"I'm rubbing! No way! You're chasing so fast! Paul was a little dumbfounded, he really didn't know how Roy, who was supposed to be the furthest away from the Hornets backcourt, could come back so quickly.

Roy picked up the basketball and turned around and rushed over, and the Lakers players were stunned to find that what was originally a proper 2-on-1 rhythm somehow suddenly became 4-on-3, and unfortunately, the Lakers were the 3.

Roy quickly rushed inside, drew the Lakers' Howard defense, and then immediately passed the ball to Gasol, who took the ball and used his long arm to lift the basketball into the basket.

The counterattack failed and was successfully beaten by the Hornets, and the pressure on the Lakers suddenly doubled, and a lot of game time had passed at this time, but the Lakers did not have a tendency to bring the score closer. If they continue at this pace, the Lakers are likely to lose this game.

At this time, Kobe Bryant is often the first person to stand up, in fact, since O'Neal left, Kobe has been guarding the Lakers in this way, and now if you calculate carefully, it has been ten years long.

Kobe Bryant didn't let Paul pass him a particularly brilliant pass, nor did he let Howard and others be a dismantling for him, but simply stood outside the three-point line with the ball in both hands.

For no reason, Wang Meng suddenly felt a great pressure, which even Wang Meng had never encountered when he and Kobe Bryant fought bullfights every day during the Lakers period.

"What!" Wang Meng just wanted to reflect, but suddenly saw Kobe Bryant jump up and throw the basketball in his hand.

"Oops! One step slower! Wang Meng was taken aback, but he couldn't catch up, Wang Meng's feat of continuously blocking the two just now, of course, relied on an instantaneous explosion to do it, overuse of instantaneous explosion, has made Wang Meng's body very tired, Kobe Bryant's sudden jump was beyond Wang Meng's expectations, and it also made Wang Meng unable to keep up with Kobe for a while.

"Huh!" Kobe Bryant hit the ball steadily, and Kobe, who scored three points, didn't even look back, and turned around to defend directly.

"I'm rubbing! You're going to shoot three points! Wang Meng angrily took Oden's serve and came to the Lakers' three-point line.

Also facing Kobe's defense, Wang Meng also jumped up on the spot and threw the basketball against Kobe's defense.

"This ball can't be there!" Kobe Bryant had already settled down when he was defending, and he knew very well that when Wang Meng was shooting, his hand had definitely completely covered Wang Meng's line of sight, and in this case, Wang Meng's possible surname for wanting to throw this ball could still be very small.

"Huh!" But it's not nothing, on the basketball court, any miracle has happened, Maddie has had a 35.13-point feat, Fisher has also had a 0.2-second stunner against the Spurs, Wang Meng just threw a three-pointer, compared to what he showed is not even as rebellious as he imagined.

On the surface, this is indeed the case, but as Wang Meng himself, he actually heard the prompt sound of the system at the moment of shooting.

"Ding, one hit will hit the passive skill trigger, this skill is refreshed successfully, and it can be used again."

Wang Meng's heart moved, that's right, in order to ensure the hit rate of this shot, Wang Meng has already used the skill of hitting with one hit, but he didn't expect that God would make this skill refreshed??!!

"Now, this game is stable." Wang Meng thought so.

After Wang Meng scored three points, the Lakers did not make another achievement on the offensive end, Paul grabbed a three-point shot from the outside, was interfered with by Roy and missed the shot, Howard pressed Odengasol to grab the offensive rebound, but after passing to the outside, Kobe Bryant received the ball and shot again and missed.

Immediately after Wang received Oden's rebound, he dribbled to the frontcourt, and after overpowering the game time to the limit of 24 seconds, he pulled out his hand again at the three-point line, and this time, he still used a hit to hit it. The basketball hits again.

Now the pressure on the Lakers has increased exponentially, Wang Meng's two consecutive three-pointers have pulled the already some points difference even more, the game time at the moment is extremely short, the Lakers have long lost their leisurely mentality, whether it is Kobe Bryant, who is very serious in itself, or Howard, who is smiling before the start of the game, or Paul, who has always remained flat, are nervous at this moment.

