"It seems that the New York Knicks are preparing for an eight-man rotation in this game, and Phil Jackson doesn't trust all the New York Knicks players very much"

In the first quarter of the game, both the Los Angeles Lakers and the New York Knicks played extremely high offensive efficiency, especially the Lakers, the peripheral feel is very good, of course, this is mainly because Kobe Bryant's hand is very good, and the New York Knicks Although the peripheral feel is not revealed, as long as the team's offense can basically score, either the first time it is scored, or O'Neal squeezes Webb to grab the second rebound.

And this is also the reason why the New York Knicks were able to fall behind by six points at the beginning of the first quarter but finally caught up with the score in front of the Lakers' strong shooting rate, if you don't count the shooting rate, just count the success rate of each round, the New York Knicks are infinitely close to 100%, which makes people feel extremely frightened, it can be said that Kobe Bryant is in a very bad state in this game, and O'Neal is the same. And this is also the reason why the New York Knicks pressed the rhythm of the game to their side in the first quarter.

"Well, Mutombo doesn't seem to be able to play this game, he doesn't kill on the inside, his pace is slow, he can't bounce, and now he can't face the Los Angeles Lakers There are too many threats" Kenny Smith looked at the Los Angeles Lakers and the New York Knicks on the court and said with some emotion.

In the first quarter, the New York Knicks played well at home, and it can be said that they stabilized the game very well, although the score was tied at the end of the first quarter, but everyone knew that if there was still game time in the first quarter. Sooner or later, the New York Knicks will be able to complete the comeback. The New York Knicks played well on their home court. This is a good thing.

However, this team's five starters played the whole game in the first quarter, and unlike New York, the Los Angeles Lakers continued to rotate in the second half of the first quarter, and the Chinese seemed to care about the situation of the game at all, how to rotate and how to rotate, and when the second quarter began, the Lakers' five starters were all off, and there were only five substitutes on the court, Paul, Jackson, Bobby Simmons. Nocioni and Josh Smith.

As for the New York Knicks, the team's bench lineup still has Marbury and Van Exel, in addition to these two, there are also New York Knicks' meritorious guard Charlie Ward, small forward Shanton Anderson and interior Ocella Harrington, these five people are basically extremely high-quality role players except for Marbury, although it seems a little regrettable that Mutombo does not play, but the New York Knicks' bench is still extremely deep.

"And the New York Knicks' bench lineup put three playmaking guards in the team, which is obviously in order to deal with the Lakers' previous full-court pressing in the second team when facing other teams, it seems that Phil Jackson has indeed studied the Lakers in an all-round way, and almost blocked all possible problems in advance" Finally, Kenny Smith also said with some amazement, Phil Jackson's performance in this game was too surprising, although from the current point of view, Zhuang Fei has not made a move. But there was no doubt that Phil Jackson had a temporary lead in the battle between the two.

"Just like that. They look a little short in this line-up, which is going to be a big problem."

The Los Angeles Lakers like to play full-court pressing, which is something that almost everyone knows, especially the bench lineup of this team, so in this game Phil Jackson did not prevent it in advance, it is impossible, but just like many teams are useless even if they prevent it in advance, even if the opponent knows in advance that the Lakers bench lineup will be pressed all over the court, in the end there is still no way to crack it.

It's just obvious that the New York Knicks are not such a team, although they can't say that they can't crack the Lakers' bench lineup of the full-court pressing, and they can't do it like their starting lineup to use a strong interior advantage to ensure that the Lakers can't play speed, on the contrary, the New York Knicks didn't think about defense at the beginning of the second quarter of this game, and they directly attacked the New York Knicks' bench lineup at the beginning, and Marbury, who had been assisting O'Neal in the first quarter, was resurrected in this quarter. And his offense and breakthrough are also very threatening, and with the help of Fan Maniac, the New York Knicks' bench lineup is extremely ferocious and not afraid of the Lakers' defense at all.

Of course, just as the Lakers have no way to face the New York Knicks' second lineup led by Marbury and Fan Maniac, in fact, the New York Knicks also don't have much to do with the Lakers, and the two teams struggled to tie in the first quarter, and the second quarter was almost tied after more than five minutes of double serve, only in the end the Los Angeles Lakers relied on a two-point whistle front shot that retained before the official timeout to exceed the game, and the final score on both sides was also an astonishing 53-51.

"Although the Los Angeles Lakers have a slight lead of 2 points in the second lineup, if the Lakers can't pull the score in the second team in this game, they will fall into passivity"

Although the second team in this game was evenly matched, the Lakers second team led by Paul and Jackson still won, but there is no doubt that the score is still very tangled, even if Paul and Jackson win, but there is no way to change the situation of this game as before.

