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Chapter 753 752. First victory in the finals! (Please subscribe and ask for a monthly ticket~)

After the timeout, the Eagles attacked, and Liu Mang didn't know what the effect of the alienation card would be. The finals can suppress many conflicts, but let's try.

After advancing to the frontcourt, Liu Mang saw that the Lakers were still defending the zone defense, and beckoned Ostertag to come out for a pick-and-roll.

Ostertag didn't expect that his offensive role would increase, which made him happy. He rushed out to help Liu Mang block Kobe. The other Eagles players saw Liu Mang and Ostertag pick and roll, and immediately opened up the space.

O'Neal can't defend the pick-and-roll, so usually the power forward switches with him. Wang Zhizhi immediately switches from Rasheed Wallace in the right corner, and O'Neal also blocks to the right baseline near the bottom corner to release Rasheed Wallace's catch-and-shoot.

The Lakers' defense was still so fast, and O'Neal was so active. During the pick-and-roll breakthrough, Liu Mang had been observing the Lakers' running positions and found that the Lakers didn't seem to have any difference due to the role of the alienation card.

Liu Mang accelerated to break through from the right side of Wang Zhizhi, Kobe ran to the right corner, O'Neal received the right edge of the three-second zone, and the Lakers switched defenses very quickly.

At this moment, Jason Terry actively ran towards the top arc, Liu Mang immediately threw the ball to the top arc, Ostertag helped Jason Terry block the chasing Payton, Jason Terry caught the ball and shot a three-pointer...

Missed!

Fortunately, Liu Mang slipped into the basket from Wang Zhizhi and O'Neal in a serpentine position, and actively made a tip-up to point the popped ball into the basket.

There is a disadvantage of the matchup defense, that is, in terms of defensive rebounds, the rushing defense against rebounds is mediocre. Liu Mang took advantage of this very well this time. He did not pin all his hopes on the separation card, and has been observing the potential loopholes of the Lakers.

72 to 65, the point difference came to 7 points again.

Offensive and defensive transition, the Lakers attack, and Payton advances the ball to the frontcourt.

He didn't pass it to Kobe, and Kobe didn't ask for the ball, but took Prince to run without the ball.

Payton's advantages and disadvantages are obvious, and it becomes more obvious when he is old. He basically has no open three-point ability, which is very similar to Michael Jordan, who he regards as his old enemy.

Just like now, Payton is so angry, watching Liu Mang take a step back from the free throw line, his eyes are always looking at Kobe, and the more he looks, the more angry he becomes.

But Kobe went to play off the ball, and Payton also suppressed his anger, preparing to use a breakthrough to attract Liu Mang's defense, and to contain the defense for Kobe and Wang Zhizhi's off-ball pick-and-roll.

Just when Payton was about to break through, he saw O'Neal suddenly relying on Ostertag to ask for the ball!

On Kobe's side, they were all ready to pick and roll with Wang Zhizhi, and Fisher was also ready to take advantage of the core players to attract the opponent's attention and sneak around. The Lakers started from the second half of the second quarter of this game.

However, seeing O'Neal asking for the ball, others were not surprised. O'Neal is still the first offensive choice. When he is physically fit, he should be singled out. The defense was so active just now.

The Lakers pulled out all the players to make room for O'Neal to play inside.

Ostertag struggled to resist O'Neill, who seemed to be running away. Although he didn't suffer, O'Neal was not in a good position, but Ostertag didn't dare to relax in the slightest. The opponent was O'Neill!
Liu Mang saw Payton pass the ball in, saw O'Neill receive the ball with a murderous face, and was about to vomit blood. Why did this fat man become more active!

Seeing O'Neill struggling to squeeze Ostertag out of space, his huge body was extremely flexible, turned around and slipped through the space on the bottom line with three big strides, and dunked the ball into the basket from bottom to top on the other side of the basket!
Ostertag has tried his best to hinder O'Neal, but he is not as flexible as O'Neal. When he turned around, O'Neal had already smashed the ball into the basket.

The point difference has narrowed to 5 points again!
Seeing O'Neill striding forward amidst the boos of the audience, Liu Wei didn't expect O'Neill to be so fierce at this stage. Liu Wei expressed despair at the role of the alienation card, but he didn't expect to make O'Neill even more irritable!

