Chapter 228: The Battle of the Champions

Zhang Qi said before that the Lakers' winning streak was at least nine consecutive wins, but this was just what he used to anger O'Neal, and even he didn't expect that the Lakers would actually rise this number all the way to a higher level in November, exceeding his own previous expectations. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

On November 17, the Lakers went to the road again to fight the Suns, but the home team was obviously not enough to play, and ushered in a 26-point defeat on their home court.

Cassel didn't play today, having been injured in a game against the Bucks five days ago, and the Suns are out for four to six weeks.

The news affected the Suns' trade, and the Phoenix people's two reliable point guards, Kevin Johnson and Cassell, are both injured, leaving only one rookie, Nash, to use.

However, the Canadian struggled to shoulder the load, which would have been a good opportunity to perform, but Nash had not yet adapted to the NBA, and he was too thin to be beaten out of the by Van Exel in the game. Anyway, Zhang Qian didn't see any star potential in him at all, in his eyes this is a guy who is about to disappear from the NBA after completing his rookie contract.

Van Exel scored his third 30+ points of the season, and Van Exel's performance this season was very impressive, of course, it has a lot to do with Zhang Yi always feeding him the ball.

Of course, Zhang will not tell anyone that he is willing to pass the ball to Van Exel, because he received a private signal from Jerry West, which is also a common phenomenon before a valuable player is traded, but it is difficult for most parties to detect this phenomenon, and this is what the authorities mean.

Today, Fan Maniac had another 32 points and 7 assists, while Nash, who was opposite him, only had 6 points and 5 assists, and 5 fouls and turnovers, which can only be said that he is not ready to take on the responsibility.

Zhang Qi was silent, and he also brushed up on a performance of 20 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists, which was another triple-double.

After many people pinched their fingers and calculated carefully, they found that Zhang Zhu had gotten three triple-doubles in the last five games, and some media had reported that Zhang Zhu's triple-double data this season might decline, but I didn't expect this bastard to be secretly saving character, so he was afraid that he would break his triple-double record last season.

Mason can't say that his stats have fallen even more than last season, can you believe it?

Strictly speaking, among the three big players introduced by the Lakers this season, only Starks' performance has risen instead of falling, and the statistics of Mason and Mutombo have declined, which is a situation that many people did not expect in advance.

But when you think about it, it's not too surprising, Starks' stats are up because his role with the Lakers is suitable for farming, while Mason and Mutombo have to sacrifice something to make the game better.

Now that the Lakers have played 10 regular season games, the top six players in the team's stats are like this-

Zhang Mao: Averaged 34.4 points, 10.7 rebounds, 9.1 assists, 2.8 steals and 1.2 blocks per game.

Van Exel: 19.1 points, 2.5 rebounds, 7.0 assists, 0.8 steals and 0.1 blocks per game.

Starks: 14.0 points, 2.3 rebounds, 2.8 assists, 1.3 steals and 0.1 blocks per game.

Finley: 12.5 points, 4.2 rebounds, 2.1 assists, 1.2 steals and 0.5 blocks per game.

Mason: Averaged 11.5 points, 6.8 rebounds, 4.2 assists, 0.8 steals and 0.3 blocks per game.

Mutombo: Averaged 12.0 points, 10.9 rebounds, 1.0 assists, 0.5 steals and 3.5 blocks per game.

That's the stats for the Lakers' six players who have played the most minutes, and the Lakers' main rotation this year is eight, with Ben Wallace and Magic remaining two. However, one of these two plays less and less, and the other is a pure blue-collar interior lineman who barely participates in the offense. The rest of the Lakers players will only get a chance to play if these eight have too many fouls, are in poor shape, or if the game goes into garbage time.

To be honest, the Lakers have averaged 103.5 points per game for these six players alone, while the Lakers have averaged 117 points per game so far, which ranks first among all teams in the league and can be called the most firepower team in the NBA this year.

Of course, such a high average of points per game is mainly due to a double overtime and two massacres, and this statistic will definitely decline in the future.

