Why, I am always hurting? What am I doing wrong...

When facing Zhang Hao, who was still a rookie, Pippen couldn't help it.

Now Zhang Hao's height and wingspan are larger than Pippen, and his weight and strength are all advantageous.

After easily knocking Pippen back to close range, Zhang Hao made a jump shot from one step inside his favorite free throw line!

The Zen master couldn't bear this picture anymore.

But there is no way. In this case, you cannot improve your defensive intensity with greater intensity. As the season deepens, the label of each team is very clear.

Teams such as the Heat, Knicks, Cavaliers, Pistons and others are iconic iron-blooded teams. How they increase their defensive intensity, even if they play at the playoff level, there is no problem.

But the Lakers on the opposite side averaged 111.6 points per game, the first in the league, and the Bulls averaged 106.9 points per game, the second in the league.

The two teams played the game, and it was a Christmas battle. If they played like those teams... Then, after Jordan scored a three-pointer on the sideline, Pippen defended Zhang Hao and tried to go around when Zhang Hao asked for the ball, but his strength was restrained and pushed away Zhang Hao's arm that received the ball. The referee gave a foul without hesitation.

The Lakers continued to attack and the ball was sent out. Pippen could only choose to go around the front defense, but wanted to successfully block Zhang Hao's receiving line as soon as possible. Pippen chose to go around, which means he did not confront Zhang Hao and did not block the bottom line!

Zhang Hao seized the opportunity and turned straight into the basket. He received a straight pass from Kenny Anderson. He jumped on the left sideline in the three-second zone. He faced Luke Longli's defense and pulled the ball to the right. When they were in the fight, he pulled the ball back and avoided Luke Longli's arm and lowered his hand to push the ball from bottom to top... Hit!

After not seeing each other for more than half a year, Jordan saw Zhang Hao's progress.

In terms of technology, it is still very monotonous overall, and the biggest improvement is the ending ability!

The shooting is more stable and the layup skills are better.

In a lineup like the Lakers and with such physical conditions, in Jordan's view, Zhang Hao's finishing ability is much more useful than expanding his skills.

It is not that widening the technology is useless, but that it all needs to be improved. For Zhang Hao, the ending ability brings greater improvements in performance than richer technologies.

It's time to adjust its style of play, and the offense and defense are converted. After Jordan arrived at the frontcourt, he came to the left mid-range of the three-second zone and leaned against Doug Christie to ask for the ball!

The strength has the advantage, the height is comparable to the wingspan, and the bounce has the advantage... Jordan slowly adjusted his rhythm with the strength advantage when he received the ball. Before Zhang Hao could not help but attack from the top arc, he rushed back and turned over and made a jump shot!

Zhang Hao rushed forward, but Jordan turned over and slid backward, which was completely inconvenient!

Jordan made a jump shot!

A line of subtitles floated in front of Zhang Hao's eyes 1:1.

Jordan scored his first goal in this game, and made a single-handed jump shot!

In fact, Zhang Hao only counts the number of hits from the turnover jump shots.

But since Jordan is about to start scoring, he certainly has to let the arrogant boy see what an authentic back-shot jump shot is.

It's definitely not like Barkley chiseling it into a comfortable position with his butt!

After landing, Jordan stepped back and patted Zhang Hao with his right hand on the back of his left hand...

OK, knowing that you are powerful, you don’t have to find a position. Just hit it casually. If you don’t get the attack right away, it means there is no attack... Zhang Hao ran to the frontcourt silently.

Jordan's back hit just now was obviously waiting for him, Zhang, to attack him, and to bully people.

Zhang Hao had no choice. If he didn't fight with him one-on-one, he would turn over and jump shot. If he couldn't bully him, he would have to bully his younger brother.

Pippen, feel the wind!

Pippen came to this position again. He was almost psychologically ill of this position, and his scalp became numb when he got here.

Zhang Hao leaned against Pippen and continued to press back. Pippen was ready to fall back as long as he was hit. Although his back would hurt, he had to try it.

Zhang Hao keenly judged the difference in Pippen's standing posture. When he was about to bump into Pippen, he suddenly turned left and stuck his left foot behind Pippen, without any obstacles! Zhang Hao put his right foot away and continued to turn around and came to Pippen's back!

