Chapter 537: Both souls and souls are lost

After Wei Xia left the court, the Lakers had a 16-point advantage but continued to fall.

Kobe and Gasol performed extremely poorly.

The Lakers' Big Three: Kobe, Wei Xia, and Gasol. From a strategic perspective, Gasol is more important, he is the one who makes the ball. But in terms of efficacy, Kobe and Wei Xia are absolutely first and second.

Since Zen master established Gasol as the core of tactical affairs, he often mentioned that he was on the back as the axis of back.

His presence is conducive to Wei Xia or others' empty cuts, Kobe's roll cuts and role players' penetration into the inside, which is also his biggest role - expecting him to play singles at a low post is obviously to let the scholars fight.

But in the first and second games, although his offensive form was very average, Garnett pressed his head and beaten up, Kobe and Wei Xia would always be blocked by Garnett and PJ Brown when using his cover.

In the third game, the reason why Kobe and Wei Xia can get a lot of one-on-one chances at the top of the arc is related to Gasol's low post and the Lakers' large number of offline interludes.

In the Lakers' super attack wave in the first half, Kobe didn't score much. Gasol mentioned that he was on the line. Somehow, Garnett was very conservative about him and was often not on the court.

So Kobe shuttled freely and then kept finding his teammates. The bottom line was Fisher, Walton, Radmanovic's three-pointer, and Wei Xia's random empty cut.

The Lakers played a happy rhythm for the first time in four games in the Finals.

At most, he led his opponent by 23 points, which was a fantastic performance.

This reminds some old fans of the 1970 Finals Game 6, Willis Reed was injured, and the Lakers led 36-16 in the first quarter. Of course, the Lakers won that night - Chamberlain scored 45 points and 27 rebounds.

However, from the second half, the Celtics lifted all the restrictions on Garnett.

No matter who comes to defend, he firmly shows off his fangs and plays a single; when he faces Gasol, he does not simply use a backward jump shot to end the attack.

Instead, he held the ball with the right wing, turned around, cushioned, dribbled in with his left hand, jumped in with his shoulders, and jumped at a high position.

This is the toughest offensive posture since the Garnett series.

It was Garnett's shouting, roaring, and unyielding attitude that made the Celtics fall behind by 23 points - chasing to 16 points - and being pushed aside again by 20 points, and still have faith and never give up.

After Garnett returned to the court, Gasol tried several times to return to the high.

As a result, in addition to Wei Xia's successful cut, he was also retaliated. Kobe took Gasol's pass from the ground but failed to find the way to cut into the basket. This is the theme of "Spear and Shield" in this series.

The Celtics forced Kobe to keep jumping not Percy or Pierce, but Garnett. On the defensive end, in large part, he and Kobe were playing one-on-one across a defender.

But that night, in addition to using movement to control the Lakers' blow to the inside, Garnett showed his brightest fangs since the series on the offensive end.

The Celtics' majestic counterattack in the second half started with Garnett.

Radmanovich attacked in front of the basket and stumbled to the basket, but Garnett slapped the basketball off.

Garnett passes Pierce.

The latter's fast attack was blocked by Kobe.

The Lakers have tried their best to defend, but the Celtics are more eager.

Eddie House caught up and took the offensive rebound and made a layup.

57 to 71

The situation became complicated, and the Celtics caught up and fell behind only 14 points, from the difference to the remaining game time, it was beneficial to them.

A 14-point lead has become a burden for the Lakers.

They just want to keep the lead, not expand the lead.

Kobe may have the idea of ​​attacking and then attacking, but his touch is not good, and he is targeted by the Celtics, so he really has no strength to put the ball into the basket.

What he is best at on the basketball court has now become the most difficult thing.

Gasol beat Garnett on his back and he pushed in.

A rare and vicious face appeared on the Spanish face, but his turn and hooked hands were a bit lucky.

The ball turned around on the inside of the basket and fell out.

Radmanovic fought for an offensive rebound and threw it to Fisher on the outside.

Tell Wei Xia that he was relieved and made a three-pointer at the top of the arc.

"Bang!"

The clear sound of basketball irons was as if it was knocking in everyone's heart.

"It won't work like this!" Even Vanessa could see that something was wrong with the Lakers' offense.

