(This chapter is the most difficult chapter to write since the fisherman wrote the book, I wrote and deleted, deleted and wrote, and in the end I was still not satisfied, and finally I thought about it for a while or forgot it, or I didn't get entangled)

"Coach, are you really going to arrange this game like this? It's not that big for us, but it can't be like that."

On December 17, 2004, Los Angeles, Staples Arena, the home team's locker room, at this time, the Los Angeles Lakers players were preparing their equipment for this game to play, and the Lakers' head coach Zhuang Fei had been leaning in front of the locker room and waiting, and the Lakers' assistant coach Green had been saying something to Zhuang Fei with some worry, but on the surface, the Lakers' head coach didn't seem to say much.

This game is the Los Angeles Lakers' home game against the Wizards, who are fourth in the East, and this game is also the home back-to-back game of the Los Angeles Lakers, who only played the Sacramento Kings yesterday, and of course, this game is also a back-to-back game for the Wizards, who just played the Clippers here yesterday. However, the slightly better thing about the Kings than the Lakers is that they have been in Los Angeles for the past few days and have not moved, so this back-to-back on the road is actually not a back-to-back game for them.

And what worries Green is the arrangement of the head coach of the team next to him in this game, if it is said that even if it is a lot of consumption to play the king in the last game, but this game is also a rotation that makes Green a little worried, after all, although the Wizards are missing a stable scoring point that can contribute an average of 20 points per game in the second and third positions after Jordan retired.

But this team has been impressive this season, and they are fourth in the East this season. Second only to the grizzly bears. Three teams, Celtics and New York Knicks. In terms of strength, it is also extremely strong, in this case, even if the Lakers are all the main players, they may not be able to win this team, not to mention that Zhuang Fei actually took the team's three veterans off in this game, which makes people feel a little incredible, even too bold.

Although the Los Angeles Lakers have won 22 consecutive games after beating the Kings yesterday, they are currently in first place in the West and first in the league, and are two wins away from the Grizzlies, who are second in the league. The Grizzlies have lost two games so far, and it can be said that this game will not have any essential impact on the team's ranking in the league for the Lakers, whether they win or lose, but even so, they have won 22 consecutive games, and such a winning streak is not very common in Zhuang Fei's NBA career, although Zhuang Fei often plays a season record of 65 wins and more than 70 wins, but there are not many things that have won more than 20 consecutive games in a single season.

In this case. Although Zhuang Fei has not said anything, Green knows that his teacher cherishes this winning streak. And he himself is the same, therefore, this game was directly blinded for a while when he saw the lineup sent by Zhuang Fei, he didn't want the team's 22-game winning streak to end like this, but even if he kept suggesting, Zhuang Fei didn't care very much, and still didn't want to change the meaning.

"Stephen, you have to believe in their ability, since they have been recruited into the team, you should not have reserved belief in the players you selected" In the end, Zhuang Fei also looked at his assistant a little helplessly and said, and at this time, Green only had a wry smile after hearing Zhuang Fei's words, no matter what, he didn't believe that the Lakers without the three elders could beat a team like the Wizards. But in the end, seeing his teacher's somewhat tense face, he also sighed and chose to be silent.

Although this game has no impact on the Lakers' rankings, this game is really important to the Lakers, when a team comes to 22 games, no team will give up at this time, although Zhuang Fei according to the plan he set at the beginning of the season to rest the Lakers' three old turns, but never thought of losing in this game.

Of course, this game is also extremely important for the Wizards, because after the East and West have changed from two to three regions this year, as the leader of the Southeast District, the Wizards are now behind the New York Knicks, the second leader in the Atlantic District, so they can only be ranked fourth.

If they are still the fourth Grizzlies to enter the playoffs this year to face the first place, then it will be a real tragedy, you know, this team has faced the Grizzlies in the playoffs in recent years, and it is a must-lose, if they really want to go further, then they must strive to get into the top three, in this case, especially this kind of strong dialogue must not be lost.

