For the NBA, there are many ways to distinguish between strong and ordinary strong teams, and sometimes some teams that are not very ranked are stronger than some high-ranked teams in the minds of the media and fans, although such a situation is generally not much in the NBA, and one or two teams like to play dead in the regular season in a season.

In general, it is quite simple to distinguish between a strong team and an ordinary strong team under normal circumstances, that is, directly look at the ranking of the regular season, the top four in the division are the strong teams, such teams are very likely to compete for the division championship, and even win the championship in the playoffs, in the history of the NBA, in the past 50 years, the NBA championships have appeared in the top four teams in the regular season division, that is, the regular season ranking is lower than the top four teams, There is absolutely no way to win the championship!

In fact, this is also very simple, the ranking is lower than the top four teams, which means that from the first round, there is no home advantage, from the first round, to the second round, all the way to the third round, and finally to the finals, the entire four rounds of the game, each round has no home advantage, and they are all playing stronger than their own team, such a situation is understandable to upset once, two upsets are considered a miracle, as for three upsets and four upsets, it is basically impossible!

Therefore, don't look at it before, Lin Han always likes to say in interviews that his Lakers have always set their goals in the championship position, in this way, everyone can really say it, after all, the mouth grows on his mouth, how to say it. No one cares, but these declarations of Lin Han, or these declarations of the Lakers. Many NBA experts or journalists and media just laughed and laughed, and no one believed it at all!

Even some time ago. The Lakers' performance is very good, and even has won 14 consecutive games, and when Lin Han says that his team is going to compete for the championship, no one will believe it, because the Lakers have always been ranked sixth!

In the history of the NBA, there has not been a sixth-place regular-season team that has won a championship, let alone sixth, not even fifth. The reason why the Nuggets were so crazy as the seventh in the West last season was that almost the whole United States was shaken, because the Nuggets almost slashed the sound and the Rockets in a row with the seventh ranking, and they were only one step away from creating a zào miracle, but in the end they fell short!

Therefore, in the current NBA, if you want to compete for the championship, it is useless to just talk about it, you have to take real action, if you can't get into the top four in the regular season. Saying anything is empty, the first four and the last four are really worlds apart.

It is precisely because of this that when the Lakers beat the Suns on the road to finish in the top four. The reason why the media and fans in the United States are so crazy is because to put it simply, Lin Han and the Lakers are really qualified to compete for the championship!

Who could have imagined that a team that was considered to have no chance of making the playoffs before the start of the season, and a team that was considered the most popular to be the top pick, was actually qualified to compete for the championship? This is even more unbelievable than Lin Han's regular season MVP this season!

After all, the regular season MVP, although it has a lot to do with the record, the most important thing is actually the ability to count on the basis of a certain record. At least before the start of the season, there are definitely more people who believe that Lin Han will win the MVP than there are people who believe that the Lakers will enter the top four in the West!

Of course. After the Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Suns on the road and stepped into the top four in the West, the entire NBA public opinion was really sensational. Last season's Finals MVP seems to be on the championship waiting list again this season, although the Lakers are only fourth in the West, in the top four in the West, it even seems that in addition to the third Jazz, they can beat, the first Rockets and the second Spurs all seem to be higher than the Lakers, and even the Rockets are undefeated in the face of the Lakers so far this season, so from this point of view, let alone the championship, even if it is impossible to break out of the West.

But what seems impossible doesn't necessarily mean impossible, at least, the Lakers have this qualification, and they didn't even have this qualification before!

So when the Lakers came back from Phoenix, when these guys walked out of the Los Angeles airport, they were almost greeted by a large number of Los Angeles media and fans.

There is no way, the last time the Lakers reached the top four in the division was the 9o-91 season, the Lakers and Magic Johnson that season, and after that season, it has been four seasons, as the former No. 1 team in the league, most of the current Lakers fans have grown up watching the Magic's game, although the fans of the Los Angeles Lakers and Celtics seem to be more patient than the fans of many other teams, and there will be no such mob mentality, but, This doesn't mean that they can really be content with their team being in the lower ranking, usually they don't put pressure on the team and the players, they just don't feel the need, it's not that they don't want their team to be higher.

