The scary thing about Shaquille O'Neal is not that he smashes his opponent's basket like a King Kong with the power that can destroy the Empire State Building, or makes amazing turns with his massive body, but that Shaquille O'Neal is a guy who can be called a tactic by himself, and the name of this tactic is "Give the ball to O'Neal". Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Leon understands this acutely, although he has only played O'Neal once as head coach, when O'Neal returned at the Staples Center last year, and the Sharks completely shredded the Celtics' interior with a superb performance of 48 points at home.

Since then, Leon has truly understood that PJ Brown can't limit O'Neal, and it is impossible to expect Brown to do what even Mutombo can't do.

But unlike those coaches who were frightened by O'Neal all of a sudden, and since then they have been frantically hoarding inside lines, abusing shark-cutting tactics, and using wheel battles and bag traps against O'Neal, Leon is not afraid of O'Neal. He believes that if you start to fear a player and stop at nothing to limit him, your team has already lost more than half of it.

Leon admits that O'Neal can single-handedly crush a team, but that team won't be his Boston Celtics.

Halfway through the first quarter, O'Neal had already scored 12 points on 6-of-7 shooting. PJ Brown, who used to be the Celtics' inside King Kong, suddenly became a toy in front of O'Neal. He can withstand O'Neal's card position, but he can't withstand O'Neal's turn and hook, and the Shark is in excellent form today, which looks like a mistake on the part of Leon.

Giving an opponent's super center such a good opening feeling is tantamount to suicide no matter how you look at it, especially for O'Neal, who is trapped in free throws and catches in the final stages, and makes him go crazy in the most comfortable stages, which is really a bit incomprehensible.

But looking up at the score of the two sides, 15:17, the lead turned out to be Celtic. When Paul Pierce forced an inside foul on an offensive line and made two free throws from the free throw line, the score came to 15:19 and the Celtics led by four points.

At this time, Phil Jackson, who had been sitting on the bench and watching the game quietly, finally couldn't sit still, and when the situation was not bad and O'Neal was in a good state, Jackson couldn't sit still. The coach, who has always been good at sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai when the team is in a critical moment, stood up from the bench at this time and stood on the sidelines to watch the game like Leon on the other side.

"Phil Jackson's ass left his bench, which was surprising, the Lakers were in a good situation, but in Jackson's opinion, they should have something wrong. With the exception of O'Neal, only two of them scored, with Bryant scoring two points and Payton scoring one. "Dick Stockton, as a veteran commentator, has a keen sense of what is going on on the field.

The Lakers' scoring is too concentrated, although this is common in NBA games, where when a player feels good, teammates will constantly feed him the ball to let him score.

But obviously, things are a little different for the Lakers.

When it was the Lakers' turn to attack, Payton handed the ball to Kobe, who controlled the ball across the halfcourt. He lowered his center of gravity and was looking for an opportunity to cut through the Celtics' perimeter defence. But the presence of Kevin Garnett made Kobe hesitate for a moment, and he had relied on sensitive fills to block the line of Kobe Bryant's breakthrough many times before.

At this point, O'Neal is starting to play on the inside again, he is in great shape, and he wants to score a few more goals when he feels good. But Bryant didn't choose to pass the ball, as usual he passed the ball to Fox, and Fox then gave Malone in the middle, and O'Neal would have a good chance to receive the ball.

Bryant eventually chose to cut inside from a large angle around the left side in an attempt to tear apart the Celtics' defense with speed and skill. There's no problem with his selection, and the Lakers players other than O'Neal will also need to look for offensive touch.

Kobe Bryant's speed is not particularly fast, but his rhythm is excellent, and Reed feels that it is difficult to keep up with him, as if he will be thrown away as soon as he accelerates, but he doesn't know when he will accelerate and whether he will make a pull-up jump shot after accelerating.

But Reed had a concept in his mind, and it was Leon who told him that when you face Kobe, don't try to defend his offense, but try to block his passes.

When Bryant hit the inside, he wanted to find a pass opportunity to Malone or Fox on the outside, but Reed followed behind him with his arms outstretched and his feet stretched out like a goalkeeper to block all his passes.

