"Houston is a city that's really fanatical."

While Lakers players have been to the same frenetic Seattle in the playoffs this season, Houston's strong playoff vibe has some rookies stunned.

"This is the essence of the hegemon of the west for many years."

When a team wins all the time, the loyalty and fanaticism of your fans is sure to grow. Houston was a strong team in the 1980s, and Olajuwon's entire career team has built a very suitable lineup for him, except for the early days of his career, when Olajuwon did not pass the ball, Houston was a competitive team at other times.

The Lakers players stayed in Houston the day before the game.

"Michael is really good." After dinner, everyone sat together eating popcorn and watching the Heat and the Bulls' G2.

In the first game, the Bulls destroyed the poor man's version of the Big Three that Pat Riley had worked so hard to build, and their engine, Tim Hardaway, was blocked by Jordan and Harper, the point guard who had been in full swing in the first two rounds of the game, and the Bulls' defense was completely out of the league's first-team standard.

G2, Jordan's hand was also terrible in this game. His mid-range is inaccurate, which is common, any superstar has a time when he loses his touch, but some players can only hurt the team to keep throwing the ball to find their touch when they encounter this situation.

And Michael Jordan in this game still dominated the game in a bad hand!

Jordan played 43 minutes on 4-of-15 shooting and 15-of-16 from the free-throw line, with 23 points, 9 rebounds, 3 assists, 4 steals, 1 block, 2 turnovers and 1 foul.

In this game, when Jordan found that he had a bad hand, he immediately adjusted his style of play and hit the basket on a large scale to make free throws.

16 free throws, giving Mourning a headache.

The Heat's outside defenders couldn't hold Jordan's breakthrough at all, as long as Jordan wanted to, he could go to the basket and face Mourning directly.

Jordan seems to be learning the style of play of Kobe Bryant in the first game, and he breaks through crazy! Crazy into the inside line! It's just looking for Mo Ning to find confrontation!

Even if he was thrown to the ground by Mourning, Jordan was frantically impacting the basket.

In the end, Mourning was beaten by Jordan to six fouls in 26 minutes, and with the departure of the Heat's absolute strength against the Bulls, the Heat finally lost to the Bulls.

In this meat grinder-like battle, both sides scored very low!

Heat 68:75 Bulls!

This game is literally a Verdun-like meat grinder war, where everyone is hand-to-hand! Everyone couldn't score in a fierce confrontation defense!

Jordan's 23 is already the highest in the game!

Tim Hardaway played 42 minutes on 5-of-16 shooting and 5-of-6 from the free-throw line for 15 points, 5 rebounds, 5 assists, 2 steals, 4 turnovers and 3 fouls.

Blocked, Tim Hardaway was blocked in this game as well as an average outside starter.

Phil Jackson's arrangement is for Jordan to target Tim Hardaway and break down Pat Riley's tactical core.

Jordan succeeded! So the Heat lost!

Pippen had 23 points, 7 rebounds, 1 assist, 1 steal, 1 block and 5 turnovers.

Mourning had 14 points, 8 rebounds, 1 assist and 3 blocks.

None of the remaining players scored in double figures!

"Kobe, can you play this kind of defense normally?" O'Neal's face is solemn, he is not afraid of Chicago's inside line, it can be said that he is the strongest point of the Lakers against the Bulls, but seeing Mourning's performance, he is also a little uneasy.

If Jordan attacks his defense like this, he can't stand it!

The Bulls' perimeter defense has risen more than a notch from the regular season, where Kobe Bryant was able to play in the regular season, as were other guards like Tim Hardaway.

But the Bulls in the playoffs are a completely different team!

Jordan changes every year in the playoffs, if Jordan in the regular season is a superstar, there are many players in history who can compare with him in the regular season, and even many players have better performance and statistics than Jordan in the regular season.

But the playoffs! Michael Jordan is the only gear!

No one can take their performance to the next level like him!

On the 50th anniversary of professional basketball, there are only a handful of players like Michael Jordan who are stronger and stronger at critical moments.

Will Kobe be able to play well with Jordan and even Pippen Harper's defense?

Even O'Neill wasn't so sure.

Kobe Bryant smiled slightly, without words.

Words are no more convincing than deeds.

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"Hakim, don't worry, I'll definitely give the Lakers a good look in this game." Barkley patted his chest and assured Olajuwon.

Now there is a talk out there that if it weren't for Barkley's impulsiveness to make himself unable to play two games, the Lakers would not have been able to beat Houston.

Olajuwon's supernatural play is almost one-to-two. If it weren't for the lack of physical strength, it would be really hard to say who would win and who would lose.

In addition, Barkley is the strongest opponent of Houston against the Lakers, if he is on the court, his offensive and defensive output can definitely attract a lot of defense and energy to the Lakers, which greatly allows Olajuwon to save his physical strength until the last moment of the game.

Maybe Drexler will also explode because of the reduced pressure on both the offensive and defensive ends. As you can see from their game against the Jazz, the Big Three, almost every game has someone to stand up. In the end, they also won the series and defeated the Jazz.

The media's claims are definitely not groundless, if it weren't for Barkley's self-righteous tricks and getting himself down, Houston might really be able to win a game on the Lakers' home court.

As long as they grab a home win, then Houston will play well in the rest of the game, and it will definitely not be cornered like now.

2:0 still has a chance to turn the tables.

3:0 There has never been a series comeback in history.

Olajuwon nodded, and he was happy with Ross Barkley's return. In his opinion, the last game was only a little bit close, and it was only a little bit worse than beating the Lakers.

Plus Charles, although Charles loves tricks.

But you can win!

"Charles, play seriously, don't make off-the-beaten-track moves."

Olajuwon's tone was calm.

But Barkley didn't dare to be careless, this is the order of the real boss of the team, as long as he wants to stay on the Rockets team, he must not let Olajuwon be dissatisfied with him.

And the performance of the first game Hakim although did not say! But there must be an idea.

Although Barkley is reckless, he knows how to judge the situation very well, otherwise he would not have joined Houston to hug Olajuwon's thigh without beating.

It can be said that Barkley is not afraid of heaven and earth! I'm afraid of the current Olajuwon.

"Understood, Hakim. Look at me in this game! ”