MTL - NBA Backer King-Chapter 554 Shark outbreak

   Chapter 554 Shark Outbreak

  Fox received the ball, then passed to Richmond on the right wing, who immediately singled Charlie Ward, crushed the opponent and entered the flank, and then turned over and hit a jumper before Oakley came up.

   "The offensive firepower of both sides is very strong, and the defense of both sides also has loopholes, and the success rate of the opening is very high!" Zhang Lili said.

  8:6, Knicks offense.

   On the right wing, Richmond's defense is still very hard. In order to save a certain amount of physical strength, Jordan called Oakley's pick-and-roll this time.

   After breaking through the wall, he turned to Fortson, who was suddenly switched. On his way to the basket, he had no obstacles and a smooth road.

   Pharaoh cursed secretly and had to stand on the right front of the basket.

  O'Neal entered the paint, avoided the old K, and extended his hands to Jordan.

   "Whoosh!"

   Jordan passes the ball.

"boom!"

   The next moment, a giant beast hung on the Lakers' basket.

"O'Neal made 4 of 4 shots, all of which were dunks. He is going to explode today. As I said, the Lakers couldn't stop Jordan's breakthrough, and they couldn't prevent Jordan and O'Neal's coordinated attack. Jordan made 0 of 1 shots today, but he gave O'Neal sent three assists and one indirect assist, his tactic of breaking points was too good." Zhang Lili shook his head.

   "Since it can't be defended, let's watch the Lakers' offense." Su Qun said.

  8:8, the Lakers attack.

   Kobe held the ball on the left wing and tried to play Jordan, but the latter had too much defensive experience, and he had more tonnage.

  Pharaoh catches the ball, and Jordan above takes a step down, but doesn't jump down immediately in case he passes the ball to Kobe.

   At the same time, Oakley, who was low on the right wing, rushed over.

"boom!"

  Pharaoh grabbed his left elbow, hooked sideways, missed, and the rebound was won by Oakley who came to help defend.

  The Knicks attacked, and Jordan broke through with the ball again, but this time it was unsuccessful and was double-teamed by Richmond and Fortson.

He didn't pose a threat to the paint area, so Pharaoh didn't need to make up defenses and still stared at O'Neal, so he couldn't pass the ball to O'Neal, he could only force the shot in the double-team, turn around and fall back. , was influenced by Fordson and missed a jumper.

  Pharaoh grabbed a backcourt rebound and the Lakers attacked.

   "Jordan made 0 of 2 shots today, so he won't feel very good." Su Qun laughed.

   "After preventing his breakthrough, there is no way for him and O'Neal to form a cooperation, and it is impossible to play the effect of 1+1>2." Zhang Lili laughed.

"brush!"

   This time, Pharaoh hit a nearly two-point hook.

  10:8, Knicks offense.

"Old K made 3 of 4 shots today, an obvious change. Today, he didn't attack the basket, he made 4 shots, only one shot at the basket, and it was in coordination with Kobe, and the other three were nearly two-point hooks. , hit two."

   Having said that, Su Qun asked, "Guide Zhang, is this change, due to physical fitness, forced to make changes, or a change made voluntarily?"

   Zhang Lili said: "It must have been forced to make changes because of the Knicks' double-team tactics and their physical fitness.

  Although he is passively changing his style of play, his nearly two-point hooks are quite strong. Now he is 2-for-3 from the field. Let’s see how the Knicks can defend. "

  Suqun said: "O'Neal dunks four times. It seems that the Knicks' dual-core cooperation is better."

Zhang Lili nodded and said: "It has always been that Richmond can't prevent Jordan's breakthrough, let Jordan get close to or enter the paint area, then the Lakers can't prevent Jordan and O'Neal's cooperation, no matter how good the Tiejun defense is, they can't prevent it. living."

   In the Knicks frontcourt, Jordan was active on the right-wing three-point line, and he had a sudden burst several times in a row. He wanted to rest and did not ask for the ball.

  Charlie Ward started to organize the attack. Kobe blocked the downward passing line with a big defense and a small one. He pulled the ball to the left wing and passed the ball down.

  O'Neal caught the ball, swayed it down, and made a slippery bottom. Immediately, he felt that his **** could not touch the old K. He immediately connected and turned around. Between dribbles, he had to step into the paint area.

   But at this moment, Pharaoh, who had retreated half a step from the defense, quickly moved laterally, took the lead in the defensive position, and blocked O'Neal in front of him.

  O'Neal hit Pharaoh with his head and knocked him back half a step, enough to be an offensive foul, but this is the Knicks' home court, and the whistle did not sound.

