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Chapter 65 You Picked It, Idol!
August 99, 3, night.

Philadelphia, Wachovia Center.

The Lakers played back-to-back and challenged the 76ers away.

At this point, the 76ers aren't yet a digital team.

After the prosperity in the 80s, the 90ers team in the 76s can be said to be a bad batch.

How bad is it, you ask?
Anyway, it is definitely the relationship between the eldest brother and not the second brother with the Wannian bad ship Clippers.

From the previous draft picks in the coming year, we know how bad the 76ers are.

In 92, he got the 9th overall pick.

The No. 93 show in [-].

94th pick in 6.

The 95 flower exploration show.

The No. 96 pick in [-].

The No. 97 show in [-].

98th pick in 8.

Gangzhen, seven years!
After holding back for seven full years, how can the 76ers be able to summon Shenlong once to form an extremely talented youth army?

The talent of the lineup, let alone be comparable to the Thunder's three minors, at least the configuration of the 76ers' dual minors, let's show it!
As a result, Li Mu looked at the 76ers' starting five tigers and rolled his eyes.

What the hell, Jane's vision for the draft is beyond the sky, so she couldn't have chosen with her eyes closed!
In other words, with a string of high-ranked draft picks for many years in a row, with your eyes closed, it probably isn't that bad!
Point guard Eric Snow, shooting guard Iverson, small forward George Lynch, power forward Theo Ratliff, center Matt Geiger.

The starting stats for this season are as follows.

Snow, 8 points, 6 assists and 3 rebounds, judged as: blue collar.

George Lynch, 8 points, 6 rebounds and 2 steals, judged as: blue collar.

Theo Ratliff, 11 points, 8 rebounds and 3 blocks, was judged as a high-level blue-collar.

Matt Geiger, with 13 points, 7 rebounds and 1 assist at the peak, is judged as a senior blue-collar.

Is this sung or not?

After many years of bad performance, what about the good talent?
The fourth young master has not been mentioned, the third young master has not seen, not even the second young master, there is only one all-star Iverson who is invincible in popularity!

You, this is to fight "four guarantees and one", don't be so obvious, right?
In other words, when you lose the game, don't tell the outside world how Iverson led the four blue-collar players.

Because ah!
Don't ask, just ask, you picked this one, idol!

A Wei... No, A Lun, I can't blame others.

In fact, it is.

The former 76ers used draft picks and rookies in exchange for an All-Star power forward named Derek Coleman. As a result, this season, they gave up renewing Coleman's contract and chose to sign with a five-year 5 million contract. Here comes Matt Geiger.

In the past, the 76ers had a pair of juniors, Jerry Stackhouse, a 95th overall pick, who was able to score 30 points, 5 assists and 3 rebounds in his peak period. As a result, he was traded for Theo Ratliff, a senior blue-collar.

In the future, when Theo Ratliff grows into an All-Star, he will be exchanged for the 'unknown age' Mutombo.

The gun that I made an appointment with couldn't be used as a reason to lose.

Seeing the 76ers play 'four guarantees and one', Li Mu can watch his team with peace of mind.

Billups, Kobe, Bowen, Big Ben, O'Neal.

In other words, such a lineup should be nothing to watch, right?

Li Mu still made a mistake in his estimation. There was a lot to watch just for the jump ball matchup.

You know, in 95, Matt Geiger slapped O'Neill with a broken finger. With O'Neill's narrow-minded nature, this matter will never end.

Jump ball, there is no suspense, O'Neal beat Matt Geiger and scored the first attack for the Lakers.

Billups dribbles to the frontcourt and immediately lobs to O'Neal.

In other words, now on the scoring list, O'Neal is ranked No. 1, while Iverson is ranked second.

Before the game, O'Neal stated that he would defeat Iverson in a head-to-head confrontation, so that the other party would dispel their desire for the scoring champion.

Bang-!
O'Neal sat back and immediately exerted all his strength to go to the basket.

Matt Geiger hit the bottom line as if hit by a big truck.

