Chapter 792 - 27 Consecutive Wins !!
On March 27, the Lakers easily cleaned up the Milwaukee Bucks, who are currently only 13-58, and the latter is the only team in the league that has not exceeded 15 wins. First from the bottom of the East and bottom of the league, the Milwaukees themselves are probably about to forget when the last time they won.
Take a look at their lineup, Brandon. Knight + Ramon. Sessions + Chris. Middleton + Zaza. Pachulia + Jeff. Andrien. With such a group of people, in fact, being able to win so many games can be regarded as doing their best. The Lakers lacked Tang Qian, and they were still lightly abused without discussion, Nash controlled the whole court, and the Lakers ran and bombed, 113-99, 14 points against the Bucks. It is worth mentioning in this game that the Lakers No. 24 Kobe Bryant. Bryant finally got back on 40+ points in a single game after four games, shooting 12-of-21 from the field, 2-of-4 from three-point range, and hitting a full 14 free throws. With a shooting percentage of more than 57%, he scored a high score of 40 points with high efficiency.
However, Kobe Bryant still joked: He didn't feel good in this game, probably because Milwaukee was still in the winter.
In fact, the 57% shooting rate is also the lowest shooting percentage in these games after Nash's return. He's now enjoying this style of play more and more, throwing away the ball easily in the first three quarters and taking over the game in the final quarter if necessary, giving him plenty of energy to kill his opponents.
This is very similar to his offensive pattern during the three finals, the first three quarters did not exert much force, and finally the single invincible and took away the game.
It's just that now the body and ability + Steve. Nash, even if he doesn't use much force, can shoot high scores, which is something that the Lakers didn't have before. It may seem exaggerated, but it's not unusual at all. In the early part of the 12-13 season, Kobe Bryant and Nash played together in more than a dozen games, averaging 26.4+5.7+5.4 per game, shooting 52.8% from the field, 40.5% from three-point range, and 89.4% from the free throw line. This is still 34~35-year-old Kobe. Kobe Bryant, who is at the peak of his all-round game this season, what efficiency and firepower do you think can he burst out on the offensive end if he continues to cooperate with Nash? This is still Nash's personal ability has declined a lot, if there is a peak Nash...... I rub, I guess the Lakers' offense is going to blow up.
Lakers 24 consecutive wins!
What about the Heat? It's also a 24-game winning streak at the moment! It's like competing with the Lakers!
This situation has made many media in the United States shout that it will be a great air battle!
Obviously, whoever wins this streak must have some impact on this season's MVP vote.
There is no doubt about it.
So James's side is for the MVP triple hegemony, in order to suppress Michael in the MVP series. Jordan, for the sake of his path to the best player in history, began to urge the Heat to work at full speed and be sure to outlast the Lakers.
For this, Zhan Huang even began to invite guests to dinner in private, just to mobilize the enthusiasm of the team and fight with the Lakers.
It's a spectacle! There is no direct dialogue though! But everyone felt that the Lakers' No. 24 and No. 6 of the Heat team were faintly fighting!!
On March 28, US time, the Lakers faced the Timberwolves back-to-back, and the Timberwolves now have no chance of entering the playoffs. This season they have been high and low, leaving many fans with a lot of hearts and minds. In this game, even if Lefu broke out and cut down 40+20 super data, it still couldn't stop the Lakers from blooming in an all-round way. Kobe Bryant makes the opponent Kevin. Martin made just 2 of 13 shots while scoring 38 points to destroy a perfect night for Love. Nash also won the battle against "Golden Boy" Rubio, who suppressed his opponent's 11 points, 8 assists and 5 rebounds with 12 points, 11 assists and 2 rebounds. You can see that Steve. Nash, who is 40 years old this season, is starting to get better. It's a high degree of union of body and spirit, for Larry. The final fight of the O'Brien Cup!
25 Winning Streak!!
A day later, the Heat also defeated the Grizzlies, and James cut a triple-double of 30+10+10, and the record was tied with the Lakers again, which was on par. But this game is very thrilling for the Heat to win, because of the Grizzlies' interior strength and positional hand-to-hand play, not to mention how strong, but if they want to win, it also causes a lot of trouble. James had less than one minute off in the game, Wade was off the court for just three minutes, and Bosh played more than 40 minutes. It can be said that the big three hit together to win the game at the last moment, and the process was quite dangerous.
When asked if he had any intention of competing with the Lakers, James shook his head in denial, but said that he thought the Heat would have the last laugh. The Lakers No. 24 listened to it and shot back with a smile:
That's a stupid question! Because we're the giants!
This is a pun, which not only shows the strong heritage of the Lakers, but also satirizes the opponent's lack of confidence, which is a nouveau riche team. It is equivalent to secretly shabu their behavior and actions at the peak of the group.
