super small forward

Chapter 611 611. The Two Most Critical Opponents

Time for Kidd's biannual courting of Antetokounmpo.

After playing the Rockets, the Lakers ushered in back-to-back games against the Bucks at home.

Kidd said this year that he was very sad. In the summer, the last record in the Eastern Conference only got the fourth pick. He watched Towns being picked by the Timberwolves. Not only that, neither Russell nor Okafor got it. The three of them showed their superstar talents early on, which made Kidd cry silently.

Not only that, Kidd originally wanted to choose Mudiay, but considering that Mudiay played so-so in the CBA, he finally chose Mario Hezonja, a big pitcher from the Spanish League. Combat power, Hezonja's performance in the Spanish league is excellent, especially the three-pointer.

However, like the vast majority of European players who come to the NBA, they are not acclimatized. The NBA's personal ability requirements are much more important than the tactical literacy requirements. 5 points, basically water.

Fortunately, the 2015 draft is not a big draft year. Only Porzingis, Devin Booker, Winslow, and Mudiay were selected behind Hezonja. The others are not as good as he.

The best talent in the Bucks lineup is Jabari Parker. Although he was reimbursed for a knee injury last season, people can see his talent. The template is Anthony when he was young. He has excellent physical fitness and excellent skills. After his comeback this year Averaged 15 points and 5 rebounds per game, which is pretty good.

The best player for the Bucks is Rajon Rondo. Although he averaged 12 points, 12 assists and 7 rebounds per game in a violent manner, the Bucks will be finished when he is off the court.

Except for Rondo and Jabari Parker, the Bucks really have no one, and it is understandable that they are bad.

So far this season, the Bucks have a record of 4 wins and 20 losses, the last in the league.

In the summer, the unattractive Bucks did not attract any stars except Rondo, so this year's task is to continue to perform poorly, and this year's poor performance must be more thorough, because the 2016 draft is worse than the 2015 draft. Small, in the NCAA basketball league so far, only Ben Simmons and Brandon Ingram are regarded as young players who may become superstars in the future, and the others do not even have a potential All-Star potential. There are not even many players with the potential to become NBA starters, and the Bucks are unlikely to enter the playoffs, not even the top ten in the Eastern Conference, so they must be completely rotten. The season wasn't wasted, and Kidd doesn't think the Lakers would accept their other chips without the No. [-] and No. [-] picks.

However, anyone can play badly, but when playing against the Lakers, Kidd will never play badly!

It's not that Kidd hates the Lakers. On the contrary, he desperately wanted to join the Lakers in 2007, but the Lakers couldn't give him a bargaining chip. He still has a good relationship with the Lakers.

After Kidd came to Los Angeles, he told his players that the player with the best performance in the game against the Lakers will be the team's next starter.

Kidd's words shocked the Bucks players. Except for Rondo and Jabari Parker, the Bucks' starting lineup this year has changed frequently. If they can sit firmly in the starting lineup, the benefits are self-evident.

With more playing time, there will be more opportunities to perform, and only then will it be possible to get good data and get a big contract in the summer!

And Kidd thinks this way, except for point guards and small forwards, players in other positions are almost bad, and whoever starts the game is almost the same...

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Back to back, the Lakers of course have to take turns. Today's starting lineup of the Lakers is Antetokounmpo, Kobe, Liu Ren, Gasol, Monroe, Green and Whiteside.

The starters for the Bucks are Rondo, Mayo, Jabari Parker, Ryan Kelly and Johnny O'Brien III.

The best shooting guard of the Bucks is actually Mayo, who started to become a big fat man after the Bucks got a three-year 2013 million contract in the summer of 2400. The best power forward is actually the one that the Lakers used to trade for Adetto. Kumbo’s Kelly, the best center is the No. 2014 pick in the second round in 6, O’Brien is now averaging 12 points and 6 rebounds per game, so Milwaukee fans not only do not object to the Bucks’ poor performance, but strongly support it. It's so miserable!There are only Rondo and Jabari Parker who are not bad.

The Lakers played with the mentality of easily torturing the Bucks. Seeing the opposing lineup, the Lakers couldn't bear to bully it. It was too miserable. Compared with the previous years, the 76ers signed a bunch of other teams. The players and undrafted lineups are even worse.

