After the official timeout in the fourth quarter, the final showdown between the two teams was also staged in advance, and Phil Jackson originally planned that as long as the bench led by Glenn Rice could bite the score, then let O'Nealdo rest for a while, and wait until the last minute of the game to end the game in one fell swoop. But in just 3 minutes, the difference between the two teams has widened to 6 points, and if the main force is not replaced, I am afraid that the game will end like this.

After O'Neal returned to the court, he faced the bag of David Robinson and Tim Duncan, and passed the ball directly to Robert Horry, who was unguarded Robert Horry hit an iron shot, and O'Neal jumped high to beat David Robinson and grabbed the rebound.

"Such a fast bounce, such a high bounce, I really can't imagine that a big fat man can have such a good bounce." Witnessing O'Neal grabbing the rebound from a distance, Meng Xu was also shocked.

O'Neal, who jumped high on the spot, with a huge impact, dunked the basketball into the basket directly in the air against David Robinson, and as the whistle blew, David Robinson got the sixth foul of the game.

"Tim, it's your turn next." After the 2+1 match, O'Neal waved his arms and shouted at Tim Duncan.

O'Neal, who has never been very good at free throws, miraculously hit this free throw, O'Neal grimaced at the audience, obviously not expecting that he would be able to hit this free throw.

After David Robinson was sent off, Duncan was once again pushed to the center position, and it was the Spurs' turn to attack, Duncan forced the inside, and after being caught by Robert Horry, he passed the ball to the unguarded Samaki Walker. Samaki Walker misses a shot and is grabbed by O'Neal.

After O'Neal grabbed the rebound, he threw the ball directly to the backcourt with a long pass, after Kobe Bryant picked up the basketball, he went directly to the basket, just when Kobe ran across the 3-point line with the ball, Meng Xu chased after him, and after almost being stealed by Meng Xu, Kobe slowed down, stabilized the ball, and waited for his teammates behind him.

After a few outside passes, the basketball was handed over to O'Neal again, O'Neal pushed Duncan twice in a row, and directly turned his back to face Duncan, who was jumping almost at the same time as himself, and hit the ball with a mid-range hook.

"O'Neal's performance is really fantastic, he is really one of the four centers in the past, and now the strongest interior in the entire league, Duncan is far worse than him, and the Lakers will definitely be the champion this year."

"Yes, compared to Shaq, Duncan is not on the same level at all, hahaha."

After O'Neal scored this goal, the referee blew Duncan's foul again, another 2+1, Duncan fouled 5 times, and the Spurs have been pushed to the edge of the cliff.

O'Neal equalized the score through free throws, and the morale of the two teams was reversed in an instant, and Duncan became more and more unable to bear O'Neal after his physical strength declined, and Duncan's offensive deterrence was greatly reduced.

O'Neill reversed the game in an instant through two consecutive 2+1s, equalized the score, and once again showed his dominance in this peak matchup.

With five minutes left before the end of the game, after O'Neal's free throw, Popovich called a timeout and replaced Duncan with Samaki Walker, and after a mental struggle, Popovich decided to use a shark-slashing tactic against O'Neal, allowing the team's two substitutes to take turns fouling O'Neal.

After Duncan left the court, the Spurs' offensive core shifted from the inside to Avery Johnson on the outside, because there was no strategy for Meng Xu before the game, but was shocked by Meng Xu's terrifying 3-point shooting in this game, Phil Jackson also specially told Rick Fox, who replaced Glen Rice, to strengthen Meng Xu's defense, and definitely not let him shoot easily.

Rick Fox is a player who is good at defense, and in his opinion, in the previous games, whether it is Kobe or Glenn Rice when defending Meng Xu, he has too much space, and it also makes Meng Xu have a calm shooting time. In his opinion, these rookie players who lack game experience are the best to deal with, and several rookie small forwards this year, Wallis Zebiak, James Posey, Richard Hamilton, and even last year's rookie of the year, Vince Carter, were choked by their own defense when playing against the Lakers. And Meng Xu is obviously not as good as them, as long as he uses eighty percent of his skills, he will definitely be able to prevent this rookie from being embarrassed.

But when the two really faced each other, Rick Fox found that dreams and reality are often caused by the gap, the kid opposite, although he lacks game experience and runs very poorly on the field, but he just can't catch up with him, no matter how hard he tries, he is always one position behind Meng Xu.

After cutting into the bottom corner from the left side, he went around along the bottom line and ran to the other side of the court, the panting Meng Xu finally got rid of Rick Fox, he just ran out of the vacancy, Avery Johnson's pass found him, and the unguarded Meng Xu easily hit 3 points, after this shot, Meng Xu also scored 22 points in this game, including 6 of 9 3-pointers.

"Rick, watch your defense." Seeing Meng Xu hit a 3-pointer again, and Rick Fox, who defended Meng Xu, was left far behind, Phil Jackson on the bench couldn't sit still.

In the next few minutes, O'Neal fell into boundless darkness, from Samaki Walker to Marik Rose and even Meng Xu, the whistle on the court came and went, and various fouls continued to come out one after another, until the Spurs' two substitute interior players were all sent off the court, and Meng Xu also accumulated 4 fouls, this abusive situation was declared over.

In more than 3 minutes, the Spurs fouled O'Neal 7 times, O'Neal got 14 free throws, but only hit 6 of them, the Lakers also fell behind by 7 points 108-101, and there was only 1 minute left before the end of the game, and the game was basically over.

"It seems that our team still has a little bit of an inside line." Looking at the great results of the shark slashing tactics, Popovich is also a little melancholy off the court, and he will do whatever it takes to win, which is Popovich's consistent character. Although the game was won, but it also confirmed the special feature of the tactics of cutting sharks to hurt the enemy by a thousand and self-inflicted eight hundred, in the team does not have a large number of inside players, they rashly use the shark, and they will die ugly, the Spurs' 4 inside lines in this game were beaten down 3, Duncan 5 fouls, Meng Xu 4 fouls, to the end, the Spurs are no longer available, if the two teams play overtime, the Spurs will undoubtedly lose.

In the end, the Spurs also defeated the Lakers 115-109.