"What, your coach still asked you to defend me? What about Kobe? Grant Hill held the ball at the top of the arc and leaned slightly to the left in a relaxed tri-threat pose.

"I'm enough." Bruce Bowen still put Grant Hill a step away, Grant Hill's long-range shooting ability is not strong, Harris made sure before the game, let Bowen defend and not shoot, after all, Hill's breakthrough is the most lethal.

As for three-point shooting, Hill has only made 0.4 three-point attempts this season, which is not to be feared at all.

"You? Not enough to see. Grant Hill said confidently, as if it were a fact.

Then, Grant Hill proved that what he said was the truth!

Breakthrough! With absolute confidence, Grant Hill crushed Bruce Bowen's defense, hung Bowen to make a strong basket, suddenly got the ball, stayed in the air, and threw the ball out.

“AND ONE！” With a yell, Hill's throw hit the rebound high and landed in the basket.

Kobe Bryant on the sidelines shook his head, this is the crushing of absolute talent, but Bowen has improved, and most of the time he can keep up with Grant Hill's first step, and it is rare that he has been cleaned up and let Hill directly challenge the inside, so that the attrition effect can still be played.

"Ben! Pay attention to the defense! Bryant shouted from the sidelines.

Ben Wallace gave a thumbs up, Kobe Bryant didn't say that he was ready to start helping defense, and there was no need for the bench to stick to the Pistons' third-rate role players.

Now the Lakers' bench lineup is to let Bowen play the No. 3 position, Horry to the power forward, and Ben Wallace to the center. Tyrese Knight is out.

In this way, the team is a standard small lineup, and the offensive speed and rotation speed will be increased. Harris wants to use a faster-paced offense and defense to wear down Grant Hill, who leads the bench.

"Rhythm up! Hasten! Hasten! Grant Hill's 2+1 didn't halt the Lakers' bench offense, pushing back to the front court immediately after Hill hit the free throw.

The basketball moves quickly, only two or three transmissions, and an offense can be completed in 10 seconds, and a large number of outside shots make the game very fast.

The Pistons, on the other hand, pressed the tempo, and Grant Hill controlled the ball and tried to ensure a success rate.

Facing Ben Wallace's bag, Grant Hill found his offensive pressure skyrocketing!

What's going on, this guy's defensive awareness and lateral speed are too fast!

Grant Hill burst under the basket, twisted his body, and scored the ball with an incredible reflexive pull-up layup.

Almost! Just almost got taken by Ben Wallace!

Harris crossed his arms and smiled on the sidelines, Grant Hill, you're in a cage and you don't know it.

In the bench battle between the two sides, the Pistons had a slight upper hand because of one more Hill, but the fast-paced offensive and defensive transitions and Ben Wallace's defensive threat made Hill tired.

That's what Harris wants, consume Grant Hill, drag the game to the end, and then use Kobe Bryant and O'Neal to decide the winner!

In the past 4 minutes of the second quarter, O'Neal took the lead on the court, received a pass from Horry, and scored 2+0 under the basket to announce his strong return.

Immediately after that, Kobe Bryant appeared on the court and began the offensive performance!

At this time, the score was 33:27 for the Detroit Pistons and the Los Angeles Lakers, and the difference had expanded to 6 points.

After Kobe Bryant came on the court, he first used his back and hit Joe Dumas with his back from the three-point line!

"Are you Buckley?" Joe Dumas was stunned and was caught off guard by Kobe Bryant to the free throw line, then Bryant shook his shoulders and then took a step across and threw the ball in with a beautiful step-back shot.

Picturesque!

Although it was only a two-point shot, Bryant's beautifully coordinated textbook-like projection still drew cheers from the fans of the Great Western Forum Arena.

At the same time, it is also a signal that they know that Kobe Bryant is going to start attacking.

Sure enough, Kobe Bryant was unforgiving, and after more than half a year of hard training, his strength was finally able to not be suppressed in front of Joe Dumas!

When the strength attribute is not suppressed, then Kobe Bryant is the strongest form!

20 years of technical experience can be put to use! Even the old and spicy Joe Dumas had no way to take Kobe, who ate all over the world, scoring 11 points at the end of the second with a turnaround jumper alone.

Score points in a row! Joe Dumas couldn't interfere with Kobe's back-to-back skills at all, and Kobe's fiery hand repeatedly threw difficult turnover jumpers!

"My board!" O'Neal jumped high, picked up Eddie Jones' shabu-shabu shot, and smashed the ball into the basket with a one-handed dunk in the air!

Grant Hill snorted secretly, a little envious of the Lakers, who have so many excellent players.

In the Detroit Pistons, he was both a father and a mother, and it was really hard to fight.

At the end of the second quarter, with the efforts of Kobe and O'Neal, the score recovered to the Detroit Pistons 48:41 Lakers.

The Lakers scored only 41 points in the half! It's not that the shooting percentage is not high, on the contrary, Kobe Bryant and O'Neal have a pretty good shooting percentage, and the reason is the offensive rhythm. The Pistons pressed the offensive rhythm to the minimum, playing almost 24 seconds on every shot, and resolutely did not give the Lakers a chance to counterattack and play fast break, so that the Lakers, who averaged the first fast-break score per game this season, had no fast break opportunity in this game.

Bryant scored 15 points, 2 rebounds and 4 assists in the half, and the low-tempo game made him feel very unhappy. Joe Dumas was completely unable to interfere with him, and Bryant felt that in the second half, after Joe Dumas's physical decline was more severe, he should be able to play more easily.

"Bruce, good job." At halftime, Harris rarely praised Bowen's defense, even though he had allowed Grant Hill to score 23 points, 7 rebounds and 3 assists in the half, but Bowen's defense did put pressure on Hill and made his offense start to be less easy.

That's all that, Harris knows that Bowen alone can't stop Hill in hot form, as long as he can be consumed like this, the tactical purpose is fully effective.

Bowen clenched his fists, and he felt a deep sense of shame.

Why? Why? Even if you try your best, you still can't do anything about it.

Damn, damn. Is there really no way to stop Hill?

Bryant patted Bowen on the back, what he needs at this time is the silent support of his teammates, as long as he can come out, his defensive skills will enter a new level.

And if you want to win the championship, you must need Bowen to reach the peak strength of the defense!

These ordeals are the best whetstones, and Bryant is confident that Bowen, who has gone through them, will go further.