Chapter 257: Defeat the Lakers Again
Direct 11-minute showdown, this is Phil Jackson's last hole card, and it is also the last struggle, but there is no need for Zhuang Fei to be so crazy with him, Zhuang Fei just replaced Nash, Garnett and O'Neal Jr., and there are still Ginobili and Bowen on the court, and Pierce and Mobley are still resting off the court.
If it weren't for the Lakers' big killer O'Neal, Zhuang Fei wouldn't want to replace O'Neal Jr. and Garnett now, Xiao Ao and Garnett naturally can't prevent O'Neal, but the defensive intensity is not comparable to Lewis and Wang Zhizhi, at least this interior combination is the top combination in the league that can limit O'Neal, which is also the confidence of Zhuang Fei and the Lakers, the Timberwolves and Grizzlies are different, your big shark can play all the Grizzlies' interior lines in the fourth quarter, but they definitely can't beat all the Timberwolves' interior lines, Now Xiao Ao and Garnett's individual fouls are four and one is three, although they are both high, but there is not much crisis.
And when Zhuang Fei put Nash and Ginobili on the court together, the Timberwolves' offensive effect showed no signs of decline, Nash and Ginobili can handle the ball, but the two do not conflict, and even to some extent, Ginobili's effect is better than Mobley's, Mobley's biggest effect is to quickly counterattack, hit the Lakers' foothold is not stable, and then use speed to eat Harpa, and then shoot from mid-distance, Mobley feels good today, So from the performance of the game, it seems that Mobley is almost in a state of insolvency, but Mobley's impact on the Lakers' interior is limited, after all, he is only a straight-line breakthrough player. If you go directly to the basket to O'Neal, the pressure will be great, but for Ginobili this is much better, Ginobili can still break through Harper like Mobley, and can break deeper, and even directly stagger O'Neal to make a layup, his weird breakthrough rhythm at least O'Neal has no way to adapt to this game.
"If Mobley can blow up Harpa, we can say that it should be, but this 4+3 tiller can do the same. Then it can only be that the Timberwolves' No. 2 position is better than their No. 3 position, and it is clear that Phil may have been wrong at the beginning, but there is no way to change anything when the game is played. All the Lakers can do now is keep scoring. They simply couldn't stop the Timberwolves, Garnett and Nash, Ginobili and O'Neal Jr. Even Ginobili's current straight to the basket, every game the Lakers will be in a hurry, they can't play to chase points, but now they are a lot behind" Abdul-Jabbar is almost telling the current reality in a desperate tone, which is almost the truest portrayal of the Lakers now.
"Beautiful, Shaq O'Neal's forced O'Neal and Garnett hit a layup" Michaels shouted after Abdul-Jabbar finished speaking, but then O'Neal didn't pass half the court, and the Timberwolves threw the ball directly to the frontcourt, this time it has changed from Mobley to Ginobili, and this time Kobe Bryant is still chasing behind. This time Ginobili didn't dunk, this time Kobe didn't fly out of the court, this time Ginobili glanced at the back and quickly paused under the basket, looked at Kobe Bryant who seemed to kill himself, smiled slightly, and then jumped the ball lightly. At this time, Kobe Bryant hit him directly, and the two fell to the ground, and the basketball that flew out of Ginobili's hand brushed the hoop and rolled into the hoop.
Score plus penalty, 2+1.
This is Nash's seventeenth assist in this game, and it is also the seventh time in this game that he has made such a straight pass through the bottom line, maybe for Phil Jackson, he will be scared to see Nash standing on the bottom line now. His passing was too fast, and so were the Timberwolves players. This makes the whole Lakers team subconsciously look at their backcourt after they don't have time to celebrate after they score a goal, and then go crazy to defend back, which is what the Timberwolves want, they let the Lakers run, if the Timberwolves continue to do this, it is estimated that the Lakers players will go insane," Michaels said after watching Ginobili's basket under the basket. …,
O'Neal scored two points, and the Timberwolves scored three points in turn, this is a portrayal of the Lakers who were bent on chasing points in the fourth quarter, they had no way to stop the Timberwolves from scoring, and the Timberwolves scored more points than them at critical times, how to chase points in such a situation?
Jackson has been standing on the sidelines and shouting almost in the fourth quarter, how can he still have a little 'Zen master' style, but his sworn enemy Zhuang Fei is now on the sidelines with a high-ranking monk, but no matter what Phil Jackson shouts, the Timberwolves have always maintained the lead in the score, and when the Timberwolves replaced Pierce and Mobley with five minutes left in the game, the Lakers have basically determined the defeat.
