Chapter 823: 73 Wins! Retired jerseys!
Naturally, Ci Shiping wouldn't really be so impulsive, but if he had the opportunity later, he would definitely take revenge on Rivers. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Xie Chen used the Golden Rooster's independent shooting posture for the first time in the NBA, but he didn't expect it to end up with such a result, until now everyone didn't realize that Xie Chen was imitating Nowitzki's shooting action just now, and they are still wondering why Xie Chen stretched out his right foot when shooting, he didn't shoot like this before?
Now Nowitzki's shooting ability is also low, and Xie Chen doesn't want to use it too much, since the shot just now did not expose his golden rooster independent shooting ability, then simply leave it to the playoffs as a secret weapon.
Xie Chen now has three secret weapons, one is Michael Jordan's layup ability, one is Nowitzki's golden rooster independence, and the other is his one-to-many individual singles ability that he has worked hard for a season.
In the last three games of the regular season, Xie Chen will no longer work as hard as he used to score 100 points per game, and the coach will not allow him to do so, so the Clippers have been slightly ahead of the Lakers.
When Xie Chen got off the court and the two sides competed for the second lineup, the Clippers still had the advantage, which made Ci Shiping, who couldn't do anything for the team on the court, very depressed.
"That's right, that's what I did! Give me another 10 points to widen the difference! None of them have the ability to attack! After Rivers Jr. easily shook off Ci Shiping and hit a three-pointer, Coach Rivers shouted excitedly on the sidelines, and it was obvious that he had no Lakers without Xie Chen.
"This old fellow!" Ci Shiping was naturally unhappy when he heard it, but one of the two was a player and the other was a coach, and Ci Shiping saw that no matter how unhappy Rivers was, he couldn't do anything, so he had a crooked idea.
Soon, he had the opportunity to speak directly with Coach Rivers.
This time it was Ci Shiping who had just received a quick pass from his teammates, and he could obviously hold the ball steady, but he pretended to be a mistake and deliberately failed to catch it, so that the ball jumped out of his hand again, and the direction in which he jumped out was naturally the direction in which Coach Rivers was standing.
Coach Rivers still looked angry, and he would never have thought of Ci Shiping's next move.
I saw that in order to save the ball, Ci Shiping flew up and pressed Coach Rivers over!
βouchοΌβ Rivers saw that Ci Shiping was really jumping, and only then did he realize what this guy was going to do, and hurriedly got up and ran away, but it was too late at this time.
Ci Shiping weighed heavily on Coach Rivers.
Seeing this, the Clippers players were so frightened that the entire bench stood up, and Rivers Jr. on the court also rushed over and dragged Ci Shiping away, and shouted at the referee: "This is a malicious foul!" Be sure to get out of the game! β
Rivers didn't have a big deal, but after Ci Shiping pressed over, Rivers's nose was injured somehow and he was bleeding a little, and Rivers didn't want to argue with people like Ci Shiping, so he was angry and left the scene directly, and decided that he would no longer appear on the scene to coach this time.
The referee believes that Ci Shiping is a deliberately targeted attack on the coach, and sent Ci Shiping off the court on the spot, and it is estimated that he will be banned afterwards, but this will not affect the Lakers.
Ci Shiping himself felt that it didn't matter if he was sent off, but if the league banned him for several games, then he would personally seek out Adam Shaw to theorize.
And this incident also became a turning point in this game.
The Clippers don't have coach Rivers shouting on the sidelines, and without him to develop tactics for everyone, these players seem to suddenly feel that they have lost a big support, after all, when Rivers is there, the impact on them is too great, if he is usually a little quieter, it will not make the players' psychology have such obvious changes.
Then, the Lakers slowly began to catch up.
At halftime, Coach Rivers decided to spend the entire game in the locker room "recuperating" and would not be on the spot, and of course he would be fine for a long time, but he was worried that something like Nance Jr. or Nick Young would come at him later.
"In the past few Lakers games, these guys are always so noisy, always flying out to save the ball, Xie goes to the beauty every time, I'm not worried, but I'm afraid that other guys will come at me, and I won't show up in the second half." Rivers coached.
