Chapter 240: Overwhelming
"I think with the current staffing of the Lakers, if they win the championship, it should be completely reasonable! Shaq in the center position is already at his peak, and no one in the entire league is his opponent; Lamar in the big forward position is comprehensive and stable, he can even play five positions, of course, his value in the Lakers is still reflected in the organization, the Lakers have him after the inside and outside tandem is more reasonable and compact, sooner or later it will become a big weapon; Ramon Murray in the small forward position, the mid-range and outside shooting is good, although the defense is not too good, but as a team's outside to attract firepower is more than enough; and then there is the two-gun Kobe Bryant and Chauncey Billups on the guard line, they are both guys who can attack and defendIf Coach Phil Jackson can solve the problem of ball distribution between teams once and for all, then the future of the Lakers is bright. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"
"I'm very bullish on the Lakers' future in the playoffs. (There was a lot of noise in front of the TV, and countless middle fingers were raised at the same time) coupled with the current thickness of the Lakers' bench, it can also be called luxurious in the league. So if the Lakers end up winning the championship, I think that's reasonable. ”
Fortunately, Lamar didn't know what was happening in China, and if he knew, he would definitely sigh that the predecessors who watched the game silently had it in 01, and he was proud of this alternative high-end way of watching football for a long time in his previous life.
The February tournament has passed, and all the best in the league have found their owners, and Shaq once again won the Western Conference Player of the Month trophy with his outstanding performance in February. There was no disagreement with this result, as Shaq played a huge role in the Lakers' campaign.
The current Los Angeles Lakers team is full of morale, the regular season has reached the final sprint, and now they can still occupy the first position in the league, which makes every player start to hope for the defending championship.
After entering March, the Lakers' game intensity has decreased, and when it includes four back-to-backs, this kind of game is simply a kind of physical and mental torture for the players, but since it has reached this point, you can't hide if you want to, you can only bite the bullet.
Of course, there is also good news, when he challenged the Phoenix Suns at the bottom of the West on March 1, Horry also recovered from injury, and the Lakers arrived at full strength for the first time this season, and none of them were absent due to injury or suspension!
This is nothing short of a blessing for Phil Jackson. If all the players can stay fit as they are now, there is real hope for defending the title.
The Phoenix Suns are in a terrible situation right now, although they have star players like Hackers Marion, Jason Kidd, Anfernee Hardaway and Kevin Johnson, but unfortunately the injury hit first, and Hardaway returned from injury after only playing four games before he was injured again! Then there is the team's playmaking core Jason Kidd has been in trouble off the court and is caught in a scandal of wife abuse! Jason Kidd has confirmed that he will part ways with the team after this season!
All the players were on their own pitch, and Coach Skels's tactics were never well executed due to the absence of a passer like Kidd, but there is no clear tactic to be seen at this point.
The Lakers played a very easy game, playing with each other on the court, but the difference was that they had two guys on the team who could control the pace of the game at all times: Lamar and Chauncey! Who's called Jason Kidd, this guy can't concentrate on the court at all right now!
In the end, the game ended with a complete victory for the Lakers, and the suspense was lost just after three quarters of the game, and Shaq and Lamar sat on the sidelines talking and laughing as Kobe Bryant and a group of bench players brushed up on the court.
Seeing the two of them look like brothers, it also makes the previous boring remarks about the rigidity of the relationship between the two self-defeating.
Leaving Phoenix with a victory, they will have a day off before they are about to completely overturn the 10,000-year-old shipwreck in Los Angeles.
When a wooden sailing ship encounters a 10,000-ton battleship equipped with ironclad heavy artillery in a narrow channel, the fate of the broken sailing ship can be imagined.
When a row of heavy armor-piercing shells from the Lakers bombarded over, the wrecked ship that was already leaking completely ended his fate of tossing at sea!
When the smoke cleared, all that could be seen was a few poor sailors adrift at sea with planks waiting for rescue, except for Captain Brand, who was still struggling to support his beliefs, and the other players had long since abandoned the ship and fled.
