Chapter 113: Jones! Mr. Key!

At the beginning of the fourth quarter, Van Gundy still put Childs on the court, and today Childs felt too good, and in this situation of urgent need to chase points, he can play a greater role than Ward. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Lakers took the lead in attacking, and Bryant singled Alan Houston with the ball, and he shook his shoulders in succession to deceive Houston's center of gravity, and then passed through Houston like a snake out of a hole, and his speed even Knicks head coach Van Gundy was amazed.

Kobe Bryant after a summer of strength training he can now withstand more confrontations, in the face of the Knicks big forward Charles Oakley who pounced on the defense, Kobe smiled coldly, he suddenly made a sharp stop, Oakley thought Kobe wanted to jump, he quickly jumped, and took advantage of this opportunity, Kobe Bryant changed direction and passed Oakley, and then hit the ball into the basket.

This beautiful succession immediately caused a burst of cheers from the audience, and Kobe Bryant himself shook his fists through gritted teeth, his expression was very arrogant.

For the Knicks, Childes waited until the players were all in position, and then he continued to give the ball to Ewing.

Ewing took advantage of Tony's unsteady footing and didn't defend too tightly, and he stepped back to make way for some space.

Then make a jumper.

However, Ewing was a little helpless that the basketball rolled out after two laps on the basket.

Holly struggled to squeeze Oakley away from him, and he tried to pick up the rebound, but Oakley was still one step faster, and his strong body withstood Oakley's onslaught, and then picked up the offensive rebound.

Oakley once averaged 13 rebounds per game for two consecutive seasons, even if he is now 34 years old and his condition begins to decline as he gets older, but even last season he was still able to average 9.8 rebounds per game, although the 2.06-meter-tall Holly is still three centimeters taller than Oakley, but he still doesn't get much benefit.

It's really hard for him to let Holly fight for rebounds with him.

Oakley pulled up on the spot and wanted to make a strong dunk, but Hawley had no choice but to foul him and drag him down.

Oakley made both free throws steadily, although looking at his muscles and tendons, his free throws have always been very steady, and his free throw shooting rate has been maintained at about 70 or 80 percent so far in his career, which is not easy for a big man inside.

Ewing missed the shot, but he didn't care too much, after all, even Jordan couldn't guarantee that every ball would be hit, and he could still keep the shooting rate at about 60 percent so far, as long as he scored the next goal.

But what Ewing himself didn't expect was that this goal was just the beginning.

Ewing, who was able to play smoothly in the first three quarters when he was caught in the bag, lost his shooting target in the fourth quarter after the defensive pressure was reduced.

In the following time, Ewing also took a few more shots, but he still didn't hit, and Ewing weakened at the most critical time in the fourth quarter, which was very fatal for the Knicks.

Seeing Ewing, who was too physically exhausted, running around tiredly on the court and making far-fetched shots, Van Gundy couldn't help but feel anxious, but he didn't have the courage to replace Ewing at such a time.

In this way, the Lakers took advantage of this opportunity to gradually pull the score away.

However, the Knicks were not willing to rest on their laurels, and although their only pillar didn't work in the fourth quarter, someone still stepped up.

That's Chris Childs.

This Childs can be said to be a wonder man today, not only did he help the team hold the score with consecutive points in the third quarter, but he also stepped up again in the fourth quarter when the team was at its hardest.

Childes rushed to the front court alone to meet Fisher's defense and shot a three-pointer, although such a shot choice is not reasonable, but he scored, then there is nothing to say, and now that the Knicks' morale is low, such a ball can play a very obvious role in motivating morale.

However, boosting morale or something is only theoretical, and the reality is that the Knicks' offense has not improved much.

In fact, Larry Johnson felt okay today, but he didn't have the consciousness to step up and score at such a time, in fact, he didn't have much desire to attack until now, and he has only made a total of four shots so far, hitting three goals.

On the other hand, Eddie Jones is in much worse shape with the Lakers, scoring five points on only one of his seven shots.

However, Jones's abnormal state does not have much to do with it, after all, Kobe's excellent performance today has almost become the god of war of the Lakers, and he can almost dominate the Lakers' outside offense alone.

With about three minutes left in the fourth quarter, the two sides were tied 91-91.

The ball came to the Lakers' side, and Harris called a timeout.

Harris laid out the tactics for the players with a very solemn expression, although Ewing lost the feeling of shooting in the final quarter, he was still able to score free throws with experience to make fouls, so far he has scored 29 points and 16 rebounds, and Tony, who is opposite him, has only 18 points and 10 rebounds, although such data is not ashamed, but there is still a lot of gap compared with Ewing.

Harris focused on laying out a lot of targeted defensive tactics for Childes, and now in the entire Knicks team, excluding Patrick Ewing, who is not very efficient in scoring, only Childs can pose a threat to the Lakers.

As for the offensive side, there is only one sentence - give the ball to Kobe.

The timeout ended, and the two sides returned to the game.

Kobe Bryant came up and tried to break through to the Knicks' interior line, but it seems that Van Gundy also arranged a targeted defense for Kobe, and as soon as Kobe dribbled, another person directly forced over and started to wrap up.

Although Kobe Bryant's strength is improving rapidly, his physical exertion is also very serious after three quarters of the game, and he has no good way to crack the way of meeting directly with the Knicks.

So Kobe Bryant can only choose to pass.

Eddie Jones still came over to pick up Kobe Bryant in a very timely manner, and he received Kobe's pass and jumped on the spot.

Jones, who had made a total of seven shots in the first three quarters, suddenly got his hands on the shot, and his mid-range shot went into the net very neatly.

With this goal, the Lakers managed to lead the Knicks by two points.

Immediately after Ewing served to Childs, he didn't expect Jones to steal the ball directly in Childs's hand, and then Jones came directly again with a two-handed frame dunk.

The audience applauded!