From Today it is the King of the Basketball

The fifth game of the finals came as scheduled.

Liu Mang walked into the stadium, and this time, the boos of the Lakers fans began to become manic again.

The Lakers fans are scared! This time it is really on the verge of elimination.

However, the Lakers are all unwilling and unable to accept the expression of failure. It still makes many Lakers fans very excited and excited. The Lakers fans have a "sense of security", which is very good as a fan. A mentality, always looking forward to the team's future.

When Liu Mang saw the expressions of the Lakers players, he secretly rejoiced that he is also high-spirited. There is no possibility of relaxation. Whether it is the temptation of the championship or the temptation of the bonus of the boss, it is the motivation of the players.

Moreover, the most important thing is that the Hawks are infected with Liu Mang's personality. If you can avoid trouble, you can avoid trouble. If you can solve the game in five games, you don't want to drag it to the sixth game.

The best thing the Zen Master did in the last game was his decisive choice to give up, so today the Lakers ’physical fitness is much better than the last game. All other Lakers players except Kobe, who originally exploded in physical fitness, feel the situation not bad.

Therefore, the Lakers players are in a posture to fight back.

It's just that this looks like a fight. Liu Mang and Boozer hugged and walked onto the court. When it was time to jump the ball, they still didn't hear the prompt.

The trend of OK is still not triggered!

It seems that the Lakers players are in a posture to fight. Of course, they really want to fight. Kobe and O'Neal have no heart for cooperation!

Even if the Zen Master tried his best to use psychology and tactics to drive the two, but the relationship between Kobe and O’Neill has been completely broken and cannot be recovered!

The Lakers are still the starting combination of Payton, Kobe, Devin Brown, Malone and O'Neal.

On the Hawks side, the starting lineup of Liu Mang, Prince, Raheem, Rashid Wallace and Kwame Brown has not changed.

Although Kobe and O’Neal ’s hearts have been completely unable to work in the same direction, but the enthusiasm of each Lakers player is really up.

O'Neal defeated Kwame Brown for the first time in a jump ball, the basket fell into Payton's hands, the Lakers advanced.

Payton is in control of the ball, and Liu Mang defends him. The little blacksmith still gives Prince to defend.

Bryant didn't take the initiative to ask for the ball this time, he suppressed the urge to solve the game by himself. He knew he would use the unsolved offense that O'Neal started to play two first, otherwise he would waste his physical fitness.

And his off-ball end, Prince who defended him did a good job. The excellent position card broke Kobe's space for running back. Peyton commanded his teammates to run the position. The purpose was obviously to suppress the rhythm. O'Neal went to the low card. Position, and then Payton steadily lifted the ball into O'Neill's hands.

O'Neill may be the Lakers player with the worst physical fitness. After losing the ball the day before yesterday, he couldn't eat well or sleep well. He felt he had lost two or two.

But as long as O'Neill has enough physical fitness, it is the most unsolvable killer in the NBA.

Unstoppable is unstoppable, O'Neill took the ball and turned it away from Kwame Brown, directly smashing the ball into the rim.

The Lakers don't play fast and want to suppress the rhythm, but the Hawks don't do it. Liu Mang tries to speed up the rhythm and wants to use the fast rhythm to drag down the Lakers' bulky heavy fat man.

Almost at the first moment of O'Neal's offense, Rashid Wallace immediately picked up the ball and withdrew from the bottom line to serve directly. The Eagles, including Kwame Brown, all counterattacked the fast break!

Full-time defense, full-strength beat the rhythm, the Hawks' strategy is very direct. When the Lakers ran back and defended, the Hawks were almost down.

Rashid Wallace was so courageous that he threw the ball towards the center line when a group of people rushed forward together, and Liu Mang really received it! That's why he and two courageous people will think of such a fast break.

Liu Mang received the ball at the center line and rushed to the top arc of the opponent's three-point line. It seemed to be chasing a three-pointer. Malone and Kobe wrapped up. At this time, Kwame Brown cut into the left and Liu Mang Throw the ball to the basket ...

Kwame Brown violent air connection! One more!

O'Neill has just reached the three-point line! This time the Eagles counterattack is too fierce, so the Lakers who had adapted to the slow pace of the previous two games could not adapt at once!

Especially when Rashid Wallace dared to pass the ball into the crowd, no one on the Lakers side thought about it.

In the first round of confrontation, the two teams played two completely different rhythms.

Faced with such a fierce counterattack by the Hawks, the Lakers are big on the other side, and firmly down the rhythm according to Kobe's instructions. The Eagles' fast break was just amazing.

The Lakers continued to attack this time. The two major insiders continued to dig. The last time they played was O'Neal. This time it was Malone's turn. Malone's weight is huge. At 41 years old, he still maintains such a large weight and can still maintain his status. Such an opponent, Rashid Wallace, did not hesitate to go up. After the first four games, he already has enough experience to prevent Malone.

