Chapter 169: It's Time to Show Real Acting

The Spurs were knocked over again in the third quarter, and the problem exposed was already obvious, that is, the hard power was not as good as the Lakers. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

If the Lakers are only a team led by Zhang Fu, then with a mastery of details, a small range of cooperation, and an experience lead, the Spurs are likely to let the Lakers and Zhang pay for their youth in the playoffs.

It's a pity that the Lakers still have an old man in the family, and this treasure makes the Spurs very uncomfortable.

The state of the magician after his comeback is obvious to all, and every once in a while you can see him more comfortable on the court, especially the historic ball sense, which is really as pleasing to the eye as becoming a fat man, and the nickname "magician" is well deserved.

David Robinson's all-around is also secretly admired by many people, but referring to the big dream without the assistance of "glider", the "Admiral" can take such a Spurs to second place in the West alone, which is already very commendable, and he cannot be asked to do better.

In the fourth quarter, the Spurs couldn't play any tricks anymore, and if they could take care of the magician, they would definitely not be able to take care of Zhang Mao, and vice versa.

No matter how Bob Hill plays this hand, there are two kings in his hand, and he can't do anything.

At this point, it is understandable why Spurs are so aggressive with players whose contracts are about to expire such as Mashburn, Gatlin, and Barkley.

They should also know in their hearts that the Spurs are unlikely to win the championship without David Robinson without an All-Star-caliber helper, and even they don't believe in this possibility.

Spurs head coach Bob Hill felt in his heart that the Lakers were more championship-looking than them.

The Magic are obviously playing in the regular season, a bit like Sabonis of the Trail Blazers, the regular season is just a time for them to adapt to the rhythm and develop a tacit understanding with their teammates.

They have all seen how terrifying the "Magician" was when they were crisscrossing the rivers and lakes, and now there is a Zhang Zhu who can output meat, will the Lakers replicate the miracle of "Tiangou" + "Magician" = winning the championship in the first year?

Zhang Mao was not as good as he thought, he completed his 12th triple-double of the season in the final quarter, scoring 32 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists, completely locking the throne of this season's "triple-double king".

Grant Hill has only nine triple-doubles so far, and the chances of overtaking him in less than 10 games are slim to none.

The result after the game is just like what Zhang said before, the Spurs and Lakers are both 53 wins, and whoever wins this game will be second in the West.

The Lakers have been chasing the Spurs since the All-Star break and are now finally overtaking just before the finish line.

Although before the end of the regular season, the two teams will meet again.

But after winning today's big fight, the result of that game is not so important. Even if the Lakers lose to the Spurs again, they may not be overtaken, and they are not the only teams in this league.

On April 9, Mutombo scored 13 points, 17 rebounds and 3 blocks, but the Nuggets still lost to the Lakers and were beaten by the Lakers for the fourth time of the season at home.

Zhang Qi and Magic didn't play long today, and the two played only 28 minutes and 22 minutes.

Michael Finley finally got a Game of the Match, and the kid's potential on the offensive end became more and more noticeable, with 26 points, 7 rebounds and 3 assists.

The Nuggets have a bunch of outside reserves, but they are not as good as the Lakers, I don't know if this will make Uncle Mu's mentality completely blow up!

Zhang Qi didn't have time to contact Uncle Mu after the game, and tomorrow they will play back-to-back away games, against the Minnesota Timberwolves, which is why Harris didn't let the main team play for too long.

The Timberwolves are now a real dish, although Garnett has been focused on training by the team in the second half of the season, and his average data per game after the All-Star break has risen to 15+8+3+2, and he looks like a rising star with potential.

But standing in front of him today is Zhang Qi, who has become a superstar, and the two are still not comparable, and they are several floors apart at this stage.

Garnett couldn't calm down when he saw Zhang Qi, and he didn't know if he wanted to prove himself too much, but the little wolf king instead asked Campbell to cut 28 points on his head.

Campbell, a guy who has no presence in the Lakers at all, almost stole the limelight today.

Zhang Wei has always looked down on Campbell because he thinks that this guy has no star temperament, and simply put, he is too mixed.

If he can work harder in training and be more active in the game, the attribute value should be stable at 81-84, instead of meeting a soft persimmon to reach the attribute of 80-82 as now, but the attribute is less than 80 when facing the inside star, which is a typical bullying of the soft and afraid of the hard.

