From today on is the king

Chapter 758. 757. Reasons for the Lakers' Decline
Four Seasons Plaza Hotel by Hilton Beverly Hills.

Liu Mang looked at the signboard of this hotel, and heard that it was a villa hotel. There was no underground parking lot, but an open-air parking lot. He was very curious: Why does the United States prefer the name hotel? Isn’t it more foreign to call it a hotel... By the way, it seems that the new meaning of a hotel is to live in, and it was introduced from European and American countries.

After thinking about it wildly, Liu Mang walked into the reception gate of the hotel where the team might stay for up to eight days with the guards Boozer and Barnes.

Dragging a huge suitcase, a backpack on his back, a large luggage bag around his neck, a large bag in his left hand, a small bag on his right shoulder, and a huge suitcase in his right hand, the American Jay Chou was as tired as a dog, and looked at Liu Mang's back with two "bodyguards" resentfully.

In addition to the luggage bag hanging around his neck, the big bag in Korver’s left hand belonged to Boozer, the backpack on his back belonged to Liu Mang, the huge suitcase behind him also belonged to Liu Mang, and the small bag on his right hand belonged to Barnes. Korver walked from the parking lot to the door of the reception hall. It was only a few hundred meters away, and he felt like he was going to be useless.

Finally, after approaching the door of the hotel reception, the hotel concierge saw the miserable Korver and hurried up to help.

Korver now wants to collapse on the ground and go to sleep directly. Seeing the concierge struggling to drag the 48-inch super huge suitcase alone, Korver is very sad and angry, the little boss bullies others!
But there is no way, who calls him a rookie? We can only look forward to the team drafting a few rookies this summer, and there is also a chance that he can use the rookies.

Thinking of this, Korver immediately became motivated, train hard, and strive to enter the rotation next season, so that he has the power to call rookies.

Today is June 6th. Just after noon, the Eagles arrived in Los Angeles and checked into the villa group hotel in Regal Villa District.

After defeating the Lakers at home last night, the Eagles came to Los Angeles today to prepare for the next three consecutive away games. In order to avoid the players being disturbed, they lived in Beverly Hills. Here, those very few fans who want to make trouble can't come in.

Liu Mang got the room cards of himself, Boozer, Korver, and Barnes. The four of them lived in the same villa.

Taking the waiter's passenger battery car to the villa where he stayed, Liu Mang saw that the villa was really luxurious. There was already a large wall around the entire hotel. This single-family villa also had a small wall, and there was also an exclusive swimming pool and a small garden inside.

When Liu Mang was waiting to get his room card just now, he read the introduction of the hotel. There are 32 villas in this hotel, each villa has four bedrooms, and a room costs more than 300 US dollars... Liu Mang felt that the boss's heart was bleeding again.

It's just that the boss pays for it, Liu Mang doesn't feel bad about living here.

"Mr. Liu, if you need to go out, please call the front desk and we will send someone to pick you up. There is also a battery car here, which is fully charged and can be used when you go to other villas. I hope you enjoy your stay." The waiter bowed and said.

"Thank you, I'm sorry to trouble you." Liu Mang responded, hung his bag around Korver's neck again, swiped his room card, opened the door to the yard, and walked in.

Barnes and Boozer also hung their bags on Korver's body again full of bad humor.

Looking at the backs of the three of them, Korver felt that his world was dark, so he could only feel sorry for himself: This handsome guy is really the young master's body slave...

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After laying down his luggage and resting for a while, Liu Mang changed into sportswear, holding the ball and preparing to find Prince and practice with him.

Although the finals are already 2-0, these two games are at home, and there will be a three consecutive away immediately, which is very stressful.

Moreover, in addition to the pressure of three consecutive home games, there is also this year's finals, which is completely different from Liu Mang's impression.

OK combination!

O'Neal's offense has always been unsolvable, but this time his effort on the defensive end was unexpected, even catching up with the time when he played the Pacers in the Finals a few years ago.

The most important thing is that Kobe had more than 5 assists in the first two games!In the last game, he scored 37 points and 7 assists. This is a very tricky thing.

In Liu Mang's view, Prince was able to lock Kobe in the original 04 Finals. Firstly, he had a good personal defense. This season, the league's overall defense reached the peak in NBA history. Prince has this advantage;
The main reason is that Kobe refused to pass the ball. The only game in which Kobe assisted more than 5 times was the second game between the Pistons and the Lakers. Kobe got 7 assists and scored 62 points and 10 assists with O'Neal.

Moreover, Liu Mang looked at the statistics of the Lakers’ 2001 wins and 15 loss in the playoffs in 1. Kobe averaged 16 assists in the entire 6.1 games, and O’Neal averaged 3.1 assists. He can guess that the reason why OK was invincible in 01 was mainly because O’Neal and Kobe. It is more difficult to guard against the core of the organization!

