Devil shooting guard in basketball

Chapter 435 Fighting Together! (13)

After winning successively, the Trail Blazers and the Bucks, the Lakers began to enter a downturn.

It went downhill without any warning.The team started losing streak.

And the more the team wants to get results, the more the team loses
The ranking has reached fourth in the West, but it has dropped to seventh in the West.

In the recent battle with the Nuggets, he returned directly to No.8 in the West.On this one, the Pelicans and Grizzlies are currently battling for a spot in the playoffs.

So they are jealous when they see the Lakers who are eighth in the West at this time.

The next game was against the Pelicans, and Walton was not happy about the team's loss at first.

But there is no way for a long time.

Originally, Walton's plan was that if the Lakers could, ranking third would be the best!

In this way, they can compete with the Grizzlies and other teams, and the difficulty will naturally not be high.

But now it seems that the Lakers seem to be unable to do this.The game has reached this level, and the Lakers are also much more passive.

Now it is a problem to enter the playoffs, and it is also a problem to get a decent ranking.

Among the top eight teams in the West, the number of wins is not much worse.

What the Lakers do is, don't complain that the ranking is too low.

For example, if the team enters the playoffs as the eighth in the Western Conference, how sure are they of winning the Warriors?
No.2 is the Spurs, No.3 is the Clippers.

In the first round of the Lakers, Walton hopes that they can have a psychological buffer period.

Although he also feels confident that his team can beat the top three players in the Western Conference playoffs.

No matter which team you encounter, you can beat them in the first round.

But the players of the team may not have this confidence.

Now that the Lakers are starting to lose, other teams have plans to win them a game.

From the current rhythm point of view, the players on the Lakers side seem to be a bit overwhelmed after the amount of training has increased.

The performance in the game was much weaker, mainly due to the impact of training.

There are also certain problems in mentality.

Back at the Staples Arena today, there are still a lot of fans.

The starters for the Pelicans are Davis, Asik, Cunningham, Moore and Jack.

On the Lakers side are Randall, Luol Deng, Ingram, Li Feng and Kobe in turn!

From the perspective of the center alone, the opponent has a super center, and the Lakers are not strong in this regard.

In fact, both sides have advantages and disadvantages.

The Lakers are strong at guard.

What Wharton means in this game is that he can rest for a few more days after the game.

Then it goes straight to the playoffs.

This means that the intensity of training will be reduced, so that players can fully enter the last dozen games of the regular season and the playoffs.

Because if this continues, the Lakers will not even be able to make it to the playoffs.

In this case, so much training will not help.

Asik gets the basketball first.

Then Jack held the ball across half court at this time, facing Kobe's defense, and finally passed the ball to Davis.

The latter dunked directly against Randall's defense to score points!The Lakers management is now interested in reorganizing the Lakers.

This team never lacks superstars!

At present, Leonard, Davis and James are the candidates they plan to recruit in recent years.

Li Feng passed halftime at this time, Yingge took the basketball and faced Cunningham and was finally cut off!
After Moore got the ball in the frontcourt, he quickly hit a three-pointer from the three-point line!
The fans at home of the Lakers looked at this scene with some embarrassment at this time.

The morale of the Pelicans has also risen.

Start 5:0!The camera was shown to Wharton, and facing the camera, Wharton didn't have the momentum he had some time ago.

The players are still disturbed by fatigue, and the game must be able to play.

But how much ability can be exerted is unknown.

Basically, they can't show their previous abilities.

Kobe: "It seems that if we want to win this game, we need to rely on the two of us"

Li Feng: "It seems that this is the only way to go."

Kobe received a pass from Li Feng, and the two of them had already thought about it before the game.

If the teammates still can't play, then the scoring of the game is basically controlled by the two of them.

After Davis saw Kobe holding the ball, he immediately asked his teammates to rush to defend Kobe!

And I also wait for Kobe to come over at any time!

At this time, Li Feng got the basketball in the bottom corner and got up and hit a three-pointer!

The cooperation between the two is very tacit now!
Seeing the cooperation between Li Feng and Kobe, the Pelicans also started to get serious.

The Lakers aren't a mob right now, after all.

