Chapter 119: Against the Lakers
The Dallas Mavericks have been undefeated since the preseason season until now, which puts a little pressure on the rest of the league who want to compete for the championship!
Of course, the regular season has just begun, and it remains to be seen what the Mavericks will be like this season.
After playing the Heat and the Trail Blazers, the Mavericks' next opponent is the Los Angeles Lakers, a Western team team!
In the first two games, Li Tuanjie got a 20+ triple-double in one game, and 24 points in the other game, and his performance was very eye-catching.
Although Li Tuanjie's performance in the first two games was extremely eye-catching, there are still many people who are very optimistic about Li Tuanjie, and they are waiting for the day when Li Tuanjie is beaten back to his original form!
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Nowadays, the most famous non-domestic player in China and the most fans is probably Kobe, after all, Kobe is a man known as six billion.
In terms of the number of fans, in this era, Kobe Bryant's number of fans in China may even surpass Yao Ming, like James, Duncan, O'Neal and others, after Kobe Bryant played shocking data last season, the number of fans is far less than Kobe.
Now Li Tuanjie's Mavericks are about to play against the Lakers led by Kobe, and domestic fans are naturally boiling, in this game they can not only see Kobe's picturesque beauty, but also see the performance of domestic player Li Tuanjie, which is the best of both worlds.
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On November 7, it was still the home court of the Mavericks, who sat at the American Airlines Center arena and waited for the challenge of the Los Angeles Lakers.
The Lakers fought in the first two games, one lost and one won, basically as expected by the fans, Kobe's performance was still so inexplicable, scoring 41 points in the first game of the two games, and 43 points in the second game!
Two consecutive 40+ games, as soon as this season started, Kobe Bryant once again staged the crazy scoring momentum of last season!
Last season, due to Kobe's crazy performance, Popovich even said that "against the Lakers, if you can limit Kobe's score to less than 40 points, it will be considered a success......
Moreover, the Mavericks were bitter last season, they were directly defeated by Kobe in the third quarter of the game, allowing Kobe to cut a high score of 60 points in a short period of time, and even in that game, many fans felt that if Kobe didn't want to appear in garbage time, I am afraid that Kobe would be able to cut more than 80 points on the Mavericks......
Compared with last season, the Los Angeles Lakers' lineup this season is even more unbearable, not only has the team lineup not been strengthened in the slightest, but even Chris Mime, who performed well last season, has also been reimbursed for the season......
In this case, the Lakers management had no choice but to start using new players and put Luke Walton and Andrew Bynum, who performed reasonably well last season, into the starting lineup.
Luke Wharton, the Lakers' third-pick pick in the second round in '03, had the best performance of his career so far only averaging 5 points and 3.6 rebounds per game last season......
Andrew Bynum, even more unbearable, after being drafted by the Lakers with the 10th pick in the first round last season, only averaged 1.6 points plus 1.7 rebounds per game, which was very embarrassing......
These two players have been promoted to the starting position this season, and you can imagine how weak the Lakers' lineup and bench thickness are now.
These two players are the biggest of the shorts in the Lakers lineup.
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Purely from the perspective of the team's lineup, the Mavericks' lineup can really explode the Lakers by a hundred streets, not to mention others, the veteran substitute in the current Mavericks lineup, Stark House, if placed in the Lakers, may be qualified to compete for the status of the team's second leader......
In the Mavericks lineup, the strength of Stackhouse can only be ranked in the fifth or sixth place at present, and the gap between the lineups of the two teams is clear at a glance.
The Lakers' roster is poor, and it's really their management that is dying......
If you want to talk about the decline of the Lakers, you have to start with the fact that the Lakers traded O'Neal for the Heat!
When it comes to O'Neal being traded, many fans may spray Kobe, in fact, this matter has something to do with Kobe, but it has little to do with it!
At the age of 32, O'Neal asked for the largest sky-high contract in history with the Lakers, and the specific contract amount has now been widely discussed, in short, this contract Lakers can't afford it, you must know that Kobe Bryant is about to renew his contract, if the Lakers management meets O'Neal's signing requirements, it may not be able to meet Kobe's salary requirements at that time......
Between the 32-year-old O'Neal and the twenty-five or sixteen-year-old Kobe, the Lakers management will definitely give preference to Kobe, which is understandable!
After trading O'Neal to the Heat, the Lakers traded for Caron Butler, Brian Grant and Lamar Odom.
Purely from the perspective of trading chips, the Lakers actually don't lose at all, and the three people who came to the trade all belong to the year of play, and they can start any team with strength.
But the Lakers' next nightmare officially began......
First of all, Calon Barrett, the Lakers management is very incomprehensible, and the future All-Star small forward was brought to the Wizards to exchange for a big parallel champion Kwame Brown......
You must know that Charon Butler played a season with the Lakers, averaging 15.5 points and 6 rebounds per game, and was the second scorer on the Lakers' team, but only exchanged for a Kwame Brown, this deal is simply speechless......
Then there's Brian Grant, who is a hard-working blue-collar coolie who does a great job of defending and rebounding, and is one of those big championship puzzle types of players.
But unfortunately, after Grant came to the Lakers, he played half a season, and he was directly reimbursed for the season, and the injury was very serious!
You must know that Grant has the Lakers' second-highest salary in addition to Kobe, and the second-highest paid player is reimbursed for various seasons, and it is reasonable that the Lakers can't play results......
I don't know if it's the Lakers who are unlucky, or Grant who is unlucky, anyway, after Grant came to the Lakers, he had all kinds of injuries, and he didn't play much at all......
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If you look at this deal at the beginning, the Heat Lakers are a win-win situation......
But if you look at it today, the Lakers really don't have any pants left, and they are equivalent to trading O'Neal for Kwame Brown plus Ramar Odom...... and also help the Heat deal with Grant's sky-high garbage contract with an annual salary of fifteen or six million......
At that time, an annual salary of more than 15 million was a top-level contract, after all, Nowitzki's contract was only more than 16 million, and Kobe's contract was only about 17 million......