Chapter 749
Sensing the jealous eyes of a certain player on the opposite side, Liu Mang smiled smugly...
Liu Mang really wanted to tell the narrow-minded man opposite: Xiao Ke, keep working hard, and one day you will be able to sit in this position like Xiao Ye...
After the American national anthem was played, the game was about to start.
Following Rasheed Wallace's roar, Liu Mang and Boozer embraced and came to the court to prepare for the game.
"Ding... The OK trend was triggered, and the morale of the Los Angeles Lakers surged, suppressing the morale of the host's team. From Kobe Bryant and Shaq O'Neal."
"Ding... The Eagles Devils triggered at home, offsetting the impact of the OK trend. From Rasheed Wallace and Phillips Arena fans."
The OK combination is amazing! Liu Mang was surprised, how could this little blacksmith and that fat man meet a strong enemy, and they were obviously about to fight, yet they still had such a mood of working together to fight the game.
Hurry up and fight!
Liu Mang really wanted to backhand a high-level alienation card to slap the two of them in the face, but thinking of using it before, it would be fine for the two of them if the game was not that important. Once they both felt that it was time to win the game, Eggs are useless.
Fortunately, it was Rasheed Wallace's roar of the gods, which suppressed the awe-inspiring momentum cultivated by the OK combination for three consecutive championships.
The last team to suppress the Lakers' OK trend in the playoffs was Duncan, who was born king last season and was absolutely crushed by a team weaker than his own team.
Still, it's funny to watch Rasheed Wallace stare at O'Neal. Rasheed Wallace hasn't been intimidated by O'Neal and nearly stopped the Lakers four years ago. In the first championship, the inside combination of Rasheed Wallace and Sabonis is worthwhile. The inside combination of O'Neal and Horace Grant won the tiebreaker with the Lakers. Hit the iron, beat the Trail Blazers in the fourth game, and defended Little Momonga to only 5 points in the seventh game. The Blazers won the championship that year.
Winners and losers are right, but it doesn't prevent Rasheed Wallace from seeing O'Neal as a shot. Although he can't beat O'Neal without Sabonis, he still has to do it if he can't.
On O'Neal's side, there was no pressure to play in the finals during the three consecutive championships. Even Mutombo had no pressure. On the contrary, it was the three-year Western Conference Finals. Both 2002 and 2002 were extremely difficult, and both times were tiebreakers.
He was even more impressed by the Trail Blazers, who restricted O'Neal by defense, compared to the Kings who defeated the Lakers by attacking.
With the whistle of the referee, the ball is thrown into the air, and the game begins!
Liu Mang could see the undulating fat shaking on O'Neill's bulging belly with the naked eye, but just such a big belly guy can't play slower than Rasheed Wallace! Toss the ball back by a hair's breadth.
Liu Mang retreated quickly, and Rasheed Wallace quickly retreated to the basket.
After receiving the ball, Fisher pushed forward and handed it to Kobe. Liu Mang chased after Fisher, and Prince defended against Kobe.
Faced with Prince, who is known as the strongest single-defense player in the more famous Eagles and reporters are more willing to report, Kobe is very afraid. He has suffered from Prince in both matches.
Without forcing singles, Kobe came to a 45-degree angle on the right, waiting for his teammates to move.
Malone came to the left middle distance to open up space, and Rasheed Wallace had to keep up. Malone made 42% of his shots in the playoffs this year, and his overall hit rate was as high as 49%. .
Devin George's three-point shooting rate in the playoffs is also very high, with a 37% shooting rate and an average of 1.2 three-pointers per game.
O'Neal got an easy chance to get stuck, Ratliff tried his best, but couldn't stop O'Neal from getting stuck.
But this is expected. Ratliff tried his best to confront O'Neal and consume O'Neal.
Kobe lobbed the ball into O'Neal's hands, and Kobe had a very good sense of rhythm for the center lob. O'Neal received the ball and turned around and squeezed hard, carried Ratliff away, and smashed the ball directly into the basket!
"Ding...Talent skill: Overlord step is triggered at level 5. When the level is full, you can play singles at the basket. As long as you have enough physical fitness and don't get fouled, you will definitely complete the dunk. From Shaq O'Neal."
What a pervert!
Every time I see it I feel crazy!
But this is the expected situation. As long as O'Neal is in good physical strength, he is so incomprehensible.
