"Damn! It's this fairy ball again! Hougist scolded.

"No way, it seems that luck is on our side today." Leonard patted Haugist on the back as a sign of comfort.

"I'm not down to the point where I need to be comforted by my opponent, time ...... There's still enough time, it's hard to say who wins and who loses, don't be careless! Hoggist said stiffly.

"22.8 seconds, are you sure there's enough time?" Leonard's concern sounded sarcastic.

"We'll see!" Haugist's voice has not fallen, he has ejected like a bullet and started to run out, receiving the ball in two big steps and dribbling to the frontcourt, in order not to disrupt the rhythm, Hougist did not make any feints, pulled up and directly chose to force a shot, because Leonard was left behind him, so Dio pounced to make up for Hougist, but Dior as an excellent floor flow player, the height of Haugist's shot is beyond his reach.

However, Horgist's three-pointer dragged himself and the Lakers back, and the ball bounced on the basket for half a day before it completely fell in, so it wasted nearly 2 seconds.

With 15.7 seconds left in the game, the Lakers trailed by five points and the Spurs had the ball, and the Lakers began to press even more frantically, and the first wave of non-steals was forced to foul directly to save time.

However, Leonard's free throws were still so solid, and after hitting both free throws, the margin stretched to seven points. Chasing 7 points in 16 seconds, intellectually Haugist understood that this was impossible, but emotionally he refused to admit defeat, and drove the ball out of the front court to make a three-point shot against Leonard again.

After all, there is a limit to going against the sky, this time Hoggist's three points are still inaccurate, but Hoggist didn't feel good after he shot, so he went straight to grab the rebound, but he didn't expect it to be too positive this time, the ball was too deep and the ball bounced outward to form a long rebound, Hoggist tried his best to reach, but he just touched the ball, and did not let the ball stop.

However, Hoggist's touch changed the flight trajectory of the ball, and it happened to fall into the hands of Kobe Bryant on the outside, Kobe Bryant received the ball and immediately grabbed a three-point shot, which seemed to have its own key ball attributes, Kobe's three-point shot was simply drilled into the basket, leaving the last 6.6 seconds for the Lakers.

Theoretically, the Lakers still have the possibility of tying, as long as the Spurs can miss the next two free throws, and then Kobe or Hougist can tie the score by a 3+1, but if you want the Spurs to miss all two free throws, you have to count on them to be unlucky, but tonight the Spurs' luck is simply off the charts, even if the Spurs really miss two free throws, it is also difficult for the Lakers to deliberately create 3+1, in the case of a 4-point lead, the Spurs can completely let the Lakers attack casually in the end, even if they shoot at most, they can only chase 3 points, And why pay for a foul?

The Lakers continue to defend with high pressure in the hope of creating service errors for the Spurs, but how could a seasoned Spurs make such a low-level mistake? Leonard stood outside the baseline and was in charge of serving, and under the interference of Hoogist, it was almost five seconds before the violation was issued. Just when Haugist felt that luck was coming, Popovich, who did not give face, applied for a timeout.

After the pause, Popovich replaced Dio with Ginobili, and changed to serve in the front court, but this move is very sinister, even if the worst case scenario is that the Spurs serve is stealed, the Lakers will take a lot more time to attack from the backcourt to the frontcourt, and the probability of tying the score is even more minimal.

Ginobili stood calmly on the sideline, holding the ball behind his head and waiting for his teammates to run, seemingly not at all worried about serving timeout. At this time, Tielin suddenly ran to the backcourt, Haugist was stunned, Popovich used all means to make us think that he wanted to play a meat grinder attrition war in the frontcourt, is he making a noise? Nick who came off the bench. Yang Leng didn't catch up with him for a while, and Hougist hurriedly pushed him. Yang reacted and rushed towards Tielin, there was no chance to steal, Nick. Yang hugged Tie Lin directly in order to save time.

Fortunately, only 1 second was wasted this time, and with 5.6 seconds left, Tielin made two free throws, and after the first free throw, Popovich made another substitution, but this time the Spurs only left Leonard Tielin and Aldridge on the court, and replaced two other tall interior players, who only played in the first quarter, and since then Duncan, who has been sitting on the bench, and Boban Marjanovic, who is like a magic mountain.

