activa-t Chapter 128 Overtime?unnecessary!
Chapter 128 Overtime?unnecessary!
Chapter 128 Overtime?unnecessary!
In the first half of the second quarter, the Knicks put on a pure bench lineup.
Point Guard: Mark Jackson
Shooting Guard: Gerald Wallace
Small Forward: Corey Maggette
Power Forward: Chris Anderson
Center: Matt Geiger
For the Lakers, Kobe led the bench to grab points. O'Neal was in poor condition and rested on the bench.
According to Jeff Van Gundy's defensive tactics, the lineup on the field shrinks the defense from the beginning, forcing the Lakers' bench lineup to shoot outside jumpers.
During this period, Lynch Hunter made 2 of 0 shots, Bryan Shaw made 3 of 1 shots, and Kobe had difficulty catching the ball under the entanglement of Gerald Wallace. He only took two shots and hit a three-pointer.
The Knicks inside twin towers, Chris Anderson and Matt Geiger, need to be tall, tall, and powerful against the Lakers' substitute insiders Samaki Walker (2 meters) and Mark Madsen (06 meters).Under the dispatch of the old demon Mark Jackson, the Knicks lob team returned to the rivers and lakes, causing sparks to fly around the Lakers.
After just resting for 2 minutes, O'Neill had to rush up to put out the fire.
During the Lakers dynasty, power forwards were always their weakness, neither defense nor offense.And the Lakers uniform team never find a substitute for O'Neal, it seems that O'Neal is very suitable to play the whole game.
Well, in their era, they were indeed proud of their long playing time. The top stars all played more than 38 minutes. O'Neal averaged 40 minutes per game in the season of the first championship. These two seasons have slightly converged. Iverson also likes to play the whole game.
In fact, this kind of exhaustion affects the durability of the career. Like O'Neal this season and the next season, he is still at his peak, but from the next season (2004-2005 season), he has never played more than 30 minutes.
Similar to some kind of exercise, intemperance in the early stage, and soon becomes weak and weak.
O'Neal came on, and the Knicks' bench quickly changed tactics:
On the offensive end, he rushed in desperately. Anyway, O'Neill became softer and his fangs were put away.
Ordinary fouls are not to be feared, they were originally trying to increase the number of O'Neal fouls, and even Corey Maggette got into O'Neal's arms every time.
On the defensive end, as long as O'Neal is attacking with the ball, he must be cut.Anyway, it would not be a pity for anyone on the bench to graduate.
However, O'Neal felt surprisingly good today. During this period, he made 8 of 7 free throws, which directly shattered the Knicks' attempt to open the score through the "shark-cutting tactic".
And the implementation of offensive tactics was not smooth, the key is that the referee is not strong.There were quite a few fouls that I couldn't see, and I finally saw it once or twice, and I would call the foul on Samaki Walker.
Offensive and defensive tactics have failed, but Jeff Van Gundy and Tom Thibodeau have never been good at on-the-spot tactics. They are slower and less decisive.Sitting on the sidelines, maybe the referee will find a balance next time?
In this way, the starting lineup was replaced until the Lakers' lead reached 8 points, but this starting lineup could maintain the score, and the chasing points still lacked some explosive power. The small hole of 8 points was not filled until the end of the second quarter.
In the second quarter, the Lakers beat the Knicks 26:20, and the score in the first half was 54:46.
In the second half of the third quarter and the first half of the fourth quarter, the substitute lineup made great contributions again. With 7 minutes and 50 seconds left in the fourth quarter, when the Knicks replaced the starting lineup, the score was chased to 85:81.
The small pit of 8 points has become a small pit of 4 points.
Zhao Ke was not there, and the Knicks began to resolutely hit Rasheed Wallace again, but he didn't feel good today, and this small hole was filled for more than 5 minutes.It wasn't until 2 minutes and 30 seconds left in the score that the Knicks relied on a small cooperation between Ben Wallace and Rasheed Wallace to score two points in the air and achieved the first overtake: 90:91.
At this time, the Lakers began to cut big money...
Since O'Neal's style of play has softened, his free throws have become extremely soft. At this time, he has made 14 of 12 free throws, which is accurate.
So the Lakers began to use the Murong family's trick, "Use the other's way, and return to the other body." It happened that Daben didn't feel good today, and he made 8 of 2 free throws before.
So in just 2 minutes, the Lakers slashed Ben Wallace four times, and Big Ben didn't do much, making only one of eight free throws.
Ben Wallace himself is helpless, but his wrist is flawed, what can you do?
The deficiencies on the offensive end are made up on the defensive end.
This has always been Ben Wallace's basketball credo, so in these 2 minutes, the Lakers saw a crazy Ben Wallace, fighting for fouls. In such a short time, he blocked two shots, one for O'Neal and one for Kobe.
Although the gift to O'Neal was counted as a foul, but with Ben Wallace's tough performance, the Knicks did not collapse. Until the time was 2.1 seconds, the two teams actually tied at 98:98.
Prior to this, Kobe missed a 24-second three-pointer, and Jeff Van Gundy called a timeout.
Jeff Van Gundy actually didn't think about any tactics, that is, he habitually called a timeout.For the last two seconds, it's better to waste it, and there is a better chance of winning in overtime.
Zhao Ke asked weakly: "Coach, there are only two seconds left, you can see that I can't make any trouble, can you let me shoot a game-winning shot?"
Jeff Van Gundy and Tom Thibodeau glanced at each other, and the latter nodded. This time is really not enough to make trouble.
Therefore, Jeff Van Gundy nervously designed a tactical arrangement for Zhao Ke to catch the ball. The Lakers suffered enough from Zhao Ke's lore in the finals last season, and he reckoned that the Lakers would not let Zhao Ke catch the ball easily.
As it turns out, Van Gundy was thinking a little too much.
Zhao Ke has been sitting on the bench since the first quarter. No matter how many points the Knicks are behind, Zhao Ke will not play.In Phil Jackson's habitual thinking, Zhao Ke must have been protected by Jeff Van Gundy in this game. It's the last two seconds, why come up?
The typical scar is healed and the pain is forgotten!
Sure enough, after the timeout ended, Zhao Ke appeared on the court, which immediately caused a commotion among the Lakers.The tactic that Phil Jackson arranged just now is completely unusable. This ball must have been shot by Zhao Ke. What should I do? What should I do?
Zhao Ke has already started running. He followed the designed route and ran past Artest, Rasheed Wallace, and Ben Wallace respectively. When passing by Big Ben, Billups' pass arrived just in time.
Regardless of the large wave of Lakers players following him, Zhao Ke caught the ball and turned around, retreated beyond the three-point line after dribbling, silently said "Meteor", and took off to shoot!
At this time, Kobe, the fastest runner, bypassed Ben Wallace and came to Zhao Ke. The foul was meaningless, and Kobe also stopped and watched the basketball fly away.
"Meteor" is not in it?Is it really necessary to play overtime?
The basketball crossed a perfect parabola, hollowed into the frame, and the net flowers splashed everywhere!
(End of this chapter)