In this Magic home game with the Lakers, the team had a very large public opinion advantage before the game, and after the game started, they were also able to gain an advantage. Almost in the first attack, they played their inside advantage almost to the fullest. O'Neal's terrifying inside ability was almost impossible to block O'Neal's terrifying inside ability. ※%

After such a game begins, it is almost certain that the Magic must have the initiative in their home court, and even the Magic, which has the ultimate inside advantage, can completely suppress the Lakers in the game situation, which is not a problem at all.

Therefore, after the start of this game, the Magic fans were quite crazy and relaxed. The crazy is because they are about to become the number one in the East and will become the only team in the league that maintains nine consecutive victories, and the ease is because the process of winning the first in the East and nine consecutive victories in the league is too easy. Compared with an opponent like the top five Lakers in the league, in the eyes of Magic fans, the Cavaliers are probably more difficult to deal with than the Lakers, because in the inside gap, the Lakers are almost impossible to pose any threat to this team.

However, after the game started, when the game was already celebrating its victory before the game started, after the game started, after the first offense and defense of both sides, and after the game continued, the situation became another situation. This does not mean that the Magic team, which was originally expected to have the advantage, is not the case, but in fact, the Magic team, which has an absolute inside advantage, is of course absolutely dominant in the game situation, but the game is dominant, which does not mean that the score is dominant!

"This. What's going on? The Lakers actually lead? The Lakers actually lead!"

"I'm not right? Didn't the Lakers be beaten by us? Why are we behind in the scores and so much behind?!"

In the NBA., the insiders won the world, which is not just that insiders are closer to the basket, so they have a higher shooting rate. This is just one aspect. The more important reason for the insiders to have the world is that, generally speaking, teams with strong insides rarely make mistakes when playing inside tactics, there will not be many offensive mistakes, and there will not be many fast attack opportunities for the opponent. It is precisely because of this very correct offensive choice that the situation of the game is generally controlled by the inside teams. Basically, the strong insiders have a stronger ability to control the rhythm of the game.

In this game between the Lakers and the Magic, the Magic certainly has an absolute advantage. So when the game started, looking at the Lakers who were severely suppressed by their own team, the Magic fans on the sidelines didn't care about the score of the game at all, because the difference between the situation between the two sides was too big. Not to mention the fans on the scene didn't care so much about the real-time score. I'm afraid even the Magic coach Hill on the sidelines wouldn't care so much. With his own team's advantage, if he could lose, then it would definitely be God who made a joke for them. Therefore, the Magic coach has been sitting in his seat with a smile since the start of this game.

Compared to Magic Johnson on the other side, this is simply at the Zen level. Magic Johnson was very worried after the game started, especially after the first offensive and defensive round between the two sides. After the team started the second defensive round, they saw that the team actually changed the tactics he arranged before the game to play the extremely passive semi-contracted defense.

Of course, he knew that such a semi-contracted defense would slightly reduce the inside disadvantage of his team, and his team's basket protection would be better, but the biggest problem with such passive defense is that it is passive. In other words, such a defensive method will greatly affect the team's offense. Just like when the Lakers played with the Clippers, the semi-contracted used by the Clippers was almost the same. The Clippers' idea at that time was to completely protect the basket. As for offense, it depends on fate. This is completely telling the Lakers that we have surrendered, but you want to humiliate us, there is no way!

Now that the Lakers are doing this, this is not just telling the Magic that we have surrendered, but you have no way to humiliate us!

Of course, the Lakers' tactical changes cannot be decided by a player on the court. The reason why the Magic did not play this safer and less likely to have a tragedy was that he had to insist on facing the Magic because he felt that his team could still win, and the hope of winning was not so small, at least he had a greater chance of winning than shrinking defense, so he gave his players the order to persist. Although the first attack in this game made the Magic a little embarrassed, he seemed to underestimate O'Neal's strength, a player who had more dominance at the basket than David Robinson and Olajuwon.

But even so, if the Lakers players want to change his tactical arrangements, if it weren't for Lin Han's instructions, others wouldn't dare to do anything randomly. Therefore, when the Lakers change their defensive tactics at the beginning of the game, a fool can see that this is Lin Han's arrangement. Although the Magicians certainly trust Lin Han, Lin Han's doing this undoubtedly makes the Magicians have some doubts whether Lin Han gave up this game to protect MVP? After all, as long as the Magic did not play a tragedy in this game, it is actually quite difficult for O'Neal to find the gap in MVP between the two sides. So for Lin Han, as long as he does not lose too badly in this game, as long as his data is not so bad, the Lakers will be acceptable to lose to the Magic. After all, so many expert media outside are not optimistic about the Lakers before this game, which means that even if Lin Han loses a small score, they have no room for performance.