"This is ......" Haugist knew that Popovich would never do something meaningless, every rotation was for a purpose, and this time there were so many interior ...... "It's not good, he wants Tielin to deliberately miss the free throw, and then use the rebounding advantage of the current lineup to consume us in the backcourt!"

Popovich admired Haugist's tactical sensitivity, and as soon as he made adjustments, he was shouted by this kid, and he was really a tactical genius, and with his current ability, he was probably already qualified to be the chief assistant coach of any team! However, it was too late for Hougist to react, Tielin had already received the ball and was ready for the second freethrow, and the Lakers had no chance to make substitution adjustments!

Sure enough, Tielin's second free throw didn't aim at the basket at all, but aimed at the basket's neck and threw it.

The ball smashed on the neck of the basket and bounced high, Duncan and Boban quickly stuck the basket position, Horgist and Turner fell into a disadvantage under the basket 2 and 3, barely relying on Horgist's arm span to not let the Spurs grab the rebound for the first time, but it didn't make any sense, and finally the rebound fell into Aldridge's hands, and Horgist didn't even have time to foul the game to end.

In the end, the Lakers lost to the Spurs 101-106, ending their 22-game winning streak in the opening season. Hoggist played the most efficient game of his career, shooting 15-of-26 from the field, including 6-of-13 three-pointers, finishing with 42 points, 9 assists, 7 rebounds and 3 steals, no blocks, and 3 turnovers. This is the first time that Hoggist's three-point shooting percentage is below 5 percent, and while the 46% three-point shooting rate is understandable, it is undoubtedly far below the average of Hoggist, and the number of 26 shots and 13 three-point shots are the third-highest in his career, and the number of shots above average is below average, which should be the direct reason for the Lakers' loss.

As for why Hoggist's offensive efficiency plummeted, it is also possible that the Spurs' defensive strategy worked, or it is impossible to know that he injured his hamstring by playing with fire at the end of the third quarter. However, after the game, both sides were not satisfied with the team's performance today. When the reporter interviewed Popovich, he asked: "The Spurs were able to defeat the Lakers, who set a record for consecutive wins at the beginning of the season, because Leonard was more successful in restricting Hoggist?" You know, today, Hoggist's efficiency has reached a new career low. ”

Popovich looked dissatisfied: "The restriction is more successful? You're not laughing at me, are you? Hoggist's three-point shooting percentage this time is only lower than Curry, Klay and Redick's three-point shooting rate per game this season, and he cut a quasi-triple-double of 40+ with a shooting percentage of more than 5 percent, which is explosive to anyone, I don't know why you think we have been more successful in restricting Hoggist. It was all due to our luck in the fourth quarter! ”

On the Lakers' side, Hoggist was naturally even more dissatisfied with his performance, and a reporter asked with a bit of discord: "Another gorgeous statistic, your performance in this game is still impeccable, is the loss because your teammates played less than ideal today?" ”

Hogist pulled down his face and said: "Today my shooting rate is a mess, the high score is entirely because I threw too many balls, although I threw some difficult balls, but also wasted a lot of great opportunities, wasting opportunities The damage to the team is far greater than the comfort brought by throwing difficult balls, and my assists today are also pitiful, which shows that I have not fulfilled the responsibility of connecting the team at all, and the feeling of not being able to lead my teammates to win is really bad!" ”

After a pause, Haojister also laughed at himself and added: "Today, it should be my turn to be the leader of the group, right?" ”

The news of the Lakers' loss made many "Lakers fans" pop up on the Internet during the winning streak and disappeared, but the real lake honey began to suffer the backlash brought about by the "Lakers fans" who ridiculed and provoked the previous streak, and the schadenfreude and fall from the fans of the rest of the team, if it weren't for the famous slogan of "civilized view of the game, reason for winning or losing" put forward by Hougist during the winning streak, I am afraid that the Lakers will be swallowed by public opinion now.

