Chapter 202: The Alignment of the Yellow Race!
Rivers was full tonight, losing the game inexplicably, and having to bear a lot of rebuke at the post-game press conference. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
If you just complain about two sentences, forget it, but what those reporters say is more and more ugly!
What does it mean that my grandmother can win the championship even if she coaches?
Such a blatant contempt for his coaching ability is unbearable!
But Rivers had to hold back!
On Christmas Eve, a wonderful holiday like Christmas Eve, he led the Clippers to give fans a "surprise" to a four-game losing streak, and he must stand up and be the object of people's rotten eggs, otherwise how can the fans' anger subside?
However, no matter how angry he is, he can't be angry at the press conference. You must know that a while ago, Rockets head coach Kevin McHale was fined a relatively light amount by the league for being rude at the press conference, the key is that there are still fans spraying him, and his family is being greeted every day......
If the Clippers are cold and rainy, then the Lakers are spring.
Not only did the Lakers win the much-anticipated Christmas battle, but they also climbed back from eighth place to the top four in the West! This is a great thing to congratulate!
In addition, the two most popular people on the team are both very promising to make the All-Star team this season! Having two players on a team make it to the All-Star team at the same time is a remarkable achievement. You know, there are a lot of teams that don't even have one!
For this good news, many reporters began to congratulate the Lakers at the press conference.
But there are also bad guys.
A reporter from the San Francisco Chronicle asked: "Yi, as we all know, you are the current league scoring champion, but why are you only 130,000 votes?" This only puts you in fourth place among Western backcourt players and 14th among all players in the league! ”
"Even Klay Thompson in Golden State is just over a thousand votes short of you! But he's only averaging 21.9 points per game, which is a far cry from your average of 32.47 points. ”
Yi Feng quickly speculated on the reporter's motives.
The San Francisco Chronicle is the second-most circulated media in California, behind the Los Angeles Times. Just as the Los Angeles media often talk about the Lakers, the San Francisco media will speak to the Warriors.
From this point of view, it is easy to understand that this reporter's words are satirizing Yi Feng for having such a high score and not getting many votes. In other words, he doesn't have much popularity.
In fact, it's not that Yifeng really doesn't have popularity, even if you ignore the huge popularity of China and Asia, just looking at the United States, Yifeng has a lot of popularity.
With a population of more than 300 million people, it is inevitable that all of them will be sports fans. In the United States, the four major professional sports leagues - the NFL (National-football-League), MLB (Major-League-Baseball), the NBA and the NHL (National-Hockey-League) have diverted these sports fans, and finally distributed to basketball fans, accounting for only about a quarter of them.
And basketball fans can't just like the NBA, there are other basketball leagues in the United States, like the NCAA in the minds of many American basketball fans, even higher than the NBA, so the number of fans has been diverted.
This can also explain why the hundreds of millions of people in the United States, but the vote king who votes for the NBA All-Star every year can only get more than one million or two million votes in the final three rounds. And Dwight Howard, who created the highest number of votes in the 2009 All-Star vote, only had 3.15 million votes.
Which of these ticket kings is not popular? But it is also an indisputable fact that the huge popularity cannot be converted into votes. What's more, many players in the NBA compete for the All-Star lineup, which has also inadvertently diverted a lot of votes.
Yi Feng is indeed a super popular player, but what is a little embarrassing is that the current fans of Yi Feng are still mostly female fans. Many female fans don't even like basketball, they like Yi Feng just because of his appearance and appearance. Therefore, it is unlikely that any of them will vote for Yi Feng specifically.
As for those real basketball fans who like Yi Feng, they are only a minority among Yi Feng's fans, and their voting power cannot be too high, and it is already good to send Yi Feng to the fourth place among the players in the Western backcourt.
There are quite a few fans in China who really want to vote for Yi Feng, but unfortunately no one knows how much these votes were discounted in the end. But judging from the fact that he only had 130,000 votes in the first round, it must be an outrageously low ratio.
After thinking about it for a while, Yi Feng replied to the reporter: "I think this position is already very high, at least for a rookie, this is definitely a surprise!" ”
Yi Feng avoided talking about his status as the scoring champion for the time being, and insisted on taking out the identity of the rookie as a shield, which directly blocked the reporter's mouth.
No matter how picky a person is, seeing that Yi Feng is a rookie and even reaches today's level, there is no way to be too picky. If it weren't for the fact that he was an outsider, the whole country would definitely be kneeling and licking.
In this part of the United States, in order to become a representative of the "American dream", outsiders need to work several times or even ten times more than the "natives".
