The third quarter of our Lakers and SuperSonics kicked off, and the first offensive round was played by the SuperSonics, and their open Gary Payton took the ball outside the three-point line, and then let Sean Kemp come up to him for a high pick-and-roll, after which Shaun Kemp went down to the inside, but after the down, he was intercepted by Shaq.

This time Sean Kemp played more tough, he did not retreat, but used one of his arms to support Shaq's body, and then the other hand made a movement to catch the ball, such a key action means that Sean Kemp wants to have a head-on duel with Shaq.

In the first half, such a scene is actually rare, because Shaunkamp and Shaq were not directly opposed in the first half, but after the second half, Shaq obviously began to confront Shaunkamp head-on, I don't know if it was deliberately arranged by the head coach of the SuperSonics, maybe he wanted to use Shaunkamp's frontal impact to cause Shaq's foul.

After all, our Lakers' overall defense is still very good, and the supersonics' outside shooting feel today can only be described as general, and it does not provide much help to their interior player Sean Kemp, in this case, Sean Kemp seems to need to use his own strength to fight for better scoring opportunities for himself.

Shaq didn't expect Shaq to choose to confront him head-on after blocking Shaunkamp's way, his choice surprised Shaq a little, but then he came back to his senses, because in fact, Shak's dominance was still there, and he had considerable confidence in his strength and low post defense.

And out of this self-confidence, Shaq soon had a head-to-head duel with Shaunkamp, although Shaunkamp is inferior to Shaq in strength and height, but it does not mean that Shaq will be able to completely crush him when defending him.

After all, the rules of basketball are more often biased towards the offensive side, and it is unlikely that our Lakers players will pack and assist Shaun Camp when Shaq is defending Shaun Camp alone, because they all believe that Shak can handle this small matter alone, so Shaun Kemp can let go of one-on-one confrontation with Shak.

Shaq is also a little underestimated, I didn't expect Shaunkamp to look like a rather rough player, but he really has a little level of feints, and his low-post operations quickly put Shaq in a dilemma.

Shaq actually still has two brushes in the low post defense, but he is a little light on Shaunkamp, so he caused the current situation, allowing Shaqamp to take advantage of Shaq's lack of concentration on the defensive end and get a chance to break through directly to the basket to score.

You must know that the rain man Shaunkamp's physical fitness is extremely explosive, and his explosiveness is no worse than Shak, when he is still a long distance from the basket, he has already risen into the air, spreading his arms in the air, like a roc spreading its wings, and Shaq can only watch from behind, he actually has no intention of continuing to make up for defense, for him on the defensive end, he can defend what he can prevent, and the ball that can't be blocked is actually like that.

So after this ball was scored, the morale of the entire SuperSonics players was boosted a little, and the sound of our Lakers home stadium Staples Arena was also much quieter because of this ball.

This is actually a very normal thing, after all, Shaq really doesn't work that the defensive end, and if Shaun Kemp plays a little more resolutely, he can use his athleticism to score.

Of course, the next thing is to see if the SuperSonics will continue to implement their tactics, on the other hand, this kind of ball can also increase Shaq's excitement, if the opponent hits one on top of his head, he will definitely find a way to return it in the next few rounds, Shaq is such a character.

Therefore, in the next round, Shaq desperately ran to the low post to ask for the ball, and we saw that Shaq's determination to ask for the position was very great, so he passed the ball to Shak's hands at the first time, and it was Sean Kemp who defended Shaq at this time.

There were also two supersonic players standing on the side, seemingly waiting for Shaq to enter the interior to wrap him up, and snatch the basketball directly from his hand, presumably their plan at this time.

Shaq didn't choose to attack the basket in the first place when he got the ball, this time he seemed to have learned wisely, and first made a careful observation of everything around him, after which he could understand what the opponent's defensive setup was like and what he needed to do to get rid of their defense.

In fact, Shaq is an extremely smart person, and the basketball IQ is also very high, but he is sometimes too lazy, and even when he is on the court, he will not be too lazy to think about the changes in the situation on the court, if he can use his brain relatively more to think about the situation on the court, he will definitely become more powerful.

Now he is in a state of thinking, and Shaq is extremely ferocious, and after observing the defensive positions of the supersonic players around him, he began to plan how to launch such an attack.

