You Really Aren't Human!

In the time that followed, Don Nelson tried many different approaches.

For example, continuing to push the pace, increasing the proportion of mid-range attempts, or bringing Oden on to battle the Lakers in the paint.

None of those methods achieved the desired effect. Once both Sun Hao and Yao Ming got going and the small-ball lineup could no longer display its usual strength, the Warriors began to run out of answers.

In fact, if it were simply Yao Ming versus the Death Lineup, the Warriors would most likely still hold the upper hand.

That wasn't just a hypothetical, because Yao Ming had faced this Warriors team before coming to the Lakers.

Even after Sun Hao left the Warriors, the Wizards had lost more often than they won against Golden State.

But the Warriors weren't dealing with Yao Ming alone now. There was also Sun Hao!

In fact, Sun Hao was the one giving them the bigger headache.

Last year, without Yao Ming, the Lakers and Warriors had been a 40-60 matchup.

Basketball wasn't simple addition and subtraction, but adding the league's best center to that foundation would at least turn it into a 60-40 matchup in the Lakers' favor.

That was why the Warriors had suddenly found things so difficult.

Earlier, with Yao Ming unable to get going, it was as if he weren't there, and they still held the same advantage as last season. But now that Yao Ming had awakened, everything was different.

In the Warriors fans' complicated gazes, the Lakers led all the way and ultimately defeated the Warriors 121-108 to tie the series!

Their feelings were complicated because Sun Hao, the man who had once led the Warriors to glory, now looked like he was about to become this Warriors team's "terminator."

The series was tied