"Hello everyone, this is the morning sports program, in the second round of the NBA playoffs yesterday between the Hornets and the Lakers Tianwang Mountain battle, both players did their best to win this game, both teams fought until the last minute, 1.5 seconds before the end of the game, Howard hit two free throws to complete the quasi-stunner. But the Hornets players did not give up, and in this short time of 1.5 seconds, the Hornets' core Wang Meng completed the final kill. The Hornets also won the battle of Tianwang Mountain because of Wang Meng's lore, turning the score of the two sides into 3:2 and taking the lead in winning the match point. Game 6 between the Hornets and Lakers will be played on May 18 at the Staples Center, the Lakers' home arena. ”

Early in the morning, the TV in Wang Meng's house rang, and what was broadcast on it was yesterday's game. In the end, Wang Meng's goal still went in, maybe it was God's favor, or it could be because Wang Meng opened the hanging, anyway, Wang Meng, who threw this lore, breathed a sigh of relief, and the score became 3:2, the situation was much easier for the Hornets, although the sixth game will be the home of the Lakers, but all the Hornets are confident that they will win this game, because the momentum of the Hornets who won Tianwang Mountain has reached its peak, not to mention the Lakers at the moment, any team in the league Hornets are confident that they can win.

"The playoffs are no different from the regular season! We still have 36 wins in the regular season, and it's so easy to win a championship in the playoffs or something. ”

This sentence was jokingly said by Oden when he was in the locker room last night, and as soon as he said this, he was hacked by Wallace, "But I remember that you didn't seem to be so embarrassed in the regular season, 12+9:27+17, this contrast is a bit conspicuous."

As soon as Wallace said this, Auden's face immediately darkened. In the confrontation with Howard, Oden has never had the upper hand, Wallace said that the number is the comparison of Oden and Howard's data in this game, Oden is the former, only 12 points and 0 rebounds, and 6 fouls, while Howard got 27 points and 17 rebounds, and also contributed free throws to the quasi-final shot, which of the two seems to be better than the other.

"I can't say that, after all, he is still my predecessor in the league, I am only 23 years old, and when he is 30 years old, I will be about 27 years old, and I don't want to bully her or her at that time?" Auden said with some smugness.

The players immediately laughed, Wallace said this just to tease Oden, all the players of the Hornets knew that if the Hornets did not have Oden, they would have been killed by Howard a long time ago.

Don't look at the big gap between Oden and Howard's data, but on the court, most of the time, Oden and Howard are in a heads-up state, and Gasol will only choose to come over to make up for the defense if he can't prevent it.

When Howard was in the Magic period, the Magic's strongest move was Howard's inside single, attracting the bag and then distributing the ball to let the outside shooter score, the gist of this tactic was to have someone to trap Howard. Howard's two seasons with the Lakers, the Lakers also used this move frequently, after all, signing the league's No. 1 center like Howard can't be justified without the most appropriate tactics. The strongest lineup of the Lakers outside is Paul, Kobe, Ci Shiping plus Jamison, all players who can shoot three-pointers, when the Lakers borrow from the Magic's tactics, the offensive ability of the whole team has a strong improvement, which is also one of the best means for the Lakers to chase points in the regular season.

But when playing with the Hornets, the Lakers' tactic couldn't be used.

The reason is very simple, the essence of this tactic is that Howard can attract the bag on the inside, and then divide the ball, but when playing against the Hornets, Howard almost never encounters the situation of being trapped, no one covers Howard, that is to say, the outside players have someone to defend, in this case, Howard can only choose to play by himself, after all, in the case of no more defense, his own shooting rate on the inside must be higher than that of the outside shooters.

This is one of the reasons why Howard's statistics are so luxurious in every game, because he has a relatively high offensive shot on the inside.

Therefore, Oden's comprehensive suppression of data is actually a kind of suppression of Howard from another point of view, Howard is indeed very strong, but compared with O'Neal's peak, there is still a huge gap, even if O'Neal blocks the invincible inside state, there is no guarantee that he can win the game by attacking on the inside.

Moreover, even putting these aside, Auden's salary is only about five million a year, while Howard's salary is as high as nineteen million, almost four times that of Auden, and with four times Auden's salary, Howard can only get less than twice as much as Auden's data on the court.

What's even more interesting is that in this series, Oden faced Howard, every game has improved a lot, and each game has to play better than before, Oden is improving, he is only a 23-year-old young player, and he has not even reached the peak of his career, it can be expected that in two or three years, Oden is likely to become a player who is not weaker than Howard.

The Hornets have one more day of rest before the start of Game 6 between the two teams, and the players on this day are usually just doing some physical training to prepare for the game.

