Zhang worked the offensive end in the first half, but the Bulls implemented a collective defensive strategy against him today, making it extremely difficult for him to touch the ball every time.

In addition to letting Pippen and Rodman take turns to defend Zhang Mao, even Jordan actively chased and intercepted him on the defensive end, and this treatment achieved good results for them to successfully limit Zhang Mao's play.

"Is it going to start infinite singles again?"

Zhang knew that as long as his teammates stepped up to the weak side, the Bulls' defense would be at least half as threatening, if not self-defeating.

But the problem is that he won't look good on his face if he does this, and he also wants to save face!

Neutral fans will definitely complain that he is drilling loopholes in the rules, although this can be regarded as drilling with ability, but he will always be talked about.

For this reason, Harris didn't let Zhang go to unlimited singles in the first half, and he didn't want to question his victory.

The "infinite singles tactic" plays once in a while, or for a while, which is not a big problem, but it is a bit too much to use all the time.

It's just that if the Lakers are still so passive in the second half, he can only focus on the overall situation and don't care about any face problems.

"It's really important to take the big orange as the priority!"

Zhang Zhu also didn't feel that infinite singles would lose face when he was ahead, but when he was behind, especially like now, when they used other methods to no avail, it was indeed a bit faceless to play infinite singles, but he could only win first.

But what Zhang and Harris didn't expect was that the Bulls actually made the first move in the second half!

The Bulls' first offense in the third quarter was four big men watching on one side, a routine that was all too familiar.

Jordan singled out Starks on one side and managed to use his physical advantage to score a goal.

Seeing this, Harris immediately waved his hand and ordered Zhang Qi to go and play against Jordan, which was a tactic they used in the last game.

The Zen master smiled off the court, today is different from the last game, when Jordan was in a slump, but today it feels extremely hot, Zhang Zhu wants to defend, anyway, the Bulls will not let Jordan defend Zhang Fu.

The current situation is that no matter who defends, as long as Jordan can still score, it is not bad for the Bulls, so the Zen master is not worried about anything.

"Defend him, and the bull will have to rely on Pippen."

Zhang Fu's first task for himself in the second half was to defend Jordan.

Of course, it is also necessary to start singles, and he is ready to tackle these two tasks with one hand.

Jordan made the first move, which made Zhang Wei very happy.

Now as long as he can prevent Jordan, or make Jordan no longer able to play freely like in the first half, then no one will complain about his infinite singles, because Jordan also did it.

The Lakers attacked, Zhang Qi went around to get the basketball, and the defender in front of him was still Pippen, and Jordan would not defend him.

Zhang Fu carried it twice on the spot, and turned into a back-to-back posture.

At this moment, he is like switching with Jordan, using his strength advantage to fight in little by little.

At this time, the rest of the teammates naturally pulled to the weak side, and the Lakers' first offense in the second half turned on the onlooker mode.

"Guess what I'm going to do with you this time?"

Zhang Yu used his shoulder to push Pippen, and his mouth was not idle, as long as the other party returned the mouth, he was ready to break through.

Pippen didn't dare to reply, Zhang Qian had used this routine more than once, and he wouldn't be fooled.

However, Zhang Zhu's back is really underbeaten, and ordinary players use their shoulders to push people up like this, and it is easy to get fouls, but Zhang Zhu, as a privileged player, as long as he doesn't act too much, the referee will generally turn a blind eye.

Pippen didn't fight back, Zhang Qi began to squeeze with his continuous back to make Pippen's footing unstable, and then used the virtual shaking to find an opportunity to exert force, and then as long as he found a physical contact, Pippen would inevitably be pushed away by him.

The Lakers knew that this style of play would not work, and Rodman quickly grabbed the bag when he saw the opportunity, and almost all the Bulls players wrapped it up the moment Zhang turned around.

"Made, they must have rehearsed with Jordan."

Zhang Zhu has been surrounded like this many times in the first half, and eighty percent of the Bulls players have simulated Jordan in advance, otherwise how could they be so timely?

The Bulls players did not ignore the interception of the pass before surrounding Zhang Qi, and everyone was still stuck in the passing route behind them.

Zhang was about to pass the ball to Kidd, but Harper jumped high and almost used a blocking motion to cut off Zhang's high toss pass.

This is the key to the Bulls' cracking of the infinite singles strategy, if Zhang Mao passes the ball to the weak side, it is an open opportunity, but not passing it is a mistake.

