After the dunk, O'Neal glanced at Lu, who was sitting on the ground, and reached out to pull him up from the ground.

Unlike Sun Hao Iverson, Lu played for the Lakers before, and he is also his former teammate, and he has made great contributions to the Lakers' consecutive championships.

This is also the difference in everyone's personality.

Sun Hao had an indescribable feeling in his heart after seeing this scene.

It's a blessing to have someone like O'Neill on the team.

It would have been nice if Kobe Bryant had realized this earlier in history.

The game continues.

Sun Hao gave O'Neal too much fit in his playing style, coupled with his innate tacit understanding, the Lakers' offense was pleasing to the eye.

Just after reading this paragraph, fans can conclude that Phil Jackson has found a third team suitable for playing triangle offense.

However, the Lakers have not been able to pull the score away.

In addition to the Wizards' own strength, the Lakers also exposed a more fatal weakness in the game.

Their defense is a bit poor now.

In just the first few rounds, the Lakers have been beaten by the Wizards into three defensive counterattacks.

O'Neal began to lose weight and began to lose some of his defense, and although Horry lost weight, the decline in speed brought about by age was inevitable.

In addition, Howard is also aged, and he is not very good at helping to defend or anything.

Even Sun Hao is not known for his defense.

In other words, the Lakers are the only ones who can really defend.

However, Finley's defense is also the average in the league, and with Maddie's defender, he is almost incapable of helping others.

So the Lakers' poor defense is completely expected.

However, the attack overshadowed the problem, and although they couldn't pull away the score, they still held the advantage.

The game entered the second half of the fourth quarter, and the Lakers led by 10 points at 105-95.

There aren't many leads, but if you continue to play at this pace, the team has a good chance of winning.

Sun Hao, then gave the ball to O'Neal.

O'Neal has scored 39 points and 16 rebounds so far, and the explosion is not enough to describe his performance.

But Sun Hao felt that it was not enough.

After all, Kobe Bryant got 40+!

However, at the moment when O'Neal got the ball, Lafrentz pounced directly and hugged O'Neill as if he saw a young girl.

The referee's whistle blows for a defensive foul on Lafrenz!

Because the number of fouls by the Wizards has reached the point, O'Neal was sent directly to the free throw line.

Sun Hao, don't be too familiar with this.

The fans at the scene were obviously familiar enough, and immediately booed.

The hacking tactic was invented by Auerbach in the 90s of the last century, when he cut the "basketball emperor" Chamberlain.

And there's an interesting little story about this tactic.

Chamberlain was already a 10,000-strong enemy when he was in the NCAA, and at that time, opponents knew that he was not good at free throws, so they often fouled him.

To solve this problem, Chamberlain chose ...... Dunk on free throws!

Well, that's right, that's what you think, rushing up and dunking when you make free throws......

Don't be surprised, in those days, this rule was allowed.

As a result, NCAA fans were able to see Chamberlain perform that miraculous and even "miraculous" way of shooting free throws several times a night.

After the NCAA opponents felt that this was cheating, the NCAA changed the free throw rules to not allow free throws in the form of free throw line dunks.

In the new century, O'Neal, who also has epic body and talent, appeared, and he also made bad free throws.

Old Nelson, Auerbach's disciple and mentor to O'Neal's Dream Team, took out the slashing tactic again.

Because O'Neill's nickname is the big shark, this tactic is also called the shark cutting tactic.

When Sun Hao played in the Mavericks before, the Mavericks used this to deal with O'Neal.

At that time, he also cut O'Neill as a former chop.

Now he's on the Lakers and he's teammate with O'Neal, and the result is ......

Well, the way of heaven is good for reincarnation, and the sky spares anyone.

O'Neal was sent to the free-throw line and made two free throws safely.

"Shaq's free throws are as consistent as Sun's threes."

On the commentary bench, Barkley was merciless.

After the Wizards grabbed the defensive rebound, they continued to catch the Lakers' slow point of defense, and Nelson scored a goal on a fast break.

Van Gundy asked Lu to start originally intended to defend Sun Hao, but the effect was not ideal, Sun Hao and Iverson are not the same type of players.

Nelson seized the opportunity, and although the defense was not very good, he played well on the offensive end, scoring 8 points and 3 assists.

At this time, a basketball god in front of the TV showed a happy smile again.