Now, the thing to do is to hold back O'Neill's violent time!Before the end of the three quarters, the Lakers can't close the point difference! The advantage of 5 points must be maintained.

When the Eagles were attacking, Liu Mang saw that O'Neal became more active than before and stuck with Ostertag, and let Ostertag come out to pick and roll, and O'Neal actively moved on the baseline.

What a big head, Liu Mang used Ostertag to pick and roll, Payton was watching Jason Terry very closely this time, and Kobe switched to defend Rasheed Wallace's corner three-pointer to liberate O'Neal back to the basket.

Liu Mang could only choose to shoot a jumper from the free throw line against Wang Zhizhi's defense. He shot the ball with his body biased, bounced twice on the neck of the basket, and narrowly fell into the basket.

Still 7 points difference!
Subsequently, O'Neal succeeded in singles against Ostertag again, and made a small hook shot towards the front basket that turned around on the line.

Looking back at the Eagles' offense, Liu Mang did not continue to pick and roll with Ostertag, but passed the ball to Jason Terry. Jason Terry faced Payton's defense and made a strong three-pointer, but missed!

Liu Mang is hurting, so don't pass it to Jason Terry. Today, this guy's strong shooting efficiency is really bad, but something unexpected happened. Ostertag actually grabbed an offensive rebound on O'Neal!A direct tip-up scored two points!
It's not that O'Neal didn't grab it, but that he didn't completely squeeze Ostertag away, and Ostertag got a second chance to attack!
When it came time for the Lakers to attack again, O'Neal still wanted the ball in the paint for singles. O'Neal's two singles just now were too beautiful, a reverse dunk that slipped the bottom line, and a small hook that turned around. It was not at all the legendary big shark who only dunked and played purely with his body. His hands and feet were sneaky.

Payton continued to hand the ball to O'Neal, and the others also opened up the space. Now is the time for O'Neal to play singles.

Liu Mang guarded against Peyton's air cut, because the space was wide open, and if Peyton made an air cut, O'Neill scored a goal, and Ostertag couldn't care about his back.

But while sticking to Payton, Liu Mang was also paying attention to O'Neal. He always felt that something was wrong with O'Neal in these few rounds.

Positive is very positive, even more positive than usual, even the offensive skills seem to have improved...

This made Liu Mang feel even more wrong...

At this moment, O'Neill played singles for the third time in a row after coming back from a timeout. He still couldn't squeeze or hit Ostertag's body specially designed to deal with him. He chose to rely on his footsteps and skills again. However, this time O'Neill had already had two experiences.The ball hit the rim, and O'Neal wanted to make another tip, but the ball went out of bounds by himself!

Liu Mang's eyes lit up when he saw this!

This is where something is wrong!
O'Neal obviously hasn't recovered his physical fitness, and now he should have rested, because before the official timeout, O'Neal just hit two!Only 2 of 1!

Now O'Neill is playing hard for performance!He even managed to turn around and slide the back button on the bottom line. That movement was done in a hurry due to lack of physical strength.

O'Neal is grabbing the offensive end!

……

As Liu Mang expected, O'Neal is now indeed grabbing the offensive hand.

The Lakers were going to try to tie the score at the end of the third quarter.

Zen Master has such confidence because he has an OK combination; Kobe and O'Neal also have such confidence because they are an OK combination; the rest of the Lakers are also very confident because they play with a well-cooperative OK combination.

In the past five years, since Jordan retired, the NBA's winning pronoun has been the OK combination.

For the current O'Neal, if his physical strength is good, he will play two games. If his physical strength is not good, he will stand and compress the opponent's inside defense to the basket to help his teammates create a little opportunity. When his teammates can attract the inside defense away, he can receive the ball and score directly.

Malone and O'Neal both played comfortably when Bryant began to develop his great ability to pass the ball inside.

Therefore, O'Neal is now very satisfied with Kobican's passing style.

As soon as O'Neal stepped onto the court, that is, when Liu Mang used the alienation card, O'Neal suddenly had another thought in his head: that wily Phil, is he going to give up my support for Kobe?

