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Chapter 77 77. Who is afraid of whom!
If there is anything the Lakers are most afraid of now, it is injuries.

What are you afraid of? This kind of thing is talking about the current situation of the Lakers. On December 12th, the Lakers, who had already lost Green, played against the Kings in Sacramento next door. Although they won the game, Gasol was injured again. up!

Gasol stepped on Kings power forward Jason Thompson's foot in the confrontation and severely sprained his left foot.

Although the Lakers narrowly beat the Kings 106-100 in the end, the gains outweighed the losses. All of a sudden, the Lakers only had Whiteside, Antetokounmpo, and Thackeray inside!
This is only the beginning of the Lakers' injury curse. The Lakers returned to the home court on the 9th in the game against the Raptors. The bankrupt version of Harden Henry tore the cruciate ligament in his left knee.

Farmar suffered a shoulder injury in back-to-back home games against the Suns on the 10th.

Although the Lakers won both games in the end, the number of injuries on the team reached 6!
In just 4 days, the Lakers changed from the deepest team in the league to a cursed team full of injuries!
The next Lakers opponent is the Thunder!But there are only 8 of them left!

D'Antoni's face was about to die of worry.

"It's not that bad, it really did the Huskies!" Liu Ren looked at the team roster, the corners of his mouth twitched, as if D'Antoni led the team except for Sun, who was a genius doctor, and the other teams were suffering from constant injuries.

When D'Antoni coached the Knicks, from Anthony to Chandler, Felton, from the frontcourt to the backcourt, he was injured all over the place, and he got out of Linsanity.

It was the same last season, except for Kobe who survived to the end and Howard who protected well, the rest of the Lakers more or less experienced a large number of injuries before Clark and Liu Ren played their worth.

This season, the Lakers were unable to play because of the two injuries of Kobe and Nash, and only 12 people played.

Among them, Marshall and Thackeray are mascots and rarely play, that is, 10 people rotate.

In D'Antoni's style of play, except Liu Ren, who must exist as an assaulter, the playing time of the other 9 players is very average. Except for Antetokounmpo who only plays about 10 minutes per game, the playing time of the other 8 players is between 22 and 26 minutes. Minutes, which is very rare in the entire league.

This kind of playing schedule makes the Lakers' data very impressive. Except Liu Ren's average of 24 points, 8 rebounds and 3 assists per game is a special case. Nick Young, who scored the second highest, averaged 13.2 points per game, followed by Bazemore's 12 points. Farmar's 12 points, Gasol's 11 points, Whiteside and Wesley Johnson, Henry's 9 points, Green's 8 points and Antetokounmpo's 6 points.

The Lakers rank first in the league in scoring per game so far, but their scoring is very scattered, which means that any one of them missing will have a great impact on the team's offense.

Although this kind of time allocation and offensive role allocation gave the Lakers starters a lot of rest time, they can play with all their strength as soon as they play. Although the substitutes are substitutes, their playing time is the same as that of the starters. Work hard, they will naturally fight when the opportunity is given to them.

However, there is one thing that people ignore, that is, some people in the team have never been valued so much before, and suddenly they are given so many opportunities and pressure, but their bodies are not ready!

Gasol's injury was an accident, but most of the others were due to a sudden increase in playing time!
At this time, Liu Ren remembered that the Lakers in the 13-14 season in his memory were all soldiers. Although there were no him, Green, Whiteside, and Antetokounmpo, there were more Jordan Hill, Kaman, and Iraq. Young people like Banks, D'Antoni is also playing team basketball, the starting lineup is called the league's worst starter, and the bench lineup is also called the league's first substitute, which is far from the Trail Blazers who have the league's best starter and worst substitute Huiying once kept the record above [-]%.

But as the season progressed, the Lakers ended up with constant injuries.

The reason is that some players who couldn't play the ball last season suddenly assumed an important role this season, and their bodies didn't have the process of gradually adapting, and they were pulled from the edge of the bench to the quasi-starter level all of a sudden.

Liu Ren remembered an evaluation of Popovich and D'Antoni that he had read in his previous life. In terms of team basketball accomplishments, the difference between the two lies in the assignment of tasks to players.

Although Popovich also played team basketball and let power forward Duncan play health balls, Duncan still took on most of the tasks. After all, he has this ability. Ginobili, Parker, and Diaw also bear more responsibilities than substitutes.Here, D'Antoni has basically become true regardless of the main force and the substitute.

But many of D'Antoni's energetic substitutes have never taken on such a heavy role in their previous careers.

Another wave of three consecutive victories, but it is a tragic sonata.

The cloud of injuries hangs over everyone on the Lakers.

"Injury is a damn thing, but no one can guarantee to avoid it, right. Although the current situation is very difficult, we will still try our best to win."

Liu Ren sat on the sofa feeling melancholy after accepting the phone interview with Sports Illustrated.

After playing the Suns, the Lakers have three days to rest. They will go to Oklahoma City on the 13th and play against the Thunder on the 14th.

After two days of waiting, the team doctor confirmed that Gasol needs to rest for two weeks, Henry needs three months to recover after surgery, and Farmar's fracture can heal in 4 to 6 weeks.

In other words, for the Lakers in the next two months, that's all there is to play.

Marshall, Nick Young, Wesley Johnson, Antetokounmpo, Whiteside, Thackeray and Liu Ren.It will take two weeks for Gasol to come back. Although it is not ruled out that he will return to the team early, he will definitely not be able to play the next game against the Thunder.

Originally relying on the depth of the team, Liu Ren felt that his side was [-]-[-] against the opponent, but now it seems a bit difficult... no, it is very difficult!
Just when Liu Ren was preparing to go to the airport with a cold face, a certain little loli came back from school.

Seeing Liu Ren, little loli ran over and grabbed Wei Shushu's thigh, Guai Shushu picked up little loli and viciously messed up little loli's hair, little loli struggled futilely, and could only be trampled silently.

"Uncle, are you going away? Betty is cheering for Uncle, eh." Little Lolita slapped Liu Ren on the face as she spoke, "Uncle must win!"

Seeing the encouragement from the cute little loli, Liu Ren's negative emotions were swept away.

"Isn't it because the teammates got injured a few times, and the opponent is at the championship level, and they haven't won the championship, and they won't be able to win it in the next two years. They have never won the championship. Who is afraid? Who!"

(End of this chapter)