super small forward

Chapter 638.
Sometimes the game is so sudden. Seeing that the Lakers had an advantage in the last few minutes of the first half, but at the beginning of the third quarter, the situation changed immediately.

Just say that in the game against the Warriors, a few points or even a dozen points is not considered a point difference. This time it proved this again. Barnes, who opened up today, broke out after being suppressed by Green for five or six minutes. In the third quarter, they scored three three-pointers in a row, and although the Lakers maintained a shooting percentage as high as 6%, they were still tied by the Warriors in just over a minute.

Liu Ren is really hurting. When he came on the field, except for a strong layup and a layup by Barnes, he was shot twice by Barnes, and after being blocked by Randall, Barnes made a shot. Everything else was useless. No?
This Barnes was stunned under Green's defense, why did he suddenly explode when he was defending?And this Randall, aren't you tired?There was not a second of rest at halftime.

Liu Ren hates this kind of physical monster... um... He forgot that he is also an individual and can be blamed.

Not only was he depressed on the defensive end, but Liu Ren was also depressed on the offensive end. The Warriors were really good at defense. Everyone else in the Lakers could let him go.

But Kobe is not here today, and the Warriors are stricter on his defense, but McCollum keeps getting opportunities. This time it is not D'Antoni's arrangement, but McCollum really seized the opportunity. After Slian scored three three-pointers, McCollum and Antetokounmpo supported the Lakers' offense and were not overwhelmed by the sudden wave of offense from the Warriors.

Driven by McCollum's offensive firepower and Antetokounmpo's pass support, the Lakers' Nance Jr. and Monroe's offense also played quite well. Liu Ren was targeted alone, and he had to Stopping and running keeps looking for scoring opportunities for himself to attract the Warriors' defense to a greater extent, but his actions can only keep him scoring normally, and cannot give him a chance to explode.

Liu Ren is depressed, and Curry is also depressed. Every time he plays against the Lakers, he will be used as a key defensive target. It is not difficult to score 30 points, but it is almost impossible to break out.

In fact, for a real super team, this kind of thing is very normal.

The strongest players of a super team are not actually the key to determining the direction of the game. Their role is to get the points they should get and help the team lay the foundation. The specific direction of the game depends on the role players.

For example, last season, Curry was undoubtedly the core of the Warriors, the one who scored first, and the Lakers also used Kobe as their first offensive choice last season, but the two teams played against each other last season. It is normal, Kobe scored 22 three points, Curry scored 25 six points, there was no chance of explosion, but Klay Thompson and Liu Ren broke out, and there were several big scenes of the two confronting each other.

It was the same during the two consecutive championships of the Heat. James played the foundation, and those role players were the key to winning. The score was dead, and there was no chance for Ray Allen to make the final lore.

For the Lakers' five championships in the new century, if O'Neal and Kobe's continuous and stable performance did not hold back the game, there would be no chance for Fisher to become the key man.

Both Liu Ren and Curry were depressed and desperately trying to open up the scoring space for their teammates.

Generally speaking, the Warriors have an advantage in terms of overall strength today. The reason is that the Lakers did not play Kobe today, and Korver no longer had the courage of last season. Without Kobe, the Lakers' number one offensive point off the ball, Entering the real bayonet moment of the third quarter, the Lakers began to lose the wind.

D'Antoni is very anxious. It is indeed a misguided plan not to play Kobe today, but if he is given a chance to be re-elected, he will still rest Kobe because the coach must count on what he says, otherwise it will have a negative impact on the team's morale .

The thing that hurts D'Antoni's egg is not Kobe, but Korver.

Korver was amazing last season. He averaged 3 three-pointers per game in the regular season. Most of his nearly 12 points per game were three-pointers. His three-point shooting percentage was a terrifying 40.00% during the Eagles period. When it came to the Lakers, it even reached 50.00% two, which made the opponent feel like seeing a nightmare. The three-point shooting rate for the whole season was 50.00% point seven!
But this year Korver has declined a bit. Of course, it is only compared to last season. He still has a 40.00% three-point shooting rate this year. There are often four or five three-pointers in a single game with an extremely high shooting rate, but there are also three-pointers. N is 0, and then the situation of not daring to make a move.

Korver's state is not so good today. He got 6 shots during the playing time and only hit one three-pointer. The defensive end is as weak as Nick Young who has a bad touch. -The same when Young was on the court, Korver was on the court and gave the Warriors several possessions to score.

Combining various factors, the final direction of the game did not go to the end as D'Antoni envisioned. The point difference was overtaken by the Warriors, and then slowly opened...

Antetokounmpo and McCollum are the two best performers of the Lakers today. As the starters, they scored 53 points in the whole game, but they couldn't stop the Lakers from gradually losing...

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On January 1th, the Lakers lost their 15st game of the season, 41 to 116, not much. There were various reasons for the loss, and one reason why they even had self-consolation was that Kobe did not play.

But a loss is a loss, and judging from the score, the Lakers did not lose unjustly.

Antetokounmpo scored 20 points, McCollum scored 33 points, and Liu Ren scored 24 points. The Lakers only scored 106 points, and these three scored 77 of them.

Except for these three people's shooting percentages are pretty good, the shooting percentages of the rest of the Lakers can be described as abysmal.

With the deepening of the season, some problems that were not visible before are now slowly emerging.

The Lakers this year are very different from last season. The biggest difference is that the strength of several young players has improved, and this is really not a good thing for the Lakers.

Clarkson, Antetokounmpo, LaVine, and McCollum have made great progress. Especially Antetokounmpo and McCollum have the strength to become absolute starters for any team. There are more styles of play that need to hold the ball, and LaVine also began to be restless. As the season progressed, this restlessness became more and more obvious. This is also the reason for D'Antoni's tough implementation of the rotation strategy. It has been ugly since the second half, but D'Antoni still has to give LaVine more playing time, and is forced to put Antetokounmpo at the power forward position.

But what can D'Antoni do? He can only let them have a good time in the regular season, so that they can have a reason to obey the arrangement in the playoffs, so that they have no complaints, because D'Antoni's purpose is the same as that of the Lakers management. It's defending...

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January 1 at 16:1 noon.

Toyota Center training facility.

Magician, Kupchak, Nash, and Pelinka, the four current leaders of the Lakers, are having a meeting at the Staples Center on the team's future lineup.

"Giannis came to practice shooting again today? He just finished the game yesterday. This young man is really not afraid of getting tired!" the magician laughed.

"Haha, I just saw the depressed face of the boss. It seems that Giannis has dragged him to train again. The boss doesn't like to go out. He usually trains at home on his off days." Nash felt sorry for Liu Ren. expression.

"Hey, Giannis is such a great player, talented and hardworking, but it's a pity that he is not in our team's future team building plan." Pelinka sighed.

"That's right..." The magician also felt a little regretful, and then changed the topic, "But why can't we try to keep Giannis? He can play point guard, and he plays very well, and his organizational skills are very good. We need him When scoring, he can still stand up and get 20 points like the last game."

When Kupchak heard this, he hesitated and said: "We already have Zach, he is the core guard candidate that the boss personally asked to trade back, even if it's just to make the boss happy, we have to keep him, not to mention You have all seen Zach's talent, very good, enough to be the core of the point guard in the future."

Kupchak has been a little depressed recently.

(End of this chapter)