ebonymovies Chapter 174 174. The Eye-catching Team
Chapter 174 174. The Eye-catching Team
Chapter 174 174. The Eye-catching Team
The Lakers were probably stimulated by the game between the Clippers and the Pacers. The next game against the Bulls was mediocre. In addition, Kobe, Nash, and Gasol were unexpectedly rested by D'Antoni. Liu Ren scored 41. 14 rebounds and 5 assists still could not prevent the Lakers from losing 91 to 97 to the Bulls.
Regarding the matter of the three old men of the rest team, Liu Ren listened to D'Antoni's explanation and said that he could understand that he had accumulated a lot of wins before the All-Star, and after the All-Star, he had to start preparing for the playoffs.
For a team like the Bulls with strong defense and a lot of physical contact, it is reasonable to let Kobe, Gasol, and Nash, three old men with injury histories, rest. Anyway, the Bulls survived the second round of the playoffs. There is no chance to fight again.
Liu Ren thinks that D'Antoni may understand something after seeing the performance of the Pacers after the All-Star. Anthony didn't see what happened to the Pacers, which made Liu Ren feel strange.
The Lakers' loss was overwhelmed by the news of the Pacers' defeat to the Clippers, allowing D'Antoni to narrowly escape the end of being sprayed by fans and the media because of the rotation.
The next day, the Lakers played against the Jazz back-to-back at home.
The Jazz are really unlucky. Originally, according to the Lakers' rotation strategy before the All-Star Game, they chose strong teams to play back to back and weak teams to rest, but now the Lakers coaching staff has changed their strategy. Try to fight as much as you can during the rest, but the weaker opponent will abuse the whole team and talk about winning.
A few months ago, because of that Facebook post, Hayward was so popular that he was once again tortured to death by Liu Ren and Kobe in grief and anger. Kobe beat Hayward to tears on the offensive end, and Liu Ren on the defensive end was real. Let Hayward cry, Liu Ren, who is getting better and better in defense, defended Hayward with 14 of 3 and only scored 8 points.
The Lakers beat the Jazz back to back 121 to 97.
With back-to-back wins and one loss, the Lakers' record has become 37 wins and 14 losses, which is gratifying.
However, no one cared about the Lakers' opponents in this game. The Pacers made news again, and the Lakers were completely thrown aside by the fans.
The Pacers played back-to-back away games against the Sacramento Kings, who were last in the Pacific Division. Fans originally thought that the last Pacers defeat should be an accident. , The Cavaliers have won 4 consecutive victories.
But the Pacers suffered a disastrous defeat again, and they still lost to the third-to-last king in the West!
The Kings have been a notoriously bad team in the league since the end of glamorous Princeton in the early 20s, even after drafting Cousins, possibly the most talented player in the 2010 class.
Cousins has always given people the feeling that he has good talent and good skills, but he plays very uniquely, does not pass the ball, loses his temper with his teammates, and makes wild shots... almost all of them are negative adjectives.
But when the Kings played at home against Pacers, the No. Out.
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Before the All-Star Weekend, Hibbert, who was thought to be the best defensive player of the season and the center of the first team of the best team, had no suspense, actually got 0 points and 0 rebounds for the second consecutive game.
For a while, Cousins' reputation as the "League's No. [-] Center" spread like wildfire. This is not an exaggeration of the fans. In this era of declining centers, Cousins is as skilled as Cousins, and his physical talent is not inferior to that of the jumping man. The center is definitely expected to compete for the league's first center!
Looking at the data alone, Cousins averaged 23 points and 10 rebounds per game this season, and he really can't compare with him at the center position!
Young top centers like Whiteside and Drummond are only strong in rebounding and average in scoring ability.
"Young birthday!" Liu Ren was stunned when he saw Cousins' data. How dare Hibbert turn into a center cash machine from now on?Cousins actually took this opportunity to get more data than his previous 40+ large triple-double, almost catching up with James' 50+ triple-double.
I have to say that Liu Ren is very jealous of Cousins' outstanding physical talent and skills. If his team has such a center...
Liu Ren thinks about it or forget it, Cousins' character, let the Kings toss it, don't make trouble for their own team, Green and Whiteside's future achievements are definitely better than Cousins, both of them have already shown With talent, such a shrewd management of the Lakers will not let the two be buried.
In the next few days, the Pacers went from surprising people to making people feel that the world view collapsed, and finally even the fans themselves thought it was miraculous to accept all of this.
Starting from the Pacers' disastrous defeat to the Clippers and Kings, they returned to the home court and lost consecutively to the Wizards, Bucks, and Bobcats, directly sending a wave of five-game losing streak.
The attention of the entire league was attracted by the Pacers. At first, people thought that the Pacers hadn't adjusted well, but they kept losing and losing. Everyone in the Pacers team was extremely depressed, and even their offensive ability was extremely poor. The Bucks lost to each other 67-75.
The Pacers have never been so watched by fans as they are now. Even if they almost made NBA history in the first half of this season, there are still not many people paying attention to them.
The popular teams such as the Lakers, the Heat, and the Spurs don't have much attention now, because they have played well recently.
Playing well and want to get attention?Fans who don't pay attention to the Pacers now will be despised!
The Lakers took a day off after playing the Bulls and Jazz back-to-back, and immediately played the Thunder and Celtics back-to-back.
The Thunder rely on Durant alone this year, thanks to Durant's really good this year, otherwise it would be impossible to still be in the top four.
But although Durant is strong, the rest of the Thunder began to decline after the All-Star break. Westbrook is practicing while recuperating from his injuries this year. After the All-Star break, he was told by the doctor to rest for two weeks.
Ibaka bumped his knee with Perkins in training before the All-Star break, and there was swelling. I don’t know what the Thunder management thinks. After the All-Star break, Ibaka found a bone fracture. The expected recovery time is 6 to 8 weeks , with luck, may make it to the playoffs.
(End of this chapter)