Shaq's start speed is amazing, at least in terms of his height and weight, such a sudden turn is simply incredible, his turn is fast, the turn is large, and without any warning, after turning will open up a huge space, making it very difficult for defenders to try to block Shaq further, and even foul Shak.

Sean Kemp actually knows the tricks of Shaq's big killer weapon, but helplessly, Shak's killing moves are too many, it's simply impossible to prevent, and even if you know that Shaq wants to use this trick, you may not be able to really defend him, Shak's horror lies in this, his power is extremely strong, not you can block it if you want to.

After Shaq's turn passed Shaunkamp, he suddenly opened up the space on the court, although the two supersonic players rushed in time to make up for Shaq, but they could only become a background board when facing the terrible Shaq, only to see Shaq jump high, directly over the bodies of the two defenders, and smashed the basketball into the basket.

He hung from the basket for a long time after dunking, and the ball immediately recaptured the momentum on the court back to our side of the Lakers.

In addition, this is our Lakers' home stadium after all, and the enthusiasm of the home fans is almost melting us, and now I am a little used to the enthusiasm of the Staples fans, so in fact, it is not the kind of shock that I felt in the first few games of the season, but this is not at all to say that there is no shock.

Shaq's outburst activated the enthusiasm of the fans at the scene, and a very important purpose for them to come to the scene was to come to the scene to experience the passionate collision on the basketball court, and the most exciting of these passionate collisions was naturally the dunk.

Although the dunk of a giant like Shaq is not aesthetically pleasing, it is full of explosiveness and blood, which makes people feel like their blood is boiling after watching it, which is enough for fans, and Shaq's violent aesthetic is their favorite way to dunk.

Different players have different specialties, like Jordan's dunk is also very good-looking, but Shaq's dunk obviously gives people a stronger shock and perspective impact, especially the appearance of overwhelming several opposing defensive players to force up and dunk, which simply makes the fans on the scene feel extremely shocked.

Shaq also started to do his shark dance, completely ignoring the contemptuous glances cast at him, and he even deliberately provoked Sean Camp with his eyes.

Sean Camp is also the kind of player with a very good temper, of course, it is difficult to endure Shaq's provocation, so in the next round, Shaun Kemp is ready to single Shaq again, he looks like he is completely hard with Shaq today, neither of them is convinced of the other, and they are ready to continue to kill each other's inside line in their offensive rounds.

This time Shaq has to concentrate a lot on the defensive end, he doesn't want Shaunkamp to score on top of his head for two consecutive rounds, the previous ball can be said to be caused by his lack of concentration, so now his attention has become very concentrated, and he also wants to see how great Shaunkamp's ability is, and he can score under the basket that he Shaq guards.

Shaunkamp was not afraid of Shaq's immense momentum, he took the pass from Payton and started holding the ball directly from beyond the three-point line, as if he wanted to look for a head-on opportunity to single Shaq.

Shaq also lowered his center of gravity at this time, and completely looked like an outside player on defense, which is really not an easy thing for us, it is not easy to see such a situation happen, Shaq will even put on a posture of an outside player to press the center of gravity to defend.

But then Sean Kemp also began to use the crotch dribble and cross step that are generally used by outside players, but he didn't expect that his basic dribbling skills still have a certain level, and it is not as rough as most people think.

When Shaun Kemp faced Shaq's serious defense, of course, there was no way to directly say that he could use his own strength to resist Shaq, after all, his height and weight strength were at a disadvantage, and Shak's strong attack was not too simple, and his only chance was to use his footsteps to attack Shaq.

Sean Kemp's footsteps are really quite good, this point can not be ignored at all, how to say, Sean Kemp gives people the illusion on the offensive end, that is, he is a rough man with no skills, but in fact, he is indeed a rough man, but he is not without any skills.

How can a player like him become a quasi-All-Star level have no skills at all, it's just that his style of play may not rely so much on technology to play, which ordinary people may not necessarily be able to see.

Shaq also seems to be underestimating his skills, especially his foot skills, but this time Shaq is serious about defending, which means that Shaunkamp will not have the opportunity to break through to the penalty area to attack as easily as before.

