After the pause, the Eagles attacked, Liu Mang didn't know what the effect of the distraction card would be, and the finals could suppress a lot of contradictions, but let's give it a try.

After advancing to the frontcourt, Liu Mang saw that the Lakers were still defending the opposing joint defense, and beckoned Ostertag to come out to block the demolition.

Ostertag didn't expect to increase his role on the offensive end, which made him happy, and ran out to help Liu Mang block Kobe, and the other players of the Hawks saw Liu Mang and Ostertag blocking and dismantling, and immediately opened the space.

O'Neal can't defend and dismantle, so it's usually the big forward who switches defenses with him, Wang Zhizhi immediately switched from Rashid Wallace in the bottom corner of the right side, and O'Neal also blocked the position on the right baseline near the bottom corner to prepare to put Rashid Wallace's catch-and-shoot.

The Lakers' change of defense is still so fast, O'Neal is also so active, Liu Mang has been observing the Lakers' running in the process of blocking and breaking through, and found that the Lakers don't seem to have any difference because of the role of the discord card.

Liu Mang accelerated to break through from the right side of Wang Zhizhi, Kobe ran to the bottom corner of the right side, O'Neal received the right edge of the three-second zone, and the Lakers changed defenses very quickly.

At this moment, Jason Terry actively ran towards the top arc, Liu Mang immediately threw the ball to the top arc, Ostertag helped Jason Terry block Payton who was chasing the defense, and Jason Terry received the ball and shot directly for three points......

Didn't hit!

Fortunately, Liu Mang slipped into the basket from Wang Zhizhi and O'Neal in a serpentine position, and actively made up the basket to point the ball into the basket.

There is a disadvantage in the opposing joint defense, that is, in terms of defensive rebounding, the rush defense of rebounding is average, Liu Mang made good use of this this time, he did not pin all his hopes on the discord card, and has been observing the potential loopholes of the Lakers.

72-65, the difference came to 7 points again.

Offense and defense transitioned, the Lakers attacked, and Payton pushed the ball to the frontcourt.

didn't pass to Kobe, and Kobe didn't ask for the ball, but ran with Prince off the ball.

Payton's strengths and weaknesses are obvious, especially when he gets older, and he basically has no open three-point ability, much like Michael Jordan, who sees himself as an arch-enemy, and his off-ball play is the end of getting the outside scorer trapped.

Just like now, Payton is so hot, watching Liu Mang take a step back from the free throw line, his eyes have been glancing at Kobe, and the more he looks, the more angry he becomes.

But Kobe Bryant went to play without the ball, and Payton also suppressed his anger, ready to use a breakthrough to attract Liu Mang's defense, and contain the defense for Kobe and Wang Zhizhi's off-ball blocking.

Just when Payton was about to break through, he saw O'Neal suddenly leaning on Ostertag to ask for the ball!

Kobe Bryant's side was originally ready to block and dismantle with Wang Zhizhi, and Fisher was also ready to take advantage of the core to attract the attention of the other party and secretly run, and the Lakers started in the second half of the second quarter of this game.

However, seeing O'Neal asking for the ball, others were not surprised, O'Neal is still the first offensive option, when he is in good health, he should give him a single, and the defense just now is so active.

The Lakers pulled away with all the stops, giving O'Neal room for inside singles.

Ostertag struggled to resist O'Neill, who seemed to be a little violent, although he didn't suffer, O'Neill's position was not good, but Ostertag didn't dare to relax at all, the other party was O'Neill!

Liu Mang saw Payton pass the ball in, and saw O'Neal receiving the ball with a murderous face, and was about to vomit blood, how did this fat man become more positive!

Seeing O'Neal struggling to squeeze Ostertag out of a little space, his huge body was extremely flexible, and he turned around and slipped through a little space on the bottom line with his toes in three steps, and dunked the ball into the basket from bottom to top on the other side of the basket!

Ostertag had tried his best to get O'Neal in the way, but he wasn't as agile as O'Neal, and by the time he turned around, O'Neal had already smashed the ball into the basket.

The difference has narrowed to 5 points!

Seeing O'Neal walking in the midst of the boos of the audience, Liu Mang didn't expect O'Neill to be so fierce at this stage, Liu Mang expressed despair about the role of the separation card, but he didn't expect to make O'Neill more irritable!

Now, the thing to do is to carry O'Neill's grumpy time! Before the end of the third quarter, the Lakers can't close the point difference! The 5-point advantage must be maintained.

When it came to the Hawks' offense, Liu Mang saw that O'Neal became more active than before and Ostertag was in the position, so that Ostertag came out to block and dismantle, and O'Neal actively moved on the bottom line.