For Zen Master, the effect of alienation was completely suppressed by Zen Master’s own psychological adjustment ability. Dennis Rodman can be used subduly. Popovich and Chuck Daly can’t do it, so Zen Master can do it. They, the Timberwolves took the No. 70 spot in the Western Conference... and other factors were used to adjust the contradictions within the team, and used the strength of the Eagles as the key to suppressing the contradictions within the team.

For a Zen master with these methods, the high-level alienation card has little effect on him.

But for O'Neill, he was a conceited and proud fat man who was easily irritated, but as he won one championship after another, when he was still at his peak, few people dared to irritate him.

Similarly, he was very emotional. Kobe wanted to grab his boss position, and he ignored Kobe if he didn't pass the ball to him.

The conflict between O'Neal and Kobe is nothing more than a battle for the boss, and Kobe is dissatisfied that O'Neal did not help him when he had an accident, which made O'Neal dissatisfied with Kobe, but both of them are very competitive.

For the Eagles, OK attaches great importance to it, so he suppressed the conflicts between them and worked hard for this game. This is also the basis for Zen Master to adjust the relationship between the two when they are impulsive.

But... Although O'Neill has a good relationship with Zen Master, but the fat man has a lot of eyes. He has always felt that Zen Master is a smiling tiger, and the star under his hands is not so much a "master-apprentice" relationship between the coach and the players. It is better to use the players, or use each other.

O'Neal's understanding of the relationship between himself and Zen Master is like this. In the past two years, O'Neal clearly felt that when Kobe began to become the team's first offensive option, Zen Master obviously began to pay more attention to Kobe.

Thinking of this, O'Neill's proud heart felt humiliated.

It's not that he can't accept fewer scenes, nor can he accept Kobe becoming stronger, but he can't accept being treated as a stepping stone for another person.

However, O'Neal didn't give up the game or sing against the team's tactics because of this. Although he loves to be lazy, his competitive spirit is not much worse than Kobe's. His lazyness is just an absolute conceit of his own strength.

Therefore, what O'Neill chose was to prove himself by strength!
He didn't relax on the defensive end. He should block the bottom line and defend the basket. He also worked hard on the offensive end, but he didn't work hard for others.

……

After Liu Mang learned of O'Neal's situation, he was shocked, and his offensive motivation became stronger. He beckoned to let Ostertag come out, but it was not a pick-and-roll, but when he bypassed Ostertag, he gave the ball to Ostertag and cut inside.

Kobe and Wang Zhizhi immediately chased Liu Mang who was making an air cut. At this time, Ostertag cooperated with Jason Terry who was leading Payton to the top arc. After passing the ball to Jason Terry, he immediately stood behind Jason Terry to block Payton.

Finally in! 78 to 69, the point difference came to 9 points!
Sure enough, when the Lakers were attacking again, O'Neal was still asking for the ball to play singles at the basket. However, O'Neal was no longer the 28-year-old who was at his peak four years ago and could average 26 shots per game and 38 points per game in the finals. The super big shark!

The current O'Neill is like the 24-year-old when he met the big pyrenes specially used to deal with him, and he still doesn't have the physical fitness of his youth!

Finally, in this game, Ostertag gave O'Neill his first cap!
Liu Mang was ready a long time ago, rushed to grab the ball, did not fight back, but waited for O'Neill to run back to the half court, landed, continued to let Ostertag move up to the high position, and continued to let the now active O'Neal go to defend Rasheed Wallace at the bottom line.

Although the Eagles missed two consecutive shots, O'Neal's offensive end also withered. After scoring two shots in a row, he missed three shots in a row!
Moreover, not only Kobe's singles will stagnate the enthusiasm of the Lakers, but anyone who plays too many singles will weaken the enthusiasm of the team. The reason why O'Neal is so good is that he actually does not have many singles. During the consecutive championship period, that is, when Kobe was suppressed by the Zen master and had not fully released his strength, the Lakers played relatively smoothly.

Now, O'Neal has become Kobe-like, and 5 of 2 shots is not particularly ugly. At least he scored two goals in a row. However, the enthusiasm of the Lakers for more than one quarter of the previous game became stagnant because of these 3 minutes!
Seeing that the third quarter was coming to an end, the point difference was not narrowed, but expanded to 9 points. Kobe saw that O'Neal wanted the ball, so he quit and asked Payton for the ball!