Just when Rashid Wallace's taboo against Malone's iron elbow was sturdy, Malone suddenly turned over and threw a shot, the basketball turned around the rim and hit!

Last time I was caught off guard by the Eagles' counterattack. This time the Lakers retired very quickly. The enthusiasm of the Zen Master mobilized, so that the Lakers players did a good job in the opening defense. When Rashid Wallace actually passed the ball into the crowd, this time they paid attention to this defense when they returned to defense. Rashid Wallace did not want to be silly for a second time, honestly Actually serve the ball to Liu Mang, the Hawks also fell into position battle.

Opportunity to speed up the counterattack, if there is no chance to counterattack, then firmly and steadily play to maintain a certain success rate, ironing does not matter, the other side is more ironic, mainly to reduce the turnover rate.

Against the fully defended Lakers, the Hawks have had rich experience in the past two games, that is, they can only use more fierce defense to play hard with the Lakers, cut their heads on the offensive end and the Lakers are more iron than Too.

On the Lakers side, although Kobe did n’t take the initiative to organize the offensive task today, he did n’t have the right to steal the ball anyway. Although he still played his own game, when Malone, O’Neal and even Wang Zhizhi from the bench had the opportunity to play alone, he Do not fight for the shot, let them fight first, when they are tired, Kobe will come again.

However, whether Kobe is willing to organize the offense well or not, it doesn't matter whether Kobe wants to grab the shot or return the shot to his teammates.

Even if it was the only game the Lakers won, Kobe played well and organized the offense, the Lakers offense was not so good. It was just that Kobe played well and kept the OK team scoring, but the Lakers overall Offensive efficiency is still very poor, because the Hawks defense is no worse than the Lakers.

Today, the Lakers maintain the same defense as the previous two games. Kwame Brown consumes O'Neal as much as possible. Kobe will attack the ball on the outside. He will attack Kobe's most fierce defense. The Lakers' offensive efficiency is in addition to the opening O'Neal and Malone. After three goals, the line fell straight behind.

And when the Eagles attacked, finally, this time the finals, it was also the Eagles's outbreak!

After Prince Marlon hit a shot, relying on Liu Mang's start to attract Peyton and Kobe Bryant, Prince made the first three-pointer of the finals!

Since the Eastern Conference finals, Prince ’s three-pointer has been outrageous. It was also one of the most important reasons why the Hawks could not open the offensive end when the Hawks were very defensive in the first two games of the Lakers. It is even the most important. One of the reasons.

Although Prince's offensive end is only the identity of a catching pitcher, when the catching pitcher cannot shoot, the opponent is equal to 5 defense 4, and he and the Hawks ignore Peyton 4 defense 3 to prevent the Lakers except O'Neal. The other three players on the field are the same.

Finally, after getting the match point, Prince's feel came!

After Marlon hit a shot, Prince scored a three-pointer. After O'Neal hit a second singles hook shot, Prince scored two three-pointers, forcing Payton to have to go back to defend Prince.

When Liu Mang cannot be included, the Lakers' defense is good, but Liu Mang and Kwame Brown can't stop the pick-and-roll!

Prince was able to shoot, the Hawks' offensive end came alive, Liu Mang and Kwame Brown played a pick-and-roll. The natural guard against the pick-and-roll was Malone, and O'Neill had to move back and forth between the bottom line and the basket. Consume physical energy.

In the third and fourth games, O'Neal persisted for so long on the defensive end, because he didn't have to run back from the bottom line and the basket like in the first and second games. Payton and Kobe attacked Liu Mang, Liu Mang couldn't fight The pick and roll makes O'Neal relatively easy on the defensive end.

But this time, O'Neal can only run with it. In this way, either Rashid Wallace has a three-point chance, or Kwame Brown has the opportunity to empty the dunk, if Devin Brown is active Shrinking, Rahim also has the opportunity to vote and cut opportunities.

Although the Lakers still maintained their defensive enthusiasm in the first two games, Liu Mang and Kwame Brown's pick-and-roll will increase the Hawks' offensive success rate by four or five percentage points, which will make the Hawks. The team's shooting percentage reached 40%.

But this is enough!

In the third game, the Lakers had Kobe playing well. When the Hawks also defended in the first half, they could only lead by 3 points at the end of the half. The offensive efficiency of the two teams in the first half was Similar, the strength of the two teams is between Bo Zhongzhong, of course, this is when Kobe played a reasonable performance.

Now, when the Hawks face the Lakers 'defense similar to the first half of the first two games, they have increased their shooting percentage to 40%. On the Lakers' side, O'Neal started with a few hard shots when his physical fitness was good. Afterwards, the offensive efficiency plummeted, and even the 35.6% shooting rate in the first two games was not enough. When the first quarter ended, the Lakers shot rate was only 34%!

The six-point shooting percentage does not seem to be a lot, but as the game progresses, the Hawks slowly pull the score gradually.