Monty has always advocated a tight combination, and will not train the players too tired, but the current situation is slightly different, Monty will not let the Hornets completely ease down, although the current Hornets also have veterans, but the backbone of the team is a group of young people led by Wang Meng, this group of people is full of fire, once idle, there is a great possibility that they will run out to find the girl, in line with the principle of wasting physical strength on the court, not wasting it in the arms of the girl, Monty deliberately increased the amount of training this time, even Tony Allen, Wallace, these players with strong physical fitness and super physical fitness, were exhausted from training, and they barely had much quality to go out to have fun and go home early to rest.

On the 18th, the sixth game between the Hornets and the Lakers officially began, with a score of 3:2, as long as the Hornets can win this game, then they can enter the next round, the Western Conference Finals, and the winner between the Spurs and the Thunder to compete for a place in the Finals.

"Anyway, these Lakers fans are really scary, why do I always feel that they will pounce on the stands in the next second and tear us apart." Looking at the Lakers' home stadium Staples with thunderous boos and all kinds of abuse, Oden was the first to be a little empty, "It is said that the quality of Lakers fans is good, and there is a noble demeanor of fans of a big city team, but now look at it, that's it, compare the Hornets fans are too cute." ”

"No way, after all, this game is about the life and death of the Lakers this season, as a Lakers fan, do you still expect them to give you a good face?" Tony Allen said to Auden: "Don't you see that even Wang Meng and Gasol, two guys who used to win applause when they came to Staples, were scolded this time? ”

"Well, don't talk about these issues too much!" Monty said solemnly: "In today's game, you have all seen that the Lakers fans are crazy, not to mention the Lakers players? So today's game is definitely a tough battle, it may be more difficult than the previous games, do a good job of defending and steady the attack! Don't let the fans on the field affect the game! Do you understand? ”

The Hornets nodded in unison.

At this time, as the boss of the team, Wang Meng needs to speak.

Wang Meng looked around at the players around him, including Roy, Gasol, Oden Wallace and other team stalwarts, as well as Fisher, Yi Jianlian, Barnes and other substitute players, but they are all an important part of the Hornets.

"This game is going to be the toughest game in our second-round series, Kobe Bryant, Paul Howard, these guys will definitely be difficult to stop, but I believe we can stop it and win this game. Any idea why? ”

"Because we have celebrity beauties to cheer us on!" Aaron said.

The Hornets players couldn't help laughing, the Lakers' home court has always been known for its many stars, including Beckham, Justin Bieber, Jessica Alba and others often come to watch the game, which can be described as a star-studded group. Taylor cheered for Wang Meng, and specially called several friends in the film and television industry and the music industry to cheer for the Wasp, these people sat together, and the effect really needs not be described, it is just like the Academy Awards.

"What else?" Wang Meng couldn't help but laugh, and he continued to ask.

"Because we are on the side of good, and good will always triumph over evil!" Oden swallowed his saliva, looked at Howard, who had never looked particularly good on the Lakers' side, and said deliberately.

"Oden, you've read too many novels." Wang Meng laughed. "I personally feel that we can win because we are already a legend in our own right, we are the strongest team in the league, how can we lose to the Lakers?"

"This season, we set the record for the longest winning streak in history, 36 in a row, and we have a league-best record of 73-9. We are already legends, and we can be sure that our Hornets will definitely be written into the annals of history, just like the Celtics, Lakers, and Bulls dynasties at the beginning. Although the current Lakers are tough, they are obviously not enough to see compared to us who are more tough! All we need to do is tell them out loud after the game. Hey! Dude, you can already take an early vacation! ”

"That's right! Say it in front of this group of celebrity beauties! "Tony Allen's eyes are always on the Hornets star cheerleaders led by Taylor from time to time." It's so cool! ”

"Aaron!" Wang Meng said seriously: "If you perform well in this game and guard Kobe, I will ask Taylor to help you ask for the phone numbers of these beauties." ”

“？！！” Tony Allen jumped up suddenly, "What are you doing in a daze!" Hurry up and get on the field! The race is about to begin! You guys don't have a sense of distress at all! ”

Hornets players: ""

"It's finally time like this." Barkley said with a little pleasure: "If the Hornets are more powerful and win the game directly on the Lakers' home court, the Lakers' players will have a holiday, of course, I can also take a small vacation for a while." ”

"Man, I want to remind you that your current location is the Staples studio, and a lot of what you say now will be heard by the audience, if you don't have the martial arts skills of Wang Meng, please pay attention to your words and deeds." Smith kindly reminded Barkley.

"It's okay, I think it's more likely that this group of fans will challenge Wang Meng's fighting ability." Barkley wasn't worried at all.

