After reaching a consensus with Mutombo, Chang Wei immediately reported his thoughts to Brown. Brown was also shocked, it's not like no team has ever played a twin tower in the history of the league, but it seems that most of the twin towers exist in the form of two inside scoring points, and what are twin towers like Mutombo and Makloche? Pure defensive twin towers?

But after thinking about it carefully, Brown felt that Chang Wei's idea was very reasonable, Mutombo was good at defense, but it was difficult for him to directly interfere with or even block O'Neal's shooting in the front, at this time, someone needed to resist O'Neal in front, at least to limit his activity area, so that it was convenient for Mutombo to send a hot pot feast when making up defense.

The 76ers' other interior players are struggling to take on the role of a meat shield, and the only one who can hope to help Mutombo is Mark Loach. Although he has not played much this season, he is more suitable to be in the starting lineup than any interior rotation player at this time, because he weighs 280 pounds (about 127 kilograms) and is the highest on the team, and if he wants to carry O'Neal's impact head-on, he must use such a big center, although he is 20 kilograms lighter than O'Neal, but it is already the best choice.

After being persuaded by Chang Wei, Brown began to get the players to practice the Twin Towers routine. Fortunately, this time the 76ers' twin towers are purely used for defense, and when attacking, they only need to pay attention to covering and grabbing rebounds, and the task of shooting and scoring is still handed over to the attack group led by Iverson. As the man who was squeezed out of the starting lineup, Lewis was not much disappointed, and he knew that this was to give the team a better chance of winning the Lakers, and it would not be a big deal to make some sacrifices for it.

In order to keep it secret, the 76ers practiced completely behind closed doors in the days leading up to the Finals, and the local media in Philadelphia tacitly did not bother them. It wasn't until two hours before the start of the game that Brown revealed the starting list for the first game of the Finals, and at first everyone thought that the 76ers were suspicious, but when they saw the list, the eyes that looked at Brown changed, as if they were looking at a madman: Can anyone explain to me why they switched to the two-tower strategy?

In the face of reporters' questions, Brown kept silent, only saying that it was because of the needs of the game that the two center forwards Mutombo and Makloch started at the same time, and no one in the team was injured, and there was no other situation, just tactical needs.

The 76ers' starting list was quickly sent to Phil Jackson, and the Zen master was also stunned when he saw the name on it, he didn't expect the opponent to come up with such a strange lineup. But with his tactical literacy, how could he not see that this was aimed at O'Neal? He waved the list in his hand and said with a smile: "Shaq, you have to be busy for this game!" ”

O'Neill took the list and looked at it, and said angrily, "Is sending a nobody to humiliate me?" Don't worry, coach, I'll definitely give them a good look at what an inside monster is in this game. ”

Mark Loach was a little nervous, he had always played in inconsequential garbage time before, but this time he had to face the most terrifying inside monster in the league, it would be a lie to say that he was not nervous, Mutombo patted him on the shoulder and said: "Boy, don't worry about so many other things, you can resist him with all your might, and I will do the rest!" ”

The two sides jumped the ball, and despite Mutombo's fine form this season, O'Neill easily held him down and flicked the ball to Fisher, who quickly dribbled forward. In fact, there are only two scoring points in the Lakers' starting lineup, and that is the OK combination, except for the two of them, the scoring ability of others is basically negligible.

After O'Neal successfully jumped the ball, he fell directly to the low post to catch the ball, and when Fisher passed the ball to him, Mark Loach also appeared behind him for the first time, and resisted the big fat man with all his strength. Because there is also Mutombo next to him who can take care of the defense in other directions, so Makloch basically showed his strength without reservation.

Despite this, O'Neal sat back hard, knocking him back half a step, which shows that the difference between the two in terms of pure strength is quite obvious. Originally, O'Neill thought that Mutombo would come up to cover the clip, but after a few consecutive back-to-back hits, Mutombo still cruised around the three-second zone as if he was off the ground, and there was no tendency to come up to help at all.

O'Neill snorted, slammed back again, and turned around with a small hook. However, as soon as the ball left his hand, he felt that the light in front of him was obscured by a black figure, and Mutombo's help defense was very timely, taking advantage of O'Neal's lack of time to care about the power of Macloach, and slapped the inevitable hook out.

The ball is still in the hands of the Lakers, but O'Neal did not go to the baseline to make a throw-in, but stood in a daze. His first reaction was surprise, he didn't expect his ball to be covered, and soon his surprise turned into anger, as the league's de facto No. 1 center, he didn't allow anyone to challenge him on the inside, even if the opponent was a regular season champion.

After relieving himself, O'Neal gritted his teeth to serve, and the 76ers players pressed hard, but he still sent the ball out smoothly, and he stuck the position on the inside again, allowing Grant, who received the ball, to give the ball directly to himself. Faced with O'Neal's asking for the ball, Grant had no reason to refuse, and he did not hesitate to give the ball to O'Neal.

This time O'Neal didn't choose to play with his back to himself, he made a few feints and then suddenly turned around, directly bypassing Mark Loach behind him is a thunderous dunk, everyone on the sidelines heard the basket creaking, everyone was afraid that this big guy would directly drag the basketball hoop down, he hadn't done such a thing on the field before.

After the dunk, O'Neal waved defiantly at the home crowd while glancing contemptuously at Mutombo and Makloch under the basket. He believed that his first offense was blocked as an accident, and you see, didn't he just dunk on his second offense? What twin towers? Is it useful to face yourself as an inside hegemon?

Mark Loach was frustrated, because it was clearly his lack of position this time that allowed O'Neal to easily turn around and face the basket. But Mutombo didn't have any expression on his face, he knew that it was absolutely impossible to prevent O'Neill from scoring, he could only do a certain amount of limitation, and the game had just begun.