The Lakers gradually entered the game after playing loosely with the opponent for a while!

"What did their manager say," Ronald said to James as he dribbled.

"Phil has always had his own set, we have to be careful!" LeBron got the basketball and rushed over quickly. In the face of the Lakers' three-person defense, the dunk was still successful!

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As a result, the score was 57:55 at the end of the first half! The final score of the third quarter was fixed at 80:80! In the end, the Cavaliers defeated the Lakers 109-102 to win the final game of the regular season. But they found that the Lakers seemed to be happier than they were......

"You really want me to have a treat~" Jackson said to the players who came back after the game. The smile on their face made them feel comfortable and kind. As a veteran player of the Lakers, this moment will be more cherished at this time, because Phil in the playoffs will not be as relaxed as he was in the regular season.

According to the words of the Zen master, some holidays will be given in the regular season, and some leave will basically be given. As long as you can make the playoffs. But when it comes to the playoffs, listen to me!!

This year marks Phil's 39th year in contact with the NBA! Both as a player and as a coach, he knows the brutality of the playoffs in his heart! In a fight in the playoffs, the player is injured and is completely suppressed by the opponent......

This is out of the regular season, and Jackson can rest ...... The rest of the time, even in last night's dream, Phil was thinking about the playoffs! This wasn't the case all day, just because sometimes he always worked more than a lot of time, so Vincent set a schedule for him.

When he had to do something else to go. But even though Jackson asked himself to watch TV for an hour and a half at night, he still thought about basketball from time to time, and he couldn't help dreaming about it.

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"I have to say that you guys are in such a good mood!" LeBron said to Zhou Yang after a relaxed hug after the game.

"Of course, someone is in a good mood when you have a treat~" Zhou Yang was still immersed in the happiness of eating at night without spending money~

"What? Who? ”

"Our coach said that if he loses this game, he will treat him~" The corners of James's mouth twitched as soon as Zhou Yang finished speaking. This Jackson coach is really different from other coaches! Shouldn't you be treated to a treat after winning the game?!

"You played a great game. If we had come in together back then, you would have been stronger now," James immediately returned to Zhou Yang and said with a relaxed smile.

"If that's the case, now I may have become a marginal player waiting to sign a contract with the team, haha, don't say it, my teammates called me~See you later~" Zhou Yang changed his usual state of talking to some players absent-mindedly, and chatted with the little emperor very seriously for a while.

He wants to get favor from LeBron! You'll be able to get his skills!

"It is said that Zhou Yang sometimes speaks strangely, but today he seems to be quite normal," James thought after he went back, and he didn't tell his teammates that the Lakers coach said that he would treat him if he lost......

In this game, Big Z got 8 points, 12 rebounds and 2 blocks! Gooden 11 points, 10 rebounds and 5 assists! James 41 points, 6 rebounds, 3 blocks and 2 assists! Jones had 12 points, 2 rebounds and 3 assists, and Ronald had 19 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists!

The Cavaliers are tense and fighting with the Lakers throughout the game! They also feel the strength of the Lakers now! If Kobe Bryant and O'Neal come up, they may be much more likely to lose!

On the Lakers' side, Odom had 15 points, 10 rebounds and 3 assists, and Zhou Yang had 26 points, 5 rebounds and 10 assists! Wharton had 9 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists, Fisher had 12 points and 5 assists, and Smush had 29 points, 5 rebounds and 2 steals!

"There is only one tonight, I don't drink too much wine, and I have to go home safely in the end~" The Lakers players looked confused, these are obviously two!

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Here in Cleveland, the Zen master is still very healthy, symbolically poured half a glass of wine, drank it and talked to a waiter before leaving, and did not forget to tip her when he left.

This is probably the only time this season that a team has lost and been able to have such fun.

Zhou Yang also played with his teammates until late at night, and then took the car and Odom back to the hotel.

"How much is it in total? Oh...... See? I've turned, well, there's a chance we'll go again" Jackson didn't sleep at night, he couldn't sleep. I drank more expensive liquor in the hotel and watched the Clippers play by myself.

