522. Asking for troubles

73 wins, the first win rate in history, the Lakers fans on the scene were like the New Year, Kupchak, who was already basically bald, rushed into the court like a big child, and the streamers and champagne that had been prepared were brought up in one go, and everyone followed to celebrate, as if they had won the championship. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

Of course, this is indeed something to celebrate, and Liu Ren was directly poured a barrel of champagne on his head......

However, Liu Ren's eyes have been on Lillard, who has left in disgrace with fellow players on the visiting team.

It is true that the Lakers have won all four meetings with the Trail Blazers this year, and there is not much suspense, but if it is Liu Ren VS Lillard and Aldridge, Liu Ren basically lost all four times, but when the Lakers' record was not so good last season, Liu Ren won against the two.

At that time, Kobe Bryant had not yet returned, and the young players of the Lakers team did not have the confidence to be a strong man.

At this time, Liu Ren suddenly missed the feeling of leading the team last season.

Kobe Bryant, who was celebrating with his teammates, saw Liu Ren's expression, he has been in the NBA for 19 years, how could he not know what Liu Ren was thinking? It's exactly the same idea as when he was paired with O'Neill!

Kobe Bryant knows Liu Ren's thoughts very well, and he doesn't think it's a bad thing for Liu Ren to think like that, but it's definitely not a good thing.

Kobe Bryant wanted to go it alone back then, and then he got the opportunity to go it alone, but the result was obvious, he didn't make the playoffs for a year, and he was swept out of the first round two years, so that Kobe finally realized how happy it was to have a teammate like O'Neal.

Regret?

Of course, Kobe Bryant will not regret it, otherwise he would not be Kobe, and he would not have survived the rise of Bynum and the arrival of Gasol.

Regarding Liu Ren's current state, Kobe Bryant did not enlighten him or anything, but let it go.

Liu Ren grew up watching Lakers games, can he not understand what Kobe Bryant has experienced? Can't imagine the change in Kobe's thinking over the years?

But that's someone else's business, not Liu Ren's own personal experience.

Kobe Bryant knows that only if Liu Ren himself experiences more things in the future, he will grow up by himself, and the most important thing now is the championship!

Liu Ren is still young, and his future career is still long, although the Lakers now have such a good lineup, but Kobe Bryant knows that one day such a lineup will not be maintained, Green and Whiteside are okay, neither of them is the main scorer, and Liu Ren's long-term partnership is not a big problem, but Antetokounmpo and LaVine are obviously not things in the pool, even if the management deliberately guides them to develop into organizational players.

But the Lakers already have a better playmaker, that is, Green, and LaVine's scoring talent is even more obvious, and there will definitely be clashes in the future.

When these people leave one by one, Kobe Bryant believes that Liu Ren will slowly understand the value of having these teammates now.

After leading the Cavaliers for seven years in solitude, James had never had a true All-Star-level teammate, and he had a particularly deep understanding of this value, so he risked the world to bring his talent to the Heat.

Kobe Bryant is noncommittal on this, but it definitely takes courage, because it is clear that he will face the encirclement and suppression of the entire league and the criticism of public opinion.

In fact, it was also in those years that James was too sad in the Cavaliers, and as soon as James left, the Cavaliers immediately knew how miserable it was to sign three champions in four years, which can be described as miserable, that is to say, James won two regular season championships with a group of players who could only play the league's penultimate record.

Liu Ren was envious of James's high-spirited solitary league back then, and he was envious of Lillard and Aldridge for having the opportunity to challenge the strongest team alone, but Lillard and Aldridge were even more envious of Liu Ren.

Kobe Bryant knows that the Lakers will always have a low day, and at that time, Liu Ren will have to face it himself, even if it is the Lakers, it is impossible to be at the peak forever, there will always be a trough.

But that's all Liu Ren's own business, and Kobe Bryant continues to celebrate with his teammates.

Kobe Bryant immediately put Liu Ren's matter behind him, and saw the fans' excitement as if celebrating the championship and the New Year, Kobe Bryant was also excited: "See Michael Jordan!" I've broken another record of yours! ”

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Get 73 wins, the mission is accomplished!

D'Antoni can finally start his rotation!

This year's Lakers rotation is actually rare in the entire history of the NBA.

Generally speaking, as long as it is not the main force of the iron fight, it is rare to play 70 games in a season, and the team that focuses on team offense is even more so, such as the Spurs, Hawks, and Raptors, the three Spurs teams, including the starters, often have times when they can't play, Duncan and Leonard have only played 65 games this year, even if the attendance rate of the remaining two games has just reached the number of appearances of the competitive MVP and the best defensive player, and the bench is like Ginobili this year, no injuries, But he's a substitute, so sometimes he doesn't get a chance to play, and he's only played more than 60 games so far, and that's just an example.

