The Trail Blazers' benches are really good, which is a good reflection of the team's management's ability to scour in the free agent market. In the first five minutes www.biquge.info of the second quarter, they did bring back some of the disadvantage, but it was also because the Lakers' bench players were playing against them, and neither side was defensive.

But when the starting five came into play again, the feeling that had just improved at the end of the first quarter seemed to be all lost to the bench again, and almost everyone returned to the cycle of frequent iron fighting, even the aging Miller was not spared. The Trail Blazers off the court looked at each other, no one knew why this continued to happen in the second quarter, and when they were helpless, the score on the court was pulled apart again.

The Lakers took the opportunity to shrink their defense inside, piling up heavy players on the inside, and completely trying not to let you score under the basket. This kind of response is also the most appropriate, after all, no matter how much iron hits, it is still okay to dunk under the basket, but once the defense line is recycled, it will really strangle this possibility.

Of course, Ye Feng wants to bring the rhythm of the whole team, but even if he scores before like chopping melons and vegetables, this game is at a loss. For him and the rest of the Trail Blazers, the basket was like putting a lid on it, and no matter how hard they tried, they couldn't get the ball in.

So the team's offensive focus naturally shifted to the interior, with Aldridge becoming the team's main point of attack, and although his shooting percentage was also not very high, and the Lakers appeared very active on the inside, it was better than others who were on the outside.

The Trail Blazers relied on Aldridge to stop the bleeding for the team, but it was clear that they stopped the bleeding as fast as the blood loss, and the Lakers were crazy about scoring under the leadership of Kobe, Aldridge's scoring was useless at all, it just slowed down the speed of the Trail Blazers falling into hell a little bit. This game has been played by this point, the Trail Blazers are not only behind by a large score, but also have no chance of turning the tables at all, after all, they don't even have a usable turnaround point now.

By the end of the first half, the Trail Blazers were trailing by nearly 30 points, a huge disadvantage they hadn't faced so far this season. It can be seen from the eyes of each player that their spirit has been defeated, and such a strange feeling makes them unable to raise a trace of fighting spirit at all.

Looking at the numb faces of the starters, McMillan was angry, and he yelled: "I didn't want to criticize you, but look at the way you are all down now, it's not much different from quails, do you still have the face to say that you are the team that wants to reach the finals and win the championship?" I'm so ashamed of my previous rhetoric! In the second half, you put me on the bench and see how your teammates played! ”

McMillan has always given the impression of a very gentle and even honest head coach to his players, and it is rare for him to shout at such a heavy point during a game. But today he already has a little hatred of iron and steel, and it is true that the shooting of the basket is really weird to the point of making people feel hairy, but this is not a reason for the lack of fighting spirit. Thinking that McMillan and Payton were teammates back then, that guy's tenacious fighting spirit also infected him to a certain extent, so he couldn't get used to the way the players gave up the game as if they were dead, and it was reasonable to be so angry.

Sure enough, after the start of the second half, the starting lineup led by Ye Feng and Aldridge was all pressed to the bench by him, and was replaced by Fernandez, Mills, Batum, Ayers and Puldsbilla. With their strength, it is obvious that they can't do the Lakers' starting lineup, but they showed that spirit of daring to fight on the court, which made many Lakers fans turn to cheer for them.

Especially Mills, who formed a double point guard with Fernandez, this guy is simply crazy alone, and after hearing the cheers of the fans on his team, he actually showed off in front of Kobe. In the face of Kobe's close defense, the Australian small point guard accelerated, and then played a 360-degree turn with the ball in the middle of the march, which had already left Kobe Bryant behind, and then scored a layup with physical confrontation.

Of course, his two points didn't help the whole game at all, not to mention that Kobe Bryant then responded with a mid-range jumper, even if his shot went straight to the iron, the Lakers still maintained a lead of more than 20 points.

However, I have to say that Mills can still boost morale by passing Kobe, and the team followed this momentum to play a wave of 8-2 small climax of the opponent, which will narrow the gap to 20 points. But the Lakers are not soft persimmons, they quickly stabilized their position after a short period of stunned, although they did not open the gap again, but they did not let the Trail Blazers further narrow the difference, basically maintaining a 20-point advantage.

It's clear that the Trail Blazers have been beaten by their opponents in this game, and although it may seem to outsiders that McMillan didn't let the starting lineup play in order to give them time to recuperate, it was actually a punishment for the starting five. It's a lot of admiration for his boldness, because not every head coach would dare to put a bunch of substitutes to wrestle with the opposing starters in a crucial game like the Western Conference semifinals......

Ye Feng also played for a while in the fourth quarter, but this time was only three or four minutes, and it had no impact on the outcome of the game at all. And as soon as they felt like they were warming up, McMillan quickly replaced them and continued to press them to the bench.

In the end, the Lakers won a 25-point victory on their home court without any suspense, and the score of 113-88 stunned countless onlookers, and the Trail Blazers, who seem to be known for their sharp offense, have not played a game in which they scored no more than 90 points for a long time, and they were given a high score of 110+ by their opponents. At the press conference after the game, McMillan's incomprehensible substitution was also besieged by many reporters, who kept asking the so-called inside story of the matter, trying to dig up some fierce information to see if they could make up a report like "the atmosphere in the Trail Blazers team is poor, close to infighting".

But McMillan dismissed all their offensive with one sentence, and he said calmly: "In the team I coach, there can be weakling, but there can be cowards." ”