Chapter 905: A Great Victory over Black and White
The Los Angeles Lakers flew directly to Portland with the team from Minnesota to Portland after the game with the Timberwolves, and did not return to Los Angeles, so the impact of the recent Lakers crisis on this team is also limited.
Although the impact is limited, it does not mean that there is no impact, and now with the rise of online media, almost everyone can easily get all kinds of information, such as Zhuang Fei knew after coming to Portland that many media outside are now waiting to see the Lakers' jokes.
Or wait to see how the Lakers lost two in a row, and similarly, Kobe Bryant, who performed poorly in the last game, was also criticized, so to speak, after the Lakers broke the unbeaten golden body, all kinds of shells were shooting at this team.
In fact, for this team, the Portland Trail Blazers, this team does have the ability to beat the Los Angeles Lakers, this team's interior twin towers have now become one of the strongest interior combinations in the league, at least this team relies on its two big men, in recent years against the Grizzlies is basically a double killer, and this has been praised by many fans, this is a very destructive team.
For this team, how can Zhuang Fei not care, although it is obvious that the media outside have fallen into the ground, but it is true that the Lakers are not good at playing this game, and the Lakers' internal loopholes do exist.
It's just that although there are a lot of difficulties in this game for the Lakers, it doesn't mean that the Lakers will repeat the tragedy of the Timberwolves in this game, after all, the Portland Trail Blazers and the Timberwolves are still different. Although they are all twin tower teams. And this difference also makes Zhuang Fei confident enough to beat this team.
Zhuang Fei went from the west to the east four years ago to coach. Therefore, the contact with this team in recent seasons is only two games in the regular season, and the regular season is still in different regions, so Zhuang Fei has not had a lot of intersections with this team in recent years.
But almost all fans know that when Zhuang Fei left the Timberwolves, the Trail Blazers were once known as Zhuang Fei's most likely next home, and this team almost got Zhuang Fei's favor, at least many Portland Trail Blazers fans think so.
After all, at that time, the owner of this team, Paul Allen, fired Zhuang Fei from the highest annual salary of all coaches in the world. 10 years and 200 million US dollars, for many fans, Zhuang Fei will definitely be moved by this price, but in the end, he did not expect that he actually rejected the offer and accepted the contract of the Boston Celtics.
This was a sensational thing back then, many fans also called Zhuang Fei a model at that time, after all, not everyone can refuse such a temptation, and this year, after the Chinese joined the Lakers, Old Bass often said in interviews that the contract he originally prepared for Zhuang Fei was an annual salary of 50 million. But in the end, the Chinese only asked for 30 million, which made many fans who have always regarded the NBA as a commercial entertainment league have a big change in their impression of the NBA.
At the very least, the Chinese who are promoted the most by the NBA are not such mercenary people.
Of course. The fate of Zhuang Fei and the Trail Blazers is not just that Zhuang Fei almost became the head coach of this team, when he was in the Timberwolves, the Trail Blazers in the West were also one of the main opponents of the Timberwolves, at that time, the Timberwolves' famous 'inverted triangle' tactic was generated in the face of this team, but at that time the head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers was Dunleavy, and the boss of this team was not black and white but Rashid and Sabonis and others.
It can be said that for Zhuang Fei, the fans here are very conflicted, they like Zhuang Fei for sure, and Zhuang Fei is also their former enemy, and the Lakers are also their former enemies, so when Zhuang Fei took the Lakers to the Rose Garden, he was also treated differently by two kinds.
Half of the fans are booing Zhuang Fei, and half of the fans are giving applause to the Chinese who has been scandalous with his team, you know, the Liverpool owner Paul Allen, who has been nesting in England and fighting with the Russian, also flew back to the United States at this time to watch the game in person, you must know that the American giant has not been very interested in the NBA since the Premier League at night.
So after Zhuang Fei came to the stadium and hugged his old friend, the owner of the pioneers also said something that made Zhuang Fei extremely speechless.
