nba championship predators

Chapter 13 The Lakers Hacked

The 76ers once again defeated the strong with the weak, leading 2:0 at the Lakers' home court.

The existence of David defeating Goliath properly!

What a fool the Lakers were before. They claimed to be the strongest team in the NBA in the past 20 years. They dared to be even stronger than the 72-win Bulls of Master Joe. They vowed to sweep the championship 15:0!

But what about now?
Where is the undefeated golden body?
The media, like a shark smelling blood, began to overwhelm the Black Lakers:
Associated Press - "The Lakers Died of Pride"

It cannot be said that the Lakers played badly.

此役OK组合砍下惊人的59分28篮板15助攻8盖帽，相比之下76人全队才有97分42篮板16助攻5盖帽，OK组合绝对称得上是所向披靡。

奥尼尔依旧是无人能挡，如人形坦克般碾过篮下收获28分20个篮板8个盖帽9次助攻的恐怖准四双，而科比恢复神勇无处不在拿下31分8个篮板6次助攻。

相比之下，76人队则低迷的多，上一场神一样的艾弗森只得到23分4个篮板3次助攻，三分球糟糕的10投3中，罚球4罚全丢。穆托姆博16分13个篮板，麦基14分，76人整体命中率只有39%。

Just from the data point of view, the Lakers should not be the loser at all.

In fact, the Lakers played almost the entire game well.

Ended the first half with a 10-point advantage, led by 13 points and entered the fourth quarter, and gained a [-]-point advantage in the middle of the fourth quarter. Seeing this, Lakers fans began to celebrate in advance.

But I didn't expect it, I never expected it.

After gaining the biggest lead in the game, the Lakers began to lose blood on a large scale as if they were hit by Sabi's halo:

With six minutes and three seconds left in the fourth quarter, Kobe started with a mistake.

Kobe made a mistake, Bryan Shaw made a mistake, Tyronn Lue made a mistake, Fisher made a mistake...

短短3分钟内湖人无私的贡献出5次失误，而76人队则趁机打了个11:3的追分高潮。

Fortunately, the 76ers' shooting rate is not high, only 7 of 3, and only 10 of 5 free throws, otherwise the Lakers will be taken away by a wave.

And in the last 3 minutes, the Lakers were even more weak and sluggish, as if superimposed by Sabi's halo:
Kobe was intercepted, O'Neal missed a jumper, Fisher was blocked, Kobe was intercepted again (relying on the help of the referee to become a thug foul), and at the last moment, the 76ers shot a three-pointer and the opponent really made it...

It can be called the Lakers' black 6 minutes plus dark 3 minutes.

The Lakers' focus and hard work lasted only 42 minutes, and their arrogance and laziness ruined the last 6 minutes.

ESPN - "The Lakers have to re-examine themselves"

Compared with the 76ers, the Lakers are not as strong as they used to think, because the 76ers have the best coach, the most valuable player, the best defensive player, and the best sixth man, but what do the Lakers have?

The Lakers only have the three-dimensional increasingly plump O'Neal and the newlywed Kobe who is manic inside.

Since losing to the Knicks on April 4, the Lakers haven't tasted the taste of failure, so the whole team is a little bit flustered and overestimated their own strength.

But the reality gave them a loud slap in the face!
If one is not enough, just two!

Now, can the Lakers re-examine themselves?
CBS - "Nobody Becomes Famous Overnight"

Although the 76ers won two games in a row, these two victories were not typical victories, and they were more or less lucky.

The first game relied on Iverson's superb performance, and the second game was the Lakers' own death.

But these two victories are inseparable from a previously unknown unknown pawn - Zhao Ke:
第一场，赵客登场3分钟，贡献1盖帽、2抢断、三分球3投2中得到6分；
第二场，赵客登场2分54秒，贡献1盖帽、1抢断、1助攻、三分球2投2中得到6分。并且成为这场比赛的关键先生，在最后时刻冷血无情的绝杀了湖人。

It is a fierce man with such comprehensive and efficient statistics, good defense, and ruthless three-pointers, who has been hiding on the bench of the 76ers.

The 76ers played 18 games in the three rounds of the playoffs, two tie-breakers, and almost died in the hands of Vince Carter or Ray Allen, but Larry Brown just didn't use Zhao Ke.

Is it Larry Brown with a black belly?

He has already confirmed that the 76ers can enter the finals, so he deliberately refrigerated Zhao Ke as a surprise dedicated to the Lakers?
No, because Larry Brown is blind!

No matter how the media ridicules the Lakers and Larry Brown, the Lakers fans are already manic and almost take to the streets to parade.

What about winning the championship with 15:0 when they were unbeaten in the previous three rounds?
Now it is 0:2 behind, old iron!

Iverson's god-like performance in the first game made the fans temporarily forgive the Lakers' loss-mortals cannot defeat gods.

But the loss in the second game made it unacceptable for all fans: Did we watch a fake finals?

It's really aggrieved to lose. Are the Lakers collectively eating Xiangxiang in the last 6 minutes?
Especially KFC grandpa Phil Jackson, who did nothing during regular time and deployed shrinking defensive tactics at the last moment, should be crucified, or should be pulled out and shot for 10 minutes. Lakers fans are about to smash their windows.

Who gave you confidence, who told you that the 76ers can't shoot three-pointers?

A typical winner and loser, if Zhao Ke's three-pointer fails to score in the end, everyone will praise Phil Jackson's last tactic: well done!
It not only predicted Larry Brown's tactics, but also made targeted arrangements, which is simply wonderful!
But now, face to face at 0:2, Phil Jackson and the Lakers have been hacked.

In the history of the NBA, there have been a total of 2 finals 0:25 situations, of which 23 times the leading team won the championship, with a probability of 92%, which means that the Lakers have basically lost the possibility of defending the title.

However, two of these 25 wins are very interesting, and have a lot to do with both sides of this year's finals:

In the 1969 NBA Finals, the Boston Celtics fought back after falling behind 0-2 in the first two games of the finals, and finally defeated the Los Angeles Lakers 4-3 to win the championship;
In 1977, the Portland Trail Blazers also fell behind the Philadelphia 0ers 2-76 in the first two games of the finals, but after that, they pulled four games in a row and finally won the championship with a total score of 4-2.

That's right, in the only two major counterattacks that are so classic in history, the Lakers and 76ers are the background boards, and they are hard-pressed.

After analyzing all kinds of data, there is nothing that is beneficial to the Lakers. What should I do?
Lakers fans just want to know, how should the Lakers recover from failure?

Phil Jackson bit the bullet and pretended to be relaxed at the press conference and said that the series is not over yet, the Lakers just rested for too long and have not adjusted their condition. These two losses will make the whole team sober and angry, and get a stolen victory in Philadelphia.

Sad Lakers fans don't know whether to believe it or not?What if you don't believe me?
(End of this chapter)