Basketball came directly to Brother Nongmei.Faced with the double-teaming of Luol Deng and Randall, Davis dunked directly to score!
The Pelicans' thinking is straightforward.

They can't beat the Lakers on three-pointers.Then it would be better to compare with the Lakers on the inside.

The Lakers really can't beat the opponent here at the basket and at the front!
As long as the defense is good, the Lakers have nothing to do with them.

Li Feng dribbled the ball across the half, this time he directly avoided Jack's defense, then got up and hit a three-pointer!

The Lakers still have to score points, but the players have also seen it during this time.

Can't play at all, so now only two core guards can score!
The basketball came to Asik, and Cunningham immediately jumped up and scored a three-pointer after receiving the ball!
10:6!Wharton immediately asked for a timeout.

4 points behind.The Lakers still seem passive here.

Nick Young replaced Ingram.

Wharton: "In the next game, Kobe will serve as the organization striker and let Nick Young and Li Feng score. Naturally, you can also score when the opportunity comes."

The opponent did not make any player changes after the timeout.

The Lakers will immediately change their triangle offense!

Although the Lakers don't know much about the triangle offense, they still have Kobe.

Kobe has a good grasp of the game, so to a certain extent, the Lakers can still play a good match.

And as long as this is done well, the Lakers may take control of the situation immediately.

It didn't take long for Nick Young to receive Kobe's pass, and then immediately rushed to the frontcourt and hit the iron with a three-pointer.

Then Jack got the rebound, and immediately after halftime, Davis got the ball and turned around and made a powerful dunk!

At the start of today's game, Brother Nongmei has been scoring on the field!
Li Feng also knows why the Los Angeles Lakers wanted this player so much in his previous life.

Davis, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, is simply an iconic figure of the new era on the court, especially at the basket!

Kobe looked at Davis at this time, feeling a little emotional.

He directly asked for Li Feng's ball, and then hit a three-pointer under the double-team of the opponent's three!

Walton immediately signaled Kobe on the sidelines, you have to pass more balls.

It is most suitable to use you to attract firepower.

But the Black Mamba only nodded symbolically.Looking at Kobe with thick eyebrows, he also signaled that he could hit the basket anyway.

Then the thick eyebrow got a rebound and faced Randall in a back-to-back singles success!
The Pelicans seem to have allowed the thick eyebrows to score alone.

At this point in the game, the fans at the scene didn't know what to watch.

Although the Pelicans are now in the leading position, the risks they take in this game are also relatively large!
The players on the Lakers knew what was wrong with the opponent at this time.

What if the thick eyebrows rest?What if he doesn't score the next round?

Can the Pelicans still score like they are now?

That's something New Orleans' head coach is thinking too.

But when he meets the Lakers, he wants to strike first.

Let the Lakers fall behind both in scoring and psychologically.

In a state that is not as strong as the Pelicans, and they have to desperately win their opponents at this time.

Don't give the Lakers any chance, this is the consensus reached by their team players and coaches.

Kobe still holds the ball by himself!Davis defiantly let him pass!
The emotions of the fans at the scene were also mobilized by these two superstars!

After Nongmei came to the league, he directly established his status as a star center!

But now he is the same as the Wolf King of the Timberwolves back then. He can play especially well, but his teammates can't.

Therefore, the Pelicans have also had rumors that thick eyebrows are leaving in recent years.

But the team will not let him go easily, and the ideological work and other aspects are also constantly being done.

If a team can't find a next home, let go of the current top center in the league?

Then such a team is likely to repeat the mistakes of the Orlando Magic.

Jack, Asik, and Cunningham rushed over together, and eventually Jack got fouled.

Kobe made all 3 free throws!
The coach of the Pelicans is about to ask the team to change their style of play, stop passing the ball inside, and start to pass more in the first quarter to find opportunities to make shots.

This time Moore received the basketball, but he failed several times with Li Feng.

Finally, under the cover of Jack, he made a jumper!

16:12!From the point difference, it seems that the Lakers are about to start chasing points!

26:20!In the second quarter, Zubac and Lu Wei played, and Randall and Kobe were replaced.

The Pelicans lineup remains unchanged!
Kobe also passed the ball at the end of the first quarter, but his teammates missed the shot, and the opponent seized this opportunity to score desperately!

