"Whew...... Finally finished practicing, I said boss, why did you fight badly and lose to the bull, I actually have to accompany you to practice! It's not fair! Antetokounmpo complained.

Antetokounmpo is still a child after all, a shy Greek boy, just turned 21 years old, just qualified to go to a bar to drink, although because he was selected in the draft, he was traded before he played his first game, and then he had to suppress his talent to play on the bench and move back and forth from the point guard to the power forward position, and his mental endurance was exercised, but he was still a child at heart.

It's the 21st century, and a lot of 21-year-olds are still in school, which is why many young players who have been in the league for two or three years are not as mature as a rookie in the eighties and nineties.

Most of the players who entered the NBA in the eighties and nineties of the last century only entered the NBA after graduating from college, and they are already adults psychologically......

Of course, there is also a weird guy like Kobe, he has never been naïve, and he is so mature when he enters the NBA, even more psychologically mature than O'Neal, the league's No. 1 center who was already at his peak at that time.

And this kind of mature psychology beyond ordinary people is quite annoying for others.

For example, now, Kobe Bryant started his rhetoric again: "Train hard, retire after resting, have time to rest, career is more than ten or twenty years, and when you retire, you are only in your 30s, at that time you have time to enjoy life, but if you want to enjoy it at that time, you must work hard now to get a bigger contract and get more money and not go bankrupt after retirement." ”

You're going to go bankrupt! Liu Ren "cursed" Kobe Bryant in his heart, and then continued to train.

To Liu Ren's surprise, his teammates reacted, Antetokounmpo, Green, LaVine, Clarkson and others nodded their heads again and again after listening to Kobe's words, and took Kobe's words as truth as they did when they read the Bible.

This group of people is hopeless! Liu Ren decisively distanced himself from this group of people, and heard that stupid people are contagious......

In yesterday's game with the Bulls, Liu Ren only scored 25 points on 9-of-26 shooting, and when Kobe, Antetokounmpo, Green, and Whiteside were not on the court, his performance became the performance of the Lakers.

The Lakers lost to the Bulls, who have now become a weak team, D'Antoni said that he was very angry and asked the team to practice more today, on the grounds that the players have been playing less games recently because of the rotation, and because they are training less in the middle of the season, they will behave abnormally, and it will soon be the All-Star Weekend, and then it will be the stage of entering the playoffs, and this situation cannot happen again, so the whole team will practice more!

D'Antoni wasn't going to tell them that he had made a good Twitter campaign to celebrate his 40th win of the season and had to quietly delete it.

……

As the season slowly deepens, and there are more than ten days left until All-Star Weekend, the players' mental fatigue for the game is gradually dissipating, which is also related to the fact that the fans are starting to be less dull, the aesthetic fatigue period is over, and they are starting to regain their enthusiasm.

Playing in the NBA is inherently a public job, and playing hard is a professional attitude, but playing with enthusiasm obviously requires the cooperation of the audience.

Rockets players often complain that the group of high-level white-collar fans in Houston watch the game as calmly as doing aeronautical scientific research, and it is for this reason that they would rather go to the road and listen to the boos.

Speaking of which, the Rockets players are also sad, hearing the enthusiastic boos of the away team, they play better than at home.

The Lakers players are gradually regaining their vitality, and D'Antoni's rotation system is starting to really show its effects, and the players are no longer able to hear complaints about their roles, or gradually get used to this kind of schedule that is quite easy for individuals, only need to play two-thirds to three-quarters of the schedule of players from other teams, and have more physical fitness.

After No. 29 D'Antoni forced his players to practice for an extra day, No. 30 resumed easy practice, after all, it was the middle of the season, and the game was not easy.

And next January 31, the Lakers' last game of January, D'Antoni has a goal.

That's 40 wins! Flip the Clippers!

……

On January 31, at 5 p.m., the Lakers challenged the Clippers "away".

Staples Center.

Every time Liu Ren plays the Clippers, he has a different feeling.

At home, they are wearing the jerseys of the away team, but there are most of the fans in the stadium, especially the fans who are closer to the sidelines, most of them are their own fans, which is a wonderful feeling.

In particular, the ceiling above the court, which is blocked by posters of Clippers players, is even more fascinating...... wants to beat the opponent to death.

However, in the past month or so, the Clippers' fans in downtown Los Angeles seem to be gradually losing, or the Clippers fans in downtown Los Angeles are gradually starting to support the Clippers so much.

This must be related to the fact that the Clippers will move to the Inglewood area next season, and the pace of life is very fast, not many people who live in the city are willing to drive two or three hours to another city to watch the game, if it is directly on the highway, the key is that Inglewood and Los Angeles are connected, and the road to the airport is jammed to death.

Two or three hours in a traffic jam are not at all the same as two or three hours on the highway, and driving for three hours on the highway may feel like it will pass quickly, but an hour's drive is three hours...... It feels like living like a year.

The loss of Clippers fans in Los Angeles is obvious, and the Clippers fans are not competing with Lakers fans for tickets in today's game, and two-thirds of the fans on the scene are Lakers, which looks similar to the feeling when the Lakers played the Clippers at home in the last game.

Before the Clippers decided to move out, more than half of the Clippers' home game against the Lakers were still Clippers fans, and now only one-third are left, and there is no home atmosphere at all.

This makes Liu Ren feel even more different, maybe Kobe, who played in the Lakers at the peak of the Lakers at the beginning of the 21st century, can't feel it, because at that time, the Staples Center Lakers played the Clippers basically did not have the so-called Clippers fans, and the current Clippers fans are basically accumulated by the die-hard and Paul after coming to the Clippers.

When Liu Ren came to this world, the Staples Center was about to be dominated by the Clippers, who had a better record than the Lakers in those two years, and Clippers fans had gradually "occupied" the Staples Center.

Now as the Lakers enter the top again, the Clippers don't know why they drop the chain inexplicably as long as they get to the playoffs every year, and every time they come suddenly and unreasonably, there are all kinds of mistakes, and they go out early in the playoffs every year, and sometimes they don't even have to play in the playoffs to know that they lost, which makes many fans who like them because the Clippers become stronger and gradually lose interest in support, plus they are leaving the Clippers, and it is normal for fan loyalty to decrease.

But no matter what, playing the Clippers, Liu Ren is very excited.

The reason is very simple, the Lakers' latest championship flag above the arena can have his name written on it! At the very least, his name is only a small loss, and he can't find where he is without a telescope, and he can't see it at all unless he mutates with the naked eye......