Coach Lee

Chapter 421 One step away

Pause back.

The Pacers made substitution adjustments.

The main players, Schmitz and Mark Jackson, went down and were replaced by Coleman and Witherspoon.

Then, the Pacers fouled again, and Coleman and Witherspoon were replaced by fouls.

O'Neal is still walking to the free throw line.

O'Neal and Kobe, neither of them got the ball just discussed.

"hateful!"

Watching O'Neal walk to the free throw line again, watching O'Neal's shameful free throw, Kobe was blown away.

The feeling of being powerful but having nowhere to use it, what a fool!

For the next few minutes, the Pacers sent O'Neal to the free throw line intermittently.

The Lakers' sports games were played with trepidation, and they were really afraid that the Pacers would give O'Neal another hand at some point.

However, the Pacers' own offense has been consolidated a lot in this long period of time, and the feel is much better.

When the halftime ended, the score became 70-50
The Pacers scored 70 points at halftime, leading the Lakers by 20 points!
The Lakers players walked into the tunnel with some frustration.

Kobe gritted his teeth, his lips curled up.He is really not reconciled!

At halftime, Kobe made 10 of 4 and scored 12 points!
He felt that if the Pacers didn't do that, he would definitely score 30+ today and lead the Lakers to victory.

However, just because there is such a laggard in the team, this game cannot be played!

It really is the barrel effect!

Kobe had just returned to the locker room, and Phil Jackson was talking to O'Neal face to face.

O'Neal nodded frequently, looking very docile.

After a while, Phil Jackson found Kobe.

Phil Jackson looked at Kobe with a kind smile on his face, "You have resentment, don't you?"

"No." Kobe shook his head, not planning to say anything more.

"Hen~" Phil Jackson smiled, "I will give you a chance in the second half, perform well, we need your outside fire support."

Kobe is naturally happy to have more opportunities, but he is a little worried, "But, coach, they will definitely do the same."

"No! They won't. Their main fouls are too dangerous. If they dare to do that, it will be game over."

Phil Jackson is sure.

In the Pacers locker room, everyone was not as happy as expected, all of them were Larry Bird.

Larry Bird was a bi king when he was a player. When he was knocked into the air and slid out of the field, he didn't forget to prop his head with one hand and come up with a poss.

After becoming a coach, he improved his style.Larry Bird will not laugh easily when a player scores a good goal.He is calmer than Phil Jackson.

"Listen to me, this game is not over yet. Now, our main force has committed several fouls. Next, this third quarter is extremely important. We must play well without fouling, We're going to show everyone that we can beat the Lakers to the ground without foul play."

Larry Bird did it, and everyone in the locker room was on edge.

The same goes for Li Nan.

Infected by Larry Bird's words, his original thought of relaxing was also dispelled.

After Larry Bird walked out of the locker room, Li Nan was very surprised. No one in the locker room spoke ill of him, and no one disliked Larry Bird's words. On the contrary, everyone was very willing to listen to him.Everyone is not celebrating too much, they are all resting, listening to music or something.

If this was in Philadelphia, those guys would have started to make trouble long ago, and Larry Brown would have been teased countless times by everyone.

And here, none of those things.

Maybe it's Larry Bird's personal influence, maybe it's the charm of the championship trophy, everyone has a champion's heart.

The intermission was over soon.

In the second half, the Pacers did not kill the Sharks again.

Sure enough, it was the same as Phil Jackson predicted.

After playing, O'Neal began to kill the Quartet again, and Kobe also gave strong fire support from the outside.

However, in this quarter, the Pacers' offense was extremely ferocious.

The first two quarters of the game seemed like the Pacers were slowly finding their hands, and suddenly broke out in this quarter.

Li Nan and Reggie Miller's outside fire made the Lakers hard to defend, and Mark Jackson and his several role players also kept hitting open shots.

Even though O'Neal and Kobe are scoring constantly, the Pacers are not inferior at all.

In the third quarter, the two sides played a super high score of 40-39.

110-89
The Lakers failed to catch up with the score, and were pulled away by another 1 point by the Pacers.

In the fourth quarter, the Pacers felt a slight decline, but the Lakers took the opportunity to chase points.

However, the hole in the first half was too big. The Lakers scored 37 points in the fourth quarter and beat the Pacers by 15 points, but they couldn't fill it up.

Beep beep beep!
The game is over.

132-126
The Pacers beat the Lakers by 6 points away.

Statistics for this game:

Pacers:
Li Nan, 19 of 11, scored 36 points, 9 rebounds and 10 assists,

Reggie Miller, 21 of 11, scored 34 points, 6 rebounds and 6 assists,

Lakers:

O'Neal, 28 of 17, 23 of 7 free throws, scored 41 points, 14 rebounds,

Kobe, 22 of 12, scored 28 points, 6 rebounds, 6 assists
At the end of the first game, the Pacers won the away game and won the home court advantage.

Two days later, the second battle came soon.

At the beginning of the game, the physical confrontation between the two sides was very intense.

In 7 minutes, an accident happened. In a breakthrough layup, Kobe severely sprained his left ankle.

The Lakers without Kobe played more and more fiercely, especially O'Neal.

In order to stop O'Neal, the Pacers did not hesitate to foul.

However, the foul effect does not seem to be very good.

O'Neal got 39 free throw opportunities and hit 18 goals.

39 free throws, which is also an NBA single-game free throw record, but O'Neal's shooting percentage is a little embarrassing.

In the whole game, O'Neal made 18 of 11 shots, including free throws, and he scored a total of 40 points and 24 rebounds.

40+20, super large double pairs.

However, even with such an unstoppable O'Neal, the Lakers still lost.

The Lakers have O'Neal as a big killer, but the Pacers have two guns.

Today, Reggie Miller was not very accurate, 16 of 7 and scored 18 points, but Li Nan broke out.

The whole game, 30 of 18, 10 of 6 three-pointers, 9 of 9 free throws, scored 51 points, 11 rebounds, 6 assists
Li Nan also created his own personal high in the NBA. The previous highest score was 45 points when he played against the Mavericks.

114-111
The Pacers beat the Lakers by 3 points and took a 2-0 lead.

In the third game, back to the Pacers home court,
91-100
The Pacers took down their opponents without bloodshed.

In this game, O'Neal still scored a brutal 40 points and 15 rebounds, and made 30 of 16 free throws.

It's still a ferocious stat, but, helplessly, the rest of the Lakers didn't stand up and give him enough support.

The Pacers played well with both guns, Li Nan scored 26 points, Reggie Miller scored 14 points, and the two scored 40 points together.
But the role players and the bench lineup played very well.

The starter Mark Jackson scored 12 points, Davis had 10 points and 14 rebounds,

Best hit 5 three-pointers and scored 15 points, Crohill 16 points, Witherspoon made 6 of 6 shots and scored 14 points.

With 7 players scoring in double figures, the Pacers beat the Lakers and made another victory.

3-0
The Pacers are one step away from the championship.
(End of this chapter)