Chapter Twenty-Three: The Turmoil of Zijin
Just when people are still speculating about whether the new season is still the time when the Warriors and the Heat are competing for supremacy, and whether the West is a time when the Warriors and Thunder are competing for the Thunder, the league is already in a trade commotion - Howard has put on the Lakers' No. 12 jersey.
The trade for a heavyweight like Howard is destined to cause a great sensation, and being able to join the Lakers is obviously even more interesting.
Howard's joining, and then looking at the Lakers lineup, the degree of luxury can be described as extremely luxurious. The rebounding king, the block king, the assist king, the steal king, the scoring king, such a team seems to lack nothing. Perhaps, some people will doubt whether such a lineup can produce good chemistry, and some people may wonder if Nash and Kobe Bryant are already very old, but such a configuration, even on a classic car, is it beautiful enough.
We can seem to hear Bryant's laughter.
Indeed, he is definitely qualified to laugh.
As mentioned before, Howard may be the most restrained of the Heat and the Warriors, because these two teams do not have a strong interior line, Howard is almost in a state of giving up, although the Warriors can guarantee victory when facing Howard's team, but compared to other teams, it always seems a little difficult. Now, which team Howard joins is not good, but he has joined the Lakers who already have Kobe, Nash, and Gasol. In this way, the Lakers' title of the league's No. 1 luxury interior line is definitely well-deserved.
I have to marvel at the cleverness of the Lakers general manager Buss, who is definitely no less than Riley of the Heat.
But, even so, do the Lakers really have the strength to compete with the Heat and Warriors? Although the Lakers already have Howard, the ace of the Heat and the Warriors, the Heat still have James's extraordinary talent, Wade's amazing ability, Bosh's assistance, and Ray Allen's super vitality on the outside, and the Warriors still have Lin Fei, Keynes, Axes, and Jobs such a near-perfect offensive lineup. And even for the Thunder, the vitality they have is probably difficult for the Lakers to resist. When it comes to the championship showdown, it is really not certain who will really die.
When the reporter interviewed Lin Fei, what did he think of such a transaction by the Lakers. Lin Fei's answer was very meaningful.
"I'm going to be happy for Kobe Bryant, the idol I used to chase, who finally has a great group of teammates again, and I also believe that the Lakers are definitely a great team. I'm looking forward to playing against them, they have things we don't have, we have things they don't get. It's the arena, you never know what's going to happen until you're on the field, and you're never going to know who's going to be the winner until the last minute of the game. ”
From the words, it seems that it can be known that in fact, Lin Fei's heart still has points in his heart for an opponent like the Lakers, how much chance of winning is, maybe Lin Fei has already calculated it in Lin Fei's heart, don't forget, Lin Fei is a typical intelligent player, he will even choose what is the most suitable choice according to his own situation on the court, for such a thing to calculate the winning rate, it may be a piece of cake for him.
However, the Lakers got Howard, and the Warriors must also be a topic they can't avoid, whether it is Kobe or Howard, or Nash or Gasol, people always habitually throw the topic of the Warriors at them. Bryant didn't answer the Warriors directly, he just emphasized the championship, and obviously, he had more than just beating the Warriors in his eyes. Similarly, Howard's dust has settled, and his heart is naturally calmer, and perhaps the most important topic for him to think about is how to help the Lakers. In fact, on the Lakers, Howard's worst plan is to be a player, on the offensive end he may only be regarded as the fourth offensive point, but on the defensive end, he may have to act as the absolute core.
In fact, the Lakers' biggest pressure at this moment may not be Kobe Bryant or Howard, but their head coach Brown. He coached James, but he never won the championship, coached Kobe, but still didn't get the results, but now he is equipped with a super luxurious lineup, if he can't get the championship again, he is destined to be the target of crusade. Similar to him may be the Heat's Shuai, but that is a thing of the past, and now Shuai withstood the pressure and got the championship ring, and now he can only watch Brown.
The increasingly crazy arms race has once again ignited the fire in the hearts of fans, but unfortunately, the preseason has passed, and people are no longer familiar with the true power of the Warriors and Lakers.