It seems that Sean Kemp first used the dribble to find Shaq's defensive center of gravity, and then actually made a guard-like worship of the Buddha, this action stunned me, I didn't expect this guy to have some of this kind of work, but that's right, his body is a bit too big after all, so it must not be as calm and good as the defender does, and there will be a certain time delay.

However, his worship of Buddha still deceived Shaq's center of gravity, after all, Shaq would not have thought that Shaun Kemp would play this kind of thing with him, the operation of a small guard like Buddha is generally not so easy to do, especially when your height and weight reach a certain level, inertia and center of gravity will make it difficult for you to grasp the balance of your body, but I am afraid that if the technique is not good, instead of shaking your opponent down, but let yourself lose your center of gravity, this is not a strange thing.

After Sean Kemp's worship of the Buddha was made, Shaq was a little stupid, his center of gravity had changed, and it was not a simple matter to change the center of gravity again.

Shaunkamp took advantage of this time difference to break through Shaq's weak-side defensive area, Shaq was not able to keep up with Shaunkamp's first step, but this time he didn't plan to give up defending Shaunkamp, the previous ball allowed Shaunkamp to rush in and easily complete the dunk, this time he made up his mind that he would never let Shaunkamp do it so easily.

I saw that when Sean Kemp rushed into the inside, he was ready to start the dunk again, but he didn't expect that a huge sound and shadow appeared from behind him at this time, and a huge palm, which was so big that it could completely cover the basketball underneath.

Shaq also defended with all his might this time, and directly fanned the ball in Seankamp's hand from behind, but his body was so huge that inertia directly knocked Seankamp out.

The referee awarded Shaq a defensive foul, and Sean Kemp couldn't get up on the ground for a long time, and it is estimated that he will have a little psychological shadow after this, and it must be a rather sour thing to be taken down by Shaq like this.

Shaq was whistled for a foul, but he didn't look sad at all, but also, in order to be able to prevent him, the other side didn't know how many rules were broken on him today, and this time Shaq was fouled, so this feeling was actually good for Shaq, because he didn't let Shaunkamp easily hit the ball in after all.

Sean Kemp didn't win all of these two free throws, and missed the first free throw, probably because Shaq's foul still had a big physical impact on him, so he couldn't make all the free throws.

I wanted to do more things for the rest of the attack, and to be honest, it wasn't good to have Shaq alone, so I decided to play a nice ball.

I was watching from beyond the three-point line with the ball to see what the SuperSonics' defensive formation was like, but the SuperSonics' defense was really good at this point, and it seemed that both the interior and the outside seemed to have a strong defense, and I thought it would be difficult to find particularly good single opportunities on the outside.

Because Glove Payton was still very tight on my defense at this time, in the first half, his later foul count went up, so he was a little more merciful to my men, but now it's not good, because his foul count has dropped again, so it's still difficult for me to break through his defense again, because he is likely to use a vicious foul to pull me down directly.

With that in mind, I'm still more cautious, I know that Payton's defense is full of toughness, like a dogskin plaster, although his defense is so good, but in fact, I think his defensive movements are still relatively clean, and unlike later players like Bowen or Green, whose defense is dirty, his defense is often not able to break through even if you don't have to make a big move.

It's a challenge, but I'm not going to back down easily, and if Payton gets distracted or there's another opportunity I can take it, I'll not hesitate to attack.

Finally, Glove Payton also revealed a big flaw, as for why he showed this flaw, in fact, it was because Shaq was too much of a threat on the inside, and Shaq directly knocked Shaun Kemp to the ground when he was in the position.

At this time, Gary Payton's attention was immediately attracted by Shaq, and I took advantage of this gap and did not pass the ball directly to Shaq, but directly outside the three-point line to pull out the jumper, because I knew that even if the ball was passed to Shaq, it would only be two points, but if I shot three points, I would have a chance to get three points, and if I couldn't shoot, with Shaq's current position, I would be able to easily get a rebound for the second offense.

At this moment, I thought about a lot of things at once, and then I made a decisive three-point shot, and it seemed that there was nothing wrong with my choice.

With this three-point shot, the gap between our Lakers and the SuperSonics was further widened.

This three-pointer was another huge boost to the morale of our Lakers team, perhaps because our overall morale was already quite good, so for the next few minutes, we were basically playing against the SuperSonics on the court, and they didn't seem to have any power to fight back at all.

