In the basketball world, starting from the 99 World Youth Championship

Chapter 191 The Endless Showdown

Eddie Jones entered the league with Pippen as a template. Unfortunately, he is a weakened version of Pippen. He can attack and defend, but he is not proficient. Therefore, under the premise of his big contract, the logo man satisfied him, but The place where he got the contract is no longer the City of Angels, but the rural area of ​​Charlotte.

This is a point that Phil Jackson is not happy with, because Eddie Jones' tactical completeness in the triangle offense is much better than Glen Rice's defensive ten thousand points. He can share Kobe's defensive pressure very well, but because The opponent asked for a big contract and his shooting ability was not as good as Glen Rice in the eyes of the logo man, so he was thrown to Charlotte. In other words, he didn't tell himself until the transaction was about to be completed.

Facts have proved that Jerry West is not a god. The performance of Glen Rice in this finals he exchanged with Glen Rice and Eldon Campbell is not as good as Kobe's third grade, especially in hits. The shooting rate, a shooting-type scorer, has dropped below 40.00%. Unless O'Neal's shooting rate increases by another ten percentage points, it will still be difficult for the Lakers to win against the Pacers.

The Zen master called a timeout. He didn't look at Rice and Kobe, but looked at the bench, "Rick, you go, Glenn take a rest."

Rice's No. 41 Lakers thought he heard it wrong, but Phil Jackson rarely repeats what he said. Enmity" He wanted to win the game even more.

Although it seems that the two protagonists are still Zhang Tian and O'Neal, Kobe is really unwilling to be just a supporting role.

Rick Fox came up and raised the Lakers' defensive intensity again. As long as Zhang Tian was catching the ball, he would face a two-person attack. Back then, the old hooligans didn't have this kind of treatment on the outside. Detroit only dealt with him when he broke through. when.The outside line basically uses man-to-man marking, because at that time Michael Jordan was just a statist, and he was not very good at shooting, so Stern’s rule reform later, plus he practiced his shooting, let the bad guys It will be much harder for the children's army to face him again.

Zhang Tian is different from Jordan, he has the blessing of plug-ins, so he doesn't need to work hard for several seasons like Jordan to realize his talent.

This is the most difficult point for Phil Jackson to understand in the coaching bench. Why is Zhang Tian's learning ability so fast? When he first entered the league, he was just a potential rookie, but in the playoffs and finals, he seemed to be able to The existence of rivalry with O'Neill.If it weren't for O'Neal's dominance in the interior that is amazing enough, it would be very difficult for the Lakers to win a game.

Jerry West was in the box at home, watching Zhang Tian break through to the inside to complete a layup under the double attack, and caused a foul by Robert Horry.Perhaps it was really a wrong choice to use Eddie Jones to trade Rice, because Jones didn't have to have a maximum salary at the beginning, but who would have thought that in this season of the Lakers' rise, the Pacers would also have a monster, really It is impermanence.

Zhang Tian stood at the free throw line, took a deep breath, and started to make free throws. So far in this game, he did not use stamina medicine, because Zhang Tian wanted to see if he, who was not taking drugs, could fight against the peak O'Neal. And the fight has proved that it is indeed possible to fight against O'Neal, but it won't last long. After all, the distance between O'Neal and the basket is much closer than himself. , are larger than themselves.

So this is why many basketball legends say that shooting cannot win the championship. The top warriors behind can only do it with three historical-level shooters, Du Xiaoshuai and Tang Shen, but this lineup, Looking at the history of the NBA, it is difficult to gather together. After the disintegration of the Warriors, there has not been a second team with this shooting level in the league, and the current Pacers have this shooting ability. Le, Mullin, and Billups can add to the cake, but it's too difficult to send charcoal in the snow.God's left hand is no longer the same him in the RUN-TMC period.

Of course, O'Neal is also a rare fifth position in a century. His dominance can be compared with Chamberlain. Although there are more runners-up in the Big Dipper, this fact cannot be denied.

Zhang Tian's current score has already caught up with O'Neal. This game may become a replay of the first game. Both of them will score super data, but there is only one winner.

"Xiao Zhang started to run again. This time he ran to the inside. Billups passed the ball. , it was a fake, he passed Kobe from the other side, got to the paint, made a layup, and drew a foul on Robert Horry."

Zhang Weiping's commentary was frightening, and Zhang Tian's heart was so big that he dared to play worshiping Buddha in the interior. If Kobe didn't jump up, it would be a failure.With Kobe's reflexes, he will definitely succeed in stealing.

Robert Horry fouled twice in a row, and his cumulative personal fouls have reached five times. Phil Jackson finally couldn't sit still, and the official timeout also came, and he was about to start substitutions.

Zhang Tian has scored 35 points so far, and O'Neal has 34 points. In this quarter, the opponent scored 3 points. It doesn't look like much, but the latter sent 3 assists. These 6 assists kept the Lakers biting the score. , and O'Neal also had [-] assists in the game, and he was the one who passed the most balls among all the Lakers players.

And Zhang Tian's assists are only 4 times, he still prefers to score than to pass the ball.Especially the score after colliding with a defensive player makes him happy.

"Zhang, you did a good job, but you need to save your stamina. Robert Horry fouled five times, which is an opportunity for us. Next, if O'Neal still passes the ball to AC Green, then I don't need to say more , if Phil Jackson continues to keep Horry on the court, Reggie, Chauncey, you all have to break in, Shaq's ability to assist defense is far inferior to his single defense."

O'Neal's help defense is not good enough, at least compared to Garnett and Duncan's insiders, but he is not bad at the center position, at least he has not become a defensive hit.

There are less than 2 minutes left in the game, the Lakers are currently behind by three points, and the whole atmosphere is very depressing.

(End of this chapter)