Chapter 335: One Step Further

j 2 2 e 0 Gt i +φ f$% Grain S@ Basketball coaches around the world are envious of Harris, the gray-haired guy who coached the Lakers for the longest winning streak in the dreaded NBA and is still charging towards an even more terrifying 40+ winning streak.

Now the Lakers are as invincible as the Mongol army, but Harris does not consider himself a "hero", he is willing to be a "chemist": "We have created a very good chemistry for the Lakers, and the current Lakers are a different realm, a level that people can dream of. ”

"Chemistry" is a favorite word for NBA players and media crews because it sounds both cultural and high-end, and the real meaning is nothing more than two words: team.

"Don't ask me about the Lakers' 30-odd winning streak, we're going to beat them, and if I had to predict, I'd predict they're going to lose 30 in a row."

Heat forward Mashburn, who took off his clothes with a gloomy face, showed his naked and strong upper body muscles, and his resentment against the Lakers mainly came from Kidd, and it was clear that the grudge between the two was not so simple. But the counterattack of the mouth and the small flame of resentment in the heart can't really burn the Lakers, and the fire of the "Heat" is not hot at all even if it is placed in front of the Lakers.

After shooting drills in the afternoon, Zhang returned to the locker room and strapped ice packs all over her body, and then told the reporter who interviewed her: "Unless you lose, there will be no party tonight." ”

Reporters were a little reluctant to say anything, because the NBA players routinely - to win, there must be a party.

Of course, Zhang Wei knew what they wanted to say, and immediately waved his hand: "Don't feel bored, masters have to withstand loneliness." Then he used the example of the first official CS competition held by Dragonborn not long ago, in which the Chinese team defeated the powerful Norway and Sweden in a row to win the championship, "You only see the Chinese team's marksmanship, but you don't know that they spend 8 hours a day practicing guns against Bot, and the other 4 or 5 hours are running maps and training tactics, and the victory in any competitive game is not purely talented, it is all earned with sweat." ”

So, can the Heat stop the Lakers?

The Los Angeles media asked this question for the Miami media because the latter really didn't have the confidence to ask it, and it was a home game for the Lakers.

The Heat players said they tried their best, but the Lakers playing at home were too difficult to beat, and this time was no exception, although they had been in a stalemate with the Lakers for the whole game, the Lakers with Zhang Zhu were still superior in key stages.

The Miami Nation was led by Mourning, but he didn't have what it took to be a hero in crunch time, and the game was only five points in the book, and he was enveloped by Mutombo's long arms from start to finish.

Pat Riley knows that his team still has the same problems as last season, they are too lacking in the ability to output at critical moments, so they need Grant Hill more urgently than the Bulls, as long as they grab this low-profile version of Koala, they have the capital to top the Bulls and compete with the Lakers on behalf of the East.

Unfortunately, this deal has never had much to do with them, and the Bulls still have the last laugh, even if their chips are not satisfactory, but Hill does not want to go to the vicious competition West, and the Bulls are his best choice.

Grant Hill's choice is not a reflection of cowardice, the strong teams in the West are too serious this season, even if he joins the Timberwolves and Garnett to form a competitive enough pair, but the Minnesotan can't provide enough help for the two of them for the time being, and it will take at least two seasons to become a real top team, but he is not willing to wait that long.

Choosing to join the Bulls is different, teaming up with Jordan and Barkley, they will immediately have the ability to threaten the Lakers, and it will be much less difficult to stand out from the East, at least to ensure that they can enter the Finals, which is of course much better than going to the West to intensify the already vicious competition.

That's what the league means, the West has been overstrengthened by them, and it's already an environment of vicious competition, and Hill is really going to get out of control if he goes again, so he can't get all the stars to the West, right?

On Jan. 17, just after the Lakers beat the Heat to make their 38th straight win, the Bulls and Pistons announced that they had completed a two-month negotiating deal.

Of course, everyone knows what this deal is, the Bulls used Pippen, who was just beginning to return to adaptation, and Rodman, who averaged 18 minutes per game, plus two first-round draft picks in '98 and '00, and finally traded from the Pistons for their favored Grant Hill, as well as two useless additions to the balance trade salary.

