Even O'Neal was smiling.

The big shark's mentality is actually easy to understand. When you can hide, you must think about hiding, but if you can't escape, you can only... enjoy the game.

To be honest, he hasn't played against a team as weak as the inside in the playoffs in recent years.

The players are relaxed, but the head coach cannot relax.

Phil Jackson still attaches great importance to the game.

Just like the previous analysis of how to play the team, Jackson chose, or he could only choose the first one, to play the position and suppress the rhythm.

Of course, the Mavericks' Black Eight experience does not have much reference significance for them, because the styles of the two teams are completely different.

"Don't underestimate your opponent."

This is the sentence Jackson said the most during training.

He also thinks the game will go smoothly, but what he needs most is the players' attitude of keeping a focus.

The next night, the Staples Center was filled with seats.

There are two types of competitions, one is the one that can be predicted to be intense, and the competition will make people's bloody life before it starts.

Another type is the kind that can be predicted to win a big victory, and the game will be inexplicably exciting.

Everyone has a trembling heart in their body.

However, during the warm-up before the game, the scene that happened on the scene made people think a lot.

Sun Hao and Old Nelson haven't seen each other for a long time. They chatted in the midfield for a long time, and hugged them when they parted.

This made the fans who said they were going to be taken before the game feel more and more that there was something.

After the warm-up before the game, the starting lineups of the two teams were released one after another.

On the Lakers, Payton, Sun Hao, Ariza, Walker, and O'Neal.

Jackson returned to the regular lineup in the second half of the season.

On the Warriors, Byron Davis, Jason Richardson, Matt Barnes, Jamison, Biderlings.

Compared with the Lakers, the Warriors' lineup has undergone a huge change.

This adjustment demonstrates the bold coaching style of the "mad scientist" of Old Nelson, and also shows that the Warriors' goal this season is not just the Black Eight.

Some people may say that if you pass the "Black Eight" you will have enough money!

But human desires are endless.

Moreover, the Knicks, who completed the "Black Eight" last time in history, played until the finals.

So it is completely normal for the Warriors to expect something.

The game begins soon, and the two teams start one after another.

Amid the cheers of fans at the scene, O'Neal easily turned the ball back to the Lakers' half, officially opening the curtain for the Western Conference semi-finals.

The Lakers' first attack changed their first round style, and Payton directly fed the ball to O'Neal, who was in the inside.

O'Neal did not hesitate at all after receiving the ball, and leaned on Bidlins to shoot with a hook shot.

Sun Hao is no stranger to Delins. This is an absolutely alternative inside player developed by Old Nelson in history, and he is even more alternative than Stadmeier.

He is 2.11 meters tall, thin and strong, and has excellent jumping, and is somewhat similar to Anderson, so he is also called "the fighter among white people".

But he has better flexibility and stronger physical confrontation than Anderson, which makes him more successful in history than Anderson.

Just like the first ball that came up, he interfered with O'Neal's attack with an unexpected confrontation, and then...

It's useless.

The moment O'Neal took action, he knew that he would not make any moves, so he had already made a second move in advance and completed a tip-in score on Bidlins' head.

Bidlins interfered with the first move, but was completely helpless when the second move.

O'Neal's weight was now pressing on him, and he was just dreaming when he remembered.

The Lakers took the lead.

When they retreated to the defensive end, the Lakers' defense was also very interesting. O'Neal guarded the basket and everyone else expanded.

This is a bit like defending the Spurs before, and then the Warriors suddenly couldn't play anymore.

Three-pointers were limited, and O'Neal was under the basket, so they were forcing them to shoot mid-range shots!

But their mid-range distance is not even higher than that of the Spurs...

"The Lakers' defensive strategy makes me feel Avery Johnson is like a mentally retarded."

Barkley was merciless and complained directly.

You should know that in the first round, Johnson didn't even try this.

Although they don't have O'Neal, Diop's defense is not bad in terms of baskets alone.

Davis finally broke into the basket, obviously trying to commit a foul.

But O'Neal was not fooled, but instead seized this opportunity and directly gave Davis a big hat to hit him.

With this offense and defense, the Lakers fans at the scene were already excited.

The Warriors restrain the Mavericks in the first round, and the Lakers will have the Warriors in the second round!

And that remark about "Can O'Neal play in the era of going to the small ball" can really be completely concluded.

With this kind of inside pressure, those small ball teams are not thinking about how to speed up, but protecting their fragile penalty area!

Because you can't defend the inside, you can't start with defensive counterattacks. Just relying on position fighting on the outside, you will definitely not kill anyone.

This is also the biggest difference between the Warriors under Cole and the Warriors under the rule of Old Nelson in history.

Among these two teams, there is Mark Jackson, the founder of the Warriors dynasty. He implanted the concept of defense into the Warriors and transformed the Warriors.

The game on the field continues.

O'Neal defended Richardson's basket attack again on the defensive end, giving the feeling of "a shark is at the juncture, no fish can be opened".

Moreover, after O'Neal won the rebound, the Lakers counterattacked the Warriors, and Sun Hao crossed the defensive fast attack and dunked the whole game.

After the Warriors finally broke the scoring drought with Richardson's mid-range off-ball.

Looking back, O'Neal turned around and arched Biderlins directly, and a "shark out of the cage" dunked with both hands, and the entire basket trembled!

Such rounds of offense and defense are constantly being staged during the game, and Old Nelson's adjustments have little effect.

As a result, after half a quarter, the Warriors scored only 8 points...

Fans are basically aware of this when they see it.
Chapter completed!