Harper just wants to intercept the ball, it doesn't matter if he can break it or not, but Zhang Mao's pass is too high, and Harper, who has been hit in the knee several times, although he has the height of the second position, but watching the basketball finally fly past his fingertips, he can no longer improve his height, and this time the defense obviously failed.

Jordan could only watch Kidd's three-point shot from not far away, and he couldn't go up to defend unless Kidd broke through with the ball at the moment.

"Bang!"

Kidd's face darkened a lot, there have been more than one such empty iron today, his three-point shot is similar to Pippen's, it is always ineffective, and the probability of not working is a little higher than Pippen.

"Rebound!"

Zhang Wei had already prepared in his heart, and today Kidd was not reliable alone.

He and Rodman rushed to the basket at the same time, the koala baby wanted to use his physical advantage to squeeze Rodman away, but this kind of confrontation against the "big bug" is not afraid, he is a person who can even be entangled by Ma Long, no matter how strong Zhang Yu is, he can't squeeze Rodman on the ground, and the ball was finally picked up by the big worm with one hand.

At this moment, fans who have watched Slam Dunk are very excited, the scene in front of them is too similar to the last battle in the comics, especially Rodman's action of holding the card with one hand and grabbing the rebound with one hand, which is almost exactly the same as the Sakuragi Hanamichi in the comics, and Zhang Zhu, the big boss in the comics, seems to have done it with Xiangbei again.

The Bulls attacked, Jordan got the ball again, and this time it became Zhang Qiu who stood in front of him, and this scene was also very similar to the heads-up scene between Rukawa Kaede and Zhang Qiu in the comics.

The Lakers' approach to infinite singles is similar to that of the Bulls, although the other four must follow the Bulls players to the weak side to watch the play, but as long as they can seize the opportunity to collectively shrink and pay attention to the passing route, they still have a chance to complete the bag or break the ball.

In fact, this kind of defense is to force the attacker in the heads-up to complete the attack by himself, and the defender, with the help of the other four, then use the encirclement to force the attacker to shoot as soon as possible, and at the same time not let the attacker easily pass the ball to the weak side to form a large gap.

Jordan didn't dare to make more moves in the face of Zhang Zhu's pressing defense, otherwise he would be successfully surrounded by the Lakers players, and his ball would not be able to pass at that time. The trouble is that Jordan's back play is very inefficient in the face of Zhang Fu, who calls his height at a disadvantage, and the same is true in strength, the back hit can't squeeze Zhang Yu at all, and the turn to shoot has to be interfered with by Zhang Fu's height and arm span, and it is very suitable for Zhang Yu to defend Jordan at this time.

As soon as the two of them met, the Zen master's brows furrowed, this didn't seem to be as smooth as imagined!?

Jordan will be equally embarrassed, his power has always been in the top ranks in the second position, even if he has encountered some opponents who are not inferior to him in strength, but he must not be as good as himself in speed and footwork. However, Zhang Mao in front of him is obviously an exception, he can not only press himself in the confrontation, but also in speed and footwork. This made Jordan very embarrassed, because it meant that even if he wanted to attack with a breakthrough in the frame, he would be reluctant to get Zhang Qi.

Zhang Zhu's defense successfully delayed Jordan, and the Lakers' encirclement came in a blink of an eye, and Jordan could only force his shot, and the Lakers completed a very successful defense.

"Huh!"

This voice is the most embarrassing thing for the defender, even if your defense is successful, but people can throw the ball in with a difficult shot, and ask you if you are angry?

Zhang Wei said that he was very angry, he was about to poke Jordan's eyes with this ball, not only forced the opponent to increase the shooting arc, Jordan was about to lose his balance in his body, but the basketball was still hollow into the net, and his mentality was a little collapsed at this moment!

Jordan can feel Zhang Fu's mood at the moment, because when Zhang Zhu was in Kerry last time, he was in a similar mood.

At such a time, of course, you have to add fuel to the fire.

Jordan knew very well how to hit the opponent's mentality, and the fans in front of the TV only saw the gang leader showing a shaking head and shaking his head, and at the same time performed his trademark celebration move at Zhang Qi - "stick out the tongue"!

