Chapter 763 762. Take the Match Point by Force!
Since the new century, the Lakers have never been so passive!
Even if they were eliminated by the Spurs last season, they were not so passive. It was entirely because Duncan's performance in the playoffs last season was comparable to that of the peak Jordan and O'Neal that the Lakers lost to the Spurs.
At the beginning of the game, the Lakers were dunked by Raheem, and Liu Mang, who had anticipated some possible situations, led his teammates to attack. Kobe's consecutive singles attacks were blocked, paralyzing the Lakers' offense.
For the Lakers, the good news is that they tightened up their defense in the last game, and they have the kind of enthusiasm and defensive teamwork that they played in the last game. It came very suddenly, and after a while, I started the iron journey with the Eagles again.
As for the Eagles, this time they fought resolutely on defense, even more viciously than in the previous game. Facing Kobe, who had his teammates actively pick and roll in the first half, the defense was even more vicious and vicious.
Due to the high-intensity confrontation brought about by the previous game, the confrontation in this game has become more fierce.
It’s just that in the last game, Kobe was strong, but at least he still had a few assists. He cooperated with O’Neal’s direct pass to allow O’Neal to score three times. Kobe, Kobe are all singles, that is to say, except that Payton passes the ball to O'Neal when O'Neal has the strength to attack, and O'Neal can score in singles. At other times, O'Neal can hardly catch the ball! The same is true for Malone, and Malone's power play efficiency is mediocre, and the mid-range face-up is more accurate. Payton has to pass the ball to Kobe, trying to let Kobe organize the offense by relying on his restraint.
However, Kobe Bryant had no other assists except for Wang Zhizhi passing an open three-pointer and Wang Zhizhi making a goal in the first half of the game! There were only 6 passes in the entire half, and three of them were pointless passes!
Fortunately, for most of the first half, whether it was O'Neal or Malone, they had a good impression of Kobe's impressions from the first three games. They took the initiative to pick and roll for Kobe, helping Kobe block people, so that Kobe had better shooting opportunities , the Lakers scored 41 points in the first half, of which Kobe took 21 shots in the half and made 8 shots. He scored 22 points with a shooting percentage close to the previous game. 8 points, 2 of 6 free throws and 2 points, 10 points in the half, 3 points from Wang Zhizhi, and 6 points from the others.
As for the Eagles, they still focused on defense in the first half, and they were very firm, just to let the Lakers continue to maintain high-intensity physical consumption.
The Eagles only scored 44 points in the half, and it seems that there is not much difference between the two teams.
However, after the first half, until the last attack of the Lakers after the first half, Kobe didn't pass the ball to O'Neal who stayed in the frontcourt and didn't have time to return to the defense after the Eagles counterattacked. Shipped to the center line and threw a three-pointer with two seconds left.
From this moment on, O'Neill noticed something was wrong.
That blacksmith is trying to grab the boss position again!
It's just that Kobe didn't grab the boss position at this time if he hadn't been irritated by Liu Mang in the first three games, even if he lost the first two games, so the rest of the Lakers felt that Kobe was fine now.
In the beginning, Kobe played like that, because Kobe played like that, and they didn't get too suspicious. The game was originally a matter of lightning and flint. Kobe is famous for the two-man defense when he is open, and the three-man defense considers the pass. O'Neal He and Malone were actively grabbing offensive rebounds from the very beginning, and O'Neal got 6 free throw opportunities because of this. Although Malone only scored two points in the first half, the offensive rebound attracted the opponent to block and helped O'Neal get several. An offensive rebound opportunity, but he didn't grasp it well.
But now, the innocent O'Neill can see it too!
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After returning from the second half, Liu Mang found that the defense of the Lakers seemed to have collapsed. The enthusiasm of the first half seemed to have never appeared, and it was obvious that most of the players on the Lakers, especially The three veterans Malone, Payton, and O'Neal all slowed down!
Here's your chance!
Sometimes such things as tricks are really not conceived from the beginning, and sometimes an opportunity that will affect the entire finals appears in front of you all at once.
