The first matchday of each season attracts a lot of attention from fans as they want to see how the new signings and rookies of each team are doing. Do you want to see if the players are improving or regressing?

The Lakers are naturally the most eye-catching, and most people are more optimistic about the Lakers winning before the game, but most fans predict a net score of less than 10 points, who would have thought that it would be a 40+ victory in the end? There's no guessing at all!

Not only these people couldn't guess, but Zhang Wei himself didn't expect this result.

Now the whole Clippers team has to go back to be a shrunken turtle for a while, and you must wear a mask when you go out, otherwise you won't be able to see anyone at all.

It's only when other teams also suffer back-to-back heavy defeats against the Lakers that they can wait for the rumors to pass before taking their hoods off.

In November, the Lakers have 14 games to play, and except for three games that are more troublesome, the rest of the schedule is not too difficult to deal with.

"Our goal?"

When Zhang met reporters the next day, he was asked a question that was easy to answer.

However, he didn't answer right away because his goal was a bit big - he wanted to lead the Lakers to a new winning streak, that is, he wanted to surpass the Lakers' original 33-game winning streak.

The difficulty of this goal is no less difficult than 74 wins in a single season, so before the Lakers got 20+ consecutive wins, he decided not to put the big talk out first, after all, no one can guarantee that they will not lose more than 30 consecutive games, and this thing depends on timing and luck.

Now the Lakers have won six in a row, and last season's Lakers ended the regular season with five consecutive wins, and these five consecutive wins will naturally be counted in the regular season winning streak.

He will have such big ambitions, in addition to the Lakers' roster is at its peak, they are far more adaptable to the new rules at this stage than the rest of the teams, it is a good opportunity to take advantage of the situation to set a new record, once missed, maybe nine will never have such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

It is precisely because he has such a big goal that he will have higher and higher requirements for the team in training, and even to the point of being harsh.

Lakers players are becoming more and more afraid of Zhang Fu, and many coaches feel that some of his harsh requirements are too much, such as forcing players to practice is very excessive, which affects the personal freedom of players, why do you require others to practice?

Zhang Qi wouldn't really force his teammates to practice, which would be a crime.

But you can't play without practice, so you can do it yourself, there is no place to make sense.

Now in the Lakers, except for veterans like Mutombo, Mason and Wilkins, the rest of the people have to practice to have a chance to play, which makes Kidd and others, who are used to running to nightclubs after work, complain.

Kidd can ignore these demands, because the Lakers don't need him in the No. 1 position, and no one is available, but he doesn't dare to fight Zhang Fu now, and other young players are working hard, and he is embarrassed to be an exception.

What Xiao Zhengtai didn't know was that the Lakers players didn't go to fight against Zhang Fu, largely because of the influence of that bunch of buffs and cards, and that invisible aura made them dare not speak out. Even if Zhang Wei forced himself to leave on time at 4 p.m., the Lakers were still in a situation where thousands of horses were in full swing.

The Lakers' practice is extremely rare in NBA history, but the effect is obvious to all, and then they beat the Kings, Knicks, Warriors, and Mavericks in a row, starting with five consecutive wins, and the total winning streak has reached 10.

Zhang Mao's performance in these games has changed from last season's blind pursuit of perfection, except for a triple-double in the first game, the other four games are high-scoring and high-rebounding performances, but the assists have dropped significantly compared with the previous two seasons.

Correspondingly, Kidd and Mason's assist data have risen, this year's Zhang Mao really handed over most of the ball, his goal now is 35+8+5 such super scoring champion data, and even rebounds have an average of more than 6 times per game, but the score must break the record of nearly ten years.

Zhang Mao's goal is clear: to break the winning streak, break Jordan's scoring record, and successfully defend the title.

The Dragonborn Company has not been idle recently, they have just spun off several of their core businesses and listed them, especially after ICQ was listed, Zhang Mo really has no shortage of money in his hands, and there have been a lot of big moves in less than half a year.

The well-known American game company "Blizzard Entertainment" has faced a lot of trouble in the past six months, their parent company broke out in the critical stage of the merger accounting fraud scandal, the stock of the head office has shrunk by 80% in half a year, and it has long been looking for someone to take over its non-core business, especially the software department, Xueleshan Online and Blizzard Entertainment are the parts of Shengteng Group that need to be slimmed.

