Jim Bass Ambition

Chapter 254

Before the game, the Pacers' locker room.

"Listen guys, we won the last game, but don't think that's all they have! Remember last year? We were one win away from the championship! This year, I repeated it countless times in my dreams Experience that bad memory, the same thing, I don’t want to experience it a second time, no matter what we do, we must win!” Team soul Reggie Miller gathered everyone together and formed a circle, I stood in the middle and encouraged everyone.

The fourth game is also very important for the Lakers. Once the game is lost, it means that the battle of Tianwangshan will be played away, which is undoubtedly very unfavorable.

"O'Neal jumps to the ball, Pacers go first, Gary Payton drives off Jeff Foster's pick-and-roll, past Chauncey Billups, layup - brilliant block! Plus Nate blocked the Pacers' score! He even grabbed the backcourt rebound, we see the Lakers' counterattack, yes, no one in this league can stop Kobe from completing such a fast break! The Lakers take the lead!"

As soon as they played, the Lakers played brilliantly on both ends of the offense and defense, and their energy was obviously different from the previous game.

Jim, who was sitting nervously in front of the TV, was relieved.

Payton didn't dare to attack indiscriminately, and he hung the ball honestly to O'Neal who was in the interior and Ostertag's passionate position.

Billups immediately turned back to interfere and let go of Payton. The glove's three-pointer was not reliable.

O'Neal saw that it was Billups' double-team, ignored it, pushed Ostertag hard, turned around with his strength, and shot with a small hook.

Slightly off the rim, misses the rim, weakside, and Jeff Foster is already at the basket, ready to grab the offensive rebound.

But before Foster had time to take off, Garnett had already flown over his head, covering the moon for nine days, picking up rebounds angrily.

"Kevin Garnett was very active today, full of energy on the defensive end, let's look at the Lakers offense, it's Garnett again, look, Jeff Foster can't keep up with him at all , beautiful breakthrough dunk! Perfect!"

Before the game, Garnett had received a call from Jim.

The content of the conversation is simple: "I don't know what went wrong in the last game, but our backbone, the core of the team with MVP strength, should not and cannot be messed up by a Jeff Foster ilk. At a loss."

That's right, if the Pacers' theoretically weakest link can't be broken, how can we talk about surpassing Tim Duncan?What is the first power forward in the league?
Garnett's brushed defense gave the Pacers' offensive players the illusion that there were 6 players on the Lakers court.

Although Jeff Foster tried very hard to block and screen, trying to consume Garnett's physical strength and fight for every rebound, Garnett told Foster with all-around unsolvable skills, and made a big difference on both sides. In the case of 99% hard work, how important is that 1% talent.

The big bird in the stands also regretted it a little. If the Lakers got Jermaine O'Neal in the big deal that year, they would definitely not be so strong now.

Under Garnett's contagious performance, the Lakers stood on defense. In the opening 4 minutes, the Pacers did not score any sports games. All the points came from O'Neal's free throws. The Lakers led 9-3.

Carlisle immediately requested a timeout.

Jeff Foster was very upset. He tried his best but couldn't grab the rebound from Garnett's hands, and when defending, he couldn't keep up with the opponent's speed and height.

Carlisle replaced him with Al Harrington in order to space the floor and find something offensively.

Foster covered his head with a towel, crossed his hands and fingers, and bowed his head in silence.

After Al Harrington came on the stage, there was more space. O'Neal operated under the basket, scored in and out, and finally succeeded in singles against Ostertag by relying on flexibility before the help defense came. The sports battle first opened the record.

The performance in the last game was not good, and the Lakers held an internal meeting to solve the problem.

In this game, the offensive end is obviously much more organized. It is clear that Kobe will be the main attacker and the others will be auxiliary, reducing mistakes and blind attacks. Coupled with Garnett's activeness, the Pacers' defense is frequently in a hurry, and Al is replaced. · Harrington solved the problem on the offensive end, but the loopholes on the defensive end were even bigger.

Reggie Miller was traded in front of Bryant again in one round.

Kobe sank to the low post for the ball, Garnett dropped the ball to him, pulled himself to the weak side, and together with Ostertag took away the Pacers' inside defense, leaving Kobe with plenty of space for singles.

Billups walked the bottom line and pretended to make an empty cut, and then took Payton away.

Kobe leaned on Miller twice, made a fake back turn, flew Miller, rebounded with his right foot, turned forward, and leaned forward to shoot.

At this time, O'Neal had already left Ostertag, and his huge body of 150 kilograms was overwhelming, and he flew towards Kobe with the momentum of destroying the world.

But Kobe had already seen O'Neal start when he turned forward. This forward-leaning shot was still a fake action. , the ball flew past O'Neal's side and was accurately fed into Garnett's hands.

The latter took off and bombed with one hand.

Garnett raised his head to the sky and screamed, and celebrated with a passionate chest bump with Kobe.

The point difference came to 10 points, and Reggie Miller was a little anxious. He used his special skill, stepped back for a three-pointer, and hit Kobe. The trajectory was very positive, but the basketball spun a few times on the basket Was spit out again.

Garnett picked up the star with a brilliant hand and won the backcourt rebound. Seeing that Al Harrington was still slowly returning to the defense, he simply held the ball by himself and quickly crossed the half court, disrupting the Pacers' defense.

Payton, the glove with the best defensive awareness, posted it immediately. Garnett did not dare to neglect. No one can dribble casually in front of the glove.

Before Al Harrington came back, Billups had already run beyond the weak-side three-point line, and no one was defending.

Garnett arrived at the ball, threw the ball to Billups, and made an iconic three-pointer.

Carlisle jumped into a rage and yelled at Harrington. Reggie Miller picked up the basketball under the basket and slammed it on the floor.

Bruce Bowen saw all this and said nothing.

In the next round, Bowen, who was supposed to be squatting in the bottom corner, appeared under the Lakers' basket.

Payton's mid-range shot missed, Ostertag blocked O'Neal, Garnett took off and grabbed the backcourt rebound.

When he landed, a discordant foot appeared under his right foot.

With a heart-piercing pain, Garnett fell heavily to the floor with the basketball in his arms.

Behind him, Bowen with a mustache and a gloomy face stood there expressionlessly.

(End of this chapter)