At this time, a luxury urban off-road vehicle drove over and parked next to it. The dazzling headlights shone on O'Neal and the group of people, making them unable to open their eyes.
"What are you doing? Security, if they fight again, I will kick them out. Don't let them in tonight."
The car window was rolled down and Lao Wang's loud voice sounded.
"Yes, Old K."
Not far away, a group of security guards who were staring here quickly ran over and stared at everyone with a vigilant look.
O'Neal said angrily: "Old K, do you want to beat the Lakers in this way?"
"Try it. If you dare to fight on my territory, see if I dare to throw you out?" Lao Wang said with a smile.
O'Neill said angrily: "What did you say when you beat up the postman here before?"
"Fart, cat food, stop talking nonsense. When did I ever beat the postman? When did the postman say he was beaten by me? Ask him, does he admit it?" Lao Wang cursed.
"Don't call me cat food!" O'Neal was shaking with anger.
"I'm warning you, cat food, you can't lose weight anymore. What will my cat eat if you lose weight again?" Lao Wang laughed.
"Ha ha……"
Buckley and Kenny Smith had already squatted down with laughter, and a group of security guards were also staggering with laughter.
At this time, many more cars drove in, including Suns players and some fans in VIP boxes.
Lao Wang parked the car and got down, talking to Buckley and saying hello to people he knew from time to time. Then he saw an acquaintance appear in his sight.
"Charles..."
He pointed with his chin, and Buckley looked back and saw that it was the postman Karl Malone.
"Hey, Carl, what are you doing here, you bastard?" Buckley shouted at the top of his lungs.
"I'm definitely not here to see you, you bastard." Malone spat back.
The relationship between the two is not good. Barkley was once elbowed by a postman and his muscles were torn. They have been old rivals at the fourth position for many years and are very competitive.
Barkley suddenly raised his left hand, shook the two championship rings on it, and said with a smile: "Old K, do you think these two rings of mine look good?"
"Not bad, what kind of ring is this?" Lao Wang said sincerely.
"If you ask sincerely, I will mercifully tell you that this is a championship ring." Barkley said proudly.
"Oh, I remembered. I think I have six of these. My wife made them into a necklace. I didn't bring them because they were too heavy, and I don't know where they were thrown." Lao Wang said with a smile.
"Two bastards!"
When the postman saw the dazzling ring and heard the shameless conversation between the two, his heart twitched again and again, and he almost had a heart attack. He was so angry that smoke came out of his nostrils. He glared at Lao Wang and Buckley, cursed, and walked away quickly.
"Ha ha……"
Lao Wang and Buckley suddenly laughed.
The postman walked a few steps quickly and caught up with the Lakers in front. When he saw the back of O'Neal's head, he quickly shouted: "Shaq, wait a minute."
"Postman, are you here to watch the Western Conference Finals?" O'Neal looked back and said casually in a bad mood.
"Yeah." Post almost nodded and walked to O'Neill's side.
"Hey, Carl, hello." Jerry West, who was in the front, turned around and walked back, extending a hand of friendship to the postman.
"Hello, Jerry." The postman quickly extended his hand and said with a smile on his face.
"I x!"
Lao Wang and Barkley appeared in the back. Seeing this scene, Lao Wang immediately felt bad. The postman wouldn't be hooking up with the Lakers, right?
"Is his contract over?" he quickly asked Barkley.
Buckley looked at Kenny Smith, who nodded and said: "I remember his information, it is indeed over. Now he is a free man."
"What the hell!"
Lao Wang knew something was really not going well. If Postman went to the Lakers and joined forces with OK, how strong would this lineup be?
Kenny Smith said: "The Postman played 81 games this season, averaging 36 minutes per game. He also scored 20 points and nearly eight rebounds in the regular season, as well as nearly five assists and 1.7 steals. He shot 46.2% from the field.
Although he is no longer at his peak, his strength is still there.”
"Old K, are you worried about him joining the Lakers?"
After asking, Buckley said: "This is a problem, but the postman also has injuries, and he is 40 years old. Once the injuries worsen, his condition will plummet."
Lao Wang shook his head and said: "It's not too serious. Now Kobe and O'Neal can fight among themselves. If we add another postman, the fight may become more serious."
