Chapter 873: Wait, We're Coming!
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"23 consecutive wins, the Los Angeles Lakers narrowly defeated the Wizards, the offensive battle, D'Antoni lost again"
"20+15, the Clippers' young point guards are replicating the miracle of the Magic, and Nash said after the game that Paul is already one of the best point guards in the league"
"33 at halftime, 51 in the third quarter, Kobe Bryant continues to be on the hot streak, as long as he is given enough time, he can score 70 points in this game?"
"The battle between Steve Nash and Kidd's No. 1 point guard is heating up, and Coach Z says he appreciates Nash even more"
"The best offensive battle of the NBA season, which makes Christmas even more exciting"
The Los Angeles Lakers' home win over the Wizards brought the team to an astonishing 23 consecutive wins, and this also almost made the entire Los Angeles media go crazy, although the media in other parts of the United States are still constantly criticizing the Los Angeles Lakers, but for the local media in Los Angeles, the team has been completely conquered by the new Los Angeles Lakers when more than a quarter of the season has passed. At least in this game, when the Los Angeles Lakers made a lot of people sweat for this team, they still won, and the win is still so exciting, just like the magic who was interviewed by the media after this game said.
"It's a fantasy team, they're more like show-time than we are, there's no doubt I'm a die-hard fan of them, Coach Z did a fantastic job, he made the Lakers synonymous with perfect basketball"
Of course, for Los Angeles fans, this year's Lakers are a surprise and amazing. And at this time, the team that only amazed them did not have much time to pay attention to these crazy Los Angeles media. Although said in the big place of Los Angeles. Zhuang Fei may not have as much freedom as in Minnesota or Boston, but there is no doubt that he can still do some things, such as the Lakers were all silent after the game against the Wizards, even Kobe, who has always liked to speak in front of the media, was completely silent this time.
Although the Lakers' collective silence hurt the Los Angeles media a little, they also knew that the coming week was likely to be the team's biggest regular season game of the season, and they finally chose to give the Lakers a smooth preparation time before this game, although it would cost them a lot. But for the sake of this year's Laker and the Chinese who have slowly become their new favorite, the Los Angeles media compromised for the first time.
On December 20, at 7 p.m., Los Angeles Staples Arena, this is the Los Angeles Lakers' home game against the Memphis Raptors, fourth in the West.
This season, the Los Angeles Lakers have been impressive, with almost all of the teams facing most of them in horrific sweeps, and in the 23 games that the Los Angeles Lakers have played, there are only a handful of teams that can pose a threat to the Lakers, and these few teams include the Raptors. The team caused huge problems for the Lakers when they faced them on the road, and finally forced Zhuang Fei to let Webb tangle with Kwame Brown one-on-one to take away a win from the team's home court. Arguably, this team is also one of the few teams in the league that can pose a threat to the Lakers.
In the face of such a team, Zhuang Fei naturally can't take it lightly, in fact, Zhuang Fei also attaches great importance to this game, this game The Lakers all three old people are back, and the truce of the last game makes these three veterans also very hungry, in this case, the Los Angeles Lakers are also all the main players.
In the first game between the two sides, Kwame Brown was the winner of the two teams, although the Raptors' best defensive player is really tragic on the offensive end, but the current offensive rebounding king of the league can be said to be one-on-one in terms of rebounding No one can stop him, especially when Webb is distracted by the organization, in this case, he can perfectly suppress the Lakers' counterattack in terms of offensive rebounding and make the Lakers sleepy, In the last game, Zhuang Fei also used Webber to win the game directly one-on-one with him.
In this case, Zhuang Fei continued the strategy of the last time the two teams played away from home, and this game originally belonged to Webb's organizational assist task so that Zhuang Fei handed over to Hardaway and Hill, as long as one of the two appeared against Alstom, then it was the turn of whoever held the ball.
For the Raptors, the team's starting lineup offense is really strong, but the defense is not strong, especially the outside defense, they are more likely to use outside players to attack, and let Kwame Brown wipe their butts, and in the last game, the Los Angeles Lakers proved that as long as they are entangled by Webber, then it is difficult for the Raptors' leading interior to move easily and it is difficult to wipe the butts of his other teammates.
