Chapter 989 - Streak to be torn apart? No, look at mine

Swipe the ticket for Tang Ji! Let's get moving! Be sure to blood LeBron. James!!

The number of domestic votes doesn't seem to be counting! Is there any way to cast it? Ask the great god for guidance!!

There is a way! Please refer to this post for details, although it is a little troublesome, but the real Tang Mi will definitely get it, isn't it?

Your vote is the underlying motivation to help Emperor Tang Ji suppress KING! Vote, you have to vote! I'm missing you!

And the domestic Zhan Mi was also not to be outdone, and launched a similar voting action:

Don't lose to the other side! Be sure to help Emperor Zhan recover the lost points! Be sure to help Zhan Huang get back the votes!

James is the strongest in the league! He should be the king of votes!

Help Lao Zhan get a ticket king! Kill the other side! Rise up, everyone! Now is the time to test everyone!

Because the first round of All-Star voting surprised many people, in order to prove the energy of their favorite stars, the canvassing war on the Internet suddenly became fierce. It's a little scary. It's quite like Janko's posture when he was competing for MVP in '09. This shows that Tang Qianqian has a firm foothold in China, which makes Yao Ming's "key star-making" and "key publicity" strategies play a very good role.

And this is domestically, in the United States, the Lakers are heading into their 35th regular season game this season.

In this game, they finally ran into a hard stubble, and they were the Portland Trail Blazers.

Don't underestimate the Trail Blazers this season, although they started high and low in the original plane, but there are two main reasons. First, injuries, and second, internal contradictions suddenly sharpened. It's really not a blow, so far, the Trail Blazers have overtaken the Houston Rockets and the Los Angeles Clippers, and once climbed to the third place in the West. Second only to the Warriors and Lakers. And their current record is similar to that of the original time and space, as high as 26 wins and 8 losses!

So it's really not to be underestimated.

In addition, this game is another back-to-back game for the Lakers themselves, so the Trail Blazers are not without a chance to win at home against the incoming offender and cut off the Los Angeles Lakers' 21-game winning streak this season. A very simple change in the outside world can be seen that the Trail Blazers are actually full of confidence in themselves this season. They think this season is the time for them to make a difference.

Aldridge, the boss of the team, even said bluntly: Nine years in a flash, it is now.

But they will eventually be defeated by infighting and internal friction, such a strong start, and finally mixed into the fourth and fifth positions in the West, which is equal to the back, and they lost the game and occupied the majority. It's the Trailblazers. And the contradiction between Aldridge and Lillard is becoming more and more prominent, the feeling of the combination, the inside line has gradually begun to age, the outside players are still very young, and the former himself has a bit of "psychological problems", so this combination is just scattered.

But that's all for later, and now they're still working closely together and putting their future on this season.

The Trail Blazers' home stadium, Moda Center, where more than 20,000 fans can sit, this season the Trail Blazers finally have a hint of powerhouse, which also makes the long-term backwater, the wave of Porter basketball fans, rekindle the love and love for basketball. This is not difficult to understand, he has been playing soy sauce for a long time, and he finally waited for Roy, but he was scrapped in a few seasons, and finally waited for Auden the Great, but he was also destroyed by injury. It wasn't until this season that they finally saw the opportunity to compete for the NBA championship in the league.

It's a pity that Tang Qian's entry has intensified the time and speed of the infighting in the Portland Trail Blazers.

Against a team that is 26-8 and currently in the top six in the league, it would be a bit too much for you to say that it is weak. Not many fans are going to buy it. So in this game, ESPN wanted the Lakers to lose the game from the beginning.

Well, it's better to have a big fiasco.

The starting lineup is discharged, and the Lakers are still Tang Qian + Bosh + Ariza + Jimmy. Butler + Jeremy Lin. The Trailblazers are Damian. Lillard + LaMarcus. Aldridge + Batum + Chris. Carman + Willis. Matthews. The lineup is still okay, no wonder in recent years, it is known as a team that specializes in "hanging" modern combinations.

The basketball was thrown high, and it wasn't LaMarcus who was fighting for the ball with Don. Aldridge, but Chris, who just came to the Trail Blazers this season. Kaman. The reason is also well known, Aldridge is not willing to play as a center forward and play in the No. 5 position. He even publicly said in 2011 that he didn't like his teammates to call him C-position, which was not only because he didn't want to be a simple inside hand-to-hand fight, but also because he was very taboo and even a little superstitious about the "Portland curse".

Belch? What is the Portland curse, you ask? That's a good question.

The so-called "Portland curse" is a kind of "curse" for the center position. Wharton, Sam. Bowie, then Oden, Prizbilla, Camby's knee, it seems like Dan has ever played in the No. 5 position here. Nothing too good ended well. So that's why Aldridge is very resistant to the No. 5 position. This is also one of the factors why Yuan Plane was willing to play center as soon as he arrived in San Antonio.

Of course, to say something "domineering", whether it's Chris. Kaman or Aldridge, in fact, it is the same for Tang Qian, he is here in the scrum, not afraid of anyone.