In fact, when the Lakers changed their team, the Magic's head coach Hill had this idea. Lin Han showed goodwill to O'Neal before the game, and after the game started, he told O'Neal, man, we surrendered, let's play with it lightly. This is completely reasonable. Not to mention Hill would have such a thought. For example, Larry Bird and Collins and even the fans on the sidelines were similar. Even O'Neal himself thought so, but O'Neal was not ready to play with it lightly.

Of course. If Lin Han really had such an intention, the Magician would not disapprove it. After all, the team is indeed not easy to play against Magic in this game. It is understandable that Lin Han doesn't want to lose too much, but although the Magician will not disapprove it, he will definitely be quite disappointed.

However, what almost everyone on the scene did not expect was that after the Lakers suddenly played a trick that seemed to be surrendering and admit defeat, when O'Neal laughed and accepted such a generous gift, he strengthened his offense even more crazily. The result at this time was not the Lakers' failure like the Clippers, but rather, when the first quarter of the game between the two sides was accepted under the strong pressure of the Magic, and when everyone finally focused on the score, when the Magic came out, the score was 16-20, and the score was actually behind!

If the scores of both sides were stalemate in the first quarter, this can be explained as the beginning of the game. There will inevitably be various problems with the feel, especially O'Neal. After hitting the first ball in the first quarter, the scoring efficiency in the next step was not very high. Everyone can understand it slightly. After all, O'Neal played against the 76ers in the last game, and played 20 of 26 shots in three quarters. He scored 46 points and faced the 76ers. Although this team's strength is incomparable to the Lakers, the inside is slightly stronger than the Lakers. Therefore, in the eyes of many people, O'Neal can find the feel sooner or later, but by the end of the first quarter, O'Neal was unable to find the feel completely. He made 3 of 10 and scored 8 points. This score is actually not low, but it is really much worse than O'Neal's normal level.

Therefore, when the players of both sides ended after the first quarter, the fans of the Magic team on the side were almost speechless at this time. They really enjoyed the process of this game. Their team was almost suppressing others and attacking wildly. The opponent was also very conscious and chose to retreat and shrink. All of this was developing in a good direction, but the result was too damn hard to accept!

Of course, although Magic fans were very confused and even at all, they did not have any dissatisfaction with their players at this time. O'Neal almost completely suppressed the Lakers' inside line, and Hardaway did not panic in the defense against Lin Han. If the team's shooting percentage was not high, Hardaway's organization and offense were almost perfect. In addition, the team played quite smoothly. Compared with the Lakers' offense, the Magic were much stronger. If this was the case, the team's head coach Hill would of course have no problem.

"Why is the Magic falling behind now?!"

When the first quarter of the two sides ended and the Magic players got off the court in confusion and confusion, Collins's words almost blurted out after reading the score on the spot almost expressed everyone's thoughts.

Although Larry Bird didn't say anything, the former Celtic legend, who was frowning now, looked directly at the Lakers No. 24 who was talking and laughing with his teammates. It seemed that the game changed after the boy arranged the team's new defensive tactics on the court!

"Did this kid really see that the Magic are afraid of shrinking their defense? How is this possible?!"

When I thought of this, Larry Bird's face was quite bad at this time. It's not that he couldn't see the Lakers leading, but that if Lin Han really saw at a glance that O'Neal was afraid of shrinking his defense, and the Magic were afraid of shrinking his defense, this was too evil, right?!

You should know that although the Magic are not the public enemy of the league, there is still a gap with public enemy teams of the Lakers and Bulls. Most teams have not yet targeted their targets at them at this time, but defending the Magic's internal and external links is already a huge problem in the league. Most teams in the league have almost thought of countless ways, and most of them have failed in the end. The most successful one is the Bulls' forcibly strangling the Magic's outer line, which makes the team unable to take into account both inside and outside. In the end, the Bulls succeeded, and the Magic were almost played by the Bulls in a tragedy!

