I wasn't involved in the discussions with the other Lakers during the first quarter, they seemed to be talking about something unrelated to the game, but I closed my eyes and went into a meditative state, which helped me regain my energy and keep my whole body focused.

Meditation is actually a fairly simple and practical technique, and even many times it will bring you a better mental recovery effect than sleep, after all, sleep takes longer, and meditation actually sometimes only takes a few minutes.

But then I was interrupted by their voices, it turned out that the head coach Silver Fox Harris came to arrange the tactics for us in the second half, in fact, the so-called tactical arrangement is still the three-board axe he has been using, even if he doesn't say that I can almost recite it backwards now.

But the real problem of our Lakers team may not be the tactical arrangement, but the problem of tactical execution, when our home physical strength is better, the tactical execution may be relatively better, but in the away back-to-back games, the players' feet on the court seem to be poured into the lead, feeling a few beats slower, no matter how good the tactics are, with such enthusiasm can not run out of good results.

In this case, the advantage of our Lakers team is actually the individual ability of the star, so I need to be more involved in the offense in the future.

The second quarter began quickly, and head coach Silver Fox Harris was not in a hurry to replace the starters on the court, in fact, this was also a very correct decision, after all, the starters were in a relatively tired state after yesterday's back-to-back games, so that if in the first few minutes of the second quarter, the bench players can hold up for a while, and wait until the second half of the second quarter when the starters come up and maybe they will be able to pull the difference apart all of a sudden.

Of course, this is just a theoretical hope, and after the start of the second quarter, the Celtics took the lead in replacing the main players, in fact, the difference between the strength of the main force of the Celtics and the substitute players is really not big, on the one hand, the personal ability of their main players is not that particularly powerful, on the other hand, their substitute players are really not much worse than their starters in terms of tactical awareness, I just saw the performance of their substitute players on the court, I already feel that their manager is quite good, and being able to bring out a substitute player who is so good in tactics and team spirit is really a bit like Popovich.

After the start of the second quarter, the Celtics took the lead in serving, and their main players entered the state quite quickly, and as soon as they came up, they beat our Lakers bench players with an unstable foothold. Walker came up and scored the Celtics with an ultra-long-range three-pointer in the first round, and no one could have imagined that he would suddenly shoot an ultra-long-range three-pointer, and it didn't seem like he could score from his shooting motion.

However, the result was this ultra-long-range three-point shot, and suddenly the fans of the North Shore Garden Arena entered a short-term boiling state, although this ball has a little luck in it, but Antoine Walker dared to shoot, it is with the help of the strong momentum of this home court, so that their players in self-confidence infinitely expanded, no wonder the Celtics home court is difficult to play, only here to experience a round will understand the reason.

The Celtics were in high spirits after Antoine Walker made this three-pointer, on the contrary, our Lakers bench players were a little lacking in confidence at this time, and the huge noise in the entire arena had completely overshadowed other voices, so that the players could no longer hear each other's conversations, and could only communicate with gestures instead of words.

What is uncomfortable is that after the start of the second quarter, our Lakers bench players really didn't seem to be very good, and the offensive end was caught in a struggle with the Celtics, at this time the Celtics began to use a lot of physical confrontation to defend, and the referee on their home court will also be slightly biased towards them, and many physical confrontations can actually blow fouls.

With the help of the referee, the Celtics' actions on the defensive end are obviously getting bigger and bigger, on the other hand, our Lakers bench players, only Eddie Jones alone can slightly keep up with the rhythm of the Celtics, but it is too difficult to rely on him alone, the score between the two sides quickly opened up, and by the first three minutes of the second quarter, our Lakers team has fallen behind the Celtics by 7 points.

It seems that head coach Silver Fox Harris's tactics have gone bankrupt, and we can only call a timeout first, interrupt the momentum of the Celtics, and replace our Lakers starters on the court by the way, but then we don't have any advantage, and even because it has boosted the overall morale of the Celtics, it seems that the gains outweigh the losses.

The Celtics are really a team with a lot of rich background, and the players they have cultivated have a kind of wolf nature, that is, the kind of wolf nature that is very good at teamwork, disciplined, and quite fierce, especially on the defensive end, if it is really fierce, few people can stand it.

