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Fuji Xun also paid attention to whether the Lakers could get a 22-game winning streak, and specifically mentioned this game in their special program.

For this game, Wang Meng, a commentator on Fuji Xun, and others have a consistent point, that is, whether the Lakers can win this game, the key is to see the play of the Trail Blazers' center Nurkic.

Yunurkic began his basketball career in the Euroleague and entered the NBA through the draft in 2014, playing for the Nuggets and Trail Blazers before being named to the All-Rookie Second Team in 2014-15.

In fact, the Nuggets of Nurkic's team actually wanted to cultivate Nurkic as the future of the interior at the beginning, but Nurkic was born at the wrong time and met Jokic.

Although Nurkic has excellent interior skills, a soft touch, and good rim protection, he is only limited to the interior line. Nurkic has no 3-point shooting ability except for a good interior offense, and has made a total of 13 3-point shots in his 4-year career and failed to hit a single shot, and Nurkic's athleticism is also average, and he is not flexible enough, so it is difficult to make up for 3-point defense.

Jokic, on the other hand, is better than Nurkic, the so-called one mountain cannot tolerate two tigers, and the interior line cannot tolerate two centers with similar technical characteristics.

Nuggets management chose Jokic and waived Nurkic to send Nurkic to the Trail Blazers in a trade during this year's transfer window.

For this, Nurkic has performed exceptionally well this season, and he wants to prove that he is better than Jokic through his excellent performance.

The Trail Blazers have also won four in a row recently, and in addition to Nurkic's excellent play, the performance of the two guns is also crucial.

The game is about to start soon, and the starting line-ups for both teams are out.

The Lakers are still the same old starting lineup: the starting point guard is Ball Lonzo, the scoring guard is Kentavios Cardwell Pope, the small forward is Kyle Kuzma, the power forward is Brandon Ingram, and the center position is the "monster newcomer" Chen Hao!

Today's lineup on the Trail Blazers' side is: starting point guard Lillard, scoring guard McCollum, small forward Turner, power forward Aminu, and center Nurkic.

Today's jump was due to a small mistake by the referee, and the ball was sent to Nurkic excessively, giving Nurkic a chance to get the ball from Chen Hao.

I don't know if the jump ball gave him confidence, as soon as the Trailblazers' offense was in place, he directly asked Lillard on the outside, signaling that he wanted to single Chen Hao.

Lillard is still very face-saving for his team's newcomer, but the center who makes up for the team's lack of interior line, and it is also excellent if Nurkic can frustrate Chen Hao's sharpness.

"Come on! Ullis kill Chen Hao!"

"Ullis, let Chen Hao know how powerful we are in Portland!"

As soon as Nurkic received the ball, the entire Trail Blazers' home fans were cheering him on, hoping that the center who gave them great hope this new season could beat Chen Hao, the brightest in the league recently.

"Look how I teach you!" Nurkic said with his back to Chen Hao after successfully receiving the ball from Lillard.

"Teach me a lesson? It seems that the words were said a little earlier!" Chen Hao did not relax his defense.

Nurkic began to hit his back, leaning on Chen Hao with his back first, but there was no sign of movement, but this was also in Nurkic's expectations.

Nurkic immediately wanted to make a strong turn, but this was just a feint, and he wanted to rely on this job to deceive Chen Hao in order to achieve his own goals.

But Chen Hao did not fall for him, which caused all Nurkic's efforts to fail, and the time to attack was almost up at this time.

Faced with such a situation, Nurkic had no choice but to choose a strong shot.

This appearance directly gave Chen Hao a chance, no one has ever been able to shoot so easily in front of him, no one else can't, and you Nurkic can't!

"Smack"!

I don't know the mother who fanned Nurkic directly with a big hat.

"Nurkic is really naïve, if he wants to cooperate with his teammates, play a time difference, and then score in front of Chen Hao, it's okay, but it is tantamount to a fantasy for him to score in front of Chen Hao like this!" O'Neal looked at Nurkic's choice and said with a little mockery.

"That's right, that's right! I don't seem to have seen anyone win Chen Hao in heads-up, and I don't dare to say if there is one in the future, but definitely not now!" Barkley said after O'Neal's words.

The Trail Blazers' throw-in, this time Nurkic didn't choose to ask for the ball directly.

"Haha, I'm afraid, don't challenge me at will, do you understand?" Chen Hao said in Nurkic's ear.

Nurkic was furious when he heard this, and after receiving a transitional pass in his hand, he did not pass it out as before, but chose to challenge Chen Hao again.

This time he learned to be smart and wanted to use his body to make a hard layup, after all, it is difficult for an interior player to defend a close break, but it is clear that he is thinking too much.

In the face of Nurkic's style of play, Chen Hao knocked the ball down before he could fully send his hand up.

Looking back, the Lakers' offense.

This time Nurkic and Chen Hao exchanged offense and defense, Chen Hao's defense against Nurkic was simple and rude, whoever came with you did any twists and turns, just relied on his body to crush you.

Kuzma used his breakthrough to create a frontal basket opportunity for Chen Hao, although Nurkic stood in front of Chen Hao and wanted to put pressure on Chen Hao, but what he didn't expect was that Chen Hao jumped directly in front of him.

"Is this guy so inflated? I'm not the kind of interior player who doesn't have any defensive ability!" Nurkic thought to himself, jumping to his feet.

"You're so inflated! I'm going to teach you a good lesson this time!"

But what Nurkic didn't expect was that in the face of Chen Hao's attack, he had no way at all, and after colliding with Chen Hao in the air, he had no resistance at all, and was directly knocked away.

Chen Hao's goal was scored very easily.

"It seems that Nurkic has no way to restrain Chen Hao, I don't know if there is anyone in the NBA league who can restrain Chen Hao!" O'Neal said as he watched Nurkic's performance.

"At least no one can restrain Chen Hao now!It's really too strong!" Barkley couldn't help but sigh.