But this kind of thing can't be solved by just being nervous, and the Lakers finally managed to hit a three-pointer from the outside Paul from the outside, but Gasol of the Hornets followed up with a strong score inside.

There was only one minute left in the game, but the difference between the two sides was still more than 5 points.

The Lakers finally began to use foul tactics, but under Wang Meng's stable free throws, foul tactics were not as effective as imagined.

Wang Meng made all 6 shots and scored 6 points under the Lakers' foul tactics, which officially ended the Lakers' loss in this game.

In the first game of the second round of the playoffs in the 13th season, the Hornets vs the Lakers, and in the end, the Hornets successfully defended their home-court advantage and won the game.

As the biggest hero of this game, Wang Meng contributed 41 points and 8 assists in this game, but in the face of Kobe's full-court marking, Wang Meng scored 41 points, once again proving that Kobe Bryant couldn't prevent him.

As Kobe Bryant, who is opposite Wang Meng, he did not lose too much to Wang Meng in terms of data, with 26 points and 5 assists, Kobe's data is also dazzling, but the losing side is not qualified to talk about the quality of the data.

Howard is the Lakers' highest-scoring player, and in this game, he was able to score 29 points and 15 rebounds under the defense of the Hornets' two top interior lines, which shows that the nickname of the league's No. 1 center is not called in vain.

Paul, who is also a big big three, got a big double-double of 20 points and 15 assists, but this double-double is still a little bleak compared with Wang Meng.

As the winner, on the Hornets' side, in addition to Wang Meng's 41 points and 8 assists, the most outstanding performance was not the Hornets' second-in-command Gasol, but the non-starter Roy, Roy's playing time in this game was still 25 minutes, and it did not change, but in terms of data, Roy got 23 points and 6 assists, which was much better than Gasol's 19 points and 8 rebounds.

In addition, the Hornets' other important players can also be said to have scored, Gasol 19 points and 8 rebounds, Oden 15 points and 12 rebounds, Wallace 17 points. In any case, winning this game, the Hornets players are relieved, and against the Lakers, an old powerhouse in the league, the pressure on the Hornets is no better than when they play against the Clippers. It's not an easy race.

Fortunately, the Hornets won in the end.

As one of those who watched the whole game, Johnson described it this way.

"This game is a very intense game, the battle of the outside players is the key, and in the end, the key point that the two sides will decide the outcome of the game is still the three points on the outside." Magic Johnson said so, and O'Neal, who was also a spectator, said the exact opposite of Johnson.

"This game is a bloody fight on the inside. In any game, the competition for inside rebounds is the key, and this game is no exception, Gasol Oden of the Hornets and Howard of the Lakers are trying their best to grab rebounds, and finally Gasol and Oden of the Hornets teamed up to win 20 rebounds, and although Howard of the Lakers scored 15 rebounds alone, the performance of his teammates was obviously poor, Kenyon Martin and Jamison, the two big forwards, lacked absolute hard work in the rebounding rush, and finally only grabbed 4 rebounds by one person, That's not enough for the Lakers. As soon as O'Neal talked about this game, he shook his head and looked like an expert professor, "Howard's performance is indeed excellent, but as the pillar of the Lakers' interior line, he can actually do better." First and foremost was his free throws, which I was a little worse than him when I was younger, but I was far more lethal on the inside than he was, and that alone offset my weaknesses. ”

"Howard had 15 free throws in this game, but he only managed to take seven, which means that he didn't even shoot 50 percent! He'll need to work his free throws during the holidays, and if the Lakers lose the series, Howard's serve will definitely be one of the deadliest problems. ”

Talking about Howard, O'Neal didn't forget to talk about his old teammate, Kobe's performance today.

"Kobe's performance today is impeccable, on the offensive end, he completely shows all the qualities that a player should have, but unfortunately, the current league is no longer the league he was in the past, and the players who suddenly appeared, James, Wang Meng, Durant, these players have surpassed Kobe Bryant, who is no longer in his prime, Kobe Bryant should be old."

