At halftime, the coach called all of us together, and this time he finally remembered to take his opponent seriously, in fact, to some extent, the fans in New York are still quite enthusiastic, especially considering that regardless of the team's record is good or bad, their home attendance is quite high, which is a different story if it is replaced by the Toyota Center of the Houston Rockets, even in the years when the Rockets had a particularly good record, their home fans also seemed quite scattered, It seems difficult to show enough enthusiasm for the team that belongs to their city.

Shaq is finally no longer as active as before, it's hard to imagine that there is a center in this league who can suppress Shaq's arrogance, although Ewing is a little older now, but he has an advantage over Shaq, that is, he has an extremely accurate mid-range finishing ability, which allows him to have more tactical changes after blocking and dismantling with defenders, while Shaq has no enthusiasm in defense, even if he can chase it out in time with his athleticism, However, he just didn't want to expend more of that physical strength.

On the other hand, the coach did not respond to the opponent's offensive focus in time, he may have told Shaq to make some adjustments during the timeout, but in fact his words have almost no authority, Shaq still seems to go his own way, and this is quite a tactical damage to the whole team, because other players will also be affected by Shaq's attitude towards the coach, which will further weaken the authority of the coach, resulting in a greater lack of tactical execution of the team.

Thankfully, our coach seemed to have realized the seriousness of the problem, and his attitude suddenly became much tougher, and under his stern and serious scolding, everyone in the team finally corrected their attitudes and reflected on the shortcomings shown in the first half.

In fact, the reason why he was able to get such a change is also thanks to the fact that Shaq himself has figured out some things, it is obvious that he has been in the league for several years, he has already entered the peak of his personal ability, and he himself is eager to prove that he can dominate the league, but he has failed in the playoffs for several years in the Magic team, and he has also rushed to the finals in cooperation with All-Star guard Hardaway, but in the end he lost to the Rockets led by Olajuwon, Before that, they had also lost to the Bulls during their first three-game winning streak.

This year is actually the year he decided to show his talents, after all, whether it is Jordan or the champion Olajuwon in the same class as Jordan, they have both increased their age by another year, which undoubtedly gives Shaq a better chance to prove himself, so although he seems to be not very serious on the surface, he is actually quite focused on the court, and he is eager to destroy all opponents who stand in his way, at least on this point I agree with his position.

In the first half of the meeting, which lasted less than 10 minutes, I also spoke out a few of my thoughts, telling the coach that I wanted more minutes and more opportunities to play with Shaq, which I thought would allow the opposition to lose sight of the defense.

I'm not saying this to completely disregard Eddie Jones' face as a starting point guard, but to be honest, he didn't play well in the starting combination with Shaq, who also seemed to squeeze out a large part of his shots, making the All-Star backcourt always struggle a little.

However, the coach still stubbornly refuted my request, obviously he respected Eddie Jones' face enough to make me feel a little embarrassed, but it was inevitable, as the number one competitor in the same position, it seemed destined that there would be someone between me and Eddie Jones who had to make sacrifices, and if there was such a person, of course I hope it would be him, because I have to prove myself that a high school player can be one of the best players in the league.

At the beginning of the second half of the game, the two sides fell into hand-to-hand combat in positional warfare, which was completely different from the small-ball play style that appeared in the second decade of the 21st century.

Therefore, in this era, more offensive methods are either initiated by the center, or single-player tactics, whether it is blocking tactics or fast running and bombing tactics, they cannot fully exert their later power, after all, the rules of the defensive end and the referee's penalty scale determine this.

That's why the greatest star of this era, Michael. Jordan will be a figure who has evolved to the extreme of individual offensive and defensive ability to bring decisive impact on the game, the core reason is that in order to succeed in this era, the most powerful individual offensive and defensive ability is indeed needed, and most of the games will often become a competition of individual ability between stars at critical moments, and single tactics will be much more special.

In this era of extremely strong interior lines, Jordan and the Bulls led by him were able to win two triple championships, but their team did not have a super offensive interior line like Shaq, and the only interior line that could handle it was Rodman, whose main contribution was defense and rebounding.

This also proves that in order to achieve ultimate success in this era, the individual offensive and defensive ability of the star will play a decisive role, so I will still follow a path of chasing Michael like Kobe Bryant once did. Jordan's path, only this time I may make some changes, but before then, I still have a long, long way to go.

Shaq started the second half with a succession of attacks, and it was clear that his attitude had changed slightly, and after the dunk was successful, he did not show off his amazing biceps to the audience as wantonly as before, and he focused his attention and tried to return to the defense as quickly as possible, not giving the opponent a chance to play a fast break.

In fact, the Knicks are really a team that likes to push fast offensive counterattacks, I noticed this, and the coach should have noticed that although their overall height is very high, but the speed of the ball is not slow, an important reason why we will fall behind so much in the first half is also because they did not respond quickly enough to their defensive counterattacks, Shaq struggled in the first half when he retreated like his feet were filled with lead, but when he returned to the offensive end, he immediately became vigorous again.