"Still losing" Jackson looked at Kobe Bryant and O'Neal, who were still fighting the court, and couldn't help but feel bitter in his heart, originally thought that his team was perfect after defeating the Grizzlies, but in the end, Glen Rice was directly beaten back to its original shape under Zhuang Fei's targeted arrangement, which made the Lakers have to give up defense, and finally had to replace the leader of their second team because the offense was not as good as the opponent, which made the Lakers have no bench depth.
Phil Jackson recalled that every adjustment and change he made seemed to be doing it according to the ideas that Zhuang Fei had set for him in advance, and he now knew very well that he had completely lost the initiative in this round of battle, and he was led by the neck like a puppy by Zhuang Fei. It was the first time in all his years of teaching that he had felt this way, and it was a feeling of total loss of self. It's a terrible feeling.
"If I had Szzerbiak, would I still fail like this?"
"No, absolutely not, if it weren't for the damn Glen Les, I would definitely be able to defeat that Chinese, if it wasn't for the obstruction of Jerry West, the bastard, I would definitely be able to bring in Szczebiak, if there was Szelbiak, my triangle attack would be perfect, and I would definitely not fall to the point where I am now" Phil Jackson is now extremely depressed and aggrieved in his heart, not a war crime, and he will not accept it.
O'Neal is very strong, really strong, even if the Timberwolves have a 15-point lead, the league's No. 1 center still does not forget to kill the Timberwolves inside, not only O'Neal can kill the Timberwolves, but Kobe Bryant does not now control the ball as Zhuang Fei imagined in his heart, it is obvious that Kobe and O'Neal trust Fisher very much, and now the Lakers are still playing in an orderly manner under Fisher's assignment.
There was an unexpected situation on the court when there were 2 minutes left in the game, Laker O'Neal hit a strong 2+1 to beat the Timberwolves Jr. O'Neal, which was the first time the big sharks beat the Timberwolves players in these two games, and finally O'Neal hit a free throw, the Lakers fell behind by 12 points, the Timberwolves had the ball, and there were less than 2 minutes left in the game.
At this time, the Timberwolves, who had been playing fast, began to press up the time, and the Lakers had no hope of turning the tables, and the final score was 140-131, the Timberwolves defeated the Lakers by nine points at home, and the 271 playoff points of the two teams also set a record. And in this game, Lakers leader O'Neal scored 42 points, 10 rebounds and 11 assists, which was the first time he played such data, and another Lakers leader Kobe Bryant also scored 35 points, Robert Holly, who was on the court, also scored 25 points, and the team's point guard Fisher scored 15 points, but none of the others scored double-doubles, on the other side of the Timberwolves, in addition to Mobley and Garnett, the highest 32 points, Pierce, Ginobili, Nash, O'Neal Jr. all scored more than 15 points, And Nash also handed out 22 assists, with a 3-point deficit of 20+20 data. However, in terms of shooting percentage, both teams are very high, with the Timberwolves having 60% and the Lakers also having 55%, which also shows that the players on both sides are really in excellent shape.
"Kevin, Karim, do you have anything to say?" Michaels first watched Bryant score the last two-point shot at the whistle to end the game, and then asked his two partners next to him. …,
"The Lakers are completely collapsed, and the Timberwolves are in sight" Abdul-Jabbar said with a blank face, what else can he say? Is O'Neill doing badly?
40+10+10, is Kobe Bryant not doing well? 35 points, shooting more than 50%, if Hawley is counted, then the Lakers scored 125 points in five, Harpa also scored 8 points, how many points did the other second-team players score? 6 points. In this game, the Lakers did not have a single lead in the whole game, and they were comprehensively suppressed, which is already very indicative of the final situation, at least when playing against the Timberwolves, the Lakers had to scoop out all their weapons and fight with the Timberwolves, but the Timberwolves still have a lot of weapons ready to give the Lakers a fatal blow in the back.
Even Kareem Abdul-Jabbar clearly saw that the Timberwolves had not used their final hole cards, and the Lakers tried their best to make the Timberwolves more comfortable. It can be said that this Laker rout on all fronts.
"Phil was completely dragged by Coach Z and lost his inch, all the adjustments and changes were eaten up by Coach Z, and there is not much that the Lakers can do now" finally Abdul-Jabbar sighed again.
"I think the Lakers still have a chance, this game just proves that the Lakers' current triangle offense can't beat the current Timberwolves, but it doesn't mean that the Lakers can't do it, they can play conventional internal and external tactics, Glen Les and O'Neal, Kobe Bryant's fusion, you can solve the problem of the second team, but now it's up to Jerry West and Phil Jackson's game" McHale said with some mixed feelings, thinking of the chaos within the Lakers, he didn't even have a chance to create chaos in the Timberwolves, one happy and one sad. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to (.) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support is my biggest motivation. )