Chapter 139: A Sudden Change
"Hold down the rhythm, slow down, slow down!" Phil Jackson exclaimed.
In the next round, the Bulls pressed down and slowed down, and they were defended by the Knicks for 24 seconds!
Then, the two sides grinded a positional battle, no one scored, and the Knicks suddenly accelerated after grabbing the defensive rebound!
Phil Jackson really deserved to be a Zen master, and endured it for another two minutes, and when he saw that Luke Longley couldn't run anymore, he called a timeout. At this time, the score was 16:24, and the Knicks led by eight points!
"Jason, you're on!" Phil Jackson said.
Jason Caffey graduated from the University of Alabama, the No. 20 rookie in the first round of '95, 2.03 meters tall and weighing 115 kilograms, is a backup power forward for the Bulls, with excellent rebounding and interior defense. Phil Jackson wanted to fight with him and Ben Wallace.
On top of that, he had to replace Steve Cole.
As the championship coach who led the Warriors to win the championship in the future, Kerr has an accurate three-point hand, but his physical fitness is very poor, his defense is not good, and his organizational skills are not very good, but in order to enrich the team's offensive means, Phil Jackson still sent him on the court.
Li Wei saw Phil call a timeout, and estimated that he was going to make a substitution, so he waved his hand: "Da Z, you play with Da Bo, Steve, and Bruce!" ”
So Big Z, Bo Outlaw, Nash, and Bowen replaced Big Ben, Oakley, Ward, and Garnett, and the Knicks changed blood!
Phil Jackson is laying out a new offensive strategy, and when he turns his head and looks, the Knicks are reshuffling!
Big rotation of four!
Looking at Longley, who was sweating profusely, Phil Jackson shook his head, pointed at Bill Winnington and said, "Bill, you play, Dannys, you rest for a while." ”
Bill Winnington is 2.13 meters tall and weighs 111 kilograms, and is a backup center for the Bulls.
The Knicks dared to use big Ben to defend Longley, but Phil Jackson didn't dare to use his small forward to defend Big Z. This is an era when you can't defend together, Big Z is 2.21 meters tall, has excellent offensive ability, and can hook the Bulls with only one move of waist hook and can't take care of themselves.
After the timeout, both sides returned to the field.
The Bulls temporarily changed the lineup, without too many tricks, and could only play a few common routines of the triangle offense, which is exactly what the Knicks did yesterday.
On the other side, Jordan, Harper and others are still strong defensively, but Cole is their fatal weakness. Half of the Knicks' next few tactics were around Kerr, which made the future champion coach very embarrassed.
However, the Bulls are actually quite lucky, and the Knicks are very strong in three points today.
Jump shooting team, iron is inevitable, not iron is abnormal, otherwise so many coaches hate three points?
Even though the Knicks have the league's first-class shooter group, they still have to be iron when they should be iron!
Alan Houston took advantage of Bowen's cover to shake off Jordan and threw three shots at Kerr, and the result was all iron!
Bowen himself has had two good shots because he helped Houston make the ball, and he is also all-iron!
Luckily, Big Z managed to score two goals on the inside, and the score was deadlocked!
20:28!
At the end of the first quarter, the Knicks still led by eight points.
In the second quarter, Phil Jackson felt that Li Wei must be poor, so he changed the small lineup and ran and bombed, and deliberately did not put Longley. As a result, there was an accident, Big Z continued to appear on the field, and the Knicks played positional warfare!
Phil replaced Longley on the next dead ball, but Li Wei replaced Big Z and continued to run!
Longley was playing hide-and-seek with Big Z throughout the quarter, but there were still a lot of them against the ball, and he was as tired as a dead dog again.
Because of overwork, his level of strategy also dropped significantly, and he made three mistakes.
However, for most of the second quarter, the Knicks were still very iron, which gave the Bulls a chance to breathe, and even chased the difference to three points at one point!
Seeing that the halftime was over with two minutes left and the difference was only three points, Phil Jackson smiled with satisfaction.
Jordan was on the court for the entire first half, and he must have had a lot of physical strength in the second half. Waiting for the Bulls to fire up on No. 23 and meet the Knicks is a rout!
However, Phil Jackson's smile is not over yet, and the change is steep!
Nash, under Kerr's defense, made a three-pointer!
39 to 45!
The difference widens to 6 points!
Next, the Bulls attacked and the Knicks chased the fast.
The Bulls defended well and didn't give the opponent a chance to score under the basket, but Bowen outside the three-point line was empty!
Bang!
The third uncle soared a ball angrily, and this time there was no iron!
39:48!
The difference becomes 9 points!
Then the Bulls went on offense and scored two points, and in turn the Knicks' Alan Houston hit a three-pointer!
Bang!
At 41:51, the difference becomes 10 points!
The Bulls attacked, Ron Harper ran out of the open space, Longley split the ball, Houston made up for it in time to interfere, Harper hit the iron!
Outlaw defends the rebound, and the Knicks go down.
Jordan chased Houston all the way to the penalty area and didn't give the opponent a chance to break quickly. But Houston, who was about to get down, immediately went around the outside, and Bowen helped him block Jordan.
The Bulls, who were unstable, had no time to make up for the defense, and Alan made another three-pointer and scored again!
41:54, a difference of 13 points!
"Steady, steady, don't follow their rhythm!" Phil Jackson shouted.
But the rhythm is not something you can stabilize if you want to, and then the Bulls missed again, and the Knicks made another three-point shot!
41:57, a difference of 16 points!
The madness isn't over yet.
In the last 24 seconds of the quarter, the Bulls' offense was once again defended by the Knicks, and there were only 4 seconds left!
Garnett makes a long pass to Houston, and Houston throws again!
Bang!
When the ball falls into the basket, it is the time when the timing light comes on, and the quarter is a three-point whistle!
41:60!
19 points at halftime!
The whole Madison Square Garden was boiling, and everyone was shouting MVP in unison!
Mike Brin's voice was full of excitement: "The difference was still three points just now, and this one blink of an eye has expanded to 19 points, which is incredible!" ”
Fraser said: "yes, I was almost asleep in the first half of the quarter, and the Knicks and Bulls didn't do anything but take turns to make substitutions. Unexpectedly, in the last two minutes, a wave of flow started! ”
Mike Brin said: "Those two minutes are also a microcosm of our season in New York. The jumper team, it's not stable at all, so we can lose wildly when we lose, 21 in a row, and when we win, it's a wild win, and if we can win today, we're 13 in a row! ”
Fraser said: "But I like this kind of game, it's fun to watch." We did what others did in 20 minutes in 2 minutes, and I give Coach Li a thumbs up! ”
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