Chapter 129: The True Gap
"Hey, you broke the fire fighting facilities in our arena last time, and you don't seem to have lost any money yet. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"
Zhang Qian didn't forget to tease Rodman before the game, this second guy broke the fire protection facilities in their visiting team's locker room last time, which was going to lose money, but Rodman and the Bulls never paid the money to the Lakers.
Rodman almost spit out a mouthful of old blood when he heard this, this incident has been cited by him as the biggest shame in his life, but Zhang Yu just didn't open which pot to mention.
"FXXX, I just don't pay, you sue me!"
Rodman's trick made the dead pig not afraid of boiling water, he didn't believe that the Lakers would really sue him, and even if he did, he was ready to delay until the end before losing money.
"You're in good shoes!"
Jordan said such a sentence to Zhang Wei before the game, and the irony was obvious.
The gang leader has long stopped treating Zhang Qi as a partner of the same endorsement manufacturer, Zhang Fu's "Dragon Descendant" brand is obviously going to fight with him, plus those several intentional or unintentional provocations, the relationship between the two has already fallen to the freezing point, although they have nothing to do with each other in the morning.
Zhang Qi is indeed a little embarrassed, because he is wearing a pair of Jordan's 10th and 11th generation sneakers today from the "Dragon Generation".
"Nike" simply didn't have time to develop a new series of sneakers that were unique in terms of technology and styling for him, but Philnet saw that Zhang Qi's fame was getting bigger and bigger, and this time he participated in the slam dunk contest, Nike really didn't want to miss this good opportunity to promote the new brand.
So it took them two months to forcibly knead Jordan's 10th and 11th generations into the current "Dragonborn Generation".
After Zhang played this game, he returned to Los Angeles to spare a day to shoot an ad for Nike.
During this time, Nike has been almost ducking on the shelves in all aspects, and it seems that it must release this "Dragon Generation" sneaker before the All-Stars. Today is for Zhang Fu to try this pair of sneakers first, although they have already tried it. And the soles of this pair of "Dragon Descendants" are basically taken off according to the "Jordan 11th generation", and there will be no problems.
Jordan naturally knew that Zhang Fu's sneakers were a patchwork of miscellaneous colors, and immediately mocked when he found an opportunity.
The gang leader doesn't think that Zhang Zhu's "Dragonborn" series can catch up with the "Jordan" series that he has developed to the 11th generation, and this kind of thing can only happen after he retires.
"I think it's a little ugly, but it's comfortable to wear."
Zhang Mao's words also have an element of teasing Jordan, his sneakers are indeed a combination of the highlights of Jordan's 10th and 11th generations, and then changed the color scheme to the red and black color scheme of Sao Bao, but if his sneakers are ugly, then the Jordan series is not much better.
However, if you look closely, this red and black color scheme seems to attract the attention of young people more than the black and white color scheme of Jordan 11 generation + crystal rubber sole.
As soon as Zhang Yu appeared today, a lot of shots were given to the pair of sassy sneakers on the soles of his feet.
The players on both sides said hello and the game was about to begin.
The Bulls have a mission today, to take out the arrogant and domineering "koala baby" at home!
Zhang Qian also knew that the hatred he caused was very large, so he played a very low-key game in the game, trying to use himself to attract a lot of defense from the Bulls and create opportunities for his teammates.
His style of play is very selfless, which shows that he has the idea of killing the bull in his heart.
Teams in the NBA's East and West will only meet twice a season, and if the Lakers win again, the Bulls won't have a chance to get revenge this season.
The starters of the two teams today are almost the same as the last time they met, Harris did not dare to play a pure small lineup, and the Bulls' tough outside line is not afraid of the Lakers playing fast offense, so they honestly play the default routine.
Zhang Qi was in a hot state against the Rockets, and almost rushed his personal attributes to 90 historically.
However, that kind of hot state is not common, and today he only has 83 ability points, and his state has declined.
This can't be helped, playing away from home will have some impact, his decline is already minimal, and his teammates have basically dropped by two or three attributes.
The Lakers' strength is not enough for the Bulls to play, and the last time they were able to win was a combination of factors.
Today is an away game, the Lakers suffered a loss in the geographical advantage, and the Bulls have no injuries, they want to win in the "United Arena", which is very unlikely.
After the start of the game, the first to be the first to power was not the owner of the arena - Michael Jordan, but the second leader Pippen.
The horse-faced man scored 12 points in the first quarter, and this performance made Zhang feel a little embarrassed, because Pippen kept breaking through to score points on him today, and he found it difficult to defend against this strong guy, and his physical advantage was greatly reduced on the defensive end today.
The Bulls have obviously studied the defensive characteristics of the Lakers and Zhang Mao, and today they began to prepare for Pippen's heads-up from the time the offense was settled, and the offensive fulcrum of the triangle offense was also based on Pippen rather than Jordan, including some off-ball screens and strategies, and the same priority was to target Pippen, and I didn't know that the core of the Bulls was Pippen instead of Jordan.
Some fans also found out that Jordan didn't seem to have a strong desire to attack against the Lakers, which I don't know if it was the team's tactical arrangement or his own unwillingness to be the main offense.