However, the Bulls' complete victory cannot be used as a reference textbook, because only the Bulls can play that kind of tactic, and it is hard to say whether they will play or not next time. Even the Bulls themselves are not sure whether they can handle the opponent's inside line, so they risked to pinch the Magic's outside line with all their might. You must know that if they can't pinch the Magic's outside line, then this is the rhythm of being beaten by the Magic.

Therefore, although the Bull played magic very miserably at the beginning, the Bull did not defeat the magic theoretically, as for Lin Han's arrangement at this time.

Although shrinking defense is a very passive defense. With the progress of the NBA and the changes in rules are becoming increasingly unfavorable to the inside, such tactics are used much less frequently. You should know that before the 1980s, when the NBA was in the prehistoric era, shrinking the defense at the basket was the mainstream. At that time, there was no three-point line, and there were not so many outside supermans who liked to play fast attacks. Even many insiders could directly catch rebounds and play fast attacks because of their talent. Chamberlain often did this. Similarly, the tactics were not mature enough and the space on the court was not used enough, so shrinking defense became the mainstream. Everyone's idea was very simple.

There are so many super insiders. We can't let these insiders come to the basket, so we can only shrink and let these insiders go out. And the outside players at that time were quite simple. Because there was no three-pointer, there were two points at the basket, and two points at the long distance, so many outside players would not shoot even if they were bleeding. When an outside player put the matchup field under the basket, fools knew that inside players could play with the outside players, it was really strange that outside players could rise in that era. The best outside players in that era, Jerry West and Baylor were really cheated to death, especially Baylor.

Of course, it was in that prehistoric era. Now, because there are not as many powerful players in the league as before, and their tactics are richer, there are more and more high-quality outside players and three-pointers. The mainstream of the NBA's defense has gradually changed from shrinking defense to people-to-people defense. If you really want to play with such crazy shrinking defense as the Lakers, there are actually not so many.

At least there are not many contractions like the Lakers in this game, because this is not a regular contraction at all. This is simply a more conservative contraction than a regular contraction. Nima Aaron Williams, Harvey and Wilkins are really as long as O'Neal doesn't dunk to the basket, they don't even have a defense against people. As long as O'Neal doesn't dunk, there is not a figure in front of this guy!

No matter whether O'Neal is at the free throw line, three-point line or even the paint area, as long as O'Neal is not at the basket, no matter how he attacks, there is really no defender around him. This is simply telling O'Neal, buddy, as long as you don't dunk, you can play whatever you want!

Even in that era when the shrinking defense was almost crazy, no one could play this way.

To put it nicely, the Lakers had no choice but to have no choice but to give up treatment, and to put it a little badly, the Lakers are simply seeking death, and they never thought of winning this game. Even O'Neal laughed and accepted this gift, they were a little incredible and thought it was a trap. Unexpectedly, the Lakers really didn't care about him, and they appeared in any area.

But what made Larry Bird speechless was that Lin Han's obvious suicide-style complete contraction defense was successful. O'Neal really missed the first quarter with 3 of 10 shots.

Of course, it is a bit too early to say that O'Neal's performance is not good at this time. Whether this defensive method plays a role depends on the subsequent games. As for whether O'Neal is the kind of player who is better than defense than defense, it depends on the subsequent games. But there is no doubt that Lin Han's temporary tactical arrangement really had a huge impact on this game!

As the biggest favorite to enter the finals in the Eastern Conference, Bulls head coach Feier Jackson has really always regarded the Magic as the biggest obstacle to his team, because this team is really too difficult to deal with, and the Lakers are a team that is very similar to his team. In this case, he will certainly not miss this game.

When the Lakers were pushed by O'Neal at the beginning of this game, he was still helpless. It was obvious that he saw the future of his team's inside line from the Magic's offense. But in the next game, he saw that O'Neal did not hit the ball without a high shooting rate under various unmanned defenses. At this time, the Bulls head coach was watching the Lakers No. 24 on the TV, with almost his eyes glowing!

As for what the Bulls head coach was thinking at this time, the fool knew it, and it was obvious. In his opinion, he had found an answer to O'Neal and the Magic. Of course, this was just one of them. But it was good to be able to find such an answer from such a game!

Of course, when Feier and Jackson were watching this game, he felt that he had gained a lot. He had found what he wanted in this game. The Lakers' bench was almost the same at this time. At least, the two Lakers' inside players, Harvey and Williams, who came down from the court, were no longer nervous at all. Even some extremely excited expressions appeared on their faces. Seeing his teammates showing such expressions, Lin Han felt that this was even happier than the team's current situation.