As soon as he talked about this, O'Neal couldn't help but sigh, "Actually, Kobe Bryant has long been old, since he tacitly accepted the team to trade Paul Howard to form the Super Big Three, he has been old, and Ken and other stars form a team to compete for the championship, proving that he has lost the domineering spirit that won the championship on his own." ”

Regardless of what one thinks, the first match between the two sides ended like this. At the same time, the matches of other teams in the league are also being played one after another.

The other two teams in the West, the Spurs and the Thunder, the first game of the Thunder relied on the double star Durant and Westbrook to win 61 points, away victory over the Spurs, this game the Spurs did not adapt to the Thunder's fast small ball tactics, whether it is Duncan or Yao Ming is difficult to keep up with the pace of the Thunder's young players, the entire tactical system has not been successfully played, losing the game is a matter of course, but when the Spurs are properly adjusted, there is still a chance to win.

The Western Hornets 1:0 Lakers, Thunder 1:0 Spurs, while the Western Conference, the Heat 1:0 Nets, the Pacers 1:0 Knicks.

But immediately, the score changed dramatically, and after two games, the eight-team winning and losing game became the Hornets 2:1 Lakers, the Spurs 2:1 Thunder, the Heat 3:0 Nets, and the Knicks 2:1 Pacers.

In addition to the Heat's 3:0 early victory, the other teams' games are still in the competition of Jiazhuo.

The second game between the Hornets and the Lakers is still the home court of the Hornets, but this game Phil Jackson made very positive tactical adjustments, so that the Lakers opened the score gap at the beginning, the Hornets have been in a state of chasing points, but the score has been slow to catch up, even if Wang Meng opened an instant outbreak crazy cut 8 points in a row, the Lakers were still able to easily cut the same score at the same time, Howard made better adjustments to the defense of Gasol and Oden after the first game, And the cooperation of Kobe and Paul on the outside is also more proficient.

Although Roy led the Hornets' bench players to narrow the gap between the two teams to less than 2 points when he came on the bench, it was a pity that this score was soon caught up by the Lakers.

In the whole game, the closest the Hornets came to the Lakers' point difference was at the end of the fourth quarter, Wang Meng broke out again and scored consecutive points, relying on the critical moment to use a hit to hit the skill to score four points successfully, Wang Meng even chased the score gap to 1 point, but then Kobe Bryant's three-point shot opened the gap to 4 points.

Despite this, Wang Meng's outburst also made the Lakers break out in a cold sweat, but fortunately, in the end, the Lakers still withstood the pressure, and when the Hornets executed foul tactics at the end, Paul and Kobe Bryant both hit free throws, which also made the Hornets' final counterattack ineffective.

The Lakers pulled the score back to 1-1, and in the next game, the Lakers will face the Hornets at their home stadium, Staples Arena.

Getting a win at the Hornets' home court was supposed to be an absolute advantage in the eyes of the Lakers, but soon the Lakers didn't think so, because in the first game of their home court, the Lakers lost again.

The Hornets are no strangers to the Staples Arena, in fact, the Lakers are exactly the same in the Staples Arena except for the slightly different floor and the Clippers, and the Hornets players who have played several games in the first round are already very familiar with this arena, which also leads to the fact that in this arena, the Hornets players are very poor.

Wang Meng scored a game-high 35 points, Gasol Oden combined for 31 points and 23 rebounds, Roy scored 20 points and 7 assists again, and the Hornets won the first game at the Lakers' Staples Arena, which also allowed Wang Meng to recover a little bit from the disadvantage of losing a game at home.

Of course, this is not to say that the Lakers' home court is not difficult, in fact, although the Lakers' home court and the Clippers' home court are both Staples Arena, but whether it is the stadium atmosphere or the support of the fans, the Clippers cannot be compared with the Lakers, the Lakers have accumulated prestige in Los Angeles for many years, and the Clippers, a new team entering the league, can be compared, even if the Clippers have Griffin and Harden in recent years, and their popularity has gradually increased, but there is still a big gap compared with an old powerhouse like the Lakers.

(To be continued)