Chapter 23: Disappearance
After beating the Celtics, the Lakers also won back-to-back games for the first time this season. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
After the game, the Lakers were overjoyed as if they had won the championship, and when they returned to the hotel, Harris even ordered some champagne and threw a team party.
It's a tradition for the Lakers, who celebrate every time they win against their arch-rivals, the Celtics, even in an inconsequential regular season.
Tony has always been very happy when it comes to a party, and Coach Harris even intimately called two ********, which made the Lakers wolves, who had been holding back for a long time because of the high-intensity schedule, cheer and threw Harris into the air.
November is coming to an end, and the weather in the United States is getting colder.
Even if they win the game, the Lakers won't dare to stay in Boston for long, and if they are recognized by the rabid Green fans on the street, they will be torn to shreds.
The next day, just before 6 a.m., the Lakers got up and set off for the final leg of their road trip and the last game of the month, the Detroit Pistons.
The Detroit Pistons, the team of bad boys who had been led by smiling assassin Isaiah Thomas several times to snipe God, also fell apart with Thomas's retirement, but they didn't sink for long, and two years ago they selected a talented young man, Grant Hill, to lead the Pistons back on the road to revival.
After two years of growth, the Pistons are back on the team.
Grant Hill was hailed by the media as Jordan's successor, and the team also has several veterans from the Bad Boys Army, such as Joe Dumas, Rick Mahon, etc.
Although this Pistons have not yet reached the level of the original smiling assassin era, it is still a difficult bone to gnaw, and it will not be easy for the Lakers to win games on the road.
Although I know that the Lakers' winning chance in terms of strength is very small, everyone still has some expectations in their hearts, after all, Kobe Bryant and Tony have brought too many surprises to the world during this time, and before the start of the season, countless experts predicted that the Lakers would become the bottom few teams in the league this season, and almost no one was optimistic about them.
But now a month later, the Lakers have formed a duo with two high school students entering the NBA, and not only did they not become the bottom, they even achieved a good record of 10 wins and 6 losses.
Therefore, even if the chances of winning are not big, there are still some people who have hopes of winning for the Lakers, after all, even the championship Rockets have won, what else is impossible.
Although the fans of Motor City are also very fanatical, the Lakers have not been affected too much, after all, they have just come out of Boston, and in terms of madness, I am afraid that there is really no crazier in this league than the Bostonians.
The Lakers played tenaciously in this game, and the momentum they had in their last game against the Bostonians had not yet dissipated, so at the beginning of today's game, the Lakers were still leading the score for a while.
However, this was in Detroit, and this was the home court of the Pistons, and the Pistons players certainly didn't watch themselves being beaten in front of the home fans, and they quickly fought back.
The Lakers' overall experience was still insufficient, and they were a bit scrambled against the Pistons' comeback, and although Bryant threw in a buzzer-beating three-pointer near halftime at halftime, the Lakers still trailed by four points at 52-56.
Overall, the margin wasn't too big, and Harris kept reminding the team to step up their defense, and the Lakers still had a lot to do in the second half.
However, five minutes into the third quarter, the Pistons unleashed an 18-2 offensive wave led by Hill. For a full five minutes, the Lakers' basket seemed to be like adding a cover, how to shoot and how not to shoot, except for Kobe Bryant who scored two points by free throws, the Lakers did not score a single goal.
The Lakers' margin was also directly stretched to 20 points, although they gradually began to hit, but it was too late, only at the end of the third quarter, the Lakers were 61-88, a huge 27-point trail.
It also meant that the entire fourth quarter of the game went into garbage time, and Harris indirectly announced his surrender with a big wave of his hand, a five-up-five-down.
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The defeat at Motor City did not affect the mood of the Lakers team, and on the whole, their road trip was quite fruitful, with Tony beating the defending champion Rockets, and Kobe Bryant beating Iverson in terms of statistics and wins, and then they beat their arch-rivals Celtics, and Harris was satisfied.
The Lakers players are tired from the long road game, but fortunately, the next four days are at home for both games, and Tony and they can finally get a good rest.
However, Tony had just returned to Los Angeles when he was approached by a girl who said that her name was Nina Kelly, that she claimed to be an alumnus of Jessica, and that the news she brought to Tony made Tony almost go crazy.
Jessica, she's missing.
"How long ago did she disappear?" In a café, Tony asked, and although he was pretending to be calm, his shaky left foot completely exposed his anxiety.
The girl in front of him looked very anxious, "Just two days ago!" Jessica doesn't have any friends here, but I heard her mention you before, so I came to you, I asked her parents, and Jessica didn't come home.
Tony was going crazy, these away games had made him temporarily let go of Jessica, but hearing the news of Jessica's disappearance just after returning made his heart that had been hanging again lift.
His concern was that Jessica had chosen to leave because of that day, and that if something really happened to Jessica, Tony would never be able to forgive himself.
"Where was she last seen?" Tony suppressed the anxiety in his heart, but his tone was already a little low.
After a moment's thought, Nina said, "In an abandoned factory in the suburbs, she was in a bad mood that day and asked me to go out for a drink with her, but then she told me to go to the toilet and then disappeared. ”
"Let's go! You lead the way, let's go and see! When Tony heard this, he said without thinking, he didn't give Nina time to think about it, and walked straight out of the café.
Under Nina's guidance, Tony made his way along the way, and soon became in front of the abandoned factory that Nina had mentioned.
Along the way, Tony had a feeling that something was wrong, but he couldn't tell what was wrong. Coming to this factory, Tony's feeling became stronger and stronger.
Suddenly, a sense of crisis hit him, making his back a little creepy.
"Did you call the police after she disappeared?" Tony asked, turning his head to stare at Nina.
"No, I'd like to contact you first."