On the Bulls' side, Phil Jackson advised: "Joe Dumas is the Pistons' scoring champion, and Zhou Quan is the second scoring point, so from now on, Scottie, John, you two must concentrate on helping defend the iron fist, not only to block his ball-holding breakthrough, but also to lock his offense." ”

"Where's the pass?"

Jordan asked immediately.

Locking up the attack and locking the pass requires different defenses, and he needs to ask them clearly in order to execute the coach's tactics more accurately.

A smile flashed in Phil Jackson's eyes and said, "Joe Dumars missed three shots, at least it means that he won't be in hot form today."

This is something we need to take advantage of, we can let him go appropriately and concentrate the main defensive force on Zhou Quan.

And you should also note that the morale of the Pistons is not very strong, and John Cely's injury has affected them and further reduced their confidence in victory.

The Pistons were swept by us last year, and you should know very well that they were originally a bunch of old guys who lost their fighting spirit and sharpness after two consecutive championships.

Although they have been shouting that slogan, they have long lost their tenacity, and there has been some improvement this season, and that is only because of Zhou Quan, but in fact, their hearts have not really changed, they are just a group of mixed guys, this is their essence.

Believe me, you can break their will with a big win tonight, and then we can harvest our next win at Auburn Hills Palace and knock them out on their home turf. ”

These words immediately made Jordan and the others excited.

Jordan stood up, motioned to his teammates to gather around, and then shouted at them: "Listen up, who dares to relax, don't think about being better on the team in the future, don't think about being better in this league, my words definitely count." ”

Everyone twitched and nodded their heads again and again.

Phil Jackson nodded, the Pistons lost their sharpness because of two consecutive championships, and the Bulls are now also a champion, and they are likely to face this situation in the future, but he believes that with Jordan's incredible competitiveness and excellent leadership ability, under the spur of his stern and trash talk, this possibility will be minimized, and the current Pistons situation should not occur.

"Michael, after going up, hit a few good balls on Zhou Quan's head, and strive to defeat their psychology in a wave." He said to Jordan again.

He knows that Zhou Quan is also a young man with quite strong willpower, and he is not easy to collapse, but after all, he is too young, he lacks experience in leading the team, and his control of the game is far inferior to Jordan, and it is very likely that he will be stunned at a critical moment.

If you don't have experience and then get knocked out, you will immediately lose control of the game completely, and the Bulls' home wins will follow.

For example, in the G3 battle, in the Auburn Hills Palace, Jordan stunned Zhou Quan through continuous steals and high-intensity pressing.

He doesn't believe that a rookie's psychological quality can withstand the blow from Michael Jordan at the peak, Jordan does not have such a strong psychological quality in his rookie season, and he has to go through many seasons of training to develop a strong psychological quality.

He needs Jordan to completely blow up Zhou Quan technically, from both offensive and defensive ends, and from a psychological level.

As long as the Pistons are blown out, the Bulls can be full of momentum to attack the championship, and they can launch the final attack on the championship to complete the defense of the title.

"Fight it! Fight for ......"

At this moment, on the Pistons' side, Zhou Quan's shouts sounded, followed by the shouts of other Pistons players, followed by the two thousand fans of the visiting team.

He stared at it, and the mental state of the Pistons at this time was significantly different from when he was suspended just now.

He couldn't help but look into the audience, and the next moment, a loud boo rang out from the United Center, extinguishing the pistons' shouts.

Smiling calmly, he turned around and said to Jordan: "Michael, remember my words, go up and play a few good balls, don't let their morale up, you have to break them psychologically, I don't think it's difficult for you." ”

“OK。”

Jordan nodded and walked towards the court.

After a timeout, the Pistons attacked.

Up front, Ulrich prepares to serve on the left touchline.

The method just used, Zhou Quan ran to the penalty area, borrowed Rodman's body, temporarily got rid of Jordan, and then came out from the top of the arc to catch the ball.

But this time Jordan was very prepared, as soon as he received the ball, he pounced in front of him, so that he didn't even get a small empty spot.

However, his purpose of receiving the ball was achieved, but there was no open opportunity to shoot.

Pippen on the left flank quickly pounced to the top of the arc, wanting to take advantage of Ulrich's serve and complete the double package of Zhou Quan on the outside.

Ulrich doesn't have the ability to shoot from a distance, and his mid-range shot is average, mainly to dunk inside, and he won't have problems when he puts it outside.

Moreover, this is also the execution of Phil Jackson's tactics.

At this time, Ulrich, who finished the ball, immediately entered the court, saw Pippen pounce on the top of the arc, he immediately cut inside the basket, and was ready to receive the ball.

Seeing Pippen pounce, Zhou Quan immediately dribbled and retreated.

He also saw Ulrich's inside cut, and at that moment, he suddenly started forward and broke through to the right elbow with the ball.

Pippen and Jordan quickly flanked, and Zhou Quan changed direction to the right, pulling to the right elbow area in two steps, and also pulling the Bulls' defensive attention to the right wing.