It's really big, Liu Mang blocked the demolition with Ostertag, Payton stared at Jason Terry very tightly this time, and Kobe Bryant went to switch to the bottom corner three-pointer of Rasheed Wallace to free O'Neal back to the basket.

Liu Mang could only choose to shoot at the free throw line against Wang Zhizhi's defense, shoot with his body on the side, bounce twice on the neck of the basket, and narrowly fall into the basket.

It's still a 5-point difference!

O'Neal then singled Ostertag again and threw a small hook to the front basket that turned on the line.

Looking back at the Hawks' offense, Liu Mang did not continue to block and dismantle Ostertag, but passed the ball to Jason Terry, who faced Payton's defensive three-point shot and missed!

Liu Mang is hurting the egg is not to pass it to Jason Terry, this guy's strong shooting efficiency is really poor today, but, the unexpected thing came, Ostertag actually grabbed the offensive rebound on O'Neal's head! Score two points with a straight layup!

It's not that O'Neill didn't rob, but he didn't completely squeeze Ostertag out of the way, and Ostertag got a chance to attack twice!

It's the Lakers offense again, O'Neal still asks for the ball and singles on the inside, O'Neal's two singles just now are too beautiful, a reverse dunk that slips the bottom line, and a small hook that turns, is not at all the legendary big shark who only chisels the buckle and plays purely by the body, hand work and foot thief.

Payton continued to give the ball to O'Neal, and the others opened up the space, and now it was O'Neal's singles moment.

Liu Mang guarded Payton's air cut, because the space was very open, he really gave Payton an air cut, O'Neal scored a ball, and Ostertag couldn't take care of his back.

But while sticking to Payton, Liu Mang is also paying attention to O'Neal, and he always feels that O'Neal is a little wrong in these rounds.

Positive is very positive, more positive than usual, and even the skills on the offensive end seem to have improved......

This made Liu Mang feel even more wrong......

At this moment, Ostertag's third consecutive singles after the pause came back, and he still couldn't squeeze or hit Ostertag's body that was specially used to deal with him, and once again chose to rely on footwork and technique, but this time Ostertag already had two experiences, O'Neal's footsteps couldn't shake Ostertag, so he could only force the throw and missed! The ball hit the basket and O'Neal tried to make another basket, but the ball was poked out of bounds by himself!

Liu Mang's eyes lit up when he saw this!

That's what's wrong here!

O'Neill is clear that his fitness has not yet recovered, and now he should have rested, because O'Neill had just played two before the official timeout! It's only 1 out of 2!

Now O'Neill, it's all about performance! Even turned around and slipped the bottom line back buckle to play, and the action was completely done by not having enough physical strength to bump and not be able to do it in a hurry.

O'Neal is stealing the offensive scene!

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As Liu Mang expected, O'Neal is now indeed stealing the hand on the offensive end.

The Lakers were going to try to tie the score at the end of the third quarter.

The Zen master has such self-confidence because he has OK combinations; Kobe Bryant and O'Neal also have such self-confidence because they are an OK combination; The rest of the Lakers are also confident because they play with the OK duo who work well together.

For five years, since Jordan's retirement, the NBA has been synonymous with winning games and is OK combinations.

For O'Neal now, if he has good physical strength, he will play two, and if he has bad physical strength, he will stand and compress the opponent's interior defense under the basket, help his teammates create a little opportunity, and when his teammates can attract the interior defense, he can receive the ball and score directly, this style of play is too comfortable.

When Bryant began to play his strong ability to pass the ball for the inside, Malone and O'Neal both played very comfortably.

Therefore, O'Neal is now very happy with Kobe Can's passing style of play.

As soon as O'Neal walked onto the court, that is, when Liu Mang used the discord card, O'Neal suddenly had another thought in his head: That scheming Phil is going to give up on me to win Kobe?

For the Zen master's side, the effect of discord is completely suppressed by the Zen master's own psychological adjustment ability, and if Dennis Rodman can be used well, Popovich and Chuck Daley can't do it, and the Zen master can do it, the Lakers this season, there are many contradictions and they have to change to a team with three All-Star level players, maybe it will be difficult in the playoffs, but the Zen master is stunned to use all external factors and internal factors as a counterbalance, such as the Hawks' 70 wins, the Spurs beat them last season, Timberwolves steal the first ...... in the West and other factors are used to adjust the contradictions within the team, and use the strength of the Eagles as the key to suppressing the contradictions within the team.

For a Zen master with these means, the high-level discord card will not be of much use to him.