Zhang Yu still got the best of the game today, because he got a triple-double again, and his performance of 21 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists made Garnett, who is also a high school student, very faceless, and he was compared again today.

"He's deliberately brushing three pairs, and I think his three pairs are too wet."

This is O'Neal's complaint after Zhang Qi got his 13th triple-double of the season, and he thinks that the Lakers are helping Zhang get a triple-double, such as Campbell, this guy played 42 minutes in the game against the Timberwolves, and only had 6 rebounds, is this possible?

That's a bit weird, isn't it? You must know that he is the center of the Lakers, and he is also the only big man who is 7 feet tall, and the Timberwolves have missed a lot of balls in this game, no matter how weak his rebounding ball is, it should not be the only one that counts, right?

Rodman of the Bulls also despised Zhang Zhu's rebounding ball, he believes that the Lakers' inside task is not to grab rebounds, but to cover for Zhang Qi to grab rebounds, and the Lakers' interior line doesn't even grab the rebounds that are close at hand, and they have to block the opponent and let Zhang Zhu, who came from the outside, rush in to pick up rebounds, and have never seen such a brazen person.

After Zhang Yu got his 13th triple-double, the media praised him again and again for his incredible triple-double performance this season!

However, many stars in the league seem to be dismissive of this, they believe that half of Zhang Mao's triple-doubles are brushed, and the gold content is extremely insufficient, and even less than Grant Hill's nine triple-doubles.

"They're jealous!" After Zhang Yu heard these voices, his mentality collapsed a little, "They have no right to judge me!" Especially the green pink, I think he's a little gangster, he'd better stay away from me!"

Zhang said that no one can complain about himself, and he must fight back against these criticisms.

Regarding O'Neill's ridicule, Zhang Wei sneered unceremoniously: "That fat man, I'm talking about you, you still have a lot of problems that have not been solved, and you still have the face to talk about others." At this time, I think men should solve the problem with their fists. Come on, how great is your ability, now show me your hand. ”

He's a little troublesome, O'Neill's side heard this, how can he get off the stage?

So the fat man who was angry quickly shouted stupid words about going to the ring with Zhang Fu to go to the real PK.

Zhang Qi heard O'Neill's dizzy words and immediately laughed.

He's clearly decompressing the upcoming playoffs right now, but he's just a bit underwhelmed by the way he's doing it, and he's actually fighting with other stars in the league and then taking the opportunity to go crazy and do things like crazy.

"I think you're a comrade, and you're funny, you know." Zhang Mao's tone is naturally very hateful, "After my deduction...... There is only one result of his doing this, and that is: he will lose, and he was not born to do this. ”

The Los Angeles media chose to put a leaflet at this time, and if he wanted to make trouble, he would let him play by himself, and the Los Angeles media had already begun to predict his team's opponent in the first round of the playoffs.

After losing to the Lakers, the Spurs didn't know if their mentality collapsed, and then they lost to the Jazz, and a wave of two consecutive defeats allowed the Lakers to sit in the second place in the West

1. Seattle SuperSonics (59-17).

2. Los Angeles Lakers (56-20).

3. San Antonio Spurs (53-22).

4. Utah Jazz (50-26).

5. Houston Rockets (43-32).

6. Portland Trail Blazers (41-35)

7. Los Angeles Clippers (40-36).

8. Phoenix Suns (38-38).

According to the current ranking of the Lakers, they will either play the Trail Blazers or the Clippers or Suns in the first round of the playoffs.

Of the three options, the Lakers certainly prefer the Suns, because they have won all three meetings with the Suns in the regular season. Next, the Lakers have one more meeting with the Suns, and one more win is a four-kill. The advantage is obviously overwhelming, and if the Lakers meet them in the playoffs, the chances of beating them through the first round are at least 80%.

It's not bad to choose the Clippers as an opponent, although the Clippers' record this season has improved a lot, but the Lakers have no position to be restrained by the opponent, and the interior is slightly inferior at most. If the Magic explode in the playoffs, the Lakers' interior may not lose to the Clippers, and they have a 70% chance of qualifying.

