After a little thought, Tony found a way to deal with this big guy, but it wasn't complicated, he just had to play as a defender. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

As the referee tosses the ball high into the air, the game begins and both sides begin to jump the ball.

Mulesan won the jump ball without much effort, and Tony could only reach his forearm when he jumped, much to Tony's secret horror.

Ball possession of the Bullets.

Strickland dribbled quickly across the half-court and when his teammates were in place, he handed the ball to Webb.

Webb was almost crushing Jones in height, he received the ball, and then used his wide body to hit it twice, and then went straight to the jumper, and Jones couldn't interfere with Webb too much.

However, Webber's hand was not good, his jumper smashed out of the frame, but the rebound was snatched by Howard, and then he made a layup to take the lead and won two points for the bullets.

Toney was dominated by Murraysanka, and he couldn't even see where the rebound was bounced.

However, he was not in a hurry, and after sending the ball to Fisher, Fisher dribbled across the half-court.

Following the team's tactics, Fisher dribbled for a few seconds before handing the ball to Toney, who was seated near the free-throw line.

Toney received the ball, turned to face Muresan, he glanced around and found that Webber was pinned down by Jones near the bottom corner three-point line on the left side, and Howard, who was a little closer to him, was also pinned down by Hawley, and the Lakers players were creating a one-on-one opportunity for him.

Tony had already made a decision in his heart, he dribbled steadily, his shoulders shook regularly, and Muresan stood motionless in front of Tony, like a giant tower.

Suddenly, Tony activated.

He flicked his shoulders and feints in reality to directly deceive Muresan's center of gravity, and then a change of direction breakthrough quickly passed Muresan, who lost his center of gravity, of course, this speed is only for Muresan.

Murraysan stood there as if he was a senile dementia, waiting for a second before he reacted and turned back to make up for it, although his speed was a little slower, but he was still able to cause some disturbance to Tony with his super long height.

It's just that Tony had already expected that he couldn't get rid of Murraysan so easily, so he quickly went around to the other side of the basket and came up with a backhand one-arm dunk.

Juwan Howard had already seen Tony pass Muresan before, and he hurriedly threw Hawley over to make up for Toney, but it was too late, and Tony had already dunked.

Surprisingly, though, as soon as Tony scored the goal, the Bullets immediately called a timeout.

In fact, the Lakers are not very afraid of the Bullets' three-high lineup, because the three-point lineup of power forward Hawley is very stable, and the Lakers' lineup is a big and four small lineup, all four of them stand on the outside, and the inside line is all handed over to Tony alone. The Lakers' outside lineup configuration is also very reasonable, Fisher and Hawley can both hit open three-pointers steadily, Kobe Bryant's breakthrough can tear up the defense, and Jones is a very well-rounded team offensive engine.

Although putting Hawley directly on the outside will greatly reduce the Lakers' control of rebounds, the position of Hawley and Jones directly pulls Webb and Howard out of the restricted area, and in fact, only Tony and Mulesan are left on the inside to wrestle with each other.

In this way, the Bullets' three-high plastic surgery is actually not too dominant, on the contrary, because the pursuit of height will naturally sacrifice speed, and the Lakers can play defensive counterattacks.

Coach Linam of the Bullets quickly noticed this, and he quickly changed the team's defensive strategy.

Coach Linham adopted a zone-based defensive strategy, and instead of letting his two big men run around with the Lakers' Hawley and Jones, he had Webber and Murraysan each guard one side of the box, and the other three each guarding an area on the outside.

And he ordered the players to wrap up Tony as soon as he received the ball, even if Tony passed the ball out of the line for the Lakers to shoot three points, it would be fine, as long as Tony was choked, they could be said to have choked the Lakers' life. So he decided to take a gamble that betting on the Lakers' three points wouldn't kill them.

In fact, Linam's decision was very correct, and after continuing to return to the game, Tony was indeed restrained.

The combination of Murraysan and Webb was on either side of the Bullets' box, and whenever Tony received the ball, Juwan Howard would come and harass him, so that Tony could not effectively break through Murraysan's tall frame.

"The Bullets seem to have completely given up on perimeter defense, so crazy to flank Toney, aren't they afraid of being blown up by three-point shots?" Harris looked at everything that was happening on the field in confusion and couldn't help but muttered to himself.

With three minutes left in the first quarter, the Lakers had already made three three-pointers to give a six-point lead over the Bullets at 21:15. But the Bullets don't seem to care about the Lakers' three-pointers, and they are still resolutely pinching Toney.

In less than a section, Tony's physical strength has been exhausted, and he is constantly suffering from bag treatment, which is not easy for Tony.

As a direct consequence of the decline in physical strength, Toney began to make mistakes, and he was gradually unable to pass the ball smoothly to the outside line when he was caught in the bag.

Harris saw Toney's predicament, and he could only call a timeout and replace Toney.

Toney sat on the bench, gasping for air and suffering from the bag, which made him lose the advantage of agility, and in doing so, Muresan's stature became a nightmare for him. His offense was completely blocked, and for so long, except for a dunk in the opening game, Tony didn't score anything in the rest of the game, and he only scored 2 points in 9 minutes on the court.

"Alright, Tony, you've done well enough, let's leave it to your teammates." Harris saw Tony with an angry face, and he patted Tony on the shoulder and comforted him.

Tony's departure, the Bullets reverted to the strategy of man-marking and switching defenses, Linam's purpose was very simple, when Tony was on the court, the Bullets targeted Tony, and Tony went off the court and changed to Kobe.

In fact, the reason why Kobe Bryant's sharp breakthrough accounted for a large part of the reason why the score was behind before, because Tony attracted most of the defensive firepower, and Kobe Bryant's interior line that wanted to kill the bullet can be said to be easy.

Linam's idea was not wrong, but he was wrong, the outside core of the Lakers in today's game was not Kobe, who has averaged 20.3 points per game so far, but Jones, who had just returned from injury.

Harris naturally expected Linam's plan, and he knew very well that the current Kobe Bryant did not have a very good ability to break the defense, so he put the offensive focus on Jones, and Kobe Bryant changed to running without the ball.

At this time, the Bullets team was immediately sad, although to be honest, Kobe's off-ball running is actually not top-notch.

But!

The lineup of bullets is a three-high lineup!

Kobe Bryant is like a loach, only a few big men on the bullet team can only be seen scurrying around, and with Murraysan as a live target, Kobe Bryant can't easily shake off Carlbert Channey, who is staring at him.