Chapter Eighty-Six: The Unexpected
Although they kept the task, the Lakers still suffered a wave of three consecutive defeats, and as expected before the game, they fell directly out of the top eight with this loss, from third place in the West to ninth place in the West. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
The Los Angeles media and fans are more than acceptable that a large part of this losing streak is due to the schedule, with back-to-back games being the main reason for the losses.
What satisfied them now is Zhang Mao's individual performance, the new core played far more than they expected, and in the early part of the season, he actually got 20+8+7 dazzling data, which reminded them of last season's best rookie Grant Hill.
Although Zhang has only played six games, it can be seen that his performance is by no means inferior to last season's Grant Hill.
If you take into account the three-year age difference between the two, Zhang Mao's performance is actually better.
Now that anyone can see Zhang Mao's talent, how much will he improve in three years?
Therefore, this season's Lakers don't need to care too much about the record, as long as Zhang Qi can improve, it will be the biggest gain.
"ESPN" has not hacked Zhang Zhu since the last discrimination incident.
They think that from ancient times to the present, there has never been a rookie high school student as amazing as Zhang Qi's performance.
As long as he can maintain this statistic, then he is qualified to say that he is the strongest high school student in history.
The media and fans did not look down on him for the time being, but Zhang Yu himself was not satisfied with such a performance.
He knows that his task is not just to get 20 points, which may be a very amazing result in the eyes of others, but if he wants to complete the main task, he must increase his score to 25+.
However, it's not so easy for a player to go from averaging 20 points per game to 25 points, and the two segments are almost the difference between a quasi-All-Star and an All-Star.
In the history of the NBA, there are many players who have averaged 20+ per game in a single season, but there are very few players who can reach an average of 25+ per game, which is a watershed.
Zhang is in trouble with offense at this stage, and his scoring skills are not enough to support him to complete such a span.
"I need to improve my scoring skills, but how?"
Zhang Qian is very troubled, his shooting consistency has not been good, and his progress in ball control has been a little slow.
This shows that he is not so talented in all techniques, although he has good ball sense and coordination, but he is always not good enough for advanced techniques.
He has always been like this, when he was in school, no matter what sport, he could get started at the first time, and he learned everything many times faster than others, but it was always difficult to master the subsequent advanced techniques.
When he was in elementary school, Zhang was much better than his peers in basketball, football, rugby, table tennis, badminton, tennis, swimming, and sprinting.
At that time, he didn't have a system and didn't think about playing professional basketball, so he played every sport as a showy game.
But later, Zhang Fu found that in addition to sports that require physical talent, he can still rely on physical fitness to crush others, but in those small ball sports, he has gradually surpassed many people.
The reason for this is that those high-level skills, such as spinning the ball on table tennis, he always can't send or receive.
Slowly, those guys who couldn't even beat him with his left hand began to overtake him after being repeatedly ravaged by him for a few years, and at this time he had no interest in continuing to play.
At the moment in basketball, he seems to be in the same trouble.
Links like shooting, which don't require too much advanced skills, didn't have any trouble, and now it's just a lack of stability.
But in terms of ball control, his progress has been a bit slower.
He always can't play with high-level techniques such as dribbling behind the back, dribbling under the crotch, and changing hands in advance, although the basic skills are very solid, but it is extremely difficult to go further.
"This shouldn't be, my basic skills are so good, and my ball control is so solid, why don't I always get started when practicing the techniques of dribbling behind my back and dribbling under my crotch?"
Zhang also raised questions about this to the team's technical coach, and the Lakers' coaching staff also said that they were confused at the meeting, because they had never encountered such a situation.
Generally speaking, players with poor skills have rough basic skills; On the other hand, those players with good skills have solid basic skills.
But I haven't encountered such a strange situation like Zhang Mao, you have to say that his skills are not good, but his basic skills are very solid, he basically does not lose the ball one-on-one, the dribble is very stable, and he is also very threatening when breaking through and changing direction.
But as soon as the ball stopped, Zhang Qian looked a little clumsy, because he only performed a few basic movements back and forth.
This is very similar to his style of play, which is also a back-to-back and strong attack, and it is rare to see him do some fantasy dance steps when he is back, or some acrobatics when he breaks through, and he is good at direct and effective offensive means.
Admittedly, his footwork is very solid, but not flashy at all.
Many fans think that Zhang Fu plays well, but they are more deceived by his excellent coordination and that face.
"I think Leon is very quick to get started with simple and direct technical movements, and he is also very skilled at step-back shots and throws, but he is not good at techniques that require delicate skills, such as step-by-step, jump-step, European step, etc., and he seems to have a hard time mastering those tedious movements."
This is what coach and sparring partner Wallace Bryan said about Zhang Fu, who has been in charge of Zhang Fu's confrontation training and is very clear about the technical style that Zhang Fu has shown in training.
