Chapter 42: Win
"With more than five minutes left in the game, the Lakers are eight points behind, and the Lakers still have a chance." McBrin glanced at the time, then at the point difference, and continued to say that the Lakers still have hope of a comeback to win.
However, he was teased by Marvin Albert.
"Haha, don't be kidding, Mike, you said the same thing 5 minutes ago, but now, the Lakers are still 8 points behind, there is no change, the Lakers have not been able to recover the 8-point difference for more than 5 minutes, and the remaining 5 minutes are also difficult."
Mafu Albert glanced at Qiao Hai on the sidelines, it had been 7 minutes in the fourth quarter, Qiao Hai was sitting firmly in the coach's seat, and he didn't move.
"China Joe didn't make any moves, didn't even call a timeout, it seems that he has become indifferent to the team's backwardness......"
As soon as Mafu Albert's words fell, Qiao Hai on the sidelines stood up.
This made Marf Albert a little stunned, the key is that the camera happened to be given to Qiao Hai, and countless fans in front of the TV and Jazz fans in the Energy Solutions Arena suddenly turned their attention to Qiao Hai.
"Almost." Qiao Hai silently calculated the time, walked to the sidelines, and covered his left index finger with the palm of his right hand, which was a gesture of pause.
"The Lakers called a timeout, with five minutes left in the game, is China Joe finally going to make adjustments?"
Mav Albert commented, the voice was not loud, and the fans in front of the TV almost didn't hear it, but they all saw Qiao Hai in the picture.
Qiao Hai waved his arms, as if he was a little excited.
He directly gathered all the players and formed a circle, and then, Qiao Hai took the tactical board and quickly made adjustments in the last five minutes.
"First of all, let's make a substitution!"
Qiao Hai glanced at Shaquille O'Neal: "Shaq, you rest first." ”
Shaquille O'Neal was stunned for a moment, revealing an incredible expression, Qiao Hai noticed this expression, he ignored Shaquille O'Neal's possible small emotions, and called Bruce Bowen directly.
"Bruce, you go up, replace Shaq, let's play a small lineup, speed up, play fast and break fast, shoot more three-point ......"
Jerry Sloan was very satisfied with the team's performance, and seeing that the game was about to be won, Qiao Hai called a timeout, Jerry Sloan felt that there was something wrong with this timeout, he thought about it and decided to make adjustments at the same time.
Karl Malone and John Stockton walked to the sidelines, and Jerry Sloan walked up to greet him and patted Greg Ostertag on the shoulder.
"Greg, it's your turn to perform next......"
……
Jerry Sloan decided to sacrifice the shark slash tactic, and in the final five minutes, as long as the shark slash tactic worked, the victory of the match was within reach.
But when the game resumed, Jerry Sloan froze.
"Shaq didn't get on?" McBrin was also stunned, he had the same question as Jerry Sloan.
Shaquille O'Neal didn't get on! Greg Ostertag turned his head to look at the sidelines in confusion, and Jerry Sloan hurriedly waved his hand, signaling the cancellation of the previous tactical arrangement.
But at the same time, the camera pans to the sidelines, where Shaquille O'Neal sits on the bench with a depressed expression.
Abandoned at a critical moment, Shaquille O'Neal felt he needed Qiao Hai's explanation.
Qiao Hai's attention was all on this unfinished game, and he stood on the sidelines, not having time to think about O'Neal's feelings.
On the court, the Lakers attacked, Scott Pippen broke through quickly with the ball, rushed two steps, and was directly stopped by Bryan Russell.
Kobe Bryant made a sprint from the baseline, cut in empty-handed, received a pass from Scott Pippen, and continued to sprint by inertia, and Jeff Hornacek's defense was out of position!
The Energy Plan Arena resounded with an exclamation!
On the commentary bench, McBlin also shouted: "Kobe Bryant shook off Jeff Hornacek's defense, this is an opportunity!" Karl Malone, he rushed out of the penalty area, and the Jazz surrounded him! But...... Kobe Bryant actually passed! Bottom corner! Robert Horry! Three points! ”
The dual-attribute bonus is directly added to the aging card, and the Lakers have a 10% three-point bonus and a 10% speed bonus.
So, in fact, the time card has already worked, and Scott Pippen and Kobe Bryant have broken through one after another to get opportunities, which is the effect of the speed bonus.
Robert Horry made a three-point shot, and Qiao Hai had already rushed to the sidelines, ready to raise his hands in celebration.
He knows that Horry's three-point attribute value has reached 73, and the bonus is 10%, which means that after the bonus, Robert Horry has a three-point attribute value of 83 points, and a three-point attribute of 83 points.
On the sidelines, Qiao Hai raised his hand!
Swish!
Robert Horry hits a three-pointer!
"Three points! Entered! Robert Horry! McBrin shouted.
And Mav Albert also quickly summed it up: "Beautiful assists, beautiful threes!" The Lakers made adjustments, and China Joe surprisingly replaced Shaquille O'Neal, put on a small lineup, and after a timeout, directly used a wave of sudden and fast offense to catch the Jazz off guard......"