Payton was also very surprised why O'Neal suddenly became a different person. The defense was indeed active enough, but he was too active. The offensive end has been playing singles. This time, he chose to give the ball to Kobe.

Kobe directly faced Prince's defensive three-pointer and forced a shot!

Prince gave enough interference, and Kobe's three-pointer was solid!

Ostertag blocked O'Neal and Liu Mang grabbed a defensive rebound.

In the final attack of the third quarter, Liu Mang slowly advanced to the frontcourt, taking time, watching O'Neal standing behind Ostertag panting heavily, I have to sigh, Duncan can have such a performance at the age of 40, it is amazing.

The Lakers also waited for the Hawks to waste time. They did not choose to lose their defensive position to press the defense, and they did not narrow the point difference. They were very unwilling, but they were still very calm. It is their current task to keep the point difference from widening to more than 10 points.

Liu Mang dribbled the ball, touched his nose with the index finger of his left hand up, and after more than a second, with 12 seconds left in this quarter, he suddenly threw the ball to the basket.

It is completely unreasonable to start the offense so early and throw the basket directly!The Lakers thought that Liu Mang was going to run out of time for this quarter, but Liu Mang made a decision all of a sudden!

The Lakers players followed the ball with their eyes and saw the ball fall directly in front of the basket. Rasheed Wallace appeared in sight and put the ball into the basket!

Wang Zhizhi was thrown off by Rasheed Wallace's sudden counter-run. O'Neill wanted to make up for it, but he had more energy than he wanted, and he couldn't squeeze it anymore!

With the last attack of the Lakers handed over to Fisher, but Fisher's hand feeling is bad today, the open three-pointer did not score, after three quarters, the Lakers are 69 to 80, 11 points behind the Eagles!
……

Originally, his physical energy was consumed a lot. During the recovery period, he once again put in a lot of effort to play singles. He was one of the best players in the league to defend against him, and he was even more tired!
This disrupted O'Neal's physical rhythm of physical consumption and physical recovery that he had been accustomed to playing for a few half quarters. At the beginning of the fourth quarter, the Eagles re-appointed Liu Mang, Prince, Raheem, Rasheed Wallace, and Ratliff's starting lineup.
At this time, Zen Master realized that something was wrong with O'Neal. O'Neal failed to hit Ostertag at the end of the third quarter.

And O'Neal didn't say that he was physically weak. He was such a lazy person. Zen Master never thought that O'Neal would force himself to show himself, so he saw O'Neal play so aggressively in the last few minutes of the third quarter. .

But when he hit Ratliff twice and failed to score, the Zen master realized that O'Neill really couldn't beat it!

really tired!

Only then did he realize that O'Neal was trying to be brave, and the Lakers did the same!
Following Liu Mang's counter-attack three-pointer and Raheem's follow-up dunk, the Eagles played for more than a minute in the final quarter and played a wave of 5-0, pulling the score to 85-69, leading by 16 points!
Zen Master had to call a timeout because he saw a terrible scene. O'Neal actually chased Raheem who grabbed a defensive rebound to the halfway line!
To prevent the opponent's fast attack and counterattack?Is this still O'Neill?
Be too aggressive!

Seeing that the Lakers called a timeout after playing for one minute, Liu Mang felt that it was time to chase after the victory!
Liu Mang returned to the bench and said to Coach Kruger, "Coach, if I guessed correctly, Fatty is tired and needs to rest!"

"Huh?" Coach Kruger was thinking about how to counterattack the Lakers after a timeout. Hearing Liu Mang's words, he immediately looked at the Lakers. O'Neal was leaning his head on the back of the chair, shaking from panting!

good chance!
Like Liu Mang, coach Kruger's idea is to take advantage of the victory to pursue!

……

After the timeout, the Lakers really replaced O'Neal, Wang Zhizhi stepped up to the center position, and Malone, who was supposed to rest for a few minutes, played, and Fisher, Payton, and Kobe partnered outside.

The Lakers originally planned to deploy such a smaller lineup, to come a wave of ruthless, to catch the Eagles by surprise.

