Basketball myth

Chapter 193 The End of an Era

"What are the Lakers doing? The defense and offense are messy! There are no routines, just stop Jordan's offense, and give so many loopholes to the rest of the Bulls! Are you going to defend Jordan? This defense is It’s just to slow down my own collapse! I don’t think it’s of any use! What do the two coaches think?” Derek expressed his clear point of view for the first time!
"This kind of behavior is not Thomas' style! It can be said that even if he changed his team in the past, he would not change such a mess! It feels like the players' own random actions! However, I did not say this. The approach is wrong, the first quarter is over! The Lakers are still leading with a score of 28 to 24, and Jordan only scored 6 points! For the Lakers, their goal has been achieved!" Coach Z is very Said in confusion!Very confused!None of the teams he saw would do that!
"We all think from the perspective of the coach, not from the perspective of the players! The players on the court, which one is not a player who has experienced many battles, the lowest level is also a player who won the championship like Jordan! This This game made me feel that we came to the wrong and right! This is a carnival for the players, and the duty of the coach is useless here! Because, to win in two ways, it is the easiest one, which is It’s good to score more points than the opponent! Everything else is useless!” Coach K’s statement is really novel!I don’t know how many people frowned after hearing this statement!
The first 4 minutes of the second quarter are the time for the bench. The Lakers' bench is still very powerful. The lineup of Fisher, Barry, McGee, Horry, and Ratliff is already very strong!The Bulls' bench is different!Without the core players, everyone is playing in a bit of a mess!

Fortunately, the Bulls players have rich experience and have the advantage of home court, which only reduced the score difference to 8 points. For the Bulls, this advantage is only a matter of a few rounds, but this is the Lakers Ordinary moments!

The main players of the two teams played one by one. The Lakers' defense was still so casual. They still tried their best to defend Jordan. They kept interfering with Jordan's shooting and breaking through. Give teammates a chance!This opportunity seems to be specially reserved for Jordan by the Lakers!
The Bulls players are also doing their best to attack, trying to buy more time for Jordan's offense!In the hearts of these players and Mayfair Jackson, there is no rush for such a game at all, because no team will really block Jordan's offense, and the offense of other Bulls players is not vegetarian!

Soon the Lakers will know that the Bulls are no longer alone!Pippen stood up, took over the ball, and started the official game. All the Bulls players started chasing points under his leadership!
The game between the two sides fell into a stalemate!Not giving in to each other!However, Mayfair Jackson's complexion is not very good, why does he feel like he is walking into the trap of the Lakers?How does it feel that even the chaotic Lakers have their own rhythm?How do you feel that Thomas is secretly letting the game enter the rhythm of the Lakers?
You must know that in the last time, the center position will always suffer the most, let alone a player with poor free throw ability like O'Neal!The stalemate of the Lakers is not good for them at all, so why do the Lakers do this?
The reason why the Lakers caused this is probably only Thomas himself who knows best. The abilities of these Lakers players are constantly being explored, and they are constantly rushing to the team's victory. They all play this game from their own hearts. It's just a game!

In the purest game of the players, there can be no tactics. In other words, in their eyes, the game is just the simplest fun!They just want to win the game!The way to win is to score more points than other teams!As for the rest, they don't care at all!The confusion on defense means that these players are still full of energy and think that they can beat Jordan alone.

As for why O'Neill stepped forward to defend and do blue-collar things, these are just instinctive reactions. All players don't want to experience another experience of being defeated by one person!
However, one thing is very strange, that is, the Bulls players can't stop the Lakers themselves from scoring. Now the main force of the Lakers' shooting rate has reached an astonishing 60% or more!Kobe's shooting percentage from the three-point line has reached 5%!The best news for the Lakers is that Jordan needs more experience in defense!

In the last round of the game, the Pacers fought the Bulls in 7 games. It can be said that the Bulls have been pushed to the edge of the cliff. Why?Overall, the Pacers are very different from the current team-building trend. Among the Pacers' points, three-pointers account for a very large proportion. In some games, three-pointers are even the Pacers' biggest weapon!

If the Bulls' defense expands to defend all three divisions, their own defensive loopholes will appear, and even lead to the loss of a game!

