Harris hesitated to change the lineup after the timeout, but then remembered that Zhang was not a brainless player, and finally rotated as originally planned. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The Trail Blazers' problems are more troublesome than the Lakers, although they actively selected the Lakers as their first-round opponent and have an advantage in playoff experience, but this away game is really not easy to play, and the atmosphere at the Lakers' home court is far beyond pre-game expectations, and everything does not go according to the envisioned script.

Now the most important thing is the home whistle, don't look at Zhang Qi suffered a loss at the beginning, but the next unlucky one has always been the Trailblazers. The referee pretended not to see many of the Lakers players' unbridled defensive actions, let alone blow the penalty, no matter how they were counted, they suffered a big loss.

The Trail Blazers had some predictions before the game, their performance at the end of the season made the league very unhappy, and the Lakers have always been the league's favorite team, so there is no need to think about which side the penalty scale will be biased in this series.

After the restart, the tempo slowed down on both sides.

Of course, Zhang Yu will not be excited all the time, it is almost enough to be excited, and he has not taken drugs.

He also knows that this kind of game will be better for Magic to have more ball-handling, and the most experienced player in the playoffs on their side is Magic, and the rest of the players are not members of the Lakers' heyday, and they are really no match for the Trail Blazers compared to experience.

Two of the three Trail Blazers' stars are seasoned playoff stars.

Strickland, while not a member of the Trail Blazers' heyday, has not missed the playoffs since '88.

Clifford Robinson is the Trail Blazers' two-time Finals entry and one of the Divisional Finals' No. 4 spots.

Sabonis is a nominal rookie, but both of them are in their thirties, having played against the United States in the 80s, and their tournament experience is no worse than these two.

The Lakers only had Magic who was truly experienced, and only Cebaros had played in the Finals, but his performance at the time was very poor, and his historical status fell sharply because of this.

Now, on the contrary, in the comparison of the head coaches of the two teams, the Lakers side has an absolute advantage.

Trail Blazers head coach PJ Callesimo is a firefighting coach who only started coaching NBA teams last season and has a 0-3 playoff record in his coaching career.

Where can such a coach have authority to speak of, the reputation of the Trail Blazers players is getting worse and worse, and there are always scandals on and off the court, which is related to PJ Callesimo's inability to convince the public, and his qualifications simply can't control these old ruffians.

Sabonis finally returned the favor with a jumper, and the Trail Blazers should be trying to chase points inside.

The former Soviet center has a good mid-range shot and a very high tactical level, which is very lethal for the Lakers who don't have a serious center.

Magic's turnaround hook quickly helped the Lakers return color, Clifford's single defense ability is excellent, but the Magic's feints are too much, so he can't tell whether this guy who has become fat is going to pass or turn and attack, and in terms of rhythm, he is also a little unable to keep up.

The magician doesn't do the movements very quickly, but the rhythm is perfect. You're faster than him, but you're easily fooled by realistic feints. But be cautious, and you can't prevent him from turning around and shooting without warning. Anyone with this kind of player is going to have a bad stomach unless you have the defensive sense of Mutombo.

Yes, this style of play also has a nemesis, such as Mutombo's defense is also unhurried, but it can take you down. Because he makes full use of his height, footsteps, prediction, and skills to defend, he doesn't fight with you brute force, and he is not afraid of your ball sense against the sky, this kind of defense is the current magic nemesis.

The Lakers players didn't have a lot of defensive tasks today, but Zhang was different, and he had to play to his physical strengths and give his best on both ends of the floor.

Sabonis and Clifford quickly became the Trail Blazers' offensive focus, which was something that everyone could have expected before the game. The Lakers' response was to let Zhang Qian frequently wrap up the two. Whoever gets the ball will be caught in the bag, and it is important not to let the Trail Blazers' interior line easily take the ball and attack.

