399 A Looming Crisis

- Michael's handling of the team's conflicts on the pitch is regrettable.

- Losing the first game, SuperSonics tore apart the Wizards' invincibility rumors with a victory.

- The Wizards' internal hidden dangers, the unruly lions that are difficult to tame, may not be able to help the team anymore.

- Yao's stamina and style of play is a huge problem, and the little man who is 204 cm will continue to haunt him until his stamina is exhausted again! Yao is a soft egg! This is just a rookie No. 10, if it was Rodman back then, Yao would have been beaten.

- Doug Collins also has a problem with his tactical arrangement, with a big man like Yao and Jordan, why not use the triangle offensive strategy? Just like the Lakers' OK combination, that's what Jordan is most familiar with.

- That old thing doesn't know tactics at all, he's just incompetent and furious on the bench.

The rhetoric of the wall falling down is always everywhere, and Artest's fiery temper and rumors of a feud between Jordan and him during the game have become the most worrying things for Wizards fans today.

If Artest is missing, just relying on Jordan and Yao Ming, as well as Harrington, who is currently only half of the top three, compared to the supersonic god combination, it always feels a little less interesting.

On June 4th, still at the MCI Center, G2 arrived as scheduled.

Wizards fans are worried, anxious...... Although there are a group of people who are tired of Jordan's aesthetics, the world will never lack truly loyal fans.

But now all sorts of unfavorable rhetoric is directed at the Wizards, as if the Wizards have lost this series.

Wizards fans feel that G2 will play very hard again, and even according to some current media predictions, even if Wizards G2 has a home court advantage, its winning rate is less than 5%.

They don't want to see the basketball gods lose, and they don't want to see Jordan's most likely seventh crown snatched away by a rookie team.

They are nervous, worried, scared......

But as soon as the Wizards came out, the fans felt something different.

The atmosphere and mood of the whole Wizards team seemed good.

Artest and Jordan talked and laughed when they played, so that the 20,000 fans in the stadium couldn't see that the two were at odds at all, but more like the two had just gone on a honeymoon.

This made the nervous fans feel a little more relaxed for a long time.

And at the beginning of the game, the tactics shown by the Wizards made the fans shine again.

A slightly modified triangle offensive system!

Instead of letting O'Neal spin like the Lakers, they put the center of the triangle offense in a fixed position, which is Yao Ming under the basket.

Then Tyronn Lue with Jordan, or Harrington with Jordan, to form a strong side triangle formation with Yao Ming under the basket.

And if it is Tyronn Lue formation, then Harrington is the one who pulls away to the bottom line of the weak side on the other side to shoot 3 points, and if it is Harrington formation, then Tyronn Lula goes to the baseline to shoot 3 points to form outside fire support.

Artest, who has returned, has become the essence of this triangle offensive tactical formation, using his exuberant experience and excellent tactical understanding, and he is responsible for forming a 'false triangle' with Jordan and another person on the outside.

The Lakers' triangle offense and the Bulls' triangle offense are essentially only two offensive sides, that is, the left and right sides that the triangle focuses on.

But now with the false triangle formed by Artest on the periphery, this set of triangle offensive tactics of the Wizards has formed 3 triangle positions.

The false triangle at the top of the three-point arc, as well as the left and right triangles around the basket, depends on the person who forms the formation, and Yao Ming, as the center, only needs to move two or three steps under the basket to complete the formation coordination.

This greatly improved the offensive firepower of the Wizards, and also put the Supersonic in an embarrassing situation of losing inside and outside.

And Sakuragi's blockade of Yao Ming is also in trouble due to Artest's return.

Artest's cover is so sharp that Yao Ming can always pass him safely, and Sakuragi will be forcibly stripped away from Yao Ming by him like stripping clothes.

At the same time, on the offensive end, Lin Dong and Jordan, who tried their best to break out in the last game, looked a little weak, Lin Dong scored 38 points, and Jordan only scored 26 points.

But Yao Ming, who was under the cover of Artest, became the dominant presence in the whole court, playing 43 minutes and 42 points and 21 rebounds, helping the Wizards easily lock up a win with 117:102.

The Wizards had a life-saving victory, and the SuperSonics didn't seem surprised by the result.

Try your best to win G1, and G2, as the home of the Wizards, the SuperSonics did not have much hope, other people's home court advantage cannot be ignored, and the league will probably not want the Finals to be one-sided, and losing is a completely acceptable result for the SuperSonics.

It's just that what the SuperSonics didn't expect was followed by G3, which returned to their home stadium on June 6.

The raves of the whole Seattle, the madness of all the supersonic fans.

Everyone thinks that G2's defeat is just because the supersonic lost to the opponent's home court advantage, and the supersonics' book strength is no longer under the Wizards, or even stronger than the Wizards, and winning this series is a certain thing!

So the supersonic who returned to their home stadium looked like a rainbow when they came on the field, and they had the posture of winning the two home games in one go.

But......

The Wizards' continuation of the triangle offensive system in G2, as well as Artest's off-ball cover of Yao Ming, have become a big piece of heart that makes the SuperSonics seem unsolvable.

The offensive end is simply unstoppable!

Lin Dong and Jordan have recovered a lot, handing over 48 points and 8 assists, and 35 points and 12 assists respectively, but the difference in scoring between the team's No. 2 has become the key to the SuperSonics' continued loss.

Payton didn't feel good in this game, and when Lin Dong needed offensive support, he only handed over a data of 7 of 18 shots, scoring 18 points and 8 assists, and due to the excessive psychological relaxation in the last game, the supersonic outside players were slow to enter the game, and their hands were not good, and the outside team shot 5 of 16, wasting too many opportunities.

On the other hand, the Wizards, continuing the momentum of the previous game, Tyronn Lue and Harrington shot 7 of 13 from the outside, and after two consecutive games of adaptation, Sakuragi Hanamichi had little effect on Yao Ming, Yao Ming created another miracle, with 38 points and 17 rebounds to dominate the game again.

Obviously won G1 away from home, and the supersonic who had a gorgeous start was now beaten back to 1:2, falling behind by a large score, which made everyone and fans of the supersonic suddenly feel nervous.

The opponent is Michael Jordan, the god of basketball, or Michael Jordan, who is in anger.

The crisis seems to be quietly coming......

(End of chapter)