God's hand behind the scenes

Chapter 247 Seeing the Twin Towers Again
After reaching a consensus with Mutombo, Chang Wei immediately reported his thoughts to Brown.Brown was also shocked. It is not that no team has played twin towers in the history of the league, but it seems that most of the twin towers exist in the form of two inside scoring points. Twin towers like Mutombo and Mark Lodge What kind of?Pure defensive twin towers?

But after thinking about it carefully, Brown felt that Chang Wei's idea was very reasonable. It is true that Mutombo is good at defense, but it is difficult for him to directly interfere with or even block O'Neal's shots from the front. At this time, someone needs to stand in front O'Neal, at least have to limit his area of ​​activity, so that it is convenient for Mutombo to serve a hot pot feast when defending.

It is difficult for the other inside players of the 76ers to be qualified for the role of this meat shield. The only one who can help Mutombo is Mark Lodge.Although he didn't play much this season, he is more suitable to appear in the starting lineup than any inside rotation player at this time, because his weight of 280 pounds (about 127 kilograms) ranks first in the team. To withstand the impact of O'Neal, such a big center must be used. Although he is 20 kg lighter than O'Neal, he is already the best choice.

After being persuaded by Chang Wei, Brown began to let the players practice routines related to the Twin Towers.Fortunately, the 76ers' twin towers are purely for defense this time. When attacking, they only need to pay attention to covering and grabbing rebounds. The task of shooting and scoring is still handed over to the attacking group headed by Iverson.As the one who was squeezed out of the starting lineup, Lewis was not so disappointed. He knew that this was to give the team a better chance to win the Lakers, and it was no big deal to make some sacrifices for this.

For the sake of confidentiality, the 76ers had completely closed training in the past few days before the finals, and the local media in Philadelphia also tacitly did not bother them.It wasn't until two hours before the start of the game that Brown revealed the team's starting lineup for the first game of the Finals. At first, everyone thought the 76ers were suspicious, but when they saw the list, they looked at Brown. It's all changed, as if watching a lunatic: Who can explain to me why the two-tower strategy was changed?

In the face of reporters' questioning, Brown remained silent, only saying that it was due to the needs of the game that the two centers Mutombo and Mark Lodge started the game at the same time. No one on the team was injured or otherwise, it was just a tactical need. .

The starting list of the 76ers was quickly sent to Phil Jackson. Zen Master was taken aback when he saw the names on it. He didn't expect his opponent to come up with such a weird lineup.However, with his tactical literacy, how could he not see that this is targeting O'Neill?He waved the list on his hand and said with a smile, "Shaq, you're busy in this game!"

O'Neill took a look at the roster, and said in a low voice, "Is it humiliating me to send an unknown soldier? Don't worry, coach, I will definitely show them what is called an inside monster in this game."

Mark Lodge is a little nervous. Before that, he has always played in irrelevant garbage time, but this time he has to face the most terrifying inside monster in the league. It would be a lie to say that he is not nervous, Muto Mbo patted him on the shoulder and said, "Boy, don't worry about so many other things, you just try your best to resist him, and I'll leave the rest!"

The two sides jumped the ball. Although Mutombo was in good form this season, O'Neal easily suppressed him and passed the ball to Fisher, who quickly dribbled the ball forward.In fact, there are only two scoring points in the Lakers' starting lineup, and that is the OK combination. Except for the two of them, the scoring ability of others is basically negligible.

After O'Neal successfully jumped the ball, he fell directly to the low post and was ready to catch the ball. When Fisher passed the ball to him, Mark Rocky also appeared behind him for the first time, resisting the ball with all his strength. big fat man.Because there is Mutombo next to him who can take care of the defense in other directions, so Mark Lodge basically showed his strength without reservation.

Even so, O'Neill sat back hard and knocked him half a step back. From this, it can be seen that the gap between the two in terms of pure strength is quite obvious.Originally, O'Neill thought that Mutombo would come up to double-team, but after a few consecutive back hits, Mutombo still loitered around the three-second zone, showing no tendency to come up to help.

O'Neill snorted, then continued to slam back, turned around and hit a small hook.However, as soon as the ball left his hand, he felt that the light in front of him was covered by a black figure. Mutombo's defense was very timely. Taking advantage of the opportunity that O'Neal had no time to pay attention to because of his confrontation with Mark Rocky, With a slap, he slapped out the inevitable hook.

The ball is still in the hands of the Lakers, but O'Neal did not go to the bottom line to serve the ball, but stood still in a daze.His first reaction was surprise. He didn't expect his shot to be blocked, and soon his surprise turned into anger. As the league's de facto No. [-] center forward, he doesn't allow anyone to challenge him inside, even if Even if the opponent is the regular season champion.

After regaining his senses, O'Neal gritted his teeth and went to serve. The 76ers' players pressed hard, but he still sent the ball smoothly, and he got stuck inside again, allowing Grant, who received the ball, to directly pass the ball. ball to yourself.Faced with O'Neal's request for the ball, Grant had no reason to refuse, and he gave the ball to O'Neal without hesitation.

This time O'Neal did not choose to play with a post-up single. He made a few fake moves and then suddenly turned around. He directly bypassed Mark Lodge behind him and made a thunderous dunk. Everyone on the sidelines heard the crunch of the basket. The creaking sound, everyone was afraid that this big guy would directly pull down the basketball hoop. It's not like he hasn't done such a thing on the field before.

After the dunk, O'Neal waved provocatively at the home crowd, while glanced contemptuously at Dikembe Mutombo and Mark Lodge under the basket.He believed that it was just an accident that he was blocked on the first attack. Look, didn't he just succeed in dunking on the second attack?What twin towers?Is it useful to face yourself as an insider overlord?
Mark Lodge was frustrated because this time he was clearly out of position, allowing O'Neal to easily turn around and face the basket.But Mutombo didn't have any expression on his face. He knew that it was absolutely impossible to prevent O'Neal from scoring. He could only do a certain degree of restriction, and the game had just begun.

(End of this chapter)