Chapter 522: Six More Victories
There are no accidents in the game with the Rockets, although Harden is very fierce, but it is still a little difficult to face Ye Xuan's defense, but Ye Xuan also found a problem in Harden's matchup, that is, Harden's cheating and foul skills are indeed very powerful, and he will be deceived by Harden into shooting fouls if he is not careful, I have to say that Harden's name as the king of the one-point line is indeed worthy of his name.
Fortunately, although Ye Xuan was sentenced to a total of five fouls in this game, the game was still won by the Lakers, Gordon and Anderson looked very difficult in the face of Solomon Hill and Gasol's defense, and Ariza and Capela did not have the ability to attack independently, so the Lakers did not feel any pressure when facing the Rockets, which are dark horses this season.
In the end, although the Rockets struggled on the road, wanting to use their three-point shooting ability to catch up with the score, the Lakers' response was very in place, and the tactics of putting two defenses and three sacrifices made the Rockets completely lose hope of turning the tables, and finally the Lakers won 9 consecutive victories at Staples Arena, and this game was actually a game with a very small margin that the Lakers have won in recent games, and the final score difference was actually within 5 points.
After that, the Lakers did not stop their pace, nor did they get complacent because of their nine-game winning streak, but continued to sprint towards the goal of winning the regular season in one go. On December 10, the Lakers easily won with an ultra-high score difference of 131:101, winning 10 in a row.
On this day on December 12th, the Lakers set off for New York to challenge the Knicks, the Knicks are still rebuilding this season, because there are no players in the team who can support the field after trading Anthony, so the Knicks have not played well, even if they have high hopes for Porzingis, but also for various reasons so the performance is not particularly good, although from time to time can have an amazing performance of 42 points and 13 boards, but more often the team is playing around him, And he was not able to play the role of the core of his team.
In this game, the Lakers also chose to rotate Ye Xuan and Wade, in fact, this made Xiao Hua very unhappy, but because the terms of the rotation have not been officially promulgated, the Lakers' rotation is also fearless, although the two main forces are missing, but Porzingis still shows his immature side when facing Gasol, playing 31 minutes, although he scored 27 points plus 9 rebounds, but 6 fouls were sent off, and Gasol's side alone made Porzingis 4 fouls, It was a complete victory in a head-to-head encounter. In the end, after 40 minutes of anxious play, the Lakers finally achieved a relatively obvious advantage shortly after the start of the final quarter, and finally won the game, winning 11 in a row.
The Lakers have been in full swing, other teams in the league have begun to chant that the wolf is coming, and articles about the Lakers' combat effectiveness this season have sprung up like mushrooms all at once. What started out with less than a 10% chance of the Lakers winning the championship in the forecast has suddenly risen to 27%.
After the game against the Knicks, the Lakers had to rush back to Los Angeles non-stop, because they will face the Kings back-to-back on December 13, although the Kings are also one of the few teams in the West that are rotten, but unlike teams like the Suns, they actually want to play a good game, because if they still have this record, then they should not be long before they lose their interior pillar DeMarcus Cousins.
Although the Lakers did not take a break in this game, they chose to rest Gasol, who did not get a rest in the last game, and Wade did not take a turn to rest, but he appeared on the bench, it can be seen that Wharton Jr. has experienced 73 wins in the regular season last season, which led to physical exhaustion in the playoffs, and was finally overturned by the Cavaliers.
At the beginning of the game, the Kings' combat effectiveness was not very reliable, although they played the league's No. 1 center and some good role players, but the coach they exchanged for this season was not a special one, and the Kings' record this season was not particularly ideal, winning only 7 games in 25 games, ranking 13th in the West.
Although the Lakers' interior players are not very good, let Cousins turn the river and the sea on his inside, but in retrospect, they were not able to prevent Ye Xuan on the outside, which made Kaoshen's gorgeous data turn into a bubble again and again, and the same is true of this game, Kaoshen played 35 minutes in the whole game, scored a total of 43 points, 14 rebounds and 4 blocks, but the Kings lost to the Lakers by almost 20 points, Ye Xuan also clocked out in 3 quarters, 12 consecutive wins, Not only were the Lakers able to rotate their main team, but they were still able to maintain their fighting power, which made the rest of the league look sideways.
Although the Lakers will play a total of 17 games in December, their opponents are not particularly strong, starting with the Suns, the current Kings, and then the Nets and 76ers. On December 15th, the Lakers welcomed another soy sauce opponent on their home court, the Nets, who had just made a trade.
Before the start of the game, Smith also took the initiative to say hello to Ye Xuan, and after coming to the Nets, he was mentioned to the starting position, but he still had a grudge about the fact that the team directly traded him out, and returning to the city of New York again reminded him of some unhappiness in the Knicks before, so he was not happy to play in the Nets.
There is nothing to say about this game, the Lakers basically defeated the Nets with a crushing attitude, in this game, the Lakers are actually still resting, but the object of the rotation has changed from the three main forces to some role players, Randle and Nick Young did not play in this game, but the three main forces were exhausted, and the Lakers still defeated the Nets very easily, which is also their thirteenth consecutive win. And they still won all in December, and it is unknown if they will replicate the Eagles' record of winning all in the month.
In the blink of an eye, the time has come on December 17th, and the Lakers continue to sit on the home court to face the 76ers, who have not won 20 games in any of the past three seasons, and last season they played a strange 10-72. The 76ers have been the most consistent team in the league in recent years, and they have been playing a bad role without the slightest defense or concern.