Jerry Sloan also walked to the sidelines and hissed, "Watch your defense, keep an eye on your own people!" ”
He wasn't ready to call a timeout, he was going to take another look.
The Jazz offense, the Lakers defensively.
Karl Malone watched the Lakers put on a small lineup, took the ball directly on the inside, and singled out to Bruce Bowen in the fourth position with his back.
The two were entangled, Carl Malone scolded in his mouth, and seemed to be provoked by Bowen's small movements, but the referee ignored them, after all, Malone himself also had small movements, so Carl Malone was helpless, turned around and made a jumper, ending this wave of attacks.
Bang, the ball barely shot, definitely not going in.
"Rebounds, rebounds!" Jerry Sloan believes that the Lakers will definitely not be able to grab the Jazz in rebounding with a small lineup.
But what he didn't expect was that Qiao Hai had already arranged the tactics of outside players rushing into the interior to grab rebounds, and for these outside players whose speed was bonus, it was still quite simple and easy to rush into the interior with a lunge and use flexibility to beat the inside players to grab rebounds.
Jerry Sloan was stunned when he saw Derrick Fisher take a step outside the box and jump to grab the rebound.
Derrick Fisher grabbed the rebound and launched a fast break.
Or Kobe Bryant, he sprinted, received the basketball, rushed to the front court is a dunk, and scored another 2 points.
Under the small lineup, Kobe Bryant suddenly became very active, which is also what Qiao Hai expected, the best physical fitness in the whole court is the young Kobe, once the speed is added, and after the speed is increased across the board, the first one to be activated must be Kobe.
After the timeout, Bryant scored 2 points and 1 assist, and the difference narrowed to 4 points in a blink of an eye.
Within 5 points, the difference is already very small.
Jerry Sloan sensed something was wrong and called a timeout.
"Well done, let's keep playing like this, keep speeding up......" Qiao Hai told the team to continue to pick up the pace, and there were no more adjustments.
Turning around, he saw O'Neill's gloomy face.
Qiao Hai shook his head helplessly: "Shaq, I have to say sorry to you, because the team needs to run, and you should remember the Drew League, as far as I know, Jerry Sloan mentioned this tactic in the pre-match press conference, so I expected that he might use this tactic, I can only replace you first......"
As soon as Qiao Hai explained this, Shaquille O'Neal's face improved a lot, but he only nodded and didn't say anything more.
Qiao Hai is also very helpless, there is no way, he is just a small acting head coach now, he still has to pay attention to the emotions of the star, if he doesn't pay attention, a bad trouble, that is, the star in charge asks the team management to change the coach, causing infighting in the team.
O'Neill said that although the attitude is not very good, as long as he wins this game, all the problems will be solved.
Therefore, Qiao Hai once again emphasized speed.
The timeout then ended, and with the final 4 points of difference, the suspense of the game resumed.
Jazz offense, Karl Malone missed the shot again, although Bruce Bowen was a lap smaller than Karl Malone and a little worse in strength, but the annoying small action still played a role, and continued to defend Karl Malone, Bruce Bowen was also appreciated by McBrin and Marf Albert.
However, the rebound of this ball was taken by Greg Ostertag, who turned and hit a rebound to score 6 points.
The Lakers continued to attack quickly, and Scott Pippen passed the ball to Kobe Bryant on the perimeter, and Kobe Bryant made a three-point shot against the defense.
Qiao Hai immediately glanced at Kobe's three-point attribute, 65 points, a bonus of 10%, that is, 75 points, not very stable!
So, he immediately looked up to see the results.
Before he saw it, the energy plan arena resounded with a chorus of exclamations, and Qiao Hai already knew that the goal had been scored!
"Kobe Bryant! Moment of truth! Hit a three-point shot! Very powerful shot! Young Kobe Bryant shows his big heart! ”
3 points difference.
Turning the Jazz to attack, John Stockton and Karl Malone blocked and dismantled outside, passed the ball to the bottom corner, and Jeff Hornacek also returned a three-pointer, but the Jazz did not have the accuracy of the Lakers, bang, hit the iron.
Kobe Bryant flew under the basket to grab the rebound, and turned around for another wave of fast breaks.
Derrick Fisher received the ball in front of him and made a layup, and the difference was only 1 point in an instant!
Jerry Sloan didn't have much to do but call a timeout.
After the pause, Qiao Hai still did not adjust his tactics, and now, Qiao Hai still has a timeout in his hand, and Jerry Sloan has run out of timeouts, so Qiao Hai decided to respond to all changes with no change!
"The fighting method of Chinese Joe and Jerry Sloan, it is unbelievable that the young Qiao Hai is about to defeat the old and spicy Jerry Sloan......"
The timeout ended quickly, and the Jazz replaced Greg Ostertag for a small lineup and were forced to respond.
Seeing the Jazz substitution, Qiao Hai knew that the ball was won......