Chapter 149: The Lakers who finally normalized
After the first ten regular season games of the 97-98 season, Liu Han ranked first on the scoring list with an average of 37.6 points per game, but Liu Han attracted more attention to his amazing physical talent on the inside.
The Lakers are in second place in the West with an 8-2 record after ten games, and the Seattle SuperSonics are currently in first place, which has not lost a game.
At the beginning of this season, with the rise of the Lakers, some teams that have been controlling the top few teams in the league in recent years have begun to decline, and some former weak teams have begun to rise, the team that has risen in the West this year is the young Timberwolves, and the East is still dominated by some old strong teams, Jordan's Bulls although they suffered losses in the first two games of the season, but their form began to gradually recover in the next games.
The Lakers' novel tactics at the beginning of this season made other teams in the league a little uncomfortable, but I believe that as the game continues, the Lakers' tactics will definitely become more and more difficult to play in the future after everyone is familiar with them, and this is where head coach George Crent's ability will be tested.
After playing against the Minnesota Timberwolves on Nov. 19, the Lakers had a rare three-day break.
Liu Han did not continue to practice for three days, but went to the set of Safina's new film to visit the class, Safina after finishing the filming of the previous film "Desire to Escape", she was once again invited by New Line Film Company to participate in the company's new film "Rush Hour", one of the protagonists of this film is Liu Han's compatriot Jack Cheng, so they hope that the addition of Liu Han's girlfriend can add some attraction to this film.
Safina doesn't have much resistance to playing a vase in such a film, she knows that in the big dye vat of Hollywood, if you don't have a certain degree of popularity, then you can only wait to be eaten and wiped clean, so she can now participate in some unimportant vase roles in some films just because of Liu Han, but Safina feels that there is nothing bad about it, since she really loves that person, why care about these unimportant things, not to mention, if Safina is now playing the heroine, She was also reluctant, because the heroine meant more filming time, and Safina didn't want to be separated from Liu Han for too long.
Liu Han came to the set and was welcomed by everyone, in Los Angeles, Liu Han is a big star, and his popularity is now enough to kill everyone in this film. Of course, Liu Han's arrival also attracted many entertainment reporters who heard the news, which undoubtedly brought a lot of exposure to the film.
Liu Han and Jack Cheng chatted for a lot of time, although the other party's sparse Chinese made Liu Han sound very difficult, but after all, it was a person with the same skin color as himself, and Liu Han hoped that the other party could take more care of his girlfriend.
After the end of the visit, Liu Han returned to the court to train, he will not give up any opportunity to improve himself, although now he finds that his physical fitness and ball skills are growing very slowly after training, but Liu Han still insists on this kind of training, because now this kind of training has almost become Liu Han's habit.
On November 23, the Lakers sat at home to face the challenge of the Clippers, their opponent in the same city.
The Clippers didn't start the season well, winning just one game in their first 12 games, and the players they traded before the start of the season did little to make a difference, and their trade fell through completely.
The head coach of the Clippers is the league's well-known veteran coach Bill Feiqi, this season is the 25th year of Bill Feiqi's coaching, and the 64-year-old seems to have a hard time staying with the Clippers after this season.
The Lakers' lineup is still a small lineup, the only difference is that Robert Horry, who has a lower body injury, can finally play, which is good news for the Lakers, after all, Horry's height is there, and he is tough enough to defend to protect the Lakers' interior to a certain extent.
The game was in the hands of the Lakers from the start, Liu Han returned to the shooting guard position, Nash controlled the pace of the game, and all five of them had three-point ability, which made it difficult for the Clippers to defend.
In the first quarter, the Lakers led the Clippers by 12 points at 36-24, and Liu Han didn't make much of a move in this quarter, because the Clippers covered Liu Han almost every ball, and the rest of the Lakers players got a lot of opportunities.
In the second quarter of the game, Liu Han rested for half a quarter of the game, and the Lakers' bench was much stronger than the Clippers' bench in terms of strength.
At the end of the second quarter, the Lakers led the Clippers by 20 points, 66-46. Liu Han scored 10 points on just four shots in the first half, but dished out seven assists and grabbed six rebounds.
In the third quarter of the game, Liu Han led his teammates to play a wave, and in just 6 minutes, the Lakers played a 22-4 offensive climax, expanding the difference to nearly 40 points in one fell swoop.
Liu Han sat on the bench in the second half of the third quarter, and the Lakers' powerful offensive firepower turned the Clippers into a broken boat.
At the end of the game, the Lakers finally beat the Clippers by 43 points, and Liu Han only played 25 minutes in this game, scoring 23 points, 9 assists and 8 rebounds with a quasi-triple-double data.
On a day off, the Lakers came to Miami to take on the Miami Heat on the road.
In this game, O'Neal finally returned from the ban, which made the Lakers' lineup finally a little complete, and the extreme tactics like in the previous games can only be used by surprise soldiers, and if it is used for a long time, it will definitely be found by the opponent.
O'Neal, who had held back four games, finally began to exert his power in this game, and the Heat's interior core Alonzo Mourning was absent due to injury, and the Lakers had an absolute advantage on the inside.
Before the start of the game, O'Neal said that he hoped his teammates could provide fire support in this game, and Coach George Crent also wanted to use this game to test O'Neal's state, so at the beginning of the game, O'Neal began to fire frequently on the inside, causing chaos on the inside of the Heat.
Tim Hardaway was going to have a good fight with Liu Han in this match, and he felt that he should teach the titular "apprentice" a good lesson, but now he has been disrupted.
At the end of the first quarter, O'Neal scored 20 points alone, and the Lakers led the Heat by 11 points at 38-27.
In the second quarter of the game, other Lakers players continued to provide firepower to O'Neal, and the Heat began to use foul tactics to limit O'Neal, but what the Heat team didn't expect was that O'Neal made great progress in his free throws after the guidance and training of George Clente's old classmate Li Rui in the summer. This made him a very big improvement in his free throws.
By the end of the half, O'Neal had scored 34 points and 11 rebounds, and the Heat was almost defeated by himself.
At the beginning of the second half, the Heat strengthened the defense of the Lakers' interior, but at this time, the Lakers' outside began to fire again, and the rain-like three-pointers completely extinguished the Heat.
The entire fourth quarter was pretty much garbage time, with the Lakers outscoring the Heat 118-90.
In this game, the Lakers showed a combination of inside and outside play that shocked the league again, and it has never seen a team change three sets of play in the first ten games of the regular season. (To be continued.) )