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Chapter 67 Van Gundy is a Wonderful Man!
After playing the 76ers, the Lakers flew back to the West, No. 20 eight rounds of the regular season, away game against the Mavericks.

Of the Mavericks' Three Musketeers, there are only two left on the field.

Finley is on the rise and is the most consistent output in the Mavericks' offense.

Nash was struggling. In order to train him, Nelson left him on the court for 41 minutes. Was it effective?

4投1中，罚球1中1，拿到了3分8助攻4篮板。

Youna, I'm really not strong right now!
Nowitzki struggled more and seemed to enter the rookie wall.

Now he has been reduced to playing as a substitute, averaging only 16 minutes per game, shooting 36% from the field, 16.8% from three-pointers, and averaging only 6 points and 3 rebounds per game.

In the game, he always made mistakes at the last moment. His physical fitness and physical confrontation have already been targeted by his opponents. In the last few games, he even only played for 5 minutes symbolically.

It won't be until mid-April that he will usher in an explosion and break the rookie wall.

The Lakers easily defeated the Mavericks with a score of 116 to 102.

Next, in the No.20 nine rounds of the regular season, the Lakers returned to the Great Western Forum.

The opponent is the Suns who have met for the third time.

The Suns coached by Danny Ainge played very tough in this game. It was obviously a three-point shooting basketball team, but instead they played inside and hit the basket.

Constantly covering the pick-and-roll and attacking O'Neal's defense.

In the first quarter, with Li Mu and the Lakers unprepared, the Suns' offense was tried and tested.

What troubled Li Mu the most was that in the first quarter, O'Neal committed 3 fouls.

In addition, Kidd tonight also has a shooting touch, and it is no longer "the base does not attack".

Just for making free throws, the Suns scored 38 free throws and made 31 of them.

The number of fouls by the Lakers team has reached 32 times.

In the last 4 minutes of the fourth quarter, the Lakers were still 2 points behind.

Fortunately, the Suns underestimated Daben's ability to sweep the defense, otherwise, the Suns' attacking the basket would be more effective.

The existence of Big Ben and Bowen's defense prevented the Suns' raid tactics from achieving the greatest effect.

This gave the Lakers room to react, and then, Kobe and O'Neal, unreasonable superstars crushed.

With a score of 108 to 105, the Lakers narrowly beat the Suns by only 3 points.

基德16投9中，罚球6中5，轰下了23分10助攻7篮板的准三数据。

克里弗德罗宾逊24分5篮板3助攻，卢克朗利18分11篮板。

The Suns played both inside and outside, and all the people were soldiers, almost overturning the Lakers' invincible battleship.

This match reminded Li Mu.

The league regards the Lakers as a team that stands in the way of the championship, and has begun to study and target the Lakers.

Into April, the Great Western Forum.

The No. 30 regular season round of the Lakers is against the Kings.

In this game, the two sides did not defend themselves, they just fought against each other.

Webber scored 29 points and 10 rebounds, Divac scored 23 points, 10 rebounds and 7 assists. The Kings both broke out inside, and Collis Williams also broke out, scoring 22 points and 7 rebounds.

In the matchup of the starting lineup, the Lakers fell behind.

Fortunately, the rotation of the Lakers did not allow the Kings bench players to play out their gangster qualities.

The Lakers lasted until Kobe's outbreak, and finally beat the Kings 121 to 117.

O'Neal scored 42 points and 11 rebounds, Kobe had 26 points, 6 assists and 5 rebounds in offense, and Peja couldn't score a point in defense, which became the key to winning.

In the regular No.30 round, the Lakers easily defeated the 5-23 Grizzlies.

Then, in the next round, No.30 played against the Suns in the second round.

This battle came to the home court of the Suns.

The Suns lowered their offensive tempo and grinded against the Lakers.

It was still Kidd and Clifford Robinson's pick-and-roll battle. The two copied the homework of the Jazz. During the offense, they continued to attack O'Neal and hit the basket.

In this game, Kidd continued to have a shooting bag, 16 of 9 shots, 23 points, 9 assists and 7 rebounds, and he was a quasi-triple-double performance.

Robinson scored 30 points and 3 assists, all of which were played outside, without grabbing a rebound, and continued to perform well.

In this game, the Suns and the Lakers played until the last 3 minutes of the fourth quarter before the game was divided.

