At 4:11, the Lakers attacked and called a timeout.

John Moore said: "The Lakers still can't defend against the Iron Fist King's offense, he has scored eight points on 3-of-4 shooting, 2-of-3 from three-point range.

James, you just said that the key to the Lakers this time is to prevent the attack of the Iron Fist King, and if you can't prevent it, it will be dangerous, and it is still very troublesome to watch. ”

James Worthy laughed at himself: "As I just said, the Big Sharks dominate the SuperSonics inside under the basket, the Postman sweeps one side in the mid-range shooting area, and Kobe Bryant holds the Iron Fist King on the outside, and the Lakers' offense will be extremely powerful." But now the Lakers are 4:11, seven points behind. ”

"Poof!"

John Moore's shoulders shook with laughter, and he couldn't control it at all.

James Worthy smiled bitterly: "O'Neal made 2 of 3 shots and was blocked once by the Iron Fist King." The Postman shot 0-of-1, and the Lakers made 2-of-4 shots. The SuperSonics shot 4-of-5, including three three-pointers.

Within three minutes, not to mention the number of shots, there was only one gap, but in terms of three-point shots and shooting percentage, the difference added up to form a 7-point difference. ”

John Moore analyzed: "James, supersonic shooting three points in a row, the Iron Fist King's best burst tactics are useless, I think their offensive tactics today are biased towards outside shooting."

Jerome James, the supersonic meat shield just now, arrived at the recording table and should be on it, and as soon as he went up, there was no room for a breakthrough in the penalty area. ”

James Worthy was stunned, nodded hurriedly, and said: "John, what you say is true, the Lakers should have some defensive tactical arrangements for the Iron Fist King's sudden tactics, but if the SuperSonics really play like you, I don't know if Coach Phil Jackson can make tactical adjustments in time, his ability to change formations at the right time, well, you know." ”

On the Lakers bench, Phil Jackson said: "Shaq, they're going to play the meat shield, and it's likely that they will have to wrap you off the ball, you and the postman should pay attention to cooperate and split the ball in time." ”

Both O'Neill and Carl Malone nodded.

Kobe Bryant said expressionlessly: "Phil, it turns out that your tactics did not give us a lead, but fell behind by 7 points at the beginning. ”

Hearing Kobe's words, Phil Jackson had a headache.

He made an appointment with Kobe Bryant before, and first let Kobe be responsible for containing the Iron Fist King, with O'Neal and the Postman attacking, and then changing tactics if it didn't work.

"Kobe, wait a little longer, we need more time to try, you be patient." He had no choice but to persuade.

Kobe Bryant doesn't fight, that's not his character, he prefers to fight the cold war, I ignore you, I don't cooperate with you, see what you do.

He didn't like Phil Jackson because his opponent was the Iron Fist King, so Jackson didn't trust him at all.

Seeing that Kobe Bryant suddenly lost his reaction to him, Phil Jackson felt that this guy was a hundred times more difficult to serve than Jordan.

Phil Jackson added: "Next on the defensive end, watch out for the Iron Fist King's pull-up jumper, we know he's going to shoot, either on his own or passing, so be sure to keep your spirits up."

The defensive intensity must be increased, the person who makes up for the defense on the weak side must make up the defense position as soon as possible, and the person who covers him tries to block his passing angle. ”

The timeout ends and the game begins.

The Lakers still insisted on O'Neal's offensive play, and the Postman's response from the mid-range position.

However, Phil Jackson replaced Fox again, because Devon George was not useful, and it was better to use the more experienced Fox.

O'Neal first tried to get under the basket and wrestle with Jerome James, but he didn't catch the ball because Corimagetti tried to block Fisher's downward pass angle at the top of the arc with a wave of his arms, so he had to withdraw from the basket and ask for the ball again in the low post on the left wing.

The Postman pulled to a position within 50 degrees of the three-point line on the left wing, and after receiving a pass from Fisher, he turned and gave Big Ben an elbow.

But the big copper skin and iron bones, without snorting, still blocked in front, not giving an inch.

