Chapter 291: Solidarity
"Actually, every one of you is a slacker, all you want is to wait for someone else to hand you the championship trophy and then share the honor together, damn it! That's what you really think! It's dirty. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info”
This time, even the veteran Horry couldn't sit still, he felt insulted, stood up and shouted at Lamar: "Our minds are not as dirty as you say, we lost this game! I also admit that we performed like **** in today's game, but please don't talk about us like parasites." We're going to show you and everyone in the next game that we deserve it. Worthy of every dollar the team pays us, we are no less hungry for championship glory than anyone else. ”
"Then show me your damn promise!" Lamar yelled and turned and walked out of the locker room, in fact, he didn't want this in his heart, after all, yelling and insulting at his teammates who got along with him day and night was really not something to boast about, and it was in the case of a loss.
But Lamar has no choice, don't say anything about the team's current morale and situation, wait until the seventh game Shaq returns, it is difficult to say whether there is a seventh game, and now he can only hope that his teammates can be woken up by him, and he can see some changes in the next game.
The NBA Finals are scheduled to be 232, and the fifth game is still played at the Philadelphia 76ers' arena.
Before the game, various media outlets who were accustomed to being wall-to-wall grass unanimously looked down on the Lakers and believed that the Philadelphia 76ers would be very easy to get the match point in this game.
They guessed the ending, but they didn't guess the process correctly. The Philadelphia 76ers won and successfully pushed the Lakers to the brink, but they didn't win easily.
From the beginning of the game, the Lakers, who were still sluggish in the last game, changed their fatigue and launched a fierce attack against the Philadelphia 76ers, and even led the score for a while.
This caught Philadelphia 76ers coach Larry Brown off guard, and quickly adjusted his strategy and sent AI and Kittels as an outside combination, which immediately worked wonders, but despite this, they still couldn't shoot the Lakers to death in one go, if it weren't for Derricksnoy who hit a magical buzzer-beating three-pointer before the end of the game, they would have been forced to the edge of the cliff.
"We're not dead yet! it's not over yet, we're going to get the advantage back at home. ”
Although Lamar said it absolutely, now everyone can see that the Lakers have indeed been cornered.
Now that even the big score has been pulled 3:2 by the Philadelphia 76ers, the Lakers' home-court advantage is gone, and they are forced to a desperate situation.
Seeing that the hope of winning a championship is getting farther and farther away from him, the Lakers' players and the fans who support them are deeply disappointed.
"We want sharks!"
Like the last straw that a drowning man is eager to grasp before he is on the verge of death, Shaq, who is out of action due to injury, has become the last hope in the hearts of Lakers fans, and everyone expects him to return in time to lead the team out of the predicament.
At this time, the new idols in the team, the previous shining stars Lamar and Kobe Bryant were thrown aside.
They failed to lead the team to a win in three consecutive games, and they couldn't even see the cooperation between the two on the court, which also caused an unprecedented kind of doubt among Lakers fans about their ability.
"Lamar and Kobe Bryant have performed well on the court and often get very good statistics, but they have been a bit selfish in these games, they should pass the ball more to each other and create opportunities for their teammates, instead of just knowing how to score by themselves, which will make him isolated by other players on the court! And they did it to make our offense look very monotonous, and everyone on the other side knew that it was okay to keep Lamar and Kobe Bryant, which made us very passive in the game. ”
"Lamar and Bryant are both very good, but I think he's still very young and they all need to learn from Shaq what it takes to be a good leader. What the team needs now is Shaq and only he can lead us out of this situation. Whether it's Lamar or Kobe, it's still too inexperienced compared to him. ”
'Those three games were really disappointing because we didn't have Shaq around. Lamar and Kobe Bryant alone can't lead the team to victory, and they sometimes don't show cool, I think only Shaq can save the Lakers now. ”
This is the opinion of the vast majority of Lakers fans after the Lakers team ended their trip to Philadelphia and returned to the Lakers.
Three consecutive defeats have filled them with pessimism and disappointment, and they have taken aim at the team's two core players in these three games, Lamar and Kobe.
It was their poor leadership that caused the team to lose the game.
