With his strength, he certainly knew how the Magician punished Barkley at this time. Although the Magician did not have the super defensive skills like Russell, the Magician was the first point guard in the league history after all. When defending, he almost instinctively considered how to promote the team's fast break. In this case, even if Rodman's defensive strength is at the top of the ball, it is not as much of a damage to the Rockets than the Magician. After all, when Lin Han was the core of the defense in the past, the most advantageous point for the Rockets was that Lin'an had difficulty in fast breaking. As the Rockets, who fought with Lin Han last season, they knew very well what Lin Han's fast break was.

This guy couldn't stop him after running. If the Magic really removed Lin Han's fast attack, with Lin Han's fast attack ability, even in the first half, the Rockets would be beaten.

However, if it is suspended at this time, it will definitely be a harm for Barkley. After all, Barkley himself cannot see the punishment of Barkley like this. For Barkley personally, he is not at a disadvantage in the battle with the Magician, and as time goes by, he is 100% sure to kill the Magician!

This is not a joke. Barkley has such strength, and Tom Janovic also believes that Barkley has such strength. However, time does not wait for anyone. If the first half ends, the Rockets are really ten or twenty minutes behind the Lakers. Even the Rockets will find it difficult to catch up, right?

What's more, if Lin Han doesn't think that Barkley is a player that must be paid attention to. Then even if Barkley really doesn't attack the Magician, then the Rockets' strategy will also fail, allowing Olajuwon and Lin Han to one-on-one. It is the Rockets' failure. If Barkley didn't even break the Magician, but kept keeping the Magician on the court, why should Lin Han deliberately face Barkley and Olajuwon like in the previous two games? I'm afraid Lin Han will tangle Olajuwon more and more deadly on the defensive end.

If Barkley breaks the Magicians, the team is likely to fall behind in the halftime, but in the future, they can return to the advantage of the first two games, and not allow Barkley to continue to play the Magicians. Then let the Magicians stay on the defensive end and focus the offensive on Olajuwon. Even if Olajuwon scored 50 in this game, it would be a loss for the Rockets.

Although Tom Janovic did not have a huge choice problem in whether to defend Lin Han’s pass or defend Lin Han’s offense as in the previous round, but also, after the Magician did this, Tom Janovic was actually quite passive at this time.

Of course, he has a third choice, which is to directly give up Olajuwon and Barkley's behavior of wanting to take revenge on Lin Han, and directly use the Rockets' full strength to play against the Rockets. However, in this game, it is actually quite risky to change the team's playing style in such a hurry. Moreover, the team has not yet encountered a real crisis. If he really does this for the sake of the future, the two bosses of the team will probably not agree in the first place.

Although Tomjanovic predicts that if the team continues to play like this in the first half, it is very likely that the team will lose a lot of points after the half, but nothing happened. Who can guarantee it 100%? After all, these are speculations. Even Barkley, as a player on the field, can think this in his heart. You think I need to play the Magician in half to beat the Magician, but I think I can get faster. Even after hitting the Magician, even if I really fall behind by more than ten points or more, why do you think we can't catch up in the second half? You know, we can easily beat the Lakers with more than 10 points in the first two games.

So, at this time, when the Rockets did not encounter setbacks, the team did not follow his ideas, but followed the ideas of Barkley, Olajuwon and Drexler. This is also a gentleman agreement between him and these three superstars.

For these three, their hatred with Lin Han is almost irreconcilable. In this case, even if the Rockets know that this will continue, the Rockets are likely to encounter a crisis in this game, but at this time, as the head coach of the Rockets, Tom Janovic can only watch it.

For the Rockets, Barkley's offense is the focus of the offensive in this game. For a player like the Magician, Barkley is quite confident and capable of defeating the opponent. Although the two are now on the offensive and defensive, Barkley can clearly feel that the Magician's physical condition is actually at the end of the first quarter. Even when the Magician is over, Barkley can clearly feel that the Magician's legs are a little erratic at this time.

In this case, this is quite beneficial for Barkley. As long as the Magician is beaten, everything about Lin Han and the Lakers is still left to the Rockets to knead. At this time, as for whether the Rockets have lost 25-37 in the first quarter, the Lakers have already scored 12 points, which actually does not make Barkley feel that there is anything wrong with it, and even for Barkley, it is nothing.