What these fans didn't hear was that after Jordan stuck out his tongue, he finally came out with trash again: "Come on, you almost held me just now"

Zhang Wei naturally wouldn't be affected by this kind of trash talk, but when he heard this, he calmed down and snorted: "Get out, you bedbug!" ”

"Boy, aren't you arrogant? Okay, I'll let you vote, you vote. ”

Jordan thinks it's time for him to start acting, don't think he's really trash-talking!

"I mean, you can't be mentally retarded, right?"

In the face of Jordan's trash talk, Zhang Wei raised his hand to make a long-distance three-pointer, and he would not miss this kind of opportunity for nothing.

It's another "smack"! This sound made Jordan's face look very ugly, and at the same time, he was a little puzzled, because usually when he provoked the opponent so much, it was usually difficult for the opponent to throw the ball in.

"Old dog, don't say that I bullied you, now I'll let you vote for one, you vote! I'll let you vote! ”

Zhang Qi suddenly felt that the opportunity had come, turned to the defensive end, he stepped on the three-point line, and actually made a gentleman's salute to Jordan, which means that I will also let you shoot one, which is called coming and not being rude.

But he played a careful trick on this shot, and at the moment he was standing on the three-point line, and Jordan had to shoot like him, shooting an ultra-long-distance three-pointer.

Jordan's face is even more ugly, not to mention ultra-long-range three-pointers, and now he doesn't even have a normal three-point shot. Don't look at his hot hand today, but most of his shots are mid-to-long-distance two-point shots, and three-point shots are still rarely shot, but now Zhang Yu wants to force him to shoot ultra-long-distance three-pointers, isn't this sincerely making things difficult for him?

But this ball, he has to shoot if he doesn't want to, whoever lets this 13 be loaded by him first, then he has to finish it no matter what.

"Bang!"

Jordan's three-point shot was really unreliable, and Zhang Yu stood there without even stretching out his hand, but he still missed after aiming at the master for a long time.

Lakers fans immediately released the boos and ridicule that had been prepared for a long time, and the "Great Western Forum Arena" was full of ridicule of Jordan for a while, which made the gang leader's face begin to turn blue.

"Do you dare me to vote for another one? Do you dare to play with me again? ”

Zhang Wei also knows what it means to add fuel to the fire, and of course he will not let Jordan go at this time.

This is the end of pretending to be forced with yourself, whoever instigates is a dog!

Of course, Jordan will not be cowardly, and when he reaches this position, no matter what he loses, he can't lose face.

However, when the two did this, the fans were able to open their eyes, and it seemed that since the establishment of the NBA, people have never seen this kind of competition - these two people actually don't defend, just watch each other shoot.

Jordan felt that he didn't suffer a loss, if both of them played hard to defend, then he would be at a loss, and Zhang Fu's athleticism restrained him very much.

Zhang Wei also felt that he had not suffered a loss, although he had a physical advantage, but Jordan felt good today, but his hand felt average, and this kind of unguarded competition was actually more beneficial to him.

Of course, Zhang Qi didn't expect Jordan to always play extraordinarily when he was angry, as well as a big heart at critical moments.

At this moment, the players of the two teams are the most embarrassed, they have never played such a weird game, and some people even secretly slander in their hearts: Didn't these two big brothers discuss it and deliberately swiped the data there, right?

No wonder they would have such thoughts, after Zhang Zhu and Jordan hit the next 4 three-pointers in a row, the helper actually did not miss like the koala baby, which was a result that even Jordan himself did not expect, and it was really extraordinary.

But whether it is an extraordinary performance or not, these 4 shots add up to 12 points, and if they continue to play, won't this quarter be able to cut 30 points? Is it really good to brush up on scores so blatantly?

Zhang Zhu and Jordan also discovered this possibility, and the two actually began to tacitly understand, and they were ready to continue to brush shamelessly......

Fortunately, the three-point shot is too easy to miss, and Jordan's ability to hit four shots in a row is already an extraordinary performance, but what the helper failed to think about again is that the first of the two of them to miss is actually Zhang Mao?

"Is it really so sad today?"

After Zhang Yu missed the 5th goal, he regretted that he didn't look at the yellow calendar when he went out, could it be that everything was not going well for him today?

Of course, Jordan didn't be happy for long, as soon as Zhang Qi missed here, the breath in his heart was relieved, and the sixth goal also missed.

However, looking at the time, only four minutes into the third quarter, the two had already scored 19 and 15 points, and a strange battle officially began......