ESPN predicts that the Lakers' regular scoring this season should be between 110 and 115 points, which is already the highest scoring record in recent years.

The NBA has only 11 single-season scoring records since the '90s with a single-season scoring record of 110 points per game, the highest of which was the Denver Nuggets in the '90-91 season, when they averaged 119.9 points per game and narrowly missed 120 points.

Mason is the player on the Lakers who has the most personal opinions, but then again, the Lakers are now the only team in the league to keep winning all of them, which shows that they are not wrong in the direction they are heading, a strong team must have people to sacrifice, and there is no such thing as a team where everyone is happy and satisfied.

Uncle Mu is very satisfied, although his rebounding has dropped a lot, but he no longer has to taste the taste of losing, this is the compensation he gets. From the moment he joined the Lakers in the summer, he was willing to pay some price for winning.

Mason also knows these truths, so despite his inner dissatisfaction, he still doesn't feel that he came to the Lakers to make a mistake, and the current 10-game winning streak is only known to Lakers players.

Moreover, the Lakers' 10-game winning streak quickly turned into an 11-game winning streak...... 12 wins in a row......

On November 19, the Lakers played on the road again, and most of their games this month were on the road, this time the Lakers narrowly defeated the Golden State Warriors 116-113.

Zhang scored his second shut-in-one of the season with a 24-foot lay-up to take the Warriors 2.1 seconds before the break, his fourth of career.

The NBA's definition of "killer shot" does not refer to the last second to complete the kill, but refers to the two sides of the game in the last moment before the end of the game, and the player completes the effective score in the last offense and overtakes the score to end the game, such a decisive ball is called the "killer shot".

If the opponent is given a certain amount of time after scoring a goal, which usually means more than 3 seconds and less than 24 seconds, and the opponent does not complete the counter-lore, it is generally called a "quasi-lore". ”

But whether it's a "lore shot" or a "quasi-lore", they are not official NBA statistics, just like 73 years ago there were no "steals" and "blocks", maybe the official will include "lore" in the official statistics in the future, but at least they haven't done so yet.

At this stage, the statistics of "lore balls" are all done by the media, and the league only admits that there is such a thing as "lore".

Zhang Zhu feels that the NBA will not include "lore" in the official statistics in the future, because it is difficult for ordinary players to get the opportunity to shoot the lore, this kind of ball is for the star of the house, so it is of little significance to include it in the statistics, who makes its scope too narrow, more than half of the players in the NBA will not have a record of throwing lore in their lifetime.

On the same day, the NBA announced last week's "Player of the Week", and Zhang Fu was unsurprisingly on the list again, this is the fifth time in his career that he has won the Player of the Week, and the first time he has won the award in a row, which is of great significance.

Since the establishment of the "Player of the Week" award in the NBA, there have been few consecutive cases of winning the "Player of the Week" award in history, only Michael Jordan and Drexler had such a feat in the 80s, and there has been no re-election since the 90s, Zhang Mao is the third player in NBA history to win the "Player of the Week" in a row.

The league has never wanted this kind of re-election, so as long as someone doesn't perform much worse than Zhang in the week, they will still give the award to someone else, as is customary.

But the problem is that Zhang Mao's 50+20+20 performance is too exaggerated, and the Lakers have not tasted defeat in the new season, and no one has played close to him this week, so there is no excuse for wanting to award it to others.

If you are interested, you can find that the only three players who won the Weekly Awards, including Zhang Mao, did not perform as well as the second week when they won the first week, and they were much worse.

The league was also helpless, how could they have thought that after awarding these people the best of the week, their performance next week would be even more exaggerated!

On November 20, the back-to-back Lakers finally returned to their home court to face the Spurs, who were also back-to-back.

The Spurs lost to the Clippers in Los Angeles a day ago, and today they lost to the Lakers 98-121.

