Osborne was also a little dumbfounded when he saw Kobe Bryant's vindictiveness so strong, maybe in the eyes of others, Kobe Bryant's behavior was a heroic act or a sign of competitiveness, but this Osborne seemed to be a sign of a strong sense of revenge.

The outside players of the two teams fought fiercely, either Kobe Bryant forced Richard Hamilton, or Osborne forced a three-point shot, or Chauncey Billups broke through Gary Payton and threw a mid-range shot, after the end of the first quarter, the Lakers' outside line did not reach the Pistons' outside players, so the Pistons led the Lakers by four points at 22:18.

Seeing this situation, Phil Jackson is even more convinced that the biggest advantage of the Lakers is still on the inside, because there are many teams that can suppress the Lakers' outside line, but no team's inside line can compare to the Lakers' inside line.

So Phil Jackson made up his mind to play resolutely on the inside in the next game, and all the outside players were used to defend the Pistons' outside players.

Larry Brown knew that the Pistons played so well on the outside, and he guessed that the Lakers would focus on interior players for a while. He also knows that the Pistons' interior line is not enough to fight against the Lakers' super interior line, but if he doesn't find a way to restrain O'Neal and Karl Malone, the Pistons' situation will be precarious.

Osborne also seemed to see Larry Brown's sorrow, and he said directly to Larry Brown: "Coach, the Lakers will definitely focus on the interior for a while, and will limit my play with all their might, I estimate that they will use Kobe Bryant's paranoia to defend me, but I think we still have to maintain our own rhythm, you must know that our advantage is the outside offense, and the Lakers' biggest advantage is on the inside, so we can't give up our advantage to fight against the opponent, we also have to focus on the outside, Let the interior players keep limiting O'Neal, and you must be tough, even if it is a foul. ”

Larry Brown also knew what Osborne meant, but he was still reassured, "Can you guarantee your three-point shooting percentage, if you can, I will give you unlimited firing rights, if not, I will start arranging to play the overall strategy, I believe our system must be better than the Lakers' superstar system." ”

Osborne was thrilled to hear that Larry Brown was willing to give him unlimited fire, and he said, "Don't worry, head coach I think you should trust my three-point shot and shoot him whenever the team needs me." And you just have to give me a quarter of time to prove my offensive firepower. ”

Larry Brown also agreed, and said to the other players: "After a while, the Lakers will definitely focus on the interior, so Ben Wallace and Taysa Anderson must be careful next, and must be tough to prevent O'Neal from scoring, even if it is a foul, the outside players must cover each other and take the initiative to find a block, and then the second quarter of the game will start, Osborne has unlimited right to fire, and everyone on offense must cooperate with him." ”

After listening to head coach Larry Brown's instructions, the Pistons looked at Osborne with envy, they all knew that Larry Brown was the head coach who hated superstar play the most at the moment, but since he was willing to authorize Osborne to fire infinitely, then Larry Brown trusted Osborne's offensive firepower very much, so this is also something they couldn't envy, because Osborne's offensive firepower is well known, and it is unstoppable when it rains three-pointers.

At the beginning of the second quarter, the Lakers really sent Kobe Bryant to defend Osborne, the Lakers took the lead in attacking, O'Neal really started his own performance of dominating the whole court, he kept squeezing Ben Wallace, which made Ben Wallace very uncomfortable, but the strange thing is that Ben Wallace is not as tall and heavy as O'Neal, but he still has a lot of experience in fighting O'Neal, anyway, O'Neal can't stand him, but O'Neal can only use his footsteps to turn around to the basket under the basket and put the ball into the basket with a small hook, it's that simple.

Then Osborne also started his three-point performance, he used the lightning breakthrough to get rid of Kobe Bryant's entanglement, but this is obviously impossible to do, but Osborne did not want to pass Kobe Bryant, he just wanted Taysha AnPrince to block and cover him.

Osborne borrowed the pick-and-roll cover to get rid of Kobe's interference, and jumped up and threw out a three-pointer directly at the top of the arc, which also went into the basket very neatly.

Kobe Bryant watched this shot enter the basket, and said angrily: "There is a kind of heads-up, what is the ability to just hide from the outside and shoot three-pointers." Osborne was very disdainful of Kobe's remarks, and shot back: "You have the ability to shoot, I don't think you can shoot fewer threes than me, and I think it's a good ball to be able to score, so it doesn't matter what heads-up, if you want to go heads-up, why don't you go wild." Guaranteed to satisfy your desires. ”

Osborne's rebuttal made Kobe Bryant very angry, and he also wanted to fight back against Osborne, but Phil Jackson, the bastard, gave the ball to the dead fat man on the inside, and it wasn't enough, he also had to the outside players to assist the dead fat man, and the leadership of the team was in the hands of that group of old and weak guys, and he couldn't play the basketball he wanted as much as he wanted.

The Lakers attacked here, with Karl Malone serving, Gary Payton controlling the ball, he advanced quickly, Kobe Bryant originally wanted the ball but looking at Gary Payton's appearance, he knew that the ball was not good. Because the dead fat man inside is also carrying Ben Wallace and reaching out for the ball? After O'Neal received the ball, he took out nine points to carry Ben Wallace, and Ben Wallace didn't succeed in restricting O'Neal every round, so O'Neal seized the opportunity to dunk the basket with his furious hammer.

Ben Wallace was carried by O'Neal and couldn't stand steadily, O'Neal directly carried Ben Wallace into the basket, jumped up and wanted to dunk, but Taysha Amplins rushed up directly to grab O'Neal's hand that wanted to dunk, Ben Wallace also took the opportunity to hold O'Neal, O'Neal was directly overturned to the ground, the referee directly blew Taysha Amprim a foul, and gave a verbal warning, and also gave Ben Wallace a warning by the way, and signaled O'Neal to make a free throw.

This made O'Neal very angry, he didn't expect the Pistons players to be so tough, he would rather foul than let him dunk and score, O'Neal stood at the free throw line, dribbled twice, and then threw the ball on the outside edge of the basket in an extremely ugly position, which made him very embarrassed, and then he added a lot of strength on the second shot, but unfortunately, his shot was powerful again, and he missed the second free throw.

Kobe Bryant stood on the outside and watched O'Neal's clumsy performance and wanted to throw O'Neal aside to make free throws himself, this dead fat man is so annoying, he will die if the free throws are on time.

However, the angry O'Neal was really terrible, although he did not make a free throw, but in a positional battle, he suddenly appeared behind Richard Hamilton and capped Richard Hamilton's inevitable layup, and also knocked Richard Hamilton out of the sideline, Richard Hamilton fell to the audience, unable to get up for a long time.

This time O'Neal's block almost caused a conflict between the two teams, fortunately Richard Hamilton was fine, but O'Neal's move made the two teams more and more angry, especially the two teams on the inside began to fight fiercely, not giving in to each other, and it became more difficult to score inside, and it was even more impossible for O'Neal to score comfortably, because he was always sniped by Pistons players.

So by the end of the second quarter, the Lakers still trailed the Pistons by five points at 41:46, because O'Neal's free throws were really not much, he had already made eighteen free throws, but only scored eight, and if they could have scored, the Lakers would have taken the lead. (To be continued.) )