Chapter 779: This is my last season

At the beginning of the fourth quarter, the game was still 20 points behind the opponent.

The Lakers played a very aggrieved game, and it was aggrieved from beginning to end, and they were always pressed by the opponent and never overtaken.

Not once.

Tang's potential offensive end is not without contribution, but compared to the previous period, it is judged to be two people. This is also very normal, that kind of inside scoring ability, the peak O'Neal does not have, without the blessing of the ability card, Tang Qian is useless to fight himself.

It's not a question of courage and determination, it's just that you don't have enough ability and strength.

At that level, it is too perverted, even if it is a historical supergiant insider, it is difficult to play it continuously.

So you ask Tang Qian to keep that state all the time, that's a luxury.

That's dreaming.

The ability card is just a dream, and if you want to rely on it for the rest of your life, you may end up with no ball to play. Because according to Tang Qian's personal guess, the difficulty of obtaining the ability card will increase every season, and the chances will become fewer, so ...... This is a rootless Ping, and he can't do anything to rely on.

If you want to play a historical position that meets your expectations in the future, personal strength is the king.

However, now it is a bit "far from water can not quench the thirst of the near", which cannot help the current situation.

Even if the Thunder abide by the "garbage time rule" and do not humiliately send all the main players to chase and fight, as long as Durant is there and the 20-point advantage, the Lakers will be difficult to shake. What's more, the Thunder team has a lot of scoring points this season, even if Westbrook and Ibaka go down, the people on top are not rookies. The Oklahoma Man's lineup in the fourth quarter was Durant + Steven. Adams + Caron. Butler + Reggie. Jackson + Derek. Fisher.

First of all, this lineup has a guaranteed three-point shot, not to mention Durant and Fisher, even if it is Caron, who originally had a relatively average three-point shot. Butler also developed an accurate three-point shot during his time with the Mavericks. This season, the three-point shooting rate is more than 39%, approaching 40%! This is already a very stable three-point shooting ability in the base of more than 4+ shots!

Worst Reggie. Jackson also has a 3+ shooting percentage of more than 33%, compared to previous years, his three-point shooting has increased a lot, at least the vacancy is no longer a place to be let go. This also means that the current on-court lineup of the Thunder team, 3 of them are high-quality shooters, except for the No. 5 position, the rest are three-point points. This is definitely not to be underestimated in terms of peripheral firepower.

If the Lakers had such an excellent shooter lineup, it is estimated that Kobe Bryant and Tang Qian would wake up laughing from their sleep.

But this lineup is not completely without problems, and the inside line is a big drawback.

Because went down to defend the titans, Sergi. Ibaka, just by a pure rookie rookie Steven. Adams, it's really not that good. He plays against Tang Qian, the rebounding ball will be fully compressed, and the offense can only attack from under the basket and low post because there is no long-distance basket. This is in front of the Lakers' No. 29, with his scoring ability, it may be difficult to score a few even if he uses his milking strength. But his defense is okay, it's tough, it's not the kind of data it shows.

Tang Qian can beat him now, but if you want to beat him, it's a bit difficult.

Because his offensive skills are still not good, and the combination of skills is also very poor, he is not Moses just by relying on hard offense under the basket. Malone. So I can fight, but the best way is to let the technical flow inside the line blow up the opponent. Tang Qian's is not very stable, and the hit rate is not too high. If Gasol can wake up now and recover his state, he doesn't need to break out, and with Tang Qian, he can completely explode the Thunder inside. It's just that......

So the Spaniards now have a bad desire to attack.

Tang Qian alone can score, but he is far from being able to use stable scoring points on the inside.

Gasol, alas, he should have been the best.

Just like last season, he is the main attacker on the inside, Tang Qian is the main defense, and now the latter can also cooperate with the offensive killing, and the power of the twin towers will be even more amazing.

It's just that......

Four minutes into the game, the Lakers only recovered a pitiful 3-pointer and trailed by 17 points. Durant made a three-pointer and brushed ~, and the score difference returned to 20 points again.

The first four minutes of the fourth quarter were for nothing.

Bryant's face was darker, and sweat was secreting more from his pores.

He's tired, and for the first time since the start of the season, he's feeling tired.

To be honest, it's not that he played for too long in this game, but that he was tired after consuming more than 60 games at such a high intensity in a row. This is a continuous erosion, and there are already a lot of quantitative changes, and it seems that it will not be long before the qualitative changes will begin to occur.

No way, D'Antoni called a timeout.

Low-level mistakes, this kind of mistakes, this is not the first time that the Spaniard has made tonight.

