Chapter 157: The Battle of Soaring Points
Liu Han's 66 points are the highest single-game scoring record since the start of the season, and no player has yet scored more than 60 points in a single game, and only Liu Han has completed this score.
As the final moment of the All-Star voting approaches, Liu Han has maintained the lead in the number of votes, and Jordan is not good to stand up now and directly say vote for me, after all, he has been the vote king for many years, and now in the face of Liu Han but he wants to stand up and swish to canvass votes, Jordan feels that he can't pull that face.
In addition to Jordan, O'Neal's votes in the West are also very high, he is now ranked first in the center of the West, with the aging of the other three centers, the center era of the league has gradually ended, the stars of each team are mainly outside the core, and the centers of other teams are more of a defensive gate, even O'Neal has gradually changed his offensive style after losing weight, and he is no longer sitting on the inside to attack the basket like a traditional center.
Relative to the East, the West has risen a lot of outstanding newcomers in recent years, Liu Han needless to say, is a newcomer who can compete with Jordan, Garnett of the Timberwolves, Jason Kidd of the Suns, Tim Duncan of the Spurs and Steve Nash, who showed amazing passing strength after coming to the Lakers this year, these newcomers have received a lot of votes this year. In the East, it is more dominated by veteran stars, Sean Kemp has been plagued by drug scandals since he came to the Cavaliers, and the two Hardaway - Tim Hardaway and Anfernee Hardaway are still the core of each team, and only the Pistons' Grant Hill and the Celtics' Anthony Walker are among the few rookie players in the East. Grant Hill was once popular with the league, and the league hoped that Hill could surpass Jordan, but later the appearance of Liu Han allowed the league to find a more suitable target.
The schedule continues, and the Lakers continue their hot form.
On January 9, the Lakers defeated the Clippers again in the Great Western Forum arena on the road, with a score of 125-100, and the Lakers played an amazing offensive efficiency, with a team shooting rate as high as 5 out of 5, and seven players scored in double figures.
One day off, the Lakers continued to beat the Hornets 109-93 at the Great West Forum Arena, O'Neal showed his might, got 34 points and 20 rebounds, Liu Han scored a triple-double again, 19 points are not high, but the data of 15 assists and 10 rebounds is quite eye-catching, this game Nash was out due to a sprained ankle, so Liu Han controlled the ball and played the whole game.
The Lakers got a rare chance to rest in the next two days, Nash missed the injury, but he had to rest for two more games, so Liu Han is particularly important to the team, and there are really not many people in the team's ball-control position now.
On January 14, the Lakers sat at home to welcome the Nuggets challenge.
This year's Nuggets have been a shamble, with just halfway through the season and the Nuggets picking up two wins, the worst start to the season in recent years. Nuggets head coach Bill Hanzlick is really like fireworks on fire, which may disappear at any time, and the Nuggets obviously have little chance of winning this game against the Lakers.
However, what everyone didn't expect was that the Nuggets were mainly anti-away at the beginning, and the Lakers were a little confused.
The Nuggets also have a roster dominated by young players, and their rookie Bobby Jackson this season showed good quality as soon as he joined the team, getting a chance to start, and he hit consecutive three-pointers from the outside to give the Nuggets a lead over the Lakers.
The Lakers are really a little underweight today, and players including O'Neal feel that it should be easy to play the Nuggets, but what they didn't expect is that the Nuggets are defending very hard today, and their hand is quite explosive, and the Lakers are playing iron continuously, and O'Neal dunks are all dunked away.
Seven minutes into the first quarter, the Lakers scored 14 points with just two three-pointers from Liu Han.
Coach George didn't call a timeout, he felt it was up to the players to figure it out on the field.
Liu Han sensed that something was wrong with his teammates, and he gathered them all together after a dead ball.
"Hey guys, are you all weak today? They seem to be confident, and I don't like to see others who are more confident than me. Liu Han said briefly.
O'Neill really blushed a little when Liu Han said that his feet were soft, he went to a nightclub last night, and then discussed the structure of the human body with two girls with big butts for a night, and today he did have some soft feet, but he didn't want to be ridiculed by Liu Han.
The rest of the Lakers players realized that they were indeed underestimating, and Liu Han's words reminded them.
The game continued, Liu Han took the half court steadily, O'Neill tried to come out to cover, but Liu Han signaled that he didn't need it.
Liu Han faced Bobby Jackson's defense, and the opponent looked very serious, but Liu Han dribbled the ball with a slow posture.
Bobby Jackson thought there was an opportunity, he directly took out the ball, but what Jackson didn't expect was that Liu Han's reaction was very fast, just when he was about to take out the ball, Liu Han instantly accelerated, and a simple change of direction in front of the body dodged Jackson and entered the inside line.
Nuggets center Tony Barty quickly made up for the defense, but Liu Han flew up directly after stepping into the three-second zone with one kick, and the super fast speed and explosiveness gave Liu Han amazing power, he directly knocked Tony Barty into the air and then spread his belly in the air, and smashed the ball into the basket with his right hand.
The players on the Lakers bench and the audience stood up in shock, the ball was really too violent and cool.
The momentum of the Lakers team rose instantly with Liu Han's violent dunk.
The Lakers and Nuggets, who have recovered their form, have launched a scoring battle, Liu Han frequently shoots three-pointers, and the Nuggets are really blessed by the goddess of luck Fortuna (the goddess of fate in Roman mythology) today, all kinds of magical shots can score, and the shooting rate was as high as 60%.
At the end of the first quarter, the score of the two teams was 27-32, and the Nuggets led by five points.
Entering the second quarter, the Lakers players' grip recovered, but it was still unstable, Liu Han had to increase his shots, he hit 6 three-pointers in the second quarter alone, but the Nuggets were still in full shape and always suppressed the score.
At half-time, Coach George criticized the performance of his players in the first half, especially the "soft-footed" O'Neal.
The second half continued, the Lakers still didn't feel good, O'Neal stood on the inside and basically didn't move, and Liu Han had to come by himself.
At this time, the Nuggets' shooting rate finally began to decline, and as Liu Han approached the score again and again, the Nuggets began to play impatiently.
At the end of the third quarter, the Lakers overtook the score by 5 points, and Liu Han scored 25 points in a single quarter in the third quarter, scoring 57 points again in all three quarters, approaching 60 points.
Heading into the fourth quarter, the Nuggets launched a fierce comeback, hoping they could end the Lakers' 29-game winning streak.
The Lakers' hand finally returned in the fourth quarter, Liu Han played all the time today, and now his physical strength has been almost exhausted, and the return of his teammates makes him feel hopeful that he will win 29 in a row.
The recovering Lakers played a great game in the fourth quarter, O'Neal was replaced by Coach George because he looked inactive, and the Lakers relaunched a small lineup against the Nuggets.
At this time, the gap in the strength of the two teams finally appeared, and under the leadership of Liu Han, the Lakers scored 40 points in the fourth quarter and killed the suspense of the game.
In the end, in this scoring battle, the Lakers defeated the Nuggets who were in great form today, 136-129, and Liu Han scored 63 points and 16 assists alone, which also made him regain the top spot in the scoring list. (To be continued.) )