Chapter 40: Ending the Losing Streak
On December 29, the Lakers hosted the Philadelphia 76ers in their final game of December. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
The Lakers need a win to end their losing streak, and the 76ers are even worse, they have lost six in a row, but they don't have the same high goal this year, the 76ers, who are already 8-19, have basically given up the fight for a playoff spot this season, and their goal this season is to accompany the prince to study, so that Allen Iverson can grow up quickly.
Therefore, in comparison, the 76ers will gnaw a little easier on this bone.
But it doesn't mean that the current Lakers can easily beat the 76ers, and without Jones, a strong attacker, the Lakers' roster depth is not much better than the 76ers.
At the beginning of the game, the 76ers, led by Allen Iverson, launched a fierce attack on the Lakers, and the Lakers did not react for a while, and immediately fell behind by 5 points, which was unexpected and reasonable.
Iverson seems to want to avenge the last home loss, and he was very brave from the start, and Fisher couldn't keep up with Iverson's footsteps, so he could only break into the Lakers' box again and again to score.
Toney's defense has to be said to be in place, but today Iverson seems to be like playing chicken blood, Tony has put him to the limit several times, but Iverson can still score the ball, which makes Tony feel helpless.
With three minutes left in the first quarter, the Lakers were already trailing by six points at 23-29, and Harris called the first timeout of the game.
He had a headache, Iverson was really too inexplicable in today's game, Fisher was strong enough, but his lateral movement was not very good, and Iverson's speed and change of direction made Fisher suffer enough.
"I'm here to defend Iverson." Kobe Bryant said lightly when he saw Harris's sad look.
Harris nodded, his brows stretched a little, Kobe's words should be a little better than Fisher's defense, in fact, the Lakers' defense today can't find too many faults, even Blunt is also decent, obviously Harris's reprimand before the game shocked him.
However, unfortunately, Iverson exploded, he was able to easily pass Fisher and kill under the basket, and the Lakers' interior line could not effectively interfere with the 183-year-old man.
Today's Iverson can be said to be possessed by God.
Harris is still a little worried, and he doesn't know if Kobe Bryant will be able to stop Iverson next. However, he still told the players to strengthen their defense, feed Tony more balls and let Tony participate in the offense, even if they make mistakes, they must resolutely hand over the ball to the inside, because in the first few games, a large part of the Lakers' failure is that the connection between the inside and outside is cut off, and Tony basically does not get too many independent offensive opportunities except for grabbing rebounds and attacking twice, and Harris wants to make the Lakers play more resolutely in this game.
After the timeout, the Lakers replaced Fisher with Byron Scott, and they changed their defensive strategy, with Bryant being put in the point guard position to defend Iverson, while the 76ers' Starker House was defended by Scott.
Although Scott's body is not as good as that of Stackhouse, he is still full of energy when he first enters the game, and he can still do it defensively.
This strategy quickly worked, and Bryant was 15 centimeters taller than Iverson, making it much more difficult for Eisen to shoot.
However, Iverson's specialty is to break through, and his flowing butterfly through the flower step even Kobe Bryant, who is still good defensively, has been shaken off several times, but at least, Iverson can't break through unscrupulously, and he needs to use more footsteps to be able to drag Kobe Bryant.
It has to be said that Iverson's dribbling ability is simply so beautiful that Lakers fans have even forgotten to boo the away players, and they are all attracted by Iverson's agile figure.
However, although Kobe Bryant was repeatedly shaken off by Iverson, he finally pulled Iverson back from God mode, and Iverson's offensive success rate has gradually become normal.
Tony received the ball more, he was finally able to show his skills, the 76ers' interior center Scott Williams was not Tony's opponent, after Tony continued to score on his head, the 76ers had to adopt a trap strategy against him, but it didn't work, Derrick Coleman came up to wrap whenever Tony received the ball, which gave Robert Hawley a good shot.
When Hawley hit his third three-pointer, the 76ers finally gave up on the pack, and they couldn't afford it. And taking advantage of this opportunity, the Lakers came from behind and overtook the score.
It can be said that the entire second quarter became Tony's personal time.
With the progress of the season, Tony's ability to respond has also grown completely, and Tony, who only knew that he was immersed in the attack after receiving the ball, is gone, and now Tony has begun to have a faint look at the core of the team.
At halftime, the Lakers temporarily led 55-51, and Tony alone had 10 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists, although Kobe Bryant scored 15 points, but everyone could see that Tony was the starting point of the Lakers' offense.
However, the Lakers were able to lead the 76ers, which also had Kobe's credit, and under Kobe's defense, Iverson was 2-of-6 in the entire second quarter and scored only 5 points.
"Guys! Well done! We continued to press in the second half and didn't let them get into our box too easily. Harris clapped his hands excitedly and cheered up each player.
Although the score was still close, the Lakers finally saw the dawn of victory.
At the beginning of the second half, the 76ers changed their lineup, they put the split Doug Everton, and Stackhouse took the small forward position, Scott Williams was directly abandoned, and the original power forward Derrick Coleman should play the center, and the 198-year-old Clarence Witherspoon took the power forward position.
Since the interior line can't withstand Toney, the 76ers simply switch to playing small ball, and they play speed with the Lakers.
The idea was good, but the reality was not as smooth as they thought, and they ignored the fact that although Tony is 216 cm tall, he doesn't want to be like those traditional big centers, on the contrary, Tony's speed is not slow, he can completely keep up with the rhythm of the small ball.
The tragedy is that the 76ers, who sacrificed the high pursuit of speed, not only did not play a fast offense, but their rebounds on the inside were blown up by Toney.
A guy as tall as Kobe Bryant? It's a joke.
Not only has Tony been able to play more easily on the offensive end with his height, but his defense has become a nightmare for the 76ers.
Halfway through the third quarter, the 76ers had to give up the so-called small lineup.
However, the Lakers already hold an 11-point lead at this point.
Hawley was ambushed outside the three-point line, and he had a very good hand today, with a 4-of-5 three-pointer that made the 76ers not dare to be presumptuous to wrap Tony, and Williams simply couldn't stop Tony.
The 76ers have run out of options, and they can only rely on Iverson's offense alone to keep the team alive.
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The red light comes on and the game is over.
At 115:102, the Lakers finally ended their five-game losing streak and easily defeated the 76ers by 13 points.
Tony had 25 points and 14 rebounds and was the hero of the team's victory.