"I know the bet between Lin and Scott, which is very interesting. Lin is a very great offensive player, Scott is a very great defensive player, both of them have the kind of pursuit of stronger qualities, and the NBA Finals is the highest stage for basketball players. It is very, very interesting to challenge yourself on such a stage."

"That is, will Phil support Scott's decision in the first game of the finals just like the Magician supporting Lin Han?"

"Yes, if the Magic are really ready to start Trevoruben in the next game, we will give a corresponding response"

On June 8, 1995, before the training day before the first game of the finals, Bulls head coach Phil Jackson answered reporters' questions with a smile.

He didn't really care or believe about Pippen and Lin Han's bet at the beginning, thinking that it was just Lin Han and the magician who were setting off smoke bombs.

But in the end, he really didn't expect that Lin Han was actually playing the game!

After Lin Han made a bet with Pippen, media reporters asked Lin Han again, and then Lin Han directly stated that the Lakers would definitely make Trevor Rufen start in the next game. Even the Magic said in an interview that he supported all Lin Han's decisions. The Lakers' starting shooting guard in the next game is Trevor Rufen, and the starting small forward is Lin Han.

And in order to make everyone believe that he has nothing to say, the Magic even announced the Lakers' starting lineup in advance.

Starting center Rodman, starting power forward Eddie Jones, starting small forward Lin Han, starting shooting guard Trevoruben, and starting point guard Van Exel.

This is a very fantastic starting lineup. If the Magician had not been very serious when announcing this starting lineup, everyone might have thought that the Magician was joking with them.

Because of the Lakers' starting lineup, the highest is Rodman at 2.01 meters, while the other players, starting power forward Eddie Jones and starting small forward Lin Han are 1.98 meters, Jordan's height, and the two starting defenders Van Exel and Trevoruben are 1.85 meters, these two can almost be said to be pocket-sized defenders.

Such a starting lineup is not recognized by the mother who will be exposed in the era when the powerful inside line is flying all over the ground. It’s a pity that the Bulls really don’t have a strong inside lineup that can teach this starting lineup a lesson.

Therefore, when getting the starting lineup of the Lakers, Phil Jackson immediately chose to believe that the Lakers are indeed very likely to come up with such a starting lineup.

Although the Lakers' starting lineup lacks height, they have extremely strong mobile ability, both on the offensive and on the defensive.

This will greatly limit the Bulls' breakthrough, mainly Jordan's breakthrough, which is on the defensive end, and on the offensive end, the Lakers' starting lineup is also very aggressive.

Except for Rodman, the other four, whether it is Lin Han or Van Exel, are famous for the league's cancer-like play, which can be thrown, especially thrown, and what about Eddie Jones and Trevoruben?

These two are the kind of players who can break through, shoot, and have very comprehensive scoring methods. Eddie Jones is the second leader in the Lakers' future training, while Trevor Rufen is the best sixth man with outstanding performance in the regular season. No matter what the two perform in the playoffs, in terms of their regular season performance, these two prove that they can score.

Since you have proved that you can score, then appearing in the starting lineup at the same time is naturally to open up space for Lin Han and let Lin Han and Pippen one-on-one!

Therefore, in Phil Jackson's view, the Magic's starting lineup is entirely a starting lineup for Lin Han, Pippen, Jordan and Trevoruben to fight one-on-one.

On the defensive end, limit Jordan's breakthrough, you just throw it outside, and on the offensive end, try to get a one-on-one space for Lin Han.

In fact, Phil Jackson thinks that magicians don’t have to judge a gentleman by the way of being a villain.

If the Lakers really set up such a start, how could he hit Lin Han?

That's right, Scott is likely to be unable to defend Lin Han, but Scott defends Lin Han or Trevoruben defends Jordan, which one is worse, needless to say, right?

"Phil, can you tell me about the specific responses you made to starters like the Lakers in the next game?"

"I know very well what the Magicians want to express. As long as the Magicians are willing, I am happy to see Lin and Scott, Michael and Trevor's singles fight. Therefore, the Bulls' starting lineup will be center Kukoc, power forward Ron Harper, small forward Scott Pippen, shooting guard Jordan, and point guard Armstrong."

