NBA’s aging star system

LaVine had just broken through when he was directly intercepted by Su Tian.

After stealing the ball, Su Tian controlled the ball and rushed forward directly to form a defensive counterattack.

Su Tian was very fast, but LaVine was not slow either. The two of them fought against each other and came to the basket in the frontcourt.

Su Tian saw the right opportunity, collected the ball, took a European step, one step, two steps, and scored a layup.

When Su Tian took the first step of the European move, LaVine was deceived by Su Tian's very deceptive European move.

So Su Tian was not disturbed at all in the next layup.

4-0

The Lakers hit consecutively, and the Bulls seemed helpless.

In the next few rounds, the Bulls' performance still did not bring any surprises to everyone.

After all, as the team's first scoring point, Zach LaVine is competing against Su Tian, ​​so it is reasonable to be restricted.

After the first quarter, the two sides made substitution adjustments. At this time, the Lakers' disadvantage of insufficient interior personnel began to show.

Because McGee cannot play for too long continuously, Boucher has to bear most of the time at the fifth position. As a result, only Kuzma is left at the fourth position.

Of course, there is no problem in letting George support him briefly.

In the second quarter, Su Tian was also replaced early. At this time, Su Tian was placed in the third position.

The Lakers' overall lineup has become smaller, their flexibility has increased, and their pace is getting faster and faster.

After the pace picked up, the point difference became wider and wider. At the end of the first half, the point difference had reached 18 points.

"Should I say that the Lakers are too strong, or should I say that the Bulls are too weak? The Lakers gave up Davis, and ended up being blown away by nearly 20 points at halftime."

"It has both. Although the Lakers lack Davis, the Lakers' foundation is too strong, and Su is the cornerstone of the Lakers. With Su here, the Lakers cannot collapse."

"The Bulls management needs to work hard. Whatever they do, it seems that there is no hope for the playoffs this season."

Soon, the intermission passed and the third quarter began.

In the third quarter of the game, the Lakers made personnel adjustments, including Brunson, Nunn, Su Tian, ​​George, and McGee.

Nunn is actually not bad in his own ability, but because there are so many talented defenders in the Lakers, he has never had a chance to stand out.

The first possession of the third quarter was given to the Lakers. Brunson came to the frontcourt with the ball and used McGee's pick-and-roll to break through.

Halfway through the breakthrough, he successfully attracted a double-team from the Bulls, so Brunson passed a pass to Nunn outside the three-point line.

Nunn took the ball and shot a three-pointer directly.

Swah——

The three-pointer was hit steadily, the two cooperated successfully, and even high-fived each other when returning to defense.

This scene fell into the eyes of Walton on the sidelines, and Walton nodded with satisfaction.

Walton has been focusing on cultivating role players and substitute lineups, just to create an emergency lineup without the starting three.

Now the performance of Brunson and Nunn is obviously something Walton likes very much.

The ball is transferred and the Bulls attack.

LaVine took the ball and advanced to the frontcourt. Facing Nunn's defense, he chose to break through directly.

Because Nunn is not well-known, LaVine did not make too many moves, but was successfully blocked by Nunn.

At this moment, Su Tian struck out again and successfully stole the ball again!

But this time Brunson obviously reacted faster and ran ahead of everyone, so Su Tian passed the ball to him.

Brunson caught the ball and scored directly for a layup.

"Okay, the Lakers' defensive counterattack in the third quarter should be engraved in your bones by now. Look how fast Brunson runs," Barkley said.

"This is a good habit. Of course, it also illustrates the strength of the Lakers." Kenny Smith said.

So in the next few rounds, the Bulls were once again lost in the Lakers' offense.

In the fourth quarter, Su Tian led the substitutes to play again. Within a few minutes, the Bulls replaced all the main players and surrendered.

Seeing this, Walton quickly replaced the main lineup and put on a rare bench lineup.

Dort, Curry Jr., Keldon Johnson, Dunroe, Boucher.

While Su Tian was watching his teammates playing the game, he was thinking about the team's internal problems.

There are currently only three inside players available for the team. Once someone is injured, the Lakers will be very passive.

"So, we still have to see where there are useful inside players and use them as backup." Su Tian murmured to himself.

Soon, the game on the court was over. The Lakers won the Bulls with a score difference of more than 20 points without any pressure at all.

After the game, Su Tian directly called Johnson.

"We lack a suitable backup big man."

"Yeah, Pelinka is already looking, but you know, it's not easy to find."

"It's okay, I understand. We can study it together when I get back to Los Angeles."

The day after the game against the Bulls, the Lakers team returned to Los Angeles.

After Su Tian went home for a brief rest, he went straight to Johnson's office.

"Erwin, how's it going? Is there any better candidate?"

"Well, there's nothing particularly suitable yet. You can take a look first."

Johnson said as he handed over a list.

Su Tian picked up the list and started looking at it, but nothing seemed particularly suitable.

"None of these feel very suitable. Are there any other candidates?" Su Tian asked.

At this time, Johnson hesitated and looked at Pelinka aside.

Pelinka smiled and said: "There is indeed another one recommended by Anthony, but this candidate still needs to be considered."

"Oh? Anthony suggested it? Who was it?"

"It's DeMarcus Cousins."

"Cousins!"

Su Tian was first surprised when he heard this name, and then he was confused.

"Hasn't he been signed by someone else yet?"

Pelinka shook his head and said: "Not yet. Now everyone is not optimistic about his injury, and Cousins' strength has indeed declined seriously."

Su Tian nodded when he heard this and said: "Indeed, but we are just looking for a backup center, or even a third center. Cousins' ability should be enough for the job."

"In that case, if you don't have any objections, Su, I will contact Cousins' agent and ask him to come over for a trial training," Pelinka said.

"Okay, let him do it."

After Pelinka went out, Johnson looked at Su Tian and couldn't help but said: "Su, Cousins' ability aside, his temper is not easy to deal with. Are you sure?"

"Don't worry Erwin, I'm not afraid of his bad temper, I'm just afraid that he won't come."

Seeing how confident Su Tian was, Johnson was dubious, but in the end he chose to believe Su Tian.

At this time, what Su Tian was thinking in his heart was that with the "Big Boss" badge, he was really not afraid of anything Cousins ​​would do.