The second game of the 90-91 season finals.
The Chicago Bulls once again struggled with the Los Angeles Lakers until the final minute.
This time the player with the opportunity to end the game was Michael Jordan.
Jordan held the ball outside the three-point line at a 45-degree angle on the wing, facing Lin Ran's defense.
Scottie Pippen wanted to step forward to set a pick-and-roll for MJ, but Jordan waved him away.
James Worthy was about to step forward to double-team Jordan, but was also stopped by Lin Ran.
At the last moment of the game, the players and coaches of both teams acquiesced to Lin Ran and Jordan's willfulness.
Let them have a 1V1 duel to decide the outcome of the game.
finally.
Michael Jordan chose to break through Lin Ran's defense from the left.
His explosive power like a cheetah gave him an instant lead.
But Lin Ran's explosive power was not weak either. While Zijin No. 7 quickly pursued the defense, he opened his long arms and completely enveloped Jordan.
Seeing that there was little shot time left, Michael Jordan made a pull-up jumper in the last 3 seconds before the end of the game.
All the fans held their breath.
This is the decisive shot.
But Lin Ran didn't sit still and wait for death.
He flew up from the side, stretched his long arms, and touched Jordan's basketball at the extreme height!
"DUANG!"
In the end, Jordan's game-winning shot missed the mark by a hair.
The Los Angeles Lakers narrowly defeated the Bulls by 1 point, rewriting the score to 2:0!
It is worth mentioning that after the game, a reporter asked Jordan whether Lin Ran's last defense was suspected of fouling. After all, the two sides' bodies were almost touching each other.
In this regard, even Jordan, who lost the game, still expressed it word for word:
"There was no problem in the last round, it's just that I didn't make the shot."
foul?
nonexistent.
Jordan thinks this is just because he is not better at completing offense in extreme circumstances!
In addition to Lin Ran's last-minute block and Jordan's post-game remarks, the most impressive thing about this G2 game for fans is:
After everyone left, Jordan asked Pippen to stay alone with him to practice hard in the arena.
The content of MJ's hard training is to let Pippen stick to his body, give enough defensive pressure, and then try to take a mid-range shot.
It's like constantly imitating the offensive and defensive scenes of Jordan and Lin Ran in the last round of G2.
Michael Jordan's paranoia is evident.
Entering the third matchup of the series, Jordan's hard training worked.
Scottie Pippen also had the best performance of the series in this game.
The best duo in the history of the Chicago Bulls helped the Bulls finally win a game and successfully rewritten the score to 2:1!
The Bulls, who thought they could take advantage of the situation to make a comeback, were poured cold water on Lin Ran in G4 of the finals.
The No. 7 rising star of the Los Angeles Lakers was like a god of war in the fourth game of the Finals.
He scored 45 points in the game - setting a new NBA Finals scoring record for a rookie in a single game.
Helped the team defeat the Bulls with 13 points.
13 points, which is also the largest point difference among the first four games of the finals!
This game seemed to have shattered the Bulls' morale.
They were defeated in Game 5 of the Finals.
finally.
The Los Angeles Lakers swept the Chicago Bulls 4:1 in the finals of the 1990-91 season, returning to the top of the league after three years!
Lin Ran also deservedly became the FMVP of this year's finals.
He became the second player in NBA history to win FMVP as a rookie.
The first one happens to be Lin Ran’s teammate this season—Magic Johnson.
"This is not the end!"
At the championship parade in Los Angeles a few days later, Magic Johnson made a bold statement: "The new dynasty belonging to Lin and the Lakers has just begun!"
Ran goose.
It had not been long since the magician's bold words detonated the City of Angels when something unexpected happened.
Due to special reasons, Magic Johnson was forced to announce his retirement in his prime year.
He paid a heavy price for his extravagant private life.
Magic Johnson's forced retirement caused the Los Angeles Lakers to be looked down upon before the 1991-92 season even started.
At this time, Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen had been practicing hard all summer.
The Chicago Bulls look stronger than last season.
They swept the fallen leaves with strong winds and won a record of 65, retaining the first regular season record in the Eastern Conference.
On the Lakers side.
Without the magician, Lin Ran said: Then I will be the magician!
In the second season of his career, he averaged a triple-double of 33.5 points, 10.8 rebounds and 11.8 assists per game!
And he still averaged a triple-double in a season of 30 points per game!
22 assists in a single game once made the whole world shout: Magic has not retired at all, he just put on the Lakers' No. 7 jersey!
In the end, as the world expected, the two teams met in the finals for the second consecutive season.
A stronger Chicago Bulls with Michael Jordan.
The Los Angeles Lakers and Lin Ran lost Magic Johnson.
No matter from which angle you look at it, the Bulls have a greater chance of winning.
Michael Jordan is getting closer and closer to a championship.
G1 in the finals seems to have verified this.
Except for Lin Ran, the entire Lakers team was inaccurate.
As the second in command, James Worthy performed abnormally and failed to provide Lin Ran with firepower support.
The Chicago Bulls had everyone on their side and finally beat the Lakers by 11 points!
Just when everyone thought that this G1 was the epitome of this round of finals, Lin Ran stepped forward again!
In the second game of the finals, Lin Ran stayed on the court from the first second of the game.
He played all three quarters and faced off against the entire Bulls team on his own!
Lin's tactical choices that exploded his physical fitness finally made his teammates feel explosive.
James Worthy, Byron Scott, Verratti Divac and others collectively recovered in the second half of the fourth quarter, helping the Lakers open up the score and establish the victory!
"This is Lin Ran's victory."
James Worthy, who was interviewed after the game, said directly: "Without his personal show in the first three quarters, this game would have been over long ago!"
In the next two games, the Lakers won consecutive games and took a 3:1 lead.
Although G5 of the finals was won by the Bulls, the big score was rewritten to 3:2.
But in the sixth game of the series, Lin Ran did not let the battle line extend anymore. He scored 47 points, setting a new personal scoring record in a single game in the finals and helping the team defeat the opponent by 4 points.
The score came to 4:2, and the Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Chicago Bulls in the Finals for the second consecutive year.
Lin Ran was elected FMVP for the second consecutive year!