  O'Neal quickly controlled the ball, blocked the pounce with his left elbow, and hit a sideways hook.

"boom!"

  Unfortunately, he missed, and Pharaoh turned around and won the rebound.

The Knicks attacked, Jordan received the ball on the right wing, and under the tentative step, he smashed Richmond again, but at this time, Fox, who was in the high position, quickly made up the defense and blocked Jordan before Fordson. Then Fordson arrived and finished. Three-teamed.

"Snapped!"

   Kobe Bryant on the left wing quickly made up for the high position, just in time for Jordan to score the ball to Ellis, who was empty at the top of the arc, and completed the steal.

   "Beautiful! The Lakers teamed up to complete a defense on the outside." Su Qun said happily.

   Kobe quickly counterattacked and carried Ellis for a layup.

  12:8, Knicks offense.

   In the next game, the two sides chased after each other. When there were three minutes left in the first quarter, because no team called a second time-out, it entered the official time-out link.

   At this time, the score was 24:22, and the Lakers were still two points ahead.

Barkley said at this time: "Michael felt average today, missed the first two shots, a total of 1 of 4 shots, 2 of 2 free throws, and scored 4 points, but sent 5 assists, 4 of which were contributed by O'Neal. "

Bill Walton said: "O'Neal made 6 of 8 shots in 9 minutes, including 1 of 3 from the past two points and 5 dunks at the basket. He played an excellent inside and outside coordination with Michael, plus 1 of 2 free throws, Got 13 points."

  Kenny Smith continued: "But the Lakers are still ahead because the Lakers also played a very good offensive performance today.

  Old K made 5 of 7 shots and 1 of 2 free throws in 9 minutes, scoring 11 points. Then Bryant made 2 of 3 shots, including a 3-pointer, and scored 5 points. Richmond made 2 of 4 shots and scored 4 points. Fordson went 1 for 2 and Fox went 1 for 3. The Lakers' hit rate is not low, and all five starters have scored. "

  Barkley said: "The two-point lead is not big, it is a tie, in fact, like the first four games of the two teams, the first three quarters should be very anxious.

   But there is a problem. Today, O’Neal benefited from Michael’s sudden-point tactics. He attacked a lot at the basket, and the attack quality was very high, reaching a 75% hit rate.

And we have to note that his basket attack benefited from the tactic of sudden points, so he did not have a strong confrontation with the old K, and his physical energy consumption was not much. If the Lakers let the Knicks play like this, there will be a lot of trouble. . "

  Bill Walton analyzed: "The Lakers have no way to stop the Knicks from playing with both inside and outside, and the Rock can't stop Jordan's breakthrough."

  Barkley nodded and said: "The other thing we should pay attention to is the offense of old K. Today, 7 shots were taken, but there were only two shots at the basket.

   And like O'Neal, their basket attack is not a basket attack, and they use the outside to attract defense and then cut to the basket.

   The remaining five offenses were all near-two-point hooks, 3-of-5, and 60% of the near-two-point hits, which was the first in the league.

  What I want to say is that if the Knicks can't defend and don't even pay attention to the old K's nearly two-point offense, today's game is likely to suffer. "

   The timeout ended. Unexpectedly, Jordan went down and O'Neal stayed on the court.

   For the Lakers, Pharaoh remained on the court.

   Zhang Lili immediately analyzed: "The reason why Jordan went down should be that he played too many sudden points tactics today, and his physical energy consumption is much greater than that of O'Neal.

   And O'Neal also stayed on the field because he didn't have a strong confrontation with the Iron Army, so he didn't consume much physical energy. But I think he will not be too involved in the offense in the last three minutes. The purpose of staying on the court is to contain the Iron Army.

  Iron Army is basically hooking with nearly two points today, and the physical energy consumption is the same as O'Neal, and it is not too big. But this is only the first quarter, I think he will also aim to contain O'Neal, and will not attack too much in the first quarter. "

   In the next three minutes, as Zhang Li reasonably expected, O'Neal and Wang Tiejun were both based on defense and rebounding, and the offense was played by others.

   After the first quarter, at 30:26, the Lakers led by 4 points.

   In the second quarter, the Knicks were half-main and half-substitute. Jordan played at the beginning, and O'Neal sat below for a rest.

  Pharaoh is still on the court on the Lakers side, and the other 7 players rotate.

   When O'Neal was not on the court, Pharaoh began to strengthen his attack at the basket. Even the hacking tactics couldn't stop him. Within three minutes, he scored 7 points with a free throw, making 2 of 3 shots and 3 of 4 free throws.

But Jordan was reluctant to be weak, and also strengthened his personal offense. Within three minutes, he made 2 of 4 shots, 1 of 2 three-pointers, 2 of 2 free throws, and even scored 7 points even with penalties. block.

