After falling behind by 6 points again, Phil Jackson did not call a timeout, because the Bulls' offense and defense have no problems, and the problem is the opponent, and the state of Iron Fist is too good.

Then the game continued.

On the NBC commentary bench, Elgin Baylor suddenly said with emotion: "The Bulls asked Michael Jordan not to attack with the ball in front of the Iron Fist King in order to avoid being cut off, which is actually the strongest offensive way to seal Jordan, and the current Jordan is not complete at all, at most half Jordan, between gains and losses, I think it is debatable." ”

Robertson was stunned and said in surprise: "Elkin, if Jordan increases his offense with the ball, Iron Fist is likely to steal him five times in a game, or even more, this situation has not happened."

And with the defensive ability of the iron fist, even if Jordan completes the shot against his defense, how high is the shooting rate?

So I still agree with Phil Jackson's request, Jordan really can't face the Iron Fist with the ball, that would be too risky!

If it's Michael Jordan at the peak of his physical strength, when he is 25 or 27 years old, I agree with you. ”

Elgin Baylor is an offensive maniac and insists on his own opinion: "But this kind of fighting, the strongest ability to self-seal, I don't think I can win the iron fist."

Iron Fist is too young, his offensive ability is stronger than the current Jordan, the data from last season to this season can reflect this, and he has the top passing ability, Jordan can't guard him at all, but Iron Fist can prevent Jordan.

I mean fight for it, there's still a chance. If you don't fight and conservatively seal yourself, you will lose your last chance. ”

In the 8th minute of the first quarter, Zhou Quan and Jordan continued to fight, although Jordan played an extraordinary state, but Zhou Quan still had the upper hand.

At 29:20, the SuperSonics led by nine points and the Bulls called a third timeout.

Zhang Li smiled and said: "Jordan made 4 of 7 shots, 1 of 3 shots, 2 of 4 three-pointers, 2 of 2 free throws, and scored 12 points."

Zhou Quan made 5 of 7 shots, 2 of 4 shots, 3 of 4 three-point shots, and scored 13 points, 5 assists, 3 steals, 1 block and 1 foul, with no turnovers. ”

"Today's performance of Zhou Quan, no matter how good Jordan's state is, it should be difficult for the Bulls to turn around!" Xu Jicheng said excitedly.

Zhang Li nodded and said: "The supersonic organization's ability is obviously stronger than that of the Bulls, and now the total number of assists is 7, and the Bulls only have 4."

On the offensive end, in fact, the Bulls' offensive ability is not as good as the supersonics, and the average points per game in the regular season are 2.7 points more than the Bulls.

Defensively, the Bulls are better positional, but they can't cope with the supersonic fast break.

Comparing the core of the two sides, Zhou Quan's current strength is also stronger than Jordan.

In a comprehensive comparison, as long as Zhou Quan's performance is good, it will be difficult for the Bulls to win the supersonics. ”

Xu Jicheng nodded and said: "In the next few minutes, Jordan and Zhou Quan's hands have declined slightly, but this time is also the time when the scores of the two sides continue to pull apart."

Because after Zhou Quan's hand declined, he immediately strengthened his passing and also maintained supersonic offensive firepower, while Jordan couldn't, and neither did Pippen. ”

"That's true. In terms of organizational ability and passing ability, Pippen is far inferior to Zhou Quan. Zhang Li nodded hurriedly.

At this time, the timeout ended, SuperSonics changed to a substitute lineup, and Zhou Quan continued to stay on the court.

The Bulls fell behind and did not change to the bench, and the main force continued to play.

At the end of the first quarter, at 33:28, the Bulls pulled back four points and still trailed by five points.

"Jordan scored 16 points in the first quarter, and Zhou Quan scored 15 points." Zhang said reasonably.

"They should continue to play in the second quarter, especially Jordan, who is behind." Xu Jicheng said.

"Possibly." Zhang Li nodded.

"George, I'll go first in the next quarter."

As soon as Zhou Quan sat back on the bench, he said to the head coach.

George Karl nodded, 5 points are not safe, and he will be on the bench again in the second quarter, and he is more relieved to have an iron fist to lead the team.

As for Zhou Quan's physical fitness, he is still very relieved, because according to Zhou Quan's playing habits, the second and third quarters will not be the main attack, but the organization of passing.

Soon, the second section began.

Jordan originally planned to rest for a minute or two, but when he saw Zhou Quan standing up over there, he quickly stood up as well.

"The Bulls were led by Jordan, Harper, Pippen, and Mutombo didn't play, and Kukoc, who had a two-minute break in the first quarter, came back on, and the other three were Bill Winnington, Steve Cole and small forward Jason Kafee." Zhang said reasonably.