Zhang Qi also proved once again that this year is not a year of decline in his "triple-double", on the contrary, with the addition of Mutombo and Mason, the Lakers' backcourt rebounds are stable. So, today he scored another triple-double of 28 points, 12 rebounds, 11 assists and 5 steals, and 10 of those 12 rebounds were backcourt rebounds, so who he grabbed it from, fans who watched the game should know very well.

But you can't complain about his brushing data, although this is indeed brushing data, but the Lakers won again, or the longest 11-game winning streak this season, and the Lakers' record is the first in the league.

Some media have begun to predict whether Zhang Zhu will get an average triple-double per game, Zhang Zhu's current average data per game is infinitely close to a triple-double, and if he continues to play like this, he may really replicate Robertson's miracle and become the second bull in NBA history to get an average triple-double per game in the regular season.

Two days later, the Lakers beat the Celtics at home, and their 12-game winning streak came to an end!

- Los Angeles Times

"12 wins in a row, who can stop them!"

After the Lakers won an impressive 12 consecutive wins, they have even surpassed the Bulls by two wins, which made the whole of Los Angeles a little inflated, and many people began to shout the slogan of "72 wins" and put their middle fingers up to Chicago.

However, the Los Angeles people didn't have long to be happy, and the Jazz, who have been very low-key this season, have put the Lakers' winning streak to 12 games, and the three car repair veterans have said that they can fight for several more years.

In fact, before the game, there was a lot of gunpowder in this game.

The cause of the incident was the later "10,000-year-old background emperor" Byron Russell, the unlucky guy who was shaken down (pushed) by Jordan in the finals and threw the killer ball!

Of course, I don't know if he has a chance to get this name in this time and space, but this guy's always big-mouthed character will not change, after Jordan retired for the first time, Byron Russell, who was still a rookie, dared to complain about Jordan: "Why do you want to quit, I can prevent you from dying, don't let me see you wearing sneakers again."

Today, Byron Russell, who has not yet become the "Emperor of the Background of Ten Thousand Years", still treats Zhang Mao so arrogantly, he said: "People say that no one can prevent him, but I know that someone can do it, I can prevent him, I can make him completely extinguish." ”

Zhang said before the game that he didn't know who Byron Russell was, he only knew Bill Russell.

As a result, Zhang Mao's 42 points, 10 rebounds and 5 assists have explained everything, and the arrogance without IQ is generally this end.

Zhang Yu secretly despised in his heart: "People are arrogant, and you are also arrogant, but do you have the capital and IQ to be arrogant?" Will you pretend? Do you know why you want to pretend to be forced? ”

However, Zhang Qian failed to become the biggest winner, he didn't expect Malone to score 37 points in the Lakers' interior combination, let alone Stockton to score 16 points and 16 assists, and Lao Huo's 18 points.

The performance of these three car repair masters, how do they feel that they are 6 more than last season?

The Lakers eventually lost to the Jazz by five points, and it was on their home court, which was a result that Zhang did not expect in advance.

The media and fans didn't expect it either, as the Jazz had little to follow in the summer about transfer and trade news, and if there was a ranking of the most low-key teams, the Jazz were not number one but also number two.

In the new season, the biggest player introduced by the Jazz team is actually Byron Russell, who was ashamed before the game, and the rest are basically the old team from last season, but their record surpasses the Clippers and Rockets who were huge in the summer, ranking second in the West and third in the league.

This makes many people feel embarrassed, in fact, the Bulls have no lineup adjustments this season, if the Lakers' record is not so perverted, then the first place in the East and West is the most low-key team in the summer, which is undoubtedly a slap in the face to those guys who form giant teams!

The Lakers were also a bit slapped in the face, they didn't expect to lose at home before the game, and now their 12-game winning streak has been ended by an opponent who doesn't take it that seriously, and everyone is very disappointed.

In addition to a little loss in Zhang Qi's heart, he felt more about the arduousness of the 70-win task.

When the Lakers won in a row, he didn't think the task was too difficult, but now that he has only lost one game, his goal of 70 wins has immediately become dangerous, and he must ensure the efficiency of winning seven games and losing one game to be sure of getting 70+ wins.

