Chapter Ninety-Seven: Changes in the Lakers

After a day of adjustments, the second game between the Lakers and the Knicks began.

To the surprise of everyone in Los Angeles, New York, who lost the first game, didn't seem to take that loss to heart, and everyone in the Knicks looked calm and warmed up as usual, which really blew the glasses of a large number of Los Angeles fans around them.

Hey, hey! You're the ones who lost the first game! What is this mentality of being like no one else, as if the big score is 3:0 ahead!

It will be the courage of the soldiers, and the ink pity is the courage of the Knicks. Mo Xi has no fear, so the rest of the Knicks naturally have no fear.

Once again, Mo Xi and O'Neill were on the halfway line.

This time, O'Neal's eyes were full of caution and respect, for this man who defeated him from a certain point of view in the last game, O'Neill really, from the bottom of his heart, recognized that Mo Xi had the qualifications to compete with him, O'Neill was not questioning Mo Xi's technique or body, but felt that the current Mo Xi was indeed a real super center.

A whistle blows, and both sides jump balls.

Mo Xi snorted, and suffered a dark loss in this jump ball, O'Neal jumped to the ball, and the Lakers attacked.

Fisher pushed the ball forward and took a closer look before safely passing it to O'Neill.

O'Neal received the ball in the waist position against Moxi, but to Moxi's surprise, O'Neal did not choose to hit Moxi on the first ball but distributed the ball to Rick Fox in the bottom corner.

Rick Fox received the ball and went straight up, dribbling to a 45-degree angle, which was originally Kobe's position, but when Rick Fox received the ball, Kobe kicked in and walked into the bottom corner with O'Neal's cover.

Rick Fox reached a 45-degree angle, half-turned against Houston, and passed the ball directly to Bryant in the bottom corner.

Kobe Bryant mentioned it, and Rick Fox didn't stop, turning around and running with Kobe.

Misplaced position?

didn't exist, Rick Fox ran directly over and made a pick-and-roll for Kobe, Kobe accelerated and got rid of Sprewell with the help of the pick-and-roll, and then made an emergency stop, and hit the ball in the air with one hand, as if he wanted to make a stop-and-go jumper.

Houston on the other side hurriedly stepped forward and planned to interfere with Kobe's shot, but Kobe Bryant was a feint, suddenly lowering his center of gravity, a false shake, and a big change of direction to burst into the basket.

Mo Xi hurriedly let go of O'Neal to make up for the defense, but Kobe Bryant deftly hit the ground and passed the ball to O'Neal's hand.

It was too late for Mo Xi to turn around to defend O'Neal, as soon as he turned around, before he could stretch out his hand, he saw O'Neal take a big stride, half turned around, and the person had already reached the basket, grabbed the ball with both hands and stretched it out to the back of his head, and slammed it hard.

"Bang Dang~"

The basket and the entire basket began to tremble, like an old man.

The Knicks were a little overwhelmed by the whole team, and this was the Lakers' triangle offense.

The Lakers' triangle offense seems to be obvious to everyone at a glance, but once this set of tactics is put into use, even if the ball quotient and tactical analysis ability are as strong as ink, there is no way to immediately guess what the opponent's offensive thinking is when the Lakers run this set of tactics.

In the face of this kind of refined offensive tactics, even if the defense is as strong as the Knicks, it is a little helpless.

However, compared to the Knicks' iron-blooded defense, the Lakers' defense is really a bit rudimentary, but relatively, the Knicks' offensive tactics are quite simple compared to their own defensive tactics.

Mark Jackson and Mo Xi made a block, Mo Xi wanted to go down immediately after the block, but O'Neal seemed to have insight into Mo Xi's intentions, and he was stuck on the way forward early, Mo Xi was blocked by O'Neal, and he couldn't squeeze into the basket for a while.

Mark Jackson didn't wait for Mo Xi, but he had already come to the hinterland of the Lakers, so he had to take his back to protect the ball first.

Mo Xi stumbled out of half of his body and forced the ball from Mark Jackson's hand. However, Mo Xi lost the first tactical position, and now this position is a little embarrassing and embarrassing, but Mo Xi does not have so much time to think on the field, Mo Xi did not care about his position, and directly crossed the step, trying to pass O'Neill directly.

However, O'Neal reacted quickly, stepped back, and did not let Mo Xi attack the basket directly.

But O'Neal's step back also gave Mo Xi a lot of room to operate, and Mo Xi made an emergency stop, and another signature emergency stop jump shot under the basket.

O'Neill made a good pounce, but Mo Xi's shot was very decisive, and before O'Neill could pounce, Mo Xi had already hit.

The camera returns to the Lakers, reversing the last game, the Lakers' start in this game has been relying on team offense, rather than O'Neal or Kobe's strong individual ability, maybe Phil Jackson doesn't want to be in the same situation as in the last game, and simply uses his advantage to force the Knicks.

The advantage of the Lakers is that they have a tactic, a classic, mature tactic.

The Lakers are on a triangle offense again, this time with O'Neal and Rick Fox on the same side, O'Neal holding the ball and the other three on the weak side. It was another series of detailed runs, but Mo Xi didn't dare to rush out to make up for the defense this time, and Kobe Bryant easily stole the bottom line and made a layup.

The Lakers' offense puts huge pressure on the Knicks' defense, and the triangle offense also has a huge benefit that it can give full play to the strong offensive talent of the ball-handling attacker, and the reason why the whole Knicks feel a little uncomfortable is because the Lakers have changed the offensive core of the triangle offense, O'Neal has been playing the core in the last game, and now, this role has been replaced by Kobe, and the Lakers' offense is mostly running on the outside, and the Knicks are already a little accustomed to the triangle offense under O'Neal's system, so change, The Knicks were still a little unable to adapt for a while.

The Knicks also want to play some wonderful tactical cooperation to boost morale, but the Knicks' tactics are nothing more than Mo Xi low post singles, Mo Xi high singles, Mo Xi low post singles to divide the ball, Mo Xi high post strategy, and then add a dry shooter after the block and dismantle of the shots, simple and rude.

The Knicks were suppressed by the Lakers in the opening stage, but when the Knicks became familiar with Kobe's core offensive system, the Knicks' defensive quality began to improve, and the situation was no longer a passive situation of playing next to each other, but at the end of the first quarter, the Knicks were still four points behind 20:24.

In the first quarter, Mo Xi played very actively, played nine minutes, cut 8 points, 2 rebounds and 3 assists, and most of the Knicks' scores were related to Mo Xi.