Jim Bass Ambition

Chapter 146 Strength or Weakness
Since the beginning of the new century, the Los Angeles Lakers have stood on the stage of the Finals four times, while the Indiana Pacers have touched the floor of the Finals twice, leading the Eastern Conference.

In the confrontation three years ago, Kobe was still immature and Glenn Rice was getting old, but O'Neal swept the army and was unstoppable. champion.

The FMVP for three consecutive years also proved O'Neal's dominance. After the trade, he immediately brought the new club to the finals. No one doubted the horror of the Sharks.

On the other hand, Kobe and Garnett led the brand new Lakers, correcting the league's prejudice against them time and time again.

Ben Wallace, who can only defend but not attack, and who is not tall enough to make free throws is bad.

Chauncey Billups, a parallel importer who has been displaced for six years and five teams, is too slow to play and the other is short.

Grumpy, bad-tempered, simple-minded and well-developed court villain Ron Artest.

When these players used their wonderful performances to make the audience take off their colored glasses, people realized how good they are.

The finals adopt a 2-3-2 format, and the first two games will be played at the home court of the Lakers with a better record.

In Los Angeles, the former 11th Street on the west side of the Staples Center is now called Chick Hearn Arena Street.Since 1966, the Lakers' finals have been commented by Chick Hearn, but after the Lakers won the third championship in the new century, this legendary commentator finally went to heaven to explain basketball for God game.The Lakers' on-site commentary for the new season finals is served by former Spurs commentator Joel Meyers and senior Lakers commentator Stu Landiz.

"Shaquille O'Neal got the ball for the Pacers, the game started. He was here last year jumping the ball for the Lakers ... Terry Brandon had the ball, the Pacers ran the first down, they It should start with O'Neal, Brandon lobs the ball to O'Neal, O'Neal singles Ben Wallace, Garnett's help defense is timely, O'Neal passes the ball to Mason, and then to Reggie M. Le, a three-point shot! Hit! Miller's touch is great, which is not good news for the Lakers." Meyers has been the Lakers commentator for a whole season, and the fans are gradually getting used to the absence of Chick Hearn day.

The Lakers attacked, Garnett took advantage of his height, turned around and made a fallback jumper. Mason could only touch his elbow, fouled, and the Lakers made two free throws.

Garnett made two free throws steadily.

After a few rounds of testing, Jim, who was sitting on the sidelines, felt something was wrong.

Zen Master's tactics are a bit too scruples about O'Neill.There is no doubt that Ben Wallace cannot defend O'Neal alone. No one in this league can defend O'Neal one-on-one, but this does not mean that O'Neal's team is invincible. Many teams are deterred by O'Neal's dominance , embarked on an evil path, what crazily slashed sharks, what gathered a large amount of cannon fodder, what three people double-teamed... Psychologically, I first missed the timidity, was in a weak position, and focused all my attention on O'Neal, and then was blocked by other players. This is the normal state of losing teams in recent years.

After half a quarter of the game, O'Neal only scored 4 points, but Reggie Miller and Bruce Bowen got a lot of open shots. The two of them had full confidence in the three-pointers, which made the Lakers feel a little overwhelmed.

Artest once tried to respond to Bowen with a low attack. Unexpectedly, he made mistakes in two consecutive rounds and was beaten back by the Pacers. In the following rounds, he seemed to have lost his desire to attack and squatted in the bottom corner.

Kobe seemed to be trying his best to prove something. He kept attacking the inside line guarded by O'Neal, ignoring the open teammates several times, but his own attack efficiency was not high.

"Irwin's words are in vain. What is the first quarter of the game?" .The characteristic of Zen Master, or the slot point, is that he likes to let players solve problems by themselves on the court.

From everyone's point of view, the current situation of the Lakers is already on fire, but the Zen master just sat on the Diaoyutai, except for occasionally hurling the iconic whistle to boo the referee, he did not make any moves, just double-teamed O'Neal, and the others People rotate.

The bench obviously has Brad Miller, who has a stronger defensive ability, and the cannon fodder Desagena Diop, who played a good role in the regular season against the Pacers, but the Zen master just doesn't use them.

"Phil Jackson seems to have his own understanding of the situation on the court. Let's see what changes the Lakers will have in the second quarter, oh? The Lakers actually replaced 3 starters at once, leaving only Kobe and Artest On the court, this lineup we've seen in the Western Conference Finals. Stu, what do you think?"

"This lineup has better mobility. Artest's size is not a disadvantage in playing the [-]th position. Brad Miller has a very good coping ability. It seems that the Lakers intend to open up the space and make the breakthrough easier. Easy." Stu Landiz is more familiar with the characteristics of the Lakers players, guessing Phil Jackson's intentions, this lineup was only used once against the Mavericks, basically never appeared in the regular season.

Pacers star Jeff Foster is more of a spiritual leader, doing dirty work, and the main scorer of the rotation is Al Harrington.And this change of the Lakers uses two strikers with a larger range of movement, Gerald Wallace and Artest, to lock the Pacers' striker.

Reggie Miller's age and O'Neal's tonnage are destined to prevent them from maintaining 100% output throughout the game. What Zen Master is waiting for is this opportunity.

The Pacers' rotation was shortened to seven in the playoffs. The main substitutes were Al Harrington and Jeff Foster. As for Eric Strickland and Fred Jones, the most Playing when it doesn't affect the overall situation, so that Terry Brandon can breathe.In the Eastern Conference games, their starting lineup is strong enough, and there is more room for substitution to make mistakes.

But in the finals, any short board exposed to the opponent for too long will bring fatal damage to the team.After the Lakers locked up the only Al Harrington who had the ability to attack independently, the Pacers fell into a wave of scoring drought. The Lakers played an 11-0 offensive climax and overtook the score. The silent Staples rekindled his passion.

Shaquille O'Neal and Reggie Miller, who didn't take a few breaths, had to reappear.

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