Maybe it's because the league watched the Lakers play their first two games in March too comfortably. On March 8, they were scheduled to play a major event against the Detroit Pistons at home at the Staples Center Arena.
If there's one team in this league that Lamar doesn't want to meet, it's the Detroit Pistons!
It's not that the Pistons have one of their nemesis, Ben Wallace, but the Pistons are so tenacious that there seems to be nothing to worry these blue-collar workers about! No matter how far behind they are, no matter how ugly the game is, they are not in a hurry. A phrase that is often on the lips is "offense wins the audience, defense wins the championship".
Every time he plays against them, Lamar has a feeling that his mouth is full of steel teeth but nowhere to speak, as if he has encountered not a team, but a stubborn rock tightly hugged, let you blow in the wind and rain, bombard indiscriminately, he is not in a hurry, who he loves, you hit yours, he beats his, that dull way of playing can simply drive their opponents crazy, and the rest is waiting for them to collect the corpses.
It's the same in this game, the Lakers want to bring the rhythm of the game up, but the Pistons are like a chaste martyr, they don't cooperate with life and death, and they always look lifeless.
If the game goes in this direction, the Lakers will be worn to death by the Pistons sooner or later, but at a critical moment, a hero stepped forward, not Shaq, nor Lamar, but the veteran star Grant on the inside.
I don't know what's going on, Grant, who came on the court at the end of the first quarter, exploded in the second quarter like a doping in the second quarter!
Let people see the majestic bull inside ruler again. Compared with him, Big Ben, the finalist of this season's best defensive player, is like a little tender bean sprout, he can only watch the rebound bounce high, even if he can't hold it in his hand, a face that was originally like the bottom of a black pot is instantly covered with dark clouds.
The final result of the game proved the old adage that whoever can master the rebounding ball will control the whole game. With the strong support of Grant on the inside, the Lakers rebounded a full 18 more than their opponents. Maybe for a long time, Big Ben won't dare to laugh at the NBA veterans anymore.
After a fierce game against the Pistons, the Lakers welcomed the Seattle SuperSonics without a glove Payton at home. The inside and outside combination of Jerome James and Rashad Lewis resisted very tenaciously!
But the old and spicy Lakers head coach Phil Jackson shamelessly sacrificed the wolf pack tactics, and in front of the supersonic speed of the lack of soldiers, he had a good addiction to the soldiers, and all twelve players got the opportunity to play, and everyone scored points!
Lamar was pressed to the bench after only 22 minutes in this game, although he repeatedly asked to go up and brush up the data, how could Jackson not let him live, the regular season has come to an end, how to reasonably allocate the players' playing time is a problem he has to solve, and he wants to save Lamar's strength for the playoffs.
After playing the game against the SuperSonics, the Lakers have their first back-to-back in March, when they will host the Cleveland Cavaliers on the 11th, and then take on the 76ers in Philadelphia on the 12th.
In the game with the Cavaliers, the Lakers played as smoothly as ever, and Phil Jackson never left the coach's seat in this game, and only called two timeouts!
Because of this game, Lamar got everything done on the field!
In the game, Lamar was full of firepower, repeatedly attacking the Cavaliers' basket and staged a violent dunk, Big Z couldn't stop a crazy Lamar at all, and over time, when he saw him rushing up, the docile and more docile Big Z and Ricky Davis, who was obviously not in the Cavaliers, chose to retreat and let Lamar get along on their turf.
The head coach of the Cavaliers yelled anxiously, and for the first time, Mr. Hao, who usually has a good relationship with his teammates, roared on the court and reprimanded those around him who did not work.
Now is the pivotal moment for the playoffs, as the team sits ninth in the East, just one win behind the eighth-place Celtics, and has every chance of making the playoffs. He can accept defeat now, but there is absolutely no way to endure the defeat of not resisting, and that would be an absolute insult to him.
Lamar was watching the performance of the other players on the Cavaliers court while scoring like crazy, and Lamar was surprised to find that the Cavaliers had improved a lot by the time they first played in the preseason.
Although the Cavaliers lost, Ricky Davis still performed very well, but his brilliance was completely overshadowed by Lamar's crazy performance. (To be continued.) )