"Chris, you're embarrassed right now, this doesn't look like you were during the regular season."

On May 9, 2005, the first game of the second round of the playoffs between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Raptors was seen by many as a game of offense, and when the game started, the trend of the game was indeed the same.

Whether it is the Los Angeles Lakers playing at home or the Raptors playing away, the offense of these two teams is quite good, and more importantly, the score of the two teams is not as many people expected before the game The Lakers will defeat the Raptors with a similar style to them, but the two are caught in the struggle, at least in terms of scores.

"Yes, it's really embarrassing" Chris Webber looked at Kwame Brown, who had just pressed him under the basket and hit a basket to tie the score again, Webber was a little helpless at this time, the Raptors' young interior line was much more mature than when he first met him in the regular season this season, and the situation at the beginning of the game was actually the same when the two teams met for the first time this season.

Kwame Brown's frontcourt rebounding ability almost blew the Lakers thoroughly, but at that time, when Webb followed Zhuang Fei's instructions and Kwame Brown had more entanglement and physical contact, the league's best defensive player last season, who was extremely good at defending O'Neal and was almost famous for his defense, was basically lost directly, and Kwame Brown at that time was easily influenced by others, but now, just one season, when Webb repeated his old tricks, there was basically not much effect.

It's just that for Webb, when this game came to this, he was more tragic to find that he actually lost to Kwame Brown. Even if he has a presence on the offensive end, Kwame Brown will certainly not be as flashy as Weber. But in this game, he suppressed Webb enough.

"Chris. It doesn't matter, isn't the game just beginning? You see, the coach didn't also signal us on the sidelines that we just need to play according to our original style of play and don't care about so many things. We will definitely win this game" Hardaway looked at Zhuang Fei, who was sitting on the sidelines with his hands pressed down with his hands on the sidelines, signaling the Lakers players to be calm, and then patted Webber's shoulder and said, and after Hardaway finished speaking, Webb also nodded.

He never doubted that his team would lose this game, so when he thought about it, the core of the Lakers' offensive organization also took a long breath, driven out by the anger caused by Kwame Brown's constant snatching. And at this time, the first quarter of the game between the two sides also continued.

"Coach. Do you think we should increase the height of the inside a little bit, Chris alone can't grab Kwame Brown, and if it goes on like this, it won't make us lose, but it will be difficult for us to win," Stephen Green said to Zhuang Fei with some suggestions. It's just that at this time, in the face of Green's suggestion, Zhuang Fei didn't say much.

It's useless for any team to lose their backcourt rebounds like they did against the Lakers today, even if the team is made up of Jordan or Magic, and in this case, the Los Angeles Lakers and Grizzlies, who played well in the first quarter, were tied again when both teams traded substitute rotation players in the first quarter. And this also made several main players of the Lakers who came down from the court a little depressed.

Although according to Zhuang Fei's instructions, as long as the team maintains such a style, the Raptors will not be able to withstand it sooner or later. But I can't stand it, and now the strength of this team is amazing.

"The Raptors are a little underrated by us. Kwame's frontcourt rebounds and Cameron's constant shooting are a perfect match," Kenny Smith, the TNT commentator in the stands, also said with some surprise after the main players of both sides went off the court.

"Well, if Kwame Brown is only in rebounding or offensive rebounding, he is not much different from me and Rodman back then, he is the same as us, if this little guy can perform like in the last series, this Raptors may really be able to create a miracle here," after Kenny Smith finished speaking, Barkley also agreed.

When the starters on both sides are off the court, the lineup rotation on the Los Angeles Lakers' side is five up and five, and on the Raptors' side, Mobley and Anthony all stay on the court, unlike the Lakers, they don't have the depth of the bench like the Lakers, when they see that the Lakers and the Raptors have almost no point difference, and they can already see that this game is possible, then any team will not easily give up this situation, in this case, With the exception of Mobley, who was substituted midway through the first quarter and rested for a while, the team was presumably ready for Anthony to play 48 minutes in this game.

And when Anthony and Mobley took the Raptors' bench players on the court to play with Paul, Jackson and Josh Smith, Bobby Simmons and Morsera Williams on the Lakers bench, Raptors head coach Sam Mitchell on the sidelines was actually extremely surprised.

