Jerry Buss was very unhappy with the Lakers' loss.

As soon as the game ended, he met with several important people on the Lakers team, including Mitch Kupchak, Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O'Neal, and Rick Carlisle.

What Jerichas talked about with these people, outsiders don't know, and even they don't know what Jerichas talked about with them.

But the change for the Lakers has come clearly.

After the Christmas game, Kobe Bryant finally began to pass the ball to O'Neal, and O'Neal also gave feedback, and he even pulled out to make a few blocks for Kobe.

The OK combination re-played the cooperation, and the Lakers were naturally invincible, easily defeating the opponent and winning the victory.

It looks like the Lakers are back on the right path, and they're more of a team.

But head coach Rick Carlisle is still worried, and he is well aware that after Jerry Buss meets a few people, the Lakers' changes look good, but this is only temporary.

If the Lakers fail to win the championship this season, or even guarantee a certain record ranking in the regular season, the contradictions that the Lakers have been suppressed will immediately erupt and then pour out.

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After the Christmas game, the Rockets faced the Nuggets back-to-back, and because of a serious physical disadvantage, the Rockets finally lost the game 94-105.

The Rockets' loss also helped the Nuggets end their eight-game losing streak.

At the beginning of the season, the Nuggets played very hard and tried their best to win, but because they didn't select Carmelo Anthony, the selected Daco Milicic was still embarrassed for the time being.

As a result, this Nuggets roster is even worse than in previous seasons.

After playing for half a month, the Nuggets couldn't win, and the regular season rankings slipped wildly, and finally fell to the bottom of the West.

So, after December, the Nuggets figured it out.

Dakomilisic is not strong at the moment, but he has shown some potential, such as the ability to shoot from the middle and long range, such as the pace of inside singles, etc., at least, Milicic is giving them hope.

The next thing to say, the Nuggets forcibly promoted Daco Milicic, who is not yet a starter, to the starter, and gave the position of the tactical core.

Then practice with battles, even if it is to pile up the ball, you have to pile up a leading star.

In this game, Milicic was in good shape, cutting a 19 points and 7 rebounds on 7-of-16 shooting, and his performance was not bad.

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After playing the Nuggets, the Rockets moved back to Houston.

On the first day back in Houston, the final version of the Facebook website was sent to Qiao Hai's mailbox.

Qiao Hai clicked on it and took a few looks, all the functions that should be there are available, and the interface is also very simple.

So, Qiao Hai directly replied to an email: "The final version is passed, transfer to Rolf Pagano." ”

Then, Qiao Hai made another phone call to Rolf Pagano.

"There are still a few days left until January 2, and the website can be launched first, and we will do a trial run for a few days to see if there are any problems."

Rolf Pagano naturally responded, and then began to report on the events that would take place when the website was officially opened.

When the website was officially opened, Rolf Pagano had already made a plan a month ago, and reported it to Qiao Hai, who had also approved it.

In the first event, Rolf Pagano will invite a large number of Hollywood stars to the site, including Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Tom Cruise, Julia Roberts and other real Hollywood names.

Then, through Qiao Hai's relationship, basketball stars such as Shaquille O'Neal, Kobe Bryant, Tracy McGrady and other basketball stars were invited to settle on the website.

The purpose of this activity is to increase the initial exposure of the website through celebrity drainage, attract ordinary users to enter the website, and register accounts.

In the second campaign, which was launched on Google's homepage back in early December, Rolf Pagano designed an image with a stack of dollars in the center, which looked like it was worth a million.

Below is a mysterious symbol, followed by a line of small words: "Interpret the mysterious symbol, complete the task, and you can share 1 million US dollars!" ”

This is a treasure hunt with $1 million as a lure to attract traffic in.

In order to complete this treasure hunt task and finally get the right to share 1 million US dollars, you have to complete various tasks designed by Rolf Pagano, including adding friends, sending updates, sending photos, etc.

This activity is a relatively multi-functional activity, with early pictures and 1 million US dollars, which can attract traffic.

The following activities can be regarded as helping everyone understand the role of Facebook and how to use it, and increase the activity of Facebook.

The final activity was to partner with another website owned by Qiaohai, Hoop Sports, to connect the Hoop forum area to Facebook, and through this connection, help Facebook have an initial traffic.

Several activities are superimposed, and the success of Qiao Hai's Facebook brand will obviously not be a problem, as long as there is traffic entering, celebrities bringing fans, fans bringing friends, and gradually, Facebook will attract all Internet users to enter.

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After the Christmas game, the Rockets have determined that their half-court acceleration has an effect, at least, against the Lakers, they scored 112 points, and further on, against the Pacers, although they lost, they also cut a 121 points throughout the game.

Despite one game of poor defense, at least the Rockets found a way to improve their offense.

So, in the last two battles of December, the Rockets fought the SuperSonics and the 76ers.

In these two games, the Rockets first defeated the SuperSonics 106-86, and then back-to-back physical exhaustion, and after a large rotation, lost to the 76ers 81-89.

The last wave of one win and one loss ended in December, and 2003 also came to an end.

For the entire month of December, the Rockets' record was 9-6, compared to the previous month's 14-2, and the Rockets' record this month has obviously slipped a bit more.

In the 2003-2003 portion of the 2003-2004 season, the Rockets had an overall record of 23 wins and 8 losses, continuing to rank first in the league and first in the West.

But because of the decline in December's performance, several Western powerhouses ranked behind the Rockets have gradually caught up.

The Lakers are 21-7 and only 0.5 wins behind the Rockets, the Kings are 21-8 and one win behind the Rockets, and the Spurs are 1.5 games behind the Rockets at 22-10 and the Timberwolves are 2.5 games behind the Rockets at 20-10.

Predicting the other two teams in the top seven in the Midwest, the Mavericks are not running well, only 18-12 so far, and the Grizzlies are currently only 19-13 due to Maddy's non-stop injuries, 4.5 wins behind the Rockets, and the gap with the Rockets is already very large.

However, these seven teams are still in the top seven in the West so far this season, and in addition to these seven teams, the Jazz are 17-14 in eighth place, and they are six wins behind the Rockets.