The postman didn't get the space to shoot, and with this kind of position of two points away, with defense, his current shooting rate is not good, at most three percent, so he didn't shoot and hoisted the ball to the low post on the left wing.

At the moment when the postman dropped the ball, Zhou Quan on the weak side pounced on the left wing low post.

He put Kobe Bryant two steps, a meter away from the right waist of the penalty area, and when the basketball just fell into O'Neal's hands, he suddenly came out from behind O'Neal along the bottom line.

"Smack!"

Precise strike, a slap knocked off O'Neal's newly arrived basketball, and then took a step forward to grab the ball in his hand.

"Oh, Zhou Quan broke O'Neal's ball." Zhang Cheng shouted excitedly.

The offense and defense switched, and Zhou Quan immediately began to attack quickly.

O'Neal is not last season's O'Neal, the current super tonnage has greatly affected the physical fitness and speed of the big sharks, last year's West will never play fast attack, but this time it can be played, and it must be played, and if it can't be played, it must be forcibly accelerated, speed up the pace of attack and defense, increase O'Neal's physical consumption, and make him tired.

Rushing left and right in the crowd, Zhou Quan hit the front court on the right wing three-point line and suddenly stopped suddenly.

"Three-pointers?"

Kobe Bryant, who was chasing a step behind the left, had a thought, and immediately braked under his feet, and with a squeak, the sneakers rubbed on the floor, as if they were smoking, and then stopped on Zhou Quan's left side.

Zhou Quan had already jumped up, and Kobe Bryant jumped up, he knew that he was a little slower, and he would definitely not block it

arrived at the ball, so he blocked it with his left hand, and secretly pulled a handful of Zhou Quan's jersey under his right hand.

"Bang!"

Under Kobe's small movements, the ball didn't score, it was a little off, and the basketball bounced up.

Cori Magetti and Fisher, who had just rushed in, jumped up at the same time to grab the rebound, and Fisher had better luck and grabbed the rebound.

O'Neill gasped and just ran to the top of the arc, and when he saw the switch between attack and defense, he quickly turned around and ran again.

O'Neal went to the basket again, and Fisher saw O'Neal enter the basket, and quickly stepped back to distance himself from the defender and hoisted the ball in.

"Tick!"

O'Neal immediately turned around and dunked after receiving the ball, and was smashed on the wrist by Jerome James behind him, and the referee's whistle sounded.

"The hitter fouls, two free throws." James Worthy said.

John Moore said: "The 31-year-old O'Neal's strength should not be at its peak, and his reaction, explosiveness, and strength should be declining.

His tonnage is about the same as in the 01 West Finals, but if it was O'Neill in 01, the result of this ball would probably be more of a 2+1. ”

James Worthy nodded: "Although his tonnage has recovered to about 170 kilograms, he has only 43% of his under-the-basket offense this season, compared to 51% of his career so far.

A super heavy super center like him, the most dominant super center under the basket, the proportion of offense under the basket is a very important indicator, reducing the offense under the basket, and the offensive position is far away from the basket, which means that his physical fitness is declining, and his strength is naturally declining. ”

On the pitch, O'Neill scored the first goal, was very happy, and then missed the second goal.

Cott Thomas grabbed the rebound in the backcourt and passed it to Zhou Quan in the midline position.

"Damn it!"

O'Neal at the free-throw line quickly turned around and ran.

Zhou Quan held the ball from the top of the left arc, dribbled with his left hand, and pushed the ball outside the elbow of his right hand to prevent Kobe from getting close.

Kobe Bryant directly clamped his arm and clamped Zhou Quan's right arm.

"Squeak!"

Zhou Quan simply braked on the left elbow area, and the right hand that was caught by Kobe Bryant pressed Kobe Bryant.

Small action to small action, Kobe Bryant was unguarded, followed by the brake, but his upper body rushed forward and was planted on the floor.

"Brush!"

Zhou Quan made a quick stop jump shot and hit a ball.

"Finished again?"

O'Neill just ran to the halfway line and saw the ball go in and quickly stopped.

"He pushed me! He just pushed me! ”

Kobe Bryant got up angrily and shouted at the referee.

