From today on is the king

Chapter 763 762. Take the match point by force!

Since the new century, the Lakers have never been so passive!

Even if they were eliminated by the Spurs last season, they were not so passive. It was entirely because Duncan's performance in the playoffs last season was comparable to that of the peak Jordan and O'Neal that the Lakers lost to the Spurs.

At the beginning of the game, the Lakers were dunked by Raheem, and Liu Mang, who had anticipated some possible situations, led his teammates to attack. Kobe's consecutive singles attacks were blocked, paralyzing the Lakers' offense.

For the Lakers, the good news is that they tightened up their defense in the last game, and they have the kind of enthusiasm and defensive teamwork that they played in the last game. Except for the dunk by Raheem at the beginning, it was very sudden. After a while, they started the iron journey with the Eagles again.

As for the Eagles, this time they fought resolutely on defense, even more viciously than in the previous game. Facing Kobe, who had his teammates actively pick and roll in the first half, the defense was even more vicious and vicious.

Due to the high-intensity confrontation brought about by the previous game, the confrontation in this game has become more fierce.

It’s just that Kobe was strong in the last game, but at least he still had a few assists. He cooperated with O’Neal’s direct pass to allow O’Neal to score three times. But in this game, Payton passed the ball to Kobe after halftime.The same is true for Malone, and Malone's power play efficiency is mediocre, and the mid-range face-up is more accurate. Payton has to pass the ball to Kobe, trying to let Kobe organize the offense by relying on his restraint.

However, Kobe Bryant had no other assists except for Wang Zhizhi passing an open three-pointer and Wang Zhizhi making a goal in the first half of the game!There were only 6 passes in the entire half, and three of them were pointless passes!

Thanks to most of the first half, whether it was O'Neal or Malone, both had a good impression of Kobe's impressions from the first three games. They took the initiative to pick and roll for Kobe, helped Kobe block people, and allowed Kobe to have better shooting opportunities. The Lakers scored 41 points in the first half. Two points, 21 points at halftime, 8 points for Wang Zhizhi, and 22 points for the others.

As for the Eagles, they still focused on defense in the first half, and they were very firm, just to let the Lakers continue to maintain high-intensity physical consumption.

The Eagles only scored 44 points in the half, and it seems that there is not much difference between the two teams.

However, after the first half, until the Lakers' last attack in the first half, Kobe didn't pass the ball to O'Neal who stayed in the frontcourt and didn't have time to return to the defense after the Eagles counterattacked.

From this moment on, O'Neill noticed something was wrong.

That blacksmith is trying to grab the boss position again!
It's just that Kobe didn't grab the boss position at this time if he hadn't been irritated by Liu Mang in the first three games, even if he lost the first two games, so the rest of the Lakers felt that Kobe was fine now.

In the beginning, Kobe played like that, because Kobe played like that, and they didn't get too suspicious. The game was originally a matter of light and flint. The opportunity, just did not grasp it well.

But now, the innocent O'Neill can see it too!

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After returning from the second half, Liu Mang found that the defense of the Lakers seemed to have collapsed. The enthusiasm of the first half seemed to have never appeared. Moreover, it was obvious that most of the players on the Lakers, especially the three veterans Malone, Payton, and O'Neal, had slowed down!
The opportunity is coming!

Sometimes such things as tricks are really not conceived from the beginning, and sometimes an opportunity that will affect the entire finals appears in front of you all at once.

In the first three quarters of the last game, when Liu Mang trailed by 11 points, he went up in the fourth quarter just trying to chase points, but was immediately beaten 6-0. The 17-point difference made the game basically lose suspense. When Liu Mang played for 2 minutes in the fourth quarter, he just wanted to struggle. Because O'Neal made 4 of 3 shots in the opening of the fourth quarter, most of the Eagles lost the desire to struggle.

But when Liu Mang was struggling, he suddenly realized that the Lakers had a feeling that they couldn't wait to finish the game immediately. It was obvious that the Lakers were holding up, but the Eagles couldn't break the Lakers' defense.

So Liu Mang's first reaction at the time was to use the Lakers' defense to dig a hole for the Lakers so that they could maintain the entire defense and consume their energy.

However, during the one-day break in the middle, Zen Master directly had the whole team on vacation, without even holding a meeting. During the meeting, there would be too much contact between players, especially the contact between Kobe and his teammates.

Zen master is very good at making good use of the star's physical fitness, otherwise he would not have indulged O'Neal in the regular season. With O'Neal's weight, if he played the same in the regular season as in the playoffs, he might have been abolished long ago.

Therefore, the Lakers' physical fitness has still recovered a little. If they continue to maintain the teamwork and enthusiasm of the previous game, the recovered physical fitness is not impossible to support the full game.

But when they don't have the enthusiasm of last season, or lose that enthusiasm for some reason, this kind of physical fitness is not enough.

Sometimes consciousness will stimulate the limit of physical fitness. If the Lakers continue to hold that breath, just like in the first half, they can still rely on that tone to stimulate their physical limit in the second half, and the Eagles will still be very difficult to play.

However, when other people found that Kobe only cared about his own shots for his own self-interest and did not consider his teammates, the enthusiasm of his teammates also dropped.