Pippen didn't even have room to fall back and turned around quickly, but Zhang Hao jumped around behind him and jumped directly. Pippen could only watch Zhang Hao jump shot from the free throw line... missed!

However, when Luke Longley saw that Pippen could not prevent Zhang Hao from turning around, he immediately let go of O'Neal and moved in the direction of Zhang Hao's advance. O'Neal rushed in from the right side of the three-second zone, pulling the ball that bounced out to the left side back to the basket, and successfully dunked!

Invincible!

Even the Bulls fans at the scene felt what an invincible frontcourt meant when they saw the performance of the Lakers' three major frontcourts.

When Kenny Anderson made a three-pointer at the start, the Bulls would hesitate to shrink because Jordan went to defend Kenny Anderson.

This choice made the Bulls very confused. They should help Pippen anyway!

Without shrinking or attacking, Barkley was in a rampage at the beginning, he could not limit the opponent's three major frontcourts.

That is, there is only one ball, and there is still O'Neal standing there. Luke Longley has a tonnage of 218 cm and 120 kilograms. It is difficult for O'Neal to defend against him to meet expectations...

But even if O'Neal didn't have the ball in his hand, his ability to rush and grab was greatly restrained by Luke Longley's close range and three-second defense ability.

What makes the fans on the scene feel more comfortable is that their offensive stability has improved!

After Jordan made a back-shot jump shot, he started to take the initiative to attack, not limited to singles, any method is OK. His current goal is to throw the ball into the basket.

For Jordan, it is much easier to find opportunities to shoot than to help his teammates create opportunities to shoot. However, the opponent will definitely focus on guarding him at the beginning. He chose to use it like that. He did have a good attack at the beginning, but the role player's chances are good. The stability of others is definitely much worse than that of Jordan.

Of course, it is also beneficial for Jordan to help his teammates create opportunities at the beginning. Like now, the Lakers dare not pay attention to Jordan's movements at any time and move in advance like at the beginning. Although they could not double-team in advance before, the players in the Lakers' area where he went will move defensively.

But when the Bulls played very well in the front, the Lakers' defense against Jordan was also affected.

The Bulls' offensive strategy is progressing step by step and has a lot of routines. This is the important reason why the Bulls are in a stable state this season, averaging 106.9 points per game and 95.1 points per game!

The score continued to be anxious. The two teams did not make substitutions during the official timeout. In the first quarter, Jordan suddenly reached the basket and caused Barkley to make up for a defense foul. Pippen was destroyed for most of the quarter, and finally waited for the opponent to substitution!

It's finally dawning!

After Jordan made the first free throw, Del Harris began to rotate, replacing Barkley with the Magic, Brian Shaw replaced Kenny Anderson, George Lynch replaced Doug Christie, Zhang Hao and O'Neal continued to play.

The Bulls also rotated, replacing Ron Harper with Steve Cole.

When Jordan saw the substitution on the other side, he felt that his little brother was really miserable, but he finally got through it, and he tried hard to get the score difference not to be widened!

Jordan also made the second free throw, 17 to 21, and the score difference was still within 5 points! Two mid-range shots can tie!

The Lakers' offense and defense were converted, and Zhang Hao played for a long time. He played very well, but he was a little tired and needed to slow down. Just in time, when he encountered Rodman's defense, Zhang Hao pulled to the middle distance on the right, and O'Neal went to the left side of the three-second zone and leaned against Luke Longley to ask for the ball.

It was finally my turn! O'Neal was excited to receive the ball, and Pippen, who was defending the magician, took it back immediately, but still failed to interfere.

However, Pippen didn't care. When O'Neal received the ball again in the next round, he still retracted... The purpose was to make O'Neal faster!

The Lakers continued to take the initiative, but as they played, they found something was wrong...

O'Neal Viagra's time has become shorter!

The Bulls did not use inside-line attacks to deal with O'Neal, but only allowed the Magician's Pippen to shrink back, without forming a substantial defensive effect.

But as he was playing, O'Neal began to take the initiative to pass the ball to the Magician. When the Magician received a return pass, he passed it out when his teammates had a chance to run, and if he didn't, he would shoot by himself.

