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After beating the Bobcats at home, the Los Angeles Lakers ended all of their January season games, and at the start of February, Lakers star Kobe Bryant was once again named the league's Western Conference Player of the Month.

This is the third consecutive time that the Lakers star player has won this honor this season, and it is because of this that the Lakers' star player is still at the top of the latest MVP rankings.

In addition to the best coach and best player, Paul also won the Western Conference Rookie of the Month.

It's fair to say that the whole month of January was a good month for the Lakers, and the impact of breaking the league's longest winning streak has not faded yet, even if the team's winning streak has ended.

Of course, as many people have said, the Lakers' madness seems to be a thing of the past, and now, the Lakers also need to start a new journey, and in the new month, the Lakers' opponent is the San Antonio Spurs, who are currently third in the West.

Originally, the battle between this team and the Timberwolves for second place in the West was extremely fierce, and there was only one win difference between the two teams, and the Spurs were in the lead before the Lakers and Timberwolves game.

But after the Timberwolves beat the Lakers on their home court, the team has gained a lot of confidence, and the team is now on a 13-game winning streak, which has put the Spurs under them in one fell swoop, and if the Spurs want to regain their position, this game and the Lakers will be important. Especially since it's still away. And the Lakers won all of the previous two meetings.

this game. If the Spurs want to regain second place in the West, they must beat the Lakers, or the gap between them and the Timberwolves will widen again.

Although there is no essential difference between second and third, there is no doubt that home court advantage is still important for teams like the Timberwolves and Spurs of similar strength, and in previous years, when Zhuang Fei was with the Celtics, whether it was beating the Lakers in 2004 or beating the Spurs in 2003 to win the championship. Home field advantage is all on Celtic's side.

It's just like the Spurs are ready to pursue victory in this game, Zhuang Fei is not prepared to give up the victory like this, this game is also very important to Zhuang Fei and the Lakers, and finally came out of the shadow of losing to the Timberwolves, Zhuang Fei is not ready to lose again.

In the first two games of this season, the Spurs used the strong offensive ability of their interior star Duncan when they played the Lakers in the first game, and when they played the Lakers in the second game, they lost because of the strong attack on the inside, so they started to run and bomb, although this run and bomb looked good, but it still lost. So it came to the third game, after the start of the game. Zhuang Fei saw that this team had changed formations again, and this team actually played the umbrella tactic that Zhuang Fei used in the Timberwolves not long ago.

"This guy deliberately switched lineups in the regular season" Looking at the Spurs who ran up and threw three points where they were crazy in the first quarter, Zhuang Fei on the sidelines was also stunned, and finally a little speechless.

"Coach, it seems that Popovich will not stop until he finds a way to beat us, and it is estimated that he will change in the next game" After Zhuang Fei finished speaking, Green on the side also nodded and said.

"I'm afraid he didn't find a way to defeat us, but found a way, but in the end he found that he had no one available" In the end, Zhuang Fei also looked at the side, and the Popovich who had been shouting something in the field also said with a smile, and at this time Green was also stunned.

Zhuang Fei knows that the head coach of the Spurs has been seeking a trade recently, but it is obvious how difficult it is to find a center player similar to Wang Zhizhi of the Timberwolves now, which is conceivable, and the offensive center has almost reached the point of exhaustion.

Although the dishes in Popovich's hands are not very to his liking, they are actually not bad, he did not have twin towers in this game, so he could only gamble in the end, and I have to say that Popovich's gambling umbrella tactics were definitely successful in this game.

The team used Duncan's pressing basket and Kidd's tandem after the game started, whether it was Eric Williams, Ragabel or Robert Hawley's three-point accuracy, in this case, the Spurs head coach's strategy in this game was also considered successful.

In the current NBA, the umbrella tactic invented by Zhuang Fei six years ago has been extremely popular, and it can be said that it is the most popular tactic among all the tactics invented by Zhuang Fei, after all, the requirements of this tactic are not high, an interior line who can grab the board, a point guard who can share the ball, and three players who can throw three-pointers are enough.