O'Neal turned around, lifted the ball and shook it, saw Theo Ratliff, the future shot-blocking champion, coming to help defend, and directly forced a basket.

With a bang, Theo Ratliff was dunked, and the basketball was blasted into the basket forcefully.

2 to 0! !
For the Lakers, O'Neal scored two points first.

Li Mu nodded, no wonder the 76ers will trade Theo Ratliff for Mutombo in the future.

Theo Ratliff, this person's ability to protect the basket is really not enough.

Soon, Li Mu's eyes fell on Iverson.

At this time, Snow dribbled the ball to the frontcourt and immediately passed the basketball to Iverson.

Knowing that Iverson is breaking through to the left, Billups' feet are like knots, but he can't stop Iverson's breakthrough.

After breaking through Billups' defense, Iverson used an emergency stop jumper to score two points for the 76ers.

2 to 2! !
On the court, looking back, the Lakers attack.

The 76ers contracted directly, blocking the penalty area tightly.

Larry Brown smiled and thought, if the shark has no room, can it still swim?

However, seeing Kobe playing off the ball, his face changed a bit.

It's like seeing real 'proper basketball' play.

Snow, that's right, it's Snow.

Following Kobe's counterrun, he had absolutely no way to deal with Kobe's circling screen.

After a circle, Kobe was on the weak side, easily received a pass from Billups, raised the ball to attract Theo Ratliff, who likes to jump up and block shots, and suddenly started to accelerate the breakthrough.

With a bang, he jumped up from the basket, dunked with one hand, and smashed the basketball into the basket.

4 to 2! !
"The Lakers, the offense can be both internal and external. In this alone, the 76ers will lose." Groom Albert was not optimistic about the 76ers and explained calmly.

Iverson never thought about losing. He only had the basket in his eyes and didn't think about other things.

It's the same trick again, just added a few more dribbles, the essence remains the same, and it's still extraordinary.

But this is the only trick, and Billups' weakness of slow speed was eaten to death by Iverson.

Breaking through to the inside, Iverson did not choose a jumper this time and continued to break through to the inside.

Wearing butterfly steps, pulling the ball past O'Neal's supplementary defense, breaking through to the basket, throwing his body out, and hooking with his right hand.

Boom, swish—!
After the basketball hit the board, it still got into the basket.

4 to 4! !
Next, the Lakers attacked, and O'Neal continued to hit the basket, causing a defensive foul by Matt Geiger.

The Lakers still had the ball and served from the baseline. After receiving the ball, Kobe rushed to the basket and saw Theo Ratliff jumping high to block the shot. Kobe then threw the basketball into the sky.

Bang-dang-!
In the alley-oop, O'Neal dunked with both hands, connected with Kobe, and scored this beautiful dunk.

6 to 4! !
Subsequently, Iverson still broke through.

Kobe and Billups pressed Iverson with the ball.

Still failed to stop Iverson from scoring.

He is too agile, the speed simply can not keep up.

The speed and flexibility of 183 are fully reflected at this moment.

Fortunately, offensively, the Lakers did not miss.

Billups directly hit Iverson with his back single, like a bulldozer, step by step, pushing to the sweet spot of shooting.

Before reaching a comfortable shooting area, Iverson took the lead.

Pretending to steal the ball to the left, let Billups dodge to the left.

Suddenly, Iverson accelerated to the right and reached out to steal the ball.

Billups saw through Iverson's defensive intentions, and at the moment Iverson reached out to steal the ball, he pulled the ball up and made a small throw.

Swish-!
8 to 6! !
Iverson, who has a defensive skyline, is very aggressive defensively.

From time to time, he will lose his position and lose his defense.

Of course, if he got the right bet, it would be a quick attack and counterattack with both offense and defense.

After the first quarter, the score was 28 to 21, and the Lakers led by 7 points.

Iverson picked five out of 21 points and scored 15 points himself. Just looking at the statistics, he is really very strong.

O'Neal scored 11 points in a single quarter, and his performance was not enough.

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(End of this chapter)