You should cross the mountains like a brave man

Chapter 277 The March Crisis
The Lakers still need to play a game to usher in March.

Many professional ball commentators and authoritative media believe that March will be an inflection point for their record, and Chris Mihm's reimbursement for the season will make them lose many games that they should not lose.

In the end game in February, the opponent was the Orlando Magic.

There is a voice like this: As long as Dwight Howard is tough, the Lakers will die.

The luck of the Lakers is "good", they met Grant Hill's rare healthy game.

Since Hill was dumped by the Pistons to the Magic, he hasn't played more than 67 games in a season.Or it can be said that apart from last season, he has not played 30 games in a season.This season, Hill is still injured, and eventually he will play 21 games.

Against the Lakers at the end of February, it was 1/21.

The Lakers vs. Magic, Kobe vs. Hill, the decisive battle between the old and new generations of Jordan's successors, they seem to want to prove themselves.

When Hill played for the Pistons, he was often criticized for being too soft and useless at critical moments. He couldn't lead the team past the first round, and life and death were useless.The elegant son couldn't hear this, and he had a rare chance to play. He wanted to prove himself. He made 9 of 6 shots and scored 23 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists.

He made 13 of 11 free throws. If he hadn't had so many injuries, he might have continued his peak tail for a few years in the era of not getting started. Now he can only smile bitterly.

Kobe on the opposite side showed that he no longer needs to use fouls to prove that he is the hardest successor to Jordan.

He made 20 of 11 shots, scored 2 points and scored 28 free throws almost cleanly.

He scored almost twice as many goals as Hill, but scored only 2 points more. The high-level statistics of this game, Hill's efficiency and true shooting percentage, will be better than Kobe's, but Kobe's role during the game is obviously better than Hill.

The world expects Howard to dominate the Lakers' penalty area, but he made 9 of 6 shots like Hill, didn't make free throws, and didn't like being touched by opponents like a clean freak. He scored 15 points and 9 rebounds.

This data is not enough to win.

The Magic lost to the Lakers, who were all soldiers. A total of six of them scored in double figures, not including Odom, who scored a quasi-triple double.

Odom has 8 points, 11 rebounds and 9 assists in a single game, and he will not stop until he kills a few obsessive-compulsive disorder.

The Lakers headed into March with a winning streak.

They are still currently ranked fifth in the Western Conference. If they want to keep their ranking or go further, their winning percentage in March is critical.

As long as you lose a few games that you shouldn't lose, you may fall from fifth to seventh or eighth.

In the first game in March, the Lakers visited the prison team.

The pioneer who selected Wei Xia and gave Wei Xia away.

The warden Zach Randolph is still there, he is much tougher than Howard, the Lakers have no inside, he hit the inside to death, 30+12 in a single game, completely smashed the Lakers inside, leaving no trace.

Kobe's shooting percentage was not good, Wei Xia was not in the state, the Lakers swallowed the defeat, and the winning streak ended.

"What you're seeing is the game. It's the best performance we've played recently. Our offense is the best in the league. The Lakers don't know how to stop us. It's that simple." Trail Blazers coach Nate McMillan said calmly.

A reporter wanted to ask him about Randolph's evaluation of garbage time brushing data.

McMillan said wittily: "The Lakers' penalty area is too quiet, you have to understand him."

Well, the Lakers expressed their understanding.

In the next few days, the Los Angeles media listed all of Randolph's black histories, including "anecdotes" that he was arrested by the police several times before he was 17 years old.

Lakers fans will definitely have some feelings after reading it: "It turns out that this guy knows how to cheat and play tricks since he was a child!"

After that, the Lakers faced the Warriors, and the two sides fought hard.

Whether the Warriors' inside line is strong or not, Troy Murphy and Adonal Foyer are just a kite man and an ordinary collar, but the Lakers' inside line is really bad.

Against the Warriors, Jackson even called Bynum to play for 14 minutes.

Bynum scored 7 points and 6 rebounds in the season, a season double high, but the winner of the Lakers is outside.

Kobe's 40 points are not enough.

With 25 points, 5 rebounds and 6 assists, Wei Xia successfully stabbed Kobe's sword into the heart of the Warriors and won the next round.

"It's not good enough to win," Bryant said worriedly. "Our problems still exist."

The next Lakers schedule is not easy.

The opponents in the four games are the Spurs.Pistons, Hornets, Spurs.

The outside world is expected to lose three games.

The Lakers expressed disdain: "Three games? Are you underestimating me? Why can't I lose four games?"

