You are the pearl, Mo Mengchen

Chapter 859 Refusal to Sweep
Two days later, the Pistons defeated the Nets by a big score and continued the winning streak. At the same time, Mo Mengchen scored another 35 points, bringing his personal record of scoring 30+ points in a single game to ten games in a row, only four games away from Hill's record.

This kind of performance can be called exciting, but the response is not enthusiastic, because in the west, someone is doing similar, but more difficult and more impactful things.

Not only the media, but even Mo Mengchen devoted part of his energy to paying attention.

This man is Kobe.

If you look closely, you can see that his body has become stronger than at the beginning of the season, like a guard version of Malone, and his whole body is like an inflated muscle superman.

When O'Neal claimed to be the only core of the team while recovering from his injuries.Kobe gave his horrific response, and its degree of terror is estimated to be comparable to that of Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu.

Mo Mengchen scored 30+ points in ten consecutive games and has attracted widespread attention from the outside world, while Kobe played nine consecutive 40+ points during O'Neal's absence due to injury.

These nine 40+ performances were also mixed with two 50+ games. Kobe finally completed the transformation from a superstar to a superstar.

Because before this, no one has shown a similar performance for a long time. The closest is Hill in the suspension season. He has scored 40+ points in three consecutive games, but this is only one-third of Kobe's.Bryant was the first scorer in years to compete with Chamberlain and Jordan.

Kobe's 9 consecutive 40+ games are a fuse.It directly broke the original balance of the team.When O'Neal returned from injury, he felt that the Lakers were no longer his team alone.O'Neill did not expect this day to come so soon.

Kobe's rise and explosion happened at a very appropriate time period.

O'Neill lost his ambition. During his recuperation, he not only did not actively do rehabilitation training, but also did not follow the doctor's advice.

At this time, O'Neill's figure has been completely different from the previous two years.He's fat enough to be a sumo wrestler in Japan. It's not an athlete's body anymore, it's more like a hopelessly fat guy who sits in front of the TV all day and eats junk food.

The outside world preached that Kobe was the new owner of Angel City, and Mo Mengchen was also a little worried.

Will OK's power struggle end with Kobe successfully seizing power?

This is not impossible. O'Neal's current state is not the state of a championship team at all. As for Kobe, he has a chic style of play, is young and has no negative news. As the player most like Jordan among the new generation of stars, the league is also willing to praise him. he.

The Pistons' dominance of the East is a foregone conclusion, and the league needs a team to compete with the Pistons like Lake Kai in the 80s.

As a giant, the Lakers have fought the Pistons in the Finals in the past two seasons. Although they lost, they proved that they do have the strength to fight the Pistons.

If Kobe succeeds in seizing power and OK's conflict can be alleviated, then the situation in the West will become even more confusing.

Mo Mengchen was completely unable to make a correct prediction.

The Lakers looked the most hopeless. Kobe's timely outbreak allowed them to return to the first group in the West; the Kings are indeed very capable and have great potential, but their running and bombing is just a replica of the Pistons. Change, can't make it to the West; the strength of the Blazers is a mystery, their lineup depth is the best in the West, but Webber is not a leader who promises everything, he can't restrain those people in the team, and it is already a respectful relationship with them Unexpected performance, plus, when it comes to the playoffs, his strength will be discounted; for the Spurs, Kidd is not enough offensively, Gasol is famous for being soft-footed in the playoffs in the early stages of his career, and Arenas is currently only a gamer. A rookie averaging 10 points.

Mo Mengchen knew the four teams most likely to reach the finals in the Western Conference.

It's just that they don't know who can stand out from the West, and they can't make accurate predictions, so it's difficult to make targeted preparations before the finals.

Maybe they won't know who is the better team until the playoffs start.

The team that ended the Pistons' winning streak was the 76ers.

After Penny was reimbursed for the season, the Knicks announced that they were bad, and the 76ers became the biggest obstacle for the Pistons to break out of the East.

Since the start of the season, the two teams have been fighting against each other.

Last season, taking advantage of Duncan's new entry into the team, Iverson reached his peak. Larry Brown focused on internal and external dual-core, and dragged the Pistons to the tiebreaker, but lost miserably in the tiebreaker.

After the start of the new season, Brown clarified the team building policy of Duncan as the main player and Iverson as the assistant. This move caused great dissatisfaction with Iverson.

Although Iverson had negative emotions, the performance of the 76ers is generally improving, and Duncan also performed well, averaging 23+13+4 per game, the cornerstone of the standard insider.

Duncan shined, and Iverson was not reconciled to being the second child, but when he decided to work hard, injuries found him.

Iverson suffered a serious hip and groin injury and was in poor condition, playing and stopping. Without Duncan to support the team, the 76ers would have difficulty making the playoffs.

The injured Iverson is still attached to the position of the boss. It was something that belonged to him, but now it is taken away by Duncan, an outsider. He has no objection to Duncan, but he is satisfied with Larry Brown who made the decision. Full.

Iverson, who was elected as the All-Star MVP last season, could still shout when he won the award: "Where is my coach? Where are you, coach?" Now he calls Brown a traitor, a villain, and a sinister old fox with three faces.

The contradictions within the 76ers revolved around Iverson and Brown. Although Duncan was the boss in name, he was only in charge of the game and never participated in the struggle.

The game against the Pistons fully reflected how much the league teams hate the defending champion.

In order to defeat the Pistons, Iverson not only chose to play with injuries, but also obeyed Brown's words, and cooperated with Duncan internally and externally. Princeton, who happened to meet the Pistons, made repeated mistakes.

By a litany of factors, common or not, the 76ers beat the Pistons at the Empire Axis Arena to end their winning streak.

Duncan scored 32 points, 16 rebounds and 5 blocks. Iverson played a perfect second-hand performance. The offense struggled under the Pistons' zone defense, but he scored 15 points and 16 assists through sudden points. His 16 assists were only 3 turnovers, it was these 16 penetrating passes that made the Pistons lose at home.

"We were lucky tonight," Duncan said modestly in an interview after the game. "It's not common for the Pistons to make 24 turnovers. They lost to themselves. We just did what we should do."

In fact, the Pistons averaged 21 turnovers per game this season, ranking first in the league and four more than the second-placed Lakers.

Iverson is not as easy to talk as Duncan. He first stated that he played with an injury, which means that he is not at his best tonight. "Even with an injury, I can help the team. There is still one game. The goal is to sweep the Pistons in the regular season!"

Iverson's arrogance aroused the collective resentment of the Motown media.The next day, the media on the side of the Pistons bombarded them one after another.

On the contrary, the Pistons, who were challenged by their opponents at their own door, did not express anything.

Losing this game didn't seem like a big deal to them, and the only response came from Westphal, who responded: "AI has always been a fighting player, which I appreciate, but now I can only congratulate them for playing A good game, then see you in Philadelphia."

In early February, before the All-Star weekend, the Pistons will play a game against the 76ers.

In the previous two matches, the 76ers won all of them. In order to avoid being swept by the rivals in the same division, the Pistons hope to take away an unforgettable victory for the 76ers, just like the seventh game of the Eastern Conference Finals last season.

Everyone thought it would be a game that was suppressed until the last second, but the Pistons dominated the night, and Philadelphia fans were full of expectations to witness a bloody massacre at home.

(End of this chapter)