The Lakers lost, and the Los Angeles Times didn't have time to pay attention.

They were dealing with internal affairs, the sports version changed hands, Kevinding took over the sports version of the reporting task, and he gave his assessment of the Lakers' loss to the Cavaliers: A loss relieved the pressure for the Lakers, their winning streak ended, and they were relieved, and they didn't have to fight for the winning streak anymore.

The schedule of the shortened season is too tight, and the Lakers can't fight every game, so losing is a good thing, and losing due to poor form is even better.

The triangle offense and the Lakers are perfectly integrated, the superstar's ability is maximized, and Qiao Hai brings the Lakers not only victory, but also a reasonable offensive and defensive system.

The Lakers lost to the Cavaliers, but the style of the Los Angeles Times suddenly changed, and the headline article on the sports page directly blew Qiao Hai, and many people felt uncomfortable.

Qiao Hai read the report, and he knew that the Lakers were about to win, and he was about to win.

The headline story was written by Kevinding, who has a good relationship with Qiao Hai, and many people know this, because Kevinding is the only reporter who has interviewed Qiao Hai, and he, like Qiao Hai, is Chinese.

So, the sudden change in the Los Angeles Times is seen as a sign that they are about to bow their heads.

On March 19, the Lakers challenged the 76ers back-to-back.

For Qiao Hai, losing is not terrible, what is terrible is losing in a row, so this one must not be lost.

The 76ers are a formidable opponent, and they are strong entirely because of Allen Iverson, who was drafted in the same 96 as Kobe Bryant, but the difference is that Iverson was the pride of the sky as soon as he entered the league, scoring 30 points and 6 assists in his NBA debut, and has continued to improve in recent seasons, and by this season, Allen Iverson has become one of the top scorers in the league.

In this game, defending Iverson is the top priority, looking at the Lakers team, there are many players who can defend Iverson, but it is difficult to say what can really defend Iverson, Qiao Hai thought about it and felt that the best defense against Iverson was Bruce Bowen.

Bowen defends Iverson, there is definitely no problem with height, with Bowen's ability to entangle, he will not suffer too much loss against Iverson's breakthrough, perhaps the only problem is speed.

So, after thinking about it for a while, Qiao Hai adjusted the starting point of this game.

Starting point guard Kobe Bryant, Bruce Bowen plays the second position, Scott Pippen small forward, big forward Robert Horry, center Shaquille O'Neal.

For the current Lakers, the point guard position is really not very important, so if you really adjust the starter, you can only adjust the point guard, Kobe Bryant is more than enough to play a guest point guard, and Bruce Bowen plays the point guard just against Allen Iverson.

The game was played at the 76ers' Wachovia Center Court, and there were multiple highlights for this game.

The '96 generation matchup between Kobe Bryant and Allen Iverson is a highlight, and as a Philadelphia, Kobe Bryant's homecoming battle is also a highlight.

Because of Iverson, the atmosphere at Philadelphia's home court is still very good, and this time it met the Lakers' "Big Three", and the home court was naturally bursting, full of 20,000 fans, most of whom wore Allen Iverson's jersey, and a small number of Lakers fans appeared on the sidelines, wearing Kobe's No. 8 jersey, obviously Kobe's hometown supporters.

In the opening game, Shaquille O'Neal defeated short center Theolatliff and won with a jump ball.

The Lakers pulled away from the singles, and the basketball was given to O'Neal.

The big sharks beat Theo Latliff on the inside, I have to say that with O'Neal, the Lakers' advantage on the inside is still quite huge, even the block king Ratliff can't stop O'Neal's strong advance at the beginning.

O'Neal sat with his back to play, advanced two steps to the basket, turned around and threw it, and hit it directly!

Turning, the 76ers' offense, Iverson takes the ball, and it is also singles.

The Lakers arranged Bruce Bowen's targeted single defense against Iverson, and also asked other players to pay attention to the defensive pinch, but in the first shot of the opening game, Iverson still shook left and right on the outside, and used a dexterous change of direction to pass Bruce Bowen, hit the basket, and scored the ball against O'Neal's supplemental defense.

