In the last game, the Los Angeles Lakers defeated the New York Knicks at home, and the New York team that aspired to win the championship was beaten by the Lakers at home, and it was precisely because of the victory in the last game that the Los Angeles Lakers completely established their dominant position in this year's Finals, which is almost unshakable.

Almost all the media in the United States want to see the changes in the New York Knicks and Phil Jackson in this game, and if this team still hasn't changed, then this series can basically be decided, at least when leading 2-0, Zhuang Fei and his team have never lost a series in the playoffs.

Therefore, this game will be a life-and-death battle between these two teams, of course, such a life and death for the New York Knicks, because they are in a desperate situation now, and they must beat Zhuang Fei as long as they want to win this series, and beat Zhuang Fei once on the road, and cannot let the Lakers make the score 2-0.

Of course, this is just a good idea, this is a very beautiful idea for New York Knicks fans, this game swept away the decline of the previous game, and then beat the Lakers in this game, and finally defeated Zhuang Fei and the Lakers in the final finals, this is the fantasy of many New York media and New York fans, and it is unknown how much such a fantasy can be realized.

At least when the game started, that illusion was somewhat shattered.

This game is a bit of a pressure for Phil Jackson, and the defeat in the last game makes him have to change something in this game, whether he can find a way to break Zhuang Fei's double-winding front tactics, at least the lack of fighting spirit of the New York Knicks players in the last game must change. It is also necessary to put more balls in the hands of O'Neal, who is the most sure.

And that's how it was from the start.

As in the last game, both teams started with their own cores, O'Neal and Kobe Bryant, watching from the side. It's not the same until their teammates can't open them and then come out and take over the game. In this game, the New York Knicks took the lead, and O'Neal attacked with great momentum at the beginning, obviously, this is because Josh Smith is sitting off the court at this time, and now the Lakers have no way to double around the former O'Neal.

The first quarter is especially important for any team, because the first quarter basically determines the direction of a team's game, as long as a team can play well in the first quarter. Then the next game can have a good state, especially for the offense, Zhuang Fei now likes to strengthen the offense in his team's starting lineup, lay the team's offensive rhythm, for the offensive team, rhythm is a very important thing, a team's rhythm at the beginning of a game can affect the shooting rate, in this case, even if Josh Smith performed very well in the last game, but the Lakers' starting lineup is not him. This is because Zhuang Fei is not very convinced of his offensive ability, and compared to Josh Smith, both Hill and Szzerbiak are more important than him on the offensive end.

That's why. Phil Jackson wondered if this game could disrupt the team's rhythm, as long as the Los Angeles Lakers were in a frustrated start and the rest of the game declined, then the New York Knicks had a chance to win.

"I'll see if you can stand it now"

Looking at O'Neal, who was wreaking havoc on the inside line of the Los Angeles Lakers on the court, Phil Jackson felt very relieved at this time, because O'Neal helped him avenge him, as long as there was no damn double winding front, he believed that the Lakers might not be able to win them in the last game, and why did they fall to such a point.

It is precisely because of this that Phil Jackson was ready to give Zhuang Fei and the Lakers a disadvantage at the beginning of the game, regardless of whether they found a way to deal with the Lakers or not, they must do so at this time.

It's just that Phil Jackson feels a little like O'Neal hit his fist on the cotton in the last game, even if O'Neal is wreaking havoc on the thin Los Angeles Lakers at this time, Zhuang Fei, the head coach of the Lakers, seems to have not seen it, and he is not moved at all, and there is no change in the slightest.

"Beautiful dunk, Shaq is very angry in this game, the New York Knicks started this game with a lot more decisive offense than the previous game, should the Lakers bring Josh Smith up at this time?"

Looking at the New York Knicks on the court as if they were in control, Barkley on the commentary bench also said with some suggestions, in his opinion, this game New York Knicks is like what others say, this team has changed in this game, but to Barkley's surprise, when he finished speaking, his partner around him didn't seem to agree with him.

"The New York Knicks did have some changes from the last game, this team's tentative offense is gone, and it was real at the beginning, but obviously, this did not fundamentally solve the problem" Kenny Smith looked at Zhuang Fei, who had a calm face in front of the Lakers bench, and continued: "The key to this game is not who can take the initiative at the beginning, but what the situation of the two teams will be after halftime, Don't forget that in the last game, the New York Knicks played inextricably with the Los Angeles Lakers in the first 20 minutes, although they didn't have the initiative like this game, but in fact the difference was not very big, at least even if O'Neal completely opened up his firepower, and other New York Knicks players were also driven, they didn't lead the Lakers much at this time, and such New York is not worth it at all for Coach Z to disrupt his opening rhythm and risk affecting the whole game to change anything"

"Now as long as you keep doing this is the best thing for Coach Z, it's obvious that Coach Z has seen this, so after Phil Jackson took the lead, he didn't care at all, the Lakers can play how they want, after a long time, maybe it's more worried about Phil Jackson" Finally, when Kenny Smith finished speaking, he ignored the surprised Barkley and looked at the New York Knicks' bench, and thought in his heart, at this time, I think you should also understand.