The changes we made in the second half quickly brought the score back to six points, at which point the Knicks immediately called a timeout, and Shaq, who had just finished dunking, finally showed his trademark two rows of white teeth again when he walked back to the bench, expressing how happy he was now.

I didn't say anything, just went up and patted Shaq on the back, indicating that he wasn't over yet, and this time I saw from the way he looked at me that he seemed to understand what I meant, and this was the first time I felt that there was a tacit understanding with Shaq that should exist between some teammates, and when the timeout was over, I would go on the court with him to clean up the arrogant guys on the other side.

In the next period of time, we played with the Knicks inseparably, this time my hand did not continue the state of the first half, which also led to several opportunities to chase points not to be able to grasp, I shook my head and grinned, thinking that even if I missed 10 balls in a row, then I had to make a decisive shot on the 11th ball, because I am such a person, I need to use scoring to beat the opponent, I am a finisher, a killer, deep down I silently cheer myself up, And constantly throwing the ball from his teammates.

I was quickly pushed back to the bench, and in fact, neither I was able to escape the fate of returning to the bench in the first half, whether I was brave in the first half or super ghost in the second half.

Maybe it's because the fatigue accumulation in the recent period has finally reached a critical point, and I began to feel that my cold hand feeling is directly related to my physical condition, and I thought that I didn't sleep in the hotel until 5 am today, and the quality of sleep was not very good.

I had to find a way to get over this bad reaction, and I still had a bit of a lack of experience in dealing with it, so I tried to keep myself focused, not to think about the cold things that felt in my hands, and then when I got playing time again, I had to take it.

Eventually, when the last five minutes of the game came I finally got my chance to play, and it had to be thanks to the attacking players who caused Eddie Jones' sixth foul, which left him discouraged and back on the damn bench, and I was going to have a chance to save myself and the team.

We're still five points behind, and it only takes two rounds to get it back, but if we don't handle it well, it could turn into 10 points in two rounds.

Maybe I wasn't confident enough in my hand, but when I received another pass from my teammate, I didn't shoot directly, even though I had a defensive vacuum of almost 2 meters in front of me, and I chose to rush to the basket with the ball, whether it was to score or cause a foul, it would be a better situation.

Obviously the opposing defender didn't expect me to shoot in such a big gap, and when he rushed up to try to block me, I had already shook him up with a feint, and now he could only turn his head and watch me rush to the basket.

Easily passing the first defender doesn't mean that the two points are easy to get, and there is a gorilla Ewing with a murderous face standing under the opposing basket, his hands still raised, just waiting for me to rush over and send him off.

Of course, I didn't do that, but immediately made another emergency stop, and when he reacted and lunged at me, I did a second bow in a row, and then he lost his defensive position.

Eventually, I dunked the ball into the basket and looked back at Ewing with a discouraged face, a stone in my heart finally fell, as long as I could hit a ball and dispel the doubts in my heart, then my hand would quickly recover.

It was fast in the last minute, and during that long minute, we called a total of three timeouts, but none of the tactics laid out by these three timeouts seemed to work, and the score was still tied at 98.

What was very bad for us was that in the last 15 seconds, the ball was in the hands of the opponent, which gave them a chance to beat us.

After the coach called the last timeout, he arranged a tactic to rush the opponent's serve, hoping to directly force the opponent to fail to serve or directly make a mistake, after all, serving has always been a worldwide problem, and they will not know that in more than 20 years, there will be a star from Poland who will be on fire because of the serve.

However, this gambling defense also took a lot of risks, and in the end we were not able to delay their serve or directly cause them to miss the serve, and after the basketball flew in the air for a full second, a long, long pass came to the hands of a guy we let go.

Our tactic is to let go of this big forward who doesn't have mid-to-long range shooting ability, and then use five men to defend the remaining four men.

However, what we didn't expect was that this guy actually made a shot, and the ball rushed to the basket in a huge parabola in the air, and everyone in the audience slowed down.

Oh my God! With us down by two points at 98-100 and less than three seconds left and no timeout, does that mean all our second-half efforts have come to naught?

No, I have to try again, this last chance, the game isn't over yet!

"Send it to me."

I almost yelled, and Shaq threw the ball at me with so much force that it almost rushed straight out of my arms, and I took advantage of this tremendous force to rush out two steps and then directly threw it at the basket opposite.

The ball was obviously more unlikely to go in, with less than 0.5 seconds left when it left the tip of my finger, and in the second that followed I felt like the whole world was standing still and my heart was beating faster.

When I finally saw all my teammates and coaches running towards me like crazy, when they lifted me up and shouted my name.

Yes, I really hit this incredible counter-shutout and it also gave our Lakers a one-point advantage to snatch the win away from the New Yorkers.

I know they're going to hold a grudge and they're going to defend us more ferociously when they see us again, but so what, we took away the win that was close in front of us, and that's all that matters, and when we meet again, I'm going to be stronger and make sure that the game doesn't have to go to the last minute to lay the foundation for our victory.