ebonymovies Chapter 677
Chapter 677
Chapter 677
The most difficult moment for the Lakers was that Kobe did not find his position at the beginning of the season, which caused the Lakers to start poorly and lose the battle with the Warriors for the league's first place from the very beginning?
Or is it that young players in the middle of the season start to be frizzy and D'Antoni is forced to take a full-time rotation?
Or was Liu Ren injured by black feet before the All-Star Weekend?
No, there are solutions to all of these, and D'Antoni has found a way to make the Lakers survive.
After communicating with the coaching staff and the management team, Kobe abandoned a lot of things about himself and became a role player. They all settled down and worked hard to help the team compete for the championship, and all the previous things made the Lakers play well during Liu Ren's injury and suspension.
However, Liu Ren's return from injury this time really put the Lakers in the most difficult moment.
Liu Ren needs to lose weight, so he needs a lot of physical training, and it must be done, because there is only one month before the playoffs. The feeling of teamwork together.
In fact, if these two points are done separately, it will be easy to do, but when the two things are piled up, it will test D'Antoni's patience.
Because Liu Ren is doing aerobic training every day to lose fat, the feel of shooting changes almost every day. When he finds the feeling is accurate, he is very accurate. After a day or two of physical training during the rest period, the next game will be iron again. Pen.
This not only caused D'Antoni a headache, the Lakers players also played very aggrieved. Sometimes Liu Ren was caught by his opponents after they saw that he was in a bad state. This cut off his connection with other Lakers players. With the Lakers playing.
Since last season, has the Lakers ever suffered such humiliation?But this humiliation has to go on for a long time...
The Lakers focused on restoring Liu Ren's form, resulting in a rather unstable record. Fans didn't dare to speculate on whether they would win or lose a game after seeing Liu Ren's performance.
After losing to the Warriors, the Lakers only had a record of 7 wins and 3 losses in the remaining 4 games in March. After the game in March, the Lakers' record became 56 wins and 18 losses.
In April, the Lakers still have 4 games left. After 8 games, on April 8, the regular season schedule of all teams in the league will end, and on April 4, half of the teams will start the season. The opening game of the playoffs.
The last two games of the Lakers are against the Clippers and the Clippers back-to-back on April 4 and 15.
But this is not so important to the Lakers at this stage, because the running-in with Liu Ren is still the most critical thing.
After eight games of Liu Ren's comeback in the second half of March, the tacit understanding between the other Lakers players and Liu Ren has gradually recovered, but Liu Ren has some problems in his own state, which has given the opponent a lot of opportunities to target, and now the rest is Use the game to continue to find status for Liu Ren.
In the first three games in April, the Lakers had relatively weak opponents, namely the Heat, Pelicans, and Jazz. These three games were just in time. None of the three teams could defend the Lakers effectively. Liu Ren is making a comeback It was the first time after that that he shot more than 4% of his field goals, and it was also the first time he scored more than 5 points after his comeback. A wave of three consecutive victories was successfully won...
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"240 pounds, boss, congratulations, after 20 days of training, your body has returned to its best condition, better than before your injury, and your body fat rate is only 5.00% point three! Look at you I guarantee you won’t be able to float in the sea with these muscles.” Gary Vidy said exaggeratedly, Liu Ren’s training was finally completed, and he also breathed a sigh of relief.
"Gary, this is not funny at all. If you let me resume training when my injury is just right, I would have dropped my weight a long time ago." Liu Ren gave Gary Vidy a white look.
"Indeed, if you don't play games right after your suspension ends and focus on losing weight, you can do it in 10 days," Gary Vidy replied.
"That's right! I've played so badly in the past dozen games, I might as well go to training." Liu Ren said resentfully, looking at the smiling magician and D'Antoni.
In the 11 games since Liu Ren's comeback, he averaged 27 points, 8 rebounds and 7 assists per game. Does it look like the data is much better than before the injury?But the efficiency is so low that it is at the same level as Derrick Rose after he was injured. These statistics are all in exchange for a large number of shots and a large number of possessions.
Just look at other statistics, plus the last three consecutive 40+ games, Liu Ren averaged 25 shots per game, with a shooting percentage of 42.8%, which is the highest average shot per game in his career and the lowest in his career. The shooting percentage in the last three games has exceeded 40.00%. The shooting percentage in the first eight games is only 40.00%. One point, it will reach [-]%.
In terms of ball possession time, Liu Ren's ball possession time in recent games is longer than Paul and Westbrook, who have the longest ball possession time in the league, and he has become a ball bully!
This high-handed, high-possession time and low-efficiency game made Liu Ren feel that it would be better not to play.
Even if the magician was complained, he still had a characteristic smile: "Boss, you have to play the game, you should know..."
Before the magician finished speaking, Liu Ren interrupted him: "Yes, yes, I know, I need to cultivate a tacit understanding with my teammates first, and find the feeling of shooting in the game, so as to prepare for the playoffs , My ears can already hear what you said. But in the past 20 days, if I lose weight first, and then practice shooting to find the touch, wouldn’t I be able to complete these trainings faster and better? It won’t affect the record. Chased by the Spurs."
"It's okay to be caught by them ... it's not bad," Magic said, and D'Antoni laughed together. "But I don't think they will easily pass us."
"why?"
Liu Ren was a little strange. When the Spurs were about to contrast with the Lakers, they suddenly started to lose some games inexplicably. It seemed that they deliberately kept pace with the Lakers. If the Lakers lost, they would lose immediately. If the Lakers won, they would win, of course. There are also times when the main force can take a full-time rest and can't lose...
Now the Spurs' record is 58 wins and 18 losses, and the Lakers' record is 59 wins and 18 losses. The Lakers are only half a game ahead of the Spurs.
Liu Ren is a little anxious about this. The No. 69 in the Western Conference is definitely out of reach. The Warriors are now 8 wins and 60 losses. They are the only team in the league with more than [-] wins.
But if the Spurs overtook him to second place in the Western Conference, Liu Ren said he would not accept it, but it seemed that the Lakers management and coaching staff didn't care at all.
"Just play well. You have been in a good state in the last few games. I hope you can continue." The magician decisively changed the subject, and the coaching staff can make tactics for the consideration of the playoff ranking. However, players must not have this kind of mentality, let alone Liu Ren, who is notoriously big-mouthed, who knows if he can't help but say it.
"The opponents are too weak in these few games. I don't know what I can do against these difficult opponents." Speaking of this, Liu Ren felt a little resentful. Not quite depressed, but self-doubt is definitely there.
"Boss, you have to believe in yourself. You are our strongest player. Where did the boss who scored [-] to [-] points last season and scored more points than the opponent's team all by himself go?"
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(End of this chapter)