The rotten of the 76ers is a very complete rotten, rotten with a casual attitude, as if telling the fans: Let's just play casually, just take a look at it, don't take it seriously. The 76ers had the second-lowest team in the league in points per game and points conceded per game last season, while they ranked last in the league with 98.8 points per 100 possessions and 26th in the league with 109.2 points per 100 possessions. The 76ers played such offensive and defensive quality with the sixth-fastest pace in the league, and there is no other explanation than "no care".
The problem with the 76ers is that the team is too young, and the core players with strength are all drafted in recent years, lack experience, and need to grow. For the 76ers, they don't have the concept of "worst problems" because they are just too bad - 29th in the league in shooting percentage, 24th in the league in three-point shooting percentage, 28th in the league in free throw shooting percentage, and 30th in the league in rebounding percentage.
However, the 76ers are not without bright spots, their young interior quality is good, ranking third in the league in blocks this season, reaching 495 times, and Noel, Okafor, and Jeremy Grant have all played a big role. Of course, Nouel has been traded out by them too much because they have a very talented prospect - Joel Embiid.
The players lost by the 76ers in the offseason are insignificant, although Cannan and Smith are indeed the 76ers' scorers who score more, but for the 76ers, such offensive quality, these players are of little significance. The 76ers' reinforcements are interesting to see — for the 76ers, their annual additions attract some attention, because the draft alone is enough to look at. This time, the 76ers didn't disappoint either, they didn't play tricks and straightened out the hot pick Ben Simmons.
For the 76ers, they have to strengthen both offensive and defensive ends, so simply pick the best player in the draft, and Simmons is of course very much in line with this requirement. Simmons is versatile offensively and defensively, and he can also play the role of playmaker, which can alleviate the problem of the 76ers' current tactical confusion to a certain extent.
In addition, Sharic is also ready to compete in the NBA, and the all-around lad will be in the limelight at the Olympics in the summer, and the industry believes that he and Simmons are enough to solve the 76ers' organizational problems. The two of them, plus the comeback Embiid, the 76ers have the capital to pull out a very exaggerated big man all-round lineup in the new season. But they didn't expect that the 76ers' draft injury curse could not be broken, and the top pick they selected, Ben Simmons, was directly reimbursed for the injury season, from Embiid in 14 years, to Okafor in 15 years, and now Embiid, basically no one in the 76ers' high-pick draft can finish their rookie season healthy.
There were previous rumors that Brett Brown might be out of class, but he has been stable in his position, and it seems that the 76ers really have high hopes for him. But then again, Brown's personality is also suitable for the 76ers, and Greg Popovich has said that Brown is as tough as nails. A coach of his character is the most suitable for a young team.
This season, the 76ers have a luxurious lineup, and they can theoretically line up the "Death Five" lineup of Simmons, Sharic, Noel, Okafor, and Embiid. And don't forget, in that case, they still have Jeremy Grant on the bench — a perverted wing who averaged 9.7 points, 4.7 rebounds, 1.8 assists, 0.7 steals and 1.6 blocks per game in his second season — who, by the way, is 2.03 meters tall and has an arm span of nearly 2.4 meters.
Objectively speaking, the 76ers in the new season are definitely worth impressing. Judging from the composition of the core players, they directly added three players with strong competitiveness - Simmons, Embiid, and Sharic. If these three are healthy, they can directly solve the two major problems of defense and organization for the 76ers, and can even piggyback on some outside shooting problems. It's conceivable that the 76ers will never win 10 games a year like they did last season.
But the problem for the 76ers is also with the new players. It's hard to say whether Embiid the Great's health can be guaranteed. And the five dead are still just in the imagination, and no one dares to say that the 76ers will definitely be lined up like this. Objectively speaking, Okafor, Noel, Sarric, Embiid, these four people are position duplicates, how to use them, and even how to trade them, is something that the 76ers must consider. At the moment, it seems that Noel has become the first target of the team's abandonment, and Okafor now seems to be unable to escape the end of being traded, after all, his playing time is also getting worse and worse.
In fact, there is another highlight of this game, that is, the showdown between Embiid and Ye Xuan, in fact, the two should not have any intersection, but Embiid didn't know which funny attribute suddenly attacked, and he didn't be able to control his hand, so he directly began to compare his future with Ye Xuan on his INS, and as a result, naturally there were good people who slowly hyped up this matter, and even later, after Ye Xuan's game of slashing 93 points, Embiid also threatened on INS that he could score more than 70 points in five seasons.
I have to say that Embiid on INS is indeed a super funny, if the regular data of other players is only five, then Embiid's regular data is definitely six, averaging 18 points, 8 boards, 3 assists, 0.8 steals and 1.2 blocks per game, in addition to an average of 15 INS or Twitter dynamics per game, yes, he is such a social maniac, I don't know what Lao Ko, who claims to never use social software, thinks of Embiid as a social maniac.
Although there are a lot of highlights, but when it really comes to the two teams, the 76ers are stupid, the Lakers actually played very casually in this game, Wade appeared on the bench, and Gasol did the same, only Larry Nance Jr. and others fought side by side with Ye Xuan, but the 76ers played in a disorderly manner, basically holding the rhythm of basketball, so the result was naturally that the Lakers easily turned the game into garbage time for nearly half of the court.