It's really in response to that sentence, the tigers can't stand the wolves, and even Shaq, a big shark, can't stand the siege of this group of ferocious wolves, so I decided to take more responsibility on the offensive end in the rest of the game in the second quarter, so that Shaq can save more physical energy to deal with the second half of the game as much as possible.

Before the timeout, I also had a brief exchange with Shaq, telling him not to attack for the time being after he went up, and the two of us still used high blocking tactics to find opportunities, and not let the Celtics focus on him too early.

In fact, because my three-point shooting felt a little bad today, I didn't let Shaq go through the inside to attract the bag and then I looked for my own three-point shooting opportunities, but it would be much better for me to be the offensive initiator, so that I could not only find offensive opportunities by myself, but also observe the movement of other teammates on the court at any time, relatively speaking, the variety of tactics would be much better, and Shaq as a simple endpoint, although a bit wasteful, is not necessarily a bad thing for our entire Lakers team.

I held the ball outside the three-point line to observe the Celtics' defensive formation, and found that their defense is not exactly man-to-man, but with some joint defense in it, in fact, although this era is ostensibly not allowed to use joint defense tactics, but many times when it is really in the game, the referee does not pay much attention to these partial joint defense tactics, and it is unlikely to directly blow your team's joint defense violations or the like, so teams with insufficient individual talent like the Celtics prefer joint defense more.

If you want to crack the Celtics' joint defense tactics more easily, you can either let Shaq go to the low post to play with his back, or we can shoot from the outside, and if I can play well enough with Shaq's blocking and pick-and-roll tactics, I can also easily deal with the opponent's small joint defense.

It's just that at this time, if they use joint defense tactics, it is more difficult for me to directly use individual breakthrough singles to tear apart their defense, and I have also seen the defense of these Celtics before, it is simply an elbow on the hands and feet, and everything is done, it is completely the playoff style of play, to be honest, I really feel that I don't need to work too hard in a regular season, and besides, they are just an Eastern team that is very likely not to enter the playoffs.

If I try too hard to get injured because of this, it will be a bit more than worth the loss, but of course I will try to win this game even if I think so, but I will be a little more rational in my choice of attack.

Shaq came up for me to do a very high quality block, completely blocked the two Celtics defenders behind him, originally I got a good opportunity to shoot three-pointers, but given that my three-point shooting rate was a bit dismal today, so I didn't shoot three points at the first time, but broke directly to the baseline with the help of Shaq's block.

Then near the free throw line, I directly pulled out the step-back jumper, the basketball crisp into the net is very beautiful, fortunately I still feel good in the three-point line today, as long as Shaq can provide me with a relatively high quality of blocking, then I can get a very good offensive opportunity, so that the opponent's defensive strategy is bound to make adjustments, as long as they shift the defensive focus to me, Shaq can get a more relaxed scoring opportunity.

It seems that Shaq also wants to win this game, but he basically puts most of his attention into the offensive end, and the defensive end is still a little less focused.

The main problem is that Shaq has always had a problem with his choice when he was defending and pick-and-roll, he would choose to shrink when he should have been outside, and when he should have contracted, he chose to shoot outside, which I really felt a little strange about, thinking that with Shaq's IQ he would not always make such low-level mistakes, the only explanation I could think of was that Shaq's concentration on the defensive end was too inattentive.

The Celtics can be said to have done the ultimate in exploiting Shaq's defensive weakness, and almost every round will find Shaq's misalignment through one or even more blocking, either letting Shaq switch guards, or directly using Shaq to shoot when he can't defend it.

That is, the Celtics did not shoot their outside shots during this time, which gave us the Lakers a chance to bite the score, in fact, it can really be said that it is thanks to the Celtics that suddenly entered a period of sluggishness, and Shaq just shrank on the inside to protect the defensive rebounds.

Then I was in charge of launching a wave of fast-break counter-attacks, and it was best to finish the offense before the Celtics defensive formation was formed, otherwise I wouldn't have really gotten a good chance to attack with the combination tactics they used today.

After I received the ball from Shaq at the first time, I immediately turned on the speed completely, facing the two players of the Celtics who wanted to block my fast break, I dribbled directly from behind and passed one of them very dexterously, and then when I found that the second player wanted to foul me, I directly took a half turn, and the opponent was stunned for a few tenths of a second, and I had already rushed through their defense with the ball.

