In the last few minutes of the third quarter, the Lakers' bench players performed quite well on the court, playing a few very beautiful combinations, but the Celtics were not far behind, and their bench players quickly brought back the momentum on the court, and the score was close to 15 points, but at this time their bench players were suddenly accurate outside the three-point line.

The Celtics shoot three points, then things become different, the Celtics actually have a lot of opportunities on the outside, but they didn't grasp it, after all, three points is the fastest way to score points, first prevent the opponent from attacking, and then chase a three-point shot, there is a gap of five points or even six points inside and out.

Although our Lakers' bench players are still able to maintain a certain shooting percentage on the offensive end, they are still unable to shoot outside three-point shots, and the Celtics' bench players have an excellent awareness of protecting defensive rebounds, which does not give our Lakers a good chance to attack.

When Shaq is on the court, he can still grab some second-offense rebounds, but it is still a bit difficult for him to make the current Lakers' backup center grab so many offensive rebounds on the interior like Shaq.

The Celtics took advantage of good rebounding protection and quickly launched several pretty powerful counter-attacks, which were often either direct hits to the interior to cause damage or looking for three-point shooting opportunities.

What I didn't expect was that the Celtics scored as many as 11 consecutive points in the last two or three minutes of the third quarter, including three three-pointers and two free throws, and our Lakers scored six points in those three minutes, which reduced the Celtics' deficit from 13 points to just 7 points.

As a result, the Lakers' lead was in the single digits after the third quarter, and it looked like the Celtics were still unwilling to give up their efforts.

Maybe the head coach of the Celtics has the idea of properly releasing the water, but these players, especially the bench players, are quite tenacious and have not given up the opportunity to fight our Lakers team to the end.

Speaking of which, we have been able to play two games against Celtic in total this season, one at home and the other away, and for the fans here, this season is the only chance to see these two giants on their home turf again.

No matter what the situation of these two teams is now, for fans, the matchup between these two teams has a sense of fate, full of fans' feelings and memories, not simply a game between each other, but a nostalgia for the glory of the past, and expectations for a new future.

The fans of these two teams are undoubtedly lucky, to be such a great fan of two teams, can give them great psychological satisfaction, whether it is the Los Angeles Lakers or the Boston Celtics, they each represent different temperaments, but there is one point, that is, a kind of self-sacred, dominating the world of domineering exists, looking at the championship flags floating over the home of the two teams and those retired jersey numbers, witnessing the greatness of these two teams.

After the end of the third quarter, head coach Silver Fox Harris was a little annoyed, because the score that had just opened was chased back by the Celtics at this time, but at the beginning of the fourth quarter, he must not be able to replace the main players, at least let the main players rest for about three minutes, otherwise it is difficult to ensure that the back-to-back physical fitness of the away team still has enough physical fitness and shooting rate at the last moment.

I sat on the sidelines and watched the crowd, and finally saw Jessica in the crowd, and saw that a big stone in her heart suddenly fell, and it seemed that she had nothing to do, so I was relieved, and then I was going to play this last quarter well and bring Jessica with a victory.

After the start of the fourth quarter, our Lakers took the lead in serving, and now it is our Lakers' turn to stabilize the offensive rhythm and strive to find the best offensive opportunities, head coach Silver Fox Harris has asked the team not to play too fast, try to consume 24 seconds of offensive time, and then just drag the starter on the court.

Head coach Silver Fox Harris is actually the right choice to adopt such a tactic at this time, after all, the Celtics are still in a backward state at this time, and their bench players are playing well, so the bench players are still in the middle of the game just now, and they have already had several players who have made three-pointers before, so they must also change their strategy on the defensive end.

The Celtics probably also want to chase back the score in one go, so seeing that our Lakers players on the court are pressing the rhythm, they are also starting to get a little impatient, and want to use more proactive defense to steal our Lakers' dribble.

However, sometimes on the basketball court, the more impatient the more unable to achieve good results, mistakes are often related to the impatience of players, and this kind of steal is actually a gambling defense many times, and our Lakers team has made such mistakes before.

At this point, it was finally the Celtics' turn to make that mistake, and I found that they had a lot of chances on the defensive end because of the steals and early packs, and the Lakers players on the court also noticed this, especially Eddie Jones, who played well in this game, and now it's finally time for him to make a difference.

