The team's confrontation is far from being as simple as Liu Ren thought, he was lucky to seize the best opportunity to take the position during the weakest period in the entire history of the Lakers, the Lakers have a very complete team history and team appeal, and he doesn't have to worry about anything.

With the management in place to fund the team, D'Antoni and Bickerstaff have taken care of the team's tactics and intrigues with the opposing coaches, and he just needs to play well.

Many people think that Kobe Bryant is luckier than James, but this is actually true, because Kobe Bryant doesn't have to worry about anything except playing and whining, even if he doesn't get along well with his teammates in the early part of his career, there are management to help him solve everything, recruit one helper after another, and James has to find helpers himself.

After winning the game, Liu Ren happily traveled to Portland with his teammates to prepare for back-to-back games, while D'Antoni's coaching staff was very entangled.

D'Antoni and Bickerstaff didn't expect Popovich to be so ruthless, directly letting Leonard be abused for three quarters and directly burying the game.

Although it is really good to win the game, however, they did not get real information about the strength of the Spurs, the strength of the Spurs can not be seen just by looking at them playing the game, watching the Spurs game only knows that they can continue to get open opportunities and win easily, they play the same way they play the Warriors, but the Warriors shoot more accurately.

But it can't be helped, D'Antoni used enough tricks, but Popovich was ruthless enough to lose the game.

With a 38-7 record and ten games to go until All-Star Weekend, the Lakers continued their season.

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The second game of the back-to-back game with the Spurs was against the Trail Blazers, and after the league's strongest starting lineup went four out of five, the Trail Blazers instantly fell from the top team in the league to the bottom.

Originally, the Trail Blazers only relied on five starters to play, and four of them went at once, and the few players who signed back were all ordinary role players, and some of them might not even be able to play if they changed teams.

Only Leonard was left to lead the team to support it.

The Lakers only sent a starting combination of Clarkson, McCollum, Nick Young, Antetokounmpo, and Gasol, and beat the Trail Blazers to an easy 109-95 victory, although Lillard scored 42 points to no avail, the Trail Blazers' current lineup is worse than the years when Kobe Bryant won the scoring title, Kobe Bryant has Odom next to him, and Lillard ...... The four teammates left without discussion.

Now the Trail Blazers are hovering in the dozens, as embarrassed as the Nuggets, with little hope of making the playoffs, and there is little hope of competing for the top spot......

After playing the Trail Blazers, the Lakers returned to Los Angeles for two days of rest and back-to-back games between the Mavericks and Bulls at home.

Liu Ren has played in both games, he usually has a rotation rest in three games, after all, the Lakers' small forward position is the lowest depth of all positions, and the star is Liu Ren, and he also relies on Nick Young, who is the main scoring guard, to take the rest, and sometimes Kobe Bryant to go up.

The Mavericks are planted on Chandler Parsons, he is now on the top salary, and he was good at the ball last season, but this year's average data per game has declined across the board, only 13 points, 4 rebounds and 2 assists, 42 percent shooting, 31 percent three-point shooting, and the shooting has fallen to a career low......

Chandler Parsons' salary of up to 16 million is a disaster for the Mavericks, and to make a comparison, James Harden has a salary of 15 million this season, and his data is 29 points, 6 rebounds and 7 assists per game......

Cuban wondered if his head was caught in the threshold in 2014.

Originally, the Mavericks' salary space was tight, Chandler Parsons' contract was blocked there, there were so many free agents last summer, and as a result, the Mavericks had no way to fight for any of them, and they couldn't give them a big contract! Only one Matthews was caught, and Matthews came to the Mavericks and rested injured after a dozen fights.

Last season's Chandler Parsons could still have a lot of influence on Liu Ren, but now the Mavericks can't find an outside line that can defend Liu Ren, and the Mavericks' interior line is composed of David Lee and Nowitzki, from small forward to center, all ATMs.

Liu Ren's visit to the Maverick inside line is like running in the morning at Beverly Hills, doing whatever he wants......

It has become a habit to clock in and out of work in the third quarter, and Liu Ren scored 24 points, 7 rebounds and 6 assists in the third quarter, leading the Lakers to crush the Mavericks 79-65 in the third quarter, and put the game into garbage time and leave work early.

Playing the Bulls, Liu Ren met another opponent Jimmy Butler who took him as an imaginary enemy.

Jimmy Butler is really a model of inspirational player, physically gifted but not stellar until he entered the NBA Draft at the age of 22 after his senior year, and was unsurprisingly drafted at the end of the first round, averaging only two points per game in his rookie year and eight points per game in his sophomore year.

But in the 13-14 season, after Rohr Deng left the Bulls, Jimmy Butler seized the opportunity and played an average of 13+5+3 per game to sit in the starting position, and by last season, he averaged 20 points, 6 rebounds and 3 assists per game, and entered the ranks of first-line small forwards, and also had the ability and idea to compete with players of the same period.

However, unlike the others in Liu Ren's class, Thompson, Irving, and Leonard want to compete with Liu Ren, in addition to having some strength, the main thing is that they are all young and have a future.

And Jimmy Butler is different, he is 27 years old, he has entered the peak physiologically and technically, but he only averages more than 20 points per game, and he got the first 5-year maximum salary of his career this year, and it may also be the last maximum salary, after playing this contract, he is already in his 30s, and he is playing on physical fitness, and it is hard to say what kind of performance he can have in his 30s.

So although Jimmy Butler is the one who caused the most trouble to Liu Ren among the players who wanted to challenge Liu Ren, from the perspective of the future, Liu Ren did not treat Jimmy Butler as an obstacle to the future, and by the time he reached the peak, Jimmy Butler was already old.

However, Jimmy Butler is indeed the one who caused him the most trouble on the offensive end among the players of the same period, and he is about to catch up with Tony Allen, Jimmy Butler is not as good as Leonard in defense, but he plays very badly! Liu Ren burst under the basket and flew up for a layup, Jimmy Butler couldn't get a hat, but he directly hit Liu Ren's whole body directly, and he was fearless when he hit Liu Ren's shoulder.

It is said that Leng is afraid of death, Liu Ren can be regarded as having seen it, Jimmy Butler used his own blood and sweat to block Liu Ren's offense, so that the Bulls' iron-blooded defense successfully operated.

Bulls head coach Fred Hojberg originally didn't have any hope of winning against the Lakers, but seeing that Antetokounmpo, Green, Kobe, and Whiteside were all suspended today, the idea of wanting to win couldn't stop popping up like that, sacrificing the team's iron-blooded defense.

After Hojberg came to the Bulls, he did not give up the previous Thibodeau's iron-blooded play, but added the now popular defensive counterattack to it, which is much stronger in offense than the previous Thibodeau's slow play, and of course the defensive effect is a little worse.

If the Bulls want to play an iron-blooded defense, they must have someone to limit Liu Ren, and they can't let Liu Ren attract the bag, otherwise everything will be in vain, the Lakers' Nick Young and Korver are all players with strong shooting ability, and Gasol and Monroe also have shooting ability.

So Hoiberg's order to Jimmy Butler was to take Liu Ren down.

And Jimmy Butler fought with his life, and unexpectedly did it, putting the Bulls' iron-blooded defense into action.

In today's game, D'Antoni was obviously careless, directly letting the main players of the four teams rest and give the Bulls a chance to cause an upset.

The Lakers' 40th win of the season was postponed, and the Bulls were upset at home, losing 91-97 to the Bulls.