More importantly, during the 01 Lakers playoffs, Kobe and O'Neal's ball possession rate was not high. The combined ball possession rate of the two was only 30.00%.These two played the role of Pippen.

Generally speaking, Kobe is not holding on to the ball. During the three consecutive championships, there were always two or three players around him who averaged more than 3 assists per game. O'Neal was one, Fisher was one, Rick Fox, Brian Shaw, Robert Horry... These people all played with Kobe and averaged more than 3 assists per game.

Kobe only grabbed shots, and O'Neal has been very good in rebounding in the playoffs, averaging 14 rebounds in the playoffs during the three consecutive championships.

In the original 04 Finals, the combined OK combination averaged less than 6 assists per game. Before Kobe did not grab the power, he alone had more assists. It is not unreasonable for the Lakers to collapse in the Finals.

Because in the finals that year, except for the Pistons fans, almost no one thought that the Pistons could win. Kobe couldn't suppress his desire to win the championship MVP at all. Even if he fell behind by 1 to 3, he was still confident that he could come back.

When Kobe Bryant was determined to collect data to grab the FMVP, the Pistons knew that he could not pass the ball, so it must be better to defend. O'Neal had no one to pass the ball to him, so he could only gouge it. Similarly, O'Neal did not pay attention to the Pistons...

In addition, in the original finals, Malone's injuries in the regular season aggravated because of the Western Conference finals against Garnett, and the finals were in extremely poor condition.

Kobe didn't pass the ball, and O'Neal didn't pass the ball to Kobe, and O'Neal's pass was usually to Kobe, and the connection between the two was completely broken.

In addition, the Pistons' defense that year was almost the strongest in history. Everything, combined, caused the Lakers to be bloodbathed by the Pistons.

But this time was different. Liu Wei did not feel contempt from the Lakers. Their Eagles brought great pressure to the Lakers, which made the OK combination start to fight together. Kobe, who was willing to pass the ball, was much more difficult to defend.

In these two situations, Kobe's Lakers are not at the same level. In the 04 finals, in the final analysis, it was because of Kobe's going it alone that led to the loss of the finals.

In the first three quarters of the last game, Liu Mang has seen how powerful the OK team is working together, so the pressure is very high now!In addition, this is an away game, and the deterrence of the OK combination cannot be countered by Rasheed Wallace.

"It's really difficult, but it can also be used." Liu Mang walked out of the gate of the wall, put away the scouting report, patted the ball with his left hand, and ran towards the villa where Prince had just called to inquire.

Continuously strengthen the sense of dribbling with the left hand, which is similar to strengthening the sense of dribbling with the right hand three years ago.

Liu Mang is going to find Prince and train together to improve his personal offense as much as possible. At the same time, he is also training Prince's single defense ability. He just used Kobe's star card yesterday, and some high and low skills are still fresh in his memory.

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At the Toyota Center of the Lakers training facility, there is also a person doing additional training. Although a certain guy is more determined, his training attitude is nothing to say. After returning to Los Angeles in the morning, he immediately came to the training facility for training.

On the side of the court, there is also a sign with only two numbers on it.

37 and 45.

A guy who made it to the finals for the first time scored 45 points and allowed the opponent to shoot 32 of 15 shots. Since the mid-90s, the NBA entered the iron-blooded era created by Pat Riley. In the finals, there were only two outside players who averaged more than 40.00 points per game with a shooting percentage of 25% or more.

Besides, after ten years, the latest one to appear is the current Liu Mang.

Most importantly, Liu Mang scored 40 points!Among the active players, only O'Neal and Iverson can score 40 points in the finals, and then Liu Mang.

Every time Kobe glanced at that hot 45, he felt like his head was going to explode!

Kobe just felt that he didn't make the shot, and he didn't feel that there was any problem with his shot selection, so he continued to practice shooting...

From the 8th to the 10th, when the home and away games of the Finals were switched, there was a three-day rest period. However, during the three consecutive home games of the Lakers, there was only one day of rest between the two games.

During the interval between the two games, there is definitely no way to do too much training, so on the [-]th, the Eagles' team training immediately began to conduct specific training for certain periods of time that were suppressed by the opponent in the first two games.

The preparation time always makes people feel that there is too little time, and it will soon be June 6, and the third game of the finals is coming soon.

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The company is a bit busy today. I just wrote a chapter, and I will go home and continue writing. There will be no fewer updates today, at least 1 words!Let’s change to a different style, try the fourth shift, and go home by subway right away, everyone wait~
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