Phil Jackson finally chose to replace the main team, but instead of replacing all of them, he replaced Kobe Bryant. The physical strength of the outside players is generally better than that of the inside players. Except in extremely exceptional circumstances.

This point is no exception to Chen Jiyuan's body, even if Chen Jiyuan's physical strength is outstanding among the big players, but it is still worse than the outside stars, for example, James and the like, he played for forty-five or six minutes at every turn, and Chen Jiyuan couldn't do this.

Kobe Bryant also played a full game in the first quarter. So if the second quarter continues, Phil Jackson should find a time to rest Kobe Bryant after the situation on the court changes.

But now the team needs Kobe Bryant to come on the court and do something.

The effect of Phil Jackson's replacement of Kobe Bryant was immediate.

Although Barnes defends very well, he is also very compact with Kobe. But Kobe Bryant's hand feels very good, so there is no way.

After Kobe Bryant came on the court, the Lakers' offense was really fine.

However, the key thing is that you can't prevent these two guys from the Knicks' outside line.

I don't know what kind of medicine the Knicks' shooters took today, but they were very excited anyway, and the accuracy was also great.

The starters are not very visible, but when it comes to the bench, Ibaka also has a mid-range shot, and Thorton and Curry also have three-pointers. The Lakers' defense is absolutely top-notch, but it's as if everyone has a skill pack that ignores the Lakers' defense. What's the matter? This happens, for many years, once or twice.

But veteran Phil Jackson is well aware that this doesn't usually last, and it's impossible to keep that touch for the entire game. The Knicks' shooters are bound to have a time when they lose their touch.

And at that time, it was the Lakers' chance to win, and as long as the Lakers seized this opportunity, then it was very possible to equalize, no, or even overtake the score.

Now what Phil Jackson has to do is to wait for the opportunity to come, while encouraging his players, let his players keep the competition motivated, otherwise, when the opportunity comes, his players have given up the game, then GG Smecta,

In the second half of the second quarter of the game, the Lakers were led by Kobe, but they did not catch up with the score, and could only keep the score as much as possible without being stretched.

At halftime, the Knicks still led with a score of 59:47. There is actually no problem on the offensive end of the Lakers today, the only problem is the offensive end of the Knicks.

And as Phil Jackson guessed, this state of affairs is indeed not going to last.

Otherwise, the Knicks would have rushed all the way to the Finals, and then easily pressed the championship trophy and went home for the New Year.

At the beginning of the third quarter, the Knicks' shooters were really a little out of standard.

Curry, who was very eye-catching in the second quarter, was still sent on the court during this period of time to defend Fisher, while Kobe Bryant was defended by Sessions. This can be regarded as a trust of Thibodeau in Sessions. This Sessions isn't the Sessions of that world. The inner changes are not visible to others.

Thibodeau is still more important to Sessions' defense.

The small forward position is for Iguodala to be on top. Power forward Lefou, center Chen Jiyuan. That's the Knicks' lineup at the start of the third quarter.

And the Lakers used almost all of the main lineup, Kobe, Gasol, Bynum, Odom, Fisher.

Odom is the kind of power forward who is very flexible, his feet are very flexible, and he is also very good with the ball, not to mention the power forward, even the guard, Odom can also play. After all, Odom was once known as a left-handed magician by Los Angeles fans.

Curry, Sessions and Iguodala each shot a three-pointer from the outside, but they all missed their crosshairs and missed them.

This is the opportunity that Phil Jackson has been waiting for. To recover lost points, it depends on the performance of the Lakers players during this time period. At this time, the offense must be strong. It would have to be a binge-scoring spree in this time period for the Lakers to set the stage for a final victory.

And that's when Kobe Bryant should make a move. Kobe Bryant really didn't drop the chain at the critical moment, and really began to exert his power.

Kobe Bryant also belongs to the type of person who doesn't care who is defending in front of him once he feels it. This is a bit similar to Chen Jiyuan.

Chen Jiyuan is also like this.

And what's even more the same is that during the time when Kobe Bryant was powerful, Chen Jiyuan was also ignited by the war.

In the short period of time when the Knicks didn't score on the outside, Kobe Bryant hit two three-pointers in a row, and also assisted Gasol on the inside to complete a dunk. The Lakers, who scored 8 points in a row, instantly played with momentum.

During this period, the Knicks only Chen Jiyuan scored two points on the rebound. 61:55。

Although the Knicks are still leading by 6 points, the wind on the court is completely out of favor with the Knicks. The Lakers look like they can overtake the score at any time.

