With that, the whistle blew for the end of the second quarter.

The Rockets and Bulls went into halftime.

In the second half of the game, the Bulls showed excellent tactical execution.

The smooth triangle offensive routines broke the Rockets' defense to pieces.

In the team's locker room, everyone in the Rockets was a little sluggish.

The last three minutes of the second quarter were beaten 9-3 by the Bulls.

It's now 54-45 trailing by nine points.

"Aren't the boys aggrieved, the bulls are like that, you can't see how sharp their offense is, but they always pull out open spots and shoot, it's a kind of oppressive play, how to say it's like a frog boiled in warm water, eating away at us little by little, and when we find out that it's going to be cooked, it's over." Lao Tang analyzed the situation in the arena.

"And what we have to do is bite hard and never let go. In the second half, it is still necessary to play more Hakim, and the Bulls are bound to strengthen the defense of Hakim's point, Longley stares at Hakim in the back, and then others will wrap it, and at this time, Hakim's pass will be the most threatening and the most effective weapon to hit the opponent, but the Bulls' rotation defense of Hakim's first pass is very fast, and he can block the receiver in the fastest time and close their shooting space, so what should we do? Lao Tang explained the tactics.

"Passing, a wide pass, once they pack, then there is bound to be a free person, no matter how fast they rotate, there will be gaps, so only a wide range of passes can break down their defence. After talking about the offense, we are talking about our defense, the success of a team is simply their defense, to be honest, your defense, can only be regarded as the regular season level, meeting a championship-level team like the Bulls, it is not enough to see, so we must control the initiation point of their offense, and this point is Pippen, only by controlling Pippen, can we effectively control their offense, in the Bulls, Jordan is the finisher of the offense, and Pippen is the team's offensive initiator and organizer, starting from the second half, Hollini has to remember, I must pester him, I must pester him, so that their offensive system cannot operate smoothly, so that we have a chance to defeat them, remember" Lao Tang said louder and louder.

"What about Jordan." Drexler asked.

"I'll leave it to you, if Jordan is like a singles mode, that's the best, the Bulls who score alone can't kill anyone." Lao Tang said.

"Okay, brethren, you remember that we are champions, we have a championship heart, and we will not be afraid of any opponent, including Jordan and the Bulls, go ahead, let's play." Olajuwon roared.

Fifteen minutes is actually a lot of time.

Players from both sides appear.

"It's still fast, I don't know what the second half will be like." Tiger thought to himself.

"Watch, a few minutes after the second quarter, people feel the strength of the Bulls, that kind of silent pressing, smooth offense, suffocating defense, they can score 72-10 this season, it's really not a joke, the feeling of playing on TV and live is different." Tiger thought in his heart that in his previous life, he watched the strength of the Bulls dynasty on TV and the team in front of him slowly overlapped.

"Hey, I don't want to, the idea of breaking wrists with the bull this year is still free, and it's also abused to go up. Next year will be different, and a group of high-quality Zhengtai are thinking about me beckoning. Tiger was fugue again.

Honk.

The whistle blew.

The third quarter begins.

The Bulls attacked with the ball, and it was Pippen who held the ball, and Horry was entangled with Pippen from the first second of the second half of the game.

At this time, Pippen also felt a different kind of pressure.

And this kind of pressure can only be seen in the playoffs.

"Oh, Robert, are you going to start fighting hard?" Pippen asked Horry, who was haunting him.

"You're right, Scott, you're not going to be walking there as leisurely as you did in the first half." Horry was defending Pippen with both hands and feet.

"Oh, yes, then my thank you, did you let me walk in the first half, then I will also take a walk in the second half." Pippen said.

"Then you can try it."

Pippen passed the ball to Jordan in the low post, and immediately moved to the other side to help Rodman block, and Rodman, quickly moved laterally, got rid of Garnett's defense, and when he moved to the middle, Jordan's pass also arrived, a three-step layup, but unfortunately, although Rodman got rid of Garnett's defense, but Horry, who moved with Pippen, just caught up, raised his hand, and flew the basketball in Rodman's hand very accurately.

The basketball went out of bounds, and the Bulls continued to attack.

"Well done, Robert, that's it, after changing positions, pay attention to the position of the passer, don't give them space to pass." Lao Tang shouted from the sidelines.

Horry gestured to the old soup, and the meaning was clear.