In fact, Eddie Jones' individual singles and individual dribbling ability are still good, after all, he is a quasi-All-Star level player, and it is really a bit of a waste to let him play as a substitute to be honest, but I think he can compete for the league's best sixth man after the end of this season.

The team really needs a bench sixth man like him who can lead the team's bench through a very critical period of competition.

In fact, Eddie Jones has played quite well in the last few games off the bench, at least he can really help the team on the offensive end.

Eddie Jones found a gap for the Celtics on the defensive end, and held the ball directly past two Celtics defenders, who had previously focused on Eddie Jones' ball, and did not have much mental preparation for Eddie Jones' feints, and Eddie Jones' feints were fast.

If you weren't familiar with him, it would have been easy to eat Eddie Jones's feints.

Relying on realistic feints, Eddie Jones easily broke through to the penalty area, and the Celtics center player in the box wanted to come over to block him at this time, but Eddie Jones had already thrown the ball high and flew towards the basket in a very high arc.

With such a flight arc, no one can cover it at all, and the center of the Celtics can only helplessly watch the basketball fall into the basket in the air with an extremely high arc.

Eddie Jones had a beautiful shot that earned us a round of applause from the Lakers bench and stabilized the momentum on the court a bit.

The Celtics couldn't open up the situation, and the other players on the court inevitably started to get a little impatient, and the more impatient they were, the better it was for our Lakers.

However, Eddie Jones' good touch did not last long, the defensive intensity of the Celtics has risen at this time, don't look at them as just some substitute players, but after all, the enthusiasm on the defensive end is excellent, and Eddie Jones is not able to easily break through the opponent's defense every time.

When Eddie Jones was about to use his dribbling and change of direction to break through the Celtics' forward defense, the Celtics guard suddenly rushed out of nowhere, and directly snatched the ball in Eddie Jones' hand with a flying pounce, and then passed directly to the Celtics player who had already played a fast break at this time.

The Celtics players have a bit of a good sense of fast break, when the guard just pounced, the fast break player was ready to start, at this time he had completely shaken off our Lakers defenders, and after receiving a long-distance pass from the guard, he directly completed this very easy dunk with a dunk.

The atmosphere of the North Shore Garden Arena has become enthusiastic again, and it can be said that the audience in this stadium is still quite powerful, and every time the Celtic players play exquisite cooperation or wonderful goals, then there will be very fierce applause to motivate and cheer for the Celtic players at home.

Time flies very fast, almost three minutes have passed after the start of the fourth quarter, at this time the two sides are still inseparable on the court, because the difference between the two sides is still about five points, the Celtics have not been able to recover much, so our Lakers head coach Silver Fox Harris is also sitting firmly in the Diaoyutai at this time, there is no rush to call a timeout and substitution, his appearance I think he really seems to be a bit of a head coach should be, However, he is not able to appear wiser in every game, and he cannot completely control the game at his own pace like an old coach like Popovich.

The Lakers starters on the bench off the court, watching the bench players on the court play at this time, all have the urge to return to the court to play, it seems that the previous fatigue has disappeared at this moment, among which Shaq seems to be the most excited, at this time he returned to his usual appearance, standing off the court and shouting, waving his arms, I don't know what he is talking about, because my attention is not listening to him.

Finally, with seven and a half minutes left in the fourth quarter, head coach Silver Fox Harris called a timeout, at which time the Celtics used two consecutive fast-break counterattacks to temporarily pull the score back to only one point, and it was almost time to replace the main player on the court.

To be honest, although our Lakers bench players were not able to fully resist the Celtics' bench chasing points in the few minutes from the end of the third quarter to the beginning of the fourth quarter, they actually performed very well, and I think the appearance of Byron Scott in this game is a bit of an old player's example.

The next game will be handed over to our Lakers starters who have recovered a lot of physical fitness, originally the strongest lineup of our Lakers team will generally be replaced by Eddie Jones at the last moment, but Eddie Jones has been playing for so long, he should also be rested, if the score has not been opened in the last two or three minutes, he may be replaced on the court to form the strongest five-man lineup of our Lakers team, and then go to completely defeat the Celtics.