And the Lakers' second team basically played every game as long as they didn't get injured.

It's actually a big drain on physical reserves.

Of course, there are other teams with a lot of appearances in the second team, but these teams often have a lot of injuries in the main team, or the main team is too old, so the main team often rests, and the second team plays a lot of time.

But there is no team like the Lakers that has almost full attendance and a second team that is basically full attendance.

In addition to Kobe and Gasol, as well as the daily water cooler caretaker LaVine, Thackeray, Henry and the man in the suit Nash, and Clarkson, who only played in the middle of the season, the other eight Lakers have played more than 75 games this season, including Gasol and Clarkson have both played more than 70 games.

Whiteside, Antetokounmpo, and McCollum are all in attendance for the previous 80 games!

In addition to playing the 76ers once and resting once, Liu Ren also played 79 games.

No championship team has so many players playing more than 70 games, and the Heat and Lakers, who have won two consecutive championships, have only five or six, and the main players are usually rested in turn.

Thanks to D'Antoni, he has made a lot of preparations for the allotted playing time for each player, trying to make the players less tired in each game, otherwise the fitness will not be able to keep up.

However, the allocation of players' playing time and the need to maintain the team's strong fighting power to strive for the first record in history, D'Antoni has lost more hair in recent months than in previous decades.

Finally, now D'Antoni can directly rest the main team and let the role players go and play casually.

In the last two games, D'Antoni used it as a training game for veteran Nash to practice and find his senses, sending Nash, Henry, Nick Young, Antetokounmpo, and Thackeray starters to compete with the Kings, and there were only McCollum, Korver, and LaVine on the bench, and the others were not included in the activation list.

The strongest player on the Kings team is, of course, Cousins, who has always seemed to be angry, Thackeray is naturally no match for him, and he is blown up to the ground, Thackeray can't defend against it, and the tricks that the interior line is good at relying on weight and feel are also completely suppressed in front of the stronger Cousins.

If he is comfortable, Cousins will play hard, kill on the inside, get 47 points and 22 rebounds with 40+20 data, and lead the Kings to win the first game of the back-to-back.

However, in the second game, the Lakers changed their strategy, and they played directly at the beginning, and Nash and Antetokounmpo deployed the offense, and suddenly beat the Kings who had neither offensive or defensive systems, but the Lakers' fast-paced play Cousins really couldn't keep up, and he only knew that he lost his temper and didn't know how to play well when he didn't know that playing well was the biggest obstacle to him becoming the league's No. 1 center.

The Lakers' water cooler lineup went 1-1 in the final two games, and the final record was fixed at 74-8, improving the all-time best record by two wins!

The regular season curtain call of each team has gradually come to an end, and the regular season standings have also settled.

This side of the west.

The Lakers with 74 wins and the Warriors with 62 wins lead the league, ranking first and second in the West, respectively, while the Trail Blazers take advantage of the first place in the division to take advantage of the third place in the West with 54.

The Spurs and Rockets also have a winner in the race for fourth place in the West, with the Spurs coming from behind and ranking fourth in the West with a 53-win record, while the Rockets are at a disadvantage of 1-3 in four meetings with the Spurs and can only be ranked sixth.

The unluckiest thing was the Clippers, who were 59-23 and could only finish fifth.

The seventh and eighth are both teams from the Southwest Division, with the Grizzlies at 51 wins and the Pelicans at 50 wins, respectively.

There are four teams in the Southwest Division this year, which can be said to justify their name as the Devil Division, and the 47-win Mavericks, who are ranked ninth, are also teams in the Southwest Division......

The Hawks are in first place in the East with 60 wins, the Knicks are second with 59 wins, the Cavaliers are third with 56 wins, the Raptors are fourth with 55 wins, their pick-and-roll is fifth with 50 wins, the Celtics are sixth with 48 wins, the Nets are seventh with 40 wins, and the Bulls are eighth with 39 wins.

This is the first time the Pelicans have entered the playoffs since losing Paul, but they will face the Lakers, who have the best regular season record in history, Anthony Davis collapsed on the couch when the Grizzlies' final win over the Jazz won their 51st game......

The second-place Warriors also have a headache as they face the famously playoffs grizzlies, and the entire series is a tough one.

The saddest thing is the Rockets, who would rather play the Clippers with a better record than play the playoffs with the Trail Blazers.

The Clippers have a much better record than the Trail Blazers, but they are even more unlucky to meet the defending champion Spurs in the first round.

Although the Spurs fell out of the top eight in the first half of the season because of too many games played in the previous two years, they then climbed to fourth place in the West at the last moment, and everyone in the Clippers felt that they had an unclear relationship with the dog......

The eastern side is even more dire than the western side, but there is no suspense that there is a Laker fighting the Pelicans on the western side, but the eastern side is very brutal.

