O'Neal wanted to play with Erpang happily, but he wanted to compete for the MVP, which was very entangled, but he wanted the latter even more... He was 25 years old, and he would be 26 in the second half of the next season... he began to worry.

Zhang Hao was relieved to see that he was selected for a while.

If the scoring champion fails to make a while, it will really be a shame. However, there are not a situation in NBA history where the scoring champion fails to make a while, but there are many, such as Big Fat.

However, except for Zhang Hao's own concern, his teammates, including O'Neal, were not surprised that Zhang Hao continued to be selected for a while. This shows from a certain perspective that Zhang Hao, who is only 20 years old, has already made people accustomed to him being a player for the first time!

The last time there was such a player named Larry Bird.

Since entering the modern basketball era in 1976, only Larry Bird has been like Zhang Hao, and no one else has been there.

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At 4:30 p.m. Western Conference Time, the iron-blooded battle between the Heat and the Knicks began!

Fans like to watch offensive wars, and fans of any era like to watch offensive wars. The reason why the showtime dynasty won 9-year five championships in the 1980s was that in addition to David Stern's good operation, more importantly, the showtime dynasty's playing style is good.

However, the emergence of the iron-blooded war also makes people's bloody!

The first game between the Heat and the Knicks series has not started yet, and some media reported that the number of paid ratings in this game has set a new high in single-game viewers this season, with more than 1,400 paid reservations.

In the end, the paid ratings of this game reached more than 19.72 million, which was the first game of the playoffs this year with a paid rating of more than 15 million. Previously, the number of paid ratings of the Magic and Heat in the third game reached more than 13.55 million, which directly increased by more than 6 million times!

The game was extremely fierce and there were constant conflicts in the middle. Pat Riley and Jeff Van Gundy were teachers and students. At first, Jeff Van Gundy went to be an assistant coach, which was the attitude of a student. At the same time, Pat Riley's best assistant coach was Jeff Van Gundy's brother Stein Van Gundy.

But the two teams met their enemies as if they met their enemies. Larry Johnson and Mooning almost fought. Although they finally restrained themselves, there were still five technical fouls in the whole game. Among them, the Heat's best defensive power forward got his second skill foul after knocking down Ewing.

Although he had a home advantage, the Heat lost to the Knicks 79-86 in the first game, and lost the home advantage as soon as he got up!

Finally, in the second round of the fourth-group series, a team with a good record finally lost its home advantage.

Fans of the team who only win will think the game is good.

But more fans are neutral fans or passerby fans and fans who don’t like both teams, and they want to watch intense games.

There are two types of intense competition. One is that the game is very fierce, but each of them holds the home court, drags it steadily into Tianwang Mountain and into tiebreak. Compared with this, the other is more popular and crazy to compete for the home court advantage!

The Heat lost their home court advantage, but immediately led to the enthusiasm for paid booking for the second game of the two teams after the game.

After half an hour after the Heat and the Knicks game, at 7:30 p.m. Western Conference Time, another highly anticipated battle, the second game of the Lakers and Supersonics series came.

The Lakers and Supersonics series started at the earliest. In the second round of the four-group series, only the Lakers and Supersonics swept their opponents in the first round to advance, so the game started first.

The day before yesterday, the Lakers played a game that was beyond everyone's expectations in the first game of the series, which also caused controversy about the back-attack.

Controversy is controversy, and back-to-back play has been around for so many years. By probability, although the probability of playing in the Lakers is very low, it is not impossible. So, it happened.

But not many people think that the Lakers will regard this style of play as a regular style of play. After all, the Lakers, showtime dynasty. When the Lakers formed the current lineup, all media, fans and experts used their lineup to compete with the showtime dynasty's super lineup.

To defend, on the Heat and Knicks, it is a hard-blooded style of playing.

If you put it on the Lakers, that's an ugly way of playing...

However, after the game started, the TV station commentator was very sensitive to discover that the Lakers directly started to press the rhythm, find confrontation, and polish the defense!

I just want to hit the star tactics to the extreme!

"Rogue Stream" is actually a kind of star playing style.