After the Christmas game, the Lakers had their last three games left in 2015. All three of those games were away games, with the first two being back-to-back away games.
On December 27, the Lakers took on the Grizzlies on the road.
The match was played in Memphis, the largest city in the US state of Tennessee.
That night, the FedEx Arena in Memphis was buzzing with people, and the Grizzlies, who had suffered two consecutive defeats, faced the Lakers at home.
The Grizzlies at home took the lead, with Jeff Green and Mike Conley combining for nine points to lead a 13-5 offensive wave to give the Lakers a knockdown.
Then Kobe Bryant took the lead and scored 5 points alone to help the Lakers chase the score.
But Zach Radoff, the "black bear" among the "black and white bears", began to exert his strength, jumpers, hooks under the basket, low-post back plays, and three-board axes were used all the way, and Randle, who was as strong as a calf, couldn't bear it.
With 3:50 left in the first quarter, the Lakers trailed by six points at 16:22.
At this time, Yi Feng turned on the attack mode, hit a three-point shot, and scored two breakthrough layups, scoring 7 points in a row.
Although there are old improvements on offense, on the defensive end, the Lakers can't stop the Grizzlies' offense. Randolph scored four straight points on the inside, and after playing a threatening trap, Kornett Lee also got a chance to shoot, hitting a three-pointer and a long-range two-pointer, and the two combined for nine points, and the difference was stretched to eight points.
At the end of the first quarter, the Lakers still trailed by eight points at 27:35.
Louis Williams' three-pointer kicked off the Lakers' counteroffensive climax in the second quarter, and he and Nick Young had a hot hand, and the two combined to make five three-pointers that made the Grizzlies bench cry.
By the time the starting lineup came back in the second quarter, the Lakers had already taken a 45-41 lead, leading by four points.
But the fat Randolph has always been a point that the Lakers can't limit, and he led the team to respond quickly and quickly equalized the score.
What's worse is that the "white bear" of the "black and white bear" Marc Gasol also began to exert his strength, and he scored 6 points in a row by eating Hibbert on the inside. The Lakers' weak interior line, in the face of the powerful "black and white bears", can only be left and right, taking care of one and losing the other, pressing the gourd and scooping.
The Grizzlies opened up the situation on the inside, and the outside line also came to add to the icing on the cake, with Jeff Green, Mike Conley, etc. all shooting from the outside.
Soon, the Lakers couldn't parry the Grizzlies' more blossoms, even if Yi Feng turned on the offensive mode again, he was unable to compete, and the lead was quickly erased, not to mention, and it didn't take long for it to be overtaken and widen the point difference.
At the end of the second quarter, the Lakers trailed by five points at 59:64.
The two sides went back and forth after the start of the third quarter, and the score on the court alternated.
After halftime, Kobe Bryant recovered his physical strength and became more aggressive, and Matt Barnes, who left the Clippers to join the Grizzlies this season, was beaten 2+1 by Kobe. Then Kobe Bryant received Yi Feng's breakthrough and hit a three-pointer from the outside, rewriting the score to 67:69, and the Lakers only trailed by two points.
The Grizzlies still use the two interior lines as the main offensive points, Gasol and Randolph take turns to score, and the Lakers once again fell into the embarrassment of the first half.
So the Grizzlies opened the gap again, and with 2:15 left in the third quarter, the Lakers trailed by as many as 12 points at 81:93. If it weren't for Yi Feng's continuous impact on the inside, the Lakers would only be more behind.
In fact, against a team with a strong interior line, attacking the interior line is not a very good choice. But Yi Feng felt back in the third quarter, and he could only shoot closer to the basket.
In the fourth quarter, the Grizzlies' Mario Chalmers hit a three-pointer to lead a 9-2 offensive wave. Chalmers also had a bit of a time in college, hitting a crucial whistle shot to send the game into overtime at the 2008 NCAA Finals, and his University of Kansas won that year's championship with Chalmers awarded the NCAA Final Four MPP.
At that time, the University of Casas was against the University of Memphis, which had the 2008 NBA No. 1 pick, Derrick Rose.
After Chalmers entered the NBA as a second-round pick, although his career was not brilliant, he had at least two championship guarantees, and he also had face when he said it.
He won two championships with the Big Three with the Heat before being traded to the Grizzlies in November. It's only been more than a month, and I didn't expect him to be able to adapt to the new environment quickly.
After Chalmers led the team to a 9-2 attack wave, the Lakers trailed by 88-105 to 17 points!
Then the game had come to the fourth quarter, and there was no doubt that the Lakers were shut down.