98 to 96! !
Although the Lakers defeated the Suns, they still won by a narrow margin, and the gap between the two sides became smaller and smaller.

I have to say that Kidd, who has a shooting skill package, is really powerful.

It's no wonder that in Li Mu's previous life, the head coach of the Lakers, Jackson, thought of exchanging Kobe for Kidd.

In the game against the Lakers, although he has been losing, he keeps correcting and narrowing the gap with the opponent.

On the night of April 4, at the Great Western Forum.

The Lakers are at home to meet the door-to-door challenge of the New York Knicks.

Regardless of the fact that they just ended their 3-game winning streak, their current record is only 16 wins and 13 losses, ranking seventh in the Eastern Conference.

After the lockout, the Knicks have gained a lot in the free market.

The madman Sprewell and Camby, the No. 96 pick of the [-] Golden Generation, were brought in.

In terms of lineup, it is definitely the existence of the biggest boss in the league.

The salary alone is 2000 million US dollars more than the Lakers, reaching 6000 million US dollars.

However, the start of the new season is not the same thing. The Knicks have a lot of problems and don't know how to win.

Jeff Van Gundy's Mediterranean hairstyle is getting more and more bald with anxiety.

Reasonably speaking, he should be getting stronger and stronger, but he just couldn't find the key to winning.

Li Mu took a look at the Knicks' starting five, and found that it didn't make sense for the Knicks not to lose.

Point guard Charlie Ward, shooting guard Allan Houston, small forward Larry Johnson, power forward Chris Dudley, center Patrick Ewing.

Madman and Camby were exchanged for the three main players of the Knicks, and they were used as substitutes, pinning the hope of victory on the veteran's hard work.

That alone makes Van Gundy a hell of a guy.

Leading a luxury team, and playing it like this?

Without a certain amount of strength, you really can't play it.

The general feeling is the general feeling, the opponent's eyes do not recognize gold inlaid with jade, Li Mu naturally smiled secretly.

In this battle, Li Mu decided to use Rice as the starting small forward. After all, Bobby is a master at defending against the basket. Facing a tough guy like Larry Johnson, his defensive ability will be greatly reduced.

The Lakers started with 5 players, Billups, Kobe, Rice, Big Ben, O'Neal.

beep~
As the whistle sounded, the basketball was thrown into the sky. O'Neill and Ewing looked up at the basketball and jumped almost at the same time.

The Sharks beat the Gorillas to get the first attack for the Lakers.

Billups dribbled the ball to the front court, and suddenly shot a three-pointer...

Charlie Ward shrank within the three-point line and when he made a save, it was already too late.

Swish-!
This is the rhythm of the shot that Billups likes, and the three-pointer is hollowed into the net.

0 to 3! !
"Billups' three-point shot, it's kind of unreasonable.

However, he made quite a few shots like this. "On the commentary platform, Mike Breen explained.

Off the court, Van Gundy frowned.

It's not that he is dissatisfied with Charlie Ward's defense, but that he doesn't like his team's players shooting three-pointers, and likewise, he doesn't like opponents who shoot three-pointers.

Don't ask, asking just messes up the offensive and defensive rhythm.

Li Mu nodded, satisfied with Billups' attack.

The Knicks rely on defense to win. If the outside shot feels good, it will definitely put a lot of pressure on the Knicks' defense.

On the court, the Knicks attacked, Charlie Ward dribbled the ball to the frontcourt, and immediately passed the basketball to Ewing.

His role is the same as the future Fisher.

Take the ball to the front court, and then, distribute the ball to the star of the team to single out.

After Ewing received the ball, he turned his back to attack, and the starting method was to turn over and lean back and make a bunny jump shot...

Facing the running and jumping Ewing, O'Neal couldn't keep up.

His weight is way too much.

Swish-!
Ewing is known as the iron tower, hard iron, gorilla, etc. It sounds like a rough insider, but unexpectedly, he has a soft shooting touch.

Li Mu suspected that he watched a fake 'Slam Dunk'.

Well, that doesn't matter either.

The important thing is, does Ewing really have a sister in reality?

Grow like Haruko Akagi.

Seeing Ewing's gorilla face, Li Mu couldn't imagine Qingzi's appearance.

Thanks to the manga, it can be drawn, this imagination.

Absolutely!

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(End of this chapter)