Chapter 166: The Second War in the West

Zhang Fu, who wanted to learn a foreign language, led the Lakers to a narrow victory over the Vancouver Grizzlies in overtime two days later. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

Vancouver has always had the reputation of Northern Hollywood, but the Grizzlies at this time can be called the best team in the NBA.

This is a city dominated by Chinese Americans, and although Vancouver was not yet Chinese in the 90s, Chinese Americans in Vancouver's West End have begun to show signs of reducing whites to a minority.

Before the draft, Zhang actually wanted to be drafted by the Vancouver Grizzlies the most, because most of the city's wealthy class are Chinese, so it is difficult to see too much racial discrimination here, and Zhang Zhu certainly wants to play here.

Unfortunately, it backfired, and he ended up in Los Angeles, but Vancouver is still his home stadium, and whenever he comes to play, eighty percent of the fans in the stadium will wear his jersey, which makes Zhang Mao inevitably want to perform in front of his compatriots.

But excessive individual performance often means ignoring the whole, coupled with the lessons of the previous few games that ended the battle prematurely, not only Zhang Mao today, but also many of his Lakers players also over-released water in the first three quarters.

This has taken a toll on the self-esteem of the Grizzlies players, and sometimes it's not scary to be beaten by someone because it's not as good as a human being.

But just like today, being played back and forth like a rookie, coupled with the backlash of the home fans, the Grizzlies players on the court turned all the negative emotions into positive energy, and the Lakers were almost overturned by the concerted Grizzlies in regular time.

Zhang Mao, as an experienced veteran driver, is naturally very faceless in this situation, and the savior who dragged the game into overtime was not him, but the team's old cornerstone "Magic" Johnson.

If it weren't for the Magic's last-minute five-point score, plus the game-equalizing goal in the last five seconds, the Lakers would not have dragged the game into overtime, and it would have overturned at the moment.

'Leon, I know you're the protagonist here, but you should put the team first, that's the work ethic you should have.

The Magic is very dissatisfied with Zhang Fu's performance today, in fact, after the All-Star, he has rarely criticized Zhang Qi anymore.

But as the playoffs approached, the Magic harshly criticized Zhang for putting himself in front of the team.

At this time, he couldn't let Zhang Fu swell too much, this was the responsibility that he, the old core, had to fulfill.

Zhang Qian is certainly a genius, but he is too young, and some mistakes must be pointed out to him, otherwise it will hurt him.

"Koala Baby" has a slightly ugly face, he did not take the initiative to admit his mistakes as before, which is the inevitable result of his elevation - now he will never and cannot put himself too low in front of these seniors.

The first is that he can't let go of himself, and the second is that the spokespersons behind him will not allow him to lower anyone's head, and in the end, even his fans can no longer accept that someone can still overwhelm Zhang Qi, not even the magician.

The magician didn't say more, Zhang Zhu is now a "wrist", if it weren't for his seniority being old enough, no one would really be able to criticize the current Zhang Zhu, even he couldn't say too much, he had to leave face and steps for Zhang Zhu.

When the Lakers players saw the conversation between their old and new cores, of course, they pretended not to hear anything.

In this kind of scene, they can only act as if they haven't heard anything, and they can't offend any of these two masters.

Van Exel's heart was naturally dark, but he also didn't dare to fall into the well at such a time, and he didn't even have the qualifications to talk.

At this time, he had completely succumbed to Zhang Mao.

Zhang Qi used his ability to make everyone have to bow down to him, and only the magician was now qualified to sit with him and give some reminders at the right time.

Our koala baby has been looking ugly after being criticized.

But he didn't say anything to contradict the Magic, which is what separates him from most players, and he can recognize his mistakes.

But being able to admit his mistakes in his heart does not mean that he will bow his head to anyone on the surface.

Even if he did make a mistake, he wouldn't admit it now.

However, he will make up for his mistakes with actions, which is where he is more mature than other young players, and to put it bluntly, he is a bit arrogant.

So in overtime, Zhang Fu no longer had excessive individual performances, he put the team and the victory in the first place, and put the team in the first place.

One statistic can show the difference between his two different modes - in the regular game, Zhang Fu scored 39 points, 6 rebounds and 3 assists, which shows that he obviously puts his personal performance first, which is also where Magic criticizes him; But in overtime, Zhang contributed four assists in just five minutes, which was higher than his assist tally in the first four quarters.

Although the Grizzlies are united, the gap in hard power between the two sides is too big, and as long as Zhang Qi does not make waves, it will be difficult for them to overturn the Lakers.

In the end, the Lakers got through the danger on the road, and Zhang Qi contributed 41 points, 8 rebounds and 7 assists in the whole game, which was another superstar statistic, and he naturally won the best of the game after the game.

