Chapter 194: A Good Bowl of Soup Is Needed

Although the individual ability of the Lakers players seems to be balanced, the whole team can be called an All-Star, or Zhang Yu is the only one who can really play, he must be like a sharp spear, poke a hole in the opponent's body first, and his teammates behind him can follow up and play their strength. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

If they are allowed to break the point on their own, at least they can't do it in the face of hypersound, which is beyond their ability.

Cebaros and Van Exel's individual abilities are good enough for the first round of the playoffs, but they are not enough to see under the defense of Payton and Kemp, who can only play a support or go up to grab the line in such high-end games, but cannot afford to take on the task of ADC.

However, Zhang Zhu's development was not very good today, and Camp had a great impact on him, he couldn't find an offensive rhythm that made him comfortable, and finally scored two goals in a row at the end of the first quarter, but this quarter was just over, and he couldn't play consecutive injuries.

Harris hesitated in the second quarter and did not choose to let Zhang continue to play, and he had to let Zhang have enough physical strength to launch a counterattack in the second half. It's just that without Zhang Qi on the floor during this time, whether the Lakers can keep the bottom line of 20 points depends on luck.

The Lakers' luck is obviously not very good, Payton only scored 2 points in the first quarter, has been trying his best to defend and organize the offense, this year he is more like a commander, it is the two cores of one inside and one outside have finally matured, and the SuperSonics have shown the temperament of a championship team.

Van Exel did not rest, he had an advantage in physical strength, and his state was also on the rise at the beginning, but Zhang Yu knew that it was all in the past at the beginning, and now the attributes of the players of the two teams are completely reversed, the supersonic players are all on the rise, and the attributes of the Lakers players are all declining-

Gary Payton 92 (+1), Jose Hawkins 82 (+2), Schramf 82 (+0), Sean Kemp 89 (+4), Sam Perkins 83 (+2), McMillan 78 (+3).

Van Axel 84 (-3), Cebaros 86 (-1), Zhang Mao 89 (-1), Magic 84 (-1), Eldon Campbell 82 (-4), Finlay 79 (-1), Bisson Dele 79 (-1).

This is the current state of the players of the two teams, the supersonic with the overwhelming performance in the first quarter, with the home court advantage has been suppressed in momentum, the state of the players is naturally extremely hot, while the Lakers players feel cold, and the original good situation was seized by the supersonic to complete the flip in a blink of an eye.

George Carr is a good coach, and although he doesn't have such a visual display in the system, he can feel that his team is far better than the Lakers right now. However, the sense of crisis in his heart has not disappeared, just like the Lakers were on the dominant side at the beginning, but the game is changing rapidly, once they ignore which link, or because of a temporary lead and carelessly underestimate the enemy, how to suppress the opponent just now, in turn, can be beaten worse by the opponent!

The Lakers swapped up a bunch of defensive players in the second quarter rotation in an attempt to hold out for a few minutes. It's a pity that they can't stop Payton's offense, and at the moment Mr. DPOY's ability value is as high as 93, which is two levels higher than Van Exel, plus the home field advantage and the bonus of momentum, almost how to play, just like the performance of Camp at the beginning.

At 9 minutes and 22 seconds in the second quarter, with Payton's pull-up jump shot, the score was rewritten to 17:38, and the Lakers couldn't hold on for even three minutes, and the 20-point bottom line had been lost.

Zhang Zhu's current form is also in a declining state, which is rare, but what is even more rare is that he and his team are beaten by opponents without being able to fight back, and this is the first time he has felt the intensity of the playoffs, but this feeling is very bad.

Harris knows that he can't let Zhang Qi rest anymore, and there is still a glimmer of hope for 20 points, but if he is pulled away for more points, then he will really have to play GG!

The Lakers changed most of their main players in the ninth minute of the second quarter, and the lineup on the court became: Zhang Mao, Van Exel, Finley, Magic, Bison.

This is a weird small lineup, Harris is not like the Spurs head coach who does not dare to use an extreme lineup, don't look at him like a stubborn academic, in fact, when necessary, he dares to change to such an extreme small lineup to gamble.

The SuperSonics also took the opportunity to bring on Kemp, and the lineup on the court at this time was: Payton, Hawkins, Vincent, Sean Kemp, Sam Perkins.

George Carr will never let Zhang Fu go unrestricted on the court, and as long as he is on the court, Kemp must follow. Before the game, he actually didn't assign too many offensive tasks to Kemp, his main task was to defend and make up for Zhang Mao's breakthrough, but today's "Rain Man", who did not receive an offensive task, gave him a lot of surprises on the offensive end.

Peyton couldn't help frowning when he saw that he was in the opposite position with Zhang Qi, and his heart was a little nervous.

