77. Who is afraid of whom!
If there's one thing the Lakers fear most right now, it's injuries. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
What are you afraid of, this kind of thing is the current situation of the Lakers, on December 7, the Lakers, who had lost Green, won the game in the away game against the Kings in Sacramento next door, although they won the game, but Gasol was injured again!
Gasol sprained badly with his left foot on Kings power forward Jason Thompson in the confrontation.
Although the Lakers narrowly defeated the Kings 106-100 in the end, the gains outweighed the losses, and all of a sudden the Lakers only had Whiteside, Antetokounmpo, and Thackeray left!
This is just the beginning of the Lakers' injury curse, and the Lakers who returned home on the 9th suffered a torn cruciate ligament in the left knee of Harden Henry in the game against the Raptors.
In back-to-back home games against the Suns on the 10th, Famar suffered a shoulder injury.
Although the Lakers won both games in the end, the team's injury toll reached 6!
In just 4 days, the Lakers have gone from the team with the deepest roster in the league to a cursed team full of injuries!
The next Lakers' opponent is the Thunder! But there were only 8 of them left!
D'Antoni's face was about to be sad.
"It's not so weak, it's really a husky!" Liu Ren looked at the team lineup list, and the corners of his mouth twitched, as if the team led by D'Antoni was constantly injured except for the Suns, who had a miracle doctor.
When D'Antoni coached the Knicks, he was injured from Anthony to Chandler and Felton, from the front court to the backcourt, and he made Lin crazy.
The same was true last season, except for Kobe Bryant who survived to the end and Howard who protected him well, the rest of the Lakers experienced more or less a large number of injuries that allowed Clark and Liu Ren to play at a high price.
This season, the Lakers couldn't play because of two injuries, Kobe Bryant and Nash, and only 12 people played.
Among them, Marshall and Thackeray belong to the mascots and rarely play, that is, 10 people rotate.
In D'Antoni's style of play, except for Liu Ren, a striker who must exist, the other nine people have an average playing time, except for Antetokounmpo, who only plays about 10 minutes per game, and the other eight people play between 22 and 26 minutes, which is very rare in the entire league.
This kind of playing time schedule makes the Lakers' statistics very eye-catching, except for Liu Ren's average of 24 points, 8 rebounds and 3 assists per game is a special case, the second-highest scoring Nick Young averages 13.2 points per game, followed by Bazemore's 12 points, Famar's 12 points, Gasol's 11 points, Whiteside and Wesley Johnson, Henry's 9 points, Green's 8 points and Antetokounmpo's 6 points.
The Lakers are currently the league's leading scorers per game, but their scoring is very dispersed, which means that the absence of any one of them will have a big impact on the team's offense.
Although this time allocation and role allocation on the offensive end gave the Lakers' starters a lot of rest, so that they could play at full strength as soon as they played, although the benches were substitutes, they played the same time as the starters, and the benches also played very hard, and they naturally fought when the opportunity was given.
However, there is one thing that is overlooked, and that is that there are people in the team who have never been taken seriously before, and all of a sudden they are given so many opportunities and pressures, and their bodies are not ready!
Gasol's injury was an accident, but most of the others were due to a sudden increase in playing time!
At this time, Liu Ren remembered that the Lakers in his memory of the 13-14 season were also all soldiers, although there were no him, Green, Whiteside, Antetokounmpo, but there were more young people such as Jordan Hill, Carman, and Ibanks, and D'Antoni also played team basketball, and the starters were called the worst starters in the league, and the bench lineup was also known as the league's first bench, and the Trail Blazers, who had the best starters and the worst substitutes in the league, once maintained their record at more than fifty percent.
But as the season progressed, that Lakers team ended up with injuries.
The reason for this is that some players who couldn't play the ball last season suddenly took on an important role this season, and the body did not have the process of gradual adaptation, and was suddenly pulled from the edge of the bench to the quasi-starting level.
Liu Ren remembered an evaluation of Popovich and D'Antoni that he had read in his previous life, and the gap between the two in team basketball was in the assignment of tasks to the players.
Although Popovich is also a team basketball player, and he also lets power forward Duncan play health, Duncan still takes on most of the tasks, after all, he has this ability, and Ginobili and Parker and Dio also bear more responsibilities than the bench. D'Antoni has basically become a real player here, with no distinction between the main force and the substitute.
However, many of D'Antoni's energetic substitutes have never played such a heavy role in their previous careers.
Another wave of three consecutive wins, but it is a sonata of tragedy.
The cloud of injuries hangs over everyone on the Lakers.
"Injuries are damn things, but no one can guarantee that they will be avoided, right, and even though the situation is tough, we will still try to win."
After accepting the telephone interview with Sports Illustrated, Liu Ren sat on the sofa melancholy.
After playing the Suns, the Lakers have three days off, going to Oklahoma on the 13th and away to the Thunder on the 14th.
After two days of waiting, the team doctor confirmed that Gasol needed two weeks off, Henry needed three months to recover after surgery, and Famar's fracture would heal in four to six weeks.
In other words, the Lakers will play for the next two months, and that's all there is to play.
Marshall, Nick Young, Wesley Johnson, Antetokounmpo, Whiteside, Thackeray and Jen Liu. Gasol will not be able to return for two weeks, and although it is not ruled out that he will return early, the next game against the Thunder will definitely not be played.
Originally, relying on the depth of the team, Liu Ren felt that he was open to the opponent here, but now it seems to be a little difficult...... No, it's very difficult!
Just when Liu Ren was about to go to the airport with a cold face, a certain little Lori came back from school.
When the little Lori saw Liu Ren, she ran over and grabbed the thighs of the strange Shu millet, and the strange Shu millet picked up the little Lori and messed up the little Lori's hair viciously, and the little Lori struggled ineffectively, so she could only be ravaged silently.
"Uncle, are you going to the away game? Betty cheers for her uncle, hmm. Little Lori said and took a sip on Liu Ren's face, "Uncle must win!" ”
Looking at the encouragement of the cute little Lori, the negative emotions in Liu Ren's heart were swept away.
"Isn't it just that a few teammates have been injured, isn't it that the opponent is at the championship level, and they haven't won the championship, and they won't be able to win it in the next two years, they haven't won the championship, who is afraid of whom!"