"The starters of the Los Angeles Lakers and the New York Knicks in this game are the same as everyone expected before the game, there is no change at all, the Los Angeles Lakers' forward line is still Webber, Hill and Szzerbiak, and the guard line is Kobe and Hardaway, these five are the Lakers' five most stable players, and on the New York Knicks side, the center of this game is O'Neal, the big forward is still the all-round player Odom, the small forward position is Caron Butler, the scoring guard is Alan Houston, and the playmaking guard is Marbury, This is also the main lineup of the New York Knicks who beat the Boston Celtics in the last round, and both teams are offense-oriented teams, and the offense of this game is likely to be determined by the offense of both teams."

In the commentary bench of the Staples Arena in Los Angeles, Kenny Smith looked at the starting lineups on both sides at this time and said lightly, after the Boston Celtics and Spurs were eliminated, New York and the Lakers, who are now in the finals, are no longer twin tower teams in the traditional sense.

Although the Lakers are still an inside-based team, they are only a single inside, which is similar to the Lakers, just because the New York Knicks are a super big man on the inside, so many people don't think they can't do it inside, and these two teams are not traditional NBA powerhouses, which was almost unimaginable in the past.

Two non-traditional teams with only a single interior line defeated the traditional team to enter the Finals, obviously, in Kenny Smith's view at this time, the trend of the league has slowly changed under the impetus of the Chinese, and Kenny Smith at this time did not hope that the New York Knicks would win like the previous Western Conference Finals, and then proved that Zhuang Fei's 'evil way' did not work in the NBA.

Of course. Although for Kenny Smith. There are some regrets in this finals. But this is still a very exciting Finals, after all, this Finals is likely to be like the Finals of the Lakers and Celtics last season, and will eventually go to the road of attack, and in fact, in the regular season this season, these two teams are against each other, and it is the Lakers' two consecutive match-up defeats to the New York Knicks that laid the Lakers' iron law of "as long as they play against each other, they will never lose" this season.

Of course, the New York Knicks, who were beaten badly by the Lakers during the regular season, are unlikely to surrender. After all, the New York Knicks and the New York Knicks, who lost two games to the Lakers, were two completely different teams, and the New York Knicks at that time did not have the two strongmen of Caron Butler and Alan Houston.

"Coach, can we shrink like this?"

In front of the Los Angeles Lakers bench, the game has just begun, and the Lakers assistant coach on the side looked at Zhuang Fei with some concern and asked, because at the beginning of this game, Zhuang Fei contracted the defense on a large scale, although the Lakers' defense is now very good, but almost everyone is staying in the area below the free throw line, which is almost empty outside the three-point line.

Of course. For the Lakers, this is naturally done to control O'Neal. The most important thing for the Lakers in this game is to be able to control O'Neal, the leading player of the New York Knicks, in the case that the Lakers do not have an interior line to fight against him, the Lakers can only be like this, but obviously, although the Lakers must shrink, but this time it seems that the contraction is a bit big, Butler and Alan Houston and Odom all have very good three-point shooting ability, isn't this arrangement clear for them to shoot themselves?

It's just that after Kenny Smith asked, Zhuang Fei didn't go back to the Lakers' assistant coach directly, but looked at the young league's No. 1 assistant coach with some curiosity.

"Stephen, you forgot it's the first game of the finals? Have you forgotten that this is our home turf? Zhuang Fei looked at Green with some deep meaning and didn't speak again, and Green was also slightly stunned, and then quickly understood.

In the first game of the Finals, both the Lakers and the New York Knicks players will be nervous, the players of these two teams do not have much experience in championships, and it would have been a good strategy for the Lakers to be able to force the New York Knicks to shoot more from the outside in the home game, after all, everyone knows that the first game of the away team is very difficult, and there are not many teams in history who can throw each other to death in their first game on the road. So when he thought about this, the Lakers assistant coach also understood why his teacher felt that his problem was a bit redundant.

Because that's something every NBA head coach should understand, and he doesn't understand it.

"I'm not the head coach of the NBA" Finally, the assistant coach of the Lakers also thought with some bitterness, he is not the head coach of the NBA, and he does not want to be the head coach of the NBA at this time.

Just like Green guessed, at the beginning of this game, Zhuang Fei's game strategy was to test the outside touch of the New York Knicks, and for this, New York Knicks head coach Phil Jackson was very clear, and he snorted coldly when he saw that the Lakers were almost all cowering under the basket.

"It's really a shrunken turtle"

Originally, according to Phil Jackson's understanding of Zhuang Fei, the Lakers head coach played contraction is certain, although this Chinese does not let him like it, but his ability Phil Jackson is still very recognized, and more importantly, in the New York head coach's view, Zhuang Fei has always liked to pursue balance, such a contraction that breaks the balance is not in line with his conventional style, in many times when in a desperate situation, who will make a very radical approach, Zhuang Fei has done it before, but now it is not a desperate situation.

"No matter how much we play away from home, with such a big space, we can still throw in"

Looking at the New York Knicks player Phil Jackson who was attacking on the court, he secretly thought that it was just after he thought about it that the New York Knicks' first three-point failure was outrageous.

Not to mention that it is not as good as his senior brother Ray Allen, even Hamilton is not as good as him, even compared to his junior brother Ben Gordon. This strong small forward who graduated from UConn is a little inferior. But. Even if this ball is unstable, it shouldn't be so outrageous, obviously, this is because of the nervousness that the small forward encountered when he played the Finals for the first time, and his hands were shaking when he shot, so it's no wonder that the shot can be reliable.