Of course, the Dragonborn company will not miss this golden opportunity, they are lacking distribution channels outside the United States, and they have taken the opportunity to take over these businesses, among which the software department has been merged into "Dragonborn Software", Xueleshan Online has been merged into the "Dragonborn Portal", and "Blizzard Entertainment" has been merged into "Dragonborn Games", becoming the largest studio under Dragonborn Games.

And that's not all, after the CS game developed by "Source Studios" to experiment with the engine was released for free in September through ICQ and the Dragonborn portal, it reached 500,000 downloads and around 100,000 active users in less than two months.

Origin Studio didn't expect its own mod-style game to be so popular, and is now ready to send additional staff to complete the game, and then repackage it for sale, as the studio's first official work after its establishment.

In addition, the second work of "Oriental Studio" came out at the end of October, and it is also not a new work, but a remake of "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" that came out in 1995.

"The Legend of Sword and Fairy" was released in Frogland in 1995, but with Daewoo's strength, they couldn't release the game outside of Frogland, and before being acquired by Dragonborn Games, they were only preparing to release the game to Hong Kong, Macau, and mainland China in 97.

After acquiring Daewoo and reorganizing it as part of "Oriental Studios", Dragonborn Games immediately recast the game, and it took less than half a year to recast a game that had already been released, and it is estimated that even his mother will not recognize it now.

The remake of "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" has modified some of the scripts and subplots to make the game's playability and plot more compact, delicate and full, and the graphics and sound effects have also been qualitatively improved, and English and Japanese dubbing have been added for release in Europe, America and Japan.

At the end of October, this repackaged "Legend of Sword and Fairy" has been released around the world, not only on PC, but also on consoles, as if it has become a triple-A masterpiece, which makes the employees from the former Daewoo very trance.

Now, just one day before the Lakers are ready to face the Spurs on November 13, the second strategy game "Age of Empires" produced by "Frost Studios" is about to be released worldwide.

"Tomorrow, the Age of Empires launch in Los Angeles will take place outside the Great Western Forum Arena, and for every point we get in San Antonio, we will randomly select 10 original games to give to the audience. It's easy to get involved, as long as you have a ticket to a Lakers home game in any season, even if it's a preseason game from 10 years ago, you can write your name on that ticket and enter the lucky draw live. ”

Before going to San Antonio, Zhang Wei did not forget to advertise his company.

"I also want to participate in the lucky draw, I'm a fan of Dragonborn games, and I have a collector's edition of each of their games."

Duncan said with a small expression full of pity at the press conference the next day, I don't know if it's the truth?

Now there are only three teams in the Western Conference that have won all of them, one is the Lakers, who beat by 20 or 30 points every game like a child, and the other two are the Jazz and Spurs, who always have to play until the fourth quarter to determine the winner.

Zhang was not at all surprised by the resurgence of the Spurs, who not only lost the core of the team last season, but also clearly messed up there, and the performance of that year was simply uncountable.

Now, they have Tim Duncan, the No. 1 player who is only higher than Iverson, and they are already qualified to compete with the Lakers, and their current record is 7 wins in 7 games, which is higher than the Lakers' ranking.

Zhang Wei felt that it was actually Jazz who was surprised, Ma Long's goods still had an ability value of 91, and the lungs that he said were blown out by him?

This is how rare and strange he is, Ma Long's lung function did lose 25% at the beginning, but that does not mean a permanent loss.

After recovering scientifically and actively in the summer, and buying insurance and using expensive drugs, they can completely recover part of the damage in half a year, and maybe the 25% of the damage has been reduced to 20%, or even less than 15%......

In fact, those who smoke 30 cigarettes a day will not lose less than 25% of their lung function after twenty or thirty years. As for those "old smokers" who have smoked for forty or fifty years and smoke two boxes of cigarettes a day, their lung function has basically lost about half.

Therefore, Ma Long's lung problem will not affect much for the time being, at most, it will make him play a few minutes less per game. Now his ability value has dropped from 93 last year to 91, which is already a big impact, but it will not make him degrade to the level of Mason all of a sudden.

"Thiem's talent is evident and he's the perfect partner for every perimeter player and I share everyone else's appetite for his development. Maybe in two years, we'll be teammates at the All-Star Games, and I'm looking forward to that. ”

Zhang Qi is still stingy and encouraging his juniors, although he is one year younger than Duncan, he entered the NBA two years earlier than Duncan, and he is indeed a senior.

Harris praised David Wesley by name, saying that the Spurs' outstanding record this year is not only due to the twin towers on the inside, but also to the strong guard who is only 185cm tall.