But nothing for the Rockets and Barkley is really exciting for the Lakers. After all, their team was at home, and in a game that they thought they would definitely lose, they led the Rockets by 12 points after the first quarter. This made the Lakers fans at the scene extremely excited, and some even shouted out in their throats!

Of course, Lakers fans were quite excited at this time, and Lakers players were in the same mood at this time. No one thought there was any hope in this game, especially when Lin Han did not play singles, the team made people unable to see how to defeat the Rockets. It was just that what people didn't expect was that because Lin Han had always been the leader of Princeton's organization, the team had never had a high presence in the team. Although this career was extremely great, he was a magician.

, but in the minds of many Lakers players, the players who have deliberately given up Lin Han have actually made limited contributions to the team. Even in many people's minds, after the team's trainer from the Celestial Dynasty was selected by the team this season's draft, the Magic even had to hand over the starting position to the Celestial Dynasty boy. After all, that Celestial Dynasty boy is a real insider, so, in the eyes of Lakers players, the Magic may really have to retire after next season and be a full-time head coach.

But what is completely unexpected is that before Lin Han could rise in this game, they saw the Magician's rise in the first game. Although the Magician's efficiency in defense and defense of Barkley was not much higher than Rodman, the Lakers were able to lead so much in the first quarter of this game. Barkley was a fan of the authorities. However, other players on the court and other players and spectators on the sidelines watched it very clearly. Of the 37 points, almost half of the Lakers scored in the first quarter were Lakers' fast break points. From Lin Han's performance of 14 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists in the first quarter, we can see what Lin Han's performance was like in this game, and what the Magic helped Lin Han. After all, when the Lakers played Princeton, Lin Han had rebounds and assists, but there was never a single quarter that there were so many points!

So. At this time, in the minds of Lakers players, this super legend of the team that had always been a little bit contemptuous, and at this time the image has almost changed drastically. At least at this time, almost all Lakers players were full of incredible and shock when looking at the Magician.

They really never thought that the Magicians were about to retire and they still had the strength to change the game.

However, although he still smiled at the Magician at this time, his body was a little exhausted, the Lakers player standing next to him was actually a little regretful.

Judging from the Rockets' unchanged formation in the first quarter of this game, if the Magician is really at the peak, the Lakers will definitely win this game, of course. If the Magician is really at the peak, with the Magician's strength and Lin Han's assistance, it is really possible that the Rockets will be fine. After all, four years ago, such a Lakers, Jabbar retired, and the Lakers' big guys, the old and young, were brought into the finals by the Magician. Even in the finals, such a Magician in his thirties faced two of the league's strongest defenses on the outside, Jordan and Pippen, who were even one-on-one. He was even the top five in the league's outside. These two people were not even able to play with the Magician. Although the Bulls' overall strength defeated the Lakers, the Magician was still quite terrifying.

So, let alone the peak magician, even the Rockets were afraid that the Rockets would be in trouble in this game, although the Magician has returned and the HIV virus has been controlled, the large amount of medication in recent years has made the originally handsome and handsome magician become a fat uncle. Not only does it have a change in body shape, but its physical functions are completely incomparable to four years ago. The Magician four years ago was able to not be at a disadvantage in the competition with Jordan and Pippen. Although he still has certain such abilities and experience, the physical damage is still too serious and his physical fitness is too poor.

"magic, are you okay now?"

Of course, although the Magician's smile on his face was very bright at this time, his constantly rising and falling chest still made everyone feel his consumption at this time. So, after sitting in the seat, when all the Lakers starters sat down, Lin Han asked with some concern.

"I'm fine, at least I can hold on until the end of the half. Lin, this is a big opportunity. I'll leave it to you after this game."

Faced with the worries of Lin Han and other Lakers players, the Magician also said with a smile.

After the magician finished speaking, Lin Han nodded after being stunned.

Of course he knew what the Magicians were talking about. In the first quarter, the Rockets did not change the formation, which means that the Rockets would not become in this game. After all, if the Magic really beat the Magician in the first half, then in the second half, the Rockets would not need to change the formation. In other words, except for the Lakers having a lot of opportunities to expand the score in the first quarter, there would still be such a chance in the second quarter. Even if the Magic were not able to hold on, Lin Han would want everyone to play against the main players in the second quarter. You should know that the Rockets, who do not have the advantage in the substitute, are not afraid to play with the Lakers for 48 minutes!

But it is obvious that since the Magic couldn't hold on, the Lakers' substitute had an advantage in facing the Rockets, who almost sent away a large number of high-quality substitutes for Barkley. In the end, Lin Han could only sit on the bench safely watching the substitute match between the two sides.