Jordan felt really good today, he was still in the lead in this weird matchup, but the Zen master was starting to feel inappropriate off the court.

The Bulls' lead in the first half was not just Jordan's own play, the rest of the players also contributed, especially the role players who made him happy.

But playing this way now, the role players of both teams will suffer.

The Lakers' role players are already in a slump, and they can't be worse than they are.

The role players of the Bulls are different, they have finally had such a state, once the two of them are gone, then the Lakers will lose a lot!?

Zhang Wei really didn't think about it that much, he just felt that his teammates couldn't even throw in the empty seats, so it was better to let himself and Jordan continue to play like this.

However, after each missed, the two no longer let each other shoot, but still engaged in three-quarters bullfights on the court.

This style of play, whether the Lakers have an advantage, let's not talk about it, but their offense today is really not good, if Zhang Zhu represents the whole team to fight Jordan, this is a good idea.

Zhang Qi is also not convinced, no matter how good Jordan's hand feels, it can't always be better for a whole game, and it has been long enough to be able to scream.

At 3:22 in the third quarter, the score came to 65:79, and the Bulls extended their lead to 14 points, which was the largest point difference between the two teams in the game and a watershed moment in the game.

Jordan also scored his 50th point, and it took only 9 minutes in this quarter for him to score 23 points, such a performance against the sky made Zhang Fu's 60E fans call incredible!

But what Jordan's 60E fans can't imagine is that just when everyone thought that the Lakers were going to be cold, Jordan actually encountered black for three minutes in the next time, and failed to hit 4 consecutive shots, which allowed the Lakers to take the opportunity to narrow the gap to 5 points in a blink of an eye.

The Zen Master's bad feeling became a reality in an instant, and once Jordan couldn't score, the role players who played well in the first half of the Bulls had already cooled down, and they couldn't immediately help Jordan continue to output, including Pippen couldn't contribute to the score.

The Lakers players were about the same as the Bulls in Game 1 on the offensive end today, but they weren't sluggish on the defensive end.

In this way, Jordan and Zhang Zhu's alternative heads-up is also a different way, at least so that he will not be interfered with by Mutombo, so I don't know who suffers?

But now, when Jordan suddenly went silent, the rest of the Bulls struggled to provide firepower support, and the entire team's offense was dumbfounded.

The Lakers players found an offensive touch in the defense, and the Purple and Gold were silent for most of the game, and finally began to recover at the end of the third quarter......

Zhang is still the backcourt engine of the Lakers, and the impact of his dribbling push makes the Bulls helpless, as long as his teammates regain their touch, the Lakers' offense no longer needs to worry.

Harris used Zhang's own offensive system to complete the counterattack, and when Finley hit a three-pointer in the bottom corner after receiving an assist from Zhang, the gap between the two teams was reduced to five points at the end of the third quarter.

With a score of 73-79, the Bulls didn't score a point in three minutes, and a single scoring drought nearly wasted their efforts in the third quarter.

This is what the Zen master has been worried about, the Lakers' explosiveness on the offensive end is rare in the world, and the advantage of a mere dozen points still has to be cautious when facing such a team, otherwise it will be the current situation.

"Could it be that today is 'Jordan in success, Jordan in defeat'?"

The thought arose in the hearts of Bulls fans that even though the leader scored 50 points in only three quarters, the team is now in a headwind, and even if they still lead by 5 points, the situation has begun to turn against them.

Lakers fans don't think Jordan scored 50 points in the third quarter, Zhang Zhu didn't feel good today, but through the weird heads-up in the third quarter, now there are 42 points in the account, if the Lakers can turn defeat into victory in the fourth quarter, then the gap of 8 points is not worth mentioning, and Jordan's 50 points can only become a laughing stock.

"The old dogs still have a few teeth, but their failure is unquestionable."

After the third quarter, Zhang Yi said something that made Jordan's 60E very angry in a brief interview on the sidelines.

It's a bit humiliating, but the Lakers are still behind.

The reporter also tactfully reminded that the Lakers are still lagging behind at the moment, and the situation is still unfavorable.

"For those who can't see the truth, the world is a different story entirely."

Zhang Mao's words humiliated the reporter, but at this moment, in his eyes, the Lakers are indeed the leading party. If nothing else, in the three minutes that the Lakers just chased points, most of the points were contributed by his teammates, which shows that his teammates are starting to wake up, which should be the last thing the Bulls want to see.