Harris sat on the bench behind him expressionlessly, he knew in his heart that it was not that the Lakers played too badly, but that Kemp played super performances in these games, Payton was as stable as ever, and Hawkins, Perkins and Schramf, who also played steadily, even if the strength of the two teams on the books was about the same, but the hidden bottom line was far apart. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

He doesn't have Zhang Zhu's system to observe the real-time ability of players, but even fans know that each player's ability fluctuates, with offline and online lines, which can be understood as bad state, normal state and explosive state.

The Lakers and the SuperSonics players are not too different in strength under normal conditions.

But the problem is that there is no such competition, the game is supposed to find a way to make the opponent not play normally, and then find a way to play at the best level.

The supersonic strong defense has the ability to reduce the Lakers' state, especially when there is no Zhang Mao, and they don't even need to limit the Lakers, and their strength will automatically drop a lot.

Zhang Fu's role in the Lakers is to pull the team down the line, and the Magic also played this role back then, which is also the ability that any team building cornerstone must have, you must have the ability to make your teammates better, otherwise you will not be a qualified team core.

The two cores of the SuperSonics are a bit different, and the role of Kemp and Payton is mainly to pull down the opponent's line, which makes the SuperSonics defense good, but always less aggressive.

However, this flaw has been a qualitative change in the attack of the SuperSonics since the last round of Bo5.

The SuperSonics have always been a little less powerful on offense, and the firepower unleashed by Kemp on the offensive end caused a qualitative change, activating a group of teammates who are known for their stability.

The current supersonic no longer lacks burst output, they are not only stable, but also can play an attack wave that takes away the opponent at any time, and it is difficult for the average strong team to defeat them at this time, such as a team like the Lakers, if they meet the supersonic speed before the outbreak of Kemp, then there is still hope of winning, but now it is difficult to win the supersonic.

If you compare with numbers, the normal state of the supersonic is 10, the downline is 8, and the upline is 15, then the normal state of the Lakers is 9, the upline is 14, but the downline is only 5.

There is a clear gap between the two teams, which is the key to the Lakers' difficulty in beating the SuperSonics, and the talent of the opponent is just to restrain himself, so it is normal for Zhang Qi to be depressed.

George Carr also found that the Lakers won or lost, they have always relied on Zhang Zhu to drag four, so the supersonic defense was very concerned about the blocking of the ball from the first game, emphasizing cutting defense, as long as Zhang Zhu and the other four people were not allowed to easily complete the connection, it would be difficult for the Lakers to break out, let alone play their upper line strength.

This is the deepest strategy buried by the supersonics, George Karl has always fought for the bottom line of the two teams, even if some tactics will make him unable to play the line, but it doesn't matter, because their bottom line is higher than the Lakers, it is not wise to fight the line, but let both teams can only come up with the worst performance, and the final result is the most beneficial for the superSound.

Harris felt that something was wrong from the beginning, he didn't think that supersonic is not fighting for tactics, as long as the strategic direction is correct, as long as the tactical link does not make big mistakes, it will not affect the overall situation.

The question arises, what is strategy? What is Tactical?

"Strategy" can be thought of as the direction, and "tactics" as the road.

No matter what we do, choosing the right direction is the key, as long as the direction is right, even if we take a path full of thorns, we will reach the end if we can persevere.

But if you go in the wrong direction, even if you take the main road, you will not be able to reach the end.

The Lakers haven't adjusted their direction yet, Zhang Qian may be able to rely on luck + personal ability to win one or two games, but the Lakers can't beat the supersonics, unless the old driver gets up and drives the car into the ditch by himself.

Kemp and Payton certainly won't wave up at this time, the final score was 83:102, and the SuperSonics only allowed the Lakers to score 14 points in the final quarter.

The Lakers lost, and Zhang Yu still didn't have to take the blame, not only because of his brilliant data, but also because the wave of supersonic speed was played in a few minutes when he was not on the court, so there was no need to wait for the last few minutes of the game, and the Lakers fans in front of the TV began to scold the Lakers players other than him for being waste!

Magic naturally got shot, this is a very sad thing, at this moment it seems that not many people care how much honor the Magic created for the Lakers back then, even many Los Angeles fans have forgotten the past, only see the present, only see Le Magician except for passing the ball, basically can't do anything, he can't defend, can't break through, can't help Zhang Mao recover the disadvantage, but wants the latter to make up for him.

Zhang Wei had already felt about this, he felt that the magician's comeback was a mistake in itself, since he had already left, why should he come back?

He won't make that mistake, and he won't retire until he can't play, as most NBA players do.

He will retire when he is about to decline, because he can't stand this kind of groundless and brainless accusations, he wants to keep his best side in people's hearts, and he will not let people see his weak side.

'There's nothing to say, we lost, they played better than us and they deserved a win.'

Zhang Zhu was not very cooperative at the post-match press conference, and it could be seen from his expression that he was very unhappy with the loss, which made many people gloat, and it was too difficult to see Zhang Zhu show an unhappy expression.

