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With no other choice, Harris could only bite the bullet and go to Rodman, assuming the same task as Ben, letting Li Shengli continue to stare at Garnett, and the tactics were initialized to the opening.

However, Rodman is no better than Ben.

Fouls can be committed, but if you really have to hold O'Neal like Big Ben, and get rushed to the basket and commit another foul, it is too difficult for the 'aging' Rodman, but O'Neal got it right... and let him go. Hands and feet, just focus on Rodman. Even if he is fouled, it doesn't matter, because if Rodman is forced to commit 5 or even 6 fouls, then Li Shengli will have to come back, and Garnett will be free!

Of course, the prerequisite for this choice is that his free throws are better. At present, he can reach 1 out of 2. This efficiency is low, but acceptable.

As a result, Rodman didn't last a single session and graduated directly.

Li Shengli could only return to the defensive end to deal with O'Neal, and watched Garnett making crazy jump shots outside. Because the main players of both sides in the second quarter rotated in a small range, there was no need to consider physical issues, so it was very likely that Garnett Will keep fighting like this.

As for the Lakers at this time...

Leading by 6 points from the first half!

In the second half, Garnett broke out and closed the gap!

Then when Li Shengli was guarding Garnett, Rodman fouled O'Neal and led by 5 points!

In the end, Garnett scored twice and hit consecutive jump shots to close the gap again. There were only 3 minutes left in the game, and in the last three minutes... Garnett was in hot form, and he didn't forget to tease Barkley. , which made Barkley even more angry, but there was nothing he could do.

Until the last moment, even Li Shengli was at a loss and lost another 3 points in the second game.

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The Lakers actually lost two games in a row? !

You must know that winning the first two games in the finals is not only a great chance of winning in the end, but also a psychological advantage. And after this game... Lakers fans simply cannot accept the current score. After returning to Los Angeles , before the third game, Harris was simply sprayed as a Muggle by fans and media.

In the first game, the voices criticizing Harris were not that loud because the Lakers generals were in bad shape.

But after the second game, the voice could no longer be suppressed, because there was something wrong with the defensive arrangement in this game.

The blame for the lack of form can basically be attributed to Harris using too much tactical force and taking the initiative to kill Ben. Later, it appeared that Barkley was unable to suppress Garnett's jump shot, but Ben graduated after Rodman. After that, he was full of fouls, and there was no extra power to restrict Garnett.

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What's going on?

Li Shengli never thought it would be like this.

If they really lose another game, the Celtics will be the first to get the match point.

You don't have to think about how much psychological pressure everyone will feel by then, because the Lakers are not only competing for the championship with their old enemy in the league, but also a competition between the two-time Lakers and the three-time Lakers.

No one needs to say this.

After returning to Los Angeles, the management and coaching staff quickly convened. Before the disaster, there was no internal strife or accusations. They just discussed how to play the following games. The 0:2 start of the finals was already very unfavorable, and it was detrimental to everyone. Everyone believes that the Lakers' chance of making a comeback is only... 20%, or even more than 10%.

Game 3 on the 21st.

Because of the losses in the first two games, Harris's not-so-bad tactics were abandoned by everyone, including Harris himself, because he really couldn't afford to play. In the third game, the Celtics' starting lineup didn't change much. But things have changed on the Lakers side. Li Shengli and Barkley are teaming up. Rodman is not the small forward, but Fox is the strong offensive player.

The reason why I didn’t get a big job!

Basically, it is still a choice between defense and offense, but before making a choice, you have to look at Garnett's status in this game before making a decision. Unfortunately, Garnett is still very efficient. In just half a quarter, Harris adjusted the lineup. Put Ben on the court and let Barkley go to the three position.

At this time, it doesn’t make sense not to fight!

But the problem is that Garnett broke out two games in a row. Celtics head coach Pitino was also prepared. He directly blocked some of O'Neal's shots and gave it to Garnett, allowing the nearest person to cover his shot. And sometimes, the touch There is absolutely no way to make sense. Garnett has reached the pinnacle of his life.

After the whole game, Garnett scored 33 points, which is not too high or exaggerated.

But behind these 33 points was the Lakers' desperate interception. Although Li Shengli once again mismatched defense with Ben, O'Neal was so good that he probably hit 70 consecutive free throws, while Ben's defense could only be tough and dare not. Offend again.

After playing until the end, the Lakers lost again in the third game, by 7 points.

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At this point, this finals has shocked the United States!

I originally thought that the game situation would be very anxious, and the big score would be clinging to, but now the anxiety is only within a certain period of a single game, and overall... the Celtics have changed the rules given by the league before the finals. The 40% chance of winning the championship has now become infinitely close to the top of the league.

Let three chase four?

Is it possible to make a comeback from 0:3?

It’s not that it doesn’t exist, it doesn’t exist at all!

Not to mention the finals, even if we add up all the 7-game playoffs in history, nothing like this has ever happened. After the first three games of the finals, the most exaggerated media report was... The Celtics' probability of winning the championship is 99.9%. O'Neal ushered in his first championship, and the peak Green Army of the 1990s emerged.

Although simply counting games over the years is not convincing in terms of probability, there are objective rules behind this kind of statistics, because 0:3 means that the Lakers are walking on the edge of a cliff, and there can be no slightest chance. A mistake will turn into eternal hatred and shattered bones.

It's not scary to walk on the cliff once, your fate will be over!

But the scary thing is that the Lakers have to walk four times to reach the top of such a cliff!

It stands to reason that in order to reach the current situation in the finals, the strength gap between the two teams should be quite large, but the problem is that in the eyes of all fans and media, the gap between Hukai's strength and weakness is not that big, and even the defeated Lakers at this stage Even stronger.

But think about it carefully...

It seems that the Celtics were not that strong before the finals, including the regular season.

But in the finals, they broke through the upper limit of their strength in three consecutive games, not only Garnett's ferocity, but also O'Neal's suddenly improved free throw shooting.

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After the game on the 21st, the Los Angeles fans on the 22nd exploded.

The uproar about the fall of the Purple and Gold Aces seems to be a foregone conclusion. There are no other sports headlines in the United States but voices badmouthing the Lakers. Even Boston is preparing for a championship carnival. Even the Great Western Forum Arena, the current home of the Lakers, is After preparing for the fourth game with the intervention of league officials, what may happen...the Green Army's summit event.

From the bottom of the valley to the top of the mountain!

West spent two seasons to build a championship team. This shortened season was the final sprint for the Triple Crown dynasty. But what he didn't expect was... it collapsed. The dynasty was on the verge of collapse, and the fourth The scene, if not done well, is the death of the 'short-lived dynasty', dying on the spot. If it is done well, it is just a slow death.

So on this day, everyone including the Lakers themselves was in despair, from the management to the coaching staff and all the players. Different from the despair of others, Li Shengli, who had always considered himself poor, was heartbroken when he thought about the championship bonus. Bleeding.