Chapter 256: 73 Won
The Jazz will not play with the Lakers, from the top management to the players, after watching the first half of the game of these two teams, they know that the Lakers' record-breaking results cannot be changed, even if the Jazz are lucky to win the Lakers, the next three teams will not be able to hold it.
If the position is reversed, the Bulls will not fight for someone else's record.
Now that the Lakers have their 71st win and the odds of losing all three games are slim, the Bulls players can really pack up their emotions and prepare for their title defense.
What about 72 wins?
Win the championship first and then talk about surpassing, the team that has the first record in the history of the regular season, but can't win the championship, will definitely become a laughing stock!
The next day, Zhang found that many media were discussing whether the Lakers could win the championship after breaking the record.
That's a real question, and if you ask him if he's confident of winning 72 wins, he's certainly confident.
But if you have to ask if you have the confidence to win the championship, I believe that even the bulls dare not pat their chests to guarantee that they will be able to do it.
The regular season is different from the playoffs, when you encounter a team whose lineup is not restrained by you, or even somewhat restrains you, the opponent can use all their energy against you, and you must no longer use the regular season to judge the playoffs.
If the weak side wants to win, it will actively prepare for the battle to improve the winning rate, but it is difficult for the dominant side to work so hard. The opportunity to defeat the strong with the weak was thus created.
Zhang Wei knows that these media have malicious intentions, and the best record but cannot win the championship will definitely affect the mentality of Lakers players and add unnecessary pressure to them.
But in reality, this argument doesn't make sense!
You may die of eating, you may choke to death when you drink water, and you may be hit to death when crossing the street......
Don't you eat, drink, or go out?
"I'm curious, the regular season hasn't been played yet, why are they all speculating about whether we can win the championship?" Before the game against the Kings, Zhang Zhu scoffed at some media reports, "Listening to the meaning of these words, it seems that if we don't win the championship and get the best record, we will become a laughing stock, this is simply a big joke in the world, some people are not hysterical?" ”
'I know why, those words can put us under pressure and when we get to the playoffs we think about them every now and then and it has a big impact on a young team. We're the best team in the league this year and a lot of people want to see us in trouble, the more the better. Zhang Wei knew that these words would have an impact on the team, so he first fired a map cannon to relieve the pressure on the team, "However, I told them that all championship teams cannot be smooth sailing, and on the way to winning the championship, there will be open guns, and there will never be fewer hidden arrows." But we don't have to care about these people who release dark arrows, they will never dare to stand up, these people who don't even have the courage can only use this indiscriminate means to make themselves have a little sense of existence. ”
Zhang Wei didn't know who he was scolding, but after scolding, a lot of negative emotions were discharged from him and the whole team.
The Kings are already doomed to miss the playoffs, and there is no hope of competing for the top pick, they are the one who has no desire, so today they used a lot of rotation to train young players for more purpose, and the Lakers' record has nothing to do with them.
Zhang Wei likes this kind of competition the most, he can brush the data without risk.
Last week, he had two triple-doubles, but the overall stats weren't particularly impressive, and he probably won't win the 10th State All, so this week's game will be crucial.
The Kings also give face, the two teams have tacitly played a turn-based game from the first second of the game, you score two points, I score a goal...... If it continues to play like this, the lagging side can only blame itself for not even playing this tacit game.
The Lakers naturally played very well, the whole team had scored 68 points in the half, and Zhang Qi scored 29 points by himself, which was another high score.
Some people are definitely more unhappy, but by the end of the season, this kind of tacit game will come up more often.
The Spurs, Celtics, and Grizzlies don't want anyone to win, but the Lakers want to swallow everyone they see, and who you can touch really depends on luck.
The luck of the Lakers was very good, and the two teams were still tacit in the second half, and Zhang Fu just relied on the jump shot to score points and get a soft hand.
However, this time he matured a lot, and he didn't open his blood basin and swallow it all as soon as he saw the benefits.
Different games have different ways of playing, this kind of game, first of all, to let teammates have meat to eat, and secondly, to eat too ugly will make the opponent very unhappy, not only to consider their own people, but also to let the opposite side eat, so that it is really hello, I am good, everyone is good.
Because of this, the score difference between the two teams has not been pulled to double digits today, and has always hovered around seven or eight points, so that everyone can eat at ease.
"It's so full!"
After the third quarter, Zhang Wei saw that he had scored 38 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists, and he was about to be beautiful!
The Lakers started a big rotation from the second half, and Zhang Yu was still not among them, and 36 minutes of playing time is the minimum he needs now, and any less will not be too good-looking statistics.
Today, he asked to play a full 40 minutes, because there was no defense on either side, this rhythm did not consume physical strength at all, and someone from the Chinese team could play for 30 minutes.
In the middle of the fourth quarter, Zhang Qi suddenly broke out and sent the king away directly 2+1 twice in a row.