This season was not expected to go well. O'Neal and Bryant are both injury-free at the moment. And the rest of the Lakers' players are in good shape. It seems right to let them play like this today.

If he keeps winning the regular season, Jackson always feels like it's time to start losing in the playoffs? At the end of the day, the regular season standings were also out. The Eastern Heat won one game, the Nets lost one, the rankings changed, and the two teams reversed rankings.

The final standings in the East are the Pistons, Heat, Nets, Cavaliers, Wizards, Bulls, Bucks and Pacers. In the West are the Suns, Spurs, Lakers, Mavericks, Nuggets, Clippers, Kings and Grizzlies!

In this case, the playoffs will start in a few days, and the Lakers' first opponent will be the same city derby, the Los Angeles Clippers! For the West, the playoffs weren't that easy.

The game in the East has been played relatively quickly over the years. Basically, it's all 4:0. The semi-finals will be a bit more intense. If they win against the Clippers, the Lakers' next opponent will be the San Antonio Spurs......

This team is a big change. There are players in the team who can play, and their cooperation is also very famous throughout the league. One of the more surprising things this season is that the 76ers in the East and the SuperSonics in the West did not finish in the top eight.

The two teams finished ninth in the East and West respectively. The 76ers' last game was abusive! They ended up losing their game against the Mavericks, and if they won that game, the Pacers would be out. The SuperSonics ended the season early in Game 78. Although they only lost one of their last few games, it has little to do with the playoffs.

Iverson ranks second in the league in scoring alone! But he still stopped in the regular season and missed the playoffs.

Everything went smoothly on Linda's end, whether it was the school's independent exam some time ago or the latest big Kaolinda's results were successfully promoted. In other words, she is about to enter college.

Zhou Yang fell asleep not long after returning at night. In the morning, two days after the team's regular break, the players arrived at the training hall on time.

"We're in playoff mode in a few days. I don't remember how many times the Lakers made the playoffs. Coming to the playoffs is a regular occurrence for the Lakers. But in recent years, it has become a routine for other teams to knock out the Lakers in the first round."

As he said this, Jackson observed the facial expressions of each player. The Lakers' new players naturally don't know what it means. Maybe they could guess, but they couldn't feel who the Zen master's words stung him.

"The Clippers have played very well this season, and the players on their team are ...... I don't know if it's because they're all in Los Angeles. Their players are similar to ours."

After Phil finished speaking, he motioned for Vinson to start sending various information about the Clippers players to each Lakers player.

Zhou Yang stood in place, similar to the students who were about to enter the examination room after getting the test papers, and began to look at it seriously.

"Los Angeles Clippers forward Brand, who has a great mid-range jumper, is physically tough, doesn't dribble well, but defends aggressively...... Livingston, a rookie guard, is fast, can grab rebounds, score, and assists are also good, shooting 37.9% on the left side and 40.5% on the right, with no three-point range......"

Everyone has a thick amount of data in their hands to record the data of every player on the Clippers team!

"What you have in your hands now is the average data of the Clippers players this season, and then there are the tactical tasks and coping strategies that the opposing head coach is used to assigning. We're not trying to test your written test scores. For this material, the first thing you have to do in these days is to familiarize yourself with the characteristics of each player's style of play, and then the tactical characteristics of their team. I'll be in a day and I'll be with the other assistants to give you targeted tactical and defensive drills......"

The first day of playoff training was intense! Zhou Yang felt obvious at the end of a day's training that he was tired! But I have to go back to read the information in hand......

"I usually don't read this information, basically I have to look at my mood first," Kobe Bryant ran over to Zhou Yang with a smile at this time.

"Why?" Zhou Yang asked a little puzzled.

"Because no matter what, the Clippers can't stop me~" After Kobe Bryant finished speaking, he immediately laughed and ran away after seeing Zhou Yang's obviously disgusted expression.

"Kobe! Zhou Yang, don't listen to him. That's it, this kid. If he doesn't read it, he may not even eat when he goes home, and he will go back to the house to read the player information. Do you see who trains the most during the regular season break? It's not who he Kobe Bryant is~ Anyway, I seem to be back to my student days~"

Ao Pang held the information in one hand and chatted with his teammates there. Zhou Yang shook his head, and after walking on the road alone, he chose to take a taxi and go home after a short time.

