At this time, on the Nets, Hollins was still yelling in the locker room, the most important point of the Nets' loss in today's game is that the rhythm is no longer controlled by the Nets, but the movement of the entire game is controlled by the Pelicans, so that the Nets have always been passive.

The second point is that the Nets' outside play is intermittent and played well in the third quarter, but in the second quarter, when the two sides really started to fight in the first quarter, they didn't play well, which is an incentive for the Nets to lose.

You think, no matter how ferocious Lopez plays under the Pelicans' basket, without outside support, he can't last long, only when the inside and outside are combined, the Nets can maximize their power, but today's Nets' outside offense is indeed intermittent, one will be good, one will be bad, and the more critical the moment, the more ineffective.

The locker room here is stormy, these players of the Nets are silent, and now the happiest person in the locker room is Anthony, don't you all need me, now it's okay, you're all finished, and then you have to be finished, Anthony doesn't care about sitting there with his eyelids down.

His expression made Lopez feel angry, but he couldn't accuse Anthony face to face right now, he could only after Hollins roared angrily, when the players left the locker room, Lopez called Hollins at his home and told Hollins what happened in the locker room today.

Hollins listened to what Lopez said, and then thought back to what happened during the game, and Hollins was extremely angry at that time, and I said how could I lose so ugly today, how could the players I was talking about seem to be very unstable.

It turned out that there was infighting in the locker room, and this time Hollins was angry, and on the phone, he didn't care if it was Lopez or who was opposite him, and he accused him and said:

"Why didn't you tell me earlier. Why don't you stop this conflict, it's our first game to the playoffs, and you're going to have infighting in the first game, so that we still have the ability to move forward, can we still go down? ”

Hollins was almost yelling, and after that he hung up the phone himself.

Lopez was stunned for a while while holding the phone, but Hollins called Joe Johnson again, and scolded the veteran Joe Johnson, and then he called Anthony again.

Anthony had no idea that it was Hollins who had come to call him, he thought Hollins was talking to him about something. But he didn't expect Hollins to ask about his life in the locker room today.

Anthony told the matter again, and at this time Hollins knew that Anthony was not all right, but for this kind of guy who had already sprouted an idea, Hollins still persuaded Anthony to explain kindly.

"Cameron, it's really their fault that Joe Johnson isolated you today, I've already criticized them, and now our team is at the most critical moment, what we need is all of us to work hard, what we need is for all of us to focus on one thing. Now is not the time for us to contradict each other, but to inflict it on the pelican. ”

Hollins was bitter here, but it didn't impress Anthony much, and then Hollins finally began to say what Anthony cared about.

"It's the grand final. There are a lot of teams and general managers watching every game here, and if someone is good, they are definitely worth more than the players who are good in the regular season, and now Cameron. Isn't it time to prove yourself, let's put everything aside and play well. That way, it's good for all of us, the team can qualify, and you Cameron you can earn a place in the whole league. ”

Anthony's latter words touched Anthony, and Anthony held his heart back, and then said to Hollins:

"If Lopez and Joe Johnson, if they're willing to stay with me and keep the game going, I'm willing to do the same."

As soon as Anthony said this, Hollins was a lot more relieved, Hollins made a series of phone calls, he put the phone down, he didn't see that the team had such a big problem in today's game, and he was the biggest sinner today.

If his team is united on the outside, his team will not lose so easily, Hollins thought with annoyance, Hollins, who has experienced many playoff battles, knows what a Finals victory means, and a victory will have a game capital for the opponent.

Hollins sighed, then thought about things in his heart, and felt that when he trained tomorrow, he still had to work on the unity of the team.

……

The second game between the Pelicans and Nets is still televised by TNT.

Miller sat behind his chair, looking at the sparse audience behind him, he sighed, today's game will be a battle for the Nets, if the Nets lose, the Nets will be extremely difficult on the road to winning the championship. And the Pelicans will face resolute resistance from the Nets here.

The two sides started the game and looked pretty much the same as the previous game, with the Nets lineup consisting of point guard Deron Williams, scoring guard Joe Johnson, small forward Anthony, power forward David Lee, and center Lopez.

Hollins Pelicans' Al Jefferson put David Lee in the main lineup! and abandoned their own original small man lineup of play.

The Pelicans, on the other hand, still sent their main lineup, point guard Corey, scoring guard Granger, small forward Li Feng, power forward Al Jefferson, and center Gasol.

Al Jefferson and Lopez were standing together in the center circle when the referee blew the whistle and the referee threw the basketball into the air.

Game 2 of the Finals began, and after the opening, Lopez grabbed the rebound on his side with his strong and powerful posture, and Joe Johnson received the basketball and immediately passed the ball to Delon.

The Nets game, at the beginning, was not as hot as the first game, but played very gloomy, Deron dribbled to control the rhythm, Anthony took the ball and passed to Joe Johnson, Joe Johnson passed the ball to David Lee, and finally Lopez received the ball on the inside and started to play inside singles!

After the opening, Lopez clearly had a good touch. Got the basketball into the Pelicans basket with ease. And so the game between the Pelicans and the Nets began.

The Nets played steadily, and the Pelicans also attacked steadily one by one, from the beginning, it didn't look like a battle of life and death at all, but this situation didn't last long, and at 4 minutes and 11 seconds in the first quarter, the Nets once again opened the formation to play inside singles!

Because the strategy developed by Van Gundy is to defend alone first, and then flank the strategy! So no one came up to help Gasol either, leaving Gasol alone to carry Lopez. Gasol could only carry Lopez's attack on his own.

