While today's game is just the first of a long season, an ordinary 82-game regular season, it has also been given some special meaning due to the rivalry between the Lakers and the Pacers, as well as the Pacers' first-ever championship ring ceremony. Both the Pacers and the Lakers hope to win today's game, get a good start to the long season, and celebrate today's "good day" with a win.

Although this game only played 3 quarters, these three quarters of the game also reflected a lot of things, first of all, the Pacers' several transactions in this summer, which were very successful, although Mutombo is old, but his strength is still there, and his performance is worthy of the big contract that the Pacers offered him, followed by Hamilton, who played awkward Hamilton in the Wizards, after coming to the Pacers, he perfectly took over Reggie Miller's responsibilities in the Pacers and quickly integrated into the Pacers' tactical system, And he's been out of the game on both the offensive and defensive ends, and as for this year's two rookies, Nn Hilario and Tyshawn Prince, they didn't get many minutes of playing today, so their prospects are not predictable right now.

Compared with the Pacers, the Lakers are not very optimistic, judging from the performance in this game, Phil Jackson still has a lot of work to do, how to coordinate the relationship between several superstars on the team, how to distribute the ball, how to develop a strategy for them to coexist, I am afraid that it will run through the Lakers throughout the season, if they can never find a way to integrate them, then the Lakers' prospects this season are not very optimistic.

It is definitely a good thing for the Pacers to be able to enter the fourth quarter with a lead, although the 4-point lead is not much, and it may disappear after two rounds, but the score lead means that the Pacers have more options, and it also allows the team's main team to rest more time in the fourth quarter. Therefore, after the start of the fourth quarter, the Pacers sent all the bench lineups, and on the Lakers side, O'Neal and Payton did not play, and Kobe Bryant and Malone took the Lakers' bench lineup on the court.

O'Neal, Kobe, Malone, Payton, the team composed of these four people is like fighting the landlord to catch two kings and four twos, but with such a good hand, Phil Jackson doesn't know how to play. Throughout the first half, during the time when the Big Four all played, the Lakers were always on the passive side, facing the Pacers who cooperated tacitly and tactically ran in an orderly manner, and the Lakers, who had been fighting alone, had no way to bring back the situation on the court. After halftime, Phil Jackson seemed to be a stupid adjustment, but it had a good effect, after Kobe and Malone went off the court, relying on O'Neal's crazy individual performance, the Lakers not only saved the slight momentum on the court, but had the momentum to catch up.

And when Kobe and Malone came out with the Lakers' bench lineup, they perfectly suppressed the Lakers bench lineup throughout the first half, and the Pacers bench lineup is now obviously in a slight trend, with Kobe Bryant's containment on the outside, Malone faces Jeff Foster and Lorenten White, he can play as much as he wants, not only that, but in the face of the rampaging Kobe, James Posey and Reggie Miller have nothing to do. Maybe the superstar tactics of fighting alone can't deal with the Pacers who are skillful and have a solid defensive system, but when used to deal with the bench lineup, it's like chopping melons and vegetables.

"Larry, do you want to call a timeout and adjust?" Just two minutes into the fourth quarter, the Pacers' lead was erased, allowing Lester Connell to shout on the sidelines, the Pacers' bench lineup was unable to organize an effective defense in the face of Kobe and Malone, so when Kobe Bryant hit a shot to help the Lakers equalize, Lester Conor immediately asked Larry Bird, who was sitting behind him, if he wanted to call a timeout and adjust the lineup on the court.

"Meng, you replace Bobby, Richard reggie, Tyshawn replaces Lorenzen, after you get on the court, you will defend Kobe, after the timeout, no matter how the Lakers adjust, we have to pull up the rhythm of the game, and at the same time press the Lakers all over the court on the defensive end, seize the opportunity to play their counterattack." After thinking about it for a few seconds, the Pacers called a timeout, but instead of switching to the main lineup and playing the Lakers early, Larry Bird sent a group of small players with excellent athleticism to experiment with a new defensive strategy in the Pacers.

"Larry is really bold, even though it's only a regular season game, but it's the first time I've seen anyone who dares to press the Lakers all over the court." When the game restarted, after seeing several players from the Pacers on the court, and began to press the Lakers crazy, Magic Johnson also looked at Phil Jackson with great interest, who has always been known for his calmness and is known as a Zen master.

"The best way to use the full-court pressing was the Bulls, and as the head coach of that team, I think Phil should have a way to deal with it." Full-court pressing is the most common trick of the United States team in the World Series, due to the huge difference in strength, many teams under the full-court pressure of the American team, not even a single quarter, so they surrendered. In the NBA, there are also many teams that will be in a slight position when the team is in a slight situation, offering full-court pressing to do the last fight, among these teams, the Bulls in the last three consecutive are undoubtedly the teams that use the full-court pressing to the extreme, with Jordan, Pippen, Harbour composed of the backcourt combination, often only need a few minutes of pressing, can reverse the situation on the court, countless teams are under the Bulls' full-court pressure.

But the full-court pressing also has its own limitations, first of all, the requirements for the players are very high, players with poor physical fitness and defensive awareness do not say that they are pressing the opponent, and it is good not to be passed by the opponent in one step, and the full-court pressing emphasizes the man-to-man defense, and does not pay attention to the help defense, so once the pressing fails, the opponent breaks through, then in the case of the help defense, for the players who break the pressing, there are gaps everywhere, which is why everyone knows the great power of pressing tactics, But there aren't many teams that can use pressing tactics proficiently. And the current Pacers have all the conditions to use pressing tactics, Meng Xu, James Posey, Tyshawn Prince, Hamilton, all four of them are players with excellent arm span and first-class movement speed, and the effect of their execution of pressing tactics is not comparable to the Bulls of the year, but it is enough to deal with most of the teams in the current league.

"Janero Pargo made a mistake!" After the Pacers sacrificed the full-court pressing, the Lakers' backup guard Janeiro Pugo was immediately targeted to death by Hamilton, a rookie who only entered the league this year, under the pressure of Hamilton, even the ball could not be dribbled, under the cover of Kobe, Janeelo Pugo, who barely dribbled through the middle line, but was directly cut off by Tyshawn Prince, who followed Kobe. With a long arm span, excellent body coordination, and superb anticipation ability, Tyshawn Prince showed his strengths to the fullest in just one defense, and in the case of Jane Prigo being entangled by Hamilton, Tyshawn Prince walked around Kobe and gently reached out, and the basketball in Jane Prigo's hand was gone.

"Looks like it's working pretty well." On the bench for the Pacers, Larry Bird sat in his seat, crossed his legs and a relaxed expression.