   The two sides were tied in the first three minutes, and then O'Neal came on the court. When Pharaoh returned blood, he made 2 of 3 shots, and caused Pharaoh to foul once.

   The Lakers took over the offense from the outside. Richmond made 1 of 2 shots and Fox made a goal to stabilize the situation.

   When there were 7 minutes left in the second quarter, at 41:38, the Lakers were still ahead by 3 points.

   Next, the two sides started another round of fierce fighting.

   For the Knicks, Jordan resumed his style of play in the first quarter, focusing on sudden points tactics, and frequently played wonderful connections with O'Neal.

For the Lakers, Jordan defended Kobe, and Richmond mainly attacked on the outside. Rock's breakthroughs were not as good as before. In addition, Ward used his speed and flexibility to make two breakthroughs fail. , fell into a double-team, missed a strong shot, and was intercepted once. The Knicks took the opportunity to tie the game and overtake by one point.

  Then the Lakers immediately adjusted their offensive direction, and Pharaoh began to take over the offense.

   After the second quarter, at 55:54, the Lakers led by 1 point and ended the half.

   At the end of halftime, Su Qun breathed a sigh of relief and said, "The cooperation between Jordan and O'Neal in the second half of this quarter was really strong. Jordan scored 6 sudden points, succeeded 4 times, assisted O'Neal 3 times, and made a layup.

   That is, the old K's hook was too strong, 3 of 5 shots in 7 minutes, 2 of 2 free throws, and 8 points in 7 minutes, otherwise the Knicks may overtake.

  Old K used a lot of hooks for nearly two points today. All of these 5 shots were hooks, and they had a 60% hit rate. "

   Zhang Lili looked at Pharaoh's statistics table and said, "Tiejun made 10 of 15 shots and 6 of 8 free throws in the first half, and he has scored 26 points.

   15 shots, 5 baskets and 4 shots, 10 nearly 2-point hooks and 6 goals, the efficiency is really high! "

  Su Qun stretched his head and glanced at it, and smiled: "80% of the offense at the basket, 60% of the near two-point hook, and the overall shooting percentage is 66.6%."

Zhang Lili changed a piece of paper and read: "But with such a high efficiency, it is only 1 point ahead, what does it mean? Look at O'Neal's performance today, 11 of 15 shots, 2 of 3 free throws, and scored 24 points. His shooting percentage is even higher than that of the Iron Army, reaching 73.3%. If the Iron Army has not scored a few more free throws, where would the Knicks be behind?

  O'Neal made 15 shots, and he played with Jordan to the basket for as many as 8 times. The success rate is too high. The only shortcoming is that because of the good cooperation, almost all of them are dunks after cutting in, so there is no lethality, and there are too few free throws.

   If it wasn't for Jordan's average shooting rate today, 4 of 10 shots, including one 3-pointer, plus 4 of 4 free throws, he only scored 13 points. With such a strong performance of the Iron Army, the Lakers might not be able to beat it. "

   "O'Neal's performance today is too fierce. This is the first time he has played such a violent performance on the head of the old K." Su Qun said.

   Zhang Lili shook his head and said, "The big shark did well, but without Jordan's sudden-point tactics attracting the Tiejun's defense, he could not have played such a big performance."

   In the home team's locker room, the players were hurrying to rest and change clothes. Phil Jackson also made an analysis of the first half.

   He thinks that the reason for not taking the lead in the first half is that old K played too well today, and another reason is that Jordan's shooting feel is a little worse.

   Jordan's problem is not a problem, he believes that Jordan will make adjustments in the second half, but talked about Pharaoh's offense.

He said in a very serious tone: "Do you remember what I said before, Old K's nearly two-point offensive ability will one day be a big problem, and if we don't solve this tonight, we will be in trouble ."

  Jordan nodded. He and Phil Jackson had long talked about the old K's nearly two-point offense, which was as high as 60%. Once this offense was shot in large numbers, it would be a huge blow to the Knicks.

At this time, Phil Jackson said: "Shaq played such a high efficiency in the first half, even higher than the efficiency of the old K, but we still can't lead, this is the result of the strong nearly two-point hook of the old K. .

  I think in the second half, the old K will definitely maintain or even increase the use of hooks to destroy us with powerful firepower.

   At the same time, as Shaq and Michael's fitness decreases, our efficiency decreases, and the end result is not what we hoped to see. "

Jordan has a worry in his heart. In the first half, he didn't make many shots, but he did a lot of sudden points, which consumed a lot of physical energy, surpassing O'Neal. He definitely couldn't play like that in the second half. , but now, no matter how good his physical condition is, he can't sustain his physical fitness even after scoring sudden points in the audience.