But Zen master didn't expect that his lineup was already very unreasonable. The Lakers shouldn't send such a lineup in the fourth quarter, but the lineup of the Eagles was even more unscientific!

The Eagles' lineup began to become more flamboyant again. Stockton, Liu Mang, Prince, Raheem, and Kwame Brown played.

It is enough to defend Payton and Stockton, and Liu Mang and Prince will defend Fisher and Kobe.

As for the Lakers, who seem to have an inside advantage because of the presence of Malone, they can't get into the basket to play, because although the two insiders seem to have an advantage, they have no inside lethality!

Raheem ran with Wang Zhizhi, Kwame Brown squatted under the basket, and when Malone received the ball from mid-range, Kwame Brown didn't go out at all. Malone adjusted, facing the air test step, Kwame Brown ignored him, and Malone was depressed.

However, Kwame Brown picked up the ball immediately after Malone scored, and Stockton returned to the basket immediately. Kwame Brown immediately sent it to Stockton except for the baseline, and Stockton pushed forward to counterattack!Kwame Brown galloped past Stockton and rushed to the frontcourt, while the other three Hawks had already started to go down fast!
The Zen master on the sidelines saw Rahim rushing to the basket in the middle and receiving a pass from Stockton to attract Kobe and Fisher's pincers. After that, he gave the ball to Liu Mang who followed up.

There is no other way, until O'Neill's physical fitness recovers, he doesn't understand what happened to O'Neill suddenly, and he himself is very dissatisfied with O'Neill, but he can't show it. This is the professionalism of a chicken soup master, he is professional...

……

In the fourth quarter, the Eagles launched a wave of counterattacks. Knowing that Kobe and Malone on the Lakers side were about to start a fierce attack, the Eagles did not choose to defend. Kobe, defense is sometimes his motivation for him. I have seen it in the last regular season matchup. Today, Kobe’s 25-for-12 shooting rate is really scary. They have defended like that, and the shooting rate is still close to [-]%. Can't stop the rhythm, fight back desperately.

No matter whether Kobe or Malone can make a shot, Kwame Brown is waiting at the basket to grab the rebound and pick up the ball to serve. It is simple and rude, blocking other people from the outside, and giving Malone a chance to shoot.

This has a huge disadvantage for the Lakers' counterattack. Even if Malone made a mid-range shot, it would not interfere with Kwame Brown's pick-up and serve. O'Neal scored from a low post. The biggest feature is that he occupies a large area and interfered with the opponent's serve speed at the very beginning.

But Malone CIC can't do this.

It would be even worse if Ma Long couldn't make a shot. Wang Zhizhi's low post singles against Kwame Brown...was miserable. It would be better to open up space for Malone, but Malone's low post singles against Kwame Brown was not much better.

Without O'Neal, for the Lakers, it is not only the loss of a defensive gate at the basket, not only the loss of the strongest offensive weapon, but also the impact on the Lakers is all-round!

Zen Master asked the Lakers to defend the matchup zone so that O'Neal could only use his own defensive deterrence when he was exhausted and needed to rest, so that O'Neal could stay on the court as much as possible and suppress the opponent's counterattack.

However, O'Neill went down, and the previous efforts were in vain!
Halfway through the fourth quarter, the already 17-point difference quickly opened up to 20 points. Even if the Lakers scored a goal, the Eagles would immediately catch up.

After O'Neal went down in the fourth quarter, he didn't play again, because it was no longer necessary!Halfway through the fourth quarter, the score was 100-78!

Kobe refused to give up, while the Eagles changed into a conservative lineup during the official timeout of the fourth quarter. Liu Mang brought Prince, Barnes, Muhammad, and Ratliff up to finish the rest of the game.

最终，刘莽拿到36分6板8助攻3抢断4失误，帮助老鹰队以112比94主场击败湖人队，拿到了总决赛首胜！
　This kind of writing is tiring. It's not that Xiaofeng doesn't want to write quickly, but... the writing method of just a few words without describing the game scene, giving a score, giving a result, giving some data, is completely different from Xiaofeng's writing method, which consumes the brain. It feels like tens of thousands of brain cells die after writing a game...

　　
　
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