He was about to say something to Gasol, when a man took the lead, walked up to Gasol, and said directly face to face: "Paul! Why don't you go inside and ask for the ball??? Why don't you go inside and dominate the offense??? Gasol saw that it was Tang Qian, and replied angrily: "I'm not in a good state tonight, besides, isn't there still your tyrant hot on the inside line?" ”

This is an obviously somewhat sour and sarcastic answer, Gasol has lost his former friendliness to Tang Qian.

In fact, it is also normal, as Tang Qian gradually grows up, he can't just be used as a blue-collar worker, if he wants to improve his personal ability in the future, it is necessary to start with the offense. And if you want to train and hone your offensive end, what you have to do is to encroach on the ball and take the right to shoot. Moreover, it is all the amount of the inside line.

In this way, it is inevitable that there will be a conflict with Gasol.

Coupled with the limelight some time ago, and Gasol's own poor state after his comeback, there has long been a hidden thorn between the two.

Of course, this thorn was born from Gasol's side, but now it has also passively affected Tang Qian.

"What are you talking about? What do you mean? Tang Qian frowned, he finally realized that the other party was wrong with him. No, it should be said that this is finally affirmed. "It's not interesting." Gasol said: "Even without me, you can do it, you and Kobe Bryant are a 'K.Q combination', aren't they?" ”

"What does it have to do with this?" Tang Qian twisted his eyebrows and asked, "What nerves do you have?" Is it that you have been resting for too long so you don't have any brains? Tang Qian's tone was also a little rushed, one was that he was very annoyed with Gasol's attitude, the other was that now the game was behind by a big score, and he had no time to "entangle" with Gasol here, and the third was that with the improvement of strength, Tang Qian was not satisfied with the original team status and team positioning. Yes, last season, he was indeed a pure blue-collar player, and he did not have the intention or intention to develop offense, and it was the right way to consolidate his defense with all his might. The line of defending first and then attacking is also the path that many superstars in the league have taken. In addition, there is also Howard competing for the same position, so Gasol and him have no conflict at all.

But this season, things have changed a lot.

The first is ability, which is the most important thing, ability breeds ambition, in fact, if Kobe Bryant hadn't entered the peak state of the whole game, it is estimated that the first person who would have a team conflict with Tang Qian was No. 24. This is also an inevitable part of the transfer of royal power. It doesn't make sense that I have to be a role substitute for the rest of my life, Tang Qian is not a person without ambition. And even if it wasn't so strong before, so much happened, and the ability improved so much, people's mentality would change.

There is nothing to blame for this, the so-called people go to high places and water flows to low places, can't I fight for something?

This is the United States, which is the most developed capitalist country, and the imbalance in the supply of resources is extremely obvious. Do you want? Then you can only fight, or even grab. Fortunately, Tang Qian used that special card to solve this most headache problem, and he and Kobe Bryant reached some kind of tacit understanding and agreement, and there was no suspicion of each other. But for Gasol, it was not so lucky.

Having said that, Gasol feels that he sacrificed enough some time ago, he thinks that he still has the strength of the All-Star interior line, he can accept the second leader, but he must not accept himself to be the third leader and the fourth leader. And what about Tang Qian? It's pretty much the same.

Kobe Bryant has reached the strongest state this season, and his personal ability has approached the peak Jordan, so it doesn't matter if Tang Qian is the second leader for a year. Anyway, he still has some things to sharpen, to polish, and on his own, he will definitely not make it to the Finals this season, no, the Western Conference Finals are all pipe dreams. Coupled with the idol aura of his youth, he can temporarily sit in the second place of the Los Angeles Lakers. But to make his team status lower than Gasol's? It is absolutely impossible to be the third or the fourth, fifth or sixth in charge.

In this way, there is an overlap and conflict with Gasol's personal expectations this season.

"What? Are you finally showing your teeth? The Spaniard seemed to have expected it and sneered: "Do you think your status on the Lakers team has surpassed mine?" Yes? ”

Seeing that Thackeray wanted to come up and dissuade him, Tang raised his hand to stop him, and then stared at Gasol with his eyes and said: "This is the NBA, please use your ability to speak." Don't you understand such a simple truth? ”

"Ah~ha~ speak with ability? Are you sarcastic that I am not worthy of sitting in this position? ”

"I don't mean that, but you do have to reflect on yourself, don't you Paul?"

