Chapter 166: Still Losing

"Drink!" Wang yelled and forced Brian's defense away, sending the basketball to the basket with a throw before the other players could make up the defense.

"Huhu" Wang panted violently, looked up at the score on the scoreboard, and couldn't help but curse fiercely in his heart, "**! ”

At this time, the fourth quarter was also halfway through the game, and the score of the two sides was 89-71.

No matter how hard Wang Meng tries his best to score and try his best to connect the whole team, the Lakers always have a way to score easily. The Hornets are completely out of competition with the Lakers in terms of lineup.

Wang Meng also thought about using running to give up defense, but it was really difficult for Hornets to bombard, none of them were athletically talented, although Ariza was barely a runner, but his offense was too poor.

Running and running can't run, once the Hornets are dragged into the positional battle by the Lakers, Howard on the Lakers' interior line is like a monster, whether it is a player who breaks through or a rebound that misses a long shot, he takes it all, and Okafor has no temper at all.

"It's unpleasant!" Wang Meng gritted his teeth fiercely, he had scored 41 points in this game, sent 13 assists through his heart-eye skills, and also grabbed 6 rebounds, but such all-round data still couldn't catch up with the Lakers, even if the score was narrowed to single digits.

Gasol is the only one in the team who can provide Wang Meng with some help on the offensive end, but it is also minimal, Gasol is not Nowitzki, Gasol's strength is to respond to the players in a high position. Although his singles ability is good, it is not strong, and it is obviously difficult for him to focus on it.

"There is no suspense in this game." Barkley has begun to shake his head again and again when he sees this, "The gap between the Hornets' lineup is too big, as long as the Lakers play normally, it will be difficult for the Hornets to win." ”

"That's right." Johnson also felt quite regretful, "The cooperation of Wang Meng and Gasol made my eyes shine, one is all-round and efficient, the other is very strong in high positions, and the basketball IQ is extremely high, and the cooperation of the two of them reminds me of Stockton and Karl Malone." But it was clear that this alone would not work, and Stockton and Malone worked together for so long and never got a championship ring in the end. ”

Smith nodded: "Stockton ranks first in the all-time assist list, and Karl Malone ranks second in the all-time scoring list, which shows how strong the two people are in blocking and dismantling, but there is no championship ring, as long as this sentence can completely negate the combination of the two of them, no matter how luxurious a player's data is, how beautiful the style of play is, without a championship ring, the status will always be worse than the star who got the championship ring." ”

"Wang Meng has been replaced, it seems that Monty is going to surrender his gun." At this time, Barkley found that Wang Meng was replaced and said: "In this game, Wang Meng and Paul played against the two top point guards in the league, Wang Meng got 41 points, 13 assists, 6 rebounds, 2 steals and 1 block, and only 2 turnovers, while Paul had 18 points, 11 assists, 3 steals, and 4 turnovers. ”

"This only says one thing." Johnson shook his head and sighed, "There is strength in numbers. ”

"That's right." Smith looked at the statistics and said: "In this game, the Hornets had three double-doubles, namely Wang Meng's 41 points, Gasol's 20 points and the sixth man Thorton's 16, while the Lakers had six double-doubles, of which Howard had a double-double of 23 points and 15 rebounds, and Kobe Bryant scored 26 points." The advantages of the two sides are clear at a glance. ”

"Haha, want to win? Go hug your thighs. Barkley gloated and laughed, "There was James Bosh hugging the Flash's thigh, and then Howard Paul hugging Peter Pan's thigh, and now the league is a thigh-hugging league, this is the mainstream!" That's what's trending! Want to win? Want a championship ring? Go hug your thighs. ”

Smith and Johnson rolled their eyes in unison. Xindao really dared to say this, it seems that he ran to the rocket to hug Olajuwon's thigh.

The game between the Hornets and Lakers ended up at 108-87, with the Lakers on a three-game winning streak and the Hornets on a four-game losing streak.

In this game, Wang Meng scored four 40+ again, and his score rose to 30.5 points in the scoring list, and Durant, who exceeded 29 points, temporarily ranked first, scoring 40+ in four consecutive games, but the team lost four in a row, Wang Meng really didn't know what to do.

Losing this game, the morale of the Hornets has fallen to a very low level, and Monty is not very comfortable, after all, he was still ambitious to overturn Phil Jackson, but he still made people quietly counter-dry, and it was a big score, the kind that had already surrendered the gun halfway through the fourth quarter.

Of course, the Hornets are not as weak as imagined, although it is difficult to play against the top team in the league like the Lakers, but it is still easy for the Hornets, who have two All-Stars Wang Meng and Pau Gasol, to win against an average team.

On January 15th, the Hornets faced the Wizards on their home court and finally got a win, and the Hornets almost cried, oh my God, it was not easy.

When Wang Meng was a rookie in the Lakers, he also regarded Wall as a strong opponent, but as Wang Meng's strength increased, Wall gradually became insufficient, this 10-year champion did not become popular in the league like the previous Rose and Griffin, but has always maintained a qualified data and state of a team's starting point guard, of course, this is not enough.

In this game, Wang Meng's score did not continue the high score of the previous games, 27 points, which is Wang Meng's score in this game, but Wang Meng sent 18 assists, refreshing his number of assists this season. Wall, who was opposite him, only got 18 points and 9 assists, and was completely beaten by Wang Meng.

Wall has more physical fitness and faster speed than Ross Westbrook, but he can't play the level of Rose and Westbrook, which makes the Wizards uniform team also wonder.

After playing the Wizards, the Hornets have played 12 of their 66 regular season games, and the Hornets have won 4-8 in these 12 regular season games, and directly withdrew from the top eight in the playoffs, temporarily ranking 10th in the West.

This made the fans extremely disappointed, because this is completely different from what they imagined, in their minds, although Wang Meng and Gasol are not as good as Paul and West, but they can also be regarded as a number of inside and outside partners in the league, with the two of them, the Hornets should still be a playoff powerhouse, how did they win four games?