Since the beginning of the new century, the Lakers have never been so passive!

Even if he was eliminated by the Spurs last season, he was not so passive, it was entirely because Duncan's performance in the playoffs last season was comparable to that of Jordan and O'Neal that the Lakers lost to the Spurs.

At the beginning of the game, the Lakers were blocked by Rahim, and then Liu Mang, who expected some possible situations, led his teammates to target, and Kobe Bryant's continuous single offense was blocked, paralyzing the Lakers' entire team's offense.

For the Lakers, the start is also thankful that they tightened up their defense in the last game, and they have the kind of enthusiasm and teamwork on the defensive end that they played in the last game.

On the Hawks' side, this time they were firmly engaged in defensive battles, even more ferocious than the last game, and in the face of Kobe, who had teammates who took the initiative to block and dismantle in the first half, they defended more fiercely and ruthlessly.

Due to the high-intensity confrontation that was brought up by the previous match, the confrontation in this match became more ferocious.

It's just that in the last game, although Kobe Bryant was iron, he still had a few assists, and O'Neal's direct pass allowed O'Neal to score, all of which were three times, but in this game, Payton dribbled over half court and passed to Kobe, Kobe Bryant was single, that is to say, except for Payton when O'Neal had the physical strength to force the offense, he passed the ball to O'Neal, O'Neal could score alone, and at other times, O'Neal could hardly receive the ball! It was the same situation on Malone's side, and Malone's strong hitting efficiency was average, and the mid-range frame was a little more accurate, Payton had to pass the ball to Kobe Bryant, trying to let Kobe Bryant rely on his containment to organize the offense.

However, in the half-time game, Kobe Bryant had no other assists except for giving Wang Zhizhi an empty three-point opportunity and Wang Zhizhi scoring a goal! There were only six passes in the entire half, and three of them were pointless passes!

The loss is that most of the first half, whether it is O'Neal or Malone, they have a good impression of the feeling left by Kobe Bryant in the first three games, and take the initiative to block Kobe Bryant, help Kobe block people, so that Kobe has a better shooting opportunity, the Lakers only scored 41 points in the first half, of which Kobe Bryant made 21 shots in the half, scored 8 shots, and scored 22 points with a shooting rate close to the previous game, O'Neal received Payton's ball and scored 8 points in a single, 2 of 6 free throws to get two points, 10 points in the half, and Wang Zhizhi got 3 points, The others combined for 6 points.

On the Hawks' side, the first half was still focused on defense, and it was very determined, which was to let the Lakers continue to maintain a high level of physical exertion.

The Eagles also scored only 44 points at halftime, and it didn't look like there was much of a gap between the two teams.

It's just that after the first half, until the Lakers' last attack in the first half, Kobe Bryant didn't pass the ball to O'Neal, who stayed in the front court and didn't have time to defend, after the Hawks counterattacked, but dribbled to the middle line and threw a three-stick directly with two seconds left.

From this moment on, O'Neill sensed that something was wrong.

The one who strikes the iron is starting to grab the boss position again!

It's just that because Kobe Bryant lost the first three games, even the first two games, if he hadn't been angered by Liu Mang, Kobe Bryant didn't grab the boss position at this time, which made the rest of the Lakers feel that Kobe Bryant has no problem now.

Kobe Bryant played like that at the beginning, because Kobe Bryant was playing like that, they weren't too suspicious, the game was a matter of lightning, Kobe Bryant is famous for two people to defend when the vacancy, three people to consider the pig of passing, O'Neal and Malone were also actively grabbing offensive rebounds from the beginning, O'Neal also got 6 free throws, although Malone only scored two points in the first half, but the offensive end rushed to grab rebounds to attract the opponent to block people to help O'Neal get several opportunities for offensive rebounds, but he didn't grasp it well.

But now, naïve like O'Neill can also see it!

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After coming back in the second half, Liu Mang found that the Lakers' defense seemed to have collapsed, and the enthusiasm in the first half seemed to have not appeared, and he also clearly felt that most of the players on the Lakers' side, especially the three veterans of Malone, Payton, and O'Neal, had slowed down!

Here's your chance!

Sometimes this kind of thing is really not conceived from the beginning, and sometimes an opportunity to affect the entire finals suddenly appears in front of you.