However, the Bucks startled the Lakers at the beginning, as if everyone was crazy, rushing to the basket crazily and defending desperately against the body.

Although the big fat Mayo is lazy, he also feels a sense of crisis. In 2013, Mayo got a three-year 3 million contract, but in the summer of 2400 he became a big fat man. Even his agent, the famous NBA player trader, Bill Duffy, who has excellent character and reputation, and was ridiculed by David Falk as a bad guy, gave up on him and did not continue to cooperate with him. It can be said that no one in the agent world is willing to cooperate with him up.

It was finally Mayo's contract year again, and he finally felt a sense of crisis, because the Bucks had no intention of renewing his contract at all, and there was no rumor that any team wanted to get him. At this time, he began to panic. Because the Bucks haven't guaranteed his starting spot this year, he's been squeezed into shooting guard to compete with a rookie and a second-year pick from the Lakers with a 2014 second-round pick.

Fat people are the scariest. Mayo's meaty body and his physical fitness are so good that he can become a talent show. At the beginning of the game, he became a tank-like breakthrough machine. Antetokounmpo is too thin Unable to bear it, Kobe was too slow to keep up, and brought out the advantages of being flexible and fat to the extreme.

Kelly played well with the Lakers, otherwise the Bucks would not have wanted him. However, he is characterized by shooting, defense and inside ability. He played well under Rondo's passing. Got 14 points and 3 rebounds.

However, today Kelly became the hardest insider of the Bucks, throwing his frail body to grab rebounds with Gasol and Monroe. Kelly had consecutive rebounds at the start.

Not only that, the five members of the Bucks defended hard and were not afraid of fouls, plus O'Brien, a vicious-looking tank, Jabari Parker with excellent skills, and Rondo's super organization Ability, the Bucks started 19 to 8 in the first half of the first quarter!

The Lakers were taken aback, what are the Bucks doing!
It's not good to have a good battle where both sides are happy, and you want to die?
Originally, the Lakers didn't plan to defend much. They planned to use offense to fight the opponent, play better and give Kidd a little face, but they didn't expect Kidd to be the monster first.

The Lakers were furious. Gasol and Kobe Bryant went down to rest. Antetokounmpo, Liu Ren, Nance Jr., Biyombo and Blake played five defensive heroes.

With this lineup, the Lakers basically gave up three-pointers, but the defense just got a beep!Two short centers who are fast, able to jump and have excellent defensive awareness, three tall outsiders, fast and good defense, even Nance Jr.'s speed is not worse than the Bucks' shooting guards.

From the second half of the first quarter, the Lakers began to defend brutally. If Mayo can hit him, let Liu Ren defend. If Jabari Parker is skilled, let Antetokounmpo stand in front of him and only need to interfere Shots and fake moves are ignored. Kelly bullied Monroe and Gasol today, two honest players. Let Biyombo, an African beast, kill him. O'Brien, Blake, with big eyes, is in charge Stare small.

As for Rondo... Jr. Nance received the basket, ready to grab rebounds and long passes at any time. Apart from dunks, Nance Jr.'s biggest feature is that he has a good long pass. If Rondo wants to shoot, let him shoot.

The bloody halftime game began, and the Lakers sent this iron-muscled iron-blooded defensive lineup to turn the game into a slaughterhouse...

The Bucks, who scored 7 points in the first 19 minutes of the first quarter, only scored 5 points in the next 5 minutes, and one of them was a three-pointer made by Rondo.

The Bucks were savagely defended by the Lakers' savage but highly skilled defense. The Lakers seized the opportunity to counterattack continuously. Five men with extremely fast physical fitness counterattacked frantically. , The Bucks were so scared that the only one or two quick defenses on the Bucks side didn't dare to stand under the basket to block them.

As far as Blake and Biyombo's physiques are made up of muscle lumps, it's hard to say whether they can finish the game when they collide...

In the second half of the first quarter, the Lakers played a crazy 22-5 counterattack. This is not over yet. In the second quarter, the Lakers continued to fight...

