Chapter 678: Lost Again!
After the game with the Heat, the Lakers didn't have time to rest, and immediately flew to Orlando, Florida, to face the Orlando Magic away. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
It was a back-to-back game, and it was even worse for the Lakers, who had just experienced a defeat, and they didn't even have time to adjust themselves and immediately faced another opponent.
What's more, after a few away games in a row, flying in the sky almost non-stop, and when they landed, they were soon going to be in the game, and everyone felt very tired.
Especially this time, just after the game, immediately flew to Orlando, and by the time it was almost early in the morning in Orlando, the Lakers would have to sleep in a hurry, and then get up again a few hours later, and then rush to the Amway Center Arena (the home of the Magic) to play against the Magic.
This is a huge test for the players' mental and physical strength.
It is precisely for this reason that Chen Feng didn't even turn on his mobile phone after the game with the Heat (he turned it off before the game), because it was a back-to-back game, and he just experienced a defeat, he didn't want to answer any calls and didn't want to be affected in any way.
Everything has to wait for today's game to end.
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6 p.m. Orlando time, Amway Center Arena.
Today's attendance is not high, not even fifty percent, because the outside world is not very optimistic about the Lakers, after all, the reality is there, they just lost one game, and it is a few consecutive away games, today is still back-to-back, compared with the well-prepared Magic, it is not an advantage at all.
In fact, it is......
As soon as the game began, the Lakers fell into the back swing.
Today, the Lakers are still regular starters, Hibbert, Randle, Clarkson, Kobe, Chen Feng, but several people are not in good shape, and the consecutive away games have a great impact on them.
In the first two minutes, the Lakers were stunned and didn't score a point.
On the Magic side, their starting lineup is Nikola Vucevic, Aaron Gordon, Tobias Harris, Evan Fournier, Elfried Payton.
The Magic lineup is not very strong, although Gordon and Payton Jr. are very potential players, but they are still too young and have not fully grown up, and the Magic only had a 25-57 record last season, which is not outstanding.
But with this lineup, they beat the Lakers 7-0 in the opening two minutes.
It's not just that the Magic are bursting today, but the Lakers can't keep up with their physical strength because of back-to-back away games in a row, which is also a factor.
It wasn't until almost three minutes into the first quarter that Kobe Bryant used a breakthrough to break the scoring drought for the Lakers.
But even so, the Lakers are still difficult to catch up with the score, they have just experienced defeat, morale is low, physical strength, mental state is not good, offensive efficiency is greatly reduced, and defense is also weak, such a state, compared with the Magic is indeed too much to lose.
Chen Feng's hand feels bad today.
Although the Magic is not a Heat, and there is no such a strong player as Wade, Chen Feng's pressure has been greatly reduced, but his own state is not good, he did not score three consecutive shots, and he didn't hit until the fourth shot, and it was only a breakthrough layup, not an outside shot.
Considering the physical problems of the players, Scott replaced Chen Feng and Kobe Bryant halfway through the first quarter and replaced them with substitutes.
As a result, the situation was a little better, at least the margin was not widened, and by the end of the first quarter, the margin was only 8 points.
Entering the second quarter, the Lakers were still on the bench, but the Magic suddenly played a wave of scoring frenzy, suddenly stretching the difference to more than 10 points, and by the halfway point of the second quarter, the difference had reached 15 points. Scott could only replace Chen Feng and Kobe Bryant.
As soon as he came up, Chen Feng threw one, and Kobe Bryant also broke through.
However, the feeling of the two did not last long, and the magic quickly arranged tactics for the two, using human marking, wrapping, and consuming the physical strength of the two as much as possible, so that the physical strength of the two was further exposed, and the feel and state were also affected.
At halftime, the difference was 16 points!
Looking at the score on the field, Chen Feng was very unwilling, but he was powerless, even if he had the magic massage techniques that he systematically taught him, it didn't work, people are not iron, there is always a limit, after exceeding this limit, any means will be in vain.
Kobe Bryant's state is even worse than Chen Feng, he played for a long time in the last game against the Heat, and his age is there, so today he feels a sore shoulder, it seems that the injury is about to recur, and his state on the court has dropped a lot.
Under the trade-off, the gap between the Lakers and the Magic widened step by step, and by the end of the third quarter, the difference had reached 17 points.
"What should I do?" Chen Feng asked Kobe.
Kobe Bryant glanced at the scoreboard, narrowed his eyes and said, "There is still a fourth quarter, let's fight, if it doesn't work...... Forget it. ”
"Hmm. Chen Feng nodded.
It's only like this, at this time, it's completely powerless, and there's really not much that can be done.
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Entering the fourth quarter, under the leadership of Chen Feng and Kobe, the Lakers began to counterattack, Chen Feng broke through the ball again and again, creating opportunities for his teammates, Kobe Bryant also hit again and again, and the Lakers played a wave of small climaxes, quickly narrowing the difference to only 9 points.
But soon, the Magic adjusted their tactics and further increased the defensive intensity, making it even more uncomfortable for the Lakers players, who were already physically exhausted.
All of a sudden, the already narrowed score gap was uncontrollably widened.
Entering the sixth minute of the fourth quarter, the difference between the two sides returned to 17 points, and the Lakers players, Chen Feng, Kobe, Clarkson, Randle, Hibbert, Nick Young and others were already out of breath, obviously unable to support their physical strength.
"Alas......" Scott sighed and asked for a substitution, replacing all the main players, which was equivalent to saying that he had given up the game.
In the arena, as well as in front of the TV and computer, countless Lakers fans are very unwilling.
It's useless to be unwilling, the score difference is too big, the time is too little, and the players are physically exhausted, the state is extremely poor, and there is no hope of winning.
At this time, the player's body and consciousness can no longer keep up, there is no way to coordinate, if you insist on the field, it is easy to get injured, anyway, the game has been lost, why bother? If the player is injured, it will be more than worth the loss.
Therefore, usually at this time, the coach will replace the main players to avoid injuries due to too much physical exertion.
"Toot ......"
When the final whistle sounds, the game is over.
There were no surprises, as the Lakers lost the game, 89-106, to the Magic by as many as 17 points, the most since the beginning of the season.