Wang Feng's conversation with Johnson is just an episode, and the Lakers senior management seems to be carefully considering this matter, after all, it is a very risky thing to trade their team's potential rookie players as bargaining chips.

The Lakers' regular season game is still going on in an orderly manner.

As the schedule enters December, the Lakers' situation has become slightly tougher, and compared to the opponent in November, the opponent of the Lakers' schedule in December has suddenly increased.

On December 2, the Lakers played against the Nuggets away, and it was another difficult and fierce battle.

In the 17-18 season, the Nuggets' ace inside lineman Nikola. Jokic has already begun to show his edge, currently averaging 18.5 points, 10.7 rebounds and 6.1 assists per game, and is very difficult to deal with inside.

The two teams fought until overtime, relying on Wang Feng to hit the basket at the last moment and scored 4 points in a row to finally seal the victory and win the game 118-115.

In this game, Wang Feng scored 45 points, 11 rebounds and 4 steals, including consecutive scores at the last moment, and once again acted as a key hero in determining the outcome of the game.

But heroes don't always be on stage.

On December 3, the Lakers hosted the Houston Rockets.

The overall strength of the Rockets who got Paul this season has instantly risen a notch, and the current record is even stronger than that of the Warriors!

This is a strong team that can fight the Warriors in seven bloody games in the Western Conference finals in the playoffs, and even once took a 3-2 lead, but the Lakers collapsed and returned home with a 118-95 defeat.

In this game, Wang Feng and Harden staged a scoring battle, Wang Feng scored 36 points, and Harden also scored 36 points.

Wang Feng made 13 of 22 shots and 6 of 9 three-point shots, with an amazing shooting rate.

Harden only shot 7 of 19 and shot less than 40%, but he made a full 18 free throws and scored 16 points from free throws alone!

Even Wang Feng, who now basically only uses defensive deterrence on the defensive end and relies on eye defense to save physical strength, has two fouls on his back.

The Rockets are just the beginning.

In the rest of the schedule in December, the Lakers will meet the Rockets twice, the Warriors twice, the Cavaliers once, and the Trail Blazers, 76ers and other league powerhouses.

"There are too many strong opponents, I'm afraid it will be difficult for the Lakers to maintain a winning rate of more than 50% this month, I just hope that the Lakers will not fall directly from the top eight positions in the West, as long as they can carry through December, and then the schedule and opponents in January will be relatively easy."

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On December 7, the Lakers played away against the Philadelphia 76ers, Wang Feng scored 28 points, but the 76ers Embiid scored 33 points. Simmons had 12 points, 12 rebounds and 15 assists as the 76ers beat the Lakers 107-104.

The Lakers, who swallowed two straight losses, won two straight games against the Hornets and Knicks, and stopped the bleeding a little, but then on December 14, the Lakers traveled to Cleveland to take on the Cavaliers.

The defending champion Cavaliers in the new season have greatly reduced their strength compared with last season, and Wang Feng and Irving have left the team one after another.

The Cavaliers management worked hard to strengthen the team in the summer, and they successively signed Wade, Rose, Korver, Calderon and other players to strengthen the team, plus last season's All-Star guard Isaiah. Thomas, the new season of the Cavaliers looks quite luxurious, at least on paper.

However, as a result, the players brought in in in the summer proved to be failures in the dozens of games they started the regular season.

Isaiah. Thomas' injury didn't work well at all, and he was injured again after only a dozen games, averaging only 14.7 points and 4.5 assists per game before the injury, shooting just 36% from the field.

Wade's athletic level has also dropped dramatically, averaging only 11.2 points, 3.9 rebounds and 3.5 assists per game, but this is also the best performance of the Cavaliers' summer recruitment.

The only two Cavaliers can rely on are James and Love.

But even so, the Cavaliers' dominance in the East remains undiminished, or as long as James is not fully old, his team is unlikely to lose its dominance.

The Lakers' game against the Cavaliers fully verified this.

In this game, Wang Feng directly formed a counterpoint with James.

Wang Feng is full of confidence, and even thinks that he may still be able to gain the upper hand in the direct confrontation with James.

Wang Feng's strength is as high as 88, and he is not afraid of James at all in this field, and his speed, agility, and bounce abilities are on par with James!

In this case, there are multiple top-notch defensive badges, and Wang Feng can completely limit James' scoring efficiency on the defensive end.

And on the offensive end, Wang Feng didn't think James could defend against him.

Whether it's a quick break frame with the first step master badge bonus, or a step-back three-point shot after connecting with the first step master, facing James is a good scoring weapon.

In fact, the situation at the beginning of the game did go as Wang Feng thought.

The Lakers won the scrum, and then Wang Feng singled out James with the ball, and the speed bonus brought by the first master allowed Wang Feng to easily use the speed advantage to rush past James and rush into the basket, and then jump and dunk to score.

After the conversion of the ball, James attacked, he also began to break through with the ball from the outside, but was strictly defended by Wang Feng, who wanted to use his strength to break through forcefully, but was stunned to find that Wang Feng's strength after weight gain was not much weaker than him.

James, who couldn't break into the basket smoothly, could only barely shoot, and the shot missed the frame under the interference of Wang Feng's defensive shock badge.

In the next few rounds, Wang Feng's scoring efficiency was obviously higher than James's, and then James began to have to use the basket back technique to score, because although Wang Feng's outside defense is strong, but the interior defense is weak, even if his strength is not inferior to James, but the confrontation of interior players is not just about who has the strength.

However, this state of affairs only lasted in the first quarter of the game.

When the game entered the second quarter, James began to gradually adapt to Wang Feng after the new changes, and began to change his playing style and tactics.

The ball began to be handed over more to Love, who continued to attack the Lakers' weaker box and score frequently.

The deadlock began to be broken, and the Cavaliers regained the initiative of the game.

At 121:112, the Lakers still lost the game.

Wang Feng shot 14 of 22 in the game, scoring 42 points, 12 rebounds, 2 assists and 3 steals, but failed to help the team win the game.

On the Cavaliers' side, James had a triple-double of 25 points, 12 rebounds and 12 assists, shooting 8-of-18 from the field, and although the 44% shooting rate was below average, the triple-double data made up for the lack in another way.

Under his tandem, Love scored 28 points and 11 rebounds on 9-of-15 shooting in this game, shooting 60% from the field.

Facts have proved that it is impossible to completely lock James by defense, and this is because James has no intention of competing with Wang Feng head-on and has changed his playing style and tactics.

If James is focused on the inside line and Wang Feng is tough, simply attacking Wang Feng with inside footsteps, and using this to consume Wang Feng's physical energy, the score may not be lower than Wang Feng.

"Sure enough, I want to compete head-on with James with my current strength...... It's a little bit close. ”

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