Chapter 333: Slap in the face
The 33-game winning streak of the Rockets played the Spurs, the second most popular in the league, and the second in the West should have belonged to the Lakers with a more luxurious lineup, but this Galaxy Battleship seems to have made the mistake of forming F4 back then, there are five people in the team who need the ball, Kobe and Bynum need the ball to attack, Gasol and Davis need basketball to organize, but there is only one ball, and finally the Lakers are now gradually divided into two factions, and no one in the team is convinced. The loss of both sides not only caused the four of them to seriously decline their stats, but also deeply hurt the team's record, if the team is the most disappointing this year, I am afraid that the Magic in the East can compete with the Lakers for this name.
The start was as fierce as a tiger, and the summer was generous, paying a very high luxury tax to form a team lineup, locking the salary space to prepare for the last wave, but after the opening wave of consecutive wins, their respective problems were exposed and then plummeted, the so-called higher expectations, the greater the disappointment, and now the Lakers fans are not only disappointed in the home team, but they have always been arrogant and are still whipped out by other fans from time to time, like the biggest feature of Lakers fans is that they shouted for the Lakers championship before the start of the game, and other fans don't engage with them.
Compared with the bluffing flashy, the Holy City is still firmly old and strong, the older the Stone Buddha is, the more stable it is, Parker is still at the tail of the peak, and the demon knife is getting older and more demonic, after the introduction of Jamison this year, the star power forward who has begun to decline in the Wizards' depression has actually surprisingly rejuvenated his second spring, averaging 19.3 points and 8.7 rebounds per game and returning himself to the front of the league's first-line power forwards. A good coach and a good system are really important, Popovich coached the Spurs during the 14 years of four championships, except for 96 years in order to make the playoffs, the Spurs in the next 13 years are almost every year in the playoffs, and they have never lost the first round of the series, and their regular season record has never fallen below 50 wins, this record is beyond the reach of other teams, no matter what kind of player, even if other teams are regarded as a tumor and old age, It seems that they will all be able to start a new career after they move to Zhuge Vic's team, which is also a strange phenomenon.
If you talk about this season, the Rockets are undoubtedly the strongest team in the league, and no other team can be in the same level as them, but if you talk about the top three bosses in Texas, then there is no doubt that the old Spurs, if you have to compare, the Rockets are equivalent to the sudden rise of the nouveau riche in the past two years, and the Spurs are a low-key aristocrat with a historical heritage, the myth of the Spurs is not something that the Rockets can break in the past two years, unless the Rockets can create a dynasty with three consecutive championships, otherwise most people talk about Texas basketball. The term Spurs is generally mentioned.
However, even if the Spurs have achieved a luxurious record of 28 wins and 5 losses in the first 33 games, they still don't have much to do with the Rockets, these old men can still suppress a few Rockets in the playoffs last year, but as they are a year older this year, and the young players of the Rockets are a year older, the difference in strength between the two sides is even more obvious, the Spurs may be able to rely on their own experience to win against other ordinary teams, but this set does not work for the Rockets at all, People just destroy you head-on with their youth and talent, and they don't discuss with you at all in the process, and after two quarters, they can beat you by 20 points without even negotiating, and the members of the Spurs can only sigh.
It's just that after 33 consecutive wins, the Rockets' pace of progress came to an abrupt halt, and in the 34th game, they faced the weak team in the West, but the league's vice squad leader lost the game with a score of 87:104 on the road, shattering the glasses of a field expert.
Since the Rockets subdued the Spurs, those experts agreed that the Rockets would rise their winning streak to about 37 games, because the Rockets will not encounter back-to-back games in the following games, and secondly, there will not be a top 8 playoff team in the East and West, experts believe that the probability of the Rockets capsizing is extremely small, according to the performance of the Rockets since the beginning of the season, and even some experts have begun to discuss the possibility of the Rockets winning all 82 regular season games this season, but who knew that the Rockets actually slapped themselves in the face so badly? Just won the second place in the West to create a historical record, and then can turn around and lose to the second to last place in the West neatly, can there still be a team in this world that plays like this? Isn't it shameless for yourself?
However, the Rockets' loss is unexpected, but it is also reasonable, the Rockets are not gods, in the long regular season, they will also encounter bad hands, referees targeted, the league in addition to themselves other teams want to let them lose, so the Rockets need to invest more in each game than other teams, plus there is record-breaking pressure, the Rockets are actually pressed by an invisible mountain.
Walking a hundred miles and a half ninety, the last moment is always the most difficult, especially when they finish a hundred miles, they will relax instantly after reaching the goal, and the string in their heads will be snapped in an instant, in the game with the Clippers, the Rockets Big Three played a total of 65 minutes, but together they contributed 46 iron, Totoro is even more ridiculous 18 shots 3, only relying on free throws to barely let their scores exceed double digits, did not let themselves score consecutive double-digit records, On the contrary, it was Griffin, the champion of the Clippers team who was not reimbursed, who acted aggressively in the Rockets restricted area, and also violently dunked Totoro, making Totoro the background board of the top five for the first time.
This should be put in normal times, Totoro will definitely go to Griffin for revenge, let him know what a stupid thing he has done, but now Totoro doesn't seem to be able to raise this momentum, the other party will deduct one, if you can let the game be played early so that you can go down to rest, even if the other party wants to deduct ten, it is not negotiable.