Chapter 677

If you like the Lakers, go to the Lakers home to watch a game. If you hate the Lakers, go to the Lakers home to watch a game. Both can make the original love and hate deeper.

Liu Mang feels this way every time he comes to the Staples Center.

Lakers fans are so annoying! I was completely spoiled by the Lakers, a historically strong team that may not even be comparable to the Celtics!

Sometimes the away team fans are too unenthusiastic, but it is very uncomfortable for the away team players.

Because the feeling of the Lakers fans is almost exactly the same as the feeling of their team, which is annoying!

The Lakers players all look full of arrogance. Their glorious history and the fact that they now have a powerful Big Four are all things they are proud of, and their fans also give people a sense of pride.

Like the Lakers, except for being ruled by the Celtics in the 1960s and being ruled by the Bulls and Rockets in the 1990s and did not win championships, they have won championships in all other ten years, and even created dynasties. team" feeling.

It's normal for so many people to hate the Lakers and Lakers fans, because they are arrogant, and you can't refute their arrogance. This feeling is too bad.

Therefore, the Eagles are extremely motivated in today's game!

Today's game is another live broadcast across the United States. The Eagles played against the Lakers for the first time this season.

Although the Timberwolves are now ranked first in the West, the Lakers are only two wins away from the Timberwolves. Not only the Lakers fans, almost all NBA fans believe that the Lakers are still the best team in the West, and even the strongest in the league.

The most powerful Eagles in the East came to the Staples Center as a guest, which is undoubtedly a major event that basketball fans in the United States and even the world pay attention to!

Taking advantage of the warmth of the All-Star Weekend, when Liu Mang entered the stadium, there was still sparse applause.

But most of the fans were slouching, some even licking the jelly on the donuts.

Just like the players of the Lakers, O'Neal is playing breakdancing with his teammates. Although this fat man is fat, he is very flexible.

Liu Mang counted the players of the Lakers, and his heart skipped a beat, a blacksmith hasn't come yet!

At this point, there are more than 10 minutes left before the game starts, and the guy hasn't come yet, that is, he may be called by the court in Colorado!

Just when Liu Mang secretly called Ya Ling, the fans at the scene finally reacted and cheered bursts of cheers. Liu Mang subconsciously looked towards the home team's player channel, a physiotherapist was chasing a hairline that was obviously getting higher and higher. The caliper head blacksmith out!

Kobe felt Liu Mang's eyes, gave Liu Mang a faint look, then lay down on the bench, and the physical therapist quickly stretched Kobe.

"Ding... special status: triggered when rushing to the game, from Kobe Bryant."

"Ding...Kobe Bryant (rush time), ability evaluation 98, offense 95, defense 97, three-pointer 81, mid-range shot 98, layup 97, speed 91, strength 85, talent skills: Mamba bite 4 class."

"Ding... Kobe Bryant's strong hostility is triggered. Every time the host meets Kobe Bryant in a game, Kobe Bryant will take preventing the death of the host and blowing up the host as the first goal."

"As the official Mo Ruozhi Jinwu, facing the strongest team in the history of the NBA, the host's path to becoming a superstar in the NBA era has officially begun. In this season when all heroes rise together and old-school basketball reaches its peak, the host's season goal is the championship. Trigger tasks: King's Landing. Mission reward: unknown, failure penalty: unknown."

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Liu Mang looked at the tasks triggered in the system list, as well as the strongest team in the new century, the enemy of the Black Mamba, and the path of the Black Mamba against the battle...

Liu Mang found that most of the tasks this season were related to the Lakers! Even the main tasks in the early years of the century were related to the Lakers.

Simply enough!

However, it is also reflected from the side, what a great achievement it was for the original Pistons to kill the Lakers in the Finals!

Thinking of this, Liu Mang couldn't help scratching his head. It seems that he snatched Prince and Rasheed Wallace away. The Pistons collapsed before the Five Tigers era started. This task fell to him?

Cang Le God!

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Finally, the pre-game preparation time was over, and on the Lakers side, Kobe went on the court without making a complete warm-up preparation.

The Lakers sent a super starting lineup of Payton, Kobe, Rick Fox, Malone, and O'Neal.

The Eagles are really bleak in comparison. Although Raheem, Ratliff, and Rasheed Wallace have all been selected as All-Stars, compared with the Lakers, they are rural teams and urban players. The gap between the teams, the Lakers are armed to the teeth, and the Eagles are just a patchwork lineup.

