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With both free throws, the Lakers temporarily led 4-0.

However, the Trail Blazers also quickly fought back, Kenny Anderson broke through the Lakers' interior to attract Hawley's bag, and then he assisted Rasheed Wallace for a dunk, and the two sides fell behind by one point at 13-14 halfway through the first quarter.

The two sides were locked in a stalemate, and with the Lakers gradually losing their advantage, Harris called a timeout.

He replaced Hawley with Campbell, who didn't feel very good today, couldn't play a good role in opening up space, but dragged down the Lakers' interior defense, so he might as well use Campbell to consolidate the team's interior line.

Harris's substitution worked wonders, and Campbell was in good shape as soon as he came on the court today, grabbing an offensive rebound and dunking the ball into the basket after Fisher hit a shot.

He then defended Wallace and went to the basket for a three-second violation.

With Campbell's excellent performance, the Lakers immediately built a five-point lead, and Callesimo immediately called a timeout, not expecting his side's advantage to be disrupted by a Lakers bench.

He quickly rearranged the strategy of the offensive.

As the game continued, the Lakers clearly felt that the Trail Blazers' Anderson and Ryder were attacking the basket more.

They were very decisive on the break, Fisher and Kobe Bryant worked hard defensively, but the Trail Blazers had a bunch of tall players with very high quality pick-and-rolls, and as soon as Anderson and Ryder cut inside, the Lakers immediately passed the ball to Wallace or Sabonis under the basket as soon as someone came out to defend them.

Relying on this, Sabonis and Wallace have really scored a lot of points so far.

But fortunately, Kobe Bryant's offensive form is very good, and he has scored points in consecutive single-handedly beats to Ryder.

At the end of the first quarter, the two sides were tied at 25:25.

Bryant had eight points on 3-of-6 shooting in the first quarter, in addition to three assists. Tony also had 5 points and 3 rebounds, and the two of them accounted for half of the team's scores.

"Fortify your defense! Don't let them break through too easily! Harris shouted loudly, the stadium was so lively now that he had to speak loudly for the players to hear him.

The two sides switched to a second lineup in the second quarter.

In this life-and-death battle, the two teams are completely all-out in the game, even the second team played wonderfully, and the two sides did not distinguish the winner for a while, but the depth of the Lakers' bench lineup is still slightly better than that of the Trail Blazers, Byron Scott and Elden Campbell have become a mini version of Kobe and Toney's combination, they played several good combinations, and the Lakers slowly regained the initiative.

Halfway through the second quarter, the Lakers led by four points at 38:34.

The match goes into an official timeout.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the two sides re-entered the starting line-up.

As soon as he came on the court, Toni hit a good ball that was amazing, he received a pass from the outside, he half turned around and was about to burst, Sabonis hurriedly stuck to his body, but Toni just dribbled and stopped, and then grabbed the ball and turned back to the original place, Sabonis couldn't control the huge body, due to inertia others involuntarily leaned towards the basket.

deceived Sabonis, Tony was empty in front of him, but his current action can only be shot with his non-dominant left hand, fortunately, Tony's basket with his left hand is not very bad, and he naturally hits this kind of empty shot.

The audience erupted in exclamation with Tony's action, as a big man, he was able to play this kind of guard work, which is undoubtedly very eye-catching.

Tony was also proud, he actually didn't expect that he would be able to deceive Sabonis so neatly.

However, no matter how fancy the action is, the shooting is only 2 points, and it will not add any bonus because of the beautiful action.

The Trail Blazers didn't feel anything about the ball, and they continued to execute their team's tactics meticulously.

Hawley still can't get back his touch, which has a very big impact on the Lakers' offense, if it's okay in normal times, but in this kind of most critical game, it's very fatal, the Lakers' offense can't be opened, and they can only rely on individual offense to maintain the situation, although they still maintain the lead, but it looks like the Lakers are very difficult.

Harris stood on the sidelines, watching the offense and defense of both sides, his face remained calm, but his heart was already full of gloom.

He can see Hawley's aberration, but he doesn't have much to do about it, Campbell is indeed in better shape than him today, but Campbell also has a lot of things that Hawley can't do, and he only has no cooperation with the starter, and putting him in the starting line can only be done as a stopgap measure, and it will hurt the team's chemistry for a long time.

Now he can only hold on and look forward to Hawley's return to form.

By the end of the first half, the Lakers' lead was already in jeopardy, with them leading by just two points at 54-52.

In the players' dressing room, Hawley was not in good spirits and sat silent.

In the entire first half of today's game, he only scored 3 points on 1-of-7 shooting, and his performance can be said to have hurt the team, if he can make a few more shots, the Lakers will definitely not be in such a stalemate as they are now.

"Hey! Robert, brace yourself. Tony saw Hawley's loss and blame, and he walked over to Hawley and put his hand on Hawley's shoulder.

Hawley has rarely played like this all season, and the more critical the game, the more consistent Hawley's performance becomes, he has always played the role of reassurance for the team, no one could have expected Hawley to happen today, and Tony did not know how to comfort him.

Hawley's eyes were a little dazed, and he stared at his hands that had betrayed him, and he was stunned.

Harris didn't know when he had appeared in front of Hawley, and he motioned for Tony to leave, and he wanted to speak to Hawley alone.

"Robert." When Tony got out of the way, Harris sat down, "What are you bothered about?" ”

"Del, you put me off the bench in the second half, I really couldn't shoot today." Hawley said dejectedly.

Harris looked at Hawley quietly, he could see that Hawley had really been defeated by himself today, and no one would be willing to give up the starting position, and Hawley would say this to show that he had really lost confidence in himself.

After a long time, he sighed, and he acquiesced to Hawley's statement.

It's not that Harris doesn't want to give Hawley another chance, but this game is too important, he doesn't want any variables, and Hawley's current state really shouldn't continue to stay in the starting lineup.

"Anyway, Robert, don't lose yourself."

With that, Harris got up and left.

At the same time, the glimmer of hope in Hawley's eyes, which was still faintly flickering, was completely extinguished with Harris's words.