Chapter 277 March Crisis
The Lakers need to play another game before they can usher in March.
There are many professional football reviews and authoritative media who believe that March will be the turning point of their record, and Chris Meim's season reimbursement will make them lose many games that shouldn't have lost.
The ending battle in February is the opponent of Orlando Magic.
There is a voice like this: as long as Dwight Howard is harder, the Lakers will die.
The Lakers were lucky enough to meet Grant Hill in a rare healthy game.
Since Hill was thrown away by the Pistons, he has not had more than 67 games in a season. Or maybe it is said that except last season, he has not had 30 games in a season. This season, Hill is still injured and stops, and he will eventually play in 21 games.
At the end of February, it was that 1/21.
The Lakers' decisive battle against Magic, Kobe and Hill, the two new and old generations of Jordan successors, seem to prove themselves.
Hill was often criticized for playing for the Pistons for being too soft and not being able to use it at critical moments. He could not lead the team through the first round, and the life and death ball was useless. The elegant young man couldn't listen to this. He had a rare chance to play. He wanted to prove himself, making 6 of 9 shots in the game, scoring 23 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists.
The free throw was 11 of 13 free throws. If he didn't have so many injuries, he might have continued his peak tail for a few years in the era of not taking action. Now he can only smile bitterly.
Kobe on the opposite side shows that he no longer needs to use fouls to prove that he is the hardest successor of Jordan.
He made 11 of 20 shots in the game, almost slapped in a clean manner, scoring 28 points.
The goals he scored were almost twice as much as Hill, but his score was only 5 points more. In this game, Hill's efficiency and hit rate were better than Kobe, but Kobe was obviously better than Hill's role during the game.
People expect Howard to harden his head and dominate the Lakers' penalty area, but he made 6 of 9 shots like Hill, without any free throws. He seemed to be obsessed with cleanliness and didn't like being touched by his opponent, scoring 15 points and 9 rebounds.
This data is not enough to win.
The Magic lost to the Lakers, who are all soldiers. A total of six of them scored in double-digit points, not including Odom, who scored a quasi-triple-double.
Odom has 8 points, 11 rebounds and 9 assists in a single game, and will not give up until he has forced a few people to death.
The Lakers advanced into March with a winning streak.
They are still ranked fifth in the West. If they want to keep the ranking or go further, the winning rate in March is very important.
Anyone who loses a few games that shouldn't be lost can fall from fifth to seventh or eighth.
The first match in March, the Lakers Tourist Prison Team.
The pioneer who selected Wei Xia and gave Wei Xia to others.
Warden Zach Randolph is still there, he is much harder than Howard. If the Lakers have no inside, he will hit the inside to death. In a single game of 3012, completely breaking the Lakers' inside without leaving any trace.
Kobe's shooting rate is poor, Wei Xia is not in shape, the Lakers defeated the game and ended their winning streak.
"What you see is the game, the best performance we have played recently. Our offense is the first in the league, and the Lakers don't know how to stop us, it's that... simple." Trail Blazers head coach Nate McMillan said lightly.
A reporter wanted to ask him about Randolph's evaluation of data for garbage time brushing.
McMillan said wisely: "The Lakers' penalty area is too quiet, you have to understand him."
OK, the Lakers understand.
A few days later, Los Angeles media listed all of Randov's dark history, including the "anecdotes" that Ya was caught by the police several times before she was 17 years old.
Lakers fans will definitely feel a little after reading it: "It turns out that this guy has known how to cheat and play tricks since he was a child!"
Afterwards, the Lakers faced the Warriors and the two sides fought hard.
The Warriors' inside line is said to be strong or not, Troy Murphy and Adonal Foyer are just a kite man and an ordinary basketball collar, but the Lakers' inside line is really bad.
In the game against the Warriors, Jackson even called Bynum to play for 14 minutes.
Bynum scored 7 points and 6 rebounds in the season, with a double high in the season, but the Lakers' victory or defeat was on the outside.
Kobe's 40 points are not enough to destroy the decree.
Wei Xia's performance with 25 points, 5 rebounds and 6 assists successfully stabbed Kobe's sword into the Warriors' heart and won a game.
"It's not worth winning." Kobe said worriedly, "our problem still exists."
The Lakers' schedule will not be easy next time.
The opponents in the four games are the Spurs, Pistons, Hornets and Spurs.
The outside world's expectation is to lose three games.
The Lakers expressed disdain: "Three games? Do you underestimate me too much? Why can't I lose four games?"