The Kings players secretly screamed in their hearts, after the first three quarters, they were only 8 points behind, and they wanted to seize an opportunity in the fourth quarter to try to turn the tables, but they didn't expect Zhang Qi to start faster and more ruthlessly, and knocked them out first.
This kind of game is also to master the heat, the taste is not enough to start early, and it is easy to paste when it is late, and now the force is just right, and you can brush the data while winning, which is indeed beautiful!
The final score was 130:116, Zhang Qi scored 49 points, 8 rebounds and 5 assists, a high-scoring performance that had been predicted for a long time, and the only fly in the ointment was that he failed to cut 50+.
"71 wins can't be replicated?" Zhang Qi raised one finger after the game, and now he can finally speak freely, and then quickly raised the second finger, "No, 71 wins are not impossible, 72 wins are!" ”
Zhang Qi gave a head start to tomorrow's report.
Everyone knows that when the Lakers get 70+ wins, they will inevitably be compared with the Bulls, because these two teams are not teams separated by decades, and the Bulls' 71 wins were just created last season, so how can this be possible if they don't compare with the Lakers?
The times are the same, the rules have not changed much, and the factors that affect the trend of the game are almost the same, 71 wins over the Bulls and 72 wins over the Lakers, just in the same time and space.
Now it is one mountain that cannot tolerate two tigers, not Guan Gong and Qin Qiong.
After Zhang Yu got 72 wins, he could finally be arrogant.
But except for this sentence that was a little unpleasant, he didn't make too rampant remarks after that, because he knew that the media would help him do everything next, and he didn't have to say anything himself.
Michael Jordan showed his maturity, and Zhang Qi had just finished the press conference when he received a call from Jordan in the locker room, where he congratulated him on his 72-win feat.
Last year, Zhang Yu also made a phone call to Jordan at this time to congratulate him on creating 71 wins, no matter how unhappy Jordan was at this time, he had to make a phone call to congratulate him.
In the next few hours, Zhang Fu kept receiving congratulatory calls from his big brothers.
Zhang Yu thanked him one by one, but he didn't bother to care what these people thought in their hearts, anyway, he was very happy!
The next day, after his game, Jordan once again congratulated the Lakers on what they had accomplished.
"I want to congratulate the Lakers on having an amazing season, basketball is a game that is always evolving, records are meant to be broken, the Lakers are playing a great way to watch, and I'm looking forward to seeing what they can do in the playoffs."
Well, the last sentence of the helper still inadvertently revealed his true thoughts, and he was still not convinced!
But if you are not convinced, you can't change that the Lakers have created a new history, and it can't change that the media and fans will definitely compare the two teams together, and even put each player together to divide the highs and lows, who makes fans like to watch it.
ESPN was the first media outlet to put the two teams and players together, and the conclusion was naturally that the Lakers had a slight edge over their 71 wins, and there was a chance to extend the record again in the coming days.
The first is the comparison of the process of 70 wins, which is obviously the Lakers are in the limelight, because there are more teams with a winning rate of more than 55% this season than last season.
The first loss of the 71-win Bulls came in Game 6 of the season, and throughout the season, the Bulls have experienced two 10+ consecutive wins, the longest being an 18-game winning streak. Over the course of the season, the Bulls suffered a two-game losing streak to the Nuggets and Suns, and they fell to the Pacers twice in 11 losses.
The Lakers haven't finished the season yet, but they've shown a strong side from the start. The Lakers started the season with a 10-game winning streak and a season-longest 19-game winning streak in January and February, with three more wins than 10 in the season. In terms of losing, the Lakers have only lost once in a two-game streak and only once to the same team, and they have been planted by the Jazz twice.
It's fair to say that the Lakers' 70+ journey was slightly stronger than the Bulls', and now the results prove it.
ESPN also counts the Lakers and Bulls, who still have a slight edge over the rest of the league in terms of dominance.
In the 1995-1996 season, the Bulls averaged 105.2 points per game, the highest in the league at the time, while they conceded 92.9 points per game, tied for second and first with 12.3 points per game.
In the 1996-1997 season, the Lakers averaged 111.5 points per game, ranking first in the league, conceding 99.3 points per game, ranking 23rd, and ranking first with 12.2 points per game.
The two teams are in the same era, and comparing the average points scored and lost per game is the best way to analyze the characteristics of the two teams, from which it can be seen that the Lakers are better at attacking and the Bulls are better at defending.
Last season, the league averaged 91.8 rounds per game, and the Bulls averaged only 91.6 rounds per game, which shows that the Bulls are not fast-paced.
This season, the league's average of 92.5 rounds and the Lakers' average of 96.6 rounds is the highest in the league, which means they will score more points and concede more points, but when it comes to total revenues and expenditures, the Lakers' average of 12.2 points per game shows that they are still a balanced team and definitely not bad defensively.