After the first quarter, the Hawks led the Lakers by 6 points, 24 to 18!

Finally, the Hawks scored in the first quarter of this quarter, and returned to normal performance anyway! In the first quarter, Liu Mang didn't have any good performance in scoring. In the past two games, he didn't have any good scoring opportunities. In the third game, he could score more than 30 points, all by shooting and throwing himself into the air for a foul Yes, in the past two games, the Lakers defended him very successfully. The last game was only lost to Kobe.

Leading by six points in the first quarter, Liu Mang was replaced to rest. Coach Kruger wanted to change a rhythm in the second quarter. After the first quarter, the opponent gradually got used to the current rhythm. Coach Kruger now takes the initiative. He Don't want to let the other party get used to the rhythm.

Coach Kruger replaced Stockton and Boozer, changing the pick-and-roll rhythm from Liu Mang and Kwame Brown's under-the-shock type to a shooting type.

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After the break between the two teams, the rotation of the two teams came on the field, only 6 points behind the Lakers, still very eager to make a wave of overturns, seeing Stockton and Boozer coming up, the Lakers ’ideas and Coach Kruger thought the Hawks were about to start shooting.

However, Stockton played this game completely as the last game of his career. In the second quarter, Boozer, with Boozer, Prince, Barnes and Ostertag playing, The first ball came up, actually rushed to the basket caused O'Neal foul!

When Stockton and Boozer played a pick-and-roll, both Fisher and Wang Zhizhi went to block Boozer, fearing that Boozer cut into the inside and caused damage. Although Boozer was short, his size was really amazing. Malone's second posture, but did not expect that Stockton caused the killing!

20 years!

Seeing that it might be possible to touch the O'Brien Cup after these last two and a half hours, Stockton could not wait.

The better the offensive end, the better the defensive enthusiasm. Prince made a single defense against Kobe in the second quarter. Kobe Bryant was once again playing iron. In these few games, Kobe ’s feel has been worn away. The better he defended, the better he entered a virtuous circle.

On the Hawks side, at the beginning of the second quarter, the offensive efficiency exploded. Stockton unexpectedly did not focus on the pass. After the pick-and-roll three-pointer, after the pick-and-roll basket, after the pick-and-roll shot , Stockton scored 7 points in the second quarter!

On the Lakers side, O'Neal snatched an offensive rebound and scored 2 + 1 on Kobe's three-pointer missed by Prince. He only scored this goal. Although O'Neal scored both penalties, he only scored He scored 3 points on 1 of 4 shots, and the Eagles scored 7 points on 3 of 3 shots!

These seven points were all taken by Stockton alone!

After O'Neill made a free throw, the Lakers still 21 to 31, 10 points behind the Hawks. Taking advantage of O'Neill's penalty, the Lakers took Wang Zhizhi over and replaced Malone. Wang Zhizhi was good at preventing and picking up. But it can only be said that it is not bad, against Stockton and Boozer, the weakened version of the double sha, he can't defend.

Then came the Hawks attack. Stockton advanced to the frontcourt. In the face of Kobe's defense, Stockton couldn't play singles. He continued to pick and roll with Boozer. Boozer was similar to Malone's elbow and Kobe can't squeeze through the action, Stockton immediately moves to the right, and pulls away from Kobe. Boozer cuts to the basket and Kobe can only run with Boozer.

Stockton made a breakthrough to the right and stepped into the three-point line ~ www.readwn.com ~ It was Malone who was in front of him!

The few Eagles fans and Jazz fans at the scene saw this scene and stood up and cheered. In the case that the Lakers fans were a bit discouraged after 10 points behind, this is not a thousand Eagles fans no matter how they look. Cheers from the Jazz fans spread throughout the Staples Center.

Stockton saw Malone's defense coming up and didn't make the choice of passing or shooting so quickly. With Malone in, the Lakers' pick-and-roll defense changed quickly. Stockton didn't get a good pass or the first time. Shooting opportunity.

Stockton dribble a step back and out of the three-point line, Malone and Stockton maintain a very suitable distance.

This may be the last time he met him on the playing field! Whether as an opponent or as a teammate.

Stockton and Malone had the same thought in their hearts.

The relationship between the two is not just a teammate who has worked together for 18 years. The two have also been in a competitive state on the team. However, Stockton has never won Malone. The cooperation between the two has made the Jazz brilliant for more than ten years. Although he did not win the championship, the core of the team has always been full of honor, and this person is not Stockton, it is Malone, Stockton has not won anything, and just lost a smile.

However, for now, Stockton wants to win, he wants to win very much, he raised his head and said to Malone: ​​"Karl, this time, I think, I won."

Malone was stunned when he heard this, but he didn't expect Stockton to come suddenly, which was a bit hurtful!

Taking advantage of Marlon's stunned spirit, Stockton didn't have a soft hand, seized the opportunity, and shot three points!

Continuing the fiery feel, Stockton hit a three-pointer!

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