Big Zhi and Kobe's Lakers Dynasty

Chapter 371 Black Eight Miracles
In the first round of the playoffs with a best-of-five game, the Houston Rockets can cause huge troubles for any team!

Charles Barkley's attendance this season was 27 more games than last season, but this season he played [-] games as a substitute!
This tactical change also allowed the Houston Rockets to have better depth on the bench, and the main lineup also had a more reasonable distribution of ball rights.

The Houston Rockets fell to the eighth place in the West because Hakeem Olajuwon was plagued by injuries throughout the 1997-1998 season. The head star was injured for 41 games. It is not easy to make it to the playoffs.

Derek Fisher, the protagonist of last year's "My Brother and My Sister-in-law", was also kicked out, and his position was successfully replaced by undrafted Matt Maloney!

Even though there is still a lot of fuel in the fuel tanks of the three classic cars of the Houston Rockets, they still have little chance of winning against the young Big Three of the Lakers. The Rockets are one year older than last year, and the Lakers have grown. A lot!

The first game of the Los Angeles Lakers went smoothly and completely suppressed the Houston Rockets. Although the Lakers only won by 10 points, this is still a murderous game. As long as the Rockets are about to start , Someone from the Big Three of the Lakers can always stand up and score!

No matter how hard the Rockets try, they can't pull the point difference into single digits. After the first game, many expert media believe that the Houston Rockets will be swept by the Los Angeles Lakers 3:0!

At least in the first 45 minutes of the second game of the first round, the Houston Rockets still had no chance of winning!
But in the last 3 minutes when the victory was almost sealed, Wang Dazhi was inexplicably injured!

In the process of trying to steal Charles Barkley, Wang Dazhi suddenly experienced severe pain in the palm of his hand, but the game time was running out, so he insisted on finishing the game, and the big score was rewritten to 2:0!

Wang Dazhi's post-match inspection became the biggest news of the day, even though there were still two buzzer-beaters in the game!
According to the injury report, Wang Dazhi fractured the third metacarpal in his right hand and will undergo surgery within 24 hours. It is optimistically estimated that he will need 4 to 6 weeks of recovery!
The news of the thunder from the blue instantly disrupted the Lakers' battle plan, but injuries are part of the game, and everything has to look forward. After all, if the Lakers can advance to the finals, Wang Dazhi still has a great possibility of comeback.

With OK leading the team and holding three game points, most of them feel that the real challenge for the Los Angeles Lakers begins, at least in the second round of the playoffs.

But Wang Dazhi, who had a successful operation, knew that now he and Xiaozhi should think about the offseason.

Since the post-match conflict with the 76ers, Kobe and Shaq's direct cooperation on the field has dropped sharply. The reason why the Lakers can still stabilize their No. [-] position in the Western Conference is entirely because of Wang Dazhi's irreplaceable bonding on the field. Potion effect!

He can create an air cut opportunity for Kobe, and he can also send an alley-oop for Shaquille O'Neal, but when Wang Dazhi was unable to play, the huge hidden danger of the OK room was finally exposed to the world.

Under the tactical guidance of head coach Rudy Tomjanovich, the Houston Rockets completed a complete cut to OK.

R1G3 (the third game of the first round), after returning to Houston, the Rockets completed the massacre of the Los Angeles Lakers. The Lakers made more than 20 mistakes in the whole game, and the old Rockets frequently made quick counterattacks. The game ended like this. The Los Angeles Lakers have no chance of winning at all!
Compared with the Houston Rockets, the Purple and Gold are more like a despondent nursing home team. The offense is all singles and there is no linkage between each other. If there is a mistake in the defense, no one retreats. Sometimes this is not like A playoff game!

R1G4, the Rockets' second home court is still full of momentum. Although the situation of the Lakers has improved, their rhythm is still very weird. If a team is compared to a car, then the Los Angeles Lakers The team is like a punctured front tire, no matter how you control the direction, you can't drive normally.

But in this game, both Kobe and Shaquille O'Neal played very strong individual performances. They each scored 30+, but even so, their presence was still suppressed by the Rockets. When it came to the critical moment, the Rockets could be unscrupulous Double-teaming Shaq, Hakeem Olajuwon and Charles Barkley made the Shaq very embarrassed.

And Kobe also started to hit the iron frequently. Without Wang Dazhi to create opportunities, every ball of the Lakers needs a lot of trouble, which gives people a feeling that playing is very strenuous!

In the end, the Houston Rockets won the game by five points, successfully saved two series match points, and dragged the suspense of the game to Los Angeles!

R1G5, Wang Dazhi contributed nearly 5 assists per game before his injury. The team has made so many mistakes, it is to put the scattered defensive energy on the oppression of Madman Fan!

In the first round of win or go home, the Lakers played fairly well. The two teams played evenly in the first half, but the situation changed suddenly in the second half. Nick Van Exel's knee sprain became the second largest in the series. The turning point, in order to maintain the strength of the lineup, Kobe was promoted to the No. [-] position!
As a point guard, Kobe's dribbling has no problem at all. Even in the face of double-teaming, he can deal with it calmly. It's just that when the ball reaches Kobe's hands, others will not move open at all. The Lakers' offense is almost It became Kobe's one-man show!

If it was a regular season, the Lakers might rely on Kobe alone to prop up the team, but the playoffs and the regular season are two completely different concepts. Even if he is as strong as the peak Kobe, he still needs Paul Gaso He can only go further with his help. Facing the Rockets and a group of old thieves, he himself is simply not enough.

Hakeem Olajuwon, who was not very willing to go around, also caught the weakness of the Lakers and started to go around fiercely!

Kobe also tried to send shells to Shaquille O'Neal, but with his passing ability, he couldn't break Hakeem Olajuwon's defense at all!
No matter how good a center is, he also needs a passer to feed him the ball. This is the limitation of the fifth position.

(End of this chapter)