Chapter 318: The power of burning the ship
On the 26th, the Christmas War, the Lakers vs. the Heat. There is no doubt about the strength of the Heat, who met the Lakers in the Finals last season.
This is the fourth year of the formation of the Heat Big Three, and although they have managed to win a championship once, the Heat's management is not satisfied. They think that if the three superstars are together, even if they don't build a dynasty, they will win the championship twice!
However, looking at the current posture of the Lakers, this season will be very strong, and the only thing they can count on is that the role of the three superstars can be better than Wu Di.
At the beginning of the game, the audience found that the Lakers felt very hot today. And it's not that one person feels good, but that the five people present feel good. The attentive audience found that in these games, as long as Wu Di suddenly broke out with a good hand, and then the hand felt like an infectious disease, crazy to spread to other Lakers players.
Wu Di didn't stick to the ball more, but how big he made the others. Klay Thompson kept shooting on Wade's head, and the difference between the two was ten centimeters, which completely allowed Klay Thompson to ignore Wade's defense.
When playing against the Lakers, Haslem did not start, and the Heat's starters became Bosh, James, Battier, Wade, and Money. The interior configuration is basically the same as that of the Lakers, otherwise let Bosh or Haslem play against Wu Di, and he can be directly beaten by Wu Di.
However, on the inside, James's performance is obviously inferior to Wu Di, not to mention scoring and defense, he is no more than Wu Di in grabbing rebounds. Although he is a little taller than Wu Di, he is completely inferior to Wu Di in terms of arm span, and his prediction of rebounds is not as good as Wu Di.
In the first half, the Lakers stretched the score to more than 15 points with their hot touch. In the second half, the Lakers' hand finally subsided, but Wu Di stepped up again, using his sharp offense to break through the Heat's defense. The UAE also got a lot of opportunities, the inside Wu Di attracted Bosh to make up the defense, the UAE was empty, and the shooting rate of the vacant position was very high.
In the end, the Lakers defeated the Heat 124-103 by 21 points, and Wu Di was elected the best of the game with 38 points, 14 rebounds and 12 assists.
On the 28th, he defeated the weak team Jazz. The Jazz began to enter a period of rebuilding, and in recent years, they have sent away Boozer, Deron, Jefferson, Kirilenko, Havens, and Millsap, and began to rebuild the team with Gordon Hayward, Derrick Pevers, Alec Burkes and others as the core.
And this season is the weakest season for the Jazz, and the Lakers won the Jazz without much effort.
On the 30th, it once again defeated the 76 weak teams in the east.
This year's draft of the 76ers first came to a very good point guard McCarvey, McCarvey is an instant force, and after arriving at the 76ers, he can average more than 15 points per game, 6 rebounds, and 6 assists.
However, the overall strength of the 76ers is not strong, and the core player Thaddeus Young joined the NBA in the same year as Wu Di, and was the twelfth in the draft, averaging about 13 points per game in his career, which is an ordinary star.
Evan Turner is a 10-year star who has been increasing in numbers over the years, and is a good player, at least with the 76ers.
In this game, because the score in the first half was too big, the veterans who came off the bench performed well, and Wu Di only played 5 minutes in the second half, and was replaced, with 32 points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds.
December's Monthly Championship was won by James and Wu Di. James averaged 24.6 points, 8.1 rebounds and 6.9 assists per game. Wu Di averaged 39.6 points, 14.4 rebounds and 11.2 assists per game, almost a triple-double.
At the beginning of January, the Lakers defeated the Bucks, Jazz, and Nuggets, completing a 34-game winning streak.
On the 8th, the Lakers visited the Mavericks away.
Teams are counting on the Mavericks to finish off the Lakers, and there is a strange scene. Wu Di went up with two violent dunks, and then the entire Lakers broke out again, shooting 9 of 12 three-pointers in the third quarter, with a shooting rate of 75%, and directly killed the Mavericks.
On the 9th, the Lakers hit the Rockets back-to-back.
Generally, the team will not perform too well in the second game of the back-to-back, and it is easy to end the winning streak, so the whole league has put its hope on the Rockets.
The result disappointed everyone again, the Lakers still behaved very weirdly in the face of the Rockets, in the second quarter, Wu Di shot a three-point shot before going off the court, and then Nash who came off the bench suddenly broke out with the bench. Darren Collisson, who played as a point guard, directly turned on the killing mode, constantly disrupting the Rockets' interior line, and no one could stop him, even Howard was made two fouls by him.
Being beaten 2+1 in a row is very demoralizing. And Massimi also performed well, resisting Howard's offense, supporting the Lakers' interior defense, and forming a no-fly zone with the UAE.
On the 11th, the Lakers continued to travel away, but their opponent was the Clippers.
All right! The Lakers' away game against the Clippers is the home court, relying on Wu Di's play, they successfully strangled the Clippers' interior line. Jordan Jr. fell into a foul crisis and played less than 25 minutes in the game, and Griffin only had 11 points and 6 rebounds.
Paul alone can't win, at least not against the Lakers, as has been proven in the past few seasons.
15th hit knights. The Cavaliers have Kyrie Irving, a good interior lineman, Tristan Thompson, and a trade for Lore Deng from the Bulls. Lore Deng was snatched up by Sun Yue in the Bulls and was traded to the Cavaliers at the beginning of the season.
The current Cavaliers are still a weak team, and the overall strength is far inferior to the Lakers.
On the 16th, the Lakers traveled to the Suns.
The current Suns are not the Suns of the past, and the Suns without Nash can no longer play a smooth offense. Although Dragic is also very good, he is still far from Nash.
And Nash broke out in this game, and NBA players are always very good at playing their old clubs.
Playing the Celtics on the 18th, the Celtics sent the meritorious old city Pierce and Garnett to the Nets before the start of the season and began the rebuilding pace. Any rebuilding team won't take it too seriously, and there's only one outcome against the Lakers who aren't too serious, and that's losing.
20, the Lakers played the Raptors away. The climate in Toronto is too cold, and although Boston is also cold, it is much worse than Toronto. So after getting off the plane, the Lakers team caught two big players, one was Klay Thompson and the other was the United Arab Emirates.
Despite the fact that the two were unavailable, the Lakers still won.
In the second half, Wu Di suddenly broke out and shot three three-pointers in a row, and after that, the Lakers as a whole broke out strangely again.
The outside world says that the Lakers' luck is too good, and basically when they encounter a problem, they will all explode. But at that time, only Wu Di himself knew that this was all the credit of Zhou Yu's burning of the boat. He now further understood what the use of burning the ship was, it was too powerful.