He has already decided that when Sun Hao retires, he is estimated to be the owner of the team at that time, and he must invite Sun Hao to come to his team as the president of operations.

The Lakers' possession, this time without waiting for Sun Hao to advance the ball to the frontcourt, O'Neal ...... Fouled again.

Sun Hao couldn't help but shake his head when he gave the ball out.

If you want to say that Auerbach cut Chamberlain and Nelson Sr. cut O'Neill, the biggest difference is probably influence.

Chamberlain was cut at that time, and it was basically the old rival Celtics, and other teams didn't do it often.

Because in those days, not daring to be tough was seen as an act of weakness.

Chamberlain also openly said on more than one occasion that Auerbach was a villain who would only use a few small tricks to win.

In some games, Chamberlain didn't even play because of this.

Then it came to O'Neal, and the old Nelson carried this tactic forward, and then the whole league began to use it.

Van Gundy, as Nelson's former assistant coach, naturally has experience.

After O'Neal was sent to the free throw line again, he took a few deep breaths to adjust his breathing.

However...... It's not useful.

Another solid two missed shots, and even the second ball in order to avoid using too much force, he directly made a three-point no-stick.

There was a stirring at the scene.

Phil Jackson got up and called a timeout.

"Think of what is written in those books, relax your muscles, imagine that you are under a tree full of greenery, and you are just meditating."

After the timeout, Jackson didn't plan any tactics, but pulled O'Neal to talk.

He's trying to get O'Neal to relax and score those free throws.

That's what has the biggest impact on the game.

O'Neill nodded as he listened, but judging by the look in his looking left and right, he should have ...... I didn't read the book given to him by the Zen master.

It's too normal to think about it, that kind of book is hard for Sun Hao to read, O'Neill...... Maybe he'd rather choose to lose weight!

After Phil Jackson finished speaking, O'Neill turned his head to look at Sun Hao and suddenly spoke.

"Phil, let Vlad replace me."

Jackson was stunned for a moment, then saw O'Neill look at Sun Hao again, he understood what the latter meant, and then nodded.

"Win this game."

After O'Neill finished speaking, he walked to Sun Hao's side with a smile, patted Sun Hao's shoulder and said.

Sun Hao was also a little unexpected.

When he was still with the Mavericks, Jackson wouldn't replace O'Neal, and O'Neal wouldn't have asked for that.

But now something seems to have changed.

But from O'Neill's point of view, this is too normal.

He's not the stats guy in the first place, and if he were, he wouldn't have allowed Kobe Bryant to take more shots than he did in the past few years, and he wouldn't have averaged 14 shots per game for the team last season.

You know, he's still at his peak!

All he wanted more than anything else was to win.

The experience of beating Jordan that year only to be swept by the Rockets was too hurtful for him.

So even if 39 points is 40 or something, it's not a big deal for him.

And Sun Hao fed him well, he didn't mind leaving the victory or defeat of the game to Sun Hao at all.

Also, he believes in Sun Hao.

Sun Hao nodded.

After the timeout, the Lakers made a substitution, and Divac replaced O'Neal.

There was a stirring at the scene.

Although, in theory, O'Neal couldn't score a penalty and replaced him with the best option.

But that's O'Neill!

If it's not graphic enough, put it another way.

Would you replace Jordan when you needed a three-pointer because you were down by 3 points?

The answer is obvious.

The existence of some players is beyond conventional understanding!

But now, the Lakers are doing just that.

Wizards, after advancing to the frontcourt, Maddie directly gave the ball to Yao Ming for a single.

Maddy's personality is still very different from Kobe's, not the kind of person who has to play the key ball by himself no matter what.

The most typical example is that when the Houston team won 22 consecutive games in history, Maddy broke through the pass to assist Novak to score.

That ball made Novak famous, but many people would ignore Maddie's choice.

Yao Ming received the ball and singled Divac.

Divac has grown older, and when he was with the Kings last season, his role and presence have plummeted.

Otherwise, the Kings wouldn't even be willing to give him a veteran base salary in the summer.

At this time, he was obviously struggling to prevent Yao Ming.

Yao Ming's small hook hand after turning steadily sent the ball into the basket.

105 to 99!

The Wizards scored four straight points to narrow the gap to six.

There was a stirring on the sidelines.

Barkley and Kenny Smith in the commentary booth also unconsciously looked up at the timer.

There are only 2 minutes left.