Phil Jackson naturally understood. This cannot change the general trend. Trying to change the opponent's mess by changing the momentum is not a very complicated strategy. At least Kenny Smith saw that the strategy was indeed not so clever, in this case, the reason why he dared to use it in front of Zhuang Fei, a famous high IQ, was to use Zhuang Fei's previous habits to produce the effect of this strategy, just like the people who were in the middle of the radical method, they knew that it was the radical general, and they would still be on it.

Phil Jackson did not intend to hide his strategic intentions in front of Zhuang Fei, a coach who takes the situation on the court very seriously, and under normal circumstances, he does not allow his team to be at a disadvantage on the court for a long time. As long as there is such a situation, he will definitely change, which can be said to be an advantage and a disadvantage, or this is simply Zhuang Fei's obsessive-compulsive disorder, in Phil Jackson's view, Zhuang Fei is an obsessive-compulsive patient, and after fighting Zhuang Fei for so many years, he is confident that he also knows something about Zhuang Fei.

It's just that Phil Jackson is depressed, Zhuang Fei's obsessive-compulsive disorder doesn't seem to have onset in this game, and he hasn't fallen into his trap.

Of course, the reason why Zhuang Fei didn't fall into his trap was not because there was anything wrong with Phil Jackson, but because Zhuang Fei didn't have the obsessive-compulsive disorder that Phil Jackson thought. In the past, he did not allow his team to be at a disadvantage on the court for a long time against Popovich or Pat Riley, and that was because these two men were too foxy. Zhuang Fei didn't know what these two people were thinking, these two people were like unknown things to Zhuang Fei, for unknown things, Zhuang Fei instinctively had a sense of crisis, in this case, he naturally would not allow his team to have any abnormalities on the court or be at a disadvantage for a long time.

It's just that Popovich and Pat Riley are not Phil Jackson, Zhuang Fei has never felt such a sense of unknown when facing Phil Jackson, as Zhuang Fei, who also started with triangular tactics, he knows this old opponent far better than others, and he also knows that his old opponent does not have as many fancy intestines as Popovich and Pat Riley, and this is the reason why Phil Jackson is a little unlucky every time he meets Zhuang Fei, he doesn't know Zhuang Fei, Because he knows Zhuang Fei is always very one-sided, but Zhuang Fei knows him very well, which is why he will not be in such a weak position when facing Popovich or Pat Riley and Larry Brown, but Zhuang Fei is his nemesis.

Of course, on the sidelines, Zhuang Fei and Popovich were fighting, Popovich wanted to force Zhuang Fei to change and disrupt the Lakers' offensive rhythm at the beginning, but it was obvious that Zhuang Fei was not fooled, but this was difficult for Webber on the court, and now there is no support from Josh Smith on the court, he can't spare O'Neal alone, plus the hatred of the previous game, O'Neal has long wanted to clean up Webb, how can he not be moved by such an opportunity in front of him, it can be said that after the start of this game, Weber is the most unlucky of the players on both sides, even Alan Houston, who is directly opposite Kobe, is not as miserable as him, at least Alan Houston was also miserably abused by Kobe, but he didn't suffer as physically as Weber.

It can be said that when the Lakers players watched O'Neal's huge body crash into Webb again and again on the court, these Lakers players felt a little chill in their hearts, which was more than 300 pounds.

"Chris, it's okay, why don't you go down first, let me top it"

Looking at O'Neal, who was pushed to the ground again and could only watch O'Neal complete the dunk, at this time, as a bag for O'Neal, Hill, who had been hanging on O'Neal, also stepped forward to pull Webber up after O'Neal dunked and left, looking at Webber at this time, the veteran felt that it was too abusive, but it was obvious that for Hill's kindness, Webber just swept Hill's body up and down and quickly shook his head, and when Hill hung O'Neal, he was basically treated as air by O'Neal, If this is not a play, now Hill is out of the game because of too many fouls, let him replace himself on O'Neal? Isn't that pushing Hill straight to the hospital? He still can't do this kind of thing.