And now, when the Lakers finally finish in the top four again, it's a very memorable moment indeed.

Of course, the fans of the Los Angeles Lakers have been in the top four for a while after the Lakers have reached the top four, it is really crazy, and the whole Los Angeles has even fallen into ecstasy, Lin Han and Jerry West have once again become the objects of praise from the Los Angeles media and fans, if Jerry West refused the Suns trade and chose to keep Lin Han, there is a large part of the media that is not so supportive, then now, when the Lakers directly stepped on the Suns to reach fourth in the West, almost all of these voices disappeared at this time.

Joke, the champion-level Suns who looked incomparably strong before are now sixth in the West, and they are still ranked below the Los Angeles Lakers, that is to say, the current Los Angeles Lakers have surpassed the Suns in terms of value, and this value is still the current value, with the growth of Lin Han's strength and the growth of Lakers players, the Lakers will definitely be stronger in the future than now!

In this case, unless you are a fool to accept a trade offer from the Suns, it has to be said that the general manager of the Suns, Colangelo, is really a visionary. At the beginning, he directly chose to stun the Lakers and Jerry West, but in the end, although most of the Lakers management and media did show signs of being stunted. But in the end, Jerry West still held on to the bottom line, and when the Los Angeles Lakers stepped on the Suns to climb into the top four in the West. I'm afraid that at this time, the Lakers owner of Phoenix, old Buss, will be quite complicated in his heart!

For the Los Angeles Lakers, as long as this team can maintain the fourth place in the West at the end of the season, then with the team's financial resources and the team's strong ranking, then this team's attraction in the free market this summer will definitely be stronger than last summer's one. thinks that the Magic can beat the Bulls with him, and if the Lakers also had a strong position in the fourth division in the first place, Grant may have come to the Lakers.

Of course. This summer's events are still a bit far away, and the Los Angeles Lakers players aren't thinking that far away when they return to Los Angeles.

When the Lakers players returned to Los Angeles after consecutive road trips, there was a very big change within the team, that is, the old man who has been in the legend, the former head coach of Princeton University, the creator of Princeton's tactics, Pete Carell, who has been a little grateful, and the short and fat old man who smiles a little squint does not look like a godfather coach full of majesty and fame. On the contrary, he is like an old grandfather next door.

This white bald pudgy old man came to the team when the Lakers were on an away trip, and this guy came to the team two days ago, according to the previous head coach of the team, Magic Johnson. The old man originally planned to come to the team at the end of the All-Stars, but I don't know why, but in the end he came early, and then listened to the Los Angeles Lakers' director of operations, that is, the old man's most proud disciple at Princeton University, Jove Petri said that the reason why this old man came to the Los Angeles Lakers early is that the old man didn't bring any family at all, and he didn't have any time to settle down. After resigning from Princeton University, he went straight to the Los Angeles Lakers. Then moved into his house.

As the deputy general manager and director of operations of the Los Angeles Lakers, he is also the first vice president of the former Trail Blazers, and the largest actual operator of the Trail Blazers. Although Jove Petri is not as rich as the current NBA players, and he doesn't live in such a big mansion, he also has a room in the house in Los Angeles for this old man, the key is that this old man is just like his father, and he is already quite frightened when he lives in a dad.

Although the Lakers are quite sympathetic to the team's deputy general manager, however, the old man can come to the team in advance, which is also quite beneficial to the team, but what makes the Los Angeles Lakers players quite unhappy is that after this old man came to the team, he didn't start spreading his tactical system, nor did he start teaching other Lakers players how to run tactics and how to play Princeton, after this guy came to the team, he was actually full of interest in the team's eighteen-year-old player Wang Zhizhi, the team's sparring partner and trainer!

This old guy doesn't have any interest in the NBA-level interior line of the Los Angeles Lakers, and is actually full of interest in that little sparring partner, I heard that when this old man came to the team two days ago, there were no Lakers players on the team's training ground at all, only some sparring partners were doing daily training, and soon this old man fell in love with Wang Zhizhi, an eighteen-year-old young man, after turning around!

