At the beginning, Marion exploded.

Then, he continued the hot form of the opening, and the defensive Kobe Bryant continued to hit the iron.

The Lakers' offense didn't open at the beginning, but Kobe Bryant fell into infinite individual singles, six offensive rounds in a row, O'Neal only got the ball twice, and Kobe Bryant played four rounds, four shots, and only hit one shot.

In the opening game, Bryant made 1 of 6 shots.

Phil Jackson, who is known for his penchant for calling a timeout, opened the game with a timeout in four minutes.

At this time, the Grizzlies were already 13-6, leading the Lakers by 7 points.

"Kobe! Bryant! Please tell me what you are doing? Pass! Pass! How many times do I need to stress it to you! ”

Phil Jackson was angry, but Kobe Bryant was a little disapproving, but he still didn't say anything, he knew that Phil Jackson was on fire, and opening his mouth at this time would only make Phil Jackson even more angry.

O'Neill also pouted at this time, he wanted to say: "Give me the ball and let me solve the game!" ”

But O'Neal has said this countless times, because Kobe Bryant always goes up, as the Lakers' ball controller, once Kobe Bryant is on the head, even O'Neal is difficult to get the ball, so O'Neal often complains that he can't get the ball.

"Give the ball to Shaq and let him solve the game."

Phil Jackson called a timeout, and the focus was to let Kobe pass the ball.

The timeout ended quickly, the Lakers made no substitutions, and neither did the Grizzlies.

The two teams continued to play each other at a slow pace, and the Grizzlies' offensive efficiency was as high as ever, and in the Princeton offense, Brad Miller made a series of good passes, penetrated the Lakers' defense, and found the air to cut into the threatening Maddy and Billups.

Sean Marion, who is in excellent form, also hit back-to-back three-pointers from the bottom corner.

After more than four minutes of play, the score became 25-17 and the Grizzlies continued to lead.

Grizzlies' possession, this time Joe called a timeout.

"The Grizzlies' pause, with Qiao Hai's adjustment strategy in the first two games, the Grizzlies should be on a small lineup next, and they will run and ......"

Even the commentator guessed that the Grizzlies were going to bombard, Qiao Hai didn't think much about it, and went down to replace him directly, Raheem was replaced by Mike Bibi, one big and four small, and directly started to run and bomb.

After the pause, the game resumed.

The Grizzlies directly started to play fast, and Billups controlled the tempo, hitting fast and breaking quickly, and making quick shots.

With less than four minutes left in the first quarter, the Grizzlies' run was blocked by the Lakers for a while, and it was not until there were more than two minutes left in the game that they gradually ran away.

The Grizzlies' run opened up, but the margin didn't widen as expected.

Qiao Hai stood and watched the first quarter, and after the first quarter, the Grizzlies led the Lakers by 7 points at 36:29.

The Grizzlies led by seven points at the beginning of the game, and after four minutes of running and bombing, the Grizzlies still only led by seven points.

It seems that at this point, there is a problem with the Grizzlies' tactical play.

Qiao Hai tilted his head and thought for a while, he didn't think of the root cause for the time being, he felt that it might be the reason why there was too little time to run and bomb.

So in the second quarter, the Grizzlies' style of play did not change, but two people were changed.

Ragabel replaced Maddy, Raheem replaced Brad Miller as a center, and the others didn't change.

On the Lakers' side, Kobe Bryant continued to stay on the court, Fisher Gahori came on, AC Green moved to center, plus Scott Pippen in the third position, and the Lakers also had a rotation lineup, led by Kobe.

There were substitutions on both sides, the Grizzlies had various fast breaks, and the Lakers were also attacking from a positional position.

Kobe Bryant gradually regained his form, but soon, because O'Neal was not there, the Grizzlies began to flank Kobe.

The Lakers' offense was contained, and Phil Jackson quickly found an opportunity to trade O'Neal back.

The Lakers exchanged O'Neal back, and Qiao Hai's side also changed to roughly, replacing Rahim, the reason for this substitution was that the Lakers went to O'Neal, but Raheem, who played as a guest center, couldn't withstand O'Neal at all, so Qiao Hai could only be replaced roughly.

Roughly on the court, the Grizzlies continued to run and bomb.

Halfway through the second quarter, the Grizzlies' lead came to around 10 points.

The speed at which the score difference opened was very slow, and Qiao Hai gradually understood the reason.

"The Lakers' singles are also fast, although it is a positional battle, but as soon as they fall into position, they will immediately single, whether they have a chance or not, they must make a hard breakthrough, and if they can't break in, they will give the ball to Shaq on the inside, so that Shaq can quickly solve the battle."

This is an idea to improve offensive efficiency, and I have to say that Phil Jackson's brain is still very useful, and he came up with such a move when the Grizzlies were running fast and the Lakers were unable to match.

Reduce the attack time by attacking quickly from a positional attack.

By reducing the offensive time to increase the number of rounds, this idea is somewhat similar to the creep bombing tactics that Qiao Hai sacrificed in the last series, but the difference is that the Lakers still stick to the positional offense and rely on Kobe Bryant and O'Neal's singles to ensure the efficiency of the offense.

By this time, though, the Grizzlies were already 10 points ahead.

That 10-point lead was enough for the Grizzlies to win the game.

Qiao Hai didn't adjust either, anyway, with the Lakers' current offensive efficiency, it would be difficult for them to narrow the 10-point difference, unless the Grizzlies suddenly hit a wave of iron and let the Lakers find an opportunity.

At halftime, the Grizzlies led by nine points.

Judging from the scene, the Grizzlies are no longer playing like two games ago, continuing to suppress the Lakers, and the Lakers can even suppress the Grizzlies in turn in this game, except for the 7-point difference in the opening game due to Kobe's iron, the Grizzlies only won by 2 points in the next game.

And with the OK combination gradually regaining its form, the Lakers began to suppress the Grizzlies more.

At halftime, Qiao Hai and his coaching staff discussed.

"At the end of the day, it's OK that these two people are difficult to deal with, so I think that in the next game, we can't play anymore, or even if we play, we have to limit one person in the OK combination......"

Lawrence Frank was right, and Qiao Hai thought for a moment: "Then let's flank Kobe." ”

If you hit O'Neal, you won't be able to run and run, and the Grizzlies will have to play two big men, otherwise they won't be able to catch O'Neal.

Then the Grizzlies can only choose to flank Kobe.

"In the second half, we went up Chauncy, Raga, Tracy and Sean to kill Kobe Bryant from all sides."

Billups, Ragabel, Maddie and Sean Marion, the Grizzlies' strongest outside defense players were all singled out by Joe, plus Brad Miller at the center position, this is the Grizzlies' lineup at the beginning of the second half.

"Let's keep running, don't worry too much, you know, we're still nine points ahead, and even if we don't adjust our defense to our offense, it's going to be hard for the Lakers to get that score back."

Qiao Hai's train of thought was correct, so everyone nodded.

At the start of the second half, the Staples Arena was back in the air.

At the beginning of the game, Bryant was in the mid-range position, scoring a step-back jumper through a double bag in a single to narrow the gap to 7 points.

Then, Maddie chased down the three-point score, and the Lakers' rapid wave of counterattack, or Kobe, scored a pull-up layup in the counterattack, scored 4 points in a row, and the difference was 5 points left.

Qiao Hai hesitated, walked to the sidelines, and called a timeout.

At this point, the second half of the game had barely started for less than 1 minute.