The Eagles continued to send Liu Mang, Prince, Raheem, Rasheed Wallace, and Ratliff's starting combination.

After Liu Mang and Boozer embraced, they played and the game officially started!

O'Neal won the jump ball with Rasheed Wallace. Such a huge body can still jump so much that people want to know how the fat man's body structure is combined.

Liu Mang continued to post his old opponent—Payton, and the arduous task of defending against Kobe was of course left to Prince.

After Payton advanced to the frontcourt, he saw Liu Mang defending him, and wanted to make a wave of Liu Mang, but he was really powerless, so he immediately passed it to Kobe.

Kobe singled Prince, and Prince defended extremely well. Kobe came up with an angry fight, which opened the prelude to the game.

From Kobe's mid-range singles with the ball, the basket has been in chaos. Ratliff and Raheem fought with O'Neal alone, Rasheed Wallace and Malone fought with each other, and the Eagles had three picks. Ercai was evenly matched, and when Liu Mang saw Kobe made a shot, he immediately rushed in and picked up a triple-double rebound.

The offense and defense switched, the Eagles attacked, Liu Mang advanced to the frontcourt, and Kobe posted it immediately.

The Lakers' defense is really strong! Much better than the previous two seasons! Make full use of this season's loose whistle, Malone and O'Neal's muscle collision, although Fox and Payton are very old, single defense can't defend this year, but their little tricks of off-ball defense are really powerful, defense Experience predicts that the thief is strong, so Liu Mang has no chance to connect with his teammates!

The teammate's off-ball running position is really not very good. If Liu Mang doesn't create a double-team, his teammates really have no chance to get open.

"Hi, Kobe, long time no see." Liu Mang waited for his teammates to move beyond the three-point line, observing his teammates while 'chatting' with Kobe.

"We just met the day before yesterday." Kobe really answered.

"Oh, Kobe, I haven't seen you for a day, it's like three winters." Liu Mang suddenly accelerated to the right as he spoke.

But Kobe didn't fall for it at all. He blocked Liu Mang's breakthrough route at the first time. Liu Mang immediately took a step back. Mang's body is under pressure, and he hasn't lost his position yet!

After Liu Mang took a step back, Kobe posted it, and there was no chance to snipe!

There was no other way. After Liu Mang stopped the ball, the Lakers' off-ball defense became stricter. To make matters worse, the Eagles' lineup seemed to have a lot of ball-holding points, but apart from Liu Mang, there was no second player. There are two starting points for attacking with the ball from outside, and no one comes up to meet Liu Mang!

The Zen master said he was a chicken soup coach for the soul, but he was expected to win 9 championships by relying on chicken soup?

Maybe other teams didn't find this flaw in the Hawks' starting lineup, or maybe other teams didn't have a defensive mad dog like Kobe, but Zen Master found out that the Lakers' defense against the Hawks was extremely targeted. Hit!

There is no other way, Liu Mang can only force a three-point shot when Kobe is sticking to him!

Kobe immediately bounced up and blocked Liu Mang. Liu Mang's take-off height was not high enough, and there was a big gap between his jump and Kobe's 95 jump. He was forced to lean back and made a three-point shot!

Although the ball was picked up by Ratliff, when Ratliff turned around and took a step to shoot, the 24-second attack time was up, and the Eagles violated the 24-second rule!

In just one round, the Eagles felt that the Lakers' bone is really hard to crack!

It is true that the Lakers, who averaged only 97 points per game this season, have regressed a lot on the offensive end compared to the average of more than 100 points per game during the three consecutive championships, but the defensive end is obviously better than their first championship in the 99-00 season. The best outside of the regular season before winning the championship!

The two teams started a magnificent journey. Kobe's outside singles, the 98's almost invincible ability on the outside when he was really rushing to the game, Kobe's singles were really strong. Under Prince's all-out defense, he kept a hundred With a shooting percentage of more than 40%, he made 3 of 7 shots in the first quarter and scored 8 points. O'Neal's side, this year is indeed not as good as the previous two years. In the previous two years, Muhammad and Ratliff were directly linked. Strong dunks may be because Rasheed Wallace is a bit heavier. It is indeed not so easy for O'Neal to play two people. However, the starting power forward of the Lakers this year is no longer Samaki Walker and his ilk. It's Malone!

Every time O'Neal is double-teamed, Malone's side is exposed, and O'Neal passes to Malone. Malone has shot the highest mid-range shooting percentage since the new century this year. He has never had so many open mid-range shots in his career. , did not waste opportunities like Samaki Walker or Medvedenko, and scored 6 points on 3 of 5 shots in the first quarter.

