Chapter 204: The regular season is over, tying 72 wins
With the Mavericks resting for two days, the Lakers now have 70 wins, and with just two wins remaining, they will tie the Bulls' record of 72 wins in the '95-96 season.
The Lakers' final two games will be home to the Mavericks, who were just defeated by Liu Han alone, and the Lakers' last opponent will be their biggest enemy in the playoffs, the Utah Jazz.
The Lakers and the Jazz fought seven games in the Western Conference Finals in the playoffs last season, and in the end, the Lakers relied on Liu Han's excellent performance to win the game and finally won the championship. This season, the first meeting between the two teams of the season was on the first day of the season, and the Lakers defeated the Jazz, who were missing Stockton. Now, the two teams will meet again on the final day of the regular season, with the Lakers hoping to hit the 72-win record and the Jazz not wanting to be a magical backdrop for the Lakers after finishing second in the West, so the final day of the regular season is seen as a preview of the Western Conference Finals.
The atmosphere in the Lakers team is very good now, Liu Han is a very good-tempered person, he does not discriminate against others because he is now a top star in the league, he always treats everyone equally, so he has a good relationship in the team, from the cleaner in the training hall to the senior management of the Lakers, everyone likes to make friends with Liu Han, yes, it is everyone, after all, living in this increasingly impetuous society, people still hope that their friends can treat themselves sincerely, just right, Liu Han is a sincere and pure person.
Safina was also very happy after Liu Han scored 88 points in a single game, she knew that her boyfriend was very "powerful" and capable in many aspects, but now it seems that Safina still underestimated Liu Han.
Safina's father LaBeouf has now almost given up on letting Liu Han practice boxing, as far as the current situation is concerned, Liu Han will definitely re-sign a contract with the Lakers in the next season, and it will definitely be a maximum salary at that time, and now it seems that there are many companies that want to find Liu Han to endorse, and let Liu Han risk hurting his body to practice boxing First of all, the Lakers will definitely not agree.
After a two-day break, the Lakers host the Dallas Mavericks at home.
Liu Han just completely humiliated the Mavericks in Dallas two days ago, and now the Mavericks finally have a chance to take revenge, although the Mavericks are also signing for the champion this year, they have only won 20 games so far, but the Mavericks players are still very important to this revenge battle inspired by the old Nelson, they arranged detailed marking tactics for Liu Han, it can be said that the only purpose of the Mavericks in today's game is to prevent Liu Han from killing.
However, after the start of the game, the Lakers started from the inside, Sean Bradley was a little depressed after the last game, this 26-year-old German boy does not seem to have the tenacity of the Germanic family, he is not very good in other aspects except for his height, and the old Nelson also feels that letting this young man start the opponent's tough O'Neal is to send Bradley to give the head, so the old Nelson let the two-meter-one-three Eric Kleli as the starting center in this game. Ericlayli still looked weak against O'Neal, and was attacked by the Lakers on the inside.
Liu Han did not regain possession of the ball in this game, but let Nash regain control of the game. Van Exel initially wanted to single-handedly play Nash, but he seemed to have used up all of his touch in the last game, where he didn't even score a layup.
Liu Han only played as the core of the defensive end today, and on offense he just pulled away the Mavericks' defenders and then let the other players play.
The Lakers' arrangement made the Mavericks a little chaotic, after all, they still wanted to defend Liu Han's offense well, but now the Lakers are mainly playing the interior in the offense, so the originally bad defense is now even more chaotic.
Liu Han was replaced by Michael Finley in the eighth minute of the first quarter, and George wanted Liu Han to accumulate his energy today to prepare for the next matchup with the Jazz.
At the end of the first quarter, the Lakers led the Mavericks by 8 points at 29-21, and the bombardment used by the Mavericks after the arrival of Nelson Sr. lost their crosshairs today, shooting less than 30% in the first quarter, but they had a very large number of offensive rounds, so they also scored 21 points.
At the beginning of the second quarter, Liu Han was still resting, and the Lakers switched to a pure bench to play with the Mavericks, but what they didn't expect was that these bench players played very well today. George Krent has always emphasized the connection between each player's initiative and the team's tactics, and his tactical thinking was well displayed in this game, after a season of various run-ins and training, all the players of the Lakers team finally fully integrated before the playoffs were about to begin.
The Lakers bench lineup on the court does not have a pure core, but every point is the core, all the players have the ability to shoot and break through, and the passing cooperation between each other is also very tacit, which makes the Mavericks very difficult to defend.
With four minutes left in the second quarter, the Lakers had extended the deficit to 16 points.
Liu Han and O'Neal and other main players did not change the team's tactical execution after they returned, they also integrated into the existing atmosphere, Liu Han and O'Neill no longer forced opponents, and always used team cooperation to let open players score.
At halftime, the Lakers stretched the gap to more than 20 points.
Entering the third quarter, the pace of the game was still in the hands of the Lakers, and the Mavericks' bombardment was completely caught in the Lakers' defensive trap.
Fighting for speed, most of the Lakers are young players born after '72, and their physical fitness is at their peak; Fighting for skills, the Lakers' young talents are all entering the NBA through the draft, and there are many players like Kittels who stay in the "little green house", so technically the Lakers are not lacking.
Liu Han and O'Neal were substituted in the final two minutes of the third quarter, as the Lakers had extended the deficit to 28 points.
In the fourth quarter, O'Neal was not on the court, and as the Lakers benched to widen the gap between the two teams to more than 30 points, the Mavericks began to abandon the game.
In the end, the Lakers defeated the Mavericks by 31 points 125-94 in this game.
The Lakers played all of them today, and all of them scored, with seven players scoring in double figures, and Liu Han and O'Neal both scored 18 points.
Now, the Lakers only need to prepare for their final game of the regular season in Los Angeles against the opening opponents, the Utah Jazz, and the two rivals meet again in the final regular-season game of the '97-98 season.
Originally, it stands to reason that the regular season rankings have been basically determined at this time, but the Lakers want to hit 72 wins, and the Jazz don't want to lose to the old rival Lakers when they are about to enter the playoffs, because they are likely to meet again in the Western Conference Finals, and if they lose this game, it will be a blow to the confidence of the Jazz players. (To be continued.) )