Chapter 55: It's time for me to give this newcomer a little help
"This kid is crazy, this kid is absolutely crazy!"
Barkley could see that sweat was pouring out of his forehead, and his whole face was oily in the light, like pig's head. He doesn't want to run naked, he definitely hopes that Li Wan will have a good performance, but at the moment, this is not only a good performance, this is completely a super high level!
It made his eyes full of shock and incredulity.
He couldn't believe that Li Wan was so hot tonight!
Still coming?
The audience was silent.
The Denver fans looked at each other, their mouths wide open in surprise, as if they could fit two golf balls. They watched, and Li Wan, who was scolding the "bitch", didn't even have the courage to shout.
The demons are like this, where do they dare to boo, they are not as big as the New York fans.
No, no......
Vujacic on the bench muttered to himself: I won't continue to fight with Carmelo Anthony!
He couldn't believe that Li Wan could have such a level, but Li Wan, who was in such a state now, made him have to believe it.
Competing with this guy, there's really no chance at all!
However, what he thought in his heart did not happen, Li Wan's ball brought the game difference to 22 points, Kobe Bryant was no longer a bystander, and stood up and used his superb skills to gradually expand the difference to 28 points, and it was about to reach 30 points.
George Karl looked at the Nuggets who had no fighting spirit on the court, and in order not to affect the next game, he had no choice but to replace all the main players and announced the arrival of "garbage time" in advance.
Li Wan was also replaced after the end of the third quarter, and continued to be the main force on the offensive end plus "altitude sickness", which made him sit on the sidelines for 30 seconds, and he couldn't stop breathing.
But now, no one will laugh at him for being a "weak chicken".
Li Wan's performance tonight left a deep impression in the hearts of all those who saw it.
In the end, the Lakers won 120-100 at the Nuggets' home court, with a 20-point victory, and the new season started with 4 wins and 1 loss.
Kobe Bryant scored 25 points, 6 rebounds and 6 assists in the third quarter, shooting more than 50% from the field;
Li Wan scored 11 points in the first half and 14 points in the second half, and also scored 25 points in the third quarter, in addition to 4 assists, 3 rebounds and 1 steal.
TNT's live cameras frequently showed the Chinese rookie who was rampant in the third quarter, Kenny Smith's face was helpless, and JR Smith finally got 20 points, 2 rebounds, 1 assist and 1 steal, and the scoring performance has been a new high in the new season. His performance was not bad, but Li Wan's performance was too good. Tonight, he is in a supernatural state, and whoever stands on the opposite side of him will be unlucky.
J.R. Smith slipped through the home arena aisle as soon as the whistle blew, and at this moment he was embarrassed and just wanted to numb himself with marijuana.
He got into trouble and someone had to wipe his ass, and after Allen Iverson hugged Kobe, he walked over to Li Wan: "Well done, man, you're so much better than I thought!" ”
Before the game, he cast a hostile gaze at Li Wan, that is, he didn't put Li Wan in his eyes at all, but at this moment, Li Wan saw only emotion in his eyes.
"I'm looking forward to the next fight, and what's going on the court, don't worry, JR didn't mean it, he's just too excited!"
What Aaron Iverson said was the gesture of J.R. Smith at the time.
Li Wan didn't mind, he fought back anyway, and tonight he became a winner in terms of data and wins and losses, so there was no need to take it to heart.
The media photographed him and Li Wan hugging, and on this night, this hug represents a lot.
Li Wan then returned to the bench to pack his things, and the Lakers staff suddenly ran over and surrounded him, only to understand that this was Kupchak's arrangement.
"It's crowded out there with reporters who want to interview you."
This is to prevent Li Wan from "sheep" entering the mouth of the "tiger" and leaving a handle on sensitive topics.
Li Wan was protected to enter the tunnel of the away team's players, and the reporters were stopped by the staff, so they could only conduct interviews in this way. There was no surprise in their question, it was related to Li Wan's gesture.
Li Wan said calmly: "Someone attacked me like this, I attacked him like this, what do you want to ask, you should also ask him first." ”
After saying that, he went back to the locker room to pack his luggage, the Lakers did not open the locker room today, Li Wan arrived at the locker room, and the staff members were also relieved.
This night of great victory ended like this.
On the passenger plane to the next stop, Li Wan was still thinking about what happened today, not the contradiction with JR Smith, the calmness of the winner made him not need to continue to hold on, looking at the entire league, although JR Smith is a famous "nerve knife" in the league, but now he is barely a second-rate player, and he doesn't feel as good as Allen Iverson at that time.
He was thinking about the outcome of the battle.
His fitness issues were completely exposed in this game, and it is likely that they will become the focus of other managers' targets for him in the future. How to allocate his physical strength has become the most important issue for him at the moment.
And although they scored 25 points in this game, it boiled down to the Nuggets' outside defense that was so bad that they could find an open spot by basically getting rid of the first defender, and there was no connection between the three outside players.
If in the next game, he is not so calm when he runs away from the ball, he can't be in a hurry, because this is normal.
Even other teams will target his running habits because of his brilliant performance without the ball in this game, and it will be even more difficult to run out of empty positions when the time comes!
He had to be prepared and enlightened.
The good news is that now that his off-ball running and catching ability shines through, it's time to add to his individual ball-handling offense. You can definitely beat the opponent with a measure that is not enough!
In other words, he should be able to "burst" for a while.
He was thinking about the problem, and Kobe Bryant, who was not far from him, was not asleep, he was thinking about today's game, since he "broke up" with Shaq O'Neal, he has not been so happy as he was today for a long time.
When he scored 25 points in this game, the gap between the Lakers and the Nuggets was almost 25 points, and he was not tired at all today.
This made him begin to re-examine the Lakers, look at the group of teammates around him, in three years, he seems to have a group of good teammates around him, this team does not need him to carry the weight alone, others can also help him bear a lot, of course, most of this feeling comes from the newcomer named Li Wan.
In the first game of the season, he played against the Suns, and he led the team to overtake the score twice when he came off the bench; This match was another match where he withstood the counterattack from the opposite side, giving him enough physical strength to face the crucial moment that required him to make a decisive decision.
And the game against the Wizards, the game against the Magic......
Kobe Bryant took off his blindfold, looked at Odom and the others who were playing Texas Hold'em in front of the table, and then looked at Li Wan, who was holding a scouting report and seriously analyzing it, he felt that he had the best group of teammates in three years.
The gap between the strength of the Nuggets and the Lakers is definitely not as big as it showed today, but they did it today! What this means goes without saying.
Perhaps, it's time for me to give this newcomer a little help......
He can definitely grow better!