Seeing Gary Payton and Kobe Bryant start to fight wits again, Phil Jackson can't help but have a headache, you must know that among the four kings of the Lakers, only Gary Payton and Kobe Bryant are the most difficult to reconcile.

Gary Payton regards Jordan as a mortal enemy, and Kobe Bryant is the successor of Jordan who has been rumored recently, Kobe's technical actions are mostly similar to Jordan's technical movements, so they have an inextricable contradiction from the beginning, and Kobe Bryant is also very dissatisfied with Gary Payton, always feeling that he is a little old and selling the old, and does not take Kobe Bryant in his eyes, but only has blue eyes for the dead fat man.

So there is a deep grudge between the two, and Gary Payton, as the main point guard, did not pass the ball to Kobe Bryant, which is the main contradiction between the two of them.

Phil Jackson knew that this issue could not be delayed or left or right, so he assigned the task and said: "Kobe, your offensive firepower is exactly what we need in the final quarter, so you can also play as a scoring guard and concentrate on scoring, and as for Gary, you can take the small forward position and be responsible for defending Osbourne." For a while, Derrick Fisher was also used as point guard. ”

Phil Jackson deserves to be the head coach with the most rings in the league, and although he has been criticized for his coaching skills, he is also unique in his ability to shock superstars. His arrangement was a good one, allowing Kobe Bryant to get the ball that a shooting guard wanted the most, and making Gary Payton feel that his request was met by the head coach.

Kobe Bryant and Gary Payton are honestly preparing, and the Pistons are also waiting for the final quarter.

When Osborne first came up, he was a little surprised to see that Gary Payton was defending himself, but then he reacted, it is better to be careful, Gary Payton not only defended Michael Jordan in the Finals only scored more than 20 points, and the shooting rate was less than 30%, and Gary Payton is the only professional athlete who won the best defensive player with a point guard. Try not to provoke if you can, but since he took the initiative to defend Osborne.

Osborne felt he had to let Gary Payton know whose world it was.

Gary Payton came up with confidence, and he said defiantly to Osborne: "Little rookie, although you are very good, but I am the best at defending the opponent's ace player." ”

Osborne felt that Gary Payton was really lifting him up, "I'm not an ace player for the Pistons, and the Pistons don't have any ace players in a sense. And now you can't prevent me at all, you are no longer a person of this era, don't come to the losers of the Jordan era to show ugliness anymore. ”

Gary Payton was furious after hearing this, and glanced at Osborne fiercely, "The current rookies are more crazy than the other, but none of them are powerful, the more players who are touted by those bad media, the faster they sink, I think you are one of the most arrogant guys." ”

Osborne didn't blush at all, and smiled: "Thank you seniors for the compliment, I will definitely make myself more arrogant, after all, arrogance also requires strength and courage." Gary Payton didn't intend to say anything more when he saw Osborne so oily and salty, lest he vomit blood. Osborne is actually a principle, and whatever you say I accept it all, and it looks like it's going to work.

As soon as the game started in the fourth quarter, Gary Payton entangled Osborne like kraft candy, and Osborne finally felt Gary Payton's real defensive skills at this time, which was indeed stronger than Kobe.

The Lakers took the lead in attacking, especially Kobe Bryant fired directly, he easily passed the Pistons bench guard Rich Balding, and then scored a standard layup, the Pistons Osborne had no way to get rid of Gary Payton's entanglement, and could only complete the offense by Taysa Ann Prince and Chauncy Billups, which was Chauncy Billups also reacted quickly, a fast and slow rhythm difference shot directly in front of Derrick Fisher, and the basketball also passed the net, and the Pistons and the Lakers really competed for each other.

The Lakers' offensive firepower is very fierce, Kobe Bryant finishes attacking, O'Neal attacks, O'Neal attacks, Karl Malone attacks, Carl Malone finishes attacking, and do it all over again.

On the Pistons' side, Billups finished, Prince attacked, Prince attacked, and Osborne got rid of the defense and shot three points, so the Pistons and the Lakers played on par.

When there were still three minutes left in the fourth quarter of the game, the Lakers still did not open the gap, but led the Pistons by three points at 88:85, such a game was very anxious, the reason why there was such a situation was because although the Lakers were full of offensive firepower, but the defense was also very bad, and the Pistons were very balanced in defense and offense. Therefore, the Pistons and the Lakers can not hold each other, and it is difficult to distinguish between them.