The presence of David Wesley is a good way to fill the Spurs' lack of active offensive ability and three-point shooting on the outside, and this guy's basketball IQ is not low, not only good at individual combat, but also can play teamwork, Popovich likes to use this kind of player who is a little physically flawed, but has a lot of skill and awareness.

Popovich, on his part, was unhappy because he couldn't think of a way to beat the Lakers right now.

The Spurs' twin towers sound imposing now, but he knows that the two are still in the early stages of running-in, and they have won 7 games and 7 wins at all.

David Robinson didn't have the idea of abdicating right away, and Duncan hadn't proven himself worthy of the position, so how simple is the run-in of a team.

But after two seasons of running-in, the Lakers are already in the best condition. The Spurs' coaching staff has learned from the Lakers' first five games, especially the first game against the Clippers, that their twin towers, despite their potential, seem to have no chance of winning at this stage.

"Frequency" and "rhythm", Popovich feels that the Lakers are not faster than others, but better than others, especially the frequency of executing tactics and cooperation exceeds the frequency of their team, and these take time to improve, and absolute tacit understanding.

Popovich's biggest question is, how can the Lakers start at the same time as everyone else in the NBA this year, but the progress is significantly faster?

According to his observations, if Zhang Qian is not on the court, the Lakers' execution on both ends of the offensive and defensive ends will drop a lot, although it is still better than other teams, but it is definitely not as big as when he is there.

This kind of leadership ability makes Popovich feel unbelievable, and Jordan in previous years was not so outrageous, right?

However, Zhang Mao did do the role of raising a team almost a notch, the most outrageous thing is that the Lakers were originally a championship team, and if you mention it again, it will be on the roof.

However, the Lakers are now much taller than any other team, and they are really standing on the roof.

In addition to sublimating the team, Zhang Fu's performance on the field is also against the sky.

Popovich feels that his positioning, co-defense, supplementation, and movement on the defensive end are simply outrageous, and now there is no cheating dog in the league who frequently packs and pinchs opponents' interior lines like him, but he is not out of position.

"I will definitely vote for him in the selection of the first defense and the DPOY, in a word: if he doesn't win the DPOY, that's the biggest scandal in the NBA."

When Popovich commented on Zhang Qi before the game, he accidentally said something that made some Spurs fans feel uncomfortable. But this is by no means sycophants and killings, that's what he thinks in his heart, even if Zhang Zhu doesn't defend seriously every game, Popovich thinks he must be the DPOY of this year.

The Lakers and Spurs game attracted a lot of attention, and although it wasn't a national live broadcast, the number of broadcasts was not much different from the national live broadcast.

Last year, Americans liked to hype up the showdown between Zhang Zhu and Zhuang Yuanlang, and this year they still changed the soup but not the medicine, which also proves that Americans still hope to have an American talent to confront Zhang Zhu head-on.

Zhang Qi took a look at the data of the Spurs' main players before the game and found that in terms of the hard power of the players, these guys are indeed qualified to challenge the Lakers. It's a pity that like the Clippers, the Spurs temporarily have a distance from the Lakers in terms of soft power.

Center: David Robinson (89)

Power Forward: Tim Duncan (87)

Small Forward: Sean Elliott (80)

Shooting Guard: Vinnie Denate (81)

Point guards: Avery Johnson (83), David Wesley (85).

"It seems that Robinson's injury is indeed very serious, and his ability value has dropped by five points from before the injury, basically from a supergiant to a quasi-supergiant level."

Zhang still remembers that David Robinson's personal ability reached 94 before his injury, and now his athletic ability has dropped a lot, and he is basically out of the superstar range.

Among the Spurs, the most surprising player is Duncan, and it is not unreasonable for the American media to value Iverson and Duncan so much, because both of them have more than 85 ability points as soon as they entered the NBA, that is, their combat power is even higher than that of his year.

Last year's Iverson was not as fast as him in the future, but this is because of the virtual system, if he didn't have a cheat in hand, it really wasn't as fast as the rise of these two.

Of course, Zhang Zhu himself has no shame as a cheating dog, don't look at him praising Duncan before the game, but he plans to teach this new champion a good lesson in the game.

"Lao Tzu is not the champion, but Lao Tzu specializes in the champion!"

Zhang Qian still has emotions in his heart about not being able to become the champion back then, so he basically doesn't have a good heart for these champions, and once there is an opportunity to humiliate, he will never let it go.