However, remembering that he was injured by the opposing player, and Luke Wharton was so indulgent to the Lakers, Rivers was very unhappy, and he was very jealous of Luke Wharton's achievements as a rookie head coach, so he gave the most burly little Jordan on the team a look: "If you have a chance to save the ball in the second half, lean on Luke Walton." β
Little Jordan with pigtails immediately understood that Rivers couldn't swallow this breath, and the coach commanded, how dare he not agree, "Wrap it up on me." β
"Be careful, don't get to the point of a foul." Rivers doesn't want Jordan Jr. to make things bigger, and he also has to think about Jordan Jr.'s own safety.
After the start of the second half, Xie Chen found that little Jordan suddenly became a little wrong, especially when his eyes always looked at Luke Walton and Xie Chen intentionally or unintentionally, and when he looked at Xie Chen, he obviously felt like a thief.
Gradually, Xie Chen noticed that Little Jordan became more interested in the ball that was going out of bounds, especially the ball that was going in the direction of Luke Wharton, as a saver in recent times, Xie Chen immediately realized what Little Jordan was going to do.
"Revenge on our boss?" Xie Chen doesn't know if his guess is correct, he is also more aware of Jordan Jr.'s character, although he has humiliated countless opponents in his career and is a good friend of Durant, but his personality is still very good, and he is not too hostile to Xie Chen, including the entire Lakers.
But anyway, Luke Wharton is Xie Chen's coach, and when Xie Chen was treated unfairly on the court and was not punished, Wharton always stood up again and again to reason with the referee, and even did not hesitate to be sent off, even if he could expect that Jordan Jr. would not do too much to Wharton, he had to stop it.
So, Xie Chen deliberately pretended to be a little uncomfortable when grabbing the rebound, and was temporarily substituted, just to stand up to protect Wharton at the bench moment.
It soon proved that Xie Chen's guess was not wrong, Little Jordan's acting skills were so poor, not only was he guessed by Xie Chen what he wanted to do before, but he was discovered by Xie Chen in advance when he saved the ball.
And Luke Wharton didn't realize that Jordan Jr. was coming for him.
Just when Wharton was about to be pressed by the burly little Jordan, Xie Chen jumped out of the bench and came to Luke Wharton, using Karl Malone's domineering power to catch Little Jordan!
Little Jordan's inclined body was controlled by Xie Chen alone, motionless, and Xie Chen only used the strength of his arms to make the lower plate very stable, and he was not pressed by Little Jordan to lose his center of gravity.
"What a terrible power!" Little Jordan realized that his plan was revealed, and he was more aware of the domineering of Xie Chen's power, if Little Jordan maliciously hurt Wharton just now and wanted to give Wharton an elbow, I believe that Xie Chen would also be ruthless to Little Jordan at this moment, instead of simply catching him.
"Stay safe and don't rush out again." Xie Chen said softly to Little Jordan, which sounded a bit of a warning to Little Jordan.
Since then, little Jordan has not dared to be presumptuous.
After the third quarter, the gap between the Lakers and the Clippers was not much, only four points, and it looked like it was a stalemate until the end of the game.
Rivers didn't like this, he hoped that the Clippers could solve the opponent in the third quarter, if the opponent could not be solved in the third quarter, he didn't want the players to fight the Lakers again in the fourth quarter, so he asked someone to pass the word to the assistant coach on the court, and the game could be given to them according to the situation.
Similarly, the Lakers don't want the players to work too hard to win 73 today, but because Xie Chen's goal of 10 three-pointers has not been completed, he must shoot three-pointers in the fourth quarter.
In the end, the Lakers defeated the leaderless Clippers to achieve the best regular season record in NBA history, with 73 wins!
"We tied the Golden State Warriors! We're tied with the Warriors for the most in history! β
"Great season! I didn't expect to complete 73 wins today, and then win 74 wins in the next two battles against the king, which can be said to be a matter of no suspense! β
73 wins, this is the result that Lakers fans can expect recently, but I didn't expect it to be achieved after playing the Clippers, this game, the front is very intense, but since Rivers left the court to become an assistant coach, the game is not so passionate, it can be said that the Lakers won this game much easier than expected.