He knows that techniques like throwing and step-back shooting, Zhang Zhu usually doesn't practice, but he can often use them on the court and looks very proficient, so he has some guesses about Zhang Fu's talent.
"In that case, shouldn't we increase his shooting and step-back shooting practice and not have so many restrictions on him?"
Assistant coach Bernie Bickerstaff suggested that since Zhang's skills are also good, they don't need to limit his offensive tools at all, and can give him more freedom of choice.
"You can look at how he does in training matches, and if it fits the requirements of the game, we can devise more singles tactics for him to play to his strengths."
Harris thinks Zhang may be too young, but if he is proficient in step-back shooting and throwing, these two skills can also play a lot of role in the game, and they can set him up with more corner screens, high screens, and baseline interspersed tactics to give him more heads-up opportunities.
Zhang himself is also actively seeking change, and the next day against the Kings, he played more freely under the instruction of head coach Harris.
But Zhang Yu still doesn't feel good about shooting, although he has become more unrestrained in the link before shooting, but he is still too stable when shooting, and he doesn't shoot if he doesn't have too good opportunities.
However, such a reasonable shot was exchanged for a poor shooting percentage of 6 of 20 from the field.
The Lakers suffered another miserable defeat on the road, and today Zhang Mao is obviously going to take the blame, his personal data is only 16 points, 6 rebounds and 4 assists, and this time even the assist data is not up to standard.
Once Zhang Mao's personal performance began to decline, the direction of the media began to change, and some voices questioning Zhang Zhu's encounter with the rookie wall began to appear.
But considering that Zhang Mao's average data per game is still not bad for a rookie, these voices are still in a fermentation period.
A lot of people are waiting for Zhang's performance to continue to decline, or for the Lakers to continue their losing streak, at which point they will jump out and make an explosive attack.
The next day, the Lakers ushered in another back-to-back home game, which should be a story of a house leak and overnight rain for the Lakers, who have lost four in a row.
The Lakers' schedule this month has been really brutal, and this is their third back-to-back game in half a month.
Today's game is the opportunity that many are looking forward to, and if the Lakers have lost five in a row on the road, and Zhang Mao's performance is average, they will have a chance to play on the topic.
However, what makes many people depressed is that this bullshit "Dallas Sanjie" is too uncompetitive.
The Lakers are now at their most vulnerable, but in the face of the Lakers who are back-to-back and in a losing streak, the Mavericks players are playing like a game of loose sand, and the three Jays are fighting separately on the court, with no organization and cooperation at all.
After the first quarter, even the Lakers players noticed that these three guys should not be infighting, right?
Throughout the first half, the Mavericks' offense was fragmented, and the Dallas trio didn't have any decent coordination at all, and they didn't even pass the ball to each other.
On offense, you can describe their performance as a loose set, but when it comes to the defensive end, the performance of this team can be described as fragmented, without a little support and assistance from each other, what is the situation?
Zhang Zhu still didn't feel good today, and many unguarded shots in the first quarter missed.
But the Mavericks' defense today is not even as good as the CBA, and he found that as long as a teammate helps him make a slight block, he can easily get rid of the defense and kill under the basket to complete the offense.
"This must be infighting!" Zhang Yu knew that this situation was too abnormal, he and Van Exel didn't talk at all off the field, but they would complement each other and take care of each other on the field, and these three people didn't have any interaction and communication at all today, and they were completely fighting on their own.
In the second quarter, Zhang Mao began his own crazy performance, his breakthrough could not be stopped, and the Mavericks' basket seemed to have been bombarded indiscriminately by the B2 bomber, which made him play a 14-point performance in a single quarter.
In the first half, Zhang Mao scored a total of 20 points, 7 rebounds and 2 assists, easily breaking his half-court scoring record.
The Lakers also led the Mavericks by 23 points at 67:44, which was a tragic massacre!
Zhang Qi still didn't put down the butcher's knife in the third quarter, and he couldn't let go of anything with such a good opportunity to brush up on data today, and even cheekily asked the coach not to replace him at halftime.
Harris originally disagreed, because he was worried that the Mavericks players would be annoyed and angry when they were behind by a big score, and Zhang Mao's breakthrough play was prone to injury in such situations.
But when he saw that Zhang Fu in the third quarter began to stop impacting the basket and instead used various shots to brush up the data, he secretly agreed to Zhang Fu's request.
He also knew that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to brush data, and since Zhang Yu was not in danger of being injured, he would not be unsympathetic.
Zhang Mao is so cunning, even if it is not for the head coach to keep him on the field, he will not risk injury to brush up the data.
At the start of the second half, he immediately observed the red faces of the Mavericks players and knew that the mentality of these guys had collapsed.
At this time, their heads should be hot, and the "man" does everything when he loses his cool, so he doesn't go under the basket at all.
But what everyone, including himself, didn't expect was that Zhang Mao, who began to hide from playing in the second half, actually inadvertently found a way to solve his shooting stability, and accidentally created an unprecedented novel shooting method......