So at this time, looking at the young New York Knicks player on the court, Phil Jackson on the side also sighed again, it is obvious that it will take time for him to slowly adapt to such an environment, and it is very difficult for a young player who enters the playoffs for the first time to let him play normally in the Finals.

It's just obvious. How long does it take for a young player like Butler to adapt, but for New York, except for O'Neal and Alan Houston, others basically don't have much playoff experience, let alone the Finals, which is also a problem that bothers Phil Jackson, if these players can play normally in the finals, he has absolute confidence that he can beat Zhuang Fei and the Lakers.

"It's a terrible shot, this team still needs to find its form," Kenny Smith said a little speechless after watching the Lakers throw another three-nipple.

Almost when Butler had a three-tie and the basketball just fell into the arms of Marbury, who was cutting around the baseline. The New York Knicks' leading guard didn't fly straight to the basket because Jane was surrounded by people at the moment. He didn't have the guts to make layups under the noses of Hill and Webber, who struggled to defend the interior but also had top-notch blocks on the bounce.

So the New York Knicks player who was lucky enough to pick up the rebound in the front court made a very difficult pass without looking at people, and threw the basketball directly to the three-point line, which happened to appear in the hands of Alan Houston, the New York Knicks veteran did not shoot, his mid-range is very good, and the three-point is one of his strengths, and the veteran guard of the New York Knicks did not hesitate.

Because this is what Phil Jackson asks of them, as long as there is an opportunity, don't hesitate at any time, and it is precisely because of this that a player like Fan Maniac can shoot the Celtics, only this time, this time, this veteran who is very experienced and has some championship experience, this time the extremely beautiful shot directly threw the basketball off the court from the rebound, and seeing that the New York Knicks were so unreliable in two consecutive shots, the fans who were originally extremely crazy to cheer for the Lakers all laughed, Obviously, the New York Knicks' offense after the opening was comical.

Now the players of the New York Knicks are either weak or too hard, obviously this is because they are too nervous, so after seeing the team's start at this time, the New York Knicks head coach Phil Jackson on the sidelines did not look very good at this time, he didn't think about such an opening, although he thought that it would be very difficult, but he didn't expect it to be so difficult, and in fact, Zhuang Fei on the sidelines didn't expect that the New York Knicks players would play such a show.

"Coach, these guys feel a little trembling in their legs and stomachs when they run" At this time, after seeing the two comical attacks of the New York Knicks players in a row, Stephen Green also said with a smile, and Zhuang Fei also nodded in agreement.

It's just that what Zhuang Fei didn't expect was that just now the Lakers fans and the Lakers' assistant coach were laughing at the New York Knicks players' two consecutive shots and three non-sticks, when the Lakers quickly sent the baseline ball to counterattack, when Grant Hill cut to the basket received Webber's high-level response ball, the Los Angeles Lakers' super forward actually did not go up, and Webb, who followed from behind, grabbed the rebound in the front court and then buckled directly to the blue neck, which was too violent.

If the New York Knicks' offense just now was two different three-point shots, then the Lakers' side was a waste of absolute opportunities for two basket offenses, and the basketball that Weber did not dunk also popped off the court, and the ball returned to the New York Knicks.

"Chris, Grant, take it easy,"

Seeing that one of his two teammates couldn't score a layup, and the other didn't make a dunk, Hardaway on the side didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and even these two parties were a little embarrassed.

"I see"

A little embarrassed, he looked at his teammates around him with a worried face, Webb and Hill said with a wry smile at the same time.

And at this time, after the Lakers wasted two opportunities in a row, the Lakers fans in the stands who were laughing were also silent at this time, and the New York Knicks head coach Phil Jackson on the sidelines looked much better at this time, and there was a hint of a smile on his face.

Similarly, just like the New York Knicks threw three great opportunities to throw three non-sticks, at this time after the two excellent opportunities for layups and dunks flew, Zhuang Fei's face at this time was not much different from Phil Jackson's face not long ago, and at this time Zhuang Fei looked back and saw that the extremely young bench players on the court at this time had a tense face, especially when Josh Smith's legs were constantly shaking rhythmically, Zhuang Fei was speechless again, Even if he had already taken precautions, Jackson had taught the young players some Finals experience, but obviously, this was the first game, and the guys were still a little uncomfortable.

Of course, at this time, the nervousness of the Lakers and New York Knicks players is inevitable, and after the start of the game, the two teams have been playing very tightly, which also makes these two offense-oriented teams now have a low offensive success rate on the court, at least not as high as everyone thinks, and even the efficiency is a little low, knowing that after the half-quarter game, when the two sides entered the official timeout, the score of the two teams was only 12-10, such a half-quarter score is simply like the Boston Celtics playing the Grizzlies.

"This is the Finals" At this time, Barkley, who has been excited to look forward to what kind of offense this will be after the start of this game, also said with some emotion, and after the TNT commentator finished speaking, Kenny Smith on the side also nodded.

This is the Finals, and it reminds the former Rockets player of his own day.

"Now the two head coaches should need to set up key personnel tactics, what is needed now is to open up the situation, O'Neal and Kobe Bryant need to play"

After the timeout, as the players on both sides were ready to play, Kenny Smith said after looking at O'Neal and then at Kobe.

As long as they open up, the Lakers and New York players can take it easy. (To be continued......)