However, if the Lakers want to overtake the score, they have to see if Chen Jiyuan agrees.

Four minutes into the third quarter, the score was 61:55, and the Lakers were in full swing. The Knicks, on the other hand, were a bit demoralized. At this time, Chen Jiyuan felt that he needed to stand up, and he couldn't let the outside players play like this, and Chen Jiyuan almost didn't shoot in the second quarter, because the outside players felt strong enough and hot enough, so Chen Jiyuan took the initiative to grab rebounds, defend, and fight for the opportunity to attack twice.

Now it's time for a change of role.

Kobe Bryant once again held the ball in front of Iguodala and singled, Gasol stepped forward to block Kobe, although Chen Jiyuan knew that Kobe would definitely not pass the ball, but he didn't dare to completely empty Gasol.

The Knicks' defensive strategy is to let Chen Jiyuan defend Gasol, who has stronger offensive ability, because if Lefu goes to defend, not only is he a little disadvantaged in height, but he can't be called, Gasol is also relatively good, Lefu is easy to be found by Gasol, so he still chooses to let Chen Jiyuan defend Gasol and let Lefu defend Bynum, after all, Bynum's pace is not so fast and flexible.

This is something that Thibodeau decided to do later. Originally, the No. 4 position defended the No. 4 position, and the No. 5 position defended the No. 5 position.

However, it was found that Lefou's defense against Gasol was not very effective. Therefore, Thibodeau decided to let Chen Jiyuan defend Gasol, Chen Jiyuan completely proved himself in the series with the Celtics, when defending Garnett, and he definitely has the strength to freeze the opponent's interior offensive weapon. You can help the team more than just on the offensive end. It's okay on the defensive end as well.

Lefu is still good when defending Bynum, Bynum's body is also relatively strong, and he relies more on a strong body, and Lefu does not lack the capital of physical confrontation at all. It's used to defend Bynum, although the difference in height is a little too much, but it may work wonders.

Chen Jiyuan didn't let go of Gasol, Kobe Bryant over there caught a little opportunity and made a jump shot directly, Kobe's backward jumper is really quite a bit of Joe's gang leader, Kobe's backward jumper, if it is not judged in advance and the correct timing of Kobe's shot, then it is almost impossible to block Kobe's jump shot, which is also the reason why Battier later used eye-sealing tactics most of the time when defending Kobe.

Because it doesn't make much sense to blindly pursue an impossible cap.

61:57。

The score difference was only 4 points, and the Knicks attacked again, Chen Jiyuan stuck Bynum defending himself in the low post, and then reached out for the ball.

Although Bynum is very strong, Chen Jiyuan's body did not grow up eating pickles.

After Chen Jiyuan was about to reach the ball, he made an extremely fast shoulder shaking feint, which looked like he was going to go to the bottom line, and Bynum only saw the bastard in front of him swaying his shoulders for a while, and the reflex nerves didn't have time to react too much, and his body instinctively focused on the direction of the bottom line.

And Chen Jiyuan was waiting for you, Chen Jiyuan quickly walked in the middle direction after shaking his shoulders.

This ball, Gasol was not far from the position under the basket, and he also saw Chen Jiyuan holding the ball, so he let go of Lefu early and prepared to come over to help defend Chen Jiyuan.

Bynum quickly changed the direction of his body's center of gravity, and also chased after Chen Jiyuan.

But Bynum has lost his defensive position, and this ball, very defensively.

After Chen Jiyuan came to the position of the reasonable collision area, he jumped directly, Bynum, who chased from the left, and Gasol, who made up from the right, both of them also jumped.

The three of them were in the air, but Chen Jiyuan didn't care about this and that. When Lao Tzu wanted to dunk, God couldn't stop me. This is the belief that Chen Jiyuan holds.

One left and one right stretched out two hands to block Chen Jiyuan's ball, and as time progressed little by little, the two hands also rushed towards the ball on Chen Jiyuan's right hand little by little.

Chen Jiyuan, who grabbed the ball with one hand, made a ferocious effort with his arm and quickly let the ball run to the basket.

Before being blocked by Bynum and Gasol, Chen Jiyuan pressed the ball directly into the basket.

This dunk has greatly boosted the team's morale.

After landing, Chen Jiyuan, facing the sidelines, slapped his chest twice, showing his excitement and his high fighting spirit.

Then Chen Jiyuan quickly returned to the defense.