But soon he suppressed those bold ideas in his heart, and decided that no matter what position Zhang Zhu played today, he would definitely not defend him, and he still remembered that the only game he lost to the Lakers in the regular season was because he was reckless in defending Zhang Zhu that caused the whole team to collapse, and he would never make the same mistake again.

Schramf is still resting, and at the moment the No. 3 position is Vincent, he doesn't know if it's a misplaced defense on the defensive end, Zhang Zhu is now playing point guard, but it's still Vincent who defends him, and this relationship seems to be a bit chaotic.

But no matter how chaotic it is, one thing that will not change, and that is that Vincent can't defend against Zhang Mao.

If Schramf can still disgust Zhang Zhu under playing with his life, Vincent will be played with whether he plays with his life or not.

Zhang Qi was miserable in the first quarter, scoring 9 points on 3-of-10 shooting, and this time he finally met a real soft persimmon, and after he got on the court, he shot 2 of 3 and hit two difficult shots, which means that his form has recovered a bit.

The "Key Arena" resounded with sporadic cheers, which was the Chinese cheering for Zhang Mao!

George Karl immediately asked for a timeout, in fact, the SuperSonics also scored 3 points in the stage when Zhang Zhu hit two balls, and they were still leading by 20 points, but George Karl was very cautious today, he didn't think that Zhang Zhu suddenly found his form, but that the SuperSonics had some relaxation after the big lead.

This relaxation is not a big deal in normal times, but this game is too important for the SuperSonics, and they have to win this game to have time to recover some energy, and the morale of the players will be strong in the next game, and the physical strength will not be as embarrassing as it is today, when it is not a big problem to defend the next two home games.

But if they can't win this game, that's another story - the next game of the SuperSonics will not only have a drop in morale, but their physical condition will definitely be affected by the loss and become worse, at that time both mentally and physically will suffer a huge blow, they are likely to be beaten by the Lakers in two consecutive cities, and the result is likely to be swept out directly by the morale of the Lakers back at home.

Therefore, this game cannot be lost for the superSonics, they can only win and not lose! Who told them to shed too much blood in the last round, and this round will have to rely on the first win to get through this difficult period.

George Carr's army has always been strict, and the SuperSonics are also a very disciplined team, and they quickly reverted to caution after being reminded by the manager.

After the restart of the game, the SuperSonics decisively replaced Schramf.

Zhang Wei is also very difficult to face this German who is entangled in his fate, Vincent's footsteps are not much worse than Schramf, but there is a big gap between the two in defensive awareness and positioning, if this German does not make him feel uncomfortable in the selection of positions, no matter how hard he plays, his breakthrough will not be limited.

Zhang Qi personally defended Payton on the defensive end, and subconsciously told him that the first quarter was Kemp playing, and the second quarter was the guy who came to relay.

He guessed correctly, Payton's offense is not bad, after all, Zhang Qi is more than ten centimeters taller, and no matter how fast he is, he can't be stronger than a point guard with good explosiveness, so he can only interfere with Payton's breakthrough, a bit like Schramf interfering with him, the difference is that he has a greater impact on Payton.

Bison is a big center in this small facelift, and he is the best one in the Lakers' interior line defensively, which is quite embarrassing, Bison is also an interior line who can play a pseudo-starter on a strong team, but he is the most awesome defense in their restricted area.

Zhang Wei soon found that it was useless for him to guess the main attack point of the supersonic speed correctly, because he had two reliable attack points that could be switched at any time.

He and Bison teamed up to limit Payton's offense, but the Lakers only had Bison on the inside, and the Magic could make up for it if he resisted hard in the low post, but Kemp wouldn't go to him hard, and the Lakers could manage Payton, and Kemp was leaked out again.

The Magic really wants to retire now, he can't keep up with Camp's movement at all, and he has connected the two supersonic stars in a row, so to speak, and can say that he has done nothing on the defensive end.

In the four minutes from the 7th minute to the 3rd minute of this quarter, Kemp scored 8 points in one go, and Zhang Mao worked hard to score 7 points in the same time period, and the efficiency was not as high as others.

At 3:02 in the second quarter, Campbell scored a goal in the restricted area, but the Lakers had trailed by 22 points at 28:50.

Zhang Wei looked at his shooting rate of 7 of 18 shots and 18 points, 2 rebounds and 1 assist, it was really a bit of a thief who was powerless to return to the sky, and for the first time experienced the frustration of being unable to do anything when he tried his best.

However, his shot at the end of the quarter was very beautiful, when he attacked with the ball in the inside crowd, flanked by Kemp and Payton, with another Johnson in front of him and Schramf behind him, and at this point he was in a desperate situation on all sides, and no one thought he could shoot this ball, let alone make it.

