Chapter 119: The End of December.

This year, Zhang Mao and his father spent a very perfunctory Christmas at home. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

He ran out to play games with Miss Lin Xilei in the second half of the night, and Zhang Mo was still thinking about the development of the company at Christmas, and the two of them were dedicated enough in their respective fields.

After the Lakers' win over the Celtics, they have their final two games left for the entire month of December, against the San Antonio Spurs and the Utah Jazz.

In the six games since the Magic's return, he has played an average of 27 minutes per game and is currently contributing 14 points, 6 rebounds and 6 assists, which has exceeded the expectations of fans and teams, and his role is now similar to that of the Bulls' Kukoc, who has always played the role of sixth man.

Harris is also thinking about the Magic, playing the sixth man can avoid the opponent's star interior as much as possible, while mitigating his defensive flaws.

The biggest problem for Magic right now is not offense, and he is no less than Zhang Mao in this regard, but his problem now is that he can easily become a breakthrough for opponents in defense.

Facing the Spurs' strong interior line today, the Magic played very passively.

David Robinson is by no means a superstar who can only abuse vegetables, but his best skill is indeed abuse vegetables, as long as he faces opponents whose athletic ability is much worse than himself, or opponents who have certain defects, the performance of "Admiral" will be very, very amazing!

However, it's not bad for people to fight a tough battle, last year's Spurs lost to the Rockets, it can only be said that Olajuwon's performance in the past two years is too strong, and it must not be said that Robinson is too weak, and O'Neal's side was also defeated by the big dream.

In fact, before Da Meng won two consecutive championships, many people felt that "General" and "Orangutan" were the top two of the four centers.

However, after Olajuwon won two titles, the position of the top of the four centers was completely secured.

It's a bit like Nowitzki was called a softie before he won the championship single-core, and his status was much lower than Garnett. But immediately after winning the championship, he became the king of Nuotian, and his status was no worse than Garnett. This shows that no matter what era it is, people are heroes based on success or failure.

Today, the Magic was bullied enough by Robinson, and O'Neal was a soft egg for a long time, but mainly because the little Ao Fat Tube "Admiral" in high school was rejected to sign and thus formed a bond, and later the Lakers were swept out by the Spurs, and the feud between the two was further deepened.

O'Neal beat Robinson, who was opposite him, in that series, so for a long time he felt that "The Admiral" was holding Duncan's thigh to win the championship. But he ignored the cleverness of the "Admiral" who was willing to sacrifice himself for the team to deal with him, and even more ignored the impact of the "Admiral's" move on the team's morale and the decisive role of liberating Duncan.

At that time, O'Neal would only pay attention to how strong he was in the matchup, and he had already fallen behind in the overall situation, and it was not a problem of ability to beat the Rockets and Spurs, but his ball quotient was not smart enough.

Before the age of 30, O'Neill had many flaws in leadership, a relatively small amount of energy when he was young, and he was lazy throughout his career, so he had a physical talent that was not inferior to Chamberlain, but he failed to rank in the top three in history.

Today's game has nothing to do with O'Neal, but the same thing is that the Magic also failed to beat the "Admiral".

Robinson, who was almost a strong version of Garnett before the major injury, had the reputation of "seven-foot Jordan", and even this season he was still able to hold down O'Neal's half a head, ranking second among the four centers.

Of course, in terms of pure personal strength, Robinson has long been unable to suppress O'Neal.

But the "Admiral" has a lot of experience and more personal honors, not only has the athleticism and skill of the outside, but also the ability to launch a strong attack on the inside, and his range extends to near the three-point line, it can be said that he is the most versatile of the four centers, and the most gorgeous one to play, otherwise he would not have become the idol of the young O'Neal.

Magicians can only swallow the bitter fruit of abuse against such a super insider at the pinnacle.

His technique and ball quotient can no longer make up for his physical shortcomings when facing Robinson, after all, the "Admiral's" technique and ball quotient are not bad.

Zhang Qi played very hard today, and the Spurs' comprehensive strength is actually not as good as the Lakers, but after being blown up on the inside, both offense and defense are too passive.

The rules of this era may not require that your interior line must have the ability to destroy the opponent, but you must at least have the strength not to be destroyed by the opponent.

The Bulls' interior line is not particularly strong, but Rodman can entangle most of the No. 4 stars, and Longley's single defense can also have a little impact on O'Neal and Olajuwon and others, which makes the Bulls' interior line not be blown up too seriously, and their strong outside line is enough to make up for such a disadvantage.

The Lakers can't do this now, their interior defense is too poor, especially against big killers like the top four centers, which will basically be completely exploded. Unless the Lakers' outside trio can work together to score seventy or eighty points, it won't be enough to offset the huge disadvantage of their own inside.

Zhang Qi only scored 28 points, 9 rebounds and 5 assists today, and finally failed to help the team defend their home court, and the Lakers lost the game 98-108.

There is no way, Zhang Fu at this stage can only do this to this extent, as long as there are four major centers and four forwards, the comprehensive strength will not be too bad.

Although the Spurs' outside line is not as good as the Lakers, they are very disciplined, and they will not make big mistakes in the game, nor will they be broken, and they will not let him hit too high a shooting percentage.

To put it simply, it won't let you explode, at most let you play a little better.

Zhang Mao tried his best today and failed to get 30 points, and if he wanted to score 40 points, he had no way.

