There was a timeout at halftime, and the atmosphere in the Lakers' locker room was low.

Ball pulled up his jersey over his head and lay on his back in his chair, not knowing what he was thinking.

Kuzma didn't get even half a minute of playing time in the first half and was swiping his phone at the moment, looking impatient.

After Wharton finished talking about the arrangement of the second half, he didn't know what to say, and paced back and forth with his waist crossed, as if he wanted to find a way to contain Zhang Feng and defeat the king.

Only Zubac was excited, because the Lakers cut Botutt a few days ago, so he has a chance to play, and today's game is very important for him.

But Wharton has no intention of letting him play after the opening, even if Lopes is off, it is Randle who is the top center.

Fortunately, at halftime, the score gap between the two teams widened, and he had a chance to get playing time in garbage time.

Just when the Lakers players were at a loss, the door to the locker room was pushed open, and when they looked closely, they found that it was Magic Johnson and general manager Pelinka.

Generally speaking, Magic rarely enters the players' locker room, after all, this place is controlled by Wharton and the team leader, but now there are no enough leaders in the team, neither Ball nor Ingram are enough to be called leaders, and Wharton has just experienced Laval Ball's remarks, and there is no suitable person to step up and lead the team.

It just so happened that the Lakers were in a slump in this game, and it was the best time to go to the locker room at this time.

As soon as the Magic came, the Lakers players all stood up to salute. After a brief greeting, the magician motioned for everyone to assemble, apparently to speak.

"Just now, I saw a reporter's interview with the head coach of the Kings, Zhang Feng, and they announced in a high-profile manner that times have changed, threatening that the Lakers are no longer majestic, and they will use a big win tonight to tell the world that they are better than the Lakers."

After the magician finished speaking, he stopped to watch the reactions of the crowd, he expected the expressions of the people to be angry, impulsive, and want to fight desperately, but unfortunately he couldn't see it, only saw the Lakers players with different dark colors, some indifferent, some indifferent, and some lowered their heads to avoid his eyes.

Very disappointed, but the speech has to go on, since the small stimulus is not successful, let's have some big fire.

"It should be worth noting that the Kings players said before the game that they would kill every position on our court, Zhang Feng said that he could easily lock Ball, Justin said that he could defend Ingram alone, and even Randolph felt that he could block Lopez and Willy with one enemy and two enemies, you tell me loudly, can this be endured?"

At the end of this paragraph, the Magic deliberately interacted with the Lakers players, as long as the Lakers players spoke, the atmosphere in the locker room would rise, and as long as the atmosphere was up, everything would be easy to say.

Unfortunately, it backfired, and the Magic's speech still failed to get a reaction from the Lakers players, but fortunately, Wharton quickly noticed this and shouted before the air condensed:

"Can't bear it, can't bear it, can't bear it".

When a group of people get together, the most fearful thing may not be that the air is suddenly quiet, but that someone starts and no one answers, which is much more terrible than an abrupt end to the conversation.

Pelinka really couldn't stand it, and asked directly at Bauer: "Bauer, can you stand Zhang Feng's provocation against you?" ”。

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone immediately turned their eyes to look at Ball, and the Magic's eyes were full of expectation, as long as Ball replied that he couldn't bear it, he would treat Ball as the future core player of the Lakers from now on.

But after all, Ball is a calm ghost picked up by the Lakers, and he replied, but his voice was ordinary and flat, and he had no impact on everyone's emotions.

The magician shook his head in disappointment, and Kuzma watched the action.

"It is absolutely unbearable, and everyone must prove themselves by giving a tough response. Who are we? We're players of the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers, and the floor under our feet used to carry Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, to carry Chamberlain, to carry Jerry West, to carry Kobe, to carry the Magic, so let's unite and take it together, tell them, tell the fans, tell the world – Lakers championship."

Kuzma's impassioned speech finally set the mood in the air, and everyone in the room applauded fiercely, and the magician nodded at Kuzma with satisfaction, as if to say, 'Teachable'.

"Kuzma said well, we've won 16 championships and we have 12 Hall of Famers. Look at the wall of jerseys hanging high in the arena, I did it, Kobe Bryant did it, believe me, you did it too."

