God's hand behind the scenes

Chapter 469 Lakers Infighting?

The promotion of the Lakers has increased Chang Wei's confidence in the team's championship. After all, the Lakers' roster is almost the same as in the previous life, and the Pistons are stronger than that grassroots team, and their overall strength is more than one level higher.If the Pistons could easily defeat the Lakers to win the championship in the previous life, it will definitely not be difficult for the Pistons to win the O'Brien Cup now.

However, Chang Wei suddenly remembered that there was a deep-seated reason why the Pistons beat the Lakers 4-1 to win the championship that time, and the disbandment of F4 after the season was not just because they failed to win the championship.If I remember correctly, the Lakers had a very serious infighting during the finals, which made the core combination seem to be in harmony on the field. How could it be possible to beat the Pistons?
Of course, it is extremely difficult to find clues from the few words of the media now, but Chang Wei believes that the Lakers still cannot avoid internal strife this time.Although his rebirth has changed a lot of things, more things still happen with the inertia of history. Since the Lakers have formed a luxurious F4 like their previous life, there is a great possibility of infighting.

Chang Wei is very clear that after working together for many seasons, Kobe and O'Neal are already in harmony.For O'Neal, Kobe is not used to it, which is why he wants to become the number one star of the Lakers.To be honest, although O'Neal's statistics are still impressive this season, he does not look like the boss of the team at all. There are no guarantees of body shape either.

In addition, during the regular season, Kobe and Malone also had conflicts because of Vanessa, and this incident was also staged as scheduled.At that time, Malone invited Kobe's wife to watch the game with him and his son. Vanessa teased Malone and said, "Cowboy, what are you doing?" At that time, Malone was wearing denim, and Malone said frivolously, "I'm fishing for Mexican girls. ", and the Mexican girl is Vanessa's nickname.This also caused the relationship between Kobe and Malone to break down. Although they can still cooperate on the court, they are strangers off the court.

It can be said that the Lakers are undercurrents now, and they can beat the Spurs to advance to the finals only because their overall strength of the starting lineup is better, but the visual inspection is not much better, otherwise they will not be dragged into the tiebreaker by the Spurs.Therefore, in Chang Wei's view, the probability of the Pistons winning the championship is quite high. Although the so-called experts from the outside world are more optimistic about the Lakers, they don't know what problems have happened to the Lakers, or what problems are about to happen. Will be slapped in the face soon.

But at least on the surface, the whole Lakers team still seems to be in the same hatred. After all, they are at a disadvantage against the Pistons in the regular season. The local media said: "I want to prove on the stage of the finals who is the best coach, Brown or me."

For Zen Master's provocation, Brown seemed very silent, he has been used to a low-key style, and Detroit is far less impetuous than Los Angeles.Originally, the Pistons players planned to retort during the interview, but they were all persuaded by Chang Wei. In his words, only by winning the championship with an undisputed performance can they slap the opponent in the face severely. Arguing is useless, action is the most powerful rebuttal, and mentality is the most important before the series starts.

The Lakers, who were forced to play seven games in the Western Conference Finals, did not get much rest time. After a short rest, they rushed to Detroit to prepare for Game 4 of the Finals.Although they encountered the Spurs' tenacious blocking in the Western Conference Finals, the Lakers are determined to win this year's championship. The Pistons have three consecutive 0-[-]s in their opinion just because the East is too weak.

The day before the start of the game, the Pistons got good news. Their starting power forward Thomas finally passed the league's concussion testing procedure and can play in the game.But Brown is still very cautious on this issue. He still chooses to let Diaw be the starting [-]th position, and let Thomas play off the bench. If there is no problem, it is not too late to adjust the starting lineup until the second game. This is also for Thomas. , Brown hopes that he can try to find the status first.

The news of Thomas' comeback made Zen Master feel very sorry. In his opinion, if Thomas continues to be injured, the Lakers will be more sure of defeating the Pistons, and now the difficulty of winning the championship has undoubtedly increased a lot.But what he didn't expect was that the Pistons didn't intend to use defense to limit their offense from the beginning of the game, but to be direct on the offensive end.

It's true that Brown is a defensive coach, but in those few seasons with the 76ers, he added a lot of offensive content to his playbook, but the decision to play against the Lakers this time is also determined by the player lineup.If Dior takes the fourth position, the defensive strength of the starting lineup will drop significantly, so it is better to maximize the team's offensive ability.

For this reason, Brown directly used Wade to replace Prince in the starting lineup, and set up a three-guard lineup to fight against the Lakers. With Thomas leading the bench lineup, his scoring ability will not drop too much.Zen Master obviously did not expect the Pistons to start with this lineup, and the Lakers' defensive system was directly overwhelmed by them. When the Lakers players reacted, they were already 5 points behind 17 to 12.

It is normal for the Pistons to score 17 points, but it is definitely not normal for the Lakers to score only 5 points. Their touch seems to be a little tight.Although the Lakers then regrouped, they failed to stop the Pistons from scoring, and they were still 8 points behind at the end of the first quarter.

Such a score made the Pistons fans who came to watch the game cheer. They clapped and celebrated, as if the team had defeated their opponent and won the championship.But the Pistons players were not excited about it. They still listened to Brown's tactical arrangement nervously, and took the time to recover their physical strength to deal with the next game.

But relatively speaking, their atmosphere is relatively relaxed, while the Lakers are overcast.The double-digit lag in the first quarter was beyond the expectations of the entire Lakers team. This also disrupted Zen Master's pre-game deployment. He must build confidence for the players.Even so, Zen Master still believes that his team can win the final victory and even win the championship.

If Chang Wei knew what he was thinking, then he could only give Zen Master two words—hehe.

(End of this chapter)