"It's good that I have a magician."

Zhang Yu himself knows that the magician has made him turn on the wrong path in time many times, and his current achievements have a lot to do with the magician's guidance.

However, he will not express these emotions now, and this gratitude will be kept in his heart.

The 1995-1996 playoffs began on April 25, and the Lakers still had nine games to play after beating the Grizzlies.

This schedule is very unfriendly for the Lakers, and if you get injured at the end of the regular season, it means that you will miss the playoffs, which is much more tragic than getting injured early in the season.

Harris also knows that the final nine games will not be easy to play, and that a lot of rotation is a must, and while it is important to surpass the Spurs, the health of the players is even more important at times like these.

Coincidentally, the Lakers will play the Spurs at home on April 7, and then in the penultimate game of the regular season, they will go to the road to play the Spurs again.

This season, they will meet four times, and the last two meetings are likely to determine the second and third places in the West.

"David Robinson is really bad!"

As soon as the Knicks encountered the Spurs, the most tricky thing was David Robinson, and this guy was not an ordinary tricky, the kind of tricky that was close to helplessness.

David Robinson only entered the NBA at the age of 24, which is a relatively late player to the NBA, but he is almost at the peak of his life as soon as he enters the league.

This season, the "general" has not declined, averaging 25 points, 12 rebounds, 3 assists and 3 blocks per game, this data is really no worse than O'Neal, and the Spurs' record is not picked, so O'Neal may not be ranked in front of the "general" this season.

If you calculate it comprehensively according to the team's record, personal performance and seniority this season, Olajuwon is still the first of the four centers, after all, Da Meng's personal data has not declined, and he still has two consecutive championships, and the other three can't compare.

But it should be David Robinson who is closely followed, although the Spurs' record is similar to that of the Magic, and the data of the two are almost the same, but the seniority of the "general" is old, so O'Neal does not surpass Robinson in both personal performance and team record, and he can only rank third.

As for Ewing, he will have to retreat to fourth place, and the Gorilla's stats and team record are a little bit different from the other three, and he can only sit with him this year.

The Lakers are really not very scared of O'Neal, although this fat man has dominance in the restricted area, but the range is limited after all, and the style of play is relatively simple, especially on the defensive end, there are many flaws, the Lakers have some ways to reduce his damage, or use strong offensive ability to force off the magic.

But for Olajuwon and David Robinson, who can attack and defend, and have a variety of offensive methods, the Lakers have never had many options.

Every time they face these two people, their inner line can only be blown up, and their own internal attack will also be blocked by these two people, even if they come hard, they may not be able to bombard each other.

"It's really hard, how nice it would be to have a Mutombo at this time."

Zhang Zhu is a little dissatisfied with the Lakers' failure to trade Mutombo this season, if they have an "African mountain" to guard the interior, at least they can limit the interior lethality of the Rockets and Spurs, and then compare with the opponent who has higher offensive power, the Lakers' chances of winning are obviously a lot more.

But he didn't know that the Spurs were no more afraid of him now than the Lakers were afraid of Robinson.

Only two of the active players have scored 70+ points.

These two people are David Robinson and Zhang Fu, how could the Spurs not be worried about Zhang Fu.

"It's hard......!"

Spurs head coach Bob Hill is also at a loss as to how to defend Zhang, and if this team is really Zhang's one-man team, the Spurs won't be so distressed.

But the problem is that the Lakers are not Zhang Mao's one-man team, although many media are reporting this, but their coaches have come to the conclusion that a Laker is not Zhang Zhu's one-man team from the increasing efficiency of the Magic and the performance of the Lakers' role players who can always stand up when needed, so they can't concentrate all their forces on Zhang Mao.

The Magic team did this not long ago, when the frenzied Orlandos didn't know what was going crazy and actually used a three-man bag to deal with Zhang Qi.

In Bob Hill's eyes, this is purely the embodiment of Shi Lezhi, Zhang Juke is an existence with an average of nearly 7 assists per game, and it will definitely be dead to play like this.

But even with two players to cover him, the Magic side will definitely have a lot of room to play, and if Van Exel and Cebaros are in good form, or even Finley and Healy are in form, the Spurs will have to drink a pot for their own bag.

That's why he is so entangled, and even he thinks that the Lakers' overall combat power is much stronger than that of the Spurs, because on their side, except for David Robinson, only Elliott is reliable, "Little General" Avery Johnson has no three-point shot and strong scoring ability, and the main scoring guard De Nagro is not reliable in high-intensity defense.

It can be said that in this direct dialogue, neither of these two teams was sure to kill the opponent before the game, nor did they have a reliable plan to limit the opponent's core, but they have one thing in common, that is, they are both panicked and do not want to lose this important game......