In the second quarter, the Bucks made 26 of 3 shots, almost hitting the lowest shooting percentage in a single quarter since 24 seconds, and only scored 9 points in a single quarter, while the Lakers defended wildly, counterattacked when they had the opportunity, and scored 36 to 9. Quarter score...

64 to 33 in the half, the Lakers beat the Bucks by 31 points in the half.

Seeing Antetokounmpo, who played the entire first half, showing contemptuous eyes to his side, Kidd felt a little bit in his heart. It seems that he has played off today!Originally, Kidd wanted to stimulate the fighting spirit of the players and let Antetokounmpo see that although his team was bad, he had the momentum to win, so as to attract the attention of Antetokounmpo who wanted to be the boss.

But I didn't expect that this group of cubs usually didn't work hard, so they fought so hard at this time, they actually angered the Lakers completely, and then the Lakers started the crazy killing mode, which made Antetokounmpo completely contemptuous of this opponent...

Kidd is also a player, and he understands the mentality of players very well. From the look in Antetokounmpo's eyes just now, Kidd feels that he is getting farther and farther away from Antetokounmpo, a rare super all-round genius...

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In the game against the Bucks, the Lakers still didn't hurt the killer. After all, they are the last team in the league, so don't continue to step on it. D'Antoni just wants to hurry up and let the game have no suspense, otherwise the Bucks After all, they are all NBA teams. Even the 76ers, who were the bottom one in the past few years, can repeatedly snipe strong teams. Naturally, the Bucks are also able to do so.

In the second half, the Lakers replaced LaVine, McCollum, Nick Young, Korver, Nance Jr., Metta World Peace... and other lineups, and played against the Bucks without continuing to defend desperately. The advantage of 25 to 117 points easily won the game.

The game against the Bucks is just a small episode, and the next opponent is the focus.

After the Rockets and Bucks played back-to-back games on the 13th and 14th, the Lakers had two days to rest. On the 17th, they played an away game against the Oklahoma City Thunder. The Lakers came to Oklahoma very early in the morning on the 16th.

Before the Thunder ushered in the Lakers at home, the first back-to-back game at home was against the Warriors.

The top four in the Western Conference this year are basically unshakable. The Warriors, Lakers, Spurs, Thunder, especially the Thunder. As the champions of the Northwest Division, they are definitely the top four, but their record is indeed far behind the top three in the Western Conference. The Warriors The team now has a 25-game winning streak, which is not worse than the Lakers last season. The Lakers have 22 wins and 3 losses, and the Spurs have 20 wins and 5 losses. The Clippers have a good record, but who made the Clippers' Pacific Division already have two teams in the top four, and they have a basically unshakable record.

It has been almost two months, and people are beginning to predict the playoffs. The current situation seems that the Thunder is very likely to meet the Clippers in the first round, and the Warriors or the Lakers are very likely to meet in the second round, so Tonight and tomorrow night, the Thunder will even pick the top two games in the Western Conference to attract fans' attention.

Although even if the Clippers fall to fifth place, if the record is better than the Thunder, the Clippers will have home court advantage when the two teams add up in the first round, but relatively speaking, people are more optimistic about having Westbrook and Durant than the Thunder. So optimistic about the combination of Paul, Griffin and Jordan of the Clippers, so people think that one of these two games may be a preview of a very eye-catching series in the second round of the Western Conference playoffs.

Whether it is the Warriors or the Thunder, they may be a very important opponent for the Lakers.

It is still possible for the Lakers to catch up with the Warriors. Although it is only a theoretical possibility, it is possible after all. If the Lakers overtake the Warriors and become the No. And the two opponents in the Western Conference Finals, and it is very possible, so that today's Thunder and Warriors will play directly, whether the Warriors win or the Thunder win, it is possible for the Lakers to find a way to beat these two teams.

Even if the Lakers do not surpass the Warriors in the end, the Warriors are also the final opponent of the Lakers in the Western Conference. It is also great to see how another strong team will deal with the Warriors.

And Liu Ren is one of the most active people who want to watch this game, so that he can receive other documents from Pelinka's company from the chick. He feels some unspeakable things between Durant and Curry ...

(End of this chapter)