Chapter 481: There are 12 games left in the regular season
"Mr. D'Antoni! Can't you really let me play? "Tang Qian came to the training hall early in the morning to block Mike. D'Anthony Road. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info but the answer he got still made him depressed.
"It's hot, it's not that I don't want you to get on it, it's just that it's not allowed above, and you've been sent to the injury watch list, so I don't have the right to help you lift the ban." Mike. D'Antoni didn't want Tang Qian to play, don't look at these games, Howard played very well, and his personal data was bright, but because of him, the entire Lakers' offensive and defensive system was distorted. In this way, the Lakers' momentum of winning seven in a row has become completely empty talk.
In fact, it was not only Tang Qian, even Nash, Gasol, and even Kobe Bryant had privately approached him and asked him to lift Tang Qian's "intra-team ban". But again, Mike. D'Antoni is a "halfway monk", he himself has no roots in the Lakers, what to talk about to fight against the strong "general manager's office"?
Unless he's a Zen master who has won five championships for the Lakers, that's pretty much it.
Otherwise, in the Lakers, the head coach wants to compete with the general manager, which is a big joke.
It is said that during this road trip, Bryant also personally called Mitch. Kupchek "lifted" Tang Qian, but in the end the two sides had a dispute and broke up unhappily. You ask Mickey. Why did Kupchak do this? Why don't you let Tang dive play? Doesn't he think about the Lakers' record? That's a good question, one of which was initially Mickey. Kupchak's "ban" from Tang Qian is just a personal grudge and personal face, but after the Lakers lost a lot, he began to think deeply, what if the Lakers can't make the playoffs this season? So how should I get rid of the pot, and how can I find a way to "ease the contradictions"? After some thinking and weighing, Kupchak found the answer, that is, to keep Howard, keep the Lakers' "Four Kings" lineup, and then promise fans that last season was just a lack of run-in, and after a systematic run-in next season, the Lakers' "Four Kings" will fully show their strength. The second is to arrange the transition of royal power in advance. Kupchak seems that Kobe Bryant is already old and no longer enough to support the Lakers, so no matter what his statistics are this season, Howard will always be in the future, paving the way for Howard in advance, and may be able to maintain the Lakers' championship potential.
And in the end, the truth will tell Kupchak how outrageous his vision really is.
It's as outrageous as his draft judgment, which makes people feel ridiculous in hindsight.
He may really have a super "robbery ability", but in terms of vision, he has never been the top, or even the first-class among the general managers.
And then...... Now in the season, Mitch. Although Kupchak himself did not say it, in his heart, he may have already had the idea of giving up on this season.
He's not so adamant about believing that the Lakers will do wonders.
The Lakers will also be able to make the playoffs in the 2012-2013 season.
So under the influence of this implicit negativity, Mickey. Kupchak did the most wrong and stupid thing of his life.
Bao Huo abandoned Tang.
Quite Huo Qike.
On March 17, the Lakers defeated the Sacramento Kings in overtime at home, because of Kobe's absence, Howard brushed up on this game, and finally cut 40 points, 23 rebounds, and blocked 7 times. In the end, the Lakers defeated the incoming Kings by 4 points, 111-107, preventing their season record from falling below 50%.
After the game, ESPN didn't know what it was thinking, but it actually boasted about this game, as if without Kobe, the Lakers would be reborn and become a league powerhouse. He didn't look at what kind of team the Kings were this season, currently ranked thirteenth in the West, with a miserable record, defeating such a rebuilt fish belly, Tang Qian really didn't know what to brag about.
Howard himself was very receptive to this kind of remarks, taking advantage of Kobe's absence, and proclaimed that he believed that the Lakers tonight were the Lakers who were really on the right track! I hope the next games will be like tonight's game!
What does this mean? It's clearly talking about him, and he must be the center in the future, so that he can win.
Completely erased the first 60 games, the Lakers team's dedication and efforts.
Kobe Bryant sat in front of the TV and watched, his face cold.
With 34 wins and 33 losses, the Lakers are two and a half games away from ninth in the West and a full four-and-a-half games away from eighth in the West.
Two days later, the Lakers swallowed the defeat again, and were beaten by the Grizzlies, losing by as many as 21 points.
Although Howard scored 20 points and 15 rebounds in this game, he also spent 20 shots and a large number of free throws, which made the Lakers' offensive and defensive rhythm completely dead, and finally suffered strong friction from the Memphis.
With 34 wins and 34 losses, the win rate has once again dropped back above the 50% threshold.
Then in back-to-back games, the Lakers were upset and actually lost to the Phoenix Suns, who are the first from the bottom in the West and the third from the bottom in the league. In this game, Howard once again fell into a cycle of infinite singles, scoring only 22 points on 24 shots, and only 10 rebounds, just completing a double double. In the post-game press conference, Howard complained loudly that the rest of the Lakers didn't shoot accurately, wasted their assists, didn't defend aggressively, and caused themselves to consume too much energy on the defensive end, etc. But he also doesn't want to think about that dog of his. pass and assist level, how many good shots can he give? Besides, in 37 minutes, his personal low-post singles may occupy about 30 points, which makes Nash's organizational ability and Gasol's offensive ability close to a half-useless state. In addition, Howard deliberately conserved his physical strength on the defensive end in order to brush up on data, which also made the already weak Lakers defense collapse in an instant, and for a while, it seemed to become a sieve and a hole everywhere.
Nash made a rare objection, saying: Addicted to individual singles, the team has no way out!
But the mainstream media are vigorously reporting Howard's remarks, so Nash's protest has not been set off in the sea.
With 34 wins and 35 losses, the Lakers' season record fell below the 50% mark.
After that, the Lakers lost to the Washington Wizards by 3 points, 34-36, and the outside media finally broke out and began to frantically attack the Lakers and Kobe.
Now that 70 games have passed, and the Lakers are getting closer to winning eighth in the West, who would dare to expect the Lakers to make the playoffs? And at this time, Howard also secretly talked to the agent Dan. Fagan discussed plans to leave Los Angeles to test the waters in the free market.
City of Angels, Los Angeles, Lakers, hehe, hey, all of you go to hell!!
Howard is not in a hurry to talk about the Lakers' rotten situation.
PS: I'll add more tomorrow~