In fact, even if he scored more than 30 points, eighty percent still couldn't help the Lakers defeat the Spurs.

Robinson over there recorded 34 points, 10 rebounds, 5 assists and 5 blocks, and two of the big hats were awarded to Zhang Fu.

The four centers are not only strong on the offensive end, they are also a force to be reckoned with on the defensive end, especially Robinson, who has been selected to the All-Defensive Team first team four times, and his defense is enough to reduce the Lakers' breakthrough threat by more than 30%.

The Lakers can't beat the Spurs, and neither can the Jazz.

Malone said half a month ago that he would not play in the game against the Lakers, but in the end, under the pressure of the league and public opinion, he had to play against the Magic.

Actually, Zhang Zhu doesn't think there is anything wrong with Malone doing this, and if he is the opponent of the Lakers, it is estimated that he will do more than Ma Long.

But in this way, the magician was in no mood to play the game today, and only played 15 minutes in the whole game.

But to the Magic's embarrassment, the Lakers' defense today was obviously much better than the last game, Bisson's stalking had a big impact on Malone, and Campbell also played well today, and the Lakers played with the Jazz on the road until overtime before losing a controversial decision from the referee.

Zhang Qi scored 23 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists today to get his fifth triple-double of the season, but his killer shot missed this time.

The most controversial decision of the game came in this stunner, when Stockton's defense was clearly suspected of a foul, and he knocked Zhang's arm red from a flying block on his side, but the referee did not award a foul.

The Lakers' December game ended with a two-game losing streak at the end of the month, and although the loss was a bit unjust, the Lakers need to see the mistakes they made in the game that they shouldn't have made.

If they had done a better job in the details, perhaps they wouldn't have had to hope for Zhang Mao's lore at all.

Zhang has played a total of 31 regular season games since ending the December schedule and has not missed a game this season.

At this time, there is no "luck", or the excuse that "the opponent doesn't know him" is available for black fans to play.

What data can Zhang Mao get at this time, then after the whole season, his data will basically fluctuate a little in this range, and there will not be much change.

In 31 regular season games, Zhang played an average of 36.6 minutes per game, scoring 24.7 points, 8.9 rebounds, 6.6 assists, 2.7 steals and 0.9 blocks. He shot 48.8 percent from the field, 41.5 percent from three-point range and 80.9 percent from the free throw line.

His three big statistics of points, rebounds and assists are very eye-catching, his shooting percentage is excellent, and his steal statistics have also rushed into the top five, such statistics are not only All-Star level performances, but it is not a problem to say that he has played superstar statistics.

Zhang Fu's personal attributes have also unknowingly risen to 84, and now he has entered a new threshold.

It stands to reason that 84's ability value shouldn't be able to play such luxurious data.

But Zhang Fu's stability is very high, even in back-to-back games away, it is rare to see his attributes drop by more than 2 values, the impact of home and away games on him is minimal, the impact of headwinds on him is also very small, and it is difficult for the system to calculate everyone's basketball IQ, which is also very important for the performance of players.

Take his teammates as an example, Van Exel's and Ceballos's ability values are similar, but the former's performance is often good and bad, and Ceballos has been very consistent, and the contribution of these two to the team is of course more than Ceballos.

There's also Campbell, who has an 81 stat, but he often drops to around 75 on the road, and even around 70 when the wind is headwinding. Once he encounters an opponent who is good at small movements and trash talk, it is difficult for him to play all his skills, so it seems that he is not as good as Bisen in many cases, which is a sign of a bad mentality.

The most important thing is that there are not many outstanding small forwards in the league now, Zhang Qian has enough advantages in most of the positions, and abuse is what he is best at, every time he encounters an opponent with less than 80 ability points, he can hand over a good statistic, and slowly complete such a historical rookie statistic.

If Zhang Wei can keep this data until the end of the season, then he will truly confirm the identity of the "prince", and the league will no longer have any hesitation to support him as the protagonist of the next era.

In December, the Western Division Rankings -

1. Seattle SuperSonics (23-8).

2. San Antonio Spurs (22-8).

3. Los Angeles Lakers (20-11).

4. Utah Jazz (21-9).

5. Houston Rockets (19-11).

6. Los Angeles Clippers (18-12).

7. Portland Trail Blazers (16-15).

8. Phoenix Suns (15-15).

The Clippers also have a solid record, and if the two Los Angeles teams continue to do so, the first round of the playoffs is likely to see a local battle.

The Lakers would like to play the Clippers in the first round, or the Trail Blazers, but it's better not to play against the Rockets.

The Clippers and Trail Blazers don't really have a top-level interior line, and the Lakers can completely use their outside advantage to kill them, and the win rate should be relatively high.

But if they face the Rockets led by Olajuwon, the Lakers themselves feel that it will be difficult for them to continue.

Now everyone knows that the Rockets in the regular season and the Rockets in the playoffs are completely two teams, and the successful defense of the Rockets last season has made many people realize that these old guys are likely to stay in the regular season and go to the playoffs to do their best.

Coming up, the Lakers will have a much easier schedule in January than they did in December, where they played 17 games and a slew of back-to-backs cost them a couple of games they could have won.

But in January, the Lakers only had two back-to-back games, most of which had two or three days of rest before the game, so this month would be a good opportunity for them to consolidate their record.