It can be said that it is not difficult for most NBA teams to find such a configuration, so many basketball experts have always believed that Zhuang Fei is the most important promoter of the NBA three-point revolution.

Although it is said that the umbrella tactic can throw dead people, but there are not many coaches who can really win by umbrella tactics, except for Zhuang Fei, the inventor, I am afraid that the one who wins the most with this tactic is Popovich, this guy has been playing this thing since he retired as an admiral.

Because of this, the Spurs head coach also has a lot of ideas about when to use this tactic.

"This old boy's piracy ability is too strong" Looking at the Spurs who were frantically throwing three-pointers on the court, Zhuang Fei also secretly wiped the cold sweat on his forehead.

Zhuang Fei remembered that in his previous life, Popovich was a coach who could copy tactics very strongly, such as the shark cutting tactics of the old Nelson, although the shark cutting was invented by the old Nelson, but the best used was Popovich, such as the offense of the Sun and the Mavericks in the NBA, and finally all such offensive modes appeared on the Spurs, and the Spurs were one of the most firepower teams in the NBA in the years before Zhuang Fei crossed.

And even now, whether it's the previous triangle offense, the Timberwolves-style run-and-gun, or many other tactics, Popovich is not bad at all, and this is the most difficult point for the Spurs head coach, this is a kaleidoscopic head coach.

However, in this game, the Spurs, who are ready to rely on umbrella tactics and the Lakers' desperate efforts, are after a strong start, and as the game progresses, they slowly fall into the disadvantage again, and the main reason for this is not that the Spurs' three-point shots are inaccurate or out of order, this team has been very good in this game, but the Los Angeles Lakers' offense is stronger.

"Did you still lose in the end?" Popovich looked at the Spurs on the court who had not given up a little helplessly, originally his team's configuration was all aimed at the Timberwolves, and now he suddenly killed a Laker to make his strategy this season chaotic, and this is also to force him to find a way to beat the Lakers, but this is not easy, but the failure of this game also made Popovich understand that this road against the Lakers does not work.

Although Popovich played an umbrella tactic in this game, this team is still the same as the previous game, fighting against the Lakers on the offensive end, and if you want to fight against the Lakers on the offensive end, this Spurs may be difficult to do.

When the game was over, the 136-122 score on the scoreboard at Staples Arena was a reminder to everyone that no team could beat the Lakers, not even the Spurs, in offensive conversation.

After beating the Spurs at home, the Lakers also won their 43rd game.

However, on February 3, the day after the Lakers defeated the Spurs, the whole league focused not on the results of the Lakers and Spurs, but about this year's Denver All-Star, February 3, 2005 was the day when the Denver All-Star third round voting results came out, and the day the All-Star announced the head coach of the East and West.

There is not much suspense about the position of the All-Star head coach this year, and the Grizzlies with the best record in the East this year are much higher than other Eastern teams, so Rick Carlisle locked the position of the head coach of the East All-Star early, and in the West, the Timberwolves' record is also ahead of the Spurs, so the Timberwolves head coach George Carr is the head coach of the West All-Star, and although Zhuang Fei is the head coach with the best record in the West, he has already coached the All-Star last year, so he can't coach continuously.

In addition to the fact that there is no suspense about the All-Star head coach, this year's All-Star starters are extremely suspenseful, after all, except for a few positions, almost every position has several competitors, and in this case, when the league announced this All-Star starting list, it also caused a huge reversal.

The Eastern All-Star starters are, Yao Ming, Maddy, Carter and Nash and Iverson, Yao Ming and O'Neal Although O'Neal has been in a weak position in the first few votes, but when he finally lost, many people were also extremely shocked, and after last year's Finals, with the results of this All-Star, the voice of the league's first center battle also appeared again, and unlike the East, when the Western All-Star starters, Duncan, Webb, Hill, Hardaway and Kobe Bryant's lineup appeared, Everyone was silent.

The Lakers became the first team in NBA history to hold four of the five All-Star starting spots. (To be continued.) )