Chapter 63: Ranking
Now the Thunder is getting stronger and stronger, and the Nate Robinson and Perkins who traded Green back have strengthened the Thunder's lineup to a certain extent, especially Perkins, the interior defensive titan and the blocker Ibaka combination of the interior line, since then the Thunder are not so afraid of the opponent to play the inside, and their interior defense can fully cope with any interior combination, although they dare not say that they are dead, but they will definitely not be helpless. Add to that the outside combination of Durant, Westbrook and Harden, and the Thunder's lineup is perfect.
The game was very intense at the beginning, Westbrook was full of momentum, constantly breaking through Wang Meng into the inside, but his shooting percentage was not very good, and it was not good for Gasol and Bydam to take turns to take care of it.
The Thunder's boss Durant played well, omnipotent in breakthrough shooting, and Artest was able to defend against brutalist small forwards like James, but it was still a little difficult to defend against Durant's type of running, catching and shooting.
However, the Lakers were not to be outdone, Kobe Bryant scored continuously, and Wang Meng also assisted Gasol to score, and the score was not too bad.
Halfway through the first quarter, the Thunder replaced Harden, the sixth man.
James Harden definitely has the strength to start, but he is willing to be a sixth man to enhance the firepower of the Thunder, although the Thunder is such a fierce man, but the Lakers are not afraid of it, and the best sixth man of the last year is sitting on the bench of the Lakers.
The Thunder was able to compete with the Lakers at the beginning, but it didn't take long for the Thunder's offense to fall into a stalemate, Durant rested off the court, Harden was let go by Kobe, and Westbrook also let Wang Meng open the instant explosion and suppressed the same as an angry little daughter-in-law, today's Lakers are too strong, there are almost no weaknesses, and the Thunder has no choice but to surrender the gun.
Kobe Bryant scored 32 points and became MVP again, while Wang Meng scored 14 points and had eight assists.
Thunder Durant had 26 points and Westbrook 22, but he only hit 8 of 28 shots, a very low shooting percentage.
After playing the Thunder, the Lakers unknowingly won five consecutive wins again, and the record is directly chasing the Spurs, the Spurs have played 61 games, with a record of 46 wins and 15 losses, ranking first in the league, the Lakers played 60 games, 44 wins, 16 losses, only a little worse than the Spurs, the Mavericks are ranked third, the Thunder are in a desperate situation and are ranked fourth and fifth, the first in the East is still the Bulls, Rose is already the favorite candidate for the regular season MVP, he has led the Bulls to lead the first place in the East 45 wins, 14 losses, and the Heat followed, 41 wins and 18 losses. The third, fourth, and fifth are the Celtics, Magic, and Hawks.
After playing the Thunder, the Lakers won a victory at the Timberwolves' home court on March 2, a bloody Bobcats at home on March 5, a victory over the Spurs on March 7, and a shot at the Hawks on March 9.
Wang Meng averaged 15 points per game and 8.3 assists in these nine games, which perfectly excited all the fans in China, Kobe Bryant also averaged 30.3 points per game, and averaged 26.9 points per game in the season.
The Lakers have a proud record, the media of the whole league called the wolf coming, I thought that the formation of the Heat Big Three this year would snatch the Lakers' championship, but I didn't expect the Lakers to strengthen the position of point guard and become more invincible, whether the Heat Big Three can beat the Lakers, there are different opinions, some support the Lakers, some people support the Heat, the two sides have argued endlessly, and there has been no result, but now, the debate has stopped a little, because on March 11, the Lakers will fly to Miami and meet the Heat for the last regular season.
This game also affects the performance of the two sides after the playoff meeting, and neither wants to lose this game.
Wang Meng went to the Lakers arena early in the morning on the 10th to practice, as usual, Kobe Bryant was still there when he arrived at the court, he always arrived earlier than Wang Meng, Wang Meng didn't know why he could get up so early, you must know that the American NBA games are generally played at night, and when the game is finished and the press conference is held, it has to be eleven or twelve o'clock, and when he is driving home, he finishes all the miscellaneous things at almost one or two o'clock, and he goes to bed so late and gets up so early every day, Wang Meng has to admire Kobe's tenacity.
"Come!" Bryant tossed the ball to Wang Meng.
Wang Meng shoots the ball at the three-point line, the basketball hollows into the net, Wang Meng has to train three-pointers in the training space every day, although most of them use ultra-long back-to-back jumpers, but occasionally use regular jumpers, now he has a scary high vacancy shooting rate, and the shooting rate of ultra-long back-to-back jumpers is also sixty percent when someone is defending, but Wang Meng listened to Phil's warning and rarely used this trick in the game.
"I'm going to change my clothes." Nodding with satisfaction, Wang Meng and Kobe Bryant said.
It's still heads-up, but now it's very difficult for Kobe to win against Liu Hao, although it's still Kobe to win heads-up with Wang Meng, but it's much more difficult than the original, sometimes Kobe feels terrible about Wang Meng's growth, Wang Meng, who has been training the ball-bearer defense for a long time, is now very strong in defense, and Kobe even has a very uncomfortable feeling when he is defended by Wang Meng.
At present, the strongest scoring guard defense in the NBA league is Kobe Bryant, and then it is Wade, and then there are players who specialize in defense, but now Kobe feels that if Wang Meng is a scoring guard, his defense is definitely ranked third, at most only a little worse than Wade, and this is the case among point guards, not to mention that among point guards, Wang Meng's defense can already be regarded as the first point guard.
Not only that, Wang Meng's physical fitness problem has been solved, and Wang Meng has been training in the training space for the longest time during physical training, and now Wang Meng can even play the whole game, of course, it must be in the case that Wang Meng does not use instant explosions.
Wang Meng changed into a good uniform, returned to the court and Kobe Bryant heads-up, today Wang Meng was in a very good state, not only successfully defended Kobe's several attacks, but also successfully played his own offense, and finally Wang Meng won the heads-up victory 11:9.
"Alright, let's get some rest." Kobe, who was defeated by Wang Meng, did not immediately continue to fight alone, but stopped and said, after speaking, he sat on the ground casually and looked up at the ceiling.
"Huh?" Wang Meng looked at Kobe Bryant with some surprise, this is not Kobe's style.
But since Kobe Bryant said it, Wang Meng also stopped and sat down next to Kobe.
"Wang Meng, have you ever wondered where to play next season?" Bryant looked at the ceiling and suddenly asked.
"Huh?" Wang Meng looked back at Kobe Bryant in surprise, not knowing why he asked such a question.