Legendary star

Chapter 401

"The Pacers are a very good team, they have a group of very good players, especially Meng and Reggie, they deserved today's victory."

"My tactical arrangement? I don't think there is a problem with my tactical arrangement. For us, perhaps for any team in the league, Meng Xu is the biggest threat. He is the scoring leader this season and the leader of the regular season. MVP, he scored 63 points in a single game on our heads, so we put the focus on defense on Meng Xu, and there is no problem. Meng scored 35 points and 18 assists today. In the following games, we will still Continue with previous tactics and strategies."

"Will you regret losing the chance to win the match point? Of course, we missed the opportunity to finish the finals with 5 games, but this is not just bad news, because we can sell tickets for one more game. "

"Will it be reversed by the Pacers? Of course not. Although we lost today's game, we are still the strongest team in the entire league. We have the strongest combination of Shaq and O'Neal in the league."

"The conflict between Shaq and Kobe? I think the reporter must have read it wrong. There is no problem between Shaq and Kobe. They are the most professional players. They know where they are, and they also know own goals, so there will never be a situation between them that you guessed."

On June 2002, 6, at the press conference after the fourth game of the finals between the Lakers and the Pacers, Phil Jackson tried his best to suppress the anger in his heart and pretended to be indifferent to the constant questions from the reporters in the audience. Looking at it, he tried his best to squeeze out a smile that was uglier than crying.The great situation was reversed, from 11 to 1 to 3 to 2, no one will be unhappy, and there are too many slots in today's game, at the beginning of the fourth quarter The Lakers, who still led the Pacers by 2 points, lost to the Pacers by 12 points in the end. The Pacers scored 7 points in a single quarter in the fourth quarter, and the suspected quarrel between O'Neal and Kobe during the timeout of the fourth quarter was also filmed by the reporters on the scene. So, Phil Jackson, the person involved, naturally couldn't escape from the hands of these reporters, but today's real protagonist, Larry Bird, who won the game, is now very interested. Watching from the sidelines, the disgraced Phil Jackson was beaten down by the reporters.

In fact, since coming to Los Angeles, Phil Jackson has rarely been in a good mood. Although it is the dream of most coaches to be able to coach players like O'Neal and Kobe, the godfather of the Lakers, Jerry West, has always been Even though he led the Lakers to a record of 67 wins, even if he led the Lakers to the championship, Jerry West still believed that he had no real talents and learned, and said that his grandma brought The Lakers can take the words of the championship to belittle Phil Jackson.Moreover, as the head coach of the Bass brothers and sisters who advocated the introduction of the team, Phil Jackson was inevitably pushed to the forefront of the infighting. It is strange that Jackson has a good face. Although he is on the verge of losing power, Jerry West is still the president and general manager of basketball affairs of the Lakers after all. In addition, he has been in the Lakers for 20 years. It is still very easy for West to restrain Phil Jackson. If he hadn't been rejected by Jerry West in his various reinforcement plans in the offseason last year, his team might have swept the Pacers by now. Now that the O'Brien Cup is up, there's no need to be bullied by these reporters here.Listening to the reporter's questions getting more and more excessive, the smile on Phil Jackson's face disappeared. Although he didn't say anything rude, Phil Jackson still greeted their closest relatives of the opposite sex in his heart. By the way, even Jerry West also greeted several times.

Although the Lakers are a giant, how long have they not touched the floor of the conference finals before they took over?I'm afraid they don't even remember it.And as the six-time head coach who has created two dynasties, being able to condescend to come to the Lakers to accept this mess has already given them great face. In the first year, he won 2 regular season games and reached the Western Conference Finals in the playoffs. If he won the championship directly in the second year, he would have put himself above his head if he wanted to leave other teams, but this unlucky Jerry West just didn't like him, and under the influence of Jerry West, Even with many pro-Lakers media, they don't like him anyway.

"Reversal, no one can reverse us!" In the end, under the constant questioning of the reporters on the scene, Phil Jackson, who couldn't bear it anymore, threw down a harsh word and left directly.Didn't it just lose a game? The score is only 2-2 now. But there are two home games, so Phil Jackson is still very confident in winning the final victory.

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"Reggie, you are really a fortress today." At the press conference after the game, when a good show was still going on, the Pacers players who had taken a shower did not leave immediately, but all gathered together In the locker room, since Meng Xu came to the Pacers, he brought some habits from the Spurs to the Pacers. After the home game, the players who performed poorly will be kept for extra training. After the playoffs, Larry Bird stopped their post-match extra training, but a private summary after each game is still essential.

It’s a summary, but it’s actually a self-review meeting, starting with Meng Xu, and then speaking one by one, each reviewing his own shortcomings in the game, and because the team won the game, the atmosphere at the scene was also very good. Except for Jermaine O'Neal and Lorenzen White, who were a bit depressed, the other players were laughing and joking. As the team's two starting insiders, they sat on the bench for a whole quarter in the crucial fourth quarter. , and the team actually won.There is a saying that winning is not terrible, and whoever is missing is embarrassing. Jermaine O'Neill and Lorenzen White are undoubtedly the two most embarrassing people now, because this victory seems to have nothing to do with them.

Looking at Jermaine O'Neal's appearance, Meng Xu didn't know how to persuade him. After all, Jermaine O'Neal is also a player with outstanding talent and eyes above the top. I can't even look down on myself.Originally, in these few games, when the Lakers frantically double-teamed Meng Xu, Jermaine O'Neal, as the team's second-in-command, was the one who should stand up to help the team and Meng Xu, but Jermaine O'Neal's performance But unsatisfactory.And for four consecutive games, under the pressure of Shaq O'Neal, Jermaine O'Neal has nothing to fight back, which makes this Jermaine O'Neal who has always dreamed of "punching Duncan and kicking O'Neal." How can you accept the reality in front of you? Not only that, after seeing the performance of the old Miller in this game, Jermaine O'Neal also blamed himself very much. If the team finally loses this round of the series, he is definitely the biggest sinner.

"Okay, let's go back to rest early, there is a more important game the day after tomorrow!" Just as the locker room was full of laughter, assistant coach Lester Connell pushed open the door of the locker room, pointing at the arm. watch, indicating that it is getting late.

"Okay, okay, let's all go back to our respective homes." After Lester Conor's voice fell, Meng Xu also stood up from his seat and waved to his teammates around him.

　Thank you Emperor Dongyu for your reward and monthly pass, thank you.

　　Thank you for the reward of Baisi Buqijie 2, thank you.

　　Thank you Baiyi and Moke for the monthly pass, thank you.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)