Chapter 348: April of Death
Lakers fans call their team's March schedule "Devil's March", but after a closer look, they found that their April schedule is even more stupid, and even has a death schedule like four days and three games + five days and four games, so this time it should be called "Dead April".
There is no one with this kind of schedule, and Zhang Mao said when he depreciated himself before, "The Lakers' 39-game winning streak is all helped by the schedule", and now it seems that it is really too forced.
Fortunately, the strength of the opponent in April was not particularly high, and only the Spurs and Jazz were difficult to deal with in ten games, and six of them were fish belly opponents, otherwise they would have to call the police.
But even if you don't call the police, "April of Death" is not called in vain, the first two games are back-to-back away games, and they are all played in the East, against the New Jersey Nets and the Cleveland Cavaliers.
The first game against the Nets was the best, and the Lakers players didn't have any physical problems at this time, but Harris still reduced the playing time of the main players, and he has to reserve his strength for tomorrow's game.
It is worth mentioning Zhang Qi in this game, he felt better today than in the previous games, he only missed one shot in the first half, and scored 36 points in only half time, and the Lakers also led the Nets by 19 points in the first half.
Harris wanted to reduce Zhang Mao's playing time in the second half, but was rejected by Koala Baby, and he also wanted to use today's form to brush up more points. Of course, this is mainly because he heard about O'Neal scoring 52 points in the game against the 76ers in halftime, and the feeling that these guys have started to score high points by the end of the season, so of course he can't be compared.
Speaking of O'Neal, the fat man's performance after the All-Star Game made many people look sideways, including Zhang Yi was also a little worried.
O'Neal's biggest change this time is that his free throw percentage has increased dramatically, from 59% before the All-Star break to 71% after the All-Star break, and he has a good chance of completing the milestone of "breaking 60% for the first time in his career" this year.
Don't be busy laughing yet, such a free throw shooting percentage is enough to make the fat man's scoring data significantly improved, before the All-Star break, he averaged only 29.1 points per game, but after the All-Star break, he increased to an average of 32.8 points per game, and now his average points per game has exceeded the 30-point mark, and he is likely to become the first center after Chamberlain to average 30+ points per game in the regular season.
This is by no means a small honor, except for Chamberlain in the history of the NBA, there is no center who can average 30+ points per game in the regular season, do you still think this is nothing?
It is generally difficult for center players to compete for the scoring title, because the body and weight of the center are generally the tallest and heaviest on the team, and such a large body means that the consumption rate on the court is far faster than that of outside players.
Therefore, Chamberlain used his physical fitness beyond his contemporaries by 20 years to do whatever he wanted. If you put him in the 90s, Chamberlain faced so many difficult opponents, and if you want to score points, you have to consume more physical strength, and it is also difficult to break through the shackles of averaging 30 points per game, which is remarkable for the data of averaging more than 30 points per game, but it is difficult to compete with Jordan and Zhang Zhu for the scoring title from the historic outside.
Looking at it this way, if O'Neal can get an average of 30+ points per game in the perverted Western Conference, he will basically sit in the position of the second center in the league and the third and fourth center in history, and even launch a charge several meters away from the regular season MVP.
Although Zhang Zhu stood a hundred meters away at this time and showed a vague back, he still decided that he couldn't let the fat man have a little chance, so he continued to score points from the rotten net that had no power to fight back in the second half, and finally got a 60 points, 13 rebounds and 2 assists on the head of his favored Van Horn.
This is the fifth time that Zhang has scored 50+ points this season, and the third time in his career that he has scored 60+ points, continuing his record of at least one 60+ per season, and don't forget, Zhang Zhu scored 70+ once in his first season, which is a height that Chamberlain has never reached.
This 60+ also made Zhang Fu's average score break through 37 points per game, and he finally surpassed the record of the highest scoring champion of the season created by Jordan, and the next thing to do is to maintain this state of scoring and completely get the official certification of "the first scoring champion in history".
That's right, Chamberlain had an average of 50+ seasons per game, but there was no "scoring champion" award at that time, so his "all-time leading scorer" was not officially certified.
"If anyone says that I brush points, I will backhand an ear scraper and fan it!" After the game, Zhang Qi faced reporters questioning his scoring questions, and said mercilessly, "Isn't this nonsense? Just think of the adorable fans who refresh my stats every minute on the data site, and how can I turn a blind eye to their expectations? How can I not produce a data that satisfies them? ”
This reason makes people laugh and cry, but the people who question his score are even more unreasonable, and you have the ability to let others brush a 75+ victory to see.
Zhang Zhu should be the only one who dares to say loudly "I just want to brush data", and he is also the only person who is qualified to complain about other people's data, unless you also get 70+ wins, otherwise Chamberlain will dare to complain when he comes, who makes your wins not enough.