On March 30, the Lakers played their 73rd regular season game against the Phoenix Suns, who still have a good chance of making the Western Conference playoffs. This game was very intense and anxious, don't look at the Suns this season to a certain extent, but the effect is good, Golan. Dragic has grown from a 14+ scorer to a 20+ scorer in one fell swoop. It is equivalent to stepping from the original third- and fourth-rate scorers to the position between the second-rate peak and the quasi-first-class in one breath. The growth is quite amazing.
He made seven three-pointers tonight! Plus Eric. Bledsoe's 4 three-pointers! 3 three-pointers by PJ. Tucker and Johnny Frye! With the main lineup alone, they scored 14 three-pointers! Plus the bench lineup and 7 more! Together, they actually made 20 three-pointers!! Shooting over 60 percent from three-point range!! So the Lakers almost capsized in the gutter!!
If you look at the Suns' lineup, you will know that it is indeed very capable of shooting, except for the No. 5 Miles in the starting lineup. Plumlee, the other four are good goalscorers to the degree. Dragic has shot over 40% of his three-pointers this season! QIAN Ning. Frye 37%! PJ. Tucker 38.7%! Eric. Bledsoe 35.7%! In other words, the worst has a 35.7% three-point shooting rate! And on the bench Marcus. Morris is hitting more than 38% of three-pointers this season! Gerrard. Greene more than 40%! And that's just the main thing, the rest is the bench with three-point range! So the Suns can get to where they are now, ninth in the West, and only one win away from eighth in the West, relying on crazy projection.
The Lakers were a little stunned by the away shot at the beginning, the lineup was chaotic, and there was no Tang Qian to protect the inside, so they almost knelt down and ended the longest winning streak of the season in a daze. This moment shows the role of playing off the ball and having a certain amount of rest for the Lakers' No. 24. In the last 2 minutes, he forced a wave of 7 points to take away the game, and there were 3.7 seconds left before the end of the game, killing the opponent!!
With 42 points in the game, Kobe Bryant, who is full of physical energy at a critical moment, is indeed Mr. Super Key, and perhaps only the first person in the No. 2 position can fight with him.
Kobe Bryant said domineeringly in the post-game interview that the Lakers will not lose and will continue to win!! Will we continue to win!!
At the press conference, he also said to the camera: Welcome back to the next game of the Oriental giants, and hope that some people who have been absent for a week will still feel good about the game.
This is of course a joke, 26 consecutive wins have made Kobe Bryant and the Lakers feel good as a team, and now they are only one and a half away from the first place in the West. If they can overtake the Spurs, they will become the top seeds in the West and enter the playoffs, and they can also gain home-court advantage as a matter of course.
The Heat also beat the Bulls on the same day, James scored 40 points in this game, played more than 46 minutes, and shot very low in the first half, knowing that he gradually found it in the second half. Wade was a bit lost in the game, shooting 5-of-12 from the field, missing a single free throw, and scoring just 10 points. Fortunately, the Bulls are also a slow-paced, low-round positional defensive team, so the Heat only scored 88 points in the whole game, and still won a difficult victory over the Bulls. Also with a 26-game winning streak, the Heat have felt the limit, Bosh and James are better, mainly Wade, he needs to start recuperating for the playoffs, otherwise his knee will become a big problem.
Playing excessively overdrafted when he was young, and he did not succeed in the transformation in time in the later stage, Flash Wade is indeed in a state that is not as good as year after year. The data of 19+4+4 this season is really a bit sorry for the name of the former quasi-supergiant. It's not for nothing that James will be a little disgusted with him in the future.
But Wade is different from Kobe, he is really a good old guy type, and even in the end it makes people speechless.
Since the beginning of the 11-12 season, he has been circling around James, taking the initiative to give up power, and going to "backhold" the latter's thigh in the future. As the name suggests, I just want to have fun playing basketball. Ya, N is the champion who plays as a substitute, with his identity, what is the use of taking another one? If Tang Qian saw this in his previous life, he would definitely shake his head.
But this is Wade's own choice, and it has nothing to do with him.
On April Fool's Day, Tang Qian's comeback, during this time, he was not idle, and he talked to Moses every day. Malone soaked in the training hall to practice. Although there is still no breakthrough in qualitative change, the accumulation of quantitative change still exists. So Tang Qian didn't complain about this process at all.
Because he knows that he has "different spaces" and "crystal bricks", and the so-called "bottlenecks" are not something that cannot be broken for him. His ceiling has long been delineated. It's terrifyingly high! It depends on whether you can achieve and deliver in the future.
