Chapter 172: You Have Today Too!

Originally, in the Lakers' plan, these two back-to-back games should have won the 76ers, and then tried to win the Wizards. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

It's good to win both, but you have to take reality into account when making a plan, and you can't take it for granted. Win one of the two games, and the Lakers' mission is complete.

Now that the two games have been played, the mission is complete. But it was not the same as originally planned. The 76ers, who were bullied by everyone, finally took a lead at home, making the Lakers a heel.

The Wizards, who had beaten the Cavaliers the day before in the East, unexpectedly lost to the Lakers at home.

The world is so wonderful that it is simply elusive.

However, winning is always a good thing, and the Lakers ended their three-game losing streak, and the gloom on the faces of the players has dissipated a little.

After the game against the Wizards, the Lakers did not have time to stop in the capital, and they rushed to Atlanta, where they will have a game against the Hawks on the 5th.

After getting off the plane and staying in the hotel, Yi Feng finally mustered up the courage to call Tang Ya.

But when the words came to his lips, he couldn't say anything.

The same is true for Tang Ya's side.

The relative wordless embarrassment made the two quickly end the call.

Yi Feng knew that it was better to solve such a matter in person, and many things on the phone were not clear.

If the matter is not resolved, Yi Feng is like a thorn in his heart, and he always feels uncomfortable. Whether it's training or playing, he's not in good shape.

From an outsider's point of view, he is perfect, talented, young and golden, handsome and chic. But it can be seen from this incident that he is not decisive at all in dealing with emotional issues, hesitant and indecisive.

has the ambition to open a harem, but he doesn't have enough emotional intelligence to support his ambition.

Now the dilemma is, in the final analysis, self-inflicted.

And due to the drag of feelings, his career has also gone into trouble. The last two games have been too bad, but Yi Feng himself didn't pay attention to the voices of the outside world. In fact, the outside world has already criticized his state, and of course there are many questions.

On December 5, the Lakers took on the Atlanta Hawks on the road.

For the Hawks, Horford had 16 points, nine rebounds and five assists, Millsap had 15 points and eight rebounds, Bazemore had 15 points, Scott had 14 points and Teague had 13 points and five assists.

On the Lakers' side, Yi Feng had 20 points, 7 rebounds and 4 assists but had a whopping 7 turnovers, Kobe Bryant scored 14 points and 5 assists on 4-of-19 shooting, Clarkson scored 13 points, and Williams scored 18 points.

Although Yi Feng's score went up to 20, he relied on 23 shots in exchange. He seems to have become unable to shoot, and the once efficient scorer is now gone. And the high number of mistakes has a direct impact on the final defeat of the game.

Kobe Bryant is no longer young after all, he is not in the form of his prime, and the team cannot hope that he will explode every game.

In the end, the Lakers lost 91-100 to the Hawks playing at home and missed the winning streak.

On December 7, the Lakers took on the Detroit Pistons on the road. It was the Lakers' second back-to-back first game in their "eight-game tour" in early December.

This is the second and final meeting between the Lakers and the Pistons this season. In the first meeting, the Lakers sat at home, won the game and won three in a row. The second meeting was at the Pistons' home court, Auburn Hills Palace Stadium, and this time the Pistons won the game and won four in a row.

On the Lakers' side, Bryant only scored 5 points on 2-of-15 shooting, and he left the court early because of an upset stomach. At this time, Yi Feng was not able to take the lead alone, only 9 of 28 shots, and scored 27 points by relying on high shots, but this did not help.

In the end, the Lakers lost the game 93-111.

On December 8, the Lakers soldiers crossed the border to Toronto, Canada's largest city, to challenge the Raptors away. In just one week, the Lakers players who played back-to-back for the second time were already extremely tired.

Facing the Raptors, the Kings of the North, the Lakers were suppressed throughout the game.

Although Kobe Bryant made 8 of 16 shots and efficiently scored the team's joint-highest 21 points, although Yi Feng also scored 21 points, he used 24 shots!