Phil Jackson said with a smile, it is also a small lineup, but the Bulls' small lineup is Kukoc, 2.08 meters. Compared with the Lakers' small lineup, the Bulls' small lineup is more capable of opening up space for Jordan's single-handed challenge. Rodman of the Lakers' team does not have offensive ability, while Kukoc has offensive ability and is very strong!

Therefore, the Bulls' service is better for the same single-handed service for the team's leading players.

So long before the finals began, the head coaches of both sides directly announced the starting lineup of the game. Such things can even be said to be extremely rare in the history of the NBA.

This also creates topics and space for a large number of media gathered in Los Angeles to hype.

The bet between Lin Han and Pippen has long been well known to everyone in the world after being spread by these media reporters from all over the world.

Originally, these media reporters and even fans thought that Pippen and Lin Han were just big talkers.

There are people in this world who are so stupid to compete with Jordan?

And he was also a team-in-one fight, and he also chose a teammate with the weakest defense to fight Jordan and Pippen?

However, now all the signs before the game show that this one-on-one challenge is really about to be played.

Now the head coaches on both sides have announced the starting lineup. If anyone takes back his decision, it will be really embarrassing in front of the whole world.

Whether it is a magician, Lin Han, Jordan, Pippen, and Phil Jackson are all shameless people.

Therefore, after the starting lineup of both sides was announced, it not only facilitated those experts who did pre-match analysis and those media reporters who had been making trouble, but also the players on both sides were relaxed.

For example, Jordan has been practicing his jump shots, three-point jump shots, mid-range jump shots, and back-turning jump shots!

And this time, it was not Pippen who accompanied Jordan to train, but the team's starting point guard, Armstrong at 1.88 meters, which simulates Trevoruben's defense against him.

Although Trevoruben is a rookie with a bad defense, it is not without its characteristics. Trevoruben is shorter than Armstrong, but heavier than Armstrong. He is a short and strong point guard, and his speed is quite fast, so if you really encounter it, if you can't adapt well and be held back by him, it will be very uncomfortable.

Fortunately, Jordan is the most skilled offensive player in the league in dealing with this type of defensive player.

"Steve, what is Michael's success rate in singles BJ?"

"98 shots in 117, the success rate exceeded 80%!"

"The success rate exceeds 80%?"

After finishing his one-to-one exercise with Ron Harper, Pippen's eyes lit up when he heard Stephen Cole say this.

If it were someone else, the success rate on the training ground would definitely be difficult to transplant on the finals stage, but if it was Jordan!

Even if there are not 80% or 70%, he and the Bulls will definitely win!

Can Lin Han beat him and get a 70% success rate? Don’t joke!

"We will win the next game!"

"It's true that you're going to win!"

Steve Cole was also quite excited. He came to the Bulls from the Cavaliers in the midway through the 1992-93 season. It can be said that he did not belong to the Bulls' last three-game winning streak. Since entering the NBA in the 1988-89 season, he has not had the championship ring.

Although he is still young and only 29 years old, no player will dislike the fact that he has too many championship rings in his hands!

So, after the Magician announced the starting lineup in advance, the morale of the entire Bulls really soared!

Without the victory of the game, morale had already soared to an incredible level. This phenomenon is probably the first time in the history of NBA!

I have to say that this time it was really thanks to Pippen. If he hadn't initiated a war of verbal battle with Lin Han, Lin Han's mentality would have collapsed, and I'm afraid the bull would not have taken such a big advantage.

"Scott, how did you know that Malone is Lin Han's knot?"

Pippen took Lin Han's saliva and took Ma Long with him every time. Now fools know that Ma Long is the reason why Lin Han's mentality is now exploded.

Even Ma Long, who has been in a very depressed mood after the first round of elimination this year, was recently asked about the bet between Pippen and Lin Han in a media interview and was radiant.

Lin Han and Ma Long, two former teammates, have now completely become deadlocks in their hearts.

"This is very simple. You can tell that guy Carl just by contacting him. Whoever dares to ask Lin Han in front of him will dare to hit people directly. Even veterans like Carl are like this. Lin Han? Humph, he is much better than Carl. Michael, he is doing beautifully!"

