Phil Jackson just replaced Jordan and Pippen, George Krent also immediately replaced Liu Han and O'Neal, the two veterans Dell Curry and Byron Scott after completing their tasks, they did not do much, but they did a good job of stabilizing the mood of the Lakers' young players.

Liu Han returned to the scoring guard position after being replaced this time, and officially began to match Jordan, and the confrontation between the core players of the two teams is worth everyone's expectations.

The Bulls went on offense, and their backup point guard, Randy Brown, handed the ball to Scott Pippen after dribbling through half court.

Pippen took the ball to defend against Kittels, although Kittels was fast, but his weight and strength were much worse than Pippen, and Pippen took the opportunity to start hitting hard inside with his back.

The Lakers didn't dare to let Pippen play Kittels alone, and Campbell stepped forward to pinch Pippen early.

Pippen saw the vacancy, but he didn't want to pass the ball, because the vacant position was Rodman, and passing to Rodman could only allow the Bulls to reorganize the offense, but at this time Jordan and Liu Han were still frantically grabbing positions, and the Lakers' defense in other positions was also doing a good job, and there was no chance to pass, so Pippen could only pass the ball to Rodman.

Rodman hesitated after receiving the ball at the top of the arc because he had never had such a chance, but he suddenly shot after hesitation, which not only did the Lakers not expect, but also his own teammates.

After Rodman's shot, Liu Han began to run to the basket to grab the rebound, because he could see that the ball was off and basically wouldn't touch the basket.

Rodman himself realized that the ball was definitely gone, and he himself began to run to the basket to grab the rebound.

The ball hit the rebound in the air and then fell to the ground again, which was not expected by Liu Han, and Rodman's shot was outrageously off.

Just when Liu Han jumped up and was about to grab this rebound, Rodman also appeared, he was taller than Liu Han, and his arm span was also very good, although he couldn't grab the rebound directly, but he got the ball before Liu Han.

The ball was pulled out by Rodman and fell directly into the hands of Jordan, who was lucky enough to get the ball, and Jordan immediately scored two points, and the Bulls closed the gap to five points.

Although Liu Han despises Rodman's personality, he has to admit that this guy's rebounding is indeed very good.

The Lakers returned to the baseline serve, Nash passed the half smoothly under the pressure of Randy Brown's full-court press, although Nash couldn't defend, he didn't have any problems with dribbling and movement, and there was no pressure on the defense of a player like Randy Brown.

After halftime, Nash did not hand the ball directly to Liu Han, but relied on O'Neal's cover to block and dismantle O'Neal.

After officially opposing Jordan, Liu Han and Jordan will fall into a crazy grab every time they attack and defend, they are very clear about each other's strength, as long as either side gets the ball, the defensive side will fall into passivity, so the two superstars almost every ball has to be like just now.

Seeing this situation and his clever decision to directly block O'Neal, now that the Bulls are not all starters on the court, and their bench players are not very good, this is a good opportunity for O'Neal.

Although the Lakers' blocking is not as smooth and standardized as the Jazz, it has a little more agility under Nash's handling, O'Neal received Nash's very hidden armpit pass smoothly, and then dragged the Bulls' backup center Dick Simpkins to complete the dunk, and the referee's whistle sounded.

Seeing that the Bulls were still at a disadvantage on the court, Phil Jackson did not hesitate to replace all the starters immediately, the Bulls did lack some available role players on the bench, which is related to the management of the Bulls, with Jordan's return, his salary has risen very quickly, which makes the Bulls' salary space has been insufficient, and it is difficult to invite suitable role players.

The Lakers didn't change the starters, their lineup is not bad, and they can play a good match, which is actually the tactic that George Krent has been helping the Lakers build, any five players on the team can play a smooth offensive coordination on the court, which is the strongest part of this Lakers team.

The confrontation between Liu Han and Jordan can be said to explode each other, and neither side has a good way to limit the opponent's scoring, and can only find a way to control the opponent's reception, which makes the core of both teams somewhat out of the team's tactical system, and most of the competition between the two sides has become a confrontation between role players.

"Well, to be honest, I didn't expect the finals to turn out like this, Jordan and Liu almost focused all their energy on how to grab the position, these two players are very similar in all aspects except for their different skin colors, although Liu's physical fitness was not very good when he first entered the league, but he seems to have undergone very hard training in the past two years, and now his physical condition is not inferior to Jordan at all, and it can even be said that he is better than Jordan now, but this kind of game has disappointed us." As Jordan's old nemesis, Isena Thomas, although his position today is to support the Eastern team, he has not forgotten to attack his old rival with cryptic language.

Jordan was defeated by the Pistons three times in the Eastern Conference Finals in the late eighties, which made the proud Jordan simply unbearable, and he even publicly stated before the Barcelona Olympics in '92 that he would not participate if Thomas was on the U.S. national team, which made Thomas miss out on the glory of the Dream Team that year.

"Boy, can you please not stick to me like snot, it makes you look annoying." Jordan constantly irritates Liu Han with trash talk.

"The most sticky thing about snot is your nostrils, Michael, my sexuality is normal, so I can't accept your affection. But I can introduce you to the best gay bars in Los Angeles. Liu Han's response made Jordan angry, he didn't expect that this stupid boy before was so slippery now, thanks to O'Neal's teaching, after a long time of contact with O'Neal, Liu Han was inevitably influenced by the other party.

The first person who can't hold on in the stalking is Jordan, he has always been a very proud person, and now it is the first time that he has no way to participate in the team's offense by Liu Han like this, so he began to change his style of play, no longer standing in a position, but began to find teammates as cover, hoping to get rid of Liu Han's entanglement.

However, Jordan underestimated Liu Han's toughness, although he relied on the cover of his teammates to temporarily shake off Liu Han, as long as he paused slightly, he would be entangled by the other party again.

Both teams' offense had a certain impact after the lack of core players, but the Lakers' side had O'Neal inside, which gave the Lakers an advantage to a certain extent, so as the game continued, the Lakers extended their lead to 10.

Phil Jackson saw Jordan on the court caught up in Liu Han's entanglement, and the team's offense began to gradually fall into a slump, which made him begin to struggle, and any coach would have trouble in the face of such a situation. For a long time, the offensive endpoint of the Bulls has been Jordan, and now that Jordan is completely killed by Liu Han, the Bulls will definitely not adapt.

With about eight minutes into the second quarter, Phil Jackson had to call another timeout, and the Bulls were in a bad position. (To be continued.) )