Liu Mang in the first three quarters of the last game, when he was 11 points behind, he just tried to chase points in the fourth quarter, but he was immediately beaten a 6-0, 17-point difference made the game basically lose suspense, Liu Mang played two minutes in the fourth quarter, just wanted to struggle, because O'Neal hit 4 shots and 3 shots at the beginning of the fourth quarter, most of the Hawks didn't even have the desire to struggle.

But just when Liu Mang was struggling, he suddenly found that the Lakers had a feeling of impatience to finish the game immediately, and it was obvious that the Lakers were holding on, just because the Hawks had no way to break the Lakers' strong defense, and if his teammates couldn't shoot, Liu Mang couldn't do it alone.

So Liu Mang's first reaction at that time was to use the Lakers' defense to dig a hole for the Lakers, so that they could maintain the defense of the whole court and consume their physical energy.

However, during the rest of the day in the middle, the Zen master directly took the whole team on vacation, and there was no meeting, and there would be too much contact between the players during the meeting, especially the contact between Kobe Bryant and his teammates, lest the training maniac Kobe Bryant bring the Lakers' already old teammates to the quagmire of training.

The Zen master is very good at making reasonable use of the physical strength of the star, otherwise he would not be so indulgent O'Neal in the regular season, O'Neal's weight, if the regular season is the same as the playoffs, it may have been scrapped long ago.

Therefore, the physical fitness of the Lakers team has still recovered somewhat, and if they continue to maintain the teamwork and enthusiasm of the last game, it is not impossible to support the whole game with these physical abilities restored.

But when they don't have the motivation of last season, or for some reason they lose that positivity, the fitness is not enough.

Sometimes awareness stimulates physical limits, and if the Lakers continue to hold that breath, just like in the first half, they can still rely on that breath in the second half to stimulate their physical limits, and the Hawks will still have a hard time playing.

However, when others found out that Kobe Bryant only cared about himself for his own selfish interests and did not consider his teammates, the enthusiasm of his teammates also went down.

At halftime, with time to think about the first half, teammates quickly understood what kind of mentality Kobe Bryant had, and that breath was immediately discharged.

Of course, the Lakers still have to defend, but that breath is gone, although their defensive attitude is there, but their physical fitness can't keep up all of a sudden.

At the beginning of the third quarter, Liu Mang took advantage of Rashid Wallace to throw three three-pointers in a row, but Ma Long's defense was not able to actively make up for it, and Liu Mang opened with three three-point shots and two shots!

Zen Master hurriedly called a timeout, although Kobe Bryant was iron in the first half, but the Lakers did a good job of defense, not only the fans on the spot, but also the Zen Master didn't see any problems, and no players went to play a small report or anything, plus the rest of the Lakers team was blocking and dismantling Kobe Bryant in the first half, and Zen Master was a coach who was willing to hand over the situation on the court to the players to control, and thought that this was discussed by the players themselves, so he thought that everything was under control, and when O'Neal began to exert his power, OK connection, everything was not a problem.

But in the third quarter, Kobe Bryant came up or continued to throw, but there were no teammates to help him block and dismantle, Kobe Bryant was prevented by Liu Mang and Prince's sandwich to shoot all three, and Liu Mang scored two three-pointers in a row, the Lakers fell behind by 9 points at 41-50, and saw that they were about to be pulled away to the 10-point mark, and the Zen master couldn't calm down this time, and the Hawks got the match point when he lost the game!

0 to 2, and 1 to 3, are completely two different concepts!

In the case of falling behind 1-3, there has never been a reversal in the Finals, even if it is relaxed to the entire playoffs, the NBA has nearly 60 years of history, so far, there have only been 6 1-3 reversals, and in all 7-game 4-of-4 series in the NBA so far, the chance of completing a 1-3 reversal is less than 3%!

There is a big problem on the Lakers' side, that is, between the superstars, mainly between Kobe Bryant and O'Neal, they haven't put down the mustard and chatted for a long time, and they can't talk a few times a year, and they all rely on the Zen master to keep the two cooperating.

But now, the Zen master wanted to communicate with Kobe, and Kobe walked away.

The perennial victory has brought many benefits, such as the last game in which the Lakers still maintained a winning mentality in the 0-2 situation.

But for the very few people who have paranoid thoughts about honor and control of the team, consecutive victories are the trigger that makes his self-confidence uncontrollable.

