Chapter 153: The Long Man Game

Although Maddie is depraved, he still has some ability. The Zen master www.biquge.info of the pen fun and pavilion did not dare to give up his defense against him, so the starting small forward released Sun Yue.

The Lakers started Bynum, Wu Di, Sun Yue, Kobe Bryant and Fisher. The Rockets' starters are Da Yao, Odom, Artest, Maddy and Alston.

At the start of the season, the Lakers defeated the Rockets. However, the phenomenon is that the Lakers are seriously short of people in the No. 4 position, and Wu Di had to temporarily come up, so the outcome of this game is unpredictable.

In terms of morale on both sides, the Rockets are superior. The Rockets want to avenge the last game, which can be called a mourner. And the Lakers have won 36 games in a row, and almost everyone has a feeling of tiredness and not much desire to win.

The entire Lakers are calculated, and only Wu Di himself may have a strong desire to win, because he needs a lot of wins to upgrade, so he will be eager to win every game, even if he wins 82 all season, it is not too much.

However, other Lakers players, without a system, they will still be tired. With 36 wins, these players can't stand it anymore. In the middle, some people were not in very good shape, and if they were busy without Wu Di's stable play, the Lakers would have lost a long time ago. Even when the training madman Kobe Bryant was out of shape for four or five consecutive games, the other players didn't think about it.

Not to mention the players, even the Lakers fans are tired of celebrating, after the last game, there were only one or two thousand fans participating in the celebration, a decrease of more than 90% from the last game.

With the referee's whistle, the game began. Bynum won with a jump shot, and the Lakers got the ball. Fisher went to the front court to hand the ball to Kobe, and it was Artest who defended Kobe.

Wu Di came over to block Kobe Bryant, Kobe shook off Artest and rushed to the three-point line, and then before Odom came up to make up for it, he hit a pull-up jump shot.

The Rockets served, and after Alston waited for Odomka to host Wu Di, he immediately passed the ball. Odom hit Wu Di with his back, but he didn't push twice, and he had no choice but to stop dribbling, grab the ball with both hands and turn around, and face Wu Di.

Wu Di interfered, but Odom did not hesitate and jumped and shot. Wu Di's lack of height was exposed, and he was not completely interfered with, and Odom hit the shot.

Wu Di was also very helpless, and he didn't have much to do. Even if he became an All-Star by defense, there was nothing he could do about Odom's goal.

The role of the short interior is to shoot from the outside, impact the basket, and help defend the perimeter. And the role of the tall inside line is to be strong under the basket and guard the basket.

Of course, there are exceptions, some short interior players are strong under the basket, such as Barkley is an obvious example, a strong body and a big butt allow Barkley to easily squeeze into the basket and arch opponents.

And some tall insiders specialize in floating outside shooting, such as Nowitzki, who can shoot outside the three-point line and shoot at a respectable percentage.

When the short inside line and the tall inside line are compared, they have mutual advantages. The short man is fast, which can speed up the team's advancement, and the tall interior has an advantage in height, especially the tall interior who can shoot, and can easily shoot on the short interior head.

Unfortunately, the Rockets' two tall interior players were able to shoot both of them. Once Da Yao and Odom face Wu Di, they are misplaced, and they can shoot on Wu Di's head without much preparation, as long as they are careful not to be blocked by Wu Di jumping up.

Wu Di has always been a defensive strongman, and today it has become a weakness of the team. This made Wu Di a little unacceptable, Da Yao shot on his head, and Wu Di admitted it, after all, Da Yao was more than 20cm taller than him, but what the hell did Odom shoot on his head? He is only 10cm taller than himself, and his arm span is not as long as he is himself, so he can touch the basketball as long as he lifts his feet.

Wu Di tried a few times, but he didn't cover it, even if he jumped up. Odom had a blast today, shooting at Wu Di's head one after another.

And Wu Di's hand today is not very good, and he has not scored several consecutive inside attacks.

The Lakers also wanted to break fast, but as soon as the Rockets came up, they pressed the Lakers all over the court to buy time for Da Yao to return to defense. The Lakers were passive and were soon dragged into positional warfare by the rockets.

In positional warfare, rockets have an advantage. Odom and Da Yao were basically misplaced against Wu Di, making it easy for them to complete the attack.

I used to hear people say that basketball is a game of longevity, but Wu Di is not very convinced. But sometimes being tall does take advantage of you, like right now.

Wu Di only needs to grow 5cm taller to easily defend Odom, and another 10-15cm taller to defend Da Yao. Wu Di also realized that sometimes it is not a lack of defensive ability, but too short a height.

The Lakers didn't feel good overall, and several fast players were entangled. Artest entangled Kobe, Odom entangled Wu Di, and Maddie also entangled Sun Yue.

As for Fisher, he is not as fast as Alston, and Alstom's defense is basically free of mistakes. And it is difficult for Lao Yu to get inside, although his shooting under the basket is very stable, but he gets few opportunities, and it is difficult to score high.

Soon, the first quarter was over, and the Lakers trailed by five points.

The Zen master saw that the players were not in any spirit, so he didn't say anything, and he didn't have any hope in his heart for this game. 36 consecutive wins is enough for him to operate, and if it ends, it will be over!

Wu Di refused to admit defeat, he still wanted to win. He only has 17 wins now, which is simply not enough. He wanted to accumulate 100 wins as soon as possible so that he could upgrade Tai Shi Ci.

There is no way to change the height, but the arm span is okay, and the arm span should increase when you upgrade Tai Shici, so that you will have more advantages when defending.

Although the arm span is too long, it may have some effect on the image, causing hands like Liu Bei to go over the knees. But Wu Di can't take care of it, and now it's too hard to defend the tall one.

In the second quarter, Wu Di's feeling still hasn't improved, and he gave up the idea of shooting, and instead began to impact the inside, how many baskets can be dunked!

Kobe Bryant's hand is not very good, and the political team seems to have only Sun Yue and Vujacic have a certain touch. But you can't win with these two at all.

At 100:92, the Lakers lost the game. Wu Di only scored 10 points, but he made 15 baskets and shot around 30% from the field. Kobe Bryant scored 22 points on 8-of-21 shooting, and the Lakers' highest scorer was Sun Yue, who scored 26 points on 10-of-16 shooting. Vujacic scored 20 points on 8-of-12 shooting. The rest of them only scored 14 points together, which shows how terrible the feeling has become?

The Lakers' winning streak ended, but they still had 36 wins. Once again, the media began to hype up that they were not mocking the Lakers, but that the winning streak had to be calculated after a loss.