"Magic, don't worry, we will definitely win this game!"

Seeing that the Lakers substitute slightly suppressed the Rockets' substitute, Lin Han also said excitedly, and after hearing Lin Han say this, the Magician's smile became brighter.

It has to be said that everything is going on in this game in accordance with the direction of the Lakers. This time, the Rockets gave the Lakers a chance. It seems that the Lakers have seized it, and even if they seize this opportunity, this is the last chance the Rockets have given the Lakers. After this game, the Rockets will not be the Rockets in this game at all, and whether the Lakers are the Lakers like this is now depends on Lin Han.

When I thought of this, the magician looked at Lin Han with some expectations.

"Everything I can do has been done. Wherever the team can go in this round of the series depends on your own."

Finally, the Magician looked at Lin Han, who was already excited to stand up, sighed in his heart because the team played well at the bench.

Of course, the situation in this game slowly turned toward the Lakers, which made the Lakers very happy. The fans of the Lakers on the sidelines and the experts and reporters on the scene also exclaimed. But as the head coach of the Rockets, Tom Janovic was actually quite helpless at this time. He could have predicted such a situation, and even such a situation was worse than he expected.

After all, although the Lakers had the advantage in the previous two games, the advantage was not so great. Obviously, after being suppressed for two games, the Lakers substitute players were also suffocated. At this time, the team finally had such a good condition, and the Lakers substitute players also became more imposing. Coupled with Lin Han's words before the game, it can be said that the entire Lakers were a little angry at this time, and they could not even stop it.

In this case, when the half-time game ended, the Rockets actually came to the second half with a huge score of 21 points in the half with a score of 49-70. Although the Magic, who knew that the second half had been defeated by Barkley, could not continue to defend like the first half, Sure enough, when the Lakers started in the second half, they really brought Rodman up again, facing the Magicians defeated the first half, and were ready to have fun and go crazy in the second half.

For example, letting Rodman, the most entangled inside line in the league, entangled Barkley is the best choice. Although Rodman cannot defend Barkley, entangled Barkley can make him crazy. This is also the biggest feature of Rodman's defense. This is also the reason why he cannot defend most of the superstars in the league, but he can win the best defensive player and many defensive teams, because it is not so easy for any superstar player in the league to have a high score in front of him.

It is precisely because of this that although the Lakers tried to find the advantage of the first two games after the start of the second half and recovered the difference, the Rockets were quite able to get the advantage of the game. After all, without the Magician's disruption, Barkley and Olajuwon can attack both Rodman and Lin Han without considering whether they will be punished after failure, which allows the Rockets' innate advantages to be greatly utilized.

But the same is true, although the defensive combination of Lin Han and Rodman is very innate, it is indeed possible to win more than ten or twenty points in the entire game, but such a win must be divided into a fixed win of four or five points in each quarter. However, if you want to really play a climax, or to recover more than ten points in one quarter and recover more than twenty points in the half, it is almost impossible. At least in the face of Rodman and Lin Han’s defense, such climax is difficult to appear!

In this case, facing the madness of the Rockets in the second half, although the Lakers gave people an extremely shaky feeling, the team has always withstood the impact of the Rockets and has not really fallen. This even made many Lakers fans on the sidelines worried and even more excited!

"The Lakers' tenacity is really good. In addition to the absolute lack of strength, this team already has other qualities that should be available to win the championship!"

Even when this game came to the fourth quarter, the Lakers, who had been in a weak position in this round of series, still came to the fourth quarter with a 15-point advantage, Larry Bird on the sidelines was amazed. The Rockets were indeed stronger than the Lakers, but if they wanted to defeat the Lakers, the Rockets still couldn't do it. If they gave the Lakers enough hard strength, this team might really be able to reach the highest peak of the league!

Of course, it will take a future to know whether the Lakers will have such strength. But now, when the game is over, when the Lakers defeated the Rockets 128-115 under the leadership of Lin Han and the Magic in this game, when Lin Han scored a terrifying 41 points, 16 rebounds and 14 assists in this game, and when the Magic sent 6 blocks in this game, when DJ on the scene shouted out such data.

The entire forum stadium had already become even more crazy because of the team's victory!

Maybe this game will be the last victory of the Lakers in this series, but no matter what, the Lakers defended a victory in a very tenacious way at their home court! (To be continued)
Chapter completed!