This season, Jordan will indeed choose some games to be lazy, the Zen master will instead let Pippen take the main attack, and Jordan will ambush next to him to find some easy opportunities to attack once in a while.
In the first quarter, Zhang Mao found that he was being targeted both on the offensive and defensive ends.
In the beginning, he wanted to use himself as a decoy to attract the Bulls' defense and create scoring opportunities for his teammates. But later it turned out that people were originally going to block him defensively, and it didn't make a difference whether he was bait or not.
The Bulls have been constantly compressing his offensive space from the beginning today, and even if he receives a basketball and wants to take the initiative, there is not much space to use.
Zhang Wei found that the offensive line he liked in the past was blocked by the Bulls players intentionally or unintentionally today, leaving only some offensive options that he was unwilling to try, which are basically the offensive lines and methods that he does not grasp enough at this stage, especially Rodman has always focused half of his attention on him, which makes him feel very uncomfortable all the time.
In the last game, Rodman did not play in the second half, and the Bulls players did not know how to defend against the Magic, which made Zhang Mao's breakthrough difficult to prevent.
Today, in addition to targeting Zhang Zhu, the Bulls are also fully prepared for how to defend the Magic, and with Rodman, a guy with a super mobile range, to help defend and make up for leaks at any time, the Lakers' offense feels stuck in a quagmire every time, and whoever wants to score will have to face pressure from all sides.
Zhang Wei only scored 2 points, 2 rebounds and 2 main offenses in the first quarter, and the performance of the three 2s made him feel somewhat embarrassed.
Harris allowed Van Exel to increase the number of breakaways in the second quarter, and the Bulls' defense looked like they wanted to wipe out the Lakers, which made Harris feel that the guy opposite him seemed to be sitting still, and he couldn't believe that the Bulls' defense was not flawed.
When Van Exel is in attack, Zhang and Cebaros will form a high-low double contact point, and the two will try to echo each other at both ends of the pitch and pull the opponent's defence. At this time, if there is a Magic in the center, Campbell or Bisson can attract the defense in the restricted area, it will make it easier for the Lakers to get a single opportunity.
The Lakers have also dealt with this, and no matter how perfectly the Lakers players put the formation in place, the way to end the offense is nothing more than to get into the box or shoot from a distance.
The Bulls let the tall Langley stay near the penalty area, Rodman was responsible for sweeping along the line of the penalty area, and the three outside players were in charge of each other, and as long as the basketball entered the paint area, everyone came back to defend and try to block the basketball in the penalty area. If the Lakers take a shot from the outside, the Bulls' three top defensive perimeter players are enough to reduce their shooting percentage.
This kind of defense may give the opponent a lot of opportunities to shoot in the middle and long range, but the Zen master said it doesn't matter, you just shoot, I have two defensive players in the first team and two defensive players in the second team, how many points can you score in this situation?
I'm not afraid to take a step back and say, if anyone can break the Bulls' defense in this situation, it is really better than Jordan, and I will admit it if I lose to you. But if you can't beat my defense, then I'm sorry, I have two best offensive players on my side, what can you do to defend me?
The Lakers allowed Pippen to score 12 points in the first quarter, and they actually gave the answer.
Zhang Mao's single defense level is still not enough to complete the blocking of a player of Pippen's level when the opponent is serious.
The Lakers' overall defense can't give him more support, because there is a more terrifying Uncle Joe not far away who will break out at any time, and the overall strength of the Bulls is still much better than the Lakers.
Zhang had a few minutes of rest in the second quarter, but there were still few scoring opportunities after returning to the court.
It's not that the Bulls don't let Lakers players score, including Zhang himself who has a chance to score.
The purpose of the Bulls' defense is to reduce the scoring efficiency of the Lakers players, and then use their more powerful offense to kill the opponent little by little!
"Aren't you amazing? Buckle one for me to see! β
At 5 minutes and 16 seconds in the second quarter, Pippen once again used the cover of his teammates to complete a layup in the restricted area, and said to Zhang Mao with a mocking face after landing.
"I'm only 18 years old, are you too embarrassed to trash talk to me?"
Zhang Qiu's words made Pippen laugh angrily, and he wanted to say, "When you talk trash talk, why don't you want to think that you are only 18 years old?" β
"Wait, you look like you're 19 years old, right? Are you 18 years old every year? β
Pippen didn't notice that his trash talk seemed to be off track.
"No, my birthday is in June, and I'm only 18 and a half years old."
Zhang Qian replied very seriously, and Pippen actually nodded quite seriously, forcibly making the relationship between the two of them seem to be very good.
Rodman felt speechless as he passed by the two, he had never seen such inexplicable trash talk, was this also trash talk?
Zhang Mao didn't expect the horse-faced man to be so naΓ―ve, he felt that his skills were still not enough today, the Bulls' defense was very targeted, if every team dealt with him like this, it would be difficult to easily brush the data in the future.
In the first half, Zhang Mao finally only got 7 points, 4 rebounds and 2 assists under the Bulls' defense. Today it wasn't just hard to score, he couldn't even break through the ball as smoothly as before.
"Is this a playoff-level defense?"
Zhang Mao expressed doubts about this, the Lakers fell behind by 12 points at 36:48 in the first half, not only did he perform badly, but no one on the Lakers team scored a double-double.