This is not only because of Zhang Fu's good physical fitness, but also because Harvey Grant, who is opposite him, lacks offensive ability, has limited range, and has no three-point shooting ability, which can allow Zhang Fu to boldly wrap the two interior lines of the Trail Blazers.

The two interior lines of the Trail Blazers were very uncomfortable for a while, Zhang Mao was the size and tonnage of the big forward, but his mobility was against the sky and ranked among the top small forwards. Once entangled by such a monster, even Sabonis, who has solid feet and technique, must be careful. If you don't pay attention, he will cover it off one side, or get caught in the bag and make a mistake.

But this kind of wrap-and-hold defense was not Zhang's most exciting performance in the first quarter, and when the game reached 4:09, a pick-and-roll cooperation by the Trail Blazers caused Zhang to misposition to defend Strickland, which was a matchup that Lakers fans did not dare to blink......

Strickland was Alston's "street ball king" before entering the NBA, with this domineering nickname, and he has not been controversial, it is conceivable that his level of ball control and ball protection must have been at his peak.

Zhang Fu was not afraid of the street ball king at all, and after seeing that the referee did not blow his illegal defense, he immediately stepped forward and pasted it, putting enough pressure on the opponent's body, and at the same time a pair of long arms kept interfering, waiting for the opportunity to steal.

Strickland didn't care at first, he felt that Zhang Qian was obviously an insider, and he had too many ways to deal with these stupid big guys.

So in the split second after the two were aligned, Strickland thought to himself, what should he do with the ball after passing Zhang?

However, the street ball king soon found out that this was not the case, and his variable speed shaking + flower arrangement action could not shake the center of gravity of Zhang Yu at all, but was taken advantage of the opportunity to stick closer to each other, and the space for movement became less.

What he couldn't believe the most was that Zhang Qiu actually wanted to break his ball?

"You're too ......"

Before the word "true" could be spoken, Strickland felt that his body had been hit again, his footsteps and the movements of his hands were slightly messed up, and Zhang Fu's big hand had already stabbed over like lightning, and for a while he even had the illusion of tearing the space apart.

"Smack!"

Zhang Zhu broke the ball too fast this time, and the angle was accurate, and he slapped the basketball to the ground with one palm, and knocked Strickland to the floor and easily scooped up the basketball.

The Lakers' fast break after the ball was very reasonable, and no defender could catch up after Zhang Fu turned around, and scored two points with an easy break and a layup.

The Lakers fans in the "Great Western Forum Arena" stood up, and the applause of "pop papa" was accompanied by cheers and MVP shouts in the sky, making the home atmosphere even more enthusiastic, and even the celebrities and Hollywood stars in the front row also applauded upside down.

Zike Hearn naturally blew Zhang Fu's defense on the sidelines, and the content of the tout was very vulgar + unqualified, only to hear him use an exaggerated voice, saying: "Coming to the playoffs, we finally saw Lyon's real defensive ability, perhaps different from everyone's usual impression of steal passing, if Lyon focuses on the defensive end, he can "quickly" touch and even get the ball without losing position. Looking at this change, our New York Street King should know that he's up against a hard role that qualifies for the All-Defensive Team. ”

These few words of praise are not too much, but his analysis later is very vulgar.

"Let's look up at the replay, what the hell! Lyon's tackle almost refreshed my worldview, as he snatched the ball from the hands of the street ball king and basically didn't lose his position or foul him, which was simply unheard of. Now let's look at this handsome young man, with his unusually long arms, wide palms, nimble steps, and quick reflexes, whether this is very similar to Pippen, from which I infer that he is 28 talented. ”

At this moment, American fans in front of the TV have said: "Shameless old thief, Jiuxun Pifu Competition is so filthy, it's really terrifying." ”

The fans in front of the TV were amused, but Zike Hearn didn't fully analyze Zhang's defensive ability.