"Don't point fingers at me! My achievements with the Lakers are far greater than yours! When Bryant and I teamed up for a back-to-back title, you didn't know where it was!! ”

"That was before, not now! Now we are in a precarious situation!! Don't you understand??? ”

"I don't understand? You know? Don't think you can preach to me!! Oriental hot !! ”

Tang Qian really didn't think that one day he would have a relationship with Paul. Gasol argues that the real basketball court is far more complicated than playing a game. However, he didn't intend to retreat, and said directly: "You do what you should do, I naturally won't say anything, but if you don't do it well, then I must say it!" ”

"Don't talk to me like that! Do you understand??? ”

"You have to be sober!! If you continue like this, you will harm yourself and everyone!! ”

ESPN Live Studio, Chris. Webber said: "The Lakers' bench, it seems to be an argument? What's going on? ”

"haha~ Do you still need to guess? There must have been infighting!! As I've said a long time ago, there are many internal discords, contradictions, and problems within the Lakers!! "Henry. Albert had a pair of "Law. Zi said right", very unbeaten.

"Well, if it's true, the Lakers' next game is estimated to collapse."

"The Lakers have been a pseudo-strong team this season, and there is nothing unusual about the collapse, look at the data ......"

The Thunder fans at the scene also gloated, and they wished that the Lakers would fight.

……

"Paul! Can you stop messing around? Now we all need you!! ”

"Why didn't I see that? And I've really been in bad shape lately, and I need to adjust and rest......"

Also adjusted? Still resting? So why did you make a comeback? Why not go to the bench to get a feel for it?

Tang Qian was a little angry at Gasol's attitude, and blurted out: "Then why did you make a comeback??? Don't come back at all!! Then people won't have to count on you at all!! ”

"haha~ You're finally telling the truth, right? Do you want to take my place and become the second man for the Los Angeles Lakers? Gasol also said a little nervously: "How come I didn't see it before! You're hiding so deeply! ”

The second person? I'm sorry, but my goal for the future is to be the first man, to be the big man, and it's just next season.

Tang Qian saw Gasol like this, he was angry, grabbed the collar of his jersey and said, "Can you spend less time on this kind of ghost place?" Now all we have to do is win! It's a better regular season ranking in one go! It's to make it to the finals! It's about winning the championship!! Don't you want to??? Yes??? Paul??? Gasol ??? ”

Directly calling his full name, it can be seen that Tang Qian is really angry, he doesn't know why Gasol thinks so, and now he can't tolerate "civil strife" in the team.

"Finals? The overall winner? How dare you say it! How dare you think about it! With our lineup, do you think it's possible? Gasol mocked: "Have you watched too many Hollywood blockbusters?" Watching too many inspirational short videos? ”

Just when Tang Qian was furious, someone came over and said, "He's right. ”

What the? Gasol turned his head and looked at the person who came, he suppressed the devil in his heart a little, and said, "Bryant, do you think so too?" This is not something to say to the outside of the nice scene, our season, the lineup is too flawed, it is not to build a championship team at all, don't you understand......" Before he finished speaking, Kobe Bryant interrupted: "Of course I know." ”

"But isn't that what we at the Los Angeles Lakers goal every season? Paul? Bryant said, "Forget what I told you when you first joined the Lakers?" That's what Irvin said when I joined Los Angeles, and he said he heard it from older Lakers players. ”

"In this league, there are only two teams that fail every season except for winning championships."

"One is the Celtics."

"One is the Lakers."

"That's why we're called a basketball giant."

Gasol was stunned, he didn't expect Kobe Bryant to suddenly say that.

Of course, Tang Qian didn't expect it, and if Tang Qian lived to 2017 in his last life, he would know that the man in front of him was actually a master of "making chicken soup". In the future, many famous players and famous jokes will come from his mouth.

This is a side that Kobe Bryant rarely shows in his playing career.

Because of his playing career, he prefers to lead by example rather than tell these "nonsense".

"Do you remember? Paul? ”

"Well, I remember, but Bryant, we also have to think about the actual situation, we really ...... this season"

"When you moved to the Lakers in the middle of the year, would you think that we could go from the previous round to the team that reached the league finals in one go? Would you have thought that after we lost, we could come back and come back twice? Kobe Bryant said: "Basketball is round, believe in yourself, there will be miracles." Not to mention ......"

Tang Qian looked at Kobe Bryant and seemed to notice what the Lakers' No. 24 wanted to say.

It's just that he's not sure if it's the time.

Will it have the opposite effect of shaking the morale of the military?

Everything is unknown.

Kobe Bryant suddenly said in a language that Tang Qian and everyone else couldn't understand:

Paul, this is my last season, you know?

So, I don't have the coming year anymore.

I only have this season left.

If you lose, it's all over.

PS: There is one more !! Must be done tonight!! Xiao Zi wants to push herself!!

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