"Really?" O'Neal, who was sitting on the sidelines and was about to close his eyes before the start of the game, sneered when he heard this: "I don't think a few people will be stupid enough to run and compete with Wang Meng, who can throw me on his back." ”

"Well, well, I'd better keep my mouth shut." Barkley said obediently, although Big Mouth has always been unruly and doesn't take anyone seriously, but he really doesn't dare to challenge the fans. "You see, the Hornets guys are laughing over there, what are they talking about?"

O'Neal looked over when he heard this, and then shook his head with some confusion, "I don't know, I guess it's because I led the Lakers 3:2, so I laughed happily." ”

"I'll rub!" Smith rolled his eyes helplessly, "Do you think it's possible?" Even if they want to be happy, wouldn't they have been happy two days ago? Let's laugh so unscrupulously two days later in someone else's home field. ”

"Who knows?" O'Neill said indifferently, "Maybe this is their quirk?" ”

Barkley pointed to the other side and said, "Is it also a quirk that the Lakers are lifeless?" ”

O'Neal looked down the Lakers' bench again, and O'Neal was stunned at this look. Compared with the lively scene on the Hornets' side, the Lakers' side can indeed be described as lifeless.

Phil Jackson sat lightly on the side, and did not talk to the players, as if he was thinking about something, and as the core of the team, Kobe Bryant sat on the bench, looking down at his sneakers, as if he was studying whether the laces were strong enough.

Paul whispered something to the other players, presumably discussing how to execute tactics on the pitch, but the number of people discussing it was a bit small.

As for Howard, he didn't know what he was looking at, and this guy usually had to prank before every game, but he didn't do it today.

Even those who don't know the Lakers can see that the current situation of the Lakers seems to be a little bad.

"This, the Lakers have internal contradictions." O'Neal is, after all, a superstar who has been on a number of teams, and he immediately saw the clues.

"I seem, I've heard some rumors before." Smith said: "It was said that it was because of the final killing by Wang Meng, Kobe and Howard also quarreled in the locker room, it seems that it was because Howard returned to the locker room and laughed as usual, Kobe Bryant couldn't get used to it and reprimanded him, and then Howard was also annoyed, complaining that Kobe Bryant did not prevent Wang Meng's last shot, which led to his free throw being in vain." ”

"Now it seems that this rumor is not exactly a rumor." Barkley said meaningfully: "It seems that this game will be a lot different than expected. ”

With the referee's whistle, Game 6 between the Hornets and Lakers finally began.

Originally, Wang Meng thought that this would be an extremely difficult game, and in order to win, the Lakers players would definitely play at a high level, but just a few minutes later, Wang Meng was stunned to find that today's game was much easier than he imagined, even easier than the previous games.

The Lakers' players didn't seem to be in shape, the offense was not threatening, the defense was not tough, and in the first quarter alone, the Hornets led the Lakers by 15 points at 35:20.

Wang Meng was a little confused about the current situation.

In the second quarter, the wind gap between the Hornets and the Lakers continued to widen, and under the leadership of Roy, the Hornets' benches showed excellent offensive efficiency, and the score between the two sides was also stretched to 20 points.

After the start of the third quarter, the Lakers' Kobe Bryant suddenly broke out, he shot three points from the outside, broke through the dunk inside, scored 12 points in a row, narrowed the gap between the two sides to within 10 points, but soon, the score was stabilized by the Hornets continued to pull away.

The Lakers fans who originally came to watch the game with great hopes were all disappointed, and at the end of the half, many fans had already left the game early to express their dissatisfaction with the Lakers' current performance, while other fans still had some ideas, they hoped that the Lakers could tie the score and overtake and win the game.

But apparently, they were overthinking.

Until the whistle blew at the end of the game, the Lakers were never seen to catch up with the score.

This is a completely crushing game, without a bit of ornamentation, and the much-anticipated Paul, Kobe, and Howard Big Three lineup still did not win the championship in the second season.

It is almost predictable that next season, the Lakers' current roster will definitely fall apart. Paul, Kobe Bryant, Howard who will continue to stay with the Lakers will also be a question.

As soon as the game ended, Howard walked back to the locker room with a stuffy head, and Kobe Bryant and Paul hugged Wang Meng and others before leaving the court.

Defeating the Lakers, the Hornets entered the Western Conference Finals for the first time since the rebuild, and this is only the second year of the Hornets' rebuild, the first year the Hornets reached the semifinals, but lost to the Thunder due to Wang Meng's accidental injury.

Monty's face was wrinkled with a smile, making him, a thirty-eight-year-old general, look like an old man in his fifties. However, the Hornets players can understand, after all, the Hornets are just a new army, and under the leadership of a new head coach, it is indeed a very remarkable thing to be able to defeat the Lakers Purple and Gold led by the legendary coach Phil Jackson.

(To be continued)