Chapter 152: Three consecutive victories and the first place in the West
The next day's media newspapers were full of reports about the match.
It's not just the media in Vancouver and Los Angeles that are discussing the game, it's the media across the United States.
Especially the media in Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Daily News criticized Jerry West, the godfather of the Lakers, by name, believing that it was Jerry West's misoperation and signing that led to Qiao Hai, who led the Lakers to a record championship, to leave Vancouver, and the new coach Phil Jackson, although he was very famous, lost to the Grizzlies in the opening game, which has shown that Phil Jackson's work is very average and does not live up to his name at all.
And judging from Qiao Hai's results in Vancouver, Qiao Hai is obviously the better coach.
The Los Angeles Daily News' criticism was radical, directly criticizing Jerry West.
The Los Angeles Times was much more modest, but it also directly criticized Phil Jackson's hiring.
Nepotism, yes, that's the word.
Kevinding, who wrote the main report, believes that Scott Pippen is declining at a visible rate, and it is difficult to be qualified this season, both defensively and offensively, but Phil Jackson is still entrusted with the heavy responsibility, which has the consequence that this season's Lakers' triangle offense cannot play the power of last season, and the defensive end cannot cope with the Grizzlies' changeable offense.
Scott Pippen was the main reason the Lakers lost.
And because Scott Pippen is a Phil Jackson veteran, Phil Jackson's insistence on using Scott Pippen is obviously nepotism.
For Kevending's analysis, Qiao Hai agrees very much, this season's Lakers are indeed weaker offense and weaker defense than last season, the main reason is Scott Pippen, last season, the peak Scott Pippen had a very high position in Qiao Hai's tactics, the offensive end is the core, controlling the ball, and the defensive end is also the core, responsible for the middle distance area of the defense.
But obviously, this season, Scott Pippen, who has fallen badly, can't control the ball on the offensive end, and can still help make up for the defense on the defensive end, locking the mid-range.
Therefore, if it is Qiao Hai, he will definitely make a change, if he wants to strengthen the defense, he will replace the starting No. 3 position with Bruce Bowen, and if he wants to maintain the offense, then continue to let Pippen start, but considering that Pippen can no longer bear too much responsibility, Pippen is only responsible for controlling the rhythm as a starter, and the ball will be handed over to O'Neal and Kobe.
It's a change Joe will make, but Phil Jackson won't do it, Scott Pippen is his old player, a player he needs to rely on, and he won't give up Scott Pippen anytime soon.
Even the local media in Los Angeles are criticizing Lakers management and Phil Jackson.
Not to mention the national media in North America.
ESPN praised Qiao Hai and belittled Phil Jackson, last season they were still on Phil Jackson's side to speak, at this time, Phil Jackson just led the team to lose a game, ESPN directly defected, and it was Qiao Hai who once made them unable to get off the stage, I have to say that these media are really undisciplined.
On the Vancouver side, Ronald Tilleri, a reporter from the Vancouver Business Daily, asked a question at the press conference, hoping that Qiao Hai would comment on the performance of several main players of the team one by one.
In the post-match report, Ronald Tilleri praised Qiao Hai's employment.
Maddy scored 25 points, Raheem scored 30 points, the two main attackers combined for 55 points, plus the tactical core Brad Miller scored 15 points, 9 rebounds and 7 assists, and starting point guard Mike Bibby also scored 13 points and 6 assists.
Ronald Thileri concluded: "Under Qiao Hai's coaching, the Grizzlies players have realized their value, winning two in a row, and now, we can hope that the team will play even better! ”
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After the Grizzlies-Lakers game, the Los Angeles media wailed and constantly criticized the team, from top to bottom.
The Vancouver press was delighted, constantly praising Qiao Hai's work.
In this contrast of the environment and atmosphere, Phil Jackson's work has become more and more difficult, Qiao Hai's work is naturally simpler, and now, the Grizzlies' Princeton tactics have formed a system, and then slowly run in, and in a month or two, Qiao Hai will be able to bring out a really offensive Grizzlies team.
After beating the Lakers, Qiao Hai received the reward for defeating his old club's side quest, 20 victory points, and a system card pack.
got the system card package, and Qiao Hai used it directly.
"Ding, congratulations to the host, the system card package is successfully drawn, and you can get an injury card."
"Injury card, effect, so that the injury troubled players shorten the recovery time, use restrictions: can only be used on injured and sick players who are injured and will be out of action for more than 2 months, after use, will reduce the rest of the time for at least one month, and completely remove the subsequent impact of the injury."
After reading the introduction, the role of the injury card is to help the team's seriously injured players recover, of course, not directly recovering, but shortening the recovery time, only for major injuries.
Qiao Hai thought about it, this injury card may really come in handy, not to mention the endless emergence of various meniscus tears, fractures and other major injuries in the league today, just to completely remove the follow-up impact of the injury, this card is enough to go against the sky.
For example, if Maddie suffers a back injury in the future and affects his career, Qiao Hai can use this injury card to remove the impact of the back injury on Maddie's future career.
Of course, Qiao Hai also knows that Maddie's back injury is a few years later, and when the time comes, it may not be Qiao Hai who coaches Maddie, and this card may not be able to stay until then, so Qiao Hai saved this card first, and when it should be used, he will not hesitate to use this card.
The storm of public opinion that won the Lakers lasted for a few days, and Qiao Hai had no time to pay attention to these.
After playing the Lakers, the Grizzlies embarked on an away journey, and they played back-to-back games against the Nuggets.
In the first two games, the Nuggets won 1-1, they were the third-to-last bad team in the West last season, and this season, the Nuggets seem to be on the rise, and the new coach Dan Yissel is based on defense, and the Nuggets are playing well in the first two games.
But in this game against the Grizzlies, the Nuggets' defense was messed up again.
There is no way, against the Princeton offense, the Nuggets' defense was created in the short term, with Antonio McDies as the core, and rookie James Posey was also reused, but Qiao Hai directly attacked Raheem's side, so that Antonio McDyess had no time to make up for the defense, and responded to the tactics through low posts, as well as the outburst of role players.
The Grizzlies took another win at the Denver Plateau.
The biggest contributor to this victory was not Raheem, nor Maddy, but Brad Miller, who scored 22 points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists in the game, and Mike Bibby, who made 5 three-pointers and scored a game-high 28 points.
Raheem scored just 17 points, but he had five assists and Maddie had just 16 points.
It's not that they didn't play well, it's that the Grizzlies didn't even need their strength to win the game.
In this way, the Grizzlies actually won a wave of three consecutive wins at the beginning of the game, and on the West side, there is only one Spurs left for the same three consecutive wins, so the current Grizzlies and Spurs have won three consecutive wins and are ranked first in the West......