After playing the Celtics, the Lakers' next opponent is the Washington Wizards. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

A team with a record similar to that of the Celtics.

It's not that the Wizards are worse than the Celtics, but the Wizards have been unlucky enough this year.

In the third game of the season, Bradley Beal, the scoring guard they had high hopes for, was injured, and then *** Humphries was injured, and a wave of 6 consecutive losses dragged them into the quagmire.

However, it also gave Wall a chance to perform, and Wall, along with Pierce and Gortat, supported the team and finally returned to the top eight in the East at the start of December, with a record of 7 wins and 13 losses.

After the Lakers defeated the Celtics in their last game, the Wizards managed to take advantage of this east wind and overtake the Celtics.

Wall temporarily ranks first in the league in assists, averaging more assists per game than Paul and Rondo.

But with just one assist king, not many people think the Wizards have much chance of beating the Lakers.

And Pierce's aging pace doesn't seem to be able to stop Liu Ren from continuing to get 40+.

But basketball is round, and anything can happen.

After the start of the game, Liu Ren missed a rare consecutive shot this season!

Liu Ren's performance in the first 14 games can be described as phenomenal, and it is basically impossible to maintain such a state all the time.

It just so happens that today's state of how to cast and how to have it is over!

It's not that he's not as good as he used to be, or that he's declining or something.

But because he has become more and more dazzling recently, opponents have begun to pay attention to him, and he himself has more than a dozen consecutive high-shot, high-scoring and high-scoring confrontations, which is inevitably a little tired.

He doesn't feel it himself, but the body is honest.

Now as the season progresses, the opponent knows him better, the opposing players are defending him more and more ruthlessly, the opposing coach's tactics are also targeting him, and his fatigue has also risen.

Maybe any of these reasons are not a problem, and he can deal with them, but when they accumulate one by one, after reaching a certain limit, the effect is quite obvious all of a sudden.

In the previous dozen games, he was used to shooting from anywhere near the three-point line, but today he couldn't find the feeling of shooting as he always wanted!

Liu Ren is a little screwed, the more he can't shoot, the more he has to shoot, although Pierce's pace is slow, but the defensive shooting is still good.

Pierce defended very tightly, and Liu Ren shot half a step away from the three-point line as usual!

Still missed!

Liu Ren has shot 1 of 9 three-pointers today!

By the end of the half, Liu Ren had been 6 of 17 and 1 of 10 three-pointers!

Liu Ren is still very sure of scoring on the inside, as long as the inside line succeeds, he basically goes in, but the outside shot is continuously missed, and the opponent only uses Pierce to defend himself alone when he is on the outside, and it doesn't matter if he breaks through or not, Pierce only prevents him from shooting at medium and long distances.

It has to be said that Pierce brought the Wizards a toughness and tactical literacy that they did not have before, and played all the defensive strategies arranged by the coach.

The Wizards' strategy is that Pierce singles Liu Ren from the outside, and Liu Ren makes a three-point shot from the outside, and as long as he enters the inside, a group of people will be trapped.

Since Kobe Bryant is resting with Nash and Gasol today, the Lakers have no other accurate outside shooters, and once Liu Ren's three points are not accurate, the Wizards can shrink the interior as much as they want.

Although the Portland Hammers Gortat is not Whiteside's opponent, they can't stand the Wizards! Kevin Seraphim, Drew Gooden, and former Spurs player Blair, who poached from the chicks, are all players who are good at stalking, and they have limited the Lakers by shrinking the inside.

After the first quarter, the Lakers trailed by five points, 24-29.

At first, D'Antoni didn't care, he didn't pay much attention to the Wizards, otherwise he wouldn't let the three veterans rest in turn, and he was confident that he could easily defeat the Wizards.

In the second quarter, Liu Ren continued to slump, and the inside line was full of people, and he could only shoot on the outside, but he missed continuously.

At this time, D'Antoni felt that something was wrong, but there was no solution.

Originally, when Liu Ren didn't play well, Kobe Bryant could go up and fight the opponent at any time, but today Kobe Bryant took turns to rest!

Even Gasol is resting, Antetokounmpo is still too tender, McCollum can't replace Kobe for the time being, Whiteside is hard to beat with two fists and four hands, and Green's words can't fully play his playmaking skills without matching him with two top shooters.

So, in the midst of the great astonishment of Washington fans, the Wizards actually maintained the lead from the beginning to the end!

The Lakers were chasing points all over the game, and Liu Ren also found some feelings in the fourth quarter, mainly because Pierce's physical strength couldn't keep up, but the score couldn't catch up in the end!

99-90, the Wizards upset at home to end the Lakers' 19-game winning streak!

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Depend on!

Liu Ren wanted to find a crack in the ground after the game!

Today he shot only 6 of 17 in the first half, and it was better in the second half, but he was only 8 of 18, although he relied on the fourth quarter to rush inside regardless of the ball and caused a lot of kills, he still scored 41 points in the whole game and continued to refresh 40+.

But the game was lost!

The 15th game in a row 40+ becomes meaningless!

Liu Ren can now imagine what the outside world will say about him!

The rest of the Lakers' young players were silent and didn't speak, and no one dared to touch his head at this time.

Kobe Bryant looked at the frustrated look of this little brother, and he couldn't bear it, but decided to step forward to comfort him.

It's just that Kobe Bryant comforts people, and he knows that it's not a good thing when he thinks about it.

"Yo, you said last time you wouldn't care about winning for the sake of scoring, and it looks like you did prove it today." Kobe Bryant stepped forward directly and started taunting mode.

"It's coming, it's coming! The two bosses are going to start pinching each other again! The idea popped into the minds of the rest of the Lakers' young players.

In fact, although the rest of the Lakers are a little disappointed that today's winning streak was ended, most of them have experienced long-term losses, and they have all stayed on weak teams, and their frustration is not as deep as Liu Ren's.

Liu Ren glanced at Kobe Bryant, did not get angry, but said in a deep voice: "Are you just talking about these cool words?" ”

Kobe Bryant pouted: "Who has the time to talk to you coldly, I look like you're going to die when you lose a game, and I think it's just an eyesore for a guy like you to stay in the team." ”

"Losing a game? That's a 19-game winning streak! Liu Ren said angrily.

Bryant's tone was still full of sarcasm: "So what? Isn't it a 19-game winning streak? What is the connection between a 19-game winning streak and a championship? The Rockets have won 22 straight games in previous years, so what? At the end of the day, they didn't lose to us. ”