Zhang Wei averaged 2.6 steals per game in the regular season, which has largely illustrated his talent in this area, in fact, it is not complicated to sum up, mainly relying on the explosiveness, mobility and arm span of the sky, plus his 0.14-second limit reaction speed, ace pilot's dynamic vision, and nine-ball king-like prediction ability.

The explosiveness, mobility, arm span and big hands in the front are all physical defensive talents, and the reactions, dynamic vision and anticipation in the back are talents at the conscious or neural level.

Zhang's steal boosted the morale of the Lakers players, and he was not just a steal on defense, his sandwich attack on the Trail Blazers' two interior lines solved the team's biggest hidden danger.

Originally, Lakers fans were worried that their interior line would be blown up by the Trail Blazers, but Zhang Zhu's bag defense greatly reduced the Trail Blazers' original interior advantage, and it was impossible to see from the first quarter of the game that the Trail Blazers had anything to restrain the Lakers.

The first quarter of the game was played, and the score was 23:16.

To be honest, the Lakers' own offense is also average, but their defense is unexpectedly strong, even Harris didn't expect Zhang Fu, who was going all out to defend, would be so difficult, he broke the Trail Blazers on both sides by himself today, which is a bit scary!

Now you can see his contribution in the statistics, Zhang played the whole first quarter, scoring only 4 points, but grabbed as many as 6 rebounds, 2 assists, and even steals and blocks 2 and 1, this kind of dominance is simply dead.

Zike Hearn laughed again: "Lyon often uses his eyes to direct traffic in the regular season, but don't blame him, because he has so many things to juggle besides defense, scoring, deploying the whole team, these things make it impossible for him to focus all his energy on defense. But I don't think anyone will question his defensive ability after today. He's been among the best in the league in small forward defense, not even losing to Pippen. He has everything a good defender needs, agility, speed, confrontation, vision, defensive area, judgment, mental quality and learning, what more can we need him for? ”

The whole Trail Blazers team didn't expect them to be planted on Zhang Fu's defense, and the team's coaching staff did their homework before the game on how to defend Zhang Fu, which was reflected in the first offense of the opening game, they successfully prevented Zhang Zhu's breakthrough, and then did not let Zhang Qi do much damage with his impact force.

But I never expected that this guy's strength on the defensive end would be so terrifying, and the Trail Blazers faced a desperate situation in the first quarter with all three highlands broken.

In the second quarter, Zhang took a two-minute break on the sidelines, and his first touch of the ball sent former star inside lineman Buck Williams back to the hot springs for free.

The Trail Blazers players panicked again, so they began to target Zhang Mao frantically, and he must not be allowed to do whatever he wanted.

But the problem is that Zhang Mao's scoring and shooting have not been much, but the success rate of the attack and the timing of the score are more critical, and this kind of targeting is obviously not aimed at the right target.

Well, that's not right, it's precisely because of Zhang Zhu's high scoring efficiency that he has to target him, otherwise let him continue to score easily, and the Frozen Throne will be exploded in five seconds.

As a result, the result of this kind of targeting was naturally very bad, and the Magic returned to the game one minute after Zhang Yu came on the court, and continued to take over the ball to organize and dispatch the Lakers' offense.

In the last three minutes of the first quarter, the Magic went down to rest, and after a three- or four-minute break in the second quarter, he could get back on the court.

Sabonis of the Trail Blazers is also back on the court at about the same time, and these two veterans are obviously going to explode in the playoffs.

As the second quarter progressed, the Lakers' strategy became clearer.

Zhang Qi faced the Trailblazers, and chose "Black Lily" on the attacking side, and changed it with one shot; On the defensive end, he chose "D.Va" and kept slapping his face.

The real core of the Lakers today is the Magician, he chose "DJ", not only can he bring rhythm, but his output is not low, and he can cut the back row if he has nothing to do.

Strickland, the brain commander of the Trail Blazers, was supposed to dance awkwardly with the Magic, but he couldn't find a rhythm since he was smacked in the face in the first quarter.

