Although Thomas is starting to find his touch on the outside, the Lakers are not afraid because they have a more professional and powerful three-point shooter than Thomas - Szczebiak. This is Szczebiak's second season with the Lakers, and he is fully integrated into the Purple and Gold, acting well as the third scoring point next to Kobe and O'Neal.

Szczerbiak's characteristics are similar to Hamilton's, his physical attributes are not particularly strong, and his ball-handling skills are not enough to help him get rid of defenders, so most of his shots are catch-and-shoot after running, but Hamilton tends to shoot from mid-range, while Szzambiak prefers to shoot from beyond the three-point line. Prince, who was opposite him, had talent, but his strength couldn't keep up, and he was stunned by Szzerbiak in three or two hits, and could only watch him shoot comfortably.

This situation made Brown feel a little helpless, but he didn't say much, Prince is still a rookie, although he played very well in training camp, but this is still the first season of his career, and Szczerbiak has been in the league for three years, no matter how inexperienced he is, he is much better than Prince, a rookie, and it makes no sense to blame Prince. Brown only hopes that Prince can learn something against a strong team, and that will be considered earned.

Under Prince's immature defense, Szzczebiak began to play against Thomas, and today he felt surprisingly good, and the Pistons were slow to tie the score with long-range shots. In fact, Szczebiak has been honing his shooting skills this offseason, and as a Spaniard who is not very physical, shooting is undoubtedly his most powerful weapon.

Szczebiak's back-to-back shots from the outside also helped the Lakers open up the situation, and the Pistons no longer dared to shrink the defense, otherwise the opponent could directly knock them down from beyond the three-point line. After the expansion of the defensive line, O'Neal's activity space became larger, and if it weren't for Ben Town guarding the basket, it is estimated that the Pistons would have been broken through at this time.

Rao is so, Big Ben also feels a lot of pressure, the reason is very simple, Thomas basically can't help when defending O'Neal, he can help defend a little, it would be good if he can defend a little, and if you want to talk about single defense, you have to be big. But if Thomas assists in defense, Walker will get gaps, so that will require him to constantly do switchbacks in the three-second zone.

O'Neal and Szzambiak kept scoring inside and out, and Bryant occasionally came in with a few mid-range shots to help up. One of the reasons why the Lakers fell at the feet of the 76ers was that they didn't have enough points, but now they have enough points compared to the Pistons, who only have two and a half players to score anyway, and the last half is Billups.

The physical exertion against the Lakers was not small, which allowed Brown to switch to the bench with 4 minutes and 17 seconds left in the second quarter, and everyone except Billups was still on the court, everyone else obediently went to the rest and was replaced by Simmons, Haywood, Barry and Manning. Looking at the Pistons' on-court lineup, Chang Wei shook his head helplessly, this is too shabby, is it better to compare with the 76ers? The Pistons can win the championship this season!

The Zen master also changed the bench, and like Brown, he also kept a main player on the field, but the one he left behind was called ...... Bryant! Compared to Billups, Kobe Bryant's organizational skills are not that strong, but when it comes to scoring, the two are not at the same level at all. In the previous games, Kobe Bryant didn't take many shots, and the scoring was far behind O'Neal and Szzebiak, and the Zen master's failure to let him off the court was largely to make up for his previous reduction in the number of shots.

Kobe Bryant didn't disappoint the head coach either, he shot inside and outside to score like crazy, and Simmons, who was in charge of defending him, couldn't do anything about him. In fact, Simmons was also used as a defensive wing when he was with the Wizards, but now he is facing one of the top scorers in the league, and it is understandable that he was directly knocked down.

The key problem is that Billups can't organize any decent offense at all now, and can only score with Barry's three-point shooting and Haywood's blocking, and the efficiency is not at the same level as Kobe. By the end of the first half, the Pistons had unsurprisingly trailed by 12 points at 42-54, and Brown looked at the numbers on the scoreboard for a long time.

For him, scoring just 42 points in the half is something he hasn't seen in a long time, and when he coached the 76ers, it was their first quarter of scoring in some games, and now his team needs two quarters. But Brown quickly picked up his mood, defensive teams were his choice, and it was completely normal for the offense to be ineffective.

However, Chang Wei did not think so, even if the Pistons can build the league's top defense and win championships in the past few seasons, but in the long run, teams with a relatively balanced offense and defense are more likely to succeed. Bringing the starting five to the team in the offseason basically took Chang Wei's entire time, and now it seems that he has to help the team find a rotation lineup?

Perhaps because the 42 points at halftime made Brown feel a little embarrassed, he once again emphasized the offense in the locker room at halftime, but at the same time he also said that the team must continue to strengthen the defense. The Lakers shot nearly 50 percent from the field in the first half, which seemed unbearable to Brown, and it was even more serious than his team's 42 points in the half.

Chang Wei could only smile helplessly on the side, the Lakers are not the kind of team that can be restricted by strengthening the defense casually, maybe the Pistons in the previous life can do it, but that was also the season when they achieved great success, and now they are just a combination that has not been formed for a long time, and the so-called tacit understanding is still slowly being cultivated, so it can't do the Lakers.

And with too few points, the opponent's defense will not be too difficult, and more than 60% of the team's points in the first half were scored by Hamilton and Thomas, and the Lakers only need to place heavy troops around them.

Rao is so, Chang Wei still hopes that the team can create miracles, after all, no one wants their team to lose the game, even if the opponent's strength is far above him. Of course, even if they lose the game, the Pistons' players can still improve their defensive ability to a certain extent, which will be of great help to the future development of the Pistons. So sometimes winning and losing are relative, and you can win more in other ways while you lose the game.