The referee rolled his eyes, boy, take it when you see it, your small movements are ten times more than that of the Iron Fist King.

"At 5:13, the Lakers are eight points behind." Yu Jia said with a smile.

"Zhou Quan scored 10 points on 4-of-6 shooting and 2-of-4 from three-point range." Zhang said reasonably.

For the next few minutes, SuperSonics used a meat shield to defend O'Neal, sacrificed a shark-cutting tactic, and used Big Ben to defend the postman.

The meat shield is actually unable to prevent O'Neal, and the 170-kilogram shark is also more flexible than the meat shield James, and in the case of the meat shield single defense, he scored more points in the next few minutes than in the first few minutes.

The Postman is old, and because he wants to create a single opportunity for O'Neal, the position is very close to the three-point line, and he can't get close to the paint area, and under Big Ben, a top defensive giant, he didn't play much in a few minutes, shooting 1 of 4, plus a previous shot, it was 1 of 5 shots.

The Lakers' offensive tactics are O'Neal and the Postman, and the Postman is guarded, and O'Neal's scoring alone cannot keep up with the supersound.

The Lakers still can't prevent the supersonic offense, and Zhou Quan's shooting today is not to say very, very good, but the state is also very good.

By the 10th minute of the first quarter, at 18:28, the Lakers had fallen behind by 10 points and called a timeout for the third timeout.

James Worthy shook his head and sighed: "O'Neal shot 4 of 7, 4 of 8 free throws, and one person scored 12 points with free throws, but Kobe Bryant, Postman, and Fisher only scored two points, how can the Lakers win if they continue to play like this?" ”

John Moore said: "The Big Three, only O'Neal is scoring, Postman is locked by Ben Wallace, Kobe Bryant is locked by Iron Fist. And Kobe Bryant was only responsible for containing the Iron Fist's defense on the offensive end in the first quarter, not the offense. ”

"The Lakers' offensive tactics didn't play at all. The Postman pulled out really attracted defense for O'Neal, and the SuperSonics adopted a low-post defensive tactic of a meat shield to defend against the big shark, O'Neal's performance was not bad, but the Postman himself was prevented. James Worthy said.

John Moore said: "I don't feel like I can fight like this. ”

James Worthy glanced at his partner and said, "I don't feel like I can fight like this." ”

John Moore smiled and said: "With O'Neal's score alone, he can score 50 points, which is almost the limit of O'Neal's scoring, and he can't win Iron Fist, because O'Neal can score 50 points in a single game, but Iron Fist King can score 60+70+ in a single game."

So if the Lakers want to win, they have to let both the Postman and Kobe Bryant score, and at least one of them will play a superstar performance. ”

"It's all about how to fight." James Worthy said.

"Alas......"

John Moore sighed and said: "The most fundamental problem of the Lakers is that they are afraid of the defense of the Iron Fist King, so they chose to let Kobe Bryant contain the Iron Fist King, which really weakens the defense of the Iron Fist King, and it is impossible for him to send 10 steals and 5 blocks in a single game."

But as a result of this, Kobe Bryant was also excluded from the Lakers' offensive system, and the Big Three lineup was actually the Big Shark and the Postman, the Postman was locked by Big Ben, and only the Big Shark was left to attack, and he couldn't win the Iron Fist King if he was tired. ”

"So, what do you think should be done?" James Worthy asked shamelessly.

John Moore said with a grin: "The Lakers can't win like this, it's better to face the defense of the Iron Fist King and fight to the death." ”

"I'm going to attack."

On the Lakers bench, Kobe Bryant stared at Phil Jackson, and said in a very cold and unceremonious tone: "According to your style of play, we are doomed, you are afraid of the Iron Fist King, I am not afraid of him." I'd rather lose on the offensive than on the escape. ”

Phil Jackson's face was hard to see, but the score was there, his tactics had completely failed, and there was no way to refute Kobe.

But he didn't want to lose control of the team yet, so he looked to O'Neill and hoped that the boss of the team would support him.

