unfinished glory

Chapter 184 Challenge the Lakers away
After winning the Cavaliers, the Grizzlies got a brief respite, and they temporarily got rid of the shadow of a 5-game losing streak or even a longer losing streak.

They have one game left before the Christmas game, against the 22-5 Los Angeles Lakers, third in the league.

The defending champion is recognized as the biggest favorite of the championship this season. Their team lineup has no shortcomings at all. The head coach is still a famous coach like Phil Jackson who is good at reconciling the team's state and contradictions.

The core lineup of the Lakers is two top five superstars in the league, Kobe and Yao Ming, one is enough to cause headaches, and the combination makes it impossible to defend.

Especially Kobe, after winning the MVP and FMVP last season, his whole person has been sublimated, and he rarely cares about personal statistics.So far this season, his highest score is 44 points in the first game, and his average score is only 26.2, ranking fourth in the league.

Having experienced the setbacks and turning the tide of a solo flight, and tasted the hardships and joys of a championship, Kobe's skills, experience and mentality have reached their peak.Everyone knows that the low score is only because he puts away his edge. Once someone provokes, the black mamba will quickly show his fangs.

In this season's scoring list, there are two players in the same position ahead of him, Li Chongxiao and Wade.Although these two players are currently a 40+ and a 30+, the No. 1 recognized by the league is still Kobe.

After O'Neal is getting old, Duncan is declining day by day, Iverson is no longer young, and Garnett is in decline, the older players in the league who can keep up with Kobe's footsteps are completely gone.

The league can only rely on the new generation of players to fight against the best basketball player in the world.And Li Chongxiao, with two championships and one FMVP, is definitely the best challenger.

After consecutive 60+ points and a monthly average of 40+ points, the debate over who is the best scorer in the league between him and Kobe suddenly became hot.

The fans who support Li Chongxiao are slightly weaker, because Li Chongxiao has never led a team alone and does not have so much data accumulation.

But Kobe's side doesn't have an absolute advantage, he has all the skills Li Chongxiao has, and the latter's physical fitness is better.

Fans are looking forward to this peak matchup between scorers.The media continued to build momentum, and from very early on, they continued to provoke Kobe, hoping to stimulate his fighting spirit and have a peak duel with Li Chongxiao.

Especially after Li Chongxiao scored 63 points against James, many reporters did not report the news immediately, but asked Kobe Bryant's opinion with this news.

What Kobe can think is nothing more than praising Li Chongxiao, showing his appreciation for the younger generation, and then saying that he only wants to win, focus on the championship, and has no desire to collect statistics.

If Li Chongxiao hadn't called Yao Ming and learned that Kobe was practicing individual singles through gnashing of teeth during training in the morning, he would have believed the old guy's nonsense.

As the media feared that the world would not be chaotic, some news headlines such as "Birth of the strongest scorer of this century", "Best shooting guard", "A miracle even Kobe couldn't do with Chamberlain", Li Chongxiao knew , Today's game is not easy to play.

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Tonight's Staples Center is full of celebrities, stars are shining, and various entertainment stars are sitting on the sidelines, highlighting the attention of this game.

Just like an Oscar winner said in an interview, today there are no stars, only fans.

The long guns and short guns on the scene have already been put into battle, and the commentators of the major broadcast channels are also in place very early, and they are now discussing a topic that attracts the most attention today: who has the highest score between Li Chongxiao and Kobe.

Not only did experts from all walks of life fight with each other during the live broadcast, sparks of debate flew everywhere, and the forum was also full of quarrels.The two sides "quoted classics" to support their own views: both of them averaged more than 40 per game in a single month. In the remaining scoring moments, Kobe had a miracle of 81 points, Li Chongxiao had two consecutive games of 60+; 4 in 50 games, and Li Chongxiao has 3 60 times in a single season.

The rest of the data, such as the season's scoring average, are dominated by Kobe, but this has nothing to do with scoring explosiveness.

In the locker room, the head coaches of both sides are doing general mobilization.

Although this game is hotly hyped by the outside world, it is a duel between Li Chongxiao and Kobe about the "best scorer", but this game is not just about the two of them.At the team level, this game will also affect the subsequent regular season rankings. This is a direct dialogue between the top two teams in the West.

Phil Jackson didn't emphasize the importance of the team's victory to Kobe too much, because he knew that the player in front of him had already passed the age of a boy. Although he would occasionally fight with balloons, generally speaking, he was no longer obsessed with it. I was singled out personally.

The tactics of this game are the "triangular offense" that Jackson has always adopted, focusing on the two strong points of Yao Ming and Kobe Bryant.

The other members of the starting lineup are power forward Turiaf, who is passionate and defensive, and is responsible for escorting Yao Ming.In order to renew his contract, the Lakers let go of another insider Kwame Brown in the summer.

The small forward is Luke Walton, who has a very high basketball IQ and is good at passing the ball. This characteristic is just right for the team coached by Jackson.

The point guard is Fisher. After a few years of drifting away from the Lakers, he still missed his Kobe boss and tried his best to return.

In the locker room of the visiting team, Carlisle was also explaining tactics before the game.

Li Chongxiao can be regarded as a young and mature man. He understands that the outcome of this game is very important to the team, so Carlisle didn't say that he should serve the team personally, but just arranged according to the conventional tactics.

Carlisle is considered a relatively enlightened academic. He does not overemphasize the role of tactics in the game like some old coaches, thus weakening the role of star players.The overall fighting style of the Grizzlies is set according to the characteristics of the players themselves.

Ever since he came to the Grizzlies, he never planned to reduce Li Chongxiao's singles and make him a spot-up shooter.

This game is still led by Li Chongxiao in this tactical system, and then naturally the Gasol brothers partnered inside as a barrier and a second offensive point.

Captain Shane Battier has been working hard. In this game, he will defend Kobe as the main defense and serve as a spot-up shooter on the offensive end, ambush outside the three-point line.

Conley has a lot of tasks today.Li Chongxiao is an offensive end point, and he doesn't care so much about possession of the ball when he occupies a lot of shots.This requires Conley to act as the master to deliver shells to his teammates.

On the other hand, although Fisher on the opposite side has changed from a "little fish" to an "old fish", his defensive experience has not increased much. He looks full of momentum, but he is actually a show.Carlisle asked Conley to look at the timing and play a proper single.

Judging from the announced team lineup, the Lakers have an outstanding advantage, but the Grizzlies are more balanced.The bench lineups of the two sides are also almost the same. This evenly matched game is what the audience is most willing to see.

(End of this chapter)