At the same time, they hope that Shaq, the former hero of the Lakers and synonymous with invincibility, can stand up and lead them to victory.
Lamar did not say anything about this, nor did he try to say anything to refute it in front of the media. He already knows very well that in the hearts of Lakers fans, he will never be as good as Shak, and in the eyes of the fans, he is even inferior to Kobe! He can be regarded as the new idol, the future core of the team, and the successor of Shak. But there will never be a way to replace Shaq, and for the current Lakers, Shaq is a unique legend, a phenomenon, and a spirit that cannot be replicated.
Lamar himself does not stand up to refute the views of fans, it does not mean that no one has come forward, and Phil Jackson, who has always regarded Lamar as the core of the future and is being cultivated, can't stand it first.
"They don't know anything, they just judge what they like or dislike a player based on a few newspaper nonsense, and it's not wrong for us to lose three games in a row! But it's not just Lamar's responsibility to lose, the selfish guys are not responsible?"
"Anyone with even a modicum of basketball knowledge can see how much Lamar has contributed to the team in those three games, and I hope those who used to cheer for Lamar in the stands understand how much their words will hurt Lamar!"
In fact, Lamar is far further than Phil Jackson, he only needs to think about it to know why so many fans have come out to criticize him after three consecutive losses, and he has to compare Shaq to himself every time.
Although this year's Finals is not over yet, in the eyes of some people, the well-armed Philadelphia 76ers will not give the Lakers a chance to reverse the market, and failure is inevitable.
The Lakers must find someone to take responsibility and calm the fans' grievances at this time. The same is true of the New Jersey Nets in the future, but it was Scott, the head coach of the team at the time, who was kicked away by the New Jerseyians, and the contradiction between Kidd and Scott is likely to be an introduction. The real reason for Scott's dismissal is likely to be that he brought the team to the Finals two years in a row and got nothing.
And the person who was pushed out of the public on the Lakers' side is Lamar, perhaps three consecutive losses, coupled with the irreparable rift between Kobe and Lamar, has made the Lakers' management realize that Lamar is not a good leader-level player, and there is no difference between Kobe Bryant, who was born in 78 and Lamar, who was born in 79, who will provoke the future of the team. Kobe, who is a super outsider, is obviously more worthy of the Lakers' pursuit than Lamar, who is biased towards the inside, after all, the Lakers still have a big shark on the inside!
There's never been a better time to make Shaq an absolute icon, a superhero.
And in the hearts of Lakers fans, Shaq is heavier than Lamar, even if it fails, it doesn't matter, anyway, all the black cauldrons have someone to carry it, and the team's management will always make a profit.
Lamar has long been aware of this, and just yesterday his agent Mr. Falker informed him that the Lakers' attitude is no longer as enthusiastic as before, and he immediately thought that there must be some people who can't bear to play tricks behind his back.
After Phil Jackson stood up in solidarity with Lamar, Lakers players also expressed their support for Lamar in interviews with reporters.
This also made the skepticism a lot quieter, but it was something else that really diverted people's attention.
During training the day before the life-and-death battle between the Lakers and the Philadelphia 76ers, an unusually tall figure appeared in front of the Lakers players.
"Guys, it's not right now, we're going to win the championship this year, how can it be dead here. ”
When Shaq appeared in front of everyone, everyone was shocked, Anderson had just completed a slam dunk that looked weak, and when he saw Shaq coming, he even forgot to come down, and kept dragging the hoop with both hands, just hanging like a white-skinned gorilla.
"What's the matter! Am I a ghost?"
"Shaq, why are you here?" Horry was the first to respond, and asked suspiciously, "Aren't you supposed to recuperate at home now?"
"Of course, that little injury won't take me down. Shaq was already moving his hands and feet to warm up, "Hey, Lamar, don't you want to say something to me?"
"Say what?"
Lamar has been in a very bad mood recently because of the fans' attacking remarks against him, he can not care about the criticism of those basketball celebrities against him, and he can not care about the abusive attacks given to him by those opponents, but the words said by the fans still hurt his heart very much.
"I know everything about you!"
Obviously, Lamar's reaction was completely expected by Shaq, and while shaking his wrist, he walked towards Lamar: "Lamar!
(To be continued.) )