Against the Spurs, the all-round gap, the Lakers who lost Mihm suffered a disastrous defeat when Kobe ate Bowen's small moves and performed poorly.

To play the Pistons, the Lakers have ideas.

Jackson said before the game: "Let us do something that the outside world can't imagine."

What he said that the outside world dare not think is to encourage the Lakers to use what the Pistons do best to win the game-confrontation and meat-grinding battles.

Indeed, the way of moths jumping into the flames and seeking a dead end, not to mention that the outside world dare not think about it, even the Pistons have a kind of confusion of "what are they trying to do?" when they see it.

The Lakers' approach is very wild, but it has received amazing results.

The Pistons ate their poor shooting percentage in the confrontation, but Kobe and Wecha repeatedly hit the fairy-like buzzer, and the game stalled.

From the Pistons' standpoint, it's a disgrace to be caught by the Lakers with their housekeeping skills.

They will hesitate and be puzzled, and when they find out that the Lakers really dare to dance on the tip of the knife, they will launch a strong counteraction.

The Lakers stepped up the intensity, they used higher intensity, the game entered a terrible intensity and hardness, and accidents followed.

The Lakers, who are stretched inside, once again lost a player.

The fans breathed a sigh of relief: it was Toni Kukoc.

Teacher Tony came up and walked around the street for a few minutes, then collided with his opponent and left the field injured.

Anyway, he can't play a few minutes per game, if he can't play, he can't play, the situation can't be worse.

The Lakers and Pistons dragged the game to the decisive moment.

Big Ben's elbow to Wei Xia was ignored by the referee and determined the direction of the game.

Wei Xia was a little dizzy on the spot and was taken off the court by the team doctor. The Lakers were so emotional that they wanted to fight back, but Kobe stopped him.The Lakers, who were in a state of confusion, failed to bite to the end and were won by the Pistons by 2 points.

"I don't think we lost." Bryant told the media unconvinced.

Jackson was very free and easy, "I think Ben fouled Wish. They pulled his arm at the basket and attacked his body. Because it was a critical round, I protested to the referee. In the end, it didn't work and the original sentence was upheld. But as I said, the final result of the game is never determined by a certain round. It is because of the accumulation of performance in a series of rounds."

Pistons head coach Flip Saunders is a nice guy who doesn't want to make excuses for Big Ben.

He evaded the question, and the reporter wanted him to express his opinion on Big Ben elbowing Wescia, but his answer was: "It was a very competitive game. I think the opponent was more physical than us in the first half, but we responded afterwards. In the end, the game was biting to the end, and it fell into a situation where the winner was decided in a few rounds. And at the crucial moment, we played some rounds, and some did not succeed. Hats off to our opponents, they performed very well at critical moments."

His words affirmed the performance of the Lakers, but it did not help the relationship between the two parties.Liang Zi's two teams originally had this incident, but it was just another sum in each other's account books.

Wei Xia went to the hospital for an examination that night, but fortunately there was no major problem.

He recovered almost the next day, and he had no memory of being elbowed yesterday, as if he had been beaten by Big Ben.

But Wei Xia received a voice message from Big Ben apologizing.

After losing to the Spurs and Pistons in a row, the Lakers urgently need to win to boost morale.

In the next game against the Hornets, the Lakers, who were eager to win, did not play at a normal level.

Kobe was overwhelmed by his obsession to win. He had 1 assist, 33 shots and 13 hits. Odom and Brian Cook were able to catch 29 rebounds together when they were completely blown by David West and PJ Brown.

Paul was also defended by Wecha to a shooting rate of less than 40%.

But anyone who is familiar with Paul knows that this guy is the same as his senior Duncan. If the team needs him to score points to win, it means that the team has reached a critical moment of survival.Paul's offensive ability is not as good as his seniors, so expecting him to turn the tide is often disappointing.

Paul unhurriedly activated the inside line of the Hornets, and with Kobe's top, he locked the advantage in the second half of the fourth quarter.

In the end, the Hornets won by 5 points.

Wei Xia shot over 11% and scored 18 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists with [-] shots, but the defeat was hard to come by.

Losing to the Hornets, the Lakers, who suffered a three-game losing streak, fell from fifth in the West to sixth in the West, and then fought against the Spurs.

After losing consecutive games, the morale of the Lakers was exhausted. They played against each other again. Only Kobe and Wei Xia showed their fighting spirit, and the others were distracted.

Lost again by double digits.

Four-game losing streak.

The Lakers encountered an expected crisis, but the challenge in March has just begun.

(End of this chapter)