To say that this old guy fell in love with Wang Zhizhi, this is nothing, after all, for the current Lakers players, they really don't treat Wang Zhizhi as an outsider, since this little guy taught Rodman a lesson on the first day he came to the team, this extremely shy kid is quite mixed up in the Lakers, plus the care of Lakers head coach Jerry West and the team's head coach, speaking of which this guy is a sparring partner, in fact, he enjoys player-level treatment in the Lakers, and the salary is the highest among sparring partners, but he doesn't do much hard work as a sparring partner, On the contrary, he has been training with the team's official players, and even the team's assistant coach will guide his training alone, the team's physiotherapist will even do physical adjustment for him, and even when this little guy wants to learn Lin Han's wolf howling steps, Lin Han also taught him hand in hand.

It can be said that even fools can see that Jerry West and Magic Johnson are deliberately cultivating him. And he will be selected for next season's draft.

Therefore, the Lakers really didn't treat Wang Zhizhi as an outsider, but even so. This old man is more interested in an 18-year-old than they are in NBA veteran players, doesn't it be obvious that this old man doesn't look down on them?

Therefore. In the last two days, the opinions of the Lakers' players, especially the team's interior players, are quite large, especially Aaron Williams and Antonio Harvey, these two guys are the team's rotating centers this season, although the strength is very average and average, but they are also the top four teams in the West, with their ability. Put it to a garbage team like the Clippers, they are also at the level, although Wang Zhizhi's potential is really outstanding, he has such technical ability at the age of 18, this is unbelievable, and he is known as the top in the United States even in the same age group, but after all, this kid is still young, and they are already famous players in the NBA, as famous players. was compared to such a little guy, and was directly ignored by an old man, which made anyone in this situation quite unhappy.

The team is such an old man. Lin Han also thought it was very interesting, originally Lin Han thought that this old man was a kind old man, but judging from this old man's approach, this is clearly to give the Lakers players a dismount, if this old man points fingers at the Lakers as soon as he comes up, I am afraid that this group of Lakers players who have a good record in recent times may not be able to accept it, in this case, deliberately ignore the Lakers players who are proud of their excellent record at this time, And it's a deliberate focus on something else. Isn't this the same approach that Lin Han did when he subdued Rodman? It's just a slight change!

So, the rest of the Lakers. It really can't tell what this old man is doing, but Lin Han, whose IQ is not the highest in the Lakers, can see at a glance what this 'yin' old man wants to do. At the beginning, Lin Han's idea was to wait for Rodman to crawl over and admit his mistake and ask to join, this old man may not have such an idea, but he definitely has the same thought.

Although this somewhat shady old man is using Wang Zhizhi as a tool, it can be seen that this old man is still quite satisfied with this tool, and even Lin Han can see that this old man is interested in teaching Wang Zhizhi how to pass the ball, how to find his teammates, how to stand on the offensive end and find the timing of cover, this is definitely from the heart, not pretending, it seems that this old guy is the same as Magic and Jerry West, and is really optimistic about this young man who is only less than 18 years old, But the technical ability is already very mature Celestial Dynasty players.

"What a funny old man"

Looking at the godfather of Princeton University who was smiling and training Wang Zhizhi alone with a smile on his face, Lin Han also said with a smile at this time.

The new technical adviser of the Lakers team, as soon as he came to the team, gave the Lakers' interior players a dismissal, which made many of the Lakers' interior players quite unhappy with this old man at this time, but thinking of this old man's status in the team, they can't express their displeasure, this old man is really the one who can decide their position on the team, as the team's tactics, he is even more qualified than head coach Magic Johnson to say who can, who must be substituted, Or even who has to leave!

Of course, this old man is knocking on these interior players of the Lakers, which originally had little to do with Lin Han and their outside players, but when a guy enters the team, Lin Han and their outside players really can't hold back!

"FVCK, what the hell does this old guy want to do, since he came to the team, he has been focusing on Wang, what is that big ass high school student? Is it necessary for that old guy to be so excited? Could it be that you have taken a fancy to his big ass?! ”

As a high school player invited by Lin Han in this year's All-Star Rookie Challenge, and also as a native of Los Angeles, there are only 2 days left before the All-Star Rookie Game, and it is very normal for this senior player to come to Los Angeles to find Lin Han, as the captain of the legendary team, Paul Pierce If he wants to have more opportunities in the legendary team, he naturally needs to have a good relationship with Lin Han. It's a very good stage, and you know, Garnett didn't just because of his excellent performance in last year's All-Star Game. This year, I want to participate in the draft as a high school student, and it seems that the pick has been predicted to be in the top five or even the top three. It's not necessarily a high school student.