Now the Trail Blazers need him to step up and lead the team out of the predicament, but they didn't expect that Strickland hadn't stepped up yet, Van Exel first came out and completed a steal against him in the downwind game, and once again completed the break from Strickland's hand, a perfect supplement!

The Lakers broke the ball again and broke the ball quickly, and Zhang Qi also easily scored two more points.

Harris no longer barred his team from playing fast break in the second quarter, on the contrary, he encouraged players to try more to launch a fast break counterattack if there was a fast break opportunity.

At this moment, the Trail Blazers are at a critical point, the morale of the whole team is very low on the road, and the situation is so unfavorable after the opening game, once the Lakers have played several counterattacks in a row, the mentality has almost collapsed.

The current Trail Blazers are really not far from collapse, Sabonis missed two consecutive shots under Zhang Zhu's interference, and the newly replaced Buck Williams has no long-range projection ability. He's a short defensive interior player who plays the No. 4 position, and although he's good at rebounding and defense, the years are unforgiving, and it's a bit delusional to expect him to limit Zhang.

Zhang Mao's scoring today basically came from fast attack counterattacks, and positional battles mostly interfered with the opponent's defense and standing by moving without the ball.

In addition to speeding up when playing counterattacks, the Lakers are very inked in every round under normal circumstances, making full use of home-court advantage to wear down the opponent's patience and sanity.

It's a clever way of playing, and the shouts of the home fans will make it impossible for the visitors to concentrate on the defensive end, which will have some negative effects to a greater or lesser extent. On the offensive end, that noise affects patience and judgment, as well as the crosshairs when shooting.

The Lakers are smart enough to take advantage of these advantages, making it impossible for the Trail Blazers to wrap up the Magic, but without wrapping up, they can only watch him slowly handle the basketball, and the most annoying thing is that he can always create good offensive opportunities at the end.

Some commentators slowly understood, and they felt that the Pioneers needed the bag clamp at all at all, and they should go to the bag magician!

It seems that after the chaos in the first five minutes of the first quarter, the Trail Blazers let this Hall of Fame superstar, who is on an equal footing with Jordan in history, organize the ball too easily, and the pace of the game is completely controlled by the Lakers.

Sure enough, the Trail Blazers continued to wrap up the game, Van Exel and Cebaros scored consecutive points, and the Lakers continued to widen the score gap.

The Magic's assist count is also skyrocketing, hitting the happy side, and the Magic also had a few dashing turnaround hook shots in the second quarter, which also caused a lot of damage to the Trail Blazers.

The most lethal crisis of the Trail Blazers occurred in the last three minutes of the first half, Campbell, a pseudo-center, also followed his teammates to find his form, taking advantage of the opportunity of the Trail Blazers not to use themselves as dry food, and scored 6 points in a row to expand the difference to 19 points, which was basically sent away.

The Trail Blazers fans in front of the TV are about to give up, and their team is already trailing by 20 points before halftime. What about the good configuration?

At the end of the first half, the score was 56:35.

The Trail Blazers really trailed by 20 points in the first half, and basically explained themselves to the "Great Western Forum Arena".

Zhang Qi only scored 4 points in the second quarter, because he was covered most of the time, and there were not many assists, only 3 assists at the end of the first half, but thanks to the poor shooting rate of the Trail Blazers, Zhang Zhu picked up 11 rebounds in the first half, breaking his career half-court rebounding record.

Today's game was Zhang's first playoff game, and any of his stats were record-breaking, as he was drawing his playoff career on a blank sheet of paper, and this game was the starting point of his playoffs.

The Magic's side also played their own heroic style in the first game of the playoffs after four years, with 8 points, 3 rebounds and 8 assists in the half, which is not inferior to that year, and today's Magic is the real point forward.

The Trail Blazers did find the wrong target, although they went to trap the Magic, the Lakers must have a plan to deal with it, but at least the Trail Blazers did not have a countermeasure to make the Lakers change, and the first half has been in a state of being beaten, and it can only be said that the head coach has a considerable responsibility for this.

