Chapter 161: Every Step Is New History

The Lakers' equaling their predecessors' all-time record has the Los Angeles media starting to get excited, and they're looking forward to the new miracle that this Lakers team can pull off now. The Lakers' longtime fans are more relieved, and they are happy to see these young people follow in the footsteps of the legend in a new way.

When the Lakers returned to Los Angeles, they found that there were quite a few fans who greeted the plane, and these enthusiastic fans put up signs like "We expect 34 or more" to encourage the Lakers to set a new all-time record.

After the last game against the SuperSonics, the young Lakers team has matured a bit, and George Krent has taught these young players how to be a "core" in his own way.

Of course, it may be said that George Krent's tactics are completely against the laws of basketball development, and his way of distributing the ball evenly among five players is likely to make the Lakers completely civilian. But George himself thinks that his set of ideas is no problem, the key is how to find a suitable player to play this set of tactics, if the Lakers do not have Liu Han this most critical point now, then George's set of ideas is likely to not be able to play. So why is Liu Han so important in this tactical idea, first of all, Liu Han has strong outside firepower, which is very important, which makes Liu Han have a strong deterrent, and the opponent will definitely pay more attention to Liu Han's defense when defending, so other players on the Lakers team will naturally get a lot of opportunities. Secondly, Liu Han plays very selflessly, although Liu Han now has very strong offensive skills and abilities, but he is not the kind of player who likes to play alone, he prefers to share the victory with his teammates, which many superstars can't do, which also allows the Lakers to make fun of Liu Han's point.

After the game against the SuperSonics, the Lakers were given a three-day break, and their next game will be played on January 28, when the Lakers will host the New Jersey Nets, which is also the first time Kobe Bryant has played the Lakers since leaving Los Angeles.

While Bryant himself felt that this game was important to him, for others, what was more important about this game was whether the Lakers could set a new record.

The Lakers now have a 39-2 record and a 33-game winning streak, which is the league's all-time record, and if the Lakers beat the Nets on the 28th, they will set a new record, which will be a difficult record to break in an increasingly competitive NBA.

When Kobe Bryant came to the Great Western Forum Arena again, his heart was full of emotion, initially, when he came here, he was the center of attention, a star of hope for the future, the Lakers exchanged Kobe Bryant from the Hornets with a star-level center like Divac, at that time, although he was a little dissatisfied with other teams not choosing him, but he was full of gratitude to the Lakers Kobe Bryant who chose him, but then Liu Han's appearance completely changed all this, Liu Han took away all the glory that belonged to Kobe.

After arriving at the New Jersey Nets, Kobe Bryant quickly used his ability to get his rightful position, and the Nets are very optimistic about Kobe, and he is now the main firepower point on the outside of the Nets.

The New Jersey Nets, who have the likes of Kobe, Sam Cassell, and Gieth Van Horn, have also set off a whirlwind of youth in the East this year, and although they have not caught up with the Lakers, the Nets' 24-19 record is still very good in the East.

At the beginning of the game, the Lakers attacked first, and the Nets were not strong inside, so the team started from the inside first.

O'Neal asked for the ball inside and squeezed away Jason Williams for a dunk and scored two points.

The Nets attacked, Cassel dribbled the ball past half court and handed the ball to Keith Van Horn, Kobe Bryant ran back to the baseline, but could not shake off Liu Han's defense.

Van Horn saw that there was no passing opportunity and handed the ball to Kassel to reorganize. Cassel faced Nash's defense and played alone, but saw that Kobe Bryant had already run over to ask for the ball, so Kassel passed the ball to Kobe.

After Kobe Bryant received the ball, he made a three-threat move to face Liu Han, Liu Han let Kobe take more than one step, he knew that Kobe Bryant had a shot, so he didn't dare to let Kobe shoot easily.

Kobe took the ball and tried to step, and then suddenly accelerated to the right side to break through, Liu Han's lateral movement was very fast, stuck Kobe's breakthrough route, but Kobe Bryant dribbled behind and then stepped back very quickly to make a jumper, Liu Han's center of gravity did not keep up, and he could only watch Kobe Bryant shoot a three-point shot.

Kobe Bryant didn't provoke Liu Han, because he learned this set of moves just now after imitating Liu Han.

Although Kobe Bryant did not provoke Liu Han, Liu Han still saw his strong desire to challenge from Kobe's eyes, but Liu Han didn't plan to pay attention to this, he just wanted to play well now and win.

Nash dribbled past half-court, and Cassel quickly stuck to it, knowing that Nash wasn't fast enough to defend closely.

Nash didn't dribble the ball more, but handed the ball to O'Neal in the high post, O'Neal took the ball and made a feint to catch the ball and pass the ball, which caused Jason Williams' center of gravity to shift, and then O'Neal directly accelerated past Williams with the ball, and after entering the three-second zone, O'Neal flew up and completed the dunk, he was in good shape today, and he had a great desire to attack.

The game continued, the Nets played very well today, with Kassel controlling the rhythm, with Van Horn to respond to the pass, Kobe Bryant, who had a strong desire to win, had a very good chance to play, Liu Han's defense was very tight, but after having the cover of his teammates, Kobe still scored a lot of points.

Eight minutes into the first quarter, the Nets led the Lakers by 5 points at 26-21, and Kobe Bryant scored 12 points alone, producing less than half of the team.

Liu Han usually plays the first quarter before resting, but today George directly replaced Liu Han in eight minutes and replaced it with Kittels as a shooting guard.

The change of the Lakers team made the Nets a little confused, they didn't know what George Krent was thinking, so Liu Han was replaced early because this guy was injured? The players of the Nets can't help but speculate.

In fact, this is George playing without Liu Han in the strengthening team, if in the final finals, Liu Han unexpectedly absent from the game or was killed by the opponent, then the Lakers will definitely be difficult to play with their current dependence on Liu Han, so George should let the players get used to how to play in Liu Han's absence as soon as possible.

Without Liu Han, Kobe's desire to win has dropped by half, and what he wants to do most now is to score under Liu Han's defense, but George Krent directly wiped out his desire.

After Liu Han went off the court, Nash began to control the game, and he felt that since the Nets' interior line was not strong, he would simply let O'Neal have a good time today.

Before this game, the defensive training arranged by the head coach was mainly to defend the outside, but now the Lakers suddenly played inside, so the Nets' preparation fell into embarrassment. (To be continued.) )