You know, proving yourself in the All-Star Game means that players have the strength to establish themselves in NBA1, which is very important for the drafts of various teams, because even the strength of the NNETBA is strong, because they have never played in the NBA, even if they are really against the sky in college, except for a few talented people. Most players can't prove that they can really succeed in the NBA, even some talented players may not be able to adapt to the NBA game, but because of the league's regulations, NBA teams are not allowed to organize NBA-level games at the time of the draft. No way, talented players, even if they really don't fit into the NBA. They still have a chance to have time, if they don't even have talent, if they really don't adapt to the NBA, it's really wasted!

And Garnett proved that he is not only talented, but also able to adapt to the rhythm of the NBA game in last year's table, so this is a double insurance player, and he will definitely not lose a player if he chooses it! So it's understandable that some draft media in the United States have recently thought that Garnett will be the top pick this year, because he has played in the NBA. And it worked, that's all. Even the NCAA's group of geniuses had no advantage over Garnett.

That's why, after the league came up with the rookie game reform. The reason why a high school student spot is so scarce is because it's a better way than getting into NNETBA!

Of course, Pierce because of family reasons, although life was also very difficult when he was a child, but a few years ago, after his two older brothers got married one after another, and one of his older brothers was still mixed in the major leagues, he was different from other black children, not like Garnett or Iverson who lacked money, so Pierce's wish was to be able to enter a college and play a dozen NCAA, after all, in the United States, most young people are very yearning for NCAA, of course, Garnett is a strange thing, not counted.

It's just that when Jordan came back this season, Paul Pierce was a little reluctant to give up this idea!

As California's best high school player of the year, he has always been known as California Little Linhan, but Pierce's idol is not Linhan, just like this guy is in Los Angeles, but his favorite team is not the Lakers, this is a rather special young man, he joined Linhan's training camp from the beginning for that high school slot.

Although he really wants to go to Nnetcaa, he is even more looking forward to being able to stand on the same stage as Jordan and compete sooner!

Although Pierce is different from many young players, he doesn't have a special favorite team, as a native of Los Angeles, in that era when all Los Angeles liked the Lakers and Magic, when his whole family was Lakers and Magic fans, he was not very interested in the Lakers led by the Magic, and even this kid hated the Lakers No. 33 who wore glasses in the game.

Similarly, he doesn't have any special favorite players, whether it's Lin Han or Jordan, he doesn't like it too much, of course, he likes to watch these two games very much, but he doesn't worship these two very much, and even if he can, he hopes to beat Jordan or beat Lin Han!

Well, this is a very special and idealistic young man, just like when Lin Han saw Jordan's game, he vowed to beat Jordan.

It's just that what makes Pierce quite unhappy is that when he came to the Los Angeles Lakers to find a relationship with Lin Hanlala, hoping to have some special swings in this year's rookie game and prepare himself for entering the NBA, he didn't expect to be caught by an old man, and after being caught, he didn't let him go, which made the young high school student quite unhappy, but because he was a young man, and this old man seemed to have a fairly high status in the Lakers, he couldn't resist at all. I can only be fiddled with by the old man at will.

And seeing the increasingly excited eyes in the eyes of this old man, Pierce was a little scared for a while, and he was already thinking about it in his heart. Does this old man have a special hobby? Especially when he saw Wang Zhizhi's still baby fat cheeks and his ass that was not too small, Pierce felt more and more likely.

Of course. At this time, in Pierce's heart, the old man Carell is a [pervert], but this young man did not expect that he was also not a good person in the eyes of other outside players of the Lakers.

If Pierce knew that these Lakers players would think like this, I am afraid they would not be able to find a place to cry.

