Before Christmas, the king challenged the bull and the knight respectively.

Neither game was won.

In Chicago, young Derrick Rose played at an MVP-level level, scoring 37 points and diarring up nine assists, including shooting over 60 percent from the field and 11-of-18 from the field.

Rose is too lethal, and Kidd's defense of this pure speed defender now feels a little bit at a loss.

After the game, Wang Tomorrow praised Rose.

"He's played his phenomenal performance, he's on the path to being the Most Valuable Player, and he's going to have a place in the Hall of Fame in the future."

Last season, the Bulls were already seventh in the East, and they played seven games with the Celtics, which is not strong.

It's just that head coach Vinnie De Nagro is a little immature, and he is so praised by Wang Mingming, he doesn't know how to be modest, but he also praises Derrick Ross vigorously.

That is, after this December, the Bulls, who had a strong momentum, suddenly hit the wall, and their soaring progress came to an abrupt end, and their record fell all the way, and even played to the end, almost missing the playoffs.

The Cavaliers are solid and remain number one in the East.

James is a real super soldier, and he does all the work of the Cavaliers by himself, including scoring, rebounding, assisting, stealing and blocking, and the pentathlon.

Under such an all-round superstar aura, the rest of the Cavaliers seem to be particularly weak, especially Mo Williams, who also made it to the Eastern All-Star last year and is known as the best player next to the emperor, has performed poorly this season, and currently only has 14+4 data, which is basically the most ordinary starting level.

The entire Cavaliers team has not been able to find any All-Star players of the year.

In the end, the Cavaliers relied on their home-court advantage and won 91-89 against the Kings to retain the victory before the Christmas game.

The Kings suffered their first consecutive losses this season, losing two games and pulling away from the Lakers.

Lakers fans breathed a sigh of relief, and it didn't feel good to have someone chasing after them all the time.

After losing to the Cavaliers, the Kings returned to their home court and will face the Los Angeles Lakers on December 26, after Christmas.

And this battle, like the previous Suns game, has become the focus of the United States.

The Kings are at home, live across the United States, and all tickets are sold.

The Lakers have had a great run of games over the past period, and the main thing is that they have had no injuries on the team, and they have had the best chemistry in recent seasons.

The Lakers are aggressive, and the Kings are playing at home, and the odds are a little higher than the Lakers.

There is no way, after all, now the Kings have lost two in a row, and the Lakers are in high spirits, and the Lakers game has not been scheduled for this year's Christmas game, and the whole team has been fully rested.

The two teams fought, and the game was hot, and the attention skyrocketed due to the aftermath of the Christmas game.

As night fell, the players from both teams took to the field.

The Arco Arena was full.

Wang greeted Phil Jackson with a smile on his face.

"King, today you are afraid that you will lose three times in a row."

Phil Jackson said half-jokingly, but the words were sharp and stinging.

Phil Jackson, who has always been indifferent, has always been like this in the face of Wang Mingming, and after Wang Mingming heard his words, he sneered, "Then I'm afraid Kobe Bryant has to score 82 points." ”

"Bosh likes to be a backdrop so much?" Phil Jackson is sharp-tongued.

"There's no way to lose, after all, the OK combination is too powerful, and they teamed up to send me three consecutive defeats." Wang Tomorrow was not angry, and said with a smile.

Phil Jackson's face did not change, but his heart was on fire, and he scolded Wang for being shameless tomorrow.

When the "OK" combination disintegrated, Phil Jackson never led the Lakers to win the championship again, and even resigned after being pressured, and was considered by many to be just a coach who hugged the thighs of the stars.

Now that O'Neal is at the end of his career and is on an errand with the Cavaliers, Kobe Bryant is still the boss of the Lakers, and Wang will take OK out tomorrow to say that it is a very vicious trash talk.

The two didn't deal with each other and turned away.

Fans didn't know about the dirty things about trash talk between coaches, and they only looked at Wang Mingming and Phil Jackson's handshake with a smile, and thought that the two had a good relationship.

In fact, Wang Tomorrow also knows why Phil Jackson doesn't like him, not to mention the robbery and trading of Gasol in the distant 76ers era, and recently this summer, Wang Tomorrow is eyeing the head coach seat of the Los Angeles Lakers, at that time, Koop Check and Kobe Bryant hesitated, if it weren't for the Bass family's firm belief in Phil Jackson, maybe they would have lost their jobs at this time.

The hatred of snatching generals and snatching jobs are mixed together, of course, no matter how you look at it, it is not pleasing to the eye.