The victory in the last game made Kobe feel that the Hawks were like that, as long as they defended well, the Eagles were not his opponent.

It's just that he forgot the question of why his teammates should serve him, he has never played like a real boss at any other time except for the previous three games.

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After the pause, on the Hawks' side, Liu Mang took the initiative to play without the ball, the combination of Stockton and Rasheed Wallace played, and Rasheed Wallace's blocking and dismantling was also good, although it was not as powerful as Boozer and Malone, who were natural blockers, but it was not bad, Prince and Ratliffe played, mainly to continue to maintain high-intensity defense.

On the Lakers' side, Payton, Fisher, Kobe, Malone, and O'Neal continued to play.

Liu Mang began to use his offensive threat and began to run with his opponent, he only scored 9 points in the first half, plus only 15 points in the two three-pointers just now, but he did not be greedy, but used his offensive threat to help his teammates create opportunities.

On the Lakers' side, the pace of the defensive end has completely slowed down, except for chasing Liu Mang, they can't take care of anything else, Stockton and Rasheed Wallace, taking advantage of Liu Mang to disrupt the gap between the Lakers' defense, every time they block and dismantle, the opponent's pace can't keep up with the change of defense, Rasheed Wallace rushed in after blocking and tearing O'Neal away, Stockton passed to Ratlleaf, the first timeout in the third quarter came back, the Hawks' main scorer, actually became Ratliff!

And the Lakers, still did not cooperate, Payton gave the ball to Kobe, Kobe Bryant still came by himself, he was caught between Liu Mang and Prince, the offensive efficiency was seriously reduced compared to the first half, and he only scored 5 points on 2 of 6 shots in the third quarter.

O'Neal chiseled two or three times, no one cooperated with him, Payton and Fisher were not threatening enough on the offensive end, Kobe Bryant didn't give him a pass, and O'Neal was basically useless on the offensive end.

The Lakers played iron for a long time in the third quarter, not only Kobe, if it was just Kobe Bryant, he would have played iron more than ten or twenty times in a game by himself, if there were no teammates in the first half to block him and help him contain the defense, he would have been able to successfully shoot six or seven times in a game.

The main reason is that there is less Kobe Bryant's organized offense, and the Lakers' entire team's offense can't be opened, O'Neal ensures the lower limit of the team's strength, and Kobe Bryant is the one who raises the ceiling.

In the third quarter, except for Kobe's 5 points, O'Neal scored 6 points, and the others combined for only 4 points, and the Lakers only scored 16 points in a single quarter.

On the Hawks' side, Stockton made perfect use of Liu Mang's threat, actively burning the last bit of oil in his tank, in the first half of the quarter, although the Lakers' physical fitness declined because of that breath, but the defensive attitude was still there, the Hawks' offense was organized tightly and organized, first Ratliff dunked in the vacancy and scored 4 points, and then O'Neal refused to go out of the basket, Rasheed Wallace began to catch the ball on O'Neal, even if he couldn't dunk it, he was strong, the offensive efficiency was not high, but he just dared to fight, Drain O'Neill's little energy left.

By the second half of the third quarter, the Lakers couldn't control the situation at all and collapsed!

In the first half of the first quarter, except for Liu Mang, the others added up and only scored 9 points, and the Eagles scored 15 points in the first half of the quarter, but in the second half of the game, the Eagles scored 21 points!

A single quarter was played 36 to 16!

At the end of the third quarter, the Hawks led the Lakers by 23 points, 80-57!

The Zen master is also a ruthless person, seeing this situation, he pressed the Big Four directly on the bench in the fourth quarter, and announced his surrender as soon as possible.

The Hawks made sure that the Lakers really surrendered in the fourth quarter, and then replaced Liu Mang, Liu Mang played 39 minutes, 8 of 20 shots, 3 of 9 three-pointers, 5 of 6 free throws and 24 points, 8 boards and 4 assists, Stockton was powerful in the third quarter, and got 6 points and 9 assists in the whole game, and today the Hawks blossomed more, Ratliff 11 points, Kwame Brown 7 points, Raheem 19 points, Rasheed Wallace 12 points, Jason Terry dared to fight in garbage time and scored 12 points in the fourth quarter and scored 20 points in the game, The Hawks won 106-86 and returned a massacre to the Lakers!