By this time, Ulrich had quietly cut into the outside of the left waist position, and was about to rush into the paint area.

But at this moment, Zhou Quan suddenly closed the ball, then got up and picked up the ball, and raised his hands upward.

The next moment, Jordan on the front flew up, and Pippen on the left side held it down and did not jump, showing extremely high defensive skills.

It's not that Jordan's defense is inferior to Pippen, it's that he has to jump up and block Zhou Quan's shooting and passing angles to the basket.

"Feint!"

Robert Giddah let out a loud shout.

The next moment, Zhou Quan received the ball short, blocked Pippen with his left elbow, and threw the ball at Jordan's feet with his right hand.

"Oops!"

The attention of Cartwhite and Grant under the basket was on Zhou Quan, and when they saw this horizontal pass, they hurriedly turned around, but it was too late, and Ulrich's back cut dunk was unstoppable.

"Bang!"

The next moment, Ulrich jumped up against the basket, slammed the ball into the basket with a one-handed tomahawk slam under the gaze of Cartwhite and Grant.

"Oh!"

The players on the court, the Pistons bench, and the two thousand Pistons fans cheered instantly.

"Fight and knock them out!" Zhou Quan yelled at Ulrich.

"Fight!"

Everyone cheered, and the morale of the Pistons was boosted again.

Zhou Quan nodded, these old wilting brothers have to give them a tube of adrenaline from time to time, otherwise it will be easy to wilt.

"Nice back cut! In the middle of the pack, Iron Fist's pass completely penetrated the Bulls' defense. Robert Giddah said excitedly.

"At 8:12, the Bulls don't need to rush, they still have a 4-point lead." Ringer Wilson said.

"Whew!"

"Michael, press them."

Phil Jackson stood up, blew the hooligan whistle, and shouted at Jordan with a pair of large hands that made a powerful downward motion.

Bulls attack.

John Paxson crossed the halfway line and handed the ball to Pippen on the left wing.

This time, Jordan went to the right wing low post first, and when Zhou Quan followed, he suddenly ran up again.

At this time, Pippen burst into the left midfield position with the ball, and when facing Bedford's defense, he suddenly jumped and threw the ball at Jordan with both hands.

Jordan ran from the bottom up, ran to the right elbow area to receive the ball, and Zhou Quan pounced behind him.

He suddenly turned to face the basket, and at the same time raised the ball upwards with both hands, and Zhou Quan's body was shaken upwards together.

The next moment, the ball was short, and with a turn, he dribbled once and hit the paint area.

"Damn."

Zhou Quan was left behind and hurriedly chased in.

"Bang!"

Jordan took off two steps into the paint, held the ball high in one hand, and met Rodman under the basket with a flying dunk that knocked over the Pistons' basket.

Rodman also ignored his injury, did not retreat half a step, gritted his teeth and jumped to block, but was directly dunked by Jordan under the basket, very embarrassed.

"Tick!"

The referee blew the whistle and pointed at Rodman for a foul.

"Haha, Michael ignored Rodman's defense to complete a violent dunk and played a two-plus-one." Ringer Wilson laughed.

"Rodman did his best, he worked hard, he was injured." Robert Giddah said.

Zhou Quan rushed to the basket, pulled Rodman up, and asked, "Dennis, are you okay?" ”

"It's fine."

Rodman gasped and shook his head.

"Boy, you almost stopped me." Jordan walked from Zhou Quan to the free throw line at this time and threw down a trash word.

I don't know who this trash talk is aimed at, maybe attacking Zhou Quan and Rodman at the same time.

Zhou Quan has not yet responded, and Rodman's trash talk came first.

He was Ranbill's apprentice, and his trash talk skills were not bad, even strong, and he immediately grinned and retorted: "Scotty, you decide for yourself, no matter what you do, I will support you." Excuse me, Michael, are you supporting him in apologizing to Iron Fist? ”

"Haha......"

Zhou Quan, Joe Dumas and the others burst out laughing.

"Damn big bugs."

Jordan's face was darker than carbon, glared at Rodman fiercely, and scolded.

Rodman walked to Jordan's side, shook his crotch at the other party exaggeratedly, lowered his voice, and said triumphantly: "I'm a big bug, a big bug, I'm full of vitality, Madonna is salivating over my big bug, it's useless for you to be envious and jealous, who calls you small?" I'm the big worm, and you're the little worm. ”

"Haha......" Zhou Quan and the others lowered their heads and laughed violently.

Jordan faced the shameless Rodman, he didn't know what to say, anyway, he made up his mind not to talk trash with Rodman in the future.

"Mine is certainly no smaller than yours. Big worm, I'm going to snatch Madonna away from you. Pippen said with a smug face.

"What are they doing?" Robert Giddah asked inexplicably when he saw the players on both teams huddled together.

"Whispering?"

Ringer Wilson had some guesses, but even he didn't believe it, these two teams could fight when they met off the court, how could they whisper on the field?

