"Michael, do you need to rest a little more?" Looking at Reed, who looked like he had been fished out of the water, Brown asked with concern, now that this little guy has become the most unmissable player on the team, not even one of them.

Reed replied angrily: "No problem coach, I can still persevere, anyway, there are only 12 minutes left, no matter how hard you work, there is not much time, let me continue to stay on the field, I will make them pay." ”

In fact, Brown is also very entangled in his heart, not letting Reed play, it seems that a 17-point lead is not particularly safe, after all, the Lakers' offensive ability is the top in the league, as long as the OK combination is on the court, it will not be surprising what kind of performance they play on the offensive end. Let Reed play, his playing time in this game has come to 33 minutes, you must know that he has only averaged 28.7 minutes per game this season, and only 32.5 minutes per game in the playoffs, but now it only took three quarters for him to exceed his average, and Brown is not sure if he can hold up, after all, the Lakers are too targeted with his defense.

However, since Reed himself thinks that he can continue to play, Brown is not easy to stop, judging from Reed's usual personality, he is definitely not the kind of person who knows that he can't do it, he said that if he can play, then there is a chance that he can continue to play. But to be on the safe side, Brown still looked at Chang Wei, and he hoped that the professionals would give him some advice.

Chang Wei had already seen Reed's physical fitness in the system, and now his physical fitness bar was still yellow, which meant that his physical fitness would soon be reduced to the warning line. Although Chang Wei also hoped that Reed could play the whole game in the fourth quarter, he still honestly said to Brown: "Coach, I don't think so, according to my judgment, Michael's fitness is on the verge of collapse, and he needs to rest off the court now, otherwise I can't guarantee that he can still perform like this in the fourth quarter." ”

Before Brown could speak, Reid became anxious, he took off the towel on his head, and said loudly: "Chang, I can play, I still feel full of energy now, I believe I can get through it with 12 minutes left!" ”

Chang Wei shook his head and said: "From the perspective of the game, I also hope that you can play the fourth quarter so that you can beat the Lakers to death with a stick." But from a professional point of view, I have to be responsible for you, you don't care how I know, now you have to rest off the pitch and I don't want you to affect all the rest of the games because of this game! ”

Reid still wanted to continue to fight for the opportunity to play, Brown waved his hand and said in an unquestionable tone: "Then it's decided, Michael, I'll put you on the court when there are about 9 minutes left, and you give me a good recovery on the bench during these three minutes, don't rush to play, when you contribute to the team!" ”

Seeing that Brown and Chang Wei both had serious expressions on their faces, Reed instantly wilted. As Chang Wei said, in fact, now his physical fitness has some problems, in the last 1 minute of the third quarter, he feels that he is not easy to get rid of Kobe's defense, whenever he wants to create shooting space through running, Kobe can always easily follow behind the butt to interfere.

Reed knew that this was because of a certain decline in his running speed, which would make Kobe Bryant's defensive difficulty lower, and before that, he would definitely use continuous running to create gaps, but this time it was not satisfactory.

So at the insistence of Brown and Chang Wei, Reed still obediently sat on the bench and seized the time to recover his strength. The Lakers are naturally overjoyed, Reed sitting on the court means that Kobe Bryant can completely free up his hands to attack, take advantage of this time to narrow the difference to single digits, and it would be better if he could complete the overtake in one go, maybe he could take away the game in waves.

After Reed went off the court, the 76ers didn't seem to be able to play, although Snow kept passing the ball to his teammates in the open position, their shooting percentage was also very touching, and the 76ers only hit 2 three-pointers by Lewis in a full minute and a half, and the Lakers took the opportunity to narrow the gap to 11 points, and one more goal could directly narrow the difference to single digits.

Brown stood on the sidelines and yelled at the players, telling them to guard against this round, although less than 2 minutes passed, Brown must admit that Reed has to play now, the 76ers rely too much on him on the offensive end of this game, if Reed continues to sit off the court, maybe the Lakers can really complete the reversal.

Unfortunately, the 76ers were unable to stop the opponent's offense, and the Lakers tore apart their defense with a simple block, and finally Fox directly stuffed the ball to the basket for O'Neal to complete an aerial relay, and the difference between the two sides was reduced to 9 points. Brown quickly called a timeout, disrupting the Lakers' offensive rhythm and replacing Reed.

This substitution made the Zen master feel a pity, because the Lakers did not seize the opportunity to tie the score, but only narrowed the difference to single digits, originally he thought that Brown would continue to let Reed sit on the bench for a while, but he did not expect that he would now get this big killer on the court, so that he had to face the biggest threat of the game.

Reed's hand didn't seem to get cold from the long break, and as soon as he came up, he picked up Snow's pass and hit a three-pointer on the wing, and it was a ** hit in front of Kobe. This kind of shooting is very simple and crude, but it is very demoralizing to the Lakers, no one wants to be scored so simply, there is no tactical coordination, there is no offensive and defensive competition, people just catch the ball, jump, ignore the defense, and shoot the ball, which is no different from playing video games.

With this three-pointer, the 76ers once again stretched the difference to 12 points, of course, this round is just an example, Reed must not be able to shoot so simply and rudely every round, whether there is a chance to shoot, not to mention, the shooting rate is obviously not guaranteed, this ball he just intends to give the Lakers a dismount, and then he has to seriously run tactics.

And his three-pointer had another purpose, which was to boost the team's morale. Only two goals in a minute and a half, and the opponent narrowed the margin to single digits, undoubtedly made the overall morale of the team a little sluggish, Reed's goal undoubtedly gave everyone a shot in the arm, with 10 minutes left in the game, a team with high morale is always easier to win than a team with low morale.