Looking back now, it is easy to feel the hardships of this 12-game winning streak, in addition to having strong dominance, it really takes a little luck to do it, and 70+ wins are by no means so easy to do.

On Nov. 24, the Lakers lost again at home, this time to the Rockets, and the Big Three got their revenge on the road.

Zhang Fu's performance finally declined today, with only 8 of 25 shots in the game, and only 22 points, 9 rebounds and 7 assists.

This is already the highest score for the Lakers team, and Van Exel and Starks, who performed well against the Rockets last time, all turned off today, and the Lakers lost 96-103 at home to the Rockets who broke out in unison 96-103.

Some people gloated and said, "The Lakers are not losing, and if they lose, they will lose in a row."

Zhang Qi really felt the crisis now, although the 12-2 record will not make the Lakers' ranking drop, but the bottom line of playing 7 games to lose one game has been broken, winning 6 games and losing one game can not get 70+ wins, the error tolerance rate of this task is really terrifying!

What's even more terrifying is that the intensive schedule of the regular season has left him no time to reflect, and two days later, that is, on Tuesday, they will usher in the sixth national live broadcast, against the Philadelphia 76ers, and the highlight is of course the showdown between the two champions!

The American media now uses Iverson more to compare with Zhang Zhu, although Hill has also played an all-round performance second only to Zhang Qi this season, but his scoring is still the same as before, and there is no improvement.

Although current fans know that scoring does not represent all, but the score has hovered around 20 points for three consecutive years, and then look at Zhang Fu's not only rebounding and assist statistics, but also topping the scoring list, which is obviously much higher than Hill.

The main reason why Iverson has been taken seriously by the media is that he has 3 30+ performances in 10 games, and this is when he has missed three games due to injury.

Many people may not know that in NBA history, there are up to three or five players who can get 30+ in their rookie season, and most of them are difficult to play more than 5 30+ performances in their rookie season, but Iverson obviously has the ability to score more than 10 30+ times in his rookie season.

Although Iverson's style of play is destined to be prone to injury, he missed three games before the first month of his rookie season was played, which is his biggest hidden danger compared to Zhang Zhu's performance of never missing due to injury.

However, this champion's scoring ability is really strong, especially in terms of speed, it can be described as "unsolvable", so Iverson's breakthrough is almost an unsolvable existence, and if you want to defend, you can only use crowd tactics to drown him, but Iverson's passing ability is not bad, and under the existing rules, it is difficult for any team to limit his singles and breakthroughs.

Of course, Iverson's overall view is average, he is easy to be hot-headed, his style of play is too independent, and there are always rumors circulating in the market that he does not abide by the team's discipline.

But let's be honest, Iverson just doesn't have a good passing vision when he's static, or he's not good at organising, but his ability to split the ball after being caught is very good, which also makes his assist stats look good.

After ten games, Iverson averaged 24 points, 3 rebounds and 7 assists per game, which was definitely an impeccable performance for a first-year rookie, and people found fault with his shooting percentage at most.

The Los Angeles press didn't have that much praise, believing Iverson to be at best a strengthened version of Damon Stoudemire, both of whom relied on indomitable will, skill and incredible speed to make their debut season stand out. However, due to the height disadvantage, both of them rely too much on speed, and they will definitely have frequent injuries in the future, and they cannot be compared with Zhang Yu at their peak.

Zhang has always been very optimistic about Iverson, and he doesn't know whether to praise himself or Iverson, in short, he said before the game: "I'm more of a decision-maker, and he's a best executor, he's a perfect attacker with speed, skill and bravery." ”

Well, this is awkward to hear, isn't this a satire that Iverson has no courage and can only be a small soldier?

Zhang Wei really didn't mean it, he still felt that he was already very high in this evaluation, if he was asked to evaluate Kobe......

Well, he didn't bother to evaluate it at all, that thing couldn't get into his eyes at all, which would make him still feel that even O'Neal Jr.'s potential was stronger than that No. 8, and that was why the Clippers' bun fans would brag about a Lese who averaged less than double digits in points per game.