And finally looked at the determined Weber, Hill also shook his head a little helplessly, and sometimes he felt strange, even if it was for offense, he could put a meat shield on the team, but Zhuang Fei's extreme was a bit puzzled by Hill, but it was obvious. If Zhuang Fei wasn't so extreme. Will the Lakers' offense be so strong this season? No one knows.

If you want to gain something, be prepared to lose something. Similarly, when you lose something, you also have to plan to get something, at least at this time, although Webber was abused by O'Neal again and again, and was even choked by Duncan in the last round, but there is no doubt that after the end of this series, the Lakers' leading interior line may be reborn, after all, it is extremely rare for any player to be directly baptized by Duncan and O'Neal, the two top NBA insiders. At the very least, players like Webb know what they can get.

From the very beginning of this game, the New York Knicks have been frantically impacting the Lakers' interior line, this style of play is a bit bullying, just like the Lakers continue to use the No. 5 tactic to impact the basket to bully the New York Knicks' interior defense is too loose to move, both teams are using what they are best at to hit each other's weaknesses, this style of play is extremely correct, at least in the eyes of many expert coaches in front of the TV These two teams' decisions are the most correct, In addition, when the New York Knicks replaced O'Neal after 8 minutes in the first quarter, the New York Knicks still led the Lakers by 4 points, which made people feel that Phil Jackson had been more successful at the beginning of this game.

It's just confusing. When O'Neal was off the court, the TV camera was focused on the New York Knicks head coach. He didn't seem to be as happy as everyone thought.

"It seems that the strategy is a complete failure," Phil Jackson sighed and thought when he looked at the situation on the court when he looked at the situation on the court where the New York Knicks took the initiative and was immediately pulled back by the Lakers again.

And when the first quarter of the two sides was over, and the Los Angeles Lakers finally completed the comeback in the final moments of the first quarter, the head coach of the New York Knicks was also stabbed in the heart. Especially when he looked back at the Lakers players walking off the court and high-fived Zhuang Fei one by one, it seemed that he was celebrating the victory, and when he didn't fight the resentment in his heart, he thought that every time he met this Chinese, there was nothing good to end up, which made the former Lakers head coach feel aggrieved.

"Is this guy really my nemesis" Finally, the head coach of the New York Knicks looked at the figure of the Chinese and thought with some doubts in his heart, but soon, he threw off such doubts in his heart, for him, as long as he still wants to beat Zhuang Fei, then he can't have such thoughts.

Just like Kenny Smith said, it doesn't matter who has the advantage at the beginning of this game between the New York Knicks and the Lakers, because no matter who has the advantage, they basically have no ability to throw the other party away, and the key to the game is when Josh Smith and Webber are on the court at the same time in the second half of the second quarter, when the Lakers can still maintain a good offense, can the New York Knicks help O'Neal untie, if this can't be done, then the essence of this game will still be the same as the previous game.

You know, the Lakers at this time have not done their best, the team's most terrifying terminator tactics have not been used, if the New York Knicks can't even force the Lakers' terminator tactics in the finals, then they are not qualified to say that they are stronger than the Spurs, at least Zhuang Fei said that the Spurs are far stronger than New York after the last game, they have no way to refute.

For the Lakers, letting Josh Smith and Webb play together will drag down the team's offense, after all, Szzerbiak is off the court at this time, but in the same way, Josh Smith's play is also dragging down the offensive ability of the New York Knicks, and judging from the current situation on the court, Josh Smith's impact on the New York Knicks is more than the impact on the Lakers.

"Coach, it looks like we can still win this game"

Although Green is not as good as Zhuang Fei in terms of smell and vision for the game, but it is definitely not bad, when Josh Smith came on the court, the New York Knicks' offensive difficulty rose sharply, the Lakers' assistant coach understood that the method invented by Thibodo to defend O'Neal still worked, Phil Jackson did not find any solution, in this case, the trend of this game is naturally absolutely beneficial to the Lakers, and it can even be said that it is very likely to be like the last game. The second half of the second quarter and the third quarter decide the outcome of the game.

"Yes, we still have the absolute initiative in this game" After Green finished speaking, Zhuang Fei also smiled and nodded, the Lakers basically won this game.

And in fact, as Zhuang Fei and Green predicted, the game was played after halftime between the two teams that were supposed to be tied in the first quarter. The Lakers are already four points ahead. The four points are 10 points worse than the half of the previous game, which is also a lot better. This is also the New York Knicks have indeed become more careful, and other people's offense is also more decisive, at least not like the last game, O'Neal can't get the ball and others don't know how to attack, this game is whether it is Marbury or Van Exel's offense is good, of course, the most important point is that Butler, who is in poor condition, has not played much time in this game.