Liu Mang was behind by 11 points in the first three quarters of the last game. He just tried to chase points in the fourth quarter, but was immediately beaten 6-0. The 17-point difference made the game basically lose suspense , when Liu Mang played for two minutes in the fourth quarter, he just wanted to struggle. Because O'Neal made 3 of 4 shots at the beginning of the fourth quarter, most of the Eagles lost the desire to struggle.
But when Liu Mang was struggling, he suddenly realized that the Lakers had a feeling that they couldn't wait to finish the game immediately. The team's strong defense, if his teammates can't make a shot, Liu Mang can't do anything by himself.
So Liu Mang's first reaction at the time was to use the Lakers' defense to dig a hole for the Lakers, let them maintain the defense of the whole court, and consume their physical energy.
However, during the break of the middle day, Zen master directly had a holiday for the whole team without even holding a meeting. During the meeting, there would be too much contact between players, especially the contact between Kobe and his teammates, so as not to prevent the training mad Kobe from making the Lakers already old. Teammates who lost their teeth were taken to the quagmire of training.
Zen master is very good at making good use of the star's physical fitness, otherwise he would not have indulged O'Neal in the regular season. With O'Neal's weight, if he played the same in the regular season as in the playoffs, he might have been abolished long ago.
Therefore, the Lakers' physical fitness has still recovered a little. If they continue to maintain the teamwork and enthusiasm of the previous game, the recovered physical fitness is not impossible to support the full game.
But when they don't have the enthusiasm of last season, or lose that enthusiasm for some reason, this kind of physical fitness is not enough.
Sometimes consciousness will stimulate the limit of physical fitness. If the Lakers continue to hold that breath, just like in the first half, they can still rely on that tone to stimulate their physical limit in the second half, and the Eagles will still be very difficult to play.
However, when other people found that Kobe only cared about his own shots for his own self-interest and did not consider his teammates, the enthusiasm of his teammates also dropped.
During the intermission, there was time to think about the problems in the first half, and the teammates quickly understood what Kobe's mentality was, and the tone was vented all at once.
Of course, the Lakers still have to defend, but the breath is gone. Although they have a defensive attitude, their physical fitness can't keep up.
At the beginning of the third quarter, Liu Mang used Rasheed Wallace to throw three three-pointers in a row, but Malone's defense could not actively make up for it. Liu Mang made two three-pointers in the opening game!
Zen master quickly called a timeout. Although Kobe was tough in the first half, the Lakers did a good job defending. Not only the fans, Zen master didn't see any problems, and there were no players to make small reports. The rest of the team was doing pick-and-rolls for Kobe, and Zen Master was a coach who was willing to leave the situation on the court to the players to control. He thought it was an agreement made by the players themselves, so he thought everything was under control. When O'Neal started to show off, OK connection, everything is not a problem.
But in the third quarter, Kobe continued to throw up, but he had no teammates to help him pick and roll. Kobe was attacked by Liu Mang and Prince and defended a three-pointer. Liu Mang scored two three-pointers in a row. 9 points behind 50, and seeing that he was about to be pulled to the 10-point mark, Zen Master couldn't calm down this time. If he lost the game, the Eagles would get the match point!
0 to 2, and 1 to 3 are completely different concepts!
In the case of falling behind 1 to 3, there has never been a reversal in the finals, even if it is extended to the entire playoffs, the NBA has a history of nearly 60 years, so far, there have only been 6 1 to 3 reversals , in all 7-round 4-win series in the NBA so far, the probability of completing a 1-3 reversal is less than 3%!
The Lakers have a big problem, that is, between superstars, mainly between Kobe and O'Neal, it has been a long time since they let go of their grievances and chatted. They can't talk a few times a year, and it all depends on the Zen master to deal with them. Keep the two of you working together.
But now, Zen Master wanted to communicate with Kobe, and Kobe walked away.
Year-round victories have brought many benefits. For example, the Lakers still maintained a must-win mentality when they were 0-2 in the last game.
But for a person who has paranoid thoughts about honor and control of the team, consecutive victories are the incentives for his self-confidence to be so strong that he cannot control it.
The victory in the last game made Kobe feel that the Eagles are like that, as long as they defend well, the Eagles are not his opponents.