In the previous nine points, Osborne finally adapted to Gary Payton's kraft gum defense, and also gave Gary Payton a few fouls, so Gary Payton didn't dare to make some blatant feints, so Gary Payton's defense was not very effective for Osborn, but at the decisive moment, Osborne still used the most efficient three-point shot to solve it.

Osborne motioned for his teammates to cover him, and he hit three consecutive three-pointers to finally overtake the score and lead the Lakers by two points at 101-99.

With less than a minute left in the game, Lakers head coach Phil Jackson called a long timeout to lay out his tactics, focusing on defending Osborne, and O'Neal attacking the interior.

And the Pistons have already responded, ready to let Chauncey Billups shoot key shots, although Osborne trusts Billups' key ability, but Osborne still feels that his half-court three-point seems to be more threatening, so when Osborne finished speaking, the Pistons were silent, they couldn't believe that the three-point shot would have such a range.

Larry Brown asked, "How sure are you that you're going to be able to pitch, Osborne." ”

Osborne replied: "If it's a normal time to open at a five-to-five, if it's a critical moment, I'll be 100 percent in, please trust me." ”

Larry Brown was very excited to hear Osborne's bold words, but he still couldn't hide the worry in his heart, but since Osborne said so, Larry Brown could only agree once, after all, Osborne had scored like this several times. Larry Brown comforted himself.

Then the final battle came, and the Lakers really changed, using Kobe Bryant, who had better physical strength, to defend Osborne, and O'Neal, who had more control, to attack the interior.

It's just that at the beginning of the game, O'Neal's strong attack on the inside line was strongly blocked by Pistons center Ben Wallace, O'Neal couldn't score, but fortunately he also grabbed the rebound, but there was not much time left for the offense, O'Neal didn't dare to delay, and quickly passed the ball to Kobe Bryant, Kobe Bryant faced Osborne's defensive three-point back-to-back jumper and scored the ball.

Suddenly, the Staples Arena erupted into the loudest cheers, and after Kobe Bryant threw it, there were 36 seconds left, Kobe Bryant actually hit a three-point shot, and the Lakers took a one-point lead.

Then it was the turn of the Pistons to attack, Kobe Bryant defended tightly and did not give Osborne a chance to receive the ball, but Osborne didn't seem to be in a hurry, and stood directly in the middle circle and did not run, which made Kobe a little suspicious, and then the Pistons also began to run tactically, Chauncy Billups did not hesitate after receiving the ball, and directly handed the ball to Tyshire Ann Prince to deal with, Prince also hit a two-point shot directly without showing weakness, adding two points to the Pistons, and the Pistons led again.

At this time, Kobe Bryant was very strange, the Pistons did not use Osborne to participate in the offense, could the Pistons be so relieved, but seeing the Pistons' tactical movement, it is really not something that these old guys of the Lakers can win.

There were 29 seconds left in the game, the atmosphere on the court was extremely solemn, and finally the Lakers began to attack again, and the core of the offense became Kobe, although Osborne knew that he couldn't prevent Kobe Bryant or did his best, Kobe Bryant also used a wonderful back-to-back single turn and back-to-back jumper, a series of actions were picturesque, the basketball passed through the net, and the Lakers led by two points.

With only seven seconds left in the game, the Lakers have only seven seconds to win the battle in Los Angeles, and that's when the Lakers are going to play a full-court defensive strategy.

Osborne still stood in the middle circle, Kobe's defense was also close to not giving Osborne the slightest chance to get rid of the shot, when the Pistons served, the Pistons made several large-scale transfers, and then passed back to Chauncey Billups, at this time Billups started quickly, directly turned around and shook Derrick Fisher, and then prepared to shoot at the top of the arc, at this time Kobe finally couldn't stand it and rushed over to block Billups, Billups was also premeditated, and threw the ball back, Osborne received the ball far from the three-point line Kobe Bryant realized that he was fooled and hurried back to defense, but Osborne was ready to shoot, he saw Kobe Bryant who pounced and said: "This is my killer ball in return to you, I won this ball." ”

Then Osborne made a three-pointer from a long distance, and after the basketball flew out, the game time ran out, and the basketball was thrown in as promised.