"Why is this happening?"

Trail Blazers players, including head coach PJ Callesimo, couldn't find a reason for their own tragedy at halftime. Many people only feel like they have been slapped in the face, because this opponent was chosen by themselves, and it really hurts to be like this!

However, PJ Callesimo finally knew that he had scolded the wrong person in the first half, and that Zhang Mao was obviously a decoy today, and they should have targeted the magician.

The Lakers didn't change much, they had a smooth ride in the first half, and it was a brain-dead move to change tactics rashly, they just needed to see the move.

In the second half, the ultra-slow Trail Blazers scored two points from Clifford Robinson's first shot, but Zhang Mao, who had reverted to a single defensive state, hit a backward shot to give the Lakers a 20-point lead again.

The Trailblazers are no longer included, and Zhang Qi naturally wants to increase his offense, and he doesn't need the coach to tell him to know this.

The Magic's adjustment was quicker, and the experienced man quickly changed his ball speed, no longer sticking to the ball and group scheduling, but constantly moving to the low post on the weak side and the horns on both sides, using his mid-range shooting and back-to-back ability to attract the defense and let Zhang start his performance.

The Lakers played a star relay, and the Trail Blazers also returned to the glory, and then the two sides won three consecutive offenses.

Harris immediately replaced Finley to strengthen the outside defense, and Zhang Fu divided more energy on offense, making a big show under the single defense, and scored 4 points with free throws, but the Trail Blazers were no longer able to maintain their offense under the defense of Zhang and Finley.

At this point, the Trail Blazers should know that they are overestimating themselves, and the high-intensity defense of the playoffs is like a mirror that allows a player's individual ability to be hidden. In particular, the three players who seemed to restrain the Lakers in the regular season were no longer able to restrain the Lakers under the brutal defense of the playoffs today.

On the contrary, it was the magician under high pressure, and the fat meat played a role in enhancing the confrontation, and Zhang Yu was even transformed into a wild beast, making the Trail Blazers players unable to parry at both offensive and defensive ends.

Zhang also used these few minutes to extend the Lakers' lead again, and the Trail Blazers head coach had to call a timeout.

But it's useless to call a timeout, the Trail Blazers don't have a playoff superstar, and no one can lead them to turn the tide in this adversity. Just look at Sabonis's poor shooting percentage today, no matter how desperate he is, he can't bridge the huge gap between All-Stars and superstars.

"It's not just you who are working hard, I'm also working hard!"

Zhang Zhu felt that he was desperate today, after he took over the offensive banner in the second half, he did not relax in defense, and still kept wrapping the interior line of the Trailblazers, which made the Trailblazers more and more passive.

Halfway through the third quarter, the Lakers are already 27 points ahead of their opponents, which will make it easy for the Trail Blazers to turn over the game even if Zhang Zhulang gets up and gives the shield to A.

Harris replaced Zhang and Magic in the last five minutes of the third quarter, ready to let the bench go up and put on a show and experience the atmosphere of the playoffs.

The Lakers' bench did not disappoint the fans, and the Trail Blazers' final comeback was perfectly defused.

The outside combination of Van Exel, Malik and Finley still made the Trail Blazers' outside line uncomfortable, and the margin remained above 25 points until the end of the third quarter.

Harris was cautious and didn't let the two cores of the team continue to sit on the sidelines just because he was leading by 25 points, and after the start of the fourth quarter, he replaced the two people in god costumes, plus Sebarros, and prepared to officially push the tower.

The Trail Blazers have been holding on to their sister in the second half, hoping to turn the tables around.

But when Sabonis, who was regarded as the most critical factor in defeating the Lakers, only handed over one blood essence and stood on the high ground two hours later, helplessly looking at the Lakers five god outfits ready to go up after A's shield, all the Trail Blazers could do at this moment was to type the word GG early before the frozen throne was completely destroyed.