After the Lakers took a timeout, Kobe Bryant scored 4 points in a row to stop the bleeding for the team, and Yi Feng warmed up and also shot a three-pointer from the outside.
At this time, the Grizzlies began to permeate with an atmosphere called "striking iron", and the whole team did not hit a single shot, falling into a weird scoring drought.
The Lakers seized the opportunity and narrowed the gap to five points in one fell swoop.
Seeing that the point difference was about to be erased, the Grizzlies began to let the interior attack in search of foul creation. Gasol and Randle successively walked to the free throw line and scored four points together to stabilize the situation.
With 2:15 left in the fourth quarter, the Lakers trailed by eight points, 103-111.
At this time, the victory and defeat were not scored, the suspense was still there, and it was just when it was necessary to make a drum and narrow the difference, but the Lakers suddenly made frequent mistakes, and the Grizzlies seized the opportunity to play several successful counterattacks.
The game was over, and in the end, the Lakers, who were playing on the road, lost the game 108-121.
For the Grizzlies, Conley had 21 points, five assists and four rebounds, Jeff Green had 17 points, Gasol had a double-double of 20 points and 13 rebounds, and Randolph had 26 points and nine rebounds. Every time the Lakers counterattacked, it was these two who took the lead in standing up and hitting the Lakers' inner weakness in circles.
In addition, Cornet Lee had 13 points and Chalmers had 11 points, seven assists and five rebounds.
On the Lakers' side, Bryant had 19 points, 3 assists, and 3 turnovers, and Yi Feng scored 37 points, but also had 4 turnovers. Had it not been for a fatal mistake in the final moments, the outcome might have been very different.
On December 28, the Lakers challenged the Hornets at the time of the Warner Center in Charlotte.
Speaking of the Hornets, perhaps the most impressive thing for fans is its owner, Michael Jordan. Indeed, compared to the Hornets' humble results, the god of basketball, who has always been worshipped, is more worthy of attention.
The current Hornets in the league, called the Bobcats before the name change last year, are a super young team founded in 2004. This season is their 12th season in the NBA, and they have only made the playoffs twice in their previous 11 seasons, and both have ended in the first round.
There is really nothing attractive about such achievements.
However, this season's Hornets look different, with a 16-13 record and only ninth place in the East, but it looks very promising to make the playoffs for the third time in franchise history.
In this game, Jordan, as the owner of the team, also came to the scene to watch the game, and hugged Kobe Bryant and Yi Feng one by one before the game. The relationship between Kobe and Jordan is very complicated, and it doesn't hurt for the two to hug and greet each other, but Yi Feng and Jordan have never been alive and don't understand why Jordan hugged him before the game.
It can't be like he himself said, "Do a good job, I'm optimistic about you", right?
In this back-to-back game, the Lakers started with a bit of a wilt. And Kemba Walker, who didn't get Jordan's hug before the game, may have been jealous and showed great bravery, and after the opening, he was very aggressive, scoring 9 points with a sudden shot, leading the team to play a 14-5 attack wave, and took out some color for the visiting Lakers to see.
This made Jordan, who was sitting and watching the game off the court, happy, and wondered if he would give Walker some excitement every game?
After that, the two teams won and lost each other, and the score rose alternately.
Lakers substitute Brandon Buss scored six points to tie the score to 26:27, leaving only one point behind.
That's when it was Walker who stepped up again, hitting a jumper and then assisting Jeremy Lamb for a layup, bringing the Hornets' lead to five points at the end of the first quarter.
At 11:03 of the second quarter, two yellows appeared on the court - Yi Feng of the Lakers and Jeremy Lin of the Hornets.
Although he didn't know Jeremy Lin, Yi Feng had a different sense of intimacy when he saw his skin of the same color as himself. Even if he doesn't speak Chinese.
After Jeremy Lin saw that Yi Feng was replaced in advance, he also used jerky Chinese "mud howl~" to greet Yi Feng.
However, Yi Feng didn't plan to release water in the game, he was replaced in advance, just to attack and score points. After coming on the court, Yi Feng immediately played a role, scoring 7 points with a sudden shot, which was really plug and play.
Although the Hornets scored two points from Jeremy Lin's breakthrough, the difference was irreversibly narrowed to 1 point by Yi Feng. Seeing this, Hornets head coach Steve Clifford immediately changed the main lineup, but Jeremy Lin stayed on the court, and he was squeezed into the second position by Walker, which means that he was going to play against Yifeng.
The alignment of the two yellow races!
The alignment of two yellows in the NBA! (To be continued.) )