In the same way, in the first two games where the Lakers were relatively victorious, under the intentional arrangement of Thomas, Fisher and Horry's playing time increased sharply, and the Lakers' three-point shooting ability also Added quite a bit, and it can be said that the first two wins were the wisdom of Thomas!
However, after Jordan stepped forward, the core of the Lakers' tactics began to shift. They began to free themselves from offense and began to pay attention to defensive issues!Because if the Lakers did not limit Jordan's scoring, the Lakers themselves would be nailed into the pillar of shame in history!That would be another miracle for Jordan!
However, after Thomas studied the third game, he discovered that the Lakers discovered Jordan's transformation for the first time, and then started to defend. Thomas thought about this question again, what should the Lakers do?
So during the 3 days when the players rested, Thomas slept no more than 4 hours, watched countless videos of himself, and Jordan's current game!Finally found a balance!

The Lakers must suppress the Bulls' offense from the beginning, let the Bulls' offense continue to put pressure on the Lakers themselves, and keep the players' thoughts in one thought, without any room for relaxation!In such a game, the young people of the Lakers will benefit even more!Especially when they have fallen into an abnormal state!
To put it simply, the Lakers suppress the Bulls with their own strength, simply head-to-head!Use your own strongest lineup to win the game!

Easy to say, but very difficult to do!Because the Lakers themselves have their greatest dependence, O'Neal!O'Neal's offense is very stable, even if the Bulls double-team him, his shooting percentage will not drop very much!This is the essence of the Lakers losing!The confrontation of the essence of the triangle offense is also the confrontation between O'Neal and Jordan!

Jordan's shooting rate is better than O'Neal's, so when both sides are equal, the Bulls win, not to mention Jordan's lethality is even more terrifying than O'Neal's!

So with this in mind, how to solve it?Don't attack O'Neill, no!of course not!Just increase O'Neill's shooting percentage!In other words, just increase the collective shooting percentage of the Lakers themselves!
The question is, is the offense without O'Neal still the Lakers' triangle offense?no!So what tactics will the Lakers use?Pick and roll tactics!The pick-and-roll tactics used in the game against the Jazz used O'Neal as a bait to guide the Bulls players to focus on O'Neal!

Preserving O'Neal's own physical strength, O'Neal was in the state of the old Duncan throughout the first half. It is better to have him, and it is not impossible without him!Then when no other main force was needed in a quarter, O'Neill broke out, guarded this quarter, and then the last quarter was the final victory!

The premise is that Kevin and Barkley's offense can complete O'Neal's part in the first half, and also complete their own part. This is Thomas' biggest reliance!Because of the system's tasks, Thomas has the capital to complete the victory of this game!
The first half of the game didn't go according to Thomas' plan, because Kobe got out of his own predicament and started his own awakening, and even won the victory in the soaring points with Jordan!From beyond the three-point line, he scored 12 points like a godsend!Of course, this is also related to the Lakers opening up the Bulls' own defense!

Thomas might be very angry in the past, but he is different after awakening. As long as you win this game, it’s okay, as long as you do this, and follow my process, everything else is off-court. If it still happens that you don't follow Thomas' route, I can send you away, or hide you in the snow!In the eyes of Thomas now, there are only players he needs, not the superstars he wants to train!

As for the chaos at the beginning, it was all secretly arranged by Thomas!Now that these players have started their own path, Thomas will not block it, but guide it along the way, so that he can win the final victory!

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In the last 8 minutes of the second quarter, O'Neal continued to pick and roll for his teammates, did not attack at the basket, did not compete with Rodman, except for rebounds!It can be said that O'Neill completely followed Thomas' instructions. Thomas didn't have any arrogance or anything. O'Neill did this only because of Thomas' words, "Save enough energy, the third quarter is all yours! We are in the third quarter. Play big and small tactics! Whether we win or lose depends on your performance in the third quarter!"

Kobe is constantly running, constantly stretching the Bulls' defensive distance. It is too much to say that he is a shooter, but he is a player who wants to make the Bulls unlucky, it must be!Kobe didn't remember all of Thomas' arrangements, he just remembered what Thomas said to him specially! "Don't let your future self regret it! Remember, Jordan is the last Jordan at his peak. Even if you beat him in the future, who will admit that you are better than him? Now you avoid him, and then get Victory, no one will say that you are weaker than him!"

So Kobe used his own way to prove, "I am no worse than Jordan! Even without the coach's tactics, I am very strong!"

