I'm good at basketball too

Chapter 161 2-1
The originally stable situation became complicated and confusing because of Kobe's outbreak.

No. 24 on the opposite side, you don't need to say how many times he has hit the iron in total, and there is no need to ridicule the four-up and three-iron. His scoring explosiveness is definitely second to none in the history of the league.

This is Kobe Bryant.

The Black Mamba!

George Karl is very fortunate that God is on the side of the Nuggets again.

If Kobe is given 3 more minutes, the Nuggets may be behind now.

The playoffs are like this, no matter how sophisticated your tactics and how disciplined your players are, they are a little weak in the face of the explosion of the opposing star.

Superstar singles have always been the easiest and most effective tactic in this league.

But George Karl also believes in his players. In his opinion, this season's Nuggets lineup is perfect. If Anthony and Li Ran are given another two years, and O'Neal is two years younger, he is even confident to use this lineup. To challenge the invincible Bull Dynasty.

He just explained some more routine matters, such as paying attention to running positions, paying attention to strengthening the restrictions on Kobe, and so on.

Then, the two teams stepped onto the field, preparing for the decisive battle in the fourth quarter.

I don’t know what kind of chicken soup Phil poured into the Lakers players. As soon as the fourth quarter came up, the Lakers players seemed to have been injected with chicken blood. The already high defensive strength increased again. affected.

Under this sudden pressure, the Nuggets quickly made several mistakes.

Fortunately, after the intermission, Kobe's touch was not as hot as in the third quarter, and he also missed several shots.

After the two sides played three quarters of high-intensity confrontation, the scoring rhythm in the fourth quarter suddenly slowed down.

In this case, scoring inside is the safest.

The next time, O'Neal and Gasol began to score points for their respective teams.

As the core of the two insiders before and after the Lakers, the two also started their own performances at the same time.

Gasol's performance in the first two games was quite mediocre. Under the joint squeeze of O'Neal and Nene, he averaged only 13 points and 9 rebounds per game, which was close to 19+10 in the regular season and the first two rounds. The data are different from each other.

But in the fourth quarter, when Kobe's hand feeling declined, Gasol still supported the team's scoring task.

He made three three-pointers and scored six points in three minutes, helping the team stabilize the point difference.

The reason why it is said to stabilize the point difference is that O'Neal also gets what he wants in the paint.

The use of the current O'Neill is undoubtedly a very particular skill.

Although he is not as omnipotent on the court as he was at his peak, he is still a very stable inside scoring point.

However, due to the increasing weight and the resulting physical problems, O'Neal cannot play for a long time.

During the regular season, George Karl has been strictly controlling O'Neal's playing time even if the team loses.

In an average of 24 minutes of playing time per game, O'Neal can hand over 14+8 data.

It seems mediocre, but in the playoffs, it is not the time to save energy. In the playoffs, O'Neal's playing time rose to a little over 29 minutes, and the data also rose to 17+9.
This improvement shows that in the regular season, O'Neal is still in control of his performance.

Having played in the NBA for more than ten years, and even played in the finals six times, O'Neal certainly knows when to exert strength and when to play dead.

In the first half of the fourth quarter, O'Neal and Gasol became the core of their respective teams, supporting the team to move forward before the core players recovered their touch.

By the time Kobe made his first shot of the fourth quarter, the fourth quarter had gone on for six and a half minutes.

As if a certain valve had been opened, Anthony and Li Ran also scored successively.

The focus of the game shifted immediately, and it became a scene of Kobe vs. Anthony + Li Ran again.

However, no matter how venomous the black mamba is, there will always be a moment when the venom will be vomited dry.

At the last moment, when the scores on both sides rose alternately, Kobe missed two consecutive three-pointers.

This is not a big problem, because the rhythm of both sides is very slow in the fourth quarter. As long as the Lakers defend the Nuggets' offense well, the two sides will still maintain a balance.

At this moment, Li Ran stepped forward. He rushed inside twice in a row, causing two fouls by An Zhu and scoring a 2+1.
While scoring five points in a row, he also beat An Zhu into a sixth offender and left the game.

The balance of the game immediately tilted towards the Nuggets.

In this way, the Nuggets thrilled to get the second victory of the series at Staples.

科比全场出战46分钟，只休息了2分钟，砍下42分8篮板3助攻的数据。

Li Ran had 29 points, 14 rebounds and 5 assists, Anthony had 27 points, 6 rebounds and 6 assists, and O'Neal had 18 points and 11 rebounds. Under the siege of the three of them, the Black Mamba vomited all his poison and failed to defeat the Nuggets.

Although this season's Kobe has entered his ultimate form a year ahead of schedule after last year's offseason training camp, he still lost two games in a row after the lore in the first game.

In the entire NBA, only two people can single-handedly lead the team to victory over any team.

It's a pity that Kobe is not among the two.

These two people, one is Michael Jordan and the other is Shaquille O'Neal.

Maybe add a Jimmy Butler name later?
As the saying goes, if you have Joe, choose Joe, if you don’t have Joe, choose Shark, and if you don’t have Joe, there’s Shark, choose Jiba. . .

After losing a game at home, the next game at Staples will undoubtedly become the focus of this round of the series.

Whether Kobe can lead the team to defend the dignity of the home court and drag the game into the battle of Tianwangshan, or whether the Nuggets will take away the match point with a smile on the road, has become the focus of attention of all fans.

The Nuggets and the Lakers played three games, and the next day, the third game of the Eastern Conference Finals also came to an end.

The situation of the Cavaliers in the first two games is very similar to that of the Nuggets.

In their first game at home, Turkoglu assisted Rashad Lewis with a two-point lead in the last 14 seconds.

At the last moment, James obviously had a chance to kill, and his performance in this game was incredible, 30 of 20, 6 of 3 three-pointers, 10 of 6 free throws, 49 points, 6 rebounds and 8 assists.

However, at the last moment, it was Delonte West who made only 13 of 4 shots and 8 of 3 three-pointers in this game. . .

As "The Emperor" missed a three-pointer, even though the Cavaliers grabbed the offensive rebound, the time for Xiao Mo's shot was almost zero, and the hasty shot was naturally inaccurate.

In this way, the Magic took the lead at the Cavaliers' home court.

Leaving aside the performance at the last minute, James' overall performance is undoubtedly perfect.

49分6篮板8助攻2抢断3盖帽2失误1犯规，真实命中率高达71.2%！

(End of this chapter)