Chapter 120: Staples's Sigh (Part II)

The 03-04 season was a ups and downs for Lakers fans, at the beginning of the season came the news that China's Liu will return to the NBA, countless Lakers fans are looking forward to the good times of the past can be repeated, but unfortunately they not only did not welcome Liu Han's return, even the meritorious coach George who led the team to almost create a dynasty? Krent also left. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

After all, in the eyes of ordinary fans, even though Malone and Payton are very old, they are both legendary superstars, and with superstars, the team will prosper, but unfortunately, the team's results at the beginning of the season were not ideal, and the "Four Heavenly Kings" failed to play their worth, and Phil? Jackson's tactics are in a sense not very suitable for the current Lakers.

However, in the middle of the season, the team regained some of its former glory, although it has been suppressed by the Mavericks, but the team still played the second place in the league, and the picture of O'Neal and Liu Han lifting the MVP trophy together in the All-Star Game also brought tears to the eyes of the Lakers' old fans, but after the All-Star Game, the team's state took a sharp turn for the worse, the team was plagued by injuries, and the results also declined quickly, being surpassed by the Timberwolves and Spurs.

In the playoffs, the Lakers gave fans hope again, they didn't have much trouble to reach the Western Conference finals, met the Mavericks led by the Chinese who led the team to create new glory, and throughout the season, Lakers fans were like a roller coaster, looking forward to the arrival of the championship in the ups and downs.

This game is like a microcosm of the Lakers' season this season, with a bad start, catching up, and then encountering problems, continuing to catch up.

However, when the third quarter began, the situation on the court suddenly changed dramatically, and the Mavericks suddenly went berserk at the beginning of the third quarter, with players making mistakes one after another, and their shooting percentage suddenly dropping, and it seemed that Staples had finally begun to take care of the home team.

Although Liu Han's offensive end is still omnipotent, but his teammates are helpless, Nowitzki, Odom and Jamison and other main players suddenly think that they can't play, and they will suddenly lose the ball in a simple attack, and Odom even staged a farce of dribbling the ball to his feet and popping up on the sideline.

The Lakers took the opportunity to launch a 14-5 offensive wave to narrow the gap to two points in one fell swoop.

O'Neal was the Lakers' starter at the start of the third quarter, first knocking out Nowitzki's shots in defense and then hitting Nowitzki's two-and-one offense, causing the team to be saddled with his fourth foul less than four minutes into the third quarter.

Staples fans began to get excited, they saw an opportunity to take the lead, they saw an opportunity to hit Liu Han, and Lakers fans were hoping that Liu Han would regret his choice to join the Mavericks in the first place.

Nelson called a timeout five minutes into the third quarter, and the team was now completely out of shape.

After the timeout, Nelson was very bold to replace most of the main players, and let Liu Han take a group of benches to play with the Lakers, and the three rookies Korver, Xue Yuyang and Josh Howard all got the appearance.

Although being young sometimes means inexperienced, it also means that they are not afraid, and young people are more impactful in the game, and they dare to make shots, which is the main spirit that Nielsen has given to the young people of the team.

Led by Liu Han, a group of young people from the Mavericks played on a par with the Lakers, while Nelson on the sidelines mercilessly reprimanded the main players who were replaced.

For the rest of the third quarter, the Mavericks responded to the game with a semi-bench lineup, but fortunately did not get overtaken by the Lakers again.

The Mavericks entered the final showdown of the fourth quarter with a slim two-point advantage.

At the beginning of the fourth quarter, Liu Han was rested, and the Lakers also came off the bench, at which time Nelson replaced some of the main players who were replaced in the third quarter, and the Mavericks began to dominate again.

After some reprimands from Nelson, the main players of the Mavericks who returned to the court played actively, Nowitzki relied on his golden rooster independence trick to repeatedly score on the head of the Lakers substitute Medvidenko, and the Ukrainian paid for three fouls in less than three minutes, and the Lakers had to replace O'Neal and others on the court in advance.

The main players of the Lakers returned ahead of schedule, and Nelson did not dare to be careless, so he immediately sent Liu Han, and the decisive battle between the two teams came early.

The Lakers were very careful about their foul count in this game, and after the matchup, they began to use fouls to interrupt the Mavericks' offensive rhythm, and the Mavericks also began to use the "shark-cutting" tactic, and the game in the fourth quarter began to become long and boring.

The scores of the two sides began to alternate leads, and the Lakers even led the Mavericks by three points at one point, but Liu Han used three points to re-equalize.

As the game entered the final five minutes of the fourth quarter, the Mavericks led the Lakers by two points.

The game was in full swing, and the Staples fans were much quieter, eager to see the final result.

With three minutes left in the game, the Mavericks were hit when Nowitzki was fouled on a rebound and he was fouled for six fouls, depriving the Mavericks of their only interior pillar and important scoring point.

O'Neal hit two more of his free throws to help the Lakers extend the deficit to four points, and the situation turned extremely bad for the Mavericks, and Staples re-erupted in cheers as Lakers fans saw the light of day.

In the final moments, Liu Han reincarnated as a savior, just as he defeated the Jazz in a seven-tie tie in his rookie season.

In the last three minutes, Liu Han carried the Mavericks on his shoulders alone, and in defense he successfully blocked O'Neal's dunk, and then grabbed a three-point shot, although the Lakers scored two points again by Malone, but then Liu Han forced a three-point shot through the double defense of Finley and Payton, and the double reversal was tied at 109 with less than 50 seconds left in the game.

The Lakers called a long timeout, and Phil Jackson orchestrated two sets of tactics to face what could be the last chance to attack.

The Lakers' offense was extremely patient, and although their stamina was close to exhaustion, the players still tried their best to run and cover.

The Mavericks also defended very seriously against the Lakers' offense, and they barely showed any gaps for the Lakers.

When the 24-second offensive time was about to end, the Lakers forced a shot by Finley, but unfortunately the ball bounced out of the basket, but O'Neal miraculously grabbed the rebound and scored the ball on the second offense, and the Lakers pushed the Mavericks to the edge of the cliff.

Nelson also called a timeout, but he only said one word to the player during the timeout, and that was to hand over the final attack to Liu Han.

With 24 seconds left in the game, the Mavericks probably only had one chance left to make a shot.

Liu Han stabilized the ball after receiving the pass on the sideline, his heart was clear, all his thoughts were thrown away, and there was only one belief, that is, to score this goal.

As the clock ticked by, the whole of Staples fell silent, without the slightest sound.

In the last eight seconds, Liu Han moved, and the Lakers immediately began to prepare to wrap Liu Han.

Liu Han made a quick stop with the ball at the top of the arc and then suddenly turned to avoid Payton from the right side of the pack with five seconds left.

Finley clinged to Liu Han and didn't let Liu Han have any chance to shoot, and on the weak side, Malone did not hesitate to wrap up the last physical strength, Liu Han faced the Lakers' comprehensive package, and he didn't have much room to shoot.

In the last three seconds, Liu Han stopped again, and then forced a jump against Finley's defense, and Finley almost tried his best to jump to try to block Liu Han's shot.

In the last two seconds, Liu Han's body was still rising, and he didn't want to give the Lakers any chance.

At the last second, Liu Han pushed out the basketball in his hand, and the red light turned on.

"Brush—"

The basketball hollow swiped into the net, and the whole Staples was silent.

The cheers of the Mavericks sounded, accompanied by Staples's lonely "sigh", but it was the Lakers who were killed, and the one who shot the shot was the Chinese who brought the Lakers new glory.