Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Opponent of the Finals

On February 4th, the final game of the Western Conference Finals will be played in Stamps, Los Angeles, where the two sides will begin the seventh battle of the life and death. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Originally, after the game with the Pacers, Mo Xi went directly to training, but after watching the first few games between the Lakers and the Trail Blazers in the video studio in the evening, he suddenly felt that it was necessary to come to Los Angeles to watch this tie-break game live. Although this should be the job of scouts and coaches, after they watch it, sort out the content, and then hand over the key content to the players, but just after watching the video of the two games, Mo Xi decided to call immediately to book tickets and fly to Los Angeles overnight. And unexpectedly, Van Gundy actually agreed to Mo Xi's wayward decision, and directly asked him to go to Los Angeles to find the scout that New York had sent in advance, Elden Hank.

Elden Hank was also very surprised when he got this order, but it was obvious that this New Yorker had a lot of energy even in Los Angeles, and he really got a life-and-death ticket for Mo Xi overnight.

Mo Xi sneakily came to Staples, no way, his size is still obvious, there are a lot of entertainment paparazzi in Los Angeles, but there are also many people who will pay attention to sports events, he doesn't want to be photographed directly, isn't that a confession? It's like I can't beat you to find out the news in advance.

A lot of people say that Lakers fans, or Los Angeles fans, are the worst fans in the league because they are home fans only when the wind is down. This is very different from New York, which is also an international metropolis, but in the end, the focus of the two cities is different, and the style is different.

The two teams on the court, in the eyes of many media, this is the real Finals, look at the lineups of the two sides, in addition to the well-known OK combination on the Lakers' side, there is also the "Iron Man" Lakers legend of the man with a physique of 21 AC Green, the super scorer Glenn Rice who is nearing the end of his career but has not dropped much, and the point guard is a little worse, "just" is a person who has played a dynasty with the Bulls and the helper, that is, on the bench, the Lakers' lineup is also eye-catching," Big man "Robert Hawley (this guy, well, there are many champions, where to get the championship, the only exception is the Suns), the team lubricant, the only person who makes O'Neal admire, Brian Shaw, plus a "small fish" Fisher who has just shown his talents, this kind of lineup, compared to last year's Knicks and Spurs lineups, is simply not too luxurious; On the Trail Blazers' side, in fact, their lineup is really stronger than the Lakers on paper, if it weren't for the fact that several key players are older, presumably, this is the originator of the star huddle. Known as the "low-post back play textbook", Rasheed Wallace, who is considered to be the most perfect template for the past, then, and future, the international center, is the one who forced the United States to form a dream team (that year's national team was David Robinson on the inside, and there was a Richmond on the outside), and he entered the league at the age of thirty-one, and his performance cannot be described by data at all, Although some people say that he is playing a 23-year-old sport with a 133-year-old knee supporting a 33-year-old body, this does not prevent Mo Xi from respecting him at the moment, this person is not like an athlete with basketball, but more like an architect, an architect in the air. In addition to these two, the Trail Blazers also have a high-profile new star Jermaine O'Neal, because he is in Portland, so he spent almost the first part of his entire career on the bench, but his performance on the court is not an ordinary blue-collar bench performance, and the Trail Blazers' outside line is also a group of stars, the first person is Scott Pippen, this veteran has become a homeless man after falling out with Bulls management, but no one will question his ability, and he is a "flying squirrel" on the point guard Damon Stoudemire, a left-handed scorer with an eye-popping ability, can still average a dozen points per game even with limited shooting power in the Trail Blazers, and the last one worth mentioning is the heavy tank Bunch Wells.

Coupled with the coaches of both sides, one is last year's best coach, Mike Dunleavy, and the other is Phil Jackson, the coach of the Bulls dynasty, the game of these two teams is no wonder that the media called the early stage of the Finals.

As a professional athlete, in this game of life and death, the two sides played really fiercely, although it was not as wild as the east, but the intensity was more than that, especially what Mo Xi didn't expect was that in his opinion, it would be a point with a special spark, and the center's position was far from being as-for-tat as he thought.

Sabonis's knees are really bad, but his strength, experience, and skills have not been affected by anything, O'Neill is not unseen someone who can compete with him physically, not to mention anything else, the current Mutombo can not fall behind physically, and there are restrictions on him, but people who also have skills, he really hasn't been with Sabonis like this.

Sabonis limited O'Neal, the Lakers' well-deserved No. 1 scoring point, and Sabonis, he didn't actually put himself on the offensive end of the offensive end, but helped Stoudemire to sort out the team's offense, which also made Mo Xi see what is called the most passable big man.

Although O'Neal is also a traditional center, he can actually be regarded as a super strengthened version of Moxi, O'Neal's low-post offense is very sharp, and O'Neal has both strength and strength, and his own back-body skills are also quite good, but there is one point, O'Neal is also the same as Moxi, O'Neal is not very outstanding in pure back-to-back defense on the inside, although O'Neal looks terrible in terms of data, but this is not enough to make up for his lack of defensive mentality.

O'Neal completely blocked Sabonis out of the three-second zone, but Sabonis didn't care at all, he covered his teammates outside the three-second zone, and Stoudemire handed the ball directly to Sabonis, who resisted O'Neill and began to organize. Sabonis's organization is very characteristic, the whole Trail Blazers are running, they are constantly running around Sabonis, Sabonis is holding the ball with one hand, as if holding an apple, O'Neal has to put all his mind on the ball in Sabonis's hand, because he doesn't know when Sabonis will pass the ball.

Pippen suddenly started, turned around Sabonis, few people saw what was happening, people only saw that Pippen had already rushed to the basket with the ball, but Pippen was old in the end, and he didn't break into a few steps, and he was guarded down, but Pippen's reaction was also very fast, and he instantly passed the ball to Steve Smith on the other side, as a representative scorer in the 90s, Smith's shooting ability was very good, and he shot directly and decisively after receiving the ball, and hit a three-point shot.

O'Neill has been confused by Sabonis, it's not that he can't prevent Sabonis, but from a certain point of view, he really can't prevent Sabonis. couldn't prevent Sabonis's pass, it was really the first half, and the two sides were evenly matched, and the Trail Blazers led by three points into the second half.