Chapter 448: Narrowly Defeating the Wasp
The Lakers failed to take advantage of Sean's break to pull away from the score, but were beaten 6-0 by the Hornets not long after he re-entered the game.
No matter how much WACKER understood the players, they couldn't accept it. The difference in their strength is obviously very big, but they just can't win the ball?
If it weren't for Zhang Yi's desperate efforts to limit Sean, the Hornets might have taken a double-digit lead by now? This was only before the opening compared to no one could have predicted such an outcome.
And as the game enters the final time slot. The Lakers really can't find a solution to Sean's outside shooting and coordination. Even Zhang Yi and Robert's concentrated high-intensity defense is not enough.
It is naturally more impossible to change to someone else. As for the performance of the Lakers, it can't be said that it is too bad, after all, there are few teams in the current league that can really defend against Sean.
Not to mention that he almost played his full strength in this game.
If it weren't for the lack of helpers, the Hornets would have ended the suspense of the game with a wave of climaxes. Sean's scoring has also slowly climbed to 40 points, which is also a regular statistic in his rookie season.
For so many years, even Curry Jr. has not played such domineering statistics in his first year in the league. I don't think he even won the best rookie at the beginning.
Later, this incident also stimulated him, so that he turned on the supergod mode in his future training. Curry's model is the template for the average star.
It might not be a good thing to have a debut at the peak like Sean's. After all, too many people are like this, they play so hard at the beginning, and then slowly the data declines slightly, and it becomes the target of the team's abandonment.
Or the performance on the scene immediately after the physical injury slips, what kind of performance should be at any age. Those who reach the top of the ladder as soon as they come up will hardly have a long career.
This has been proven by the older generation of stars, including Magic Johnson and others. Although the current Sean does not show such tendencies.
He's really in great shape and doesn't have any signs of injury. But the more this is the case, the greater the danger. After all, unsuspecting players are prone to major injuries on the field.
Sean is too confident and plays too hard. His style of play is even different from anyone in this era, with a performance that has been regressed by more than ten years.
Of course, this is because the Hornets didn't give him enough support. But one thing is also worth believing, and that is that this style of play is definitely very taxing on his body.
Even if the Hornets hierarchy wants him to play like this, it can help the team return to the playoff level it hasn't seen for a long time. But for the sake of his career, someone should stand up and tell him that such a style of play would kill Sean!
Not now, at least not by his side. After all, Sean is the box office guarantee of the Hornets. In the past, when it came to their home games, the attendance of the audience was able to achieve 7 Amitabha.
But when Sean put on that extraordinary performance, all the home tickets were booked out overnight. This shows how much a star has an impact on the team's box office.
Zhang Yi is very strong now, but he is not the only favorite of Lakers fans. Because Robert, Vali and others also have their own fans.
That's why he can miss certain games, or even be pressed by Vali to play less. Because there are other stars here, the fans' antipathy will not be too strong.
That's not the case with the Hornets. The game without Sean was simply not watched. On the contrary, there was his night, and the home stadium was full. The owner of the team will certainly not stand up for his own benefit, and stop him from playing with his life.
This is the view from the beginning of the boss, and of course the people below have the same attitude. That is, when Sean's body is overwhelmed for a while and there is an injury, it is possible for this situation to stop.
It's just that in that case, the victim will only be Sean himself.
Of course, an experienced basketball insider like Wacker knows what the Hornets' old fritters are up to. Although Sean's future has nothing to do with him.
But after all, it's not like you're fighting with your child once or twice. Thinking that his Bruins team was able to play a perfect season was also thanks to the training game with the Tigers.
So he's also looking for opportunities, and Vali plans to tell Sean how to try to win for the team while protecting himself.
This is definitely an experience that only a person who has come before will know. It's true that you don't give your best every night, but players are human beings and there are limits to human bodies.
This is even though the super technology can greatly reduce the fatigue and physical burden of the players after each game. But if everyone's body wants to truly recover, there is no way to achieve it with those technological ingredients alone.
Wacker himself suffered the loss of relying too much on the power of technology, so he missed the opportunity to compete in the NBA Finals with Wang Lung.
It was also a scar on his heart that he would never forget in the future. As a person who has come over, he definitely doesn't want to see young Sean make the same mistakes he made back then.
As Zhang Yi desperately limited Sean's offense and passes, the Hornets' offense finally stalled. And he also carried the Lakers' offense.
Sean himself is not the only one who plays at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, and at critical moments, Zhang Yi also has the ability to carry the team. In order to win, he was able to improve his form.
Although it is only the regular season, there is no chance of giving up on winning any game.
The game is coming to an end. Sean's personal score even reached a terrifying 50 points! In this era of explosive scoring data, such a performance is terrifying enough!
And Zhang Yi's performance is far less eye-catching than Sean. But the Lakers gradually found their form under his play. In the end, through the outside linkage between him and Robert, a three-point rain ended the suspense of the game.
Although the Lakers won the final game, if you only look at individual performances, Sean is undoubtedly the biggest winner in this game.
In the face of the old man's perseverance, he played his strongest performance of the season. Even if the Hornets lost in the end, everyone knew he didn't lose!
After the game, Zhang Yi took the initiative to hug Sean. Even the coach of the Lakers, Wacker, praised this junior, and of course, he also secretly clicked on this young man with explosive scoring ability.
No matter how terrible a monster he will grow into in the future, he is both an opponent and a friend, and that cannot be changed on the NBA stage.