Kevin and Barkley were the biggest contributors in the first half of the game. After recovering all their strength, they kept attacking the Bulls' relatively weak inside line, especially when O'Neal left the three-second zone!
Barkley is like a super-enhanced version of Diaw, impacting the Bulls' inside from the inside out, outside shooting, inside big buttocks, organizing other people's offense, secondary rebounds, all of which are Barkley. Excited to do it!I feel a stream of heat constantly gushing out of my body, constantly urging me to play such a game happily!
Seeing how distressed Jordan was after he scored basketball, Barkley felt like every cell in him was cheering!Although Pippen's breakthrough gave Barkley a lot of trouble, but seeing his team still leading the Bulls, Barkley felt that his energy was endless!
Kevin's breakthrough is a big worry for the Bulls!Kevin's style of play relies more on his body, otherwise he would not have taught Iverson a lesson in the past game, relying on his own vitality and rich experience, even the Bulls The defense has been raised to the highest level, and Kevin's performance is still more than enough!
All the Bulls have played their best, but facing the revived Lakers' 5-star lineup, they are also unable to catch up!
At the end of the first half, the Lakers took the lead with a score of 56 to 48!The Bulls have already used their full offensive power. It can be said that this kind of performance has led other teams by more than 10 points in the past. However, they met the Lakers who are even more against the sky, and met such 5 people!

There is no place for the Bulls to complain!
The ratings of this game have already mentioned the highest value of this season!Whether it is Jordan's home court or the diehard Lakers, they all know the value of this game!Moreover, the gorgeous offensive screen and the high-intensity offense of full attack and full defense make it impossible for anyone who has watched a basketball game to pick out any faults!
The only downside is, what are your substitutes doing?Do you want to pee?
In the NBA headquarters, Stern looked at the ratings from his subordinates. Looking at these data, Stern didn't know what to say!Logically speaking, the top management of the league must hope that Jordan will win the sixth championship, and it is best to end with a lore, a perfect curtain call!But this goal is that the Jazz will have a better chance!Facing the Jazz with little remaining value, the league certainly hopes that this will happen!
But the Bulls are facing a Lakers team with young players as the backbone!Such a situation is another matter!You must know that the future of these young people on the Lakers will end in 8 years!And Jordan has decided to retire after this season!Such a comparison result makes the alliance show no favoritism. Whoever wins is the biggest victory for the alliance!

But Stern looked at these reports, not thinking about who the league should support, but thinking about the impact of such a Lakers team on the league!
For players like Kevin and Barkley, the league is extremely tolerant. It can be said that the growth of the league is inseparable from the contributions of these players. If there are more of them who can work hard for a few years, Stern will not care. !But there are more than these players in the steel frame of the Lakers!

Hill, Kobe, such outside players are actually in one team, two Jordan's successors in one team?That was a big joke!How many players are there in the league?
If there are only two players like this in one team, the league will recognize it, but there is still O'Neal in such a team. Do you want other teams to compete for No.2?
After several years of accumulation, the Bulls have posed a very big threat to such a Lakers. Then in the future games, who can pose a threat to such a Lakers?The alliance needs fresh blood, but what it needs more is healthy competition!This is the experience of the NBA over the years!
I don't know if the guy who has been confirmed there can do a miracle and pose a direct threat to such a Lakers team?A mysterious guest from the East?

"The president is not good! The Lakers suddenly showed their strength in the third quarter and pulled the score to more than 17 points! There may be garbage time in this game! And the most important point is that if the Lakers win this game, The Bulls' winning percentage is basically gone! What should the president do?" After the rapid knock on the office door, a clerk asked anxiously!

It seems that I have ushered in a miraculous third quarter first!good sign? "Why panic! Don't you have any confidence in Jordan? Jordan won't give up until the last moment. Is there no such consensus? You still have a lot to learn!" A calm voice came!Stern cleared up his mood, he didn't need to worry about the situation of the Lakers, there can be two tigers in one mountain, let alone three?

Sure enough, Stern guessed it!

After the intermission, the Lakers' main force in the third quarter changed a lot. O'Neal, Horry, Hill, Jon Barry, and Fisher played, but none of the three main players appeared, and Mayfair Jackson did not expect such a situation. As a result, the main lineup of Langley, Kukoc, Pippen, Cole, and Haber was sent!Let Jordan, who was exhausted in the first half, rest for a while!
In general, such a player is enough!However, if you encounter an O'Neal who is about to detonate, these players will not be enough!
You know, O'Neill's anger has been fully suppressed by himself for the entire halftime!In the first half, he did all the blue-collar jobs!

So after the opening, O'Neill's alley-oop, the two hugged and forcibly jumped up for a slam dunk, the powerful singles after pulling away, and the several blocked shots that directly swatted flies while guarding the basket, were everywhere. In the opening 4 minutes, all of a sudden It leads the somewhat relaxed Bulls by 8 points!
(End of this chapter)