Obviously, the Pistons can't keep Hill, but this deal is far inferior to the Timberwolves, or even as good as the offers made by the Clippers and Heat, so why would the Pistons choose a worse one from the many offers?

This problem, whether it is the bull who has benefited the most, or the Pistons who have suffered losses and are forced to rebuild, or even a group of people who eat melons, everyone knows what is going on. But there wasn't much protest other than Pistons fans, because this was what everyone wanted to see — the Lakers had to have as many opponents as possible, otherwise it would be boring for one to dominate.

After the Bulls completed the trade, the lineup did become more reasonable, but many Chicago fans still miss the guy who always looks different, especially those who have watched the slam dunk, which shows that Rodman's popularity has always been high.

Centre: Luke Longley (81).

Power forwards: Charles Barkley (86), Don Yell Marshall (84)

Small forwards: Grant Hill (92), Tony Cookac (85).

Shooting guard: Michael Jordan (98).

Point guards: Van Axel (85), Steve Cole (77).

After the Bulls trade, the major media notes that the Chicagoans have made money, and they used a 32-year-old superstar who is about to enter a decline period in exchange for a 25-year-old superstar who has just entered his prime, no matter how you look at it, it is a sure-fire deal.

The Pistons must have lost their minds to make this kind of brain-dead trade, or someone pointed a gun to the head to agree to the transaction, even Dragonborn Sports has the same opinion, the Bulls have no money to lose.

Zhang Wei felt that the threat of the Bulls had declined, not only the gap between Pippen's 93 ability value and Hill's 92 ability value, but also the Finals experience and three-point shooting ability alone doomed the current Hill to be not as good as Pippen.

A player's "experience" cannot be applied to "ability value", so Zhang Fu knows that the role of "experience" in the playoffs is comparable to four or five "ability points". Hill has a better future than Pippen, but he never made it past the first round.

Well, it's definitely not black, but only the experience of being out of the first round of the playoffs will definitely not help the Bulls beat the current Lakers.

Of course, if the bull is just looking to the future, it is indeed a sure deal, the age difference between the 25-year-old and the 32-year-old is too far, and the bull is making a lot of money.

Grant Hill of course thanked his parent team Pistons after the trade, and how good it sounded. Then he threw flowers to the new club, it can be seen that he has been afraid of losing in the past few years, and he desperately hopes that he can have a group of outstanding teammates.

But the other protagonist in the transaction, Pippen, is a little ignored, which makes him very depressed.

The deal was delayed for two months, and there were certainly twists and turns, but it wasn't the Pistons making excuses to refuse the trade, but Pippen's reluctance to be traded himself.

If an NBA player is injured and the player does not agree to the trade, then the team cannot force the player to be traded, even if the player does not have the right to veto the trade on the player's contract, the league will not allow it, and the player must wait until the player recovers before trading.

But if the player agrees to the trade and the team takes over is willing, then even if the player is reimbursed for the season, the two sides can make a trade, you and I will.

Pippen didn't agree to be traded out at first, and the deal was delayed for two months, but then he didn't know what the ulterior reason was, and Pippen suddenly agreed, which left the Pistons with no excuse to refuse, after all, the head was pointed at gunpoint.

The news got Chicago fans excited, but it only got the Bulls in the headlines for a day, and the Lakers quickly put the spotlight back on themselves with their 39-game winning streak.

The Magic feel hurt, and Hardaway has been sick since O'Neal's journey to the west, and last season was injured for most of the season. This year was no exception, Hardaway only played 15 games before being reimbursed again, and it was another season reimbursement, and now they can only start to mess up.

However, what makes Orlando fans unbelievable is that former Pistons meritorious coach Chuck Daley actually led a group of little-known players to the 8th record in the East under the reimbursement of Hardaway, and the current 20-20 record makes the Nuggets and Raptors eager to bury themselves.

This is the role of a good coach, Chuck Daley, who led the bad boy army back then, now taps all the potential of the Magic players, which also makes the team's management miserable and happy, because they want to be bad, but the team's record has always been in an embarrassing position, in case of a ninth place in the East, it will be embarrassing.

