"Damn!" When the game between the Pacers and the Lakers ended in the third quarter, O'Neal, who walked off the court, took the towel handed over by the assistant coach and wiped it on his head very casually, O'Neal threw the towel to the ground, and then sat on the bench chair.

Originally, before the start of this game, as the boss of the Lakers, O'Neal really wanted to use his personal ability to win this game, so as to lay the championship belonging, but Kobe Bryant's almost crazy singles in the first half disrupted all his thoughts and the deployment of the coach, although under the leadership of Kobe, the Lakers ended the first half with a two-point lead, but this has nothing to do with O'Neal, if it was last season, O'Neal would definitely be happy to see Kobe's performance, But since the beginning of this season, when Kobe has gradually shown his ambitions, O'Neal has to be wary of Kobe, for O'Neal, the best way is undoubtedly to rely on his super personal strength, and the strong dominance shown on the court, to suppress Kobe.

For O'Neal, the Lakers can only have one boss, and they can only have one handle, that is, themselves, and Kobe can only be their own little brother, so the third quarter of this game is undoubtedly O'Neal's best chance to prove himself, when Kobe Bryant chose to use silence to express his dissatisfaction, O'Neal, who took over the Lakers' offensive banner, did not show due dominance in the 3rd quarter, in Jermaine O'Neal, Lorenzen White and Meng Xu's three-man crazy bag, and crazy forward, Even when he didn't hesitate to use fouls to block himself, O'Neal played very aggrieved throughout the third quarter.

So when the third quarter of the game ended and the two sides were tied 78-74, O'Neal's only feeling at the moment was that he was aggrieved, too aggrieved, with full strength but no place to vent. If this is the case in the fourth quarter, not only will the Lakers lose the championship, but O'Neal will also miss an opportunity to prove himself, and even lose everything he has built on the Lakers. Originally, as Kobe's performance got better and better, and he chose to be lazy and pretend to be dead in the regular season, among the fans who supported the Lakers, the call for Kobe Bryant to take the position became higher and higher, in the eyes of many fans, even if Kobe did not take over the core position of O'Neal to rebuild the team around Kobe, it was necessary to be like Magic Johnson and Abdul-Jabbar, the two sides were on an equal footing and shared the leadership of the team, and then the younger Kobe Bryant gradually replaced O'Neal. Just for O'Neal, sharing the ball? That's impossible, don't talk about Kobe, even Jordan, in this league, no one is worthy of sharing the ball with him, since Hardaway, since O'Neal left the Magic, O'Neal has not thought about sharing the ball with anyone.

"Kobe, I need your help, and the team needs your help." After hesitating for a moment, Phil Jackson still walked to Kobe's side and spoke to Kobe, if this game was just an ordinary regular season, Phil Jackson would rather lose the game than let Kobe continue to play in the fourth quarter, but today's game is the Finals, and it is a Finals that cannot be lost, the current situation is very clear, if there is no Kobe Bryant's containment on the outside, the Lakers will not be able to defeat the Pacers no matter what, Therefore, Phil Jackson didn't care about whether O'Neal would be dissatisfied, and put down his posture, almost with an almost begging tone, after finishing speaking, Phil Jackson stared at Kobe's eyes, as if to observe Kobe's heart through Kobe's eyes.

"I see." After staring at Phil Jackson for a few seconds, Kobe Bryant subconsciously felt weak, put a towel over his head, and nodded to avoid Phil Jackson's gaze. At the moment when Phil Jackson opened his mouth to Kobe, Kobe's heart was actually very excited, but after the excitement, a wave of self-blame came to his heart, was he really wrong? No, I'm not wrong!

"The final moments that will decide this game, and arguably the final minutes of the series, and the championship, are finally coming!" When the official timeout of the fourth quarter was about to end, and all the main players of both sides gathered on the sidelines to listen to their respective coaches make the final arrangements, the game also quietly entered the final stage.

"Victory, victory, victory。。。。。。" On the edge of the Lakers' bench, as the boss of the Lakers, Shaq O'Neal gathered all the players around him, waving his arms and roaring loudly.

"Guys, we just need to win this game, anything else, nothing else will do anything to us, we just need to win, for the championship, let's go!" After O'Neal's shouting, Lakers head coach Phil Jackson grabbed several players who were about to appear on the court and boosted their morale in his own unique way.

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"Guys, in the previous games, you played very well, you did a very good job, and for the rest of the game, I hope you can keep up the good work, and it will take six minutes for you to lift the O'Brien Cup, and you will go down in the history of Indiana and the Pacers basketball club, and you will be the heroes of the whole Indiana!"

"Guys, remember your dreams? Remember your vows? There are still 6 minutes left and we will accomplish this dream together, we are tired of waiting, we are tired of losing, so we have only one goal now, and that is to win, win! Bring the O'Brien Cup back to Indiana, come on, guys. For the dream! For the overall championship! On the bench side of the Pacers, after arranging the final tactics, Larry Bird also took advantage of the last bit of the official timeout to continue to use all kinds of flowery and fleshy words to encourage the players under his command.

"For the dream! For the overall championship! After Larry Bird's words fell, almost all of the Pacers players raised their arms and shouted in unison.

After the game restarted, in order to maintain the lead, in order to overtake the score, the Pacers and the Lakers did their best, without any reservations, every player on the court was running and defending at any cost, and Jermaine O'Neal and Robert Holly even scuffled together in order to compete for the ball out of bounds.

As the game progressed, Larry Bird and Phil Jackson kept looking up to observe the timer while paying attention to the situation on the court, to see how many games there were before the game could end. After the Lakers began to participate in Kobe's offense, O'Neal was like a monster that broke free from the chains, no one could subdue him, and at the same time, maybe he really didn't want to lose this game, O'Neal's style of play was also different from the third quarter, as long as he faced the bag, O'Neal would most likely pass the basketball to his teammates with better chances, compared with the big shark who was trying to come by himself in the third quarter, it was a world of difference, not only O'Neal, Kobe also changed the style of play in the previous game, and no longer blindly went heads-up with Meng Xu, Instead, choose a more reasonable way of attacking. But on the Pacers' side, they played very steadily, no matter what the situation was, they played according to their own rhythm of the game, while basing themselves on defense, for the success rate of the offense, they played very patiently, often passing each other more than a dozen times, and finding a great opportunity to shoot, so the difference between the two sides has always been maintained at about 3 points

"The Pacers are getting more and more stable now, especially after the baptism of the Finals, no matter what happens on the court, whether the score is leading or falling, they are not affected at all, and the Pacers are becoming more and more similar to the Spurs."

"It looks like this game is going to be decided by a stunner!" While Michaels was still discussing the Pacers and Spurs, O'Neal received a pass from Kobe Bryant and went on an inside attack to close the gap by two points, 97-95, with one minute left in the fourth quarter.

When O'Neal was still hanging on the basket, Larry Bird on the sidelines called a timeout, 1 minute 06 seconds, the Pacers still have a two-point lead, this last minute, will undoubtedly determine the final result of the game, so how to arrange this last minute is a problem that Larry Bird needs to seriously consider.

"Maybe it's fate!" When Meng Xu walked off the court, he glanced up at the scoreboard and timer, for some reason, Meng Xu remembered the Western Conference Finals with the Lakers last season, the same sixth game, the same last 1 minute, the difference is that his Spurs are 2 points behind the Lakers, and he equalized for the Spurs and entered overtime, and in overtime, Derrick Fisher beat the Spurs in 0.4 seconds, which is still a pain in the hearts of Meng Xu and Duncan, and it was after that game that Meng Xu decided to leave the Spurs and Duncan.