As the point difference has widened to more than 10 points, the SuperSonics team had to stop the game, if it continues like this, I am afraid that the SuperSonics team will soon fall into a huge predicament, and it must be extremely difficult to recover from a situation of falling behind by a few points, especially at the home of our Lakers.

Shaq looked very proud, as if he had made the three-pointer, and I just spread my hands helplessly, probably because I felt that he had attracted Gary Payton's attention to give me this opportunity to shoot this three-pointer, and it was normal for him to be a little proud.

The time of the game passed very quickly, much faster than expected, and after a while, more than five minutes had passed in the third quarter, and now I feel more and more that the time of the game is really passing too fast.

I used to think that a race was really long, but now I feel more and more that time passes much faster than I thought it would be, and a lot of times I don't feel anything about myself, and time has passed a lot.

At this time, the supersonic coach was the first to call a timeout, and it just so happened that we could also make some adjustments through this time.

In the previous games, I would even use the two-minute timeout to go into a meditative state and talk to Kobe, but now I don't seem to be in a good mood to talk to Kobe about these things, maybe I'll find some time to have another conversation with Kobe after the game.

It seems like we haven't been talking about my subconscious issues for a while, but to be honest, these things are quite conflicting in my heart, because if I really spend that much time thinking about them, the result would be very complicated.

What I want to do now is not necessarily to know my own background or the secrets hidden in my subconscious, but now I feel some inexplicable fear, this fear is not my fear of the unknown, but the fear of what I know, as if I am not willing to know the truth of some things from the bottom of my heart.

It's as if when I really know these truths, I must pay a certain price, and this feeling is very strong, sometimes even strong to the point that I can't imagine.

But it was a fleeting feeling that didn't last long inside of me, and soon I started to re-examine myself, but I had to wait until the game was over.

Now the timeout is over again, and our starters are not off the court, after all, it's only been five minutes in the third quarter, and then we're going to have to go crazy against the SuperSonics to try to secure a big advantage in the third quarter, so that in the fourth quarter we can have more rest.

Of course, when the game is too intense, you will also be too focused on the field, and ignore a lot of overall situations, so at this time the video of the game is very important, you can watch the video of the game to find some things you ignored during the game, through your memories of the scene, plus the confirmation of the game video, you can judge whether the response you made in the game is the most correct and reasonable.

The reason why the other party will be crazy about Shaq is actually because a simple calculation can be understood, Shaq's free throw shooting rate is only about 50%, while Shaq's interior offensive shooting rate is more than 60%, or even higher, so if every time Shaq gets the ball in a threatening area, the best way to defend him is to send him to the free throw line, because in this way he can only score 1 point per offense on average, but if you defend him normally, On average, he can score 1.2 points or more per offense, which is why when Spurs head coach Popovich invented the shark slashing tactic, other teams in the league followed suit, mainly because it was easy to use.

On the other hand, the shark cutting tactic can also effectively disrupt the offensive rhythm of our Lakers team, cutting the originally smooth game into small pieces, which was originally a kind of torture for both sides of the game, but for the stronger Lakers team, this psychological torture will be a little greater, because we originally had the opportunity to take away the game in a wave, but now we can only be forced to slow down the pace of the game, which is likely to cause the impatience of our players.

In the basketball game, offense and defense are always one, just like the ancient war, a warrior with a sword in one hand and a shield in the other, but in the basketball game, offense and defense are separated, when you attack, the opponent defends, and when you defend, the opponent attacks, but in fact, you can also think about defense when attacking, and consider offense when defending.

If all your energy is only invested in the attack on the real battlefield, then it is easy to have a huge flaw, once your attack is defused by the opponent, you will instantly put yourself in great danger, and the opponent is likely to directly use your flaw to seriously injure you.

The same is true on the basketball court, if all your energy is just invested in the offense, then once your offense is not successful, then it is easy for the opponent to seize the opportunity to hit you a defensive counterattack, and the fastest way to score in the basketball game is undoubtedly to defend and counterattack, because at this time the opponent does not have a complete defensive formation, and it is also the easiest to find the opponent's defensive flaws to give the opponent a blow.

