Chapter 535: Collapsed OK Combo
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Los Angeles has been one of the focal points of the NBA these days, if the Boston Celtics' inability to coexist with Arenas and Maddy is only on the court, the two are still very good off the court, even on the court because Zhuang Fei can control it, it has not had much impact on the Boston Celtics.
But with the Los Angeles Lakers, with the rise of Kobe Bryant at the start of the season, it's fair to say that the situation within this team is much more complicated than the Boston Celtics.
The Lakers' tactics are a single-core triangle offense, even if Kobe Bryant or Szzebiak performed well in previous seasons, but there is no doubt that the real tactical core of the Lakers is only Fat O'Fat, all the players revolve around this big fat man, no one will deny this at this point, and the league's No. 1 center has indeed shown his dominance to everyone.
In the previous Lakers, there may be other individual players who are not satisfied with the position they want to be in, and they can also hope to obtain a higher status and tactical position, but because of O'Neal's suppression, even if there is this idea, it is difficult to put it into action, because the players who can shake the tactical position of O'Fat in the league can be counted on one finger, and the Lakers in front of Kobe Bryant or Szebiak are definitely not those players who can shake O'Fat's tactical position and can be counted on one finger.
In this case, although the Lakers said that there are some undercurrents inside, whether it is on the court or off the court. Everyone's goals and positioning are very clear, and everyone knows what they have to do.
But before it was before. In the current Lakers, it is no longer like that, with the long-term injury of O'Fat giving the team's second Kobe Bryant a chance to prove himself. At the same time, it also allowed him to really prove himself, and more importantly, it also made his strength absolutely improved, and now this Lakers guard is an A+ player like Ao Fat, in this case, the Lakers sky suddenly has an extra sun.
And what is more tragic is that under the system or tactical requirements of this team's head coach Phil Jackson. It's really hard for these two suns to coexist, and only one of them can sacrifice a lot of their own light and color, and in this case, it is naturally obvious who will be the one who sacrifices for the team.
Fat has been the boss of this team for more than six years. Even in Phil Jackson's system, he has been the core for four years, although in the past few years, the center has not brought a championship to the Lakers, but there is no doubt about the center's ability to lead the team, although the current Lakers say that Kobe has risen, but it is impossible for Kobe to replace Ao Fat's position, and it is impossible for Kobe's tactical position to reach the same height as O Fat, in fact, neither the current Lakers nor the current Phil Jackson have any intention of changing the team's previous model, In this case, everyone up and down the Lakers is staring at Kobe Bryant, hoping that the guard will make a sacrifice.
It's just that a lot of people are disappointed. Bryant, who had been suppressing himself or sacrificing himself in the previous years, is no longer ready to make way for O'Neal, and at this time, neither Phil Jackson nor the Lakers can do anything about the young guard.
This is also why even if Ao Fat has returned, but the team's record has not improved, and it can even be said that it has become worse, now the Lakers' record is 29 games, 13 wins and 16 losses, which is already ranked tenth in the West, and is still 3 wins away from the eighth Warriors in the West, which can be said to have reached the brink of danger, if this Lakers team really has no way to enter the playoffs in the competitive West, it will be a real tragedy.
In fact, at the beginning of the season, Kobe Bryant and Szczebiak led the team, although the record was not very good. Everyone is also hyping whether this team can enter the playoffs, but obviously, most people still think that this team will not be in the playoffs after the lineup is complete, even if it reaches the finals again, it is no problem, which is why Phil Jackson has been insisting on it, so at the beginning of the season, most people said that the Lakers couldn't enter the playoffs just for the hype effect, and no one would take it seriously, but now, when Fat Ao came back in December, The chaos of this team has already told many people that it will really be difficult for this team to enter the playoffs, and unless this team can straighten out the relationship within its own team, no one knows what will happen in the future.
So in the recent era of rumors, not long ago, the Lakers also reported that they would trade Kobe for Rasheed Wallace and Reed of the Grizzlies, and even the news that the Lakers were ready to trade Kobe for Arenas and Kirilenko of the Boston Celtics.
It's just that what many people don't know is that this news is not fake news from the media, but a real trading offer, and even this transaction offer is still on Zhuang Fei's table.
The Lakers have indeed moved the idea of trading Kobe Bryant now, or Phil Jackson is ready to move the Lakers' second-in-command, for Phil Jackson, whether the Raptors take Maddy or other chips before, they are not ready to send Kobe Bryant away, because the championship coach has always thought that he has enough time to make this guard better, and he is also looking forward to this player to eventually become the Pippen of O'Fat, but the development of the facts is completely beyond his original estimate.
Now this Kobe Bryant is very close to Pippen at his peak in terms of strength, and it can even be said that he has reached the height of Pippen, but this guard has not become a Pippen's consciousness, and what embarrasses Phil Jackson is that this guard not only does not become Pippen's energy, but also does not become Jordan's consciousness, this is a player who makes Phil Jackson very embarrassed, if he still had time to slowly carve this guard before, then now, he doesn't have much time, If he doesn't get a good result this season, he's definitely going to be out of class, and if he really can't make the playoffs, then he's definitely going to be out of class this season. Buss Jr. won't give him any room to negotiate.
From this point of view, the former Bulls championship coach is also very embarrassed, I am afraid that he never thought that he would have such a problem when he came to this team with confidence.
"Coach. Now it looks like the Lakers can only do this game, I didn't expect this team to become like this now."