For the Spurs, the Lakers who lost Mime lost the Lakers defeated the situation when Kobe took Bowen's small moves and performed poorly.
The Lakers have ideas when fighting the Pistons.
Jackson said before the game: "Let's do something that the outside world dare not imagine."
The so-called "outsiders dare not think" is to encourage the Lakers to use what the Pistons are best at to win - confrontation, meat-minting war.
Indeed, moths fly into flames and seek death, let alone the outside world dare not think about it, even the pistons are confused about "What do they want to do?" when they see it.
The Lakers' path is wild, but they have achieved amazing results.
The Pistons ate their poor hit rate, but Kobe and Wei Xia repeatedly hit the fairy-like buzzer-beating ball, which was delayed.
From the Pistons' standpoint, it is a shame to be stumped by the Lakers using their own unique skills.
They will hesitate and puzzled. When they find that the Lakers really dare to dance on the tip of the knife, they will launch a counterattack with strong thunder.
The Lakers used their strength, and they used higher strength, and the game entered a terrible intensity and hardness, and an accident followed.
The Lakers, who are stretched in the inside, have lost a player again.
The fans breathed a sigh of relief: It was Tony Kukoc.
Teacher Tony came up and walked up the street for a few minutes and collided with his opponent and left the field due to injury.
Anyway, he can't play for a few minutes every game, so if he can't play, he can't play, and the situation will not be worse.
The Lakers and the Pistons dragged the game to the finale.
Big Ben's elbow hit Wei Xia was ignored by the referee, which determined the direction of the game.
Wei Xia was a little dizzy on the spot and was led by the team doctor. The Lakers were in a state of great emotion and wanted to fight back, but were stopped by Kobe. The Lakers, whose morale was in chaos, failed to bite until the end and were won by the Pistons by 2 points.
"I don't think we lost." Kobe said to the media dissatisfied.
Jackson was very free and easy, "I think Ben fouled on wish, and they pulled his arm at the basket and attacked his body. Because it was a key round, I protested to the referee. In the end, it didn't work and maintained the original judgment. But as I said, the final result of the game was never determined by a certain round. It was because of the accumulation of performances in a series of rounds."
Pistons head coach Philip Sanders is a kind man and he doesn't want to defend Big Ben.
He avoided the question, and the reporter wanted him to express his opinion on Big Ben's elbow hit Wei Xia, but his answer was: "This is a very competitive game. I think the opponent's physical confrontation in the first half was stronger than us, but we responded later. In the end, the game was close to the end and fell into a situation where the winner was decided by several rounds. At the critical moment, we played some rounds and some failed. We wanted to pay tribute to our opponents, who performed very well at critical moments."
His words affirmed the Lakers' performance, but it was useless to the relationship between the two sides. The two teams that had Liang Zi had this incident, but it was just another extra money in each other's books.
Wei Xia went to the hospital for examination that night, but fortunately there was no major problem.
The next day he recovered almost, and had no memory of the incident of being elbowed yesterday, as if he was confused by Big Ben.
But Wei Xia received a voice message from Big Ben to apologize.
Losing the Spurs and the Pistons in a row, the Lakers urgently need to win and cheer up their morale.
In the next game, the Lakers, who were eager to win, did not play at a normal level.
Kobe was overwhelmed by the obsession with winning. He scored 1 assist in the game, scored 33 goals, and hit 13 goals. Odom and Brian Cook were defeated by David West and PJ Brown, and he was able to catch 29 rebounds together, thanks to the boss' support.
Paul was also defended by Wei Xia to a shooting percentage of only 40%.
But anyone familiar with Paul knows that this guy is like his senior Duncan. If the team needs him to score points to win, it means that the team has reached a critical moment of survival. Paul's ability to attack is one level worse than his senior, so it is often disappointing to expect him to turn the tide.
Paul activates the Hornets' inside line slowly and takes advantage of Kobe's lead in the second half of the fourth quarter.
In the end, the Hornets won by 5 points.
Wei Xia's shooting percentage exceeded 50%, scoring 18 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists with 11 shots, but the defeat was difficult to save.
Losing to the Hornets and suffering a three-game losing streak, the Lakers fell from fifth in the West to sixth in the West, and then fought against the Spurs.
After losing continuously, the Lake people were so angry that they faced each other again. Only Kobe and Wei Xia showed their fighting spirit, while others were distracted.
Again, lost by a double-digit gap.
Four consecutive losses.
Chapter completed!