After passing these two Celtics front defenders, there was no one who could really interfere with my offense.

I just got to the bottom of the basket and slammed the ball into the rebound when I was about three-quarters of a way from the free throw line, then jumped up and slammed the ball into the basket after catching the rebound bounce back from the rebound.

"Wow!"

I heard the exclamations of the Celtics home fans, and it was clear that my imaginative dunk still shook them, and the whole home court fell into a brief silence.

My fast-break was very fluid, passing two Celtics defenders in a row and then dunking himself, so I thought I could get into one of the top 100 shots of the season.

But while the Lakers have regained a lot of momentum on the court, the Celtics are a very resilient team, and it's hard to beat them to death with those balls.

And in this game, not only did my three-point shot not shoot, but almost all the Lakers players didn't shoot their three-point shots completely, so they were more able to shrink the defense unscrupulously, plus their joint defense, except for the fast break to find some easier scoring opportunities, other times when playing positional battles is really quite difficult.

Of course, if the Celtics themselves can't shoot outside three-pointers in a row, our Lakers can actually shrink appropriately on the defensive end, which is also very uncomfortable for them.

As a result, because both sides couldn't shoot three-point shots for a long time, everyone was desperately shrinking the defense, resulting in nearly two minutes of both sides not scoring a single sports battle, that is, each relied on the strong inside or broke through to cause fouls and get some points through free throws.

Coincidentally, Shaq's free throws were not accurate, and the Celtics guards actually missed two consecutive free throws, and when there were only four minutes left in the second quarter, the scores of the two sides returned to the same running line again, but compared to the first quarter, our Lakers and Celtics scored much less in the second quarter.

But this kind of tug-of-war is actually quite physically exhausting, and at the same time it will be a huge test of the team's willpower, who can withstand the pressure at this time, who can take the initiative of the game in their own hands.

In fact, I found that after the second quarter, Shaq was indeed much more serious on the offensive end than before, at least if he was serious about blocking and dismantling, with his huge body and strength, he could provide me with a very large offensive space, and then Shaq would choose to cut quickly inside.

Before, I had a poor outside three-point hand, so the Celtics deliberately shrank back appropriately in the face of our high-level blocking, giving me a certain amount of room to shoot, but when I continuously used Shaq's blocking and dismantling to shoot in the middle distance, their defense didn't dare to let me shoot outside, even if Shaq blocked and dismantled well, but the opposite side will use the advantage of numbers to try their best to grab, and then come to block my outside shots, at least to keep up with my footsteps.

In this way, the Celtics' attention on defense is also focused on me, which slightly relaxes the defense of Shaq, and Shaq is a terrifying interior giant, which naturally needs to be noticed all the time, plus the Celtics' interior players themselves are relatively weak.

As long as I pass the ball to the inside Shaq in time, then the Celtics' interior line is basically impossible to defend, even if Shaq does not shoot in the first offense, he will immediately grab the offensive rebound, many times under the basket, even if only Shaq alone to grab two or three opponents, it is still relatively easy to grab the frontcourt rebound, and then carry the opponent's defense and smash the ball directly into the basket.

Shaq is basically invincible when he fights like this, and the only problem is that his physical consumption will be relatively large when he fights like this, so Shaq and I are actually interdependent, and with the initial development of the tacit understanding between the two of us, this set of tactics after blocking and dismantling has been used quite skillfully by us.

With three minutes left before the end of the second quarter, the Celtics reluctantly called another timeout, probably because we had already overtaken them by five points, and the most important thing was that I and Shaq had exploded at the same time in the recent period, making them take care of each other on the defensive end, and if this continues, our Lakers will definitely be able to widen the lead to more than ten points before the end of the second quarter.

If they do trail us by 10 points at half-time, even if it's their home stadium and we're in the second back-to-back away game, the overall morale will go up and it will be very difficult to turn the game back.

So far this season, when our Lakers took the lead in the half, the odds of winning the game were very high, and one of the important reasons why we were able to achieve the top three in the league is that we played very well in relatively smooth games.

