18 wins in a row!! The Lakers and Heat are neck-and-neck!! Who can keep a longer winning streak??? —Los Angeles Times.

Lakers double kill Thunder! Kobe Bryant doubles to kill Durant! Now his MVP opponent may only be Miami No. 6! - Lakers Nation.

The Spaniards wake up! The whole Lakers team says welcome back! - Lakers Nation.

James thinks Kobe Bryant is still a top-three player in the league this season, but he's not ready to concede MVP. - Yahoo Sports.

According to the grapevine, James urged the Heat team to continue their winning streak and must keep it longer than the Lakers! - FOX Sports.

The Problem Behind the Lakers' Victory! See what experts say about the Lakers' 18-game winning streak! ——ESPN。

Internal contradictions erupt! There was a fierce quarrel between Dongfang Ran and Gasol's bench! The scene almost got out of control! ——ESPN。

The Lakers are a rope hanging from the top of the mountain, temporarily conspicuous, but once something happens, it will completely collapse! - Henry. Abbott.

The next game is the key game, and the Lakers will face the top seed in the West, the San Antonio Spurs, back-to-back! ——. Official website.

A talisman for 18 consecutive wins! There have been seven teams in NBA history with an 18-game winning streak, and five of them had the last laugh! Not counting the Lakers and Heat this season, the chances of winning the championship are as high as 7 percent! - Sports Illustrated.

Multiple reporters said that the winning streak will be a battle between the open and the dark, as they will definitely take this factor into account when voting for the MVP at the end of the season. —The New York Times.

Now the Lakers' season power rankings have changed again, and Kobe Bryant's MVP mock voting ranking has also risen from the original third to the current second. And Durant slipped directly from first to third.

This is the magic of direct confrontation, which has a great impact on the number of votes in the impression stream.

But it was cheaper than James, and he still led the way.

But the advantage is very weak.

The next two games will be the "touchstones" of the Lakers' season, which are the San Anthony Spurs back-to-back tonight, and then after a 5-day rest, they will transfer to the Staples Center and continue to play against the Spurs. It's another strange schedule! Two battles against the Thunder, and then two against the Spurs, I really don't know what the league thought at the beginning.

But there is nothing to complain about, because this kind of thing happened to the Lakers in the 13-14 season.

Coincidentally, it is also a double battle of thunder and then a double battle of spurs, this girl is forcing people to death.

However, under Bryant's head wolf leadership, no one is ready to give up.

This season, every game is played seriously, which can be regarded as a goal and a promise that Kobe Bryant set for himself before the start of the season. He is paranoid and will use all his energy and willpower to finish him off.

This point gave Tang Qian a great infection.

Because now the league has begun to "rotate rest", and it was Popovich who began to turn it into a "norm" at the earliest. But there are not many teams used in the league. But with the retirement of the season, by the 13-14 season, the injury-free rotation has been as high as 42 times a season. And before that? 12-13 just eight times, with the Spurs accounting for more than half. 0 in the 11-12 season and 20 in the 10-11 season. You think that's the limit? No, in fact, since the 13-14 season, this "rotation" battle has just begun, and next season the original time and space will have as many as 79 injury-free rotations, what about the 15-16 season? It doubled again, to 145 times. What about the 16-17 season? Up to 310+ times!!

So the rotation became a trend, and the league finally couldn't bear it, and at the end of the 16-17 season, Adam. Sival made a speech to punish this kind of unwarranted rotation. Compared to the 2012 Spurs' avoidance of the Heat, which led to the tastelessness of the national live broadcast, and the angry penalty of $250,000 was more and heavier. No, if you do it dozens of times in a season, that's fine. In the 16-17 season, the whole season was as high as 310+, and it has increased dozens of times compared to before in only 5 years, mainly because the trend is still breaking out every year, skyrocketing every year, which is definitely a huge word-of-mouth and credibility blow to the league that has just signed a 9-year 24 billion broadcast contract.

However, this did not exist for the old school players in the past, and now everyone is following the same, and Popovich was suddenly pushed to the forefront. But he wears many hats at the Spurs' top as both coach and senior management, so he is not afraid of fines at all. The future is still my own way, and you have a good plan, I have a bridge and ladder, and it is not okay to take a break without injury, so I will engage in "injury shift", right? There are policies and countermeasures.

But you are by Kobe's side, and you are not by Kobe's side who is riddled with serious injuries as before, you don't have this opportunity.

Because this thing is top-down, the master will not do this, ordinary players dare to do it? Dare to slacken?

Leading by example in some areas does have super appeal and personal charm, after all, a word can block you.

Toil. Zi is the boss has not rested or played soy sauce, why are you doing this? Do you deserve it?

So, I thought it would be a difficult back-to-back matchup, but 2 hours before the start of the game that night, the Lakers players received such a message:

Spurs Duncan, Parker, Ginobili, Kawai. Leonard's four main players, all of whom are absent, will not play tonight!!

For a while, the Lakers players were surprised and delighted.

Don't look at the No. 13 Lakers and Thunder fighting hard, but the No. 13 Spurs also fought with the Pacers, the top player in the East, until overtime, they can be separated. The aging of the Spurs' lineup is much more serious than that of the Lakers, so resting after the vicious game has become a common means for head coach Popovich.