Before this game started, people thought that the Lakers had no choice but to play rogues in the last game. Now they know that they really want to play rogues to the extreme!

This style of play has both advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that it can give full play to the Lakers' greatest advantage and the three ultimate frontcourts can always ensure two super strong points in the interior. The Lakers also have Kenny Anderson on the outside, Byron Scott, Wilkins on the bench, and the Magicians' three veterans are very stable.

The disadvantage is that the opponent has three major stars, which really only watch the performance of the star, killing more possibilities.

In this game, the Lakers competed for the star and lost!

Although Zhang Hao scored 9 rebounds, 2 assists and 3 blocks in the whole game, O'Neal scored 28 points, 14 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 steals and 1 block, Barkley scored 11 points, 8 rebounds, 2 assists and 1 steal, Wilkins still had 9 points... But on the Supersonics, Kemp scored 27 points, Payton scored 18 points, 6 assists and 4 steals, Schramf scored 23 points, and Jose Hawkins scored 5 three-pointers in a single game and scored 19 points...

The Supersonics defeated the Lakers away 101-93, tied the score 1-1, and won the home advantage in the second game!

This time, before the Lakers could start the endless back-playing mode in the fourth quarter, they were already 14 points behind after the third quarter!

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In the second home game, the Lakers' change in playing style sparked criticism from the media and experts after the game.

The Lakers are highly concerned, and the Silver Fox has been questioned very strongly because of this.

Even the Lakers won the first place in the regular season Western Conference last year and were called for the second round.

People are forgetful, and the media's "forgetfulness" is even greater. They don't care that the Lakers were a regular-season team last year. Anyway, more fans don't know the truth and just look at the data. If they guide them, they can easily trigger criticism of the Silver Fox coaching.

But the day after the loss, after the Lakers arrived in Seattle, in the afternoon team meeting, the Lakers were still working together to discuss the team's changing style of play and the issues exposed in the second game.

Since you have chosen a style of play, you have to stick with it. You may eventually find that you have chosen the wrong one and lost the series, but at least you have to maintain stability!

It is better to work hard towards a goal by turning into a rope than to change it quickly if you lose a game.

On the night of the 8th, the second game of the two series of the Bulls, Pistons, Jazz and Trail Blazers started.

The Bulls steadily defeated the Pistons 103-97 and won the second game of the series; the Jazz also defeated the striving Trail Blazers 98-93.

Both the Bulls and Jazz lead 2-0, which makes the Lakers face even more doubts!

At this time, the media seemed to have "forgot" that they regarded the Supersonics as the number one candidate for the Western Conference to advance to the Finals before the playoffs...

In this day, information and communication technology is underdeveloped, which is also beneficial.

On the 9th, training day, Lakers players could easily block all external interference, refuse to accept interviews, and concentrate on preparing for the game in the Key Stadium.

In the evening, the second match between the Heat and the Knicks started, and it was another high-confrontation and multiple conflicts.

Compared to the previous game, the Heat and the Knicks played very restrained in this game, only Larry Johnson took a severance.

In the end, the Heat beat the Knicks 79-72 at home, defending their second home court, and tied the big score 1-1.

However, just like the Supersonics are more optimistic now, the Knicks have already gained the home advantage in the first two away games and have become the team that the media will meet in the East Finals with the Bulls.

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On May 10, there was only one game today. After two days of preparation, the Lakers came to the Key Stadium to challenge the Supersonics away.

The away game was tied with a big score of 1-1, and the local fans in Seattle were all excited!

At 7 pm, after the game started, the Supersonics quickly took the initiative. After the first quarter, the Supersonics led the Lakers 29-25 to 25 and entered the second quarter by 4 points.

At the end of the first half, the Supersonics expanded their lead to 7 points, 54-47!

It seems that the Lakers' defense is not as radical as in the last game tonight, and the offensive end is no longer purely used to counter the stars. It seems... it has changed back to the team's offensive style after losing their home advantage?

This, the Supersonics are really good at defending, and only allowed the Lakers to score 47 points in the first half!