Elaine Trovis asked worriedly: "I won't be caught up, are you?"

Ivanessa's experience in watching football, she believes that if the Lakers continue to be so cowardly, it will be not as simple as being caught up... They will be completely dominated by the Celtics from physical to mental level!

Once the opponent turns the tables, can that kind of blow be relieved during the two-day offseason?

This is even more terrifying than giving up the match point to the opponent at home, and going to Boston to play two consecutive games 2-3.

Fisher missed a three-pointer and fell to Pierce's hand. Eddie House, who replaced Rondo's surprise player, flew onto a layup and scored the fifth point in the single quarter.

Meanwhile, 59 to 71.

The Celtics chased the gap to 12 points, and Phil Jackson had already stood up and watched the game with a sad face.

He looked at Wei Xia from time to time.

There is no moment when the Lakers need Wei Xia more than now, but with the Celtics' offensive, can Wei Xia, who has five fouls, give it a try?

Once you lose this game... the Zen master knows that the consequences are unimaginable.

The tense game made the spectators unable to breathe, and then the referee gave him a warmth.

They blew James Percy offensive foul.

Percy looked puzzled. Seeing the referee's unquestionable attitude, he knew that he was looking for a whistle at home.

He walked away with a sneer.

The referee's hospitality has not ended yet, and the Lakers seem to have no idea that Gasol's mentality has been blown up by Garnett and pass the ball to him again.

Gasol beat Garnett on his back, not aiming for goals, but taking it as his responsibility to create damage.

The referee fulfilled him.

The whistle sounded, and Garnett's third foul, Gasol stood on the free throw line.

He scored the first goal and the director scored his statistics.

3 of 9 shots, 11 points, and 9 rebounds.

Then, the second free throw was lost.

Garnett grabbed the board with one hand, and Pierce played against Kobe in the frontcourt.

They had been playing against each other for most of the game, and Pierce didn't even make a sound, but just wanted to get the position, raised his hand, and the ball came.

"You can't defend me!"

Pierce yelled, and seemed to have no movement but turned Kobe's attention to his right hand.

That was exactly the gap that Pierce needed.

"Truth" takes a confident step and breaks through with his left hand. No matter how fast Kobe's reaction is, he is leaned against by the opponent's body. His abilities and anger cannot be attacked in a barbaric confrontation.

Radmanovic, on the left side, Gasol, and Kobe followed behind him. Under the attack of the three, Pierce, who had been playing on the floor a long time ago, scored the most impressive goal since the opening of the Celtics!

He jumped into the air, his body might be less than 50 cm from the ground, and he could not feel stagnant in the air at all.

Gasol's hand failed to knock down his ball, but was called by the referee.

The whistle sounded, regardless of whether Pierce's goal was entered or not, the Lakers' defense was a failure!

However, Pierce's pull rod searching for the board flew from the basket to the basket, touched the rebound, and then rolled to the left of the basket ring, and stopped for about 1/3 of the second...splash.

Enter!!

“ohno!”

"The same is true for three!" Garnett and Ray Allen pulled Pierce up, and he screamed with smugness as he sprayed droplets, "All of them are the same!"

"Paul Pierce is definitely the most underrated player in the league!" Jeff Van Gundy changed his mind, "There are too many like Paul who have the ability to shine on the stage, but they have been unable to reach the top for various reasons."

"What about?" asked Brynn.

"Yao." Van Gundy did not avoid suspicion, "Let Yao Lai still perform the most dazzling performance!"

Less than two minutes before the end of the third quarter, Pierce scored 21.

Then, 62 to 72.

The Celtics' momentum made them take the lead and replaced the Lakers as the master of Staples Center.

The Celtics saw it out. For the Lakers, locking the outside is the most important thing, inside? Gasol stood in front of Garnett, and his momentum dropped in one quarter.

They were so crazy that James Percy had a basket against Gasol, and the three outsiders chased Kobe.

Kobe saw Gasol had a one-on-one chance and passed the ball decisively.

Unfortunately, the Spaniard is not ready to repay his trust.

Kobe really has no choice, and Gasol is too close to the basket. With Percy's height, it's not an exaggeration to make a long dunk?
To be continued...