The Lakers players finished their warm-up workouts, and then the two sides had an opening ceremony.

The starters stay on the field.

Lakers starters: Derrick Fisher, Kobe Bryant, Trevor Ariza, Al Horford, Andrew Bynum.

Kings starters: Jason Kidd, DeMar DeRozan, Ron Artest, Chris Bosh, Tyson Chandler.

DeRozan is the starting point guard, and Wang is a little worried about his defense tomorrow.

If it's an average player, forget it, but that's Kobe.

The 31-year-old Kobe Bryant has entered the most mature and stable stage of his career, and the original battle for the four quarterbacks now seems to have a faint answer, and who is the strongest scorer after Jordan has also defaulted to Kobe's head.

So far this season, Kobe Bryant has steadily contributed 29+5+5 data, shooting 4 into 5 and three-point shooting rate of more than 3 percent.

Wang was not prepared to let DeRozan defend Kobe Bryant at the beginning, but the words of Casey's assistant coach changed Wang's decision tomorrow.

"If DeRozan can't grow in this kind of training, I'm afraid it will be difficult to do it in the playoffs, which is a hurdle he must overcome, and it is the experience he has learned on the way to growth."

Wang Mingming thinks so, if DeRozan is a gamer, then Kobe Bryant is definitely the big boss he has encountered since the beginning of the game, although it is difficult to fight the boss, but after winning, he is experienced, and it is common to even upgrade a few levels.

Therefore, Wang Ming entrusted DeRozan and everyone to still let him into the starting lineup, and did not arrange Artest to change the defense.

On the court, Artest patted DeRozan on the shoulder.

The young and immature face revealed a firmness.

"Just use the tricks I taught you, stay focused, avoid being cheated and fouled, you can."

"Don't worry, I'll be able to guard against him."

Perhaps hearing the conversation between DeRozan and Artest, Kobe Bryant's head turned, a gleam flashed in his eyes, and he stood in his place.

Tyson Chandler and Andrew Bynum jump ball.

Over the past few seasons, Bynum has continued to develop sideways, and seems to be a little stronger than Tyson Chandler.

Chandler won the jump ball and the Kings gained their first offensive rights.

"Tactic No. 1!"

Jason Kidd commanded with his right hand on the outside, making tactical arrangements.

All the Kings players moved, with Chris Bosh covering DeRozan from the baseline, and then going online to cover Jason Kidd with the ball.

Covering the opportunity, the Lakers did not choose to switch defenses.

Jason Kidd walked inside, dribbling the ball as if it were attacking and passing.

Horford is an excellent pick-and-roll interior defender who handles the connection between Kidd and Bosh very well, and when Kidd passes back and Bosh gets the ball, Horford is back in position and appears in front of Bosh.

This kind of defensive ability, which is not reflected in statistics, has just made the Lakers famous.

"Al, this guy isn't simple."

Wang Mingming sighed with emotion, in the draft that year, he knew that Horford had outstanding potential, but at that time, the 76ers urgently needed the support of interior All-Star level players, so they reluctantly sold Al Horford.

Unexpectedly, Al Horford's ability rating has reached 87 points, and he is like the second person in the Lakers and has become Kobe's most trusted assistant on the team.

Horford didn't lose position, Bosh forced a strong attack to no avail, and Bynum lightly stretched his ape arm and grabbed the rebound.

The Lakers didn't fight back strongly, and after picking up the rebound, they didn't rush forward.

In the positional battle, Bryant received the ball with his back in the elbow area.

DeRozan desperately went around to interfere with Kobe, and Kobe glanced at Fisher.

Fisher understood and threw the ball to the baseline, and Bryant turned around abruptly and went around to the baseline to catch the basketball.

At that moment's turn, Kobe Bryant also secretly elbowed DeRozan.

This small movement was too fast, and everyone's eyes were attracted by the high-tossed basketball.

So much so that Kobe Bryant went around the bottom line and didn't notice that DeRozan was a beat slower.

Step by step, step by step.

Kobe Bryant made a gesture to throw, and DeRozan flew up to interfere with the block.

Who knew that Kobe Bryant was a feint, a light horizontal pull, dodging DeRozan's defensive area, and unhurriedly making a mid-range jumper.

It was one-on-one, and the Kings didn't come to the pack, so Kobe Bryant shot unguarded.

"Huh!"

It's tantamount to sending points directly.

Kobe Bryant defended with a blank face, but DeRozan gritted his teeth with hatred.

