God's hand behind the scenes

Chapter 323
Zen Master made a decisive decision and asked the current point guard Richmond to hand the ball to the inside more, so that O'Neal can directly hold the ball and play singles.At the beginning, O'Neal was a little cautious because of what happened in the finals last season, but soon he found that Mutombo's strength was completely incomparable with last season, which made him become unscrupulous and fell into the deep Location Singles.

Dikembe Mutombo felt a little bit pained. He felt that O'Neal's back-up singles had become more powerful, and he couldn't bear it. While complaining about this powerful shark, he gritted his teeth to delay the latter's advance.But some things did not shift with his will. O'Neal came to the basket with a few consecutive singles, and easily scored the ball with a small hook.

Brown's face turned black. He didn't expect Mutombo's strength to drop to this level suddenly, and there was nothing he could do about O'Neal's singles.It suddenly occurred to him that Chang Weili chose inside players and had the idea of ​​training Dalembert as a starting center. Did he consider the decline of Mutombo's strength at that time?
Seeing that Mutombo lost his helmet and armor under O'Neal's singles, the Lakers also began to slowly catch up to the score. Brown gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, ready to replace Dalembert to take the top, but he didn't wait for him Chang Wei asked the technical desk for a substitution, and Chang Wei whispered to him next to him: "Coach, how about we try to replace Mehmet? I think he should be able to bring surprises."

Brown frowned subtly and looked at Okur, the Turk sitting at the end of the bench.In fact, Okur's performance during the training camp can only be said to be quite satisfactory, there is nothing special about it, and it is not tough enough. This is the fundamental reason why Brown does not intend to give him a chance to play.Although he believed in Chang Wei's vision, he still expressed doubts about Okur's skills. Even Mutombo couldn't handle O'Neal. Can this big Turkish man do it?
Regarding Okur's level, Brown didn't see it, but Chang Wei knew it clearly. In his previous life, Okur could become the main center for the new Utah duo of Deron and Boozer. The most powerful thing is his outside shooting. You must know that this is a big man with a height of 2 meters. When he makes a shot, almost no one can complete the block.

Although Okur's dribbling is average, his speed is very slow, and he has almost no ability to attack with the ball, but his shooting ability is very good, and he can always make the defensive players fall into a dilemma.The only thing that needs to be considered is that after Okur is replaced, Hill can only rely on Hill to grab rebounds. Can he really help the team grab enough rebounds on O'Neal's head?
However, now that the Lakers have chased the point difference to only 1 point, Brown must make a decision as soon as possible.Seeing Mutombo's panting appearance, Brown was cruel and directly replaced Dalembert and Okur with two people.When the old man made a decision, Chang Wei couldn't help but widen his eyes. Is this really Larry Brown, who is known for his prudence and iron blood?Going up to the twin towers at the slightest disagreement, and it is still a twin tower composed of two rookies, there may not be a second coach in the entire league who can do it.

In fact, Brown is also suffering. The team's inside reserves are not enough. The only pure centers besides Mutombo are Dalembert and Okur. That's why the 76ers often played small lineups last season. .If Dalembert is only used, then the inside scoring ability will be equal to zero, plus Chang Wei respects Okur so much, why can't he send the Twin Towers to try?You must know that this is only the first game of the new season. Although Brown really wants to win, but to be honest, the outcome of this game does not determine anything. Zen Master dared to start Szczerbiak. Why can't we go to the Twin Towers?
To Brown's surprise, the double-high combination of Dalembert and Okur has achieved very good results. The two of them have one attack and one defense, which makes the combination of O'Neal and Walker a headache.Dalembert knows that he is not good at offense, so he is responsible for rebounding and transition offense. Okur often moves to the high post or outside the three-point line to catch the ball, and then it is a pull-up jumper.

Compared with other rookies who entered the NBA from the NCAA, Okur is already very mature. Although he was born in 1979, although he is only 22 years old this year, he has already played in the Turkish League for five seasons and has very rich game experience.After two missed shots, Okur finally found the feeling, and instantly turned into a more terrifying outside anti-aircraft gun than Lewis. More importantly, he also dared to go inside to fight and grab rebounds, which relieved Daimler to a certain extent. Porter's pressure.

Okur’s shooting made the Lakers very distressed. If O’Neal and Walker continue to shrink under the basket, Okur will have a very wide shooting space; if one of O’Neal and Walker is defended, Iverson and Reed will get a lot Chances for a layup.Zen Master was very helpless. He didn't know how the 76ers valued these rookies. Logically speaking, rookies would definitely be a little uncomfortable playing, but the 76ers' twin towers obviously didn't have this problem, and they could actually suppress the Lakers.

Under the three-point shooting of Okur and Reed, the point difference that had been almost wiped out expanded again. At the end of the third quarter, the 76ers led by 78 points 70 to 8. This was a great blow to Zen Master. Because this means that at least in this game, the Lakers didn't take advantage of it.In the fourth quarter, both sides failed to make progress. The 76ers failed to widen the point difference, and the Lakers could not close the score. In the end, the 76ers narrowly beat the Lakers 100-95 in the opening game.

This made Zen Master feel a little frustrated, but he soon recovered. To some extent, this is not a complete Lakers team. It is not so simple to add a third leader to the "OK combination". Recognition is not an easy thing.

After the game, Zen Master came over to shake hands with Brown, and at the same time said meaningfully: "Larry, this is just an insignificant game. You won the championship last season because of good luck, and the Eastern Conference playoff competition It is not as fierce as our west. You will not have such good luck this season, the championship must be ours!"

Brown smiled slightly: "Regardless of luck in the ending of last season, you are not the ones who won the O'Brien Cup in the end. We have also increased the number of available manpower this year. See you later!"

(End of this chapter)