Of course, now that he knows the operation mode of this team, Zhuang Fei naturally can't give up the game strategy of the two teams in the last game, but in this game, it is obvious that the Raptors have already prepared, and what makes Zhuang Fei even more surprised is that the head coach of the Raptors, Sam Mitchell, let Anthony appear in the No. 4 position, which is obviously to improve the offensive and defensive speed of the Raptors, but also to suppress the Lakers' fast break, and also to grab the second offense.
There is no doubt that when the Raptors' leading player appeared at the No. 4 position, the balance under the basket was naturally broken, just like at the beginning of the last game, Webber was very passive under the basket alone, although Grant Hill could provide Webber with some help, but it was a little difficult for him to fight with Anthony, the two were not the same style, in this case, these two teams played extremely anxiously in the first half, at least it was extremely difficult to see who lost and who won, After all, the score was 55-52 at halftime, and the Los Angeles Lakers only led by three points at home.
This game Raptors are really fighting the Lakers, for this team, their performance this season is very good, at least in terms of current performance, in the first 20 games they are sitting in the fourth position in the West, and for this team, they want to become the top three in the West is a little difficult, in this case, if this team maintains the current regular season ranking, then they are likely to be the Lakers today's opponent in the playoffs, and this possibility is still very large, in this case, Why didn't they choose to fight for the Lakers? By the way, look for holes in this team, as Sam Mitchell did in this game.
For experts who hate it, the Lakers' schedule has been very difficult in recent times, whether it is the Kings or the Wizards or the Raptors are not easy teams to beat, and in fact, the Lakers have not played well enough in the last three games, which is a little worse than the previous almost 30, 40, or even 50 wins.
At the beginning of December this season, since the away challenge to the Bulls and Bucks, the Lakers' victory margin has been shrinking, which is not only because the Lakers' opponents in December are generally stronger, but also because many NBA teams are now studying this team, as many people say, the Lakers have been too rebellious, and many people have thought that they are the first favorite this season, which is completely different from being ignored at the beginning of the season. In this case, many people think that the Lakers will be tough in the coming period or the rest of the game, just as Kobe Bryant's points per game average will decline in the future.
Of course, whether it will be very difficult in the future, Zhuang Fei doesn't know, but in this game he is really not easy, of course, it is not easy to be easy, he still has a solution in this game.
In this game, the Raptors continue to impact the inside, and Zhuang Fei also has players who can impact the Raptors' inside, such as the team's Josh Smith, who scored a career-high 18 points as a starter in the last game, after the start of the second half, Zhuang Fei replaced the jumping man, Grant Hill can't stand Anthony doesn't mean he can't stand it, these two are ace players of Oak Hill High School, Anthony is still Josh Smith's senior, and after the start of the second half, the Lakers are also on track again.
In fact, although in the first half, the Lakers seemed to be suppressed inside, but they still did not suffer too much, and after the Lakers changed formation in the third quarter, although the Lakers' situation looked a lot better, the score between the two sides was still very anxious, 85-80, this is the score at the end of the third quarter of the game, of course, when the fourth quarter of this game began, Zhuang Fei still did not go to Kobe, and in the last game, Zhuang Fei still suppressed the Raptors without Kobe in the fourth quarter, And this game also ended with the Lakers defeating the Raptors 111-107 at home.
And after the victory in this game, the Los Angeles Lakers also achieved their 24th consecutive victory this season, and after the end of this home game, Zhuang Fei and the Lakers remained silent, which also made many Los Angeles media extremely disappointed, but this is also no way, since they chose to choose to fully support this team, then they can't think about anything else, but what makes these Los Angeles media more happy is that after the Los Angeles Lakers and the Hornets at home on December 22, Zhuang Fei, who defeated the Hornets 129-100 and won his 25th consecutive victory of the season, finally spoke up.
"Wait, we're coming"
This is Zhuang Fei's smiling sentence after the end of this game, and the meaning of this sentence is naturally extremely clear, and the same sentence is also extremely obvious.
The Lakers' next game will be the Christmas game against the New York Knicks on December 25. (To be continued.) )