Without these four people, even if the Spurs have unity and team effectiveness, they will not be able to beat the Los Angeles Lakers this season. Even under the leadership of Popovich, the Spurs did play well and were resilient, but they couldn't change the final outcome.

The Lakers scored 30 points in the first quarter, and the Spurs got off to a rough start, scoring just 19 points. But in the second quarter, the Spurs suddenly played a sense of wholeness, and that kind of perfect ball handling and experienced team cooperation was really enough to make most teams in the league extremely embarrassed. Especially the 3-pointer, he hit 9 in a single quarter, and the shooting rate was as high as more than 80%, which made the Lakers not react at once. At 55-54 at halftime, the Lakers led the Spurs by just one point.

This is not unusual, when Popovich used an all-bench lineup against the peak Miami, people thought it was a massacre, but in the end, the plot direction was that the Spurs and the Heat played inextricably. If it weren't for the unfavorable handling of the key ball in the end, maybe the counterattack would have been successful. It can be seen from this that a super-stable core team has what kind of terrifying and destructive power it has.

When it comes to coaching the entire team and running the entire team, Popovich is the strongest godfather in the league.

Jerry. West couldn't even compare to him.

Coaching and management select players, grasp the player, and have a stable core and team culture, which is the key to the Spurs' 20-year success. Nearly 20 years, 20 seasons are almost 50+ wins, what is this concept? This means that the Spurs have never completely declined in the West, and before the playoffs have started, they have to occupy a spot in advance.

And in this game, Popovich, an old fox, is still training by the way, experimenting with different new combinations and new tactics. This kind of attitude is really depressing and infuriating!

But the fire is big, and the game process cannot be taken lightly at all, and the Lakers once trailed the opponent by 4 points in the third quarter. Fortunately, Gasol hit consecutive inside shots, and Tang Qian grabbed 2 frontcourt rebounds in a row, which stabilized the situation and did not let the Spurs beat the overall morale all at once.

In the last quarter, it was naturally Kobe Bryant who began to perform, but he almost didn't "hold on" in this game.

It seems that consecutive away back-to-back games are a huge burden for No. 24, which has consumed most of the season, and the direct impact and effect of this is that the key ability has declined and the hitting rate has declined. But with a three-pointer and two free throws at the last moment, he helped the Lakers lay the final victory.

In this game, Kobe Bryant still scored more than 40 points, a full 41 points, but the shooting rate was only a little more than 43%, which is far from his season shooting rate this season.

In the end, the key ball was 1 of 6 shots, which was also a small signal.

The Lakers won by just three points, 95-92, extending their winning streak to 19 games.

However, no one was too happy to win this game, because this Spurs team is an all-bench lineup, and it can even be called the second Spurs team. The Lakers and Spurs are playing like this, what if those four are there?

So at the post-match press conference, Popovich didn't look like a loser at all, but answered reporters' questions slowly and methodically. The main focus is actually discussing the Spurs' new tactical positioning and new lineup combination experiment tonight:

I think the Lakers are a good team, but tonight we had a great team. Patrick. Mills was accurate on three-pointers tonight and did a good job of cutting around the pile; Danny was as tough as ever defensively, and I think he proved himself tonight to not just shoot three-pointers but do anything else; Thiago's strategy is also much better than before, and I think he can do a new covering tactic with Thiem, but what it is, I won't explain it now......

Etcetera.

This old man doesn't take record and winning streak seriously at all.

Well, it's also the reason why the Spurs' record has always been very stable, so there is capital to give him such a test and squander it like this.

The Lakers are very happy here, Kobe Bryant and others answered the questions and ended the topic in a few words, if it weren't for D'Antoni who was still "active", I really don't know if the Lakers won or the Spurs won tonight.

It was as if a fist had hit the cotton ball.

It's depressing.

But Popovich didn't go too far, and when asked about the next game between the Spurs and Lakers on March 19, Popovich said:

Of course, next time we'll do our best to win at the Staples Center.

The answer was slick, but it fit Popovich's personality very well.

The Spurs are like this, many people like it, and many people don't feel it anymore, thinking that the way this team plays is a bit too different and lacks the passion of American basketball.

But competitive sports, in the end, the results speak, Popovich has brought countless honors to the Spurs, 5 tops, and seemingly long-lasting vitality. This is enough to make people who don't like it not have much strength to get dark.

What's more, this season, the team attributes of the Spurs will reach a historical peak!

It's also one of the strongest teams in history.

In the 13-14 season, the Spurs did not have a player who averaged more than 17 points per game in the regular season, no interior player who averaged more than 10+ rebounds per game, and no backcourt who averaged more than 6+ assists per game. The strongest basket protector is Duncan Sr., who averages less than 2+ blocks per game. Well, but it's such a team, but the Miami Big Three, who played ambitiously in the Finals, almost got their heads shaved!!

Outscored opponents by 14 points!!

Such a civilian data attribute has produced a historical-level qualitative change under the super high team tacit understanding and chemical reaction.

One of the extremes of true team basketball.

13-14, San Antonio Spurs.

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