Seeing the excitement of the crowd, the Magic once again poured chicken soup into the players from the Lakers' historical achievements, hoping to use their sense of identity to enhance the fighting spirit of the Lakers players in the locker room.

"Gentlemen, what are you waiting for? Let's make a new history together! Pelinka offered with an applaud.

"Make history! Make history! Make history! Kuzma raised his arms and shouted, and the players joined in the cheers, and the atmosphere in the locker room reached its climax, and the magician looked at him with appreciation.

In the visiting locker room, Zhang Feng was listening to music with headphones, Justin was discussing with Willy how to better defend Ingram in the second half, and Mason read the jokes to the other Kings players while scrolling through the jokes on Twitter.

"After winning this game, we had a winning streak of 19 games, but it seemed like it was too easy to win, as if our coaching staff didn't do much," assistant coach Brown smiled at David.

"Haha, Randolph and Carter played extraordinarily, played far better than their age, and earned it. The rookies have also grown rapidly under the leadership of Zhang Feng, Bogdan is already very strong, and it is even more powerful to meet Zhang Feng, which is an unexpected surprise. Our coaching staff really didn't do much," David said with a happy expression.

"Zhang Feng is really a basketball genius, our king has picked up a treasure," Brown couldn't help but praise.

"The schedule is halfway through, we are 35-5, as long as it continues, Zhang Feng is very likely to win the MVP of the rookie season, the second half of the season is very demanding on the physical strength of the players, we must make adjustments, it doesn't matter if we can't contribute, but we can't drag our feet" David said firmly.

"Well, there is one more thing, the results of Giles's physical examination have come out, and the team doctor said that he can play, do you think we should let him train directly with the team, or put him in Leilo bighorn sheep to practice first?" Brown asked.

"I forgot about it if you don't say it, after he comes back, the team rotation will have to be adjusted, and it seems that the time to test us has really come" David said in a slightly worried tone.

Giles was originally the No. 1 high school student in the United States in 16 years, and his explosive physical fitness and good interior offensive skills made NBA scouts very optimistic, and even after entering Duke, he was directly awarded the No. 1 jersey, but unfortunately two consecutive leg surgeries made many teams dare not use the high pick to select him.

But those teams don't include King Chang, who traded down for the No. 10 pick this summer in exchange for the No. 15 and No. 22 picks, and used those two picks to select Justin Jackson and Giles.

There is nothing to say about the choice of Justin, the king lacks a striker, but the choice of Giles is completely a treasure, if Giles recovers smoothly, then the king will earn blood, if Giles will continue to be a glass man for several years, then the king will lose blood.

But luck is so wonderful, Giles's key injury was seen by Zhang Feng, the team doctors have not been able to find the root of Giles's injury, Zhang Feng pointed it out, the team doctors quickly specified a surgical plan for Giles. After the surgery, Giles also recovered faster and better than expected.

Giles is back now and will definitely give him some playing time, but then the original rotation will be broken, which will be a big test for the Kings coaching staff.

Why is it a big test? Take the Cavaliers and Hornets that the Kings played before, after Tristan Thompson's comeback this season, it directly led to an imbalance in the Cavaliers' rotation, and the final result was a wave of consecutive losses. And the Hornets are even worse, the 15-year season playoff Batum returned, which directly caused the Hornets to lose the playoffs.

"Actually, from another point of view, it's a good thing, as long as Giles performs up to our expectations, then our interior strength will be strengthened again, and then we will be more invincible," Brown laughed.

"That's good, but the matter in front of us must also be solved, let's win 19 consecutive victories first!" As the halftime timeout drew to an end, David shouted at the Kings players, "Boys, let's make history together!" ”

David shouted passionately, but Zhang Feng was still listening to the song, Mason stopped telling jokes, but he still couldn't understand what David meant by suddenly coming to such a voice.

"What does the coach do? What history is being made? Mason asked, confused.

"Eh, nothing, nothing, I won my treat tonight", it turned out that the team members didn't care too much, and David fell into a 'self-deprecation', so he could only change the topic stupidly.

"Yes, in the past, Zhang Feng invited him, but today's coach invited him for the first time, witnessing history!" Mason quipped.

At the end of the timeout, the players of both teams returned to the court, and the Lakers launched their first offense.