At the timeout, head coach Silver Fox Harris repeatedly emphasized defense, of course, we also realized that if we want to beat this Celtic team, we can't rely on tenacious defense, anyway, it has entered the final moment of the game, there is no need to paddle on the defensive end in order to save energy, and the substitutes have bought us such a long rest time, just to be able to let us play our power in this final moment.

I know that, of course, and when the timeout ended, the mentality of our Lakers starters was completely renewed, and they were much more positive on both the offensive and defensive ends.

The Celtics also replaced their starters at this time, and their starters also rested for a long time, but the individual ability of their starters is indeed much worse than ours, and the most critical point is that many players in their team are rookies in recent years, and the experience of the game is not very much, and the ability to make key shots is also a little lacking, so if it is played to the last moment, it must be our Lakers side that can occupy a big advantage.

After I got on the court, I desperately cooperated with Shaq in a high position, and Shaq at this time was also unusually coordinated with my offense, taking the initiative to come over and block with me, and then quickly going down by myself, at this time our cooperation was very exquisite, basically I would pass the ball at the first opportunity, and the ball would not stay too much in my hands.

In fact, the Celtics team's defensive speed is too fast, whether I hold the ball for too long, or Shaq is too slow to receive the ball, it is a very bad thing for our offense, so I accelerated my dribbling and passing rhythm, Shaq also accelerated his inward cutting speed, in fact, he can indeed achieve a fairly fast speed, as long as he doesn't get lazy, there are really few people who can really prevent Shaq's inward cut.

The average player will retreat for a long distance when he is pushed by Shaq, and such a terrifying Shaq must be pushed and squeezed by several people to be able to barely push him away from the penalty area a little bit.

At this time, where are so many players in the Celtics who can react, Shaq is directly a quick down, and then after receiving my air pass, he jumped high, and his head was already close to the position of the basket after he jumped, and then the long arm suddenly exceeded the length of a full arm of the basket, and smashed the ball directly into the basket from the air.

I knew that Shaq could jump that high, so the passes were basically the kind of heights that only he could catch.

Shaq has such a terrifying bounce at such a heavy weight, the most important point is that he can jump so high on the spot, and the speed of the bounce is also very amazing, his arms are as thick as other people's thighs, and his thighs are as thick as someone's waist, terrifying muscle strength and amazing motor reaction nerves, making Shaq a terrifying existence that surpasses normal people.

It is estimated that it is difficult to find an interior player in history with such a terrifying dynamic and static talent, and if you think about it carefully, it may be that Chamberlain and Zhang Dashuai, the emperor of basketball, can be slightly compared with him.

But I have to say that maybe Chamberlain is really not worse than Shaq in terms of athleticism, that is, the weight is a little worse than Shaq, you must know that Chamberlain's high jump, sprint, long-distance running, and long jump are all top-notch, and even the level that can directly participate in the Olympics, which Shaq can't do.

And Chamberlain's strength is also extremely terrifying, the weight of the bench press is no worse than Shak, and it may not be as strong as Shaq in terms of explosiveness, but Chamberlain should not be bad Shaq in terms of absolute strength, and secondly, the height and arm span are basically the same, even the shoulder width Chamberlain is not bad Shak, and even in the arm length, Chamberlain has a slight advantage.

Chamberlain is no worse than Shaq in terms of dynamic athleticism, Chamberlain is no worse than Shaq in static strength, and in terms of technique, Chamberlain's free throw and Shak's free throw shooting percentage are on the same level.

The league even issued a special rule that does not allow free throw line dunks to be used as free throws, which only restricts Chamberlain alone, because in that era, Chamberlain was the only person who could jump from the free throw line to dunk to make free throws.

And in terms of blocking, defense and passing, Chamberlain is also stronger than Shaq, Chamberlain was even elected as the league's assist king for a season, as long as he wants, he can become an extremely well-rounded player, and he can even block Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's two shots in a row, you must know that Skyhook has been covered a total of a few times in his career, and Chamberlain was already late in his career at that time, which is enough to see Chamberlain's horror.

Of course, many people may think that Shack's visual impact is a little stronger, so they think that Shack's interior dominance is stronger than Chamberlain, which is true, Shack's finishing ability after taking the ball in the penalty area is indeed stronger than Chamberlain, Chamberlain's means and shooting rate to complete the offense under the basket are actually not as good as Shak, and even the small hook and footsteps under the basket are not as good as Shak.

