The basketball flew high in the middle circle, and although O'Neal was obese, he could still crush Nowitzki with bounce, and the foundation was too good to do anything.

The Lakers have built confidence in the game after the last victory, and it has also proved that the "four kings" can form a good chemistry on the court at the same time, although the proof of this argument dragged on for a whole season, but at least it worked at the most critical moment. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

O'Neal's ball was grabbed by Finley, and the Lakers stabilized their formation to play positional battles.

It was still a triangle offense, and the Lakers' tactical execution finally reached a reasonable standard in the Western Conference Finals, with Malone, Payton and Finley all putting aside their caution and starting to take the game seriously, and under the strong pressure of the Mavericks, the Lakers' combination was squeezed out of its potential.

Payton hoisted the ball to O'Neal, but as soon as O'Neal caught the ball, Liu Han, who was originally defending Payton, turned around and wrapped O'Neal.

Seeing that Liu Han had turned around and wrapped up, O'Neal didn't dare to be careless, if it was someone else, he might have played directly, but Liu Han was different, O'Neal knew very well that although his old friend had never been selected as the best defensive player, his defensive ability should not be underestimated, and being able to one-on-one with Jordan back then was enough to prove Liu Han's defensive ability.

O'Neal took advantage of Liu Han's turn to wrap up and pass the ball directly to Payton on the outside, and there was no one in front of him to defend, and Payton couldn't resist the temptation to shoot directly with three points.

Basketball in the basket after the delay directly into the air, Payton overestimated his three-point ability, since joining the NBA in the 90-91 season, Payton's three-point shooting rate has never exceeded 40%, he is not a point guard with three-point deterrence, he relies more on his breakthrough and defensive ability.

O'Neal wanted to fight for the rebound, but he was directly sandwiched by Nowitzki and Liu Han, and there was no room to move at all, and there were many players from the Mavericks under the basket, and the Lakers opened up all the interior space for O'Neal because of the offense just now, and Odom grabbed the rebound directly.

When Odom grabbed the rebound, the Mavericks players and Lakers players collectively rushed to the Lakers half, but when Odom passed the ball out, Josh Howard and Liu Han of the Mavericks had already thrown off the Lakers players, and only Finley could barely keep up.

Liu Han received a pass from Odom on the right side of the center circle and accelerated directly to the Lakers' basket, Finley tried to get close to Liu Han because he had to prevent Liu Han from suddenly shooting a three-pointer, but Liu Han passed the ball to Josh Howard on the left side in the middle of the road.

Josh Howard received the ball and instead of dribbling, he threw it high into the basket.

Finley also tried to block the pass, but Josh Howard's pass arced so high that Liu Han fell from the sky and pressed the ball directly into the basket as the basketball approached the basket.

In the boos of Staples, you can vaguely hear some cheers, this is the old fans of the Lakers who are still nostalgic for Liu Han, they vaguely seem to see the figure of the year, but the purple and gold jersey worn by the Oriental back then.

After the loss in the last game, the Mavericks summed up their new ideas, rather than passively fighting with the Lakers, it is better to completely maximize their advantages, and the Mavericks' biggest advantage now is amazing speed and accurate outside projection ability.

The Lakers didn't expect the Mavericks to play so resolutely on the road today, and the Mavericks' thinking can be seen from the defense in the first round, that is, to resolutely limit O'Neal's play and let others go.

The game continued, the Lakers still tried to open the situation from the inside after advancing to the frontcourt, but this time O'Neal was struggling to connect the ball, Payton wanted to give O'Neal a hanging ball, but Liu Han directly let go of Payton two or three meters, and faintly kept pinching O'Neal, the Lakers had to transfer the ball to reorganize the offense, Payton was much more cautious after losing his first shot, and sometimes he would worry too much when he was older.

The Lakers' offense was quite patient, but it also showed that they were a little overwhelmed, and finally when the 24-second offensive time was about to expire, Malone made a shot in the high post, and the ball barely rolled into the basket.

After the goal, everyone on the Lakers barely said anything, but lowered their heads and accelerated the retreat, for fear that the Mavericks would chase and counterattack again.

But this time the Mavericks pushed steadily to the frontcourt.

After Liu Han held the ball to the frontcourt, Finley immediately defended it, but Nowitzki also immediately came over to make a solid cover for Liu Han.

Liu Han broke through with the ball against Nowitzki's back, and Finley immediately bypassed Nowitzki to chase Liu Han, but Liu Han did not break through, but stepped back behind Nowitzki and shot directly outside the three-point line.

The ball flew into the net in a perfect arc, and the Mavericks' offense was simple and resolute, but at the same time it was also dangerous, and such a fast and concise offensive style was actually the real tactical core of the Mavericks this season.

The Lakers immediately panicked when they saw Liu Han turn on the scoring mode at the beginning, and now any team in the league will be worried about Liu Han's outburst when facing the Mavericks, and no one will doubt Liu Han's scoring ability.

Phil, who was originally sitting on the bench? Jackson walked to the sideline and gestured to the players on the court, which is rare, Phil? Jackson was mindful of his image.

The Lakers began to change their style of play in the next offense, O'Neal no longer sat on the inside attack, but took the initiative to raise the high post to cover his teammates, while Malone fell to the low post and waited for a single opportunity.

However, the Mavericks directly switched to joint defense in this defense, and let the Lakers' outside shoot completely blocked the inside, and the tactics of shrinking the defense were specially prepared for O'Neal by the Mavericks in this game.

The Lakers, who couldn't break through to the inside, had to shoot a three-pointer from Finley on the perimeter, but the ball still bounced out of the basket, and Staples didn't seem to help the home team much today.

This time, the rebound was grabbed by Jamison, and the Mavericks' interior players have improved a lot after Olajuwon's training on how to get in and grab rebounds, and they must protect every rebound if they want to play a more threatening fast break.

After grabbing the rebound, the Mavericks were a thunderous fast break, and although the Lakers retreated to defend early, they still couldn't stop the Mavericks' fast break.

The Mavericks played very smoothly with the rapid advance of two or three people in a small area, and the three-line fast break combined with the sudden three-point shooting in the rapid march gave many teams a headache, and this time it was the turn of the Lakers.

It's still Liu Han, the last time he completed the fast break, this time he suddenly stopped when he received the ball, and shot three points one meter outside the three-point line, and the Mavericks beat the Lakers in less than two minutes of the opening game with an eight-to-two, and all these eight points were scored by Liu Han.