Kaman's athletic ability was average, and now that he is older, of course, there is no possibility of success at all. The basketball was lightly touched by Tang Qian's wrist, and the basketball flew into the hands of everyone on the Lakers. Jeremy Lin pushed forward, played a Lakers fixed coordination push, and took the lead to help the team grab 2 points.

2-0。

But this game was tougher than the Lakers imagined, and the Trail Blazers played well, at least without obvious internal contradictions, and they played well enough to live in the third place in the West at the moment.

In the first quarter, the Lakers were a little scattered, and the tacit understanding of the Trail Blazers made them feel a little pressure.

As I said before, the current Lakers team is not bad at all in terms of single defense, and it is even very strong, but the overall defense is not very good. In other words, the defensive system is not good, or, basically, it is not systematic. There's no way, D'Antoni is this coaching style, it's impossible to run at high speed and take care of defense, D'Antoni can't do it. He and Thibodeau of the Bulls are clear representatives of the two extremes. Compared with those teams in front of them, the Trail Blazers have really played well overall so far this season, with patience in offense, strength in defense, individual cracking on the outside and inside, and a wing defensive titan also has a batum. In this way, it is the shortcomings that are not obvious. As soon as the Lakers' hand dropped, they suffered a little bit of a loss.

The Lakers scored 21 points in the first quarter and the Trail Blazers scored 24 points, trailing by three points heading into the second quarter.

In the second quarter, D'Antoni obviously asked the team to strengthen the offense, but this was also expected by the Trail Blazers, so they adopted a strong defensive time, and after a few minutes, the Lakers' offensive momentum was dissipated, and immediately restarted to turn defense into offense, Aldridge attacked the basket, Lillard broke through, Batonum made a three-pointer on the right side, Wesley. Matthews hit a three-pointer at the top arc, and even Carman made 2 consecutive shots on the inside. The Lakers were immediately beaten into a timeout.

Underestimate the opponent! Although the Trail Blazers have always had a high limit in the league, they were really strong in the early part of the season.

And it can also be seen that after the loss of Tang Qian, the Lakers' interior defense suddenly went from being the strongest in the league to an unknown number of notches. That's all Thackeray can do, his main task is to use his body to help the team get in position, and he just needs to do his duty on the defensive end, but to be honest, he can't even defend Carman. Carman was also an All-Star a few years ago, and now he is older, but the basic hand work and ability are still there, and playing Thackeray is not a big problem.

But Mike. D'Antoni can't help but let Tang Qian rest, because if it is overused, the Lakers are likely to lose more in the future. Besides, Tang Qian's physical fitness is about 33~34 minutes, which is a little better than last season, but not too much. Of course, this is because of his rapid offseason weight gain, otherwise he would have at least 38 minutes of standard star fitness by now with last season's weight.

At this time, D'Antoni felt the importance of the Lakers' No. 29 to the team.

It's multifaceted, offensive and defensive.

Let's not talk about the defensive end with him, fools know how far the Lakers' interior line can be improved, let's talk about the offensive end, because Tang Qian's current offensive ability is enough to attract enough to work alone, so even if his passing ability and ball ability are not good, it can also create opportunities for the whole team when it can't be opened. In particular, in fact, D'Antoni also found that this No. 29 actually has a very good ability to play and pass the ball. At least in the league now, he's a quasi-first-class player on the inside.

Maybe the strategy and the axis are also poor, but he can directly shoot the ball and pass the ball for his teammates to shoot, which is already the best.

Six-and-a-half-piece assist crystal bricks, not covered.

So unconsciously, the importance of Tang Qian to this team is very important to Mike. D'Antoni's importance has become more and more profound. With him, the Lakers are the second strongest team in the West this season, with a 21-game winning streak, and without him, although it is okay, but if you want to reach this height, it is absolutely impossible. After all, in the No. 1 position, Jeremy Lin basically satisfied D'Antoni, but after all, his ability is limited, and he cannot reach the level of Nash, the peak of the year, so without Tang Qian, the Lakers' light is actually very difficult to deal with strong teams. It is very comfortable.

Now, that's it, and many teams have also studied this point, and they have roughly figured out the approximate distribution of Tang Qian's rest time for each game. Therefore, the impact on the Lakers' interior is usually weakened, but once the 29th is off the court, he immediately does not hesitate to strengthen the intensity of the interior attack and take the opportunity to score a large number of points.

But it's not time yet, the Trail Blazers are another strong team, and D'Antoni can't risk letting Don sneak in now.

Otherwise, there is no fitness in the crucial fourth quarter, so what should I do? That's the real wrong!