With the addition of his own exclusive skills, there are now a total of 9 skills in the skill hall. Zhou Yang feels that the two skills that he uses best are "Nowitzki long-range shooting" and "Fisher's cold arrow three-point", and now they are at C1 and C2 levels respectively. Your own exclusive breakthrough skill is the highest, and it is now C3 level!

According to Zhou Yang's current qualification rating of C+, his skills in the skill hall can only reach C7 at the highest! In the regular season, when encountering a strong team, Zhou Yang had to find various ways to reduce the number of his mistakes. So what happens when it comes to the playoffs?

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On the first day of the playoffs, the Pistons in the West beat the Pacers 103-79! The Heat won the game without any suspense. And the Western side of the Suns won the Grizzlies 116:85! The Spurs lost to the Kings 95-96.

Next up is the Lakers, their game. In this playoffs, they are the only two teams out of 16 teams that do not have to switch home stadiums...... All play at Staples Arena!

In other words, this day should be the home court of the Lakers. But these seem to be becoming unimportant. The fans at the scene were also divided into two camps: the Lakers and the Clippers!

"Don't have too much physical entanglement with the other person, get rid of it if you can. We're trying to get a big lead from the front......" Jackson felt the need to say more, and motioned for them to talk to the players today.

After a short warm-up, players from both sides took their feet on the field. The starters on the Lakers' side are O'Neal, Odom, Devin, Kobe and Smush! The Clippers' starters were Carman, Brand, Chris, Cassel, and Mobley.

As the basketball was thrown into the air by the referee, O'Neal took the lead and passed directly to Kobe!

When the Clippers thought that Kobe Bryant was going to break through, Smush, who was not far away, took the ball and shot a 2-point shot! Zhou Yang sat quietly on the sidelines and watched the game, and the two teams were obviously much faster!

Carman gets the basketball after Mobley's three-pointer miss! When the latter was about to dunk, O'Neal directly fanned him down with the ball! Kaman immediately got up from the ground and wanted to find the fat theory, but Brand directly pressed down!

The two of them were talking about something, and Carman nodded frequently and waited for the referee's decision. Carman came to the free throw line and made 1 of 2 free throws!

After Kobe Bryant took over the basketball, he easily passed Kassel in the backcourt, and after half the court, he didn't run a few steps and jumped directly to hit a long-distance three-point shot! 5：1！ The other party directly asked for a pause!

"For O'Neill Kaman, you're going to have to do it a few more times! As long as he goes down, our chances will become greater! And you have to relax and shoot more on the outside......"

Compared with the battle-hardened Lakers, the Clippers are still inferior.

Shaq also showed his domineering side in the playoffs! However, looking at the Zen master's face at this time, it seems that he is still a little careless.

"O'Neal, you foul again, I'll replace you right away. Now the other teams know how to deal with you. So be sure to keep the number of fouls you in"

Jackson is clearly a lot more serious than he was in the regular season! He stressed a few points there and then let the players rest.

The Clippers basketball who came back came to Kassel, facing Kobe's defense, and Cassel still missed three points! Odom gets the rebound and passes to Smush!

Devin in the front court saw that there was no one to defend and received the basketball directly, and the Lakers scored another three points!! At this time, the camera is given to Clippers coach Dunleavy. There was anxiety and indifference in his expression.

They have already stressed how to play, and if their team still doesn't improve, maybe they will be very passive immediately. Facing a strong Lakers, there may be a one-sided situation.

Mobley met Kobe Bryant immediately after holding the ball to the frontcourt! Brand took his pass and was directly capped by O'Neal when he made a layup!

Kassel's long-range shot of 2 points is still missing! After Carman got the basketball, he still rushed over with a big shark! After O'Neal received his second foul, Carman stood at the free throw line and hit 2 free throws! All three points the Clippers have scored so far have come from free throws!

Bryant threw the ball to the ground as soon as he got the basketball, and Jackson just asked for a timeout.