During the intermission, there was time to think about the problems in the first half, and the teammates quickly understood what Kobe's mentality was, and the tone was vented all at once.

Of course, the Lakers still have to defend, but the breath is gone. Although they have a defensive attitude, their physical fitness can't keep up.

At the beginning of the third quarter, Liu Mang used Rasheed Wallace to throw three three-pointers in a row, but Malone's defense could not actively make up for it. Liu Mang made two three-pointers in the opening game!
Zen master quickly called a timeout. Although Kobe was tough in the first half, the Lakers did a good job defending. Not only the fans, Zen master didn't see any problems, and no players went to report or anything.

But in the third quarter, Kobe continued to throw, but there was no teammate to help him pick and roll. Kobe was defended by Liu Mang and Prince's pincers and scored three three-pointers. Liu Mang scored two three-pointers.
0 to 2, and 1 to 3 are completely different concepts!

In the case of falling behind 1 to 3, there has never been a reversal in the finals. Even if it is relaxed to the entire playoffs, the NBA has a history of nearly 60 years. So far, there have only been 6 1 to 3 reversals. In all 7 rounds of 4 wins in the NBA so far, the probability of completing a 1 to 3 reversal is less than [-]%!

The Lakers have a big problem, that is, between the superstars, mainly between Kobe and O'Neal, they haven't let go of their grievances and chatted for a long time, and they can't talk a few times a year.

But now, Zen Master wanted to communicate with Kobe, and Kobe walked away.

Year-round victories have brought many benefits. For example, the Lakers still maintained a must-win mentality when they were 0-2 in the last game.

But for a person who has paranoid thoughts about honor and control of the team, consecutive victories are the incentives for his self-confidence to be so strong that he cannot control it.

The victory in the last game made Kobe feel that the Eagles are like that, as long as they defend well, the Eagles are not his opponents.

It's just that he forgot one question, why should his teammates serve him? Except for the previous three games, he has never played like a real boss at other times.

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After a timeout, Liu Mang took the initiative to play off the ball for the Eagles. The combination of Stockton and Rasheed Wallace played. Rasheed Wallace's pick-and-roll was also good. Although he was not as good as a natural pick-and-roll player like Boozer and Malone, he was not bad. Prince and Ratliff played, mainly to continue to maintain high-intensity defense.

For the Lakers, Payton, Fisher, Kobe, Malone, and O'Neal continued to play.

Liu Mang started to use his offensive threats and started to run with his opponents. In the first half, he only scored 9 points, and with the two three-pointers just now, he only scored 15 points. However, he did not greedy for credit, but used his offensive threats to help his teammates create opportunities.

On the Lakers side, the defensive end slowed down completely, and they couldn't care less about chasing Liu Mang. Stockton and Rasheed Wallace used Liu Mang to disrupt the gap between the Lakers' defense.
The Lakers still didn't cooperate. Payton gave the ball to Kobe, but Kobe came on his own. Under the attack of Liu Mang and Prince, his offensive efficiency dropped significantly compared to the first half. In the third quarter, he made 6 of 2 shots and only scored 5 points.

O'Neal did it two or three times, but no one cooperated with him. Payton and Fisher were not threatening enough on the offensive end, and Kobe didn't pass him the ball. O'Neal's offensive end was basically useless.

For a long time in the third quarter of the Lakers, there was a sound of "bang bang bang", not just Kobe. If it was just Kobe who hit the iron alone, he would hit the iron a dozen or twenty times in a game alone.

The main reason is that without Kobe's organizational offense, the Lakers' offense cannot be opened. O'Neal guarantees the lower limit of the team's strength, and Kobe is the one who raises the upper limit.

In the third quarter, except for Kobe's 5 points, O'Neal scored 6 points, and the others only scored 5 points. The Lakers only scored 16 points in a single quarter.

On the Eagles side, Stockton made perfect use of Liu Mang's threat and actively burned the last bit of fuel in his tank. In the first half of the quarter, although the Lakers' physical fitness declined because of that breath, but their defensive attitude was still there, they organized the Eagles' offense tightly. First, Ratliff dunked open and scored 4 points, and then O'Neal refused to go out of the basket. The efficiency is not high, but it is daring to fight and work hard to consume the little physical energy left by O'Neill.

In the second half of the third quarter, the Lakers couldn't control the situation at all and collapsed!
In the first half of the quarter, apart from Liu Mang, the Eagles only scored 9 points. The Eagles scored 15 points in the first half, but in the second half of the game, the Eagles scored 21 points!
A single quarter hit a 36 to 16!

After three quarters, the Eagles led the Lakers by 80 points 57 to 23!
Zen Master is also a ruthless person. Seeing this situation, he put the Big Four directly on the bench in the fourth quarter and immediately announced his surrender.

Liu Mang played 39 minutes, made 20 of 8 shots, 9 of 3 three-pointers, 6 of 5 free throws and scored 24 points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists. Stockton showed off in the third quarter and scored 6 points and 9 assists. Terry dared to play in garbage time and scored 11 points in the fourth quarter. The audience scored 7 points. The Eagles scored 19 to 12 and returned a massacre to the Lakers!

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