Of course, in the face of Carell's group of outside players who used Pierce to knock the Lakers, most of the Lakers' outside players were really unhappy, and the team's interior line was not as good as Wang Zhizhi. On the offensive end, there is really no one on the Lakers interior line who is better than Wang Zhizhi, but just like Eddie Jones said, what is this big ass high school student?

Without Lin Han and Dominic Wilkins to make a move, even Van Axel and Eddie Jones have the ability to torture this guy to death!

Although it is said that the potential of this big ass looks good when it is fiddled with by the old man at will, but this potential is really not enough among these outside players of the Lakers, and even Ruffin and Ellis may not look down on this big ass high school student. They really didn't know what Pierce had a crush on about Carell.

The old man's insidious bullying of Lakers players, Lin Han wanted to laugh when he watched it from the side, especially when he saw Pierce's reluctant look. And every time he looked at him with a look like asking for help, Lin Hanna really thought that this old man was really quite interesting.

I'm afraid not only Lin Han will think so, even as the team's head coach Magic Johnson will have this opinion at this time, of course, unlike Lin Han who has been paying attention to Carell, Magic Johnson's eyes have always been on Pierce's body, and as time goes by, the eyes in his eyes are even getting brighter and brighter!

When Pete Carell came to the Lakers with his Princeton system, Lin Han and the Lakers players really didn't expect this old man to make the team look like this. Although many Lakers players are really unhappy with this old man. But there is no way, who made his status in the team really high?

In this case. The Los Angeles Lakers players have almost poured all their anger on the team's next opponent, especially this opponent who has won their Nuggets twice in a row this season!

The Lakers face the Nuggets, this is really a congenital deficiency, the Nuggets are playing one big and four small, especially last season with the success of the dry death and almost forced the Rockets to death, this team's pressing tactics have become the team's mainstream tactics, one big and four small and play pressing, which makes the Lakers quite difficult, especially the team's interior line is still Mutombo, a defense-oriented interior.

This makes the Lakers' tactics quite difficult to play, playing double inside, too slow, playing a single inside, one person can't withstand Mutombo at all, plus the Lakers' interior line is also defense-oriented, or there is no offensive ability, so the containment of Mutombo is quite limited, which makes Mutombo completely target Lin Han or other Lakers players.

More importantly, although the Nuggets' pressing is more than a grade worse than the original Jazz team, this is also the tactical system that experienced the sound and almost defeated the Rockets. In the first two encounters, the Lakers almost all lost miserably, Mutombo was stunned by the fact that he brushed 16 blocks in two games on this team, 9 in the first game and 7 in the second game, almost directly forcing the Lakers to shoot crazy on the outside like the sound of the playoffs last season, last season's sound was destroyed like this, the inside line can't get in, the outside keeps shooting, and the opponent's tight defense is encountered, and the space for shooting is not large, if it feels bad, it's strange if you don't lose!

The Lakers in the first two games have a little bit of this meaning, except for Lin Han who can still play with Mutombo on the inside, the others are really who goes in and who dies, however, without the cover of his teammates, Lin Han took his defender to the inside line one-on-one to fight with Mutombo, and Lin Han's chance is actually not very big.

Still, in this game. The Lakers made a tactical change, and Lin Han actually appeared in the center position again in this game!

Obviously, the Lakers are preparing to let Lin Han play Mutombo with his own basket feet on the offensive end!

Because the way the Nuggets defend dictates that they can't play shrink. This is both a sign of trust in Mutombo and a sign of their frustration. In the absence of an outside knife, everyone is defending and the side is average, saying that it is playing and pressing, but in fact, all the defensive pressure is transferred to Mutombo.

In this case, if Lin Han can really use his basket footsteps on the offensive end to beat Mutombo, then the Lakers will not have a chance to win!

Of course, Mutombo is not David Robinson, and the two have different defensive styles. Although Mutombo is also a jumping man, this guy is more able to block than David Robinson, and his vision in defense is better, you know, in the playoffs last season, Olajuwon's original fantasy footsteps did not play him, as for Lin Han's non-original fantasy footsteps can play him to death, Lin Han himself is not very clear.