The Lakers now feel a lot of pressure on themselves.

Tonight's game, the opponents have no intention of letting them go!
The opponents are staring at them, and if the Lakers are a little slack, the opponent will immediately score.

Then Li Feng of the Lakers took the ball to the frontcourt. Wharton's arrangement in this quarter was to let Nick Young try his best to organize the game.

Now that Wharton has recently started to reuse Nick Young, the black question mark will not let go of this opportunity.

He immediately looked for his friends during the game, saw Li Feng running over, and passed the ball nearby.

Pass the ball as safely as possible to your teammates.

Although there will be fewer long passes, Nick Young is now also starting to focus on efficiency.

The Lakers must rise this season, because even if they fail to enter the playoffs, they have far surpassed the Lakers coached by Scott last season in terms of the number of wins.

Seeing Li Feng passing the ball, Zubac rushed over to catch the basketball.

He jumped up before the thick eyebrows could catch up, but passed the ball to Lol Deng in the air.

The Pelicans guessed wrong here, and in the end Luol Deng made a 2-pointer from close range!
The difference from the style of play in the first quarter is that after thick eyebrows began to focus on defense in the second half of the first quarter, he had time to rest.

And what this section requires is to find Davis for stable scoring.

The basketball was passed directly, and the thick eyebrows didn't take it seriously, and went towards Zubac, but was finally blocked by Zubac!

There was a burst of exclamation at the scene, followed by warm cheers from the Lakers fans!

Davis: "There are two tricks! Then let's practice?"

Zubac: "It doesn't matter whether you practice or not, the main thing is that I am here to guard against you today"

Thick eyebrows suddenly smiled, then nodded and said nothing.

The basketball bounced to Luol Deng in the process, and Nick Young made a three-pointer after receiving the ball!

At the start of the second quarter, the point difference went directly from 6 points to 1 point!
For the Pelicans, Davis immediately got the basketball, and then scored a two-handed dunk from Zubac!

The young first-year student Zubac was directly knocked out!
The referee wanted to blow the whistle, but finally hesitated and did not call a foul on Zubac.

And the Pelicans don't look for it here. I have seen too many such situations.

Davis was too lazy to argue with the referee.

When such a situation occurs, the referees must be more impartial.

After more than half of the season, Zubac has become much tougher on the field.

Quickly rushed to the front court, and finally passed Davis one step ahead.

Not long after receiving a pass from Nick Young, Lu Wei missed a three-pointer in front of Jack, and then rushed directly to grab a rebound.

Luol Deng inadvertently got another rebound in the fight between Zubac and Nongmei.

Li Feng catches the ball behind him and shoots!

Both sides are now starting to stick together.But what can be proved from the previous games is that although the Lakers can be tied with their opponents.

But in the end you will lose the game.Their late performance was very unsatisfactory.

For the Lakers players on the scene, there is indeed a feeling of having more than enough energy but not enough energy.

Mainly because of the relatively large decline in physical fitness.

Li Feng's words are even worse. From the outside world, it seems that Li Feng may not be physically fit at all.

It is no secret that the Lakers have strengthened their training. The media felt that Li Feng was training with his teammates.

But now it is worse than his teammates.

Physically, he may not be as good as his teammates.But this is not the case. After the game against the Bucks, Li Feng was called by Kobe.

After that, I have to go to Kobe's training ground at 3:[-] every day, and then I have to train physical fitness
Maybe many people don't know how Li Feng got here during this time, his legs were weak when he played at the beginning.
When the whole team is exhausted, Li Feng can't act abnormally and show that he is very physically fit.

Because he participated in both Kobe's special training and the team's special training, he only used one physical sugar to maintain it during the game.

It became like this.

Jack passed halftime at this time, and Davis got the basketball again. Seeing Zubac desperately defending him, Davis decisively threw the ball into Moore's hands, and the latter immediately hit a three-pointer!
After Walton came to the Staples Arena today, there was always an emotion that seemed to be indescribable on his face.

It is rare to see on his face the state of wanting to leave at the beginning of the game.

At this time, Wharton seems to be in such a state.

(End of this chapter)