In front of the bench for the Boston Celtics. Stephen Green, assistant coach of the Boston Celtics, said with a sigh as he glanced at the two teams playing on the court.
This Boston Celtics vs Los Angeles Lakers game is not the most watched game of this year's Christmas game, that's for sure, after all, there are Carter and Jordan finale behind, but even so, I'm afraid no one would have expected this game to develop like this.
In the past, everyone knew. The game between Coach Z and the Lakers is the game between Coach Z and O'Neal, in the past, no matter which team Coach Z led to play with the Lakers, there was only one theme, that is, to encircle O'Neal, and the Lakers played the team led by Zhuang Fei. That big shark will definitely explode and become full of aggression, and at that time, even the Lakers players will obediently hand over the ball to Ao Fat no matter how unwilling they are. In fact, this is a heads-up between Zhuang Fei and O'Neill in disguise. But in this game, this kind of plot that used to be taken for granted did not happen.
"Now that O'Neal has come back to play, it's obvious that he's in poor physical condition, after all, he's been absent for so long, and he can't blame Kobe Bryant for holding the ball, and now this Laker needs to run in, it's just"
Zhuang Fei also shook his head and said after hearing Green's words, until he sighed a little when he said it at the end.
"The coach is saying. It's just that if O'Neal can't get the ball, it will take longer to find his form, and this will also affect their run-in situation, which will breed Kobe's determination to go it alone, which is a disgusting cycle," Stephen Green said with a smile after taking a deep look at his head coach.
And when Green finished speaking, Zhuang Fei also smiled and nodded, now the key problem of the Lakers is the problem of player sacrifice and coach adjustment, but these two problems that seem to be easy to solve in other teams are difficult in the Lakers, the two cores of the Lakers are not the kind of players who can easily sacrifice themselves, and Phil Jackson is also not a very strong and flexible head coach. The Zen master is a far cry from Pat Riley in this regard, and Pat Riley still dares to let Mourning transform into a playmaker.
It's a dead knot for the Lakers, and it takes an opportunity to untie it, unless they encounter one that makes them have to give up or sacrifice themselves for the same goal.
"Maybe when they really know that they can't make the playoffs anymore, they will change" Thinking of the opportunity for the Lakers to change, Zhuang Fei also smiled and said, although the Lakers are in a bad situation now, but they have not yet reached the point of despair, only when this team reaches the point of despair, these proud players will really seek change.
"Maybe" Stephen Green also nodded slightly, on this point he still agrees with his teacher's point of view, when a person is in a desperate situation, they will try to do anything that can keep them alive.
"But no matter what, this Laker needs time," Zhuang Fei said with a smile and then looked at the court.
This game has been the Boston Celtics pressing the Lakers from the beginning of the game, it is hard to believe that this is the Lakers' home court against their old rival Boston Celtics, and it is extremely disappointing that many people in this game were expecting the Lakers to have the possibility of overtaking, but when the game reached the third quarter, the game had completely lost its suspense, and when the third quarter of the game ended, the Lakers in poor condition were already 20 points behind the Boston Celtics.
Although the Lakers did not replace Kobe, one of their players, the suspense of this game is not much.
Now on the court, the Boston Celtics backup guard Arenas is playing with a wave of benches and Kobe Bryant leading a group of Lakers benches to play, this game Phil Jackson is also very helpless to keep Kobe Bryant on the court in the fourth quarter, because not long ago the Boston Celtics backup guard Arenas scored 24 points against the Magic in the fourth quarter and 22 points against the Knicks, the Boston Celtics backup guard is too good at scoring points in garbage time, who knows what will happen to him in this game.
Phil Jackson doesn't want to lose by three or four points in this game, and the bottom line he can accept is that the team and the Celtics are within 20 points.
It's just that at this time, Phil Jackson's mind can't hide from others, at this time, the Lakers players on the Los Angeles Lakers bench have ugly faces, the team's head coach is so indecisive or so petty is very unacceptable, and it is unacceptable to let the team's core players play almost the whole court in order for the team to lose a little less, which is not a refreshing thing to look at, especially at this time The Lakers boss Ao Fat's face is not very good-looking, and the center has begun to hesitate about the future of this team and his own futureThe team is slowly losing control.
"Dad, this game was an accident, you believe me, I'll make them better, definitely"
At this time, not only the Lakers' bench was very depressed, but even in a box in the stands, at this time, the Lakers' steward Bass Jr. was explaining to an old man next to him, but at this time the old man seemed to ignore Buss Jr., but looked deeply at the Chinese head coach on the Boston Celtics bench. At this time, the old man's eyes were full of expectation or expectation, and at this time, it was impossible to see from his face that he was having any loss for the Lakers' fiasco in this game.
It was a very embarrassing game for the Lakers, but it was a good game for the Celtics players, especially when the Boston Celtics finally beat the Lakers 117-100 at the end of the game, and a group of young Boston Celtics players on the court were excited.
Even Arenas, who has been a little unhappy about his position lately, was extremely happy that he beat them on the home court of his arch-rival Kobe.
"Hehe, Kobe, I've already won you twice this season" The Boston Celtics guard was going to humiliate Kobe Bryant as soon as this game ended. It's just that to the surprise of this defender, at this time, his sworn enemy didn't even look at him, and directly left a cold sentence and turned away.
"If you're just a sub, you'll never be able to beat me" (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )
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