But Chamberlain is much more comprehensive than Shaq, both offensive and defensive and rebounding are stronger than Shaq, especially rebounding, the terrifying data of averaging more than 20 rebounds per game in his career far exceeds that of others, in fact, Shaq can also grab more rebounds, but Shaq's shortcoming is laziness.

And the most important point is that Shaq's physical fitness is much worse than Chamberlain, the season with the most playing time, Chamberlain averaged 48.5 minutes per game, averaged 50 points and 25 rebounds per game, this data is absolutely unprecedented, no matter how you think about it, there will never be an interior player who can win such data in the future.

After all, with the change of times, basketball games have become more and more important to three-point shots, so that interior players will gradually be marginalized in the future, especially in the offensive tactical position will be replaced by guards and forward players, so it is naturally impossible for them to achieve such terrifying statistics.

Shaq is already the strongest interior giant in the modern NBA, especially in terms of interior dominance, it is also the strongest in NBA history, Chamberlain, Skyhook Abdul-Jabbar, and Big Dream Olajuwon do not have Shaq's interior dominance, and they can easily dunk with a few defensive players, which only Shaq can do.

Because of the internal and external connection between Shaq and me, the momentum of our Lakers team on the court was directly beaten, but the enthusiasm of the Celtics home fans suddenly seemed to be poured with cold water, and after the sound went down, the momentum on the court was already biased towards our Lakers.

We also started to work on the defensive end, first of all, Shaq finally began to defend out, before he would shrink as long as he blocked and dismantled, and now he will judge whether to shrink or change the defense according to the situation, in short, Shaq's defense is motivated.

When Shaq's enthusiasm for the game is up, the enthusiasm of the other players of the Lakers team will naturally increase, and we have added more physical confrontation on the defensive end, although Boston's home whistle is still there in this game, but in general, the whistle is relatively loose, and the two sides are more encouraged to have physical confrontation.

The game atmosphere in this era encourages physical confrontation, and the general referee will not blow it at all, and I was a little unaccustomed to this at the beginning, in fact, Kobe's 18-year-old body is still a little thin, especially when the season has just begun, I have suffered a lot because my body is too thin.

However, as I continued to train in strength, my overall physical ability has improved a lot, especially in the physical confrontation at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, at least when I don't suffer too much against ordinary opponents.

Because the pressure on the defensive end was a lot more all of a sudden, the Celtics side suddenly couldn't get used to it, and we tried to cut off the connection between the Celtics players, and it turned out to be the right choice, they cooperated with each other a lot, but when we focused, every Celtics player had to put in a lot more effort than before to catch the ball.

In this way, there is no way to play a delicate match so easily, and the overall pace of the game is also slowed down, and our Lakers team even successfully prevented the Celtics from a 24-second violation.

In the face of our sudden increase in defensive pressure, the Celtics are completely unable to keep up with the rhythm, after all, there is still a certain gap between their individual player strength and ours, and this absolute gap in talent sometimes really can't be made up simply by acquired effort or tactical advantage.

Once the Celtics can't open the situation on the offensive end, we can easily grasp the defensive rebound, and then use our personal ability to carry out a fast attack counterattack, at this time Shaq has taken out his last strength, if there is a chance to participate in the fast attack counterattack, Shaq himself will desperately run to the frontcourt, and at this time, if I see that Shaq has a better opportunity, I will also pass the ball to Shaq as soon as possible.

After two or three such counterattacks, the difference between the two sides came to about six or seven points, and the momentum of the Celtics on the court has been completely suppressed by our Lakers, at this time their head coach had to call a timeout, at this time there are just five minutes before the end of the fourth quarter, according to this situation, we still have a good chance to win this back-to-back away game.

During the timeout, head coach Silver Fox Harris didn't say anything about tactics, but tried to encourage the Lakers players to make their morale a little higher, and at the same time, when the timeout ended, Eddie Jones was replaced on the court, and we formed the strongest five-man group of the Lakers, which was directly about to harvest the rhythm of the game.

I found that the Celtics lineup changed a bit after the timeout, they actually replaced the center and directly replaced a forward player who was less than 2.06 meters tall to play inside, and it seems that the opponent has given up the plan to directly confront Shaq, and decided to gamble on the three-point shot on the offensive end, wanting to use a smaller and faster lineup to drag the pace of the game back into a situation that is more favorable to them.