However, the real lake honey and the Lakers have no time to care about online public opinion at all, because they will fly to Houston tomorrow to play back-to-back games on the road against Jeremy Lin's old club, the Rockets. Although the Rockets had a poor start to the season, ranking sixth in the West with only 11 wins and 12 losses, no one would think that the Rockets are a team in the second group, and the Lakers now have a 22-1 record that is temporarily second in the West, because the Warriors have played one more game than the Lakers, and are now 23-1 in the first place in the West.

Because of the urgency of time, the post-game summary meeting was held on the plane overnight, Shashewski is really a good coach, although he lost the game, he did not blame everyone, and still patiently gave everyone encouragement, "It's not terrible to lose a game, at least the pressure of winning streaks and breaking records is completely unloaded, the first position in the West was given to the Warriors, and now the sense of oppression that is being chased by others belongs to them, start from scratch tomorrow night, I hope you can regain the passion for the game, don't think about winning or losing, As long as you play your own pace, I think the ending will be satisfying to you! ”

"Today's game was mainly lost to me, because I couldn't control the rhythm of the game, I was too flustered to deal with the opponent's defensive arrangement, I have to be self-criticized!" Hoggist also took the initiative to stand up and take the blame.

"Speaking of which, it was also my tactical mistake, I really didn't expect that Greg, an old boy, actually only let Duncan play the first quarter, and the strategy to adapt after my plan was disrupted is also debatable now. However, the game has been played, summarize the reasons for the failure, learn lessons and learn from the next one, just play well, I don't advocate the sub-pot conference! Shashewski dissuaded Haugist from taking the initiative.

At this time, Fan Xiaohong suddenly interjected, "I'm sorry, please forgive me for being rude, I need to interrupt your discussion, after the game, Haugist said that the soles of his feet were uncomfortable, and asked me to massage his feet, but during the examination, I found that he had symptoms of plantar fasciitis, although it is not very serious, but I still recommend that he rest for about a week to recover." ”

"No, I'm fine, I can still play!" Hougist retorted, apparently the two did not agree when it came to checking out what was wrong.

"That's not good, since Dr. Fan suggested that you rest, I think it's better for you to follow the doctor's instructions!" Shashewski is of course more inclined to Fan Xiaohong's opinion, after all, Haugist is the most important part of the team, and he can't ruin the hope of the whole season because of the small profits in front of him, because he cares about winning or losing two or three games.

"Dr. Fan is a little alarmist, at least the discomfort on the soles of my feet after the ice does not affect my shooting and passing, I will play on the court, this month's opponents are basically strong teams, I can't sit on the court at this time and watch my teammates fight against strong opponents, at least I have to participate in the top eight games against the West this month, and I can consider taking a break when playing weak teams and Eastern teams!" Haugist tried to negotiate terms with Shashewski.

But even if he threatened with his achievements, Shashefsky did not waver, "No, it's not just you, all of you have listened, all issues involving physical health are decided by Dr. Fan, and if you want to bargain, you don't have to talk about it!" I'm grateful for your willingness to sacrifice your health for the sake of the team's results, but I'm more interested in the long-term development of the team, and if you recover from an injury and lose a game or two, it doesn't matter, I can accept it, because I know that when you come back healthy, you can help the team win more games! ”

Perhaps Shashewski's thoughtful care for his players is the source of his team's cohesion and tactical execution, at least now the Lakers players have every one of their faces written with the impassioned death of a confidant. And Hougist thought about it again and again, and finally agreed to the request of Shashefsky and Fan Xiaohong, temporarily hung up the exemption card, and made every effort to recover from plantar fasciitis.

It seems that the sudden outbreak of this kind of athletic function does have great damage to the body, unless it is the time to play the key ball in or go home in the playoffs, it is easy not to use it anymore, and wait for this injury to heal and then tap the potential of talent! Hoggist lowered the back of his seat and fell asleep in thought.

In the away game against the Rockets, Hoggist entered the daily watch list, although the audience saw that he was also wearing a shooting suit, but Hoggist has been stretching and applying ice, and has no intention of playing, and Kobe Bryant also chose to rest because of back-to-back games, and the Lakers, who lacked the two main forces, could not withstand the Rockets' indiscriminate bombardment and were slaughtered 97-126.