Today, no one expects the Magic to create a surprise, the Heat, who are third in the East, were just overturned two days ago, can this eighth in the East be turned upside down?

But I didn't expect the Magic team in front of me to really make the Lakers players break out in a cold sweat, and the process is needless to say, seeing the final score of 99:97, you can know how thrilling the Lakers won today!

At the last moment, when he saw Derek Harper's three-point kill, Zhang Zhu's heart almost jumped out of his throat - if they were killed by the Magic today, it would really be a "legend" to forcibly add two funny expressions, and there would be flaws when it was mentioned later, but fortunately, Yao Ming's three-point shot was not made in the end.

According to a reporter from the Los Angeles Times, when the Lakers finally won the extremely tough game and won 39 in a row, the players were full of cheers and screams in the locker room, and even the walls and doors could not stop the enthusiasm of the players.

The Lakers' 39-game winning streak came in a thrilling manner, especially when the opponent was not a strong team like the Bulls and Jazz, which showed a sign that nearly halfway through the season, the Lakers' advantage in coordination, especially in adaptability to the new rules, slowly began to shrink.

The current Magic team does not have a single star, but they are better at adapting to the new rules than many strong teams, which is also worth pondering, why are many teams with stars not as good as the civilian Magic defensively?

Zhang Qi praised the Magic's defense after the game: "Their discipline, especially execution, is better than many teams in the higher rankings, and I think they have found the direction to succeed, and now the Magic are just missing a little talent." ”

But what he didn't say was that when they have talent, they don't necessarily have such good discipline and execution, and these two traits will always be exclusive to talent, so there are always so few successful geniuses.

For the Lakers, it was a much tougher game than expected, but the next one was even tougher because they had another back-to-back and the team's third game in four days.

This time the opponent is the Seattle SuperSonics, they are the last obstacle on the way for the Lakers to hit the 40-game winning streak, as long as they beat the Seattlemen, the first 40+ consecutive wins in NBA history will be born.

But it's a bit difficult to beat the SuperSonics, and the Lakers have to travel to Seattle to play immediately after the Magic, which is an inhumane schedule, but the Lakers have to find a way to get through it.

What the Lakers didn't say was that the last game against the Magic was not so difficult, and it was precisely because Harris rotated for today's back-to-back that the Magic almost completed a Dick Silk counterattack, and the Lakers not only did not complete the rotation, but almost lost the 39th game in a row, which can be said to be more than worth the loss.

Harris can't help it, first, he didn't know that the magic was so difficult, and second, if the magic didn't take a rotation, then the players had to deal with the supersonic speed with fatigue. Although these guys are ranked fifth in the West, their strength is not much worse than the top four, just look at the ranking in the West.

Western Division Rankings –

1. Los Angeles Lakers (39-0).

2. Utah Jazz (30-10).

3. San Antonio Spurs (28-11).

4. Los Angeles Clippers (25-16).

5. Seattle SuperSonics (24-15).

6. Minnesota Timberwolves (20-20).

7. Portland Trail Blazers (19-20).

8. Houston Rockets (19-21).

The Lakers know that this opponent is not easy to deal with, the supersonic are not like the Magic lack of talent and preparation, they have long been ready to snipe the Lakers, not like the Magic, even they didn't expect to almost beat the Lakers.

The SuperSonics players are ready to snipe at the Lakers, and as long as they take advantage of the opponent's back-to-back disadvantage, they have a chance to sum up the Lakers' winning streak at home.

Gary Payton still has some personal emotions in it, he can't accept that Kidd's All-Star vote outweighs him, and he wants to show the world this game, Kidd's skills are all learned from himself.

"Everything he has at his disposal is taught by me."

Payton directly scolded Kidd before the game, showing no mercy at all, which shows that the relationship between the two has indeed broken down, anyway, it is not the first time that Kidd and Payton have turned against others.

"Luckily, I still have a few tricks up my sleeve."

Kidd's words seem to be taught by Zhang Qi, and only he, a sassy person, can come up with such a sassy words.