In the first three minutes, the Lakers played a strong wave of 8:2, and the two points that the Knicks scored were still Houston's free throws, and the Knicks were suppressed by the Lakers on both offensive and defensive ends.

Call a timeout in the first three minutes?

Van Gundy doesn't have such courage, he feels that if he hands over this timeout too early, it will inevitably make the Knicks' players feel that the team is playing badly during this period, and will have a bad psychological hint to them, and take the initiative to call a timeout so early, the Knicks' tactical arrangement will also fall into passivity, being led away by the Lakers and Phil Jackson. Van Gundy hopes that Mo Xi can step up and fight back against the Lakers.

But to the disappointment of Van Gundy, it is even difficult for Mo Xi to get the ball, the Lakers have arranged a very targeted defense for Mo Xi, because the cancellation of illegal defense, the restrictions on superstars are greater to some extent, and those teams that rely too much on superstars often have a period of overwhelm because of the opponent's targeted defense, just like the Knicks are now.

Bad news followed, and at the same time as Kobe Bryant was powerful, O'Neal was not willing to be lonely and showed his sharp fangs at the Knicks.

O'Neal sat directly in the low post and reached out for the ball, and Fisher immediately handed the ball to O'Neal.

Because the Knicks were suddenly beaten by the Lakers, he regretted that he couldn't find his form, and suddenly in the face of O'Neal's offense, he could only resist hard.

After O'Neal received the ball, he first arched Mo Xi heavily, so that Mo Xi's body bent involuntarily, and then, O'Neal did not stand up, and directly stretched his right foot forward, and the axis foot changed, and the whole person turned around from the outside and went directly to the basket. O'Neal held the ball up on the other side of his shoulder as he lifted the ball and strode inside.

Mo Xi stretched his arms out with all his might, but still couldn't interfere with O'Neal, who used superb inside footwork to score.

Mo Xi gritted his teeth and quickly ran forward.

The Knicks are in trouble, and this time needs to be more poised.

Mark Jackson guards the ball with his back while carefully observing the situation on the court, Mark Jackson's style of play is really suitable for the situation of the headwind, and it is more in line with the style of the Knicks, which is why Mark Jackson can always sit in the starting point guard position.

Mark Jackson looked at Mo Xi, at this time, Mo Xi was directly defended by Fox, and at the same time, O'Neal was not far behind him, and he directly used a double bag at the beginning, and the Lakers were really hard.

Mark Jackson passed the ball to Sprewell, who faced a lot less defensive pressure because of Fox's loop.

Although after Sprewell received the ball, Kobe Bryant quickly stepped forward to make up for the defense, but after all, the middle could not be seamless, and Sprewell took advantage of this gap to quickly break forward, squeeze Kobe Bryant, and kill directly under the basket.

But Sprewell was in such a hurry that he didn't think about it at all, and as soon as he got to the basket, he found a black shadow on his head.

Sprewell knew right away that he was getting carried away.

With a crisp sound of "pop~", Sprewell's layup was directly fanned.

The ball happened to be picked up by the returning Moxi, after all, Fox's circle was only a small part of Moxi's defense, once the real defender O'Neal left Moxi's side, then Moxi would be a dragon swimming into the sea in the real sense.

Mo Xi took the ball, stepped forward, then opened his bow and arrow, hung the ball behind his head with one hand, and then hit it with a heavy buckle.

Finally relieved the Knicks' current predicament a little.

But for the Knicks, it's a drop in the bucket.

The Lakers attacked again, and this time Mo Xi withstood O'Neal's advance, but the Lakers had a dual-core system.

Bryant broke free of Sprewell's close guard and scurried past Robert Horry, who went around the box and ran straight out of the other side.

This is a tactic often used by the Knicks, with Mo Xi pinned down on the inside, Houston running and attacking, and this time the Lakers did a wonderful job.

O'Neal saw that he failed to impress Mo Xi, and passed the ball to Kobe Bryant very simply, and Kobe Bryant took a shot directly after receiving the ball and hit the shot.

The Knicks' defense is a little unable to contain the Lakers' offense, but for the Knicks, defense is everything to them, and now the defense can't contain the opponent, which makes the Knicks very unfamiliar, and Mo Xi is too closely targeted on the offensive end, and the Knicks are in a huge passive situation.

As a last resort, Mo Xi simply walked out to catch the ball, and the whole person stepped on the three-point line to face the Lakers' defense.

When Mo Xi received the ball and turned around, O'Neal and Fox had already forced up, the two big men blocked Mo Xi in the middle, Mo Xi even if he saw the vacancy of his teammates, it was difficult to pass the ball out, but just handed the ball to Mark Jackson, Mo Xi felt very unwilling, and finally got the ball once, and then reorganized like this?

Mo Xi simply hit Fox directly, in comparison, O'Neal's side is really more difficult to break through, but Fox's side, because of his short height, is also a big restriction on Mo Xi's dribbling.

Sure enough, Mo Xi wanted to use Fox as a breakthrough, but unexpectedly, the moment he leaned on Fox, he also sent himself into the tiger's mouth.

Fox directly forced Mo Xi, Mo Xi struggled to protect the ball under Fox's pressure, but he also had to stop dribbling, but fortunately, Mo Xi had withdrawn from the space, and at a glance he saw Houston, who had run out of the vacant position, and threw the ball directly to Houston.

Houston received the ball and turned, and made a mid-range shot.

The Knicks stumbled forward, and on the other side, the Lakers had set off a storm from Los Angeles. In this storm, the Knicks are like a small ship with broken sails, which will be destroyed by the storm and sink directly into the depths of the Atlantic Ocean without knowing when.

The Knicks need a direction, either by Van Gundy, or by Mo Xi standing up and telling his teammates, or by someone else standing up for the Knicks.

At the end of the first quarter, the Knicks struggled to survive in a storm, the Lakers led the Knicks by nine points at 30:21, and Mo Xi also ushered in the lowest score in the first quarter of the Finals, scoring only four points on two of four shots, while also only getting two rebounds and two assists.

Phil Jackson secretly breathed a sigh of relief, even if it is as strong as No. 23, before Pippen, he can only trek in the steel jungle in the east, not to mention the No. 30 in front of him!