We can win most of the time against opponents who are weaker than us, and we have a chance to win against opponents who are similar to us, or even stronger than us, but I have to say that we have many games this season that are actually won by luck, so it is really difficult to judge the true strength of our current Lakers team, anyway, it still depends on the state of the players, and more importantly, whether the attitude of the game is correct.

During the pause, head coach Silver Fox Harris told us a lot of things, but mainly some words of encouragement and the like, I didn't expect this guy to start doing psychological work, you know, he has always paid more attention to tactics and ignored the emotional mobilization of players, is it that he suddenly woke up?

But it's true that the situation on the court at this time doesn't need to arrange any additional tactics, today with the overall physical state of our Lakers team, just rely on individual performance, don't be too demanding of the players, everyone wants to finish the game early and fly back to Los Angeles to get a good night's sleep.

Of course, I'm not going to fly back to Los Angeles tonight, but Jessica and I will spend the whole day in Boston tomorrow looking for some important clues in the two larger libraries here.

Thinking of Jessica, I looked up around the stadium, but I didn't see Jessica, maybe because there were too many fans in Boston, or Jessica just left the arena for something, anyway, I didn't see Jessica at this time.

After the timeout, the Celtics made three substitutions, leaving Antoine Walker and their center on the court among the starters.

However, the Celtics' substitution at this time I think it is very likely that they want to speed up the pace of the game, and then use more rotation time to drag down our Lakers starters, so that we will fall into the trouble of lack of fitness after entering the second half.

Shaq's fitness seems to be okay at this time, but I know that he usually starts to have some physical troubles in the second half of the third quarter, and if the fourth quarter comes up and allows him to rest and recover for a while, then Shaq will still be able to play at his normal level in the last few minutes of the fourth quarter.

But if there is no way to let Shaq rest well at the end of the third quarter and the first few minutes of the fourth quarter, then basically Shaq will really be unable to run in the last few minutes, and the offensive shooting rate and enthusiasm for rebounding will also drop significantly, after all, although his weight at this time has not reached the terrifying number of 350 pounds, 300 pounds is estimated to be there.

Such a large weight will be a huge burden on his feet, and the soreness of his feet will likely cause his athletic ability and motivation to decrease a lot, I have had this experience in my previous life, so I am quite clear about this deep down.

The speed of the Celtics has suddenly increased, and they were not slow to attack before, and there is even a shadow of running and shooting at this time, but in fact, I think their current lineup is really suitable for running and shooting, because they have players in three positions in the team at this time who can reach about 35% three-point shooting rate in the season, or even higher.

Taking advantage of the weakness of our Lakers outside defense today, it is possible to use a wave of consecutive three-pointers to completely change the situation of the game, in fact, they did get a lot of open three-point opportunities before, and strangely their three-point shots were relatively inaccurate during that period of time, and they were not able to seize the opportunity.

But now they've got a couple of bench players, and we don't know what the three-point points of those guys are going to be like, and if one of them shoots from beyond the three-point line, we're going to be in big trouble defensively today.

Originally, my individual single defense ability was very good, but it was also limited to one-on-one single defense, and for this kind of team that likes to use one or even more consecutive blocks to find open shooting opportunities, my advantage on the defensive end is completely unplayable, and they can easily use the block to make me tired on the defensive end.

You know, yesterday I was on both offensive and defensive ends against Iverson, and those who have defended Iverson will know what a difficult challenge it is, even if I am physically good and young, I can't withstand this kind of consumption, in short, there are very few things I can do today even if I go all out on the defensive end.

These Celtics players know how to avoid their edges, when they meet me defending, the players who are opposite me have never played one-on-one singles at all, they are all running without the ball, as long as the person I defend is running without the ball, and then I find that the person I defend has been changing, and the opponent has been running, and then running to the end will not necessarily shoot, this process is really quite tiring, not only physically tired, but also really tired.

On the other hand, Shaq's side is about the same as usual, shrinking inside and reluctant to go out, and the defensive rebounds are better protected, but when he encounters the kind of long rebounds after three-point shots, his enthusiasm is not very high, and there are a few times when the opponent picks up offensive rebounds under Shaq's nose.

