When Karl Malone hit a free throw, defended a Garnett single, and then received a pass from Kobe Bryant on a fast-break counterattack and dunked hard, Leon knew the game wasn't over yet. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Veterans don't die, they just fade away.

"That dunk must have hurt a little just now." Leon looked at Malone's expression of running back with his lips pursed after a successful dunk, and thought to himself. At this time, the Staples Center was full of applause and cheers for Malone, and he pulled the Lakers back from the edge of the cliff, and the difference came to 3 points, and the Lakers saw hope again.

However, Leon did not call a timeout, he still believed in the players on the field, in their performance under pressure, and in their desire for a championship no less than that of Karl Malone.

Sure enough, Garnett rarely asked for the ball in the low post, and he turned his back against Malone and opened his arms to make an attacking stance. However, Garnett has a gap with Malone in terms of strength, and his key position is not deep, 15 feet away from the basket, and it is difficult to launch a close basket attack when receiving the ball. However, Pierce, who was holding the ball, passed the ball to Garnett, and he saw the raging fire in Kevin's eyes.

Garnett took the ball, he didn't try to hit it with his back, he remembered what Fox Leon said to him, "Remember you're Kevin Garnett", and backing is not his strong point. So he spun the basket with a smooth sigma step, and then suddenly a left-handed dribble forward, turned back, followed Malone to a position close to the bottom, and then jumped high, a step-back jumper that no one in the NBA could block.

The ball arced high in the air, and both sides looked up at the trajectory of the ball, O'Neal and Brown huddled together to grab the rebound, but the ball bounced into the basket after a bumble on the edge of the basket. Garnett was obviously relieved after the goal, and hurriedly ran back to the back to defend, this goal had an element of luck, but his resolute shot was also very important.

And Karl Malone's burn is not over yet, and he has to return Garnett in the low post.

is completely different from Garnett's style from the outside, Malone wants to be in a deep place, his strong arms are good to put Garnett behind him, Kobe's pass is just right, Malone slid at the moment of receiving the ball, and opened the way with his elbow, facing Brown who stepped forward to make up for the defense!

The ball didn't touch the floor at all, and Malone used his good positioning and turning skills to complete an offensive basket, or a 3-pointer, and the two sides fell into a stalemate at the beginning of the fourth quarter.

But then Pierce's three-pointer gave the Lakers a powerful blow, and he faced George on offense, using feints to shake off his center of gravity, and hit a step-back three-point shot to hit a golden goal. The little fat man who used to shoot basketball on the streets of Los Angeles has now brought deep damage to the city. It was Pierce's 30th of the night.

But Malone still insisted.

Seeing Pierce score, Bryant couldn't help it, and instead of continuing to hand the ball to Malone or O'Neal, he also chose to force a three-pointer from the outside - but his three-pointer was wide and hit the back of the basket. At this time, Malone used his experience to grab the position in advance, clicked the ball, and then took the ball into his arms.

After observing the Celtics' defense, Malone saw that Garnett was not posted, and a dribble and turn over was a jumper. The ball enters the basket as if it had a preset trajectory. After the ball was scored, the Stamp fans couldn't hold back their excitement and stood up and applauded Malone, and Jack Nicholson even shouted Malone's name on the sidelines.

Obviously, Malone is renewing the life of the Lakers.

But the Celtics didn't want to give them that chance, and it was Kevin Garnett again, this time he relied on the team's cooperation to finally hit an open shot from the 16-foot position to continue to stretch the margin to six points. Both sides played efficient offense at the start of the fourth quarter, with the Celtics relying on their ensemble and the Lakers relying on Malone.

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'We've given them too many chances and it's going to be time to defend, because defence is fundamental to our winnings and it's dangerous to bet everything on the feel. We have to be careful of their one-on-one attacks, it's very, very bad to have them completely open. You have to be more focused defensively and put them under enough pressure, even if you use some unconventional tactics. "There was a long timeout in the fourth quarter and Leon started asking the players to improve their defense.

At this point, the score was 81-86, and the Celtics still led by five points, and Karl Malone was unstoppable in the fourth quarter, scoring 11 points on 4-of-5 shooting and 3-of-3 free throws. Forced to help the Lakers bite the score, Leon also had to call a timeout, he was worried that if it continued like this, it would be too many variables until the last two minutes of the game.

At the same time, Leon also made a substitution, replacing PJ Brown with Chris Anderson, risking Kevin Garnett to play center against O'Neal and Carl Malone to Anderson to deal with.