But for O'Neal, he was originally a conceited and arrogant fat man, and he was easily provoked, but as he won one championship after another, few people dared to provoke him when he was still in his prime.

In the same way, he is very emotional, Kobe Bryant wants to steal his boss position, he doesn't pass the ball to him, and he doesn't pay attention to Kobe.

The contradiction between O'Neal and Kobe Bryant is nothing more than the competition for the boss, and Kobe Bryant's dissatisfaction with O'Neal for not helping to speak when he had an accident caused O'Neal to be dissatisfied with Kobe, but both of them are very competitive, and when both of them attach importance to their opponents before the start of a series, they can definitely be called the strongest duo in history.

For the Eagles, OK attaches great importance to each other, so they suppress the contradictions between each other and do their best for this game, which is also the basis for the Zen master to be able to adjust the relationship between the two when they are impulsive.

But...... Although O'Neill has a good relationship with the Zen master, the fat man has a lot of eyes, and he has always felt that the Zen master is a smiling tiger, and the stars under his hands are not so much the relationship between the coach and the players as the use of the players, or the use of each other.

O'Neal's understanding of his relationship with the Zen master is like this, in the past two years, O'Neal obviously felt that when Kobe Bryant began to become the team's first offensive choice, the Zen master obviously began to pay more attention to Kobe, and this season it was because of Kobe's affairs that the relationship with the Zen master was brought to the freezing point.

Thinking of this stubble, O'Neill's proud heart felt humiliated.

It's not that he can't accept that his role will be reduced, nor that he can't accept Kobe Bryant getting stronger, but he can't accept being used as a stepping stone for another person.

However, O'Neal did not give up the game or go against the team's tactics because of this, although he loves to be lazy, but his competitiveness is not much worse than Kobe, his laziness is just an absolute conceit of his own strength.

Therefore, O'Neal chose to prove himself by strength!

He didn't relax on the defensive end, he should block the bottom line, he should defend the basket, and he worked the offensive end, but he didn't work hard for others, but chose the part that was inherent in the tactics, his singles!

……

After Liu Mang learned about O'Neal's condition, the tiger's body was shocked, and the motivation on the offensive end became stronger, beckoning Ostertag to come out, but it was not a block, but when he bypassed Ostertag, he handed the ball to Ostertag and cut into the inside.

Kobe Bryant and Wang Zhizhi immediately chased Liu Mang who was cutting in the air, at this time, Ostertag cooperated with Jason Terry, who ran to the top arc with Payton, and after passing the ball to Jason Terry, he immediately stood behind Jason Terry and blocked Payton, Jason Terry received the ball and rushed to the right side of the free throw line, and shot a mid-range pull-up jump shot!

Finally in! 78 to 69, the difference came to 9 points!

Sure enough, when it was time for the Lakers to attack again, O'Neal was still asking for the ball to play alone under the basket, but O'Neal was no longer the super shark who was 28 years old four years ago and was at his peak and could average 26 shots per game and 38 points per game in the Finals!

Now O'Neill is like twenty-four or five-year-old him, he encountered the encounter of the big white bear that was specially used to deal with him, and he still does not have the physical strength he had when he was young!

Finally, in this game, Ostertag gave O'Neill his first big hat!

Liu Mang was ready for a long time, pounced on it to grab the ball, did not counterattack, but waited for O'Neal to run back to the half, drop the position, continue to let Ostertag rise to the high position, and continue to let O'Neal, who is now active, go to make up for Rashid Wallace, who is on the bottom line.

Although the Hawks missed two consecutive shots, O'Neal's side also withered on the offensive end, and after scoring two in a row, he missed three consecutive shots!

Moreover, not only Kobe Bryant's singles will make the Lakers' enthusiasm stagnate, any one person who plays too many singles will make the team's enthusiasm weaker, O'Neal is so good because he actually doesn't play many singles, two or three singles in a quarter, receiving passes and shooting from teammates two or three times, and an average of 20 shots per game is the standard number of shots in his peak, even in the finals when he averaged 38 points per game, one-third of the goals are still scored directly by teammates passing the ball to him, Therefore, the Lakers were able to play relatively smoothly during the consecutive championship period, that is, when Kobe Bryant was suppressed by the Zen master and had not released all his strength.

Now, O'Neal has become Kobe-like, and it is not particularly ugly to shoot 2 of 5, and he has scored two goals in a row, but the Lakers' enthusiasm for running in more than a quarter of the previous game has become stagnant because of these three minutes!