This substitution of the head coach of the Celtics, to be honest, is a gamble, anyway, if the bet wins, there is a chance to chase the difference back, if the bet is lost, it is basically going to be killed by our Lakers in a wave, because their lineup obviously lacks players who can defend Shaq on the inside, and there is no way to pose a defensive threat to Shaq.

In this way, they will definitely shrink Shaq on the defensive end, then the outside will provide us with a good opportunity for the Lakers, as long as our Lakers' outside three-pointers can shoot at the last moment, then this game is over.

Although my three-point shot was not shot at all in this game, I will definitely shoot three-point shots as long as I have the opportunity, and Van Exel, Robert Horry, and Eddie Jones all have three-point shooting ability.

And on the offensive end of the Celtics, they actually need to rely on three-point shots to open up the situation, but the defensive enthusiasm of our players on the court is not comparable to the first half of the court at all, and they can't get better three-point shooting opportunities, so I believe that our Lakers should be able to win this game relatively easily.

After the timeout, our Lakers began to defend the Celtics vigorously with all their might, and even added some large delays in advance, reducing the Celtics' offensive speed, increasing their passing pressure, forcing them to play more exclusively through individual singles, and unable to connect all the players on the court, and their individual offensive ability is relatively limited.

In this way, our Lakers' defense is basically considered a success.

The offensive stagnation was too big a blow to the Celtics, and even psychologically it gradually became anxious, the offense could not be opened, the offensive rebounds could not be grabbed, and then we were infinitely counterattacked, and in less than three minutes, our Lakers had pulled the score advantage to as many as 12 points.

In fact, in this era, it is difficult to catch up with a gap of more than 10 points, unlike the later small-ball era, if the hand is explosive, you may be able to chase seven or eight points or even ten points in a minute, but it is impossible in this era.

Don't look at the overall three-point shooting rate of these players, but they shoot less, so there is no habit of chasing points with three-pointers, the most critical point is that their three-point shooting requires certain prerequisites, either they have a three-point shooting opportunity for a point guard, or they have their favorite three-point shooting position.

For example, Antoine Walker made two ultra-long-range three-pointers in the first half, and I was a little confused about that, so when I started to play against him in the second half, I would deliberately keep a relatively close distance with him to prevent him from actually being able to shoot this kind of ultra-long-range three-pointers.

But after entering the second half, this guy didn't shoot a three-point shot, it seems that the two three-pointers in the first half were thrown by him on a whim, and then it happened to feel a little good today, so he threw it in, which is not his regular offensive means at all, in the case of such a fierce game and a lot of strengthened defense, Antoine Walker actually didn't dare to shoot this kind of three-point shot.

So it's basically hard for the Celtics to get back now, and our Lakers just need to control the tempo of the game to win this game.

But we don't intend to control the pace of the game, although it is the second game of back-to-back, the physical fitness is a little lacking, but when you are really excited on the court, you don't feel tired at all, you only feel that your body is full of energy, so our Lakers played more and more smoothly, and soon began to launch a comprehensive impact on the Celtics, it seems to want to pull the score to more than 20 points.

The Celtics were also tenacious, facing our Lakers' tidal attack, at this time they finally took out their last strength to resist, and in the following minutes, the Celtics seemed to stabilize the situation, did not let the score further widen, and even slowly narrowed the difference to within ten points, only nine points.

There were less than four minutes left until the end of the fourth quarter, and the next one was just three minutes away.

At this time, in order to be able to stabilize a little, our Lakers head coach Silver Fox Harris still called a timeout, and after this timeout, we only had one timeout left in this game, but this is basically enough for us to use.

Because if nothing else, we were able to keep the margin at around 10 points for the remaining three minutes, so that the Celtics could never catch up, and I must admit that they played a couple of very tenacious offensive and defensive rounds just now, so that we didn't widen the margin again, so that the game was completely out of suspense, but it didn't work, and our Lakers team has completely entered the feeling of closing the game.

Whether it's me, Shaq or Eddie Jones, they all have a certain key ball ability, and on the other hand, the Celtics don't have the kind of players in the team who have very explosive scoring ability, so how can they recover such a point difference in a short period of time, if we can't have scoring explosiveness, we won't win the game with a little delay.

