After beating the Grizzlies, the Lakers rushed to Portland, where they were going to play back-to-back against the Trail Blazers. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The Trail Blazers are not comparable to a bad team like the Grizzlies, and they haven't found a star to call home since ****** Drexler's departure from Houston, but even so, the Trail Blazers are still a playoff-level powerhouse.

With the likes of Isaiah Ryder and Clifford Robinson and Kenny Anderson on the outside, and giant tanks like Sabonis on the inside, the team is very well-balanced on both ends of the floor.

The Lakers had a very difficult game, mainly because Tony was limited by Sabonis, and unlike the last time he played against the Trail Blazers, Tony had a bigger responsibility this time, and he needed to string up the team's offense, so he couldn't attack the Trail Blazers' interior to the fullest.

Sabonis is 2.21 meters tall and weighs 279 pounds, or 127 kilograms, and he is under the basket, the Lakers simply cannot effectively attack the basket, and Tony does not eat Sabonis much by hitting the basket, which greatly reduces his offensive efficiency.

Unable to make it inside, Kobe's threat was greatly frustrated, because of back-to-back, he scored only 15 points on 6-of-17 shooting in this game, and the Lakers also lost the game 84-88.

After returning to the home court, the Lakers got a day off, as Harris didn't ask the players to practice after the back-to-back games.

Their next opponent is the Hornets, whose center is Verratti Divac, the center of last season's Lakers, who was sent to the Hornets in a trade for Bryant.

Tony has struggled lately, and years of playing habits have given him the habit of attacking as soon as he gets the ball, and Harris asking him to force a change in this point to play team basketball has made him extremely uncomfortable.

Although his performance still has some bright spots occasionally, I don't know why this style of play always makes him feel like he has nowhere to go.

In this game against the Hornets, against the master Divac, Tony feels like he is about to go crazy, Divac's strength is definitely not as strong as him, but Divac is not a player who is known for his individual ability, his role is the axis of a team, playing the role of a tactical initiation point, and Tony is now transforming in this direction.

However, Tony has only transformed a few games, compared with Divac, it is simply a big axe in front of Luban, even if he is very unwilling, but Tony has to admit that throughout the game, Tony was eaten to death by Divac, and some of his careful thoughts were nowhere to hide in front of Divac.

In fact, when Divac was with the Lakers, what he did is what Tony is doing now, and Divac can be said to be quite familiar with Harris's coaching philosophy, so he can easily anticipate Toney's passing route.

Toney's 17 points and 13 rebounds in a normal game looked good, but he also had seven turnovers.

The Lakers also lost the game again with a 97-101 victory.

Divac's 11 points and eight rebounds weren't impressive, but as a center, he also delivered six assists and played the pivotal role perfectly. It was Divac's delicate passing that made Glenn Rice even more successful, scoring 27 points as he chopped and chopped vegetables.

After losing to the Hornets, Tony finally had some doubts about his own definition, and he approached Coach Harris alone after the game, hoping that Harris would change his position.

Harris rejected Tony after careful consideration, believing that Tony should learn to take responsibility for the team's offense as a whole.

This made Tony very depressed.

In fact, Harris is also helpless, he also saw that Tony is young and likes to attack, in fact, Tony's performance in the past few games has also made him start to have some doubts, whether it is correct to use Tony like this, but except for Tony, he can't find a more suitable person, if Jones is here, then he doesn't need to do it at all, Jones's overall view is enough to replace this, but Jones will be out for at least a week.

On January 10, the Lakers won a formidable opponent - the Miami Heat.

Since the Heat hired Pat Riley as head coach last season, Riley has built the Heat into a tough-blooded team in just one year.

They built the team around Alonzo Mourning, and equipped Mourning with 20+8 All-Star guards like Tim Hardaway, supplemented by a number of defensive giants such as PJ Brown, Sasha Danilovich, and Keith Askins, and the Heat quickly embarked on the road of chasing championships.

Iron-blooded, tough, and defensive are the labels of the Heat, and their Mourning-centered bucket formation has become a nightmare for countless teams in the league.

So far this season, the Heat have a 25-9 record and are firmly in second place in the East, with Michael Jordan's Bulls in first place.

Mourning has always given the impression of being tough defensively, but people tend to overlook the fact that while serving as the core of the team's defense, he has unknowingly been able to contribute 20.1 points and 10.3 rebounds per game.

Judging by his performance so far, he does deserve his sky-high contract.

With such a team, it is difficult for the Lakers to win. But the Lakers have no way back, and if they want to make the playoffs, they have to go all out to win.

At the beginning of the game, the Lakers burst out with indomitable momentum, and their current record is not guaranteed. Every player in the Lakers played very aggressively, trying their best to grab every rebound and play all their energy to defend their opponents.

The gap in strength is made up for with passion.

Tony played very cautiously, under such a high-pressure defense of the Heat, his transfer of the ball turned out to be a different kind of cheating father, his mistakes were much less, and the team played smoothly for a while under his tandem.

At the end of the first quarter, the Lakers trailed by only one point at 25-26.

The Lakers made Harris very satisfied with the first quarter of the game, and after so many games, he saw that the team's tactical execution has made full progress, especially Tony, he bet right, people like Tony, put him in a high-pressure bad situation, he will grow more quickly.

However, the difference in strength is the gap, after the start of the second quarter, even if the Lakers still played hard, they still couldn't overtake the score.

And with the coming off the bench, the Lakers' point difference was gradually widened, and whenever the Lakers rose up to chase points, Mourning would always use blocks or points to stop the Lakers' scoring momentum.

Harris was in a hurry, he could only put the starting lineup back on the field, and Tony was on the court, and he could still play a role in restricting Mourning.