Bryant went around the baseline and forced a jump, a difficult pull-up layup, which was his specialty - but Kevin Garnett pounced, and he bumped into Kobe in the air, his long arm interfering with Kobe.

Moreover, the referee's whistle did not blow, and apparently the referee hesitated for a moment and finally decided that it was a good defense, and Bryant's layup deflected off the basket.

But Garnett and Brown stepped forward to give O'Neal a chance, and he grabbed the rebound and was ready to end the offense with a big dunk.

Reed desperately used himself as an eye-catcher, and the whole person pounced on O'Neal, only to barely pull O'Neal down and not let him dunk successfully.

O'Neal stepped into the free-throw line, his lifelong enemy, but before he could start making free throws, Phil Jackson unexpectedly called a timeout, and the players from both sides temporarily called a gold callout and returned to their respective benches.

Jackson, who has always been known for his penchant for letting players solve their own problems and dislike calling timeouts, called a timeout in such a balanced situation, which is enough to see that the scene was not as rosy as the score suggested.

"Where we connect, where our sharing balls, Shaq can solve a lot of problems, but Shaq is not the only solution! Let the ball pass through Karl's hand more, and no matter how annoying Kevin Garnett is, Karl you should catch the ball further away. We need to open up on the perimeter as well, and we have our defense, so it's a terrible thing for them to find their shooting touch! Jackson highlighted a couple of points during the timeout.

Compared to letting O'Neal find the feeling on the offensive end, Jackson felt that the more terrifying thing was actually letting the Celtics' shots shoot. Their starting five all have mid-to-long-range ability, and the three backcourts are even top shooting masters. Many people think that the Celtics are a team that has always been good at fast break and defensive counter-attack, but Jackson thinks the most scary thing about the Celtics is their jump shot.

Jackson has always liked to play teams that are good at mid-to-long-range shooting, and the Lakers themselves are not a particularly good team for mid-to-long-range shooting, but he just has a way to make the opposing side unable to shoot. But tonight, the Celtics are shooting well, and it's blossoming, and it looks like Fox Leon is deliberately making every player on the court find a shooting feeling.

On the other side, Leon didn't make any arrangements during the timeout, but told the players to play seriously, "This is Stamps, no one has to support you except yourself." Remember, we're going to kill them. ”

With that, it was Leon's turn to sit back on his bench.

When the game gradually deepened from the first quarter, Leon's heart became clearer and clearer about the expectations of this game. What he really wants is not just to win, but to see clearly what is the difference, what the gap is, and what the advantage is between this Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers through this game.

Therefore, he decided to interfere with the players to a minimum, try not to use intrigue and trickery, and set a general direction for the players, so that they can play to their heart's content, give full play to their individual abilities, give full play to the tacit understanding of the team, and let them grow up to the fullest under the top confrontation and huge mental pressure.

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At the end of the timeout, Jackson made a substitution by replacing Gary Payton with Derrick Fisher, who looked inactive in the first quarter and came off the court with a crooked face full of displeasure.

O'Neal unsurprisingly missed both free throws from the free throw line, and Arenas hit a pull-up jumper on a counter-attack, which was much easier for Arenas' offense in the face of Fisher's defense.

However, the Lakers' side has also improved, when Malone began to touch the ball, as the pivot point, he channeled the Lakers' offense well, although he was pressed by Garnett and had to receive the ball further outside, unable to attack directly after receiving the ball.

However, his good tactical literacy cultivated by the UCLA tactical system for many years instantly improved the offensive tactical level of the Lakers, and the Lakers threw the first three-point shot of the first quarter as Fox received a pass from Malone in the bottom corner and hit a three-point shot.

Jackson saw the goal and was ready to turn around and sit back on the bench to continue to pretend to be forced, but he didn't know that his waist hadn't bent down, Arenas dribbled quickly across the half, chasing the Lakers' ass at the top of the arc is a three-pointer.

The ball hollows into the net and also hollows through Jackson's little heart. (To be continued.) )