"Haha, 73 wins! I'm credited to this! Ci Shiping also shouted excitedly, if he hadn't injured Rivers and forced Rivers to dare not return to the court, with the momentum of the Clippers at the beginning of the game, maybe the Lakers would lose the game today, and the achievement of 73 wins would have been delayed.
Xie Chen made 11 three-pointers today, and after this game, he has made a total of 478 three-pointers this season!
"There are still 22 three-pointers left, and Xie has reached 500 three-point goals this season, and there are two games left, and 11 goals in one game are not difficult for him at all!"
"I can't say that, Xie has already shot 10 three-pointers in many games in a row, and the feeling that has lasted so long makes me a little worried, Stephen Curry will suddenly be 1-of-10 on three-pointers in a game, or just 2-of-15."
At the beginning of Curry's season, the three-point shooting rate was indeed very unstable, but Xie Chen has never given people this kind of insecurity, as long as his luck is not too bad, he can always ensure a stable shooting rate.
After the game, ESPN's beautiful reporter Doris Burke also appeared on the scene to interview Xie Chen: "Congratulations on tying the NBA regular season best record, you have used less time and fewer games than last year's Golden State Warriors, and you still have two games in the future, Xie, tell me, will you rest?" Will you continue to pursue a 74th victory? Will you break the record? β
When Xie Chen was interviewed, Ci Shiping, Nick Yang and others had been making trouble on the side, Xie Chen paused for a moment before saying: "I know, at this time, I should say that 73 wins does not mean anything, 74 wins are the same, the championship is the most important, we should only think about the championship and not think about breaking the record, but I want to say that in the next two games, I will not rest, I will definitely get the 74th win, we will break that record!" β
The audience boiled again, and with Xie Chen's bold words, everyone followed the carnival.
"74 wins!"
"Record-breaking!"
The championship is the most important thing, but at this moment, they just want to break the record and be the only one!
The Golden State Warriors naturally learned the news for the first time, seeing that Xie Chen said without scruples that he wanted to break the Warriors' record, Dream Chaser Green angrily asked when he could meet them in the playoffs, and Green was going to beat them all over the ground!
Coaches like Curry and Kerr hope that the Kings will cause the Lakers a little bit of trouble next, and it's best not to let them break this record, because it could have been the biggest glory of their careers.
But it's a pity that the wishes of Kerr and others may not come true, the kings owner's daughter Ajiali is a fanatic fan of Xie Chen, she has prepared a gift for Xie Chen, and she will also give Xie Chen the grandest welcome and farewell ceremony when Xie Chen comes to the king, and she will turn the scene into Xie Chen's home field.
As for the others, who have already confirmed that they will miss the playoffs, how much strength can they use to fight against the Purple and Gold who vow to break the record?
A day later, Sacramento, the Kings' home arena.
This is Xie Chen's last away game in the regular season this season, and the whole court is full, and as far as the eye can see, you can see Lakers fans wearing Xie Chen's jerseys everywhere, and even give people the illusion that this is the Lakers' home court.
Even the boss of the king and the daughter of the boss of the king were wearing Xie Chen's sneakers.
What is more special today is that Xie Chen's wife Katie also came to the scene, and she insisted that she was never here to supervise Xie Chen and Agari, just to witness the moment when the Lakers broke the record.
Now that Katie also followed to the away game, Xie Chen decided to break the record directly this time and won 74 wins!
Before the game, the arena suddenly darkened, and then Ajiali appeared in the center of the stadium to hold a farewell ceremony for Xie Chen.
"This is Chris Shea's last visit this season, and we may not be able to see Sherry play in Sacramento again, Chris Shea has always been my favorite basketball player, and I wish he could join the Kings and win a championship for our Kings, but it seems like a fantasy now."
"To thank Chris Shea for all the wow and surprise that these three seasons have brought us, we have decided that once Shea successfully retires from the championship, our Kings will retire his jersey!"
(Happy Christmas Eve to all!) Merry Christmas! (To be continued.) )