After the first half, the New York Knicks had some good changes from the previous game, for a game of the NBA Finals calibre. No team is a fool, after losing one game, it will lose the second game exactly the same, although the New York Knicks did not find a way to break the Zhuang Fei double circle, but there is no doubt that this team has some experience, but it is difficult to really beat the Lakers, this New York Knicks want to beat the Lakers must use O'Neal's power, which is a must.

So after the start of the third quarter, the New York Knicks were still looking for O'Neal at the beginning, although at this time it was still difficult for the New York Knicks to get the ball into O'Neal's hands because of the presence of Josh Smith and Webb at the same time, but even so. The New York Knicks haven't given up on that offensive idea yet.

Even if it was slowing down the team's speed and offense, Phil Jackson and the rest of the New York Knicks chose to do so.

"Abominable"

Of course. Phil Jackson and the rest of the New York Knicks believed in O'Neal, believing that O'Neal could bring them victory just like in the previous games, but at this time, O'Neal's heart was not comfortable, watching his teammates constantly looking for opportunities to give the ball to him, and he was so embarrassed by Webb and Josh Smith that his heart was a little bleeding.

"I didn't expect that I would become a burden to the team now, I didn't expect that I would actually become a burden to the team one day" At this time, the big man of the New York Knicks looked at the sidelines and kept smiling, almost ruining his career all his life, the Chinese has some hatred and some helplessness, and more frustration, this Chinese can always make him fail, fail, and constantly fail, and now even let him doubt his ability.

At this time, O'Neal doubted his ability is not unreasonable, the New York Knicks really can't beat the Lakers without him now, even if Marbury and Van Exel can't beat the Lakers no matter how strong they are, but even if they can't beat the Lakers, they have to do better than when they have him, and now he is really dragging down the rhythm of Marbury and Van Exel.

And just when O'Neal continued to blame himself, Marbury was almost trying his best to get rid of Hardaway and throw the basketball in his hand to O'Neal, this basketball was about to fly to O'Neal after dodging Josh Smith's interception, and as long as he got the ball, he could kill Webb one-on-one to score, and suddenly the basketball flew directly out of the bottom line.

Grazed past O'Neal's ear and flew directly out of the field, O'Neill was stunned.

And the New York Knicks players who saw this scene were also stunned, they could have a premonition that there was something wrong with their team's most trusted boss, even Phil Jackson on the sidelines at this time obviously felt that O'Neal's mood at this time was not quite right, and even Webb on the side felt the same, because O'Neal's current momentum was no longer sharp, but instead of an extremely scattered aura, with his own experience, he could judge that this almost invincible shark was in turmoil.

"Coach, victory is in sight"

At this time, many people's eyes were on O'Neill, and Zhuang Fei and Green on the sidelines were naturally the same, and when Green said that victory was in sight, Zhuang Fei also smiled and nodded.

"This result is not bad," looking at the big shark on the court at this time, Zhuang Fei also thought with a smile in his heart.

Kobe Bryant, who was also on the same court, snorted with great disdain when he saw O'Neal's mistake, as if to say to O'Neal, if you want to fight yourself, you are not qualified enough. In fact, whether it is the first game or this game, O'Neal is indeed incomparable with Kobe in terms of performance, the new leader of the Lakers has completely proved that he is not worse than O'Neal, as long as he leads the team to win the championship in this Finals, then he has proved that he is stronger than O'Neal.

"It looks like the New York Knicks are going to lose this game again"

At the beginning of the game, Kenny Smith predicted that the key to this game was not how the opening two sides played, but how the game would play after that, and the final development of the game was indeed according to Kenny Smith's expectations, which also made Barkley on the side nod, he still believed in his partner's judgment, the Lakers did win this game, and the New York Knicks were in turmoil because of the problem of the team boss at this time, although Phil Jackson quickly asked for a timeout, But it won't work very much, or as long as O'Neal doesn't solve the two-man strategy, the team won't get better.

In fact, in the next game, it was exactly like this, when the scoreboard on the sidelines showed the score at 132-102 after the game, Kenny Smith and Barkley were also shocked, and it was another big win.

"That Chinese is too strong for the New York Knicks," the two finally sighed after looking at each other in amazement.

At this time, Zhuang Fei raised his right hand at the moment of the end of the game, and then held it tightly together, and the Staples Arena was also boiling after Zhuang Fei made this move.

Because they know that the championship is not far off. (To be continued......)