However, the Raptors' "Iron Flower Brothers" really performed like the Raptors at home, Lowry contributed 27 points, 7 rebounds and 6 assists, and DeRozan also scored 21 points, 6 rebounds and 6 assists! It is with the play of two guns that the Raptors can keep the Lakers suppressed. In the end, the two guns were even more powerful, directly with a wave of 11-0 attacks, and a wave took away the game!

In the end, the Raptors defeated the Los Angeles Lakers 102-93 at home, saving face from the last loss to the Lakers at Staples Center.

After losing to the Hawks, Pistons and Raptors in a row, the Lakers, who had just ended a three-game losing streak, ushered in another three-game losing streak!

On December 10, the Lakers, who lost three in a row again, did not have much time to adjust and immediately went to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where they will face the Timberwolves on the road tonight.

Also today, the NBA league officially began voting for the 2016 Toronto All-Star Game. The 2016 All-Star Game is the 65th edition of the All-Star Game, and the All-Star Game will be held on February 14 at the Air Canada Centre Arena in Toronto, Canada.

Since the New York All-Star Game in February made a groundbreaking overhaul — voting is open to all active players across the league — the same rule will continue to apply in next year's All-Star Game.

And before this year's All-Star Game, not every active player had a chance to be selected as an All-Star. To be on the All-Star stage, you first have to be on the league's list of 120 All-Star candidates.

There are 120 places, 60 in the east and west, and there are four or five hundred people in the whole league, and the competition is still quite fierce. Basically, the average role player doesn't have to be extravagant.

But now it's different, even though you're still a 10,000-year substitute, but no matter what, you can get some votes. Of course, you still won't be able to make it to the All-Star stage in the end, but at least you've competed.

As with this year's All-Star Game, the starting lineup for next year's East and West All-Stars will be decided by fans voting online. Unlike previous years, this year's coalition has added a Google search method for voting.

In addition, fans can also vote through the NBA's homepage, NBA's official app, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, SMS and more.

Through the votes of the fans, in the end, according to the number of votes, 2 guards from each of the Eastern and Western Leagues, and a total of 5 players from the 3 frontcourt as starters. The seven substitute players in the east and west are voted for by all the coaches in the league.

In 2012, the league announced changes to the All-Star voting rules, eliminating the center position and replacing it with three frontcourt players. The reason for this change is that more and more teams are playing small-ball tactics, the center is difficult to define, and there are not many high-quality big men right now.

The voting period starts on December 10, 2015 and will officially close at 0:00 on January 18, 2016.

On December 25, January 7 and January 14, the coalition will announce three rounds of voting. The All-Star starting list will be announced on Jan. 21 and the bench will be announced on Jan. 28.

As soon as the league announced the start of the All-Star vote, many players immediately canvassed for themselves through various channels.

And the superstar-level players in the league don't need to be low-minded to canvass for votes at all, and many fans spontaneously began to vote for them. For example, LeBron James, such as Stephen Curry, who is gradually dominating the league, etc.

Although Kobe Bryant's competitive form has declined, his popularity is still high. As a former emperor superstar, he has now become a quasi-legendary superstar, as long as he has retired, he will become a regular immediately! So Kobe Bryant is also the object of the fans' keen voting.

And the Lakers are not happy, they actually canvassed for Kobe Bryant and Yi Feng.

It's like stabbing a hornet's nest.

It's nothing to canvass for Kobe Bryant, although he only averages 17.4 points, 5.1 rebounds and 5.9 assists per game, but as a 37-year-old veteran, this is already a rare statistic.

Can...... Why is Yifeng?

Take a look at his performance in the last five games, averaging 21.4 points, 4.5 rebounds and 3.6 assists per game!

Don't think that he performed very well, compared with his previous average data of 33+6+5, the performance of these five games can be described as "playing like ****"!

And he shot 37.3% from the field, 29.1% from three-point range, and even 71.8% from the free-throw line in the last five games!

With such a hit rate, where is there still high efficiency?

If it weren't for the super high number of shots, he would not have been able to hand over this passable data!