"Now look at how Coach Z should deal with O'Neal, wait a minute, Shaq will definitely wreak havoc on the Lakers' interior like the first quarter, if the Lakers' rhythm continues to be suppressed, then they will lose their advantage, and even be quickly overtaken by the New York Knicks, I think Coach Z probably doesn't want to see it turn out like this in the end."

When the Los Angeles Lakers and New York Knicks starters played again, the New York Knicks fans on the scene were very excited, for them, the team is now playing well on the court, and the team seems to be able to continue this momentum, it can be said that after this quarter and a half of performance, these fans have reason to believe that these players of their team can beat the invincible Chinese.

"Shaq, wait a minute, you will lead the offense" Looking at O'Neal, who was back on the field with a bad face, Marbury, who had just led the New York bench to play very well, also stepped forward with a smile and said. The rookie point guard of the Los Angeles Lakers just now put a lot of pressure on him. But in the end, he resisted. And suppressed that kid, which also made him very excited, but in the end the team was defeated by the explosive Jackson with the Lakers, and there was no way, although Jackson has always been considered a role player, but everyone knows that the strength of this player is not as simple as a role player, and as a contemporary. Marbury and Jackson are not without intersections. It can be said that although he just lost with the substitutes, he is still very happy, and he is really convinced by the big man of the team.

"Well, it's up to me," O'Neal also looked viciously at Kobe Bryant, who walked onto the court and kept bowing his head and fiddling with his shoelaces. In the first quarter, he was already very good, constantly impacting the Lakers' interior line, constantly responding to his teammates or opening up space, and then constantly grabbing the frontcourt rebound, but there is no doubt that he has not yet fully developed his individual offense.

"Coach. It seems that this game is a lot more difficult than expected," Lakers assistant coach Stephen Green, who was also looking at the players on both sides of the court, finally sighed and said that he knew it was going to be difficult. But even so, the process of this game also surprised him a little, you know, in this season, he is the first time to see his team in the case of playing a quarter and a half is still worried that the opponent will overtake or pull away the score, although many games this season Lakers are very difficult, but these times the Lakers have excellent control, and this game, this control is on the New York Knicks' side, at least for the time being, on the New York Knicks' side.

Of course, at this time, Green was lamenting the difficulty of this game, but as the head coach of the Lakers in this game, Zhuang Fei did not have much expression on his face and still had a smile on his face, as if he was observing something, Green can not be very confident in some of his team's strategies, but as Zhuang Fei, he still believes in his choice and his team's ability

"Damn, this guy is too strong" Webb looked at the big fat man in front of him for a while, he and O'Neal's current body is estimated to be twice as bad, and when he is leaned by O'Neal, he can't move at all, in this case, even if he thinks that his physical condition has recovered very well, but it is still difficult to do anything with this guy, and especially when Marbury's pass flies directly high, O'Neal is just a right-handed one-handed ball, Then he was able to squeeze him directly out of the attacking basket, and if it wasn't for Grant Hill's early retraction, Webb would have faced a turnaround hook or turnaround breakaway from O'Neal.

And after Hill retracted, Tim Thomas was directly vacant, although O'Neal was not as good as Duncan in terms of passing ability, but his vacant offensive ability was much stronger than Duncan, in this case, as long as his pass was not bad, he could basically find this vacancy, in fact, O'Neal's passing ability has been very good, and when Tim Thomas received O'Neal's pass, he also adjusted it slightly and then shot.

"Beautiful passing, Thomas's three-pointer, missed, alas, huh? Beautiful, O'Neal directly squeezed Hill and Webb to grab the frontcourt rebound and dunk directly, the Lakers still didn't find a chance to break fast this time" Barkley on the commentary bench looked at the big man on the court and was also a little excited, in the current league, the players who can still block this guy almost don't exist anymore, and even if there are a few people who can block him, the Lakers don't exist.

It can be said that O'Neal's offense like this just now, this game is a lot, in the face of O'Neal who swaggered away from the basket to return to defense, Webb and Hill, who were squeezed away by him under the basket, were a little helpless, and both of them had a feeling of strength and nowhere to go. If it weren't for the two of them playing well with the Lakers on the offensive end, then this game would have really been blown out by O'Neal.

Similarly, in the face of O'Neal's killing performance, Kobe Bryant clenched his fists tightly while watching, he has implemented a revenge plan for Phil Jackson and Van Exel, but in the face of O'Neal, he is not absolutely sure, although he is extremely confident in his ability, he believes that he will beat O'Neal in this game, but he still did not find a chance, O'Neal is a shark, he is a poisonous snake. If he doesn't find the right opportunity to make a bold move. Then it is very likely to be devoured by O'Neill in one gulp. When he thought of this, the Lakers' leading guard also clenched his fists tightly again to calm his emotions a little.