Of course, he knows that the Lakers' bench depth is the strongest in the league, and this team has not used the bench to win games this season, and in this case, he is naturally very well prepared for this team, especially when the two teams are tied at 35 after the end of the first quarter, which makes him firm in this use of Mobley and Anthony in this game.

In this case, he not only hopes to play in the same rotation as the Lakers, but also hopes that Mobley and Anthony can take advantage of the Raptors, if this game can beat the Lakers, then the impact on the Lakers is enough to affect the outcome of this series, if the Raptors can take advantage of the Lakers' loss and this will make them extremely chaotic to enter the next round, then this is a very valuable thing to gamble.

It's just obvious that Sam Mitchell, who wants to take the lead in the first half, as the second quarter of the game progressed, when the score gap between the two sides still did not widen, the head coach of the Raptors also became a little anxious, if it dragged on like this, this would definitely be bad for the Raptors, at this time the head coach of the Raptors looked at Chris Paul who was not a little chaotic with the Lakers players on the court and sighed, if this year's best rookie can come to his Raptors, Then this Raptors will play a more beautiful basketball.

Of course, Sam Mitchell was very surprised by Paul's performance at this time, but the Lakers head coach Zhuang Fei on the side was not on Paul's body at this time, in the case of such an anxious score between the two sides, the Lakers' head coach kept smiling and gently pinching his chin as if he was thinking about something, but the Lakers assistant coach Green next to him was more involved and kept shouting something on the court.

"Judging from the current situation, Sam Mitchell's gamble does not seem to have very effect, especially since they just finished the tie-break game with the SuperSonics the day before yesterday, and now this kind of rotation has a great negative impact on this team, if the Raptors have no way to pull the score away, the next game will be a little dangerous" When the game slowly deepened in the second quarter, and the main players on both sides were about to come back, Kenny Smith also said with some regret.

For him personally, Sam Mitchell is a little anxious, it is not yet the moment of the decisive battle, as the weak side, this team performed very well at the beginning of the game, Sam Mitchell's arrangement is also in place, not entangled too much with the Lakers, the Lakers play the Lakers' offense, he Raptors play their own offense, and this effect is also very good, such a position is very positive, this is also because he himself also looked down on his team before the game, but now, When some chances arose to win, the Raptors' head coach couldn't hold on to them.

"No wonder now even the Raptors seem to be running crazy forward in the game, and the Lakers are running behind, but this Chinese is not in a hurry at all" After Kenny Smith finished speaking, Barkley nodded somewhat approvingly.

"I remember Coach Z's first year in the NBA, when he played the Jazz in the second round of the playoffs in 1999, this is how he dragged down the Jazz, of course, the Raptors and the Jazz are different, the Jazz players were too old back then, and the current Raptors are because they played a tie-break in the first round, and there is not much time to recuperate, but the same thing is that both Sam Mitchell and Jerry Sloan did what Coach Z wanted, but it is a little unrealistic for Coach Z to rely on this method to drag down the Raptors like he did back then, After all, Raptors players are young, and they won't collapse even if they are tired."

When Kenny Smith finished speaking, the starters of both sides also played again when there was still half of the second quarter, this time after the two sides played, the Los Angeles Lakers still played tepidly, and they didn't seem to think about pulling the score away, nor did they think about overtaking the Raptors to let the Raptors chase them, but kept hanging the Raptors, or kept dragging the team, just not giving the Raptors a chance to breathe. Especially when the Lakers players seem to be able to hang the score easily, and the Raptors players need to give it their all to keep the score of the two teams even, the situation on the court has actually changed.

"It seems that this game is really a little taken for granted" When the game ended at halftime, the head coach of the Raptors looked at the score of 68-67 on the long side, the Raptors temporarily led the Lakers by one point, and when he looked back again and saw the Raptors players coming off the court sweating profusely and panting, the head coach of the Raptors also shook his head helplessly.

"Since you have chosen to fight, then let's fight to the end" (to be continued.) For mobile phone users, please go to read. )