In a few consecutive offenses, the Celtics got a good open three-point opportunity on the outside, but it seems that both sides of our game today are like being poisoned by someone, these three-pointers just can't be shot, not to mention that we can't shoot, even the Celtics side after the start of the second quarter five or six empty three-pointers, none of them have been shot, but if they shoot one or two three-pointers, the situation on the court has long been in their hands.

Looking at the home fans shaking their heads and constantly booing and exclamating, I was also a little speechless inside, could it be that everyone was too nervous? Is that why the three-point shot is completely inaccurate?

Anyway, our Lakers team doesn't dare to shoot three-pointers on the offensive end at this time, and even if there is a good opportunity, we have to think twice about whether we should shoot three-pointers.

In this era, unlike the later small-ball era, the three-point shot has become part of the team's regular tactics, and the three-point shot in this era is just a supplement to the conventional tactics, and the coach will not encourage you to shoot more three-pointers anyway, more often the coach will prefer to arrange some main inside, or individual singles tactics and blocking tactics, and the three-point shooters in this era themselves have higher requirements for the timing of shooting three-pointers. There is no such thing as a player like Curry who can shoot three-pointers anytime and anywhere.

In this era, three-point shooters will choose the best opportunity to shoot three-point shots, and the rhythm of the entire offense will be much slower.

Anyway, after I got the ball at this time, I began to let my teammates open up space for me to play alone, even if a few Celtics players came to cover me, I was ready to try it with singles, because looking at Shaq's state at this time, there was not much physical fitness, even if it was just playing the inside cut after blocking and dismantling, the efficiency was greatly reduced, and the other Lakers players were even worse.

The presence of Van Exel and Robert Horry in this game is quite low, Robert Horry is slightly better than Van Exel, at least he also made two very key three-pointers in the first quarter, these two three-pointers are also the only three-pointers made by our Lakers in this game, and the nearly ten three-point shots of others are all iron, this situation has rarely happened in our season, at least there will not be a situation where only one person can shoot three-pointers when the half is about to end.

They're a little bit of a bit of a lack of confidence against the Celtics defensively, and I don't care, because my teammates find it very difficult anyway, and it's time for me to show my resilience and strength, and I'm not the kind of person who can be beaten easily, especially if you want to completely suppress me mentally.

My singles are still my usual favorite two sets, in fact, I deliberately conserved my energy in the first half and didn't play too many singles, just to wait until the end of the second quarter, use my singles to score consecutive points, and then stretch the lead in one breath, seeing the Celtics players standing at this time, I know that they haven't fully realized that I have turned on the mode of individual one-dozen more, which is one of my strengths, and by the time they react, it is almost too late.

I sat with my back near the free throw line, shielding the ball with my weak-sided hand and glancing at the Celtics players around me with the afterglow of my eyes, all of whom were all focused on me, but they must have thought that I was more trying to play an offensive illusion and pass the ball out, after all, I rarely played one-on-one singles in previous game times.

Even the Celtics player who defended me from playing with his back at this time may have thought so, I tentatively carried it twice on the inside, and he directly took a big step back, fortunately I didn't fully exert my strength, otherwise he would have withdrawn the stool this time I was afraid that I would have fallen a lot.

Seeing him step back, I decisively stepped back a small step, and then made a quick stop jump shot, this ball he didn't expect me to shoot directly, so basically there was no interference, I shot very easily, the ball crossed a not very high arc in the air, straight into the basket, the beautiful sound through the basket still made me very intoxicated.

Then the Celtics' offense began to shoot less three-pointers, even if our Lakers let them shoot at will on the outside, they didn't shoot, after all, they had missed several shots in a row, and our Lakers' lead was about to come to ten points, and the players of this Celtics team became much more cautious than before.

However, sometimes a bad hand is contagious, continuous shooting, coupled with our Lakers shrinking interior defense, if they don't shoot three-pointers, it's actually not so easy to find good opportunities at close range.

Shaq fanned out a merciless big hat, and directly knocked the Celtics defenders who broke through to the interior to the ground on the spot, and the home fans all let out bursts of boos after seeing this scene, and they didn't know whether they were booing Shaq or booing the home team.

Although this block is very bloody, it is really a good risk, the referee did not say anything, Shaq directly took the ball in his hand, and I was ready to play a fast attack.