"By the way, don't say anything like 'I'm working hard to get a big contract', I think only a stupid person would say that, don't you see Apple's stock go up to 15 yuan?"
Zhang Mao's words made a group of reporters very congested, since Apple released the all-in-one high-performance computer iMac that can run CS1.4 at the end of March, the stock price has been like an arrow in the past few days, it is said that Jordan was so angry that he accidentally broke his finger nerve when he smashed the wine bottle, and the free throw shooting rate fell by 10% last month, and he felt sorry for the helper for a second again.
The next day, Zhang led the team to Cleveland, known as the small city, where the Cavaliers are currently in sixth place in the East, even higher than the Knicks.
Of course, the Knicks' performance has declined this season, mainly because Ewing has been injured for most of the season, and the Lakers lost to the Knicks precisely because Ewing has paid in time. New York with no gorillas is the difference between a second-rate team and a first-class team, and the Cavaliers are a little bit stronger than the Knicks without Ewing.
That being said, Kemp's athleticism and the height of Big Z have caused the back-to-back Lakers quite a bit of trouble. In particular, Mason encountered a good camp, which made the Lakers' No. 4 position appear a big gap, and the "Rain Man" scored 38 points in this battle, almost helping the Cavaliers become the sixth Dragon Slayer Warrior.
Zhang Mao, who also played well today, scored 43 points in the game, didn't know that there was a little fan who had been watching him with little stars in his eyes. This little fan, who is older than children of the same age, still has a DV machine borrowed from the coach in his hand, and whenever Zhang Mao plays a wonderful performance, the little guy will record something with an excited face on the big screen.
The Lakers relied on Zhang Mao's 43 points, 8 rebounds and 5 assists, and finally did not let themselves cool in Cleveland and survived another back-to-back challenge.
Zhang and his teammates didn't have time to celebrate the victory, so they left for Detroit the next day.
The back-to-back on the road is over, but with the next game just one day apart, the Lakers will continue their Eastern Conference tour, this time in Detroit, where the air is exceptionally sweet.
Lakers fans pinched their fingers, and this can be regarded as three games in four days.
The Pistons were their third game in four days, and the first two were back-to-back away games, and this one is still on the road.
Zhang Qi felt that his condition was not very good before the game, continuous away battles and long-distance travel, they had not formally trained at all in the past four days, even if it was not back-to-back today, but in fact it was not much different from back-to-back, the whole Lakers team felt very stiff, and even Zhang Qi felt that his movements were slower than usual.
The CS1.4 version of this era has a function that the original plane did not have - the detection of reactions.
The way to test this is simple, the game will use the head of Gordon Freeman, the Half-Life protagonist you see every time you open the game, to detect how fast you can click the mouse.
This weird head doesn't necessarily appear during the test, and when it does, you'll have to click the mouse as fast as you can, and your reaction speed will be recorded.
Zhang Qi also showed off his reaction speed at the press conference some time ago, and as a result, 5 times out of 10 times exceeded 0.15 seconds, of which the fastest one was 0.1233 seconds, which exceeded 99.999% of human beings.
But today, he tested ten times on the hotel's computer, and the result was that 8 times he didn't enter 0.15 seconds, and only once reached 0.14 seconds - which shows that he was in really bad shape today, and even his reaction was so slow that now he is only faster than 99.998% of people.
Lakers players looked even more ugly on the side, and this reaction test became a tool for every computer user to show off as soon as it was introduced.
But the reality is generally cruel, because only about 10% of people have a reaction speed of less than 0.25 seconds, and about 70% of players have a reaction speed between 0.25 seconds and 0.35 seconds, which is the reaction speed of most normal people, and no matter how slow it is, it is generally an elderly person over forty years old.
If the bar is raised even higher, less than 5% of players have a reaction speed of more than 0.2 seconds, which is much lower. It can be said that as long as your reaction speed is less than 0.2 seconds, you can be called quick to react. And from 0.2 seconds, every 0.01 second of reduction will brush down a lot of people......
Finally, when it came time to count players with a reaction speed of less than 0.18 seconds (10 measurements were required to complete the test at a time, taking the average), Origin Studios found that the percentage was less than 0.1%.
This means that at most one person in every 1,000 people can react faster than 0.18 seconds. And a person like Zhang Qi with an average reaction speed of more than 0.15 seconds is afraid that he will have to choose one of hundreds of thousands.
But the problem is that a fast reaction does not mean that the body is good, it is likely that someone reacts faster than Zhang Mao, but the height is only 1.5 meters, which is very embarrassing.
So, NBA players don't necessarily react quickly.