Kenny Smith said with a smile: "If the three superstars are really on the same team, the Sharks and the Postman will not fight for Kobe's ball rights, but they will definitely need to take action, and there will be no less trouble."
At eight o'clock, the two teams announced their starting lineups.
Lakers: O'Neal, Samakie Walker, Rick Fox, Kobe Bryant, Fisher
Suns: Wang Tiejun, Amar'e Stoudemire, Marion, Anfernee Hardaway, Nash
In the TNT commentary box, Barkley analyzed: "The Suns eliminated the Trail Blazers, who had the best record in the league, with a big score of 4 to 2. This was somewhat contrary to the previous predictions of the media. The strength of the Suns was underestimated. Kenny
,what you think?"
Kenny Smith said: "In the second round, Old K invested a lot of energy on the defensive end. His and Marion's defense made up for the defensive holes in the other three positions to a large extent. This is the best way for the Suns to eliminate the Trail Blazers.
One of the important reasons.”
Barkley smiled: "Marion's offensive performance is not as good as in the regular season, but his defense is pretty good. This is his most important contribution."
Kenny Smith continued: "The Lakers and Suns both belong to the Pacific Division. In the four regular season games this season, the Lakers lost three in a row. They won the last game after the All-Star Game. The Suns had three wins and one loss, giving them an advantage.
However, there were problems with the cooperation of the ok combination in the past. In the end, they resolved the internal conflicts, and at the same time, O'Neal's tonnage was also controlled, and then defeated the Suns in the last regular season game. I think the record between the two teams in the regular season cannot be
Now we evaluate the evidence on the strength and weakness of both sides."
Barkley nodded and said: "However, Kobe's knee injury should be a factor affecting the Western Conference Finals. How big this factor is, we don't know yet, because we don't know how serious his injury is."
Kenny Smith laughed and said: "Kobe often plays with injuries. He has a very strong willpower and a small injury cannot affect him."
In the CCTV commentary box, Zhang Lili analyzed: "From the perspective of the lineup, the Lakers' internal and external core is more stable, both offensive and defensive. The Suns are strong in the interior and weak in defense on the outside.
In this round of the Western Conference Finals, Kobe will definitely strengthen the defense of Nash and Hardaway's back line. Once the Suns' back line is locked up, it will be very troublesome, because Marion does not have the ability to attack with the ball. In addition to fast breaks, he can eat cakes.
With open three-pointers, he cannot provide more help on the offensive end.
In addition, the Suns' defense against Kobe will be a big problem. No one can guard him. The Western Conference will never be better than the regular season, and he will definitely go on a killing spree."
Su Qun nodded and said: "Kobe has always had problems with Old K. The Western Conference Finals is so important and he won't hold back."
On the field, the substitutes are warming up.
Ewing and David Robinson meet again.
"King Kong, I wish you good luck next year."
"Admiral, don't give up. You will have hope in three years."
During the regular season, when they met, they would greet each other and wish each other good luck, but now when they meet in the Western Conference Finals, when it comes time to see the real results and who loses and who is eliminated, the words they say are different.
Dameng stood on the sidelines and shouted to the two of them sincerely: "Old guys, you will be as miserable as a dog without a crown for life. I wish you good luck!"
David Robinson and Ewing glared at Dream, "If you can't speak, just shut up!"
The postman sitting next to him was just one step away from kicking him. Damn it, Damn, who are you mocking?
He glanced at the two golden championship rings on Dameng's hand, swallowed dryly, gritted his teeth and cursed secretly: Shao Bao, are you not afraid of having your fingers cut off?
In the player tunnel, Lao Wang asked with concern: "Kobe, Vanessa didn't call me, she didn't come?"
"No."
Kobe replied angrily, glared at Lao Wang, and just wanted to say: Lao K, don't contact my wife if you have nothing to do, okay?
"Crack!"
Lao Wang was glared at, and his only reaction was to immediately slap Kobe on the Tian Ling Gai, and cursed: "Stare at me? How dare you stare at me? I can't slap you to death!"
Before he could hit him again, Kobe quickly jumped back and hid behind O'Neal. O'Neal was anxious and quickly stepped aside for fear of hurting Chi Yu.
Without the human shield, Kobe saw that Lao Wang still wanted to hit him, and Kobe hurriedly shouted: "Old K, the game is about to start. Do you want to use off-game moves to affect my state?"
