Los Angeles is a good place, but this time the Hawks are back in Los Angeles, and they don't have time to experience the drunkenness of Los Angeles.

The Hawks flew to Los Angeles on the night after the Rockets, and for the next five days and four games, the first three of which were all Californian teams.

First of all, the Lakers, after a day of rest in the hotel, on the morning of February 20, the Hawks came to the Toyota Center, the Lakers' training center, for training and team meetings.

Unlike the last time I came to Los Angeles to play the Clippers, I encountered a terrible situation, and the Toyota Center Training Complex is really good, as the home of the Los Angeles Defenders of the Development League, it has a perfect home and away training ground.

Whether the boss has money or not, and whether the boss is generous or not, sometimes it is really two different things.

The Toyota Center Training Gym, in addition to being used by the Lakers, as well as the Los Angeles Defenders and the Los Angeles Sparks, all have their own turf, which is actually not a small place.

For the Lakers, who are now in the top four in the West, the Hawks do not dare to despise the Lakers, because after the All-Star Weekend, O'Neal is back!

Although O'Neill only played more than 30 of the first 50 games this year, he was extremely efficient! Points, rebounds, assists, and even shooting percentage are all slightly improved from last season.

Because it is true that the serious aging of the Lakers this year, coupled with the self-satisfaction after three consecutive championships, there is little motivation to play, and both Kobe and O'Neal must play better than usual to ensure a winning rate of at least 60%.

Kobe Bryant almost caught up with Maddy's scoring champion this year, O'Neal even began to play very seriously on the defensive end this year, even if he missed a third of the games, he was still regarded as the favorite for the best defensive player, which is enough to prove that O'Neal is not bad on the defensive end, but it is usually unnecessary, and now when he needs to stand up and defend, he still has the strength of the best defensive player.

The Eagles take this very seriously, and there is nothing they can't do with a serious fat and an eternally serious little blacksmith.

So, the Eagles' tactical training was circuitous......

At the home team training ground of the Toyota Center, Kobe Bryant showed that extremely serious expression and studied the video of yesterday's game between the Lakers and the Rockets, wanting to study the current style of play of the Hawks.

Before you know it, Kobe Bryant has taken the Hawks the most seriously than any opponent, even if the Spurs and Kings are the threats they need to defend their title again, but he has a special focus on the Hawks.

The Lakers' team training has ended, and as a super coach who has won three consecutive championships, the Zen master also knows that now the Lakers have entered a period of exhaustion of complete slackness, except for the paranoid Kobe Bryant, among the others, the most focused and serious is O'Neal.

So now that he has won three consecutive championships, the Zen master knows that he still wants to go further, and he needs to make drastic changes in the lineup, and the current Lakers team has just experienced the strongest peak, with the decay of the Lakers management, it is definitely impossible to do anything to unload the grind and kill the donkey, at least this defending season, they will maintain the current lineup until the end of this season, and then rebuild after determining that this lineup can no longer continue.

That's why the Lakers rebuild for years each time, and they have to wait for a group of veterans who have helped the team achieve a complete understanding that they don't fit the team, and they don't start completely tearing down the rebuild until the core he can develop on his own retirement, which makes it seem like a struggle and a tough rebuild every time.

"Kobe, don't be so serious! It's just a regular season......" Fisher came over and advised, "let's go, let's go to dinner together and come back for a game later?" ”

"No need, go ahead, I'll look into it again." Kobe Bryant replied and there was no further talk.

Looking at the little blacksmith who is always so unsociable, Fisher is really helpless, as a rookie in the same class, Fisher has the best relationship between the Lakers and Kobe, but he can't help this situation, he wants to take Kobe Bryant into his teammates, but Kobe himself has no concept at all.

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"Ding...... Bryant's emphasis on the host reached new heights, and Bryant's hostility increased. ”

"Kobe's hostility: The more Kobe Bryant beats, the more Kobe values the host. Kobe's lifelong enemy is 5/8 complete. ”

Liu Mang, who had just finished training, heard the system's prompt, but Liu Mang was not much surprised, the little blacksmith lost again in this All-Star weekend, three regular seasons, two All-Star games, Liu Mang has won all the records in the face of Kobe Bryant in his career, and with Kobe's kind of character, he may not hate himself like much.

Anyway, it's not once or twice to offend the little blacksmith, Liu Mang was ready to compete with Kobe Bryant when he came to Los Angeles from Houston.

Theoretically speaking, Kobe Bryant is the first person in the league in the next few years, and Liu Mang himself is also the first person in the league in the next few years, so it is impossible for the two to become friends, so Liu Mang feels that it is not bad to be an enemy.

him!

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At seven o'clock in the evening, at the Staples Center, the Hawks' away game against the Lakers is about to begin.

Liu Mang and Wang Zhizhi chatted for a while, and after greeting each other, the referee urged that the game was about to start.

The Eagles who played away sent out the starting lineup were Liu Mang, Prince, Raheem, Boozer, and Ratliff.

This year, the Hawks' starting lineup has changed dramatically, mainly because Muhammad was put on the bench to rest, Jason Terry was put on the bench to increase firepower, and Liu Mang entered the starting lineup to enhance the organizational ability of the starting lineup.

On the Lakers' side, the starting lineup of Fisher, Kobe, and Fox is still the same, Wang Zhizhi was put in the position of starting power forward, and the center is naturally O'Neal.

When it was time to jump the ball, Ratliff was about to habitually walk to the middle circle to jump the ball, but at this time, Ratliff suddenly heard a cough, and Ratliff suddenly woke up and almost forgot about the "big thing".

O'Neal was ready to win the jump ball in one go, then go through the opening game with a rage, blow up the Hawks' interior line, and then sit back and see how Kobe Bryant dealt with those three outside linemen.

However, O'Neal, who was ready to jump the ball, did not wait for someone to come up and jump the ball, but saw the three players in the opponent's front court gathered together.

"What are you doing? Hurry up and jump the ball! The referee urged.

O'Neal also wondered what the Hawks were doing inside.

"Wait for us for a few seconds, we punch, lose and O'Neal jump ball." After Boozer finished speaking, he trembled and punched Ratliff and Rahim, and his heart was desolate.

"Why did you lose and jump with me?" O'Neill asked curiously, are you afraid that the shark will not dare to jump with me?

It was Boozer who replied, and his tongue seemed to be chattering: "We all want to play against Kobe Bryant, the best of the Lakers, and we are not interested in the interior." ”

Sure enough, after Boozer finished saying this, he felt a heavy pant beside him, and when he looked up, it was O'Neill's angry face.