It's the first 10 days of Christmas, and the holiday atmosphere in the United States is getting stronger and stronger, and as the home of the Lakers, so is Staples Arena, and now many Lakers fans are coming here with Santa Claus' mustaches to watch this game that has been praised by many experts in the United States as the NBA's most gorgeous team so far, whether it is the Wizards or the Lakers, they have been praised by many media as the two most gorgeous teams in the NBA this year, and this game is also attracting much attention in this case, At least for American fans or Los Angeles fans who are approaching Christmas, it's an appetizer for Christmas dinner.

"Zhuang, the Lakers are really scary this year, even if we are in the East, we can still feel the pressure brought by your team"

D'Antoni looked at his former boss in front of him and then listened to the crazy cheers at the Staples Arena with some emotion, he originally thought that the Timberwolves' bombardment was already the pinnacle of basketball offense, but this year's Lakers are indeed stronger than the Timberwolves of that year, and this team's more thorough small lineup is also more individual.

In fact, he himself lowered the height of the team on the basis of the Timberwolves' bombardment, but even if the height of the team is lowered without the inside twin towers of the Timberwolves at their peak, there is also a substantial center Stoudemire and a substantial power forward Marion, although he has also thought about giving up the center's style of play, but just thinking about it, he is indeed very deviant, but it has not yet reached the point of Zhuang Fei's 'big rebellion'.

Of course, he doesn't have the capital of Zhuang Fei, although he is also the general manager and head coach of the Wizards. But if he dares to play like Zhuang Fei. As long as he makes a slight mistake. Before the experts in the United States sprayed him with spittle, he himself was estimated to have been killed by internal contradictions, and in this case, he could only envy Zhuang Fei.

"In fact, the Wizards have also performed well this year, and you are likely to go further this year," Zhuang Fei also said with a smile.

The Wizards have been blocked in the Eastern Conference semifinals for the past three years, failing to reach the Eastern Conference Finals and Finals, and this year this team does have a chance to go further if they can make it to the top three in the East, and this team has retired in the eyes of many people. This team is definitely going to fall this season.

But what is amazing is that this team has not fallen, but has shown that it is not inferior to last season's results, it should be said that it is better than last season's results, last season's Wizards fell into a slump, even a little lifeless, but this season's Wizards are giving people a sense of vitality, and more importantly, the team's new leader Nash has so far averaged 21 points and 13 assists per game, making this point guard another 20+10 point guard in league history.

You know, it doesn't matter if you're a traditional point guard or a scoring point guard. 20+10 is a standard for a point guard, it's the best performance stats for a point guard's strength, why are Smiling Assassins Isaiah Thomas and Big O Robert and Magic Johnson the three strongest playmakers in history? It's because they can easily achieve 20+10 in one season. They can do it if they want to, and that's the highest level of point guarding.

After that, neither Stockton nor Kidd were far inferior to them. In fact, these three are indeed the three best playmaking guards in NBA history, one is the one who suppresses Jordan, one is the only one who averages a triple-double per game, and the other is needless to say. And if Nash can complete the season 20+10 this season, then his status is definitely not just a 20+10, as long as he does this, he will be the league's No. 1 point guard, he will undoubtedly be the league's No. 1 point guard, even if Kidd's seniority is useless.

Of course, that is the threshold for the possibility of becoming a 20+10 playmaker this season to enter the historic point guard, and in fact, Chris Paul, who has reached this threshold in Zhuang Fei's previous life, has warmed up as a starter in this game at this time, for many people, Paul and Nash will not be reminiscent of this game together, but for Zhuang Fei, these two are absolutely interesting, because one is that it is possible to win 20+ nowThe team that becomes the first point guard in 10 plays against another future first point guard player who has the potential to score 20+10 in the future.

"Yes, the Wizards are doing great this year, Stephen is very good, and the rookie we selected this year, Kevin Martin, is also very good" When he said this, D'Antoni also looked at Zhuang Fei with some gratitude and said, one of these two was cultivated by Zhuang Fei, and the other was selected by Zhuang Fei, this season the Wizards can have such a performance Zhuang Fei is definitely indispensable, and his former assistant coach said so Zhuang Fei just smiled slightly.