"Hey, if you want to whisper, go down and talk, now get ready for free throws, hurry." The referee couldn't help but urge.

"Bang!"

On the next free throw, Jordan was affected by Rodman's trash talk and missed the free throw.

Rodman rose up and grabbed the rebound in the backcourt, and at 8:14, the Pistons attacked.

Joe Dumas arrived in the frontcourt, received a pass from Zhou Quan, faked a real shot, burst Paxson, and killed the basket.

It's cold today, so let's go in and score.

Since last year, his basket scoring has begun to decrease, because there are more injuries, it is easy to get injured when he goes in, and he has enough honors to fight so hard, playing health ball, his career will be longer, and he can make more money.

However, he still didn't want to be a coward.

Under Rodman's cover, he flashed past Grant, slammed into the basket against the bottom corner, and made a small throw at Cartwhite.

"Smack!"

Cartwhite was met with a slap and didn't touch the ball.

The two collided in the air as they fell, and Cartwhite landed on a large tonnage, but Joe Dumas stumbled to the ground and fell to the floor.

"Bang!"

The basketball smashes into the basket.

"Joe, good job!"

Zhou Quan rushed in and pulled up Jo Dumas and shouted loudly.

Staring at Joe Dumas who got up, Jordan's eyes became solemn.

"If you keep fighting, you must fight it."

At this time, he only had this one thought, and he absolutely could not let the morale of the pistons rise.

"Bang!"

Looking back, he also used color to catch the ball in the low post on the right wing and singled Zhou Quan, and then slipped into the basket to make a violent dunk, once again blocking the lowly Bedford.

"Boom!"

At the United Center, the cheers of 20,000 Bulls fans burst into cheers.

One is the quarterback's throwing in the face of the center, and the other is the strong dunk in the face of the center, the difference between the two is very different, the throwing can barely maintain morale, but the dunk can boost morale madly.

The morale of the Pistons, which had just stabilized, was directly cut in half under the momentum of the home court's crazy uplift.

Phil Jackson, who had been standing in front of the bench, saw the ball, nodded slightly, and then turned and sat down.

In his opinion, the victory or defeat of a game is composed of many things, such as lineup configuration, on-the-spot status, on-the-spot tactical command, on-the-field execution of players, self-psychological adjustment, and psychological warfare.

Destroying the opponent's psyche through-for-tat offense is what the Bulls are doing right now, and they're succeeding.

The Pistons have no one who can play an attack with the willpower to destroy Jordan, and there is no way to fight back on a mental level, and the result is that no matter how hard the Pistons try, morale will inevitably drop and eventually lose the game.

"Bang Bang ......"

On the right wing, Zhou Quan attacks with the ball, and Joe Dumas blocks and dismantled.

The next moment, when he burst in, Jordan and John Paxson wrapped him up, and he immediately split the ball to Joe Dumas.

"Bang!"

Joe Dumas, who got a small vacancy, faced Jordan who pounced back, and missed a three-point jumper.

"Alas!"

The moment he saw the ball bounce, he couldn't help but sigh.

"Mine."

Rodman under the basket let out a roar in his heart, jumped with all his might, and grabbed the offensive rebound on the heads of Grant and Cartwhite with the fastest bounce speed.

"Here!"

Zhou Quan pounced on his right waist and shouted.

Rodman threw the ball, Zhou Quan received the ball and killed it under the basket, regardless of the existence of three people under the basket, he had to return a dunk, otherwise the team's morale would be crushed under Jordan's continuous blows.

"Don't think about it!"

Cartwight and Grant jumped at the same time, blocking the front of the basket like two mountains.

"Bang!"

Rushing over a step and avoiding Grant, Zhou Quan hit his head on the body of Cartwhite on the left front side of the basket, elbowed his right hand against the opponent, and held the ball in his left hand to smash the Bulls' basket in an instant.

"Oh roar!"

The two thousand Pistons fans instantly cheered.

"Shh

But the boos of the Bulls fans immediately drowned out everything.

"Iron Fist, great job! You returned them a ......," the nearest Rodman hugged Zhou Quan excitedly and shouted.

Joe Dumas and the others also rushed up to celebrate, and the morale of the Pistons came up again.

"Beautiful! Tomahawk clasp, this clasp is so beautiful! This is a very tough and powerful slap! ”

On the TNT commentary bench, Robert Giddah roared excitedly and roared: "Iron Fist forced Carter White, Michael Jordan just dunked the Pistons bench center, he forced the Bulls as a point guard, he is-for-tat with Jordan, never backing down, half a step back." ”

"It's really good to dunk the center as a point guard!"

Ringer Wilson praised and said: "But the body posture in the air is far inferior to Michael's, there are borrowing movements, and the ornamentation is average." ”

Robert Giddah smiled: "Of course, the bounce of the Iron Fist is not as good as Michael's, the distance is a bit large, the air is not enough, the air is not enough, and of course there is a gap in the ability to work in the air, which is understandable." But you can't deny his bravery, you can't deny his strength. ”

(End of chapter)