After restarting from the second quarter. O'Neal increased his individual offense and increased his aggressiveness, and in this case, almost two or three rounds later, the New York Knicks took the initiative and overtook the score, and there was the possibility of continuing to pull away.

"Coach Z asked for a timeout, it seems he needs to change, and the Los Angeles Lakers, who have lost their speed, are like toothless tigers, although still ferocious. But if you don't kill the giant shark of the Knicks" Kenny Smith looked at Zhuang Fei and the Lakers who asked for a timeout and said with a smile, the situation of this game should go like this, the team that occupies the absolute initiative on the inside line should occupy the initiative on the court, this is the true meaning of basketball, and the style of play without a center and light inside advocated by Zhuang Fei has such a fatal flaw, and they can't control the basket, so they can't control their speed.

"I don't know what method Coach Z will use to contain O'Neal, but I think that Chinese will definitely make everyone start" Barkley also said with a smile at this time.

Of course, Zhuang Fei asked for a timeout when the Lakers fell behind, and Phil Jackson was extremely happy at this time. After all, he contained the Lakers perfectly, and everything in this game was going according to his design. The feeling of getting closer and closer to winning the race simply mesmerized him.

"Guys, you've done a great job, so I hope you can keep doing it after you get on the pitch"

So he just had such an order to the Lakers fans during the timeout, and when the Lakers players returned to the court, the Lakers used a free throw line block from Paul and Webber, Paul hit the equalizer again, and when the New York Knicks attacked again, all the New York Knicks fans in the audience gasped.

"Is this Coach Z's strategy? He's crazy, all the Lakers players are huddled at the free throw line, three players are huddled under the basket, and two players are in the corner area? The perimeter is all empty? Is he going to let the New York Knicks players practice shooting in the open space? ”

Almost as soon as Kenny Smith said that the New York Knicks players who were as shocked as him were a little overwhelmed for a while in the face of the Lakers' defensive style, it was naturally impossible to give the ball to O'Neal at this time, five players on the inside, O'Neal could not play five at a time, and finally the New York players who were a little overwhelmed finally handed the ball to Marbury when the New York second-in-command pulled it up directly at the three-point line, and then Kobe Bryant who went to the horns just symbolically sealed it.

And when the basketball thrown by Marbury smashed heavily on the basket, the New York Knicks players suddenly found that there was no rebounding this time, and when they reacted, they suddenly saw that the five players of the Los Angeles Lakers had rushed over like a tide, and Kobe Bryant and Paul, who were originally in the Horns, had taken the lead in the fast break.

And when New York and the Lakers staged a sprint competition on the court, everyone looked at it, and the big fat man of the New York Knicks was left behind. Obviously, the Lakers are running, and they are running at a blistering pace.

Webb grabbed the rebound in the backcourt and threw the ball directly to Hardaway with almost no adjustment, while he and Hill immediately bypassed O'Neal and killed the front court, and soon the Lakers' five players had already left O'Neal behind, and the New York Knicks players who had been flying back at this time were somewhat unable to grasp the position of retreating, at least when Hardaway threw the ball to Paul in front of him after half court, although there were already three New York Knicks players who retreated, But they still looked a little messy under Paul's catch-and-break break, and at this time several other Lakers players also came over, and for a while, the New York Knicks' half finally fell into four to five, and it was a four-to-five with no defensive position at all, and the opponent was still a group of players who could pass the ball out.

Almost at the first time, the Lakers had an offensive opportunity, Webb, who came back to the front court, stood at the free throw line, and then after receiving the pass, he blocked Hill, and Hill cut directly to the basket, and at this time Webber's pass also arrived, because without O'Neal's deterrent killer, who can stop Hill in the New York Knicks at this time? In this case, almost all the players of the New York Knicks were shrinking, and at this time, Hill flicked his wrist, and then Kobe Bryant, who stood on the left foot for a long time, hit the three-pointer again without anyone else.

Looking at Kobe Bryant's three fingers stretched out again, and the scattered team defense that was rushed by the Lakers' fast break, Phil Jackson on the sidelines at this time couldn't sit still.

"How is that possible? What does that guy want to do? He is still a little hard to believe in the kind of gambling defense of the Lakers just now, and at this time he is just as hard to believe as the New York Knicks players on the court, at this time the New York players who have just played momentum not only let the Lakers lead again, but also lost the momentum again.

"Great, amazing, the Lakers' fast offense is too powerful, if you talk about the passing ability in high-speed movement, this team is the first in NBA history, whether it is exciting, or the speed and quality of the pass is the first" Looking at the five Lakers players on the court, Barkley also swallowed his saliva and said.

At this time, when the TV broadcast camera switched to the Chinese again, the Chinese still maintained the smile on his face from the beginning, which was in stark contrast to the current Phil Jackson.

"The New York Knicks can't hold down the Lakers" (To be continued.) )