Chapter 397: The Longest Streak of the Season!
"It was a very interesting game, we got an interesting win in Orlando, we showed our tenacity to everyone in this game, so in my opinion, we have no problem winning this game"
"Shaq? Shaq is a very good player, we've had a good relationship and we talked after the game, he wasn't in his normal shape in this game, he had a terrible hand, he missed a lot of goals in this game, but we all know he won't be like that in the next game."
"Shaq surpassed Joe Falks to become the third-highest single-game iron in NBA history in this game, behind me and Michael? Hahahaha, it's very interesting, you know, most people don't have that ability, whether it's me or Michael or Shaq, we're all unbeatable players, we can score a lot of points, but sometimes we do have some problems, God can never be there for us all the time, so, I think whether it's me or Michael or Shaq, we don't care too much about these things, except for you, of course."
"The Lakers' shrinking defense in this game? That's really what I set up in the game, because there's no way around it, Shaq is so strong, whether we defend or not, he can shoot the basketball in his hand, so I told my teammates, let's give up, don't care about that fat guy, we just hold on to the basket, and in the end I'm happy that my teammates did a great job, they played an incredible game, we beat one of the best interior teams in the league, and that's not my creditI'm going to thank my teammates for this game, they're the best bunch of guys in the entire NBA."
The Lakers' away game with the Magic team is definitely the most bizarre game of the season, in this game, as an inside team, the Magic team's shooting rate has not exceeded 40, as one of the league's four major centers, O'Neal set a single-game iron record for NBA interior players, and even at the end of this game, the Lakers, as the opponent, actually followed Lin Han to deliberately send the rebound to O'Neal's hands, but O'Neal just missed, Although such a game cannot be said to be intense, the Lakers are almost the lead of the whole game, the Magic team almost does not have any pressure on the Lakers in the score, the same is in the situation of the game, the Magic team has been pressing the Lakers to play, and the Lakers have not put any pressure on the Magic team in the situation of the game, this is a game that seems impossible to happen, a team with such a big advantage actually lost in the end, and lost so much? Why is that? Obviously, after the game, everyone's focus was on O'Neal, who was crazy about the iron in this game, and in just this game, O'Neal surpassed Chamberlain and Falkes to become the third iron king, second only to Lin Han and Jordan.
Even after the game, O'Neal, who has always been quite optimistic and childish, had the urge to cry under Lin Han's comfort, this Nima is afraid that he never thought that he would play such a game in his career, you know, before, when Lin Han hit iron 62 times and Jordan hit iron 55 times, as a super player in the league, O'Neal certainly couldn't help but express his opinion on such a thing, in the face of Lin Han and Jordan's crazy iron, In O'Neal's opinion, as an inside player, it is impossible for him to have such a thing as Lin Han and Jordan, but in the end, he didn't expect that Lin Han did it, Jordan did it, and he O'Neal also did it, who is this Nima looking for? You know, he shot 20 of 26 in the last game, and this game directly became like this.
Of course, Lin Han, who was interviewed after the game, thought of O'Neill, who was comforted by himself just now, with an almost speechless and helpless expression of disbelief on the outside, Lin Han felt funny, which made this dead fat man so underwhelmed before, and whether he dared to laugh at the fact that he hit iron 62 times in the future.
Although O'Neal faced his terrifying iron number after the game, the inside player of the Magic team was really quite unbelievable, but fortunately, this optimistic big man was very good under the adjustment of his form, and when Lin Han comforted him, the big fat man quickly recovered, and immediately shouted that he would abuse Lin Han hard next time to regain face, and it seems that the leading player of the Magic team also knows that this time he is going to be tragic. And what's even more tragic is that his MVP this year is estimated to be out of play.
Ordinary people are likely to have some extreme problems when they encounter such a blow, but O'Neal didn't let Lin Han feel this, and this is also what Lin Han admires O'Neal very much, when he was in his rookie career to the present, in the face of the abuse of the three centers at the beginning, he can become stronger and stronger, and he has made great progress almost every season, and even became the fourth center in this season, O'Neal's anti-attack ability is simply the person who has the template of the protagonist of the knight's novel.