The Portland Trail Blazers are the toughest to deal with, with the Lakers having a two-two-loss record in the four meetings in the regular season, with only one tie with each other. Considering that the Lakers have only lost 20 games so far, the Trail Blazers are clearly a bit restrained by the Lakers. At least, they don't scare the Lakers. And once they face this team, it is not certain whether they can make it past the first round, and the two teams will win and lose between 55.

The Trail Blazers were able to keep the Lakers at bay mainly because they had three players who were All-Star prowess when facing the Lakers.

First of all, the "street ball king" Rod Strickland, this guy has to explode every time he plays the Lakers, his average data this season is 18.7 points and 9.6 assists per game, but the four games against the Lakers have risen to an average of 24 points and 10 assists per game, which is basically a superstar play.

Fan Maniac must take the blame, his technical characteristics are restrained by the "street ball king" of the Trail Blazers, and he is inferior to the opponent in ball control, confrontation, and ball quotient, and he is faster, but it does not play a role, because the main point of attack of the Lakers is not him.

Sabonis was only able to play two quarters in the regular season, but there's no doubt that the Soviet Union center has a four-center-level interior offensive ability. Against the Lakers, his playing time increased to an average of 28 minutes per game, and he was able to score 20 points, 8 rebounds and 2 assists.

Well, that kind of efficiency is also superstar-level, and no player on the Lakers team can guard him in those 28 minutes.

If the Trail Blazers and Sabonis play hard in the playoffs and play more than 30 minutes per game, then the Lakers' interior line will be blown up again!

But don't doubt it, Sabonis will definitely play hard in the playoffs, and the Trail Blazers don't let him play more in the regular season just because they want him to play in the playoffs (historically, Sabonis has averaged 23.6 points and 10.2 rebounds in 35 minutes per game in the playoffs).

Finally, there is Clifford Robinson, who later became known as one of the most neglected players in NBA history, who scored 50 points in a single game at the age of 33, and was selected as the oldest Defensive Second Team in the Pistons period is also a record, although his entire career has been infected with various negative news with drugs, but his career is as long as 19 years, and he has missed 19 games due to injury in the middle, which shows that he is unlikely to take drugs, otherwise he would have such a terrible career life?

This Clifford shooter is a superb shot, outstanding athleticism in his youth, playing the No. 3 position, and switching to the No. 4 position when he gets older, and he still has a strong breakthrough ability this season, and the three-point shot has also been developed. And from the fact that he was selected as the best defensive second team at the age of the oldest, you can know that this product's defense is very good, very good at low-post defense, positive defensive attitude, except for poor rebounding and low-post offensive ability, there are basically no shortcomings.

But Sabonis can completely fill these two flaws, and if he and Sabonis can play together for a long time, the Lakers' interior line will definitely be broken.

Looking at it this way, the Lakers will indeed be very passive against the Trail Blazers, even worse than against teams like the Jazz and Spurs, even if these two teams do not have so many players to restrain the Lakers, but the Trail Blazers have three players who come to the ground as soon as they see the Lakers.

However, the good is not the bad spirit, and the novel has always developed like this......

Perhaps, the Trail Blazers also know that they are going to be ravaged against the SuperSonics and the Spurs, and these two teams are not restrained by them, so now it is not only the Lakers who are picking soft persimmons, but now they themselves have become soft persimmons in the eyes of the Trail Blazers.

At the moment, among the top four teams in the West, the Trail Blazers have chosen and found that the Lakers are the most happy, and of course they must find a way to face the Lakers, so as to increase their chances of breaking through the first round.

As a result, the Trail Blazers began to lose......

On April 12, the Lakers beat the Warriors at home, and the Trail Blazers lost to the Mavericks on the other side, successfully equaling the record of the Clippers, and only ranked sixth because of the win-loss relationship.

But it doesn't matter, the Trail Blazers have decided to keep up the good work, and they have a five-win gap to the ninth-place Kings anyway, let alone another one, and they will have no problem playing until the start of the playoffs.

Unfortunately, the Lakers then beat the Suns for the fourth time in their home season.

The Clippers were even more ruthless, and they lost outright to the Kings.

The performance of the Los Angeles duo made the Trail Blazers lose for nothing, and they have to continue to play in the future.

But this time, the Trailblazers' performance was a bit too much......