The Lakers have tested their reactions throughout the team, and Jones is the only one who has more than 0.2 seconds, and he only has 0.19 seconds. In third place was not Kidd, but the tallest Mutombo, who had a reaction speed of 0.20 seconds.
Kidd said he was embarrassed because he only had a 0.22 reaction and could only finish sixth on the team, with Ginobili and Big Ben both being a little quicker than him.
The worst is not Battle, but O'Neal Jr., this idiot's reaction speed is only 0.24 seconds, which is a little stronger than ordinary people, and it is estimated that it is due to perennial training, otherwise he must be a part of the 70%.
The interesting thing about this test is that of course, people's reflexes are not impossible to improve, but no matter how much they are improved, they are very limited.
A normal person who reacts to 0.3 seconds can't improve to less than 0.2 seconds no matter how much he trains, and a maximum of 0.25 seconds is the limit. Moreover, after the age of 30, people's reflexes will gradually decline, and the rate of decline can only be slowed down through training, but it is irreversible.
That's why martial arts athletes, who need more experience, also start to decline after the age of 35, because the reflexes start to keep up.
NBA players have tested their reactions in private, and if they are worse, they will not be announced, after all, professional athletes are not much stronger than ordinary people's reactions, and that is definitely not an honorable thing.
But those who react quickly will definitely announce their results in a high-profile manner, because this is also a very important athletic talent.
As far as Zhang Fu knows, the fastest reaction in the Clippers team is Kobe Bryant, who showed that his reaction speed reached 0.17 seconds; Nash of the Suns team is the most surprising one for Zhang Fu, because the reaction speed of this product has reached 0.16 seconds, which is not much worse than him; and that Iverson, this product's reaction speed is also 0.16 seconds, not only is the speed fast, but the reaction is also perverted.
Of course, among some of the lesser-known players, there must be some people who are not inferior to these three people in terms of reaction speed.
But among the players he was familiar with, the one he didn't expect the most, apart from Nash, was that Duncan.
That's right, this dumb guy, no matter how you look at it, the reaction speed is more than 0.4 seconds, but Duncan's reaction speed is actually 0.19 seconds, which makes Zhang Mao feel fake, because the reaction of interior players is generally slower, Mutombo's result is outrageous, and Duncan's score is also terrifying.
From this point of view, all those players who break through sharply, especially small, picturesque, thin, and dull guys, their reaction speed is basically within 0.2 seconds, otherwise it is difficult to keep up with their bodies, let alone make up for their physical defects.
And today, the Lakers are the reaction of the whole team has slowed down, and the biggest manifestation is that there are too many turnovers.
This is not to say that Zhang Zhu's reaction from an average of 0.14 seconds to 0.18 seconds is not enough, but Zhang Zhu is usually used to doing actions according to 0.14 seconds of reaction, and now it has suddenly become 0.18 seconds of reaction time, although it is still enough, but his body can't adapt to it for a while.
That's the problem, don't look at it as just a little bit of a difference, but the difference can be a thousand miles, as long as there is a little mistake between the players in the lightning, it will have a great impact.
The Lakers players felt that everything was not going well in this game, and they felt a little stiff when they made every move, which is also the state in which players are most prone to injury and iron.
This time, even Zhang Qi was out of shape, only 9 of 27 shots in the game, and only got 28 points, 9 rebounds and 5 assists, which made him embarrassed.
The rest of the Lakers players weren't much better, shooting a measly 38 percent from the field, and if they could still win, the Pistons could be disbanded on the spot.
But not to mention, the final score was 78-82, and the Pistons only won by a mere four points against the Lakers, and they almost broke up on the spot.
When the Lakers were in a slump in the whole team, they almost used defense to retreat on the road, which is actually another kind of defeat that is still honorable.
Pippen finally became the best of the game in front of Zhang Ju after the game, which made the second brother's tears of excitement almost flow.
Don't think this description is exaggerated, you must know that this season even Jordan and O'Neal have not completed a double kill on Zhang Zhu in terms of wins and data, only Malone has achieved better results in winning + data, Pippen has become the second player to really defeat Zhang Zhu this season, which is definitely worth a contract of 100 million yuan.
"There are 82 games in a season, and I don't bother to remember those 69 wins, let alone those six defeats."
Zhang Qi still had the same attitude after the game as when he lost to the Jazz before, and he really didn't have time to think too much, and two days later, the Lakers were going back to their home court to clean up the Grizzlies, and this Eastern road trip was finally over.
Of course, when it comes to the Grizzlies, Battle and Ginobili can't help but laugh.
The two best brothers and sisters knew that Harris would definitely use the rotation again. Because after the three battles in four days, they are about to usher in the "week of death" of five days and four battles. The Lakers must give the main team enough time to rest, otherwise if something goes wrong at the end of the season, it will really accompany grandma's house.