The starters of the Los Angeles Lakers in this game are Josh Smith on the front line, Stephen Jackson and Szczebiak, and the players on the guard line are Kobe and Paul, which is the strongest team of the Los Angeles Lakers in addition to the three olds, and the tactical core of this lineup has also changed from Webb to Paul, in fact, this lineup has played a lot this season Lakers have played a lot of times in the fourth quarter of the Lakers are this lineup, and this lineup The Lakers' offensive speed is faster, and the cooperation between Kobe and Paul is also excellent, It can be seen that Kobe Bryant and Paul have a very good relationship in private and can be brought to the court. It is also precisely because this lineup performed well before that Zhuang Fei dared to use it in this game against the Wizards.

"Coach Z is really bold, he dares to use such a lineup in such a game, and he is really not afraid of losing" In the media commentary booth of Staples Arena, Kenny Smith and Barkley also wiped the cold sweat on their foreheads and said, but they still admired Zhuang Fei's courage and commitment.

"Although the strength of the Wizards seems to be superior from now, the Lakers are not without the power to fight" Finally, Kenny Smith looked at Josh Smith and Stoudemire who were preparing to jump and said with some deep meaning, because as long as the Lakers bench is standing in front of the Chinese, no one can easily beat this team.

In fact, D'Antoni thinks so, he never thinks the Lakers sent a bench lineup to underestimate the enemy, and he knows his former boss better than anyone.

Although Zhuang Fei is important, D'Antoni still thinks that the Wizards will get out of this game, and most of the Lakers fans on the scene are still very worried about the team's game, after all, in all aspects, the two teams play similarly, and the stronger ones must have the advantage, and the Lakers' starting five, whether it is Stoudemire and Marion, or Hamilton and Nash, these are all players who have made it to the All-Star, and the only rookie player who has not made the All-Star Kevin Martin, He's also a quality rookie averaging 10 points per game this season.

"At the beginning of the game, Stoudemire beat Josh Smith to jump the ball successfully, Nash received the ball and advanced, the Lakers' defense was not fully established, but Paul was already in place, Nash was ready to break through Paul, huh? Nash suddenly stopped when he pressed Paul to the left side of the free throw line, and the beautiful half-volley hook shot, Paul had no way to stop it because of his height, which was the magic trick of the year, little sky hook" Kenny Smith looked at Nash, who had just hit a half-volley hook shot on Paul's head, and wiped the cold sweat on his forehead again.

The forest led by Zhuang Fei was very strange back then, and two of these strange ones were the most terrifying of them, one was Wang Zhizhi who learned Abdul-Jabbar's Sky Hook stunt, and the other was Nash, who learned the magician Little Sky Hook stunt, you know, since the Magic and Abdul-Jabbar, no one in the NBA has been able to play such a stunt, and when they finally appeared, they found that these two people still miraculously appeared on the same team.

"It seems that Paul's game will be difficult" After Kenny Smith finished speaking, Barkley also said with a smile, he is a contemporaneous person with Magic, when Magic used his height to play a back pass or play this hook shot almost crippled most of the league's No. 1 position, and from now on, Paul's height is much worse than Nash, although Nash is not as good as Magic, but it is absolutely enough to deal with Paul.

"Little Chris, are you okay?" looked at his friend and teammate looking at the back of Nash leaving in a daze, Kobe Bryant on the side also asked a little worriedly, and at this time, Kobe Bryant was a little surprised that his friend's eyes quickly changed from surprise to an expression burning like a flame.

"This guy is strong," Chris Paul said with some excitement under Kobe's surprised eyes.

"I like it, though," and after saying that, the Lakers' rookie player turned straight to the baseline.

It looks like his aggressive temper is back up.

(According to the historical 2004-2005 season's regular season ranking rules, the first in each region shares a 1-3 ranking, and then the best second place in each region ranks fourth, but this ranking rule has too many loopholes, so the fisherman changed to the current NBA regular season ranking rules at this time, and Vancouver was assigned to the Central Division, and Chicago was assigned to the Atlantic) (To be continued.) )