As soon as the half passed, DeRozan had a temper and was not afraid of Kobe, so he came out of the line and opened his arms to ask for the ball.

He wasn't in a good position, but Kidd didn't hesitate when he saw it and gave the ball to DeRozan.

DeRozan dribbles and cuts diagonally.

At this time, the Lakers' defensive formation was a bit chaotic, and Kobe Bryant did not keep up with DeRozan, making the players who protected the rim under the basket passive.

Especially at this time, Tyson Chandler is still harassing Bynum with trash talk on the side, reminding Bynum of his existence all the time, making Bynum scruple and in a dilemma.

With this hesitation, DeRozan sent the ball forward and flew up in one step.

The left hand in the air turned into a battle axe, the head was flat, and the dunk was bursting!

"Bang!"

The passion of the entire Arco Arena was instantly ignited by DeRozan's violent dunk, and then Horford, who supplemented the defense, was more like embellishment for DeRozan's dunk.

Phil Jackson looked shocked.

Wang Mingming's formation layout is very interesting and very targeted, DeRozan is a rookie player, but he has become the attack point in Wang Mingming's lineup, and the lines around are basically off-ball screens or double blocks, the covering wall is well done, and Kobe Bryant is blocked.

If the King of Death knows what Phil Jackson thinks tomorrow, he must cry out for injustice.

His offensive point is still Bosh, just because DeRozan is young, and Wang will see that the Lakers' outside offense is particularly dependent on Kobe, so he directly let DeRozan run more, and the last shot, whether it is an air cut or an outside ambush, must consume Kobe's physical strength.

Kobe Bryant's fighting spirit is tenacious, but if he doesn't have physical strength, it will be another layer of victory for the Kings.

In the final analysis, the Kings have a lot of people playing, and DeRozan's replacement does not have much impact on the overall strength of the team at present.

It was the first time that DeRozan was assigned such an important role by Wang Mingming, and when he saw so many blocks and dismantles set up for him, he was very happy and ran around the court.

Hamilton has a saying that is very true, there is no real running master, most of the shooter's real running is useless, what to do is to be able to grasp the moment the opportunity arises.

The Lakers attacked, and Fisher threw wide.

Kidd chose to chase after the block, and Fisher had a shooting opportunity, but unfortunately he didn't take it.

Chandler and Bynum were in the basket position, and in the middle of the competition, Chandler was the first to touch the basketball, saw a white figure, and tossed the ball over.

Artest protects the backcourt rebound.

Ariza did her best to defend Artest.

The 24-year-old Ariza is in the prime of his career, with an amazing pair of long arms, an innate defensive advantage, and a great deal of experience in shooting players.

Artest advanced to the front court, looking to make a pass with Kidd.

Seeing that Ariza was slightly relaxed, between changing hands and dribbling, he suddenly accelerated.

"What?"

What is it like for a beast to rush over, that majestic momentum, the audience sitting above can feel it deeply.

"Bang!"

Ariza was overwhelmed and was knocked out of the way by Artest.

At this time, Artest, who went deep under the basket, unexpectedly picked up the basketball, flicked his wrist slightly, and sent it to the left.

Bosh followed, and the basket was half turned and hooked to shoot.

Bosh is a No. 4 who likes to shoot and break through, but that doesn't mean he doesn't know how to attack the basket, in fact, he attacks the basket, has solid fundamentals, and his skills are very delicate.

As soon as he threw it, no one could cover it, and he watched the basketball fly high and then fall into the basket almost vertically.

4-2, the king overtook him.

There was a round of applause.

"The speed of the Lakers' counterattack is really slow."

Perhaps accustomed to seeing the Kings' running and rapid advancement, Michael Curry couldn't help but talk about the Lakers' style of play on the court, and did not mock the Lakers, but simply expressed his opinion.

After Wang Tomorrow heard this, his heart moved slightly.

In fact, Wang Mingming's team building ideas have not changed much, and the small-ball tactics are still small-ball tactics, but while playing and running, he also pays close attention to defense, from the outside to the inside, you can see the defensive gates everywhere, and the defense of the Kings is even more powerful than the offense.

By the time DeRowe grows up, the inside and outside lines will be a real ironclad without any defensive holes.

Wang Mingming believes that this is incomparable to the Lakers, although the Lakers are also balanced offensively and defensively, they have always done a very average job in defending and converting offense.

Thinking of this, he already had a countermeasure in his mind, stood up, and just waited for the next pause.