  Once he can't play the breakout tactics, O'Neal's offensive quality will definitely drop, and then he can't limit Old K's nearly two-point hook. What will happen?

   So after he returned to the locker room, he was not in a good mood.

   rubbed his hands a bit, and his own feel was a little worse today. He only scored four out of ten goals, and he hoped to be better in the second half.

   At this time, Phil Jackson said: "Michael, hand over the organization to Charlie in the third quarter and let him play the tactic of sudden points. You accumulate some physical strength, and then play in the last quarter."

   He thought for a while, then nodded and shook his head: "Half a quarter is enough, old K won't give me a whole quarter to adjust the time."

   Soon after, the second half started.

   Jordan didn't play for the first time, O'Neal only took a three-minute rest in the first half, and played at the beginning of the third quarter.

  The Lakers attacked, Pharaoh caught the ball on the left wing low, directly half-turned and jumped sideways, stuck his left elbow outside, and hit a sideways hook.

"brush!"

  The water splashed, and nearly two points were hit.

  Barkley said with a serious expression: "Old K's hook is too strong, the rhythm is fast, the technical movements are concise, and at a very high level, he has completely ignored O'Neal's defense."

   Bill Walton nodded and smiled: "I said it long ago, his hook is more threatening than the skyhook in the penalty area."

  Kenny Smith said: "Old K's close-range hook, Tim's forty-five-degree rebound, Jordan's turnaround jumper, Iverson's breakthrough, and the pace of the big dream are all unparalleled."

   At this time, the Knicks attacked, Charlie Ward held the ball, and Mark Price defended.

   Wardella went to the right wing and played a pick-and-roll with Ellis. Price and Chris Mullin immediately switched defenses. Ward was faster, bypassing Mullin and slamming the ball into the flank, forcing Teelon Hill to come over to make up the defense.

  Ward saw that his path was blocked, so he quickly passed the ball to Oakley, who was open, who missed a jumper.

  Pharaoh quickly returned to the basket to get the backcourt rebound, passed it to Price and then came to the frontcourt.

   "Shaq, strengthen the top defense." Phil Jackson shouted loudly on the sidelines.

   He couldn't bear it any longer. Old K scored too easily on the left line of the paint area, with a 60% hit rate. If it goes on like this, no matter how well Jordan and O'Neal work together, they may lose the game.

   Only by actively strengthening the confrontation can the hit rate of the old K be reduced.

  O'Neal wanted to win too much today, so after hearing this, he immediately stepped up and pushed Pharaoh away from the left line of the paint area.

   However, his basic strength is not as good as that of Lao Wang. It is almost impossible to push Lao Wang away from the paint area with such a hard top.

   At this moment, the ball came in. Pharaoh first carried O'Neal hard, not giving an inch, but at the moment of catching the ball, he suddenly used his strength to move forward and evacuated.

   Evacuation, not only when you are defending, but also when you are attacking, you can also withdraw.

   "Ouch!"

  O'Neal tried his best to push forward, but he didn't take precautions. After staggering forward two steps, he plunged his head to the floor.

"Oh!"

   Madison Square Garden, the audience suddenly exclaimed, very neat.

   At this time, Pharaoh, who was a step forward, turned around and slipped, dribbled the ball from O'Neal's side and entered the paint area, stepped on the left line of the paint area, and took off.

   Oakley, who was returning to defend the basket, scolded secretly, fearing that he would be killed, he hurriedly braked, and stopped a step to the right of the basket.

"boom!"

   Under the one-arm dunk, Pharaoh blew the Knicks' basket. When he landed, he knocked Oakley to the ground, but he used his strength to stand firm.

   "Old Oak, you're too close to me, stay away from me next time." Pharaoh urged sincerely.

"roll!"

   Oakley scolded angrily.

   "Beautiful! This ball is so beautiful, haha!" Su Qun laughed excitedly.

   Zhang Lili said with a smile: "The big shark suffered a big loss, his face hit the floor, haha! The iron army suddenly took a step forward, this is a great move!"

  On the field, O'Neal got up in embarrassment, his chubby face bumped and rubbed on the floor again, and it was already a lot of red. He turned his head and glared at Pharaoh, and ran to the front field in silence.

   On the sidelines, Jordan couldn't sit still, stood up, said a word to Phil Jackson, and walked to the recording station.

   "Michael is getting ready to play, he won't play, Shaq alone can't do old K, haha!" Barkley laughed.

  59:54, the Lakers lead by 5 points, the Knicks attack.

   (end of this chapter)