Of course, even if it is a player who generally has the ability to resist the impact of the protagonist template, in the case of such a situation, Lin Han is a little uncertain, after this game, when Lin Han and the Lakers players left Orlando and returned to Los Angeles, almost the whole United States was frantically discussing this game, obviously, the focus of this game is not Lin Han, who scored 41 points, but O'Neal, who was crazy in the game to complete the third goal in history.
After all, before this game, O'Neal was pinned on by most of the media, after all, he was the only player who could pose a threat to Lin Han in this season's MVP, and now O'Neal is like this, Lin Han almost established his position as the MVP of the regular season after this game, as long as the Lakers do not have a large-scale losing streak in the following games, as long as the Lakers can end the season safely, no one can compete with Lin Han, it can be said that the greater the hopes that these people have for O'Neal, The greater the disappointment in this game, in this case, even O'Neill has always been the darling of the media, and at this time he has encountered an extremely severe public opinion, and this has directly shifted the focus of the media from Lin Han's body to O'Neal's body.
Therefore, when the focus of the media shifted, Lin Han was still a little worried about whether O'Neill could hold on, but in the end, after seeing the character value on his attribute panel that stopped declining, Lin Han also threw these worries aside.
On March 12, 1995, the Los Angeles Lakers returned to their home court to face the Pacers, who are currently third in the East, this year's East because of the disbandment and reconstruction of the New York Knicks, the aging of the Cavaliers and the Hawks, plus some infighting such as the Hornets, the record of the Eastern teams this year is generally quite bad, before this season, the situation in the league has always been equal between East and West, sometimes the Eastern regular season is a little better, sometimes the West is a little better, of course, even if it is not much better, overall, The record of the East and West is about the same, but in this season, the top eight teams in the West, the record of any team can now be thrown into the top three in the East, even the Nuggets in the eighth place in the East have a record of 38-22, and the Pacers, who are third in the East, now have a record of 37-23, that is, this year, except for the Magic and the Bulls, any team thrown into the West will really not even be able to enter the playoffs.
As far as the battle between the East and West teams this season is concerned, according to some media statistics, the winning rate of the western team against the eastern team is as high as an astonishing 68, while the entire eastern team, the winning rate of the western team can exceed 50% There are only the Bulls and the Magic, and the other teams are almost one-sided against the western team.
In this case, many teams have even considered playing away from home in the East this season as an adjustment, which would have been almost impossible in previous years.
As for the Lakers' opponent today, the Pacers, the third-place team in the East has encountered quite a lot of problems this season, just a little less than other Eastern teams, but this team is just the team leader Reggie Miller has not been able to find his game feeling from the changes in the league's three-point line, and it is actually quite rare for this team to achieve such results this season.
When the Pacers, who have been on an almost overall decline this season, meet the Lakers, who are currently in quite good shape, and are still playing on the road in consecutive Western Conference trips, you can imagine how difficult this game will be.
Although the Pacers are a strong team on the inside, the Dutchman Schmitz of this team is not the kind of interior that the Lakers are afraid of, this soft style of interior is definitely Rodman's favorite, and Rodman, who took a break in the last game, after coming back in this game, the state and fighting spirit are quite good, after all, his teammates have become so good in the face of O'Neal, and if he can't handle this European in the face of Schmitz this time, it will be really embarrassing.
In this case, this game between the Lakers and the Pacers was almost directly one-sided, just like when the Lakers were away from the Pacers, and the Pacers were also in great trouble against the Lakers in that game.
112 to 101, the Los Angeles Lakers at home defeated the Pacers by 11 points in this game, and in this game, Lin Han scored 46 points on 16 of 29 shots in the game, Reggie Miller shot 4 of 11, and the three-point shot was only 2 of 5, which is not that Reggie Miller is unwilling to shoot more, but because after the three-point line is shortened, his running space is greatly reduced, for running players, it is very important whether the space is enough, if the space is too little, The team's cover is not in place, and the opponent's defensive players are extremely strong, so it is quite difficult, Reggie Miller has encountered a lot of difficulties like this game this season, Reggie Miller's offensive efficiency this season is the lowest value since his rookie first two seasons, but the ball use rate is the highest, that is to say, many times when Reggie Miller's running position is not so easy, more choose his own ball-holding offense, so this season Reggie Miller has more free throws than in previous seasons, I have to say, Reggie Miller is a pretty smart player who knows how to use his advantage very well, because he knows that even if he has a difficult offense, others will not give up on his shots, and he has no problem if he wants to make fouls.