The Spurs' starting lineup is similar to last season, with David Wesley playing as the sixth man, except that he has played more minutes as the sixth man than the two main guards.

For Popovich to wield the power of the Twin Towers, he needs to have an outside lane with enough attack power.

If Elliott hadn't been affected by kidney disease, the Spurs would really have no shortcomings.

"Yo, are you still alive?"

As soon as Zhang Qi saw Elliott, he wanted to say this.

However, trash talk also has to have a scale, and people are very inspirational as kidney fighters in themselves, and it would be too much for him to use this to mock.

"I hope to see you again next season!"

Zhang Mao's last sentence didn't seem to be much stronger, and Elliot on the other side was stunned on the spot, and said in his heart that I'm not suffering from a terminal illness, why do you sound like saying goodbye?

"Yo, these shoes are good!"

Zhang Zhu said this when he greeted David Robinson, the ugly and broken sneakers of the "Admiral", if they can be called good-looking, then Ma Long's lungs will explode with laughter!

David Robinson is disgusted in his heart, he is also a member of Nike, but like Kidd's treatment, he has to wear whatever Nike passes him every year, he has no autonomy at all, and the signing fee is even lower than Kidd.

It is said that his new contract does not even have $500,000, because he was reimbursed for a season last year, and Nike believes that his commercial value has been equated with Malone, and now it is considered kind to give him another contract.

Duncan covered his mouth and snickered, he is better than David Robinson in this regard, and signed a six-year contract with Nike as soon as he entered the NBA, which is considered the highest level of treatment among interior players.

However, Duncan's top contract among interior players is not very high, and it is about the same as Kidd back then, and Iverson was at least three times higher than Duncan in his sneaker contract last year.

"Seeing that you're smiling quite happily, aren't you afraid of being whistled for a foul?"

Zhang Wei himself didn't know why he said such a thing, and Duncan was a little confused when he heard this, he had never heard of "laughing" being judged a foul, so was this a bad joke? But it doesn't seem funny!

Duncan could only show a very stiff smile in the end, and Zhang Mao's cold joke was really a bit cold......

"Defend the paint, break down their inside line, and we'll win!"

Before the start of the game, Popovich finally encouraged the players with this nonsense that can be said or not. Although he felt that it was unlikely, Zhang Zhu would definitely shrink his defense for a long time today, and the Lakers were not afraid of the twin towers in the restricted area.

Facts have also proved that strong hardware is only the foundation of a strong team, and whether the software is strong or not can determine how much performance you can play on hardware.

In this regard, the Spurs are still a lot behind, and they have not even played half of the power of the twin towers at this stage.

Mutombo lost the opening jump ball this time, and Duncan, nicknamed "The Flying Devil", showed his top-notch jumping ability from the start.

"Cut!"

Zhang Wei is very disdainful of this, this kind of bounce is much worse than him, and it is first-class in the inner line, but this nickname is too crazy.

Popovich pressed the treasure on Duncan today, Mutombo's style was originally very restrained Duncan, but fortunately, there was a "general" in front of him, Duncan faced Mason, who was up to two meters tall, and his height advantage was obvious, and he could use his height and technical advantages to blow up this guy.

However, when Duncan's first attack was caught by Zhang Yu regardless of his identity, Popovich knew that there must be a pill today!

He knew that Zhang Yu would definitely frequently shrink to the inside to participate in the defense, but he didn't expect him to be so disregarding his identity and go to cover a rookie in the first defense? Don't they all say that the Chinese have a good face?

Zhang Yu said that the face he wants is not here, let alone find face through this way, just like he never pursues luxury, because he really doesn't need to use these things to show his wealth, who doesn't know that his father can earn a white-collar worker's salary for a whole month?

O'Neill will not defend certain people for the sake of face, or will not defend in a certain way, and he feels that doing so will lower his status.

But Zhang Wei won't care about this, he won't use this method to reflect his status, there is really no need for this.

Therefore, Duncan encountered Zhang Qi's bag as soon as he came up.

David Robinson, for his part, was in a tight battle with Mutombo, but after his athleticism declined, Robinson was clearly restrained by the elder Mutombo.

The Spurs' twin towers couldn't play the desired efficiency at all after the opening, especially Duncan's side was still a little tender, and he was a little scrambling after being caught in the bag.