A Seattle reporter asked, "The Lakers lost the game, but you got 26 points, 12 rebounds and 7 assists, do you think today's loss was a teammate's problem?" Are you happy with their performance? ”

Zhang Zhu is of course indifferent to this kind of question: "I have said many times that personal data is useless when losing a game. As for the issue of dissatisfaction, we will only discuss it internally, and we will not bring this kind of thing to the table. ”

"Remember your bet with Shaquille, and are you still confident?"

"I just want to win the series right now, and that bet is just a small way for me to reconcile my mentality, and unless Shaquille and I can meet in the Finals, the bet itself doesn't mean much other than to contribute to a charitable cause, so don't focus too much on it."

"We've got an inside message from the Lakers that you think you have a 50% chance of advancing before the first game, so what's the odds now?"

"It seems that you are very well-informed, but I am not good at math and can't answer you, I just know that for me every game is a 50% win rate, I just care about this."

Zhang Wei felt very tired at the post-game press conference, and sure enough, as soon as something went wrong, they all stepped on him.

These guys usually rush to lick him and tout him, and now the Lakers are facing elimination, except for Los Angeles and Asian reporters, most of them want to step on him, and they all want to fall into the ground.

"Actually, there's nothing wrong with it, after winning, you are majestic, and after losing, you naturally have to clamp your tail."

Zhang Mao is tired, but he won't complain too much at this time, and he won't be affected too much.

People like to complain about the unscrupulous media, but he knows that it's not that these reporters like to see his jokes, it's not that they like to fall into the hole, but that most ordinary people like these - that's right, the truth is that we are very unqualified, we like to watch the jokes of celebrities, we like to see the dark side of the reality of those glorious stars in front of the screen, and use this to satisfy our own humble satisfaction.

Advertising doesn't say, there is no harm if there is no trading, in fact, this statement is very infuriating, and a more realistic statement is: Xi poison is as hateful as Zhi poison, the quality of readers is as low as unscrupulous media, and there are more bad movies because there are more brains, and the game is bad because the players are worse......

These truths are not difficult to think of, but most people are reluctant to think about them or admit them.

Zhang Wei understood these things from the beginning, so he had to win, as long as he won, he would be a positive character, and he couldn't be a villain if he wanted to.

Now that the team has lost two games in a row, Zhang Yu said that there is still a chance, telling others that 0:2 is not without a chance to turn defeat into victory, but he actually feels that there is not much hope in his heart.

The SuperSonics weren't at their best in these two games, the Lakers still couldn't limit Kemp, Payton didn't even fully exert their strength, but they were almost at their best.

In this game, he made Kemp very depressed for a while, but he couldn't always play the No. 4 position to defend Kemp, let alone do the dirty work all the time.

This kind of trick can be used for a while, and it can have a surprising effect, but if it is used in the whole game, it is estimated that the happiest should be the supersonic team.

Zhang Qi didn't complain about his teammates, because he could see that these teammates had worked hard, but strength was not a problem that could be solved by hard work.

Van Exel's best efforts can't pass Payton, this is the peak of Payton; Cebaros is not lazy either, he has been trying to find a way to cut into the score, but Hawkins' concentration has not given him the opportunity to cut in easily; Campbell has played more than Zhang expected in these two games, and his mid-range shooting is very consistent, but he doesn't get too many opportunities; The Magic's problem is the most obvious, the bulky body limits his offense and defense, and he can play in the regular season, but the intensity of the playoffs magnifies his flaws, which are not problems that can be solved by hard work; The rest of Finley, Malik, and Bisson have not played a game of this intensity, they are very positive, but it is difficult to play normally, and it is almost impossible to make them explode.

Zhang Qi now knows why all teams are so eager for stars, and they can even ignore whether the stars are incompatible or not, and find a way to get them first.

This round of the series gave him the answer: one quasi-supergiant + two quasi-all-stars + two high-quality main forces, it seems that he can't beat two quasi-supergiants + 3 high-quality main forces.

The Lakers returned to Los Angeles the next day with a stomach full of frustration and unwillingness.

Their next game is on Sunday, the 26th, with a three-day break in between, but that's better for the SuperSonics, and the Lakers would prefer to start playing with just two days off.

At this moment in Orlando, a new game is about to begin.

O'Neal was harassed and ridiculed at the pre-game press conference that was even more tragic than Zhang Mao, and this fat man is now even more tragic than Zhang Mao, because even the Orlando media are questioning him, and even the local fans are blaming him for his free throws these days, but not many people are questioning Hardaway's performance.

Well, of course, this is excessive, O'Neill is also angry and angry in his heart, but appearance is justice, the whole Orlando loves Hardaway, and no matter how angry he is, he can't change the fact that people's appearance is comparable to Leonardo among blacks.

has good looks, strength, and popularity, and the team is naturally very optimistic about Hardaway, because appearance represents popularity, popularity represents the market, and Hardaway's commercial value far exceeds O'Neal at this stage, just like Kobe Bryant in the future will also surpass O'Neal in commercial value.

No matter how unprofessional the management of the Magic team is, it is impossible for them not to know how much influence O'Neal has on the strength of a team, but the problem is that Hardaway means a small amount of money, so there is no need to make a multiple-choice question at all, the answer has already been there.

