Chapter 72: The Lakers' Dilemma [1/3]

"American Airlines Love" - the front page headline of MOKO, the largest gossip website in the United States.

"Flying New Eight" - the headline of ESPN's official website

"Silent American Airlines Center" - ABC headlines

"Sword Pointing to the Best Rookie - Lin Fei" - tn.t headlines

"Scarlett's Rookie", "Conquest on the Basketball Court"

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Media coverage in the United States is normal, but the reaction of the domestic media is different.

"The Story that Lin Fei and Scarlett Have to Tell" -- a famous lace report in China.

"China's Flying Man Reigns in the World" - Sports Weekly

"Superstar - Lin Fei" - Basketball Herald

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"Lin, I'll be busy if you're on fire!" Pelinka jokingly complained, "Now many merchants are looking for you to sign contracts, but for the time being, I haven't agreed, those contracts are very long but not suitable for your development, I think your business value will be much higher than now, you need to form a team of brokers, otherwise I will definitely not be busy." ”

"Bob, I really don't understand this, just help me, I believe you! You'll be sure to help me figure it out. Lin Fei threw everything to Pelinka, and at this time Lin Fei received a notice from Lu Yaoyang that the imperial court wanted to do an interview for Lin Fei, and Lin Fei chose to agree under Pelinka's suggestion, and before the interview, Lin Fei had three games, including a home back-to-back.

"Welcome to this episode of Basketball World, I'm your friend Erin. Andrews, let me take a look at the NBA arena today. Andrews, dressed in professional attire, appeared in the camera, still with a mature sense of surname.

Today's home game of the Lakers at home Staples Arena hosted the second-to-last challenger in the East, Charlotte Bobcats, but after a hard battle, the Bobcats managed to upset the Lakers who were playing at home 112-106 and left the Staples Center with a smile. Bryant scored a game-high 47 points, with nine rebounds and three assists on 19-of-43 shooting, while Lin Fei, a popular rookie in the league, performed steadily, scoring the Lakers' second-highest score of 16 points on 6-of-13 shooting, and the Bobcats scored double......-doubles on seven players.

After the loss, the Lakers were naturally very unhappy, but they had to accept the test of the Pistons, a strong team in the East. Although the current Pistons team is not as good as before, the core players Billups, Hamilton, and Rasheed Wallace are still all there.

Lin Fei was still not in a very good state in this game, Lin Fei came off the bench in the last four minutes of the first quarter, and Lin Fei threw three balls under Prince's marking, none of which hit, and the Pistons also took the lead in the first quarter.

The Flounder remained fairly consistent, and the Pistons' lead in the first quarter was largely due to him. At the beginning of the second quarter, Lin Fei played with the Lakers bench lineup, and hit a three-point shot to shrink the score to single digits, and then Lin Fei ran out of the vacancy to receive a pass from Famar and hit it from a distance, Sanders immediately replaced the little prince Prince, under the defensive expert Prince and his ultra-long arm span, Lin Fei shot three times again without a hit, and in the first half, Lin Fei's shooting rate was only eight shots, and he only scored five points.

At the end of the first half, the Lakers trailed the away Pistons by 16 points, and Lin Fei's performance was seriously abnormal, but no one complained too much about Lin Fei's abnormality, after all, Prince is not an ordinary defensive player, Lin Fei's shooting speed has been greatly improved compared to before, but Prince's own defensive skills plus his physical fitness and a pair of ultra-long arm spans successfully contained Lin Fei, which made other coaches see the hope of defending Lin Fei.

However, even in this situation, Lin Fei's low shooting rate still made most of the Lakers feel anxious about Lin Fei, but no one said about him, after all, Lin Fei is just a rookie, and the only player who can say that Lin Fei is Kobe Bryant also fell into the iron, only 6 of 18 shots in the first half, if it weren't for Odom and Bayram playing well, the Lakers would have fallen by as much as 20 points.

The Zen master looked at Lin Fei without the slightest sense of reproach, and in the third quarter, Phil Jackson still let Lin Fei play, "Don't care about the hit rate, as long as you do your best!" The Zen master patted Lin Fei on the shoulder and said.

Lin Fei finally recovered a certain touch, after continuing to hit the iron twice in the third quarter, Lin Fei's feel also began to gradually recover, and in the last two minutes of the third quarter, Lin Fei grabbed a little defensive gap and hit two three-pointers, allowing his score to rise to 11 points. In the crucial fourth quarter with one minute left, Lin Fei opened a sword and hit two three-pointers again to narrow the difference to four points, the Lakers saw the hope of victory in front of them, and at the critical moment, Kobe Bryant hit two consecutive iron and finally buried the team's hope, and the Lakers had to swallow the bitter fruit of two consecutive defeats, which was the first consecutive defeat this season.

The Pistons finally won the game, and it was normal for the Lakers to lose the game with back-to-back and poor hand, and in the end, Lin Fei scored a total of 17 points in the whole game, but the shooting rate was only 6 of 18, which was not half a star difference from his average this season, and Lin Fei also became the target of criticism after the game.

The Lakers didn't even have time to sigh and rushed to Milwaukee, what was surprising was that the Lakers lost the game again, the Lakers lost to the Bucks by seven points on the Bucks' home court, Lin Fei's hand was restored, and he hit 3 three-pointers on 9-of-13 shots and scored 24 points, while Kobe Bryant made 38 crazy shots again and only hit 14 balls and almost beat Milwaukee's basket into a discus.

The Lakers were caught off guard by the coming of three consecutive defeats, and Kobe, as the leader of the core team, made 113 crazy shots in three games, hitting only 45, and undoubtedly became the culprit of the Lakers' loss in the eyes of the media.

Losing three games in a row, the Lakers' original firmly leading first place in the West was chased by the Spurs behind them by only half a win, and at this time there was news in the Lakers that Kobe Bryant had already broken his right finger and had been injured on the court and might need surgery, which was undoubtedly another major blow to the Lakers.

How many consecutive defeats are the end? 》

"The Lakers Go to the Abyss"

"Kobe Bryant will be out for months due to injury"

"Where are the nuclear-free Lakers going?"

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The media generally has no hope for the Lakers' record after losing Kobe, although Kobe will be crazy about iron, but Kobe is the leader of the Lakers after all, and it is unanimously agreed that the Lakers team that loses Kobe will have a hard time.

At this time, the interview team of the Imperial Court also came to Los Angeles.

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Today's three more make up for the chapter owed last week!