With such a performance, it is a bit whimsical to want to be selected as an All-Star. And the Lakers are also shameless, they are shameless to this point, brazenly canvassing for their stars!

Those fans who don't like Yifeng naturally have an excuse to spray.

Seeing Yi Feng being defeated, there was no one happier than Draymond Green.

The Warriors' new opening streak was about to be set, but the Lakers poured cold water on it. The Warriors didn't feel their hearts fluttering at all, but they had some teeth itching for the Lakers.

As an important contributor to winning that game, Yi Feng, who scored 62 points, naturally became the object they hated the most. Not only did they destroy the bright prospects of their winning streak, but they also stepped on their top position and enjoyed the rookie single-game scoring record alone!

How can they not hate?

Now that Yi Feng is "in trouble", Draymond Green has volunteered to be the pioneer and jump out of the well first.

He wrote on his Twitter: "Some rookie has finally hit his head against the rookie wall! I just want to say that you have it today, too! God bless him, otherwise he wouldn't be able to attend All-Star Weekend next February! Hahaha-"

When a rookie enters the NBA, he usually goes out of shape for a certain period of time, like an invisible wall in front of him blocking his way.

Every season, a group of rookies emerge in the league. They are young and energetic, jumping high and running fast. But the NBA is a marathon sport that requires persistence and resilience.

Word camp begins, and the rookies need to work consistently for a full month, followed by eight preseason games. Then there is the long 82-game regular season that is like a long march.

The journey of the regular season was full of arduous back-to-back, endless flights, hotel stays and bus rides. And if a rookie makes it to a playoff team or a top team, they have to work overtime for one or more series — what people call the playoffs — after the regular season, and they don't have a payroll. All the players go to the playoffs without a salary, it's their obligation, or the battle of honor.

With such a secret technique and a difficult schedule, it is definitely more difficult than any league in the world.

Eventually, when the rookies reached a critical point in terms of physical strength and spirit, they began to lose their ability to persevere, they couldn't run, they jumped high, their bodies seemed to be in a state of fatigue all the time, their shots were out of sight, and the passing error rate became much higher - at this time, the so-called "rookie wall" came unexpectedly.

"I think every guy is going to hit the rookie wall," steal king Larry Hughes once said, a rookie from that shrinking season in '99, "especially when you're looking forward to putting everything into basketball and traveling." Now, for many rookies, if they play for a long time, they may feel like they're stuck in trouble with the rookie wall. The question is how soon you can get out of it. ”

Rookies tend to hit the "rookie wall" in the middle and late stages of the season, when their physical reserves are basically at the bottom, the excitement of the NBA is fading, and people are aware of the rookies' technical moves and habits, and they start to become weak.

White Devil Mike Bibby described to Sports Illustrated the effect the "wall" had on his body in 1999, when he was a rookie with the Grizzlies.

"I'm exhausted," Bibi wrote in the article, "and sometimes it's like I'm walking in quicksand." To be honest, today I feel like I can't go anywhere. The coach told me to pick myself up and get over the obstacles. But I think I've been walking in the mud for a long time. ”

Of course, there are also some who reject the theory of the "rookie wall".

They think that the "rookie wall" is just a fiction of people, and that as a rookie, the first task is to keep the brain awake when experiencing a dip in form.

Because the rookie suffers a decline in form, it is a sign of insufficient mental concentration. Because they are starting to get tired physically and mentally start to get bored with the intensive schedule. Just like students facing those endless exams, students who have a boredom mentality will naturally not be able to perform at their full level, which is the so-called "state decline".

Those who do not accept the "rookie wall" theory believe that when rookies suffer from a slip in form, they must not use the so-called "rookie wall" as an excuse, otherwise this is the beginning of their fall.

Eric Gordon once told reporters: "I don't think I hit the rookie wall, in fact I played better as the end of the season approached. He added: "Why do some people hit the rookie wall and others don't?" So forget about it. ”

Indeed, as Gordon said, a large percentage of rookies encounter the so-called "rookie wall", but there are also a small number of rookies who never encounter this thing. (To be continued.) )