O'Neal was gasping for breath, he was exhausted, and noticing Phil Jackson's gaze, he gasped and said, "Phil, I need a little rest." ”

“OK。”

Phil Jackson immediately nodded to Kobe and said, "Kobe, you will take over the offense next." Are you playing now, or are you going to play again in the next quarter? ”

"Go now." Bryant said without hesitation.

Phil Jackson then arranged the lineup, O'Neal and Karl Malone both needed to rest, and arranged the bench lineup of Samaki Walker, Robert Horry, Devon George, Brian Shaw, and Kobe.

On the supersonic side, it's Drobiake, Cotter Thomas, Mason, Ragabel, Zhou Quan.

The timeout ends, and the Lakers attack.

Bryant received the ball in the backcourt, faced Zhou Quan's defense, and was very careful to change direction and get rid of it, advancing to the right wing of the front court and calling Brian Shaw's block.

No matter how good the defense is, it can't withstand a block, Zhou Quan is half a step behind when chasing the defense, Kobe Bryant holds the ball into the wing and goes to the basket along the low line.

Zhou Quan did not chase behind Kobe, but chose to take a shortcut and chased into the basket from above.

Kobe Bryant didn't have a chance under the basket, and he held the ball to the left wing, and Robert Horry made a block and blocked Zhou Quan, and he made a shot.

"Bang!"

Cote Thomas switched to Kobe Bryant, and under the block, Kobe made a step-back jumper, and the basketball smashed into the basket and hit a ball.

"Look, Kobe Bryant can still score against the Iron Fist King's defense. As long as he opens this point and waits for O'Neal and the postman to come up, the Lakers' offense will be easy to fight. John Moore said.

"I hope." James Worthy said with some anticipation.

Zhou Quan singled Kobe Bryant, came to the right wing outside the three-point line, and also called Ragabel's blocking.

In the face of Kobe's fight-style defensive intensity, blocking and pick-and-roll can also solve everything.

But instead of breaking through the wall, he moved a step to the left to the back of Ragabel, opened a step away from Kobe Bryant and immediately jumped.

At this time, Kobe Bryant didn't keep up, and Brian Shaw didn't change the defense in time, and they were one step away.

"Brush!"

The water splashed and hit the three-pointer.

"In the 21st minute, the Iron Fist King had already shot 8 of 12 in the first quarter, 3 of 6 three-pointers, 5 of 6 two-pointers, and 2 of 2 free throws." Yu Jia said excitedly.

"He alone scored more than the Lakers' total." Zhang Li said with a smile.

"Laga ......"

Kobe Bryant received the ball in the backcourt and advanced, and Zhou Quan suddenly pointed to Ragabel on the right side at this time, and his eyes were not on Kobe's body.

Seeing the opportunity, Kobe Bryant immediately accelerated his speed, wanting to rush over from Zhou Quan's left side and play a fast attack.

But just as Kobe Bryant was starting, Zhou Quan, whose eyes were not on him, suddenly took a step to the left, reached out between leaning over, and snapped, breaking the ball that had just bounced off the floor when he was just transported to the floor.

"Fack!"

Kobe Bryant was anxious and burst into foul language.

"Fool!"

Zhou Quan dropped a sentence and killed at the same time, and after a few steps, his body exploded, which was a powerful one-handed slam and scored another goal.

"Haha......"

Zhang Lili laughed out loud.

Yu Jia said with a smile: "Kobe Bryant was fooled, the Iron Fist King should have done it on purpose." ”

Kobe Bryant then missed a shot, and Zhou Quan assisted Coatt Thomas to make a shot, and the first quarter ended quickly, 20:32, and the SuperSonics led by 12 points.

Jerichbus, who was watching from the sidelines, was very disappointed with the result of the first quarter, and the performance of the Big Three lineup on which he had high hopes was really something he had not expected before.

If you want to say that you can't prevent the attack of the Iron Fist King, then he thinks it is acceptable, after all, it is the Iron Fist King, but he can't fight his own attack, so he doesn't approve of it.

He also ran out of patience with Phil Jackson, and such a strong lineup didn't do anything in his hands, and he couldn't make a name for himself.

(End of chapter)