"On the supersonic side, Zhou Quan continues to play, Matt Geiger and Sam Perkins on the inside, McMillan in the third position, and Drexler the glider in the second position." Xu Ji became a Taoist.

The second quarter began, and the supersonic attacked.

Zhou Quan held the ball close to the top of the arc and made a tactical gesture, including two inside lines, both of which ran up, and even Matt Geiger pulled out of the paint area.

Jordan analyzed that because Mutombo was not on the court, Pippen and Harper were not there, and the Bulls' defense was not very good, Zhou Quan was likely to strengthen his individual offense.

But Zhou Quan's habitual style of play in the first few games is that even if the Bulls are half the main force and half a substitute, and the defense is not as good as the main lineup, it is mainly based on organization and only exerts force in the last quarter, which is the experience he has learned.

Zhou Quan approached the top of the arc, suddenly shook with one hand, shook his left and right shoulders, and exploded between the balls very quickly, and burst from the left side.

"Not good!"

Jordan was shaken and quickly turned to chase after him, but fell behind.

Zhou Quan smashed into the paint from the left end of the free throw line, and Bill Winnington moved sideways from the right waist position to block him, but he was slow and didn't move fast enough, he killed from Winnington's side, and the step was furious, which was a one-handed slam dunk.

"Bang!"

The sound of the basket sounded, and the attack ended.

"Teammates pull away, Zhou Quan breaks through with the ball, good, beautiful!" Zhang said excitedly.

Bulls attack.

If his teammates can't do it, Jordan has to rely on himself to attack with the ball.

On the right wing, Zhou Quan constantly interfered with Jordan's rhythm with the action of stabbing the ball when he was close to the three-point line, and then grabbed a flaw in Jordan and suddenly grabbed it.

"Smack!"

After cutting off the ball, he swept past Jordan and hit the front court.

"Beautiful! Zhou Quan made his fourth steal of the game. Zhang said happily.

"Second steal Jordan." Xu Jicheng said with a smile.

The next moment, Zhou Quan killed the left elbow area, ignored Steve Cole, who had returned to the free throw line, held the ball in his left hand, and flew up.

Cole jumped from the side to block, but he was too weak and was knocked into the air by Zhou Quan.

"Bang!"

As Cole slammed to the floor, a loud blast of baskets sounded overhead.

Fifteen seconds later, Jordan attacked with the ball, forced a breakthrough and then made a sharp stop, and came a turnaround and backward jumper in front of Zhou Quan, which Zhou Quan blocked to his face.

After Jordan made a move, Zhou Quanwang didn't even look at the basket, and immediately rushed over from Jordan's side.

Comparison of the two bench inside, the Bulls are Kukoc and Bill Winnington, the SuperSonics are Matt Geiger and Perkins, and the rebounding ability of the bench lineup, the SuperSonics is by no means weaker than the Bulls, so he is not worried about defensive rebounds at all, the chance of losing is smaller, and the chance of winning is greater.

And Matt Geiger lived up to his expectations, grabbing the rebound and immediately passing it.

"Brush!"

The fast-break hit again, but this time it didn't dunk and was replaced by a more energy-efficient layup.

"It's too strong, Zhou Quan scored six points in a row on three shots and three shots in the second quarter! The Bulls didn't score a point, 39:28, trailing by 11 points. Xu Jicheng said excitedly.

"Zhou Quan's desire to attack is very strong, which is different from his style of play in the previous games. In the first few games, he mainly organized assists at this time, and did not strengthen his individual attack, which should be a surprise style of play. Zhang said reasonably.

To interrupt Zhou's offensive rhythm, Phil Jackson called the first timeout of the second quarter.

After the timeout, he switched to all the main lineup.

On the supersonic side, McMillan was replaced, Hawkins was replaced, and everything else remained the same.

After the Bulls changed to the main lineup and restored a strong positional defense, both Phil Jackson and Jordan believed that Zhou Quan would definitely reduce his individual offense and focus on organizing assists.

Zhou Quan has been playing very well in the final quarter, this is because in the second and third quarters he will not have a lot of individual offense, and the physical distribution is very good, and the Bulls have studied him a lot, so they naturally know this.

However, Zhou Quan played unexpectedly today.

He decided to use his personal offense in the second quarter to consume the physical strength of the Bulls' main lineup, and at the same time take the opponent off guard, take the initiative tactically, achieve the effect of hitting the opponent's psychology, and then adjust the physical fitness in the third quarter.

With a 15-minute break at halftime and the third quarter, his fitness in the final quarter should be fine.

After Jordan hit a ball, SuperSonics didn't play a fast break, he reached the top of the arc with the ball, and there were still two meters away, Jordan didn't force up, he suddenly rose to the ground and shot three points from a long distance.