It's just that, in the absence of a new game mode, even if it can be so flexible, but this is not a real Reggie Miller after all, as far as Lin Han is concerned, isn't what he fears most about Reggie Miller is Reggie Miller's ability to run and attack that can almost humiliate him? If there is no absolute advantage in the running position, Reggie Miller will not play as well as Lin Han in other aspects.
"Reggie, I'm sure you'll be able to find your way of playing again"
Therefore, after the end of this game, Lin Han also comforted after seeing this somewhat depressed friend, and Reggie Miller shook his head helplessly in the end.
Although his ability is indeed all-round and quite good, how can it be so easy to regain the feeling of the game before, so when he saw Reggie Miller leave the court a little depressed, Lin Han was also quite helpless.
Before, because Lin Han was a basketball novice, he basically didn't have any understanding of the history of the NBA, he used to always listen to his teammates and coaches say that changing any rule in the league will have a huge impact on the league, which he didn't have so intuitive cognition before, but now from his friend's side, Lin Han really understands it, especially when he sees his teammate Ruffin's current situation, as a rookie, Ruffin can be called the rookie's biggest discovery this season, Trevoluffin's kid has been promoted from the position of a rotation fringe player at the beginning of the season to the position of the seventh man on the team now, and the average points per game in the season are only lower than Linham, Dominic Wilkins and Eddie Jones and Van Axel, and the average points per game in the season have also come to an average of 11 points per game, and the three-point shooting rate has reached 39, compared with Reggie Miller, Ruffin's comprehensive strength is simply incomparable, according to the rules of last season, this guy wants three points without three points, and he has no breakthrough to break through, The shooting is not stable, the passing does not have much vision, and the technique is not very good, this is a typical player who has no effect, but the league only moved the three-point line one meter inside, and this player who can't do anything becomes an excellent three-point shooter, who is this Nima to reason.
Of course, there are many beneficiary players like Ruffin in the league, but this is all rewarded on top of the pain of players like Reggie Miller, even a shooter of Reggie Miller's level has been made so miserable by a rule change in the league, you can imagine what other players will be like, especially when Lin Han thought that Jordan god Nima could actually reach a three-point shooting rate of 45, Lin Han was even a little unworthy for Reggie Miller.
Because Reggie Miller is Lin Han's friend, Lin Han is a little unworthy of Reggie Miller, this is certain, however, the rules of the league are not Lin Han said that they can be changed, since the league wants to be in line with international basketball, then I am afraid that there will be more and more rule changes in the future, and even if the league is frenzied to allow joint defense, thinking that joint defense is no longer illegal defense, I am afraid that those breakthrough players in the league will have to cry.
When the Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Pacers at home on March 12 to win the twelfth consecutive win in the last 12 games, and then two days later, on March 14, the Los Angeles Lakers visited Golden State to face the Warriors, who are currently seventh in the West, this team's record is similar to the Pacers, but in terms of strength, the Warriors are stronger, and this team even has the strength of the top five in the West, the reason why this team is currently seventh in the West is not because of strength, but because this team has too many injuries, Chris Mullin has finally returned recently, the team's two big inside linemen, Secali and Gugliotta, have been injured again, and throughout the season, the team has hardly exceeded 20 games when it is fully staffed, so far Chris Mullin has only played less than 10 games, Secali has only played more than 20 games, and Gugliotta is slightly better, but this game is also a slight hamstring strain, in this case, In fact, because of the team's large-scale injuries this season, Sterling only averaged 15 minutes per game in the regular season last season, and this season has reached an average of 26 minutes per game, and the average number of games per game has also come to 14+8, with Sterling's playing time, it is quite rare to be able to get such a number, even if there is no Sterling this season, The Warriors' record this year is likely to be even worse.
However, although the thickness of the Warriors' lineup is quite good, but the Warriors who lacked Secali and Gugliotta in this game are still a little behind the Lakers in terms of strength, originally the team's biggest advantage over the Lakers is their inside, but now even with Sterling, the Warriors' inside line does not have such a big advantage in the face of the Lakers, as for the outside, although the Lakers' outside line is not as good as the Bulls' level, but it is definitely not much worse than the Warriors, plus Lin Han continues to serve as the team's center in this game, Like last season's playoffs, Lin Han's damage to the Warriors' offense is simply so great that the Warriors' new coach this season, Silver Fox Harris, is a little unbelievable.
