53:24 This is probably the Lakers' biggest halftime difference in this year's playoffs, falling behind, not leading. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoBecause of O'Neal's strong performance, Kobe's role is not very obvious, because no one would have thought that O'Neal would be blocked by someone, and therefore, Kobe's outside fire support can only be regarded as icing on the cake, but when it comes to the real life and death moment, people find out that this explosive head boy is still very important to the Lakers.

The Knicks successfully pulled up a blockade line, they blocked nearly a third of O'Neal's offense, and after pulling O'Neal's firepower down, what the Knicks had to do was to take advantage of O'Neal's failure to open this set of shackles, and first expand the score to the stage where O'Neal couldn't catch up anyway.

In a game, the best way to open the score is a three-point shot, and the means to catch up with the score is also a three-point shot. In the second half of the game, the two sides significantly strengthened their encounters on the outside.

Sprewell has been the Knicks' No. 1 outside knife this season, with plenty of physical strength, a persistent impact on the basket, plus good shooting ability and outstanding defensive ability that can be shown at the second and third positions. It's fair to say that Sprewell is probably the Knicks' most popular player this season. (Ewing has never been popular)

But now, Sprewell can only play a supporting role, and now, in Madison Square Garden, the Knicks only have one main character, H20 Alan Houston. (The number in Houston is 20, plus Houston, so the nickname is H20)

Now the situation on the court is destined for the shooters to do a life-and-death duel, and even, in this context, the Lakers' outside players are probably enough to reach the level of two-thirds of Houston, but under such pressure, the mid-range shooting king Alan Houston started the No. 20 personal shooting bag display in front of the New York people, as long as 998, Alan Houston's shooting bag to take home.

In order to enhance the firepower on the outside, Van Gundy also put Johnson on the court, although in this way, the defensive pressure in the face of O'Neal was almost all carried by Mo Xi alone, but Van Gundy was keenly aware that Mo Xi seemed to be a little happy about this, and maybe, the defensive problem of Mo Xi, which Van Gundy has been a headache, will be solved in this finals.

In the second half, the Knicks took the lead in attacking, and the Knicks designed several sets of targeted offensive tactics for Houston, but no matter how they changed, their ultimate goal was only one, to put Houston in a safe position to catch the ball.

Because Johnson was on the court, Mo Xi did not go to the high post, but took O'Neal to the low post, where he made the first cover for Houston.

Houston ran to the top of the arc with the help of the cover, and Johnson had already given Houston a second cover early, and Ward also hoisted the ball directly to Johnson, Johnson and Houston completed a hand-to-hand pass, Houston took advantage of the huge space brought by Johnson's cover, and turned and shot directly after receiving the ball.

Elegant arc, elegant goal, the only fly in the ointment is that Houston's shot is not a three-point shot, at this time it is not allowed to block outside the three-point line, and the three-point shot is indeed not Houston's conventional weapon, so Houston's first reaction after passing the cover is not to pull back and shoot three points, but to take a step forward to the side and shoot in the middle.

On the Lakers' side, the offensive core is still O'Neal, even if O'Neal is restricted, he is also the most sure one among the Lakers' personnel on the court, but it is obvious that in the second half, O'Neal began to change his style of play, he no longer forced the ink, but appropriately passed the ball to the outside, wanting the team's outside offense to play.

O'Neal's choice is no problem, even if he is strong alone, he is only too strong to be limited, after all, the whole team must blossom to really win the game, but it seems that the Lakers' excellent outside touch in the last game has come to naught, and the Knicks' outside line is like a dark cloud cover, and the Lakers' outside line almost collapsed.

O'Neal hit Mo Xi, Mo Xi took a step back, O'Neal pushed to a deeper position, but that's the end of it, O'Neal is still about one and a half miles away from the paint area under the basket, this position is very microseconds for O'Neal, the shot distance is a little far, I want to hook my hand, but this position is not very deep, and the Knicks' outside players will come up at any time to wrap up. O'Neill didn't have time to think about it, so he pushed Mo Xi again, and with the force of recoil, he pulled out a little distance, intending to hook his hand.

At this time, Sprewell pounced directly, O'Neal's ball was only halfway raised, just past his chest, Sprewell had already rushed to the front, O'Neal had to pause the attack, protect the ball first, and Sprewell took the opportunity to force it.

O'Neal struggled to break away from the two's grip and flicked the ball to Robert Horry on the outside.

But obviously, in the game that was not a key game, Horry failed to get the blessing of the buff, coupled with Johnson's quick step forward to make up for the defense, Horry did not even get a real opportunity to shoot in the open space, and he had to force the ball out under the pressure of Johnson who pounced to make up the defense.

The ball was missed, but obviously, it was still difficult for Mo Xi to contain O'Neal under the basket alone, O'Neal pushed Mo Xi away, squeezed out a position under the basket, and directly pressed Mo Xi to make up for the dunk.

But obviously, the Lakers can't score in this way in every round of offense, and O'Neal is not Moses Malone after all, you know, when Moses Malone was in the 76ers, the coach even really created a set of extremely capricious tactics, when you are forced to a corner with the ball, just throw the ball to the basket. Moses Malone's frontcourt rebounds during the 76ers period were not as good as they were during the Rockets period, but they could still reach the average number of rebounds per game for some average centers.

For the Lakers, it is not only that there is a problem on the offensive end, but more importantly, they are so helpless in the face of the Knicks' offense, especially Houston's elegant and calm running and shooting, the Knicks designed the cover tactics are in place, Johnson is obviously a first-class cover provider, and the Lakers can complete the inside line of the task of changing Houston, obviously only O'Neal is alone, and Mo Xi is the first link of cover, but here, Houston will not choose to catch the ball, And O'Neill didn't dare to go too far away from Mo Xi, so Mo Xi would get an easy misplaced singles opportunity.

Reggie Miller, who is far away in Indiana, almost smashed the TV at home, judging from the Lakers' performance, if they meet the Pacers led by him, it will definitely be worse than now, you know, in the entire East, the most slippery cover tactics are the Pacers, although the Pacers' interior line, facing O'Neal may be more unbearable, (which is true) but Miller feels that according to the Lakers' outside defensive ability, he, the No. 1 assassin, will definitely be like a fish in water.

At the end of the third quarter, the Lakers almost collapsed, and not only did they fail to recover some scores, but they were pulled away by two points.