With their powerful three-point firepower, the Pistons continued to hold a double-digit lead at halftime, which greatly exceeded Brown's expectations. Before the start of the game, he also thought that his team might be able to suppress the opponent in the game, but he didn't expect the process to be so easy, it really seemed like a dream.

Seeing Brown standing in the middle of the locker room with a red face, Chang Wei smiled silently, perhaps only he saw the importance of the three-point shot in this era. There are actually not many sharpshooters in the league, far away from Bird and Kerr, close to Hornacek and Szczebiak, but the teams that focus on three-point shooting are rare, they are still more accustomed to inside singles or mid-range shooting, and in recent seasons, only the 76ers and Pistons have worked outside projection.

The outside world thinks that Brown is a coach who pays attention to three-point shooting, after all, he has coached the 76ers and Pistons, but in fact, Chang Wei is the key to all this. When he was in the NCAA, he suggested that the head coach increase the proportion of three-point shots in the game, and after coming to the NBA, he intensified it, but fortunately, the coaches he met could listen to them, so there were two championship teams, the 76ers and the Pistons, so now more and more teams in the league have begun to pay attention to the outside offense.

However, as latecomers, they can only follow behind and eat ashes, not to mention Chang Wei's hand-holding system, and the three-point training effect formulated for the players is outstanding. Now the Lakers are clearly the latest victim, having allowed the Pistons to hit 11 of 20 shots from beyond the three-point line in the first half, while only Kobe Bryant and Szczebiak hit three-pointers themselves. Although O'Neal and Malone are not inefficient on the inside, they can only score 2 points on a single offense, but the Pistons can score 1 more point than them with a single three-pointer.

At halftime, the Zen master sighed in the locker room, and the only people he could rely on outside defense were Payton and Kobe, which is why the Pistons were able to get so many open shots in the first half, not to mention that they also had a Thomas who often pulled outside to shoot threes. The only thing the Zen master could do was to move the interior more to the high post to defend, and that was to pray that the Pistons would feel cooler in the second half, knowing that it would be difficult to maintain that shooting percentage throughout the game.

Perhaps God heard the prayers of the Zen master, or maybe he didn't want the game to turn into a one-sided slaughter, and the Pistons missed three consecutive three-point shots at the beginning of the second half, and the Lakers took the opportunity to narrow the margin to single digits. It's not uncommon to go without scoring in three rounds, but when you compare the Pistons' three-point shooting percentage in the first half, it's a little weird to look at.

Before Brown could call a timeout, Billups decisively stopped his teammates from continuing to try their hand from beyond the three-point line. If it's an inconsequential regular season, then it doesn't matter if you shoot a three-pointer from the outside, but now that it's the Finals and the Pistons are just one game away from winning the championship, it's all about being safe anyway.

Under Billups' command, the Pistons quickly reverted to their regular style of play, where the three-point shot was just a supplement and a nuclear weapon to open up space, and the conventional tactics were to use pick-and-roll shots to complete breakouts or mid-range shots. And now the Lakers' offensive momentum needs to be curbed, otherwise the Pistons are likely to lose their advantage due to a scoring drought.

The Lakers players, who could have been happy to score, suddenly felt a huge pressure, and their tactical operation stalled under the interference of the opponent. Although there were runs, no matter how much they ran, they couldn't outrun the Pistons players, and the passing routes were basically cut off. What else can I do? The only way to do that is to keep the star on the ball and single.

That is, teams like the Lakers can barely rely on the individual strength of their players to continue to increase their scores, but their efficiency is not high, because every Pistons player is like a mad dog crazy to step forward and bite, not giving them a chance to shoot easily.

Even if he is as strong as O'Neal, it will be difficult to get the ball into the basket smoothly under the harassment of Big Ben, let alone others. The least affected by the Lakers should be Kobe, who is a top scorer who can shoot when his vision is obscured, but he obviously can't take on the scoring burden of the whole team alone, and the transformation of the Black Mamba will have to wait until the time when he leads the team alone in the future, and now Kobe Bryant can also score, but he doesn't have the ability to fight against a team.

At this time, the physical fitness of the Pistons has become their biggest advantage, after all, the physical energy consumed when defending is much greater than that of offense, and fortunately, Chang Wei has always emphasized physical fitness in training, otherwise the Pistons' defense may only last for a short period of time at most. And if you want to defend against the star-studded Lakers, long-term high-intensity defense is the key.

Under the frantic pressing of the Pistons players, the Lakers scored only 20 points in the third quarter, which is enough to humiliate them with the big four stars plus a Szzczebiak. Although the Pistons shot 1 of 6 three-pointers in this quarter, they still scored 25 points with breakthroughs and mid-range to continue to maintain their lead.

What's more, they contributed four steals and two blocks in this quarter alone, forcing the Lakers to a staggering eight turnovers. You must know that the Lakers have mostly played with the ball alone in these 12 minutes, and it stands to reason that fewer passes and mistakes will also be reduced, but the Pistons can force them to make mistakes, which is no longer an ordinary defensive intensity.

While Chang Wei is a big fan of offense, he never thought that Brown's defense would be swept into the dustbin of history, and in fact the vast majority of championship teams are well-balanced on both ends of the floor. Even if they are more prominent on the offensive or defensive end, they can at least maintain the upper middle of the league on the other end. Indeed, if the Pistons didn't have a conventional weapon of defense, their sudden drop in three-point shooting percentage would be enough to dig a big hole for themselves.

For this result, the Zen master felt very helpless, obviously the Pistons no longer had such sharp three-point shots in the first half, but the players under his command were still lost in the impregnable defense, and they also did not play the offense they were good at. The veteran coach who has coached in the league for many years is a little at a loss, is the Pistons destined to win the championship this season? So what is the use of the Lakers bringing in Payton and Malone before? The only good news is that there is still one final quarter, and the Lakers may not have a chance to turn over.