"Zhuang, that kid from Chris is too much of a person, he used to be my assistant, I asked him for a player and he didn't give it, Zhuang, you say, Drogba won't let me go, you make a price, FVCK, if I don't overturn that Russian this year, I'll quit football"
Looking at one of the angry Microsoft bosses in front of him, Zhuang Fei also felt a little funny, now the Premier League championship has entered the white heat, last season Abu entered the Premier League with a huge amount of rubles, ruining Paul Allen's dream of preparing for the Premier League three consecutive championships.
And this year, Hiddink's Charlton Athletic also suppressed Liverpool very much, and the Trail Blazers owner called more than once to ask Zhuang Fei's Manchester City to support him, but Zhuang Fei has always handed over Manchester City's affairs to Chris.
Due to the pressure of Mourinho, Chris naturally cannot send all the team's superstars to Liverpool, although Manchester City has little chance of winning the championship, but it has to be fought for, but Zhuang Fei looks at Paul Allen's posture, if he can't win Drogba, I'm afraid he will be pestering himself.
"Well, I'll go back and talk to Chris, you can talk to Chris about the specific price" Zhuang Fei smiled and looked at the bright-eyed Trailblazer boss and said helplessly, this can be regarded as a grievance against Mourinho, but turning around and throwing all the transfer fees to him, and then signing him a few Portuguese fellows should be able to calm his anger.
"Zhuang, or, give me Cristiana Ronaldo again" Just when Zhuang Fei was thinking about how to let Chris appease Mourinho, the Trailblazers boss also said with his eyes shining in anticipation again, and at this time Zhuang Fei directly smiled bitterly and said, 'Get out', and then Paul Allen and Zhuang Fei both laughed, and the relationship between the two was very good. Paul Allen is not a man who gets an inch. So it's also a joke between the two.
It's just that Zhuang Fei and Paul Allen are talking and laughing in the first row of the audience at the Rose Garden Arena. The Portland Trail Blazers fans in the stands are extremely bitter, judging from the form of these two, what a good relationship, but why can't Paul Allen dig Zhuang Fei?
Of course, for the fans, they are sorry that they were not able to get Zhuang Fei, but for some others, they don't have the idea of fans. For example, the current head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers, Morris Cheeks, the former assistant coach of the 76ers and a disciple of Larry Brown, is now under a lot of pressure.
Although it can be seen from Zhuang Fei's refusal to come to Portland to coach four years ago that this Chinese has no interest here, anyone who sees his boss and a person who is also an NBA head coach has such a hot relationship, he is also a little concerned, at least, as the head coach of the Trail Blazers, he has hardly spoken to his boss a few times, which is also a tragedy.
Now my own boss is here. As long as he can defeat the Lakers led by Zhuang Fei, he believes that he should be able to get a different look from Paul Allen. It's just that he is not sure whether his team can beat the Lakers.
Now in the public opinion outside, the Lakers are almost said by many media experts to be defeated by the Trail Blazers, their reason is very simple, the Trail Blazers have twin towers that are not inferior to the Timberwolves, but the former assistant coach of Larry Brown is very clear that the Trail Blazers are the Trail Blazers, this team is not the Timberwolves.
For the last game between the Timberwolves and the Lakers, the head coach of the Trail Blazers has studied it seriously, and for him as an NBA head coach, the reason why the Lakers failed in this game was not because they were defeated by the Timberwolves on the offensive end with the power of the twin towers, the Lakers lost to Kobe Bryant at the beginning of the encirclement of Bowen and Garnett and lost his rhythm.
It can be said that the Lakers are not afraid of the Timberwolves' twin towers offense, even if the Timberwolves played well in the last game, this team only scored more than 120 points, if the Lakers' offense plays normally, this team can score more than 130 points per game, this team can still beat the Timberwolves.
But in the end, the Lakers only scored 122 points, which is already very high, but it is not the normal offensive situation of the Lakers, and it can be said that the key to the Timberwolves' victory is that this only limits the Lakers' offense, not the so-called twin towers.