In terms of big wins, the 71-win Bulls have won 35 games by at least 15 points, 26 games with a net win of 20+, 5 games with a net win of 30+, and a maximum net win of 34 points. This season, the 72-win Lakers have won 36 games with a net win of 15+, 28 games with a net win of 20+, including 6 games with a net win of 30+, and the highest net score is 39 points.
In terms of overall performance, the Lakers are not inferior to the Bulls in terms of dominance, but given the number of strong teams this season, there is no need to explain who has the higher gold content.
In addition to the two mainstream statistics of points and points difference, the Bulls with 71 wins do not hold the top spot in the rest of the mainstream statistics, but they have a number of stats that rank high, such as third in three-point shooting percentage (40.3%) and rebounds (44.6), fourth in steals (9) and fifth in assists (24.8).
The Lakers have also led the league in multiple stats this season, ranking second in shooting percentage (48.5 percent), first in three-point shooting per game (10.3), second in three-point percentage per game (41.1 percent), first in blocks per game (7.5), second in assists per game (26.2) and rebounds per game (45.6), and fourth least in turnovers per game (14.0).
The Lakers even have some advantage in the details of the two teams, which explains why they have a higher 72 wins with two games left in the season.
Finally, of course, there is the comparison of the data of the core players of the two teams, which is difficult to distinguish between high and low.
In the Bulls' 71-win season, Jordan played a total of 82 games, averaging 30.4 points, 6.6 rebounds, 4.3 assists and 2.2 steals in 37.7 minutes per game, shooting 49.5% from the field. As the second-in-command, Pippen played in 77 games, averaging 19.4 points, 6.4 rebounds and 5.9 assists in 36.3 minutes per game, shooting 46.3% from the field. Rodman, the rebounding king, averaged 5.5 points and 14.9 rebounds per game.
The Lakers' configuration is more like a single core, but this single core has more high-quality role players piled up around it, which is a bit of a star-studded moon.
Zhang has played in 80 games so far this season, averaging 40.8 minutes per game, scoring 33.7 points, 9.2 rebounds, 7.3 assists and 3.0 steals, shooting 52.6% from the field and 42.8% from three-point range, and he can average 3.2 three-pointers per game for a total of 256 three-pointers, ranking first in the league.
In addition to Zhang, Kidd averaged 14.6 points, 5.0 rebounds and 8.4 assists per game. Starks is averaging 13.8 points, 2.0 rebounds and 2.5 assists per game. Finley averaged 13.6 points, 4.0 rebounds and 2.0 assists per game. Mutombo averaged 13.1 points, 10.9 rebounds, 1.1 assists and 3.9 blocks per game. Mason averaged 12.9 points, 6.8 rebounds and 4.1 assists per game.
The Lakers' 4+1 five-man group and the Bulls Iron Triangle are indistinguishable in terms of strength, and in the Super Leader Matchup, Zhang's efficiency value (the algorithm proposed by Dragonborn Sports) this season is as high as 31.50, which can rank eighth in the entire history, higher than Michael J. Murphy during the 71-win period. Jordan (29.35), and in the VORP (Player Substitution Difference, reflecting the irreplaceability of players, the algorithm proposed by Dragonborn Sports), Zhang Zhu is 9.38 this season and 8.33 Jordan last season, which should be a single-core benefit. Finally, Jordan reached 20.43 last season and Zhang had 19.96 this season, with the Helper only having a slight advantage in the earliest algorithm.
Of course, Jordan is no longer in his prime, and when it comes to his entire career, Jordan is still the unshakable NO.1, but if you talk about these two seasons alone, Zhang Qi has two advantages in three important statistics, and his comprehensive performance has been slightly better than the Flyers.
The Los Angeles Times also used "Witness History" to report on the Lakers' 72 wins.
We want to pay tribute to Lyon and the great Lakers team, some fans are not mentally ready, the Lakers' 72-game winning streak is coming, and they can tell history like window paper, and this team has shown a completely dominant force that surpasses the Bulls.
According to statistics, the Lakers' regular season record has broken more than 60 NBA records with two games remaining, and that number will continue to improve with a possible 73rd win.
Such an achievement, no matter how much nitpicking and false comparisons are made, or no matter how many people rise up and black, it cannot be denied.
Twenty years from now, fans who don't have the opportunity to see it today will often talk about the Lakers' feat of 72 wins, or 73 wins, or 74 wins. But they won't know the details, just like we now, when we talk about the Lakers' record 33 wins 20 years ago, we will only remember the results, and we won't know the twists and turns under the record.
We can remember this, because for two consecutive years, the same epic season, 19-year-old Zhang Qi and then 33-year-old Jordan, there are too many links to compare here......
But in fact, we should stop here, because the Lakers' legend will continue for many years to come, and the Bulls dynasty should end from this moment.