Zhang Feng looked at it, the Lakers changed the lineup, Pope, who performed well in the first half, did not play, and the Lakers' scoring guard at this time was Kuzma. From a distance, Kuzma's face was full of excitement, and the force of the slap was particularly strong, as if he wanted to smash the floor.

It was Bogdan who defended Kuzma, who failed to match Kuzma in the first half, and Bogdan was still a little disappointed, because some time ago, Kuzma performed very well, and he got good data on the court one after another, and he had a relationship with Kobe Bryant off the court, faintly having the taste of the future leader of the Lakers,

However, Kuzma has struggled lately, with his offensive three-board axe quickly spotted by various teams, causing his scoring average to drop rapidly, while defensively, Walton had to put him off the bench as his weaknesses were magnified due to his playing time.

Unexpectedly, Kuzma came on the field again in the second half, and the first attack was Kuzma, Bogdan was overjoyed, and he very much wanted to know how good the evolved Kuzma was.

I saw Kuzma bending down and shooting the ball in a small amount continuously, and at the same time kept shaking his shoulders, such an action was obviously intended to break through in one step, Bogdan and Zhang Feng were in line with each other many times in the team's training, Zhang Feng often used such actions to break through, and Kuzma used it at this time, and Bogdan saw through it at a glance.

Zhang Feng once told Bogdan that if he wants to prevent this kind of one-step breakthrough, he can only turn sideways, block one side and put one side, and he cannot be passive, and he must hold the choice in his own hands.

Thinking of this, Bogdan immediately turned to the left to leave the right side, and he raised his left hand and smiled at Kuzma, as if to say, "You can only go to the right, there is no way on the left."

Kuzma just told his teammates in the locker room that he couldn't bear it, but he didn't expect to be provoked as soon as he came back, but Coach Wharton deliberately brought himself up from the bench, and it was reasonable that this attack must be played and played very beautifully.

There's nothing more beautiful than a one-step break from the outside to the inside and then a dunk, and now that the Kings defenders are perfect, it's time to break him down.

Kuzma, who had a word in his heart, lowered his left button and raised his right shoulder, and at the same time kicked his left foot violently, and rushed directly to the right, he was very fast, and he was wearing a yellow jersey, as if the fans saw a lightning rush towards the King's inside.

It's just handsome! Immediately cheers rang out from the Staples Arena, "Dunk, dunk ......"

Before the fans shouted all three times, the basketball had already changed direction and rolled towards the backcourt, and when they looked closely, a blue figure had already rushed towards the basketball, and compared to the yellow lightning just now, the speed of this blue figure was at least twice as fast.

"Zhang Feng's sprint speed is faster than before, and there is a chance for him to do a test, maybe the data such as bounce has also improved, and we can specify some new tactics based on these data," David Chong Brown explained.

"I made a note of it. Anyway, these Lakers players are working hard, and they don't seem to want to lose," Brown said with a sense of playfulness.

"Maybe I was poured some chicken soup again, but it's useless, Zhang Feng is too hanging", David didn't answer, but Mason, who was sitting next to him, rushed to answer.

It is not a good behavior to speculate on the opponent during the match, and David quickly stopped the two from continuing to talk.

"Wait a minute, we've won nine out of ten in this game, and the Lakers can't afford to make waves."

"Haha, okay, I'll beat them up", suddenly being substituted, Mason was overjoyed.

The game played another 5 minutes before entering the official timeout, and the imposing Kuzma made 8 consecutive shots, but only hit 2 balls, plus the Kings scored consecutive points under the leadership of Zhang Feng, and the difference between the two teams reached 16 points.

Is it really another big defeat? The hearts of the Lakers fans at the scene hung on their chests, the Magic in the VIP stands was at a loss, and Pelinka left early.

After the timeout, the Kings sent Mason, Buddy, and Papa as the main substitute lineup, led by Hill, and Zhang Feng went directly to the rest.

After three quarters, the difference between the two teams could not be narrowed. In the fourth quarter of the game, the Kings still substituted the lineup, and the Lakers still failed to catch up with the score, and after entering the first official timeout in the fourth quarter, the home fans began to leave the court early in order not to read it.

In the end, the Kings easily defeated the Lakers 99-86, winning 19 consecutive games to set a new team record.