On April 16, the Trail Blazers led by 24 points in the first half against the Spurs, and led the Spurs by 21 points at the end of the third quarter, and then they suddenly realized that they couldn't win?!

Well, if you win, you won't be able to pinch the soft persimmon of the Lakers, so the Spurs recovered a huge 21-point difference in the fourth quarter and staged a magical comeback.

"I give negative marks for this acting!"

The Lakers also defeated the Mavericks on the same day, and after finding out that the Trail Blazers had the same record as the Clippers, Koala Baby laughed angrily: "Do these guys really treat us like soft persimmons?" Can their acting skills be a little more fake? ”

Zhang Wei said that he was very angry, and now the meaning of the Trail Blazers is very clear - they just want to meet the Lakers, even if they lose to seventh place, they have to have a hard anal with the Lakers, but is it too disrespectful to play like this?

"I found out that some people thought we were soft persimmons, and I should have suggested to the league that we should be punished for this kind of degrading behavior. But if you think about it, it is better to defeat them than other punishments. So instead I want to play them in the playoffs, and hopefully they don't disappoint me and get down to seventh place." ”

Zhang Yu ran out to mock again, everyone knew who he was talking about, but this did not affect the Pioneers' determination to continue acting.

Just kidding, they even did the thing that the lead was overturned by 20 points, isn't it a self-defeating hexagram at this time? Isn't it mentally retarded?

Of course, whether the Trailblazers really lose or fake lose, they have to protest against Zhang Mao's words, otherwise they will acquiesce, which is not good.

Moreover, in order to act realistically, by the way, the villain sued first, protesting to the alliance against Zhang Fu's slander against them, hoping that the alliance could punish Zhang Fu for his honesty, such as fining him tens of thousands of dollars or something.

The alliance said: Punish your mother for selling batches, the blind know what you want to do, it's already good if you don't punish you, and the wicked person sues first?

Of course, there will be no follow-up to this matter, and the league will not punish Zhang Zhu, everyone knows that the Trail Blazers are deliberately losing, this kind of behavior is just like what Zhang Qi said, it does damage the spirit of competition, and even damages the image of the NBA.

Zhang Yu secretly snickered, he knew that the league would definitely not be satisfied with this kind of deliberate loss to pick the opponent, but the Trailblazers did not violate the rules, so there was no way for the league to be dissatisfied.

However, Zhang Qi can make things bigger, so he will add fuel and vinegar.

The pioneers of this period had a bad reputation, and the league was already unpleasant to them, and doing so now would only make the league even more unpleasant.

In this way, after the Lakers and Trail Blazers face each other in the playoffs, the league will at least not favor the Trail Blazers, and eighty percent will take special care of the Lakers, which is the result he wants.

The Trail Blazers may not be unaware of this, and they will only make the league look unpleasant to them, and they may be wearing small shoes in the playoffs.

But they are now riding a tiger, they must lose to seventh place, otherwise the acting skills they have paid before will not be in vain?

On April 18, the Lakers played the Spurs, the Clippers played the Warriors, and the Trail Blazers played the Rockets.

Zhang Wei felt that the management IQ of the pioneers was still a little low, and they acted obviously early, and the process was not well grasped.

Since you have to lose, then you have to fall behind from the beginning against Spurs, and it is not a problem to lose to Spurs at that time, which is normal. But after a big lead, is it too stupid to be killed again?

In today's game, in fact, they really can't beat the Rockets, but after having a preconceived opinion, many people still feel that the Trail Blazers have released water again.

Fart, this is wronging them, the Rockets are the defending champions, isn't it normal that they can't beat them?

But the fans just think they are acting, and the media is also fueling the trouble, and the league is even more unpleasant to look at this "sin city".

David Stern is even more eager for this team that is always associated with words such as "crime" and "Du Pin" to be swept out of the game in the first round, and save a little image that the NBA has finally recovered.

Although the Lakers also lost to the Spurs on the road, they are still firmly in second place in the West.

The Clippers defeated the Warriors, and the Trail Blazers finally got their wish and dropped to seventh place in the West.

Next, each team only has the last two games left, and this ranking can basically be determined, and the Lakers' opponent in the first round of the playoffs will be the Portland Trail Blazers.