Now, the Lakers are not yet complete, the regular season is coming to an end, and they are like soaring at an altitude of 10,000 meters for the whole season, and finally have to tense their nerves again when they are close to landing, and usher in the important moment of flying close to the ground.
The final stretch of the road was the most treacherous, and the flight was longer than the entire regular season, and countless people waited to see how they were accidentally killed and killed.
There is no way, the Lakers fly too high, fly enough to look down on everything, and they have to bear those inevitable hostility and even malice.
The Bulls had a different stretch last year, not being substantially challenged in the three playoff rounds before reaching the Finals, with two sweeps and just one loss in the remaining rounds.
The Lakers have raised the spirit of potential opponents in advance, and those strong teams have a "playoffs appointment" momentum, and they don't feel that they will be defeated by the Lakers again in the playoffs.
As far as the current Western Conference matchups are concerned, flying close to the ground may become the norm for the Lakers from the Western Conference semifinals.
Regardless of whether the 73rd or 74th victory comes as promised, the weight of glory is enough to make the Lakers no longer light for the next month or so.
Zhang Zhu is compared to Jordan, this Lakers is compared to the Bulls, the biggest difference is that they are young, young enough for most people to accept psychologically, young enough to be defeated and not afraid, they have not had time to accept the new dynasty.
If the Bulls' record is a matter of course after full accumulation, then the Lakers' new record will inevitably make people "So here?" A sense of confusion.
For the Lakers, the strategic task at this point is to lead a new record to a championship, rather than becoming the first team in league history to have a regular season record of more than 70 wins and fail to win a championship.
Winning the championship is the first step to dispel people's beliefs about the past and the present, and make them afraid......
"I don't think the Lakers are yet to dive and the first step should be to get my 10th best of the week."
Zhang Wei disagreed, now that he was in the stage of flying close to the ground, he would get his 10th weekly best first.
That's right, the most important thing now is the 10th Weekly Awards, there was an accident last week that would have serious consequences, the league actually awarded the weekly best of the week to Allen Iverson, because this thing didn't know what hormones to eat, and he actually scored 40+ in 5 consecutive games, including a 50+, such a performance naturally killed him.
Once the mission fails, the consequences will be very serious, it can be said that one failure can only be made up for with two successes, as long as one of his three main quests fails, it is equivalent to a whole season of wasted work, can it be a big problem.
Now that his [Purple Gold Dynasty] and [Dominant] missions have been completed ahead of schedule, there is only one [Temporary Choice] mission left and one last chance.
This week, if he still doesn't win the best of the week, the whole season will really be in vain.
"Even if you lose the game, you have to give priority to ensuring the data!"
Zhang Qi can't accept the failure of the mission, and the last two games must be based on data first, and the last main quest must be completed first.
Luckily, the Lakers' next opponent is the Portland Trail Blazers, who are even more wantless than the Kings.
The Kings have one more loss, at least a chance to move the draft pick forward next year. But the Trail Blazers are 6 wins away from the fifth-place SuperSonics, but they are also 6 wins ahead of the seventh-place Timberwolves, and they are sixth in the West no matter how they play, and winning or losing really doesn't change at all for them.
So naturally, both sides of this game can tacitly brush the data again. And this kind of thing has always been Zhang Fu's forte, as long as the achievement of [Vegetable Abuse Maniac] is replaced, Clever, who can't get the help of his teammates, can only play GG.
51 points, 11 rebounds and 4 assists, this is the report card handed over by Zhang Fu after four quarters.
Today, the entire Lakers team was helping him feed the ball, and although he only shot 15-of-38, it was enough to make him brush up to his fifth 50+ of the season, which was not only one step closer to Jordan's record, but his 10th weekly best was finally stable.
44 points in one game, 49 points in one game, 51 points in this game, and an average of 48 points, 8 rebounds and 4.6 assists per game in three games, he really doesn't believe that there is a second Iverson that can spoil his good things.
73 wins!
After Jordan received the news of the Lakers' next city in Chicago, he could only sigh helplessly.
He doesn't care how many times Zhang Qian can win the best of the week, and how far the Lakers' record will improve, that's what he cares about.
Don't think that when he gets older, he won't be competitive, although he always cares about the championship the most, but the record in his hand was broken before he could cover the heat, how could he not want to fight back?
If the Lakers are only 72 wins, then he threatens management next season and brings in one or two reliable veterans, and the Bulls will not have a chance to hit this record.
But if it's 73 wins, or even 74 wins, he really doesn't have the confidence to fight back.
Now that the Lakers have really won 73 wins, if the Clippers can't hold the last game, let the Lakers follow the terrifying record of 33 consecutive wins, and give birth to an even more terrifying record, and then I don't know how much the Lakers' morale will rise? Can the Bulls still beat the Lakers in the Finals?