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Chapter 1292 Lakers Version Garbage Time Phantom God

In the 1996-97 season, the top eight in the Western Conference were the Lakers, Trail Blazers, Warriors, Spurs, Suns, Mavericks, Clippers, and Kings.

It is worth mentioning that although Mohamed Rauf played a wonderful season, but because Rodman was sent at the trade deadline, the new aid James Worthy failed to produce a 1+1>2 chemical reaction with Rauf. The Grizzlies, which could have been ranked tenth in the West, fell to No.

However, as we all know, the Grizzlies gave the Lakers this year's first-round pick as early as two years ago, so this seat will be represented by representatives of the Lakers.

When the Western Conference first-round matchup table came out, Louis wiped his eyes—it was right, since 1984, the Kings, which hadn't made an appearance in the playoffs for 13 consecutive years, made it to the playoffs as they wished.

It stands to reason that the Kings should be congratulated, but a team that has not made the playoffs for more than ten years suddenly made the playoffs. What is the reason?
Generally, when this happens, either there is a fierce person in the team, or the situation in the league changes.

This year, there are many bad teams, and they are all the kind of bad teams that don't frown when they lose.

In this case, although the Kings have no superstars, they just want to end the shameful record of missing the playoffs for many years. If Tim Duncan is such a beast, if he looks at him more, the Sacramento people will lose.

Louis can only give a thumbs up. It is worthy of the future team that is determined to build a team around ESPN's top 54 players ranked [-]th in the season (Daron Fox), and is determined to fight for the play-offs in a draft year with a historic talent like Victor Wimbanyama. The smart team.

Looking at the lineup alone, the Kings are actually not bad.

They can make up BJ Armstrong, Doug West, Kendall Gill, Shareef Abdul Rahim, Grant Long.

It is true that there are no stars, but the strength of the five starters is not bad, and the standard lineup is all soldiers.

The problem is, the Kings play team basketball like all soldiers, but some people on the team feel that they can interpret the name of the team and be a king.

Therefore, no matter how the king arranges the starting lineup, it is impossible to choose a suitable lineup.

Throughout the regular season, the number of starting lineup changes for the Kings is the highest in the league.

They are like a car repairman with a problematic professional ethics. They can obviously solve the problem by treating the symptoms or local problems, but in order to make money back, they repair the car roughly every time, so that you will have to come back to repair the car after a while.

The same is true of the Kings. Obviously some people in the team just can't get along, but they insist on twisting melons together. If it doesn't work, they take turns to start. Everyone is happy.

This approach often makes everyone unhappy.

Just like that, being able to reach eighth in the Western Conference can only show that other teams in the same period didn't want to win too much.

As long as those pendulums make a mistake, the Kings will not be able to make it to the playoffs.

For the Lakers, the starting lineup is very simple. After the start of the regular season, it changed once, and then stabilized.

Barros, Liu Yuqing, Wilson, Barkley, Garnett.

As soon as the game started, the Kings fell into a dead end.

Armstrong can't defend against pick-and-rolls, Barkley is unstoppable inside, Garnett is talented on the court, and Wilson educates Kendall Gill one-on-one.

The only player from the Kings who caused the Lakers any problems was starting No. [-] Doug West.

West made his debut with the Knicks and played for Louis for a year. His physical fitness is superb, but his skills are rough and his defense is loose. However, after being trained by the Knicks' well-known defensive coach, he gradually became the top 3D in the league.

Even in a team like the Kings, his defense can still see the shadow of the Knicks.

Liu Yuqing can't please him.

But he can't do it alone.

Louie's style is also reflected in this game.

Even though the opponent may be the worst playoff team in the East and West, Louis still arranges carefully and is very targeted.

For Rasim, the main defense is that he is the main player. Once the ball is attacked, he will immediately double-team.

Tighten up the line of defense and target the offensive weak points where the Kings have no good shooters except West.

With the Kings doing little to punish the Lakers' [-]-point threat effectively, they found their own corner after corner open in the middle of the game and just missed the shot.

The whole game was in the rhythm of the Lakers. Let alone the Kings, they didn't even have a 1-minute advantage.

NBC’s guest commentator Bill Lambiel hummed against the Kings on the spot: "I have always emphasized that the reason why the Knicks can win so many championships is that the overall level of professional basketball has dropped significantly after the 90s. But I never expected that it has dropped to this point. The Kings are not a playoff-level team at all. This game has entered garbage time from the first second."

The Lakers and Kings did not comment on Lambiel's sharp comments.

Because the King was indeed beaten violently on the court, and Lambiel borrowed the gold content of the Kings' yin and yang Knicks dynasty, the Los Angeles media was too late to be happy.

Even Louis didn't say anything.

But New Yorkers couldn't sit still.

This triggered a debate over who has the higher gold content, the Celtics dynasty in the 80s or the Knicks dynasty in the 90s.

The Lakers defeated the Kings by a big score and easily won the first game.

That night, the rookies of the Lakers also got a chance to make their playoff debut.

Nash scored 4 points and 3 assists.

Big Ben played 2 minutes and scored 2 points and 1 rebound.

Kobe received "VIP" treatment, not only played full garbage time, but also played in rotation during the regular stage. Unfortunately, West, who was facing him, did not give him a chance.

Therefore, although Kobe played the most time, his main performance was concentrated in garbage time.

He scored 10 points and 3 rebounds through garbage time.

"I feel good." Kobe was particularly satisfied with his playoff debut. "If we can sweep the Kings, it would be even better."

Kobe's statement upset the Kings far more than Lambiel's "unworthy" remarks.

However, they didn't have a chance to make Kobe pay for this harmless hilarity.

Game2
The Lakers played the perfect game.

In the first half of the game, the Lakers had 0 turnovers and only 2 turnovers in the whole game.

This can be called a miraculous performance.

You know, since the Lakers switched to playing "beautiful basketball", their average turnovers per game have ranked first in the league. This year is a bit better, but it is also at the top three level in the league. But tonight, there were only 2 turnovers in the game, which means that they have played their best level most of the time.

Louie was most satisfied with the opening minutes of the third quarter.

He sent out the Knights to start "Beautiful Basketball".

As a result, the performance of the Knights was greatly unexpected.

Wilson, as the eye of the storm, revitalized other teammates, and the tragedy master chose the right "Whale Landing", so that the Lakers' system always maintains a dual-core drive.

Then, Nash began to try to launch the "whale fall" tactic. Although the degree of completion was not enough, there were no mistakes.

Louie was worried that Garnett's golf quotient was not enough to understand "Whale Fall", and Garnett himself thought so. Then, based on Nash's precedent of skipping the "Meteor" stage and directly learning "Whale Fall", he chose to skip "Whale Fall" and go directly to learn "Eye of the Storm".

Such a wild way of learning gave Louie a headache, but he didn't stop Garnett.

If you regard running-in the new system as a teaching, you should also teach students in accordance with their aptitude.

Garnett obviously doesn't have the ball quotient and awareness needed by the core of the organization. Now asking him to delve into "Whale Fall" is like asking a new GIF who doesn't have the freedom of a small movie.

When Garnett became the eye of the storm in a high position, Louis only felt the word "storm" without "eye".

He pays too much attention to personal offense, so he can't play the role of "eye".

But against the Kings, this is enough.

Halfway through the third quarter, Kobe's favorite moment has arrived.

Louis waved his hand, and the Lakers version of the Garbage Time Phantom Team made up of Nash, Kobe, Ellis, Rodman, and Ostertag appeared on the stage.

(End of this chapter)