The Lakers' promotion has increased Chang Wei's confidence in the team's championship, after all, the Lakers' roster is almost the same as in his previous life, and the Pistons are stronger than the grassroots army, and the overall strength is more than one notch higher. If the Pistons could easily beat the Lakers to win the championship in the previous life, then it will definitely not be difficult for the Pistons to win the O'Brien Cup now.

However, Chang Wei suddenly remembered that there was a deep reason why the Pistons were able to defeat the Lakers 4-1 to win the championship that time, and the dissolution of F4 after the season was not just because it failed to win the championship. If memory serves, the Lakers had a very serious infighting during the Finals, which made the core combination look like they were on the court, so how could they beat the Pistons?

Of course, it is difficult to find clues from the media's words now, but Chang Wei believes that the Lakers will still be unable to avoid infighting this time. Although his rebirth has changed many things, many more things are still happening with the inertia of history, and since the Lakers have assembled a luxurious F4 like in their previous life, there is a high probability of infighting.

Chang Wei knows very well that after working together for many seasons, Kobe Bryant and O'Neal are already inseparable. For O'Neal, Kobe Bryant is not used to it, which is why he wants to be the number one star of the Lakers. To be honest, although O'Neal's statistics are still bright this season, he is not the boss of the team at all, he has no non-stop self-motivation, no attitude of always wanting to win, no conscientious professional ethics off the field, and no minimum body type guarantee.

In addition, during the regular season, Kobe Bryant and Malone also had a conflict because of Vanessa, and this incident also played out as scheduled. At that time, Malone invited Kobe's wife to come to him and his son to watch the game together, and Vanessa teased Marlon: "Cowboy, what are you doing?" At that time, Malone was wearing denim, and Malone said very frivolously: "I'm fishing for Mexican girls", and Mexican girls are Vanessa's nickname. This also led to the breakdown of the relationship between Kobe and Malone, although they can still play together on the court, but they are strangers off the court.

It can be said that the Lakers are now surging underneath, and they can beat the Spurs to advance to the Finals only because the overall strength of their starting lineup is better, but it is not much better visually, otherwise they will not be dragged into the tiebreaker by the Spurs. So in Chang Wei's view, the probability of the Pistons winning the championship is quite high, although the so-called experts in the outside world are more optimistic about the Lakers, but they don't know what has gone wrong with the Lakers, or what is about to go wrong, I believe they will soon be slapped in the face.

However, at least on the surface, the whole Lakers team still seems to be the same enemy, after all, they are at a disadvantage against the Pistons in the regular season, almost every Lakers player interviewed said that they want to be ashamed, and the Zen master even told the local media in Los Angeles: "I want to prove on the stage of the finals who is the best coach between me and Brown." ”

Brown was silent about the Zen master's provocations, he was used to a low-key style, and Detroit was far less impetuous than Los Angeles. Originally, the Pistons players were going to ridicule each other in an interview, but they were persuaded by Chang Wei, in his words, only by winning the championship with an indisputable performance can they slap the other party in the face, at this time it is useless to do a battle of words, action is the most powerful rebuttal, and the mentality is the most important thing before the series starts.

The Lakers, who were forced to play seven games in the Western Conference Finals, didn't get much rest, and after a short break, they rushed to Detroit to prepare for Game 1 of the Finals. Although they were stubbornly resisted by the Spurs in the Western Conference Finals, the Lakers are determined to win this year's championship, and the Pistons' three consecutive 4-0 runs are just because the East is too weak.

The day before the game, the Pistons got the good news that their starting power forward, Thomas, had finally passed the league's concussion detection program and was ready to play during the game. However, Brown is still very cautious on this issue, he still chooses to let Dio play as the starting four, and let Thomas come off the bench, if it is okay, it is not too late to wait until the second game to adjust the starting lineup, which is also for Thomas's consideration, Brown hopes that he can try to find his form first.

The news of Thomas's comeback made the Zen master feel very regretful, and he thought that if Thomas continued to be injured, the Lakers would be more confident of beating the Pistons, and now the difficulty of winning the championship has undoubtedly increased a lot. But what he didn't expect was that the Pistons didn't intend to limit their offense with defense from the beginning of the game, but to be straight and tough on the offensive end.

It's true that Brown is a defensive coach, but the 76ers' seasons have added a lot of offensive aspects to his playbook, but this decision to play against the Lakers was also determined by the roster. If Dio plays the number four position, the defensive intensity of the starting lineup will be significantly reduced, and it is better to maximize the team's offensive ability.

For this reason, Brown directly used Wade to start in place of Prince, and put on a three-guard lineup to fight the Lakers, with Thomas leading the bench lineup, and the scoring ability will not drop too much. The Zen master obviously didn't expect the Pistons to start with this lineup, and the Lakers' defensive system was directly overwhelmed by them, and by the time the Lakers players reacted, they were already trailing by 12 points at 5-17.

It's normal for the Pistons to score 17 points, but it's definitely not normal for the Lakers to score only 5 points, their hands seem to be a little tight, the continuous iron greatly reduces the scoring efficiency, and most of the rebounding is laughed at by Big Ben. Although the Lakers then regrouped, they were unable to stop the Pistons from scoring, and they still trailed by eight points at the end of the first quarter.

The score made the Pistons fans who came to the stadium cheer, and they high-fived each other as if the team had beaten their opponents to win the championship. But the Pistons players weren't thrilled by this, they still listened nervously to Brown's tactical plan, and by the way, they hurried to recover their strength for the next game.

However, relatively speaking, their atmosphere is still relatively relaxed, and the Lakers' side is cloudy. Trailing by double digits in the first quarter was a surprise to the entire Lakers team, and it also disrupted the Zen Master's pre-game deployment, and he had to build confidence to the players. Even so, the Zen master still believes that his team can win the final victory and even win the championship.

If Chang Wei knew his thoughts, then he could only give the Zen master two words - hehe.