As the Chinese said when they beat the Bulls and Bucks in a row a month ago, they have never been afraid of the twin towers, or they have never been afraid of the opponents that the offense can solve, for this Lakers, if they want to take the twin towers and they to attack, it is difficult to have a chance, in this case, the pressure on Cheeks can be imagined.
The whole world hopes and thinks that he can win, but he doesn't think he can do it now, and this kind of public opinion pressure has no effect on the Lakers, and it is a little speechless for him and his team.
Of course, this game is not easy to play, and Cheeks is naturally very aware of this, so he has no extra way out, no matter what public opinion outside says, for him, this game needs to be won in front of his boss, and this is enough.
"No matter what, I'm going to give it my all in this game," the head coach of the Trailblazers finally looked at the Chinese on the side and said with some secret determination.
Of course, Zhuang Fei on the side didn't know that Cheeks had made up his mind to beat him, in fact, Zhuang Fei didn't have too many thoughts about this team, when he played the Timberwolves in the last game, the Lakers' offense was very depressed, so he wanted to get it back in this game, and when he saw the starting lineup of the Trail Blazers, he didn't have too much worry about his offense.
In this game, the Lakers are still the starting lineup of the last game, Webb, Hill, Szczebiak on the front line, and Kobe Bryant and Hardaway on the guard line, as for the Trail Blazers, the inside line here is the black and white duo Pau Gasol and Randolph, the small forward is Jamison, and the scoring guard is Derrick Anderson, the guard who was Zhuang Fei's old opponent at the University of Kentucky when he was in the NCAA, was traded to the Spurs, and now he is back, and he is in good shape this season, as for the organizational guard, he should have retired, But this season has rejuvenated the alien Kassel with a second spring.
It can be said that on paper, the Trail Blazers, who are competing for fifth place in the West with the Mavericks and the SuperSonics, are a very strong team, especially on the offensive end, although the five people on the defensive end are not so good.
So this game is basically an offensive situation from the moment the two teams come on the court, and for the offensive game, Zhuang Fei has never been worried, although this team can see from the double kill of the Grizzlies that their offense is quite good, especially the strong offensive ability.
Therefore, after the Lakers came on the court, Zhuang Fei didn't have too many defensive strategies, just let the Lakers collect it, try not to give the Trail Blazers too many secondary offensive opportunities, and leave the rest to the Lakers' offense to solve, as long as they protect their backcourt rebounds twice, the Lakers' offensive speed can play.
And at this point, the Lakers did a good job after the start of this game, the Lakers' speed ran up in the first quarter of the game, it is obvious that the team lost to the Timberwolves in the last game is holding back a wave of resentment, especially the last game was made by Garnett and Bowen without temper Kobe, this game broke out again, the Lakers beat the Trail Blazers 38-29 in the first quarter, this team's twin towers Lakers are indeed unstoppable, the strong offensive ability of the black and white heroes is very good, but really to talk about offensive ability, It's a little worse than the Timberwolves Twin Towers.
So when the two teams really run, the Trail Blazers were quickly dragged down by the Lakers, and at the end of the third quarter of the game, the Lakers led the Trail Blazers by 35 points 115-80, and the game also entered garbage time, and at this time, Paul Allen, who was sitting in the stands, began to cheer for the Lakers, and many Trail Blazers fans shouted MVP when Kobe Bryant and Webb got the ball.
And the most embarrassing thing about the Lakers' unexpected outburst in this game is naturally those reporters who came to Portland with the Lakers and wanted to see the Lakers' second joke, especially these reporters who wanted to see Zhuang Fei's jokes, when they saw the Lakers beat the Trail Blazers 150-103 away at the end of the game, these people's faces were ugly, and the expected scene of the Lakers being smashed to death by the twin towers did not appear.
And Zhuang Fei's words at the post-match press conference in this game made these people extremely embarrassed.
"It's a pity that my team won't have a losing streak, you don't count"
In the end, Zhuang Fei said this sentence with a smile, and when he shook his hand and left, it made the reporters on the scene and the head coach of the Trail Blazers, Cheeks, extremely embarrassed. (To be continued.) )