This is more like a potential system of change of direction, if you can't cash in and can't reach it, then I'm sorry, you are still you, and you won't become Long Aotian in one breath and dominate the alliance. Therefore, this kind of upper limit that has been established is one of the sources of motivation for Tang Qian's unremitting efforts, what he has to do is to keep improving, keep cashing in, until all the crystal bricks have become nine.
Then maybe a new door will open and a new world will appear.
But it's too early to talk about this, he still has a lot to work on and improve.
This game is against the old rival Los Angeles Clippers, and the city derby, which is not a big gimmick. Because since Paul joined the Clippers, the Clippers have changed shotguns, which is enough to compete with the Lakers. The Lakers were ravaged by the Clippers almost every year in the later period, which is the embodiment of this. At present, the Clippers are fourth in the West, only below the Spurs, Lakers, and Thunder, and the record is considered the leader of the second group of the Western Conference playoffs.
If the game goes well, they don't have a chance to finish off the Thunder, who are third in the West.
This season is Chris. Paul's third year with the Clippers, after two seasons of running-in, the Clippers believe that the time has come to make results. This season is a great opportunity! It is not impossible to reach the Western Conference Finals or even the Finals in one fell swoop!
Chris. Paul and Blake. Griffin is also full of confidence, and in interviews this season, he has repeatedly shown his vision and expectations for this season.
Very high.
So this game is also a natural live broadcast in the United States.
Battle of the same city, decide who is the king of Los Angeles!
. T's promotional slogan for this national live broadcast, Kobe Bryant also said before the game that he and the Lakers will go all out in this game to strive for the final city derby of the season and end it perfectly.
The opponent is also not showing weakness, and Paul believes that the time has come for the Clippers, and his long-cherished wish of touching the floor of the West will be fulfilled this season!!
However, there is an old saying in China, people have good fortune and bad luck, and the sky has unforeseen circumstances, and the Clippers finally reached the time when they were ready to work together this season, and then ...... Woe to Xiao Wall, there were internal problems.
And it's not a small problem.
This is a big problem of extreme seriousness.
Clippers owner Donald . Sterling was criticized by the famous American gossip media, that is, the media that often engages in Tang Qian. Z, a big incident broke out. A recording of a phone call between him and his girlfriend immediately caused an uproar in the league and across the United States.
And the core of the incident is four words, racial discrimination.
This was just topped by Tang Qian and Anthony, and now there is another "rising bird", David. The Stern Thunder was furious and immediately made a public statement, and the NBA league has launched an investigation mechanism and urgently convened a shareholder meeting to discuss the matter. In fact, everyone knows that the Clippers' rebounds Donald Brown. Sterling is finished.
In the last few months of his life, David. Stern must have dared to do anything, and besides, this "racial problem" had just appeared in the league not long ago. Donald. Sterling is tantamount to committing a crime against the wind.
This incident seemed to be a little earlier than Tang Qian's impression was dozens of days earlier, and it seemed to be because of his own relationship. Z released in advance, ready to have a double cannon, so that the traffic and eye-catching of his website will rise significantly.
Moreover, the original time and space are already in power by Xiao Hua, so the means should be a little milder. Stern slightly extended his tenure by a few months, so ...... Donald. Sterling reckons it will be even worse.
In the end, the Lakers won 121-91, 30 points, and the Clippers did not show the strength of a fourth team in the West at all, giving Tang Qian the feeling that he was playing the bottom of the league.
There was no resistance.
Vulnerable.
The Lakers pressed the Clippers from the first second to the last second, without any suspense.
Tang Qian easily won the first game of his comeback, and the Lakers won 27 consecutive victories!
Bryant expressed sympathy for the Clippers' sudden incident after the game, but he would not show mercy to any of his teammates.
Nash also stated that this is an unwarranted disaster.
When a media reporter asked Tang Qian's opinion on this matter, Tang Qian replied:
"I hope that next time it's not just for dark skin, but also for yellow skin, and I think everyone should be equal, well, that's all."
At the same time, in the opposite East, the Heat lost to the Thunder, and the Miami Big Three all played poorly and felt cold, which made the younger and more energetic Thunder finally have the last laugh. Ended the former's 26-game winning streak! Too much pursuit of a winning streak with the Lakers is purely a superfluous burden and consumption for the Heat, who have reached the Finals for three consecutive seasons, and they should choose to lie dormant and rest more in the regular season.
James finally paid some price in advance for his ultimate hegemony of 3 MVPs and 3 double-double MVPs (that is, three consecutive MVPs + FMVPs).
Suddenly, in the entire league, only the Lakers held a 20+ winning streak.
Suddenly, the Purple Gold Storm swept wildly across the Alliance.
Finally, it's starting to frighten people.
PS: Strive for more tomorrow~ After the injection, it has been much better, and the state has recovered a lot~ Thank you for your tolerance and encouragement during this time, Xiaozi will start to work hard~~~