At this time, the away team was about to go on the field. The host was calling his name. Lao Wang gave up, pointed to the outside and shouted: "Hurry up and play!"
"I'm the winner!" Kobe said angrily.
"You're in trouble here!" O'Neal's name was shouted outside, but Lao Wang went up and pushed Kobe out of the tunnel.
"Old K, turn your elbows out! I'm not done with you tonight. Let's see who can stop me, Nash or Hardaway? Marion will beat him even if he's trying to guard me..."
Helpless, Kobe was forced to come out cursing, and was immediately greeted by a huge burst of boos. The boos that were originally meant for O'Neal were accepted by him.
When some Suns fans saw it was Kobe, they stopped booing and gave some applause instead.
"Eh! Kobe?"
Barkley's eyes widened and he said in surprise: "Did O'Neal kill Kobe? When did this fat man become so powerful?"
Kenny Smith said with a smile: "Kobe is constantly shouting something over his shoulder. Is he scolding O'Neal?"
Barkley laughed and said: "I don't think it was with O'Neal. He must have been taught a lesson by Old K, right?"
"It's really possible, haha!" Kenny Smith was startled and nodded again and again.
On the bench of the Lakers, Jerry West and Phil Jackson looked serious when they saw Kobe Bryant playing first. They were afraid that the OK team would have another conflict.
In the player tunnel, after O'Neal made his final appearance, Lao Wang said to Hardaway and Nash with a solemn expression: "You have to be careful. Kobe is getting stronger and stronger now. He is also known as Malone. Be careful when defending him. Don't force him."
, be more flexible.”
When he said this, he had a headache. Forget it, one of these two guys is a big colander and the other is seriously injured. How can they defend?
Only he knows what kind of damage Kobe, who is so strong, will do to the Suns' perimeter once he uses Tieshan's skills on the perimeter.
Pulled Marion over and said seriously: "Sean, are you 228 pounds?"
"Well, a little over 103 kilograms." Marion nodded.
"I can't stop it!"
Lao Wang got a headache. Kobe's tonnage must have exceeded 100 kilograms. I don't know the exact amount. Marion's tonnage was smaller under the pressure of Tieshan.
He had taught Marion how to use lunges to defend against Kobe Bryant, but he also taught Kobe how to deal with it. For a moment, he didn’t have any good ideas. After thinking about it, he said: “Just use lunges to defend him, don’t let him rely on the punches.”
If you force him to shoot jumpers from outside, his shooting percentage will be limited no matter how high he is from outside."
"I know." Marion nodded quickly.
At half past eight, the game starts.
In the middle circle, Lao Wang and O'Neal stood opposite each other.
"Shark, how much do you weigh now?"
"This is a secret. Even if you beg me, I won't tell you."
"Miss O'Neill, a woman's weight is indeed a secret."
"Pfft! Haha..."
Lao Wang's words made everyone from both teams burst into laughter, including the referee who was about to throw the ball.
"asshole!"
O'Neill was so angry that he almost vomited blood.
Ten seconds later, the Suns started attacking.
"Old K, what are you doing here?"
Seeing that Lao K did not go down to the low position, but landed at the top of the arc, O'Neal asked angrily.
"Pull you out, and then rush in." Lao Wang said very straightforwardly.
O'Neal didn't have time to get angry because Nash had already used K's wall to get rid of Fisher and charged in from him.
At this time, Lao Wang bypassed O'Neal from the left and went down. O'Neal quickly followed, but the former was faster, and the latter had to follow on the right, pulling and tugging secretly with small movements on his hands.
Nash drove into the basket, and Fisher was chasing closely behind him. He pulled to the left and passed the ball back to Old K.
Lao Wang used his right elbow to resist O'Neal who was pulling him, caught the ball with his left hand, and after one step, he violently rose up.
At this time, Lakers power forward Samas Walker, who was returning to the basket, jumped to block the shot. O'Neal secretly used force and yanked Wang's right arm.
"Bang!"
With O'Neal holding his right arm, Lao Wang forcibly jumped up on one foot and turned over fiercely for a dunk. As the sound of the basket exploded violently, Walker fell over on his back and was dunked under the basket by Lao Wang.
"Beep!"
The referee's whistle sounds.