Seeing that the third quarter was coming to an end, the point difference was not narrowed, but expanded to 9 points, Kobe Bryant saw that O'Neal still wanted the ball, he quit and asked Payton for the ball!

Payton also wondered how O'Neal suddenly changed as a person, the defense was indeed active enough, but the aggressiveness was too much, and the offensive end was actually single, this time, he chose to give the ball to Kobe.

Kobe Bryant forced a shot directly against Prince's defensive three-pointers!

Prince gave enough interference, and Bryant's step-back three-pointer!

Ostertag jammed O'Neal, and Liu grabbed the rebound.

In the last attack of the third quarter, Liu Mang slowly advanced to the frontcourt, consuming time, watching O'Neal standing behind Ostertag gasping for breath, I have to sigh, Duncan can have such a performance at the age of 40, it's amazing.

The Lakers also waited for the Hawks to spend time, did not choose to lose the defensive position to press the defense, did not narrow the point difference, they were very unwilling, but they were still very calm, and it was their task now to keep not letting the point difference stretch to more than 10 points.

Liu Mang dribbled and dribbled, touched his nose with his left index finger upward, and after more than a second, when there were 12 seconds left in this quarter, he suddenly threw the ball to the basket.

It's completely unreasonable to start attacking so early and throwing the basket directly! The Lakers thought that Liu Mang was going to exhaust this quarter, but they didn't expect Liu Mang to suddenly make a decision!

The Lakers players followed the ball and saw the ball fall right in front of the basket, and Rasheed Wallace appeared in sight and put the ball in the basket!

Wang Zhizhi was dumped by Rashid Wallace's sudden backrun, O'Neill wanted to make up for it, but he had more than enough strength to do it, he couldn't squeeze it anymore!

With the Lakers' last attack handed over to Fisher, but Fisher felt bad today, he didn't score three points in the open position, and after the third quarter, the Lakers were 69-80, 11 points behind the Hawks!

……

The physical energy was originally consumed a lot, and during the recovery period, he spent a lot of effort to play singles again, which was one of the best players in the league to defend him, and he was even more tired to play!

This made O'Neal have been accustomed to playing a few half-quarters of physical exertion and physical recovery The physical rhythm was disrupted, and at the beginning of the fourth quarter, the Lakers re-sent Liu Mang, Prince, Rashim, Rasheed-Wallace, and Latledge The starting lineup, when O'Neal played Ratliff two trembling and majestic, O'Neal was not able to play, but was hit by the Hawks two counterattacks!

At this time, the Zen master found out that something was wrong with O'Neal, O'Neal didn't move Ostertag at the end of the third quarter, which is not a particularly surprising thing, even if O'Neal is in good physical condition at this age, playing Ostertag is not a particularly safe choice, 5 shots and 2 are a little worse, but when I usually play games with Jazz, that is, the level of 5 shots and 3 hits, it is not even enough, and it is normal to have a 50% shooting rate, and it is normal to occasionally have less than 50%.

And O'Neal didn't say that he was not physically good, he was such a lazy person, the Zen master didn't think that O'Neal would be strong to show himself, so seeing O'Neal playing so actively in the last few minutes of the third quarter, he thought that O'Neal was in good shape today, but he was unlucky to meet Ostertag, and unlucky to meet the Jazz when he gave people directly to the Hawks, and at the beginning of the fourth quarter, when he saw the Hawks side of Ratliff take off his training clothes, he immediately whistled and let O'Neal continue to play single.

But when he hit Ratliff and didn't score, the Zen master realized that O'Neill really couldn't beat it!

Really tired!

Only then did he realize that O'Neal was being reckless, and the same was true for the Lakers!

With Liu Mang's counterattack three-point hit and Raheem's follow-up dunk in the air, the Hawks played for more than a minute in the final quarter and played a wave of 5-0, stretching the score to 85-69 and leading by 16 points!

The Zen master had to call a timeout because he saw a terrible scene, O'Neal actually chased Rahim, who grabbed the defensive rebound, and ran to the halfway line!

Defend against the opponent's fast attack and counterattack? Is this still O'Neill?

Let's go too far!

Seeing that the Lakers called a timeout after playing for a minute, Liu Mang felt that it was time to chase after the victory!

Liu Mang returned to the bench and said to Coach Kruger: "Coach, if I guessed correctly, the fat man is tired and has to rest!" ”

"Huh?" Coach Krueger was thinking about how to come up with a wave of counterattacks after the Lakers paused, and when he heard Liu Mang's words, he immediately looked at the Lakers' side, O'Neal was leaning his head back against the back of the chair, and the whole person was shaking because of the big gasp!

Golden opportunity!