So a really good team, will also be like a really good fighter, is a combination of offense and defense, offense will also take into account defense, defense will also look for offensive opportunities, the situation on the basketball court is changing rapidly, just like the situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, you need to focus on one point at all times, only in this way can you deal with unexpected situations that may arise at any time.

Of course, sometimes it is a lot of courage to move forward in the game, so it may not necessarily be the most rational and correct decision, but after the game you can analyze these offensive rounds to re-emphasize something to yourself, and slowly it can also help you develop the ability to quickly find the best opportunity to play.

In the second half of the third quarter, the SuperSonics also began to launch some counterattacks against us, but these counterattacks were repelled by our bench players, and at the end of the third quarter, our Lakers still maintained a margin of about 15 points, which was enough to ensure that we had enough advantages in the fourth quarter to win the game.

The fourth quarter of the game is about to start, and the head coach Silver Fox Harris has made some adjustments to the lineup on the court, in fact, it is mainly in the position of some targeted adjustments, it can be seen that the head coach Silver Fox Harris is still working hard, he is trying to become a top coach in the league.

Of course, this process is not so easy, just like I want to be the best star in the league, it doesn't mean that I can do it if I want to, it takes a lot of effort, and at the same time, it needs some other objective factors to work together to complete it, and I actually know it quite well in my heart.

Our Lakers are ahead of the SuperSonics, and the score on our court is itself ahead of the SuperSonics, which puts us in a better position to have more options.

When the game started in the fourth quarter, our Lakers still sent bench players to play on the court, and our starters actually didn't need to return to the court too early to play, because the current 15-point difference is actually a considerable difference for the SuperSonics team who don't have a high shooting percentage.

They felt okay on the perimeter today, but one of the big problems with their perimeter players was that they weren't confident enough to shoot the first shot when they actually got a decent shot.

As a result, we lost a lot of good shots, which gave us a chance to widen the difference, but a lot of the time you are in a high state of tension at the end of a game, and it seems very difficult to get every choice right, and it happens to many teams.

When facing opponents who are stronger than yourself, you will have a certain amount of psychological pressure, which will cause you to play abnormally, and this situation will also appear in me, of course, with the improvement of your psychological quality, the impact of this situation on you will be reduced accordingly.

But overall, these are difficult things to say.

After the start of the fourth quarter of the game, our Lakers bench players still held on to the advantage of the court, Eddie Jones and Byron Scott on the bench did not perform too well at the beginning of today's game, but as the game deepened, their performance actually got better and better, and in the fourth quarter they fully played their state.

The SuperSonics didn't even replace the bench, but let the starters return to the court early, because if the difference can't be narrowed a little bit now, it will be difficult for them to play.

About ten minutes into the game, the SuperSonics finally relied on a small climax to pull the difference back to within ten points, at this time the head coach Silver Fox Harris decisively called a timeout, and it seemed that after the timeout, our starters were going to return to the game.

Since the opponent did not replace the starters, it led to the fact that our Lakers starters must have more rest time than them, and if we replace the starters at this time, the opposite starters seem to have no chance to go off the court to rest.

Our team's starters are able to gain a certain level of physical advantage, and even a small physical advantage at this level of competition can often lead to a completely different direction in the game, which has happened a lot in this season.

What we have to do is to cherish the key points of each game and grasp these key moments, and the whole game is often composed of many small game nodes.

Once you're able to do a good job of these matches, the whole game will be very easy.

In fact, doing everything is the same, many seemingly impossible tasks, many things that seem very difficult, are actually composed of many small details, when you slowly accumulate these small details, you can eventually form your entire building.

This is undoubtedly very important.

During the pause, head coach Silver Fox Harris repeatedly emphasized defense and defensive counterattacks, which is now a certain advantage for us, but the nine-point difference is obviously not enough for us to fully establish the victory, so we need to give the SuperSonics the final fatal blow.

In fact, the easiest thing to do with this fatal blow is actually to push the counterattack through defense, because it is only when the defense counterattacks that it is easiest to score.

A successful defensive counterattack in a basketball game is a very morale boost, and the opponent scores two fewer points, you score two more points, and the difference between the two sides is a full four points inside and out.

