1236. First victory!
A stormy first game of the finals!
Kobe scored 31 points and 6 assists on 10 of 25 shots, a shooting percentage of just 40%. Yao Ming made 9 of 17 shots, which was a good performance, but like O'Neal in 2004, he was fighting a trapped beast.
, scored 25 points and 8 rebounds, Odom made 7 of 13 shots and scored 17 points and 14 rebounds.
The Lakers' three major stars performed very well on the offensive end, scoring 73 points together. The Lakers team also scored 101 points, and they performed very well against the Eagles' defense.
The Lakers' offensive performance against the Eagles' defense was really good. Facing the Eagles' fierce defense, the Lakers' offensive performance far exceeded their offensive performance when they met the Eagles in the regular season.
But the Lakers were defeated by the Hawks by 127 points!
127 to 101, the Eagles played the Lakers in the first game and suffered a bloody massacre!
Liu Mang scored 38 points, 4 rebounds and 6 assists on 14-of-24 shooting. Tracy McGrady scored 17 points on 6-of-12 shooting, 7 rebounds and 13 assists. Rasheed Wallace hit 3 three-pointers and scored 16 points. Jason Te
Lee scored 15 points and 4 assists, and Kwame Brown had 8 points and 12 rebounds. The Eagles were in high spirits! They got 26 assists and scored 127 points!
The Hawks didn't expect to have such a big advantage, because they had just beaten the Heat with the combination of Wade and O'Neal and it was so difficult.
The Lakers have a similar configuration, with a super guard, a super center, and a jack-of-all-trades who can play from one to five. And judging from their current reputation, the Lakers' three-core team seems to be even more powerful.
Mainly because the Heat played so well, giving the Hawks pressure and the motivation to respond. The Hawks coaching staff racked their brains to plan offensive tactics against the Lakers' defense. It can be said that all aspects were considered.
, and then launched a ferocious offensive frenzy.
Although the Lakers also played a good efficiency against the Eagles' defense, the game lost suspense after three quarters. The Eagles led by up to 33 points.
The ground-breaking first game caused a sensation after the game!
Two days before the start of the finals, the promotion of this finals was as exaggerated as possible. The drug-addicted combination of the soon-to-be 26-year-old Yao Ming and the soon-to-be 28-year-old Kobe would begin to dominate the NBA like the OK combination. After all, the two
The people are of the same age, and both are starting to enter their prime.
But when it came time for the game, they were beaten by the 73-win Eagles and had no power to fight back!
Zen Master said helplessly after the game that this was the worst talent of the team he coached that reached the finals. In the following games, he will study how to deal with the situation encountered in the first game.
When the sensation caused by the Hawks' crazy performance in the first game cooled down, people started complaining about the lineup and started to calmly compare the Lakers and the Hawks' last opponent, the Heat.
Only after the performance difference was so big did I understand that compared to the Lakers and Heat, Kobe may be better than Wade, but Wade has a hair whistle and Kobe does not.
Yao Ming and O'Neal are evenly matched. Now Yao Ming has a stronger scoring ability under the basket and a wider shooting range. O'Neal defends better and protects rebounds better. Judging from Yao Ming's first game, the performance of the two is about the same.
Odom also has a slight advantage over Antoine Walker.
But in other positions, the Heat are much better than the Lakers!
Wang Zhizhi is a very good role player, with an ability evaluation of 73, and he has shown his characteristics under the Zen Master, being able to pass and shoot. However, compared with Haslem, Wang Zhizhi still has a certain gap, mainly on the defensive end.
There is a big gap. On the offensive end, Wang Zhizhi has better control. He has a 39% three-point shooting rate so far in his career.
Luke Walton vs. Posey... Fisher vs. Jason Williams... Vujacic vs. Payton... All-round disadvantages...
People are wondering, how did the Lakers lineup reach the finals?
Look at the statistics of Kobe Bryant and Yao Ming in the Western Conference Finals, and look at Odom's statistics of averaging a triple-double in the second round when he was two assists away... It's easy to understand, it's all about the "Big Three"!
The Lakers lost the first game, but Kobe, Yao Ming, and Odom received higher evaluations.
Not to mention the role player lineup compared with the Heat, the current Lakers are far behind the role player lineup compared with the OK team that won three consecutive championships.
That Lakers team had Glenn Rice, Fox, Horry, Tyronn Lue, AC Green, Ron Harper...
If you give Yao Ming these teammates, he will be crazy about it!
Give it to Kobe, and he will feel like his whole body is covered in thighs...
Compared to the Hawks who receive a lot of rookie bonuses, and even Prince, a two-time first-defense player, has a rookie contract, the Lakers' role player lineup is too miserable.
For Zen Master, it doesn’t matter if the role players are miserable. With Kobe and Yao Ming, the substitutes can be just fine; but in terms of performance, apart from Fisher, Kobe, Odom, and Yao Ming, the fifth player is Luke Walton.
With the two choices of Wang Zhizhi and Wang Zhizhi, these two are very good when used as role players, but when used as a championship team... how miserable!
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After the first game, the direction of public opinion changed suddenly. From the beginning, they advocated the strongest finals matchup, to now, they began to analyze it.
Domestically, it has changed from the strongest China Derby to promoting the fact that Yao Ming can reach the finals without any other teammates except Kobe and Odom.
It is a fact that Kobe, Yao Ming, and Odom reached the finals with a relatively poor lineup of role players. To guide public opinion, Yao Ming's first game was a disastrous defeat, which actually improved his image.
Liu Mang has brought great changes to the Chinese men's basketball team. Yao Ming can change teams at will because of Liu Mang, a troublemaker with a low reputation. He agrees to Yi Jianlian to play in American universities because of Yao Ming.
With a core combination like Liu Mang and Wang Zhizhi, who has established himself in the NBA, there is no need for Yi Jianlian to show up early, giving Yi Jianlian a chance to train himself.
But this does not mean that the national team can be so confident about Liu Mang. Someone is always needed to check and balance Liu Mang in terms of public opinion, and that person is Yao Ming.
The term "officials protect each other" is not something you just talk about casually. In terms of official title, the director of the imperial court will not be lower than the chairman of the Blue Association, but after having a meal and establishing a good relationship, a lot of things can be accomplished with just one sentence.
In the past, Cheng Lanxin had a bad relationship with Chaotingtai, but now they have changed people. Wei Yuanli does not care so much about making money, but cares about the national team's record. Since then, he has cut the CBA schedule by one-third and has a national team game every three or two months.
You can see it during team training.
There was no conflict of interest, and the relationship between Chaotingtai and Lan Xie inexplicably got better again.
Chapter completed!