The two strangled together on the inside, and if Gasol wanted to defend Lopez, he first had to control Lopez and prevent him from being in a good position in his own place, and then he would not let Lopez catch the basketball properly.

In this way, Lopez's power in the low post can be contained, so Gasol and Lopez are competing very fiercely in the low post.

Lopez moved left and right without a card main position, so he turned around continuously, hoping to get a position in this way, Gasol in order to stop Lopez can only use his hands to push and pull Lopez, this kind of physical contact on the Cheng dù, generally will not be blown penalty. But here Gasol just made a move, and immediately blew Gasol for a defensive foul here at the referee's place.

This blowing penalty simply overwhelmed Gasol and Van Gundy, and the Pelicans seemed that this was completely a normal defense, how could it be a foul, so Van Gundy went over to reason with the referee. But at this time, the referee didn't want to listen to what Van Gundy said, and insisted on giving Gasol a non-foul, giving the Pelicans a foul so early, which would directly shake Gasol's playing time in the following games. The news was too bad for Gasol,??? Van Gundy, on the other hand, smelled a hint of conspiracy from Gasol's foul so early.

Sure enough, after Gasol fouled. On this side of the Nets, they immediately stepped up their interior offense and breakaways. Once Lopez was contained on the inside, Lopez immediately passed Anthony, Anthony forced a breakthrough, and the breakthrough was halfway through, he did not break through to the end as before, but passed the basketball to DeLong outside when facing the pressure of the Pelicans defense. So Deron continued to attack the Pelicans' half.

This is clearly that after seeing a crack in the Pelicans' inner line, he urged his outside line and inner line to desperately start attacking the inside line, hoping to beat Gasol.

Sen's breakthrough was also unsuccessful, but it completely brought back the Pelicans' ground defense and tore apart the Pelicans' defensive system.

Joe Johnson gave him a huge space when he shot again, and the Nets were so obvious that they wanted to rush away Gasol, but Van Gundy didn't have any way at this time, because at this time he still had a hand in his hand that could let go of Lopez was Al Jefferson, but Al Jefferson still had this scoring task on the ground, which was also a task that could be placed on Al Jefferson at the beginning of the game.

Henson could barely let go of Lopez, but Henson's own loss in size and strength was too great.

So Van Gundy could only use Gasol to resist Lopez, and after the Pelicans missed a mid-range shot in the Nets' half, they watched the Nets come back immediately and start to continue to impact the inside.

At this time, the Nets took the same style of play as the Pelicans played the Nets in the low post in the last game, if you don't change the lineup, we are just endlessly hitting a weakness of yours, although Gasol here is definitely not a weakness, it can only be said that there is a crack in the egg, but the Nets still grasp this gap, desperately trying to turn this gap into a huge crack, completely pushing the Pelicans to.

Seeing this situation, Granger hurriedly returned to more defense, intending to delay this rift, as long as this rift was delayed, the game would be absolutely easy!

Just when the Nets were frantically rushing towards the Pelicans' interior line, Anthony suddenly shot towards the Pelicans' interior line in the process of impacting. He threw the basketball towards the Pelicans' interior staff.

After Anthony threw the basketball out, the Pelicans' interior line immediately went into chaos, and Gasol, Al Jefferson, David Lee, Lopez, and all four jumped together.

This Anthony thought that the Pelicans threw under the basket was not a basketball at all, but a bomb, so that Lopez was still extremely active even under the attack of Gasol and Al Jefferson, and pointed the ball into the air with one hand, and then clicked continuously, making the basketball continue to beat.

In the end, after several clicks in a row, Lopez finally received the basketball into his arms!

Lopez's character on the inside at this time has completely changed from scoring to destruction, destroying the Pelicans' interior line is much more powerful than scoring, and now it's only the first quarter, if Gasol is scrapped in the first quarter, then Al Jefferson will also be involved in the next game A lot of energy will be involved, and in the end, the entire Pelicans' defense will collapse.

Lopez, who also vaguely had this kind of thought in his heart, after getting the ball, he jumped directly regardless of the Pelicans, just to create the most direct dunk attack under the Pelicans' basket, which the Pelicans absolutely did not allow, and Al Jefferson wanted to take a shot instead of Gasol.

But Gasol's hand is also very fast, seeing that he can't stop Lopez, he is about to let Lopez dunk, Gasol's hand immediately went over and knocked down the basketball in Lopez's hand.

Lopez's basketball was indeed beaten, but it also allowed Lopez to achieve his goal!

The referee blew the whistle on the other side and "forced" Gasol to foul again, and now the game is less than five minutes into the game, and the Pelicans' main center, the only person on the interior who can play with Lopez, has blown two fouls.

At this time, Van Gundy stood up helplessly and began to make substitutions, Van Gundy could only replace Gasol at this time, and then replaced Henson, and now it is still a little too early for the Pelicans to play a complete small man tactic in the last quarter of the first game.

Gasol can't see anything on the court, he can't show anything offensively, he is defending Gasol defensively, but once the Pelicans lose Gasol, they immediately become vulnerable, and by the 8th minute of the first quarter, the Pelicans were already 10 points behind the Nets, and the score between the two sides became 27-17, the Nets were on their home court, and the Pelicans were absolutely pressured in the first quarter, and the Pelicans were completely pressed behind.

At this point, the Pelicans finally held up, Van Gundy immediately called a timeout and began to replace his bench players, the Nets are now ahead of the Pelicans, and the Pelicans have replaced the bench, and the Nets have immediately replaced the bench players. (To be continued......)