If you have a few more successful defensive counterattacks in a game, the difference between the two sides will be quickly widened, which is not only the fastest way to open up the difference, but also the fastest way to recover the difference.

Therefore, in this era of Chongshan defense, defensive counterattack is very important, and defensive counterattack seems to become more important in the later small-ball era, because in the later small-ball era, the three-point shot in the general counterattack increases, and the overall game rhythm accelerates, so it is more necessary to need such defensive counterattacks to get easy scoring opportunities.

And all of this needs to be built on the basis of successful defense, if your team doesn't have a good defense, it doesn't matter what defensive counterattack is, this is the most natural thing, and there is no way to change it.

After the timeout came back, our Lakers starters also returned to the court, Shaq seemed very excited, and it was time for him to kill all sides, today he had more rest, so in the fourth quarter, Shaq still maintained a good physical reserve, for him, as long as he has physical fitness in the fourth quarter, then he has the capital to explode.

And I like to explode in the second half, and in the first three quarters I was defended by Gary Payton, and to be honest, the overall shooting percentage was not very high, mainly compared to my previous performances this season.

In fact, my scoring efficiency this season has been quite high among outside players, and it is not particularly far from Michael Jordan's shooting percentage, of course, I don't think that my current strength is close to Michael Jordan, I know that this is mainly because Shaq has won more offensive space for our outside players on the inside.

So in fact, I now think that Shaq is a very important part of our Lakers team, he is actually the cornerstone of our Lakers team on both offensive and defensive ends, and everything we do now for the Lakers is based on his dominance.

In any case, I have to admit this, but Shaq's dominance is sometimes unstable, not in the face of all players, Shaq's dominance can be shown, why do I say that, mainly because Shaq's dominance often has certain prerequisites, it depends on the style of play of many opponents.

Of course, in this era, with the aging of the older generation of super interior players, Shaq's dominance in the center position has become more and more obvious, and there is no player who can compare with Shaq among the new generation of interior players, at least the interior player who can reach his level of dominance, basically there is no second one.

So even Shaq has certain shortcomings, but it is enough for our current Lakers team, and there are no more opponents who can solve Shak's difficulty.

In the next few minutes, our Lakers and SuperSonics also entered a phase of stalemate on the court, and neither could easily defeat the other, which was determined by many things.

It seems that the SuperSonics team has become a lot more tenacious after entering the fourth quarter, in fact, they have shown quite tenaciousness throughout the game, our Lakers have widened the difference between the two sides to ten or even more than fifteen points many times in the process, and when the difference is about to go to twenty points, the opposite side can always firmly bite the difference.

Denying our Lakers a chance to tenaciously pull the gap apart led to us not being able to fully decide the winner until the fourth quarter.

Right now, we're just a few points ahead of the SuperSonics, and it's not impossible for an NBA-caliber player to pull that difference back.

There are a lot of miracles like this happening every day in the NBA, and there are constant cases where teams with the lead end up losing games.

However, with the gradual passage of time, the score difference of the SuperSonics team has not been further narrowed, and it is such a complete stalemate that can test the real overall strength of the team.

Why do you say that, because whether it is a tailwind or a headwind is not the most testing time for the player's psychological quality, and only in this way alternately rising, the dog-tooth staggered game can really reflect the real psychological quality of the player, at this time if you can't withstand the huge pressure, naturally there is no way to occupy the real upper hand in the game with the opponent.

When dealing with weak teams, the opponent may be easily defeated by you, but the real strong teams are able to grow in adversity, and those strong teams in the playoffs are all never give up, and no one knows who the final victory will belong to until the last moment of the game.

Soon the fourth quarter was in the last six minutes, and it was clear that there would be no more time for the rest of the game with the main players on both sides, and in this case, the physical exertion on both sides was very high, and if either side could not grit their teeth and hold on, the efforts of the whole game could be in vain.

Especially for our Lakers, it is impossible to accept the end of leading the whole game and finally failing, and we will definitely do our best to get this victory in our hands.

That's the way it is, we both started to fight hard for every ball on the pitch, desperately defending, desperately running, desperately attacking, and neither of us wanted to be the reason for the team to lose.

It was not until the last moment of the fourth quarter that the smell of gunpowder between the two sides was completely ignited, and this kind of passionate collision on the court was completely ignited.