"Boss. Thank you. I didn't expect that we actually blocked the Magic's attack!"

"Yes, we actually completely resolved the fat man's offense. This is really incredible. Boss, how did you know that fat man is crazy alone? Attacking requires defense?"

"Yes, when the boss said we wanted to play this kind of defense, I was almost scared to death. That's O'Neal. Can we really let him go, as long as he doesn't let him dunk? In the end, it was proven that the boss was still powerful, and he knew that this guy was not a reliable person."

"Okay, everyone performed well in the first quarter. Let's have a good rest now."

When the Lakers' starting player got off the court with great excitement, the Magician, who was originally a little nervous, said with a smile. He really didn't expect that Lin Han could only show O'Neal's weakness at the beginning of the game. You know, Lin Han is just a player. And he is also a young player. There are not 10 games in the game between this kid and O'Neal. How did he know that O'Neal is not good? Of course, the Magician would not ask why at this time. He just needs to know the answer. Therefore, when the Lakers head coach looked at Lin Han, he was really full of joy.

However, when faced with the extremely trusting and the head coach's eyes that were extremely appreciated and happy, Lin Han was a little embarrassed.

If he really knew O'Neal's weakness, it would be fine. The key is that he would not. The reason why O'Neal became like this at this time was just that Lin Han used the blessing of the Goddess of Doom and the card as he pleased.

However, what surprised Lin Han was that O'Neal, who used the card of the will, did not have the gloomy face like Lin Han and Stockton at the time, and he was almost completely paralyzed, and he even lost his joy, anger, sorrow and happiness. However, O'Neal, this is already very childish, and after using this card, he became even more childish. As for joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness, which child can not have these four emotions? Even at this time, O'Neal's emotions became richer. Could it be that O'Neal's nature is like this?

"Haha, we will definitely win this game."

Of course, facing the support of his teammates and head coach, Lin Han could not say that he had actually cheated O'Neal, so he could only sort out his emotions and said with a smile.

If Lin Han told his teammates before this game that the teammates would believe in the victory of this game, because they really believe in Lin Han, but there is no doubt that believing is one thing, and whether they have enough enthusiasm to respond is another thing. They only believe in Lin Han, and if they want to make them have enough enthusiasm to pursue victory, they need to make them believe in themselves!

Undoubtedly, at this time, most of the Lakers players, especially those who have been scolded for almost a season, are really trusting themselves at this time.

Moreover, if the Lakers can really block the Magic's starter, there are actually opportunities for the Lakers to win, because although the five starting players of the Magic are all quasi-All-Star players, Hardaway, O'Neal and Grant, a typical All-Star player, even Nick Anderson, can average 20+5+4 defenders, while Scott, this is the worst. This is also the league's No. 4 rookie, who was a rookie in the second year, had a performance of nearly 20 points per game.

If the Magic have some shortcomings, there is no doubt that the team's substitutes are problematic. After all, although the Magic's boss is not unwilling to spend money, O'Neal, Hardaway and Grant all have to spend a lot of money. Even Anderson and Scott's salary combined is more than 6 million, and to make matters worse, the Magic also has a group of retired players who receive wages. Generally, a team earns about 15 if they have a salary.

About one, because the league only allows one team to have 15 signing players. If some teams have one or two retired players, the maximum is only sixteen or seventeen. The Magic have received more than 20 players this season. The salary of the two retired players, Catledge and Reynolds, is more than three million and nearly four million. The total salary of the Magic team's entire team and retired players is close to 30 million US dollars, which is higher than that of the Lakers.

The Magic's boss is really not afraid of spending money. The key is that the Magic's total salary this year is already twice the salary cap. Although there is no luxury tax, it is too high. How can there be so much substitute players? If you really have to spend millions of substitute players, the team's salary cap is probably going to be 35 million.

Therefore, the entire Magic team, the players who scored in double digits, only five starters, and the other players' highest scores were not double digits. It can be said that the Magic's starting points were at the Rockets and Jazz, but the substitutes of this team are really much worse than those of the Lakers.

Therefore, as long as the Lakers can block the Magic's starting attack, there are really many opportunities to win this game.