However, after the timeout, our Lakers encountered stubborn resistance from the Celtics in their first offensive round, and their extremely fast local clamp snatched the ball directly from Eddie Jones, and then launched the fastest counterattack.

This time, instead of rushing directly to the inside, they passed directly to Antoine Walker, who was already in position outside the three-point line, and he was still one step away from the three-point line, which was another ultra-long-range three-pointer.

I was a little distracted and couldn't keep up with Antoine Walker at the first time, so I gave him the opportunity to shoot a three-pointer, but I really didn't believe he could make it.

However, this time I was slapped in the face again, this guy's three ultra-long-range three-pointers in this game, all of them were shot, I was a little speechless and watched the basketball cross a long arc into the basket, at this time the Celtics fans on the sidelines fell into a frenzy again, and the hit of this ball also means that the Celtics still have a chance to chase points.

It's just a six-point difference, and I'm a little stupid, but I quickly recovered from the shock and figured out that the game wasn't over yet, and I couldn't just be speechless just because the opponent shot a good three-point shot today, after all, when I played against the Philadelphia 76ers, didn't I also witness Iverson's 50-point performance.

I guess there are still a lot of strong opponents and amazing moments that I will have to face in the future, I should adjust my mentality, make myself strong inside, and be pampered no matter what happens, so that I can really become the top player in the league, a real killer in key moments, a superstar who has the ability to decide the direction of the game.

Looking back, in the face of Antoine Walker's single defense against me, I also made great use of a series of gorgeous dribbling moves to directly pull away his defense, to be honest, although he has a certain advantage over me in height, but he can't keep up with my foot speed, not to mention that at this time, I have already learned Iverson's most powerful body front change, this move is enough to make him powerless to resist.

However, although this move is powerful, I actually don't dare to use it much, because his move changes the direction of the body in front of the body is too large, and the damage to the ankles and knees is great, and I can't feel the impact when I'm still young, but it is likely that if I use it too much, it will accelerate the wear and tear of the ankles and knees, which will have a great adverse effect on my future career.

So I don't usually use this trick very often, it has become a hidden killer move for me, and I will only use it when it comes to the critical moment, when I must score a single score.

In fact, my finishing ability under the basket is also quite strong, although it is a little worse than Iverson, but compared to the average defender, my finishing under the basket is full of imagination, mainly because my core strength is so strong that it is difficult for opponents to think about what kind of incredible way I can complete the layup.

The same is true for Michael Jordan at this point, but as the god of basketball, he is definitely stronger than me, Jordan's ability to stay in the air is the most powerful in the history of the league, there is no one, his various incredible pull-up moves are completely beyond human imagination, other players may be able to make similar moves, but definitely not as shocking as he did, it is really like walking in the air, and the most important point is that his aerial posture is too elegant and wonderful, Let anyone who has seen Jordan pull rod will be impressed by it for the rest of their lives.

The Celtics' interior defense is still shrinking very quickly at this time, because they don't actually have a big center on the court at this time, so if I break through, they can only wrap me up in advance, but this time the Celtics players want to stand in front of the basket and make my offensive foul.

I wasn't afraid of such a defense, but I was ready to accelerate in advance, then take three steps, and jump directly with my feet when facing the opposing player standing in front of me, and I made an amazing leap from this guy.

At first, I just wanted to dunk him, but I jumped a little too high, so I flew right over his head, and it was a bit like Carter's death dunk at Sydney 2000, flying right over the opposing player's head.

It's just that this time the player I flew over was shorter, a defender, maybe six feet or four feet at most, but I was still unbelievable to fly over his head.

I looked up at the replay of the dunk on the air, and I shook my head, this ball was a bit of a murderous feeling.

The fans at the scene suddenly fell silent, and some let out exclamations.

I know it's going to leave a lasting impression on them.

The head coach of the Celtics immediately called a timeout, at this time the score gap between the two sides was eight points, and there were less than three minutes before the end of the game, and the most important point was that my dunk was too shocking, and it was estimated that it would be a great blow to the overall morale of the Celtics.

It's hard to imagine what the player who was flying over my head would think, there is no social software like Twitter in this day and age, and I don't know what netizens would say about this dunk if they had.

Anyway, I can already think of the questions they would ask in the post-match press session.