The crushing victory in the first game of the playoffs has improved Qiao Hai's confidence a lot.

The atmosphere of the team is also harmonious, and it can be said that a victory directly returns the Lakers to the Lakers in April, and if this state continues, the Lakers' playoff hopes are rekindled.

The Rockets didn't leave Los Angeles during the other playoff games, renting a gym in a suburb of Los Angeles for their daily workouts, and Rudy Tomjanovic made adjustments.

After the loss in the first game, the Rockets obviously need to make changes, the team's regular style of play has proven that it cannot beat the Lakers, Rudy Tomjanovic is ready to strengthen the defense, and the Lakers fight offense obviously does not work, no matter how the offense, the Lakers offense with O'Neal and Kobe Gastro Pippen must be stronger than the Rockets, because the Lakers have a small advantage on the offensive end in each position.

If you fight defensively, Rudy Tomjanovic can put on a pseudo-joint defense and use the whole to win the individual.

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The second game of the series is still being held at the Great Western Forum arena, and the Lakers' first big win has made the arena even more popular, and the American metropolis of Los Angeles has never been short of basketball fans, but it has just lacked a game that can draw all fans to the arena to watch.

And the Lakers' crushing win over the Rockets in the first game directly gave Los Angeles fans hope, the Rockets with Hakeem Olajuwon and Charles Barkley can be crushed, what team can stop the Lakers?

Seeing the hope of the Lakers winning the championship from the first game, Lakers fans are naturally more enthusiastic.

At the beginning of the game, the Rockets quickly showed their changes, in the first quarter of the game, Hakeem Olajuwon was on the inside to protect the basket, Charles Barkley and Eddie Jones both strengthened their individual defense, and Michael Dixon also deliberately pressed the tempo.

The Rockets played a somewhat awkward high-pressure pseudo-joint defense, and at the beginning of the game, the Rockets' style of play worked well, Kobe Bryant was defended by Eddie Jones again and again, and it seemed that Eddie Jones was going to get back to the court in this game.

Also because of Kobe's poor hand, the Lakers started behind.

But Qiao Hai quickly made adjustments and directly put the focus of the attack on the inside.

After the adjustment, Shaquille O'Neal received the ball in a row and forced the inside.

Hakiem Olajuwon has the task of assisting defense and protecting the basket, so for O'Neal's defense, Olajuwon can't do his best in the last game, and O'Neal is also unscrupulous on the inside.

After the adjustment, O'Neal scored nine straight points, including one free throw and one of two free throws.

Free throws are still O'Neal's hard injury, and Rudy Tomjanovic saw that the Rockets were collapsing again, and he was forced to call a timeout and sacrifice the shark slashing tactic.

Shark slashing tactics, the Rockets continued to foul O'Neal without the ball, and Hakiem Olajuwon also fouled twice and left the court.

However, the effect of the shark slashing tactic was still good, and O'Neal missed consecutive free throws, so the Rockets stabilized the situation.

At 20:20 in the first quarter, the two teams were tied, and on the Lakers' side, O'Neal scored as many as 13 points alone, almost covering the Lakers' offensive score, which also proved the success of the Rockets' pseudo-joint defense on the other hand.

However, the Rockets' own offense was not very successful, under the Lakers' strong one-on-one defense, Eddie Jones' offense was still a little dumb, and the Rockets' offense could only rely on the aging Charles Barkley, Barkley scored 11 points in the first quarter, and he also carried the Rocket's offense alone.

But in the second quarter, the gap between O'Neal and the 36-year-old Charles Barkley was revealed.

The young O'Neal re-appeared in the second quarter and continued to wreak havoc on the interior at the beginning, Rudy Tomjanovic was unavailable, and could only continue to pose a combination of Hakiem Olajuwong and Charles Barkley on the inside, Olajuwon defended O'Neal, and Charles Barkley held up the banner of the Rockets' offense.

The result was O'Neal scoring seven points in the first half of the game, and Olajuwon's defense was pretty good.

But Charles Barkley, under the defense of Scott Pippen, has been a little exhausted.

At the beginning of the second quarter, Charles Barkley hit back-to-back, turned and jumped and missed two goals in a row, then scored a goal, and conceded two goals in a row.

In this way, after the first half of the game, the Lakers played a wave of 11:4 offensive climax and directly took a 7-point lead.

Rudy Tomjanovic had no choice but to call a timeout and readjust.

But at this time it's too late, the Lakers' lead is real, the Rockets have no way to chase points, the Lakers' offense is too strong, at this time it only relies on O'Neal's interior deterrence to achieve a 7-point lead, if the Rockets give up their current style of play, maybe the Rockets will collapse faster, because when the time comes, Kobe Bryant on the outside will open the situation, OK duo fire in unison, and the Rockets are obviously unable to resist.

Therefore, Rudy Tomjanovic can only continue the previous defensive tactics, readjust the attack, let Hakeem Olajuwando get the ball more, and share some of the offensive pressure of Charles Barkley.

But in this way, Olajuwon has even less energy to defend O'Neal.

O'Neal is raging on the inside, and the Lakers' seven-point advantage has been maintained and extended.

At halftime, the Lakers led by 10 points.

However, this lead of 10 points is not much different from the 20 points in the previous game, because the Lakers and Rockets played a low-scoring game, after halftime, the Lakers scored 44 points, while the Rockets scored only 34 points, and in the second quarter, the Rockets' poor offense allowed them to score only 14 points.

Therefore, the 10-point lead in this half is already equivalent to the 20-point lead in the last game, and for the Lakers, this victory is stable again, and Qiao Hai is also very relaxed, and he didn't adjust much at halftime.

Now the Lakers can beat the Rockets no matter how they play, this is the suppression of the lineup, and of course, Qiao Hai's arrangement also contributes to it.

In the second half, the Lakers continued to suppress the Rockets, and with the maintenance of the 10-point advantage, Rudy Tomjanovic also began to get anxious, and if he continued to play like this, the Rockets would die slowly, because the 10-point disadvantage would be maintained until the end of the game, and the Rockets had no chance of winning.

So, Tomjanovich decided to give it a go, either die outright or live under the Jedi counterattack.

Tang Shuai once again sacrificed the strategy of the last disruptive battle, but the result was self-evident, the rocket died, and he died completely.

The Rockets' offense became more and more chaotic, and the Lakers played methodically, and the margin continued to widen in the second half of the third quarter.

After three quarters, the Lakers' lead expanded to 20 points again, O'Neal fired, and Kobe Bryant also exploded after two and a half quarters of silence, and the Lakers took the game directly in waves.

Rudy Tomjanovic is full of ashes, the series is about to fall behind 0-2, and in the first round of the playoffs with a best-of-five system, the Lakers only need a third win to defeat the Rockets and advance to the next round.

The chances of rockets seem slim......