If the Lakers can't score quickly, the Wizards are likely to play a wave and turn the game straight up.

Sun Hao holds the ball in the front court.

The Wizards didn't get on the bag right away.

Sun Hao didn't have many shots tonight, and he only scored 19 points so far.

Sun Hao glanced at Nelson, and directly chose a quick three-point dribble to the right outside the three-point line.

Nelson is an underrated rookie, but he's also just a rookie with far less experience or something.

This time, he obviously didn't keep up with Sun Hao's rhythm, and Sun Hao's shooting speed was too fast.

Of course, I don't know why, when he was facing Sun Hao all night tonight, he seemed to be unconfident.

He thinks it should be because Sun Hao is FMVP.

The "Premium Jersey" radiates the light of righteousness.

"Huh!"

With a crisp sound, Sun Hao's three-point shot hit!

108 to 99!

A crucial three-point!

The Los Angeles fans at the scene were still wondering why O'Neal was replaced, but they couldn't help but cheer for Sun Hao at this time.

O'Neill's performance tonight is indeed dazzling, but Sun Hao, he is sun!

"Are we in Dallas? Are we? ”

Barkley looked at Kenny Smith more seriously at this time and said.

Smith smiled helplessly and shook his head.

Buckleygente is a genius for commentary.

I don't know what the Mavericks, more accurately Mavericks fans, feel like when they see them live.

However, Divac really can't prevent Yao Ming.

In fact, the only thing left in this alliance that can suppress Yao Ming may be O'Neill.

This time, Yao Ming showed off his first-class body coordination, leaned on Divac, quickly turned 360° in a move similar to a "washing machine spin", and then smashed the ball into the basket .jpg with one hand.

108 to 101!

A difference of 7 points!

One and a half minutes, the Wizards, there's still a chance!

But they have to defend against the Lakers' offense first.

Van Gundy waved his hand on the sidelines, and the Wizards began to try to wrap Sun Hao!

Without O'Neal's containment on the inside, the risk of them doing so is much, much less.

However, Sun Hao had already prepared, and had already given the ball to Finley before the bag, and then passed through the bag without the ball.

In the next second, Finley and Sun Hao had a tacit understanding of playing for four years, and with a return pass, Sun Hao passed the defense like this.

And only Yao Ming on the inside line was left in front of him.

Yao Ming didn't dare to pounce, and Sun Hao threw a signature throw between the marches.

"Huh!"

The basketball is safely fed into the basket.

110 to 101!

It's still a 9-point difference.

The fans were already hilarious.

Sun Hao scored 5 points in a row at the most critical moment!

They watched three and a half quarters and didn't see how Sun Hao played, but at the last moment, it still came!

Some fans have already left Kobe Bryant behind.

There is no harm if there is no contrast, as far as the stability of Sun Hao's key ball is concerned, isn't it fragrant?!

Maddie, facing Finley and hitting a pull-out three-pointer!

He got his 31st point tonight!

The strength of the pinnacle of Mai!

The point difference was pulled back to 6 points.

There are 40 seconds left.

The Wizards, in Van Gundy's shouting, began to go straight to the court and press.

However, the impact of the new rules on defensive teams is also evident at this time.

Under the original rules, defenders could use their hands on players, which allowed the pressing defense to be at its best.

That's why Larry Brown has had back-to-back successes with the 76ers and Pistons.

But after the fight now, Sun Hao and Finley passed the ball in the backcourt and broke through to the frontcourt.

And there are pros and cons to pressing on defense.

Originally, the basketball team of 5 people was set up because the basketball half court was relatively small.

You expand the people to the whole field, as long as the opponent is broken, the difficulty of your defense is multiplied.

As a result, when Sun Hao arrived in the front court, the nearest defender in front of him was Yao Ming at the free throw line.

Sun Hao didn't move forward too much, and when he was one step away from the three-point line, he directly stopped the three-point shot.

As if the basketball was equipped with positioning, it threw out an invisible tail flame in the air and fell sharply towards the net bag.

"Huh!"

Sun Hao's three-point shot, score again!

From the strength of the current NBA's top scorer!

The Los Angeles fans at the scene couldn't help but get up.

Including in the VIP box, the old Bass, who fulfilled his promise to come to watch the game on the spot, couldn't help but get up and applaud Sun Hao's performance.

This wave of individual scores directly ended the suspense of the game!