"If the team can't suppress Lin Han on the inside, this group of outside players of the Warriors can't face Lin Han at all?!"
Seeing that Chris Mullin and Sprewell and even Tim Hardaway, the king of change of direction, were a little restrained when facing Lin Han, Harris was also frowning when he stood on the sidelines at this time.
You know, now that the Lakers have won 12 games in a row, the pressure on the Spurs, who are second in the West, is also increasing, in this case, it is possible that the Lakers will be ranked second in the West after the end of the season, and if the Warriors are ranked seventh in the West, it will be bad, especially when Sekari does not know when he will return, and it seems a little unlikely that the team will beat the Lakers with a small run like last season.
"What a hassle"
When this game ended, looking at the score of 118-105 on the sidelines, Harris also said helplessly, although he coached the Warriors very well, and the team's chaos when the old Nelson left was also alleviated, but as a person, since he left the Bucks and came to the Warriors, he didn't just want to enter the playoffs, he wanted to make a difference in the team, since he wanted to make a difference, of course, he could never let his team just be a round of the playoffs.
However, what makes Harris extremely helpless is that the competition in the West this season is unbelievably big, with the current record of the Warriors, whether it is the East or the West in previous years, it must be the top five in the West, but the seventh in the West is unstable this season.
How can it be so easy for the Warriors to make a difference this season, in the entire West, except for the Rockets, who are sure to enter the second round, I am afraid that no other team dares to say that they will be able to reach the second round, this is this year's Western shape, it is too difficult.
"However, with the sharpness of the Lakers this year, I'm afraid that the second place in the West will really be obtained by them?!"
When he thought of this, Harris, the head coach of the Warriors, looked at Lin Han, who was greeting Sprewell after the game, on the court, and felt a little complicated for a while.
Originally, he had a chance to be the head coach of the Lakers this year, and he also had a chance to be the head coach of Lin Han, but in the end, he came to the Warriors.
When thinking of this, Harris looked at the Magic on the side and was a little full of envy and jealousy, although a good head coach should not envy other teams for having better players, but this also depends on the situation, if it is a player of the level of Lin Han and Jordan, it can really make people envious and hateful.
With Harris's eyesight, of course, he can see that if the Lakers don't have Lin Han this season, just the remaining people, it will not be so easy to get 20 wins in the season, but in fact, after having Lin Han, the Lakers' record has a great chance to reach 60 wins!
That's 60 wins, and a player can improve a team's record so much, even Jordan and Chamberlain may not be able to do it, right?
As a cancer single-core team, Lin Han was able to break the cancer limit of fifty wins, which simply made professionals like Harris fall through their glasses!
"If I were the head coach of the Lakers this season, I would have been able to do better than the Magic, and if the Warriors could have a player like Lynchal, we would have won the championship!"
When he thought of this, Harris felt that his feelings were becoming more and more unbalanced, but it was clear that how could this kind of thing be if?
After this game, Lin Han was coveted by Harris, and Lin Han definitely didn't know about his being favored by Harris, because after this game, the entire Lakers team was attracted by a news.
The Spurs visited Orlando on March 14 to face the Magic, the team lost 104-110 to the Magic on the road, in this game David Robinson still defeated O'Neal, David Robinson scored 34 points and 13 rebounds on 12-of-21 shooting, and O'Neal still has not been able to get out of the haze of being criticized by public opinion in recent times, the game continued to slump 24 shots and only scored 28 points in 10 shots, but, although O'Neal was a little sluggish in this game, But O'Neal in this game didn't shoot like when he was with the Lakers, even if he felt bad, he shot crazy, O'Neal in this game was actually playing for Hardaway, mainly defending David Robinson, and the offense was only secondary, which also made Hardaway almost explode the Spurs' three outside Ceballos, Jalen Rose and Little General Johnson in this game, and the defensive end prevented Little General Johnson from making 6 turnovers, and the offensive end made Ceballos a foul crisis, Only 25 minutes of normal play were played.
This also directly made David Robinson defeat O'Neal, and finally the Spurs actually lost because of their own outside explosion, I have to say that this is quite uncomfortable for the Spurs, and it also makes David Robinson know that this season's O'Neal is no longer the O'Neal who will lose last season or last season's team as long as he is blown up, although O'Neal will not grow so much in strength, but he has made great progress in controlling the game.