And this happened after the second quarter of this game. When Van Eksel and Ruffin brought Lakers substitutes on the field, the entire Lakers substitute almost dominated the Magic. You should know that the Magic did not play, and of course, there is no need for the Magic to play as a substitute in this game.

Originally, the Magic in the first quarter was hazy and didn't know why he was lagging behind. Neither the team's coach nor the players had completely figured out the situation, so when the substitutes of both sides came on the court, when the two-point difference became 6 points and slowly headed towards 10 points, Hill, the head coach of the Magic team on the sidelines, felt something was wrong at this time.

So, when there were nine minutes left in the second quarter, he threw two core players of his team up. After seeing O'Neal and Hardaway on the court, Harvey and Williams on the Lakers' bench stood up excitedly before they could wait for the Magician's instructions. When they saw this scene, the Magician laughed.

Damn, when I was in the locker room before this game, the two of them started. The expressions of these two were not like this. At that time, the expressions of these two were not much better than constipation.

In fact, some of the Magic players who were fooled from the beginning of this game, especially the Magic starter, moved the game back again after they came on the court, and once again suppressed the Lakers.

Even O'Neal, who was a little giggling in the first quarter, was really angry after playing in the second quarter, and the desire to attack was a straight rise.

If O'Neal's offense is unstoppable, and the Lakers' offense is left untouched, it can be regarded as the Lakers' surrender to him. Then if there is a problem with his offense, the Lakers' defense is not like this in understanding. There is no doubt that when O'Neal keeps playing half-hooking iron at the basket, then the Lakers' failure to defend is really despising him!

In this case, with O'Neal's personality, it would be strange if he didn't get the field back in this game. In addition, the Lakers did not really defend O'Neal, just like the Lakers players trust Lin Han. No matter how Lin Han played in the game, the team trusted Lin Han extremely. Similarly, although the trust of O'Neal by the Magic players is not as good as that of the Lakers' trust in Lin Han, it is not low at all. Moreover, O'Neal's half-hook at the basket is definitely more than 65% of the shooting rate, and the Lakers have always given O'Neal such opportunities. They don't want to give the ball to O'Neal. Moreover, O'Neal is constantly asking for the ball according to his own ideas, not caring about his shooting rate at all, and not being affected by the low shooting rate at all, and there is no psychological problem. Then there is no reason for the Magic and Hardaway to not let O'Neal get the ball.

Although Hardaway's face was not that good-looking at this time, after seeing O'Neal keep hitting irons and asking for balls, especially when he saw O'Neal's eyes were still extremely firm and without a trace of dissipation, Hardaway could only expect O'Neal to find the touch back.

However, it is obvious that although the Magic almost suppressed the Lakers' play in this game, it is not so easy for O'Neal to really get back the touch, at least. In the second quarter, O'Neal, who was extremely embarrassed and angry, took 13 shots in nine minutes. This is actually more than the first quarter. Almost most of the Magic's shots were handled by this inside player, but the shooting rate of 13-4 was a bit low. The shooting rate of 7 of 23 in the first half seemed quite low in the outside line, let alone the inside line?

It was just because the Magic had problems with offense, but they were still quite good in defense, so the score difference between the two teams remained around 10, and the score difference between the two sides was not very big.

Because the total salary of the Magic team is too high, the five starting players are the five strongest players in the team. Whether it is offense or defense, the five strongest players in the team, so the tactical changes of this team are quite rare. Because there is no change at all, this team will be restrained by a team in the playoffs, so it is really easy to suffer a 0-4 defeat. To put it bluntly, this team is actually a team that has not been completely formed. The team's boss is still waiting for the team's retired players to finish their salary.

So, after the second half began, when the team's tactics did not change at all, the Lakers continued to shrink O'Neal crazy, and O'Neal was still trying to make a move without distraction. If the team's situation was dominant in the first half, although the score was behind, the fans could comfort themselves a little. However, after the second half, the team's situation still did not change at all. Even as the team's situation progressed, the team's situation became more and more serious, but they saw that although the Lakers were suppressed by the Magic team, they almost collapsed. But in the end, they became more and more confident, and the Magic fans on the scene finally stopped doing it. Especially when O'Neal set his career record in a single quarter, but only made 5 hits, the Magic fans on the sidelines even booed the Magic team when the players on both sides ended in the third quarter!

As a commentator on the sidelines, Larry Bird only said one sentence.

"Shake actually did it too"
Chapter completed!