And also caused a foul on O'Neal.

This goal was extremely exciting, Iverson scored 2+1, and the center court of Vagiovia shouted wildly, especially Iverson went to the free throw line to hit the free throw, and there were several screams on the scene.

"In Philadelphia, Iverson is really popular." Stanreford sighed.

Qiao Hai agreed: "Yes, if it weren't for the fact that there is no prince in the basketball world, maybe Iverson would be called Prince Vajovia." ”

"This kind of popularity, he is not a prince, he is the king of Vachovia."

"Anyway, let's remind Bruce, don't push too hard." Qiao Hai shook his head, the ball just now, in the final analysis, Bowen used too much force, and continued to move sideways, but he was directly faked by Iverson and passed in one step.

Stan Lefu nodded and walked to the sideline to remind.

The game continued, but the Lakers' offense missed.

Kobe Bryant's outside singles, he was against Iverson, who was a guest point guard, facing Iverson, who was a head shorter than himself, Kobe Bryant singles against singles, rushed forward two steps directly, stopped the jump shot, and leaned back slightly.

Bang!

Didn't go in.

Matt Geiger grabbed the rebound and threw it directly at Iverson.

Iverson received the ball and accelerated directly, rushed to the frontcourt, and took advantage of the Lakers' failure to form a defense, and directly made a three-step layup, scoring another 2 points.

5:2, Bruce Bowen looked annoyed, just now he rushed to the inside to grab the rebound, but forgot about Iverson.

Qiao Hai shook his head, Bruce Bowen is still growing, and the current Bowen is obviously not the Bowen who frightened countless offensive players later, Qiao Hai thought about it, and asked Stan Lefu to shout on the sidelines.

"Stan, let Bruce keep an eye on Allen Iverson full-time, and leave it alone."

The Lakers attacked, and they continued to pull away from the singles, and the NBC commentators for this game were Hubie Brown and Bill Hanzlick, among them, Bill Hanzlik just stepped down from the Nuggets head coach position last year, and this is the time to be unhappy.

This is the first time Hanzrick has commented on the Lakers' game, and when he saw the Lakers continue to play singles, Hanzrick smiled: "This game is really boring, there are singles everywhere, Allen Iverson singles, Shaquille O'Neal singles, Kobe Bryant singles, and then maybe there will be Scott Pippen singles, and even Larry Hughes and Erics Snow's singles, this kind of game is too boring, there is no tactical coordination at all......"

Hubi Brown is a little helpless, Hanzlick is not pleasing to anyone now, especially a coach like Qiao Hai who has achieved certain results at a young age, Hanzlick will always think that Qiao Hai's achievements come from superstars, without superstars, Qiao Hai is nothing.

As a respected veteran coach in the league, Hubie Brown naturally will not have the same opinion as Hanzlick, the Lakers' tactics are triangle offense, and it must be all kinds of singles.

And in Hubi Brown's view, the Lakers' triangle offense is playing well, and Shaquille O'Neal always gets the opportunity to play one-on-one, which is the biggest achievement of the Lakers' triangle offense.

The Lakers singles, it was Kobe Bryant who got the ball, it was still a one-on-one breakthrough with the ball, but Kobe failed to shake off Iverson, in the face of Iverson's sticky defense, Kobe Bryant stepped back and missed again!

Turning his head, Iverson led another wave of counterattacks and continued to score.

7:2, Kobe Bryant gritted his teeth, the game just started, Iverson scored 7 points in a row, and Kobe Bryant shot 0 of 2.

Iverson completed the matchup explosion, and it was done when Kobe Bryant attacked against Iverson, but the defense did not match Iverson.

This made Kobe Bryant fall directly into his personal world, another attack by the Lakers, Kobe Bryant stood at the top of the arc and directly opened his hand to ask for the ball......