It's just that he forgot one question, why should his teammates serve him? Except for the previous three games, he has never played like a real boss at other times.
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Back from the timeout, for the Eagles, Liu Mang took the initiative to play off the ball. The combination of Stockton and Rasheed Wallace played. Rasheed Wallace's pick-and-roll is also good, although there is no Boozer The natural pick-and-roll players like Billy and Malone are so powerful, but they are not bad. Prince and Ratliff play, mainly to continue to maintain high-intensity defense.
For the Lakers, Payton, Fisher, Kobe, Malone, and O'Neal continued to play.
Liu Mang began to use his offensive threats and started to run with his opponents. In the first half, he only scored 9 points, and with the two three-pointers just now, he only scored 15 points. Use your offensive threat to help your teammates create opportunities.
On the Lakers side, the defensive pace has completely slowed down. Apart from chasing Liu Mang, Stockton and Rasheed Wallace, taking advantage of Liu Mang to disrupt the gap between the Lakers' defense, have nothing to do with each other. Rasheed Wallace rushed in after the pick-and-roll to attract O'Neal away, Stockton passed to Ratliff, the first timeout came back in the third quarter, the Eagles Ratliff's main scorer turned out to be Ratliff!
The Lakers still didn't cooperate. Payton gave the ball to Kobe, but Kobe did it by himself. Under the attack of Liu Mang and Prince, his offensive efficiency dropped significantly compared to the first half. In the third quarter, he made 2 of 6 shots. Among them, only 5 points were scored.
O'Neal did it two or three times, but no one cooperated with him. Payton and Fisher were not threatening enough on the offensive end, and Kobe didn't pass him the ball. O'Neal's offensive end was basically useless.
For a long time in the third quarter, the Lakers had the sound of "bang bang bang", not just Kobe, if it was just Kobe who hit the iron alone, he would only hit the iron for more than ten or twenty times in a single game. Second, if there were no teammates in the first half to pick and roll him and help him contain the defense, he would be able to take six or seven successful shots in a quarter.
The main reason is that without Kobe's organizational offense, the Lakers' offense cannot be opened. O'Neal guarantees the lower limit of the team's strength, and Kobe is the one who raises the upper limit.
In the third quarter, except for Kobe's 5 points, O'Neal scored 6 points, and the others only scored 5 points. The Lakers only scored 16 points in a single quarter.
On the Hawks side, Stockton made perfect use of Liu Mang's threat and actively burned the last bit of fuel in his fuel tank. Although the Lakers' physical fitness declined because of the breath in the first half of the quarter, their defensive attitude was still strong. During the period of time, the Eagles' offense was organized tightly. First, Ratliff scored 4 points with an open dunk, and then O'Neal refused to go out of the basket. Rasheed Wallace began to catch the ball against O'Neal On the offensive, even if you can't make a dunk, you have to be strong. The offensive efficiency is not high, but you just dare to fight and fight hard, and consume O'Neal's little physical energy left.
In the second half of the third quarter, the Lakers couldn't control the situation at all and collapsed!
In the first half of the quarter, apart from Liu Mang, the Eagles only scored 9 points. The Eagles scored 15 points in the first half, but in the second half of the game, the Eagles scored 21 points!
A single quarter hit a 36 to 16!
After three quarters, the Eagles led the Lakers by 23 points 80 to 57!
Zen Master is also a ruthless person. Seeing this situation, he put the Big Four directly on the bench in the fourth quarter and immediately announced his surrender.
The Eagles replaced Liu Mang after confirming that the Lakers really surrendered in the fourth quarter. Liu Mang played 39 minutes, made 8 of 20 shots, 3 of 9 three-pointers, 5 of 6 free throws and scored 24. Points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists, Stockton showed his strength in the third quarter, and scored 6 points and 9 assists. Today the Eagles blossomed, Ratliff 11 points, Kwame Brown 7 points, Raheem 19 Rasheed Wallace scored 12 points, Jason Terry dared to fight in garbage time and scored 12 points in the fourth quarter. The audience scored 20 points. The Eagles scored 106 to 86 and returned a massacre to the Lakers !
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