In addition, Wang Zhizhi, who came off the bench, made a three-pointer and an air-cut dunk, O'Neal scored 4 points and 3 rebounds, and the Lakers scored 23 points in the first quarter.

For the Eagles, Liu Mang was cut off from his teammates by the Lakers' defense. He couldn't connect with his teammates from the dynamic offense, so he could only play more individual singles. He scored 10 points on 4 of 10 shots in the first quarter. Think of a way to compete with Kobe in singles, strong shots, strong suddens, etc. When Liu Wei passes it, his teammates can only get the ball in the position and directly play singles. There is no connection in the dynamic attack. It is all singles. Liu Wei Singles finish Raheem singles, Raheem singles finish Rasheed Wallace singles, all singles.

The Lakers' 23 points in a single quarter are not enough, and the Eagles only have 21 points in a single quarter!

A feast of blacksmithing in a bloody muscle confrontation!

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After the first quarter, the Eagles didn't dare to replace any starters. They were afraid that once the meat grinder defensive combination went down, it would collapse if the defensive connection was not good.

The same goes for the Lakers. The OK combination is not only the core of the inside and outside offense, but also the combination of inside and outside defense. Zen Master also dare not replace it.

During the holiday break, Liu Mang was really tired from playing, mainly because he was tired!

It's too difficult to hit, but it's okay to hit the iron, he is not afraid of the iron, and he is not afraid of getting tired from too many shots, the main reason is that he is often unable to defend himself!

Kobe is really just like the media said, he is a lunatic on the defensive end, and it is also the only reason why he and the other three of the four shooting guards have opened up the obvious gap. It's an exaggeration, but Kobe, who does his best on both ends of the offense and defense and averages more than 40 minutes per game, is really different from the other three of the four shooting guards.

Liu Mang returned to the bench: "Coach, is there anything I can do?"

During the official timeout of the first quarter, the Eagles did not make any substitutions. Coach Kruger asked the starters to hold on for a while. He observed the Lakers' defensive gap.

"..." Coach Kruger didn't speak.

Well, Liu Mang knew it, and he certainly didn't see it. If the Lakers' defense was so easy to find loopholes, they wouldn't be able to reach the finals with so many conflicts.

If it were so easy to find loopholes, in the original time and space, the Lakers and Spurs would not have defeated so easily in the second round of the playoffs between the Lakers and the Spurs before the conflict broke out. The lineup is obviously stronger than last season The defending champion Spurs, it seems that the Spurs and the Lakers have a famous 0.4-second battle of Tianwangshan. In fact, the Lakers won the whole series very easily. When the Spurs won the Lakers, the point difference was single digits. Except for the Tianwangshan game, the Lakers won the Spurs by more than ten points or even twenty points in the other three games.

The defense of the Lakers this year is really strong! Quite a feeling of the regular season of the 99-00 season.

Seeing Coach Kruger frowning, Liu Mang suggested, "Coach, use that!"

Usually, Coach Kruger would try Liu Mang's suggestion, but this time he shook his head: "Ace, your tactic has a high probability of success, but it's too early, and the opponent may soon find a way to target it. We're going to look for other strategies that might beat the Lakers."

Instead of chatting with Liu Mang, Coach Kruger had his own ideas and called the players together: "Ace, Jason, Matt, Carlos, Kwame, you go, Ace, you and Carlos Cooperate……"

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After the intermission, the Eagles took the lead in the second quarter. The Eagles sent Liu Mang and the second team led by Boozer. Jason Terry, Barnes, and Kwame Brown played together.

For the Lakers, Fisher was replaced, Kobe continued to play, and Devin George, Wang Zhizhi, and O'Neal started in the second quarter.

Stockton was not replaced, so that the Salt Lake City fans who came from afar wearing Malone and Stockton's Jazz jerseys were a little surprised.

Liu Mang received Jason Terry's serve and advanced to the frontcourt.

Liu Mang was a little surprised by the tactical arrangement in the second quarter, but he had no other ideas that were better and more in line with the team's plan, so he strictly followed the coach's tactics to attack.

After Liu Mang advanced to the frontcourt, the Lakers seemed to believe that Jason Terry would hold the ball and play, and Kobe went to defend Jason Terry.

After pushing forward, Liu Mang looked at Fisher defending himself...

There is no way around this, the coach's tactics... What is that, let's talk about it later!