O'Neill really wanted to prove himself at home today, but he encountered the same tragedy as Zhang Mao, and his teammates really didn't give it a try!

Needless to say, just tell you that the Magic only scored 67 points at home, and only seven players scored on the team, and one of them only scored 1 point, you can know how bad the Magic were today.

Someone must come out to take the blame for such a fiasco, and the only thing O'Neal is happy about is that he shouldn't have to take the blame this time, because Hardaway's performance is no longer something that can be saved by appearance, this black handsome guy only made 8 of 27 shots in the game, and he didn't make a single free throw in 46 minutes, I don't know whether to praise the Bulls' defensive perversion, or complain that Hardaway only dared to shoot a few blind shots outside.

However, O'Neal was wrong again, and the focus of Orlan's multimedia criticism after the game was his record-breaking free throw percentage of 1-of-9 shooting.

You read that right, this free throw today is worse than the last time, the fan said: It's really me who can do it, even if you let an ordinary fan shoot 9 free throws, at least you can get one, and if you're lucky, it's not a problem to score two, then it's even more awesome than O'Neal's free throws.

Zhang Zhu really wanted to thank O'Neal, he thought he was already miserable, but he didn't expect O'Neal to be so righteous and actually make a free throw shot in 1 of 9, is this the shooting rate that a professional player can throw?

The Orlando fans skillfully threw the pot on O'Neal after the game, believing that it was his pit free throws that affected the team's mentality.

As long as you look at the data records, you can see that in this series, O'Neal's free throw shooting rate has fallen below 30%, what kind of free throw is this?!

The tragedy of Magic and O'Neal and others in Orlando not only made Zhang Qian a lot less stressed, but also allowed the Lakers to leave the cusp and reduce a lot of pressure from the media.

If the Magic lost a complete defeat and made Orlando fans feel shameless, the Lakers at least lost decently, at least their resistance can make people see a little effect, and the SuperSonics won the first two games not easily. And the Lakers, as a team in the first year of rebuilding, they have an excuse to lose, but the Magic don't have such an excuse to lose, they can lose to the mighty Bulls, but they shouldn't lose so badly!

It is precisely because he saw the tragedy of the Magic that Zhang Fu's goal now is to win the supersonic game, how can he win one of the two home games, so that he can explain to the fans, and let O'Neal and the Magic be his cannon fodder.

In a blink of an eye, the time has come to the 26th.

The Lakers have been doing closed training for the past two days, and they have only opened it to the media once, and everyone has no idea what they are doing.

After Harris returned to Los Angeles, he thought about it all night, and felt that if he played a routine, they would not be able to beat the supersonic speed in just a few days. But in the past few days, I still have a chance to fight for luck. He believes that only by allowing Zhang to play damage that the supersonic speed cannot withstand can force them to be unable to maintain a defensive formation, and can they leak space for other Lakers players to play.

The Lakers' third game is about to sacrifice the "blocking and dismantling tactics", and Harris's request is: as long as Zhang Qi holds the ball, as soon as his eyes arrive, there must be two players, or even three team members who take turns to block and dismantle for him. And all Zhang Fu has to do is to find opportunities to complete the attack through blocking and dismantling, and he doesn't need to care about the number of shots, even if he takes 50 shots.

This is crazy, Zhang Yu made 40 shots in the first game, and was ridiculed by many media for a long time after the game.

This era is different from a decade later, unless a star has a burst of hands, it is really unimaginable to take forty or fifty shots in a game.

When Zhang Yu heard this crazy style of play, he was also a little cowardly, thinking that if he didn't feel good in the third game and threw a 17/47 or something like that, wouldn't he be hacked out of Xiang after the game?

But fortunately, Hardaway pulled the baseline to the ground in the last game, and Zhang Wei felt that as long as he didn't shoot less than 33.3% of the shots, he wouldn't have made a free throw in the whole game, and he shouldn't be sprayed too badly, even if 17/47 had Hardaway as a backing for him.

"That's right, there is magic trick for me, who am I afraid of!"

This is Zhang Zhu's self-encouragement before he goes on the court, and the performance of the two leading stars of the Magic team really reduces a lot of pressure on Zhang Zhu.

Just imagine, if the Magic didn't lose all the way to the point that they couldn't even keep their pants, but they were inseparable from the Bulls, Hardaway and O'Neal both played superstar performances, the pressure of that Zhang Qi can be imagined, it's terrible to think about!

Zhang Qian actually has a thought in his heart that he has always been unwilling to think about, that is, from the time he first made the bet, he felt that the Lakers should not be able to beat the supersonics.

That's why he made such a bet to get the focus on the showdown between him and O'Neal.

Zhang Mao's current opponent is actually no longer supersound, but Magic and O'Neal!

It doesn't matter if the Lakers lose to the SuperSonics, as long as he can play better individual performance than O'Neal in the division finals and make the Lakers go further than the Magic, he can let O'Neal and the Magic be his back.

But he didn't want to think about it, it would affect his will to fight, affect his desire to win, and he would probably not be able to win a single battle.

"If you can't score 60 points today, I'll cut it!"

People must put enough pressure on themselves, and this pressure is good!