On the other hand, the Lakers' offense was not affected by the defense of the twin towers, and the height and mobility of Robinson and Duncan should have made the Spurs' restricted area airtight, but the tacit understanding between the two was far from enough, and Kidd and Zhang continued to burst into the hinterland to pose a threat.

At 6 minutes and 49 seconds in the first quarter, Duncan was led out by Mason, Zhang Yu dribbled directly to the basket and broke through, and in the face of the general's defense, he still scored the ball with his strong body, and almost kicked the latter in the crotch. A minute later, this time Duncan was in the restricted area, Zhang Yu saw Duncan more energetic, and after breaking in, he was about to dunk in the face of the "flying devil......

"Damn, my nickname isn't for nothing!"

Duncan was already a bit of a top, and no one in college would dare to dunk him like that.

And today he is extremely depressed, and he can't always find a place to stand, either the place he wants to go is occupied by Robinson first, or the place where he stands blocks Robinson, and the two of them overlap many times.

It's the same this time, he passively came to make up for Zhang Fu, and subconsciously told him that this kind of ball can't be hit hard, and Robinson let go of Zhang Fu's dunk just now.

However, the fledgling Duncan couldn't bear to let the opponent do whatever he wanted, and he fouled the ball directly.

Therefore, Duncan is still too young, and Zhang Qi, who rushed up, didn't even dare to go to O'Neal to have a hard anus, but it wasn't that he couldn't stop it, but the pair of iron elbows and knees of this thing were very dishonest, and the referee would always turn a blind eye at this time, which was very fatal!

"Stupid, get out of the way!"

David Robinson was taken aback when he saw this, Zhang Fu's actions were tacitly approved by the league, just like kicking his crotch just now to force his defense, no matter how unhappy he is, he has to pinch his nose and admit it, after all, this is a business league, this is a means to protect superstars, and it is also to let the stars frequently stage wonderful dunks, so these stars will kick their elbows in order to protect themselves when dunking.

Zhang Qi belongs to the most excessive existence, but David Stern would rather let Zhang Qi abolish others with one kick than let him suffer a small injury, so this kind of ball that loses the opportunity, whoever dares to stop it is looking for death.

Duncan soon found that Zhang Qi seemed to be more like he was coming to foul, and the ball protector directly raised his iron elbow and smashed it into his face, completely against people and not on the ball, which TM has such a ball?

Before this thought fell, he received a heavy blow to his head, and suddenly his eyes were full of stars, and he felt the world spinning, and he sat on the floor with his buttocks, unable to stand up for a long time.

Zhang Zhu's side is another set of pictures, this buckle he almost rode on Duncan, a force split Huashan-like tomahawk-style violent buckle, and directly split (elbow) the new champion Lang fly!

As for his ball protector, of course, it is mainly based on protective actions, and there is never a specific standard for judging anyway, so the referee will not award a foul at all.

What, you said that Zhang Qiu's iron elbow hit Duncan in the eye?

I'm sorry, who told you to block the foul first, it's the same as being hit by a red light on the road, and the driver is not responsible.

Spurs fans naturally stopped doing it, they felt that Duncan's defense was very timely, this ball was obviously a reasonable collision, but Zhang Mao's horizontal elbow was definitely not reasonable, this TM did not judge a foul, it was definitely a naked black whistle!

However, the referee instead awarded Duncan a blocking foul, and the ball was a two-plus-one!

"Wocao, it's too dark!"

Spurs fans have spit out a mouthful of old blood, is it okay to play like this?

I'm sorry, that's how the NBA game is played, and if you have the ability, you can become a superstar, become the first person in the league, and then you can play like that.

Poor Duncan, after receiving the blow, was treated off the court until the end of the first quarter.

But even if Zhang Qi stopped at the last moment, otherwise your eyebrows will fly to your elbows, and you still want to play again?

However, the person recovered, but the soul was elbowed, Duncan couldn't recover from the entire first half, and once the defense almost collided with David Robinson, which shows that the Spurs' twin tower tactics still need to be run in for a long time to form a real combat effectiveness.

At the end of the first half, Duncan only had 4 points and 3 rebounds, and the Spurs also fell behind 43-57.

Many people are disappointed, it seems that the San Antonios can't stop the brutal Lakers, their twin tower tactics are not even officially divided between primary and secondary now, even if Mr. "Admiral" is easy to speak, it will not be so easy to abdicate and give way, Duncan has to use a convincing performance to get on the throne, and there must be enough stability.