But Zhang Yu used an unreasonable pull-out jump shot, relying on his triple advantage of bounce speed, height and arm span to complete a lightning shot in the crowd, and the basketball flew out of an arc so high that he had no friends to avoid layers of blocking, and finally used a strange route that seemed to violate physics to go straight into the net!

The two Harvard top students on the sidelines + a big man who quit the club both felt that their knowledge was insulted, but this is also the reason why Ballmer likes to watch basketball, he likes this kind of incredible goal, and the more unreasonable he is, the more he likes it.

"Leon is like a lone hero today, and when I was in school, I fantasized that I could fight bravely like him!"

Ballmer has been shouting for Zhang Mao's goal, he is the most open bigwig fan, in comparison, Bill Gates sitting next to him is at most smiling and applauding, Zhang Mo simply did not even applaud, although he heard people praise his son, his heart was happy, but he still pretended to be very stable, only this one would shout like a fan.

After Zhang Mao scored the top 50 goals of the year, it was difficult to score in the first half.

None of the other players on the Lakers team can step up and play highlight, the Lakers still look like a single core at this time, the Magic obviously can't play at the star level when they meet a team with strong interior defense, Cebaros is also difficult to contribute consistently, and Van Exel doesn't want to play in front of Payton.

Supersonic is just the opposite, Payton and Kemp, the two guys who play with 90+ ability points, will not be limited, at least they will not be limited by one piece, the Lakers can take care of one, and the other will definitely be able to spread joy on their heads.

The Bulls have Jordan + Payton, the SuperSonics have Payton + Kemp, the Magic have O'Neal and Hardaway, last year's Rockets had Big Dream + Glider, the Pistons had the Bad Boy Army, and the Lakers further ahead were Magic + Sky Hook, and the Celtics also had Big Bird + Refrigerator......

None of these championship-level teams really won the championship with a single core, and after the Lakers reached the Western Conference finals, they found that only one of them could play at the star level all the time, and the others were pseudo-stars who were as fierce as tigers in the wind and as dogs in the headwind.

At the end of the first half, the score was 36:59, and the Lakers trailed by as many as 23 points on the road.

To be honest, this margin is not hopeless, but looking at the poor performance of the Lakers players in the first half, everyone knows that the chances of the Lakers trying to turn the tables are very small.

Zhang had a game-high 22 points, 2 rebounds and 2 assists in the first half, but shot only 8-of-20 from the field, although it can't be said that this efficiency is ridiculously low, but the 40% shooting rate is far below his average.

The performance of the Lakers' other players is the focus of the majority of fans' complaints, Exel only scored 3 points in the first half, Seballos's 4 points were not much better, Magic's 2 points and 2 assists were even more substandard, and the remaining 5 were contributed by Campbell and Malik, which was the Lakers' poor income in the first half.

The top scorer on the SuperSonics side was Kemp, who scored 21 points, 9 rebounds and 1 assist in just half a game, Payton also scored 9 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists, Hawkins scored a team-high 13 points, Sam Perkins had 6 points and 3 rebounds, and Schramf had 5 points, 4 rebounds and 2 assists.

At this time, I will recall Zhang Zhu's wild words released before the game, "No one can guard me with supersound", although from the data point of view, he can barely be regarded as doing it, but just like he complained about O'Neal's performance yesterday, in the case of the team's big score behind or losing, the data of the losing side is worthless, and only if the victory is won, the player's personal data will be valuable.

Zhang Qian can now think about how he will be ridiculed by O'Neill once he loses, and prepare early.

Head coach Harris is now trying to figure out why the team is so defenseless? Why would they fight like this when they occupy the heavens and people?

At halftime, the Lakers players' drooping heads made Harris think of the answer, they were demoralized by the supersonic blitz in the opening stage, and then the score behind is getting bigger and bigger, and the players' self-confidence is damaged, so that the state of neither morale nor self-confidence soon makes the Lakers players soft, they are already in a state of confusion in consciousness, and technically it is a soft cowardice mode, which is basically exactly the same as the performance of the Magic yesterday.

Zhang Zhu played well in the second quarter, why was he able to get back into shape?

Some people may think that he is the protagonist, but not for this reason, but because his self-confidence has never been broken, which is why he was able to score 13 points in a single quarter in the second quarter.

But it didn't work, no matter how strong he was, he couldn't save the whole team, even if his efficiency was very high.

Hardaway hit a perverted 71 percent shooting rate yesterday, and it still couldn't save the Magic.

Lakers players must now regain their self-confidence, and with self-confidence they can make the right judgments, so that they can shoot resolutely when they have the opportunity to score, so that they can slowly regain their form, otherwise they can play GG.

At this time, not only the players have to help themselves, but the manager must also find a way to awaken the confidence and fighting spirit of the players, so that they have the confidence to catch up with the huge lag.

Harris knew it was time to test him for making soup......