Just over halfway through the second quarter, Tony and Ewing had already scored 13 and 14 points respectively, and the two did not separate the winners, but the Lakers had gradually begun to fall behind at this time, and the score was now 38-43. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Harris anxiously watched the situation on the court, he had already called a timeout, but he still couldn't stop the Lakers from gradually falling into the upper hand, but fortunately, the Lakers' offensive touch today was not bad, although they couldn't prevent the Knicks, but they didn't fall too far behind.

At this moment, Tony had just received an assist from Kobe Bryant on the court, and he forced the ball into the basket under the basket, and he also caused Ewing's foul.

Harris saw that the Lakers' players were running out of energy, so he made some substitution decisions, sending Byron Scott and Campbell to replace Kobe and Hawley.

Kobe Bryant's performance is actually very good, he has scored 12 points so far in 5 of 8, but most of them are taken in the first quarter, and in the second quarter due to Tony's large number of singles, he does not have much offense, rather than wasting his energy on the court, he should take this opportunity to replace him for a rest.

Byron Scott has more experience than Kobe, and he has at least a bigger role than Kobe Bryant in the game right now.

Toniga hit a free throw and the ball was in the hands of the Knicks.

Childes still cooperated to give the ball to Ewing, because he had just eaten a foul, and now Ewing was thinking about how to fight back.

Ewing received a pass, leaned in on Tony behind him, and then began to play back.

Ewing's technique is very stable, and Tony knows that if he doesn't make any attempts, he will definitely get Ewing to eat one alone, so he tries to bypass and intercept it. But he was soon blocked back by Ewing.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Ewing turned around directly, bypassing Tony, and he made a small throw with one hand, but unfortunately missed, but he immediately jumped up again quickly and grabbed the offensive rebound again.

Ewing is simply a rebounding maniac today, so far, he has picked up ten rebounds, although Tony is not bad, with 7 boards, but he is still a little inferior to Ewing.

Toney had come to his senses, and he immediately returned to the defensive position after Ewing grabbed the rebound again, and due to his interference, Ewing didn't get too many shots, and he could only pass the ball out.

Alan Houston ran out of the open space, and Byron Scott's speed obviously couldn't catch up with him, so Allan received the ball smoothly and he immediately hit a jumper.

His shooting stance is very standard, and the basketball falls into the basket steadily.

With Allan's jumper, the score also came to 41:45, and the Knicks still led by four points.

The game went on for a few more minutes, Ewing's physical strength gradually began to decline a little, he had missed three consecutive shots, Jeff Van Gundy called a timeout immediately, anyway, the Knicks still maintain the lead, he can let Ewing rest a little longer, Harris also put Kobe Bryant back on the court, because he found that Scott, an old man, was almost run and broke his leg in the face of the young and vigorous Allan, and he was run out of the open space by Allan several times and scored on a jumper.

However, he also put Hawley back on the court after he saw Ewing go down, and Campbell took Toney's place, and he wanted Tony to keep his strength up to deal with Ewing.

Back to the game, the next few minutes basically became Kobe Bryant's time, and he could still do it against Allan, who was not very good defensively, so Kobe Bryant was able to score jumpers or break layups on his head again and again.

At the end of the second quarter, the Lakers, with Kobe's efforts to chase the score, pressed the score close again, only trailing by two points at 56:58.

In the Knicks' locker room, Ewing had a very serious expression, he was not very satisfied with the team's performance today, and Van Gundy also saw that Ewing seemed to have something to say, and he consciously did not speak.

In any team, a totemic player will always have a higher say in the locker room than the head coach, which is the privilege of being a superstar.

"Guys, cheer up your spirits, our strength is definitely more than that!" Ewing stood up, clapped his hands vigorously, and said loudly. "We're going to have to defend well in the second half, Alain, keep an eye on your guys, don't let Kobe Bryant shoot too easily."

"We're a team that wants to compete for the championship and I want you to be in the mood for the championship every game! If we can't even get a Kobe, then how are we going to face Michael? ”

I have to say that Ewing's reputation in the Knicks is very high, and he temporarily took the place of head coach Van Gundy to point out Alan Houston's shortcomings, and Alan Houston did not have any dissatisfied expression, he nodded silently.

With that, Ewing sat back down, leaving the rest of the day for Van Gundy.

"Okay, Patrick is right, we're going to try to kill their interior and take some pressure off Patrick, Allan you have to increase the breakout, you can't win with shooting alone. Take out our spirit and kick their ass and shares hard! Van Gundy said some words of encouragement to the players and then began to lay out specific tactics for the second half.

The second half began.

The Lakers can feel that compared to the first half, the Knicks' players are much more focused, their defensive pressure on the Lakers has increased a lot, and the shooting percentage of the Lakers team has gradually begun to decline.

However, driven by Tony's continuous offense under the basket, the Lakers still maintained the point difference for a while, and did not let the Knicks successfully pull the score away. Ewing's offensive efficiency also slipped under Toney's hard defense, but he had a good feel for rebounding tonight, grabbing the rebound on several occasions.

By the end of the third quarter, the two sides had reached 77-83, and Ewing had a terrifying 20 points and 17 rebounds. Although Tony steadily suppressed Ewing on the offensive end, he only grabbed 7 rebounds, but fortunately, Hawley has also picked 6 boards, making the Lakers' rebounding disadvantage less obvious.

In the fourth quarter, Harris made a decisive decision, he gave up the Lakers' three-point advantage, replaced Hawley, and sent Campbell to help Tony protect the team's rebounds.

His approach was very effective.

Ewing's frenzied de-escalation momentum was finally suppressed by the combination of Tony and Campbell.

With 30 seconds left in the game, the Lakers finally managed to tie the score at 99 with Jones' breakthrough.

Lakers fans couldn't help but cheer, as if they saw victory beckoning to them.

Childs dribbled past half-court and counted the end of the game, and finally, with 12 seconds left in the game, he and Ewing made a block, Childs made a quick break to attract Fisher and Toney, and then he passed the ball to Ewing in the gap between the two.

Ewing was in the open position when he raised his hand and hit a mid-range shot.

Hit!

The Lakers have only 10 seconds left in the clock.

The Lakers fans, who had just been cheering, fell silent, looking for the team's savior.

Kobe Bryant stepped up!

He didn't choose a pass in the face of Alan Houston and Larry Johnson's double pack, he was a backhand crotch. The next dribble drilled straight out between the two!

Step-back jumper!

Hit!! At the same time the whistle sounds!

The game went into extra time.