Chapter 208: A Race of Ups and Downs

This "Christmas War" can be said to be a strange game. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Spectators were looking forward to the game, wondering if the Lakers had a strong roster or the Cavaliers had a strong roster, and the two teams gave them a surprise game.

At the beginning, Wu Di was distracted on the field, you must know that Wu Di is an extremely focused player on the field, and his distraction is a big news. And because of Wu Di's distraction, Bynum was fouled by James.

Three minutes later, Wu Di was "scolded" by Kobe Bryant and began to play his normal strength, and had a one-on-one duel with James, and the two sides could be said to be comparable.

Fans are happy with this matchup, and after Kobe Bryant is past his prime, James often has the upper hand against Kobe. Now that Wu Di can draw with James, it shows that the Lakers have players who can limit James, plus Kobe, who is still very strong, and Gasol, a strong man on the inside, Lakers fans are very satisfied with this game.

But then O'Neill suddenly exploded and stole everyone's limelight. The big shark beat the small shark, and Lakers fans actually saw his former demeanor from O'Neal. This is both a relief and a sarcasm for the old fans.

Thankfully, O'Neal showed the domineering he was when he was in the OK combination, and ironically, now the domineering O'Neal is no longer a Lakers player, but is here to play against the Lakers. As a result, the old fans were embarrassed, and they didn't know whether to cheer for O'Neal or not.

After playing a quarter, O'Neal suddenly lost his strength, and James took over the Cavaliers' players and broke out again.

James defeated the Lakers alone, and the Cavaliers' score even surpassed the Lakers' score at one point. In the end, if it weren't for the cooperation between Kobe Bryant and Wu Di, the Lakers would not have been able to catch up in the end.

Of course, the referee of today's game also made the fans feel very angry, and the star whistle was too serious, directly blowing off the Lakers' two interior lines.

Without a tough interior line, it is basically difficult to stop James.

Fortunately, in the end, Wu Di successfully made up the dunk and dragged the game into overtime.

After entering overtime, Wu Di made a three-point shot on the court, and he still shot to meet others. Fans feel that Wu Di's hand is bursting, because generally Wu Di will not choose this difficult way of shooting, once Wu Di chooses this way of shooting, it basically means that Wu Di's hand feels very good.

The Cavaliers' offense was frustrated, the Lakers served again, Wu Di organized on the outside, and Gasol came over to block Wu Di. Wu Di shook off James and rushed into the inside line, Big Z followed, and Wu Di immediately passed back to Gasol.

Gasol receives the ball and faces James, who tries to card Gasol. At this time, Kobe Bryant rushed out from behind Gasol and rushed from James to the inside, and Anthony Parker was blocked by Gasol.

James is in trouble, and he doesn't know whether to choose to keep up with Kobe Bryant or continue to watch Gasol, because no matter who he chooses, the other has a good chance of scoring.

In an instant, James chose to abandon Gasol and keep up with Kobe. Gasol saw James arrive and immediately jumped and shot.

Gasol hits the shot.

James was a little desperate, and he found that the Lakers' tactics had changed, and it turned out to be not the Lakers' usual triangle tactics, but double blocking and pick-and-roll. It takes three scorers to do it, and it's hard for the Cavaliers to use, but it's easy for the Lakers to use.

This tactic is not impossible to crack, and it only takes three defenders who can defend inside and outside to limit this tactic. However, the Cavaliers don't have so many defensive players who can defend both inside and outside, and the Cavaliers only have James and JJ Hickson.

Without three defensive players, it would be difficult for the Cavaliers to limit this tactic, and the remaining other player could score at all.

James organized the offense again, the Lakers' defense was still very strong, and although James succeeded in the end, Gasol succeeded, but the physical strength consumed was not small.

The Lakers attacked again, once again with a double pick-and-roll strategy, Wu Di hit the inside, passed through the basket to the bottom corner, and hit a three-point shot after receiving the ball.

With the margin at six, the pressure on the Cavaliers is even greater. During the offense, Morris Williams suddenly made a pass error and was cut off by Kobe Bryant, and then the Lakers played a fast break.

The margin became 8 points, and the Cavaliers attacked again. James continued to attack the inside, and this time Wu Di rushed up from behind and slapped James' layup. Once again, the Lakers reached the fast break and widened the margin to 10 points.

The Cavaliers' morale has hit a low point, but the Lakers' morale has peaked. Faced with a 10-point difference, the Cavaliers are like facing a chasm, and they can't cross it.

The Lakers won this game, but the game wasn't over yet. At the press conference after the game, the Zen master vaguely expressed his dissatisfaction with the referee's abuse of power. If it weren't for the referee's arbitrary decision, the Lakers wouldn't have needed to play overtime to win this game.

Indeed, the referee in this game went too far, and even the Zen masters, who have always been well-trained, couldn't help but bombard them.

But all this has no effect on the referee, if it weren't for the Zen master just vaguely expressing his dissatisfaction, maybe he would have suffered a fine from the league. This is also the great thing about the Zen master, he knows what to say and what not to say.

The victory over the Cavaliers gave the Lakers fans a very enthusiastic celebration, believing that such a Laker can fully defend the championship, as if they have seen the Staples Center welcome another championship trophy at the beginning of next season.

With the momentum of the big win over the Cavaliers, the Lakers defeated the Kings back-to-back on the 27th. The game on the 26th consumed too much physical strength of the Lakers, otherwise it would not take too much time to deal with a weak team like the King, and the game could be ended in three quarters.

On the 29th, the Lakers played away against the Suns.

The back-to-back games have drained the Lakers too much energy, and the Suns have played at the level of the previous two seasons. The Lakers have the best physical strength to preserve Wu Di, Wu Di played 44 minutes in this game, cut 46 points, 10 assists and 13 rebounds, but there is still no way to help the Lakers win.

The Suns scored in double figures with six players, Nash 18 points, Jr. 16 points, Barbossa 12 points, Jason Richardson 13 points, Grant Hill 15 points, and Channing Fry 10 points, relying on the team to win over the Lakers.

On the 30th, back-to-back games against the Warriors, the poor schedule made the Lakers enter a period of weakness after the big win, losing the second game at home.