D'Antoni is still the "master of small balls" after all, and he quickly laid out offensive tactics, adding a change of No. 5 and No. 4 positions in the process of fast pushing. That is, Jeremy Lin holds the ball outside the three-point line on the right side, Bosh takes the opportunity to kill, Jeremy Lin passes to Bosh and immediately moves to the top arc, of course, the opponent can't let Jeremy Lin pass so easily, at this time, the No. 3 position, that is, Landry on the court now, proposes to make a wall to help Jeremy Lin's movement as a cover. It's a maneuverable lineup, with Bosh playing as the No. 5 and Rennes. Kelly plays the No. 4 and Randle plays the No. 3 role. Why not the other 2 inside lines? This is because in terms of positivity, Randle, a pure rookie, is the most obedient and positive, he is willing to do anything, and this kind of strong positivity cannot be compared to the first two. Moreover, Randle doesn't have an outside basket, and he can only use his strong body to help make a thick "wall", and he doesn't participate in attacking anything.

The name of this set of tactics translates to "inside boldness", and sometimes it is so direct when the United States takes the name, such as Phil. One of Jackson's most famous tactics with the Bulls translates to "stupid pig." It's a big surprise, but on the other side of the ocean, it's a very normal tactical name.

The meaning of "bold inside" is to design an offensive tactic for interior players to pull out and attack, which naturally has hard requirements for the shooting ability of interior players. So that's why both Bosh and Kelly are bringing it up. Both of them are interior big men with mid-to-long-range and three-point shooting capabilities, one on the left and the other on the right, and they have a strong ability to pull space. Moreover, once the Trail Blazers do not rotate in time, then it will become empty inside, so that the Lakers' outside players can take advantage of the void and get a chance to shoot under the basket more easily.

The tactics are very good, and the effect is out, but unfortunately, Bosh didn't shoot this 3-pointer, and the outside line eats the feel, not just talking. When you go to the outside, it's going to be like that, there's no difference. The interior player has a high shooting percentage because he is close to the basket, and if he doesn't, then it can't be much higher.

And this "bold inside" tactic also has a big drawback, that is, it is all called out, and there is no one on the inside to snatch offensive rebounds. The Trail Blazers' Lillard broke through and made a basket, and Jeremy Lin defended him, which was very difficult. After all, Lillard this season has begun to have an obvious star atmosphere. Last year, he was selected as an All-Star for the first time in his second grade, which also shows how extraordinary he is.

Jeremy Lin couldn't stop him, and it wasn't unusual at all.

The score is stretched, and D'Antoni's team is prone to this problem, and if the hand feeling is not available, then it will have to take a break. Unless there is a single-game killer in the team, such as Kobe Bryant and the future Harden, this problem can be alleviated to the greatest extent. When the outside firepower of the whole team is not available, they will kill them alone, and after withstanding this low tide, they will sweep away the opponent in one breath.

Now the Lakers' outside line lacks such a person.

Whether it's Jeremy Lin or Butler or Ariza or Nick. Yang and so on are not enough to complete this task steadily.

So what to do? Do you want to use an internal line?

Inside single kill? D'Antoni really didn't think much about this situation, but how would he know if he didn't try?

At the peak of the Suns back then, in fact, they couldn't open the situation, and the overall feeling was not in the state, and there were Nash and Xiao Si who killed them alone.

I just don't know if Bosh can withstand it.

Bosh also knows that now the team needs someone to step up, and when the tactics are not good, the core of the team is needed, the single carry.

He singles with the ball, but the opposition also has Aldridge to defend him.

Although the latter's defense is not at an elite level, it is not something that can be played casually.

Bosh hit 3 and scored only 1 from the field, while also making a mistake in the confrontation and was countered by the Trail Blazers on a defensive counter. In fact, Bosh used to deal with Aldridge, and he still had a lot of experience, but now he has a little more than enough to do, and he just felt a little discomfort in his lungs, which came a little suddenly, but it went quickly, but this time, his attack was distracted.

With 3 minutes and 48 seconds left in the second quarter, when Tang Qian returned to the court, the Lakers actually trailed their opponents by almost 11 points!

This point, from the beginning of this season to now, is actually not very common.

So, is the Lakers' winning streak finally coming to an end in the "Torn City"?

So, are we at the Portland Trail Blazers finally going to hold our heads up this season?

So, this year, do we really have a chance to hit the championship?

The Lakers' struggle in the first half made the fans at the Moda Center feel like they had a hint of hallucination.

It feels like they've risen strongly this season and are unstoppable.

However, there are those who disagree with the ideas of these Trail Blazers fans.

He is the No. 29 of the Lakers, Tang Qian.

Tang Qian stood up and said to D'Antoni: "Hey, sir, don't be in such a hurry, believe me, our winning streak will not be ended here." ”

"We're going to keep winning."

"It's going to win more and win longer than Cleveland."

D'Antoni looked at him and asked, "What are you going to do?" ”

Tang Qian said: "It's very simple, go on the field, and then, break the illusion of the torn city." ”

This was not said loudly, but there was a power that made D'Antoni feel reassured subconsciously.

This kid, has his mental state grown again?

Maybe Kobe Bryant and I really inadvertently found a pearl-like character.

"Okay, let me see what you're up to, hot."

"No problem." Tang Qian took off his long-sleeved thermal insulation training suit and said, "Look at me." ”

PS: The big chapter is sent ~ I finally caught up ~ I'll see you at night, there will be something at night ~

Xiaozi eats something, and then she is ready to go out to do work, everyone will see you later~