"What?"

Jordan looked back in shock, only to see the orange basketball plunging into the basket with precision.

"Three points away? Pretty! Zhou Quan made four shots and made four hits, and he scored 9 points in the second quarter. Xu Jicheng said very excitedly.

When Zhou Quan ran past Larry Bird, he shouted at him, "Hey, Larry, guess which jersey is God wearing today?" ”

"Huh!"

Larry Bird chuckled.

“ONE。”

The smiling assassin in the back stood up and raised his right index finger and shouted loudly.

“ONE。”

A group of stars and stars who supported Zhou Quan also shouted.

At 42:30, the SuperSonics led by 12 points, and the Bulls attacked.

Jordan and Kukoc blocked on the right wing, and Zhou Quan followed Jordan who cut inside, but Rodman was a beat slower, and Kukoc, who cut outside, got a small vacancy.

Pippen's pass was in place, and he immediately made a horizontal pass to Kukoc, who shot a three-pointer from a 40-degree position at the three-point line, and Rodman flew to block and the basketball flew to the basket.

"Bang!"

missed, the basketball bounced forward after smashing the basket, and was picked up by Zhou Quan, Jordan immediately blocked in front to stop him from going down.

"Mutombo is back on the defend, positional warfare." Xu Jicheng said.

"Zhou Quan scored 15 points on 6-of-9 shooting in the first quarter, and 9-of-4 shooting in the second quarter, for a total of 10-of-13 shooting, and 4-of-6 three-pointers."

Zhang took the time to talk about Zhou Quan's score, and fans are generally very interested in this.

At this time, Zhou Quan advanced to the front court and slowly approached the top of the arc.

"This kid isn't going to have another super long three, is he?"

Jordan didn't dare to be careless at all, and without waiting for Zhou Quan to get close to the three-point line, he began to step forward to force it.

Zhou Quan turned around and began to hit Jordan with his back, but Jordan was still a little weaker against him, and when he advanced to the three-point line, he suddenly turned around and made a backward jumper.

Jordan struggled to step up and jump to block, and even though he had a certain height advantage, the block's right hand was only to his forearm, a foot away from the ball.

"Brush!"

When the basketball hole goes down the basket, the water splashes upward.

"Oh roar!"

The supersonic side suddenly erupted in enthusiastic cheers.

"Turnaround and step-back jumpers? Pretty! Zhou Quan hit a difficult three-point shot, and the three-point shot has been 5 of 7 shots, and 5 of 5 shots in the second quarter. Zhang Li shouted very excitedly.

At this point, the Bulls called a second timeout of the quarter after serving.

"At 45:30, the supersonic are already 15 points ahead. Zhou Quan scored 27 points individually and 12 points in the second quarter. Jordan had 18 points and scored two points on 1-of-2 shooting in the second quarter. The two of them scored about the same score, but Zhou Quan was too strong in the second quarter! Xu Jicheng said excitedly.

Zhang Reasonable said excitedly: "Looking at today's momentum, Zhou Quan doesn't want to drag it to tie seven, he has to win it today, otherwise he won't play at the beginning of the second quarter when he leads in the first quarter, at least his personal offense won't be so fierce." ”

"At the expense of physical strength in the second quarter, I think he hopes to break the will of the bulls. The Bulls can't afford to lose again, and now they're trailing by 15 points in less than two quarters, and I think everyone except Jordan has taken a toll on morale. ”

Xu Jicheng nodded, he was very, very excited at the thought that Zhou Quan might complete the dynasty of three consecutive championships tonight.

On the supersonic bench, Drexler's body was trembling with excitement, the water in the water glass was swinging out, thinking that with a 15-point lead, it was very likely that he would complete the biggest dream of his career tonight, and he couldn't control the excitement and excitement that was so strong that he couldn't control it.

"Calm down, Clyde, your hands are shaking, how do you make a move like this?" Zhou Quan reminded.

"Uh-oh."

Drexler's face changed, and the thought of losing because of himself made him panic.

Zhou Quan shook his head secretly, in 92, the glider and Jordan played in the finals, as the core of the Trailblazers, the performance was not good, the efficiency was low, and he was not even the best person in the team for several games, it should be the psychological quality is not good, and Jordan is at least two grades behind, and he thinks too much at the critical moment and can't stand up.

He glanced at George Karl, who nodded and said to the glider, "Clyde, why don't you take a break?" ”

Drexler is also very helpless, but there is no way, who makes his psychological quality bad?

"Hugh Potter, you take it first." George Carr then said.

Hugh Porter Davis became excited when he heard this, it was his qualifications to have a chance to play in such a critical finals, and he could make a shot if he didn't have a chance, so he hurriedly said: "Yes, coach." ”

(End of chapter)