Of course, how O'Neal or David Robinson or even Hardaway in this game is not the focus of the Lakers, the Lakers' focus is that when this game is over, the Lakers and the Spurs have exactly the same record, and more importantly, the record of the two sides is also 2 to 2, and even the other divisional records are the same for both teams, which means that now the Lakers and Spurs have exactly the same record, and the Spurs still occupy the second position, because this team has a slightly higher record than the Lakers against the league's playoff teams, and simply put, the Lakers lose a little more against the strong teams.
But in any case, the Lakers, who have won 13 in a row, have tied the Clippers in the West in terms of record with a record of 48 wins and 14 losses.
"Boss, as long as we can win two more games, your MVP will be stable, boss!"
Of course, the Spurs' loss made Lin Han and Lakers fans quite happy, and more importantly, now the Lakers' record has come to 48 wins, for a single-nuclear cancer team, 50 wins is a threshold, as long as it passes 50 wins, Lin Han has the legal qualification to win the MVP, Jordan used this record to win the MVP back then, although there was some controversy at the time because the Bulls' record was not so good, but since Jordan took it, Lin Han has a basis for taking it.
With the Lakers' current record, this team is unlikely to be worse than Jordan's Bulls in terms of record, and the key is that after getting this record, it can ease the Lakers players who have been a little nervous because of the winning streak.
When the Spurs lost and the entire Lakers players were thinking about making persistent efforts to win two games, on March 17, the Los Angeles Lakers welcomed the Boston Celtics, a former NBA giant team that is currently in the process of rebuilding, after three days of correction in Los Angeles.
If the meeting between the Lakers and the Celtics was five or six years ago, it would have been the most high-profile game in the league, but the meeting between the two teams has been put into the present, and the Lakers are still one of the best teams in the league because of Linhan, but the Celtics, this team is in decline.
In terms of record, the Celtics, who are now only 24-38, are no match for the Lakers, and if it weren't for the collective decline in the East this season, the Celtics would not have been able to rank eighth in the East at all.
Although the Celtics now seem to be in the playoff area, Lin Han knows that Celtics fans are not happy about the team's arrival in eighth place in the East with this record, but shame.
Especially after Celtics fans knew that their favorite Larry Bird had recommended Lin Han to the team, but was rejected by the team's group of bureaucrats from the cardinal, this group of Celtics fans was quite dissatisfied with the team's group of management, as for how did Celtic fans know that Larry Bird recommended Lin Han to the Cardinal? Of course, this is what Lin Han said, Lin Han once laughed and said that he almost went to the Celtics when he was an All-Star, and finally came to the Lakers because he didn't fit the team culture of the Celtics, and Larry Bird desperately wanted him to join the Celtics at that time.
Of course, although the Celtics' current situation is not much better than that of the Jazz, this team is the greatest giant in NBA history after all, and this time the opponent is the Lakers, in this case, Lin Han is still quite careful.
And in fact, the Celtics played really well in this game, and the whole team was almost all soldiers, if it weren't for the fact that this team didn't have superstar players, and was a little flustered by the Lakers' full-court tight defense at a critical moment in the fourth quarter, and finally lost the game, this team was ahead of the Lakers in the first three quarters, which is really anti-guest-oriented!
Similarly, although the Celtics finally lost to the Lakers 111-116 in this game, they were able to force the Lakers to rely on Lin Han's 56-point score and 24 points in the fourth quarter to win, and the Celtics players are extremely rare.
After defeating the Celtics at home on March 17, the Lakers defeated the Kings 124-114 at home on March 19, and after the Lakers won this game, the team also won 15 in a straight row!
And when the Los Angeles Lakers won 15 consecutive victories and won the longest winning streak in the NBA this season, the media focus that had been diverted was once again shifted to the Lakers!
With 50 wins and 14 losses, Lin Han won the critical point record of MVP!
At the same time, Lin Han's average points per game are now only 0.3 points away from Jordan!
"Lin Hannian is coming!"
Therefore, when the Lakers defeated the Kings at home, Lin Han scored 48 points, 9 rebounds and 8 assists in the face of Richmond's defense, almost the headline of the sports section of the entire American media the next day was this headline! R1152