And when this game started, when Lin Han appeared in the center position, and after playing a few baskets on the inside, and the success rate was average. Lin Han knew that it was not so possible that he wanted to play Mutombo like David Robinson, but it was obvious. Lin Han doesn't need to really play Mutombo, when the Nuggets faced the Rockets at the end of last season, what was the reason for the Rockets' final counter-kill? Isn't it that Olajuwon restrained Mutombo, and in the end, a sharp knife that was played to death by Lin Han went straight to the heart of the Nuggets and inserted the Nuggets to death?

And in this game, although Lin Han couldn't beat Mutombo, after holding back Mutombo's energy, Dominic Wilkins and Eddie Jones' offensive opportunities instantly became more!

Not to mention these two, even Van Axel. When the Nuggets' perimeter was a little shaky under the Lakers' attack, and Mutombo was pinned down by Lin Han. Soon the situation of the game completely changed!

Although the Lakers did not complete the pre-game deployment, they were definitely successful in terms of results!

"Teacher. How's that, this team is pretty good, right? ”

When the Los Angeles Lakers unexpectedly suppressed the Nuggets at home, in the stands on the court, at this time the Lakers' director of operations Petrie was accompanying his teacher, who is also the Lakers' new technical adviser Mr. Carell, and looking at the Lakers' table in this game, Petri was quite satisfied.

It's just that although he is very satisfied, he doesn't know very well what kind of idea the old man has, and he can only know that the old man also has a smile on his face at this time.

"It's a really good team, there are a lot of players here who match my needs"

After Petri finished speaking, Carell looked at the Lakers No. 24 player on the court, and the Lakers adviser also said with a smile.

This is not his flattery, this team does have a lot of players who meet his requirements, such as the boss of this team, Lin Han, although it is said that what Lin Han came out of this game is not what Princeton needs, but as a consultant invited by the team, how can he not have seen the video of the Lakers' game.

Whether it is three points, running or breaking through with the ball, Lin Han is very suitable for Princeton, or Lin Han's comprehensive can adapt to any tactical system, the key is whether he is willing to sacrifice his freedom of play style like Jordan for the team's tactical system.

In addition to Lin Han, Van Axel is also a very suitable Princeton player, if this guy is willing to run, it will be perfect, can score three, can cut, can run, and has a certain passing ability, this is the most perfect point guard in his tactical system, Van Axel is qualified, but not as completely in line with his requirements as Lin Han, and he also needs to adjust [coach]

As for Eddie Jones, it's the same, the qualifications are enough, but they need to be improved and improved, as for Rodman, this kid is usually inconspicuous, but for this NBA veteran, Carell can still see that his ball quotient is definitely the highest in this Laker!

To say that the only place that is almost close is probably Dominic Wilkins, even if Dominique Wilkins is not suitable for Princeton's tactical system, it is still okay to play a substitute with his ability, so there are many players who are qualified to play his tactical system in this Lakers, even if it is the two most lacking organizational insiders, this team has one, but it has not yet entered the NBA.

Petri really didn't lie to him, this Laker does have the qualifications to play Princeton's tactical system, even if it needs to be improved, the improvement point is not big, this is also very easy to operate.

At this time, the Lakers, who were pressing the Nuggets on the court to play, naturally didn't think that the old man was actually observing them, and it was not only the old man who was also observing them, Paul Pierce who was in the stands saw Lin Han sitting under the basket with his ass and singled Mutombo, the young high school student's face was also a little excited, and even his eyes were already shining!

In the frantic cheers of the Lakers fans in the audience, the Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Nuggets 98-88 on their home court in the last game before the All-Star break, and finally avenged the consecutive defeats by this team.

At the end of the game, as the host player, Lin Han still found Mutombo as usual and gave him a hug with a smile.

If nothing else, just because this guy is a substitute player in this year's All-Star Game, Lin Han wants to pursue something in this year's All-Star Game, so he must unite those players who don't have much opinion of him!

After the game between Los Angeles and the Nuggets, the Lakers also ended all the games before the All-Star break, with a record of 34 wins and 12 losses in 46 games, which is good enough for the Lakers.

Just look at the forum arena at this time, the Lakers fans chanting Lin Han's name can be clear!

"This year's Lakers are definitely more than that!"

Looking at the crazy fans at the scene, Lin Han was also a little excited and shouted silently in his heart! (To be continued)

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