With a player like O'Neal who shoots close to 60% of his one-on-one shots at the basket, and who shoots more than 50% of his shots in singles, he has no chance to counterattack.
Liu Mang returned to the bottom line and received Ratliff's serve. Just after halftime, Kobe pressed him up, and the halftime was tight!
Looking at Kobe, who had just started the game with an expression of wanting to eat people, Liu Mang turned his body sideways, put his left elbow against Kobe, and protected the ball with his skillful right hand.
Liu Mang once again felt the feeling of Wade being defended by Kobe so that he couldn't get close to the three-point line when he dribbled. His left arm leaned on the iron elbow to squeeze Kobe to protect the ball. Go away, why are big men sticking so close!"
"I'm not leaving!" Kobe responded forcefully.
"Go away!"
"I just won't go!"
"..."
Liu Mang and Kobe squeezed beyond the three-point line while fighting each other without nourishment. Kobe couldn't press Liu Mang too much, and he didn't dare to use his hands, and Kobe didn't have a good way to completely suppress Liu Mang's raised arm. For Liu Mang, he had to retreat beyond the three-point line.
When Liu Mang and Kobe were talking, he was paying attention to Kobe's defensive steps. Kobe stepped back and tilted his body slightly to the left. It is a very common strategy in the NBA to cooperate with inside and outside defense.
"If you don't go, I will go!"
After Liu Mang finished speaking, he suddenly slapped the ball on the ground, pulled away and took a step back. Kobe quickly pressed up, and was very afraid of Liu Mang's step-back jumper. Kobe didn't dare to let Liu Mang go too far from the three-point line. open.
After Liu Mang took a step back, the ball he pulled back bounced up, and Kobe pressed it up. Liu Mang had two choices, he could break through left or right!
As the top defensive player in the league, Kobe naturally judged that he had made a defensive mistake. He had two defensive choices, one was to block Liu Mang's left, which was his own right, and the other was to block Liu Mang. The right path is also his own left path, and he has to choose one, if he doesn't choose another one, he will pass directly.
Kobe's mind flashed back to the first game of the Eastern Conference Finals between the Eagles and the Nets, the video of Liu Mang's 50-plus points game...
The choice was a split second, and Kobe immediately moved across to the right after saving.
Liu Mang had long expected that the opponent would make such a choice because of his left hand breakthrough. When he took a step back, his left hand pulled the ball from behind to the right, and he still chose the right breakthrough!
All of a sudden, Kobe passed cleanly, and Kobe rushed in the completely opposite direction!
Liu Mang's probing breakthrough and dribbling behind the back!
Easily rushing into the inside line, Ma Long was pulled to the right corner by Rasheed Wallace, and there was no chance to come up to help defend. Judging O'Neal is really good, but the outside line is too good, let the opponent rush in at full speed, O'Neal has no choice but to block.
Liu Mang saw O'Neal pressing up, and threw the ball into the air. The ball passed over the palm of O'Neal's jumping up to interfere, and came to the right side of the basket. It seemed to be thrown casually, but the passing accuracy was super strong , Ratliff jumped up and caught the ball perfectly, pressing the ball into the basket!
Returned a dunk!
The Eagles retreated immediately after the goal.
The Lakers pushed forward and still gave O'Neal a singles. O'Neal overcame Ratliff and turned around with a small hook and made an easy shot. That huge body with such a delicate small hook is simply incomprehensible!
Looking back, the Eagles attacked.
As soon as Liu Mang arrived in the frontcourt, Kobe blocked him no matter what. When Liu Mang wanted to change direction, Kobe waited for Liu Mang to change direction and blocked him. Liu Mang played a large-scale change of direction breakthrough and went around to the basket. A 45-degree angle on the left side of the basket rushed inside, Devin George was forced to come up to flank, Liu Mang passed to Raheem, and Raheem also made a mid-range shot at the beginning!
It was the Lakers offense again, and O'Neal once again shoved Ratliff and smashed the ball into the basket.
When it was the Eagles' turn to attack, Liu Mang broke through to the free throw line, O'Neal failed to defend, and Liu Mang stepped on the free throw line and made a mid-range shot.
But looking back, Kobe and O'Neal cooperated, lobbed the ball to O'Neal and then suddenly cut, Malone came up just right to block Prince for Kobe, Kobe cut into the basket, O'Neal gave the ball to Kobe, Kobe scored two points...