Shaq finally had a little tacit understanding with me, and I knew that I had to pass the ball to me as soon as possible, and after receiving a powerful hit pass from Shaq, I also desperately accelerated towards the Celtics' basket.

The Celtics were quick to defend back, and I was riding in front, taking the ball and charging quickly, and I didn't wait for my teammates who were still behind me at this time, but I was determined to attack the Celtics' interior.

The Celtics contracted so quickly that I was surrounded by a lot of people before I could even rush into the box, and even though I barely had room to shoot the ball and barely threw it, it still caused a foul on their shots, which earned me two free throws.

When the shooting rate of both teams drops, it is necessary to impact the opponent's interior more to win the opportunity to go to the free throw line, and the person who does this should be me rather than Shaq, after all, my free throw shooting rate this season is close to 90%, and Shaq's free throw shooting rate has fallen below 50% for a time, and the last two games have barely pulled the shooting rate back to 50%.

I adjusted my breath and made those two free throws steadily, and at this point our Lakers lead finally came to double digits, a full eleven points, and there was only a little more than a minute before the end of the half, and if we could go into the second half with a double-digit advantage, then our game would be basically stable.

The Celtics played a few good shots in the last minute or so, especially Antoine Walker when the team was behind by more than ten points, he immediately stood up, first against my defense and then shot an ultra-long-range three-pointer, why use it again, because in the first quarter, this guy almost threw an ultra-long-range three-pointer in the same position, I thought he was blinded at the time, but I didn't expect him to hit it again now, and I don't know if he was particularly lucky today, or really stole Curry's skill pack, Or maybe Curry crossed over and possessed him, haha.

Then the guy hit a mid-range jumper that instantly brought the score back to just six, and the rest of our offense failed to score, so by the end of the half, the second half was bound to be quite intense.

And this is probably what the fans at the scene like to see very much, I don't know if this game is broadcast live in the United States, anyway, when we visited Philadelphia to challenge the 76ers yesterday, it should be broadcast live in the United States.

I drank a lot of energy drinks at halftime, and I don't know why I suddenly felt quite thirsty, I looked around the entire North Shore Garden Arena again before walking into the players' tunnel, and still didn't see Jessica's figure, of course, she may have really left the arena early, I still don't think about her now, wait until the game is over and then find a place to relax with her, have a supper or something, or even go to a movie.

Thinking of movies, I realized that I had known Jessica for so long, and I hadn't even gone to see a movie together, and there were so many Hollywood blockbusters in the United States, wouldn't it be a pity not to go to the cinema to see them.

At halftime, I spent a large part of my time meditating with my eyes closed, and head coach Silver Fox Harris didn't say anything more, maybe he also knew that our Lakers players were very tired at this time and needed a little time to close their eyes and recuperate a little.

In the first half, especially in the first quarter, Shaq, who was too violent, was also a little embarrassed at this time, at least compared to his usual lively and active He is really abnormal.

I didn't focus more on paying attention to other Lakers players, but I focused on my own meditation world, which is actually divided into many kinds, and what I'm doing now is the most basic meditation, trying to empty my brain and not think about anything at all.

There may be some pictures that will appear repeatedly in your mind, but these pictures are likely to be some jumping scenes that have no connection at all and have no meaning, you just need not to actively pay attention to these pictures, do not actively think about these pictures, as these pictures gradually pass, your heart will gradually enter a relatively calm state.

When I first entered the meditative state, I would have a sound in my head that resembled the chirping of mosquitoes or flies, which made me very uncomfortable, but at this time I calmed down, then took a deep breath, trying to clear my mind of all the complicated thoughts, not thinking about anything extra, just focusing on one point.

Through this repeated training, I was able to gradually control my attention and some of my subconscious, and in today's meditation I feel that I can hear a very faint man's voice.

At first, I thought I was having auditory hallucinations, but as the meditation deepened, the voice gradually became clearer, and I seemed to realize who the owner of this voice was, could it be that the owner of this voice was the soul of Kobe Bryant, who had been staying in my subconscious?

I've been thinking about where Kobe's soul went after I was reborn in Kobe's body, and the AI told me something about him before, only saying that Kobe's soul might come back one day in the future, and then I had to think about how to share this body with Kobe.