"ah!"
The American West Arena suddenly burst into enthusiastic cheers.
"Oh ho, old K completed a high pick-and-roll dunk, and his cat food was powerless to stop it, haha..." the on-site commentator laughed loudly.
Seeing the referee running up, Samaki Walker quickly got up and raised his right hand. Next to him, O'Neal also raised his right hand.
The referee pointed at Walker and made a gesture to indicate a foul. Two points were scored and one free throw was added.
"It should be O'Neal's foul, and Walker admitted it," Su Qun said.
"In the NBA, power forwards do the hard work."
Zhang Lili said something and then explained: "Although there are powerful power forwards like Duncan and Garnett now, the main function of this position has not changed."
"brush!"
At the free throw line, Lao Wang grabbed the basketball with one hand, flicked his wrist and four fingers toward the basket at the same time, and the ball drew an arc and accurately hollowed into the basket.
"Cat food, are you envious?"
While retreating, he teased O'Neal.
"snort!"
O'Neal glanced at Lao Wang, am I envious? Can I envy your free throws? God can prove that I am really envious.
When he came to the frontcourt, he was full of anger and went straight to the basket.
Lao Wang did not use top defense. O'Neal seemed to have lost some weight, but his tonnage was also quite large. Top defense was too difficult. He had to reasonably allocate his physical energy, so he had to choose the most cost-effective defense method.
The most cost-effective defense is not the most effective defense, but it must be the most reasonable defense.
"Old K has come around." Barkley shouted at this time.
Fisher held the ball at the top of the arc, glanced at the basket, and did not choose to pass it in.
Although O'Neal pushed Old K a little away, there was a certain space for receiving the ball under the basket, but in the regular season, Old K used his stronger jumping ability to often steal the ball, so he could not pass it, and he gave it to Kobe on the right wing.
Kobe caught the ball, and Marion, who was switching defense, immediately leaned down. He turned to the right, dribbling the ball while approaching the latter.
At this time, Marion immediately changed his pace and defended with a lunge.
"Old K, this bastard!"
Kobe cursed secretly, this kind of lunge defense was so annoying, it was useless for him to hit sideways, and he couldn't break through because he would be stuck on the inside.
In order to enhance the power of sideways hitting, he did not hesitate to gain weight rapidly, which resulted in a knee injury. Now that Marion has done this again, it really makes him depressed.
Fortunately, Old K also taught him how to deal with lunge defense. He suddenly made a move, turned around Marion, then made a step and dribbled in from the left side.
"brush!"
When he reached the right elbow area in two steps, he saw that Old K was already standing one step in front of the basket, so he calmly stopped for a jumper and hit a goal.
"Quick attack!"
"Old K, hurry up!"
The next moment, Zhang Lili and Su Qun shouted at the same time.
"Whoosh!"
Lao Wang caught the ball under the basket, immediately stepped back to the baseline, and with a big throw, the ball flew towards Nash, who was turning around quickly.
"Crack!"
Nash took a step away from Fisher and took the lead in catching the ball and crossing the center line.
On the left wing, Marion has already passed Kobe and is about to leave.
On the right wing, Hardaway is the same.
After the three of them, Stoudemire was also playing fast.
The Lakers are very familiar with the Suns' tactics, and they try their best to defend from the outside.
"squeak!"
Nash held the ball and made an emergency stop at the top of the arc. Fisher rushed over, and when he stopped suddenly, he made a cross.
On the left wing, Marion was caught up by Kobe and stopped at the three-point line.
On the right wing, Hardaway was entangled by Fox.
"call!"
There was no good opportunity for attacks from the left and right wings, but at this time Stoudemire rushed in from the left side of Nash. His speed was faster than Samaj Walker. In a 20-meter sprint, he had already left his opponent by more than two meters.
Nash quickly lobbed the ball in front of Stoudemire. Stoudemire jumped up, caught the ball in the air with both hands, and then dunked with one hand.
"Bang!"
As the explosive sound of the basket exploded, the cheers of the American West Arena also burst into loud cheers.
"Two point one second, this attack took two point one second!" Barkley said excitedly.
"Old K made a quick pass, Nash made a second pass, Stoudemire finished the offense, and the Suns launched a whirlwind fast-paced offense." Kenny Smith said excitedly.