When it comes to offensive success rate, the Lakers' offensive success rate was still very high in the last few minutes of the first quarter.

O'Neal scored 3 goals, one of which was 2+1, and the free throw was confiscated, and the others of the Lakers also scored 4 points, mainly because O'Neal made 3 of 4 shots and scored 31 points after the first quarter.

In the main attack stage, the Lakers scored 11 points, Zhang Hao scored 10 points, O'Neal scored the main attack stage, and O'Neal scored the shortest time to attack, and the Lakers scored 10 points.

This performance will definitely be a very good performance against the Bulls, which is definitely one of the best defensive teams in the league when they are serious.

But even O'Neal, who was so energetic, found that something went wrong after the first quarter...

Indeed, the Bulls scored 26 points in the first quarter, and the Lakers led by 5 points in a single quarter.

But O'Neal clearly felt that his physical energy was consumed, which was more expensive than attacking first, slowing down for a while and then attacking!

After the holiday break, the Lakers are very motivated, O'Neal is not stupid, and he wants to save face. Sitting down, not chatting and laughing like usual, but trying to straighten his breathing and restore himself to a better physical strength line as much as possible.

It's not really too tired. His physical strength is definitely the top center in the league. He is not just the center, but is quite good in the entire league. His average playing time per game was more than 36 minutes in the first four years of his career, with a highest average of 39.8 minutes per game in a year.

Instead, the consumption of this stage is greater than when he had to play with the Magic last season!

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After the break between the festival, the Lakers sent Kenny Anderson, Byron Scott, Zhang Hao, Barkley and Jason Williams to the field again.

Zhang Hao thought that the offensive pressure would be great in this lineup, but the opponent replaced Pippen, Rodman and Longley, and sent a combination of Randy Brown, Steve Cole, Jordan, Kukoc, and Bennett Benjamin.

The Bulls' offensive pace is still not fast, but it is obvious that this lineup is playing offensively. The defensive end is so delicious. Lakers players feel that they can eat the opponent in one bite.

This is the case. After the start of the second quarter, the Lakers' offensive success rate was still quite high, and there were more opportunities to counterattack. Zhang Hao was strictly guarded, Jordan was desperate to find a confrontation, and Zhang Hao had to play with his back against Jordan. Jordan's treatment on the defensive end was completely different from Pippen. As long as Zhang Hao leaned on Jordan and received the ball, someone would hit him immediately. Zhang Hao could pass the ball, and Barkley had the most opportunities to cut in.

In the first half of the second quarter, the Lakers scored 16-15. When they entered the official timeout, the Lakers led by 6 points 47-41 and continued to take the initiative.

The official timeout came back. In the second half of this quarter, both teams changed into the lineup in a tacit understanding.

It has been a half-time fight, and the weakening of offensive caused by confrontation and physical exhaustion has also begun to work.

The Bulls seemed to want to slow down Jordan, and Jordan began to play with the main control of running position. On the defensive end, the Bulls asked Pippen to defend Zhang Hao again...

13-10, the Lakers once again widened the gap by 3 points in the second half of the second quarter. At the end of the half, the Lakers led the Bulls 60-51 and entered the halftime break with 9 points!

With such a score, the fans on the scene were very frustrated.

Because their Bulls have no way to limit the Lakers' invincible frontcourt.

Zhang Hao scored 16 points and 1 assist in the first half, Barkley scored 17 points and 3 assists, and O'Neal scored 14 points and 3 assists, and the three of them scored 47 points!

Although Jordan performed well with 18 points and 4 assists in the first half, he was only comparable to one of the three major frontcourt players of the Lakers.

That is, the Bulls' character players are still in a stable state today and have a good grasp of open shooting opportunities.

The entire Lakers team was very excited because their frontcourt was really strong!

Soon, the second half began, and the two teams who had made the intermission adjustment returned to the court.

The Lakers are also the top team in people's minds. They think so themselves, and they have many games where their opponents collapsed in the third quarter.

Tonight, facing the Bulls, the team with the highest average net score in the third quarter of the past two years, the Lakers want to defeat the opponent in the strongest place!
To be continued...