action when he grabbed the ball with Nash, so that the opponent had no way to jump, and he himself saw the right time to grab the ball, but the Lakers' retreat was quite fast, and the SuperSonics did not have the awareness to launch a fast attack, so the game formed a positional battle from the beginning.

Payton dribbled the ball across the half, center Jim McYlvain mentioned the outside line to cover Payton, Nash originally bypassed Jim's cover, but the opponent moved to block Nash again, this action would definitely be blown to move to cover the foul if it was usual, but today the referee did not blow the whistle.

Payton relied on cover to break to the three-point line and then scored two points on a pull-up jumper. Nash also signaled to the referee because of the opponent's actions, but the referee Javi did not show the slightest indication.

The Lakers attacked, Nash dribbled the ball across the half court and hoisted the ball to O'Neal inside, this tactic is now a regular tactic for the Lakers, O'Neal has a huge advantage on the inside, and it is a crime to put such a strong center without it.

However, O'Neal just received the ball and was about to dribble and then turn and force up, but Payton's pinch came very quickly, and he cut the ball directly. Payton's steal hit O'Neal directly, and after the ball landed, it was picked up by supersonic center Jim, and O'Neal angrily signaled to the referee that the opposing hitter had fouled, but Jarvi still didn't say anything.

At this time, the SuperSonics took advantage of the Lakers' stunned attack to launch a fast break, and their German small forward Schramf made a pull-up jump shot in the fast break and hit a mid-range shot. The SuperSonics took a surprise four-point lead over the Lakers in the opening stanza.

The players of the Lakers team all felt a trace of anger, because the referee was really a little wrong today, they were taken care of before, but now not only are they not taken care of, but they are also very targeted, which makes the young people of the Lakers team inevitably feel a little angry.

What the Lakers didn't expect, though, was that this was just the beginning of their tough game. (To be continued.) )