Both sides have been testing each other's defense and offense at the beginning.
The Lakers are trying to test the strength of the Eagles in the playoffs. Although the Eagles won 70 games in the regular season, that is nothing. It is the absolute guarantee of Liu Mang's MVP. The championship depends on winning the playoffs. Ball, the Lakers want to see what kind of strength the Eagles can win 12 consecutive victories in the playoffs.
And the freehand breakthrough skills that Liu Mang showed at the beginning made the Lakers very afraid!
With the ability of the left hand, not only the breakthrough on the left is a threat, because the threat on the left makes the attack on the right easier.
Seeing Liu Mang's breakthrough movement, Kobe had an idea almost immediately, he also wanted to practice his left hand!
The Lakers are testing the strength of the Eagles at the beginning, while the Eagles are using Liu Mang's start to take advantage of Kobe's unsuitable singles, which has changed a lot, and try their best to hold back O'Neal's opening few times. attack.
Relatively speaking, O'Neal's singles when he is physically fit are too incomprehensible, and he can play one by one inside.
Liu Mang's breakthrough here is that Kobe's defensive actions are getting rougher and rougher. Since it is difficult to predict, Kobe chose to use physical contact instead of skills. In terms of inside, O'Neal suffered a loss and chose to defend. On the line of the collision zone, Ratliff was not given a chance to eat cakes. Liu Mang didn't care about the mid-to-short-range emergency stop jump shot, he just guarded the basket.
The goal of the Lakers is very clear. Taking advantage of O'Neal's physical fitness to play a few more games, O'Neal also successfully made 3 of 3 shots in the opening game, dunked twice, turned around with a small hook, and passed a ball to the basket for an air cut. Kobe Bryant made a throw, and the Lakers scored 8 points in the start.
On the Hawks side, Liu Mang went 1-for-2, Ratliff dunked once, and Raheem made a mid-range shot from the left baseline. The Hawks scored 6 points and fell behind by two points at the start. The Hawks called a timeout.
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Zen master held the tactical board a little puzzled, whistled, and gathered the Lakers players together.
It seems that the Lakers played more smoothly than the Eagles, but Zen Master was very puzzled watching from the sidelines. The Eagles didn't double-team O'Neal and watched O'Neal score?
For the Eagles, after Liu Mang returned to the bench, he adjusted Kobe's defense so quickly, and felt very uncomfortable. It wasn't that he didn't want to shoot two more shots, but that there was no good way. A little discouraged, he immediately caught up. He scored one of the two mid-range shots because of his quick shots.
It is worthy of being the Iron Man who was advanced in the first defense and later became a first-team player. He is really good, and the defense is not covered.
And O'Neal is obviously more serious than the regular season, and he seems to have much better physical fitness, which means saving his strength for the playoffs.
The point is that the Lakers don't seem to be contemptuous at all, but they are doing their best. They are much better than the Pistons and Lakers when Liu Mang remembered playing the Five Tigers. That Lakers team was completely disorganized. , and this time the OK combination of the Lakers made a lot of passes and cuts, and the 8 points in the opening game were all scored by two people.
Kobe is using O'Neal's tyrannical singles to open up the situation!
Well... that's exactly what the Eagles want...
Watching another "beater" next to him take off his training clothes and tuck his jersey into his shorts, Liu Mang felt it was too exaggerated every time he saw this guy standing next to him!
The Lakers rely on fat to win the world? We have it here too!
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After the timeout, the Lakers are still in the starting lineup, Fisher, Kobe, Devin George, Malone, O'Neal.
The Eagles have carried out a large-scale rotation. They only played for three minutes at the beginning, and three people were changed!
The female love trio were all replaced, and Stockton, Boozer and Ostertag were replaced!
The most feared Ostertag was replaced by the opponent, and also replaced by the old and new combination of Stockton and Boozer. The most worried insider on the Zen master's side came up.
What kind of way is the Eagles going to visit O'Neal?
Before the game, Zen Master thought about the various ways the Eagles might defend against O'Neal, so Fisher's three-pointer was better placed in the starting lineup, just to open up space for O'Neal.
However, after the game restarted, O'Neal continued to ask for the ball inside, and the Eagles still chose single defense...
There are no defensive tactics to speak of, just single defense!