Jordan made another standard turn and lean back jump shot. Armstrong, who was defending him from below, had already pushed the ball, but it did not stop the ball from hitting it!

“Michael is in such a good state!”

"Even in the last round of magic, Michael wasn't inspired to do this, right?"

"Hahahaha, there's nothing we can do about it. Who made Scott and Lin Han bet that he was hurt by accident?"

"Yes, Michael probably never dreamed that he would be defended by someone like Trevoruben one day in the NBA. If he didn't kill him in a special case, it would be a shame!"

"I have to say that Lin Han is still too young. Although he has strength, he is still too impatient."

At the Bulls' training ground, applause, cheers, and cheers were wave after wave, and at the Lakers' training ground.

At this time, the Lakers unexpectedly did not engage in targeted contacts like the Bulls.

In fact, the magician and Trevoruben wanted to practice, and then they were directly rejected by Lin Han.

According to Lin Han, "Jordan will do such targeted exercises, but I don't need them."

Why is Jordan doing such targeted practice? Whether it is the Magician, Trevor Rufen, or other Lakers players, they don’t understand it very well, but if they don’t understand it, they don’t understand it. Lin Han will do whatever he wants, and they can’t say objection.

Therefore, according to Lin Han's requirements, the Lakers directly trained in actual combat, with the five starters of the Lakers, Rodman, Eddie Jones, Lin Han, Ruffin and Van Exel, against the remaining Lakers players.

In fact, this kind of practical battle is always practiced in the next game of the Lakers. For example, the entire Lakers team opened up space for Lin Han and Lin Han played Pippen alone.

Although the two sides have agreed to be a one-on-one fight, if you can't pull the Lakers' own space away, don't blame the Bulls for being able to defend, and you can only blame your own tactics for being too bad.

However, what many reporters next to him couldn't understand was that Lin Han had no intention of playing against the opponent's opponent at all. Instead, he held the ball for almost 20 seconds and only crossed his teammates when he was about to buzzer.

These reporters are actually not unfamiliar with such passes, because this is one of the reasons why many people say that Lin Han brushes data and assists. When you receive a cross-border pass like Lin Han, you have no time. What else can you do besides taking action?

Such a buzzer-beating shooting rate is already low, which drags down the team's offensive efficiency to increase the data of assists for themselves. This kind of playing style is simply a cancerous way.

Even if Lin Han has left the Jazz, Malone has criticized Lin Han's passing method more than once.

But no one cares about passing like Ma Long Pen Lin Han.

In last year's finals, Ma Long kept saying that he was tricked by a pass like Lin Han, but everyone was not blind. It was obvious that Ma Long himself could not make a shot. When Lin Han was in the Lakers, he often passed the ball with buzzer-beating balls and assists, but when he was at the Jazz, his passes to Ma Long never stick to the ball.

Therefore, Lin Han never responded to Ma Long’s complaints, and even many Jazz fans couldn’t stand it. What does Lin Han’s pass mean that it’s because you have poor psychological quality. In the finals, the MVP was snatched by Lin Han. What else do you have to say?

Lin Han is really passing the ball for you and making wedding dresses for you. If you don’t do your best, who else can you blame?!

Look at the Lakers players, they always catch the ball with a buzzer. The shooting percentage of these Lakers players is higher than that of your league's No. 1 power forward.

Faced with the sarcasm of many fans, Ma Long really couldn't find any reason to refute except for being angry, unwilling and aggrieved.

"Lin Han is testing the psychological quality of Lakers players? It's already in the finals, so he probably won't think about swiping data, right? Even if it's swiping data in the finals, it's useless. If you can't win the championship, you can't get fmvp."

The reporters next to him were really puzzled when they saw Lin Han playing this kind of buzzer-beating pass with other Lakers players on the training ground.

In addition to exercising the psychological qualities of other young players in the Lakers, they really can't think of any other uses.

Moreover, according to the starting lineup announced by the Lakers, Van Exel, Ruffin, Eddie Jones, all of them are young players, and their performance in the previous rounds of the playoffs was indeed very average. It is hard to say whether they can withstand the pressure of the finals.
To be continued...