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Chapter 44 44. The Underdog Going to Dallas

The Eagles' offensive routine is very similar to that of the Spurs. D'Antoni discussed with the assistants, Kobe and Gasol several times and found a way to deal with them.

Compared with the Lakers, the Eagles have a shorter lineup, so the Lakers focused on Gasol in this game, holding high and mid-range shots to force the opponent to put the defensive center on Gasol.

Regardless of whether Gasol mentioned the high position or played high in the paint, the Eagles couldn't let him go.When Gasol reached a high position, Horford could only pull it out. Millsap's height was blocked by Gasol twice.

Gasol went to the inside and held high to beat the Eagles and could only double-team.

If this style of play was used in the last game against the Spurs, the Spurs would not dare to change the mini-lineup, but D'Antoni has poor adaptability on the spot. He has a way to break through any defense, but he must study it in advance and let him think about it temporarily The solution is to forget it.

So, unlike the last game where they were beaten by the Spurs, the Lakers played against the Eagles in this game.

Why is it a confrontation, because the Lakers are like unable to defend against the Spurs, and have nothing to do with the Eagles' offense.

Although Gasol and Whiteside, who replaced Gasol, made Horford quite uncomfortable on both ends of the offense and defense. The height, wingspan, and even movement speed and flexibility of these two are stronger than him. Unable to stop the Hawks' team offense, every pass they can tear the Lakers' weak defense, and then there is a gap to throw the ball.

This is a very beautiful battle. Korver stretched the space enough to give others a good chance to run, a pleasing pass and a fatal shot. Attack, or even fast attack in positional warfare after landing.

The scores of the two sides continued to rise like a dog's teeth, and they kept clenching the score.

The Lakers put on a dynamic second team, and the Hawks are not vegetarians on the bench. To build a team in accordance with the Spurs model, they have prepared quite a solid bench.

D'Antoni, who had planned to use the deep depth of the bench to plot against the opponent, had a hard time and could only fight hard with the opponent.

Budenholzer on the Hawks side is also deflated. Like the Spurs, they like to use those unremarkable substitutes to injure their opponents. This time when they meet the Lakers, a team that also likes to use substitutes to injure opponents, they can only fight hard with the opponent. .

It can only be said that they are the top three teams in the Eastern Conference in the next few years. In the critical third quarter, taking advantage of the weakest stage of the Lakers' rotation, they directly replaced the main force and caught the Lakers by surprise in a few rounds.

This is a very risky decision. If the Lakers' rotation can withstand the impact of the Eagles, it will be tantamount to wasting the energy of the main force. After the Lakers change to the main lineup in the fourth quarter, they will have a great advantage.

But the Eagles succeeded. They beat the Lakers 15 to 3 in the middle of the third quarter, pulling the point difference to 15 points in one fell swoop, forcing the Lakers to also replace the main force, continue to enter the mutual rivalry mode, and enter a state of even match.

In the end, the Eagles relied on their advantage in the middle of the third quarter to beat the Lakers 115 to 108 and get a 4-game winning streak.

For the Lakers, although Gasol scored a new high of 38 points and 9 rebounds since last season, Liu Ren borrowed Gasol's high position to hit the basket today and scored 25 points and 9 rebounds. Whiteside habitually The Lakers still lost.

It is worth mentioning that at the beginning of the fourth quarter of the game, the Lakers replaced the inside combination of Antetokounmpo and Whiteside. Antetokounmpo, who finally got the chance to play, was very excited. Substitute power forward Brand, an old fritter, was ravaged to death in the interior, but he still showed a gratifying side.

The [-]-meter-[-] big man can advance fast breaks like a point guard, and he has a high vision and good enough vision. He has a tacit understanding with Whiteside's high and low passes. It seems that the two have not practiced less!
He scored 4 points, 2 rebound and 1 assists in 2 minutes of playing time. This efficiency is really good. Although there were two turnovers and 1 foul, but the little playing time in the first game, what bicycle is needed.

In this way, the Lakers' record became 2 wins and 2 losses, falling to seventh in the Western Conference.

Although the game was lost, the Lakers had a chance to come back at the end of the game. It was just that the hole dug in the third quarter was too big to fill in. It didn't deal a big blow to the young people of the Lakers. I'm just very upset.

None of these young people have the mentality to regard winning and losing as a habit.

There are two so-called habits of winning and losing. One is to regard winning as a habit and losing as an accident.The other is to get used to losing, and to win is the Chinese New Year.

The Lakers, a newly formed team, still retain the confidence that they are a strong team. After all, the Lakers have been a strong team in the past few seasons, even last season before Kobe was reimbursed.

The NBA schedule is very tight. On November 11th, the Lakers came to Dallas with the grief and indignation of a two-game losing streak to challenge the Mavericks.

The Mavericks started this year very well, with 3 wins and 1 loss. They didn't get their third win until the end of November last season. This year, they have made significant progress.

在小牛10-11赛季拿到总冠军后，为了省钱的库班拆散了冠军阵容，11-12赛季差点没进季后赛，12-13赛季果然成功掉队。

This year Cuban failed to pursue Howard, and then signed Blair. This gap is big enough.

Immediately after Cuban signed the stab player Monta Ellis and the Spanish national team point guard Jose Calderon.

The former Spurs backup center Blair, who was signed with a basic salary, found out after playing a few games that he was really a basic salary player.On the contrary, Ellis signed the contract!
开局四场比赛27分3板5助攻，埃利斯成功帮助小牛拿到3胜1负的战绩。

It can be said that this is the most correct transaction the Mavericks have made in the past two years.

Not only is it easy to use, it makes up for the Mavericks' regret of not having a top shooting guard for many years, but it is also cheap, 1600 million for two years, which is completely the price of cabbage.

Ellis is playing with a grievance. Let's see who their opponents are in the first four games?Warriors, Bucks, Clippers, Kings.

The Warriors and Bucks are both teams that abandoned Ellis, the Kings suck, and the Clippers didn't win.

It is reasonable for the runaway Ellis to lead the team to a record of 3 wins and 1 loss.

It may be that God wants to remind the Mavericks, lest they be too arrogant, let the Lakers who have just lost two games in a row come to Dallas with a stomach full of anger, and give them a slap in the face.

The Mavericks also play zone defense. They don't have players who can serve as defensive vanguards, so they can only play zone defense.

After two games against the Spurs and the Eagles, the Lakers can simply hate the teams playing zone defense.

As a result, the Mavericks felt chilly before the game started. Looking from the source of the chill, they found that all the Lakers were looking at them with murderous intent.

"What the hell? We haven't offended them these two years, have we?"

(End of this chapter)