Like Liu Mang, Coach Kruger's idea is to chase after the victory!

……

After the timeout, the Lakers really replaced O'Neal, Wang Zhizhi went to the center position, and Malone, who was supposed to rest for a few more minutes, came on the court, and Fisher, Payton, and Kobe Bryant partnered on the outside.

The Lakers originally planned to send such a miniature lineup to come with a wave of ruthlessness and catch the Hawks off guard.

But the Zen master didn't expect that his lineup was already very unreasonable, and the Lakers should not have sent such a lineup in the fourth quarter, but on the Hawks' side, the lineup was even more unscientific!

The Hawks lineup began to get commotionous again, with Stockton, Liu Mang, Prince, Raheem, and Kwame Brown on the court.

To defend Payton, Stockton is enough, and Liu Mang and Prince are to defend Fisher and Kobe.

As for the Lakers, who seem to have an advantage on the inside because of the presence of Malone, they can't get into the basket to play, because although the two inside lines seem to have an advantage, they don't have the lethality of the inside!

Raheem ran with Wang Zhizhi, Kwame Brown squatted under the basket, when Malone received the ball in the middle distance, Kwame Brown couldn't go out at all, Malone adjusted, and in the face of air tentative steps, Kwame Brown ignored it, Malone was depressed, simply shot, and also scored, scoring for the Lakers in the fourth quarter.

However, Kwame Brown picked up the ball immediately after Malone scored, and Stockton also returned to the basket for the first time. Kwame Brown sped past Stockton and rushed to the frontcourt, while the other three Hawks were already starting to get down!

The Zen master on the sidelines saw Raheem rushing to the basket in the middle and receiving a pass from Stockton to attract Kobe and Fisher's sandwich, and then distributed the ball to Liu Mang, who followed up, Liu Mang chased down and hit a three-point shot, and the Zen master returned to the sidelines to recite the Heart Sutra.

There's no way, he can't hold up O'Neal's physical recovery, he can't understand what happened to O'Neill suddenly, he himself is very dissatisfied with O'Neal, but he can't show it, this is the professionalism of a chicken soup master, he is professional......

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In the fourth quarter, the Hawks started a wave of counterattack frenzy, knowing that Kobe and Malone were going to start attacking on the Lakers' side, so the Hawks did not choose to defend, Kobe Bryant, defense is sometimes his motivation for him, he saw it in the last regular season meeting, and today Kobe Bryant's shooting rate of 12 of 25 shots is really scary, all of which are guarded like that, and the shooting rate is still close to fifty percent, so the Hawks simply took advantage of O'Neal's absence and the Lakers couldn't hold back the rhythm and fought back desperately.

Regardless of whether Kobe Bryant and Malone can shoot or not, Kwame Brown stays under the basket and waits to grab the board and pick up the ball to serve, simple and rude, blocking others on the outside, and giving Malone a chance to shoot.

This has a huge disadvantage for the Lakers' anti-counterattack, Malone shoots, even if he throws in, he can't interfere with Kwame Brown's pick-up serve, O'Neal scores in the low post, the biggest feature is that he occupies a large area, and he interferes with the opponent's serving speed at the beginning.

But Ma Long CIC couldn't do that.

And Ma Long's inability to shoot is even worse, Wang Zhizhi singled Kwame Brown in the low post...... It's miserable, it's better to open up space for Malone, but Malone's low-post single Kwame Brown is no better, and he is quite iron-blooded now.

Without O'Neal, for the Lakers, it is not only one less defensive gate under the basket, more than one less of the strongest killer on the offensive end, but the impact on the Lakers is all-round!

The Zen master asked the Lakers to defend the opposing joint defense, so that O'Neal could only use his defensive deterrence when he needed to rest when his physical energy was exhausted, so that O'Neal could stay on the court as much as possible and suppress the opponent's counterattack.

However, O'Neill went down, and all the previous efforts were in vain!

Halfway through the fourth quarter, the already 17-point deficit quickly stretched to 20 points, and even if the Lakers scored, the Hawks immediately caught up.

After O'Neal simply went down in the fourth quarter, he didn't play again, because there was no need for it! By the halfway point of the fourth quarter, the score was 100-78!

Kobe Bryant refused to give up, and the Hawks switched to a conservative lineup when the official timeout in the fourth quarter, Liu Mang took Prince, Barnes, Muhammad, and Ratliff to go up and polish the rest of the game.

In the end, Liu Mang scored 36 points, 6 boards, 8 assists, 3 steals and 4 turnovers to help the Hawks defeat the Lakers 112-94 at home and get the first victory in the finals!