Bulls, continue to attack, this time did not play the triangle offensive routine, directly handed over to Jordan singles.

After receiving the ball, Jordan made a step-back jumper, and Drexler's struggling block interfered with Jordan, and the ball was iron.

Olajuwon got into Longley's position, took the ball down with ease, raised his big elbow to drive Rodman away who was trying to steal the ball, and then handed it to Mark Jackson to take it through the half.

After Olajuwon is in position, the ball is handed over to Olajuwon to handle.

Just as Olajuwon began to receive the ball, Pippen suddenly came up to wrap it up, tightly blocking Olajuwon's passing route and line of sight.

Olajuwon is Olajuwon after all, and he used his height to accurately pass the ball to Horry, who was already vacant.

However, the Bulls' rotation was really fast, and Rodman pounced right away.

As soon as Horry saw that there was no chance of making a move, he immediately transferred the ball to the other side and left Garnett unmarked for the time being.

After Garnett received the ball, he slapped the ball to the ground with both hands, and with a big stride and his legs, he was about to make a violent dunk.

However, Garnett found himself just jumping up when a black hand pulled it down.

When I looked closely, I saw that it was Haber.

It turned out that after finding Garnett's vacancy, Harbour quickly made up for the defense, but unfortunately it was still a step too late, and Garnett was ready to dunk.

I had no choice but to pull him down.

These shots are just a microcosm of the game in the third quarter, and the offense and defense of the double serve are extremely targeted.

The Bulls resolutely wrapped up Olajuwon and resolutely did not give Olajuwon a chance to 1-on-1 on the inside.

Because, the Chicagoans know that as long as they give Olajuwon a 1-on-1 chance, they think they will lose 2 points.

The Houstonians, on the other hand, are stalking Pippen to the death, preventing the Bulls from playing a smooth triangle offense.

can only rely on Jordan's singles to score points.

Watching the rockets catch up with the score little by little.

Phil Jackson shook his head and replaced Haber with Kukoc to raise his own guard line height so that Mark Jackson's defense would be difficult.

As soon as Lao Tang saw it, he immediately made a substitution, replacing Mark Jackson and replacing Bodi Roga.

Let the two Yugoslavs face each other directly.

Replaced by Kukoc, the Bulls immediately played a weak-side game.

Jordan broke through with the ball, and as soon as Jordan began to break through, Longley and Pippen immediately double-lined their upper bodies to block Kukoc, who quickly moved to the elbow (the junction of the free throw line and the service arc) to shake off the defender and run out of the open position, while Jordan, who broke through on the other side, quickly passed, Kukoc received the ball in the open position, and hit a jumper.

With this series of cooperation, Lao Tang shook his head.

It's too fluid, and the triangle attack has been carved deep into the bull's bones.

Add in the extremely strong singles of the flyer, what should I do?

Lao Tang also scratched his head a little.

What Lao Tang didn't know was that later, how to crack the triangle attack was also a difficult problem.

Again, it was the Bulls' turn to attack.

Pippen held the ball, and when he saw that Jordan's attack line had been blocked by the Rockets, he beckoned.

Rodman quickly lifted up to take Pippen's ball, and then Kukoc quickly cut off the ball, Pippen blocked.

Rodman made a ground-hitting pass, and Kukoc, who had already cut to the basket without the ball, received the ball and it was a backhand dunk.

deserves to be the best sixth man, and he scored again and again as soon as he came up.

As a last resort, the old soup called a pause.

"I don't want to say it, Chicagoans are really tough, and their offensive routine is in their bones. Now you still have to pay attention to the entanglement of Pippen, and you must pay attention to the opponent's off-ball air cuts, covers, pay attention to the opponent's defense and supplementary defense after blocking people, you must pay attention, understand. Lao Tang's voice was already a little hoarse.

"If you understand it, you must play it, and you must pay attention to the help defense and supplementary defense, as well as the opponent's air cut." Lao Tang shouted to the players who were about to play.

Can it really be controlled?

The answer is no.

The Bulls' offense was as fluid as mercury, and even if Pippen was entangled by Horry, there was no way to stop the Bulls' offense.

Each of them can act as the playmaker of the attack and the finisher of the attack.

The third quarter ended with the Bulls working together like a mercury.

The score was 76-63, and the Bulls led by 13 points.

The crisis of rockets is really coming.;