But in the second half, the Lakers' rhythm suddenly changed!

This time, the Lakers chose to improve their defense step by step. In fact, the Lakers' rhythm can be seen by scoring 29 points from the first quarter and dropping to 25 points in the second quarter.

The Lakers wanted to do this in the last game, but they did not play step by step in the game. They started to play and raised the confrontation without the consumption process, and Jose Hawkins shot the ball to the sky.

This time, the Lakers played a gradual pace of progress and gradually consumed. In the third quarter, they made a 22-18 counterattack. After the third quarter, the Lakers scored the score 69-72, only 3 points behind!

But this time in the final quarter, after the Lakers started the endless back-playing mode, they failed to directly defeat the Supersonics as they did in the first game.

The Supersonics coaching staff are not a good deal, and they are already prepared for this. The Supersonics players are strong. In the regular period of the last quarter, the Lakers scored 27 points and scored their highest single-quarter score in the whole game.

But when it reached 11 minutes and 46 seconds, the Supersonics scored the eighth goal in a single quarter, and their performance in 8 of 20 shots in a single quarter was also good. Among them, 3 of 7 three-pointers were made, which seized more opportunities than in the first game. Coupled with a stable free throw of 6 of 7 shots, the Supersonics scored more than 25 points in a single quarter after Payton scored the eighth jump shot from the back.

With 14 seconds left, the Supersonics scored another 1 point lead to 97-96! At the last moment, the Lakers stopped again!

At this time, the Lakers were already very tired from playing, and there were many advantages and disadvantages for veterans.

Endless back hitting is unstoppable as long as it is hit, but it is also accompanied by huge consumption.

Especially in the second and third quarters, the Lakers attacked, with 19 shots in two quarters, plus 4 shots in the first quarter, and 5 shots in the last quarter. Zhang Hao, who had already shot 28 times in high-intensity confrontation, played more tiring tonight than in the first game. Compared with Barkley and O'Neal, he consumed the most tonight.

However, after the timeout, the Lakers dragged the ball to Zhang Hao with 5 seconds left. Zhang Hao turned around like lightning and passed by Sean Kemp received the ball. It was impossible to see that he chiseled 8 times in the fourth quarter and took 5 shots. In addition, he actively assisted the bottom line and exhausted after protecting the frame. Zhang Hao broke through the basket and smashed the ball into the basket through McIlvay.

While Zhang Hao scored, he also made a foul of Schramf who had retracted and blocked his shoulder!

Killing moment!

Zhang Hao also made the free throw. With 2.9 seconds left, relying on Zhang Hao's 2+1 at the critical moment, the Lakers took a two-point lead at the last moment with 99-97!

The Supersonics called a timeout.

After the timeout, the Lakers replaced O'Neal to guard the basket. Fisher, Brian Xiao, Zhang Hao, George Lynch chased and blocked José Hawkins, Sam Perkins and Schramf took the ball and shot. Payton received the serve and directly hung on the right side of the basket. O'Neal's key block block made Kemp's cut into the attack frame and flew away!

On the way out of bounds, the final whistle had already sounded!

O'Neal scored 24 points, 14 rebounds, 3 assists and 3 blocks tonight, Barkley scored 15 points, 9 rebounds and 1 assist, and Kenny Anderson scored 13 points and 6 assists.

12 of 29 shots, including 2 of 7 three-pointers, plus 6 of 8 free throws, Zhang Hao scored 32 points, 7 rebounds, 1 assist, 1 steal and 3 blocks tonight.

Tonight, Zhang Hao's task became simpler, which was to shoot all kinds of shots and scored high, but the efficiency of most of the time... Fortunately, he scored 2+1 at the critical moment in the last moment!

In the end, relying on the one attack and defense of the head horse combination in the last 5 seconds, X's quasi-kill 2+1 dunk and O's final block, the Lakers defeated the Supersonics away 99-97, regaining their home advantage!

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It really made the Lakers use that breaking method to grab the home advantage!

After watching the match between the Lakers and the Supersonics, the potential opponents didn't know how to describe their mood.
To be continued...