"Be smart, boy, like Dennis." Leon patted Anderson on the shoulder, and Anderson was back in action. In the third quarter, Anderson used his invincible energy and defensive shock to help the team turn the tide, and now he will act as a sapper against a hot-hot Karl Malone.

Anderson still remembers when Dennis Rodman was in Boston, he told himself about competing with Carl Malone in the Finals, and he still remembers Rodman saying, "There are always people who you can't beat in some aspects, and I'll never be able to score like Malone, but you have to find your value, find the weaknesses of your opponents, and don't be blinded by appearances, by statistics." If you can't become the top, then you will become the best among the rest. ”

In fact, something similar was told to Bill Lambir when Rodman was in the Pistons, and later he passed that spirit on to Chris Anderson, who was following that path, and now he's meeting Karl Malone.

After the timeout, the Celtics took the lead in attacking, and one of the big advantages of Garnett's top to the center position was that O'Neal really couldn't defend it, so he could only let Malone play against Garnett, and Anderson's elegant move made O'Neal quite uncomfortable. When Michael Reed missed a mid-range jumper, Anderson, who had no top guard, picked up the rebound and passed to Pierce, who hit a mid-range jumper in the bottom right corner.

Phil Jackson looked at the Celtics' accurate shooting and scratched his head, he didn't understand how the Bostonians trained their shooting, apparently their shooting is a cut above the league, and that's the basis of their supernatural ability - the ability to convert created opportunities into scoring.

But Jackson didn't have the heart to think about it, the margin was stretched to 7 points again, the next offense is crucial, there are still six minutes before the end of the game, if the difference can be reduced to about 3 points or even tied before the last two minutes, the Lakers can hope to win this game.

All the Stamp fans were standing and watching, they wanted to continue to see Karl Malone show the last style of the veteran, and sure enough, Kobe Bryant passed the ball to Malone, but Malone was very calm, and in the face of Anderson, who was pasted like gummy candy, he very decisively dropped the ball to O'Neal on the inside. O'Neal squeezed Garnett away with his strong body and was about to dunk after receiving the ball, but Garnett swooped down and slammed the ball off O'Neal's hand.

Kevin Garnett's fourth foul sent O'Neal to the free throw line.

Leon scratched his head a little, he found that there was still a hole in the lineup consideration, Garnett still suffered against O'Neal, although there will be an advantage in the offense, but once the defensive end faces the problem of fouls, it will be very troublesome in the final moments of the game. At the same time, Ma Long's extremely old experience and fiery state, whether he can be suppressed by Anderson is also a great variable.

Taking advantage of O'Neal's free throws, Leon made another substitution, replacing Reed with Posey, increasing the height of the forward line and assisting Garnett in defending the interior.

O'Neal made unambiguous free throws at critical moments, hitting both free throws, and Karl Malone contributed another assist. Stamps was getting louder and louder, and Karl Malone's name resounded through the audience.

At this time, Kevin Garnett was unwilling to watch Malone play like this, he suddenly rose up with the ball at the top of the arc, forced a breakthrough through the middle of the basket, and threw a high throw at the moment when O'Neal stepped forward to make up the defense, Chris Anderson took off and scored a strong dunk from the wing air relay.

The situation is tense again, with less than five minutes left before the end of the game, and there is still a seven-point difference. Kobe Bryant couldn't help it, and he thought that in the last five minutes, his time should be up.

In the counterattack, Kobe Bryant chose to force a breakthrough with the ball from the right baseline, he used a skillful back turn to shake Pierce away, and then cut inside with Pierce, but Garnett's defense followed, Pierce followed, a timely pinch shot, Kobe Bryant chose to crash into it and wanted a foul. If Garnett defended another foul, he would have been fouled five times.

But Garnett didn't jump, but Chris Anderson jumped high from behind and slapped Kobe's throw down.

Leon almost saw a decisive defense, and if the Celtics won the backcourt rebound and counterattacked, the Lakers' gas would be about the same. However, Karl Malone didn't know where to come out, he picked up this frontcourt rebound and dribbled straight to the basket.

At this point, Posey played a role, he struggled to make up for the defense, interfering with Malone's layup, and the ball actually turned around on the basket and fell.

The basket then scrambled, Chris Anderson desperately held the ball in his arms, and Malone fell to the ground and grabbed the ball with both hands.

Scrum. Another scrum. (To be continued.) )