Although the Bulls' record is a little worse, they are famous playoff hardbones in recent years, and it is not so easy for the Hawks to win the series easily, and the same city derby between the Knicks and the Nets believes that the Nets will not easily admit defeat.

Cavaliers fight Celtics...... It's as if people are back to feeling like they were five years ago.

The Wizards and Raptors are even more evenly matched, and the other three series in the East can still predict the outcome of the game, but the Wizards and Raptors dare not say who will win except for their respective fans.

The Cavaliers are bitter, and fans can see that the Celtics in the first round, the Knicks in the second round, and the Hawks in the third round, the three strongest opponents in the East.

The Knicks are also bitter in their hearts, the Nets look like they are going to die when they play anyone, and they only lie down in the playoffs because the East is too bad, but they only need to play the Knicks and the Clippers to get mad.

And then even if they make it to the second round, they have to meet James, and the Knicks players haven't thought about what will happen after the game against the Cavaliers for the time being.

The West side is relatively better, the Lakers have an easy first round, sit and watch the Spurs and Clippers fight to the death, and wait for work in the second round, and at the same time watch the winner between the Warriors, the Rockets, and the Trail Blazers.

Of course, it's only relative, because whether it's the Clippers or the Spurs or the Warriors, it's not easy to deal with.

The Warriors, on the other hand, have to fight the Grizzlies first, and then the Rockets or the Trail Blazers......

Overall, the Lakers are much luckier than other championship contenders.

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When Liu Ren saw the situation of this playoff matchup, he slightly suppressed some of the worries in his heart.

His concern is that with such a good regular season record, he will definitely become the target of public criticism in the playoffs.

It's good to be at the top of the regular season all-time, but the pressure that comes with it is also great.

When he was still playing, his attention was on the game, and Liu Ren didn't feel too much, but in these two truces, the pressure of not winning the championship would become the object of ridicule appeared in Liu Ren's heart.

Liu Ren is the kind of person who will write what he thinks on his face, although he can't say that he is unhappy, but he still becomes a stuffy gourd at home, and after the regular season, the Lakers have a day off, and Liu Ren is bored at home and thinks about everything.

Little Lori came home after school today, she knew that Liu Ren was resting today, so she came back happily and asked Liu Ren to take her to play with her, but as soon as she came back, she saw Liu Ren sitting on the sofa like a stuffy gourd.

"Uncle~" Little Lori took off her slippers and jumped into Liu Ren's arms, and said cutely: "What's wrong, isn't my uncle happy?" Didn't you just win the championship? Why are you still unhappy? ”

In the past two days, Xiao Lori has often heard that Xiao Niu and Monica are discussing who and who can renew their contract next season because the Lakers won the regular season championship, so I think Liu Ren should be very happy.

Liu Ren was so depressed that he panicked, and when he saw such a cute little Lori like a doll, his heart instantly felt relieved.

Liu Ren hugged the little Lori.

"Uncle is a big bad guy, and he eats Betty tofu again!" Little Lori obviously enjoyed it, and said not to ......

"Betty, my uncle isn't unhappy when he wins the regular season championship, by the way, it's just the regular season championship, and it's too early to win the real championship. Forget it, you don't understand this, it's a pressure to win this regular season championship, the first regular season champion in history, if you don't win the final championship, it will really make people laugh out of their big teeth...... "Liu Ren is now under unprecedented pressure, thinking of playing the playoffs without pressure last year, and being praised by fans for hitting the Western Conference finals, the difference is too big from now!

Now fans are talking about how the Lakers are going to win the championship, and even say that they are going to win the playoffs.

Don't look at the fans' public opinion now that they are holding the Lakers, but Liu Ren knows that once there is an accident, it is these people who step on them the most.

"The regular season? That's right! Betty remembers, and the playoffs! But uncle, don't you just win! Why are you worried so much, anyway, uncle, you and our Lakers are so powerful. Little Lori said nonchalantly, in his opinion, his uncle was the most powerful.

"That's right! If you win, you can't do it! Liu Ren suddenly brightened up, and suddenly smiled bitterly: "I am such a big person, and I haven't thought about it as a child, and I am worried that I will lose, and this kind of thing is obviously asking for trouble, if I really want to lose, it's not like that, it's better to go all out to win, like those miscellaneous things are to increase the burden on yourself." ”

"Betty is amazing, what a clever little doll, come and let my uncle kiss one."

"What is a doll? Yes! Uncle Big Badass, Pro-Betty's Cute Face! ”

"What's the matter, don't let your uncle kiss? Well, then I won't kiss after that. ”

"Don't! Betty wants her uncle. ”

"And what's your name?"

"Hmm...... That one...... Betty asked her uncle to kiss her again......" said Little Lori took the initiative to put her face up.

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